3UE , MORNING OREGOXIAX, TUESDAY, MAT - 10, 1910. .9 THREAT TO ISOLATE. MOFJTAUILLA MADE Health Officer. Says Parents Must Keep Scarlet Fever ' Quarantine. CASES ARE MILD IN TYPE Care Enjoined, Lest Malignant Form Develop Dr. 1lieeler Says He May Stop Streetcars and Arrest Lawbreakers. Because of the prevalence of mild cases of scarlet fever in the Montavilla school district and because of a disposition said to have been manifested by parents to disregard quarantine measures, Dr. C. H. Wheeler. City Health Officer, threatens to quarantine that entire section. It was reported yesterday that,' there were many mild cases so mild that neither the children nor their parents knew what they were until a school in spector had caused 'a diagnosis to be made by a representative of the Board of Health. Unwillingness to observe quarantine even aftpr attention had been called to the facts, however. Is the chief cause of the health officer's Ire. "The situation in the Montavilla dis trict is a repetition of difficulties ex perienced with newly-annexed territory," said Dr. Wheeler, yesterday. "Residents of the outlying districts become accus tomed to do as they . please, and when they become a part of the city, do not want to obey regulations or be told what to do. Children with mild cases of scar let fever have been attending the Monta villa school and mingling with each other without regard to quarantine measures. Tt would do no good to close the school, for the children would mingle just the same. When they are in school we can watch them and when they are absent we look them up to find out why they are absent. Stern Measures Threatened. 'The parents will not call a doctor, and when we get the children they laugh and say nothing is the matter. I have talked to those people all I propose to, and unless they pay strict attention to quarantine regulations I shall get out warrants of, arrest for those caught breaking the law, and if necessary close up their streetcar line and shut off that whole section of the city and everybody In it from the outside world. "It is true that the cases have been of Ihe mildest form, but there is no know ing when a new case might develop into a malignant type, and then the situation would be serious. In all parts of the city, and particularly on Twenty-third street, where the four deaths occurred, Ihe situation is well In hand. "There has been more of a scare over scarlet fever than an epidemic. About SO cases have been reported during the last three months. Had it not been for the four deaths in a district where the disease assumed a malignant form, from lome unknown cause, I doubt if there would have been any scare. I have tried to find out the cause of the malignant torm on Twenty-third street, but the only reason that seems, apparent is that all the streets in that territory are torn up. tt is possible the stirring up of the ground had something to do with it. At ny rate, contractors should not be al lowed to tear up miles of streets at a time and leave them in an impassable a.nd probably unsanitary condition for a month or six weeks. Parents Can Help. I'l believe the situation is now well In hand, and, with the assistance of parents, we will be able soon to stamp Dut the disease. "The situation again brings out the need for a municipal quarantine hospital for contagious diseases. St. Vincent's Hospital has a section set apart for con tagious diseases, but it is not large enough. Plans have been discussed for a quarantine hospital to be built by the county and city, and I hope -that it will soon be done." According to Dr. Robert C. Tenney, ex State Health Officer, there are no par ticular symptoms of scarlet fever that will indicate to the patient presence of the disease. "The disease takes hold in various ways," said Dr. Yenney. "It may be so mild that persons do not know they have It., and again it may start with vomiting, high fever and convulsions. There is no particular way of preventing the disease that I know of, except to avoid exposure. The best preventive is to stay in the house, obey quarantine regulations and lse plenty of disinfection." Superintendent Rigler. of the city tchools, and Dr. Wheeler held a confer nce yesterdny. Upon advice of Dr. Wheeler, Superintendent Rigler decided not to close the schools now, but each principal and teacher will keep a sharp watch on all children, and when any be come ill the case will be immediately re ported to the heath officer.- It will be Investigated and. if the case proves to be scarlet fever the child will be sent home and quarantined. Although assurances are held out by the Board of Health that there need be no apprehension' of a scarlet fever epi demic at this time, that the situation is well in hand and that there probably will be no spread of the disease. There has been an exodus of parents and children from Portland to the beach. Although the disease has been mostly in private schools, which are now closed, many children' have been taken out of the public schools and sent to the country. In some cases physicians have advised parents to take their children out of school for a week or 10 days until the scare blows over, but a great many more have needed no professional suggestion to leave the scene of possible danger. QUAKAXTIXE IS AXTIQTTATED Barracks Hospitals Are Solution, In View of Dr. Baar. That Portland's system of quarantine and treatment of contagious diseases is wholly Inadequate, has not kept pace w,ith medical progress, is out of date and nothing short of being a disgrace to a civilized community, is the declara tion of Dr. Gustav baar. The only solution of the problem, according to Dr. Baar, is a contagious disease hos pital, built on the barracks plan, so that each disease may be treated sep arately. He advocates the construction of a municipal institution where the poor as well as the rich may receive the best medical attention without en dangering the lives of immediate mem bers of their families. "I am in favor of a municipal hos pital for contagious diseases," said Dr. Baar. "If you will consider that it is illusionary only to think of quarantine as it is practiced in our city, you will see the necessity for it. Take, for in stance, three or four grown-up children who support their mother. One is taken sick with measles or scarletina. You have to quarantine the whole house, preventing the children from earning their living and perhaps putting them back financially for many months. Sup pose there is a family of children and one of them is taken with the measles or Boarletlna, and you have to quaran tine the whole family, keeping all the ohlldren out of school for maybe six weeks and perhaps causing some of them to lose a whole term. "Tlfe present facilities for Isolating contagious diseases are, to say the least, inadequate, if not positively harmful. While the St. Vincent's San itorlum does everything in its power to accommodate those with contagious cases many times sick children are re fused because there is no room. Realize that in a house crowded into two floors there are 40 beds, taking care promis ciously of oases of scarletina, measles, diphtheria and meningitis, and you will realize the situation. There ought to be four or five different houses on four or five acres of ground, each house taking care of one disease. This is the barracks system practiced in every civ ilized country nowadays. The cost of such barracks would not exceed $35,000 and the rich as well as the poor would get excellent service and not endanger the measles child with conditions of diphtheria, and so forth. It happened here two years ago that a child who was sick with measles died from diphtheria which it contracted while in the sanitorium. "The methods of preventing the dis semination of infectious diseases are simple ones, but they cannot and will not be enforced so long as we have a quarantine system beneath which there is much antiquated stupidity." MAN IS KILLED BY CAR U. K. Tliurston, Mllwright, Is Run Down by Oregon Electric. Stepping out from behind a woodpile at the corner of Water and Montgomery streets yesterday morning about 8 o'clock to be run down and killed by an Oregon Electric car, was the fate of U. R. Thurston, a millwright, who lived at 186i Front street. The car, which was in charge of Motor man E. J. Haley and Conductor McCree, was in-bound and running at a fair rate of speed. It dragged Thurston's body about 60 feet before it could be brought to a stop. He was almost decapitated. Haley, who was much affected by the accident, said he didn't see the man un til his car was almost on top of him and it then was impossible to prevent the fatality. Deputy Coroner Dunning took charge of the body and had it removed to the morgue, where an inquest will be held this afternoon at 2:30 o'clock. The dead man had no relatives in Portland as far as is known. Lately he had been em ployed by L. C. Fones, operator of a woodsaw. living at 1252 Bun-age street. He came to Portland from the mining camps of California and was about 60 years old. MORK IS TELLS OF NOTE PAYMENTS Banker Says He Carried Slip of Paper in Brown Envelope as Cash Item. FUNDS LOW, HE DECLARES Proseeutor Clark Js in Midst or Cross - Examination of Witness When Court Adjourns Case Is Not Taken from Jnry. W. Cooper Morris was on the wit ness stand in his own behalf in Judge Gantenbeln's department of the Circuit Court yesterday afternoon, and made an effort to unravel the tangled skein of the Oregon Trust & Savings -Bank's affairs. His examination by M. J. Gordon, for the defense, occupied only a half hour, and Special Prosecutor A. E. Clark was In the midst of the cross-examination when time for adjournment came last niglit. Morris" explanation of the manner in' which he arbitrarily increased the bank's cash on paper by the use of the mysteri ous brown envelopes makes it appear that the bank was very hard pressed for money, and perhaps insolvent, long before it closed its doors. Cash Low, Says Morris. Morris testified that the . bank's cash was very low on August 24, and that in order to Increase it, he made an arbi trary credit to loans and discounts of $25,000, and placing a slip marked "Credit loans and discounts, $25,000," in a brown envelope, marked the envelope "Cash item," and carried it until December 15, as cash. He did the same thing again on August 27, he said. When he withdrew the envelopes, December 15, he simply re moved the slips, he said, there being no cash in the envelopes. He explained the payment yt the $75,000 worth of Moore and Morris notes with Puget Sound Home Telephone Company stock, alleged by the state to have been the property of the bank, by saying that on October 5, 1308, the bank purchased $200,000 worth of Puget Sound Telephone bonds at par, receiving a bonus of stock to the same amount. Another Block Bought. Another block of stock and bonds of the same amount was purchased on De cember 11, 1906. he said, after which Louis J. Wilde, W. H. Moore and Morris en tered into a secret agreement by which half the proceeds from the sale of the stock was to be divided, half to Moore and Morris, and half to Wilde. This would give Moore and Morris each an eighth, and Wilde a quarter of the total net proceeds. It was this stock, accord ing to Morris, which he and Moore used to write off their notes. The notes had been given in payment 4t the capital stock of the bank. Three motions to take the case from the Jury were denied by Judge Ganten bein yesterday morning. One was based on the grand jury's statement in the in dictment that a full description of the notes could not be given, because un known to the grand Jury. Another was on the ground that the state had not said on which charge of embezzlement the indictment stands, whether of money or of notes, on the assumption there -are two charges. One Charge, Says Clark. Attorney Clark, for the state, main tains that there is but one charge. There was also a motion for a directed ver dict. The order dismissing the 10 indictments against W. H. Moore, which District At torney Cameron recommended when Moore pleaded guilty to the 11th charge and was fined $1000, have not yet been entered, although Judge Morrow made the order in court. Whether he has yet signed it Is known only to the judge. If is said the fact that he has not yet signed the order, and that it has not been entered, does not alter the situation, and that the Moore Indictments remain dismissed. COURTROOMS AT PREMIUM Circuit Judges Seek Bench Far From Riveters' Racket. The County Court expects to find two rooms today in which can be held the sessions of two departments of the Circuit Court. It was thought yester day morning that quarters had been secured in the City Hall, but Commis sioner Barnes found the room occupied by 62 persons taking civil service ex aminations. There was some talk yes- '';:;vVi.-iA"::!$ 3?a $ 1 4.00 $s.so $5.50 Fighting the Trust The above fixtures are guaranteed absolutely new and first class. Delivered free to depot. Pipe, Bath Tubs, Toilets, Sinks, Lavatories-We Positively Defy Competition We take contracts for laying pipe in platted additions . and installing plumbing. Our work is all guaranteed to be first-class and certificate of city inspection is furnished. We are the only firm on the Coast that has ever dared and has made a successful attempt to fight the trust. ' , , 1MV Wrvrr aKi i 1 1 A or Remember, if you do not want 1V1F. nOmeDUliaer to fatten the trust, buy your Plumbing Supplies from us, as we positively sell to anyone and our goods and prices are absolutely below competition. SIMON 244 FRONT STREET MAIN 2002, A 2002 terday afternoon of securing the Coun cil chamber, but nothing had been done last night toward securing it. Suitable rooms may be secured at the Y. M. C A. or at the Hotel Lenox. New rooms are necessary because of : the noise made by the steel riveters on the east wing of the new Courthouse. The first case to be tried in one of the new courtrooms is that of Kinney & Stampher against P. G. Carlson and others. A jury was impaneled at the Courthouse yesterday, but no evidence was taken. The plaintiffs demand $15,000 commission from Carlson and J. A. Kallstrom for the alleged sale of Columbia County timber land for $150, 000. The defendants allege that C. A. Mann and Lewis Montgomery, to whom the timber is alleged by the plaintiffs to have been sold, merely took an op tion on it, and afterward failed to pay the cash and secure a deed. CONTRACTORS WANT PROFITS They Say McCabe Ordered Them to Stop Railroad Work. Charging the McCabe Construction Company with breaking a contract for railroad grading in the Deschutes Val ley, Crook County, KasoVitch & Co. brought suit in the Circuit Court yes terday demanding $7589.90 damages. Kasovitch & Co. allege their contract called for the excavating of a tunnel at $39 a linear foot and planking and bracing at $10 a foot board measure. September 30 last year they were in the midst- of the work, they allege, when they were notified that another firm had been employed and that they must cease., work. They say the previous grading work they had done had been accepted by the engineer in charge, and that as they would have made a profit of $7440 on the Job they should be reimbursed. Train and stage fare expended for the workmen brings the total amount of damages to $7589.90. SANDKKSON GETS HIS ANSWER Banfield Says He Offered to Re fund Money Paid for Stock. M. C. Banfield, of the Banfleld-Veysey Fuel Company, filed in the Circuit Court yesterday morning his answer to the suit of W. U. Sanderson. Sanderson demands that a farm in Canyon County, Idaho, .which he traded for 150 shares of stock in the company, be restored to him, as well as cash he paid in ad dition. Banfield denies having misrep resented the value of the stock and t..e condition of the company. After Sanderson bought the stock he was made manager of the corporation at $300 a month. ie complains in his suit that his salary was cut to $200 a month, when he had been promised an increase to $500 a month. Banfield says in answer that Sander son could not reasonably expect that Banfield could tell him before Sander son purchased any stock what the board of directors would do regarding salary several months later. Hanfield says further that on December 23 last year, when he discovered Sanderson was dis satisfied with the bargain, he offered to return his cash and the ranch in Idaho for the stock, but that Sanderson de clined the offer. DICKEY WQUL.D QUASH CHARGE Attorney Files Demurrer to Indict ment In Hindu Riot Case. A demurrer to the indictment against Gordon Dickey, said to nave been the leader of the Hindu riots in St. Johns, was filed in the Circuit Court yester day, in an effort to quash the charge. The demurrer sets up that Dickey is charged with riot, unlawful assemblage, assault and battery, burglary, larceny, highway robbery and sundry other crimes, while the statute provides that an - indictment may not charge more than one crime. It is also maintained by Dickey's attorney that the indict ment does not designate a particular crime under the statute. Haylet Damage Claim Settled. County Judge ' Cleeton appointed George Haylett yesterday morning ad ministrator of the estate of Clarence A. Haylett. Clarence, who was only 11 years old, was struck and killed by a Southern Pacific train, while riding on a milk wagon, July 1, last year. His estate consists of a claim against the railway company for damages. The claim was settled for $850 yesterday afternoon. Hill Keeps Plans Secret. Whatever plans the Hill Interests REPORT OF STATE EXAMINER SHOWS BANKS TN OREGON TO BE IN VERY PROSPEROUS CONDITION. SALEM. Or., May 8. (Special.) The quarterly report of James Steel, bank examiner, for the period beginning January 31, 1910, and ending March 29, 1910, shows the banks of the state to be in a very prosperous condition. There has been an increase of four in the number of state, savings, private and foreign banks, and an increase in the resources of this class of banks of $3.457,799. S3. There are two new Kationai banks, and an increase in resources of $9,985,133.24. The report follows: Number of banks.. RESOURCES. Loans and discounts Overdrafts Securities, bonds, etc Banking house, furniture and fixtures Other real estate owned Tue from banks fnot reserve banks) lue from approved reserve agents. . t'hecks and other cash items , Exchanges for, clearing-house Cash on hand XJ. S. bonds to secure circulation.... I". S. bonds to secure deposits U. S. bonds on hand............... Premiums on I. S. bonds Klve per cent redemption fund Expenses Other items than above Totals LIABILITIES. ' Capital stock paid in.. Surplus f u ml Undivided pro fits. ............ ........ Dividends unpaid.... Due, to banks and bankers.......... Deposits due State Treasurer Deposits subject to check Demand certificates of deposit. ..... .. Time certificates of deposit.... Savings deposits United States Deposits Deposits U. S. disbursing officers.... Notes and bills re-discounted Bills payable Cer. of dep. issued for money borrowed National bank notes outstanding.... Reserved for taxes.................. Other liabilities Totals State. Savings, Private and Foreign Banks. Mar. 29, 1910 144 $30,099,325.72 533,748.91 9,508.937.16 1,500,654.55 611,071.00 1.437,425.54 12.857.851.49 202.S03.2O 24S.1S3.24 5.914.733.69 40.S65.6S 1S3. 916.14 JS2.539.51S.32 6,956,000.00 1.716,679.83 814,281.87 1S.4S6.50 3,285,525.61 116.454.46 28.990,550.79 2. 011,435. SO S. 124,783.56 9.967,S14.35 14.300.00 35.589.09' 153,000.00 6,509.84 32S.104.62 $62,539,516.32 Jan. 31, 1910 Increase 140. I 4 $31,774,469,351 $ 512.650.07 21,098.84 -10.020,353.29 1,476.646.88 24.007.67 404.113.57 106,957.43 1.685.449.97 10.239.853.04 254.420.9 458.66S.29 5,737,734.8 30.127.11 207.071.96 2.117,998.45 ' "i76,V9s",S7 10,738.57 Decrease $1,675,143.63 "Bii.ViV.ia 248,024.43 "'61.617'. 7 2 210.485.05i 23,155.82 $62.S01.559.27:$2,457.799.8S:$2.719.842.78 I 7,077.250.00 1,679,819.27 862,250.93 2.065.00 3.539,437.50 153.209.50 28,201,933.70 1.861.581.16 8.156,124.29!. 10,340,606.26 . 9.000.00 33,589.09 161,433.33 36,860.56 "imYi.bo 18.07S.49 705.180.75 $62,801,559.27 7S8. 617.09 149,854.64 5.300.00 2,000.00 $ 121,250.00 "47.V6V.06 253.VlV.89 36,755.04 $ 999,053.79 31,340.73 372,791.91 8.433.33 11,568.65 377.076.13j National Banks. Mar. 29, 1910 74 - Jan. 31. 1910. 72 Increase 2 $36,884,758,971 432,909.58 5,677.430.37i 1,365.190.501 16,o4.79 15,360,182.56 477.245.09 553.104.36i 8.715,392.49 3,974,270.00 1,458,000.00 1,061.745.00 42,692.32 196,578.50 422.36 139.118.54 $76,507,895.43 $ 5.986,000.00 3,204.462.21 1,153.966.89 33.512.58 10,474.721.40 503,301.31 40,602.809.34 4,055,840.33 3.408,046.49 1,114.935.36 603,329.391 744.733.21 2.500.00 9.000.00 441,560.00 3,832,105.00 10,146.53 326,985.39 61,549.93 $32,095,226,891 $4,789,532. 08 378,501.761 64,407.82 . 5,707,847.33 1,303,640.57 185,632.50 ' Vo'.863,"l58".9i 251,547.49 8,678i4ol!97 3,822,870.00 1.507.000.00 1,042.745.00 36.907.60 189,643.50 135.71! 2,543.271 4.497,023.65 225,697.60 36,9Yo'.52 151,400.00 " " 'i9.ooo.66 5,784.72 6,935.00 286.65 136.575.27 $66,625,886.43!$9,985,133.24 f 5.686.000J 3,118.077. 1,100,291. 14,276. 8,305,745. 203,207. 35,718,031. 3.919.667. 2.711.411 404,782 651,793. 633,201 2,500. 10.000. 362.000. I 52 44 06! .94 .6S 28 34 00 00 00 300.000.00 86,384.36 53,675.03 19,236.34 .168,976.15 300.093.79 1.884.777.90: 136,173.2 696,634.55 710,152.68 3,634.117.50 58,294.30 92.488.17 111,531.87 79,500.00 197,987.50 334,497.22 Decrease 30,416.96 " 16.777". 7 i 6,929.57 $103,124.24 48,463. i.'o'ob" 48,147.77 $1.261.096.7411 $76.507.S95.4J $66,625. 886.43$9.979.620.66 $ 97.611.66 Combined figures of all the Banks in the State. March 29, 1910 218 66,984,084.69 966.658.49 15,186,367.531 2,865.845.05 679,925.79 29,155,459.59 680,048.29 801,287.60 14,630,126.18 3,974,270.00 1,458,000.00 1.061,745.00 42,692.32 196,578.60 41,288.04 323.034.68 $139,047,411.75 12,942,000.00 4,921,142.04 1,968.248.76 51,999.08 13,760,247.01 619,755.77 69.593.360.13 6,067.276.13 11.532,830.05 11,082,749.71 603,329.391 (44.733.Z1 16,800.00 44,589.09 594,500.00 3,832,105.00 16,656.37 655,090.01 Jan. 81, 1910. 212 S 63,869,696.24 891,151.83 15,728,200.62 2,780,287.46 589,746.07 22,788,461.92 505,968.41 1,018,702.22 14.416,186.79 3,822,870.00 1.507,000.00 1,042,745.00 36.907.60 189,643.50 30.262.82 . 209.615.23 $129,427,445.70 $ 12,763,260.00 4.797.897.12 1,962.642.79 16.341.24 11,845.182.75 356.417.02 63.919,965.14 5.781.248.22 10,867,536.23 10,745,388.94 I 651,793.28 633.201.34 11.500.00 43,589.09 523,433.33 3.634.117.50 76,372.79! 797,668.92 Increase 6 $ 3,114.388.45 y,tUb.bb 85,557.60 90,179.72 6,366,997.67 174,079.88 I 213,939.39 151.400.00 " "i9,'o"o"o'.66 5.784.72 6,935.00 11,025.22 113.419.45 $10,428,213.76: 178.750.00 123.244.92 5.705.97 37,657.84 1,915,064.26 263,338.75 B, 673.394.99 286.027.91 65.293.82 337,360.77 111.531.87 5,300.00 1,000.00 71,066.67 197,987.60 Decrease 641,833.09 217,414.62 49,000.66 $808,247.71 48.463.89 59.716.42 142,578.91 $139,047,411.75! f 129,427,445.70 $ 9.870,725.27 $250,769.22 have for the extension of the electric llnesi of the United Railways and Ore gon Electric, they are being closely guarded. Further than the bare an nouncement that these lines are to be extended nothing Is known. Inquiry at the general offices of the company in the Henry building yesterday elicited: nothing further than that they are be ing considered. It Is a misdemeanor to tamper witK electric lisht wires in Colorado. . . Mr.H onesi Working Mae We are catering to you. "VVe care not about the great amount of money you think you ought to have. . That isn't the question. But if you are thinking of leaving the city; thinking of becoming your own boss; thinking of living where you and your wife can educate 3our children to bo producers as well as consumers ; thinking of a simple, con tented home, which will eventually make you'independent in your later days, we are offering you an opportunity in PRICES and TERMS that you may purchase irrigated lands in the great fruit belt of the Lower Yakima and Columbia. This opportunity, like other opportunities of this great valley, will soon leave you, never to return. Call at our office and get one of our illustrated booklets. It costs you but the asking. You will receive courteous treatment and need feel under no obligations to buy from us. Richland Lan d Company JOS. PATRICK, Local Mgr., 65 SIXTH STREET, PORTLAND, OR. FREE EXCURSIONS TO MADRA Call on us for full particulars. "We are the only agents selling inside business and residence lots in Madras. Like all good things, there are' many additions. Inside residence lot $150 to $300. Central business lot $400 to $800. There will be such a rush into Central Oregon it is . becoming a problem how to care for the people. That is why we want you to go there now. "We want the Oregonians to have first opportunities ; it is their right if they will act now. The Deschutes Valley in Central Oregon will f populate so quickly, and MADRAS, its principal city, will grow so rapidly that many Oregonians will wake up a year later and wonder why they passed up the best investment and did not secure a business lot in Madras while it was cheap. Prices will go up again soon. CUT OUT THIS COUPON" AND MAIL TO US. M. E. Thompson Co., Cor. 4th and Oak Sta., Portland, Or.t Mail us literature containing information on Madras, the fast-growing city of Central Oregon. M. E. THOMPSON CO. Ground Floor Henry Building; Fourth and Oak Streets.