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TITK MORNING OREGONTAN". THURSDAY, DECE3IBE11 11, 1913. SILVERTON SEWAGE GASE 10 BE TRIED State Board of Health Plaintiff Against Municipality for Pollution of Stream. OTHER SUITS MAY FOLLOW Defense Said to Be Based on Theory That Silver Creek, Carrying Log Drive at Certain Seasons, Is "Navigable. Trial or the injunction suit brought by the State Board of Health against the City of Silverton for befouling Sil ver Creek will be commenced in the Circuit Court at Salem today. Dr. Cal vin S. White, secretary of the State Board, considers the suit Is of vast Im portance to the state as settling- what are to be considered navigable streams, and the right of the state to protect them from being- contaminated with sewage from cities at or near their banks. It Is probable that the case will be appealed to the Supreme Court. The penalty provided Is a fine for each five days on which the offense shall hare been committed. Prs. C. J. and A. C. Smith and I'r. White, as members of the Board of Health, and L. C. Kelsey. consulting engineer. ' will go from this city as witnesses for the state. The members of the Board of Health maintain that the city authorities of Silverton were told not to build their sewer to empty Into Silver Creek, but Ignored the warning1. The Board con siders that such cases as the pollution of Silver Creek are a big- factor In causing typhoid In the State of Oregon, and if the present policy Is kept up the state soon will not be fit to live In. Other similar cases are to be found, says the State Health Officer. In the carrying off of the sewage from the Summer hotels in the vicinity of Mount Hood, running sewers Into Zigzag Creek, and several other resorts on tho headwaters of other streams throughout the state, such as Bingham. ioley and Breltenbush Springs. The grounds on which Silverton Is maintaining that Silver Creek la navigable stream are that at certain seasons of the year the stream is large enough to float down logs. Other cities which the board will get after If it is granted an Injunction are Pen tileton, draining its sewage Into the Lmatilla River, which furnishes drink ing water for all of the irrigation projects between Pendleton and the Columbia River, and Lebanon on the tamtam River. Ington Commission, also has gone to Salem for a conference with members of the new Oregon Commission. FULL TIME MAYOR'S ORDER City Health Officer Marcel lus Must Devote Working Hour to City. That the city charter requires City Health Officer Marcellus to devote all his time, during working hours at the City Hall, to the duties of his official position, was announced yesterday by Mayor Albee. After, working hours, said the Mayor. Dr. Marcellus U free to engage in private practice If he chooses. I'r. Marcellus is said to have main tained a private office heretofore, and to have given only a part of his time to official business. WIFE'S 1 KISS COST MATE $1 Husband's Suit Against Klch Man Is On at Hlllsboro. HILLSBOr.O. Or.. Dec. 10. (Special.) The suit of Miles Watrous, asking for $25,000 damages from George Nay ior, a Forest Grove capitalist, began yesterday In Circuit Court. Watrous GROWERS TOGET AID Financial Backing for Fruitmen Next Year Possible. LOSSES OF 1912 OFFSET Through Co-operation Several Mil lions Saved, Statement Made Be fore Board of Directors of Idaho-Oregon Association. PATETTE. Idaho. Dec 10. (Spe cial.) A scheme whereby frultgrow-I ers next year will receive financial backing In caring for their orchards . and preparing for market, thereby put ting them on an Independent basis, j was said to be possible Monday at the WALDO HILLS COUPLE CELEBRATE SIXTIETH WEDDING ANNIVERSARY. EFFORTS FOR RIVER TOLD Dr. Alfred Kinney Addresses Pro moters of Salem Club. SALEM. Or.. Dec 10. (Special.) Dr. Alfred Kinney, of Astoria, president of the committee of ports of the Colum bia, vus the principal speaker tonight &t the annual banquet of the promo tion department of the Commercial Club. More than ISO persons were present, the banquet being the most successful ever given by the depart ment. Dr. Kinney told of what was being done to have the Columbia River dredged and declared that the pro posed improvement would be of great benefit to Oregon. Washington and Idaho. He urged that the business met, of this county aid in every possible wa to obtain the necessary appropria tions for the improvement. Judge P. H. D'Arcy was toastmaster and toasts were responded to by a number of Salem residents. PATENT IS 28 YEARS LATE Abrth Yakima Man Gets Control of Vnexplorcd Natural Wonder. NORTH YAKIMA. Wash.. Dec. 10. (Special.) After fighting the conserva tion element In the United States Land Department for 8 years. Adolphus C. McBride, of this city, has just received patent tor 160 acres in South Dakota, which Includes the entrance to Crystal Cave, a hole In the ground which has never been completely explored, but which is declared to be larger .than the Mammoth Cave In Kentucky. The Crystal Cave is near the North western Railroad in South Dakota and Is on the proposed National automobile highway to Glacier National Park. Mr. McBride will leave In the Spring and will open the cave for sightseers. He and his wife settled there 28 years ago, but their application for a home stead patent was held up for one rea son and another until recently. LOGGING ROAD BEING BUILT Brown Lumber Company Renovating Cottage Grove Mill. COTTAGE GROVE. Or.. Doc. 10. (Special.) Contemplated activity In the lumber market is indicated by the work being done by the United States egging Company an dthe Brown Lum ber Company. For a couple of months a crew of men has been busy In tbe forest reserve building a railway through the timber purchase by the logging company and making other arrangements for getting the timber to market Since the Brown Lumber Company closed a down a month ago. two-thirds of the mill building has been torn down and the entire structure rebuilt. Quite a lot of new machinery has been purchased and will be installed before the plant resumes operations. It Is anticipated that the repair work will require another month. Linn Granges to Meet Tuesday. ALBANY. Or.. Dec 10. (Special.) Members of the Grange from all parts of Linn County will gather here De cember 1 to attend a meeting of the Linn County Pomona Grange. This will be a meeting of unusual interest to the members of the order. Inasmuch as two of the leading members of the State Grange will make addresses. B. G. Leedy, of Corvallis. a past master of the State Grange and now a member of the executive committee, will give special-Instruction In Grange work and K. K. Rlanchard, of Grants Pass, a Rep resentative from Josephine County in the last Legislature, will speak on "Co operation." ' Hi update Off for Oregon. OLYMPIA. Wash.. Dec. 10. (Spe cial.) F. W. Hinsdale left today for Salem to take up his duties as secre tary and auditor of the Oregon Com pensation Commission. He has been chief auditor of the Washington Indus trial Insurance Commission since Its organisation, nearly three years ago. Chairman Floyd Daggett, of the Wash- : " . ' . ' I .' -', V' ... ' j i i '' ' -"" . s -v ' & 4 . ' - - . v. . 4V.3-V - - f r - : r... -i W 1 , --,- . .-". ' . j v -V ' , ,: f: -. t .':...,.. t MR. AD MRS. PHILIP GLOVER. More than 100 relatives and friends gathered at tbe country home of Mr. and Mrs. Philip Glover in Waldo Hills. November 17. Mrs. Glov er was Miss Delilah Edmunson. They came to Oregon in 1849. On the occasion of their 60th wedding anniversary a banquet was spread and congratulations poured In from all parts of the state. Of the 13 chil dren, seven still live. They are: Henry B., of Grandview, Or.; Amelia Cenlck, of Kllpsan, Wash.; Mrs. Ellen G. Lambert, of Stayton, Or.; Ar thur, of Salem; John, of Stayton, and George, of Sublimity. was on the stand half a day and the wife was called by counsel for the plaintiff today. She testified that she thought that she had kissed her hus band once, during the first year of their marriage, when he had given her a dollar for the osculatory favor. Nay lor was convicted last Winter on a statutory charge and Mrs. Watrous was named as Joint offender. Naylor Is a son of a pioneer minister of Forest Grove and la worth more than 1 100.000. ASHLAND MAY PAY SHARE Mayor Proposes Annulling Charter Provision Against Road Tax. MEDFORD. Or, Dec, 10. (Special.) With the decision of the State Supreme Court sustaining Ashland In Its conten tion that, by virtue of a clause In the Ashland charter. It was exempt from paying county road taxes. Mayor John son, of that city, declared last night that he would submit an amendment to the people in the near future annulling this provision and making Ashland re sponsible with other cities In the county for road construction. "For 14 years Ashland has paid Its road taxes In spite of Its charter pro vision until the amount has reached S3700. We feel It our right to ask for the refunding of this amount to the city." said Mr. Johnson. " "With the construction of the Pa cific Highway, however, there has been a change In the good roads sentiment here, and I think I am safe In saying that the people of Ashland In general are not only in favor of good roads in the county but feel that Ashland should bear Its share of the expense in this regard." OREGON DISPLAY IS BEST C. II. Stewart, of Albany, Writes About Land Show Exhibit. ALBANY. Or Dec. 10. (Special.) That Oregon had by far the best ex hibit at the big land show In Chicago, which closed yesterday, is the state ment of C. H. Stewart, manager of the Albany Commercial Club, who was one of the representatives at the-show. "One thing is certain." says Mr. Stewart in a letter to Miss Hinckley, assistant manager of the club, "and that is that the Oregon exhibit beats anything here. If It could be judged by the rules followed at our State Fair we would win easily over a combina tion of any six exhibits in the show. Nearly all the other exhibits run to the spectacular, while ours is a splendid collection of the varied products of our state." Mr. Stewart reports that the Oregon display attracted a great deal of attention. Reach Babies to Be Checked. NEWPORT. Or.. Dec. 10. (Special.) At a meeting of the Nye Beach Im provement Club last night it was de cided to establish a lifeline for the bathers next Summer. Mayor-elect John W. Kelly suggested that a place for checking babies be established, and his suggestion was followed out. A room with a nurse will be available after July 1. Mrs. Peter Abbey Rallies. NEWPORT. Or, Dec. 10. (Special.) Mrs. Peter M. Abbey, stricken with heart trouble yesterday, has rallied, and. though critically ill. her recovery is looked for by her physicians. monthly meeting of the board of di rectors of the Idaho-Oregon Fruit Growers Association. It was .declared that, through co operation during the present year, the fruitmen of the Northwest practically had offset the several millions which It was said was lost during 1912 owing to the. unsatisfactory conditions of marketing fruit. It was. shown that there has been paid out from the association to the fruitgrowers In the different districts the following amounts: Peaches, $1J. 513.33; prunes, J61.057.13; upples. 130, pon. The amount of material purchased by the association and distributed to Its district associations w:is valued at 165.000. The total sum borrowed for launching this movement less than six months ago was 17.30. This sum has already been paid to the banks. As the association Is creating a sinking fund by deducting SV, cents a box on peaches and prunes and S cents a box on apples. This fund will aggregate KO.000 to S25.0O0 at the close of the season, thus furnishing the association with funds on the basts of 4 per cent, which amount of Interest Is paid to the grower. The notes given in exchange to cover this sinking fund are payable In three years, so that In the aggregate the grower will have In the sinking fund after the first period of three years' IS cents a box on untiles and 7 u. r,mi I a crate on peaches and prunes. It Is estimated that the increase of acreage by the addition of new mem bers will bring this sinking fund up to the hundred thousand dollar mark within three years. An open meeting, attended by the business men of Payette, followed the session of the directors. Speeches were made on the fruit Industry by J. H. Robblns. general maVinger of the North Pacific Fruit Distributors. Spo kane: N. c. Richards, general counsel for the distributors. North Taklma, and D. L. Ingard. $12,000 GOES TO HIGHWAY Washington Commission Says Money Is to Be Pro-Rated In Counties. OLYMPIA. Wash.. Dec. 10. (Special.) The Washington Highway Commis sion yesterday apportioned (12,000 to maintenance of constructed portions of the Pacific highway. This money is to be prorated among the nine counties along the highway Clarke, Cowlltx. Lewis, Thurston. Pierce. King. Snoho mish. Skagit and Whatcom in pro portion to the mileage In each county. The Board also approved plans for a 16-mlle section of the Inland Empire highway, from Walla Walla west to Touchet, and ordered bids advertised for at once. It is estimated this piece of road will cost $31,000. Powers Third and a-. The Christmas Yamhill Powers GiKrs Powers An Event Occupying the Attend on of Wise Home Furnishers and Gift-Buy ersEnds with This Week Hundreds of samples of Iligh-Grade Rirniture, all from well-known lines many from (.rand Iiapids entered in this great sale at One-Third to One-JIalf Reduction. It is to your advantage to buy here. Partial List of Offerings of This Sale Other Bargains Equally as Interesting Await You Here on Every Furniture Dis play Floor We Will Hold Your Selections for Xmas Delivery if You So Desire Library Tables Home Desks And Other Library and Living-Room Pieces At a Reduction of Vz and V2 $33.50 Library Table, in golden waxed oak, with oval top and I0?m.n..ba.s.e: $16.75 $41.00 Library Table, in fumed oak, with 3 draw- (t'O'T 2CZ ers and shelf, for.P I OU $43.75 Library Table, in polden oak, with top CO inches lonir and lower shelf, 30 $4o.00 Combination Desk and Bookcase, in golden oak, with 4 drawers and 4 CQf HH shelves, for ifOU.UU $8.75 Magazine Rack, in fumed oak, with 3 shelves, CJ $43.00 Library Table, in mahosr any, with 2 drawers and 30x48- Zh?:. $22.50 $85.00 Home Dok of mahopranv, .ldr.a.wr:.. $42.50 $37.50 Mahogany Library Table, with long drawer ?JT Q and lower shelf .. P $50.00 fine Walnut Home Desk, with 3 drawers, 39 25 High-Grade Bedroom Furniture Seldom Offered At Such Noteworthy Reductions $"5.00 Princess Dresser, in dull finished golden oak, with mir ror 40 inches t QO gA high, for V'Ow $55.00 Chifforode in golden oak, with 7 sliding trays and a compartment frSl07 fl clothes hangers... V" ."l $09.50 Chiffonier, in birdseye maple, with complete drawer appointment, $34 75 $150.00 fine Walnut Dresser, with duplicate mirrors, case 50 inches across the C?7C Cif front, for S wiUU $03.75 fine Walnut Chiffoniers, complete drawer t"J "iZ appointment, fnr.PJJJ $00.00 Walnut Chiffonier, with oval-shaped mirror and with 4 full-width and 4 COri Clfi smaller drawers.. pOJ.Jy $55 full-size Walnut Bed, with headboard 50 ins. 07 CA high, for P $52.50 Princess Dresser, in gold en oak, with one full-width and two smaller draw-TQJ OT er. for faCO.iO $49.00 Wardrobe, in eolden oak, 50 in. high, with 0 CJOI Cft J-Iiding travs. fur $00.00 Cedar Storaee Chest with 4 drawers, copper QfC flfl trimmed, for "PtLJ.UU $5.50 Bedroom Rocker, in gold- ei seat $0.75 Bedroom Rocker, in gold en oak, with solid tf0 3tS seat, for pO.Oi $7.00 Bedroom Rocker, in gold en seat, $:i5.00 Brass Crib, 1 "T tZ( now at half price ? A n oak, with cane CJO eat. for S oak, with solid 3 50 Many Restful Arm Chairs and Rockers Have Found Their Way Into This Sale $25.73 Fumed Oak Arm Chair, with loose cushion seat and partly upholstered JJ1 O CC back, in leather. P $24.00 Mahogany Arm Rocker, iS!1.? .?!... $12.00 $48.50 High-Back Arm Rocker and fumed oak, back and seat upholstered in "JO QC Spanish leather. . P-'',J $38.50 Fumed Oak High-Back Arm Rocker, with back and spring seat, covered in Spanish f;arl.h;.r: $19.25 $30.00 Arm Chair, in fumed oak. with loose cushions, up- 11 C bolstered in leather, for. V $75.00 Fumed Oak Morris Chair, with loose cushions, covered in fr.n.ir.u!th.e.r:.. $37.50 $3!.50 Green Reed Chair of the wing-back type, seat and back upholstered in (tlQ 7tZ green leather, for P $S1 fine Mahogany Arm Chair, back and loose cushion seat, up holstered in Spanish leather, for!?.bf . T.'.1'. $54.00 $42.00 Mahogany Ann Rocker, upholstered, with loose C0 1 cushion seat, for $123.00 Mahogany Arm Chair, with cane back, t "1 1 CA green velvet seat..P Rocker to match at same price. $25.00 Mahoganv Arm Chair. :rh.:h.l:.'.$i2.50 $34.75 Mahogany Arm Rocker. with high back o: the wing pattern. mil with high back of CI 7 9C 1. .f --' Remember This Sale Ends Saturday Settees and Davenports These Reductions Are an Incentive to Buy Now $42 Settee, in fumed oak, with leather seat and partly uphol- bL:-k.oT!'"...$2i.oo $90.00 Davenport, with tufted seat and back and CCf. flfl roll arms. for. . . ipOU.UU Mahogany Settee, with side board, in woodCQQ QC M-at. for ipOO.OO $35.00 Mahogany Suite of three pieces Chair, Rocker and Set tee upholstered CO 3 QC in green vclour. . P & Diningroom Furniture A Few of the Many Instances Here: $44.00 Dining Table, in rolden waxed oak. 8 ft. exten- COO sion -d-tal base, for.?"" $57.50 Combination China Closet and Sideboard, in CJQ 35 pildcn oak, for. . r a'VJ.aJaJ .75 Buffet, in fumed oak, with complete buffet 50.00 apHintment, for. .'r' v w w $45.50 Pedestal Dining Table, in quarter-sawed golden oak. six- foot "tension, J22. 75 Sir S ilSlJ iSa CONVICT TOIL FAVORED TSE OP ritlSONERS 0. ROADS AP PROVED AXD COXDKMXKD. the convict, tt makes a permanent crim inal out of him." Klickitat Ilanclier Found Bead. GOLD END ALE. Wash, Dec. 10. (Special.) The body of Herbert II. Harris, a rancher near Roosevelt, in Eastern Klickitat, who was found dead at his farm by a nelxhbor last Sunday niornlnir. was brouirht to Ooldendale today by Coroner Merle Chapman, and is beinir held pending responses from telegrams sent to relatives. Harris was a bachelor about 40. years old and cam. to the Klickitat Valley about 12 years alto. He was found dead sitting; on a box alongside of his barn, with his pipe till In his hand. John Craver. the neighbor, who went to visit him. at first thought he was asleep. Harris last was seen alive In Roosevelt Tuesday of last week. The parents of Harris reside In Georgia, and he has brothers and sisters living In Tennessee, Okla homa and California. rublle View Hasalllatia, Declares One Prison Preacher Open Air Good for Jail Inmates, ay Anntner. PHILADELPHIA. Dec. 10. The prac ticability of using convicts in the con struction of public roads was discussed at today's session of the American Koad liuilders" Association and several speakers agreed that inmates of pris ons should be so employed, both from a moral standpoint and as a saving for the state. Joseph Hyde Pratt, state geologist of North Carolina. Introduced the subject of convict labor In a paper in which he advocated that prisoners in pen itentiaries be divided Into three classes and that they be given an opportunity to reach the first-class by good con duct. He favored the employment of prisoners In the construction of public roads. Let the convicts bvll'' t'ne roads, he said, "and the roads w'"l rebuild the convicts." The Rev. Frank Moore, superintend ent of the State Reformatory at Rail way. N. J., opposed the project. "I do not believe tt is fair to com pel the prisoners to work outside. he said. "Some men would regard em ployment as prisoners In the public view as so humiliating that the harm ful effect might never be overcome. "I am also opposed to any state ex ploiting convicts or making money out of their labor. When a state exploits! KENNEWICK CLUB ELECTS II. V. Desgranjrcs Heads Kennewlck Civic Body. KENNEWICK. Wash.. Dec. 10. (Special.) At the annual election of officers in the local Commercial Club. 11. W. Desgranses was elected presi dent. H. It. Vlbber first vice-president, M. II. Church second vice-president. W. K. Welsel. L. K. Johnson and K. M. Sly directors for two years. W. M. Matecheck and George Slierk directors for one year. W. K. Crawford and J. R. Thomas trustees for one year and E. C Tripp treasurer. The club will hold a membership campaign for the next month and ll E. Johnson, the outgoing president, and H. W. Desgranges, president-elect, were named to captain the two teams. The club voted to attend the Grange entertainment at Ftnley. Wash.. Satur day In a body and extend to the new organization, called the Plnley Live Wires, a heart y co-operation In mat ters of Interest to the Kennewlck and Pinlcy valleys. BAKER MAN TO INSPECT Gerry Snow, Stockman, Will Observe Stockyards Cattle. Gerry Snow, an Eastern Oregon stockman, formerly of Baker, will be stationed at the Portland Union Stork yards after January 1 as an inspector uf all cattle received there. He was appointed by the Cattle and Horse raisers' Association of CVeKon. at a meeting held at the Imperial Hotel last night, and will be paid by the associa tion. The meeting was preliminary to the gathering which will be held in the assembly-room of the Tutillc Library at 8 o'clock tonight at which the future policy of the association will be ue cided. The association was organized at a meeting at Baker last Hay. when the following officers were elected: President. William Pollman; firs rlce-preslili-nt, J. E. Thompson; second vice-president, Henry Haas: secretary. S. O. Correll: treasurer. William Duby. dan. Wyo., to Miss Harriet Friend. The bride is well known in Pasco, having lived here for a couple of years with her uncle. George Austin. FRANK GUST, 87, IS DEAD Pastor and Krlcnd, 8 6. Conducts Sort-iocs at Funeral. POME ROT, Wash. Dec. 10. (Spe cial.) Rev. S. A. Woods, more than 6 years old, preached the funeral ser mon Monday over the body of his friend. Frank Gust, who died the day before, in his STlh year. Mr. Woods also conducted the services at the funeral of the wife of Frank Gust, who was her husband's senior by 10 years, and who died IS months ago. Frank Gust was born in Germany and came to America during his early manhood. He was the father of Mrs. Carl Ogden. who resides on a farm near Pomerny, and had lived with his daughter for several years. Pasco Physician Is Ilencdiot. PASCO. Wash.. Dec. 10. (Special.) Dr. L. P. Murphy, former City Coun cilman, was married recently In bnerl- Higlier Plione Kale Asked. SALEM. Or.. Dec. 10. (Special.) The Aurora Mutual Telephone Com pany today applied to t!ie State Rail road Commission tor permission to in crease Its rates from 73 cents a month to 1 . 2". The company reported th:it the line could not be maintained under prfrspnl rts. HEAD STUFFED? GOT A COLD? TRY PAPE'S "Pape's Cold Compound" relieves worst cold or the grippe in few hours No quinine used. Take "Pape's Cold Compound" eveiy two hours until you hav taken thre doses, then all grippe misery goes a"iJ your cold will he hrokeu. It promptly opens your clogged-up nostrils and the air passages of the head; Mops nasty discharge or nose running: relieves the headache, dullness, feveriyhne!. bop throat, sneexlng. soreness and stiffness. Ion't stay stuffed-up! yuit blowing and snuffling. Ease your throbbing head nothing else in tiie world gi-e- such prompt relief as "Pape's CoM Compound." which costs only conn at any drug store. It acts ni;hoi.t assistance, tastes nice, and causes in Inconvenience. Accept no substitute. Adv.