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TTTE MORNING OBEGONIAN. TUESDAY. JTTLY 21. 1914. Double Trading Stamps Today NEW FINAL APPEAL SCENES AT BRUSH FIRE NEAR PORTLAND. PUT IN TRUST BILL Toilet Requisites of Merit Which We Recommend Cucumber and Elder Flower Cream J0. 75jf "Wood-Lark" Freckle Ointment ,....tl.OO Princess Cream .".Or. 75e. 81. UQ Egvptlan Complexion Lotion 81. OO "wood-Lark Cutaneous Emollient (a skin food) 35c Bell's Manilene Nail Bleach 40r One-pound can Borated Talcum Powder U5o Imperial Glove Cleaner (for white gloves) SoC Bell's Theatrical Cold Cream 25. 50c (Honey bark if not as you like it.) Toxldo for poison ivy 25C Slmm'a Poison Oak Salve 2Sr .Mosquito Lotion iood Liniment OOr Dandelion Pills C Crystal Corn Cure ."Vc Heef. Iron and Wine. . .50? Egg Shampoo 2Sr Utrawtne li.'.f Senate Committee Amends; Measure to Provide for Review of Edicts. BRAVE M I t B. BE "I H tilt IIKKIIN s I'll t I l!. 1LDER-8T. HIMIciw. n mmmi mm MONTHS' WORK FINISHED J Change Ileconimeodrd Would Give (ioiemmi nt or Corporation night to Fight Orders or Inter state Commissions. WASHINGTON. July 20. After months of deliberation the Senate Ju diciary committee agreed tonight upon the final revision of the Clayton anti trust bill to supplement the Sherman law which passed the House last Spring. The committee will report the measure to pne Senate Wednesday. Most Important of the amendments recommended by the committee is one to provide for a court review of or ders issued by the Interstate Commerce Commission or the proposed Interstate Trade Commission against corporations found to have violated the trust stat utes. The amendment would provide that in case corporations or individuals neg lect or fail to obey orders of either commission, the commission, through Its attorney or district attorneys, may apply for enforcement of the order to the United States Dlsrict Court, trans mit the original record of the proceed ing, including all testimony taken, and the ruling. of the commission shall be taken as prima facie evidence. Klgbt of Appeal included. Either party, however, would be permitted to adduce additional ma terial evidence. Either party to any proceeding be fore the Commerce or Trade Commis sions, under the amendment, would have the right to appeal from any final order by either commission with in SO days by serving notice on the adverse party and filing it with the commission. The final order of any District Court, the amendment would provide, might be reviewed by the Supreme Court up on appeal. The sanction of the original bill re lating t price discrimination is amend ed so that discriminations in price made in good faith to meet competi tion and not intended to create mo nopoly could not e penalized. One Section Stricken. The section of the House bill which would make it unlawful to refuse to sell products of mines, oil or gas wells or hydro-electric plants to bona fide applicants Is stricken from the bill. The provision making It unlawful to lease or make contracts for sale of KOods on condition that purchasers Hi: all not use or deal In th products of a competitor is retained with an amendment providing that the section shall apply to all products whether "patented or unpatented." The exemption section, which in tne House bill included fraternal, labor, consumers, agricultural and horticul tural organizations instituted for mu tual help and having no capital stock and not conducted for profit, is amended to eliminate fraternal and consumers' organizations from the list. The pro vision prohibiting holding companies is retained with slight amendments in phraseology. The section of the House bill relat ing to interlocking directorates has been almost entirely rewritten by the committee. Violation of this provision, as it now stands, would be made punishable by fine not to exceed $25,000 and imprison ment not exceeding two years. The committee retains this section of the House bill providing that no person shall at the same time be a director in any two or more corporations, any one of which has capital and surplus and undivided profits aggregating more than 11.000.000. If elimination of com petition between such corporations by agreement would constitute a violation of the anti-trust laws. The sections of the original bill per taining to injunctions and -punishment for contempt are left intact in princi ple, except that the clause which would have legalized picketing on the prem ises of individuals or corporations in case of strikes' or lockouts is eliminated. Pending completion of the trust pro gramme. Republicans in the Senate conducted a filibuster on the river and harbor appropriation bill today. VIEW OF J-VMt' AEAhi OSWOQ I HjTtjj TflTmSiiMMiaiiiiiiii i ii ' - IT A :v'M'mMHMBii:: Jv . .---v: . ' -.: : JMt&vV " ' I'l WEX 111 1 1 lift Hf f? TaMfrltfaC I 1 1 '"'"W mdc nAiiemi tai ie tcs&jsz neiicnn croc nonure f nj. UHBIJU I HLRJ sr wrote-8 ago- - - UJWWLUU i JIL UIIUSVU This Sani tary Tooth Brush Hold e r, with Brush 35c FLnanaaaMaBnaa ' jjnnanaj - iwVSaaaaawB Saves your your terth Saves your brush. Here's an Oregon -Made Trunk - worth while. Strong, Serviceable, Well Finished This Week, $7.77 All our War ranted Garden Hose at great ly reduced prlf es. E a c i i length is com p 1 e t e wit h couplings a n .i noul e H warranted for one year. Donjt w time mnl o n money scrap - made hose. SPECIAL REDUCTIONS ON SOME ARTICLES 35c Hunyadi Water 50c Dole's Pineapple Juice, 2 quarts. 25c Imported Olive Oil 10c Parowax 50c Formaldehyde 10c Moth Balls .221 39 ..8c 38c 6c 10c Camphorated Tooth Powder OC 10c Cascara Bark $1.00 Golden Medical Discovery 60c 1.00 Mother's Fiien.l 6JC 50c Stuart's Calcium Wafers ...37c 25c Pierce's Pellets 1SW! "Wood-Lark" Dermatic Egg Shampoo is delightful. Makes and keeps the hair and scalp healthy and clean. Box of six tablets enough for 6 shampoos for 25C Finger Cots for the fruit and berry pickers, 35c a dozen. BATHING CAPS New colors, Flower de signs, well made, pure gum. 25c "U-AB-DAS" BATH OF BENZOIN A delightful toilet requisite cl'tVrvescing. perfumed tablets. Box 25c Harmless Cake and Confection Colors. Any desired shade. Two sixes IOC, 2.-C destroyed yesterday, as also was a and drying. The forest service does large barn, together with several not fear a west wind, but the rangers homes. A peculiar phenomenon of the : hate to see a north or east wind come "I Partly Nagged Him," Cries Wife of Dead Man. BREAKDOWN IS PARTIAL Possible juration of Poison in Base nient of Home Suggested, but Officers Find Nothing Suicide Theory Is Not Accepted. COURTS WILL BE CLOSED Magistrates Go on Vacation-. Judge McGinn Will Work. but Although the vacation season for Circuit Judges opened this week and two have gone, while others are pre paring to leave. Judge McGinn said yesterday he did not feel the need of a vacation and might not take any. Judge McGinn took a vacation last Midwinter and made a visit to Los Angeles. I do not reel that the hours are exhausting and may be able to con tinue listening to other people's trou bles from 9:30 to 12 A. M. and 2 to 5 P. M. for the remainder of the Sum mer," he said. Judge Catena does not contemplate taking a vacation at present, although he is fully caught up with his work. Judge Cleeton left yesterday on his vacation, expecting to pass some time at the beach. Judge Davis baa gone East and will be away some time. Judge Morrow will leave today for Chicago and expects to visit Moose heart next Sunday. This is the char itable and philanthropic Institution conducted by the Loyal Order of Moose. He will then go to Milwaukee, where he will attend the business esssion of the same lodge. Returning, he will hold court August 5. after which he expects to go to the beach. WEDDINGS HAVE BIG LEAD 78 Divorce Cases at Vancouver In l'rar and 13(10 Marriages. VANCOUVER. Wash.. July 20. (Spe cial. ' During the year ending today It suits for divorce were brought in the Superior Court of Clarke County. In the same period approximately 1500 marriage licenses were granted. So far this month 129 marriage licenses have been issued. Those who receiver licenses today were John A. Gaupman. of Portland, and Ruth Vigles. of Oak Grove. Or.: Raymond Meiggs and Frieda Fred erlch. of Underwood. Wash. ; W. F. Brainerd and Mrs. Anna C. Gorse. of Montavtlla. Or.. Mark Bociek, of Ray mond, Wash., and Rose S. White, of Portland: F. M. Bushong and Mrs. Rae F. Bedemeyer. of Portland, Mrs. Laura Fletcher, of Portland, witness: Glenn Eoff and Beulah Powell, of Salem, Or.: Terrance J. Shea and Mrs. Martha Bunski. of Portland. For the first time since she was taken to the County Jail last Friday, to be held as a material witness at the In quest Into the death of her husband, George S. Dawson. Mrs. Johanna Daw son yesterday broke down and talked to Deputy District Attorney Ryan of the possibility of Mr. Dawson having committed suicide. After talking to him for some time she broke down com pletely and cried: "If he did take the poison," she sobbed. "I am partly responsible, be cause I nagged at him and quarreled with him. Former Husband Had Strychnine. Mr. Ryan talked to Mrs. Dawson, about poisons and it was disclosed that she is familiar with the potent effects of strychnine, the cause of her hus band's death. She said that T. W. Rob inson, her first husband, had a bottle of strychnine in the house when they lived in Washington and she knew what it was like. Robinson used it to kill coyote, she said. "If Mr. Dawson had strychnine in the house, where would he have been likely to hide it'.'" asked Ryan. "I haven't any idea, unless he hid it in the basement. In any ottyir place I would have been likely to find it. but I seldom went down there." Acting on the faint clew. Ryan, ac companied by Detective Craddock, went to the Dawson home at 7344 Fifty-third avenue Southeast last night and made a thorough and careful search. They could find nothing. Suicide Theory Xot Acreptrd. The authorities, however, do not credit the suicide theory, which is the only one advanced by Mrs. Dawson, be yond the suggestion that her husband might have died from the effects of a cheap grade of coffee or from some cheese. Friends and neighbors of the family also declare the belief that Daw son did not take his own life. City Chemist Calloway has not re ported yet the results of his examin ation of the coffee, lunch and other food found in the house. It Is the the ory of some of the officers working on the case that the poison was admin istered through one of the cups of cof fee which Dawson drank on the morn ing of his death. In this case there would be no trace of It In any of the other food. Ever since she was lodged In the County Jail. Mrs. Dawson has main tained absolute composure. Until yes terday she showed no signs of the nervous strain under which she must be laboring. When she broke down and cried. Deputy District Attorney Ryan ceased his questioning and did not trouble her farther, out of con sideration for her years. in talking to Ryan. Mrs. Dawson has alluded to a letter written by her hus band to his daughter, Ruth. She said this was one of the motives which prompted her to file suit for divorce two months ago. In this i.-tu-; Daw son wrote: "Do not forsake me now. When you are gone I have nothing left, not friend. How would you like to go back East on a visit, if I could in any way raise the money? Then I would hobo It back." Trouble over Ruth. Dawson's 17-year-old daughter by a former marriage is said to have been the chief cause of the differences between Mr. and Mrs. Dawson. The Inquest, which was scheduled for 1 o'clock yesterday. was postponed until fha j,n.. H,,iit. InriiiY Unless every possible clew is exhausted at that hour, it again will be postponea, me authorities stated. Examination of the records in all drug stores In Portland and surrounding towns have been made by Deputy Dis trict Attorney Ryan, Deputy Coroner J. J. Dunning and Detective swennes in an effort to find where the poison was purchased. Officers hjpfJe been sent to Vancouver, Oregon City. New berg and every other place where it could have been bought, but, so far, the search has been fruitless. RIGLER FUNERAL HELD SCHOOL, FLAGS AT HALF MAST( CEREMON V IS SIMPLE. Rev. Lather It. Dyott Pays Trlbnte to Late Educator, Saying He Will Be Appreciated More In Fatare. Flags were at half mast on the school houses yesterday and Summer schools were closed for the day. in remem brance of Frank Kigler. ex-superintendent of the Portland schools, whose funeral services were hed at the Port land Crematorium in the morning. Th ceremonies at the Crematorium were simple, it having been Mr. Rigler's wish that there be no special iormai programme. Scores of his friends and former colleagues in school work were present, however. The Rev. Luther R. Dyott, pastor of the First Congrega tional Church, gave the funeral ad dress. . "His work will live beyona tne pres ent," said ur. jjyott. i wemy-nvc years hence he win De spoaen ui even more appreciatively than now, and he will be better understood. Big men do not live for their generation alone, but for the generation also mat ioiiows t h em Members of the School Board were present at the ceremonies, and in the afternoon they called a special session at which the following resolution wis adopted regarding the death of their former co-worker. Whereas, death has taken from u Frank UlKler our respected colleague of many yearn and a man whose striking ability has been recognized throughout the country; Therefore. e. the Board of Directors of School District, No. 1, Multnomah County, Oregon, while we bow to the wisdom of Di vine providence, do now express our deep sorrow over the loss of an honored friend and esteemed co-worker. We gratefully acknowledge his sterling dualities of character: his unflagging devo tion to tiie service of the public; his genius that has evolved and made great the schools of our city; and we most deeply regret the loss that his death means to us and to the commonwealth. And furthermore, we desire to extend to the members of his family our deepest sym pothv in their bereavement: And hereby direct that this resolution be spread upon the minutes and copies con veyed to the members of his family. Royal Aviator Killed. PORTSMOUTH, Eng.. July 20. Lieu tenant Llewellyn Charles Hordern, of the Lancashire Fusiliers and of the Royal Flying Corps, was killed today when the biplane in which he was fly ing made a sudden drive to earth. 500 Fighters Needed Today at Pine Creek to Check Spread. FUEL YARDS ARE BURNED Unless Progress of Fires Can Be Di verted or Checked, They Easily May Reach Council Crest and City Ontskirts. (Continued From First Page.) hanful of men fought to hold back the fire at the Pine Creek Gulch bridge, hoping against hope that they might check the blaze until help will arrive this morning. One-half mile to the east Mrs. M. Clarke and her son-in-law, J. C. Drake, and A. Rice, assisted by R. J. Phillips and Deputy Forester Martin, are fighting to save their homes, which, at 11 o'clock last night, were only 300 feet from the path of the flames. The farmhouse and build ings may be destroyed this morning. All telephone communication is cut off. Official Turns Fire Finhter. "I was sent out here by Mr. Elliott, the State Forester, to make a report on the conditions ihere," explained Deputy Forester Martin between shovelfuls of dirt, which he was heaving in an ef fort to backfire the flames. I have been unable to do so, because I have stayed with Rice, Drake and Phillips here in an effort to save their homes from destruction. 'You can say for me that if the fire goes past that Pine Creek Gulch bridge before morning, or before enough men arrive to check it, and reaches into the green timber, it will take hundreds, If not thousands, of men to stop those fires. They may reach to the very out skirts of Portland." Mr. Martin gave a brief report to The Oregonian representative, which was forwarded to State Forester El liott. Assistant Forester Chapman stated late last night that Mr. Elliott promised to take entire charge of the work in fighting the fires and It is probable that a large force will be recruited in Portland today. County Road Workers Drafted. The County Commissioners yesterday morning authorized Assistant Road Supervisor White to take his district employes to the scene of the blaze. Armed with axes, shovels and every available kind of tools, the small army of workmen has been fighting the flames for 20 hours or more. Sheriff Word took every able-bodied prisoner from Kelly Butte and the County Jail to the fires In automobiles about midnight. These men are work ing with axes, shovels and sledge ham mers, used at the Butte to break rock, Mr. Word gave a brief talk to the prisoners on the way to the blaze, tell, ing them that they were being given an ODDOrtunity to escape, but the Sheriff said he would rely on their honor not to escape. Fuel Yards Destroyed. The fuel yards of the Patterson and Holman Fuel Companies were entirely situation is the fact that a small house in the very center of the flames had remained untouched for the past 40 hours. The ground about the house has been protected by fresh spading for several yards on all sides of the build ing. Mrs. M. Clarke, whose home Martin, Phillips and Rice are striving to pro tect, has been working diligently since the start of the fire Saturday after noon in the Goodwin 8hingle Works, which were entirely destroyed. Mrs. Clarke has supplied the workers with hot coffee and lunohts and with spring water, at Intervals. Crinvds ninder. A crowd of men, women and boys visited the scene of the fires last night. Most of them remained at a safe dis tance to the rear of the flames and one party of men and women sang songs. None of these volunteered to assist in the battle against the flames. Others hindered the fire fighters by asking foolish questions. The strip burned up to the present is about two miles long and about three-fourths of a mile wide. Efforts were being made to have the state militia called out. but the absence of that organization from the city pre vented this being accomplished. HOMESTEADER MAY BE LOST $40,000 Fire In Chenowith Creek Valley Breaks Out Second Time. THE DALLES. Or.. July 20. (Spe Hal l It is believed W. T. Evans lost his life in the forest fire which de stroved timber and buildings worth $40,000 in the Chenowith Creek Valley yesterday. His home was aesiroyeu. Evans was last seen fighting the firn nn his homestead yesterday morn ing. Searchers who looked all day for him iravn him ud tonleht for dead. It is thought he was hemmed in by the flames and perished. Evans was a surveyor and. for many years, was a clerk in the United States Land Office here. The fire, which was controlled last night, smoldered all day and broke out afresh this afternoon. Men were rushed from this city and their back firing efforts, after two hours, sub dued the flames. Matilda, the 9-year-old daughter of Andy Grimm, proved to be a heroine yesterday, when the flames suddenly enveloped her father's barn. Although alone, she rushed into the burning building and led out a team of horses, which were tied Inside. FOUR FIRES NEAR EUGENE Grass and Brush Blazes Under Con trol of Fighters. EUGENE. Or.. July 20. (Special.) Four minor fires burned about Eugene today, covering a large acreage. On the McKenzle River, Government ftre fighters today brought under con trol a blaiie which has been burning In nrlvate timber a mile from the Na- tinnal Forest line since Saturday. The fire started on a south slope near Blue River and destroyed 25 acres or tim ber. It is the first of any importance on the McKenzie in two years. Several grass and brush fires burned about Eu gene tonight, mostly in uiiimii' slashings. At Springfield, several hundred acres of grass and brush were burned. Each fire was extinguished. Several farm butldinits wero threatened. Nearly 150 men fought fire. up. in isiu, tne year oi many Dis astrous forest fires through the North west, a hard northeast wind blew for many days. GRANDE KO.NDE SMOKE THICK Theorj Is That General Blaze Due to East Cascade Fires. LA GRANDE. Or.. July 20. (Special.) Though an excessively smoky condi tion of the atmosphere in rGand Ronde Valley during the past two days would Indicate otherwise, careful investiga tions by fire wardens and lookouts have failed to locate any forest fire in the Blue Mountains. The forest su pervisor at Walla Walla, with whom J. T. Williamson, local manager for the Mount Emily Timber Company. h whose holdings a firo was reported yesterday, was in communication today suggests that that smoke must be com ing from fires in the Cascade Moun tains. The smoke extends eastward into Wallowa County. The lookout In the Blue Mountains, who yesterday report ed the presence of smoke on Mount Emily, telephoned this afternoon that he had been unable to locate any f Ire. i but that the odor and trend of smoke indicated that the fire probably was on the west side of the Blue Mountains, in the vicinity of Meacham. Superinten dent Bollons, of the O.-W. R. & N, to day Investigated the origin of the smoke, and states that no fires are burning at any point near the railroad's property. Fire Warden Supervisor Lowell Williamson reports two small fires on the Looking Glass Creek, north of here, both of which are under control. Coats-Kordney t'amp. No. stroyed, was denied to-lay. 1 , w as ilr FIRE IN unuKanxLD Glt- Finnic Threaten Fit) Hill Flag, but Old Glory I iiM-athrd. SPRINGFIELD. Or July 20. (Spe cial.) A grass lire, which swept over several hundred acres south of Sprlnu field today, offered spectacular fea tures, when. Just after noon, the flames rushed up three sides of the promontory on which is located the big American flag. For 10 mlnuten the smoke rolled about the banner, but It was not touched by the flame The fire burned nearly a mile to the eastward before It was controlled. A second fire crept hack around the hill to the point of origin and cleared the rest of the ground. The George Dor rls farm was threatened, but graai and poison oak shrubs were all that were destroyed. RESERVES LUCKY THIS YEAR Oregon and Washington Rangers Have Had Xo Fires Thus Far. So far this year the National forests In Oregon and Washington have been free from fires. A few small ones have been extinguished by rangers, but none as yet has got beyond control. C. F. Buck, chief clerk in the United States Forest Bureau, in Portland, said yes terday that the stiff northerly wind on Sunday especially was favorable to fires, but that yesterday's weather was more to the liking of the forest rangers, the wind having shifted to the WASHINGTON FIRES ARE MANY Five Counties Fight Blazes and Dry Winds May Be Disastrous. OLYMPIA. Wash., July 20. (Special.) Reports received by the State Fire Warden today showed brush and forest fires in five counties of Western Wash ington. None of these has done great damage, but the situation Is such that the fire wardens fear disaster if dry weather and winds continue. Two fires are reported in Thurston County, five in Chehalla County and others in Mason, Skagit and Whatcom. Citizens who are fighting a blase near Rainier today called up the fire war den's office asking that an experienced man be sent to take charge. A blaze four miles south of Olympla menaced the Thurston County poor farm, but It now Is believed the buildings will es cape, unless the wind veers suddenly. Many county wardens are staying con tinuously in the forests, organizing pro tection. FIGHTERS SAVE GATE CITY Raging Forest Fire for Time Threat ened Little Washington Town. OLYMPIA. Wash., July 20. A tele- Dhone mefsaKe from tjate City, 20 miles south of Olympla, on the Northern Pa cific, this afternoon, reported the little town in the patu of a raging forest fire. Only the efforts of the entire male population, it was declared, could save the town from destruction. The men of the town succeeded in stopping the advance of the fire by back-firing and. although several hun dred acres of logged-off lands and prairie were burned over, the fire was under control tonight. GREEN TIMBER THREATENED Knappa Fire I nder Control ASTORIA. Or.. July 20. Special. 1 -Before the Are was gotten under con trol, which started Saturday In a logged-off tract belonging to the Hi Creek Ixigglng Company, back M Knappa. two donkey engines were de stroyed. The tire still In smoldering along the line of the green timber, at the edit of the Crown Pulp A Paper Company's tract, but no further damage Is mil cputed. unless the wind should shift to the east. Warden Report Few Ftree. SALEM. Or. June 20. (Special.) State Forester Elliott said today that no serious forest fires had been re ported to him this season. Numerous reports of small ones have been t celved, but they were quickly extin guished. The state forester attributes the success of the department this sen son to the efficiency of the wardViin and the warnings which were gt'i early to campers to extinguish camp fires and not to throw lighted matches in the brush. Aberdeen Reports Slashing Areas Burning. With Dangerous Wind. ABERDEEN. Wash., July 20. (Spe cial.) Large slashing areas, between the upper branches of the Hoquiam and. Wislikah Rivers, are ablaze today and, with a steady southwest wind blowing, danger to green timber dis tricts is regarded as possible. No green timber as yet has been touched and camp No. 1. of the Big Creek Tim ber Company, is the oniy one in dan ger. The slashing fires are covering a larse acreage, but there are no fires west He explained that winds from in other parts or tne country, i ne ra the north and east generally are hard port in circulation yesterday that the MILLERS HAVE RETIRED Anti-Trust l.a Cau-c- Washington Association to Stop Activities The Washington Millers' Association, which has been In existence for mati years, has disbanded. This step was decided on at the recent meeting of the association at Tacoma, and the officers ware given Instructions to take the necessary steps to disincorporate. 'Die association had as members all the larger millers of Washington Regular meetings were held at Seattle and Tacoma. With the enactment f the Sherman anti-trust law the activ ities of the association ware curtailed, and for morn than a year past It lias not been an effective force in the flour trade of the Northwest. The small millers of Washington, it is believed, will regret the passing f the association, as one of Its important duties was to furnish the mtllmen with semi-weekly reports aa to the con dltlun of the world's flour and wheat markets, ocean freight rates and other matters pertaining to the flour milling trade. HOW TO CLEAR AWAY PIMPLES Bathe your face for several minutes with Reslnol Soap and hot water, then apply a little Keslnol Ointment very gently. Let this stay on ten minutes, and wash off with Reslnol Soap and more hot mater, finishing with a dash of cold water to close the pores. Do this once or twice a day. and you win be astonished to find how quickly the healing, antiseptic Reslnol medication soothes and cleanses the porea, re moves pimples and blackheads, and leaves the complexion clear and vel vety. Reslnol ointment and Reslnol Kosv stop itching instantly and speedily heal skin humors, heat rash, sunburn and chafing. Sold by all druggists. For free trial slse, write Dept. 30-R. HaaiBol, Baltimore. Md.