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14 tfllE MORNIXG OREGOXIAX, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 25, 1910. !! i it i J ; V 1 1 i I ! ! I 51 0 HOG NEARITJG PORTLAND MARKET Arrival Expected Today or Tomorrow, as Prices Ad vance Steadily. ! 7 . j. SUPPLY IS RUNNING LOW Eastern Market Must Be Appealed to Unless Conditions Change. Other Meats, Particularly l Mutton, Go TTp, Too. HOG PRICES IN" LEADING AMER ICAN MARKETS. Portland 9.75 Chicago 9.70 Kansas City 9.50 St.. Louis 9.75 Denver 9.40 IxmisvlUe 9.75 Colunvbus JO.OO Buffalo 10.05 t Indianapolis 10.00 ! Cincinnati 9.85 .....................'...A The $10 hog Is abroad in the land. He has not reached Port'and yet, but he probably will be here today or tomor row. A $10 hog means a hog worth $10 a hundred pounds. As most of the good marketable hogs average around 200 pounds apiece, that makes them worth about $20 to the man who buys them. Yesterday there were two sales of fine hogs down at the Portland Union Stock yards at $9.76. This Is the highest price known to the livestock men and packers now in business here, but some of the old-time butchers could probably tell of higher prices that prevailed in Civil War times. The figure stands as a record, however, for local prices since Portland first became a livestock and packing cen ter. Itecord Price Readied. Up to yesterday the best hog price re ported was $9.60, whichtwas paid last Fall, when there was a brief flurry in the market, occasionad. by too light receipts. Since the market started on its upward climb, about the first of the year, its progress has been uninterrupted. Tuesday the high figure of the present season was reached at $9.60 and yesterday it was raised a quarter. Today or tomorrow. If the right quality of stock Is offered, there Is likely to be another quarter ad vance, and so it will continue until hogs reach a prohibitive price and the people Btop eating pork. Then there will be tome reaction. s Supply Is Inadequate. It is purely a question of supply and demand in the hog market. ' The sup ply In the territory tributary to Port land for a long time has been Inade quate, as has been shown by the vast number of hogs brought to this city from Eastern States. There Is little doubt that the supply of hogs in the Northwest has now been almost cleaned out. Otherwise the farmers, attracted by the high prices, would be rushing ,,. their stock .to market. When all the hogs in this territory have been dis- posed off the demand will have to be ' met with hogs brought from the East. As Eastern hogs are now equal to in price or higher than Oregon hogs, this will mean an extraordinary price for pork in the local market, as it costs almost $1 a hundred pounds to bring them from the East. Yesterday's prices In the Eastern market ranged from $9.40 at Denver to $10.05 at Buffalo, with the tendency upward. 1 Other Moats Up, Too. Not only in the pork line are prices soaring in the local market. Fancy steers have been selling for several days at the stockyards at $5.75 and beef cows have brought $4.75. But It is In the mutton department where probably the most phenomenal gains are shown. A small lot of lambs was sold yesterday afternoon at $7, a sheer advance of 50 cents over the previous quotation. This was considered a high price, but before the day's business was ended there was a sale made of 300 head of' lambs at the unheard-of price of $7.75 a hundred. They were the finest grain-fed stock and averaged 87 pounds in weight. A bunch of grain-fed wethers was also put up for sale and brought the steep price of $6.50 a hundred. WATER MAINS CAUSE SPLIT Members of East Side Committee Disagree on Payment Method. Members of the committee composed pf delegates from the various East Side push clubs appointed to draw up plans for a new system of paying for water main extensions throughout the city met at the Commercial Club last night. Owing to the severe rain and the de layed car service from suburban points, the meeting was not called to order until late. Members of the committee reported they had been unable to agree on any one Idea for the water main question, and announced there would be two re ports, majority and minority. Most of the mem tiers favor a plan that shall make the main extension work self supporting, but the minority members favor a plan embracing a general prop erty and lot tax. On motion of Whitney Boise, one of the committeemen, it was decided to postpone a final report until the even ing of March 10. to which time the meeting adjourned. There was con siderable Informal talk in which an en deavor was made to unite the two fac tions, but no progress in this direction was made. MAYOR SNELL FORGIVING jVshland Now to Settle ' Down to Work of Improvement. ASHLAND, Or.. Feb. 24. Vindicated, he believes, by the two-to-one vote cast for him at the special recall'elec tion In Ashland, Monday. Mayor R. N. Bnell has Issued an amnesty proclama tion and a card of thanks to the citi eens, even including the women and babies, and calls upon all to unite in advancing the interests of Ashland and In promoting its development. The proclamation reads in part as follows: "I wisb to extend my heartfelt thanks to the voters of Ashland for your expression of confidence and the laqtre vote given me at the recall elec tion, Monday, February 21. The large majority plainly shows a vindication of my policies and of the municipal Im provements which have been made by the Mayor and Council during the year of 1909, ahd that the people by this vindication have clearly instructed the present city administration that said policies must be continued. More con crete sidewalks, more hard surface pavement and other street Improve ment for, all parts of our city are clearly wanted by the people, and they must have them during 1910. "The past month, I freely admit, has been strenuous times for me, and I think it has been the same for the en tire citizenship of Ashland. From my own standpoint I have looked upon the fight against me clearly as a persecu tion of a faithful official for private ends, by a few designing individuals; but the fight is -now over, the smoke has cleared away, and I trust that we may all drop our personal differences, -forget and forgive, and work together In harmony and with united energy for the progress and upbuilding of Ashland and her dear people. "In closing this article, I would. be derelict in duty if I failed to, thank the ladies and children of Ashland for MOTHER of CHIEF DEPUTY TO COUNTY CLERK IMES AX MOUNT TAJBOR HOME. . . 4 Ia Mrs. LoniM K. Prwp. Mrs. Louisa E. Prasp, a well known Mount Tabor woman and. pio neer, died yesterday morning at her home, 1732 East Stark street, Mount Tabor, after an illness of about two months, at the age of 72 years and months. Mrs. Prasp had lived in the present home for the past S5 years. She came to Oregon in 1&S4 and was married at The Dalles In 1866. She and her hustand were associated with "Father". J. H. Wilbur at the Simco Indian reservation, where Rev. Mr. Wilbur was agent for a number of years, before they moved to Mount Tabor. Mr- Prasp died in l'SOT. Mrs. Prasp is survived toy an only son, Fred W. Prasp, chief dep uty to County Clerk F. S. Fields. She was a member of the 'Mount Tabor Methodist Church. The fu neral will be conducted at her late home at Mount Tabor tomorrow aft ernoon at 2 o'clock. TTie place of interment will be In Rieverview Cemetery. the kind words and encouragement which they gave me during- this recall campaign." FUNDS SOUGHTFOR HOME MRS. AXNA MYERS DEVOTES HER !LIFE TO CONSUMPTIVES. In Portland' Asking: Money for Home . for Incurables at Denver, Which Is Xon-Sectarian. In the interests of the Jewish Con sumptives' Relief Society, of Los An geles, Mrs. Anna Myers,- wife of Rabbi Isodore Myers, of the Sinai congregation in Los Angeles, is at present touring the Northwestern cities, seeking aid for the society's home and sanatorium at Den ver, Colo. Mrs. Myers is in Portland this week, and told of her work at the Portland Hotel last night. "Our home in Denver," she said, "is devoted to the care of Incurable cases of tuberculosis. We have a permanent building there, with accommodations for 1G0 patients, and aside from that we can give quarters to 150 more in tents upon the 29 acres of ground that the society owns near Denver. Here we aim to keep patients who come " to us In the utmost comfort, and when death finally releasee them, we take care of their funeral ex penses. "The society is strictly non-sectarian, and any incurable sufferer from tuber culosis who comes to us is given a com fortable home, free of charge, regard less of his or her creed or color. I am at present visiting the various cities in the Northwest, endeavoring to interest charitable people in our work; for just now we are greatly handicapped by lack of funds. I have just come from Se attle and Tacoma, and there I was very successful. "We do not take incipient cases of tuberculosis at our home, there being several other institutions in Denver that take care of such sufferers. We be lieve that something ought to be die for those in an advanced stage of the disease, however, and that is why I m here. Our institution is In charge of a staff of physicians and nurses, and we do all that we can for the penniless suf ferers who come to us." . Mrs. Myers is the Interstate repre sentative of the society, and has charge of the financial collections in Oregon, Washington, California. Montana, Wyo ming, Utah. Nevada, New Mexico and Arizona. In order to take up this work she has given up her comfortable home in Los Angeles. During her stay in Portland she will deliver an address upon the work of the society in Temple Beth Israel, presided over by Rabbi Wise. PostofTice Shortage Refunded. O. C. Riches, Government postal Inspec tor, reported yesterday that the company by. which Charles A. Straus, ex-cashier at the Portland Postoffice. was bonded, had paid into the United States treasury $4015.78, the amount of the shortage in ilr. Straus" accounts. The bonding com. pany was the United States . Fidelity & Guarantee Company, of Baltimore, Md. Mr. Straus several weeks ago was con victed in the Federal Court and sentenced to serve IS months at McNeil's Island. Sareoiowcr snspeuM -rTeed."' " SALEM, Or., Feb. 24. (Special.) G. C. Bingham and Harold Pierce, arrested on suspiicon of being the men who blew up the safe in the depot of the Salem Falls City & Western Railway Company, in West Salem last week, were released to day by the police, owing to a lack of evi dence to convict. Mrs. Sophie Mayer, of New York, is the first woman lawyer to appear in the courts of Austria DIRECTOR BEACH -IS-" EXONERATED School Board Finds Charges Against Integrity Are Not Sustained. PAY RECEIVED BY JONES Discharged Carpenter Admits Di rector Had Xo Means of Knowing: That District Paid for Time on Private Work. After a hearing of the evidence, School Director Beach was promptly exonerated last night by the Board of Education from all charges made against him by Alex McLeod, a discharged carpenter. Following the hearing, the members of the board held a short executive session and, after considering th$ testimony, by unanimous vote acquitted 'Mr. Beach of the accusations of alleged improper of ficial action in the following decisive lan guage: The chool board after having this date Investigated, and considered the charges i made toy Alex UcLL'eod. a former employee or the district, and who was discharged Nov. . 1!9, find that the charges submit ted by the said Alex McLeod. insofar as they reflect on the official integrity and fitness of Director J. V. Beach, are not sustained. Briefly stated, the charges made by McLeod were that Mr. Beach knowingly permitted him to do private work, for which he was paid out of the school fund. The accuser himself admitted under oath that he had no reason to think that Mr. Beach knew anything of the alleged wrong-doing of School Architect Jones, whose order it was that always sent Mc Leod to do this work for Mr. Beach. The latter, it was clearly shorn, always asked Mr. J&nes for the bills for services, paid them and supposed- the incident was closed, until recently, when Mr. McLeod, since his discharge by Mr. Jones, made charges against both Mr. Jones arid Mr. Beach. Mr. Beach swore that he never knew utnil recently that McLeod was employed by the school district at any of the times that private, work was done for himself, and that he always paid Architect Jones, and supposed that Mr. Jones paid the workmen. McLeod did not attempt to deny Mr. Beach's statements, and ad mitted, when cross-questioned, that he had never reported the alleged miscon duct of Mr. Jones to any member of the board until after being discharged, al though he admitted that he knew he was falsifying when making out time-slips for private work, for which he said that he received school funds. Mr. Jones was too ill to appear last night, as was shown by a statement from his physician, but when he recovers suf ficiently to be out, he will have a hearing on the charges preferred by McLeod against him. Mr. Beach presented an affidavit from Mr. Jones, in which' Mr. Jones swore that he never paid for pri vate work or materials with school funds. The first witness was McLeod, who read his charges. McLeod said that he had deliberated 90 days before making them. McLeod said that he was sent to "a certain house" in South Portland, owned by Mr. Beach. This was at School Ar chitect Jones' order. McLeod said that he had a "suspicion" the work was being paid for out of school funds. Later he was sent to Mr. Beach's home on East Ankeny street, where he also did work. "Mysterious Table" Made. McLeod swore that he was also sent with other school help to do private work in Mr. Beach's law ofice. He also did work at Mr. Beach's country home, near Turner. Or., and declared he also made "a mysterious table," for Mr. Beach, at a doctor's order. He swore that he was paid out of school funds for all of thi work. Mr. Beach cross-examined the witness. McLeod said he and two men spent two days placing a large shelf in Mr. Beach's law office, and said that Architect Jones gave a requisition on a lumber company for the material, charging it to School District No. L. He admitted that he did not believe Mr. Beach knew of this work. He alsp admitted that he thought that Mr. Beach did not know that Mr. Jones was using school funds. Mr. Beach de clares he paid Jones from private funds himself. McLeofl swore that he packed some goods for Mr. Beach for shipment to Turner, and that his time was paid for from school funds. It was charged, he said, to the school work on the Couch building. Payroll Dictated by Jones. Asked .by Director Sabin whether he knew that he was certifying to some thing untrue in making up false state ments) at the alleged direction of Archi tect . Jones as to work paid for by the school district, the witness admitted that he did. He swore that Jones often met him in saloons, when Jones would' dictate to McLeod what to write as to the pay roll, and that Jones would then sign the slip. McLeod refused to say whether he had ever told any School Director or anyone else -of Jones' alleged miscon duct at first, but finally said that he told Jones: "There will be trouble for all of us, if this padding of the payrolls keeps up." He said that he only mentioned it to .Jones about six times. "Did you ever tell any member of the Board?" asked Mr. Sabin. "I really forget." was the reply . "We want to know," persisted Mr; Sabin. "I never told any Director, but I think other people knew about it," he said. Beach -Tells of Payments. Mr. Beach then asked to be sworn, and made a statement. He said that he paid Mr. Jones, and supposed Mr. Jones paid the men out of this money. Mr. Beach said he did not know at the time that any of the men were on school pay. Mr. Beach said that Jones swore that he paid the bills out of his own pocket and never paid any one wrongfully from school funds, and read an affidavit from Jones denying McLeod's charges. McLeod said that the affidavit showed Jones to be "an Imbecile," as the rec ords would show that McLeod . never lost a day until he was discharged a few weeks ago, he declared, and there fore must have been paid from school funds. EMBRYO LAWYER STEALS Chicago Boy Turns Thief to Gain Money for School Tuition. CHICAGO, Feb .Resorting to Ille gal means in order to obtain sufficient funds to procure an education in law resulted In the downfall of Edward D. Andreea, 19 years old. Andres, was sen- ill iiffe ISW llHyF Last Wmm : - the Opening mff! ' w Day ls Here WMBBjfKill- Tomorrow the Owl Drug Company extends the hand mf$ffl of welcome to the people of Portland, and invites you MsMs' . air to visit us. ' In Order to Make Our Opening a Memorable Occasion p We Will Give Away I ; f 2000o00 Every purchaser of 25c or over will be given an envelope. No envelope contains less than 5c and some as much as $20.00. . Many envelopes contain amounts between. We have adopted this method, of opening this store instead of the customary plan of spending an equivalent in the newspapers besides, we want to make this opening an interesting one. We want you to come and visit us and get acquainted with Owl service, Owl quality, Owl prices and Owl methods. We want the people of Portland to feel toward this store as those in other cities feel toward their Owl Drug Stores. The Address Is Cor. 7th and Washington Sts. I 7?&? 1 fenced to three months in the Bridewell by Judge Tuthill after pleading guilty to a charge of larceny. When taken before the court he con fessed having taken bundles of silk goods from delivery boy3, which he disposed of to the keeper of a pawnshop near Thirty first and State streets. Andrews' method of operation, it was learned, was to ac cost delivery boys and give them 25 cents to run. an errand. Incidentally In forming them he would hold their bundle until their return. BAD FOR ECZEMA W'atew Frequently Asgrravatea Skin Troubles, In certain inland European districts where water is seldom used for bathing purposes the people are almost Immune from skin affections. The best authori- ties now agree that soap and water are to be avoided in the treatment of skin diseases, particularly .eczema when present in the scalp or on the feet, as water is an irritant, and when not actually the cause of the disease, at least aggravates It- For this reason prescriptions put up in liquid or soap form, or containing grease or alcohol, have always failed. The new skin remedy, poslam. Is a flesh-colored ointment, containing no grease. Under its directions soap and water are forbidden. It may be used on the tender skin of. Infants with soothing and beneficial effect, and In eczema cases stops the itching Immedi ately, rapidly restoring the skin to its normal condition.. Every druggist keeps both the 50 cent size (for minor troubles) and the $2 jar, and either of .these may be ob tained at the Skidmore Drug Co. and the Woodard-Clarke Co., as well as other reliable drug stores. But no one is even asked to "purchase poslam without first obtaining a sample package, which will be sent by mall, free of charge, upon request, by the Emergency Laboratories, 82 West Twenty-fifth street. New York City. Doors Open at 9 A. M. The lar&esf Dru& Retailers in rne Cuf Rafe "I tried to make enough to enable me to go to a law school," said Andress to Judge Tuthill. "I did not look at the Il legal side of the act of which I am ac- Cocoa O. 1 There are nine or ten spe cies of cocoa trees, the best ab eing t he Theabroma Cacao, a name bestowed by Linnaeus, (the father of botany) and meaning "food of the gods. Cocoa trees grow over a wide tropical area, principally on the American continent. 0ml worm D ratals to cused." "So you stole to become a lawyer," re say you were getting the wrong funda mental training for the profession." The goodness comes not From the making, but from the cocoa. cocoa is good, because it is perfect and pure. I7)ont ask merely for cocoa ask for GhirardellPs Other Store. In Seattle, San Franclnro, Oakland, l.os Angeles. Portuguese itardners at Punt a rielgada. on St. Michaels. Azores, are. settlnsr rich raisins; fine pineapples under glass for the New York market. They are the biggest and best that reach that rltv.