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14 THE MOKNIAG OKEGOJSIAJf, FRIDAY. JANUARY 31, 1913. HEW LINE CAUSES SPECULATION HER E Way to Bring Enough Business for Two Oriental Fleets Is Seen by Some. RAILROADS CAN AID CITY Recent Storm Conditions Affecting Paget Sound Traffic and Seg regation of Southern Pa cific Favor Portland. While a few persona here knew of the intention of the Royal Mail steam Packet Company to place in operation a line of steamers between Europe and the North Pacific Coast In advance of the opening: of the Panama Canal, some aver that they had been informed the service would be direct from Foruand, and the announcement by Frank Water- house in The Oregonian yesterday was that the vessels would be routed from here via British Columbia and Puget Sound. There are members of the Bhlpplng fraternity who state that it will be unprofitable for both the Hamburg' American and Royal Mail to contend for business out of this port. Others affirm that if the Union Pacific system will deliver and accept transcontinental cargo here, and if the Hill lines will also divert to Portland a portion of what now goes to Puget bound. steamer could be dispatched every two weeks, so the lines could send a vessel here alternately and yet each maintain a monthly schdule. Storm conditions of the past two weeks are pointed to as illustrating why this city should be favored, for while rail lines operating into Puget Sound were blocked by snow and other troubles, those leading to Portland were comparatively clear and delays encountered were for a matter of hours against days in the north. With the Southern Pacific no longer having con trol of a steamship line from here, as in the case of the Portland & Asiatic fleet, by which shipments were diverted to San Francisco for its benefit, the Union Pacific now may be able to as sure Portlanders of its good faith, it is argued, and undertake to assist in the upbuilding of the Oriental trade and thereby favor a point that has been its original outlet to the Pacific The Hamburg-American has prom lsed to call at Puget Sound ports "if inducements offer," and It has been as tsumed that the plan of operation will be to load here and. if cargo is suffi cient, the steamers will proceed via British Columbia to pick up fish ship ments. Exporters see no serious ob jection to that, as no material delay In the delivery of Oriental cargo will re sult. If the same scheme Is adhered to with stuff coming this way it will mean that either ths Union Pacific or Hill lines will get the benefit of han dling; transcontinental cargo, and the one to get the business will be the one reciprocating with the Hamburg-American. Portland is not in the position of bidding for steamship facilities. Both lines have announced their intentions without regard to guarantees or subsi dies, and on the patronage they will receive depends whether this harbor remains on their maps. HARBOR SOOTrYGS REPORTED Hjdrographic Office Mas Informa tion From Pacific Coast Ports. Soundings at Coast harbors taken by masters of vessels plying regularly, as reported to Lieutenant W. H. Toaz, United States Navy, in charge of the Hydrographlc Office, are as follows: Wltlapa Bar. January 2, 1913- Twenty one feet at chart plane. Red buoy No. 6 jrone. other aids O- K. No change in the channel. Reported by 3. B. Zaddart, steamer Santa Barbara. I'mpqut River Bar. January 7. 1913. Thirteen feet at chart plane. Inner fair way buoy irone. Bar slightly north. Report by Oeorjre Tyler, tug: Roai-oe. Sulslaw River Bar. December 28, 1912. jieven feet chart plane. Channel fairly straight out for buoy. Geo rue Tyler, tug Hoscoe. Yaqulna Bay Bar. January . 1913. 4hart plane depth 12 feet, channel south of range 1.10 to 20 feet in good shape. ;eorge Tyler, tug Roacoe. CoqulM River Bar. January 6. 1913. Nine feet chart plane. Aids all O. K. Channel straight. J. 1. Kronenberg, Ban dn. Or. llnmboldt Bay Bar. January 7. 1913. Seventeen feet chart plane. Aids O. K. Nortli and south channel hare same depths as straight channel. North channel very crnked and difficult. Pettersen. tug Relief. I'mpqua River Bar, January . 1913. Twelve feet chart plane. Aids at present not satisfactory. Range lights away out. Stranger should keep ranges well open to northward. Inside black nun buoy gone adrift. Channel shifted to south. Fairway buoy shifted to edge of breakers 150 feet south of channel. By Butler, tug Gleaner. Rogue River Bar, January 8. 1915. Seven feet chart plane. Channel almost straight out. slightly to northward. By Fred Canghell. Wedderbnrn. Or. San Pedro Bar, January 4. 1913. Thirty feet chart plane. Johnson, port pilot. San Diego. Dec. 29, 1913. Thirty and one half feet. Buoya O. K. Morris. San rhego, California. RRADY RECOVERS 3 8 BODIES Veteran iirappler Has Been in Serv ice Less Than Two Tears. Hugh Brady, municipal grappler. will have been in the service of the city two years February 9 and so far he has recovered the bodies of 36 persons who lost their lives in the Willamette. Dur ing the time he has plied the voca tion of grappler Mr. Brady estimates that he has brought approximately 200 bodies of unfortunates to the surface. The last recovered was that of Joseph Burghlln. employed as watchman on the tug Edith, who fell overboard the night of January' 22 when the vessel was berthed at the foot of Salmon street. He was in the act of hanging a lantern when he lost his balance. The body was found Wednesday after noon and turned over to Coroner Slo cum. As the deceased was a member of the Order of Eagles, that organiza tion will have charge of the funeral today. The Interment will be at Mult nomah Cemetery. CARGO DAMAGE XOT KXOTTX famlno's Skipper Entertains to Show orr Big Coaster. Case goods and machinery are said to form the bulk of cargo damaged on the steamer Camlno on her last trip from the Golden Gate, but as the Amer-ican-Hs.wailan started men examining the shipments yesterday it is not known to what extent they are injured. Several Portlanders were guests of Captain Ahlln aboard the vessel at luncheon yesterday, and they expressed surprise at the sise of the steamer and her accommodations. The Camlno sails today for San Francisco, and will have a full passenger list. The Navajo, of the same line, is due tomorrow with CHOICE EOSES ABE PRESENTED TO FAMOUS ACTRESS i sr . ! s it", !, 1 t Kit- tWt& Vile; K-fti SiA S wV" .v. ,v M,-. A--.- v ,.-t-8.A.. BOUQUET SE.NT TO MADAME BERNHARDT BY PORTLAND ROSE SOCIETY. Roses, doubly sweet for Madame Sarah Bernhardt because they were La France buds, were presented to the renowned actress over the footlights at the Orpheum yesterday afternoon by the Portland Rose society. Madame Bernhardt bowed her thanks graciously amid the thunderous applause of the audience. She was so taken with the beauty of the buds of her own clime she would not leave them out of her sight and ordered her maid to carry them to the Bernhardt car in Milwaukle, where the Portland-grown La France roses now occupy a conspicuous place. "Magnifiquej" exclaimed Madame Bernhardt, burying her face in the bouquet. J. A. Curry, president of the Portland Rose Society, was responsible for the floral gift, which seemed to delight the world-famous actress more than any other public courtesy paid her in her visit to Portland. cement, there being' no Atlantic side cargo on her. The Paraiso, also of the Arrow Line, is on the way from San Pedro, and on her trip south will carry passengers for the first time. SH3XSEI MARU SATLS TODAY Vessel AVill Depart Without Two Sailors Who Deserted. When the Japanese steamer Shlnsel Maru sails today for the Far East she will be short two sailors, as the Japan ese arrested Wednesday and charged with being deserters, are held in jail pending the receipt of a departmental warrant from Washington by J. H. Bar bour, immigration inspector. It is un derstood that the Shinsei Maru will re turn to Portland in May. and by then the sailors will no doubt be ready to accompany her home. After the departmental warrant is served Mr. Barbour will conduct a hear ing in the case and the papers will be STEAMER INTKLLIGENCS. Due to Arrive. Name. From. Date. Beaver. ...... .San Pedro.. .. In port Alliance Eureka Feb. 1 Bear San Pedro. ... Feb. 1 Breakwater. ...Coos Bay Feb. 2 Roanoke .San Diego. ... Feb. 2 Rose City San Pedro.... Feb. 6 Geo. W. Elder. JSau Diego. . . . Feb. - Te Depart. Name. For Date. Camlno. ...... fan Francisco Jan. 31 Beaver. ...... .San Pedro. .. .Jan. 31 Yale . F. toL. A.. Jan. 31 Yosemlte San Diego... .Jan. 31 Northlnnd San Diego. .. -Feb. 1 Harvard S. F. to L. A... Feb. 1 Alliance Eureka Feb. S Breakwater. . . .Coos Bay Feb. 4 Bear..T. San Pedro. .. .Feb. 5 Roanoke .San Diego. ... Feb. S RoseCltv San Pedro. ... Feb. 10 Ceo. W. Elder. .San Diego. ... Feb. 12 returned to Washington, so It will be impossible, if the routine is carried out. to return the men to the steamer before she leaves the river. Costs ac cruing will have to be borne by the owners. The Shinsei Maru is laden with wheat for Suzuki & Co. Balfour, Guthrie & Co.. supplied the cereal. MLLJTIA HEARING TONIGHT Records Will Be Submitted lor Bene fit of Legislators. Data covering financial and other transactions of the Oregon Naval Mili tia have been compiled to be submit ted tonight to Senators Joseph, Dlmlck and Carson, composing a committee from tire Legislature, to examine into ffairs of the organization to form the basis of an appropriation for the next two years. It Is expected that a number ot wit nesses will De on nana to lesmy as to their knowledge of the conduct of offi cers and the manner in which the mili tia has been conducted, but probably less attention will be given incidents nrevlous to the cruise of the Maryland. Since then the militia, has been de clared satisfactory to state and Gov ernment officers. Marine Xotes. Complaints of boys stealing grain along the waterfront have reached Captain Speier. of the harbor patrol, and from Investigations made yester day there are prospects' that a few juveniles will be given a free ride in the patrol launch. Repairs to the tug Stimson and dredge Titan, of the Pacific Bridge Company s Ileet, have Deen nnisnea ana the vessels floated from the Oregon drydock yesterday afternoon and towed to the company's moorings. Owners of the steamer Rochelle have begun an Investigation as to the prob able amount of business moving to Southeastern Alaska this season, with a view to placing the vessel In service between Portland and points in that territory. It is estimated that she could make a round trip at least once month. C. Henri Labbe. French Consul, has investigated reports made by sailors of the French ships Thiers that food supplies were not of a proper standard. and the skipper has promised to exer cise more discretion in future pur chasing. Bids are to be opened at the office of Major Morrow, Corps of Engineers, U. S. A., at 11 o'clock this morning for supplying 7000 tons of coal for use at the Celilo Canal camps. Major Mor row left last evening to inspect work on the ditch and Captain H. H. Robert Is looked for here today, after passing two days at Celilo. Government employes are to try a new pay day scheme tomorrow, when checks they receive will be drawn on the National Treasury, Instead of on one of the National banks. They will be cashed at the National depository, as in the past. In picking up wheat for Oriental shipment the Japanese steamer Shinsei Maru shifted yesterday from Mont gomery dock No. 2 to Oceanic dock. The Osterbek hauled into the stream from Oceanic having completed load ing. As the lumber cargo of the Norwe gian steamer Mathilda will be com pleted today at Inman-Poulsen's. she is to shift through the bridges to the bunkers and coal in preparation for her voyage to Shanghai. She will have approximately 3,600,000 feet aboard and Is being dispatched by Balfour, Guthrie & Co. She arrived here from San Francisco January 14. Captain Hunter, master of the Brit ish bark Crown of India, Is to have a representative of the Orient in his crew when he sails for the United Kingdom with a lumber cargo, as he yesterday accepted a Japanese sailor who came here as quartermaster on the Kinkasan Maru. The Nipponese has served a year on a brigantine across the Pacific and has been on steamers. so is desirous of mastering English and becoming better acquainted with navi gation as the Caucasians follow it. To finish loading lumber for the south the steamer Olympic left Tor Prescott yesterday and the steamer Rochelle went to Kalama to start and Is to complete loading at Rainier for San Francisco. She will have 550,000 feet. Digging outlined at Westport having been completed by the dredge Wil lamette, of the Port of Portland fleet, she has been towed to St. Helens, where a few days' work will serve to remove shoals In front of the McCor mick mill property. It is intended then to shift her to North Portland Harbor. Bound for San Pedro, the steamer Northland has cleared with 650 tons of wheat and 400,000 feet ot lumber. Movements of Vessels. PORTLAND, Jan. 30. Sailed British bark Kllloran, for Queenstown or Falmouth for orders. , ' Astoria, Jan. 0. Sailed at 11 A. M. Steamer Geo. W. Elder, for San Diego and way ports. Arrived at 2.30 P. M. Steamer General Hubbard, from 6 an Pedro. Sailed 1.30 P. M. Staaraer J. A. Chanslor. for Monterey. Arrived at 5 P. M. Steamer CoL E. I Drake, from Seattle; at 6:30 P. M . Steamer Navajo, from San Francisco. San Francisco, Jan. 20. Arrived at mid night Steamer Klamath, from Portland. Arrived Steamer Atlas with barge No. 3 In tow. from Portland. Sailed at 2 P. M. Steamer Bear, for Portland. Sailed last night Steamer Paraiso, for Columbia River. Coos Bay. Jan. 30. Arrived at 6 A. M- Steamer Breakwater, from Portland. San Diego, Jan. 30. Arrived Schooner King Cyrus, from Columbia River. Son Francisco, Jan. 30. Arrived Steam ers Columbia, from Grays Harbor ; George Loomis. from Aberdeen; Atlas, barge 93. from Port Angeles; Asuncion, from Cor dova; Leelanaw, from Seattle. Sailed Steamers Tuacarora (British), for Mojl; Niagara (German), for Niagara; Bear, for Portland; Santa Barbara, for Wlllapa; bark Bayard (French), for Queenstown; tug De fiance, for Grays Harbor. Manila, Jan. 29. Arrived Be&sla Dollar, from Everett. Vladivostock. Jan. 30. The reported ar rival here of trie steamer Bessie Dollar was an error. Punta Arena, Jan. 30. Passed Karnak. from Hamburg, for Honolulu and San Fran cisco. Lytleton. Jan. 30. Arrived Harrjasua. from New York, for Portland. Or. Singapore. sJan. 10. Arrived? previously Teucer, from Liverpool, for Tacoma. Yokohama. Jan. 30. Arrived previously Chicago Mare, from Tacoma; Siberia, from Saa Francisco. Colombia River Bar Report, Condition at the month of the river at 5 P. M., smooth; wind, northwest 13 miles; weather, clear. Tides at Astoria Today. High. Low. J:ll A. M I I feetil:5 A. M J.4 feet ASPIRANTS GET AID City Auditor Compiles for Candidates. Rules PRIMARY ELECTION MAY 3 Proper Complement of Signatures for Petition In City and Ward Shown and Dates of Filing Same Are Also Specified. For the guidance of those who are willing to serve the people of-Portland in a public capacity. City Auditor Barbur has complied data relating to registration, filing of petitions, num ber of names required thereon ana divers other information calculated to assist aspirants for places in the City Hall to "get off right" in the muni cipal free-for-all. The primary for the city election will be held May 3 and registration will be open therefor March 16. April 17 is the last day to file petitions for nomination. The polls for both the primary and the general city election will be open from 8 A. M. to 7 P. M. All candidates must file their dec larations before circulating petitions. and all candidates elected must l"e their acceptances with certificates of nomination. The last day for candi dates to file statements of campaign expenditures is May 19. Petition Reorairements Told. A three years' residence in the city reauired of a candidate for any elective fiity office, and candidates for the Council must have been residents of their ward for at least a year. o be a primary candidate for nom ination for one of the general city of fices, if a Republican, a petition must bear 301 names, representing a total of 83 precincts, and if a Democrat, 215 signatures must be secured from the same number of precincts. Five wards will elect Councllmen. In Ward No. 2 the Republican primary candidate must secure 16 and the Dem ocratic 15 signatures to his petition, with at least two of the 10 precincts of the ward represented. In vvard No. 3, with five precincts, Republicans must secure 13 and Democrats 11 names, from at least two precincts. There are 14 precincts in Ward No. 5 and three of them must be represented in a candidate's petition, bearing 24 names if he is a Republican and 18 if a Democrat. In Ward No. 9, with 21 precincts, both Republicans and Demo, crats must secure 34 names from at least five precincts. In Ward No. 10 Republican candidates must have 56 names on their petitions, and Demo crats 31, with five precincts repre sented. City Election Jone 3. Registration dates for the general city election June 2 are the same as those for the primary election. May 2 is the last day on which nominations by political party or assembly may be filed, but certificates of nomination by individual electors may be filed as late as May 17. June 1? is the last day for candidates to file statement of expense for the general election. To be nominated for a city office by petition signed by voters, a candidate must have 1124 names from 33 pre' clncts. To be nominated for the Coun' ell in this manner the candidate in Ward No. 2 must have 67 signatures; in Ward No. 3, 64 signatures; in Ward No. 5, 94 signatures; In Ward No. 9, 146 signatures; in Ward No. 10, 25 sig natures, secured from the same num ber of precincts as, for primary nom inating petitions. at the Multnomah from Vancouver, B. C. M. T. O'Connell, a Winlock lumber man, is registered at the Oregon. E. Sweet, who specializes in hogs at Sweet, Idaho, is at the Imperial. Madame Nordlca registered at the Portland yesterday from New York. Mr. and Mrs. Dan J. Moore, of Sea side, are registered at the Perkins. N. Whealdon, an attorney of The Dalles, is registered at the Perkins. C. W. Blackburn, an insurance ad juster of Omaha, is at the Portland. William Gerlg, a Medford railroad promoter, is registered at the Bowers. A. P. Fleming, an insurance agent of Goldendale, Is registered at the Cor nelius. G. D. Lockhart, a prominent grain operator of Winnipeg, is at the Mult nomah. Emil Melzer, a prominent mining man of Baker, Is registered at the Portland. Alonzo M. Murphy, an insurance ad juster of Spokane, is registered at the Multnomah. J. G. Grueber, president of the Moun tain Lumber Company of Kalama, is at the Bowers. E. B. Hanlev and F. H. Madden, orchardists of MedfoTd, are registered at the Portland. Ross W. Smith, manager of the Rob ert Dollar steamship line at Seattle, Is at the Imperial. A. C. Dixon, manager of the Booth- Kelly Lumber Company at Eugene, is registered at the Imperial. Phil K. Gordon, general passenger agent of the-Sunset line, is registered at the Multnomah from San Francisco. George W. Loggia, a Bellingham lumberman, is at the Oregon returning from a trip to California. A. McCallum, the largest manufac turer of silk hosiery in the world, is registered at the Portland from North- ampton7 Mass. J. P. O Brien. vice-president ana general manager of the O.-W. R. & N. Company, sailed irom ionoiuiu Tuesday for San Francisco after enjoying a pleasant two weeks' vacation on the Hawaiian Islands. He is accompanied by Mrs. O'Brien. He Is due to arrive at San Francisco next Monday and will be back in Port land later in the week. miPAnn. Jan. 30. (Snecial.) Emery Olmstead, of Portland, Or., is registered at the Congress Hotel. JUDGE M'GIXX GIVES VIEWS OX PROPOSED LAWS. Legal System Not in Tune With, Per sonal Injury Cases of Present Day, Is Argued. Circuit Judge McGinn is heartily and emphatically In favor of compensation as opposed to litigation in personal In jury cases. In a letter o George M. Cornwall, member of a commission which framed one of the bills now oc cupying the attention of the Legisla ture, ' Judge McGinn expresses his views as follows: "As I have told you many times, and as I lately wrote benator 1. N. Day, I am strongly in favor of compensa tion as opposed to litigation in per sonal injury cases arising between em ployer and employe, one which will work automatically and speedily. Lit igation, which is another name for battle between employer and employe. or, rather, between the insurance com pany of the employer, and the em ploye, should be ended, and at once. It cannot go too soon. Compensation, and again compensation, and always compensation. "Situated as I am, coming In contact with the' unfortunate who have been injured and knowing as I do how much out of tune is the legal system of the 17th century for 20th century personal injury cases, my prayer is God speed the coming. I don't know which is the better method to adopt. I am not going to discuss the details of anyone's bill. That is a matter which is ad dressed to the discretion of the law makers and is not one upon which I tare to express an opinion. "We cannot hope to have a compen sation act perfect in the beginning, but let us make a start in the right direction of having people look upon personal injuries in the light of com pensation and not in the light of neg ligence, as now. One placed as I am can hold no other views than those I now express. The insurance companies, those engaged in insuring employers against personal injury risks, and their accessories, are the only ones who can be interested in the old game of neg ligence."' PERS0NALMENTI0N. A. s. Coats, a Raymond logger, is at the Oregon. J. A. Relber. a Gaston merchant, is at the Perkins. Dr. H. A. Littlefleld, of Newberg, is at the Cornelius. S. K. Beck, postmaster of Lexington, Is at the Perkins. H. 8. Brlnley. a Seattle promoter, is at the Portland. W. F. Nelson, a Newberg hopgrower, is at the Cornelius. Mrs. Ida Bolton, of Eugene, is regis tered at the Bowers. Dr. and Mrs. J. F. Watt, of Hood River, are at the Imperial. Judge W. M. Colvig, of Medford, is registered at the Cornelius. N. Williamson, a Moscow merchant. Is registered at the Oregon. W. F. Lysons, a Kelso lumberman. Is registered at the Perkins. H. M. Brodle, general passenger agent .-5J P. M. 5.7 feet;S:J P. M. 0.5 footiof the Canadian Pacific, is registered REPLIES ARE FAVORABLE Organizations and Persons Want Agricultural Extension. Hearty support In every case was contained in the first batch of letters received yesterday at the Commercial Club in connection with the. bill for an appropriation for educational extension of agricultural work by the Oregon Agricultural College. A pamphlet giving the gist of the bill, and explaining its advantages to the state and to the individual was sent out by the Commercial Club to every Senator and Representative; to all commercial clubs and bodies and to the county school representatives. Among the letters received yesterday were some from the Astoria Chamber of Commerce, The Dalles Business Men's Association, the Albany Commer clal Club and the Dayton Commercial Club, while resolutions strongly in favor of the passage of the bill were sent from the Roseburg Commercial Club and the Portland O. A. C. Club, in addition to those passed by the execu tlve committee of the Portland Com mercial Club. Replies from Senators and Repre sentatives are equally favorable, all so far received Btating that they are strongly in favor of the appropriation and promising hearty support, as i result, officials of the club are hope ful that the bill will pass. An "Earth Education" day has been planned and fixed for February 12. On this occasion all the school children will have the bill read to them, and ex plained by the teacher; special lessons and addresses dealing with the topic will be given, and in this way, wide publicity, it is hoped, will be given in all parts of the state. HORTICULTURE IS STUDIED Series' of Addresses Arranged by Oreneo Class. Arrangements have been made by the Orenco horticultural study class for a series of meetings, at which lec tures on horticultural subjects will be delivered by experts from different parts of the state. The first meeting, to be held Feb ruary 1. is one of the series of county institutes held under the auspices 'of the district horticultural commissioner and the county inspector, H. C. Atwell, A. C. Goodrich, district inspector, and two members of the Oregon Agricul tural College faculty will be the other speakers on this occasion. Bi-weekly meetings win be neia. commencing February 7, at which the following speakers will be heard: February 7 professor IS. J. Jvraus, research assistant in horticulture, Pollination:" February 14, Professor C. I. Lewis, horticulturist, "Horticul ture for the Small Acreage Tracts, In cluding Berrygrowing;" February 21, Professor Ralph D. Hetzel, director of extension work, "Benefits of a Study Club or Carrying the College to the People: March 7, Professor V. R. Gardner, assistant horticulturist, "Cul tivating. Pruning and Care of the Orchard;" March 21, Professor H. S. Jackson, plant pathologist. "Fungous Diseases and Remedies;" April 4, A. B. Cordley, dean of the College of Agri culture, "Insect Pests and Remedies," with special reference to lime-sulphur spray. Last Call for Free Pianolas Quickest Action Necessary Now in Order to Secure One of the Remaining Rare Values in the Eilers Great Annual Clearance Sale Which Will Positively End Tomorrow. The Remaining' Seventeen Pianolas Have Been Broug-M Over Front St.. T: . tm.nlnflnlA VnVli'cMant t-rA fin Vraa i-x PiK. Ool 1 QT-a Six Fine, Highest-Grade Sample Pianos Now Marked Half PriCer Select an Instrament Now and Pay Next Month, u You Cnoose. , This is positively the last call. And we say to you in all sincerity that even though you may not be quite ready to buy even though you may feel that you cannot spare the money just now, it will pay you and pay you handsomely to come In at the earliest moment. If you want a line upright piano you can get one now superb sample pianos at exactly half price. If you have a piano and want a fine pianola we win give you one absolutely free, the only requirement being, that you agree to purchase four music rolls each month for a year. Since the first announce ment over 100 homes have taken ad vantage of this extraordinary offer of free pianolas. This is your last op portunity positively. THESE ARE HALF PRICE. We will Include today a half dozen highest grade strictly brand new and very latest upright pianos sample in struments. These will go at exactly half-price upon terms of payment of J8 monthly, for the plainer styles and only $10 monthly for the largest and fanciest orchestral upright grands. If you prefer a good used piano ask to see these. A fine $550 Kimball at less than half price or $235. A Steinway cost $525. now only $120. A good toned Fisher, only $96. Several Mason & Hamlins in oak and mahogany cases, $135 each. A Knabe, like new, only $268. A Hardman, splendid condition, only $194. A stenciled Kohler & Chase, $128. A real Weber-made Weber, prac tically new, only $255. And others at $118. $98. $S5, $74. etc Nearly all of j' these can be purchased on monthly, payments of as low es $1.50 weekly , or $6 monthly. PLAYERS LESS THAN HALF. We offer this morning a number o Weber Pianola pianos for less than th cost of straight Weber pianos, $475, tabu. $tz: Duys tnem. . We offer a number of Steck Pianola pianos for the price of the Steck piano Itself, $385, $435. These instruments positively cannot i be told from new. Good 65-note Pianola , pianos go now at $275, $387.50, etc. Besides these tremendously reduced ! prices and while they last, for today .' and tomorrow, we will Include an extra j large lot of music rolls free with every 1 instrument. PAY XEIT MONTH. If you are not prepared to make th1 customary payment today, come In and' arrangements will be made to begin payments next month If you desire. In our anxiety to close out all the odds and ends we will make any terms that are at all within reason. We propose to wind up January's business with the greatest two days' sale record ever known. If you want to get the piano buying proposition of a life time as regards downright cutting. yes, slaughtering of price, if you please, and extremely easy terms of payment be sides, we urge you to be on hand early, Eilers Music House, the Eilers build ing. Seventh and Alder streets. LAWMAKER TAKES STAND Washington Legislator Testifies in . LaConner Bank Failure Case. BELLINGHAM. Wash., Jan. 30. Late this afternoon the defense in the trial of Jacob Furth, R. V. Ankeny, Daniel Kelleher and B. W. Andrews, officials of the Seattle National Bank, in con nection with the failure of the Schrick- er & Company private bank at La Conner last Spring, consented to ex cuse W. E. Schricker from cross exam ination to allow the state to examine W. W. Conner, representative in the Legislature from Skagit County, in order for him to hurry back to his work at Olympla. Conner testified to having had a conversation with Ankeny at the Seat tle bank a few months before the La Conner bank failed, in which the state claims Mr. Ankeny, cashier of the bank, asked Conner why he did not keep his bank account with Schricker. Conner had called at the bank to cash a draft drawn on a Mount Vernon bank. Schricker will be recalled to continue cross examination tomorrow. Correspondence between W. E. Schricker and Jacob Furth, E. W. An drews. Daniel Kelleher and R. V. An keny was introduced in court today by the state, to show that Shrlcker had placed himself entirely in the hands of the Seattle bankers and that they deferred closing the bank, if they in tended to do so at all, by sending him at various times sufficient money to conduct his business. Letters were also" Introduced to show that the mortgage given them by him to cover his over draft would absorb all his personal means should his bank fail LINEN WORKERS IN ELAND ILL PAID "Sweatshop" System Found by Committee to Affect Approximately 3400. CHILDREN ARE CARRIERS Middlemen Exact Toll, but Northern Employers Favor Revision of Wages if Competitors Else where Sleet Conditoin. BY TIMOTHY J. O'CONNOR. DUBLIN. Jan. 11. (Special.) A new "Song of the Shirt" could be based on the report of the Home Office commit tee on the conditions of employment among outworkers in the linen and othSr maklng-up trades in the North of Ireland. The object of the committee, of which Sir Ernest F. G. Hatch, formerly Union 1st member for Gorton, Lancashire, was chairman, was to inquire into the con ditions of employment In the making- up of articles of linen, cotton and simi lar fabrics. The committee confined itself main ly to Belfast, where it is computed that there are 3400 outworkers. According to evidence given, the outworkers in Belfast are "widows and spinsters de pending upon the work for their live lihood, married women whose husbands are out of work, and women whose hus bands are laborers earning small pay. "If the outwork was stopped," an other witness said, "the men would have to get better wages or the people concerned could not exist." What sort of "livelihood" it is the workers are making is Bhown from spe cific Instances of earnings placed be fore the committee and aoeepted by them as trustworthy. Take, for in stance, fancy sewing and embroidery, which the committee describe as "high ly skilled industries." In these two the rates of pay by the hour were found In the cases Investigated to be from 2 to 4 cents and less. An instance of extremely low fac tory pay was given by Dr. H. W. Bailie, the Medical Superintendent Officer of Health for Belfast. Dr. Bailie mentioned a case he had personally investigated of a young woman of 25 to 27 years of age, who was employed in making medium-sized chemise at 18 cents per dozen. She earned, after paying 3 cents for thread and her carfare to and from the fac tory, only 1 cent per hour! While not excluding the possibility of errors In the evidence, the commit tee says that its inquiry has shown that among the rates paid to out workers particularly in the manufac ture of the cheaper goods there are rates which fall below a reasonable level, and that the workers, from their total want of organization and their general helplessness, are unable to se cure the raising of these rates." Even bad as the pay often Is, the poor workers in the country do not al ways get It all. Shopkeepers who act as agents for firms giving out the work sometimes pay the outworkers in goods which are frequently overpriced. Incidentally, one of the evils of the system, the committee reports. Is that young children work at these indus tries late into the night, and are un duly burdened in carrying parcels to the Belfast factories. "You will notice," said one witness, that they usually carry the bundles on one shoulder, and a number of them have one shoulder down and the other up." The committee says it "is satisfied that the employers, as a body, are anxious that outworkers should receive a fair wage, and that any cause for re proach against the trade In this re spect should be removed," and recom mends, with tha approval of the em ployers, "that the provisions of tha trade boards act be applied to tha proc esses of hand-embroidery, fancy sew ing, thread-drawing; thread-clipping, top-sewing, scalloping, nickeling, par ing and the stitching by machines of aprons, pinafores and blouses in tha North of Ireland; provided that the act Is similarly applied in other parts of the United Kingdom where competition with the North of Ireland exists in those processes." "BLUE HENRT' APPEARS Berlin's "Green Minna" Is Replaced for Scientific Reason. BERLIN, Jan. 16. (Special.) The Inhabitants of Berlin have been rather curious to know the reasons of one of the latest changes in the physiognomy of the city the appearance of blue- I painted prison vans in place of the dirk green ones to which they have 1 tern accustomed for several decades past "Green Minna" was a form of (I speech that was more often to be met jl with than the references to "Black Maria" and "The saiaa uasKev ana it was rather difficult for the precise minds of the Berllnem to use It when the vehicle to which they were refer ring was really blue. But the diffi culty was soon overcome, and, chang ing the sex as well as the color, tha prison van in its new appearance was re-baptlzed "Blue Henry." The real difficulty was to discover the reason for the extra bill at the ) painter's, and the riddle has not been ( buiveu. i nc viuei iniiio a, tuo a,.,- , tive and essentially up-to-date chief of ; the Dollce. Herr von Jagow, and had. ; the best of scientific reasons, based on I the varied Influences or color. It is o tntnHnr hliKinnKfl to know that red has an irritating effect on certain ) quadrupeds, but artists and medical men, especially those who are special- , Ists in nervous ailments, know that not only is red an irritant for nervous pa-,1 tients, but other colors have their spe cial effect. i As an antidote to red, the specialists.' are united in recommending blue, and', several doctors of experience have re-l cently ordered the interiors of their) sanatoria to be painted In different) tones of blue. Some of the results oil the extra use of cobalt and ultramarine, were recently laid before a medicak congress, and two doctors were able tot show that nervous complaints wero generally cured more rapidly when the patients were housed in rooms painted blue than In rooms of any other color. "Blue." said one of them, "Is alto gether the best color to use in all cases ( of abnormal mentality or nervosity. A Teport having been submitted to' Herr von Jagow on this subject, he. ordered the prison .vans to be painted! blue. j COURT ANNEX NOW IS NEED Money for Addition to State Capita Will Bo Asked. SALEM. Or.. Jan. 30. (Special.)' The State Building Commissioners ara, considering the needs of the new Su preme Court annex to the Capitol, and will have a bill drafted to cover the necessary expenses of completing the' handsome structure. The building is located directly east of the main Capi tol, and the outside shell of the struc ture is practically completed. This cost has been covered by the appropriation of the last legislative session, but con siderable more money will be required, to finish it. ( The construction has been the spe-'v clal charge of State Treasurer Kay, al- thouirh State Architect Knighton has given it the technical supervision, and 0 he is now at wora upon me enuiiwiM for completion. The building when fin ished will house the entire legal de partment of the state, including the Supreme Court, the Attorney-General's department and the State Library. The present quarters of the Supreme Court are hampered and there Is every ne cessity for rushing the work on the annex. 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