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About Morning Oregonian. (Portland, Or.) 1861-1937 | View Entire Issue (June 6, 1914)
THE MORNING OREGOXIAN, SATURDAY, JTTNE fi, 1914. YOU Are the Winner of the In this Introductory Offer Big Range y-d ... .pij. TRF You are the one who profits by our remarkable price and astonishing terms during this introductory offer. , As we have already announced, we have opened a permanent range store at 347 Morrison Street (Broadway Building)", and will Eanclle the famous CLIFTON STEEL RANGE an Oregon factory product which is in a class by itself. "We have adopted this range only after a thorough investigation into the merits of all good ranges and the superiority of the CLIFTON is so marked that those who see this range show no hesitancy in pronouncing it the BEST. Our investigation proved it to be the best baking range we could find, and the most evenly balanced. You who know a good range and what it should do can easily discriminate but if your experience be limited and you have to take what is offered, you can be assured that there is no risk in buying the CLIFTON STEEL RANGE, for the manufacturers have placed an absolute guaranty upon their production, against any and all faults. Bead carefully the specifications and features of the CLIFTON and then see the range. We will sell 200 of these CLIFTON STEEL RANGES as an introductory offer on the most liberal terms. ;''s $1.00 Down and $1.00 a Week and at a price $15 to $25 lower than any high-grade warranted range on the market. r' " Think of it easy to pay, lots to save, and a guaranty of perfect satisfaction! . Don't worry along with an old worn-out range that does not do your experience and knowledge justice but see the - CLIFTON, then you will know for yourself. A dollar down and a dollar a week is a small price to pay for perfect results in cooking. Mail Orders Taken For the out-of-town housewife who cannot get in at once we will hold a Range, subject to her inspection, for five days, upon the receipt of this coupon. v Or we will crate and ship Range to any part of the Northwest to responsible par ties, freight collect, and if Range is not as represented we will take Range back and refund freight charges. Fill out coupons asking about our special out - of - the - city terms. Note These Features of the CLIFTON STEEL RANGE Polished Steel Body Mads of the best polished steel of the most enduring; quality. Heavily riveted a.t every Point, and all surfaces axe full asbestos lined and protected with steel plate linings. All cast parts made of hlgbeac IrrHiln (nnnrtpil Snntph nie-lron Oven Full elghteen-lnch size, mad from one-piece heavy 16-gaugo Bessemer steel, patent stretched and rolled, and thoroughly braced on top and Bottom to prevent warping: or ducki Flu back of oast nrevent warolnir or buckllnsr. Him Log or sanitary base of highest polish nickel plating;. Klues Steel constructed and of ample proportions to give even distribution of heat around oven. iron, matclncr it lndestrueriDie. Klre Box Best construction, size to permit no waste of fuel, duplex grates which are removable. long- firewood. The fire-back Is In three pieces of best material to be had and very heavy, Knrni Any Furl Either hard or soft coal or wood can be burned. Quickly and easily converted from ene Permits use of the other with oerfect results Thermometer Every range Is equipped with our special make thermometer, which Is fully warranted. Mokrl Part As shown by Illustrations. In no part of the country can such efficiency be attained In nickel as on the raclflc Coast. ' v .. . - - Top Six-plate, full anchor design, with all parts. Including- covers and center, fully reinforced. Equipped with sectional cover. Top moderately light to enable rapid heating. Warmlni Close Balanced closing lid. Best grade of Wellsvllls steel. Tea Shriven Braced and rigid; will not sag- or break down. sides and Back of Ranee Triple throughout, best constructed, with asbestos inner lining; te save and distribute . heat. Watee Coll has been provided for, and can be attached at very little expense. Four sections -Inch pipe, with 72 Inches exposure to heat. As you can see, the CLIFTON STEEL RANGES embodies every rosvralesce that one coald wUk, Ui with the abso lute guaranty behind It la worth many times more than w ask. Sea It andyou will bolleve It. Clifton Bteel Range Store, 847 Morrison St Portland. Please hold Range five days for me, subject to my approval and Inspection, with the under standing that I am not obliged To buy. Signed Please tell me how I may have a Clifton Range shipped to mo on your special terms. Signed Town Street. State. Gliftoii Steel Ram ge tore 347 Morrison Street (jSffiK). Open Until 9:00 P. M. P.yjnSwinM'Mi CHARGED FRAUD 15 IN NEW SUIT FILED Promoter and Patent Owner of United .Sates Cashier Company Are Accused. OTHER DEFENDANTS NAMED Jl. F. Ijepper, Montana Stockholder, Alleging $1,520,2 9 6 Subscribed as Capital Stock, Wants to Know How Money Was Spent. The tangled affairs of the United Btates Cashier Company reached the United States District Court yesterday with the filing of a suit by B. F. Lep per, of Fergus County, Montana, a stockholder In the concern, against the officers, directors ana promoters. Mr. Lepper's attorneys are Clark, Ekulason & Clark In the suit directed against the company, Frank Menefee, Thomas Bllyeu, C. A. Campbell. F. H. Gloyd, E. Terpenlng, A. S. Nichols and B. M. Mears. ', A stockholders' meeting has been called for 1 P. M. Monday at the Y. M. C. A- The complaint alleges that the cor poration is Insolvent. Its books show that $ 1.520,296.56 was subscribed as cap ital stock. The burden of the complaint Is one of question and demand as to what has become of the money. Scheme to Defraud Charged. A scheme to defraud is charged against Frank Menefee, chief promoter, and Thomas Bilyeu, original owner of the patent rights. Oother officers and directors are charged with either having had knowledge thereof or with connivance therein. The company was organized three years ago. with a capital stock of $200, 000, which was later increased to Sl, 200,000, at which time Bilyeu, It Is alleged, was received into the company and his patent purchased for $260,000 cash. Menefee, the complaint alleges, received In the three years $228,000 for salary, commissions on stock sales and other items of expense. It is charged that $272,000 went Into "promotion expenses," that $91,060 was spent for models, and that other, large sums were expended. As a showing for all the money ex pended, the complaint Bays there is a factory site of 7-10 of an acre at Ken ton, and a two-story part-concrete factory building, valued in all at about $25,000. On this property and the patent rights, .which are alleged to be worthless by tne complaint, it Is re cited that there Is a mortgage amount' Ing to $36,000, held by some of the directors. Indebtedness Given as 9132,000. The total indebtedness of the com pany, as given by the complaint, la $132,000. The machinery of the Kenton plant was shipped to Terre .Haute, Ina, where a new company, the International Money Machine Company, was Incor porated last February, with $2,000,000 capitalization. The complaint alleges that S. M. Mears, of Portland, deeded 60 acres of land to the company in 1911, for which he received $30,000 in stock, whereas the value of the land, as given by the assessor of the county. Is but $1500. This transaction, the complaint alleges, virtually constituted a gift of $25,000 to Mr. Mears. The plaintiff. B. K. Lepper. is a Mon tana, sheepman. He holds 400 shares of stock, for which, according to the complaint, he paid $6000, or 50 per cent more than par value. He subscribed for $14,000 worth of stock, giving notes, and is now defendant .In a suit for collection brought by the United States Cashier Company in the Montana state courts. FRUIT UNION URGED GRANGE SCORES READ FAIR SECRETARY OJf CARPET FOR COSJiECTIO. WITH LEAGUE. North Yakima Meeting Threatens to Boycott Exhibit, bat Later Pasaea Resolution Indorsing It. NORTH YAKIMA. "Wash.. June 6. (Special.) Secretary Shannon, of the State Fair, was taken to task today by Master Kegley and the legislative com mittee of theState Grange for his con nection with tho "Stop, Look, Listen League," of which he Is president here, and the threat made that, if he did not resign that position, the Grange would boycott the fair. He replied that he challenged the right of the Grange or "any other or ganization to dictate what he should do tn such matters, and refused to dis cuss the matter further. A demand also was made on the Commercial Club that It oppose the "Stop, Look, Listen League," but its officers replied that their organization was strictly non-political. Later, a resolution was passed call ing on Governor Lister to -Investigate tne connection or secretary a nan n on. or any other state official, with the league, but a resolution also was passed Indorsing the fair. Other resolutions called for state ownership of fisheries, doing away with road supervisors, abolishing tax certificate sales, legislative reappor tionment and other measures. Centralla was chosen as -the next place of meeting, Bellingham being the chief contender. CANNERY ADDRESS MADE Professor Brown Tells Yonca.Ha Peo ple Sow to Establish. Plant. YONCALLA, Or, June 6 (Special.) Professor W. S. Brown, of Corvallis. lectured here Monday night on "Can nery; How to Establish and Maintain It" Mr. Brown dwelt at length upon the Importance of a thorough canvass of the community to learn the actual needs and capability for the support of a cannery. Unless the people want a cannery sufficiently to Invest from $10 to $25 per share, they really don't want It at all, he aaM. The water supply Is vital, he said. It is Important that a sample of the water be sent for analysis before Its adoption, as the presence of lime or Iron would spoil the canned product. More than 200O Inventors applied last rear for British patents relating to rail ways, motors and road vehicles and more taaa wo tor eir-arart tmiopawu, Secretary Plans to Put in Portland Headquarters. VALLEY MEETINGS MAPPED Whirlwind Visit to Be Made to All Growers' Associations and Plea Presented for Xew IMs trllratlng Organizations. For the . purpose - of arranging to establish the Portland headquarters for the North Pacific Fruit Distributors, H. C. Sampson, secretary of the or ganization, arrived last night. This morning Mr. Sampson begins a whirl wind tour of Willamette Valley .towns t a ' A - V -. i w,... .... Mt-i ....... .j&z&j&vbti wdr I IX. C Sampson, Who Is Oraranbdaff Orea-oa Fmltarowera. to Interest merchants and growers in the plans of the farmers co-operative selling agency. Fruitgrowers' associations at Forest Grove, Dllley, Corvallis, Eugene, Suth erlin, Yoncalla, Cottage Grove.. Dallas, Salem, Brownsville, Independence, Gresham, Monmouth, Newberg, Spring- brook and Roseburg will be invited to send delegates to Portland on June 20 for the purpose of completing the organization of a sub-central, electing one member of the board of managers at Spokane and completing the details for marketing the 1914 fruit crop of Western Oregon through the distrib utor selling agencies. Secretary to Address Growers. The meeting of June 29 Is to be held In the green room at the Com mercial Club, and will be attended by all the ' principal officers of the dis tributors, as well as maajr growers of Washington and the Hood Kiver dis trict. Th.ls afternoon Secretary Sampson will speak to the business men and producers of Forest Grove and the tel ephones were being used last night to Induce Hillsboro and Dllley residents to meet with the Forest Grove people. Saturday night the Commercial Club at Newberg will entertain Mr. Samp son, and has Invited St Paul, Sher wood and other neighboring towns to send representatives. At 9 o'clock Monday morning a meet ing with the Benton County Growers' Association will be held at Corvallis. Albany joining, and at 2 o'clock in the afternoon the representative of the dis tributors will speak at Eugene. Cot tage Grove is to be visited at 8 o'clock Monday night. Tn District Join Meetina. At 10 o'clock Tuesday morning the farmers of the Lebanon and Browns vllle districts will meet Mr. Sampson at Lebanon, and that night he will speak to the people of Salem and vicin ity at the Commercial Club. Wednesday morning a meeting will be held at Dallas at 9 o'clock. Inde pendence and Monmouth being asked to send representatives. At 8 o'clock In the evening be will conclude his present speaking trip with a meeting at McMinnville, in which Sheridan and Willamlna people will bo asked to participate. "Having successfully solved the problem of co-operative marketing by disposing of 60 per cent of the apple crop of the Northwest In 1914, main taining steady prices to 'the grower and a price on the market at which the crop would move, we are now prepared to come Into Oregon on a more exten sive scale than last year," said Mr. Sampson. Books Open te Inspection. "Our plans and books are open to public investigation and as we are the only growers of fruit who are In busi ness for ourselves, we feel that we particularly want to meet the busi ness men of Western Oregon. I wish to have them understaand. aa well as the farmers, the principles on which we operate. "For the present we will only or ganize one sub-central, which will em brace the territory between Portland and Roaeburg. Inclusive. That will be immediately followed by the organiza tion of the Grants Pass and Medford districts in another sub-central. Each of them will have representation on the board of managera "Briefly stated, the distributor is the farmer himself in the selling game. It is purely co-operative. We sell on a commission of 10 cents a box, which cavers all the expenses of our salaried general agents In all parts of the world and our 67 special representatives. Through these agencies we distribute the fruit over the world so as to keep the market supplied, but not over-fed." NEW PLAN ADOPTED LEW1ST0N ASKS SHRINERS Plan Proposed to Have Trains to Seattle Routed Thro ugh Idaho. LEWISTON, Idaho, June 6. (Spe cial.) The Shriners who will attend the Imperial council to be held at Seat tle In June, 1915, have been asked by the Shriners here to have their special trains routed through " Lewiston, at which time the cherries of this district will be at their best. Arrangements are being made to send to the potentate of each shrine a five-pound box of this year's crop of the famous Blngs grown here. About 25 special trains will be routed through the northern section of the United States to Seattle, and it is the intention to bring them through Lew iston without extra cost to the Shriners and with only about four hours' delay in their arrival In Seattle, United Brethren Churches to Be Handled in Groups. CONFERENCE TAKES VOTE Boards of Institution Asked to Hold Session on Coast Invitation to Join afethodlst Family Is Made but Not Accepted'. The United Brethren Oregon Con ference, meeting in First Church, East Morrison and East Fifteenth streets, yesterday voted to abandon ,the con ference superlntendency. In vogue for many years in this and in other con ferences, for the ensuing year, and handle the ''churches tnrough groups and pastoral superintendents. This plan was adopted after discussion lasting several' hours. According to the report of the com mittee on the new plan the following churches are to be grouped together: First, Seattle and Everett, Wash.; sec ond, Portland First, Second, Third, Fourth, Manor and View; third. Hood River, The Dalles and Wapinltla; fourth, Salem, Hopewell and Hazel Green; fifth, Tillamook and Beaver, sixth. Philomath. Philomath Circuit. Eugene and Irving; seventh. North Bend, Coqullle, Coos River and Gravel Ford. Each group was authorized to select the pastor who In connection with his pastoral work will superintend the whole group. Strenuous opposition to the plan de veloped, but it was Anally carried by a vote of 26 to 17. It does away with the election of a district superintend ent. P. O. Bonebrake, the present su perintendent, retires. Sessions on Coast Urared. A resolution was adopted inviting the boards of the churcn, with head quarters at Dayton, O., to hold their sessions this year on the Pacific Coast. The same resolution was adopted by the Columbia River Conference. A resolution was adopted inviting the directors of the Dallas College, the school of the United Evangelical Church, to sit with and co-operate with the trustees of Philomath Col lege, federation being the object In view. The vote on this resolution was unanimous. Rev. J. S. Rhodes of Hopewell, made plea for Dallas College, declaring that the United Brethren Church should take action for Its endowment to the amount of at least $250,000. The statistical report submitted showed that the total membership in the Oregon conference Is 2144, a gain of 94 for the past year. Conversions were given as 238 and additions aa 276. F. H. NeCf reported on conference rela tions. ' Metbodlat Invitation Received. Rev. C. E. Cline, of the Methodist conference, was given privilege of the floor, and in the course of his remarks he invited the United Brethren Church to Join the Methodist family, stating the Methodists would give Bishop Bell a life job and solve all the United Brethren's difficulties. The invitation was graciously received, but not ac cepted at the present time. President G. H. Smith, of Philomath College; Rev, H, H. Hall en. of Fresno, Cal., and Rev. T. R. Hornschuch and Rev. II. Schucknec, of the Evangelical Association, were Introduced. Rev. Mr. Hornschuch was fraternal delegate. The programme for today Is as fol lows: Address by the bishop, report of committee on nominations, report of committee on minimum salary goal. report of study course faculty. G. E. McDonald, chairman; report of com mittee on deaconess work and home, B. M. Peoples; report of conference his torical board, C. C. Bell; report of conference trustees for vacant church property. J. A. Henkle, chairman; re port of nominating committee, F. W. Jones, chairman; report of committee on Sunday schools. Christian Endeavor and brotherhoods, G. E. Wood, chair man; report of conference trustees, W. N. Blodgett, chairman; report of con ference church erection board, J. A. Henkle, chairman; report of committee on resolutions, location of next con ference session. Leonllla Smith, Clarence Snyder and Ray Grounds. Bnena Vista Graduates Four. BUENA VISTA, Or., June 6. (Spe cial.) The school term for Buena Vista schools closed tonight. Four students of the High- School were granted diplomas. They are Orville Wells, anan SHcLs Lead all others in individ uality of style, correct fit ting qualities, absolute com fort and are unexcelled for quality ?and fine workman ship. What More Could You Ask? Try a pair and become a last ing customer. ROSENTHAL'S Sole selling agents for Portland TWO STORES 129 Tenth St., Bet. Was, and Alder, For Men u Women. 308 Waafclna-ton. Wilcox Hlda-., For Men Onlv. We ttro BAIL. Green Trading Stamps LOW RATES VI ROCK ISLAND LINES Jvna 1 to September "3 0 .Return Limit October 31, 1914. The Route of the De Luxe Rocky Mountain Limited By purchasing your ticket at our office you have choice of any line out of Portland. Special attention to women and children traveling alone. Tickets. Reservations. Infor mation, Etc. M. J. GEARY, General 111 Talre Street. Portland. Or. PkesH, Malm 334. A2M Corset Sense Aslc a dozen women to write down the name of six corsets they know by reputation. 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