EIGHT BIG MILLS IDLE AT ABERDEEN Lumber Strike Takes Sudden Turn and Becomes Serious as Peace Is Expected. 3500 MEN ARE SHUT OUT Kefusal of 25-Cent Advance In Day's Wage by Mill Operators Ifads Men to Abandon Places. Crisis at Hand. ABERDKEN. Wash., June 3.-(Special.) Not one of the eight hie lumber mills In Aberdeen will be in operation tomor row. They will remain closed indefinite ly and 3500 men will be thrown out of employment, according to action taken by the millowners at a special meeting held this afternoon. Yesterday -it was thought that everything was. favorable to a settlement of the strike of lumber handlers and mill operatives, when it xvas reported that the millowners. had agreed to an advance of 25 cents per day to thrii striking yardmen, which formed the basis for th first walkout a week ego. Kut the nnllowners emphatlcallv de clare that they made no such conces sion, hut that the strikers had suerjrested throush Mayor l'.enn that they would ncree to s'.i.-h a proposal. Before it could 1. m-crptcd. however, the balance of tile mill epei'sitlvos in s-ome of the pla'ats walked out mm failure to secure a 2a ci nt iiuMeas, and accordir.sly the ften e a I lockout whs decide,! upon today. The niihrne,, WBy tlt thcy ,mvp lie,.n- oper. anus thei. Units at a los.s for the past few months. The meeting of the mill owners this afternoon was attended bv i-iNiiraiiips mini every lumber com pany in Aberdeen and the decision to Phut clown the plants indefinitely wa unanimous. A inert, ns of the strikers has been c:il!ed for tomorrow afternoon, at which time the latest plume in the .situation w!H he talked over. Their leaders sh v that the lockout is only a bluff, but that the owners found It necessary to shut down b. cause impossible u, ecure men to op crate the plants. I.are crowds of strikers and sympa thizers are congregated on the streets but everything; is orderly and no at tempt to march or in any manner irer f; re with the rules laid down bv the po lice is apparent. A arKe number of dep uties have been sworn in and are held at police headquarters, ready for the first eif-'n of trouble. 400 VETERANS IN LINE MEMBERS G. A. R. MAKE GOOD SHOWING AT COKVALLIS. Captain .Tames P. Shaw Elected De partment Commander by Acclam ation Flass Are Presented. ; COP.VAt.LIS. Or.. June 3. (Special.) J At the business session of the G A It. Kncanipment today. Astoria was chosen as the place for next years gatherins. Officers for the ensuing Kwere elected as follows: l)nnu.l,nAHl , '" '" "miuanoer, captain J. ..uindiixir; senior vice- 1 commander. W. U. Lane, of Corvallis: 1 J "-e-coiiiniander, Sam Taylor of I.uiiene; medical director. Dr J H Ha!l; chaplain. Rev. Kerr, of Portland' JVIesates to the National Encampment t Salt Lake City In August. S. Copple Knos Swunn. W. Martmus and Daniel V ehster. Captain Shaw was elected commander by acclamation, and bears the distinc lion of beins the tirst commander so r selected in the history of the Oregon department. Captain Shaw is editor of the Milwaukle Rtcord. He saw military servne at 17 years of ape and now tarries in his body something less tlian a quarter pound of Confederate lead as well a several sabre cuts. The feature of today's activities was the parade this inorniiiK. This was made .-remarkable by the number of veterans In line, there beins not less than 400 keeping step to the music of life and drum. -Veterans who have attended all t.ie conventions of recent vears. say the showiUK in Corvallis today was far greater than at any time heretofore The Corvallis High School was pre sented with a IT.-root fag by the AV It. C. This was raised to the" top of a Mi-foot pole previously erected on the school grounds. A campllre tonight and a business session tomorrow win close the encampment. 'OLD JOHN' DIES AT EUGENE Colored Miner. Injured by Eire in Lone Cabin, Fails to Recover. ' RUGEXIC. Or.. June 3. (Special 1 John rowner. an old colored miner of the Blue River district, and a ramila,r char acter in Kugene for many years, died at the Eusene General Hospital here today. rter an illness of several months' dura tion. "Old John." as he was called, was 70 years old. He was known as an honest, hard-working man. He owned a good claim in the Blue River district, which he worked himself, thus making his liv ing Some weeks ago he became sick in Tils lone cabin in the mountains. During his lllnem it burned down, and Downer Iwaa hurt in the fire. 'Ho was removed to .the hospital, but was too weak to recover. OFFICERS ATTEND DANCE AYushin&ton Entertains Vi.siting Na val Men at Seattle. P BATTLE. June S. The principal Po 'clal event of the visit of tile American and Japanese lleets was the military ball given tonight in the State Armory by the National Guard of Washington, compli mentary to the officers of the United States Army, the United States Navy and the officers of the Japanese train ing squadron.- Nearly all the officers stationed at Kort Lawton and on the nine cruisers in the harbor attended and with local society people, filled the great TibJI. whose floor is large enough for an infantry regiment to maneuver upon The cruiser Colorado, from San Fran . Cisco, joined the six others cruisers of the Pacific fleet in the harbor this morn ing. The Japanese cruisers continued coal- lng and did not receive visitors. Admiral Ijichl, accompanied by the captains of the Aso and Soya and hie staff, midship men and officers to the number of 120 went to the Puget Sound navy-yard and were the guests of Rear-Admiral John A. Rodgers and the other officers there. MANY CONVENTIONS PLANNED Iuget Sound and A.-Y.-P. Fair to Draw Many Delegations. SBATTU1 Wash.. June 3. Twenty-one conventions will be held in Seattle during the month of June, and many of them will be participated in by residents of Oregon. June 21. 22 and 23 the American Institute of Banking will hold its annual convention, and Portland bankers are ex pected to send representatives to the meeting. The grand lodge of Free and Accepted Masons will meet from June 15 to 17. The Pacific Coast Advertising Men's Association, of which many Port landers are members, will hold meetings June 15, 16 and IT, and a heavy repre sentation from all parts of the Pacific Coast is expected. June 7 and 8 the Transcontinental Passenger Agents' As sociation will be In , session, and promt- GRANTS PASS SELECTS QUEEN FOR FESTIVAL, FLOAT. ; t t Miss Kt hcl Johnson, GRANTS PASS. Or., June 3. (Spe cial.) Miss Ethel Johnson has been selected by public vote to represent this city as Queen of the Grants Pass float at the Rose Carnival in Portland. Miss Johnson en joy a a wide circle of friends and acquaintances, and her general popularity among the young and old may be expressed in the handsome vote she received in the contest. She has lived here most of her life. Three other candidates were in the race, but by zealous work on the part of Miss Johnson's friends, she was able to control the outcome with apparent ease. nent transportation men from all parts of the United States will gather here. The United Commercial Travelers, jur isdiction of Washington, Oregon and British Columbia, is scheduled to con vene in Seattle June 11 and 12. The Washington Bankers' Association will meet with the banking organizations of Oregon and Idaho June 24, 25 and 26. The Western Bowling Congress, in which Portland has a number of entries, is now In progress at the pavilion at Madi son Park. The tournament will come to a close June 5. Smith Is Fleet Champion. SEATTLE. June 3. Gunboat Smith, of the cruiser Pennsylvania, knocked out Matt Turner, of the California, in the fifth round of a battle for the heavyweight championship of the Paci fic fleet at a smoker held on the Cali fornia last nlieht, attended by most of the officers of the fleet and representa tives of the Japanese fleet. On "GETS EVEN" SMASHES LIGHTS AT STATE HOUSE FOR SPITE. Seeks Reward Tor Tracy-Merrill Chase, hut Comes Two Years Too Late and Starts Row. SALEM. Or.. June 3. (Special.) There was great excitement at the Statehouse for a few moments this morning, when a husky lumberjack named J. A. Mc Donald tried to demolish all the electric lights and chandeliers in the lobby on the ground floor. McDonald had a claim against the state in connection with the Tracy-Merill mat ter of June, 102. when a number of citizens took part in the pursuit of the two desperate convicts who made their escape from the Oregon Penitentiary. Warrant Clerk Janes Allison of the 3?c retary of State's fnce, looked up the matter and found that McDonald had a valid claim against the state, but under the terms of the law appropriating the money to pay the men who took part in the man hunt the- balance remaining un paid on December 31, 1906, reverted back to the State Treasury. , Allison tried to explain to McDonald that the latter was over two . years too late to get his money, but the fellow refused to believe this, and accused the employes of the department of putting the money in their pockets. Declaring that he would "get even with you fellows everyone of you," McDonald left the office and went down stairs. In the lobby of the first floor he re moved his hat and swinging it above his head, began to demolish the electric lights. Janitor Rockwell saw him and yelled at him. McDonald took to his heels with C. N. McArthur. H. H. Corry. J. M. Throne, W. Harvey Wells, a Portland in surance solicitor, and Clifford Benson in pursuit. After circling the building a couple of times, with the clerks and offi cials in hot pursuit, McDonald started for town. Near the Postofflce he was captured and taken to jail. Me appeared to be slightly demented or sobering up after a protracted spree. SELL BERRIES AT TRAIN Rosebnrjr Shows Travelers "What It Can Do In Raising Good Fruit. ROSEBURG. Or.. June 3. (Special.) Douglas County strawberries are now selling to passengers of the trains pass ing through the city at 50 cents per box. and the supply is not equal to the de mand. Mr. Hargan. of this city, for the past -hree years has supported himself and wife from one-half acre of soil, and part of that Is covered with the house, barn and other buildings. One of his principal revenues is a patch of straw berries about the size of a country dining-room, on which he annually clears from 50 to J60. x 4i 'I ' J SERVICE IS POOR Municipal Lighting System at Seattle Inefficient. STREET LIGHTS OFTEN OUT City System TJnable to Compete Suc cessfully With Private Compa nies for Business of Private Consumers Generally. SEATTLE, June 3. (Special.) It Is only when a comparison Is made with other cities that a real idea can be gained of the efficiency of the munici pal lighting plant which is costing the people of Seattle more than 2,000,000. While Seattle is paying $60 a year to the lighting department for each arc streetlamp, Portland pays about the same. In no city In the Northwest has the service given the people been so unsatisfactory as in Seattle. For whole weeks early last Winter the lights were out, from two hours to all night, in whole residence wards of the city, and frequently the whole city suffered. While in some cases this was due to unavoidable accident at the power plant, or on the pipe line, at other times it was palpably due to the city's inability to supply the full load imposed on the service. In other words, the city, by competition with the pri vate lighting companies, had gained so much business in a rapidly growing field, that in order to supply its private customers it was obliged to let some of Its own streets go unlighted. And all this time thugs and highwaymen ter rorized the citizens in the unlighted districts, and citizens alternately cursed the lighting department, blamed the po lice and agitated revolver target prac tice for self-protection. Seattle people are under the Impression that resi dents of Portland, who are buying their lighting and power from a private cor poration, have never suffered under conditions anything like these. Rates Poorly Handled. The city's lighting management shows less ability In the handling of its- rates than do the private companies. While the city Is cutting rates In order to land some heavy contract downtown, residents in the outlying districts are not supplied with lighting except by private corporations, which, exclusive of the street lighting, control still 80 per cent of the lighting of the city. y Yet the city is in the position of hav ing to fight hard for commercial busi ness to steer clear of a deficit, the bur-' den of which would fall on the tax payers. So the citizens face the alter native of accepting this condition from the city lighting plant or voting more and more bonds or donating from their general fund to permit the city's plant to give the kind of service needed. - Private Companies Do Better. Both private companies handle their business with more satisfaction to their consumers than does the municipal de partment. So far is this true that In the face of the hardest competition the city is able to give at the expense of its street-lighting the companies are able to maintain, and in numerous private instances to increase, their rates while their business increases faster than before the city entered the Held. To just what extent these conditions are due to the rapid growth of the city can only be guessed, but they are the conditions, and they indicate the ability of the companies to deal with the local situation better than the city is doing. As showing one of the causes of complaint against the local municipal lighting system the case of the Am herst Hotel is cited. Last November the city had a contract with this hotel on the basis of a connected load of i kilowatts. Qr about half the actual load. The result of this contract was to give the hotel a monthly minimum of $26, whereas the private con cerns would have made the mini mum $50. In the meantime householders were unable to obtain lighting from the city, although had this power been di verted to small users as was contem plated when the plant was established, it would have secured a higher rate and would have been more prosperous while coming nearer giving the people the service to which they are entitled. Employes Xot Efficient. Another sore point In the minds of the citizens against the local municipal lighting system is the comparative in efficiency of the employes. The ambi tion which leads to hard work and faithful service on the part of employes of the private concerns seems to be entirely lacking on the part of the civil service employes of the depart ment. They feel sure of their jobs and their wages and the light eight hour day appeals to them. They are less efficient than the employe of a private concern, who is subject direct ly to the man in charge of his depart ment. Only the other day Arnold Zblnden, Councilman from the Sixth Ward, was kept in the office waiting 12 minutes to receive the attention which the clerks could give him whenever the spirit sufficiently moved them. To move the languid ones he would have to go be fore the civil service board and prefer charges. It might take weeks to get results, and the board is uncertain in its action on matters of this kind, as shown by the experience of the Chief of Police with inefficients in his department- GETS AIR; LOSES WATCH Pullman Passenger Leaves Car Win dow Open for Thief. OAKLAND, Or.. June 3. A daring rob bery occurred on southbound Southern Pacific train No. 15. Wednesday morning, between here and Drain. A passenger on one of the Pullmans left his window up to admit air to the berth, and upon awakening soon after the train left Drain, missed a part of his clothing and upon Investigating, found his coat and vest gone, together with a gold watch and a package of valuable papers which were In the pockets of the coat that had been hung near the open window. The train waits at Drain to couple on a second engine, and It le supposed that some tramp must have taken the oppor tunity to snatch them through the win dow and escape in the darkness. No trace of the thief has been found as yet. The watch was a hunting case, with elk head on back, and the clothes were dark brown. JUDGE M'BRIDE TALKS Addresses 3000 Pioneers in Meeting at Amity. M'MINNVILLE, Or., June 3. (Special.) Three thousand people attended the THE MORNING OREGOXIAy, FRIDAT, Seventeenth annual reunion of the Tarn- ii in county noneer Association at Amity. The annual address was made by .Judge Thomas A. McBride. of the Oregon Supreme Court. Judge McBride was born in Yamhill County nearly 62 years ago. and received his early schooling in a schoolhouse erected by his father on his donation land claim a few miles north west of this place. He was later one of the first graduates from McMinnville Col lege. Judge McBride's address today was composed almost wholly of reminiscences of the early days, when the settlers at Amity, Lafayette, Chehalem Valley and North Yamhill were not too far distant from each other to be the best of neigh bors. That Yamhill pioneers were a rugged lot was exemplified in the attendance of half a dozen couples who have celebrated their golden wedding anniversary. Mr. and Mrs. J. M. Belcher, of Lafayette, have been married 65 years: Mr. and Mrs. James Hembree. of Lafayette, 63 years; Mr. and Mrs. D. W. Holman of McMinnville. bx years; Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Hoberg, of McMinnville, 67 years; Mr. and Mrs. M. B. Hendrick, of Mc Minnville, 64 years; Mr. and Mrs. J. Wil son Cook, of McMinnville, 62 years and Mr. and Mrs. S. T. Mills, of McMinn ville. while not-members of the Pioneer Association. 60 years tomorrow. One of the honored members of the as sociation Is Mrs. Miles Carey, of Lafay ette, a pioneer of 1843, whose mind Is still alive. Mrs. Carey waa not present today. She Is in Portland visiting with her granddaughter at 393 Mechanic Ptreet. canadhiTWard fish WILL ADD SECOXD CRUISER TO COASTAL FLEET. Former Naval Vessel Chosen, and Will Also Be TTsed as Training Ship for Militia. VICTORIA. B. C-June 3 (Special.) Incident to the rapid growth of fish poach ing in the coastal waters of British Co lumbia and the proportions that industry has latterly attained, the Canadian gov ernment is about to supplement the serv ice rendered by the cruiser Kestrel by placing In commission another cruiser. Time being saved thereby and also money, a suitable vessel will be purchased from the imperial authorities out of the fleet of retired naval craft, and negotiations in this direction are now pending. This cruiser, in addition to being used as a fishery cruiser, will incidentally serve as a training ship in connection with the projected Canadian navy, according to Rear-Admiral Kingsmlll. who goes to England In a few weeks to make selection of the vessel. The recent weeding out of Ineffective fighting ships by the Admiral ty has lessened the size of the fleet from which choicfe can be made, the vessels of fered being, as a rule, either too large or too small. Pending delivery of the cruiser chosen, the tug William Joliffe is to be rechar tered and the Newington withdrawn from lighthouse service, both being placed on the fisheries patrol. While at Prince Rupert recently. Ad miral Kingsmlll and Captain Macdonald. R. G. A., made a careul examination preliminary to reports as to requisite fa cilities for land and naval defense. The nature of their reports is necessarily of ficial and confidential. SHERIFF THORPE MISSING He Left Okanogan County, Washing ton, for Murderer Six Days Ago. VICTORIA. B. C. June 3. Speelal.) What has become of Sheriff Thorpe, of Okanogan County, Washington, who left home six days ago to take back the triple murderer. Phillips, alias Benson, is greatly puzzling the British Columbia police, by wljom the outlaw is being held for the arrival of the American officer. Augmenting the mystery, several tele grams of inquiry sent by Superintendent Hussey remain unanswered. Phillips, after murdering a Seattle police and a Denutv SherifT of nitanncan caped to British Columbia, where he is ciuiisu Buspecieu or naving taken part in a murder and robbery at Midway Proof is wanted, however, and unless the Washington officer appears soon he will secure his freedom by habeas corpus pro ceedings. Although he had sworn death to any officer attempting his arrest, and there is a reward of $500 for him, dead or alive. Constable Anderson, of Quesnelle captured him without a show of battle. ' LOWER RATE IS REQUESTED Oregon Railroad Commission Favors Box Men Against S. P. SALEM, Or.. June 3. (Special.) The State Railroad Commission has taken up with the Southern Pacific the matter of rates on lumber. Box shooks, poles and piling take a higher freight rate from Oregon points to California points than lumber. Other roads make the same rates on these products as on lumber but the Southern Pacific charges. $1 more. The Railroad Commission has requested that the rate be made the same as on lumber, and if this is not done the mat ter will be laid before the Interstate Commerce Commission. OREGON FRUIT FOR EAST Carloads of Hood River Berries to Be Sent on Passenger Trains. HOOD RIVER, Or., June 3.-(Special.) One thousand crates of the finest straw berries shipped this season went out to day with the price running from $3.26 to $4. To provide better service for express shipments going East, empty cars were dropped here today, which will be put on passenger trains. Carload shipments are expected to commence tomororow. Walla Walla Sees KIrmess. WALLA WALLA. June 3. (Special.) Given under the auspices of the Women's Park Club of this city, the Kirmess be ing presented at a local theater under the direction of Miss Leila Stewart is meeting with marvelous success, and though but little interest has yet been taken In the voting contest. 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