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Tnr MOTiXTXfr OTlISfiOXTAT-T, FRIDAY. FEBRUARY 0. 1912. v UEtl Ifi TACOI MAY CURB RECALL Amendments to Charter Pro' visions Are to Be Sub mitted in April. RESTRICTION FELT NEEDED Voters educational Association Is AjralnM Present Recall "Mutfr nifnls" Petition Peddling Mar"!? Prohibited. TACOMA. Wash.. Feb. I. (Special.) Expressing unanimous desire to curb tfcs recall and after bearlna- several bitter denunciations of the present re call "movement," the Voters Educa tional Association, an organisation of women voter, today at a largely at tended meeting, recommended to the Municipal Commission (or submission st the April election amendments to in rerall DroTisions of the city charter. The proposed amendments presented by Mrs. N. 1 Taylor, as finally adopt ed, provide that any recall charges must hare Indorsement or so property owning voters before recall petitions will be issued, and that petitions shall then be kept In the office of the City t-'lrrk and may be signed there only. I'cJdllng of recall petitions about the city would be prohibited: an orriclai recalled would be barred from both ap pointive and elective office for two years, and an orriclai once subjected to a recail and sustained in office by the people would be exempt from other re- falls during the term to which he was orlajlnally elected. If the official should be recalled the other Commissioner would elect his suc cessor In the same manner as vacancies from other causes are filled. CADETS WILL COMPETE Military Tourney Will Mark End of Partners' Week. OREGON AGRICULTURAL COL I.fcJGhJ. Corvallis. Feb. s. (Special.) The farmers' week will end at the ureeon Agricultural College tomorrow iilht with a military tournament In the armory. Besides the drills and competitions for the whole cadet corps, there wt II be Ave special competitive events for Indlvldusls. In which (0 ca dets will participate. First will come the equipment rare. The next will be competitive drill for privates, oorporals anil sergeants. What promises to bwhe most excit ing event of the evening Is the relsy rsce between battalions. All day the egg show will be held, tinder the auspices of the poultry de partment, in the stock Judelr.g pavil ion. Professor Jsmes Dryden and his assistants have been busy for the past month collecting eggs of as many dif ferent species as possible. There will be three demonstrations, showing the proper way to house hens for egg pro duction, the proper method of sending egira to market and also the market fene. showing the eggs on sale and lso showlr.g the proper method of dressing poultry. MURDERS WILL BE PROBED Clackamas Grand Jury to Investl- gat Peaths at Ardenwald. OREGON C1TV. Or, Feb. I. (Spe cial.) The Clackamas County grand Jury will be sin investigation tomorrow of the murders of Mrs. Ruth C. Hill, her son and daughter and her husband, William Hill, which occurred at Arden wald on June 9. 1911. Kubpenas have teen Issued calling for the appearance nf witnesses at 1 o'clock tomorrow af ternoon. Virtually the same witnesses have been called as appeared a month ago In the bearing of Nathan B. Harvey In Justice Court before Justice Samson. At that time Harvey Was dismissed after a sensational hearing, but it was said that the prosecution had by no means abandoned Its effort to connect Harvey with the crime and was merely waiting the meeting of the grand Jury before presenting its telling evidence. District Attorney Tongue will be with the grand Jury to assist It In Its Investigation. stilled In the minds .-f the rising gn eratlon. ilalor titltt Wilson of Berke ley, elected by the Socialists at the last elV-tlon. has notified City tjchool Su perintendent Bunkeer that his duties as that official will cense with the end of th present school year. Wilson makes tne excuse that Bunk er Is Insubordinate. In that he dis charged a school Janitor of Socialistic proclivities when the Mayor ordered him kept at work. Bunker declares the msn was totally lnconwetont and was discharged for good cause and would cot be reinstated. The city is op I narms over the seri ous turn the affair Is taking. At first the Socialist admlnlstrstlon was re garded as a sort of Joke, but when no tice came some time ago from the Gov ernment recruiting office that that de partment was being seriously hamp ered in securing recruits to the Army and Navy through the teachings of the socialists la and about Oakland, and that children in the public schools were being tsught that under no cir cumstances were they ever to have NEW rRESIPF.NT OF MINING COXORESS IS MEMBER OF OKANT FASS COINCII- I j y. . 1 j j. i .w ii.ii i . a- 4 J T H. L Rerslnger. GUAXT8 PASS. Or.. Feb. S. (Spe cial.) H. L Herilnger. of this city, was elected president or the South ern Oreton and Northern Cali fornia Mlnlcg Congresa. which haa been In session In Hertford during the past week. Mr. Herslnirer has been a member ef the City Council during the past year and Is now the president of the street committee. His work ea the Council has been of the hlgheet value to the city, as he spsree no pains when It comes to hard work for the Improvement of the city and the betterment of con ditions. As preeldent or the streef committee he oversees all work on the street. LAKEVIEW TRAFFIC LARGE Inaugural Business of Nets- Una Good Pesplte Soft Tracks. I.AKEVIKW. Or.. Feb. S. (Special.) respite adverse weather conditions, the Nevada-CaJifomla-Oregon Railroad, which first gave Lakevlw service Jan. iisry 7 and began regular traffic han dling January 1 2. has been doing a good Inaugural business. C. W. Class, the local agent, figures that the total busi ness has run between 13000 and $4000. snd enough freight Is held up on the road to make the total reach $5000 within a week. For a time the t radio was Impeded by the soft track, due to excessive moist ire. but since that the ballasting has been pushed and it la expected that the work will soon be completed this far. HUGE BLAST IS PREPARED 1,000.000 Tone af Kork to Be Ixwwnrd at Tenlno Quarries. CENTRALIA. Wash.. Feb. I. (Sre cal. Nearly 1. 000.00" tons of rock will he blasted by a single charg of IS carloads of black powder at the Her cules ouarrles. In TVnlno. on the after noon of February 17. The blast will be t e biggest event in the history of Te nlno. and the city la preparing to enter, tain several thousand visitors on that da jr. A network of 1400 feet of tunnel has been driven into a hill of stone 6u0 feet long. 360 feet wide and 70 feet deep. T';e resistance offered by the rock wlil be a terrific one. and the Jar of the ex plosion will he felt for miles around IVntno. - SOCIALIST AIMJS FOUGHT Berkeley Cltixens Stand by Nrliool Superintendent. SAN FRANCISCO. Feb. I (Special.) Following out the dearest ambition rf every Socialist, which la to gain control of the public school system, so their doctrine may be properly In- nvthlng to do with the State National Guard, or to enlist therein, people DO' ran to sit ud and take notice. A mass meeetlng has been called at Berkeley for tomorrow, at which reso lutions will be adopted calling upon the present Socialist , Board of School ritrectora to rescind their action in dis charging' the present school superin tendent, and declsnng mat n sucn ac tion is not taken, a recall petltlfi would b at once circulated looking toward the ousting of the Socialists Many of the most prominent business mn of the eitv are bsck of the move ment, toirether with a large number of studemts and professors of the uni versity of California. TIMBER THEFT ALLEGED BOISE HEARS OF IMiitTM tvN I AGAINST TWO. Prominent Mining- and Timber Men of Owyhe Country Mnst Appear for Trial at Present Term. BOISE. Idaho. Feb. S. (Special.) Indictments against two of the most prominent mining and timber men of tha Owyhee country J. B. McWhorter and J. R. Blackaby have been an nounced here today by United States District Attorney I.lngenfelter. the true hill charging the defendants with tim ber trespass with intent to defraud the Government out of valuable timber cut from the DUbllc domain In Southwest ern Idaho, and carrying It out of Idaho Into other states and selling It. Both men have been placed under heavy bonds to appear for trial here February 2 4. Rumors were widely circulated at the time the last Federal grand Jury was In session here that special agents had been Investigating alleged unlawful cutting of timber In the Owyhee coun try. and when the announcement was msde that the grand Jury was problnir these charges there was little surprise, but a great real of Indignation. The regular term of the Federal Court opens here next week, when the Owyhee case, as well as the Lonr Val ley claim-Jumper case, will be tried. The latter Includes five prominent ranchers of Long Valley, who are un der Indictment for defrauding citizens out of their civil rights. Originally there were Si ranchers Indicted. Lat er the indictments were quashed and a grand Jury reindicted six of tha al leged ringleaders. They were tried In the Federal Court last Fall and tha Jury disagreed. The Government, elected to retry the defendants, and they will be heralded before the court again during the Feb ruary term. The Government relies on conviction through threatening letters issued by the Indicted men to settlers in the Ixing Valley, threatening them with a coat of tar and feathers if they did not leave the valley and stop In stituting contests against other set tlers. The grand Jury probe, now being conducted In this city, will result. It Is believed. In the returning of a number of true bills In cases of embezzlement of postofflce funds, postofflce robberies, mismanagement of National bank af fairs. National forest trespass and white slavery. The postofflce robbery cases grow out of the "soaping of tha safes in the postofflces at Plcabo and Klmberly. Idaho. The yegrmen. seven In all. were later arrested and are now In custody at Twin Falls and Shoshone. SALOONS CLOSE FOR FIGHT Coeur d'Alene Grog; Shops Lock Boors That Kmploycs May Go. COECR ITALENE. Idaho. Feb. 8. A new and effective method of closing saloons was put Into operation here tonight. Every ssloon In Cocur d'Alene closed peremptorily at 8.39 o'clock to enable the employes to witness a 20-round bout between Tug Wilson, of Coeur d'Alene. and Pan O'Brien, of British Columbia. ALBANY III ESCAPE Inquiry Into Orchard Company Saves Timber Claims. DE LARM IS TURNED DOWN Promoter of Defunct Concern Tries to Induce Linn and Lane Res I dents to Invest but Hl Proposition RJect1- ALBANY, Or.. Feb. 8. (Special.) Narrowly escaping the loss or a dis group of timber .claims through the operations of the Columbia River Orchard Company, a number of Albany men. Including some of Aioany leaa Inr citizens, are congratulating them selves on the fact that they were not caught in the company's net, which haa enveloped so many people In various narta of the Northwest. Albany was one of the cities where the promoters of this company centered their operations and it was only through a careful and judicious inves ligation of the company's affairs that Albany men escaped heavy losses in tha defunct corporation. A number of Albany men own group of timber claims in the Five Klvers country in western l-ane t.oun tv. With residents of other parts o Linn and Lane Counties who own claims in that same section and In ad Joining portions of the Alsea country the Albany men had entered Into a sell ing pool and had appointed Hammett & Wood, of Eugene, as selling; agents, Several Efforts "Made. President De I -arm came here several times In an effort to pursuade the owners of these rlalms to exchange them for his company's bonds. He offered to puy the requested price of $20 an acre for the claims and ex change the bonds at par In payment of the purchase price. Hammett & Wood agreed to the plan and offered to relinquish their selling contract, bu the owners of the claims demurred. After several conferences here with De Larm. several of which were at tended by claim owners from various parts of the surrounding country, the Albany men employed C. E. Sox, Albany attorney, to Investigate the orchard company. Sox went to Port land and, after an investigation, re ported against the acceptance of the bonds. Roads Said to Be Good. Tha orchard company still Insisted that the bonds were good and De Larm brought a Portland attorney here to convince the Albany men that they were all right. He also employed -Sox at the company's expense to make an other trip of investigation, but the Albany attorney again reported ad versely on the scheme. President De Larm made further efforts and even offered men who were the leaders In the .pool and whoso action probably would have influenced the constimma tlon of the project special financial In ducements to support his contention. but all of his offers were rejected. One man residing at Corvallis and another living at Halsey, who were in the pool, accepted the bonds and deeded their claims to the orchard com pany. but all of the Albany men, aa well as others 1n the pool from other cities, rerused to sell and thus escaped the loss when the orchard company taiiea. OREGON BONDHOLDERS V.NITE Organization Represents $S.0,000 InTested In Orchard Company. Holders of bonds In the defunct Co lumbia River Orchard Company to the extent of more than 1350.000 have Joined the organization of bondholders, which has been formed to protect the Inter nta of the property while It is In the hands of a receiver and to formulate means ef bringing criminal proceed ings against those who floated the bonds. Attorney Jay Bowerman re ported' that yesterday -he heard from the holders of about 8100,000 of the bonds, which swelled the amount which he represents to $350,000. ' Owing to the Inability of Mr. Bower man to get certain dutails of a general plan of attack formulated, the meeting of the bondholders will not he held to day and probably not tomorrow. Mr. Bowerman said last night that the meeting may have to be postponed un til Monday. "We are proceeding care fully." said Mr. Bowerman, "and do not Intend to take any hasty action. The hopes of the bondholders are two-fold. They desire first to get.as much out of the assets of the defunct company as possible and then they desire to -bring somebody to Justice for what looks to be a.gigantlc scheme to defraud. "It Is known that the company which issued the bonds has some property, but Just how much remains to be seen. It Is believed also that the company traded out some of the bonds for farm lands and other property, and It may be that some of this Is still In the name of the company. If so the bondholders hope to realize materially on their bonds." It Is said also that the failure of the company will cause great deal of trouble In the civil courts. It Is re ported that many of those who traded property for the bonds are planning on suits to set aside the conveyances. The first ease of this kind was filed yester. day at Hlllsboro. when W. K. Trayler brought suit against Lewis M. Duncan, of Portland, to set aside a conveyance of a residence and lot. which was ex changed for 11000 of the Columbia River Company's bonds. It Is said an other company in Portland Is to be sued for $60.0JiO on the same kind of a deal. This company gave $60,000 of the bonds to a farmer of Morrow County for a large tract of farming land, it is said. In the bondholders' organisation. whtch has been formed here, are about Z0 persons who hold bonds ranging In amount from $500 to $150,000. It Is believed the amount will be Increased by another $100,000 today. An effort will be made to get the bondholders In some parts of the state outside Port land to Join the Portland organiza tion and help In both the civil and the criminal proceedings. The pledge of many of the bondholders at Eugene has already been secured. - It Is believed the Oregon organization will represent approximately $750,000 of the bonds when action Is .finally taken. SEIZED BOOKS MAY BE HELP Receiver for Orchard Concern Gets Bolt Firm's Records. SEATTLE, Wash. Feb. 8. Another project of the firm of "De Larm te Blehl. bonds," was placed under Inves tigation today. Elmore Winkler, the receiver appointed by the Federal Court for the Columbia River Orchard Company and the Washington Orchard Irrigation Fruit Company, learned yesterday that the Washington Steel St Bolt Company, whose plant Is at Ed monds. Snohomish County, Washing ton, and which went Into bankruptcy ( Only a few suits and over coats ofa size; not many of one kind, but a big variety in the lot. A saving1 to the purchaser of $5 to $10 on a suit. . On Overcoats and Bain coats a saving- of from $7.00 to $15.00. Attend our men's Trouser sale. - You can save $1.00 to $4.00 the pair. See window display today. UUJLlGusKtihnPro,. 166-170 THIRD ST.- recently, was the property of the bond firm. Winkler today obtained possession of a trunkful of books of the Steel & Bolt Company and expects they will throw light on the bond firm's method of finance. The Edmonds Company was reputed to be earning a profit of $20,000 a year when it was purchased by De Larm & Biehl, who at once bonded the plant for $2,000,000. How many of the bonds were sold is not known, but no assets were discover able when the company failed. 0L0 RIVALS lUY MEET O. A. C. PRESIDENT IN FAVOR OF GAME WITH OREGON. Athletic Relations Agreeable to Kerr it Satisfactory Plan Can Be Agreed Vpou. SALEM, Or., Feb. 8. (Special.) There Is little If any opposition at the Oregon Agricultural College to the resumption of athjetlc relations with the State University. It would seem to be mainly a question of agreeing upon some plan which is mutually satisfactory." This was the statement made here today by President Kerr, of the Oregon Agricultural College, who was here to speak at a "country life" dinner, given by the Salem Board of Trade. The question as to the status of athletic relations was put up to him following a statement in The Orego nian from Hood River this morning that the Oregon Agricultural College alumni there had taken action asking for renewed amies ble athletic relations. Further than the above brief state ment President Kerr would not com ment upon the possibility of renewing the old relations. The suggestion has been made, how ever, by alumni here and elsewhere that Joint committee of representatives from both the schools hold a meeting In the near future and arrive at an amicable conclusion. That this suggestion will be carried out seems probable. While the Uni versity of Oregon now haa Its dates practically filled for the next football season and the possibilities of a clash between rival elevens of the formerly friendly schools seems to be almost lm- posslhle for 191!. this year will no THE S. 7 -'WOT rmw i fi m i tMimr f S t i ! I 1 LI .v'-V mm T URCHASING P0W Of your dollar is increased more than two fold at The Emporium at this season-end clean-up sale of Suits and Goats Our Entire Stock of Winter Suits Grouped in 2 Great Lots For $17.50 to $22.50 Suits You may not be prepared to buy your Spring Suit now still, you need a Suit; then it's to your great advantage to come here and see these splendid Suits. They're so appropriate for early Spring wear and think of your savings. For $24.75 to $37.50 Suits Beautifully tailored, strictly high-class Suits, made of finest materials, nobby weaves, mannish worsteds, cheviots, broad cloths, in a choice range of colors. Women of refined taste will be eager for Suits of this character, especially so at this low price. 40 45 Final Clean-Up of Coats Regular Prices $ 1 6.SO - $2 l.SO rf r Pretty, serviceable mixtures in all wanted styles. p X J New Suits and Coats for Spring Every express for the past three weeks has brought us beau tiful new Spring garments and our stock is most complete. You are invited to inspect them. liiii! doubt see some adjustment reached which will mean the renewal of the relations of the past years. TEACHERS TO GET PENSION Multnomah Retirement Fund Asso ciation Incorporates. SALEM, Or.. Feb. 8. (Special.) The first Teachers' Retirement Fund Asso ciation under the new law of the last Legislature, has been created for Mult nomah County, and articles of incor poration hare been received at the Secretary of State's office, to be filed tomorrow. The Incorporators are named as D. A Grout. C. A. Rice. F. G. Porter. A. R. Draper. C. M. Klirglns, T. T. Davis. L. D. Thomas. M. D. Donohoe, Grace DeGraff. W. G. Fletcher and A. F. Mo-Klnley. The name assumed by the corpora tion Is the Teachers' Retirement Fund Association of School District No. 1. Multnomah County. The incorporators are to be trustees, further trustees to be elected when the corporation has 300 members or more. at Valdez, Alaska, he preached also at Cordova, where he established the cel ebrated Red Dragon clubhouse, which v. Sunday Is a church. Alaska Missionary Weds. SEATTLE. Wssh.. Feb. 8. Rev. Ed ward Pearsons Newton, the well-known Alaska missionary, and Miss Caroline Burton Hart were married in Calvary Church, New York, today. Mr. New ton was formerly rector of Holy Trin ity Church, Pueblo, Colo., and Is well known in Colorado. Utah, California and Oregon. Making his headquarters Nervous People Made Cheerful What makes all the difference between health and sick ness?' There is but one answer. It is the condition o the blood. 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