TIIE MORNING OR EG ONI AX- THURSDAY, DECEMBER 21. 1011.
16
OF ALL 3
CHARTERS URGED
People's Body Adopts Resolu
tion to Retain Essentials of
Commission Form.
MEETING IS HARMONIOUS
IU W. Montague Sees Peril In Sob
mltUnir Many Drafts to People.
Meeting to Be Held Friday to
Check Benbow'a Plan.
The reople's Charter CoraroUiioi
adopted a resolution last night In fa
or of tha City Council taking steps to
consolidate the three charter aub
mltted to It. before placing the "
jn I mi I on form of government or the
ballot for vote of the people. The res
olution w Introduced by P- W. Mon
tague at the beginning of the meeting.
-A things stand." ba said, "there
la little chance of the people getting
a commission form even If they want
It wtth three charters In the field. I
think that we should not object to any
Incera steps that might be taken to
reduce that number submitted to a
vote, so long aa the essentials of the
commission form are preserved."
Caaaalldatloa Is Favored.
The resolution was adopted without
dissent. Its full wording Is:
"Resolved. That when tha proposed
charter of this committee Is trans
mitted to the Council. It ba accom
panied with tha assuranca that thla
committee will welcome any sincere
effort to reduce the number of pro
posed chartera to be submitted to the
people, provided only that tha essen
tials of tha commission form of gov
ernment ba preserved In tha draft sub
mitted." Following the adoption of Mr. Mon
tague'a resolution the commission took
up tha task of checking over the old
charter to bring It Into harmony with
tha amendmenta proposed In their new
draft. Many of the old provisions will
be recommended to aland as ordinances
subject to repeal by the Council, tha
remainder being repealed where they
do not conform to the new provisions
drawn np by the commission. Tha en
tire mass of this material will ba
turned over to tha secretary of the
commission and put In form for tha en
grossing committee, which will pre
pare tha final draft to be filed with
the Council at tha next meeting of that
body.
Sfeetlaar la Uannlen.
Harmony prevailed throughout the
meeting and tha commission covered
an enormous amount of ground In Ita
work. With a few trifling provisions
which remain to ba passed upon tha
entire document la ready for tha en
grossing committee.
A meeting will be held Friday night
to dlspoee of these points, and to com
pare the whole document with the
short draft offered by VY. C. Benbow
last week. Mr. BenboWa short charter
was rejected, aa a whole, when he sub
mitted It. but tha commission baa de
rided to go over It and adapt to Ita
own charter such aectlona aa It deems
valuable.
RAIL OFFICES TO SHINE
w Homes of Canadian Pacific and
Soo I.ino to Be Elaborate.
It la the ambition of Frank A. John
aon and George A. Taylor. Portland
representatives of the passenger de
partments of tha Canadian Pacific and
Foo Line, respectively, to make their
new ticket offices In the Multnomah
Hotel tha finest In Portland. They
hare submitted plana of the room at
Third and Pine streets to tha general
offlcea and expect aoon to Install the
furniture and office fixtures. All the
wood work will be In mahogany and
tha other fixtures and decorations will
be In keeping with that high atandard.
The room will have a frontage of IS
feet on Third street and ?S feet on Pine
street. The freight offices. In charge
of E. L Cardie and now In the Corbett
building, will be given space In the
room. also. Thla Is In keeping with
the policy now pursued by many rail
roads In Portland, to have both their
freight and passenger offices In the
same room.
SWINE INSPECTOR URGED
e
rnsanitarjr Feeding of Pigs for
Market Declared Menace.
Regulation of the practice of feeding
garbage to swine Is advocated by the
Portland Health Officers, who are now
working on an ordinance providing for
a. rigid Inspection of ail meat sold with
in the city.
Danger of Infection from all unin
spected meat brought Into Portland
from outside points Is declared grave,
but that from swlne fed on swill and
maintained under unsanitary conditiona
Is declared particularly so. The action
of the authorltlea In this direction Is
stimulated by discoveries recently made
br Pr. White, of the State Board of
Health, when he visited several ranches
near Portland and found unclean con
ditions there.
-Tuberculosis of the human type has
been found to exist In aa high aa 1
per rent of hogs fed on garbage." said
Ir. White yesterday. "There should ba
a rigid Inspection of meat from thla
eource as well as of the food given to
tha hogs."
COUGH PARTIES BARRED
Woman Who Entertained Whooping
Tots Is Arrested.
Pt'RANOO. Colo, Pee, Charged
with violation of state health laws In
giving a whooping-cough party to five
children afflicted with this Infantile
malady. Mrs. Carl Coulsen waa arrest
ed today on complaint of Health Officer
Darta,
Mrs. Conlaon la a social leader lo
cally and news of the party reached
the health officer through tha society
columns of a Durango newspaper.
MERCY GIVEN DRUGSELLER
Jadge Catena Kednces Fine and
;uahr-a Hock pile Sentence.
Presiding Judtte Gatrns yesterday,
at the request of John F. Logan, at
torney for the defendant, cut the fine
ef Kmll J. Hawkins from IJOS to lie
and relieved him of the necessity of
UNION
serving six months at hard labor on
the rock pile.
Hawkins, a clerk in Brlnk'e phar
macy, at Thirteenth and Washington
streets, sold an ounce of cocaine last
Pepember to Juvenile Court Officer
Mcintosh, who entered the store dis
guised as a drug fiend. Municipal
Judge Tazwell Imposed tha maximum
sentence, six months on tha rockplle
and a 1200 fine. Hawkins appealed.
Hawkins entered a plea of guilty
yesterday before Judge Gatens and
asked tha mercy of the court. Re
garding his leniency Judge Gatens
said:
"Mr. Logan told me that there wera
extenuating circumstances and that
Dtputy City Attorney Sullivan and he
had agreed that a 100 line would be
about right. I know nothing of the
merits of the case. I did not Inquire
into It- If the City Attorney's office
was willing to let htm oft easily I
could not see that I could object."
A few days sgo Hawkins called at
the office of the Juvenile Court and
begged piteously with Juvenile Officers
Mcintosh and Fisher, who arrested
him. to Intercede for him. To serve
time on the rockplle would ruin him.
he said. He now is In the drug busi
ness with a relative and is paying
for a home. A term on tha rockplle
would mean the revocation of his state
license and the loss of his home, he
said.
POLICEMAN HELD GUILTY
STILL WELL- TO BE REPIUMAXD
ED FOU VISIT ON" DUTY.
Neighborhood Row Aired in Hearing.
Women Declare Mrs. Clanson
Scandalized Them by Action.
An airing of a neighborhood row oc
cupied almost all the time of John B.
Coffey, Waldcmar Seaton and John H.
Fitzgerald, police commissioners, who
held a meeting last night at the City
Hall. Policeman Stillwell was charged
with conduct unbecoming an officer
and was found guilty after a trial
which took about two hours. He waa
sentenced to be reprimanded by the
Chief of Police.
Mrs. A. Clauson, 4IJ7 Sixty-fifth
street South East, haa of lata, wit
nesses said, found it necessary to In
dulge In a little liquid refreshment on
account of the dry weather. Thla waa
the first and about the strongest
charge that the neighbors laid at her
door. After due consideration this
thirst led them to believe that since
"liquor is the curse of man" aha must
alao be wicked. A machine belonging
to Mrs. Clauson's brother further
strengthened this belief. Later Still
well visited at the place. This led to
the charges against him. His story,
corroborated by his doctor and wife,
was that he was not feeling well on
that day and having failed to reach
his doctor by phone from his last call
ing station, he had gone to tha Clauaon
house to call up bis wife and tell her
to arrange a date for him.
While Stillwell was In the house,
Mrs. Clauaon, who was born and raised
on a farm, decided to ride the police
man's horse, which she had led Into
the yard. This was the climax of the
affair. When Stillwell came Qfit of
the house she had not succeeded In
mounting tha steed. The policeman,
true to- his trust aa a gallant officer,
proceeded to help her. During the
process some three inches of Mrs.
Clauson's hose showed. This was the
climax which sent all tha neighbors
hot foot to police headquarters. Rev.
William H. Meyer lodged the com
plaint. Stillwell although he bad only been
on the beat for a week, was declared
to have been at the house on a num
ber of occasions. He denied this.
Mrs. Clauson also has a score to
answer with Sergeant Wanless. who
waa sent out to investigate tha
charges. She declares that he told her
that her marriage licenae was void
because it does not bear a seal.
Part of the testimony Introduced
went to ahow that Stillwell could not
have been at the house aa long aa the
witnesses against htm declared
Policeman SplveY was fined 25 after
pleading guilty to a charge of being
under tha Influence of liquor while on
duty.
HOUSE PASSES PRAY BILL
Authorization of Entrvmen'a Sales of
Burned Timber Favored.
OREOONIAN NEWS BUREAU. Wash
ington Dec 20. The House of Repre
sentatives today passed the Pray bill
authorising homestead entrymen whose
lands were burned over by forest fires
during the Summer of 1910 to sell tim
ber on their homesteada that was
killed or seriously injured by fire.
SPARKLING SHOW OF
OREGON GLEE DELIGHTS
University Boys Entertain Audience at HeOig Theater With Programme
Fell of Laughter and Music at Sixteenth Annual Appearance.
LAUGHABLE Jokes, capped by good
choral singing, piano solos, trom
bone solos, and that Indefinable
quality known as college spirit, all go
to spell success In big letters over the
bill of entertaining fare offered by the
University of Oregon Glee Club, heard
In concert last night at tha Helllg
Theater.
Fifteen annual tours have been made
by these Eugene boys, and they have
won friends galore. This season's
tour, the sweet lth. promises to be
the best and most successful of the
series. Last night the theater was
well filled by an audience that waa
distinctly frlendjy to the college men,
and encores were quite the fashion.
Maale Is Pleasing.
The whole show Is creditable to Mel
vln P. Ogden. director; James C Cecil,
manager, and R. Burns Powell, presi
dent and leader, and other college
friends who framed the programme.
Xhey wisely recognised that tha publlo
gets enough of serious muslo sung In
a dignified style, and It la perfectly
fitting that thla Is so. but the fact re
mains that the dear public wants to
laugh and not to cry. It looks to col
lege glee clubs to turn on the Joke
faucet and tell the pleasant, social side
of college days, without actually de
scending to professional vaudeville, and
losing dignity. This publlo demand
or more laughter and less tears I
recocnixed In this year's bill of tha
University of Oregon Glee Club.
The Glee Club, which won new hon
ors, haa this personnal: First tenors,
R. Burns Powell. Ulen E. 6torle. Lee
Morrison. Walter L Doble. Vernon T.
Motschenbacher, Brook Dickson: second
tenors, Walter 8. Fisher. Erwln M.
Rolfe. Harold TV. Qulgley. J. Leonard
Bratager. Harold It. Grady. Bertrend
8. Jerard: first basses. Raphael Oelsler,
Kenneth F. Frasler. W. Homer Marls.
Ira A. Manvllle. 0k Earl Fortmlller.
Raymond R. Giles: second basses. Ver
non H. Vawter. Alexander Martin lit.
Harry J. ping. Alfred It. M. SkeL The
best sung male voice gleea were: "Oh,
BORAH COMPARES
VIOLATORS OF LAW
Trusts' Justification of Evil
Declared Not Unlike Mc
Namaras' Plea.
DISRESPECT IS TAUGHT
Idaho Senator Declares Delay May
Involve Tremendous Penalties,
When Widespread Sense of
Wrong Is Aroused.
NEW YORK, Dec 20. Senator Borah,
of Idaho, at the Young Republican Club
tonight made an address, that breathed
fire) In eve-ry word for "lawless big bus
iness" and little violators of the law
aa welL
He drew a significant comparison be
tween tha McNamaras, tha confessed
dynamiters, and tha old Standard OH
and tobacco companies.
"To save their worthless lives," be
said, referring to the dynamiters, "they
entered pleas of .guilty. Insisting that
they did It all for principle and expect
an astonished world' to accept their
whining apologies.
B!a7 Business" J cored.
"There Is another court record which
we will In passing, notice also. Bound
up In many volumes you "will find the
full record of two of the. late noted de
cisions. It Is a tale twice told, of sel
fishness and greed, extortion and law
lessness. Tha plea of justification Is
not unlike the plea of the planters of
dynamite, for although the acts are
clearly In violation of law and the
rights of the public It Is claimed, nev
ertheless, that It waa all done In the
Interest of business growth and indus
trial progress.
"This Is the best pica and the only
plea that Twentieth Century business
ran furnish all that could be said by
those so rarely gifted and richly en
dowed with this world's goods and
Intellectual power, and of whom the
Government and humanity have a right
to expect so much."
Respect and enforcement of the law
waa one of the keynotes of Senator
Borah's address. Obedience to the law,
he said, was the bedrock on which
powerful governments are built, and
ba believed this a time when a political
party could afford to make it a cardi
nal tenet of Ita faith. In no other
first-rate nation, he said. Is law so dis
regarded aa In the United States.
"There Is no place where life Is so
insecure against bomb or bullet, where
criminal laws are so Ineffectually en
forced, where corruption Is so little
condemned In public opinion and where
defiance of law In the highest walks
of business life so generally prevails.
Xo leave law unenforced, to cultivate
a disregard for Its obligations Is but
to fallow the ground so that In after
years there may be one law for the
poor and another for the rich," said
Mr. Borah.
National Disease Diagnosed.
He added that tha McNamara cases
and tha trust cases were strong and
uncontroverted evidence of what Is fast
becoming a National disease. He said
he had no sympathy with the prosecu
tion of business men who erred un
knowingly. "I refer alone." he said, "to that class
who sit la their offices with trained
lawyers and plan how they may evade
tha law and Its penalties. If a man
lies In wait for bis adversary and slays
him, unwarned, will It be a defense
for his lawyer to say to the court that
his client haa always had difficulty In
distinguishing between voluntary and
Involuntary manslaughter?
"I sympathise sincerely with the man
who In his hunger or bis disappoint
ment. In discouragement or despair,
thinks be can better conditions by
taking the law Into his own hands. In
the hour In which order shall be driv
en from Its high place In the temple
of liberty and in which lawlessness
and might shall come In Ita stead. In
the fearful struggle to follow, the first
man to go to the bottom to remain
there will be tha man who tolls.
"But how shall we excuse or long
sympathise with the man of Influence
and position, of wealth and prestige
who still by word and deed teaches dis
respect for or defiance of the lawT
Does he not know that it la useless to
long expect law and order In the com
mon walks of life when lawlessness
reigns supreme In the upper air?
"The danger lies In procrastination.
We learned once at tremendous cost of
Oregon" (Olen). "Days at Oregon"
(Nelson). -"De Coppah Moon" (Shelly).
"Dixie Kid" (Glebe!), "The Shoogy
Shoo" (Ambrose), "The Rosary" (Nev
In) and "Winter Song" (Bullard). The
singing waa melodious, bright, and the
four parts were well sustained.
"Birds ef a Featker" Fwxusy.
The farce "Birds of a Feather," par
ticipated In by Mr. Ogdcn. Mr. Powell
and Mr. Vawter, was so amusing and
sparkllngly bright that these young
men bad better dodge entertaining
vaudeville. Kenneth F. Frasler, Is a
Portland boy whom It la always a
pleasure to hear, and his two songs
were much appreciated. Norton R.
Cowden Is a very clever female im
personator, one of the best we have
bad tn amateur circles for years, and
his voice is finely managed. His cos
tume and wig are quite fetching. Har
ry J. Ding, a Chinese bass-baritono,
scored a hit with his songs, and he
made a picturesque figure In bis Chi
nese costume. He haa a fine voice
which he uses with skill. David Camp
bell showed pleasing ability In two
piano soloa
The sketch "Mr. , Crane Visits Ore
gon." written by Dean Collins and Mel
vin P. Ogden. Is a roar of fun from
first to last, without a stale Joke In
It. Mr. Crane, of Chicago, the rich
capitalist who recently "roasted" the
college men of the entire country by
making unkind remarks about their
thirst, etc. Is pictured In the sketch
referred to. as visiting Oregon .Uni
versity to "muck-rake" college condi
tions, and the part of Mr. Crane was
Impressively yet amusingly played by
Lyman Rice, who at very short notice
took the place of Delbert C. Stannard.
who Is suffering from cold. Raphael
Oelsler. another Portland boy, was Pro.
fessor .Bovine: Glen li. storie was a gay'
freshman, and Alexander Martin III
was Harold Rush, while "tha bunch"
sang and made fun generally. All the
principals deserve especial credit tor
good work, well done.
Tonight the boys play at Hood River,
tomorrow night The Dalles, and tha
tour closes at Salem Saturday night.
life and blood that yon may have your
fugitive slave law. your Missouri com
promise, your Dred Scott decision, your
flat of government, your compromise
with wrong, your barter with Justice,
but the hour of reckoning and readjust
ment cornea tardy, but Inexorable. It
la possible, my friends, to go on until
men of great fortunes, whether Justly
or unjustly earned, will stand stripped
like the slave master of the South not
alone of his slaves, but stripped of his
wealth, earned through two centuries
of 'unrequited toll.'
"Let us not trifle too long with that
widespread passionate sense of wrong,
even among the more conservative,
arising out of the belief that large
fortunes have been built up at the ex
panse of the poor, and that men. women
and children go hungry while others
revel In waste and luxury- It is pos
sible to go on until the soldier, called
Into the street to protect property, will
fraternize with the mob.
"Tou will hear often In theae days
that certain men are engaged In ex
perimenting with new plans of govern
ment and dangerous expedients.
"We do not need a new faith; we
need the simplicity, the directness and
self-surrender of the old.
"Choose ye this day whom you will
serve, the few. the selfish, the lawless,
and see our party continue broken In
faction and deserted by thousands of
the rank and file, or the Interests of
the countless thousands, whose hopes
and happiness lie In the direction of
equal opportunities, of Just and equal
laws, and see our party take on the
strength of the days when it defied
the arrogant power of slavery and ap
pealed to men's common sense of Jus
tice now, as then, however, to deal
not In malice and revenge, in hatred
or destruction, but in equity and Jus
tice, in protection and security alike
for all, rich and poor."
RICHESON MAIMS SELF
PREACHER ACCUSED OP MCR
DEIt NEAR TO DEATH.
Operation Saves Life of Prisoner
and no Is Expected to Recover
by" Date Set for Trial.
BOSTON, Dec. 20. Cries and groans
breaking the stillness of the early
morning hours at the Charles-street
Jail today led to the discovery that
Re v. Clarence V. T. Richeson, awaiting
trial on the charge of having murdered
Miss Avis Linnell. had mutilated him
self severely with a piece of tin.
So serious was the ' wound that it
was found necessary to perform an op
eration Immediately. Later In the day
surgeons said the operation was en
tirely successful and unless blood
poisoning developed, the prisoner prob
ably would recover within two weeks.
District Attorney Pelleter. who will
have charge of Rlcheson's trial, set for
Tn . c, ... is mnriA a hrlef statement. In
which he asserted that the trial would
begin on the date assigned, burgeons
who attended the prisoner said Riche
son would be strong enough to appear
In court on that date.
It was about 4 A. M. when the Jail
attendant heard Richeson crying:
'nA.inr Ah H ni'tnr Anc.tar. aulck."
The attendant summoned two other
attendants and they round tne prisoner
lying on the floor, bleeding and suf
fering Intense pain.
"I've cut myself I'm bleeding to
death." Richeson told them.
The prison doctor said an Immediate
operation was necessary. When Rich
eson came from under the Influence of
the anaesthetic he had nothing to say.
PORTLAND BESTS OLD HOME
T. A. Rochester, Rail Clerk, Back
From City Named After Family.
Thomas A. Rochester, chief clerk In
the Rock Island office in Portland, ye
turned yesterday from a visit to his
old home at Rochester, N. T. He also
visited New York. Chicago, Denver
and other cities. Mr. Rochester Is a
member of the family that founded
the present city of Rochester In 1812.
Residents of the city are preparing to
celebrate the centennial of that event
and have extended the Portland man
an Invitation to be one of the honored
guests.
"Rochester Is a town about the size
of Portland," he said yesterday, "but it
looks like a village In comparison. Out
side of New York and Chicago, I didn't
sea a place In the East that was as
busy with new buildings and with reg
ular business aa - Portland. In spite
of my associations at my old borne I'd
rather live In Portland than any plate
else."
X-RAY VIEW IS EVIDENCE
Exhibits Shown In Injured Man's
Suit for $20,000 Balm.
X-ray photography plays an Impor
tant part in the testimony In the suit
now In progress in tne unneo. dii
District Court In which William Mc
Queen is plaintiff and the Warren Con
triM'tifiti Comoanv defendant. It ap
pears from the pleadings and testimony
th.t the nlalntiff fell November 2, 110.
Into an excavation that the defendant
had opened while Improving i-ettygrovo
Seventeenth. It is alleged
that he Hs crippled for life. He aRks
for 120,000 damages.
The defense takes the position that
he was negligent and careless In fall
ing into the hole, and that his injuries
are much magnified. Views of the
back of McQueen taken by the X-ray
machine were placed in evidence. A
few witnesses testified that an X-ray
picture Is not necessarily -a true one.
Both sides agreed 'that an X-ray view
Is not a photograph.
OFFICIAL LEVY TO BE 6.8
Eleven City Departments to Get
. Share of 19 12 Fund.
The official tax levy for 1912 as ap
proved by the ways and means -committee
of the City Council and which
will be considered by the Council at its
meeting next Wednesday Is:
Mills.
Fire department -
police department ;;;;;j;J
Llrhtln- fund - Sjj
Street repair fund
Library fund
Park fund VZ
Public docks fund V!
Sinking fund - 7"
Special bridge fund
Street cleaning and sprinkling
Total ..
.4.80
Medford Postoffice Rushed.
MEDFORD. Or., Dec. 20. (Special.)
The biggest day In the history of the
Medford postoffice waa recorded- yes
terdav. when In 12 hours 1280 in stamps
and J120 In money orders were sold,
while 167 registered packages were sent
out. The Christmas season of 1911
surpasses all records. Postmaster
Woodford is working night and day
and his 10 employes are kept at work
continually.
In prance tbe person who are employed
In the culltrauon of the vine number I,-
ooo.ooa
&y&f ill'
Pips
ing
OUR new piano store, which has just been completed, is the most attractive in the city de
voted to the sale of musical instruments. Eut far more important than the attractive sur
roundings is the splendid collection of thoroughly dependable pianos which we have
ready to present to your notice.
A thorough investigation of the piano field in this city enables us to make the statement"
and it cannot be truthfully contradicted that dollar for dollar we have the best pianos for the
money of any store in the city. In some instances youH find that the difference in price in
favor of our pianos when compared with others of the same grade is as much as $100.
One feature of all our pianos, which we want to strongly emphasize, is their reliability. Tou
can buy any of them with perfect confidence and youll get an instrument which we guaran
tee for satisfaction in every particular. Any of them can be bought on easy payment ,erms to
suit the convenience of each individual purchaser.
Opea Evenings Until Christmas. .
New
60 WITKESSES SOUGHT
HENEY MAKES MOVE IX UBEI
SUIT AGAINST CROCKER.
Abe Ruef, ex-Mayor Schmitz and
Rudolph Spreckels Among Those
AYho May Bo Called. '
NEW YORK, Dec 20. Francis J.
Heney, of San Francisco, who Is suing
William H. Crocker for $250,000 dam
ages for libel, has filed notice of a
motion before Supreme Court Justice
Bljur for permission to take testimony
of about 60 witnesses in California in
his behalf. x
Among the persons Heney wants to
examine are Abe Ruef, ex-Mayor
Schmitx, Patrick Calhoun and Tierey
U Ford. Heney plans to review the
entire graft prosecution In the courts
here to prove that Crocker libeled Tlim
when he said the defeat of Heney as
a candidate for District Attorney would
"restore the situation to a legal and
normal basis, substitute regularity, le
gality and Judicial spirit for the pas
sionate, revengeful and criminal meth
ods of Francis J. Heney and his back
ers." Heney will also call as a witness
Rudolph Spreckels, who backed him,
but Spreckels Is expected to come here
to testify voluntarily,
POLICEMAN STABBED TALKS
Kllnpel Denies Sleuthing fop Super
ior While on Leave.
Chester C. Kllngel. patrolman, who
was stabbed Tuesday night when ho
attempted to place C. W. WiUlams un
der arrest at the Anacortes rooming
house, at Fifth and Stark streets, for
creating a disturbance, says money
matters caused him to remain In the
city two and one-half months after he
bad been granted leave of absence to
prove up on his Montana land claim.
Klingel, at the Good Samaritan Hos
pital last night denied a rumor that
he w-as in the city under instructions
from superior officers, doing private
detective work.
"Any such statement Is absolutely
groundless." he said. "In June I went
with my family to Montana, and left
them there when I returned to Port
land. I obtained a leave of absence
Sptember 6 to prove up 05 my land
claim, near Haber, Mont., fully expect
ing to go there. I was unable to get
money that waa due me and that I
expected to get at that time, and I
remained in the city In an endeavor
to get it, as without It I was not in a
position to go.
" expect to get the money within
a short time now. I had no home of
my own in the city and consequently
I rented a room at tbe hotel- It waa
my i-tention to apply for an exten
sion of leave of absence as -aoon as I
was In a financial position to go to
Montana, as It would be necessary for
me to live on my homestead six months
to prove up.
"Whether my fellow officers or my
superiors' In the department knew of
my presence here I cannot say. I did
not frequent headquarters, but I made
no secret of my presence in the city
and ' was on the streets almost daily.
Part of the time I stayed with my
three sisters at Lents."
Kllngel's condition made favorabli
progress yesterday and Is not serious.
Eugene Spies Full-Grown Deer.
EUGENE. Or., Dec 20. (Special.)
Two full-grown deer, a buck and a
doe, were seen at different tlmea with
in the cltv limits of Eugene on Sun
day afternoon. Shortly after noon. E.
J Crow saw a large buck deer In his
pasture near the golf links. The ani
mal waa apparently entirely undis
turbed, and waa walking around with
the cattle In the pasture. A short Uma
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afterward I L. Goodrich saw a large
doe come down from the hills to the
south of the city, croBs the streetcar
tracks, and jump the golf-links fence.
The animals were seen by several peo
ple, and did not seem to be at all dis
turbed by their urban surroundings.
Tiring of sightseeing, they jumped the
Intervening fences and returned to the
hills around Spencer Butte.
OREGON COMMISSION HIT
Washington's Move to Postpone
Rate Order Is Opposed.
SALEM. Or, Dec 20. (Special.)
The Railroad Commission of Oregon
today balked at tha request of the
Public Service Commission of Wash
ington to postpone the order for the
"back haul" rates as set out in the
telegram of the 'Public Service Com
mission of Washington, sent yesterday
to the Interstate Commerce Commis
sion. "Please do not understand that wa
concur in this. Expect to promulgate
order about first of year. Only 20
days' notice required under state law,"
was the telegram forwarded today by
the Oregon Commission.
The Oregon Commission Is opposed
to the requested delay, feeling that the
quest.on under consideration has been
postponed long enough and is desirous
of Issuing Its order In the distance
tariff cases aa early as possible and
not to wait until March 1, as proposed
In the plan as promulgated by the
Washington Commission.
SOCIALIST ENJOINS CITY
Medford Man Fights 50-Cent Water
Rate Act Deemed Political.
MEDFORD, Or., Dec 20 (Special.)
Believing his water rent of BO cents a
family in the Smith apartment-house
. ..,.. Tnn.ssM, Smith, a Socialist
I here, has obtained a temporary restrevln
I lng order against the city, which pre
! vents City Recorder Telfer from shut
I . h watAv mnnlT. Aven thousrh
Mr. Smith is delinquent to the extent of
Hi for the past quarter.
The Socialists are waging a hard cam-
1 tha mmlnr cltv election in
I January and their opponents say the
present aamimstration. vuue cumin
erable apathy marks the registration
which will close Friday, It Is believed
that the Socialists have registered In a
body. They have a candidate for every
position on the ticket.
COAT THIEF IS PENITENT
Shoplifter Deaves Note With Stolen
, Wearing Apparel.
' "This coat belongs to a working girl.
(Signed.) Thief."
This note was found pinned to a
bundle lying on the stairs in the De
kum building yesterday. In the bundle
was found a gray polo coat, which,
upon Investigation, was found to be
long to a clerk employed at a depart
ment store.. The shoplifter had gone
so far as to take a coat belonging to
one of the girls, and then, smitten
with remorse at the thought of having
taken a garment belonging to a hard
working clerk, had left it with the
note in the hope someone would fins
it and return it.
Another girl found the bundle while
on the way upstairs to secure change
for a bill. The coat was found to have
been taken from one of the lockers
of the store.
Ashland Sites Inspected.
ASHLAND, Or., Dec 20. (Special.)
Tbe committee of the Oregon Agricul
tural College to select a site for an ex
periment station to be established and
operated In Southern Oregon In connec
tion with the college work visited the
Rogue River Valley early In the week.
A personal Inspection of tbe sites of
Wiley B. Allen
Suggestions
fered in and near Ashland was made.
The members of this committee are Re
gent J. K. Weatherford, of Albany, and
Messrs. Wilson and Lewis, of the col
lege staff at Corvallls. F. .C. Reimer,
who Is to be In charge of the station
when it is estabUshed, was with the
committee hero looking over the
grounds offered. ,
WOUNDED BOXER IMPROVES
Blood-Poisoning Now Only Danger
Feared for "Mysterious Billy."
' The possibility of tolood poisoning
setting in within the next few days is
tbe only danger feared by physicians
attending "Mysterious" Billy Smith,
the wounded ex-champlon prizefighter.
After passing the crisis. Smith ral
lied and shows every sign of recover
ing from the effects of the injuries
inflicted by Aibert E.'Loomia last .Sun
day night.
Dr. Fred W. Zelgler expresses con
fidence that his patient will recover,
and marvels at the remarkable consti
tution of the former fighter.
DAILY METEOROLOGICAL, KEFOKT.
PORTLAND, Or., Dec. 20. Maximum tem
perature, 42 degrees; minimum, 35 degrees.
River reading. 8 A. 8.T feet; change in
last 24 hours. 0.2 foot rise. Total rainfall
(5 P M. to 5 P. M. ), none; total rainfall
since September 1. 1911. H-0 '"cjiB; ?orT
mal rainfall since September 1. 16.63 Incnes.
deficiency of rainfall since September 1.
lftll. 6.23 Inches. Total sunshine, none;
possible sunshine. 8 hours. 86 minutes. Ba
rometer (reduced to sea level) at S F.
30.36 inches.
WEATHER CONDITIONS.
The northwestern high-pressure field Is
spreading and now overlies the entire Pa
cific Northwest. The northwestern hlgn
pressnre field Is diminishing In Intensity and
is being gradually forced northward. The
Southwest and middle portion of the United
States is covered with a well-developed dis
turbance that has caused snow in the Cen
tral Plateau and Plains states, and rain in
the lower Mississippi and Ohio Valleys, and
In the East Gulf and South Atlantic states.
Light rain has also fallen in Southwestern
Washington, moderate rains in Southern
California and light snow in Northern Ida
ho and Western Montana The weather Is
generally colder on the Pacific Slope. In
the Plains and East Gulf states, and it Is
warmer in Rocky Mountain districts. North-.
era Saskatchewan. Louisiana, the Ohio gal
ley Lake region, Atlantic states (except
Florida) and St. Lawrence Valley. Over
the western half of the country, on the
Atlantic Slope and In the Gulf states tem
peratures are below normal.
The conditions are favorable for generally
fair weather Thursday, except near the
Washington coast, where occasional rain Is
expected. Temperature changes will In gen
eral not be important.
FORECASTS.
Portland and vicinity Fair; westerly
winds. . , .
Oregottr-Generallly fair; northwesterly
winds. . .
Washington Fair, except occasional rsla
near the coast; winds mostly westerly.
Idaho Generally fair.
THEODORE F. DRAKE,
Acting District Forecaster.
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