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Newspaper Page Text10 TTTE MOTtXIXO OREGOXIAX, SATURDAY, MAT 4, 1912. AGIN 10 WIDEN SEVENTH CHEERED Property Owners Express Ap proval of Street Commit tee's Course. OPPOSITION IS WITHDRAWN . Recommentlallon Proposes Improve ment of Thoroughfare I'mm Hojt to Burii!.lce Onneollng With Broadway Bridge. Prolonged rhr from those present prreete1 the members of the street committee of the City Council yester day when the mwnb'rn unanimously overrule all rmintranrn to the pro. posed wMrninc of Seventh street, from Hojrt to Burnslde. and rtfomnifiKlwl to the main body that the thoroughfare be so Improved. Several times during the hearing of the complainants, of whom there were several. It wa made rlear that the lame majority of the property owners Ion ir Seventh street were In favor of the proposed widening. At the opening of the session, when Councilman Baker, the chairman, asked for those who had protests to make them known, sev eral arose and announced that they had deckled to withdraw their remonstran ces. They were cheered. Flaal Obatarlea Reaaeve. With the recent withdrawal of S. Benson, the Meier tc Krank Company and Blodcett ft Co.. It began to look as though there would be no serious objection to the proposed widening and when the meeting was called to order yesterday virtually all doubts were removed by the further withdrawal of the T. W. C. A., fr. A. S. Nichols. Jen-nlna-a & Co.. A. Tlchner and the Cor beit estate. Aa thee were announce.!, those favoring the widening cheered loudly. There were some who held out to the last, not that they were opposed to the widening of the street, but that ther felt the viewers had not done them Justice In the matter of damages: that too much stress had been placed on the benefits to be derived from the Improvement, but they were In the minority and the members of the com mittee, after giving long consideration to all the remonstrances, voted unani mously to overrule them and to recom mend the widening. Uske Eltlilii Objeetloaa. Among those who remonstrated on this account was J. Henri Ltbte. who declared that the viewers had taken considerable of the property Involved without adequate damages. tie felt, he said, that the proper means of Im proving the street was by the manner proposed some time ago. tnac or cut ting off a ten-foot strip on the west side of the street and of having both sides pay the damages. He favored that plan, be said, although he was assessed liOuO for It. It never went through, however, and now he opposed the pre- ent plan on account of the alleged unfair report of the vlewera. Sol Bloom brought forth a severe rep rimand from Chairman Baker when he said that he favored the same plan as detailed by Mr. Lanbe. but that "it was stopped by Influential persons; some pressure waa brought to bear." "By whom?" demanded Chairman Baker. "I'm telling only what came to me." replied Mr. Bloom. "Well. I want to know what Influ ence you say was brought to bear, by whom and on whom." persisted Mr. Baker. Baker Assam 1'rltte. "I am not saying It was brought to bear on the committee." said Mr. Bloom, "but In some manner that pro position waa stopped and now the plan comes up aa here today." "Well, tt Is Just such Insinuations as these that make the Councilman unjust ly singled out for criticism." said Mr. Bakrr. "and I want It distinctly under stood that the only reason this com mittee Is considering thla plan Is be cause the people who are standing here In this Council chamber today favor this plan above the other. That Is the only reason, too." Seventh street la proposed to be widened ten feet on each side, making It one of the main thoroughfares of the downtown district. It will connect mlth the Broadway bridge at Hoyt street. FRESH AIRFUND SOUGHT Concert Rerelpta Will Help Tired Mother and Sick Bable-. ' ler. of The Hague, are registered at the Multnomah. Marcus Wise, an llwaco merchant. Is registered at the Cornelius. H. O. Pay. a real estate operator of White Salmon. Is at the Imperial. Mr. and Mrs. O. W. Spencer, of Se attle, are registered at the Bowers. Dr. R. I. Shanklln. of Tom. Is a guest of M. C. Wtcktnson at the Ore gon. CI. X Wendllng. capitalist of San Francisco, Is registered at the Portland-Ira A. Campbell and Charles R. Page, attorneys of San Francisco, are at the Multnomah. Hans Von Wledner. who operates a large fruit farm at Canby. Is registered at the Oregon. An eight-pound daughter was born. May I. to Mr. and Mrs. V. V. Day. St Columbia street. Bruce Dennis, editor and proprietor of the La Grande Observer. Is regis tered at the Imperial. r. F. Wells and Oeorge P. Thompson, prominent business men of Minne apolis, are at the Multnomah. Judge Charles H. Cardner. of Toledo. Or., is registered at the Imperial Hotel and wtll be in town for a few days. Miss Slmms. one of the Red Cross Army nurses, who will accompany the First Regiment, has arrived from the East and Is at the Portland. Bernard Faymondvllle and Thomas Oardner. vice-president and secretary of the Firemen's Fund Insurance Com pany, of San Francisco, are registered at the Multnomah. GAD BOOKKEEPING SYSTEM IS FOUND Water Department to Be Re organized Under Direction of Expert Accountant. THEFTS ARE MADE EASY De fa lea t Ions of Snolpra First Due to Error AVhlch He Sought to Cover fp Xo Hecords Kept on Property. YVHITEAKEIt KOUM fil l I.TV Or' OIL STOCK DWINDLE. A series of concerts to be partici pated in by. the foremost musk ians of the city is planned by the Babies Fresh Air Society. which was or ganised In thla city the first of last month, to arrange Hummer vacations for babies and mothers. The first of these concerts will be given Sunday. May 1). Among the musicians who mill appear on this occasion are: Ruse Kloch Bauer, soloist: Beatrice Olerke. plantste. and Susie F. Pipes, violinist. The aeries comprises four concerts, the other tkree to be given at times to be announced later. It la the plan of the society to ar range accommodations at some wean resort, probably In Tillamook County, and to establish a Summer ramp there. For the present tents will be used. Mothers and Infants who are In need of rest and fresh air. reported to the society by physicians or other sources, will receive a two weeks" vacation. Funds abtalned by concerts will he used to provide food at the camp and transportation to the beach. Mrs. Km ma Coarrtv la president of the society; Mr. C. C. Fltahugh. vice-president, and Mrs. J. 5. Olllingham secretary-treasurer. Offices hare been es tablished at 13 Selllnc-Hlrsrh building. Mra James A. Foley, who recently ar rived here from Boston. Is taking an active part In the work. PERS0NALMENTI0N. P. A. Williams, of Salem. Is at the Bowers. R O. Smith, of Grants Pass, is at the, Cornelius. R. A. TDunran. an Fstacada merchant. Is at the Oregon. E. p. Devott. a Kelso lumberman. Is at Ui Perkins. W. B- Sellers, a stockman of Bend, Is at the Carlton. Oeorge t". Piper, of Seattle. Is regis tered at the Imperial. Owen Kalllff. of Medford. Is regis tered at the Carlton. R. W. Wlstar, a Philadelphia lumber, man. Is at the Portland. E P. Nelson, a Bend merchant. Is registered at the Perkins. H A. J. Kessler and J. M. M. Keti- Attorney Appeal and Will Have Op portunity to Interpret Oregon Knle Pretense A verdict of giilltv against W. 11. Whiteaker was returned shortly before o'clock last night hy a Jury in Judge Morrow's department of the Circuit Court. Whiteaker was Indicted Jointly with I C Hammer. J. C. Lukfr, H. . l.uker and C F. A. Peck on a charge of swindling Mrs F.mnia A. Smith out of farm on the Base Line road In ex change for stock of the Lake Oil. Has Pipeline Company. a corporation formed on the strength of location no tlces which Whiteaker and associates nlace.l on lan.l In the oil belt In Call fornla The others are yet to be tried. liavlna demanded separate trials. The Jurv was out a trifle less than IT. hours, having retired at 5 o'clock Thursdav afternoon. The night was srtent at the Lenox Hotel. Sam White, attorney for Whiteaker. announced that he will take an appeal and wi:i be given time to prepare bill of exceptions. Judge Morrow wi!l sentence Whiteaker Tuesday morning. The penalty provided Is an Indetermin ate sentence of from one to five years In the state penitentiary, but there will he a stay of execution pending de termination of the appeal. The appeal will give the Supreme Court an opportunity to place a con struction on the Oregon law re-iutrlng that where obtaining money or prop erty under false pretenses Is charged there must be Introduced In evidence handwriting of the detendant or a false token nromulaated by him. "In regard to those five claims first located by Whltteaker and associates, 1 wish to say that the evidence pro duced shows conclusively that I was net It.strumental In having these claims Jumped." said O. T. Kelly yesterday In discussing the cvtdeiwe he-gave In the trial Thursday. "The statement In : esterday's Oregonlan waa Incor rect In tills repect. It gave the Impres. slon tl.at I wns the man who had the claims Jumped. I had no knowledge that such an act was contemplated by any person or persons, but as soon as I had knowledge of the fact I made ctrenuoua effort to repair the Injury It making mineral discoveries and lo cating five claims, which I immediately c;uit-c!aimcd to the company without remuneration. "The evidence furtiicr shows that I Jo not now nor have at any time owned any Interest In these lands, except the ln.erest I might have as a stockhold er In the company. In regard to the statement that I now hold a contract with Mrs. Smith by which she Is to advance me several thousand dollars to expend In development work on this lar.c I will only say that the evidence snows that I do not now hold a con fact with her for this or any other pin pose. These facts I am stating are tv matter of court record and can all be verified." BOY SPEEDER DRAWS FINE Young Chauffeur Assessed $20 for I'nreasonabie Prlvln-r. The first penalty of the season for reckless automobile driving was Im posed In the Municipal Court yesterday upon AI. Krlchner, whose youthfulncas and poverty saved him from a heavier Imposition than the $20 which was as sessed. The sentence was Imposed un der the "reasonable" clause of the law. ratrolman Sims testified that Krlch ner was running at the rate of JS miles an hour past the t;iencoe School, at Fast Forty-eighth and Belmont streets, while the sidewalks were crowded with children Krlchner admitted that he was going at the rate of IS miles an hour, and he thought the speed was reasonable. The state statute, which at first waa regarded with distrust by city officials. Is now believed .to have placed even a wider authority in the hands of the court, as its regulations are based en tirely on reasonableness. As the law now Hands, the court may find even very low speeds to be unreasonable, and the penalties for repeated offenses are cumulative. WYOMING CALLS DUNIWAY Portland Educator Made President of Vnlversltjr at Cheyenne. Ir. Clyde Augustus Punlway haa been elected president of the University of Wyoming, according to a dlspatcti from Cheyenne, received yesterday. He will succeed Ir. Charles O. Merlca. Ho is one of the five sons of Mrs. Abigail Scott Punlway and has been president of the University of Montana. A dis ruption occurred recently because the board of regenta made appointments to the faculty against the judgment of Lr. Dunlway. It la said that fine opportu nities are presented In the new position for a man of the progreaslve Ideas of Dr. Dunlwsy. He Is years old. and was educated In Portland schools. Later he attended the University of Oregon, and finished at Cornell. He took, a post-graduate course at Harvard, and taught there one year," acting as a substitute for the professor of Kngllsh and American hia tory. He then traveled extensively abroad. For 12 years he held the chair of English and American history at Stanford University. Three years go he went to Montana. A fast train consumes front 31 to SO gal lons of eater a milt. Complete reorganisation of the Wa ter Department, under the direction of vMUiam Whitfield, expert accountant, and Frank T. Dodge, superintendent. was authorised by Mayor Rushlight and members of the Water Board, without dissenting vote, yesterday morning. Facta more or less unusual, not to say startling. were reported In lengthy, exhaustive and detailed state ment of Mr. Whitfield, covering t period of several months. No criminal shortages, such as that of Fred R. Snodgrass. previously published, were disclosed, but the grossest carelessness In general, the report says, was found In all branches of the service. F.rror Leads to Theft. A peculiar thing Is that Snodgrass, who la now a fugitive, is believed, as It developed, to have started on his down ward career through an error In his accounts. While the accountants were unable, owing to the lamentable lack of correct records, to tell Just how It occurred. It appears very probable that the young; clerk made some mistake In hie accounts In the regular channels of his work. In trying to figure out soma means of covering this up without pay ing It from his private purse, he evi dently hit upon a plan. It worked so well. It would seem, that he continued It until the time of the expertlng of his books by Mr. Whitfield, when he fled. The peculations of Snodgraaa began November. 1909. and continued until February 12. 1912. at which time the experts examined the books. He stole I317."5. according to the checking of the books to the best ability of the experts. Dismissal Itamors Cnrreat. Whether there wtll be any dismissals from the service ss a result of the re port of the experts Is not known. There have been many rumors to this effect, but If they are contemplated by the Mayor and the members of the board they have not so Indicated. It Is probable that the reorgani zation will proceed as rapidly aa possible and that the paat sins and shortcomings of the depart ment will be forgotten by the ad ministration, and the best efforts of the authorities used to prevent any such lack of organisation and Its natural results. There has been too much authority veated wtth the clerks and they have had full power to fix the amounts to be paid by patrons In thousands of cases, the report says, as In the cases of the water shortage last Hummer. Thousands were unable to get wa ter for Irrigation and It was left optional with the receiving clerks aa to how much was to De couectea from consumers st the end of the months that the shortage of water con tinued. Bookkeeping; System Loose. While the experts do not say that there were any criminal actions on the part of clerks or any employe of the department In this connection, they do emphatically say that such were pos sible and that, had they occurred, it would have been Impossible to detect them, so loose Is the bookkeeping sys tem In vogue. No records anywhere near complete are kept of atock on hand, says the report, and. during the past year 20 tons of lead disappeared. o way was found to check its disappearance and to charge It to any department of the service or to any individual or firm. This one item alone Is said to show the utter lack of a checking and bal ancing system, and to prove that It is possible for thousands upon thousands of dollars' worth of materials of all kinds to be sold by private parties for private gain and no one ba the wiser. The report also points out mat me department employes are under the power of the "loan snarics, out inis Is the rase In many departments. An ordinance has Just gone Into effect. however, which will put a stop to this. Beergaalaatloa Crying Meed. The experts found the responsibility between the engineering, accounting and repair branches of the department greatly divided and continual evasion of duties existed. There seems to be no well-defined system In either, and In answer to questions by the experts. answers diametrically opposite were given on enrtain questions. Urgent need of Immediate reorganisation was apparent. The experts recommennea complete hanges in the accounting system. checking and balancing system and general revision of the department on modern foundations. While the plan on which tha department has been run to date may have been sufficient at the time the service was first started. It Is said. It Is entirely out of date now and leaves opportunity for nearly all of the employes to be . dishonest If they so hoose. without any great cnance tor detection. It Is proposed so to arrange he bookkeeping system thst sny em- nlove attempting to be dishonest may he checked at once and properly dealt with. It Is also proposed to organize a complete system of checking all sup plies, tholr linai oestination ana every thing connected therewith, so that very article purchased from year to rear will be fully accounted for. LIFETIME BURGLAR FREED Picturesque Criminal. Thief Since Boy, Promise to I-eave States. On his promise to leave the United States forever. William Dean, burglar aince he was 10 years old. was granted an Indefinite continuance of sentence on a burglary charge, in Judge Kavan- a inch's court yesterday. Dean Is growing old for a criminal, and It waa represented to the court that he would not live long If 'sent again to the penitentiary. It was also shown that prior to the crime on which lie was awaiting sentence, he had made efforts to do such work as he could find, but was too enfeebled by confinement to stick. A further argument was that Dean at the time of the crime, the burglary of the house of C. A. Zollinger. 80 Fast Twelfth street North. February 23, had his two boy captora at his mercy. but scrupled to commit murder to save his liberty. He was captured by w. O. and B. B. Vanatta. youths, armed with a small weapon, while be. had a large revolver and the advantage of the light. "I was about to shoot," said Dean, "but something told me not to add murder to my list, and I let them hold me till the police came." Just released from the penitentiary after serving two years. Dean at- I traded notice last January, when he was seized Immediately upon his re lease by Detectives Coleman and Snow, and was freed on his promise to leave the state at once. The same afternoon he married a woman who had been his companion and by whom he "was a father. Instead of leaving, however, he remained here and worked at the Oswego cement plant and in the city parks till his strength gave out. "I had nothing In the house to eat, and Just 10 cents In money when I went after the Zollinger place." he said. Dean Is of English birth and as a mere child was used by cracksmen to enter small openings and unlock doors. He was graduated from this school and pursued a successful career of burglary all across the United States, till afrested here, three years ago. He will leave at once for Canada, where he Is entitled to entry as a British subject, and hla wife and child will fol. low him. If he returns here a sentence oi is years hanrs over him. NOTED TALKERS COMING CITIZE-XSHIP CONFERENCE WILL) DRAW CHCTtckMEX. Bishop Hogue Addresses Session of FVee .Methodists Ministers Hear How to Succeed. "The World's Christian Citizenship conrerence, to meet In Portland In 1913, has behind it men who believe that the Lord Jesus Christ Is king and head of the Nation, as well as of the church and of the Individual life." declared RfV. Frank D. Fraser. pastor of the Reformed Presbyterian Covenanter Church, In an address yesterday morn ing before the Oregon conference of the Free Methodist Church, at the Cen tral Church. East Fifty-fifth and East Flnnders street. Bishop Wilson T. Hogue opened the meeting and presided. . He said the con ference will be an Important one.- Its object Is to promote good citizenship and purity In public life, and to take up great civic questions. The speakers, he said, will be some of the best the world haa produced, and the conven tion will bring to Portland many thou sands of delegates from all parts of the world. Three delegates to the conference were elected yesterday afternoon. Tha Methodists passed a resolution support ing the conference. At the morning session reports were received from the different churches of Oregon, and these all showed an increase in membership and financial support. It waa the sense of confer ence that an aggressive evangelistic movement should be undertaken during the ensuing year throughout the con ference. Bishop Hogue delivered a short talk to the ministers on "How to Succeed," In which he urged aggressive work In every charge. it is expected the conference will complete its business today, and that Sunday will be devoted to religious services. The appointments may be made on report of the stationing com mittee today. I WOMAN PROTESTS VIGIL Sirs. Ayers Objects to Police Guard In Front of Her Home. For more than a week a policeman has stood all night In front of the home of Mrs. Lucille M. Ayers. 349 North Twenty-eighth street, taking notes. Mrs. Ayers does not like It and has made protests, but the officer re mains. The action was taken by Chief of Police Slover on complaints from neighbors, who assert that the public peace Is disturbed by visitors at the Ayers place, which Is In the heart of a desirable residence district. Mrs. Ayers attracted the attention of the public some months ago when she lost her diamonds In an automobile, after leaving a downtown grill room. Later, through private detectives, she recovered most of the gems, after a mysterious night ride to Lone Fir Cemetery. Later still she caused the ar rest of C E. Stevens, a chauffeur, who admits that he acted as go-between in the return of the gems. A short time after the sentinel wss placed at her door Mrs. Ayers tele phoned to Captain of Detectives Baty, asking him to come to her house on business. When Baty was within a block of the place, the chauffeur of the taxlcab stopped and refused to go farther. Baty was forced to finish the Journey on foot. He found that Mrs Ayers wanted to call his attention to the surveillance which had been placed upon her. Chief Slover says that the watch will be maintained indefinitely. Woodland Echo Moves. WOODLAND. Wash., May 3. (Spe cial.) The Woodland Echo haa moved to the Bosorth building near the dock, and In future the publication will be Issued from up town. Mr. Julian, who recently purchased the paper, is a new. comer. SLAYER TELLS HOW UGH WAS KILLED Oetinger Declares He Shot in Self-Defense Case Goes to Jury Today. DEAD MAN IS PRAISED Witnesses Called hy State Assert VI tlm of Saloonkeeper's Gun Waa Man of Good Disposition and Character. The case of the state against Ernest L. Oetinger. a saloon proprietor, ac cused of murder In the second degree, for the killing of Ed Mutch In the Mer chants Exchange saloon, 9 First street, the night of January 19, will go to the jury In Judge Gantenbeln s department of the Circuit Court this forenoon. The taking of evidence was concluded yes terday. Deputy District Attorney Collier opened the argument for the state and John F. Logan for the defendant. John H. Stevenson and Deputy District At torney Fitzgerald will close, for the de fendant and prosecution, respectively. this morning. Oetinger took the stand on his own behalf yesterday morning. He de clared that he shot In self defense. There were no eye witnesses of the homicide. After the shooting he said he locked the rear and front doors. emptied the cartridges out of his re volver and dragged the body into a courtyard at the rear of his saloon. He declared that he thought Mutch had sustained only a flesh wound and that the Idea of telephoning to the police or a physician did not occur to him. Fits are raid Questions Defendant. The bullet which killed Mutch en tered his body a little above the heart. Deputy District Attorney Fitzgerald made the defendant's stay on the stand during cross examination uncomfort able. Mr. Fitzgerald Insisted on knowing why Oetinger. If he shot In self de fense, had not notified the police im mediately: why he locked the doors and dragged the body away and why he Insisted for- a time after the dis covery of the body that he did not know how Mutch had come to his death. Yes terday Oetinger said that the trouble arose over his refusal to cash a check for Mutch. In his written confession the day after the homicide he made no mention of the alleged check Incident. The attorneys for the prosecution in sist that Mutch was in front of the bar when the shot was fired and not behind It. as Oetinger declares, and that the saloonman shot without suffi cient provocation. It has been established that both men had been drinking before the shooting. Mutch's Character Praised. To offset testimony of witnesses for the defense, who attacked the char acter of the dead man, the state yes terday called In rebuttal several per sona who gave testimony of an oppo site character. Among these witnesses was B. C. Prowse, a Canadian Senator, who grew up with Mutch in Prince Edward's Island, one of the provinces of Canada, and who was more or less in touch with him up to the time of his death. Mr. Prowse said that Mutch was a man of kindly, disposition and good character, although he sometimes used Intoxicating liquors. The rumor that Mutch had killed a man in British Columbia, a report which Is declared to have found Its way to the ears of Oetinger and is supposed to have added to his apprehension, was shown by these witnesses to be without founda tion. . CAPTAIN FINDS MEN BUSY Keller Takes Joy-Ride and Learns Policemen Are "On the Job." Desirous to know how active his men were in seeking the capture of auto mobile thieves. Captain Keller took a Joy-ride early yesterday morning in a citizen's automobile, and was stopped in a short time by 20 policemen, each of whom, not knowing who waa In the car, demanded to know where he got the auto. Keller reported to Chief Slover yesterday that his men were "on the Job." For a week or more there has been an average of one automobile stolen each night, usually merely for pur poses of Joy-rldlng, the cars being; abandoned by the roadside before day light. While the police have been suc cessful In recovering all the machines, they have not captured the Joy-riders. THIEF, WANTED, IS CAUGHT John H. Gavin Is Arrested In To ledo After Pistol Battle. Twice almost within the clutches of A FEW DIAPEPSIN CORE A GASSY, UPSET STOMACH IN FIVE MINUTES If You Could Eat a Few of These Now All Indigestion, Sourness, Heartburn and Dyspepsia Would Vanish. IT. PAPE'S at CHAIN TRIANCULBS OP DIAPEPSIH FOR INDIGESTION ReyMered m U. S. Pnt. Offico Sour, gassy, upset stomach, indigestion, heartburn, dyspepsia: when the food you eat ferments Into gases and stubborn lumps; your head aches and you feel sick and miserable, that's when you realize the magic in Pape's Dla pepsln. It makes such misery vanish in five minutes. If your stomach Is In a continuous revolt if you cant gt it regulated please, for your sake, try Dlapepsln. Ifs so needless to have a bad stomach; make your next meal a favorite food meal, then take a little Dlapepsln. There will not be any distress: eat without fear. It's because Pape's Diapepsln "really does" regulate weak, out-of-order stomachs that gives it its millions of sales annually. net a large. SO-cent case of Pape's Dlapepsln from any drugstore. It is the quickest, surest stomach relief an d cure known. It acts almost like magic. It Is a scientific, harmless and pleasant preparation which truly be longs In every home. Absolutely Pure Makes delicious home baked foods of maximum quality at minimum cost. Makes home baking a pleasure The only Baking Powder made from Royal Grape Cream of Tartar Ka Alum No Lima Phosphates J the Portland detectives, who want him for a long list of burglaries, and twice having slipped out, John H. Gavin is again in custody, this time at Toledo, O., where with another he was cap tured In the act of committing a burglary, and fought a pistol battle with the police. As the charge against him at Toledo is strong and serious, it Is not likely that he will be brought back here. Gavin operated with great success here last year and was not caught. He is known to have committed burglaries at the homes of C. Nern and M. J. Cruso, 627 Johnson street; IV. J. Rob lnston. Twelfth and Madison streets. and Mrs. J. Pollvka, 715 Corbett street. Loot from these places was traced to San Francisco and was recovered by the police there, but Gavin, who had served two terms In California, peni tentiaries, slipped away. SPEAKERS START FIGHT South Portland and Fulton Park Clubs Will Secure Xames. tKcaa rn.mh.pi rtf t h sneakers' enm- mittee appointed by C. T. Prall to fur ther interest In the good roads bills appeared before the combined meeting nr th. Smtih PnrtlflnH Boosters' Club and the Fulton Pa"k Improvement Club Thursday night. As a result of the efforts of J. tr red Larson, George M. Hyland and W. I Priest, a committee of two was ap pointed by each organization to get signatures for the petitions to Initiate the good roads bills. B. C. Jones and J. C. Smith will handle the work for the first-named club, while Dr. Dana Wadsworth and R. I. Hepburn compose the improvement club committee. PORTLAND CALLED BEST St. Louis Capitalist Declares It Most Wonderful City. "Were I 25 years younger, I would come to Portland to seek my fortune and live the rest of my days in content and happiness." said R. H. Barber, wealthy St. Louis capitalist, as he stood on the observatory at Council Crest yesterday and feasted his eyes on the scenery about him. llr.-and Mrs. Barber and seven other St. Louis couples are making a tour of the Pacific Coast. They were guests to day of W. F. Carson. "I have been around the world twice," said Mr. Barber, "but It never has been my good fortune to stand at a point where the scenery on every side is as beautiful as it is here. The day Is not far distant when Portland will be the Manhattan of the Pacific Coast. My age and my business connections at St. Louis alone prevent my coming here to live." Low Rates VIA Rock Island Lines Certain Dates in May, June, July, August, September Return Limit, October 31, 1912 TVe operate the famous ROCKY MOUN TAIN" and GOLDEN STATE LIMITED most up-to-date trains in the world. Choice of routes going and returning. Special stop-over privileges granted on Rock Island Lines on Going Trip. For full particulars sddress ROCK ISLAND OFFICE Portland, Oregon 140 Third Street MARTIN J. GEARY, Gen'l Agent Passenger Dept. Telephones. A-2666, Main 334 These Farms Will Make You Good Money right from the start. 880 acres in Klickitat County, Washington, in the great producing section, 6 miles from Goldendale. Will grow fruit, grain and general produce, well fenced and has fine water, good barn and house. Price $30 per acre. a,? $50 TO $100 PER ACRE ICft 'APDCC Just e'Stht miles from Goldendale, under Carp Lake DU HOnCO irrigation project, but does not CQC PCD AfRC need Irrigation to raise fruit or alfalfa WUO Itn U(1L TERMS, ON EITHER TRACT, 14 CASH BALANCE LONG TIME AT 6 PER CENT MOORE INVESTMENT CO. 41 Third St. Multnomah Hotel Bldg..