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16 YEAR WILL WITNESS MANY RAILS LAID Twohy Bros. Have Contracts in Five States and in L British Columbia. KAMLOOPS JOB LARGEST Only Fen- Contracts Have Been. .Made, but Old Construction Plans Are Being Pushed in All Directions. John Twohy. head of the Twohy Brothers Company, railroad contract, tors, returned yesterday from San Francisco prepared for a new season of construction activity in various .parts of Oregon, Washington, Idaho, Montana, Wyoming and British Co lumbia, which will give employment to an army of laborers and open up new territory for commercial invasion. The principal contract upon which Twohy Brothers are now engaged is the construction of the new Canadian Northern line, through Kamloops Pass. This, perhaps, is the most difficult piece of railroad building attempted in the Xorthwest for several years. Much of the material is being transported by water, a vessel of special design hav ing been constructed for this purpose. Activity on this line has Been prose cuted nearly all Winter. A force of 1500 men is now employed. As many more men will be put to work before the end of the present month. Most of these-men are re cruited in the immediate vicinity of the work, although many are taken lrom Portland. As the Canadian North ern is not yet an operating road, it Is not aDie to turnish transportation, so these laborers are required to pay their own fares. ' A large force of men is employed by Twohy Brothers on the Coyote cut-off -which the O.-W. R. & N. Company Is building in Umatilla County. Con struction camps are maintained at either end of this line and the work will ba rushed, to completion. An 80-mile contract is being com pleted for the St. Paul road across Montana. Twohy Bros, did consider able construction work for the St. Paul in Montana last year also. AVyomlns Work Bel Die Pushed. Another important piece of work this year will be the completion of the Bur lington cut-off. between Thermopolls and Powder rtiver. Wyoming. This work has been under way for more than a year, but activity was practi cally suspended through the Winter Mr. Twohy declares that activity will be resumed there and the job completed this Summer. This piece of work has peculiar sig nificance. With its completion the Hill lines will have a new direct line be tween the North Pacific Coast and the Gulf of Mexico, or from Portland to Galveston. This new route is formed by a combination of Hill lines, includ ing the North Bank, the Great North ern, the Burlington and the Colorado & Southern. It is claimed that by using this route the Hill roads will be-able to handle traffic between Portland and the Atlantic seaboard in profitable com petition with the Panama Canal. A water line would be necessary between Galveston and the Atlantic Coast points to make this service complete. Twohy Bros, have just completed work on the first 23 miles of the new Southern Pacific line now being built from Eugene to Coos Bay and have driven a tunnel nearly a mile in length through the Coast range at NotL w Speed Record Hiking, They also are building the O.-W. R. & N. Company's new terminals at Spo kane and are making a ne -wrecord for speed on this job. This terminal will be used jointly by the O.-W. R. & N. a d the Chicago. Milwaukee & St Paul roads. Construction work has been continued on this particular project through most of the Winter. While not a great deal of new rail road construction is in sight for the immediate future, the resumption of activity on these incompleted projects will provide employment for many hundred men this Summer. "The Twohy Brothers Company maintains its offices and material yards in Portland, does most of its outfitting here and se cures many men here. FATHER WINS HIS CHILDREN Cliarles J. Maher Appointed Guard ian After Courtroom Struggle. After a long legal contest between Charles J. Maher and his sister-in-law Miss Margaret White, for the custody of two minor children. Richard B Maher. aged 9. and Blbiana M. Maher aged 5, Circuit Judge Cleeton yester day appointed the father as guardian The children's mother died March i last. Miss White filed a petition for her appointment as guardian, charging that their father was not financially or morally fit to care for them. Miss White, a sister of Mrs. Maher. is sec retary for City Commissioner Brewster. In her petition for appointment as guardian. Miss White charged that her brother-in-law had taught the children to play cards, had given wine to the oy and encouraged him to disrespect Jiis mother. Te boy, on the witness stand, testified that his mother had taught him to play cards and denied that his father had offered him liquor. J. D. LEWISES INDIGNANT Colored Clothing Salesman Has Mis understanding Wit.li Police. J. T. Lewis, a colored clothing sales man, living with his family at S.ri8 Williams avenue, is indignant at a few members of the po lice force because, he says. they threatened to arrest him in connection with a contract to furnish 13 officers' uniforms at half price. He says he has worked for five years for Wana maker & Brown, a. Philadelphia house that makes uniforms. Lewis says: "I was competing for an order for 1200 suits for the Portland Hallway, Light & Power Companv The regular price for the policemen's uniforms is $32.50. I thought that if I obtained the order for the conductors and motormen I could afford to tur nish the police uniforms at $16.50. Then 1 had some trouble with the house and- cancelled the order." PRINCIPAL MAKES DENIAL Tale-Bearing Not Kncoui-aged. He Sajs, and Students Xot Mutinous. BAKER, Or, April 3. (Special.) Principal H. M. Elton, of the Baker High School, tonight gave the follow- ing statement, for which he requested puoiication: "Statements regarding the troubles " me Baser Hies School were erro neous. There was no mutlnv at anv time at the Baker High School, . nor even tne slightest insubordination on the part of the students. The charge made that tale-bearing was encouraged by Principal Elton is untrue. As a matter of fact the information regard ing the plan of the students to play hookey on April Fool's day was given to the principal by a member of the school Board. The escapade was aban doned by the students without protest ai ine mere request of the principal. The subsequent defacing of the statues belonging to the school was not a measure of protest by the students, but was the act of a few irresponslbles. The student body, on their own Initia tive, appointed a committee to repair the damage, and adopted resolutions stronsly condemning the act of van- RCPCBLICAN CANDIDATE FUR f COUNTY SIRVEVOR HAS f i r.u ir.HK 13 i ears. K ra rt A. Middlebrooks. Ernest A. Middlebrooks is a candidate for the Republican nomination for County Surveyor, not for the Legislature, as erron eously reported.- He is l civil engineer who has made Port land his residence for the past 13 years. Mr. Middlebrooks has had experience in road and mu nicipal engineering, and for three years was in the Government service. He was stationed at Fort Stevens and later at Celllo. He favors economical construc tion of permanent roads to facili tate transportation of farm prod ucts. -Give the people what they pay for," is his slogan. dalism. Resolutions were also drawn up to be presented to the local press indorsing the actions of the principal and deploring the publication of the false statements." FIGHT CENTERS ON GIRL FATHER PROTESTS BIARRIAUK OK 1S-1EAIUOLD TO BETRAYER. Grand Jury Refuses Indict Man Wba Wronged Child, Holding Cere, rnony Wontd Be Better. OKOVILLE. Cal.. April 3 (Special.) A Tight for the guardianship of An Kel'a. Ambrose, a 15-year-old Portugese girl of Nord, that has been taken up by women's clubs and many other or ganizations in Butte County and which threatens to be carried to the Gover nor and Attorney-General'before it is settled, was precipitated today when J -dge Albery, of Colusa County, ap pointed Probation Officer Cline aa the girl's guardian. When 13 years old the girl was the victim of her father's partner in busi ness. Joseph Fretas. and the wrongs, according to hia own confession, con tinued over a period of two years. When the girl became a mother her fat'aer took up the case and had Fretaa arrested. The grand jury, although the evi dence against the man was complete, refused to indict him. holding that it would be better to arrange for a mar riage. The father refused to give his consent. Then In order that she might be al lowed to marry her betrayer, she had a hearing In the Juvenile Court and was declared a delinquent. Her guar dd'an just appointed may legally give his consent to the marriage, notwith standing the fact that her parents op pose it. The father declares he will carry the fight to the Governor and Attorney General in an effort to compel the of ficials of Butte County to prosecute his daughter's offender. TEACHERS' HELP IS ASKED Plans Made for Revision of Study Courses In Public Schools. Tn the revision of " the course of study for the public schools of Port land principals and teachers will be organized by Superintendent Alderman into advisory committees. The meet ing for this purpose will be held at Lincoln High School this morning at 10:30. Teachers will meet by classes and will elect their representatives to serve on the various committees. At 11:15 representatives of the grade teachers and of the principals will meet and make plans for the tourse on reading. arithmetic. language, geography, history, physiology, nature study and civics. The reports of the committees on suggested courses of study will be filed with the superin tendent not later than May 2. RABID DOG BITES TWO MEN Pasteur Treatment Ordered for Vic tims at Tigard. Two men and four dogs were bitten at Tigard, Washington County. Thurs day by a dog suffering from an ad vanced case of rabies. All of the dogs were shot soon after the biting oc curred, and yesterday ' Pasteur treat ment was ordered from the Government laboratory at Washington for the men. The rabid dog was a Spitz belong ing to Peter Huffman, a grocer at Tigard. It bit him and James North, a laborer. The dog's head ' was sent to the laboratory of the State Board of Health in this city. The animal had nearly bitten its . tongue off be fore it was shot. A microscopic ex amination of the brain tissue gave pos itive evidence of rabies. Two Schools Spell Perfectly. KELSO. Wash.. April 3. (Special.) In the Cowlitz County spelling contest, two of the schools, the one at Eufaula and that at Martin's Bluff, are credited with perfect scores in the second pre liminary match. This is the second time the Eufaula school has led the rest of the county in this contest. if. : . fllgf ill I I - i X if ' - j . TITE MORNING OREGOMAX, SATURDAY, GET EVEN' DIVORCE MOTIVE ALLEGED Mrs. Frank Poss, of New York and Detroit, Denies Hus band's Charges. $12,000 ALIMONY IS ASKED Wife of Baseball ; Magnate Avers Mate's Allegations "Absurd and ' Outrageous," and Says She Was Xot "Indiscreet." NEW YORK, March 30. Declaring that her husband brought his action for divorce solely to "get even" with her for filing a separation action against him. Mrs. Lillian K.' Poss, wife of Frank R. Poss, president of the Poss Motor Company, of New York and De troit, filed recently an answer to her husbands charges. Mr. Poss had ac cused her of misconduct with Perclval M. Thorn, president of the Manufac turers' Coal & Utility Company, of this cltv. The action begun by Mr. Poss fol lowed two actions begun by Mr. Thorn's wife. In one Mrs. Thorn asks 1100.000 damages from Mrs. Poss. alleging the latter had alienated the affections of Mr. Thorn. In another she sought a separation from Mr. Thorn. Previous to the circumstance on which the di vorce action waa based there was a call made at Mrs. Poss' apartment. No. 137 Riverside Drive, by Mr. Poss and detectives who alleged that they found Mrs. Poss and Mr. Thorn there. "Indiscreet" Charges Denied.' In her answer Mrs. Poss brands as "absurd and outrageous" her husband's charges that she had been indiscreet. With the filing of her answer Mrs. Poss obtained an order directing her hus band to appear in Supreme Court and show cause why he should not be com pelled to pay her alimony at the rate of 11000 a month and counsel fee of 11C00. pending trial of the divorce pro ceedings. In support of her contention that Mr. Poss was able to pay her $12,000 a year alimony, Mrs. Poss asserts that her husband had an income of $75,000 a year and gave details to show how they lived. She stated her husband paid a yearly rental of from $3000 to $3500; that he owned two automobiles and this his monthly personal expenses were from $2500 to $3000. A few details of what it coat Mr. Poss to provide his wife with what she styled the things to which she had been accustomed are included In Mrs. Poss' answer. After reciting that she had an 'allowance of $450 a month for household expenses. Mrs. Poss said she also had an electric automobile for her own use: that her husband paid from $125 to $200 for her gowns and from $-'5 to $65 for her hats, of which she al ways had a dozen each season. Her entertaining at home, she said, cost $125 a mouth extra. Posh I Baseball Magnate. Mrs. Poss related that her husband always owned two seats at the Metro politan Opera-House. and that he enter tained at dinner parties and after thea ter suppers. Mrs. Poss ears her hus band is vice-president of the Detroit baseball club and is associated with W. H. Vawkey. a Michigan capitalist, in several large money-making enter prises. Mr. Poss. she" alleges, receives each month from the Big Creek Oil Company a check of from $5000 to $7000. She gives a long list of timber lands and mining properties in which he is interested. Mr. Poss is a member of the New York Athletic Club, the Travers Island Yacht Club, the Columbia Yacht Club, the Atlantic Yacht Club and the Lambs' Club. O'Gorman. Battle A Vandlver represent Mrs. Poss. and Mr. Poss Is represented by Lorren M. Hart, of No. 115 Broadway. PASTOR HAS. UNIQUE JOB CONSl'LTISO SOCIOLOGIST IS TITLE . OF" SEW YORK PREACHER. Rev. .Charles Stelzle Mays Ministers Should Open l Instead of Closing? Things. ST. LOUIS. March 31. Rev. Charles Stelzle, of New York City, who follows the unique profession of "consulting sociologist." recently visited old friends In St. Louis. 4Since his former pastorate at the Markham Institutional Church at Men. ard and Julia streets. Rev. Mr. Stelzle has held various offices in the Presby terian Church, relating particularly to questions of labor and immigration. From this work he saw the need of the calling of "consulting sociologist." His offices in the Fifth avenue build ing. New York, are the only ones of the kind in the world. Rev. Mr. Stelzle recently has com pleted a $3000 commission from the Chamber of Commerce In Jersey City, N. J. This waa to make a study of condi tions in the city, of industrial life, housing conditions the tendency of immigrant population, recreation life. Including motion pictures, dance halls, saloons and many other points of civic Interest. At Wllkesbarre, Pa., he car ried on a -similar investigation. At Green Bay. Wis., he has just com pleted a week of meetings, in which so cial service was combined with evan gelism, and at the conclusion of which he had 600 persons pledged to take some part in doing social service, either with money or with their own labor. "The ioea of the 'consulting sociolo gist," " said Mr. Stelzle, "is to make recommendations as to what ought to be done constructively. The preachers want to shut up things the saloon, the dance hall and the Improper pic tures. I say it Is about time they open up something. My plan Is to suggest something constructive to meet the needs of young people whoxare simply responding to a perfectly natural de sire to have a goad time." Mr; Stelzle will conduct several one. day conferences in various Texas towns. nu is to nave a week a meetings in El Paso. PARIS HAS POLICE SCHOOL St reet Disputes, Huts and Tricks of Crime Taught-by Films. PARia Anvil A ... tii . i - - . - i wiicq month of a practical school for police. Which in intnill n n ) . a I . -. t j . " . - " fti.a illDIU technical instruction in their profes- education, it win also comprise a comprehensive cinematograph course. .'uns ponce orncer will be taUCht bv thfl Kfr.n 1 n. n . and difficulty of his role In Paris. He -win ot given a succession of street scenes in which he Is called upon to In terfere. and showing how he ought to act, such as mere disputes, blocking the pavement, dangerous Mjuarrels, as. sistance to the wounded, help for old men. women and children, etc. There will be lessons In all the tricks of the apaches and their forbidden games of chance, with specimens of their com mon disguises, how they carry and use arms, and who deal in them. It is thus hoped within a few months to instill knowledge which might oth erwise take years of actual duty to learn.. For Inspectors and Judiciary police the course will follow criminal Investigations from the beginning to the end. how to take first observations, gather clews and follow them up. all taJcen from actual cases or specially combined. Attendance will be compul sory, and M. Hennlon himself will fre quently be present. The system is Intended to teach "how every member o'f the force in his own decree should be an educator and trainer of men. and how they cannot attain this result without themselves being examples of discipline and en ergy, without ceasing to be ever Just aud kindly. "GROWN .PBINCF'FRAUU WIHTKMBKHG" AXO -LORD STAN. TOS BOPK" INVADK SOCIETY. Relatives f Those Who Have Been Int. posed Upon by Pair Threaten t Take Summary Vengeance. LONDON, April 3 The Chronicle of the doings of the "Crown Prince of Wurtemberg'" and "Lord Stanton Hope," who succeeded In hoaxing Claude Gra ham White and a number of prominent society people at Hendon and else where. Is, It appears, far from com plete. Tremendous interest has been aroused in tha adventures or the "Crown Prince" and his private secre tary, "Lord Stanton Hope." and further details are now available of their ex traordinary imposture. Letters of thanks have reached the Standard from a number ef titled people hoaxed con gratulating that Journal on being able to expose the pretentious pair and so save their friends from further ridi cule, and It is understood that as a re sult of the exposure the week-end plans of the adventurers nave been utterly upset and a distinguished General and his family saved from deception. After appearing at the Sunduv flying meeting at "Hendon and be'ng an nounced In last Monday's newspapers as the Crown Prince of Wurtemberg and Lord Stanton Hope. It appears that numerous invitations to luncheons, re ceptions, dinners and dances were showered upon them from all sides dur ing the week. The best invitations were unerringly selected, "Lord Stanton" choosing for his "royal master" where to go and what to do. Their circle of acquaintances extend ed rapidly day after day, but the sus picions of some titled women were aroused by the persistence with which "Lord Stanton Hope" rang them up on the telephone asking for appointments and Invitations to call, and subsequent inquiries revealed that there was no such person as the Crown Prince of Wurtemberg mentioned in the "Al manach de Gotha" and nobody in "De brett's Peerage" of the name of Lord btanton Hope. The news spread rapidly and frantic telegrams weru sent cancelling en gagements made with the impostors. One or two of the husbands and broth ers of the women who were hoaxed expressed the intention of getting even with the Impostors by administering a sound thrashing to both. "DRY" WORKERS EXPELLED Party or Ministers and W. C. T. CT. Members Ousted by Chlcr. HAMMOND. In March 31 Not since the days when Virginia Brooks waa kicking policemen on the shins has est Hammond had such a burst of excitement Chief of Police John Okraj ordered ten W. C. T. V. workers and two min isters to leave town. The party had come to West Hammond to distribute literature to. defeat the "wets" In the election of April 7. The party came back to town In the evening and held a meeting, to which everybody was invited. Miss Alvlna McDonald, of the Cook County W. C. T. V.. started to make a speech at the West Hammond Woman's Civic League headquarters. She was hooted and hissed and told she was "no lady." Ona woman advised her to "talk about us and cut the sta tistics." Another shouted that the ea loons paid $18,000 to West Hammond half the annual revenue and that If the "drys" won. this money would go to Hammond. Ind Just across the line. Half the audience left the hall. The other half threw spitballs at each other, laughed, talked and sang. Mia Mc Donald's voice could not bo heard, and the meeting waa declared adjourned. MAN, SPURNED, WOULD DIE Chicago Man, Near Denth. Finds Wife Wants to Ileturn. CINCINNATI. O.TMarch 31 Because his wife had refused to live with him. Walter Crawford, who came here from Chicago, swallowed poison after writ ing a note to his wife. Mrs. Mabel Long Crawford, declaring his love for her. Mrs. Crawford was notified of her husband's act. and she hurried! to the city hospital. She said they were mar ried two years ago in Chicago and came here two months ago. Crawford had assumed tha name of C B. Martin and had a membership card In the First Ward Democratic Club of Chicago, in the name of Mar tin. "Let me die,"' he whispered. "My wife will have nothing to do with me. I have few friends. I don't want my family to be disgraced." The wife, a pretty young woman, took the shaking hands In hers. "Why did you do it?" she sobbed. "I loved you better than anything in the world. You did not lova me." he said. "Oh. but I do.". she cried. "I would have come back to you. I will now If you will only get well." And then the nurse led her from the room. The physicians say Crawford cannot recover. DIVORCE 0. K. IN 2 STATES Woman Loses Attempt to (iet New Decree and Alimony. NEW HAVEN. Conn.. March 30 The validity of a South Dakota divorce was upheld by. Judge Holcomb. of the Su perior Court, in a suit brought by Sarah B. Gildersleeve against Edwin C. Gll dersleeve, who had secured a divorce in Sioux Falls, S. D. The Glldersleeves were married here In 1890. In 1894 the husband went to Sioux Falls and obtained a divorce In 1896. Some months ago Gildersleeve fell heir to property valued, Mrs. Gilder sleeve claims, at $70,000. She began an action for divorce and alimony and claimed that she was still a wife, as the South Dakota decree could not be recognized in Connecticut. APRITj 4, 1914. Sweet By - and Iatatwtt . kT-aai.tr, Vasasll mmtm thatksnva -fal saora, (FomJ oai pa( 485, "Heart Songa") 'Heart Songs'! a piano or an organ a woman's voice be it that of wife or daughter or sister will give you, once again, all your mother's favorites. Every evening, after your day's work, you may soothe your wearied senses with the old songs she used to sing to yoa.. Your children will be the better for singing them and you the better for hear ing them. Try itl This paperputs it into your power, almost as a gift. The Oregoniam' Through Its Distributing Offer of HEART SONG Is Now Presenting To All Its Readers The Greatest Song Book Ever Gotten Together, ALMOST FREE No other collection has WITH EVERY SONG The efforts of Four Years of song gathering from 20,000 music lovers Jill its 500 pages A few of the Mothers' Songs in Heart Songs Baby Banting Baby Mine Cradle Song, Swedish Emmet's Cradle Song Hush, My Babe Jack and Gill Lullaby from"Ennlnie Lullaby f rom'TToyland" Mary Had a Little Lamb My Trundle Bed Old Dog Tray Hush Thee, My Baby Sweet By and By Sweet and Low Sleep, Beloved, Sleep Those Evening Bells TARDY PATENT GRANTED LATH TOM JOHNSON'S IXVEXTION GAINS RECOCMTIOX. Waahlnatoa - offlre laanea Para la Name af Mr a. MarRarvt J. Joaa. aom. .idmlalatratrlx. CLEVELAND, March 31 Four years aftr Tom L. Jobnaon's ieath. a patent on his Invention of a high-apeed rail war waa announced at Washington. Tho patent was said by associates of the former Mayor to be basic Mr. Johnson worked for years on his hlg-h-speed railway Idea. He built a model in the basement of his home, which, according; to his friends, demon, strated that the invention was practi cal. It was Mr. Johnson's belief that a car could be propelled by his device at a speed of 600 miles an hour. The patent announced at Washing - By Beautiful Art Binding, Gold Cover Clean Cut Music Text, FinePaper Clear Type Opens Flat Art Gallery of the World's Greatest Singers, with Biographical Sketch under each portrait. Elaborate Dictionary of Musical Terms. SONG from Cover SONG MUSIC! to Cover MUSIC! 400 SONGS Arranged in Ten Classes ton waa granted In the name or Mrs. Margaret J. Johnson, administratrix of the former Mayor's estate. Xie model that Mr. Johnson had in his home was a car without wheels, suspended by hooklike evtenslons from tracks beneath an elevated railroad. The car was operated entirely by magnetism. When first set in opera tion the hooks by which It was sus pended lifted until one-quarter of - an inch clear of the tracks, so that the car hung in the air, in contact with nothing. Another set of magnets pro pelled It fo.-v-ard or backward. "I rode in it It was entirely prac tical." A. B.'DuPont close friend of Mr. Johnson, said. "It waa considered that by such a method a trip from New York to Chi cago couM be made In two hours," Mr. DuPont said. CUDAHY PREDICTS DROP Pncktr Declare More Animals Re Ing liaised Tlinn Formerly. MILWAUKEE. March 11. "I expect What word-raajic can paint your feeiingt, when, as the years go by, some far-afi tune is whistled in the street, that your mother used to sins to you; orsocDc hand organ ditty, softened by distance, floats in to your vrmd ow with a strain that you often heard on her I:ps; or some piano in the neighborhood accompanies a sweet . rotce with the music that oece charmed way all your childish cares and troubles. What words, we-say, can describe these tender memories that cotne floating to yxrn on the wings of melody. Yet, what would you not give to. be able to summon at will these dearest of life's re collections! 400 songs A GEM Coupon Elsewhere in today's paper explains terms In IS months food prices will drop." aaid Patrick Cudahy. multi-millionaire packer, discussing a Government re port on the cost of living. The world is raising more anima4s than It has been. Germany and France have all the hogs they want, and that shows an Increasing supply. Prices vfould have been lower In the Vnittd .States right now If It had not been tor the hog cholera. "High prices that have prevailed for some years have made it profitable to raise livestock.-and soon there will be enough on the markets to cut prices." Food prices In the I'nited stales reached the hlarhevt level In 24 yenro November 1. 1S1. Sine then tlierc has been a alight decline, though the average is well above that of a ytr ago. the Government report tays. "Prices were Man in November compared with what they were mi years no when they were low." said ir. t.uaany. "but they ware not hi.n when compared with prices of two or three year atro. I do not see. howe-er. that th.-re has been much decline since ovemr.