TITE MORXING OREGOXIAX, FTCITJAT, .'MATtCTT 31. 1911.
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RAILWAY UNO CITY
OFFICIALS IN TILT
Mr. Fuller Resents Imputation
He Has Not Arranged for
Necessary Rails.
SUPPLY ENOUGH, HE SAYS
Third Warning by Mr. Piatt, or Rt
ecutlve Board, Brings Answer.
Great Shortage of Mate
rial Wat Charged.
Angered because Robert Treat Plait,
chairman of the atreet committee of
tha City Executive Board. had charged
lilra with making a "mleexatement of
farts' as to supplies ordered for paring;
work. F. I. Fuller. vice-president of tha
Portland Railmay. Light Power Com
pany, yesterday appeared before the com
mutes and read . reply. In which he
charted Mr. Piatt with lack of knowl
edge of Improvement work. Mr. Fuller
iIm li.ntrd strongly for some sort of an
apuloay or retraction, and resented the.
imputation against him.
air. Fuller's letter will be filed. re
ftVrred to the City Engineer for consid
eration, and. If any ronir rava been
dune. Mr. Fuller will receive a letter
to ti.al effect." the term Instruction
given Clerk Orutse. of tne comml:tee,
after the reading; of the letter by Mr.
Fuller. T letter of Mr. Piatt which
brought forth tue treated rely from
Mr. Fuller will also be sent to City
Mutineer Moms, from show office In
formation was furnished as to the
amount of steel rails that mould be
needed to keep ahead of the paving;
operations of the rltv along; the lines of
the gtreetcar company.
Piatt and Fuller Differ.
Mr. Piatt ha always conducted the
correspondence between the city and
company relative to this line of work,
and he bad occavaton a year ago to re
primand tii company for falling, aa be
derlared. to prepare to take care of
l.ombarl atreet In time. Aaiiie from
that, tt-e committee and t!ie company
S"t alone harmoniously last year. Mr.
l-fcitt srrote to ITeaiii-nt Jossetyn early
this year. Informing; him of the number
ef miles of atreet to be paved on wnlrh
t company haa V mould hove track
and advised htm that It would require
U miles of rail A difference of opinion
arose between Mr. Piatt, who baaed hla
figures upon the Information fumlslied
by the City Entttneer. and Mr. t uller.
who accepted the statements of Ma own
m-n. It mas t:.Ls that brought about the
unusual letter ml.Kh figured so con
spicuously In the committed meeting
Jesterdav.
Hcplvms: to Mr. Fullers letter, mhlch
sat dated Marvh It. Mr. Piatt said:
"In Mr. Josselyn's letter of January
SI. he advised me that be only bad no
revnd steel rails for lire miles of track;
under contract steel for S miles of track,
wtth the privilege of increasing that
amount bv eight additional m.les. making;
a total of S miles. I wrote him under
late of February i. that. In view of the
Dork then under contract and under
estimate, the quantiyt of steel tmlns was)
wholly InaufTlci. tit. Tour letter of Feb
ruary 11. evidences the same spirit that
maa admitted before the Executive Hoard
at tie time of your address with refer
ence to Lombard atreet thai you and
your asrr:iats protsed to exercise
your in Individual Jodcnv-nt to the
amount of material required, rtlther teas
to accept the fair and ample marnlng.
(Inn you by the rlty authorltlt-a us
to what was required. You are advised
that such substitution of Judgment will
not be accepted by the Executive Hoard.
"Ample Warning- Glrrn.
'I took particular pains to . notify
President Jorxelyn from facta) compiled
In the office of tha City Engineer early
In Janissry. In order that your orders
might b sufficiently Increased to tske
care of the ne.-ery work. If there
Is any material shortage In materal
Cilg year, tt will therefore be your de
liberate fault, and nvt thut of the city
authorities for not having marned you.
The statement In your letter of Feb
ruary 11. as follows: The material me
nave already ordered for 1511 mas suf
ficient to take rare of this work, to
gether with arome other work which, me
w'll have to do outside of street Im
provements' Is a material misstatement
of facts. In view of mfcat has en ad
vised by your company In my letter of
January JO. to Vr. Josarlyn.
For the third time since the first
ef the year, you are advwed that fie
n'atertal ordered and on hand la wholly
Insufficient to do your extare of ilia
work during the paving aeasm and a
frnal demand la made on you to supple
ment your present contracts by sufficient
additional contracts governing material.
sa as to meet I1' requirements of the
paving season of ;L"
It maa this letter that angered Mr.
Fuller and mhlc;i cauMrd him to appear
In person at yesterday's meeting of the
re. mm it tee and t read his reply to Me
PUtt and tits colleagues.
Surplus. Fuller Say.
Mr. Fuller's letter covered the ground
that was gone over In Mr. Piatt a let
ter, and be declared that, bad Mr. Piatt'
instructions been complied with the com
pany would have had on band So mliea
ef steel rale wttn which to lav a mllea
of tra.rk. In other wordev Mr. Fuller de
clred the company would have Il..xw
mortrt ef ateel rails on Ita harnls for
milch It weull have uo need, to say
nothtrc of trie Immense amount of other
psv.rc matermila to be needed, had It
follomed t e order of Mr. Plait. Iavtn
eat much items aa spikes and tlee. wa
inuM have had to order about CS.Oiie
mortn of palrg material, bringing a
tot il of unnecessary expend'ture of JXV -w
In tr-e Hci-t of these faciei do you
roaai'ler It nnreoeonaM tiat the com
pan. mhl-h has to finance Its own
arr.tr ard pay it own MUs should
ovaire to use It cm Judgment?"
Mr. Fuller further .led.ired that he
oiuM not understand why the committee
heM to the idea that the company was
unwilling to do Its share of the Improve
ment work, and mewerted that It had
almaya been ahead of the ror tractors.
W ith regard to Iamrvrd t-cct. he said
that It turned out J-.: aa he had pre
"a,., thai the company laid Its rails
promp'Ty and the lls.sam paving; people
d.d nr-t do any mork on tlie street e
rept betmeen tl'.e rails, and the street
maa left a'l Winter In an almost Impaen.
able condition.
ioortboux- Sotra.
Charging that John S. Hume deserted
her November I. li. KHen Ray Hunte
sue4 him for divorce In the Circuit
t'ourt yesterday. They were married In
San Francisco May Il.
For Injuries she received as a result
cT the morornian starting his car before
she was fully off the step, thereby caus
ing her to fail to the street at Wash-Ipg-ton
and West Park streets. October
1 to. Vary A. Irennrn Bird suit
gtgaJnst the I'ortlacd Railway, Light a
Power Company In the Circuit Court !
yesterday for S00.
The Pacific Railway Advertising Com
pany baa sued Multnomah County to
avoid the payment of taxes on nearly
$L'i.00 worth of "shares of stock"
which It says it did not own. although
assessed for that amount. The man
agement of the company swore to hav- j
Ing owned on the first day of last
March. It Is contended, notes and ac
counts valued at S43S". and ISOO worth
of office furniture. It is alleged that
the County Assessor arbitrarily Insert
ed "shares of stock" Instead of notes
and accounts, and raised the total to
;i.ooo.
Charging- that Nome Smith Is prepar
ing to desert her for the third time,
Kate Smith brought suit against him in
the Circifit Court yesterday fer a di
vorce. They were married at Haxle
ton. la.. August 10. 105. and one year
later, she says, he left her and was gone
for two years. Then he returned for a
short time, and again left her. coming
to Portland, she following him here
later. He la preparing;, she alleges, to
leave her again. She also accuses her
husband of cruelty. Including an effort
to get her to accept money from other
men.
Franchise rights permitting the
Mount Hood Railway Company to cross
:i county roads and to maintain power
lines across them were granted by the
County Court yesterday. The franchise
makes tt necessary for. the company to.
carry its power current In a way to In- '
sure safety to the public, and the court
ran at any time authorize changea to
that end.
C H. Page was appointed by Presid
ing; Judge Gantenbeln yesterday re
ceiver of the National Brick Ac Clay
Company, on motion of John Manning,
attorney for the company. It was said
at the time application was made for
the receiver that the company la per
fectly solvent, but that It waa unable
to make Immediate collections to sat
isfy a number of small accounts,
amounting to about I500. As most of
the claims against the company mere
for labor, it waa feared that attach
ments might be Issued and the plant
unnecessarily stopped from operation.
M) ATHLETES Ml
rERKIXS AXT MX-TIt HEAD EVEX
IX tOUUIIA GAMES.
Ciood Krcords Made In Individual
Track Cliamplonolilp Kunnrr
Collapses After Kace.
winiiifi. tha 9-yt-eard dash. eWyard run
and shot-put and taking third In the
frvyard dash. Cliff Perkina tied with
"Mooae" Muirhead for he Individual
track championship of Cnlumhla t'r.lver-
etv yestercay afternoon at me i iuiii.
tt i ..-!. a ih. Ma-H lunin.
i-ywrd high hurdle and took second
In tne nign jump ana pie i- -
ktns and Muirhead each erwred 1 point.
Kirklsnd was third with IS points.
ti,. eiiiumhi. inilAnr track unon whleh
meets will be held next Saturday and
tlon and the men made good time, sin In
teresting meet following. The So-yard
clash and the quarter mile ran were the
two moat evenly contested events of
the day. Cliff Perkins m Inning both
events. The r he mon In S 1-i and the
444 in Tat. Klrkland ran biro closely
In both events- At the nmsh. of the
EJD-yard dash Perklras collapsed but re
vived soon after being taken Into the
fresh air. He came back strongly In the
quarter-mile run.
The winner of the meet waa to receive
a silver cup but because Perkins and
Muirhead were tied no award was made.
The winners of second, third and fourth
places receive silver medals, while the
fifth man geta an emblem sweater. Vi,
F.nnegan was fourth and Charters fifth,
;o-rrd dash Bllladeaa first. Malarkey
second. C. Perkins third; time. 0 OS 4-5.
M-yard. high hordle Muirhead first. X.
Slnnessn second. V. Perkins third; ttma.
0.07 .
3v-axd low hurdle Finnegsn first. Oo
reske second. ktalarkey third; time.
r-ard dash ". Perkins first. Klrkland
second. Mslarkey third: time, 0:iJ 1-S.
410-yard run C Perkins first. Klskland
second. Mslark.y third; time. O eo.
$o-yard run I'h.rtrr. first. C. Cowan
second. Kelleher third; time. 9 SS S-ft.
One-mile ran McGirk first. K. Cowan
second. Crorln third: time. 4 4-1.
Broad Jump Klrkland first. Muirhead
secon!. Gora.ske third; distance. 17 feet
tuc he.
High Jump Votrtiesd first. Hummel sec
ond. Klrkland third; A feet 1 Inch.
Pol vault V. Perkins first. Muirhead
second. Charters third; 8 feet Inches.
Shot put c. Perkins first, Klrkland sec
ond. Charters third: distance, IS feet.
Score. C. Perktri. IS; Muirhead. 1-;
Klrkland. IS; Kinnegan. : Charier. Ti V.
l-erkirs. : Bllladeaa. Mo; Irk. B: Malar
key J- Oorske. 4: K. covin. S: Hummel.
3: C. Coaan. t: Kelleher. 1; Leonard. 1;
Crenln. 1.
Official Hopk In Jenkrna referee; Tud
ftmlth. .tarter: Jame. peh. clerk of course;
K yjartln and t. Oampbell. Judges of fin
tab; TV. C. Bchmldt. timer.
OREGON ATI1I-ETES IXELIGlBIi:
Inland Stanford and Notre Pante
Tied for first In IttO Mert.
CHICAGO. March . Directors of the
Intercollegiate Conference Athletic As
sociation announced today the conference
met of June 11. 1?1. resulted In a tie.
la-land Stanford I'nlverlty and Notre
Dame each having IT polnta to Ita credit.
V final decision siao was announced In
the rases of Oeorge W. Phllbrook and
Ralph Dlmmlck. of Notre Pame.and J.
W. Nelson, of Washington ttate College,
all of whom were declared to have been
Ineligible to compete In the 1910 meet.
Their c red lie were cancelled. Fhllhrook
and Dimmlck are from Oregon.
Illinois and Chicago ran a close rsce
for third and fourth places. Illinois get
ting 14H and Chicago 14V in the final
decision. California la next with 11 Ma-
ronsin stxtfa with 1L Minnesota and
Oberlin are tied at ten points; rtouth
Dakota aa en lit and Purdue and West
em reserve have four each. CHllfomla
and Miami I'mverslty have three points
each.
BI1J." to7j;r has recovered
Eice-pt fnr Slight Srarrness, He Would
Nog Know He Had Been Shot.
1iS ANt5KI.ES. March JO. Special.)
"mip Toger fooled the doctors and
today donned a baseball uniform for
the first time since a "certain party"
at Murtetla Hot springs endeavored to
make htm look like a aleve and left I'.lro
filled with IJ-callber bullets
More than that. "BUI" worked out
with the rest of the squad. He aatd
that but for a alight soreness In hla
left arm. he never would know that be
had been shoal Toxers recovery has
been amasingly rapid, a circumstance
which may be attributed In part to the
flft physical condition In which he waa
when wounded.
CHRIS EVANS BEATS TRAVIS
Edcewater Golfer Defeats Opponent
at Sixteenth Green, at Plnehurst.
PIXKHCRST. N. C. March a. Chris
Kvana.Jr, of Edgewater. defeated W.
J. Travla. of Harden City, at the six
teenth green In their golf match today.
Interest In the contest was unprece
dented here, a gallery of fully 50 fol
lowing the players throughout.
' Travis made the turn In 41 to IT for
Fvmns and four down. Coming In. the
tenth and eleventh, were halved. Travis j
OBHT DOUGLA
THE TAILOR
Great Spring
Opening Sale
Friday and SaturdayAny
$35, $40, $45, $50, $55 and $60
Suit Made to Order at
Today and tomorrow Robert Douglass, the Tailor, will giro you
the free and unrestricted choice of any Suit in the store for $25.
These Suits always sell regularly at $35, $40, $45, $50, $55 and
$60. During these two days onlyyou can fliaie your own selec
tion of any of them at only $25.
The assortment is the most varied in the Northwest, including
the new Grays, tans and Browns in the newest shades and
weaves, Black and the "U. S. Government" Test Blue Serges.
Every yard in the line is made of pure new wool.
The broadest guarantee ever given by any merchant tailor goes
with each suit and is this:
Wear the Suit for 60 days, and if you are dissatisfied with it at
the end of that time, bring it back and your money will be re
funded without question or quibble.
All Suits are made by skilled Union Labor in our own Sanitary
Workshop in this city and are as high in quality as it is possible
to produce them.
Union Label in Every Garment
Why We Advertise
We advertise in order to do more business. The more business
we do, the cheaper we can sell it costing us no more to do $1000
worth of business than it costs the non-advertising merchant
tailor doing $100 worth. '
REMEMBER that if you are in the market for a Suit during the
next sixty or ninety days, you simply can't afford to pass by
this great sale, because
We are giving you two dollars' worth
of Suit Value for one dollar in cash
ROBERT DOUGLASS
125 FIFTH ST., NEAR WASHINGTON
won the llth lost the 1.1th. won the
14th and ISth. and lost the match on
the lth. four-five.
The bye holes were) played and
halved In threea and fours.
National Champion Fownes won a
close match from I. 8. Robeson, of
Rochester, the last four holes being
halves, and the lxth deciding In
Fownes' favor, one up.
TIIOIT SKASON OPKNS APRIIj 1
Clark Countj Anders Prepare to Seek
Mountain Ktrearra.
VANCOUVER. Wsah.. March 30.
l Special.) The tront fishing season In
this state will open Saturday and sev
eral parties have already beerf organ
ized to spend the day along mountain
stream In the county.
One catyiot legally catch and keep a
trout less than six Inches long, nor
have more than 10 pounds In his pos
session In a day. nor more than 30
pounds at any one time.
GRAMMAR LF.tGlE SEASON OS
Kern School Defeats Hawthorne by
Score or to 5.
Opening- the Grammar School League
baseball season, the Kern and' Haw
thorne schools played yesterday after
noon on the diamond at East Twenty
ettrhth and East Burnalde streets. Kern
wlnnlns; In nine innlnas by the score of
t to a. It waa a taut game and a sen-
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satlonal finish, two runs being; forced
over the! plate in the ninth inning; after
one was out.
Even thoush they scored two runs in
their half of the ninth InninK It seemed
Kern's men would be unable to take
the game. In their portion of the ninth
the Hawthorne batters . got Pitcher
Blair for a couple of hits which netted
them a run. The batteries: Kern, Blair
and BeautofT; Hawthorne. Maxwell and
Johnson.
OreRSO TO PI.AV MXCOLS
High School to Meet In tlrs.1 Match
Ganto Today.
The oldcaf and youngest high schools
of the city a ill contest on the baseball
held this afternoon when Lincoln and
Jefferson high schools meet on Multno
mah Field. "Dope" says Jefferson Is
going to win. although the old-timers ire
firm In their declarations that the vim
and enthusiasm of the "kids" will be
overcome by wisdom and experience of
the older heads.
Jefferson last year iron second place
In the Interscholastic race by beating
Lincoln In the playoff of the tie. All
last year's men are available as well as
several promising new men. Jefferson's
battery will consist of either Arthur or
Anderson snd McAIIen or Colvln, all good
batterymen. Vosper and' Keep, of Lin-'
coin last year, will play with Jefferson
today.
Lincoln .has an almost new team and
some of the new men are said to he
better than the older players. 1'atterion
or Tuerck will pitch with Captain Peter
son behind the bat. Cobb, of Washing
ton High School last year, will hgld
down third base. Lincoln has a stellar
first baxeman In Laswell. who plaVi
that sack for Culver Military Academy
a year apo. The game will begin at
3:15 with Ed Rankin umpiring. Rankhi
was ehosen official Interscholastic
League umpire, j
FLORIDA TO HAVE KACE MEET
Threat of Antl-Retting Prosecution
Docs Aot Deter Promoters.
PENSACOLA. Fla.. March 30. Dis
owned by the Southern Jockey Club
and threatened with prosecution for
violating the anti-betting law. the pro
moters propose to open horse races at
Kupprlan Park tomorrow afternoon
with 250 horses In the stables.
It is Intended also, they assert, to
run the meeting entirely within the
law, their attorneys holding that rac
ing with the betting adjunct is legal
in this state until May 1.
The 11th hour crusade against the
meeting started by the Pensacola Com
mercial Association is not receiving the
support expected.
CATCHER ABBOTT IS INJURED
Spiked Ijcg .Makes It Impossible for
Angel Backstop to Walk.
LOS ANGELES. Cal., March 30.
(Special. Catcher Abbott, of the An
gels, was unable to walk today as the
result of getting spiked in the left
leg while nailing one of the Portland
players at the plate in yesterday's
game.
While it was known that Abbott was
injured at the time, as he remained in
the game it was not. ascertained until
today that the damage was so serious.
ECCENTRIC MAN MISSING
Settler Xear AVhito Salmon Keared
Land Would Be Stolen.
WHITE SALMON. Wash..' March 30.
(Special.) No trace has been found of
Charles Frick. who disappeared from
his five-acre tract three miles up the
White Salmon three weeks ago.
Frick . feared that someone would
"steal" his place and was perturbed
when visitors walked on his land to
see the Narrows, one of the picturesque
spots of the valley. From the Under
wood station, three miles away, he
wheeled out all his goods in a barrow
and picked out the little piece of land
that no one else wanted. He hand
picked it for stones, did his own grub
bing, and had several one-year-old
trees out.
The Pacific Power & Light Company
men came along and asked him for
right-of-way, telling him they were
willing to pay liberally for his acre
age. As soon as the right-of-way men
left Frick dropped his grubbing-hook.
locked the cabin door and fled, evi
dently believing that by. keeping out Of
sight he will not have to give up his
land. ,
Frick lost 1 $100 recently, all the
money he had. Loss of his purse preyed
on his mind and may have led to de
rangement and his strange disappear
ance. Edlefsen Fuel Company has the best
country slab and block wood. Both
phones. M
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