TITE MORNING OREGONIAN, MONDAY, JULY 26, 1909. X J i 1 A A llll VJi i - ' J ' sbbbSBs.SBBssSBBBBBBSBBBBs -4 HILL'S CO fJfJECTIOfJ IS NOT CREDITED Grass Valley Opinion Is Porters Are Trying to Hold Up' Harriman Road. TOWN CENTER OF ACTIVITY Wagons of Promoters of New Ven tnre Still Trekking Toward Points Where AVork of Grading; for Road Is to Be Taken Up. BT R. O. CALLVERT. GRASS VALLEY. Or.. July 25. (Staff Correspondence.) In this, the busy bead quarters of the Harrmian contractors on the construction of the new railroad along; the Deschutes River, the move of Porter Brothers Is classed as a species of hold-up. and the theory that the HIU Interests are backing; the railroad con struction forces, now headed this way, is discredited. Porter Brothers' activity has served at least to urne on Harriman construction to increased activity. All along the line new camps are going In. and teams and equipment are being rushed Into the Held. The Harriman contractors today have scouts on the Porter Brothers' wagon trains. According to the reports received here the Porter Brothers' outfit is still trek king across the country. A part of It Is headed for Sherar's bridge. The roads are hilly and the wagons are heavy, so progress is slow. Seven of the Porter Brothers' teams crossed Free bridge this afternoon headed in the direction of the Jiarriman big camp. Rival Crew Plays Joke. This afternoon a Porter automobile put up signs in obscure places from Free bridge to the head of Harriman's newly constructed wagon road, which leads from a point ten miles east of Grass Valley down 2000 feet Into the Deschutes Canyon to Mile Post 32. These signs read. "This way lo Railroad Camp." This afternoon Twohy Brothers discovered the signs, and turned them to point in the opposite directien. The points at which Porter Brothers' wagon trains are headed are places where there are conflicts in the surveys of the two roads. The nearest and most accessible place to The !a!lea for Porter Brothers iB the mouth of the Deschutes. Investigations there today revealed that none of the equip ment so far has been sent to that point. The survevs do not. however, conflict In that territory. The Harriman road oc cupies the east side of the river there and the Oregon Trunk the west side. Un der the former management the Oregon Trunk graded about three-fourths of mile at the mouth of the river several years ago. Much Activity at Deschutes Station. The Harriman forces, on the other hand, are showing great activity at Ieschutes station. A 1000-foot spur lias been constructed on the new right of way In such a manner that it can be taken up the river as grading pro ceeds. A special trainload of equip ment is now on the way to the mouth of the river from Spokane, and will ar rive there tonight. On this train are horses, scrapers and general grading outfit, and a coach load or two of work men. Cars of bridge-timbers are ar riving here every day, and Harriman Tlght-of-way men are endeavoring to secure all the switching ground possi ble. The Deschutes debouches Into the Columbia practically between bluffs. Between the face of these bluffs and the Columbia is the Bat. about 300 feet wide and more than a mile long. J. W. Morrow, right-of-way agent, was there Friday, endeavoring to purchase all this flat east of the river mouth. About half of It. it is reported, has already been acquired. Miller brothers, who have a small right at the mouth of the river, have not sold out. owing to the absence of one of the brothers. Morrow has endeavored to secure their consent to. the grading of the right of .-way through their land, pending the purchase of all their holdings, but has not yet gained this concession. Grass Valley Is Booming. Eight Harriman survey parties are strung along the line from the mouth of the Deschutes to Mile Post 75. Grass Valley Is the engineering and construction headquarters. Here the two departments have rented every available room and house In town. Twohv brothers and the engineers oc cupy "nearlv all of the upper floor of what Is a large brick building for a town of several hundred inhabitants. The town boasts a big. three-story rame hotel, where It is Impossible to secure a bed. owing to the influx of contractors and workmen. In another building Twohy brothers have opened a boarding-house for their employes. There are. perhaps. 150 of what are known as station men now in Grass Vallev. seeking sub-contracts. These station men work in groups of six to a So en men' each, taking contracts to complete portions of the work, camp equipment r,etng supplied with them by the general contractors. In addition there are 13 or more repre sentatives of sub-contrarting firms here looking over the ground and several sub contracts for construction of ten-m.le Portions have been let The sub-contractors include Charles Johnson and L. Jacobson. of Seattle, who had fub-con-trarts on the Milwaukee-Puget Sound construction: Foss & McDonald of Spo kane Johnson Nelson of Spokane. Velson Bennett. Government contrac tors at Olilo; Eslick Hartnet of Spo kane Fuller A Bain of Portland and Burns Jordan of Portland and others. -Wagon Road Completed. The waron road Into the canyon from ths towering bluffs, ten miles west of here has been completed, railroad con struction camps were established yester day In the bottom of the canyon, and actual grading has commenced. Twohy Bros have about 530 men now engaged on the work, end before this week ends It is estlmsted that the force will be in creased to 10 Commissary stations ave been established at Deschutes. Wasco. Grass Valley and Shaniko. A large warehouse there stowed full of sup piles, and grading teams are coining and going continually between this place and the main camp. T. C. Hanford. one of the Porter Bros.' engineers, and crew, passed through here today, bound for Snanlko. from whence they will proceed to Mile Post To. Another party of Porters surveyors is reported In the vicinity .of Mile Post 2i Both of the Twohy brothers and H. A. Brandon, engineer In charge, are here directing operations, and every Indication along the line is that the Har riman Interests mean business in the con struction of the Deschutes road. HARRIMAN" OFFICIALS CONFER SLruttschniU and O'Brien Refuse to IMecusa Oregon Trunk. Julius Kruttschnitt. director of matnte- tance and operation of the Harriman sys tem, arrived in Portland yesterday.. Im mediately on his arrival. Mr. Kruttschnitt closeted himself with J. P. O'Brien, gen eral manager of the Union Pacific lines In this territory, and other local Harri man officials. This conference lasted un til late last night. Neither Mr. Krutt schnitt nor Mr. O'Brien would discuss either the purpose for which the confer ence was held or the result of the meeting. Mr. Kruttschnitt explained his visit to the Pacific Coast at this time by say ing that he was making his annual In spection of the Harriman system. He refused to comment on the activity of the Oregon Trunk people. Harriman's aggreslve rivals, in .building a railroad up the Deschutes Into Central Oregon. Neither was it possible to obtain from him any definite Information as to when the Union Pacific will begin running Its trains from Portland into Tacoma and Seattle over the line of the North ern Pacific in fulfillment of the agree ment said to have been reached recent ly between Hill and the Harriman in terests. Mr. Kruttschnitt. who Is prac tically the head of the Harriman sys tem in the absence of Mr. Harriman. would only admit that he was on his annual Inspection tour. Mr. Kruttschnitt is accompanied by his family, consisting of his wife, son and daughter, and his private secretary- The party was Joined at Hunt- TOW M ARSHAL OF'WOODUSD I A K7HVRIIUOLD. : .:,f. Samuel Gatton, Ploueer and In dian Fighter. WOODLAND. Wash., July 25. (S p e c i a 1.) The accompanying photograph Is a recent one taken of Samuel Gatton, who was lately appointed Town Marshal of Woodland. Mr. Gatton is prob ably the oldest man in the United States to occupy the position of Marshal. He was born In San dusky, O., on June 2. 1833, being therefore 76 years old last June. Early In life he removed with his parents to Iowa, and In 1850 drove an oxteam across the plains, staying at the Cascades that Fall and Winter and coming on to Portland In the Spring of 1861. In 1852 he came to the Lewis River Valley with William Ives. Government surveyor, who ran the first Government lines in O regon and Washington He served 101 days In the Indian war of 1855-6. Altogether he crossed the plains nine times. He is hale, hearty and active for his age, and bids fair to live for many years to come. ington Friday by General Manager O'Brien. The two officials spent Sat urday at Spokane, reaching Portland over the O. R. & N. in Mr. Krutt schnitt's private car, yesterday after noon. STftMPEDEiEXPECTED RUSH WILL BE MADE FOR LAND IX BIG BEN'D. Government Will Open Several Townships for Settlement on September 27. NORTH YAKIMA. Wash., July 25. (Special.) Those who have investi gated and read the letter from the Gen eral Land Office which announces the opening of the land predict a good, old fashioned stampede about midnight September 26. in the immediate vicinity of Hanford. in Benton Counts-, on the east bank of the Columbia River. It comes about through the an nounced intention on the part of the Federal Government of opening town ship 13. range 25 east: township 13, range 26 east: township 13, range 27 east, and township 12. range 27 east, under the land ofllce here, and others which come under the jurisdiction of the office at Walla Walla. All of this land is dry. but six sec tions and more come under either the present Hanford CanaL or under the high-line ditch. Hanford lands, with water, sell from 100 to $350 an acre. The possibility of the stampede comes through a provision that settlement on the land gives the settler priority rights as to filing, but no one not now settled or settled before May 24 of this vear may settle until September 27. The actual entering comes October 7. A provision Is made In the instruc tions to the land office officials here that if two or more settlers try to file on the same piece of land and the offi cials are at a loss as to which settler was on the ground first, the local land office may sell the land to the highest bidder. Some Is school land and some railroad, and the Hanford. officials claim that but little will actually be open to homesteaders under their ditch. CANNERY READY FOR FRUIT Centralis Project, Begun Two Months Ago, Is Completed. CENTRALIA. Wash., July 2$. iSps cial ) The new fruit and vegetable can nery is ready for operation. A large stock of cans is being put in and the various machines are being given preli minary tests. It Is only eight weeks since the first steps In the project were taken. Stock was hurriedly subscribed, a site secured and a building started. , Supplies were ordered and machinery hurried to the spot before the building was finished. Practically all of the stock is held by local grovers and. the farmers of the vicinity.- School Population Grows. C5NTRALIA. Wash.. July 25. (Spe cial.) Superintendent Kellogg has com pleted the school census for the city. It shows S67 boys and S78 girls of school age. This Is a gain of mors than 13 per cent over last year's figures. The total days of attendance for the year was 196.55, a gain of nearly 4 per cent. Since 1903 the population of Centralis has doubled and has trebled sinco 1900. LVAI fSBURG FIRE CDSTSTHREELIVES John Frey, of Cottage Groe, and George Burkhardt, of ' Redmond, Victims. FRAME HOUSE DEATH-TRAP Lodgers Who Escape Forced to Flee In N'ight Clothes Woman Drops Her Sick Husband Through Window to Ground. SPOKANE. Wash., July 25. (Special.) Three men were burned to death in a Waitsburg, Wash., fire, which de stroyed the Farmers' Lodging House at 1 o'clock this morning. The men were sleeping In upper rooms. The cause of fire Is unknown. At 1 o'clock the little girl of Dan Nail, proprietor of the house, awakened her parents saying there was a fire in the house. Pieces of wooden ceiling were then dropping through, and in a second the place was ablaze-and all had to flee in their night clothes. A woman with a sick husband put him through a window on the lower floor several feet from the ground. The dead men are: - John Frey, Cottage Grove. Or., mem ber of the Foresters of America. Walts burg officials are Instructed by the sec retary of the lodge to hold the body for instructions. George Burkhardt, of Redmond, Or., a German: no - relatives in America. Ehret Brothers, of Redmond, say he has a mother in Germany, has property in Redmond, and asks the city officials to write to the mother. The other man was selling a solder ing fluid for M. Green Frevert Company of Spokane. No papers of any kind were found to give his name or address. The bodies are at Samuels & Bailey's undertaking establishment. The burned building was owned by Maurice Land, with no insurance. A small building on the south, occupied by D. E- Martin, as a shoe shop, and th ladles' library building on the south, used by the band boys for prac tice, also went up like tinder within a few minutes. The walls of H. G. Shuhaman's har ness shop were badly scorched and his skylight demolished by the heat. The violent heat Injured the plate glass windows In the Oddfellows' building to the extent of t300. BRIDE OF WEEK INSANE DECLARES SHE WANTS TO GO TO ASYLUM AT SALEM. Hasty Marriage of Deer Creek Rancher Brings Him but Briefest Joy, Then Serious Trouble. ROSEBUTSG, Or., July 25. (Special.) One week after her wedding day, Mrs. Ote Peterson, of Deer Creek, was committed to the Insane asylum by County Judge Wonacost, at her own request. "I am insane." she said, "take meto the asylum where I can do no harm." Peterson met the woman for the first time at Cottage Grove, whither he had gone on a business trip. Her father, he said, urged him to marry her, and Peter son, a lonely rancher, was glad to do so, as he saw nothing wrong with the woman and was favorably impressed with her. As soon as the couple arrived at Peter son's ranch, however, the woman mani fested violent insanity, and, after living in terror for a few days, Peterson was forced In sslf -protection to appeal to the authorities to arrest her. A HARD FIGHT THE STORYOF A FAILURE The writer was called to the 'phone by a prominent attorney of San Francisco who said that a friend of his was dying of Bright' Disease and that If we could do anything to send the treatment and a phy sician. Both -were sent. The doctor phoned back that the patient was at the end of a year's riant with chronic Brlghfs Disease and was almost a skeleton, and was In coma, and that the priests had administered the last rites, and that the attending phy sicians bad told the patient's wife that it was only a question of hours and he de clared with considerable spirit that he had practically been called In to slsn the death certificate. The patient, a Ban Francisco business man, was in charge of the nurses. They said that nothing had passed into or out of the patient's stomach for twenty-four hours; that It had ceased to act would not hold peptonized milk and that they were waiting for the end. Our consulting phy sician did not think that there mas one chance In a thousand, but started a hard fight for that chance. Jumping into a car riage, he went to Wakelee & Co.'s. pro cured a high twenty-inch tube and the neeessarv adjuncts and returned for an all night's fight to keep the patient alive. After four hours with emulsions through the high tube the Impacted feces were removed and. as the stomach had almost ceased function ing the patient was fed and given both treatment and food per rectum. The food and treatment were administered and with drawn every three hours, night and day. The patient was given an alcohol and emul sion rub alternately every three hours. He was given no food by the stomach for ten davs except a little champagne and cracked ice" The second day he began to move a little. The fourth -day he was beginning to clear mentally. In two weeks his stomach began to accept chicken and solid foods. In a month he was walking around the room, and in two months contrary to the strenu ous advice of the physician) he Insisted on taking a Southern trip. He was not as strong as he thought and suffered a relapse. The physician was telegraphed for and went South to attend and bring him home, but the trip and consequent relapse was so seri ous that the patient expired on arrival in SaThlsrwasCOa battle against tremendous odds and it is our belief that It would have been won if the patient had followed the physician's advice and given up the trip until he was stronger. The attorney mentioned who called us up bv 'phone was the Hon. Barclay Henley, the ei-member of Congress and well-known lawyer of San Francisco. His offices are in the Pacific Building on Market street and he will doubtless confirm these facts to anvone who may be Interested. We refer to this Instance and his name In connection therewith without his consent. We could hardly afford to do this If the above was not strictly true. We consider the treatment that this phy sician used in this esse to aid the Renal Compound as so Important that It was at our request written up In detail giving the various prescriptions and formulae. We will mall It to physicians who may have critical cases like the above. Brlghfs Disease is now curable In a great majority of all cases by the new emollient treatment Fulton's Renal Compound. It may be had at nrst-class drugglsta Literature mailed free. Address John J. Fulton Co.. 212 First street. San Francisco. W desire to hear from and advise with vary case sot making the usual recovery. PIM); ALE ECTRAOR C-l r ' , --JNJ J138 v 'ii'i.-5.-; mm The biggest occasion in the way of littlest prices and littlest, pay ments for really fine warranted rfi it lfgVy high-grade ever wit- r-uJ nessed in Portland and one that win never come again. DELAYED CARS ARE HERE NOW AND SELLING WILL BE RESUMED TODAY Bring $5 or $6 and Get a Nice New Pi ano Now. Prices $138, $162, $146, Etc Never heretofore was it possible to secure so much genuine piano value for the money. Probably never again. Come first thing tomorrow. The additional forty-two pianos included in this sale are now on display. The prices are $138, $162, $146. Pay $5 cash and $5 a month. There are eighteen $300 and $350 styles reduced, $127, $164 and $154. On these, terms are $6 cash and $6 a month. If you wish to pay cash, a premium of 4 per cent goes to anyone wish ing to pay in full within thirty days. See these pianos, note the reductions; no such occasion for securing a piano so tremendously under price will be presented agaiil in several years, at least. There is an awakening to prosperity throughout the East. We found two well-known piano manufacturers with a large stock of finished pianos. They were terribly anxious to realize. We secured these latest high-grade pianos at a most extraordinary reduction. We pass this advantage along to wideawake midsummer buyers. Bear in mind, we guarantee every instrument a3 to quality, and also aa to price. Your money back if at any time within six months you can buy the same grade of pianos elsewhere, East or West, at anywhere near such low price. - Should you later on want the best in the world, the Chickering or the Kimball, or that beautiful art piano, the Weber, or the Pianola Piano, we will any time within two years allow total price paid for these pianos in 1 a I. 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