Morning Oregonian. (Portland, Or.) 1861-1937, August 20, 1908, Image 10

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Newspaper Page Text1908. ICHECK UD BLAZE (FATA ADVERTISEMENT.) the assurances given the visitors. It appears that many from this city will take part in the excursion. Albany received further prominence yesterday from the fact that the new advertising book, just Issued by the Albany Commercial Club, In connection DECLARATION OF FOR THEIR FATHER with the publicity department or sun set, the Southern Pacific's magazine Flames Threaten Buildings on was circulated widely at the club JIMMI luncheon yesterday. Copies of the book Washington Street. were placed on each table la the club at the noon hour and were read by tne Joseph Meyers Weds Mrs. Du Rette and Sons Will Drop Insanity Charge. members. The book attracted a great deal of attention, being a handsome ad vertisement of-Albany and Linn County and setting forth the varied resources of that section of the state In a very LOSS ESTIMATED AT $8000 attractive manner. The book Is printed in color and la nrofuselv Illustrated with splendid pic THE MORNING OREGOXIAN, THURSDAY, AUGUST 20, GUARD1A SHIP BURKIN it a CANDIDATE FOR GOVERNOR ON THE DEMOCRATIC TICKET The man of whom the Baptist Minister said: "He is a man of his word tures. showing the products of the countv and the scenes of that section, Structures Owned by Henry W. Fries The text sets forth the inducements THEY HAVE OTHER PLANS offered by Linn County to the settler and Sister Are Damaged by Fire That Starts From . Can of Gasoline. and the business man who are In search of a location. Henry and Milton Meyers Will Ask Court to Protect Fortune of Aged Sir TX-ny They Care for Any Share in Ills Estate. Truth of the adage about love laugh ing at locksmith was again exempli fied yesterday forenoon, when Joseph Mevers. retired business man and Borneo at 70. sMpped the scrutiny of a cordon of private d.teotives and mar ried the woman of his choice. Mrs. Zenaide Du Rette, retired dressmaker. The ceremony was performed at the Courthouse shortly before noon by Cir cuit Judge Morrow. The necessary marriage certificate was mad out by the County Clerk In response to a peremptory dtmand from Dan J. Ma larkey. Mevers" lawyer. Outwitted by their sire, the Meyers boys, Henry and Milton, will drop the Insanity charge which they preferred against Meyers, senior, early In the week. Now that he is married there Is nothing to be gained by pressing that charge. But they are not going to let the matter drop for. from an authoritative source, it was learned . rlll Institute yesieraay inai " - - guardianship proceedings in Marioir County tn oraer m i'"'"1 man's fortune from possible dissolu tion. The elderly groom-elect kept the fact of bis purpose of getting married at once quietly to himself and a few close friends. In fact, he wasn't sure he could run the gauntlet of detectives. But he awoke with a determination to bring the wedding into effoct before night, and he called on Mr. Malarkey to assist him In getting the required marriage license. At 11:15 Malarkey accompanied Meyers and the bride's grown son to the County Clerk'a office and there made a formal demand for a licence. He advised County Clerk Fields that as an administrative officer he had no discretion In the matter. Fields hesi tated was threatened with mandamus, and then appealed to County Judge "Webster for advice. Webster told him the only tiling he could no. within the law. was to make the certificate out as demanded. Equipped with the coveted document, the bridal party assembled from differ ent angles of the building, went before Judge Morrow and heard the nlaglc words which made one out of two. All then drove away In an automobile. Meyera and hi wife took the bridal suite at the Portland Hotel, and later went out shopping together. Late In trie afternoon they reached Felden helmer's Jewelry store, where some handsome bridal jewelry was Inspected. As to their plans, they had nothing to say. Mrs. Zenaide Du Rette-Meyers has sold the furniture of her little home 'on Hancock street, and It is understood they will remain at the Portland for a day or so and then depart for Southern California on their honeymoon. Whatef fect the proposed guardianship pro ceedings will have on their movements remains to be seen. Sons Think Woman Mercenary. That Mrs. Du Rette was prompted by mercenary motives when she went to the altar with Meyers Is known to be the fixed belief of the two sons. ti,l. ,ai-A 1 f i rri f H f mm a reo- 1 11 V II. 1.1, 111 lit.- " - . utable real estate broker that the lady some months ago offered a commission for introduction to some elderly man of means. That, they allege, was before her meeting with Meyers. Meyers' private fortune is between 175.000 and $80,000. and all this is in cash or convertible notes and personal property, that represents the savings of many years of successful business activity. The brothers are quoted as saying- they cared nothing about any share In that upon his death, since they have plenty on their own account. It is pointed out further that they realized the result of interfering with their father would be their total elim ination from his will, and were work ing only for his own best interests. IS XFXX COUXTT IX EVIDENCE AT COMMERCIAL CLUB. Copies of New Advertising Book, Just Issued, Distributed Excur sion to Albany Planned. Yesterday was Albany day at the Portland Commercial Club. Not only were Albany people much In evidence about the club during the day and at luncheon, but Albany literature was distributed as well, and every atten tion was paid to the visitors from the hub of the 'Willamette Valley. William McMurray, general passen ger agent for the PTarrlman lines in this territory, gave a luncheon to the ' Albany visitors. Those present were: Judge H. H. Hewitt. C. G. Rawlings. J. M. Ralston. Dr. M. H. Ellis and Bury I. Dasent, all of Albany, and W. B. "Wells, C W. Hodson and Tom Rich ardson, of Portland. President Hodson, of the c'.ub, presided at the luncheon and made a few remarks felicitating the visitors upon the new era of de velopment in the Willamette Valley, and particularly in Linn County, of which Albany Is the center and county seat. Mr. Hodson praised the new spirit of enterprise that is developing the entire Valley as never before. Thro wero responses from the visit ors, showing they apreciated the atten tion paid tiitm and they, in turn, had many kind words for Portland. They desired the closer knitting of commer cial bonds that bind Albany to the metropolis, and said they should al ways strive for the advancement of Portland as well as for the progress of Albany. Bury I. Dasent, secretary of the Al bany Commercial Club, was Introduced and Invited the members of the club to Join In a special-train excursion to Albany on November 3 to assist In the celebration of opening the new Southern pacific depot there. and to at tend the Linn County apple show. No fttmber i beuig Portland day. From HOW HORSES ARE TAUGHT IXSTIXCT LIES AT BOTTOM OF EDUCATION. . Edward Shlpp, of Barnnm & Bailey Circus, Tells AVhat Intelligence Consists Of. In the whole animal kingdom, the horse is easily the most highly regarded by the human family. Instances have been re lated of the instructive affection on the part of a horse having saved its master s life. The faithful obedience of the horse to man will cause a thinking man to ask. "What is the power which man ex ercises over the horse when the equine Is made to perform feats seemingly beyond his power of comprehension 7" Edward Ehlpp. equestrian director of the Barnum & Bailey Greatest Show on Earth. Is of the opinion that the curious, indefinite quantity known as "Instinct" Is at the bottom of all the tricks that the horse learns. "Just as he eata from Instinct, he learns tricks," says Mr. Shlpp. 'Usually the eating ifl at the bot tom of his entire education. He does things for the most part because he gets something good to eat after the do ing. It Is his natural search after food that makes him do them. Just as he paws away the snow to get at the grass. After a while the action becomes a habit, and we will say he is 'broken.' "There never was anything to break. His instincts were simply set In motion. Some men take months to teach a horse the simplest trick and weeks to make him bridle-wise. In a week I can have the same horse responding easily to my directions in simple tricks. It Isn't the horse: it is the trainer. Some men exer cise an Influence over animals which Is almost hypnotic. The man himself can't tell how it Is done. In some mysterious manner the horse's instincts make him do certain things In certain ways at cer tain times. He does them Just as he eats, and with no more evidence of Judg ment. "It Is no uncommon thing for a horse to open a feed-box to get at the grain In side. Some people fancy this is a proof of intelligence. Really It Is natural nos ing after something to eat. Man Is not the only animal whose heart can best be reached through his stomach. "But a horse has nevres, plenty of them. Sometimes I think it Is more these little electric wires than anything else which makes htm amenable to teaching. Imag ine, then, the patience a trainer must possess to train creatures with nerves but no logic, so far as I am able to see." ' Mr. Shipp has a number of equine High School graduates which will make their bow In Portland next Tuesday and Wed nesday, during the performance of the Barnum & Bailey circus. OPINION OF AN EXPERT Phenomenal Kecord of Oregon Life Attracts Attention in Xew York, The leading insurance paper In the United States (the New York Spectator In Its issue of August 13. says: The fine record attained by Oregon Life during the year 1907. when it made great er gains In Oregon than any other life In surance company operating there. Is being fully maintained. Notwithstanding this splendid record of 1907 and tlw lower tone of general business conditions, the company Is doing even better In 1908. Dividends to policyholders are extremely satisfactory. Policies of 1906 entering their first dividend-paying period this year are being paid 15 per cent on ordi nary life. 13 per cent on twenty-payment, and 8 per cent on twenty-year en dowments. Paul L. Woo Is ton recently examined Oregon Life for the Oregon In surance Commissioner, and In bis report to the Department, says: No criticism is made on the methods of the company, which are worthy of approval. No evi dence was found that any stockholder or officer was endeavoring to use the Insti tution for selfish ends, and the rights of the policyholders have been equitably preserved." The business of the company Is under the general management of L. Samuel. Its founder. He was formerly manager for Oregon for one of the large Eastern companies. A. L. Mills, who Is president of the First National Banlc of Portland, the largest financial institution in the Northwest, is president of Ore gon Life. EAST SIDE BUILDER DIES J. M. McQuald Passes Away at Good Samaritan Hospital. John Milton ,McQuald, a well-known building contractor of Portland, died at the Good Samaritan Hospital Monday morning, and the funeral will be held from F. S. Dunnlng"s chapel. 414 East Alder street, at 10:30 this morning. Rev. W. T. Jordan, pastor of the Central Bap tist Church, will conduct the services, and the interment will be In Lone Fir Ceme tery. Mr. McQuaid was born In Shelbyville, Ky.. in 1835. and came to Oregon In the Spring of 1880.- He had been in declin ing health for several years and two months ago went to Ashland, Or., In the hope of regaining his strength. Return ing to Portland two weeks ago, he went to Good Samaritan Hospital. Up to a few years ago he had been one of Port land's most active contractors and build ers. He was a man of great strength of character, gentle, yet firm In all his dealings. From early childhood he was a member of the Baptist Church. He Is survived by one member of his family, James C. McQuaid. of Portland. WORLD'S SCENIC ROUTE The scenic wonders of the Canadian Pacific route are beyond description. This is the verdict of the traveling public Purchase your tickets via the "World's Scenic Route." The road that has more to offer than' all other roads combined. HOT SALT BATHS. Hot and cold showers, bathing suits nd dressing rooms for surf bathers. Hotel Moore, Seaside, Or, An open case of gasoline near a gas Jet last night between 6 and 7 o'ciock started a fire in the tallorshop of A. Zldell. 433 Washington 1 street, which seriously threatened for a time to destroy the six frame buildings at the northeast corner of Twelfth and Washington streets. As it was the blaze resulted in causing dam ages approximating .$8000 before the fire department succeeded in getting it under control. The fire burned fiercely for a time, the heat being so intense that the buildings directly across Washington street were scorched. Streetcar traffic was blocked for 20 minutes and a crowd of several thousand people gathered in the streets. Th fire started after the tailorshop had been closed for the night. The flames destroyed the building at 433 Washington street, which, besides Zldell's shop, in cluded a vacant store that had formerly been a restaurant and which occupied half of the building. In it were stored properties of the Baker Theater owned by George L. Baker. They were de stroyed at a loss of $500. To the east the flames crept through the roofs of the one-story buildings, at 431 and Wash ington street. At the former number there are two stores; one. occupied by J. Stokes, who conducts the San Fran cisco Cleaning Works, and the other occupied by O. L. Holen, who conducts the Puritan Coffee House. At 429 Wash ing are Freeborn & Co., dealers in wall paper, and J. K. Stern, tailor. Three of these places each sustained between $200 and $300 loss by water, the flames being controlled before they ate into the stores. In the fourth place, that or free' born & Co.. the losses were estimated at close to $2000 and were caused entirely bv water. On the West Side of Zidell's shop Is the two-story frame building occupied downstairs bv Donaca & Crane, grocers, and on the upper floor by Mrs. O. L. Graff and her mother. Mrs. Graff had conducted the grocery until a few weeks aeo when she sold out to Donaca & Crane. The living apartments and furni ture owned by Mrs. Graff were destroyed at a loss of about $500. Several hundred dollars damages to the grocery stock was caused by water. In the rear the flames spread to 108 and 110 Twelfth street, the first being occupied by D. Godfrey and the latter by Mrs. H. Mullen, who con ducts a rooming house. The damages in these two houses were very slight but the occupants were badly frightened and hurriedly removed all their belongings Into the street. In the basement Mr. Godfrey had a little shop in which he kept stored three large galvanized Iron containers of gaso line. These were not remembered by Mr. Godfrey until after the flames had spread to the roof of his house and tnen, ac companied by Patrolman Harms, he made a dash for the gasoline. The corner building stood ,on ground owned by Henry W. Fries and the next adjoining was owned by his sister, Mrs. B. Cramer, at present on a visit to Ger many. The Cramer property was under a lease which would have expired in about 18 months. The building loss is probably $4000.. Mr. Fries said last night that In all probability a brick building of three or four stories would be erected to occupy both lots, making the ground dimension 100x80 feet. The first story, he thought, would be arranged for stores and the up per stories for offices or a rooming- house. Decision will be reached In a few days as to the size and plans of the new building. SAFE-BLOWERS ARRESTED Three Men Implicated in Ttobbery at Troutdale Are Captured. THB DALLES, Or., Aug. 19. Special.) Bert Allen, George Dunbar and "Black Davis, three men who a few months ago blew open the safe in Harlow Bros." store at Troutdale and secured xmn and a quan tity of postal supplies, were arrested here tonight. The authorities have been searching for the three men since the time of the robbery and they were cap tured in the railroad yard here by O. R. & N. Detective Wood. The prisoners, who are reported to be ex-convicts, have been identified. They will be turned over to the Sheriff immediately. SILK SALE TODAY. J-4nch black, guaranteed taffeta Ilk, $1.23 grade, at 87c: 36-lnch extra heavy, black, guaranteed taffeta sili, $1.7S rrade, at $1.1!9 a yard. See tb'-se two great specials. McAUen & Mc Donnell, Third and Morrison. . Excursion to Gordon Falls. Next Saturday, August 22 the O. R. & N. will run a special excursion Portland to Gordon Falls. Gordon Fails, near the famous Multno mah Falls, is one of the Columbia's most picturesque spots, and la the site of the new "Textile Town" of Oregon. This ex cursion will leave Portland at 1:30 P. M.; returning, leave Gordon Falls at 6:30 P. M. Round trip $L . . - Plunder Russian Monastery. TAMBOV. Russia. Aug. 19. Bandits last night attacked and pillaged the Kaz ansky monastery near here and secured gold and Jewels valued at $40,000. The change from coffee to POSTUM is healthful and easy. 'There's a Reason" - Read, "The Road to "Well ville," in pkgs. , To My Fellow Citizens of the Commom People of the State of Washington: I want the job-to be the next Governor of your State; and in applying for it, you ought to know if I have the necessary, qualifications and honesty to be the right man in the right place. I believe I have. I believe that when a man aspires to public office he should throw himself open for public inspection, and if he cannot stand on his past record, let him go away back and sit down. I have owned bulldogs and game chickens. Fought them? Yes, and I always got the other fellows' money because I had the best. I saw the errors of the past, and have not done this since 1890. There is good and bad in me, and more bad than there is good. But, whenever I have given my word as a musiness man the good has always come in first, never having broken that word in a business way, and I have been in business over 30 years. I have been in the whisky business for the past 30 years and am still in it, with no regrets or apologies to make to anyone. I have aimed to conduct my business, and have succeeded in doing it, as well as any banker has run his business in the State of Washington. Abraham Lincoln sold whisky; he made you a good President. General Grant drank whisky; he made you both a good soldier and a good President. And I know of no reason why I have not the business qualifications, along with the neces sary honesty, that should go with it, to make you as good a Governor as ever sat in the Governor's chair from the time that this state was a territory until the present time. You must not think that it is the salary attached to this office that I desire. It is the honor of being chosen your chief which I covet. So far as the wealth of money goes, I have "all that I want, and in saying that, I know that I have more money than all the rest of the Durkins who are left back in Ireland. The salary attached to the position, I will donate to the different charitable institutions of the State. A Baptist minister in a Sunday sermon said that he wished the opportunity were offered him, to decorate a saoon window, that he would not make a pleasing display of it, that he would put in a black background with a black border around it and an imaginary devil in the center. I gave him the chance he wished for, and entered into a contract with him to decorate my win dows to suit his own taste. He did so, and in speaking of the affair in a lecture delivered at the Christian church as reported in the Spokesman-Review of January 1, 1906, he said: "He gave me a square deal. Durkin is a man of his word. I promise you that if I am elected your next Governor, the man with the overalls will get a square deal equal with the man with the silk hat no better, no worse just as I gave the minister a square deal, or any other man, white or black, who has ever done business with me. .1 will be as honest in my candidacy for Governor as I was with the Baptist minister. 1 Of course, I am doing this as a joke; and from a business standpoint to get before the public and jump into the S11 all for the small sum of $60-and newspaper advertising at that, the best medium in the world for publicity. I have had the experience. I advertised once for cats, in Spokane. Inside of 24 hours from the time the advertisement appeared, I was the proud possessor of 384. I don't advise you you to get into trouble with your mother-in-law. But if you do and it gets into the newspapers, you would have to live longer than Methuselah's ghost to ever hear the last of it. I said I did it as a joke. If you want to, you can by voting for me, perpetuate the biggest joke ever perpetrated on the rail roads and corporations in this State. They would not find me a joke, or make me one. It would be business then; as I know from past experience that capital and corporations can always get a hearing, while the interests of the common people cannot get even a look-in. I promise that they both shall get a square deal; and if there is not a law on the statute books that gives it to them, I shall do the best that is in me to see that there is one. - At the time of the agitation as to what President Roosevelt would do at the expiration of his term of office, I settled that question so far as I was able, by offering to hire him as my advertising agent at a salary of $52,000 per year for five years, guar anteed by a bond given by the Union Trust Company of Spokane, to the amount of $260,000-thi- from a man who never had a piece of fresh meat until he was six years old; and, looking back on it now, I think it was a piece off the neck. However, it was the best piece of meat I -have ever eaten, I am in favor of organized labor; so, differ from the learned judge of the Federal Court who says: "Unionism is incompatible with the Declaration of Independence." What is unionism but concentrated force? It was that which gave us the Declaration of Independence! It's the concentration of money that gives us the trusts. Why are the latter formed? To increase the value of the property of the capitalist, which is money, by getting control of the product of labor and either decreasing the value to the producer or increasing the price to the consumer. Generally, they do both, as proven by the records. Let the laborer and the farmer take a lesson from capital, and organize. If they do not, it will be a question only of .time until they are ground down into the dust. How is labor to fight capital? They are direct opposites, always were; always will be competitors, except by organization. One thousand trained soldiers can scatter and whip a mob of 20,000. If the laboring men display their business tact by voting as a unit, as Wall Street. has done in the past, we will not have to ask the question, "What is Wall Street going to do next?" The eyes of WaU Street would be on the common people and "the capitalists would be asking, "What are the common people going to do next?" If you but stop and think, this is the grandest and greatest country the sun has ever shone upon. The laboring man has made it so In case of war, he is the one who is called upon to defend the flag of his country. What does that flag represent? The property that lies in the country. Who owns the property the laborer takes upon himself to defend? Not he, but the man who stays at home, and when the assessor calls upon him, commits perjury to save a few dollars on his taxation; while the laboring man, leaving his aged father, mother, wife and children, gives all that it is possible to give-his life's blood. If it is necessary to have the laboring man form into unions in time of war, it is more than necessary that he should do so in time of peace, to protect himself from being ground down by capital; for there is no animal that runs upon four legs that is more merciless to its own kind, as proven by history, than man against man, I stand upon the National Democratic platform as adopted at Denver. I stand upon the Democratic state platform as adopted in Spokane this year, with the exception of the Prohibition plank. There are all kinds of rabies running through the world, and people who can't see as others do who have a special kind of rabies, are to be ground down, if it is possible for them to do so. I am against Prohibition; as I believe that the people who have that special kind of rabies would persecute anyone who does not have the same disease, of which they seem to have a plenty. There is not a man, no matter what good he has done in the past, who comes out in favor of moderation in all things as the Rev erend Cardinal Gibbons did in favor of high license and moderation in both eating and drinking but is attacked by people who are infected with the hydrophobia of Prohibition. Speaking of Cardinal Gibbons, they said: "He should change-iis surplice for an apron, his prayer-book for an ice-pick, and go get a job tending bar." For people who speak so disrespectfully of so eminent a man, I have no concern as to what they are going to do, or try to do; it is only a question of time when their rabies will kill themselves by biting off too much and they will lie down and die. Old Man Time-he is coming along-will have the kindness, and the mercy to do this for them. . , - I recognize that there are extremists in the saloon business, as there are among the Prohibitionists; and I believe that the best thing is the taking of the middle course, not running to one extreme or the other. To cure the disease of both of the ex tremes the Prohibitionists as well as the saloonkeeper, I would have both swallow a big dose of moderation, repeating as often as required Jesus Christ, the most unselfish of all men, the one the ministers use as an example of goodness, for the benefit of all mankind to follow, made wine, drank it and gave it to others. Why do the churches still continue to use wine? Why do physicians prescribe spirituous and malt liquors for medicinal purposes? If they are good for the sick man, as the physician must believe, why are they not good as a preventative? . . .... . . A word to my friends, the farmers of this State. As a boy I used to pick up a rock and throw it in the middle of a pond. As it 'ell, I noticed that it would make a circle of rings; as I watched the rings going on their way to all parts of the shore, so now I look upon the farmer as the stone that is today being dropped into the pond. As the farmer is the foundation of prosperity-it comes first from him it is only a question to know that, as he prospers, the circle that surrounds him goes on and on .to every part of this broad land. You have had rats and mice in your chicken houses. You could stand for the mice, but you could not stand for the rats and weasels when they commenced to kill off your chickens. If I am elected Governor of this State, there is no ferret ever put into a chicken house that has done better than I will do in killing off the rats that are burdening you down with taxation. I'll not promise you to do all that the other candidates for the office of Governor of this State are promising; but I will do more than they can do, because they are pledged to the corporations and trusts in this state. I am a free agent; and it i3 up to you this year to see whom ye shall choose. Dated, Spokane, Wash., August 12, 1908. JIMMIE DURKIN Every Little Helps What About Your Vote?