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TTTE MOT?XTXG OEGOXTAN. TUESDAY, JULY 7. 1914. ID JESKIS PREPARE CROSS ALLEGATIONS Echo of Divorce Case Filed Here Is Heard From Cook County, Illinois, Court. $5000 IS ASKED BY WIFE Rearing In East Is Today Husband, in Depositions Received Hero Yesterday, Denies in Toto. Hard Battle Predicted. The depositions of Ralph Modjeskl and" of his wife, Mrs. Felice Modjeskl, whom Mr. Modjeskl is suing: for di vorce, were filed in the District Court here yesterday, and relate the marital woes of the Modjeskis In much detail. The case will be one of the hardest ever contested In Multnomah County, according- to local legal opinion. The side issues of the case now are being fought out in the Cook County, 111., courts, Mrs. Modjeskl having re turned to Chicago from Europe, and Mr. Modjeskl having gone there to meet her. According to the original document, filed at Chicago, a copy of which was received in Portland yester day Mrs. Modjeski asks the Cook County courts to allow her $5000 suit money from her husband, so that she may put up a proper defense. Mrs. Modjeski further asserts that Mr. Modjeski sent a messenger to Eu rope, after she presumably had left for good, and offered, through the mes senger, to pay her J50.000 if she would not contest the divorce proceedings which he was about to bring. This, she says, she refused and later another messenger brought her an offer of $80,000. Mr. Modjeskl makes emphatic denial of each charge made by his wife. He branded the assertion that he had sent a messenger after her or had offered her any money for "settlement" as wholely false and untrue. He alleges that his wife frequently toia ineir cnu dren that he was of illegitimate birth and that he had embezzled trust funds belonging to them. Mr. Modjeski further alleges that his wife took seven trips to Europe, her native land, since their marriage In New York City. December 28, 1885, re maining away several months at a time. He said she frequently had declared a hatred of the United States and its people, and her desire to return to her native land. Modjeskl stated that he clashed with his wife on the subject of the children's education at various times; that she wanted to educate the children in Europe, while he wanted them educated in American schools. Mrs. Modjeskl's petition for 5000 suit money is set for hearing. at Chi cago today. HIGHWAY WORK HELD UP Columbia Link Delayed by Fight Be tween Partners in Firm. Completion of the Columbia County link in the Columbia River Highway from Hood River to the Coast is being delayed while T. K. Gekas. John Marandaa and Thomas Dooney, part ners under the firm name of the Gekas & Marandas Contracting Company, are In litigation among themselves. Gekas & Marandas contracted to do the grading on the highway for the Consolidated Contracting Company of Portland. A disagreement between the two grew, and Marandas, assisted by Dooney, took possession of the com pany, its contract, tools, books and la borers, forcibly leaving Gekas "out in the cold." according to the latter. Gekae filed suit yesterday in the Circuit Court to have the partnership dissolved and to force an accounting. REGIMENT ROLL GROWING Much Interest Being Taken in Com ing Camp Maneuvers. Recruiting at the Armory promises to swell the ranks of the Third Regi ment of the Oregon National Guard to war strength by July 13. when the regiment will leave for Gearhart for a Joint encampment with the regulars from Vancouver Barracks and the Idaho National Guard. A great deal of Interest is being shown in the coming encampment Mil itary duties, drills and maneuvers will occupy the mornings - of the 10 days of encampment. The afternoons and evenings will be given over to pleas ures. Officers will receive the pay of offi cers of the same rank in the regular Army, while the pay of privates will range from $1.25 to $3.60 a day. LOAN SHARKS IN LIGHT Probe of Interest Charges Keveals Rates of 48 Per Cent. District Attorney Evans and State Bank Examiner Tracey conferred to gether yesterday to plan for a whole sale Investigation Into the methods employed by money lenders and loan sharks operating In Portland and Multnomah County. Deputy District Attorney Dieck has been conducting a quiet probe since last December. Prosecution will follow wherever private banks have violated the law. A complete list of vjctims of loan sharks has been obtained. A money lender in one case found bad charged 48 per cent interest. The grand Jury will act probably next week on several cases where the evidence is reported to be strong against a loan shark. PERSONALMSNTION. E. Hofer, of Salem, Is at the Im perial. John Stull, of Salem, Is at the Seward. Sirs. D. Cole, of Tacoma, is at the Eaton. J. H. Price, of St. Helens, is at the Multnomah. C. I Conrady, of Los Angeles, Is at the Carlton. A. N. Ge'yer, of Groce, Idaho, is at the Seward. Miss F. Woodward, of Salem, is at the Seward. Edward Hadley, of Tillamook, Is at the Imperial. C. M. Christenson. of Buxton, is at the Cornelius. Dr. R. M. Dodson, of Baker, is at the Cornelius. Mrs. W. F. Coulson,' of Anaconda, is at the Carlton. Roy Smith, of Ontario, Is registered at the Imperial. M. A. Barnes, of Chicago, is regis tered at the Washington with Mrs. Barnes. W. Boll on s, of La Grande, is at the Multnomah. M. T. O'Connell, of WInlock, Wash., is at the Oregon. Elmer Erlckson, of Maryhlll, Wash., is at the Oregon. Leonard B. Seef, of Toronto, is at the Washington. Gertrude Nicholson, of Los Angeles, is at the Perkins. Mr. and Mrs. F. A. Fisher, of Astoria, are at the Perkins. Mr. and Mrs. E. D. Smith, of Tacoma, are at the Cornelius. F. W. Bond is registered at the Ore gon, from Pendleton. tp to Tutiini-ri f ra-1stered at the Nortonia, from Seattle. A. E. McCann, of Spokane, is reg istered at the Perkins. J. Sheehan and son. of San Fran cisco, are at the Oregon. Frank B. Hogue is at the Nortonia, from Underwood. Wash. Mr. and Mrs. J. V. Anderson, of Med ford, are at the Cornelius. Mrs. Florence Boyer, of Kelso, Wash., Is registered at the Eaton. Mr. and Mrs. C. A. Beacon are at the Nortonia, from Roseburg, Or. Mr. and Mrs. Ross Mills, of Wood burn, are at the Washington. Mr. and Mrs. C. H. Reid, of Sacra-o-A at thA Wn.Hhincrton. Mr. and ' Mrs. L. C. McQovern, of Great Falls, are at the Imperial. Vance Wolverton, of Spokane, reg7 istered at the Carlton yesterday. Dr. C. H. Smith and Dr. W. A. Stef fen, of Sheridan, Wyo are at the Per kins. C J. Rauch, Mrs. Charles Rauch and DOCK FIRES TO BE SUBJECT OF INQUIRY Rumors of Incendiarism Cur rent After Third Costly Waterfront Blaze. CROP HANDLING PROBLEM With Facilities for Storing Great Grain Yield: of 1914 Iilmited, Or ganized Actloa by Ware house Concerns Considered. A searching Inquiry into the cause of . . t hi.h aai.iv KunriA.v morning tnw iir " .i. 'j destroyed the Oceanic dock will be made by the Portland police depart ment. Detectives Tichenor and Mo loney have been assigned to the case. That three big dock fires should occur in the same vicinity In Portland within a period of four months, entall- GIGANTJC MOLAR FOUND NEAR BUTTEVTLLE. MASTODON TOOTH DISCOVERED DEEP IN CEMENT GRAVEL. E. C Hanson, of Scholls, Washington County, found a mastodon tooth on June 21, about one mile above Butteville on the bank of the Willamette River, imbedded in cement gravel 30 feet below the gen eral level of the surrounding country. The tooth is five ter Inches by nine and one-half inches by three and o-1.-It weighed three and one-half pounds and is in a good state of pres ervation. The tooth may be seen at the rooms of the Oregon His torical Society, 207 Second street. Just south of Taylor. Miss A. E. Rauch, of Cleveland, are at the Multnomah. W. A. Moffatt, of Vancouver, B. C, Is registered at the Seward. A. B- Murray, of Los Angeles, reg istered at the Carlton yesterday. Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Tucker are reg istered at the Nortonia, from Aberdeen, Wash. -r tx.- TTonHran anil Charles afttlMCa AACU.J .--.- - pahilllp Beebe, of Hood River, are at the Multnoman. 1 nr Wanlr P Miller. Of Kansas City. Mo., former residents of Portland, arrived Sunday for a brief visit. Mr. and Mrs. Frank C. Miner, oi Kansas City, formerly of Portland, are at Hotel Portland, en route for Mac kenzie Bridge, for a month's fising. . . -Krwrn viftn Tnnes have returned to their home in Portland, after a trip through California, Texas and other states along the southern border. GERLIHGER GETS $2500 ALIENATION CHARGES CLOSED BE FORE f 300,000 SOT IS HEARD. Llod Frank Agrreea to Negotiations Because of Other Names Said Be Involved In Action. Th ssnn flno suit of E. E. Gerlinger cmiTiiit Llovd Frank was settled for an amount said to have been 12500 just hfnr fh case came to trial Deiore Judge McGinn yesterday morning. Negotiations for the settlement were carried on between Charles W. Fulton, representing Mr. Gerlinger, and Bert E. Haney, representing Mr. Frank. . . 1 . . 1 CM', nM T.Un They tooK place in me uim-o . xi aim nf Mr. Frank's counsel. At 8:30 o'clock the agreement was reached to settle uie case oui ui The $2500,. the amount of the settle ment, according to Mr. Frank's attor neys, was paid in cash. Mr. Gerlinger is the divorced hus band of Gertrude Gerlinger, who sued Mr. Frank recently for alleged breach of promise. After a sensational trial she was awaraea i Dy a. jury. Mr. Gerllnger-s suit was on the A n .ll.natlnn nf h a wife's &f - glUUIIU U. - fections. Attorneys for the defense had 27 witnesses subpenaed and depo sitions irom ll oiners. iucj .. . - j . rt thA 1if hisitorT of Mr. Gerlinger and of Mrs. Gerlinger from 1904 to the present time. Ath. nurcnr a nmA nrominent. are said to have been involved, also. In fact, this is the reason given by Mr. Frank's attorneys for their willingness to setue. - FRUIT AGENCY ORGANIZED Kealtj- Company Formed With Capi ' tal of $20,000. Articles of incorporation for the first branch member of the newly-organized Western Oregon Fruit Distributors' As sociation were Bled yesterday in County Clerk Coffey's offlc ror the Hestem Oregon Fruit Distributors' Association. The Incorporators. J. O. Holt, S. I. Pratt, G. K. Fargo, H. E. Crowell, F. H. Franz, Charles A. Brand and L. T. Rey nolds, are also members of the board of directors of the parent organization, the Western Oregon Fruit Distributors' Association. The Hestem association is capitalized at 500. The Western Ore gon association has adopted a ruling to the effect that onry local organized distributing associations will be ad mitted to membership. Parker, Rich ards & Fountaine, of North Yakima, Wash., filed the articles. . .i i v-rA fliori vp.tprHnv for the ; Irvington Realty Company, capitalized at I2U,uuu, oy xianow r . u&iuuoit Al fred C. Olson and John Van Zante. Supplementary articles were filed to change the name of the Hester Store Front Manufacturing Company to the Van Waters-Cook Manufacturing Com pay, and the W. C. Noon Bag Company to the Noon Bag Company. ing a total loss of $1,000,000, has caused considerable comment Expressions of onlnlon that the fires were or lncen diary origin have been freely in dulged in. The total loss In Sunday's fire was given out by Walter Burns, head of the Balfour. Guthrie & Co. interests here, as $260,000. The value of the dock is placed at $125,000; 2500 tons of wheat $75,000, and 2500 tons of barley. 160,000. "As vet." said Mr. Burns, "no def inite arrangements for the rebuilding of the dock or provision for other dockage facilities to care for the ln ' grain crop have been made." Faculties AreQaeatloned. The destruction this year of three of Portland's biggest docks and some damage to a fourth has caused consid erable concern among business men. Bumper grain crops reported through out the country tributary to Portland have raised the question: Are there enough docks left to load all the Train? No plans for the handling of these crops have been made, but It is tne belief among business men that some organized action must be taken within a few days. Some are discussing a plan to ask the Dock Commission for permission to erect temporary docxs to take care of this year's business. Fire was still smoldering in the ruins of the Oceanic dock yesterday. The fireboat David Campbell went to the scene at 9 o'clock yesterday morning and remained there until late In the day to se that the fire did not spread. Repairs on the fireboat George H. Williams, which was put out of com mission when the David Campbell went Into service, are now being rushed through. Smoker May Have Started Fire. The only explanation of the cause of Sunday's fire was offered yesterday by Superintendent Dillon, of the dock. The sailors on the Maria, he said, UBed the lower runway in going to and coming from the ship. A cigar thrown from this runway might have started a fire under the dock, he said. No one could be found yesterday who had seen any one around the dock at an early hour Sundav morning. . "I had just made my 4 o'clock rounds." said Oliver Hibbard, night- watchman of the dock, "and had gone downstairs to fill and clean my lantern for the next night I heard someone running on the dock above, and one of the ship's crew came and called me. He said smoke was pouring out of the other end of the dock. "I went there and found a pile of sacks burning. I got an extinguisher and tried to fight the flames, after we had turned in the alarm. Pretty soon the fireboat came. The firemen told me to get out of there, as the dock was afire underneath." HEW FACTORY ASSURED ELECTROLYTIC GAS COMPANY OF DAYTON TO BUILD IN PORTLAND. Corporation -Haa Three Plants for Manu facture of Oxygen and Hydro gen In Middle West. Announcement was made last night at the meeting of the board of directors of the Manufacturers' Association of Oregon that the Electrolytic Gas Com pany, of Dayton, Ohio, has determined to locate In Portland. , E. F. Piatt, president of the Electro lytic Gas Company, of Dayton, Ohio, re cently visited Portland to investigate the field, in view of building a plant to generate oxygen and hydrogen for sup plying the local demand. The company has decided to build the plant and a site has been purchased on the corner of Center and Seventeenth streets. Plans have been completed and work on the foundations and building will begin immediately. Local manufactur ers are preparing bids on equipment which can be supplied locally. The Electrolytic Gas Company hasj Exclusive Portland Agents for Gossard Lace-Front Corsets-The Only Complete Stock in Portland Ladies' Home Journal Patterns for August Now Ready for Distribution, Department, Mafn Floor The coolest, most inviting shopping place in all Portland. Register in the "Appointment Book," 2d floor. MTK -Jf ft Old TTflT rf 1 Q 1TZ Reliable Merchandise Reliable Methods Store Hour 8 A.H. t 6 P.M. Every Baaine. IhtjatmAMr IndaA$4 P 1 trwt Mail Orders 5iven immediate attention by thoroughly experienced ohopers.. The lore of bent service. Double Stamps Today With All Cash Purchases InDrugDept. Main Floor Girls9 Coats i3 Price Department, Second Floor Our entire stock children's ' and girls' Summer .Coats en ter the July Clearance Sale today at exactly half regular prices. Excellent assortment of styles, including the new slip-on effects with belts. Serges, black satin, checks and other materials. Sizes for girls, 2 to 14 years of age. $2.25 Coats $1.13 3.85 Coats $1.92 4.50 Coats $2.25 6.50 Coats $3.25 80 Coats $4.25 12.50 Coats $6.25 15,00 Coats $7.50 21 .00 Coats $1 1.50 Special Clearance Sale offer ings in Children's Summer Dresses great many lots to be closed out. Wicker Articles Women's $18.50 Coats $9.98 $28.50 Coats at $12.98 Second Floor Grouped in this lot are the smart new Balmacaan models for sports wear, also belted styles and novelty effects in a great assortment. Golfine, diag onals, serges, crepe poplins, moire .and taffetas. Garments from our regular stock) selling up to $18.50. On sale for July CQ Qfi Clearance at only p Second Floor This assortment embraces the season's most popu lar styles in Balmacaan and cape coat effects ; also smart models in belted styles and English cuts. Serges, poplins, m a t e 1 a s s e, eponge, broadcloth, golfine, etc. These Coats have been selling heretofore up to J1Q QQ $28.50. Choice pAW70 All Wool Suits 2 Price Garment Department, Second Tloor For immediate clearance we have priced our entire line of women's Wool Suits at just half, heed- less to say, tne styles, iaoncs anu ituiurmg th verv his-hest order and the Women's $15.00 Suits $ 7.50 Women's $20.00 Suits $10.00 Women's $25.00 Suits $12.50 Women's $27.50 Suits 13.75 Women's $28.50 Suits $14.25 Women's $29.50 Suits $14.75 Women's $30.00 Suits $15.00 Women's $35.00 Suits $17.50 Women's $37.50 Suits $l.7a styles are new Women's $40.00 Women's $12.50 Women's $45.00 Women's Women's Women's Women's Women's Women's $50.00 $52.50 $58.50 $65.00 S68.60 $75.00 and up to date. Suits $20.00 Suits $21.25 Suits $22.50 Suits $25.00 Suits $26.25 Suits $20.25 Suits $32.50 Suits $34.25 Suits $37.50 i r : :.::x:.Y- Headquarters Women's, Child's Bathing Suits f S Nemo Corsets $2M Sizes 33-34-35-36 for Large Women Here's an exact copy of the stock sheet, showing only 74 high grade Nemo Corsets in large sizes, which we wish to close out. Each dot represents a pair of Corsets see if your size Is there. Style I ( Celer 19 98c Special one-day sale of wick er and grass articles, such as Foot Stools, Umbrella Hold ers, Trays, Candlesticks, etc. Novelty pieces worth up to $5.50 on sale today at the Bargain Circle on the Main Floor. Your choice at 98 26 Total These are all good models, especially designed for'large women. Made of best grade coutil with strong, substantial boning and fitted with the best quality "Lastikops" supporters. Famous Nemo Self -Reducing Corsets, selling formerly at CJO OQ .3 5n and $4. The Clean-Up Price for these is r,w,-y Wash Goods 5c a Yard Basement, Bargain Center Sensational underpricing over 3000 yards n,ew wash materials 36-inch motor suiting in linen shade, and mill ends of lawns in variety of patterns and color- CZg ings. Priced for one day only at the special price of, yard,- Underwear Specials Choose from these social offerings at the Center Circle on Main Floor, as follows: Women's 2oc 1 i 1 e J tig Vests for low price Ly" 35c cotton and lisle9C Vests now on sale at - 50o and C5c Mercer- 9Qi ized Lisle Vests at $1.25 'Merode' VfstiOQ and Pants now at 35o lace knee union O CZg Suits now for only 50c tight-knee Union O f Suits now for only"'' Women's 65c Union A Q Suits, special now at Imported Zimmerli Underwear $1.50 Zimmerli Rib'd Vests for low price - $1.75 Ribbed silk Vests, "priced special COl $2 Ribbed Silk flj 1 (t Vests priced at V v v Kerr 'Self-Sealing' 20c Mason Jar Caps . per No rubber ring to taint your fruit-no mold per- - : fectly sanitary. You can now afford to throw away gJOZ : the old poisonous zinc cap. The Kerr "Self-Sealing ; : is just what you have been looking for, 20 dozen. J Every Worn- I S The T77 Now j Mouth J V I 1 v ! I art's LowPricedJar Pints ZJzen 85c Quarts Dozen $1 V2Gal.pDeL$lA0 Dept. Third Floor Sale Sewing Machines Dept. 2d Floor Entire stock Standard and OWK S e w i n g Machines ai Clearance prices. Sold on $1 a week easy-payment club plan. $26.00 Machines now $19.98 $27.50 Machines now $20.98 $35.00 Machines now $26.48 $25 Cleveland Centrl Needle $18.98 $35 Standard Rotary Mch. $26.48 $40 Grand Rotary Machs. $29.95 $40 Rotary Central Needle $29.95 $50 Rotary Central Needle $37.98 Refrigerators and Ice Cream Freezers Reduced Third Floor Buy an "Auto matic" Refrigerator and save your food. Has eight walls; economical ice users. Prices: Regular $10.00 sizes $ 7.95 Regular $25.30 size $19.05 Regular $32.40 size $25.92 Several other wen - Known makes at Clearance Prices. Lunch Box, Clearance, $2.00 Decorated Ice Tea Set with covered pitcher, special $4.95 Decorated Glass Lemonade or Grape Juice Set now lor 9S Engraved Glass Lemonade or Grape Jnico Set now $1.38 Annual July Clearance Sale Home-made Ice Cream a dainty and economical desert. $2.35 Freezers, 3-qt. $1.88 $2.75 Freezers, 4-qt $2.19 $3.50 Freezers, 6-qt $2.78 Vacuum Bottles keep hot or cold for twenty-four hour. Pints, $1.50; quarts $2.50 4 J rrU,. Tents. Porch and Lawn Swings, Tennis, GoU and Sporting Goods on the Fourth Fir. TeUnTGoarts, Sulkies, Bicycles, Tricucles and Wheel Goods of All Kinds, 4th Floor - . rn rTt in Dav enpori, DOx?gen01s-moBt extensively used at uxys . ' cutting of present ior ---Kr , metals, while there are . . number of other uses w men .. ve?oped extensively in this country. - It is hoped to develop these uses to the " "y. ... m !,.. 1 Inriimtrles. For- the United States, as shown by the consumption tor the year 1912 Germany. ' . . 500.000.000 trance. isn.ooo.000 United aiaio " . , Hydrog-en is used most extensively . , -II- -n4 vrAAAAS. It for naraemns - ---- is also used for cutting steel to a thickness OI av uhji i ,j, ' ,," iTI used to advanUge for welding light steel and the non-ferrous metals, such as copper, brass and aluminum and metals having a lower melting point than' steel. The uses of hydrogen also will be developed. . It Is expected .to supply a large ter ritory surrounding Portland from the local plant. E. A. Finkbeiner will be manager of the Portland plant. FURNITURE THEFT CHARGFD Complainant Says Trio Took His Goods and House Burned. The theft of a house full of furniture is the charge upon which Perry Law ton Clarence Patnot and Lucy Smith were arrested yesterday by Detective Mallett. The complainant is James McHargue. - It is alleged that Mr. McHargue rented his furnished 'house at 6111 . i -. - ...,. finnthAflRt to the trlO about eight months ago. This Spring he went away on a vacation. A month ago, it is charged. Lawton, Patnot and Miss Smith moved to 6848 Forty-fifth avenue Southeast, taking the furniture with them in two drays. That same night McHargue's house burned. The three are held under $500 ball on a charge of larceny. They (declared, when arrested, that they had contracted to buy the furniture, but, had not yet paid for it. SECOND THEFT DISCOVERED Man AVho Hodc Away on Widow's Motorcycle Serving Sentence. Klmer A. Lathrop, serving 30 days at Kelly's Butte ior the theft of a motor cycle, was brourht to pollre headquar- ters charged with the theft of another motorcycle, and has conf fe1. Lathrop is on parole from the Folsom peniten tiary in California, where lie was serv ing three years for the theft of another motorcycle. Last week Lathrop, according to his own confession, stole a motorcycle from C. F. Hughes, a fireman. Detective Hellyer and Tackaberry arrested him In Vancouver, Wanh., and brought him to Portland. Hushes allowed him to plead guilty to petit larceny. Yester day Mrs. K. H. Wood came to the po lice station and positively identified Lathrop as the man who had taken her husband's motorcycle and failed to re turn it. Oniy Oae "Bretae Qnlntae T s't the aenuinti, call for Mall num.. Lase tlT Brorao Qulnlna. Look tor lnlur t E. W. Grove. Cures a Cold la Oae L. See.