f THE 3IORXIXG OREGOMAX, THURSDAY, MARCH 17, 1910. GUN PLAY SEQUEL TO OLO DISPUTE Plot to Blow Up North River Dam Feared, Shot Is Fired at Prowlers. MORE TROUBLE EXPECTED Iong Fight Between Mcomen and North Shore Boom Companies Is Tense--Sherirf Called--Win-In junction Is Granted. SOUTH BEND, Wash.; March IS. (Special.) Threats to use dynamite' on a. dam approved by the War Depart ment, minor acts of violence, an ap peal to the Sheriff of Chehalls County for protection, and a shot flred by one of the owners of the dam at suspected prowlers are the sensational sequel to the Ions dispute between the Nlcc men Boom Company and the North Shore Boom & Driving Company. That an armed force intended to blow up the North River dam was re ported last week to Frank Hobi, of the Loggers' Boom Company and the Wil lapa Logging1 Company, successors of the North Shore. The Sheriff, called from Montesano, reached the dam Sat urday, but found everything serene. Sunday night, however, Hobi spied six men in a launch suspiciously near the dam. He flred one shot at them from a house nearby, walked to the boatlanding . and at the muzzle of his gun compelled them to re-embark. State Senator H. S. McGowan is man ager of the Nicomen Boom Company, one of the rival companies, and J. W. KLleeb, an incorporator of the oppos ing company, was defeated by Mc Gowan in the race for Senatorshlp three years ago. Injunction Is Granted. Today a temporary injunction was granted by the Chehalls County Court restraining the Nicomen Boom Com pany, H. S. McGowan, Dan Lynn or any person in their employ from interfer ing in any way with the Willapa Log ging Company's dam, boom or other property in their vicinity or with the log jam near the dam. The hearing on the injunction will be held in Monte sano next Saturday. ' State Senator II. S. McGowan. who visited South Bend today, disclaimed all hostile intentions and declared that the men who were sent to the dam Sunday simply went to break a log jam near the dam and that they had . neither arms nor powder. On the other hand it Is alleged that a large amount of powder was bought here and shipped to North River and that neither Mc Gowan nor any of his employes have any logs in the big Jam. A Chehalls County Deputy Sheriff is camping at the dam and will remain there until the injunction hearing is over. Serious trouble is expected at any moment by residents here, so intense is the bitterness of the logging concerns. . The original companies in the dis pute were the Nicomen Boom Com pany, consisting of P. J. McGowan & Sons, with State Senator H. S. McGow an as manager, and the North Shore Boom & Driving Company, of which J. W. Kleeb, president and manager of the Kleeb Lumber Company, was the chief stockholder and manager. Court Bars Boom. The final result of the litigation was the elimination of the North Shore Boom & Driving Company and the re moval of its boom by order of the court. This was followed promptly by the organization of the Loggers' Boom Company by J. W. Kleeb, C. A. Werley and Frank Hobi. The same men also own the Willapa Logging Company, which is operating a logging camp on North River. To facilitate the driving of logs, this company erected a large dam near its camp and the new boom was built Just below the dam and above the Nicomen boom. This irri tated the Nicomen concern. ' At the time of the great freshet in December a large portion of the log ging company's dam was washed away and the boom was wrecked. The Mc Gowans then fought to prevent the re building of their rival's boom and dam. Simultaneously the North Bank Road began suit to condemn right-of-way across the river at the point where the dam was located. The logging company won over the railroad com pany and the War Department gave its permission for the rebuilding of the dam. This increased the bitter ness, engendered by previous troubles,, which almost led to bloodshed. TACOMA "CUTS OUT" DICE Gambling In Cigar Stores and Sa loons Comes Under Ban. TACOMA, Wash., March 16. (Special.) No more is the rattle of the dice to be heard in Tacoma cigar stores and saloons, according to Chief of Police Duley. Orders have been given by the police to all cigar dealers and saloonmen to "cut out" the dice. Shaking was entirely for cigars and drinks when it started, but lately money has been in evidence. The police chief says that complaints have been numerous, the parents of one boy complaining only this week that he had lost SO shaking dice. Various dice games have been intro duced in the last year. Dice with eight sides were used in some -and the rolling of the "bones" was as interesting to spectators as a first-class card game. Some of the new dice are marked the fame as cards. In several cigar stores the dealers had elaborate outfits for keeping dice accounts and business in this sort of gambling has been almost as . profitable as in the palmy days of the slot machine. KNIFE, ACID, BRING DEATH Body of Timber Cruiser Found in Argo Woods. SEATTLE, March 16. The body of John McDougal. a timber cruiser, aged B0, originally from Michigan, and who came here from Idaho three years ago, was found in the woods near Argo, south of Seattle, today. : McDougal, who had been despondent or months, had hacked his throat with a pocketknife and then swallowed car bolic acid. OLD MORTGAGE IN ISSUE Buyer Ixng in Possession Resist Effort to Foreclose. SALEM. Or March 16. (Special.) Attorneys are greatly Interested in the case of Klser Warren vs. Idleman. appealed from Marion County and set for hearing in the Supreme Court on March 31 at 2 P. M. The case is an action to foreclose a mortgage. In March, 1892, C. M. Idle man borrowed $4000 from the late Tll mon Ford, giving a mortgage on a farm in this county. In September, 1892, the real estate was conveyed by warranty deed to Eleanor Black, who soon after ward conveyed the property to W. H. Black. Idleman continued to pay the interest and installments on the note up to 1907, paying in all about 1S0. The balance now due on principal and Interest is about $7250, nearly half of which .Is interest. When Tilmon Ford died his execu tors, William Kaiser and Angle B. Warren, found the mortgage and made a demand upon Idleman for the amount due. - Idleman - refused to pay the amount and the foreclosure suit was started. The plaintiffs proved their claim against the property, secured by mortgage, and the defendants set forth that they had been for 10 years or more in peaceful and undisputed pos session. Judge Galloway decided that the mortgage could not be foreclosed. From this decree the executors of the POHTLASD MAY HAVE DET i'EL- OPED CHAMPION BILL.. IAHD PLAYER. f.v3 George Kennedy. George Kennedy, the former well-known manager of McCre die's billiard parlors in Portland, and now manager of "Chick" Wright's billiard parlors in San Francisco, sprang into the lime- t light and became a new Dossi- 7 bility for the world's champion ship in three-cushion (billiards by defeating DeOro, the great Cuban player, in a brilliant match last Friday night in San Fran cisco. The score was 75 to 63. According to a San Francisco paper, Kennedy has everything necessary to . make a champion. His head, work, stroke and safety play were marvelous, and he completely baffled the Cuban wizard with the rapidity and brilliancy of his play. He played his own game as Wolgast toyed with Nelson. The "champion safety player of the world" ran into a lad who could beat him at any and all styles of play and who clearly outclassed him in all departments of the game. Ford estate have appealed to the Su preme Court. Other cases set for hearing In the Su preme Court are: March 29 10 A. M., A. Castel et al vs. Klamath County; 2 P. M-, Bogard vs. Barnhan, Marlon County. March 30 10 A. M.. Nicklaus vs. Goodspeed, Tillamook County; 2 P. M., Benbow vs. James John, a steamboat. Multnomah County. March 31 10 A. M., Jerman vs. Mis ner, Marlon County. 'NEAR BEER' IS TOO NEAR TEST FOR ALCOHOL MAY BE FOLLOWED BY INDICTMENT. Pendleton Hears Rumor That Brewery, Cigar Store and Other Dealers Are Under Ban. PENDLETON, Or., March 16. (Spe cial.) That every Pendleton dispenser of "near-beer." the temperance beverage. Is to be indicted by the grand jury tomor row is the substance of a report cur rent on the street tonight. It Is said that Professor John Fulton, of the department of chemistry of the Oregon Agricultural College, has tested the samples of beverage obtained from the different drink emporiums and has found that with a single exception the liquors were intoxicating. The same sam ples are said to have tested as high as 5 per cent alcohol, the test for real beer, while few went below 4 per cent and only one as low as 2 per cent. Professor Fulton has completed his tests and has given the results of his investigations to the grand jury and re turned to Corvallis. - According to the report, the local brewery is also scheduled for indictment on several counts, and at least one cigar store proprietor is to be indicted for per mitting gambling in his place of business, and both the pool and billiard-room pro prietors are to be indicted for allowing minors to play these games " in their places. ALASKA SEASON OPENING Vessels Sail With Railroad Supplies, Laborers and Cannery Men. SEATTLE. March 16. The steamer Northwestern sailed for Cordova, Alaska, tonight with a cargo of ma terial for the Copper River Railroad, which is to be completed to the Bo nanza copper Held by December 1. The steamer also took 175 railroad workr men. Every steamer for1 Alaska from this time forward will carry railroad laborers. The steamer Seward is loading the great steel bridge which will span Cop per River between the Miles and Childs glaciers. The cannery ship St. Paul sailed for Kenai today with 100 white and Chi nese cannery hands, material and sup plies. The steamer Jefferson sailed tonight for Skagway with 110 cannery em ployes. A steamer and two sailing ves sels are preparing to go north with cannery employes and supplies, and each of the regular liners will carry cannery employes during the next month. x John D. Rockefeller would go broke if he should spend his entire income trying to prepare a better medicine than Chamberlain's Colic, Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy for diarrhoea, dysen tery or bowel complaints. It is simply impossible, and so says every one that has used it- Sold by all dealerds. ' y 3 A I NECESSITIES BEAR BRUNT OF INCREASE Washington Finds Cost of Supporting State Institu tions Is Higher. BUTTER ALONE CHEAPER Flour 89 Per Cent TTp by Compari son With Price in 1900; Meat Tp 2 9 Per Cent Wage Data Not Completed. OLYMPIA. Wash., March 16. (Special.) Direct data bearing upon the increased cost of foodstuffs were made public here today from bids Just opened by the State Board of Control for furnishing supplies to the several state institutions and from a preliminary report by State Labor Com missioner Hubbard of his investigations into the cost of living. The state buys large quantities of standard supplies for the 3000 Inmates of state Institutions and in Its purchases, because it pays spot cash, it gets the bene fit of wide competition. All supplies ere delivered ' at the respective institutions' and contract are made for six months Great .Ad yb nee Shown. Taking purchases for the Soldiers' Home at Ortlng for comparison, today's ac cepted bid? show that beef by the quar ter has advanced from J8.30 last Octo ber to $9.25, bam from $14.05 to $18. bacon from $16.40 to $19, lard from $13.25 to $15.25, flour from $4.37 to $5.10. Best Wash ington creamery butter was bought today for delivery the coming six months at 32 cents, as against 34 cents in October, but butter always should be cheaper in Summer than in Winter. Bran and shorts show a drop of 50 cents a ton from October, but barley is up from $27 then to $30 today, and yellow corn meal has advanced $1.97 to $2.22 in wholesale lots. Advance Is In Necessities. Labor Commissioner Hubbard has1 been making an investigation for some time to determine whether wage increases have kept pace with enhanced values of food and clothing. The wage data are not completed yet. He says In a state ment given out today. "The burden of advance has fallen on a comparatively small number of com modities, all of which are absolute neces sities, which enter into the dally use of the average family. Probably three fourths of table expenses may ba charged to the articles which have undergone the heaviest advances. Wheat flour in 1900, which year is made the starting point for the investigation, was quoted at $3.25 for first-grade article and is now $6.15, an actual increase of 89 per cent. Other advances in the same period are graham flour, 90 per cent; cornmeal. 62 per cent; oatmeal, 23 per cent; rye flour, 44 per cent; soda crackers, 37 per cent; white beans, 77 per cent; coffee, 21 per cent; rice, 55 per cent; granulated sugar, 21 per cent; butter, 22 per cent; cheese, 26 per cent; hams, 53 per cent, and bacon, 87 per cent. The average increase for all the commodi ties mentioned above is slightly more than 50 per cent." Meat Up 2 9 Per Cent. The Labor Commissioner's report for 1906 gave a list of retail prices of meats for that year, which furnishes a basis for comparison. In the four years rib roasts have advanced from 15 to 18 cents a pound, an increase of 20 per cent; pot roasts that sold In 1907 at 10 cents now bring 12V4 cents, an advance of 25 per cent. The average Increase for all cuts of meats enumerated during the period has been 29 per cent. LABORERS BALK AT HIKE Fare to Nchalem Paid, Walk to Rail Camp Kept Dark. SEASIDE. Or., March 16. (Special.) From 20 to 30 laborers are arriving every day from Portland for the con struction gangs of the Pacific Railway & Navigation Company at Nehalem. Comment Is made, too, that about the same number depart every evening for Portland, after quitting the job. The expenses of the men to the work scene are paid and they are staged as far at Hug Point, whence they have to hike it over the trail. Many give up after traversing the trail half way. Those who work, it is said, stay only long enough to earn enough to pay their fares back to Portland. Return ing laborers say they are deceived by the Portland employment agencies representing they will be conveyed right to the Job. They further complain that the food la poor. Owing to. the difficulty in packing goods over the trail the com missary may l5e somewhat limited in variety, but the opinion is prevalent in Seaside that the men are of the, "won't-work" kind. Several have been arrested recently for drunken ness and kindred offenses. 100-MEMBER CAMPAIGN ON Grant's Pass Commercial Club Aims to Swell Its Ranks. GRANTS PASS, Or., March 16. (Spe cial.) The Commercial Club here is pre paring to receive 100. new members at its next session, March 21. when speeches and a banquet will mark the celebration. To gain more recruits, old members of the club will lead a campaign, among newcomers from the East, who have Bat tled here and launched into business, during the last eix months. The club is thriving" and at the last membership campaign which offered spe cial inducements to new members, 80 Joined the club. The annual election of officers will follow the celebration Mon day night. PARTY IN MARION WILL ACT Republicans to Meet IViday to De cide on Assembly Plans. . V SALEM. Or.. March 16. (Speciaf ) W. L. Jones, chairman of the Marion County Republican committee, has called the ex ecutive committee together for a confer ence in this city on Kriday afternoon of this week to formulate some plan for the selection of delegates to the state as sembly. " Eugene, Oregon. I have sold Hall's Texas Wonder for kidney, bladder and rheumatic trouble for the last five years, and have guaranteed it in many cases, but have never had a complaint. 60 days' treatment in each bottle. O. J. HulL THE HOME FURNISHED COMPLETE A Gas Range or a Wood and Coal Range placed in your home on Thirty Days' Free Trial, followed by. the Liberal Buying Terms of $5 Down and $5 Each Month. Garden and Lawn Tools, Lawn1 Mowers, Refrigerators, Sewing Machines Basement 27.SO It's the 9 ft. by 12 ft. size in these rags that the Carpet Department is offering today and tomorrow at this unusually low price. They are excellent floor coverings for living room, dining; room or library, in all-over and medallion effects and popular colorings. These rugs are of standard make and are being closed out to make room on our racks for new patterns. Ba-geiroeofc 3Ba.rga.fos Today $3.00 Clothes Wringers at $2.40 The "Perfect" Wringer; wood frame, double cogs, vulcanized rolls; size 1x10 inches. $4.00 Clothes Wringers at $3.20 The "Crescent" Wringer; iron frame, rolls l3xl0 inches ; a good family size, warranted for one year. $5.50 Clothes Wringers at $4.40 The "Royal" Wringer; wood frame, With special soft rolls of finest Para rubber, which wrings dry and wears well; has the combination tub clamps; will hold se curely to galvanized iron, fibre or wood tubs; warranted for 5 years 35c Kitchen Brooms at 28 loc Japanned Dust Pans at.' 8 60c Special Wing Feather Dusters, 16-inch, at 33J We Sell Jap-a-Lac in Seventeen Different Colors, Four Sizes in Cans. Basement Dept. BRANCH LINES FEW Earling Says , Milwaukee Will Not Build in Olympics. BUYING NO SMALL ROADS Milwaukee President Finds Condi tions Not Opportune for Large Xcw Enterprises Through Passenger Trains July 1. SEATTLE, March 16 President A. J. Earling, of the Milwaukee Railroad, an nounced today that the company would not build branch lines north of Grays Harbor into the timbered districts of the Olympic Peninsula during the year 1910, nor will it engage in any other large building operations. It has not bought the Idaho, Washing ton & Northern Railroad, the Blackwell line in Eastern Washington, recently re ported to have been absorbed by the Mil waukee, nor are negotiations pending for the purchase. The Milwaukee's Seattle-Chicago through passenger service, consisting of two trains each way a day, with new and modern equipment, will go into effect July 1 or soon thereafter. "There exists today and has existed for some time past in financial circles of the East, a sensitive condition, or lack of confidence, which I have not seen ac counted for," said Mr. Barling. "Because of this condition, the time is not oppor tune for consideration of large enter prises by the railroads of the country. The branch line construction in Wash ington by the Milwaukee during 1910 will be confined to completion of the line to Everett, now under way, completion of the line from Spokane to Coeur d'Alene City, and construction of the line from a point near Plummer to Coeur d'Alene." Mr. Earling's statement is taken to mean that the Northern Pacific and Union Pacific will also refrain from, building into the Olympic Peninsula this year, there being a good understanding among the three lines covering this state. KITTITAS MEMBER IS ILL J. C. Hubbell, of State Inquiry Board, May Have Typhoid.- EL.LENSBURG, Wash., March 16. (Special.) J. C. Hubbell, representative to the Legislature from Kittitas County and a member of the committee appointed at the last session to investigate state in stitutions, is seriously ill. Typhoid fever is feared. . CARLYLE TAKES CHARGE Idaho Agricultural Director ' Out lines Work of Station. MOSCOW, Idaho. March 16. (Special.) Dr. W. L. Carlyle, director of the Idaho Toll & QiTbTbs, Inc. MORRISON AT SEVENTH Remarkable Values in "This Collection of Women's and Misses' Tailored Suits Not one in the entire groupthat could be duplicated for less than $25 some of them worth as much as $40. They have been made up from short lengths of materials some of which are imported fabrics in light and medium shades only beautiful worsteds, English cords, imported French serges and mannish mixtures, in light gray, three shades of rose, light' and medium shades of wistaria and helio gold shade, light blue and Copenhagen blue. The coats are in desirable lengths, 32 inches and 34 inches, strictly tailored and with beautiful contrasting color linings of messaline, soft satin and taffeta silk. Skirts are plain, gored and plaited. If you want a prettyjight color Spring Suit at about half regular value, and desire to have it ready for Easter, it will be k well to make your selection early. BRUSSELS Rog ait $19.78 Experimental Station and Agricultural college, returned yesterday from two weeks' trip to Southern Idaho. He an nounces the appointment of Professor F. D. Farrell, from the Department of Agriculture at Washington, D. C, as di rector of all sub-stations in Southern Idaho. This was Dr. Carlyle's 'first move in the reorganization of the Agricultural College staff since his appointment last Winter as director. "The three institutions In Southern Idaho are calculated for distinct pur poses," he said today. "The . station at Caldwell containing 320 acres, is for irri gation and soli investigation. The Good ing station, consisting of 40 acres of fine irrigated land, the use of which was do nated for 10 years by ex-Governor Good ing, is to be used mostly for testing pur poses, especially for grains, grasses and roots. Tests will be made of several hun dred varieties of seeds this season, es pecially in methods of cultivation, depth of plowing and kindred subjects. The other station will be placed near Black foot in Bingham County, providing satis factory arrangements are perfected. This station is to be used for experimental dry, farming.'" NEW LINE IS PROJECTED Mount Angel Business Men Organize Telephone Company. MOI7NT ANGEL, Or., March 16. (Spe cial.) Business men of Mount Angel have organized an Independent telephone company and .expect to put in a switch board at once and build lines in the country. Local men have also organized a brie and tile company. They are having the clay tested and as soon as they get a report on the clay will be gin work on the plant. ' Josef Paul!, who Just arrived from Dell Rapids, S. D.. has purchased five acres with a small house and orchard for S1500 here. TO CURB A COLD IX OJfB DAY. Take LAXATIVE BROMO Quinine Tablet!. Druggists refund money If It falls to cure. iC W. 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R. & X. FOR TAXES. Road Tenders Only Half of Sum As sessed, Deeming Amount Unjust. Big Legal Battle Due. WALLA WALLA. March 16. Every county in Washington where the Oregon Railroad & Navigation Company runs will sue the railroad for payment of taxes assessed upon the company's holdings as a result of the refusal of the railroad to pay taxes due in the several counties. Such Is the semi-official announce ment made by local officials of the rail road here today. The legal battle involves the Washing ton State Tax Commission, the State Board of Equalization and the different counties in the state where the Oregon Railroad & Navigation's holdings are sit uated. Today representatives of the O. R. & N. refused to pay the assessment on their property in Walla Walla and Columbia counties as well as in other counties of the state. The railroad alleges that the valuation placed upon its holdings is ex cessive and unjust. 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