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THE MORNING OREGONIAN, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 3, 1914. 3 JACOB FURTH IS DEAD If SEATTLE Millionaire Banker and Power Company President Passes Away After Long Illness. PROMNENT SEATTLE BANKER AND FINANCIER WHO DIED YESTERDAY. FINANCIER 74 YEARS OLD Arriving: on l'uget Sound in 1883 He. rounded Bank This Was Merged With Another in 1910 to I'oriu One of. Largest. SEATTLE, Wash., June 2. Jacob Furth, president of the Puget Sound Traction, Light & Power Company and chairman of the board of directors of the Seattle National Bank, died at his borne here late today. Death was caused by heart trouble, Mr. Furth's health having been fail ing for more than a year. Two months ago he went to San Francisco for treatment and after pass Ing a month in a sanitarium there re turned to his home here and began putting his affairs in order for the end. Jacob Furth, a leading financier of Pugret Sound and head of the Stone & Webster interests in the State of Wash ington, was born in Schichan, Bohemia, November 13 ,1840, and came to Amer lea -when 17 years old. He went direct to California. He attended school for 6 months at Nevada City. Then he went to work In a general store and in a short time was engaged in business for himself at North San Juan, Cal. For several years he was proprietor of a dry good 3 store at Colusa, Cal. In 1882 he sold out his business in California and came to Seattle, estab lishing the Puget Sound National Bank In 1883. He remained at the head of this bank until 1910, when it was con FOlidated with the Seattle National Bank, forming one of the largest banking institutions in the Pacific Northwest. Mr. Furth was made chairman of the board of directors of the consolidated bank and held that position at the time of his death. He was reputed to worth several mil . lion dollars. Interested In Many Companies. Besides his interest in banking, Mr. Furth became interested in the trac tion svstem of Seattle. With the aid of Boston capitalists he effected a con solidation of the numerous small street railway companies in Seattle, later taking in the systems in Tacoma, Kverett and Belingham. together with lnterurgan lines connecting with those cities, forming the Puget Sound Trac tion. Light & Power Company, of which he was president. Mr. Furth was actively interested in many corporations, banking and indus trial, throughout the state, including the First National Bank, of Snohomish; the Bankers' Trust Company, of Ta coma; the Lumbermen's Bank, of Hoquiam; the Pacific State Bank, of South Bend; the Citizens' Bank, of Bremerton; the Kitsap County Bank, of Port Orchard; the Seattle Title & Trust Company, and the Furth Improvement Company. Caae Still Pending- In Courts. In April, 1913, following the failure of the private bank of W. E. Schricker & Co., of La Connor, Mr. Furth was convicted of abetting W. E. Schricker in accepting deposits after Schricker's bank was known to be insolvent. A fine of $10,000 was imposed on the Seattle banker, but Mr. Furth appealed to the State Supreme Court, where the case is still pending. In 1865, while at Shingle Springs, Nev Mr. Furth married Miss L. A. Dunton. of Indiana, Mrs. Furth and three daughters, Mrs. Jane F. Terry, Mrs. Frederick K. Struve and Mrs Alexander M. Wetherill, wife of Cap tain Wetherill, U. s. A., are living. NAVAL MILITIA INSPECTED Plans Are. Made fop Transfer Under Government Control. Preliminary to the passing of the Naval Militia to Federal control Adjutant-General Finzer, with the members of the Naval Board, Inspected the men on the cruiser Boston last night and explained to them the Federal regula tions with which they must comply if they would raise their status to that of the National. Guard. General Finzer read the orders to the men while they stood at attention on. the quarter-deck. Before June 20 a regular naval of ficer will inspect the Naval Militia. If his report is satisfactory the Naval Militia will be placed on the same status as the National Guard, and will receive better supplies from the Government. LABOR UNIONS ARE EXEMPT Continued From First Page.) such organizations and their members shall not be construed or held to be combinations or conspiracies in re straint of trade. The measure also limits the use of the injunction in la bor disputes; legalizes strikes, primary boycotts, peaceful picketing and the peaceful assemblage of strikers, and provides for trial by jury In cases of contempt of court committed outside of the presence of the court or not near enough to interfere with the ad ministration of justice. The penalty section would Impose a fine of $5000 on corporations convicted of violating the law, and a similar fine or imprisonment for one year as a pen alty for directors, officers, agents or employes who authorize, direct or do acts which result in violations of th law by the corporation. Mann and Murdock got Into a wordy exchange over talk of amalgamation of their parties. "Do you think," asked Mr. Murdock, "there is any chance of amalgamation between a set of men who want to go forward and a set of men who want to sidestep and dodge everything?" He said Mr. Mann had not consulted Colonel Roosevelt enough and that the Colonel could not Justly be accused of dodging anything. He asserted "the gentleman from Yale,"' as he referred to Mr. Taft, and the Republican leader of the House and the "reactionaries at the other end of the Capitol" had blocked anti-trust legislation. "There has been talk of amalgama tion," replied Mr Mann, "but the so called Progressives are coming back into the Republican party. It is not amalgamation, but whatever the out come. Mr. Murdock will be left out in the cold for repudiating the Republi can party which elected him to Con gress." Washington Postmasters Xamed. OREGONIAN NEWS BUREAU, Wash ington, June 2. Two Washington postmasters were appointed today, as follows: Pearl M. Carty, Piedmont, vice Lucy E. Shepard. resigned; James Donaldson. Queets. Jefferson County, new office. - A & A I t ( s , , 1 v. ' JACOB KURTTt. ALL CLATSOP JOINS IN TODAY'S JUBILEE New Flavel Wharf, Astoria's Dock and Seawall and Co lumbia Highway to Start. CROWDS DUE FROM AFAR Day of Celebration Is mied ; With Many - Phased Programme at Two Cities Distinguished Men of State Coming. ASTORIA. Or., June 2. (Special.) Tomorrow will be a day of rejoicing for every inhabitant of Clatsop County over the four big development features to be inaugurated then. They are: The North Bank terminals at Flavel, the municipal docks and the reclamation of tidelands In Astoria, and the first work on Clatsop County's portion of the great Loiumnia Highway. Prominent men from all sections of the Northwest will be present to assist in rormally dedicating the work, while the citizens of 'the lower river have decided to make the occasion a com plete holiday. All the stores, business houses, manufacturing plants and even the schools will be closed, and the en tire population will assemble to partici pate in the exercises. The day's programme will be ODened at Westport, on the arival of the train from Portland. It will be the formal opening of construction work on the Columbia Highway. The first dirt will be turned by a plow drawn by a six mule team, with Julius L. Meier, pres ident of the State Highway Associa tion, handling the reins, and Governor West directing the plow. The train then will proceed to Flavel, where the first pile for the Hill wharves will be driven and the principal exercises will De held. President Gllman, of the Spokane, Portland & Seattle: A. r. Charlton, of the Northern Pacific, and Marshall N. Dana, of Portland, will be the leading speakers. . The scene will be shifted in the aft ernoon to Astoria, where the construc tion or the municipal dock and the sea wall will be inaugurated. Th day's celebration will be closed with an informal reception and lunrhirn t the Weinhard-Astoria. The outlook for pleasant weather is good and the day promises to witness one of the greatest gatherings in the history of the lower river district. PORTLAXDERS IJEAVE 8:10 A. M. Big Delegation, Including- Railroad Officials to Visit Clatsop. The principal officials of the North Bank Railroad, in Portland, and a con- loeraoie delegation of prominent Port. land, business men will leave at 8:10 o'clock this morning for Flavel, to co operate with the citizens of Astoria and Flavel in celebrating the com mencement of active construction work on the North Bank terminal docks which are to serve the big coasters of the Great Northern and Northern Pa cific. In the railroad party, which will travel in President Gilman's private car. wilt be L. C. Oilman, president of the North Bank lines: W. D. Scott, gen eral manager; W. D. Skinner, traffic manager; W. F. Turner, controller, and others. A. M. Lupfer, chief engineer, and William Gerig, consulting engineer, left for the scene of the celebration yesterday. Among the prominent Portlanders who will go are: C. C. Chapman, of the Commercial Club; A. H. AverllL presi dent ' of the Chamber of Commerce; Julius L. Meier, A. D. Charlton, assist ant general passenger agent of the Northern Pacific, and J. N. Teal. A number of steamship and real estate men who are particularly interested in property near the mouth of the Colum bia River will also attend the jubilee. It was expected that Louis W. Hill, president of the Great Northern, would head the railroad delegation, but he has sent word that he will probably not be able to come to Portland for some time, CITY IS HELD SOVEREIGN (Continued From Flnrt Page.) ROSE FESTIVAL' OREGONIANS Six Issues, Including Post' age, 20 Cents. Mail to your friends in the East, The Oregonian during Kose Festival Week, beginning Tuesday, June 9, and endin" with the GREAT SUNDAY EDITION, June 14. . Complete and exhaustive re ports with numerous high-class half-tone illustrations will be featured daily. The Portland Annual Rose Festival has been widely adver tised throughout the United States, and no more attractive testimonial to your friends could be given than a subscrip tion to Oregon's Great Daily during the event. Orders given now in the busi ness office, or sent in by mail to The Oregonian, will receive prompt and careful attention. Subscription price for the six issues, including postage, is 20 cents. is giving life to -the character of the act rather than to the substance of the constitution and is equivalent to say ing that the Legislature may do with the constitution as it pleases so long as it selects a general conveyance rather than a particular vehicle. "In adding to this constitutional mandate there was no design to eman cipate any city from general legisla tion by the legislative assembly af fecting the body of the people of the state in those matters wholly Involv ing state-wide policies and activities, or to prevent appropriate action by the law-makers upon any of the topics regarding which the Constitution sane tions legislation, but only in respect to those phases of purely municipal gov ernment, properly regulated by char ters and embracing matters of internal municipal regulation. City's Problem Recognised. "The wisdom of the body politic In conceiving and adopting this addition to the fundamental law of the state is grounded on the proposition that each muicipality is best suited to gov ern its own affairs. What might be the proper height of a building in one city, the distance the dwellings should be located from the street line in some populous district as a protection from me ravages of fire and the speed of automobiles should travel on the con gested thoroughfares of a metropolis are considerations properly of munici pal concern, differing as widely aa the cities differ from the hamlets and wholly beyond the domain of legisla tive understanding. "By the force of section two, article two of the Constitution, the electors of municipalities are, subject to the Constitution and criminal laws and such general laws as may be enacted by the Legislature affecting the rela tion of the state to the locality, made the legislative assembly to enact the laws germane to the general purpose and object of the municipality, free from legislative molestation, which autonomy in asense constitutes a sov ereign city; subject at all times to the supreme will of the state, reserved by the people of the state through the in itiative and referendum provision of the fundamental law." MANY ISSUES ARE AFFECTED Police " Pensions and Local Option May Come Under Ruling. That the Supreme Court decision, in volving the question of the right of the State Legislature to enact laws cal culated to repeal ordinances of a city enacted pursuant to powers granted it by its charter is of the utmost impor tance is the opinion of City Attorney La Roche and other attorneys of Port land. "The decision," said City Attorney La Roche, "recognizes absolutely the principal of home rule. It holds, as I understand it, that the Legislature shall not amend a city charter or pass laws which might repeal measures en acted under powers granted by the charter of the city. "Because we now have cases before the Supreme Court involving somewhat similar questions, I do not feel at lib erty to say what effect the decision might have, taken in its broadest ap plication, but it would seem that the right of cities to govern themselves, with only such limitations as are pre scribed by the state constitution and criminal laws, would be absolute in the opinion of the Supreme Court. This would affect a great many things. In volved in the general proposition ar sitstat J such issues as the police pension ays- Boy or Girl? m Great Question! This brings to many minds an old and men lamnj remedy an externa ap plication known m "Mother'fi Frlnn " During the period of expectancy it Is ap plied to the ab dominal musclM and is designed to soothe ine intricate network of nerves involved. In this manner it has such a splendid . . . influence as to Justi fy Its use In an cases of comlnr mother-hood. It has been generally rec ommended for years and years and those who have used it speak in highest praise of the immense relief it affords. Particu larly do these knowing mothers speak of the absence of morning sickness, absence of strain on the ligaments and freedom from those many other distresses usually looked forward to with such concern. .Ji J". no Question but what 'Mother's Friend" has a marked tendency to relieve the mind and this of Itself in addition to the physical relief has given It a. very wide popularity among women. Tou can obtain "Mother's Friend" at almost any drug store. It has helped m host ot mothers to a complete recovery. It is prepared only by BradHeld Reg ulator Co.. 301 Lamar Bldg., Atlanta, Go. Avoid the many worthless substitutes. tern, local option laws and home-rule legislation. The home-rule principal seems to do established clearly In the decision. I consider the decision the most important since I have been in the position of City Attorney." The decision is taken by attorneys as an indication that the police pen sion act, as passed by the Legislature, will be knocked out in the case now before the Supreme Court. In this case, it is said, the Legislature enacted a law which, if effective, would errant pensions to retired policemen and would give sick and disability benefits. The money for the Dension fund would come partly from general taxa tion in the city. It is contended by those opposing the measure that the Legislature in passing the act prac tically appropriated city funds, an act which attorneys say could not be legal. A decision from the Supreme Court in this case is expected within a few" days. Ex-City Attorney Frank S. Grant said that he has not seen the decision of the Supreme Court, but was sur prised to hear that the decision of Cir cuit Judge McGinn was reversed. I do not know the exact extent of the decision," said Mr. Grant, "but it would not seem that the cltv laws would be made to supersede the state law. That would practically create a state within a state, giving a city a right to govern itself as it sees fit. regardless of the state law." GUSTAV ASCHOFF MISSING Sandy, Or., Man Gone Since Sunday and Dog Returns Alone. SANDY, Or, June 2. (Special.) Gustav Aschoff, son of A. Ascboff, has been missing since Sunday, when he left his home here following, It is said, a trifling argument. A search party has scoured the surrounding country without result. Bloodhounds on the trail go to the river bank and there lose the scent. Young Aschoff's dog, which has been in the habit of accompanying him on all occasions, went away with Ascboff Sunday and returned alone later. Fre quently since the dog has sneaked away, but all efforts to follow it have been futile. So far as can be learned young Asch off took no money with him. Jaw Broken in Fight Over Fence. VANCOUVER, Wa-sh., June 2. (Spe cial.) As a result of a dispute over a fence in the school district near Mount Pleasant. Thomas Jenny, 50 years old. Is a patient in St. Joseph's Hospital in this city, suffering with a broken Jaw. It is alleged that after Mr. Jenny turned from Mr. McCall, the latter struck him with a club, fracturing the bone in the jaw. TUNE days are Summer Clothes days. You've been 'putting off the se lection of that, npw n if better select it now v j. e li 1 ' gei a iuii season s wear irom it. And next week is our Rose Fes tival, when every man wants to look his best. The Ben Selling label has stood for good clothes in Portland for two gen erations. The cream of America's finest makes notable among them Stein-Bloch and Atterbury System. This week we call particular atten tion to new arrivals in Summer Clothes that we've marked specially At $20 and $25 Dunlap and Brewer "Straws" Each stands for the stvle and mialitv tlmt -rt.i . 1 price. You 11 be sure to find just the right shape and braid, in our immense showing. Sold here exclusively, in Portland Men's and Women's Panamas, $4.00 to $10.00 Dunlap Straws, $5.00 Brewer Straws, $3.00 BEN SELLING Leading Clothier Morrison at Fourth "HERO" IS BALKED Watchman Puts Dynamite Un der Houston's Office. MAN THOUGHT DEMENTED Plan Believed to Have Been to "Dis cover" Explosive and Win Lau rels for Himself Previous Actions Suspicious. WASHINGTON, June 2. The finding today of five sticks of dynamite with burning fuses attached under the of fices of Secretary Houston of the De partment of Agriculture led to the arrest of Daniel H. Jauche, the watch man, who found the explosive. The first warning was given the clerks and Government officials' in the building by the watchman, who rushed through the corridors shouting that the massive structure "was about to be de stroyed by dynamite. Hundreds fled to safety, while sev eral ran to the basement, where they found the sticks of dynamite on which the fuses had burned out. Apparently an explosion had been averted only be cause the fuses had been Jammed so tightly into the detonation caps that the firo was extinguished. explosive Under Houston's Office. The dynamite had been placed di rectly beneath the office of Secretary Houston. Tho Secretary was out of town, but immediately across the cor ridor from his office Assistant Secre tary Galloway and several other offi cials were working. That part of the building would have been destroyed or greatly damaged had not the sizzling fuses burned out. Jauch. who had suffered severe In juries to his head while serving as a soldier in the Philippines several years ago, was subjected to rigid question ing. Later the police announced he had admitted that he himself placed the explosive. Department officials said they believed the watchman in tended to "discover" the dynamite be fore it could do harm, hoping thereby to win promotion for heroism. Mam Frequently Under Treatment. Jauch has been employe- for five years in the department. Frequently he has been under treatment of physi cians at the Soldiers' Home and has been compelled to take several leaves of absence. SPRINGFIELD, O.. June 2. Daniel H. Jauch, a watchman, who is being held by the Washington police for in vestigation in connection with the dis covery today of four sticks of dyna mlte nniifr Secretary Houston's office. formerly lived in this city. He is about 40 years old. Jauch has been in the employ of the Government since the Spanish-American War. He contracted fever in camp and did not go to the front with his regiment. John Matis Is Guilty. VANCOUVER. Wash.. June 2. (Spe cial.) Jnhn Mafia a .... ..t .f Camas, was convicted of larceny" by K .. ; i l. i . . . " . uj , jury luuay. lie was I o ll nd guilty of taking 00 from Thomas Mustikas. of Camas, who entrusted him with the money, which was to be used in starting a business. A new concrete bridge at Allentown, P.. though neither the hlgliest nor tho longest in the world. Is said to contain the greatest amount of material. Eat at the Rosarian Cafeteria and enjoy every mouthful of deliriously prepared food. Cool, fresh, wnshfri and ventilated air to breathe. Entrance downstairs Morgan Bldg., Washington St., between Broadway and Park, fine Orchostra. W X M 'NATIONAL HERO SERIES" NO. 3 Kosciusko The Greatest of the Poles" N any legxslauve attempt which invaded the Natural Rights of Man. If he were alive to-day, every son ot inland knows that he would revolt at any LAW which declared ."Thou shalt NOT eat this thou shalt NOT drink that. Kosciusko knew that the light wines of his native land and the bar. lev brews ofGermanv wn -d frr mnnkinrl .r. ,,c ,v t-T- j t. .i t - selt to the end of his honored days, and who will DARE say that they in any way injured this mighty personality. For 57 years Anheuser-Busch have honestly brewed honest beers. Their great brand BUDWEISER is sold throughout the world and has helped the cause of true Temperance. Seven thousand, five hundred men are daily required to keep pace with the natural demand of Americans for BUDWEISER. Its sales exceed anv other beer bv millions of bottle Bottled only at the home plant. ANHEUSER-BUSCH ST. LOUIS, U.SJV. Blumauer & Hoch Distributors 1 Portland, Oregon iS,i j,'; f . i '. .. V :" V:v': .VCVV." ''..'" IlllSill tn 1 '-atowJ Means Moderation