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THIS JIIUK-MX OKEliOAIA WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 18, 1911. UW PERNICIOUS, ASSESSOR FINDS Experience With Initiative Proves "Sugar Coating" Is Better Than Merit. Harry Beard, who was paroled from the State Penitentiary on May 18. 1909. hu bevn returned to that Institution for violating- his parole. Beard was re leased from the penitentiary on good behavior, but a short time ago ha was arrested In Oregon City for forgery. It is said that he passed several checks In Albany on his brother s name and tried to cash one In Oregon City but he was arrested. He was committed to the penitentiary for larceny by bailee and was to serve a term of from one to seven years. BERTH RATE LOWER Reduction to Be in Effect After February 1. BIG TAX BURDEN VOTED No Official Would Have Iarcd to Impwe Vpon City, Says SlRler, as Voter Have Pone With Heavy Ilonderf Debt. NOLTA RENEWS CAMPAIGN Agitation for Interstate Bridge Over Columbia Revived. That an Interstate bridge across the Columbia Klver. connecting Oregon with Washington, at Vancouver, should be built as part of the programme for a highway for automobiles and others up and down the coast to Los Angeles. NEW SCHEDULE GENERAL Uppers' Xow to Cost 20 Per Cent Iess Tlian "Lowers" Cut in Prices Is Material and Ei ' tends Over Entire Country. SEW PIM.M.4X CAR RATES OCT Of POHTfLAND. AS.rSOR PAY KXPKRIF.NCE fMOl r INITIATED K LAW TO RE AK K. '"" Klsler. of Multnomah, wyi iprtnce proves Orison's In It li Ire Uv is villous anil pernicious. Prsilnt Kerr, of Orr-ann Arrtcul turn! Cnllrr. tcl!s Aaeorlllnn of County Courts what colleges are do In for farm srlrnc. County Juris Claoton favor revi sion of all Urernn probata laws by special commission. From the storehouse of human experi ence came, another bit of evidence yes-t-rday afternoon that the Initiative and referendum law of Oregon Is dangerous. hen B. D. Slgler. Assessor for Mult nomah County, delivered his address upon "Taxation" before the Oregon late Association of County Courts In the con vention hail of the Commercial Ciuh. He railed attention to the fnct that within three years the Initiative and referendum had saddled upon the shoul ders of the taxpayers of Portland the enormous bonded Indebtedness of S7.li-in.0CX 'I wish to say. and I only Judge It from my experience as an Assessor." said Mr. Slgler. "that, to my war of thinking, there has been no more vicious, or pernicious, law eaer put on any stat ute than the Initiative law as It Is be ing used In the great State of Oregon. Taz llestrlcllons Gone. 'T waa In favor of the two constitu tional amendments recommended by our Iste Tax Commission and indorsed by ie Stat Grange Association, which were referred to the people at the last election. " said Mr. Bisler. "But. 'alas and alack. these amendments did not lave the hook halted to some proposi tion which would Indicate to the voter that he waa going to escape paying something. As a consequence they, as yiu know, were defeated and an amend ment which was 'sugar-coated' with the abolishment of the polltax (which was s.ren.Iy done away with) was passed. "We have thereby taken away all con s:ltutnnai restrictions as regards as sessment and the voters of any county can make their own tax laws, assessing and taxing what seems good to them, and exempting that which is to their material advantage. Of course, there may be some good come out of this Naureth of ours, but I am much like the Scotchman who said. l line ma doots.' We should have adopted the amendments first mentioned, which were put up to us on the referendum, and shouM have voted down the) Initiative measure. Harden Placed on People. "After helping to saddle on the city, munty or state the burdens which must be borne by the assessable property In the special district affected, many of those aame taxpayers who voted for the measure are surprised and Indignant when they find the amount of their taxes has Increased over the amount they paid one. two or three years ago. As an example, do you suppose that any set of officials have dared, no matter what the excuse, to place a bonded debt burden on the City of Portland of $7.0.rt0 In three years? I say to you. no. And If they had I am Inclined to think that thry would have been In the same con dition as GUI. of Seattle; the recall would have been Invoked. "The ettempted assessment of money and credits Is a farce. Mortgage notes, municipal and county bonds or warrants should be exempted. In fact. I do not believe t a good law to assess either money or credits. I have always doubted tre wisdom of assessing personal prop erty, but I am a Arm believer In the income tax and hope and believe that It will be passed by the Nation, and If It Is a good National law It la good enough for any state." ITesldent Kerr, of the Oregon State Agricultural Collece. spoke on the rela tion of the agricultural college to the country. President Kerr reviewed the history and the development of the agri cultural colleses of the country, and told how they started 41 years ago and had made wonderful growth. He said that there were (K land grant colleges In the fnlted States devoted to the science of agriculture. The endowment fund now amounts to JllS.iXO.iM) and the annual Income or expense Is $l.O,0X More than TTkOv students are In attendance end the number of Instructors Is fcu) or WA. He said with satisfaction that the Oregon Collrge now had an attendance ft !. and that there were only three or four larger In the United States in enrollment of students. He spoke for a closer relation of the college with the county and felt that the nearer the col lege got to the farmer the better the institution would grow. What helped the fannrr helped the college, he said. It waa simply a work 'Where both must march hand In hand In the ultimata progress of the United States. i T I s . ! 1 fe,7K;:J New rats. (12.00 jo.ou G. V". YYewaaeott, et Itowbnrx, ,cw Presldeul of Orrios Mate Association of Csaslr Courts. Is again being urged by J. H. Nolta. who agitated the erection of this bridge two years ago. At that time Mr. Nolta secured favorable action on the part of the Vancouver Commercial Club, and had a bill before the Ore gon Legislature for an appropriation for preliminary surveys and plans. Mr. Nolta then had assurances that Wash ington would pay Its part of the ex penses If Oregon would do the same, but the bill was defeated. "There Is greater demand for this bridge now than there was two yeara ago. when we were asking the Oregon Legislature to give us an appropriation to make surveys." said Mr. Nolta yes terday. "We have a hundred auto mobiles In Portland and the surround ing country where there waa one here then. I can't see how a highway run ning from Seattle through Oregon down to Los Angeles could be built and leave out thla bridge scrips the Co lumbia. "The more I think about this bridge the more Its necessity appeals to me. Oregon and Washington can build it and not fed the expense. It will cost, according to engineers with whom I have talked, about $2,000,000." LUMBERMEN TO NAME FIVE Oregon and Washington Association Will rick Directors Friday. Five directors will be elected at the annual meeting of the Oregon tt Wash ington Lumber Manufacturera" Asso ciation next Friday and Saturday. The directors will elect a president and sec retary and the meeting will be closed by a banquet at the Commercial Club Saturday night. The association has 11 directors. Those retiring are F. C Knapp, C W. Thompson, J. II. Chambers. C. K. Spauldlng and J. P. Miller. The nomi nating committee has submitted the following names from which the five directors to be elected will be chosen: a H. Cobb. F. C Toing. F. S. Belcher. C. K. Spauldlng. C W. Thompson. F. C Knapp. K. II. Itaxen. W. D. Plue, F. Itussell and R- B. Dwyer. The old board of directors will meet Friday afternoon. Several have been suggested for the presidency. L. J. Wentworth, who was elected for a second term a year ago after he had asked to be relieved, de siring to retire. W. B. Mackay and F. C. Knapp are among those men tioned. Kdward Ostrander, who acted as secretary last yeas, will be elected secretary. Present Chlcaco .. $14.00 St. Paul 12.00 San Francisco prob able) l.O 4.50 Seattle and Tacoma (probable) 2.00 " 1.50 Weed. Cal. iKIimilh Falls Junction) ... 8.O0 2.75 Medford 2.SO ix Kneeburg 2.o 1.7 Eugene (upper berth) 1.50 1.2S All upper berths 80 per cent of f lowers. Reduced sleeping-car rates with up per berths costing 20 per cent less than the "lowers" will go Into effect Feb ruary 1. according to an official order issued by the Pullman Company yes terday. This Is In accordance with the Intent expressed by the company at the hearing before the Interstate Commerce Commission in Chicago a few weeks ago. The new schedule of prices will be general In Its scope, covering the en tire country. It applies to all lines upon which the Pullman Company op erates, but it is expected that the three great railway systems the Great Northern, the Milwaukee, and the Ca nadian Pacific that operate their own sleeping-cars, will meet the prices. While the order makea the price for upper berths 80 per cent that of the "lowers." It Is stipulated that the mini mum charge shall be $1.25 and $1, for standard and tourist car berths, re spectively. The price for seats In par lor cara will remain virtually the same. The new fares will apply on all tick ets sold for use after midnight of Jan uary 1. and Pullman conductors are instructod to Issue certificates entit ling passengers to refunds of the dif ference between the old and the new ratea on all tickets purchased at the present rate. The fares between Portland and Chi cago and between Portland and St. Paul have been cut materially. As travel to and from those two points la quite heavy this Item alone will re sult in a considerable saving to Port land people. While no announcement has been re ceived with reference to the new fare between Portland and San Francisco, tt Is predicted that It will be cut from $j to $4.50 for lower berths, which will place the price of "uppers" at $3. CO. Proportionate reductions are made to points between Portland and Sun Francisco. The price to Puget Sound points Seattle and Tacoma always has been $2. It Is expected that the new sched ule will provide for a fare of $1.50. Heretofore the rate In standard sleep ing-cars never has been split to quar ter-dollars. Tickets have been sold at figures ending In "00" or "50." The new rate will give rates of "25" and "75" as well. The 80 per cent rule will place the price for "uppers" at any odd amount ending in 5 or "0." When The Stomach Stops Working Properly, Because There Is Wind in it. Use Stuart's Dyspepsia Tablets to Set It Going Again. A Trial Package Free. The doctors call It flatulency, but unprofessional folks know it as "wind on the stomach," and a most distress ins state of things it Is. It la a serlou condition of this great motor organ. Always annoying and painful in the extreme, at times often leading to ba and fatal results. The stomach em barraesed and hampered with wind cannot take care of its food properly and Indigestion follows, and this has a train too appalling to enumerate. The entire system Is Implicated made an active or passive factor In this troubl and life soon becomes a questionable boon. ' All this is explained In doctor books how undigeeted food causes gases by fermentation and fomentation in which process some essential fluids are de stroyed burnt up wasted by chemical action, followed by defective nutrition and the distribution through the all mentary tract of chemically wrong ele ments and as a consequence the stom ach and entire system is starved. Plenty of food, you eee, but spoilt In preparation and worse than worthless. A deranged stomach is the epitome or evil; nothing too bad to emanat from it. but the gas it generates 1 probably Its worst primary "effect and tho only way to do away with thl Is to remove the cause. Stuart's Dys pepsia Tablets go to the root of this trouble. They attack the gas-making foods and render them harmless. Fl tulency or wind on the stomach simply cannot exist where these powerful and wonderworking little tablets are In evl dence. They were made for this very pur pose to attack gas making focls and convert them into proper nutriment This Is their province and office. whole book could be written abou them and then not all told that might be told with profit to sufferers from this painful disease, dyspepsia. It would mention the years of patient and ex pensive experiment in effort to arrive at this result of failures Innumerable and at last success. It would make mention of the different Btomach cor rectlves that enter into this tablet and make It faithfully represent all. Stuart's Dyspepsia Tablets are not alone Intended for the sick, but well folks as well: for the person who craves hearty foods and wants to eat heartily and run no risk of bad effects, they act like a charm and make eating and digestion a delight and pleasure. They keep the stomach active and en ergetic and able and willing to do ex tra work without special labor or ef fort. Don t forget thl. Well people are often neglected, but the Stuart Dyspepsia Tablets have them in mind. A free trial package will be sent any one who wants to know just what they are. how they look and taste, before beginning treatment with them. After this go to the drug store for them everywhere, here or at home, they are 50 centa a box and by getting them at home you will save time and postage. Tour doctor will prescribe them; they say there are 40,000 doctors using them, but when you know what la the matter with yourself, why go to the expense of a prescription? For free trial pack age address F. A. Stuart Co., 150 Stuart Ruildlncr. Marshall. Michigan. the Council kept passing ordinances to avoid the complaints made. The 'ast ordinance was passed early last year, but a new fight was started against it. resulting in an adverse decision by the Supreme Court. The naw in the last ordinance, ac cording to the decision of the Supreme Court, was that It did not Include all vehicles which use the public streets, and thus the new ordinance will be drawn so as not to omit any kind of vehicle. LIQUOR LAW IS SIGNED BEST, OX WHOLE, THAT CITY HAS HAD, SAYS MAYOR. SURE DEATH HIS DESIRE Suicide Asks That Chloroform Given If Ballet Falls. Be PRIDE LEADS TO THEFT Young Man Steals Itatlier Than Send Homo for Money. Probate Laws Need RevUlon. Favoring a complete revision of the Oregon probate laws. County Judge Cleeton delivered an address upon "Pro Ntte Work and the Laws Pertaining Thereto." lie contended with modern tranaportatlon methods t days Is suf ficient Instead of six months as now. fr the advertisement for cialma against estates. Lawyers file semi-annual sc munla and then In JO or 40 dnya file finl account, thus getting additional fe. he said. There should be no ad ministrators' fees on real property for that is fixed In Its transfer by law or by th terms of the w"l. All attorneys fees sliould be for service and not t-e amount Involved. There wero many fea tures of the present law which work a liardshlp to the heirs, the speaker said, and his conclusion was that the legis lature should appoint at once a commissi-m of men experienced In probate law to prepare such a codification of such law as would be satisfactory and meet modern requirements, keeping In view t-e safeguarding oi the Interests of the heirs. A motion was ms-ie to reconsider the resolution of approval of the good roads laws. riTw before the Legislature and fathered by Judge 'Webster, but the mo tion was defeated and another motion appointing each member a committee of ore 1 do what hj could for the passage of the bills pa -,. tU-nnl Oors Dark to Prison. FALEM. Or. Jan. 17. (Special.) Betrayed by marked coins "planted" by detectives for him to steal. Ed Lawton. bank clerk and son of a promi nent Pittsburg family, confessed with tears. In Municipal Court yesterday mornlng. that for weeks he had car ried on systematic peculation from the pockets of W. P. Armstrong, of the Portland Business College. "I was out of work." said Lawton. "and needed money. I could have got It from my people, but was too proud to do so. and thought that I would soon get work. I kept careful account of the sums I took from Mr. Arm strong, and Intended to pay them back with the first money I earned. I was never In trouble before." Lawton was of clean and manly ap pearance, and won the sympathy of Judge Taz we 11. who Imposed a sen tence of 0 days Imprisonment, with a view to straightening Lawton out. Lawton's attorney said that the pris oner had an uncle who Is at the head of a bank In Pittsburg, where young Ijkwton formerly was employed. His father holds a prominent position with a large mining company In Montana. Some Things Might Be Improved, Mayor Thinks Severe Penal ties Arc Feature. Believing that the new "model liquor ordinance" was an Improvement over th previous liquor laws of the city. Mayor Simon yesterday afternoon signed It, and it will become effective April 1. "There are some things about the or dinance which I think could be Improved. but I think, taking it as a whole." said the Mayor, after signing the ordinance. "that It Is an improvement over the laws now In force." Efforts have been made at various times during the Inst few years to havo all the liquor laws combined Into a new ordinance, but each effort, until Inst Wednesday, met with defeat, owing to wide diversity of opinion among the Councilmen. The new law will not permit the num ber of saloon licenses to be Increased un til there Is not more than one for every 1000 inhabitants. There are now 419 saloon licenses. A careful estimate of the revenues to be obtained under the new law shows that the city can expect to realise about $10,000 more a year under Its provisions than under the former laws. Another feature of the new law Is the severity of its penalties. Under the laws now In force, a saloon man violating the liquor laws would be fined not to ex ceed $500, as the court might determine. but the new law provides that three con victions of violation will forfeit a li cense automatically. It. also makes the fine a definite amount In the first con viction, being exactly $250. and for each subsequent conviction an Increased amount. Two cases of suicide. In both of which a revolver was used, were re ported to the Coroner yesterday morn lng, having been committed during the night. John Chrlstianson, a Janitor, killed himself by sitting in front of a mirror and shooting off the top of his head, at 110 North Sixth street, and a man whose Identity was not known in the neighborhood was found with a bullet In his head and his right hand gripping a revolver. In the yard of the Pacific Hardware & Steel Company, at the foot of North Twenty-second street. The body of Chrlstianson was found yesterday morning by Victor Johnson, clerk, for the Ausplund Drug Com pany, 110 North Sixth street. In his I room at that address. He left a note asking that chloroform be given htm If the bullet failed to act fatally. The note further said: "I wish to give $10,000 to the party that within a year from date can make the Chief of Police compel houses of Ill-fame, named lodging-houses, bear a proper sign." VEHICLE TAX PROPOSED Council Will Endeavor to Comply Wltb Supreme Court's Views. FORESTRY BILL INDORSED Chamber of Commerce Favors Pro vision for Protection. Because only $250 a year is expended by the state to protect the forests from fire, when the sum should be thousands of dollars, the trustees of the Portland Chamber of Commerce yesterday gave unqualified Indorse merit of the forest fire measure pre sented to the Legislature by the Ore gon State Conservation Commission. F. C. Knapp said that Oregon was the only state In the Union which per mitted ita forests to stand in such danger from fire. The resolution urges the representatives In the Legislature to provide for a well-equipped atate forestry office, with a liberal appro prlatlon for forest fire prevention so that "Oregon may compare favorably with other states that have progres slve forest policies." THE WILEY B. ALLEN CO. CREATES IN PIANO CLES The First Week of the Wiley B. Allen Co.'s Fire Insurance Adjustment Sale Will Go Down in History as the Greatest Money - Saving Piano Event Ever Heralded in the West Prospective profits disappear before the very eyes of piano dealers and the loss of these profits causes the dealers who are "skating on thin ice", finan cially to make a mighty effort to do something anything to stop this wholesale slaughter of high-grade pianos and player pianos. But when the facts are learned it will be seen it is not through any intention to injure the musical trade or the high standing of the pianos offered that The Wiley B. Allen Co. makes such unprecedented reductions. It is simply because the amount of these reduc . tions has already been paid to us by the insurance companies for good reasons not hurtful to the pianos, which will be explained when you call. Some instruments received only slight injury to the varnish work on the outside of the cases, while others were jammed when being moved to places of safety during the great fire in our building. There is no loss without some gain this time it is the insurance company 's loss, and a double gain for the public, as it affords a chance to deal with a conservative business firm whose guarantee is a bond of absolute protection, and to buy world-famous pianos and player pianos at a price so low that it almost makes one doubt the quality of the instruments. Nothing can be done to stop this slaughter, and the sale of 13 MASON & HAMLIN HARDMAN KRAKAUER MILTON KNABE HARRINGTON WEBER CHICKERING HOBART M. CABLE FISCHER EMERSON PRICE & TEEPLE 1 wmmm and many other well-known makes must continue just as . long as there are any slightly damaged instruments left in our warerooms. There is absolutely no excuse for any one not owning a piano or player piano when such exquisite instru ments can be purchased at such re duced prices and on such easy terms. Store Open Evenings During This Sale 304 Oak Street -TraTii c it " - i mm Bet. 5th and 6th Sts. FISH LICENSE IS VETOED Mayor PiHapnrovrs Ordinance Said to Favor "Trust." Explaining that the sale of fish by transient vendors would be prohibited If the measure as adopted by the Council were approved. Mayor Plmon yesterday afternoon vetoed the ordinance fixing a license fe of $30 a day or $100 a month for such dealers. The Mayor believes the ordinance would be unjust, not only to transient dealers, but also to the people who mlrht buy from- them at a moderate price. As soon as It was published In the newspapers that such an ordinance had been passed by the Council, charges were made by those opposed to the meas ure that It was designed to protect the "Ash trust." Kdlefsen de'ivers at present snotiess nard coal rr cast , tj 2iQL For the first time In years. Portland has no ordinance preventing vehicles from serving the publlo of Portland without being- required to carry licenses. This condition results from ttie recent action of the State Supreme Court In declaring void the last or dinance for taxing vehicles, but a new ordinance which will conform with the law as Interpreted by the Supreme Court Is being considered by the Coun cil and probably will be passed at its next meeting. The taxation of vehicles forms an Im portant source of revenue for the city, but for tha last three years a deter mined fight has been made against the method. Tha Council in 1107 passed a law tax ing vehicles, but its opponents spoiled Its effectiveness by starting proceed ings to have It annulled by a referen dum vote. Then the Council passed another under the emergency clause. which prevented a referendum vote. and an Injunction waa obtained. But MILKMAN FINED HEAVILY Adulterator Bays He Cannot Make Money With $125 .Penalty. "This man Is a thief at heart and ought to go to Jail," said Deputy City Attorney Sullivan in Municipal Court yesterday morning when Adolph Stribel. a dairyman, admitted that he had "doc tored" his product with water and col oring matter. Asked to plead to the charge. Stribel said. "Yes; T put in a little water and a little coloring, but they all do the same." He affected to think that his offense was venial. but City Chemist Smith declared that the "little" adulterated amounted to 30 per cent of tho whole. For weakening the milk, Stribel waa fined $75 and for coloring it, $50. "That is too much," he said. "Other men have been fined $10 to $25. I cannot make any money at that rate." Chemist Smith declares that the pen alties Inflicted in these cases are too low. "Most of these orrenaers ara Swiss." he. said, "and In their country they are fined $250 for the first of fense. Coming over here and flnrltng the fines so low, they think that it is an easv matter to come Intu court once in a while and confess Judgme.it. TTnttl they are more severely dealt with the quality of the milk supply will continue poor." Schools to Be Inspected. On request of the Board of School Di rectors. Fire Chief Campbell and Dep uty Fire Marshal Roberts will make sn Inspection of all the city's public school buildings to ascertain If the pupils are properly protected against fire. The stairways, exits and basements where the furnaces are located will be ex amined and recommendations made for any needed improvements. Edlefsen s coal satisfies. C 2303. E. 303. .AfAIIGrocera .25c Eu