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i - si 8 THE MORNING OREGOXIAX, FRIDAY, SEFTE3IBER 3, 1909. 1 1 : ' . . . '. I . i mm i. :m mi ii nil w rn ' .1 of th river from Kooskta. while H.rri- f? PllinAy ill M? M H V&flwSSf W? Ef A WWW&t AV man men have kept pegging away on the Vf 7 ) V;0W 1V1 Vtlikf Ps:g V SVfe?, Vfvii 5X.1.1 VHl t'-Vg f Vl fe3r. north bank. MtfiMteMarfMMiMHiMfltbJ I rtjj" irnfl Pirn 1 ni.nr' ii I I .dMk iU WMUUU11& Today 3 BEND GETS WORD "HILL WILL BUILD Centra! Oregon Survey Sold Only on Condition of Ac tual Construction. PORTER SEEN, DISAPPEARS Contractor's Visit Mystifies Crook Connty Town Oregon Trnnk Crew Busy Grading at Trail Crossing. BY GJEORC.B PALMER PUTNAM. BEND. Or.. Sept 2. (Special.) All the Bend country Is a veritable vortex of railroad discussion, predictions of forth coming surveys, and myriad construction rumors. The sight of the Hill surveyors working on mysterious lines along the very streets of the town has focufsed a long-rlp?nlng popular attention upon this one and only topic of the hour. The grade stake has superseded the fishing rod as the symbol of universal Interest, and discussion of business affairs and other such trivialities are for the present rele gated to obscurity thaf every conversa tional nerve may the better be concentrat es upon the contemplation of the embryo railroads. The telesram yesterday received In Bend announcing the purchase of the Cen tral Oregon survey, from iladras to Red mond, by the Oregon Trunk is regarded enthusiastically. At last, apparently, posi tive assurance of a railroad has come to the long ratlroadless people of the De-K-hutes country. Railroad Now Assured. The telegram In question, received by C. M. Redfleld. engineer of the Deschutes Irrigation Power Co.. of Bend. Is thus worded: "You may announce we have sold the Central Oregon survey to the Hill Interests. In conformity to our prom ise that we would not do sj unless as lured parties getting it would construct railroad through Central Oregon. (Signed) Roscoe Howard." Mr. Howard Is the manager of the De schutes Irrigation A Power Co.. and chief promoter of the company which put through the survey, some 14 months ago. The making of this survey was entirely the result of local initiative. It being financed by the people of Bend and the eurrounding country, at that time desper ate at the apparently everlasting neglect of the Harrlman builders. Forfer's Trip Mysterious. The fact that the Hill Interests have purchased thte survey and have signified thflr Intention of building as far as Red mond, coupled with the fact that their survey crews are already In the field far south of that town, and even beyond Bend, gives every circumstantial assur ance that California Is the objective point. It Is said that certain Hill men In au thority have given out that Klamath Falls is the Immediate destination of the line, though this may well be one of tha many rumors that crowd tha air at pres ent. This morning Johnson Porter, of Por ter Brothers, was In Redmond, only to vanish. however. with characteristic promptness, no one knew whither no one. that Is, who was not stricken with professional railroad-builders" dumbness. Crew Busy on Crooked River. From the vicinity of Trail Crossing, on the Crooked River, near Its Junction with the Deschutes. 20 miles south of Madras, comes news of great activity. A telephone report received here announces a hundred teams and lfO men at work at the Cross ing and eight miles to the North, all grading along the survey of the Central Oregon Company. It was the first in stallment of this crew which made the record dash from Shaniko In 13 hours, ar riving at 2 o'clock In the morning, after bumping on the double-quick over 40-odd miles of roads notable chiefly for their excessive poorness. Difficulties of a very different character seem to beset the railroad-makers at the opposite ends of their work. Down In the Deschutes Canyon, with Its 2000-foot walls, the workers have for occassional and entirely unwelcome companions rat tlesnakes and unlimited tarantulas, the latter often collected In bucketfulls by the laborers. But chief of all the troubles encount ered on the lower river Is the heat; often the mercury climbs above the loj-degree point, making distressing work for the men on the jtradr and the surveyors scaling the cliff walls and the bare hill sides. - Cool, However, at Bend. In Bend, however, the nature of the misfortunes encountered Is apparently lo catetd at the opposite end of the gamut. The surveyors, it seems, were advised that Central Oregon was the hotest place Imaginable, with one noteworthy excep ttlon. Acting in accordance with this be lief, they came with the lightest of clothing and few blankets, and a com prehensive Idea that the nights in Bend would be of the sweltering tropical order. But as it happens, once the sun has gone, down, a veritable chill pervades the high, dry air, and there Is no night, even within doors, when warm blankets are rot desirable and necessary. And so it came to pass that the fore runners of the railroad, who came ex pecting uncomfortable heat. shivered through a night or two. and then at tacked the blanket and comforter" stock of the local stores. CLASH IMMINENT IX IDAHO Hill Engineers Outwit Harrlman Forces in Bitter Roots. LEWISTON. Idaho, Sept. 2. (Special.) Maneuvering for a more strategic posi tion. Northern Pacific field engineers, engaged In surveying along the middle fork of the Clearwater River have ap parently outwitted the Harrlman forces by crossing to the north bank of the river and establishing a survey 15 miles In length directly In the path of the Har rlman engineers, who have been working exclusively on the north bank of the Lochsa River. That this move spells a hot fight for possession of the survey, which may reach the courts. Is the opinion of rail road men. Word reached here today from the scene of conflict, that the two rival surveying parties are engaged in a sharp strategic battle for possession of the most feasible route through the Bit ter Roots; that reaching the point where the Hill engineers began working on the north bank of the stream, the Harrlman engineers ran over the Hill grade stakes and showed clearly that a clash is im minent. Both crews are now preparing to spend the Winter In the field and the Hill Harriman war will be carried on to the end. according to present Indications. Ap peals have been sent to headquarters by both field captains- and more men will bo rushed la to aid, th leader who are KELSO TUNNEL WORK BEGINS Northern Pacific Starts Construction Camps. KELSO. Wash., Sept. 2. (Special.) Construction work on the Northern Paci fic tunnel, which will take the place of the present track around Rocky Point, three miles north of Kelso, commenced today. M. Mclsaaes. the railroad contractor, who has Just completed a tunned at Taft. Mont., and who has the contract for driving the tunnel, arrived yesterday. H. M. Tremalne. supervising engineer, ar rived last night from Missoula with blua prints and plans for the work; Equip ment and constructing crew are being assembled and a camp will be established north of Kelso, near Rocky Point. As the Point is a rock formation It will prob ably be several months before the work K nnmnlotfld Commencement of work at this point gives assurance that work on the double track will be rushed through. It Is ex pected that within the next few weeks the definite course of the line through Kelso will be settled. TIP GIVERS BEATEN-UP WARKAXT OCT FOR RACETRACK DETECTIVE. Action Lets Out Story That Men Who Flay Races Have Been Victims of Code Signal. VANCOUVER. B. C, Sept. 2.-(SpeclaI.) Serving of a summons for assault on Detective Welsh, chief of the Inquiry agency acting at Minoru racetrack, and implicating also Hugh Springer, a pro moter of the track, has brought to light an interesting story, in which It is alleged that racing men from nearly all the chief cities or the Pacific Northwest have been victimised by several men here who have sent race results out by wire before they were officially received. A telegrapher, Frank Moon, alleges that he was beaten, up by a member of the Canadian detective agency and Springer because he was telephoning the results to Vancouver, and that his assistant was also beaten up by those two men. being Inveigled to the track, supposing the men had police authority. Nothing was done until the operators left for Seattle, where they learned differ ently, and reutrned here to lodge com plaint In the Steveston Police Court. It is said that the American Consul is back ing the men'a actions. , It Is further al leged that persons In Seattle. Portland and elsewhere have been, receiving the race results by wire In time to bet on the winners, the result being sent from here by code. BUILD SIDETRACK TO MILL Southern Pacific to Construct Switch in Oregon City. OREGON CITT, Or.. Sept. 2. (Spe cial.) The City Council last night granted to the Southern Pacific Com pany a franchise to construct a switch and sidetrack in the Green Point sec tion of the city. This will enable the lumber manufacturers of Clackamas County to make shipment from Oregon City in carload lots, which has been Impossible heretofore. The necessary Improvements will be made at the instance of the State Rail road Commission, and the lumbermen will defray the expense of Improving Sixth street from the tracks to Main street, while the Southern Pacific Com pany will improve Center street for a distance of two blocks. CLOVER SEED PAYS WELL Yamhill Farmers Sending Out Large Shipments. M"MIXNVILLE Or., Sept 2 (Special.) Heavy clover seed shipments were made from this place today, the thresh ing of the present season's crop having become pretty general. The best yield of red clover seed yet reported was produced by Isaac John son on the Henry Gee farm nine miles southwest of town, averaging seven and one-half" bushels to the acre. Hubert Bernard. Ave miles northwest of town, had 100 acres in clover that averaged over four bushels to the acre, after having been pastured until very late In the Summer. Besldea the use of the pas ture his land will net him $26 an acre from the clover seed. ASTORIA HAS HIGH TIDE Government Measurement Shows Rise of 0 Feet 2 Inches. ASTORIA, Or., Sept, 2. (Special.) This afternoon's tide was an unusually high one, being nine feet and two inches, according to the Government tables, and the southerly wind prob ably raised the water higher than that but so far as reported no damage was done. Fortunately the wind was light, as, with a gale, considerable Injury would have been done to the dikes along the tide lands. School Opening Delayed. CHEHALIS. Wash.. Sept. 2. (Special.) Owing to the delay In moving the old Chehalis high school building to Its new site in the eastern part of the city, the public schools here will not open until October. The structure which has been moved will have to be replastered throughout, a heating system installed and other Improvements made. Work on the fine new brick high school build ing is well along. Logger Crushed to Death. ABERDEEN. Wash., Sept. 2. (Spe cial.) Jack Johnson, a logger, aged SO, was instantly killed at Bale's logging camp, 12 miles west of Hoqulam, this afternoon when a huge log which was being hauled away by a donkey en gine rolled over on him. The body was frightfully mangled. EXCURSION CLATSOP BEACH I'm going "Down the Columbia" to CLATSOP BEACH on the A. & C. R. special Labor day excursion train, leav ing Portland at 7:45 A. M. and return ing it 10:15 P. M. COME ALONG. Noae Accepted After 10 P. M. That's referring to The Oregonlan "want" ads by phone. Any time prior to 10 you can call up Main 7070 or A 6095 and find the "want" ad clerk ready to take your ad as you dictate it- Bill for the same will be sent after publication. . Free) to Men. Dr. Taylor's $10,000 museum, now open, admission free, 2MVi Morrison St., cor, 2d. Our Annual u Great During the Entire Month of September We Giye You the Free Pick and Choice Without Reserve of Any IP p m Tfl 'A IK. ' MA , , - ) u J X ids . I . : : A CM - -A J MA :i -1 t- I V - i Qnv ! KM . 3 f I Kiy k i J sj V I' I m W ' mm im Overcoat or aincoat in the store for only Regular Selling Prices Are $15, $18, $20, $22.50, $25 and $30 and Are Marked in Plain Figures This mammoth sale is launched because' of a two-fold purpose primarily because we want every newcomer to the Rose City to become acquainted with the Brownsville Woolen Mill Store secondly, because we want to do a much larger volume of business than we've ever done in any previous September. . While we know that almost every body who'has lived in this city for a year or more is pretty familiar with the benefits derived by the public through our mill-to-man method of selling, we also know that there are a great many newcomers in the Rose City to whom "mill-to-man" is meaning less. We therefore deem it a wise business move to sacrifice profits for a month in order to have every newcomer to Portland become acquainted with the Brownsville Woolen Mill Store. Furthermore, you've heard lots about the higher clothing prices. This Great Trade-Building Sale will be prima facie evidence that they DO NOT EXIST in at least one clothing store in this city but on the contrary we are selling a much better suit at $15.00 than we ever could before. PC n IS jTf Boys' All Wool Guar- anteed Oregon Buck skin Knicker Suits . . 1 Guaranteed to Give a Year's Satisfactory Wear or a New Suit Free Mothers who have boys to clothe will be glad to know that we have turned our second floor into a juvenile department, where the boys can now be clothed in the same pure wool goods that men wear. Every style from the little tots ' Buster Brown and Reefer Suits to the larger boys' Knickerbockers and young men's college styles are on dis play, all marked at popular low prices, $2.50 to $15.00. But the Suits we especially want MOTHERS TO GET INTER ESTED IN are the ones made of the new PURE WOOL "ORE GON BUCKSKIN CLOTH" so-called for its great wearing qualities. So great is our faith in the superior quality of these Boys' Suits that we give our GUARANTEE OF ONE YEAR'S SATISFACTORY WEAR OR A NEW SUIT IN THE PLACE OF ANY MARKED "OREGON BUCKSKIN." THE PRICE. One would naturally suppose that a year's guaranteed suit for the boy would come higher than the average person would want to pay. This is not the. case; $5.00 is the price to one and all. A Word About the Suits We Sell in This Great Trade-Building Sale If we were to spend a thousand dollars in advertising, telling people we were giving $20, $2o and $30 suits for $15, and we did not have the suits to back it up, our one thousand dollars would not only be wasted, but people would soon know that it was the same old cry of "wolf, wolf," and pass us by. This Trade-Euilding Sale is backed by fully six thousand suits and nearly as many overcoats and raincoats. The very cream of the clothing world has been gotten together for this sale; not only this, but the reputation and guarantee of this store's forty years of honest clothing selling are at stake. We positively have the goods, and there are plenty of courteous salesmen here to wait on you but mind you, you'll not be urged to buy. Just come in and pick out any suit in the store, no matter whether $20, $25 or $30 ones, have the salesman fit you out and pay only $15 during September. ' 1 Clothiers mum iX " A -WmJUUl.. F'M -K'mff 1 Mill r nm W.. ii m mm ismmmv Third m IP Ma FRENCH SEAMAN SUFFERS TER RIBLY OX DESERT ISLAND. Lives on Shellfish and Water in Crevlcea of Rock and Is Near Starvation When Found. . VICTORIA, B. C, Sept. i (Special.) Steamers Jit arriving from Australian ports direct bring a thrilling story of the privations and sufferings of one Pierre Rochegude. a French seaman, cast ashore upon an uninhabited and dosolate telet off the coast of New Caledonia. Rochegude left Noumea on June 23, In a little four-ton ketch, the Bonlto. on a short Journey. He failed to return, and fears were entertained that the little craft had come to grief.' The owner dis patched another ketch, the Etelie. in search of the missing boat and Its navi gator, and after cruising around for some days Pierre Rochegude was discovered on a small atell of Pate. He told his rescurera that the Bonlto, when nearing the Isle of Pines, struck a ref and foundered in 18 feet of water. With difficulty he succeeded In swim ming ashore, and had subsided for over a fortnight on shellfish. He found email quantltlea of fresh water In crevices In the rocks, but waa gradually getting weaker, and had feared that help would not arrive in time. His terrible privations and sufferings on a desert island, with out shelter or proper food had mani festly aged him many years. He left Noumea In the prime of life, a robust sailor but when discovered by the Etelie he was white-haired, weak and terribly depressed. " Kalnisr to Take Holiday. RAINIER. Or.. Sept. 2. CSpecial.)-A Labor day celebration will be held here under the management of the Rainier Volunteer 'Fire Department. Monday, September 6. The programme will con sist of a parade, games, races, a ball game and a dance in the evening. BRUTE KNOCKS WIFE DOWN Hurls Her to Sidewalk When She Asks Him to Go Home. OREGON CITT. Or.. Sept 2. (Spe cial.) Striking his wife in the ' face with such brutal force that she was knocked to the sidewalk. Clifton May was this afternoon arrested and es corted to the city Jail. May was beastly Intoxicated and his wife pleaded with him on the street to start for their home at Beaver Creek, five miles east of Oregon City, but the man resisted. His first blow was warded off, but the second one piled the woman in a heap. The affair brought hundreds of peo ple to the spot. May is a promising candidate for the whipping post. On the way to the Jail he fell flat on his face to the walk, and had to be carried by the ofTlcers. REPORTER INSISTS HE DID Senator Chamberlain Said at Spo kane He Was Ready to Retire. SPOKANE Wash.. Sept. 2. (Special.) "Senator Chamberlain, of Oregon, cer tainly told me he Intended to retire from public life at the end of his Senatorial term.." says G. H. Rouse, the reporter for the Spokane Press, who Interviewed fhamberlaln. "I asked Senator Chamberlain if he would rest after his term in the Senate, and the Senator replied: 'Yes; I have six yearn yet to eerve as Senator, and I have already had two terms as Governor of Oregon. I have worked hard and want a rest, and fully intend to retire at the end of my Senatorial term." "The conversation occurred at the Great Northern depot. Spokane, while the Sen ate committee on irrigation was here. Senator Carter and others were near." LODGE IS 50 YEARS OLD Forest Grove Masons Plan Celebra tion October 2 5. FOREST GROVE. Or., Sept. 2. (Spe cial.) With impressive ceremonies the members of Holbrook Lodge No. 30, A. F. & A. M.. of this city, will cele brate the 60th anniversary of the or ganization of the lodge on September 25. Arrangements are being made for a fitting programme commemorating the beginning of the organization. It is expected that the Grand Master and a number of prominent Masons from various parts of the state will be in attendance. Moreover, the lodges at Hillsboro and Beaverton will be invited to take part in the exercises, and at tend in a body. Almoran Hill, a pioneer living near Gaston, is the only charter member now living in Washington county. M. E. Diller, of this city, who has held the position of tyler for more than SO years, is the next oldest member of the lodge living in the county. Moores Form Xew Company. SALEM. Or., Sept. 2. (Special.) Arti cles of incorporation were filed at the office of the Secretary of State for the Inside Investment Company. The capital stock is $300,000 and the incorporators are H W. Mills, H. A. Moore and W. H. Moore. Principal place of business, Portland. Judge to Hear Suit Friday. VANCOUVER. Wash., Sept. 2. (Spe cial.) Judge McCredie today set Fri day, September 10, as the date for hearing arguments in the mandamus suit of Rector & Daly, contractors, against J. P. Kigglns. Mayor, to compel the executive to sign certain grading contracts which the City Council has authorized. The court was ready to hear the case today, but the attorneys, W. E. Yates for the contractors and George S. Shepherd, of Portland, for the Mayor, could not agree upon an earlier , date. VICTIM GUARDS VALUABLES Camps Beside Ship Ohio Until Re .lief Crew Arrives. SEATTLE. Sept. 2. When the steamer Ohio sank in Carter Bay, British Columbia, last week one of the passengers was A. N. Anderson, of Minneapolis, a traveler for an Eastern Jewelry firm, and who carried a sample case whose contents were worth nearly $15,000. When the rush for life began Anderson was obliged to leave his sam ple case in the social hall of the steamer. He refused to leave the scene of the wreck with the other passengers, but camped on the shore of Carter Bay in a hut, after obtaining blankets and food. When divers came to work on the wreck Anderson saw that they first found his valuable case, some or all of the contents of which were re covered before the dead were searched for. OLD MAN IS AUTO VICTIM TJnconsclous and Unidentified, He Is Carried to Hospital. SEATTLE, Sept. 2. The body of an old man who was found fatally wound ed last night In the roadway in South Seattle, at a place where the automo bile Joy riders put on full speed, was not identified today, but the police and the Coroner's Jury have no doubt that he was killed by an automobile -When the unconscious man's wounds were cleansed in the City Hospital grease and traces of yellow paint were found, while a large tuft of hair had been cut from his head as though with a razor. Grease was also found in his hair. LAST TRIP STEAMER POTTER The O. R. & N. steamer T. J. Potter, from North Beach, will make her last trip leaving Megler, :00 o'clock P. M. Monrtav. September . Labor Day. E. M. F. Thirty Automobiles Three hundred sold and delivered in Oregon and Washington in 1909. For the first time this year we have these cars in stock and can de liver on an hour's notice. A demon stration will prove our claim that this car has no equal in its eiass. STUDEBAKER BROS. CO. Salesroom, Garage, Repair Shop, Chapman and Alder Sts. ?