THE MORNING OREGONIAX, WEDNESDAY. SEPTEMBER 3, 1913.
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RAIN STOPS PICKING
BUT AIDS HOP CROP
Showers Expected to Oust Red
Spider and Fill Out Burrs
on Vines.
MORE HANDS GO TO FIELDS
Special Trains Carry More Than 90 0
to Polk County Tarda Eastern
Oregon and Washington Also
Threatened by Downpour.
Testerday"s rain torm extended
throughout the Willamette Valley and
put a complete atop to hopplcklng, even
the Japanese pickers refusing to work
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Ing the hops the rain has Improved the
crop. II win nu uui mo
otherwise Improve the quality and will
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th? plants. There is no doubt that
some ol tne growers, s.iu.iuua iv ,. .
their crops early, were IncUned to pick
them too soon, so the delay of a few
days will help the Oregon crop as a
whole. Improving its quality and at
1 . - fnpkdainr it welsrht. .
Several large special trains left for
the hop districts yesteroay uiui mue..
The Southern raciflc carried one party
th.n ann -nickers bound for
Polk County and large crowds went
out on the Oregon fciecmc hj "J
boat. They got their start before the
rain. There are enough persons want
ing to pick hops this year to make up
for any shortage that may occur in
the yards should the rain, last more
than a day or two.
The rain did not extend beyond the
Cascade Mountains. It was cloudy and
cool in Eastern Oregon and Eastern
Washington, and rain Is expected there
tomorrow. which will temporarily
delay the grain harvest in those sec
tions where It is not completed.
YIELD AT CHEHALIS GOOD
Tarda Well Equipped With Pickers,
" Who Get $1 a Box.
CHEHALIS. "Wash- Sept. 2. (Spe
cial ) Hopplcklng began today in some
of the yards of the Chehalis district.
Borne growers of the Cowlitz JTalley
began yesterday morning. So far as
learned there are now plenty of
pickers. .
J. C. Bush, who Is In charge of the
100-acre Pincus yard two miles west of
this city, said last night that he was
obliged to turn pickers away; that he
had never seen a year since in the early
90s. along about 1893 and 1894, when
so many people. Including men, women
and children, are after work picking
hops. There are a few Indians picking
near here, but these were secured in
advance, as it was feared there would
be a scarcity of whites.
Growers are paying $1 a box for
picking. The hops aft of splendid Qual
ity and the yield In most yards in the
Chehalis district la above the average
for size.
A drizzling, rain, the first for several
weeks, began falling here this morning.
It comes at an inopportune time for
hoppickers, as It adds greatly to the
discomfort of the latter. However, all
are hopeful that the downpour is but
temporary, it being the custom of the
weather man to turn on the water each
year' at this time.
10,000 READY FOR FICKTVG
Rain Stops Work Near Independence
and Mould Is Feared.
INDEPENDENCE. Or., Sept 2. (Spe
cial.) Picking started In a few more
hopyards this morning, but the work
was continued for a short time only,
as a strong south wind blew up a heavy
rain. The rain continued in torrents
all day. Some of the growers think it
may cause damage, but others say the
crop will be improved. If the rain is
followed by heavy, damp weather it
will no doubt cause the hops to mold.
The Wigan-Richardson special to the
Wigrich ranch south of town arrived
just ahead of the regular train and
was run on the spur to the yards.
Another large crowd followed on the
regular Southern Pacific train and these
were hauled in wagons to different
yards. It is estimated that there are
between 10,000 and 12,000 workers with
in a radius of a few miles of this city.
This Is about the number needed to
harvest the crop.
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Ilopralsers Fear Sliowere Will Drive
Pickers Back to City.
WOODBURN", Or.. Sept. 2. (Special.)
Hopgrowers are worried tonight
over the rain that has been falling all
day. They fear that the pickers who
are moving Into the yards will become
discouraged and leave before the .crop
is harvested.
Hundreds of pickers passed through
here today, making a transfer from
the Southern Pacific to the Oregon
Electric. The baggage of some was
drenched. A few days of rain at this
stage of harvest will not damage the
crop If favorable weather permits pick
ing to proceed in the near future. In
several yards hops will not be matured
and nt to harvest before the early part
of next week.
The quality of the crops is excellent,
the quantity running about the same
as last year. No mould has been reported.
BEACH "HIKE" IS ENJOYED
Mazamas Hare Outing onFoot After
. Steamer Trip.
The trip of the Mazamas to North
Beach over Labor day was a most en
joyable and successful affair. A party
of 29 of the members went down on
Saturday afternoon on the steamer Pot
ter and six more followed Saturday
night on the Hassalo.
The first night was spent at Ocean
Park and the second at Long Beach.
Several of the party slept out on the
beach over night. The full length of
the coast from Ocean Park to Cape
Dlsapointment lighthouse was trav
ersed on foot.
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GRADUATED SUB-TAX
WILL BE PROPOSED
Petition for Vote on State Con
stitutional Amendment
to Circulate.
BIG LAND OWNERS TARGET
INSURANCE LAW TEST
Commissioner of State of Washing
ton Defendant in Snlt.
OLTMPIA. Wash, Sept. 2. (Special.)
State Insurance Commissioner Fish
back was made defendant in a suit
brought today by the Standard Fire
Insurance Company of Hartford, Coon.,
attacking; that portion of the Washing
ton insurance code requiring foreign
companies to deposit securities equal
to their required capitalization, $200,
000 in ths instance.
Flshback had given all companies
until September 1 to comply w.tii thH
provision and. the test suit is la reply..
Leaders of League, Behind Proposed
Xew Law, Say Purpose to Discour
age Sfonopoly, While All Prop
erty Would Be Taxed.
Petitions providing; a place for a
graduated sur-tax bill on the ballot at
the general election in November, 1914.
now are being prepared and will be
circulated, during the next few months,
among the voters of the state for sig
natures. This movement was lnltated and Is
being carried forward by the Oregon
Sur-Tax League, of which H. D. Wag
non, G. M. Orton, H. A. Klce, C. S. Gold
burg and F. E. Coulter are the leaders.
These men say that Hundreds of other
citizens of the state are giving their
financial and moral support to the
organization. The bill aims a graduated
tax on land and natural resources held
by any one person, firm or corporation
in excess of $25,000.
"The srraduated sur-tax." said Mr.
Wagnon yesterday, "Is proposed for the
purpose of discouraging lana monopoly
In both city and country. We hold
that land monopoly is a curse to any
country and offer this sur-tax as a
remedy with no exemptions on any
property and no change in our pres
ent laws save this sur-tax on land mo
nopoly." Proposal Not VHen Plan.
Mr. Wagnon Insists that the proposed
sur-tax amendment has no connection
whatever with the )1500 exemption
measure now being advocated by W. S.
U'Ren and his associates.
"The graduated sur-tax," says Mr.
Wagnon, "would place a heavier load
of taxation on the large land owners,
who are best able to bear taxation, and
would greatly relieve the poor people
and small property owners, to whom
taxation is a burden anyway.
"Many taxpayers who were opposed
to our graduated single tax last year
will support thlB measure. The gradu
ated feature, which was a popular fea
ture in the other bill, is retained, but
the single tax element is removed. All
property would pay taxes as hereto
fore, but a graduated assessment would
be levied against land. It Is expected,
of course, that the revenue from this
land tax will greatly reduce the taxes
on other property."
The sur-tax measure Is proposed as
an amendment to Section 3 of Article
IX, of the constitution of the state,
which, under this amendment, would be
made to read as follows f
6ec 2. Provision shall be mads by law
for raising revenue sufficient to defray the
expenses of the state for each fiscal year,
and also a sufficient sum to pay the inter
est on the state debt. If thera be any. Tbe
-word person as used in this section Includes
natural persons, trustees, agents, receivers,
companies, partnerships and other associa
tions lor .profit, estates, joint tenants, cor
porations and collective assessments to the
heirs of deceased persons.
(a). To provide a part of such revenue
the following annual graduated specific
taxes are hereby levied on the assessed
values of land and natural resources:
First, upon every person owning land
and natural resources and Interests therein
the total assessed value of which Is greater
than twenty-five thousand (?;25,uUU) dol
Lire.
50 cents on each $100 above $25,000 and
not above SS0.0U0: and in addition thereto:
$1.00 on each $100 above $50,000 and not
above $75,000; and in addition thereto:
$2.00 on each $100 above $75,000 and not
above $100,000; and In addition thereto:
$3.00 on each $100 on all above $100,000.
(b). The amount of said specific tax col
lected In each county shall be applied by the
county in tbe following order:
First, for the county's share of state rev
enues;
Second, for the county general school and
library fund:
Third, for the county road and bridge
tuna;
Fourth, for other expenses of the county.
Lands Not Exempted.
c). The said speclflo tax upon tbe own
ers does not exempt any of the afore
said land values from tbe regular general
and special tax levies of the taxing districts
In which the property Is located, bald spe
clflo taxes shall be collected by the tax col
lector at the same time and in tbe same
manner that other taxes are collected. Any
and all assessed property of an owner is
subject to sale xor his unpaid taxes.
id). The assessed value of all personal
property and of ail improvements on land
shall be listed by the County Assessor In tne
assessment rolls separately from the
assessed values of tlie land.
Natural growths, deposits and other nat
ural resources not expressly provided for
herein shall be assessed as a part of the
land on. In or under which the same are sit
uated. (e). If any person or corporation shall
at any time in any manner acquire, transfer
or convey any land or any Interest therein
or any part thereof, to or through any nat
ural person or corporation as trustee, agent
or dummy with intent to evade or hinder
the levy or collection of any tax, the said
land shall be thereby forfeited to the State
of Oregon for the benefit of the irreducible
school fund.
(f). All provisions of the constitution and
laws In conflict herewith or with any part
hereof are hereby repealed in so far as they
conflict herewith. This section Is self-executing.
A somewhat similar measure has
been enacted In Australia, but no state
in tbe United States has adopted a sur
tax system.
POWER
KING OFF TO CONFERENCE
Chief Counsel of Reclamation Serv
ice Goes to Lake Tahoe.
Judge Will R. King, chief counsel
for the United States reclamation serv
ice, and B. G. Hopson, United States
supervising engineer for Oregon, left
last night for Lake Tahoe, Cal., where
they will attend the conference of su
pervising engineers of reclamation
projects, September 4-7.
Secretary of the Interior Lane will
attend the conference either September
6 or 7, and 27 different projects will be
represented. F. H. Newell, director; A.
P. Davis, chief engineer, and Morris
Brlen. supervising engineer of the
reclamation service, will be present.
Judge King and Engineer Hopson
will return to Portland September 10.
REMARRIAGE CUTS INCOME
Wilheim Glanz Makes Stipulation as
to Hla Widow In Will.
If Mrs. Elizabeth Glanz, widow of
Wilheim Glanz, of 872 Rodney avenue,
who died July 26, marries again she
gets only $500 from her late husband's
estate.
If she remains single she gets the
entire estate, amounting to between
$5000 and $6000 and the children, who
otherwise would Inherit all but the
$500, get nothing.
This provision Is In the will of Wil
heim Glanz, which was filed for pro
bate yesterday. The estate consists
principally of the family home at 872
Rodney, avenue. It la valued at $3000..
LIT
RATE PROBE OPENS
Railroad Commission Hears
Outline of Points to Be
Determined.
NEXT SESSION IS SEPT. 13
Voluminous Data Are Collected on
Holdings of Portland Company
In 17 Cities Where It Sells
Electricity or Service.
The State Railroad Commission yes
terday began consideration of cases
Involving light and power . rates on
commercial contracts in 17 cities of
Oregon served by the Portland Rail
way, Light & Power Company. The
cities Included are Portland, Salem,
Oregon City, Milwaukle, St. Johns,
Gladstone, Linnton, Estacada, Fair-
view, Oswego, woodburn, Silverton,
Gervais, Troutdale, Gresbam, Mount
Angel and Clackamas.
In beginning the hearing. Clyde B.
Aitchlson, chairman of the Commission,
stated the points to be determined
were:
First, whether the rates are reas
onable, taking the schedule as a whole.
Second, whether there are -discrim
inatory or unjust features in the
schedules. Closely allied with the sec
ond point is the .question of whether
the company's policy, in regard to ex
tensions, is fair.
In deciding on the points in contro
versy there Is such a mass of data,
covering a complete inventory of all
the properties or the company, to be
checked up ond considered, that it is
likely to be three months or more be
fore the Commission is ready to make
a ruling.
More Figures to be Obtained.
Yesterday's hearing last two hours.
and then was continued to September
13, to give the Portland Railway. Light
& Power Company time to complete Its
inventory. The company has had an
expert employed on this work for a
year, and much data has already been
compiled. By September 13. it is be
lieved, complete appraisement will be
in the hands of the Commission.
Yesterday's hearing consisted cWefly
in discussion and explanation of the
data already in the hands of the Com
mission. -At the next hearing, W. J.
Hagenah, the expert who is making the
appraisement for the company, will be
sworn prior to reporting on the basis
on which he made the Inventory of
the various properties.
Until complete appraisement Is in the
hands of the Commission and has been
checked up by its own engineers, lit
tle progress can be made In the in
quiry. Before making an order, it is
necessary for the Commission to have
facts on record to back up Its deci
sions, and the facts on which rate ad
justments must be made are those in
volved In the physical valuation of the
company's properties.
Realty Holdings Appraised.
The data already turned over to the
Commission includes the appraised val
uation of real estate holdings Qi the
company, fixed at $7,871,921. This does
not Include, overhead allowances for In
terest and the like, for which a valua
tion of 15.3 per cent is made In the
company's appraisement.
Among the real estate properties list
ed are the Oaks Amusemnt Park, val
ued at $345,000: the Pacific Coast
League Baseball Park, valued at $144,
000; terminal properties, valued at $4,
131,000; right of way of the Mount
Hood line, valued at $1,118,617; 100 by
100 feet at Broadway and Alder on
which tbe Electric building stands,
$461,200.
Adding he 15.3 per cent overhead al
lowance, the total realty valuation is
placed at $9,076,321.
The inventory of electric meters
gives their valuation as $636,031; of
transformers, $387,619, and of station
and sub-station equipment, $4,237,492.
In the next day or so, the Inventory
of underground properties will be
turned over to the Commission, and in
nine or ten days that of the railway
track system.
Apprnisala Found Accurate.
As soon as these last dates are in the
Commission can make fast progress
and can keep its own experts busy all
the time in checking over the appraise
ments. Professor Dearborn, of the
University of Oregon, is the expert who
is now checking over the machinery
and overhead valuation. The appraisals
so far have been found accurate.
In addition to all these figures, the
Commission also has a 750-page book
containing exact, copies of all com
mercial contracts for power and light
held by the company.
Attending yesterday's hearing were
Commissioners Aitchison. Campbell and
Miller; Levy Stripp and Attorney Tooze,
of Oregon City; P. S. Fuchs, Mayor of
Mount Angel; Professor Dearborn, ex
pert for the Commission; J. P. Newell,
its consulting engineer; J. N. Willey,
its auditor, and E. W. Moreland, its
railroad engineer, and Franklin T. Grif
fith, president of the Portland Rail
way, Light & Power Company, who is
handling Its case In person; R. A Let
ter, of Its counsel, and Manager Cold
well, of its power and light service.
The only definite action taken, by the
Commlslson was to deny the petition
of certain property owners for an ex
tension of the Mount Scott line to the
Mount Scott Cemetery. The Commis
sion ruled that there was no evidence
to show that such an extension would
serve enough people to Justify it.
KEYMEN EXPECTED
TO ACCEPT OFFER
Operators Granted Increases
Approximating 10 Per Cent
by Southern Pacific.
INDIVIDUAL RATIO IS BASIS
DYNAMITE PLOT RELATED
Negress Says Explosives Are 'Stored
Under Store Counter.
' A negro woman caused consternation
In the District Attorney's office yes
terday morning when she Informed
Deputy Dempsey that under a glass
case in one of the local department
Btores was sufficient dynamite to blow
up all tlie buildings in the block.' Mr.
Dempsey was interested for a time,
but not after she had told various
other weird stories of dangers' which
she declared are besetting her. Then
he called a deputy Sheriff and sent
her upstairs to the county Jail on a
charge of Insanity. She will be ex
amined by physicians today.
People who come to the authorities
with weird tales are not uncommon,
and in most cases it Is discovered that
their minds have gone awry.
Ballard Starts for Oklahoma.
TXT TT Rnllnrf1 WM Hta.-1""! l'flflc in
Oklahoma from Portland yesterday to
stand trial on the bad check charge.
Since he was arrested and lodge! in
the Multnomah County Jail a couple of
weeks ago to await the arrival of an
officer from Oklahoma hi3 father has
died. Ballard ascribes his diwnfail to
tl,. iia rf nnlntflR. TTp in SL'Iporpd in ho
wanted at Klamath Falls, Shuttle and
other points up ana down me uoaat tor
crooked turns. A couple of months ago
he attempted suicide in M3ford while
in a fit of desnondency by tak.'nz- an
overdose, of morphine.
General Superintendent Campbell on
Kcturn From Conference Is of
Opinion Speedy Settlement
Is In Prospect.
Bringing word that there is every
prospect of a speedy and satisfactory
settlement of the wage requests of
the Southern Pacific telegraphers, D. W.
Campbell, general superintendent of the
Southern Pacific Company, returned
trom San Francisco yesterday.
Mr. Campbell has been away from his
desk attending conferences in San
Francisco of the three district superin
tendents of the road just seven weeks
in the last eight. He sighed reflective
ly every time his eye lighted on the
heap of papers awaiting his disposal.
"One of the Important matters con
sidered by the superintendents was the
case of the telegraph operators." said
Mr. Campbell. "About a week ago the
railroad made an offer to the operators
that I think will be entirely satis
factory. It involves liberal increases in
wages approximating close to 10 per
cent.
Individual Ratio Baals.
"The offer of the company is not on
a flat wage Increase basis, but is based
on an individual ratio according to con
ditions at the different offices, taking
in account the size of the offices and the
amount of work transacted. We expect
an answer from the telegraphers soon."
While Mr. Campbell was in San
Francisco the threatened strike of
Southern Pacific trainmen over the
question of seniority in connection with
the electrified roads of the company
was also settled. He attended the con
ferences between officials of the com
pany and representatives of the train
men. "The settlement of this case was the
first under the new Federal law re
quiring mediation," said Mr. Campbell.
"I think this law is a fine thing, and
that it will lead to satisfactory and
amicable adjustment of many questions
between railroads and their employes.
It certainly worked well In this case."
Mr. Campbell said there Is no im-.
mediate prospect of the construction of
large shops at Springfield, Or., where
the company recently bought 200 acres
of land, but .-iat shops eventually
probably will be built there.
"The land at Springfield was pur
chased for yard purposes, because the
number of lines of our company now
running Into it, or soon to run there,
makes it a natural distributing point,"
Mr. Campbell explained. "More land
was bought than is needed for im
mediate requirements because It was
realized that if more were needed later,
the company would be required to pay
much more for it. There is enough land
in the tract for the establishment of
shops.
"Springfield Is near the center of the
northern district of the Southern Pa-
ciflc, and would be a natural location
for large district shops, so it is quite
likely that shops ultimately will be
located there. It Is all a matter of
the future, however.
Portland Shops to Remain.
"Such shops would not mean the re
moval of the present shops in East
Portland. These are not large shops
anyway, and would still be required for
maintenance purposes in Portland. Most
of our heavy shop work now is done at
Dunsmuir and not here."
The superintendents with whom Mr.
Campbell conferred were J. M. Davis,
of the central district, and II. V. Piatt,
of the southern district. Among the
subjects discussed in a tentative way
was the possible addition of a new pas
senger train each way between San
Francisco and Portland If passenger
traffic continues to Increase as it has
dqne lately.
"For the last three or four months,
travel both ways between San Fran-
Cisco and Portland has been excep
tionally heavy," he said. "All trains
have been crowded. It Is rather an
unusual state of affairs for it to be
heavy in both directions at once, for it
usually runs heavy in one direction or
the other, about as the birds migrate.
If it continues to increase, a new train
is quite likely.
"These things are always discussed
by officials for some time before they
become necessary so there is nothing
definite about a new train as yet."
New all-steel equipment soon will be
ready to replace the present equipment
on the Shasta Limited, Mr. Campbell
said. Sleeping cars and all will be
made entirely of steel.
OFFICE WAGEN0W ISSUE
Industrial Wclfuro Commission' Be
gins New Troblem Tonight.
A conference called by the Indus
trial Welfare Commission to consider
the wages, hours and conditions of la
bor of office employes, will meet at
the office of the commission in the
Commercial block this evening. Book
keepers, stenographers, filers and gen
eral office help are Included in the
scope of the conference, which will be
composed of the three members of the
Industrial Welfare Commission and
three representatives each of the em-,
ployers, the employes and the public.
The employers' representatives will
be C. J. Wellman. of Bradstreet's Mer- '
cantiie Agency; Franklin T. Griffith,
president of the Portland Railway,
Light & Power Company, and James B.
Kerr, attorney. The employes will be
represented by Miss Irene Armstrong,
V-ss Edna Carmody and Mlss Wynne.
The public's representatives will be
Frederick Strong, William A. Marshall
and Mrs. W. L. Brewster.
In almost every neighbor
hood there is some one
whose life has been saved
by Chamberlain's Colic,"
Cholera and Diarrhoea Rem
edy. In cases of colic and
diarrhoea this remedy has
no superior. Every family
should keep it at hand.
"I sincerely believe that my life was
saved in the Fall of 1910 by using
Chamberlain's Colic, Cholera and Diar
rhoea Remedy," writes Mrs. Agnes
Booth, Tonawanda, N. T. "I was taken
with a severe diarrhoea followed by an
attack of acute indigestion. Power of
the pen falls to portray the agonies I
endured before relief came in all the
way of this valuable remedy. I, as
well as my friends, expected me to die
as I had been unable' to get relief for
so long a time. This remedy went di
rectly to the seat of my trouble and
cured mo in a lew hours."
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