MORNING OREGONIAN, FRIDAY, AUGUST 16, 1913.
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WARRANT NOW OUT
FO
OVERLAND
McCIeary, Who Conducted
Club, Must Answer to Two
Suspended Sentences.
JURY FINDS BARTON GUILTY
One of Those Caught in Sunday Raid
Is Fined $20 for Disorderly
Conduct Grand Jury Ec
" port May Sting.
That the Overland Club, raided last
Sunday by the police. Is a loosely or
ganized aggregation, holding Its meet
ings in an unlicensed saloon conduct
ed by J. A. McCIeary.- was the view
taken by Judge Tazwell yesterday after
hearing the evidence. Accordingly, he
issued a bench warrant for the appear
ance of McCIeary, to answer to two sus
pended sentences received by him In
the Municipal Court last Spring.
At the same time a jury found one of
those caught last Sunday guilty of dis
orderty conduct and a fine of $i0 was
imposed. Thereupon several others
came forward voluntarily and received
fines of 110.
Because of the limitation of the is
sues on trial, the city was debarred
from following out Its prior project of
bringing in as witnesses four youths
held for the murder of Adam Baker, to
show that the drunken row which end
ed in the murder followed directly upon
their sallying out of the club after
drinking there. All four are minors.
Stinging: Report Expected.
A hot report of the grand Jury upon
the alleged neglect of the police to
close the place earlier is freely pre
dieted to occur when the jury makes
its final report.
Proceedings in Municipal Court began
yesterday over the selection to be made
from the 62 under arrest to stand trial
at that time. Selection finally was made
of George Barton, who, the witnesses
said, was particularly disorderly. They
were required to describe the man,
whereupon the defense produced Bar
ton. not answering to the description
in any respect. It was held, however,
that trip city had made out a case
against one of the defendants, and the
jury returned a verdict of guilty. Judge
Tazwell Imposed a fine of $20 and re
fused to raise it to permit an appeal.
Officers testified that men were lined
up at the bar two deep when they en
tered: that six were down and out
and that one had to be carried to the
wagon.
Cards Given to Transients.
Other defendants who were fined aft
er the conviction by a jury admitted
that they had paid nothing for member
ship In the club, but had had cards
given to them. Some were transients In
the city.
Though attorneys employed by the
club said they represented all the de
fendants, the court was Incredulous, as
some had appeared in court and indi
cated that they had no attorney. The
lawyers will be required to designate
definitely this morning for whom they
are employed to act, and what action
they intend to take. There remain 45
cases to be tried.
Because McCIeary, who manages the
club, is under a suspended fine of $100
for selling liquor on Sunday and an
other case, of "vagrancy. Is continued
for sentence. Judge Tazwell ordered
bench warrant for him last night, and
he will be brought in to explain his
connection with the club. He is said
to have been out of the city at the time
of the raid.
BRIDGE C0ST ESTIMATED
Modjesfci Fixes Total of Broadway
Structure at $1,543,717.
The total cost of the Broadway bridge
will be $1,543,717.87. according to the
estimate fixed by Engineer Ralph
Modjeskl in a report made yesterday to
the City Aifditor. The amount covers
all contracts and extras which have
been let and which are expected dur
ing the construction of the bridge. The
figures are apportioned by Engineer
Modjeskl as follows:
Contract to the Union Bridge &
Construction Company $607,8
2.xtra bills. Imon Bridge & Con
struction Company
Contract to the Pennsylvania Steel
Company (estimate)
Xxtra bills. Pennsylvania Steel
Company (such as stairways,
etc)
Contract for grading approaches
Contract for electric lighting (es
364. SO
715,000.00
3.000.00
3,858.40
timate) l;,50O.O)
contract ror special electric light
lng (estimate)
Contract for rails, etc
Amount paid for real estate
14.S00.0ll
12.HSi.70
S5.361.30
Engineering 0,000.00
.Additional miscellaneous bills paid
to date S.71S.00
Additional extra bills (estimate). 3,000.00
The figures were requested by the
City Auditor as a guide, to the ways
and means committee of the Council In
nelling bridge bonds.
ALBANY -AFTER CANNERY
Commercial Club to Aid Small Farm
ers in Finding Miarket.
ALBANY, Or.. Aug. 15. (Special.)
At a meeting of the Commercial Club,
ijeld last Monday evening, the matter
of providing better market for the
products of the small farms in this vl
Wnity was pretty thoroughly discussed.
The large farms are rapidly being cut
up Into small holdings, which natural
ly results In a system of more intensi
fied farming and It does not take long
to stock the local market with the
horticultural products. The surplus can
be shipped to the" canneries in some of
Khe other Valley towns, but that takes
off a good part of the profit that
rightly belongs in the farmer's pocket
To remedy 'this trouble the Commer
cial Club finally decided to make a sys
tematic hunt for some person or firm
to install and operate a cannery, evap
orator, etc.. and Manager Stewart was
authorized to begin on the plan at
oace. A good large acreage is now set
out to loganberries, raspberries, straw
berries and all kinds of fruits, and it
is thought that a cannery and evap
orator could do a very satisfactory
business from the beginning.
BOOK BRINGS WOMAN FAME
Jlistory or Texas Leads to Mrs. Pen
nybacker's Step to Leadership.
Bonner Pennybacker. who is regis-
nered at the Bowers from Austin, Tex.,
Is the eldest of three children of Mrs.
Percy V. Pennybacker, president of the
General Federation of omen's Clubs,
having been elected at its recent an
nual session at San Francisco. Thel
young man came West with his motiier.
attending the session of the federation.
and since has been looking over the
Coast with the intention of seeking a
location as a civil and mechanical en
Bineer.
In speaking of his mother, of whom
he Is justly proud, Mr. Pennybacker
said: "She has the brains of the fam
ily and this cannot be disputed. While
I was still a. little boy she became In
terested in the history of Texas and at
the suggestion of my father, who died
J.2 years ago, she wrote a history of
the state, which Is now one of the
text books In all the 'schools of Texas,
and from which she receives a hand
some revenue. This work attracted
attention to her and forced her into
women's work in that state and event
ually she acquired a National reputa
tion, resulting in her election to her
present position. While the best of
mothers, she is a very busy woman of
excellent executive ability and financial
judgment. My father left her a con
siderable estate, which she has handled
so judiciously that it has increased
many fold. With all the honors that
she has received and unusual business
successes for a woman, she Is the same
kind and attentive mother to us chil
dren as when we were little tots."
WIDOW OF 14 DAYS DIES
MRS. SADIE COSTELLO VICTIM
OF PTOMArVE POISON.
Mate of Man Killed by Police Auto
Brooding Over Loss of Husband
Aids Affliction.
Following on the death of her hus
band from collision with a police au
tomobile exactly two weeks ago, Mrs.
Sadie Costello died yesterday morning
at 9:30 o'clock at 28 North Sixteenth
street, from ptomaine poisoning. Want
Mra Sadie Costello, Killed by
Ptomaine Poisoning Soon After
Husband's Tragic Dearth.
of sleep and lack of food, coupled with
mental agitation resulting from the un
fortunate death of her husband, had
lowered her vitality to such a degree
that she had little or no strength left
with which to combat the poison which
entered her system.
'Ever since her late husband's
death," said - Dr. J. D. Fenton, "she
had been under my care. She would
eat but little, and was forever thinking'
and brooding over the loss of her hus
band. Consequently, though she was a
large woman and looked strong, she
was in a very lowered condition."
In order to get away from the home
which reminded her too forcibly of her
loss she had moved only two or three
days ago to a new flat with the Inten
tion of making a home for her grand
mother, Mrs. Mary Zeller. Last Wed
nesday she, in company with her uncle
and aunt. Mr. and Mrs. J. P. Hyde, had
partaken of some food purchased at a
neighboring delicatessen store about J
clock in the day. Shortly afterwards
Mrs. Costello was taken ill.
The body was taken to Finley's par
lors, where an autopsy last night re
vealed ptomaine poisoning as the cause
of her death. .
The funeral arrangements will not
be "made until the receipt of a tele
gram from her brother-in-law, P. J.
Costello, of Chicago. The latter was
here for the funeral of his brother and
had only arrived back again in Chicago
last Sunday. -
Mrs. Costello, who was 34 years of
age. was born in Portland and had
been married 15 years.
MRS. FEGHTL NOT FREED
WIFE NOT ALLOWED TO
AT-
TEND FUNERAL.
Evidence Tending to Show That Ex
oneration Was Due to Colored
Testimony Is Gathered.
Under guard of a Deputy Sheriff, Mrs.
Ethel Fechtl, held for the murder of
her husband. Otto Fechtl, went to the
ndertaking establishment of Dunning
McEntee yesterday and looked into
the face of the man she had killed, and
horn, she still protests, she loves. She
nderwent the ordeal much more quiet'
ly than had been expected. It was her
desire to be present at the funeral.
which was held in the afternoon, and
action in the Municipal Court was de
layed for this reason, but friends in
tervened and did not permit what they
said would have been a desecration.
Discovery of new-evidence, damaging
to the woman, caused the District At
torney yesterday to announce that he
ould-disregard the verdict of exonera
tion given her by a Coroner's jury on
the grounds of self-defense, and ar
rangements have been made for a pre
liminary hearing in Municipal Court
today.
Witnesses not found by the police at
the time made voluntary appearance,
and put a new phase on the case, which.
ceo rd lng to the testimony at the Coro-
er's inquest, had been one of a wife
defending herself from the attacks of a
drunken and brutal husband.
Detectives Hyde and Mallet, who are
handling the case, have learned facts
tending to show that this testimony
bears all the appearance of having been
colored in the woman's favor. They
have found, on the other hand, -that
the killing followed a series of taunts
In which Fechtl was goaded into as
saulting the woman. It will be shown
that she made a number of murderous
ttacks on him on previous occasions.
The woman was much the larger of the
two.
Chehalis Starts Liability Fund.
CENTRALIA, Wash., Aug. 13. (Spe
cial.) The city commission of Che-
alis will inaugurate an accident fund.
Heretofore all damage claims against
the city have been paid from the gen
eral expense fund. Mayor Coleman has
Instructed City Treasurer Allen in mak
ing up his tax levy for the coming year
to levy half a mill for the fund.
DIAZ' RULE PRAISED
President of Mexican Railway
Says Rebels Impatient.
"MADERO CAPABLE MAW
Edward N". Brown, Head of 8200
3Iiles in-Revolutionary Neighbor,
Visits Portland and Talks of
Nation's Discontent.
"The Mexican Insurgents are too im
patient. They are in armed revolt
without giving President Madero a fair
chance to demonstrate what he can do
toward remedying conditions," says
Edward N. Brown, president of the Na
tional Railways of Mexico, a consoli
dation of nearly all the steam trans
portation lines In Mexico. More than
8200 miles of railroad in the Southern
republic are under the dominion of
Mr. Brown's company.
Mr. Brown s private car, the Hidalgo,
with himself and his entire family on
board en route to New York City, was
dropped off at the Portland Union De
pot for a few hours, Wednesday, and
proceeded east over the O.-W, R. & N,
about 2 o clock In the afternoon. Mr.
Brown discussed the Mexican situation
pro and con, expressing admiration for
both President Madero and the deposed
Diaz, his predecessor. In speaking of
Diaz, he said:
Work of Dlaa Praised.
"Many harsh things have been said
about this man, who was practically
a dictator of the Mexican Republic, but
the fact remains that when he took
charge he found the country In dis
graceful financial condition and with
out railroads or telegraph or telephone
lines. When the end of his regime
came the finances of the country were
in second class! shape considering the
financial conditions of such countries
as Great Britain and the United States
as first class and there were thou
sands of miles of telephones and tele
graph lines.
"The Mexican situation is only an
evidence of the worldwide unrest, in
other words the tendency toward So
cialism or something akin to it. For
my part I do not consider that it would
be for the best Interests of either this
country or Mexico to annex Mexico to
the United States. The Mexicans are
competent to look after their own af
fairs. The present . revolution is in
only two states and there are 27 states
and two territories tn the country.
The fighting is confined entirely to
Chihuahua In the north, where Orozco
Is in command of the insurrectos, and
to the state of Morellos, south of Mex
ico City, where Zapata holds sway."
Mr. Brown does not take kindly to
the suggestion that the Mexican army
is a joke, otherwise the uprisings would
have been crushed long ago. He de
clares that both Chihuahua and Mo
rellos are mountainous and broken,
making It difficult to move armies.
Many of those in the insurgent camps
are actuated solely by a desire to plun
der, he states, and not by high, patri
otic motives. ,
Revolution la Evolution.
The trouble In Mexico is more In
the nature of an evolution than a revo
lution," explained Mr. Brown. "One
source of discontent is the feudal sys
tem of holding land. Large tracts are
owned by absentee landlords to the
exclusion of the people. Another ques
tion is that of universal suffrage, un
der Diaz this existed in theory but not
in actual practice. However, those op
posing the present government have
very little to excite popular sympathy.
Madero is a man of high character and
ideals and able, and there Is no doubt
that he Is conscientiously doing his
best to w.ork out the problems of the
country on the theory of the greatest
good to the greatest number, but those
things cannot be done in an instant."
American interests have been well
protected in Mexico considering the
warfare which has been going on, Mr.
Brown states. The Mexican rebels have
done damage to the lines of his com
pany to the extent of possibly $2,000,
000, but on the whole, he says, foreign,
ers have little reason to complain, the
state of Chihuahua being the only one
In which there are well-founded in
stances of destruction of property.
ALASKA CATCH IS HEAVY
Despite Storms Salmon Fishermen
r Report Good Season.
ASTORIA. Or., Aug. 15. (Special.)
Several letters arrived today from Bris
tol Bay, Alaska, and among them was
one to O. Paulsen from his son, William
Paulsen. It was dated at Nushagak
on July 22, and says the season has
been an unusually stormy one in that
section.
During one day recently 18 boats
were capsized in the bay, and while all
of the men were finally saved, two men
fishing for. the Columbia River Packers
Association were on the bottom of their
overturned craft for 24 hours and were
nearly frozen when rescued.
Notwithstanding the numerous storms
fishing was good, each of the canneries
put up practically a full pack and all
the gillnetters did well. The high boat
reported among the gillnetters was one
working for the Alaska Fishermen s
Packing Company, at Koggiung. . Its
catch for the season was 40,000 salmon,
which, at 8 cents, per fish, the price
paid, amounts to 1400 to be divided
between the two men, in addition to the
$75 each to be paid them for acting as
members of the cannery ship's crew on
the passage, to and from Alaska.
The letter states that everyone at the
several canneries was well and the
vessels were expecting to sail for home
about the middle of August.
"PINK LADY" IS NUMBER
Park Band to Play This Evening at
Jefferson and Park Streets.
The Portland Park Band, W. E. Mc
Elroy director, will play at South Park
way, Jefferson and Park streets, this
evening. An interesting programme
will be rendered, as follows:
March, "Spirit of Independence". .Holzman
Overture, "Morning-, Noon and Night". Suppe
Waltz, "Wizard of the Nile" Herbert
Porto Rican dance, "Roslta" . ..Mlssud
Selection, "Pink Lad y" . . . . Caryll
Intermission.
Musical comedy, "Louisiana Lou" .. .Jerome
Paraphrase, "Old Kentucky Home" (re
quest) Dalby
Grand selection, "Bohemian Girl" Balfe
Sextet from "Lucia" (request) Donizetti
March, "New England's Finest" Clark
Next Sunday afternoon the band will
play at Mount Tabor Park. At the con
cert in Washington Park Wednesday
evening Mrs. C. W. Clows, soprano,
sang several solos. The accompani
ments were played charmingly by the
band. .
SHIELDS TALKS TAXATION
League Secretary on Speaking Tour.
Hints of Rowdyism Made.
Charles H. Shields, secretary of the
Oregon Equal Taxation League, left
last night on a speaking tour in Jack
son and Josephine counties. He will
open the talkfest in Ashland Saturday
night where he will speak at the
Chautauqua building.
Monday Mr. Shields will speak in the
Opera-house at Medford, Tuesday night
at Jacksonville Courthouse, Wednesday
at Central Point Opera-house and
Thursday at the Opera-house at Grants
Pass.
Through the daily newspapers of that
section and by means of billboards the
voters have been advised that Mr.
Shields will discuss "Single Tax Er
posed."
"I have been warned already that my
ODPonents plan to. break up our meet
ings in riots, and I have so advised the
local organizations under whose aus
pices I shall speak," said Secretary
Shields.
"The fact, however, that a general
Charles H. Shields, Secretary of
urtgon .Equal Taxation I.enjue.
Invitation has been extended to women
to be present may prevent the single
taxers from making themselves more
than usually obnoxious. These meet
ings are my meetings, and I expect to
get a fair hearing. If slngle-taxers or
others desire to discuss the Issues with
me after my lecture, I shall be only
too pleased to answer their questions
and to give them a little information
that is not colored by passion and
prejudice.
ARTILLERY TO ENCAMP
80 a MEX" WILL STUDY WAR AT
FORT STEVENS.
Regular Officers Will Instruct Ore
gon Troops- in Science of
Firing Big Guns.
FORT STEVENS, Or., Aug. 15. (Spe
clal.) The regulars at Fort Stevens
will begin their annual encampment
August 17. Including officers and non
commissioned staff this includes prac
tically 400 men. On August 20 they
will be joined by the volunteer state
organization of coast artillery, con
sisting of eight companies, staff and
artillery band, a total of more than 800
men.
Extensive preparations are being
rushed to completion in anticipation of
their arrival. Thousands of dollars
have been expended in the preparation
of permanent camp sites, the installa
tion of Incinerators and the building
of field kitchens.
Colonel Stevens has detailed many
officers and non-commissioned officers
to act as special instructors in the
more difficult phases of artillery work.
Special attention will be given to the
methods used in obtaining, transmit
ting and arranging the information
used In firing the heavy rifles.
No instruction will be Riven on
mortars, the process being considered
oo difficult even to attempt to master
in the short time allotted.
Much time will be devoted to camp
sanitation. Lectures are to be given
pertaining to field hygiene, involving
the care of the teeth, water to be used,
proper systems of bathing, disposal of
refuse and care or the teat.
Artillery problems consldaring' both
attack and defense are to be" workrd
out. The use of instruments that will
read the exact distance to a. target, with
iiaxlmum error of on? yard up to
10.000 yards, are to be taught.
The effect of wind on a projectile.
the density of the atmosphere, the tern
perature of the powder, the spend of
the target tired at are some or tne
many factors to be stall id ana ais
ussed before It is possible to lire even
one shell.
A most interesting :ih:isa of their
tudles will Include the time devoted
to the submarines.
These huge instruments of destruc
tion will be planted in the river, their
location determined and the Oregon
troops will be given a practicable dem
onstration of how 100 pounds of
saturated gun cotton in a hollow steel
ball electrically connected with the
shore Etation can be used to blow up c.
$6,000,000 dreadnought, or how the
graceful curves of a magnificent fight
ing machine may be reduced in a tenth
of a second to a mass of blackened,
twisted steel or how 800 lives may be
snuffed out like the flickering flame
of a candle light.
HILL LINEJWAY EXTEND
Surveys Being Made From Milwood,
Idaho, to Newman Lake.
Surveys for the extension of the Spo
kane & Inland Empire railrbad, a part
of the Hill system, from Milwood, Ida
ho, to Newman Lake, now are being
completed and It is probable that the
road will be built within the present
year.
"We are desirous of building Into the
Newman Lake country," said J. H.
Young, president of the road, last night
"and we have our engineers out to
make the necessary surveys. I would
not like to say now, however, that the
road will be built. That depends upon
the reports of our engineers, which
we expect to have complete in a few
days.
The proposed line leads-through the
Otis Orchards district, one of the most
productive In the Inland Empire.
GOOD ROADS IMPERATIVE
Transportation Club Listens to Talk
by Arkansas Guest.
Members of the Portland Transporta
tion Club listened to an able and in
teresting address by W. L. Cooper, ex-
Judge of a county court In Arkansas,
who spoke on "Good Roads." He de
clared that the railroads cannot thrive
and prosper without the aid of good
wagon roads. "Bob" Sellers, city pas
senger agent of the 'Northern Pacific,
was chairman of the day.
An invitation was extended to How
ard Elliott, president of the Northern
Pacific, to address the club on his visit
to Portland next week. An effort also
will be made to get Theodore Roosevelt
to be the guest of the club when he
comes here In beptember.
Rosenthal's shoe sale now on.
BELL WINS ROUND
Dissolution of Telephone In
junction Denied.
HOTEL PATRONAGE SOUGH
Desire 19 to Install Home Instru
ments In Rooms to Connect With
Bell System Outside by
Local Switchboard.
Attorneys for the Home Telephone &
Telegraph Company were unsuccessful
in their efforts before Circuit Judge
McGinn yesterday to secure the disso
lutlon of the temporary injunction
granted last week by Judge Gantenbein
restraining- the ousting of the Bell tele
phones from the Multnomah Hotel in
favor of the automatic or Home tele
phones. THte Judge held that the ques
tion was one which should be tried out
on its merits.
Attorney Montague, appearing for the
Home Telephone & Telegraph Company,
said that it was the intention of the
Multnomah Hotel Company to connect.
through the local switchboard, the au
tomatlc telephones in the rooms wiyi
Bell telephones outside - and that the
only real change contemplated Is the
substitution of automatic for manual
telephones in the sleeping apartments.
He said that the Pacific Telephone
Telegraph Company would suffer no
diminution of revenue from the hotel as
long as the contract with that company
remains in force, which will be over
two years yet, as it is the intention of
the hotel, to pay for the Bell station
telephones just the same as if they
were in use. He argued that no harm
could result to the Pacific Telephone &
Telegraph Company from this arrange
ment and that public policy demanded
that the hotel, which he designated as
a public Inn, should be equipped also
with the automatic telephone system.
I can see, said Judge McGinn, "that
great harm might result to the Pa
cific Telephone & Telegraph Company
from the substitution and I am not
inclined to disturb the injunction on the
showing made here today. I am not
inclined to agree, as is contended here,
that the company has r an adequate
remedy at law. The circumstances are
somewhat peculiar. An . injunction
should be cautiously granted, as
presume this one was. and it should re
quire a strong showing to dislodge
It once it has been called into use.
Qther attorneys who appeared In the
argument were: J. B. Kerr for th
Pacific Telephone & Telegraph Com
pany, and Thomas Green for the R. R.
Thompson Estate Company, which
entered into the contract with the Pa
cific Telephone & Telegraph Company
which was assumed by the Multnomah
Hotel Company. The Multnomah Hotel
Company was not represented by coun
sel. Samuel Hill, president of the Home
Telephone & Telegraph Company, was
also present.
The fight between the two telephone
companies is lent unusual Interest by
the fact that the managements of the
Oregon, Portland, Imperial and Mult
nomah hotels have agreed with each
other to oust the Bell in favor of the
automatic telephone. The court rulings
really affect air alike.
FAIR TO FEATURE BABIES
WOMAN DOCTORS TO AID EXPO
SITION OF EUOEXICS.
Indian Papooses and Infant Incu
bators to Be Novel Exhibits
at Salem Show.
O. M. Hummer, superintenednt of
the exposition of eugenics at the State
Fair at Salem, Is completing final ar
rangements for the scientific baby
show to be held there, and Is getting
his corps of assistants lined up. Dr.
Kitty Plummer Gray, Dr. Bertha
Stewart and Dr. Zoe Crayne, who will
have the help and co-operation of other
women doctors of the state, will have
charge of the handling of the babies
and of the talks to mothers. Mrs. R. H.
Tate, assisted by a committee from the
State Grange, will have charge of the
child s welfare department. Entries
have been made from points in Mal
heur County, from Klamath Palls,
Prairie City, Astoria, Albany and Ore
gon city, while many individual in
quirles have come from other parts of
the state. The State Grange will make
the eugenics pavilion Its headquarters
during the fair. The State Hygiene
Society will have a booth for the dis
tribution of literature.
Mr. Plummer is mailing a call to all
the physfclans of the state to encourage
ntries and to advise the parents of
children regarding local exhibits. Su
perintendent Alderman, of the state de
partment of public instruction, has sent
a letter to all the county school super
intendents of the state urging that they
co-operate in every way to help the
exposition.
The management of the Pendleton
Round-Up has promised two Indian
papooses for the eugenics show, and
isitors will be shown the methods of
rearing children which were followed
by the original inhabitants of this state.
Scoring the babies, preliminary to
awarding the prizes, will be done by
women doctors, and the children hav
ing the highest percentages will win.
One doctor will score the babies for a
certain point, others will do likewise.
and the figures will be averaged, so
no one judge will have the last word
awarding silver cups and other
prizes.
There will be an interesting exhibit
in connection with the show, that will
be of great value to the parents of
young children. This will be a display
of pure milk, kept In a sanitary man
ner, and a baby incubator In operation
will also be on exhibition. Parents
will be warned against harmful medi
cines and foods for babies and many
nostrums in common use will be shown
on a blacklist.
Mr. Plummer Is in correspondence
with some of the highest authorities
on eugenics In this country. He has
lately received a letter from Dr. Mar
garet V. Clarke, of Waterloo, la., who
has recently returned from a year
passed abroad in the study of this sub
ject. She Is co-operating heartily with
the management of the coming show
and is much interested in It.
STREET AFFAIRS PROBED
Executive Board Hears Workers'
Complaints.
Following the recent discharge from
the street-cleaning department of J. F.
Jorg, a laborer, charges of favoritism
and use of abusive language have been
placed against Foreman David Conn,
with the street committee of the Execu
tive Board, which will result In a com
plete investigation of the department.
The investigation was ordered yester
day by trie street-cleaning committee
after its members heard stories of
abuse and favoritism related by six
laborers who have rallied to the sup
port of Jorg in his efforts to secure a
reinstatement in the service.
Mr. Jorg declared to the committee
that Jim Backentos, a laborer has been
shown special privileges in the depart
ment by Foreman Cohn to the detri
ment of other workmen.
"It was through this man that I was
discharged," said Mr. Jorg. "Foreman
Cohn was in the habit of allowing him
to go home early In the evening and
to let him off for days at a time and
apparently did not make any reduc
tions from his wages. In consequence
the other laborers including myself
had his work to do.
"One night I refused to do two men's
work and was discharged. Foreman
Cohn has abused his men and dune
qther things to demoralize the depart
ment.
Similar stories were told by C. Tim.
merman, J. H. Mattle, William Haddan,
Oliver Kidder and Christ Nelson. The
committee arranged to investigate the
affairs of the department as soon as
Foreman Cohn returns from his vaca
tion. At that time the laborers and
others will be called upon to tell their
stories and Cohn will be called upon
to explain his actions.
Mr. Jorg was reinstated in the serv
ice temporarily.
MOOSE MEET MONDAY
PROGRESSIVES SEEK TO LEARN
WHO IS WITH COLONEL.
At Mass Convention New Party Will
Nominate Full County
Ticket.
Multnomah County Progressives will
hold a mass meeting at the Washing
ton High School next Monday night to
nominate a county ticket. Dan Kella
her, president of the Oregon Progres
sive Club, and L. M. Lepper, secretary,
sent a letter yesterday to all candi
dates, asking them whether or not they
will stand for Roosevelt and with the
new party. If they do not so stand,
new candidates will be nominated by
the Progressives to run against them.
The letter says:
"Notice Is hereby given to all sue
cessful candidates at the late primary
to Indicate to us whether or not they
each are supporting Roosevelt and
Johnson and the Progressive cause for
which they stand. All who do not
say, one way or the other, promptly,
will be considered as supporting Taft
and the reactionaries. A word to the
wise Is sufficient."
The state committee meeting will be
held August 29. A delegate to this
meeting will be elected Monday night.
The East Side Business Men's Club,
by C. C. Hall, the assistant secretary,
has asked Dan Kellaher to be allowed
to share in entertaining Colonel Roose
velt when he comes to Portland in
September.
A. W. Lafferty, Representative in
Congress, telegraphed Lou Wagner, a
member of the Congressional committee,
yesterday, that he would vote for
Roosevelt. His telegram follows:
"Shall vote for Roosevelt. Shall sup
port the balance of the Republican
ticket."
Wagner said last night he will not
support Lafferty, and that if the ma
jority of the committee of which he
Is a member Intend to do so, he will
resign. Frank B. Harrington and P. P.
Fisher are believed to be with the Pro
gressives, the other members being
Fred J. Brady and J. E. Hiller.
R. C. Wright, chairman of the execu
tive committee of the Republican coun
ty central committee, first learned of
Lafferty's stand through .the Chicago
Tribune, which contained an Interview
with the Congressman, in which he Is
quoted as saying: "Sure I am for
Roosevelt. You bet. Mr. Wright then
asked that the Congressional committee
secure from Lafferty direct, a statement
of his position.
Wagher said he sent the message at
his own expense, other members of the
committee refusing to Join him, pre
ferring to wait until Lafferty returns
to Portland.
F. B. Harrington, a member of the
Congressional committee, said In the
meeting of the executive committee
that If he were in Lafferty's place he
would not answer such a telegram.
DAILY METEOROLOGICAL REPORT.
PORTLAND, Auk. 15. Maximum temper
ature, 61 degrees; minimum 5ti degrees.
River reading, 8 A. M., 6.5 feet: change In
last 24 hours, 0.7 foot Total rainfall (5 P.
M. to 5 P. M-), .27 Inch: total rainfall since
September 1, 1911, 36.20 Inches; normal rain
fall since September 1. 44.73 inches: defi
ciency of rainfall since September 1, '1911,
8.0d incnes. Total sunsnine, none: posslDle
sunshine, 14 hours 10 minutes. Barometer
(reduced to sea level! at 5 P. M.. 28.97
Inches,
THE WEATHER.
Wind
STATION!
Mr
s"
fitat of
WeathM
Baker I 64:0.041 4 S Rain
Boise
S4'o'.00 22:NW)ciear
Boston
Calgary .........
Chicago .....
S8 0.04I12 N
Rain
Cloudy
Cloudy
70:0.001 4 SE
70iO.OOil4;NE
Coltax
Denver ..........
60:0.3:
Cloudy
74,0.04 6!SW IPt. cloudy
820.00 4 SE Rain
660.00 4'fE Cloudy
64 0. 02! 8:NW Clear
S6J0.0OI12 SE Clear
7a(0.00( 6 8 Cloudy
9010.00 6 SB Clear
Des Moines ......
Duluth
Eureka ..........
Galveston ...
Helena ..........
Jacksonville .....
Kansas City
Klamath Falls ...
R2I0.20 4 XE Cloudy
esjo.oo! 4'w Ipt. cloudy
Laurler . , . ,
B;u.du ltt-c; t.iouay
78O.00' 8 S Clear
64 0.381 6;SW Cloudy
66IO.O2I20N Cloudy
LiOs Angeles .....
Marshfleld
Medford
Montreal
6810.00(14 NW!Pt. cloudy
New Orleans ....
New York .......
ss'o.es 4 SE
Pt. cloudy
84 O.OO 20 N
Clear
North Head
North . Yakima .. .
Phoenix
Pocatello ........
66!0.60'16lKW:
Cloudy
Cloudy
66 0.22 16!SW
9s;0.00j 4IW
76;0.12'l4'SE
60i0.26;lrt SW
64-0.18 8'S
80 O.00'l2 S
SO 0.001 4'E
74 0.00 8:SE
8010.22 418
6O.00'l2iW
68;0 141 8S
64 0.14ilOSW
560.1812!S
2:0.S4 8 S
840. Ol 4'W
850.00 4jSE
87 0.42 O
70 00.01 61E
58(0. 20 8;S
ft, cloudy
nam
Portland
Roseburg ........
Sacramento ......
St. Louis
St. Pau 1
Salt Lake
San Francisco ...
Rain
Cloudy
ft. cloudy
Cloudy
Clear
Clear
Clear
Dokaue .......
Cloudy
Cloudy
Tacoma
Tatoosh Island . .
Walla Walla
Kain
Cloudy
Cloudy
Washington ......
Weiser
Cloudy
Wenatchee
Cloudy
Winnipeg
ft. ciouay
xetiowJtone rarK.
Cloudy
WEATHER CONDITIONS.
A trough-shaped low-pressure area over
lies tbe Rocky Mountain states and a hieh
pressure area of moderate size and energy
central over me LaKe region. snowers
have fallen generally throughout Oregon,
Washington. Idaho, extreme Northern Call
f ornla. Utah, New Mexico, -.Colorado, Wyo
ming and Montana, and local rains have
occurred at a numDer or widely-separated
d laces In the Eastern States. ' It is much
cooler in Eastern Oregon. Eastern Washing
ton and Idaho ana correspondingly warmer
In Southern utan ana Arizona.
The conditions are tavorable Tor showers
this district Friday, with slowly rising
temperatures.
Portland and
vicinity Showers;
south
south westerly winds.
Oregon and Washington Showers
to west winas.
Idaho Showers.
EDWARD A. SEALS. District Forecaster.
Aeed Chief Buried in Ten 1 no.
CENTRALIA. Wash., Ausr. IS. (Spe
cial.) The funeral of John Heeton, an
old Indian who died at his home near
Tenlno Monday, was held there yester
day. Delegations from practically every
Indian reservation In the Northwest at
tended the services. Heeton, who was
85 years of age, was formerly a chief
of high standing and was a great friend
of the whites in the Indian wars of the
arly days.
I
RUST THREAT MADE
Interests Declared to Have
Had Designs on Colorado.
SUGAR HEARING IS ENDED
Attorneys for Government Declare
They Have Succeeded in Proving
Everything They Expect
. ed to Show.
DENVER, Aug. 15. Testimony In the
Government's suit to dissolve the sugar
trust was concluded in Denver today,
when adjournment was taken by .the
special examining board, which will
meet in New York on September 16.
Attorneys for the Government today
declared that they had proved every
thing they expected to show in Colo
rado. When the hearing resumed today
Thomas H. Tulley, who yesterday re
fused to divulge the gist of a conversa
tion had between him and L. L. Altken,
former director of the Longmont Sugar
Company, relative to the establishment
of a beet sugar factory in Durango, re
lented and again took the witness
stand.
Sugar Man Makes Threats.
Tulley declared that the substance
of the conversation he had with Altken
was to the effect that if Ward Darley,
who was attempting to promote a
scheme for the construction of a sugar
factory at Durango, was opposed to the
sugar combine, Darley would be forced
eventually anyway to "come to" them
the sugar interests with which Alt
ken was then affiliated and which has
been shown by evidence to have been
under the domination of the American
Sugar & Refining Company.
Tulley testified that Aitken had told
him that he was In close touch with
C. K. Boettcher, a banl' director of
Durango, and that the latter had told
him that the sugar combine wanted
the Colorado territory all to them
selves. '
"Damper" Ordered by Telephone.
Ho reiterated the statement made
yesterday that John L. McNeil, vice
president of the First National Bank
of Durango, received telephonic infor
mation from Denver to "put a damper
on the Durango factory."
Arthur Ponsford, attorney or the
Denver National Bank, denied that rep
resentatives of the sugar trust had ever
met in his. office to discuss the project
of Ward Darley to establish a factory
In Durango, but admittetd that he had
discussed the feasibility of the plan
with Mr. Darley and told Darley that
he could not put it through on the lines
proposed because, among other obsta
cles, the railroad facilities were inade
quate to make it pay.
John L. McNeil and J. A. Clay, man
ager of the Durango Jollet Power Com
pany, were witnesses, the latter admit
ting that he had Informed Darloy of
the movement to kill the Durango fac
tory scheme. Altkon denied that he
had telephoned McNeil regarding the
proposed factory at Durango,
ROSEBURG PLACES RAIDED
Quantities of Alleged Beer and
Whisky Seized by Officers.
ROSEBURG. Or., Aug. 15. (Special.)
In line with the general cleanup
which has been in progress in Douglas
County for the past two months, sev
eral Deputy Sheriffs raided a number
of "soft" drink emporiums at Glendalo
and confiscated several barrels of beer
as well as a dozen or more quarts of
whisky. Those affected by the raid
were Kinney & Hayes and Hayes, Co
burn & McCloud.
The product confiscated from the re
sorts was shipped to Roseburg last
night, and Is being held at the Sheriffs
office awaiting the arrival of a chemist,
who will analyze the beer. Most of
the beer seized bears the labels of the
Salem and Budweiser Brewing com
panies. The whisky is said to be a
standard product.
Owing to the fact that the persons
affected by the raid are substantial
property owners In the vicinity of Glen
dale, formal arrests of the accused pro
prietors will be delayed pending a re
port of the chemist.
Should the liquid De rouna to con
tain a percentage of alcohol In excess
of the amount allowed by law the de
fendants will probably be tried during
the special term of the Circuit Court,
which convenes- on September 2.
AUTO TRUCK DEMOLISHED
Southern Pacific Train Cuts Off
lYont of Lumber Carrier.
The auto-truck of the Oregon Door
Company was struck by a Southern
Pacific train yesterday afternoon with
such force that the front wheels and
the engine were cut off, while the
driver, who sat just behind the en
gine, was unharmed save for a few
bruises, which he received when he
was suddenly knocked from his seat
and thrown in the ditch beside the
track. The accident occurred at the
Wlllsburg crossing, east of Sellwood.
Robert W. Ingram was driving the
truck, and says he was going slowly
when the train struck him, going at
terrific speed. It ran a quarter of a
mile before it was stopped. The truck
was loaded with lumber for Reed Col
lege. The lumber was uninjured, and -was
left standing on the truck, which
was not overturned.
DAILY CITY STATISTICS
Marrlaee licenses.
BARTRON-BAXFIELD To
Bartron. Sheridan, Or., 29.
Harold Jt.
and Hilda I.
Banfield, city, 2:1. .
WALLAUti-HAl A" nerucn Wallace.
city. 40. and B-ssie Hart, city, z.
HAHN-BUCHEGOER To Chester C.
Hahn. Gresham. Or., 30, and Louise A. W.
Buchegger, Gresham. Or., 5.
Hirr'K'ixs-HIRSCH To A. R. Hucklns.
city. 24, and Rose A. Hirsch, city, 20.
ROPSBOROUGH-JUNKIN To Frank
Rossborough, Baker City, Or., and Pearl
Junkln. city. 21.
UUBOia-l HLKAIM. IO ... Xj luduib.
city, legal, and Annie L. ThurKel, city, legal.
CAN NON-OKA V AO -n. I . Lannun,
city, 48, and Agnea Graves, city, JO.
Births.
SPRAGUE To the wife of Arthur P.
Sprague, 309 Hemlock street, July oO, a
daughter.
GROVE H TO tne wue 01 Clarence .
Grover. 1107 Rodney avenue, July 2i, a
daughter. ...... ,
BOU.OWS To tne wue 01 wuuam fol
lows. 587 Prescott street. July 20, a son.
KING To the wife of Edmund C. King.
249 North Twenty-fourth street, July 23, a
daughter.
UUIciMfiK 10 ine wue ui nnwira m..
Griener, Underwood. July JO, a daughter.
L1LLIS To the wife of Charles Lillis, 407
Morris street, July 2. a son.
Seattle Woman Killed by Auto.
SEATTLE, Wash., Aug. 15. Mrs.
Ethan Bliss, 44 years old, a prominent
religious worker and leader of the choir
in the Unitarian Church, was knocked
down and killed at Broadway and East
Howell streets tonight by an automo
bile driven by Oliver W. Cords, the
19-year-old son of S. A. Cordz, a re-
tired lumberman. . Young Cordz gave
himself up to the police, who released
him on $2500 ball pending an inquest.