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.
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New
rats.
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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
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MASON & HAMLIN
HARDMAN
KRAKAUER
MILTON
KNABE
HARRINGTON
WEBER
CHICKERING
HOBART M. CABLE
FISCHER
EMERSON
PRICE & TEEPLE
1
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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.
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