THE MOKXTJNl OKJKtiOJVXAJV, TUESDAY, MAT 31, 1910.
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ALL SECTIONS OF
STATE TALK ROADS
Professor Eldricige, Govern
ment Expert in Great De
mand for Lectures.
COUNTY BONDS PROPOSED
Amendment to State Constitution to
Be Submitted at Next Election
Providing Power to Issue 40 or
0-Year Roads Securities.
Th good roads campaign which has
been conducted through Oregon during
the past two weeks by Professor Maurice
O. Eldridge. the Government good roads
expert, and Judge L R. Webster, chair
man of the executive committee of the
Oregon Good Roads Association, is al
ready beginning to bear fruit and An
drew C. Smith, president of the associa
tion, is receiving letters from all parts
of the state highly commending the work
being done by these apostles of good
roads Communications are being re
ceived dally asking Professor Eldridge
to come to different parts of the state
which have not been visited. Owing to
engagements In other parts of the coun
try, he will not be able to cover the
entire state at this time.
At the conclusion of Professor Bl
dridge's educational tour, the Oregon
Good Koads Association, under direction
of Dr. Smith and Judge "Webster, will at
once take up the question of an amend
ment to the state constitution which shall
permit the various counties of the state
to bond themselves for the construction
of highways.
Voters to Decide Question. .
The question will be put before the peo
ple at -the next election and if the meas
ure Is passed, Oregon will within a few
years become one of the foremost states
in the Union in the construction, of good
roads. Letters which are received from
all parts of the state would indicate that
the proposed amendment will receive
almost the unanimous support'of the State
Granges. These have heretofore opposed
a radical revolution In the road-building
ltne.
The plan as outlined now is to form a
strong central .organization for the pro
motion of road bul?dlng in Multnomah
County, with nuxllary branches in every
other county in the state. That plan la
advocated by Judge Webster and already
several counties In Eastern Oregon have
formed such organizations.
The next step is to create some strong
central organization which shall be au
thorized to secure expert road builders
for the counties which have decided to
make extensive improvements in their
roads. Under the proposed system no
county would be compelled to build roads
and the question as to the manner and
extent of improvements would be left
entirely with the voters and taxpayers.
The main feature to contend with is to
prevent a direct tax on the people and It
has been pointed out that this can be
flone by bonding the counties for 40 or 50
years.
Roads Argued as Assets.
. It is argued that it has been clearly
demonstrated In the past that a road is
n asset and an investment rather than
n expensive luxury, hence that posterity
should be made to meet part of the
cost of constructing a system of high
ways. Many good roads advocates are in
favor of at least four trunk lines in the
ttate, two leading east and west and two
north and south. From these the coun
ties could build in branch lines and the
state would soon be connected by a net
work of fine roads.
By constructing a trunk line up the
Columbia River to The Dalles and thence
through Central Oregon ' and across the
mountains to Medford, the State of Ore
gon could boast of a scenic highway
which would surpass even the world's
most famous roads in Switzerland. This
plan is being actively advocated not only
by the automobile clubs, but by the
farmers in all section of the state as
well.
DEVLIN SUES DIRECTORS
Action for $500,000 Against Former
Oregon Trust Officers Set.
The civil suit for the recovery of
about $500,000. brought against the
former officers and directors of the
Oregon Trust & Savings Bank by
Thomas B. Devlin, is set for hearing
in the Circuit Court today. But as
Presiding Judge Morrow has other
work laid out for the six judges under
his supervision, the bank case will
probably not be reached before Thurs
day. The same transactions which were
threshed over at the criminal trials of
W. A. Moore and W. Cooper Morris
will enter, into this case, for the suit
is brought to determine the civil lia
bility of the bank directors. Besides
Moore and Morris, the defendants are
Henry A. Moore, E. E. X.ytle, W. H.
Copeland, L. O. Ralston, Leo Kriede'and
Albert T. Smith. They are represented
by Attorneys Charles W. Fulton, John
H. Hall. Manning & White, J. M. Long,
Wirt - Minor. Franklin T. Griffith,
Raphael Citron, Sweek & Fouts and
Frank Schlegel, while ex$leceiver Dev
lin is represented by A. E. Clark and
Martin L. Pipes.
PERSONAL MENTION.
Mr', and Mrs. Hugh Bartlett, of Port
Orchard, Wash., are guests at the Cor
nelius. F. V. Fisher, of HUlsboro, is at the
Lenox.
Dr. C. E. Wade, of Drain, is at the
Cornelius.
F. L. Franklin, of Boise, Idaho, is at
the Seward.
Captain W. H. Moore, of the steam
ship Rosecrans, is stopping at the Sew
ard. E. P. Ash, a merchant of Stevenson,
is at the Imperial.
Mr. and Mrs. W. B. Gilson, of Salem,
are at the Perkins.
Henry Hunt, a land owner of Amity,
is at the Nortonla.
Edgar Meresse, of Forest Grove, is a
guest at the Lenox.
J. E. Bortle, a real estate man of Yam
hill, is at the Nortonla.
Mr. and Mrs. I. M. Read, of Salem, are
registered at the Lenox.
Bird Rose, a big rancher of Harris
burg, is at the Perkins.
Dr. and Mrs. S. N. Rice, of Aberdeen,
are registered at the Perkins.
Alex Poison, a lumberman of Hoquiam,
is registered at the Oregon.
Frank S. Baillle, a mining man of
Sumpter, is at the Portland.
James E. Montgomery, a fruitgrower of
Hood River. Is at the Cornelius.
Charles Butler, .who has a big cattle
ranch near Port Townsend, Wash., Is at
the Oregon.
E. D. Borie, one of Guggenheim's min
ing engineers, of Cordova, Alaska, is at
the Imperial.
J. D. Sutherland, of the State Treas
ury Department, of Salem, ie registered
at the Imperial.
F. " C. Fish, a hotel man of Salem, and
Mrs. Fish, are at the Oregon en route to
Eastern Oregon.
R. E. Williams, Republican National
Committeeman for Oregon, of Dallas, is
at the Imperial.
Mr. and Mrs, W. S. Holies, of Minne
apolis; Mrs. M. C. Brown, of Boston, and
Miss Cora Robinson, of St. Louis, are
at the Portland. Mr. Hollis recently
purchased a large fruit ranch near White
Salmon, which he expects to make his
home. The party will return to the
ranch this Summer and make a trip
along the Pacific Coast before return
ing east.
SAN FRANCISCO, May 80. (Special.)
The following persons from Portland
registered at the Palace Hotel today:
W. L. Morgan, George W. Hazen and
wife, R. M. Townsend and wife, C. B.
Simmons, Phillip V. W. Fry, J. C. Lewis,
and wife, R. E. Michell. R. B. Meyer.
Eugene E. M. Cox and wife.
ARCHITECTS PLAN PLAY
'FIRST GAME OF SEASON"
BE PRESENTED JOE 6.
TO
Third Annual Exhibit Is Now Being
Put Into Place and Will Be
Open to Public June 3.
."The First Game of the Season" is
the name of a one-act play written
by W. P. Dawson, a young Portland
architect, which will be presented un
der the auspices of the Portland Archi
tectural Club at the T. M. C. A. audi
torium on the evening of June 6. Lo
cal amateur talent will put the new
play on the boards.
The Portland Architectural Club's an
nual exhibit, which will open June 3,
is now well under way. The last box
of pictures in Manager M. A. Vinson's
traveling collection of mural decora
tions, stained-glass designs, architect's
drawings, etc., arrived at the Museum
of Arts yesterday, and these are being
hung. A number of local treasures in
bronze bas-reliefs are being arranged
for, and loans of beautiful pieces of
sculpture will lend further variety to
the choice collection of art treasures.
The famous Bashfleld mural decora
tions are all- on hand, and are being
arranged about the walls. These come
in sections, and the method of ingen
ious joining, to make the complete
decoration, will be one of the rare
educational features of the exhibit.
The 16-day exhibition will be free
to the public throughout the period,
save two days yet to be named, when
25 cents' admittance will be charged
as rental for the building. . As the
object of the exhibit is to rouse general
interest in the better class of build
ings, and more particularly, in artistic
effects and the "city beautiful" idea,
general invitation is extended to all,
to view the rare collection, and during
Rose Carnival week, it is hoped that
tens of thousands will visit the Mu
seum and gain both pleasure and profit
thereby.
The club's year-book, which abounds
in splendid half-tone reproductions of
artistic buildings of all classes, show
ing both exterior and interior views,
is now finished, and will be placed on
sale at the exhibit. It will be a fruit
ful and useful book of reference, and
will contain many helpful hints for
prospective homebullders. Through
this year-book alone, the undertaking
is financed, yet the volume is kept
entirely free from blatant advertise
ments, the patrons merely listing their
names, with their place of business, in
pages at the front and rear, provided
for the purpose.
LIBRARIANS TO GATHER
CONVENTION WILL BEGIN ITS
SESSIONS WEDNESDAY,
Pacific Northwest Library Associa
tion, In Annual Session Here, Will
Discusse Work of Members.
With an attendance from among 50
or more of the public and college
librarians of the district, the Pacific
Northwest Library Association will be
gin its annual convention at the Port
land Public Library Wednesday night.
The session will be attended by
many book-lovers from the states of
Oregon and Washington and the Do
minion of Canada, among the more
prominent representatives of active as
sociations being Arthur E. Bostwick,
of St.. Louis, Mo., of the American
Library Association, who will deliver
an address on "The Companionship of
Books." Mr. Bostwick will speak to
morrow night. Richard . W. Montague,
of Portland, will be associated with
Mr. Bostwick on the programme.
On Thursday morning the session
will be convened at 9 o'clock and Wil
liam E. Henry, of Washington, will
explain the salient points of the pro
posed library commission law of that
state.
Maud R. McPherson is coming from
Hoquiam, Wash., to discuss the useful
ness and - influence of small public
libraries, and will be accompanied by
Helen Grade, of Seattle, whose work
consists in placing orders for books.
Miss Grade will talk of how to outfit
and maintain public libraries. Miss
Charlotte "E. Wallace, of Seattle, will
also have part on the programme.
Friday, the concluding day of the
convention, will be given up to chil
dren's library work, the discussion be
ing led by Miss Jessie Millard, of Port
land. Later in the day Professor H. M.
Douglas, of the University of Oregon,
will direct attention to library work
in colleges. v
During the convention a number of
entertainments have been planned for
members of the association, the chief
event being an automobile trip over
Portland and surrounding territory.
Many of the visitors will remain in the
city during the Rose Festival. Head
quarters will be opened at the Im
perial Hotel this moaning.
Among those who have made res
ervations at the hotels are: Miss
Elizabeth Stevens, The Dalles; Miss K.
B. Judson, Seattle; F. H. Hopper Ta
coma; Miss E. L Chapman, Seattle
Mrs. P. A. Stokes, Astoria; Miss Alta
L Stansburry, Spokane; Miss Ida Kid
der, Corvallis; Mrs. Margaret Meyden
bauer, Seattle, and B. B. Futermick,
Seattle.
Miss Mary F. Isom. librarian of the
Portland Public Library, is at the head
of the programme and entertainment
committee. Meetings will be held in
the art room of the library building
and will be open to the public.
Volunteers for Tag Day Needed. .
The young people from many of the
Portland -churches met last night at
the Commons Mission Hall, 22 North
Front street, to string 60,000 tags for
the tag day, Saturday, June 4. Three
WANTS HER
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PUBLISHED
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was a perfectly well woman.
"I want this letter made public to
show the benefit women may derive
from Lydia E. Pinkham's "Vegetable
Compound." Mrs. Joilst G. Mold an.
2115 Second St., North, Minneapolis,
Minn.
Thousands of unsolicited and genu
ine testimonials like the above prove
the efficiency of Lydia E. Pinkham's
Vegetable Compound, which is made
exclusively from roots and herbs.
Women who suffer from those dis
tressing ills peculiar to their sex should
not lose sight of these facts or doubt
the ability of Lydia E. Pinkham's
Vegetable Compound to restore their
health.
If you want special advice write
to Mrs. Pinkham, at Lynn, Mass.
She will treatyonr letteras strictly
confidential. For 20 years she
has been .helping: sick women in
this xra.r. frta yf-wrr T
Aesitate write at once.
hundred names are registered, but the
committee requires 200 more volun
teers. Those who desire to offer their
services are requested to call or phone
the Commons office at 22 North Front
street, Main 1665 or A 7426.
EVIDENCE SOUGHT IN EAST
District Attorney McCourt Going
After C. A. Smith's Testimony.
United States District Attorney Mc
Court will leave for Minneapolis Thurs
day morning to take evidence in the
case of the United States against C. A.
Smith, the Linn-Lane Timber Company
and a number of Oregonians, including
S. A. D. Puter-and Horace McKlnley.
The controversy Involves cancella
tion of patents to 8000 acres of timber
land in Linn and Lane Counties, now
valued at $800,000, which Is alleged to
have been obtained by conspiracy to
defraud the Government. It was be
gun on evidence furnished by Puter,
who informed Francis J. Heney and
District. Attorney- McCourt that the
present owners of the property were
parties to the plan. - On the witness
stand at the first 'hearing of the case.
which occupied more than two weeks1
in April, Puter furnished the only sen
sation of the trial by repudiating his
affidavits. The witness assisted the
defense more than the prosecution for
whom he appeared.
The hearing was adjourned to Minne
apolis to secure the testimony of C A.
Smith and other witnesses. The Dis
trict Attorney will be accompanied by
Special Agent Rabb, of the General
Land Office.
The case will be argued before Judge
Bean on July 15.
TRAVELING MEN CRAFTY
Salesmen Plan to Harvest Orders
During Rose Festival.
Commercial travelers are taking ad
vantage of the Rose Festival to do a big
stroke of business. During the last few
days they have been flocking into Port
land from all directions, engaging apart
ments and sample-rooms at the hotels,
with a view to establishing miniature
wholesale houses in the big hostelries and
catching the merchants from smaU towns
while they attend the Carnival.
Commercial men find they can reach
more merchants In a shorter length of
time by this method than any other, and,
in addition, they have an opportunity of
showing a bigger line of samples than
they can conveniently carry over the
state. The plan is also agreeable to the
Gold Bust
the composite cleanser
We would be forced
to enlarge our factories
many times if Gold Dust
was used for ALL, the
purposes in the .homes
where it is already used
for SOMK .purposes.
When you use Gold
Dust the composite
cleaner you do not need
to use borax, ammonia,
kerosene or naphtha.
Please read the direc
tions on the package.
Gold Dust is safe,
econom
ical and
harmless
to hands
or fabrics.
PIMO
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5 lO Highest Grade Brand New Pianos Will Go to Club
Members at Prices and Terms Unprecedented
Co-operative Club Selling Begins at Eilers
Music House This Morning.
Think of it! A fine, high-grade piano strictly brand new and fully warranted retailing regularly at $350,
obtainable on terms of only $5 down and $1 weekly only a little more than 10 cents a day! -Then, couple
with these unheard-of terms the further fact that Club Members secure any $350 piano selected for $237, and
we're sure you'll admit that the equal of this offer has never been witnessed anywhere east, west, north or
south. .
- - We're going to dispose of 510 of the
choicest and finest new pianos ever
brought to this city on the Co-operative
Club Plan.
By this method you join with others
in wholesale buying.- You co-operate
with. 509 others in practically one
single, solid purchase and then sent
one experienced, careful buyer to the
factories and bought them . all at one
time. Naturally the prices would be a
great deal less than buying singly.
That's the principle of the- Club Plan
m a nuLsneu.
CLUB MEMBERS
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ujtiM . Advantages
MUSIC LESSONS
TUNING
LIFE INSURANCE
ONE YEAR'S TRIAL OF
PIANO
STOOL TO MATCH PIANO
DELIVERY OF PIANO
Extra Special
Club
The club price includes" everything. Besides, if a club member dies after the contract has been in vogue
six months we give the heirs a receipt in full for the instrument. Furthermore, you get a free tuning and
each club member is entitled to a special course of twenty lessons ABSOLUTELY FREE with the Amer
ican School of Music. A beautiful stool to match is included with every piano free.
The club members' agreement is in the form of 232 coupons. Each coupon represents a weekly payment.
Each week when a remittance is made one of these coupons is marked "paid." Should any club member
desire to pay in advance the privilege is given to do so. For all such installments paid before due a rebate of
unearned interest and also an additionl premium
of 15c in cash payable immediately is allowed.
This enables every club member still farther
greatly to reduce the already low prices, dnd will
more than offset the 8 per cent simple interest
charge on deferred payments.
Join whichever club best suits your conven
ience make the initial payment and agree to
pay the balance on the weekly club terms and
the piano will be delivered at once that is all
there is to it.
Remember, membership books open this
morning promptly at 8:30 o'clock. Be pn hand
early.
353 Washington St., at Park
Wholesale Establishment at Fifteenth
Pettygrove Streets
and
Copyright by Eilers Music House in accordance with U. S. Copyright Act of March 4, 1909. All rights reserved.
merchants, who will combine business
with pleasure. Already sample-rooms
are at a premium and many hotels have
disposed of all their available space for
commercial purposes.
Klamath School Alumni Ilne.
KLAMATH FALLS. Or., May 30.-
(Special.) Last night the Klamath
County High School Alumni Associa
tion held its fourth annual reception
and banquet at the Denver Cafe in this
city. Only 13 members ot the associa
tion were present beside the eight
graduates from the 1910 class, who
were admitted to membership. The
alumni has a membership of 38 now,
but many of them are away.
Manteaano Scatters Flowers.
MONTESANO, Wash., May 30. (SpeT
cial.) Decoration day was generally ob
served here today. The G. A. R., W. R.
C. and others marched to the cemetery
in the morning and decorated the graves
of both federal and Confederate soldiers'.
This afternoon a fine programme was car
ried out at the opera-house, where the
principal address was made by J. A.
Hutcheaon. Yesterday all the churches
of the city Joined in a union service, with
the saermon by Rev. T. F. Alien.
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