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THE MORNING OREGONIAN, WEDNESDAY. JULY 22, 1914. 16 'Ml REVOIR' IS LAST WORD BY DIES "All My Clothes Now Are Off, and Now I'm Off, Naked," Nature Man Writes. "I'LL CONVINCE," HE SAYS Other Letters and Drawings to Be Sent From Wilds to The Orego nian May Be Seen by Curi ous, Adds Writer. BT JOE KNOWL.ES KN'OWLES CAMP. Klamath National Forest, via Holland and Grants Pass, Or.. July 21. (Special.) When you read this I shall be In the forest of the mountains, the primitive man. In about twenty minutes I shall make my start from this little cabin, nestled here between the towering mountains of this range. Mount Bolan rises above me to the north, with its lake almost at the summit, which looks like the crater of an old volcano, and maybe It is. while to the south as far as the eye can reach, stretch the tum bling tops of the frreat Sierra Nevada range. I have little that I can say to you before I go. I shall repeat once again that In 30 days or more I shall return to civilization and the report that will go forth from Dr. Waterman and Pro fessor Edwards, who are with me. will be that I accomplished what I said I would do and even more. Outalde News Not Wanted. As I sat around our campfire last night I told the boys in the party over again the things I hoped they would do and not do. I do want to be let alone. That really is the only request I have to make of those whom I leave behind. I want to hear nothing from the outside world. I want neither of the men. who for scientific purposes will see me part of the time, at least, while I am on this test, to speak to nie or to give me any information as to what is going on In the outside world. Jt may seem hard-hearted, but I do not mean It as such. I have Insisted that, even should there be a death In my family, even should my dear old mother die, I not want to know It. It would do me no good to get the in formation. I could not gft back East to do anything and It would break me up to such an extent that I prob ably would be unable to complete the test. That certainly Is putting it as strong as I can to show that I want to be alone with my own thoughts and to attend strictly to the business I have In front of me. Skin Clothing Wanted. T have promised all along that I would come out of the woods in the garb of a wild man, with the skina of deers and a bear for my clothing. That is my ambition, but If I ara not fortunate enough to secure these ani mals, I shall not return unclothed. I hall have a suit even more unique than either the deer or the bear skin would make. There are masses of fiber in the for est which I believe I shall be able to weave, as one weaves cloth. Into a fairly good reproduction of the tailor's art. White cedar seema to be more or less plentiful, and that will be of Im mense value to me. From the inner bark of these trees, and with other fiber which I shall find. I shall come forth clad in a good-looking suit. My civilized clothes I already have disposed of. The suit I wore In here Is going to be pressed and cleaned. I feel I may need It late In the season. My trunk and the other things "which I brought across the country with me have been stored in Grants Pass. My gray shirt, which I have worn in the woods, was really a bone of contention among my par.ty, but I finally have willed It to Lambert. So this morning 1 stand here a man without a thing In the world. My plans all are complete. Dr. Waterman, of the University of Cali fornia, and Professor Edwards, of Los Angeles, know my plans for the flrat three or four days, so that It will be easy for them to see that I carry out what I say I will do. I probably shall see them In the forest at times I don't see how It can be helped but they are the only ones I know of who will be able, or wish to reach me, except those who may come from Idle curiosity. And here again I want to warn those who may come Into the forest and be gin a search for me. with no knowl edge of where I am. They are liable to get Into trouble, for the snares I shall make for the wild animals of the forest will be sufficiently strong to jerk a full-grown man Into the air and hold him there, and there won't be any getting down until I come along. I don't want to have to cut anyone down from that position. Besides, I won't have the opportunity to apologize. He won't care whether I do or not. Wilderness lm Ideal. For a wilderness this Is an ideal spot for the beginning of this exper iment of mine. No wilder place In the Sierra Nevada Mountains exists, I think. I am more or less disappointed that I have not seen more game tracks, but they must be In the mountains somewhere and, if I have good luck. I win find them. If I don't I shall live Just the same and return strong and well. I want to thank the people of this state for the manner In which I have been treated. Since I arrived from the East never In my life have I received more cordiality than has been extended to me. I also want to thank the men of this party, especially those who represent the scientific part of this expedition. Dr. Waterman and Profes sor Edwards. In their hands I know I am safe, for I know they are men who will subscribe to nothing they do not know about, and I know they will subscribe If they are convinced. Both to Be Convinced. I shall convince them both that what I have claimed I can do In the woods with no assistance either from hu mans or the Implements of civilization I can do and will do. When that state ment Is made by these two men then X will be satisfied, and not until then. In a few minutes I shall be searched and examined. I do not mean a cur sory examination, but a systematic search of my body. I want them to know I am not hldtng any little bit of substance or piece of twine, or any thing In the world, and I shall Insist that the examination be so thorough that there absolutely can be no doubt as to my having nothing in my pos session when I say good-bye. 3 KXOWLES cmfwyp cmfwyp puu Not an eighth of a mile from where I am standing in this little clearing In the forest the woods beckon to me and I am glad that the time has come for me to begin. It has been a long, hard wait and the whole party has chafed a little at the necessary delays that have occurred, but the time now is at band. I'm going to take off my shirt now anU 11U1BX1 111IB 1.31 UVI. IU JVU lJ piecemeal, as I shall write the last few lines of It In nature's garb and in the condition I shall enter the woods. It's off. Tonight I shall sleep in a bed of moss. I shall have made some kind of shoes that will protect my feet temporarily and tomorrow, as you are reading this story in The Oregonian. I shall be busy with the small snares for the little game of the forest and with the fish In the creeks. Then I shall begin my big snares for the larger game, and I do hope that I shall get one of the wild animals of this forest. I have harped so much on that subject that it seems to me about all I think of. but I am so anxious to produce a bear and a couple of deer that I cannot get it out of my mind. Whether I do or not, whether I ac complish what I have said I shall do I don't know. I believe I shall, but if I do not. It will not be because 1 have not tried. I shall do my best and the results will show. If I don't suc ceed, If I should be beaten and If, for any reason, I should have to return to civilization, I shall say so like a man. I shall acknowledge that nature whipped me and that my experiment Is a failure. But listen to me. I won't return until this test is over a success. Clothes All Are Off. They're off and now it Is au revolr for a few days. Maybe I shall be able to get something to you in a day or so. I will keep you Informed as to what I am doing at every opportunity I have. In the meantime you will know that I am in the woods, working out this problem. I shall send you some drawings that I will make In the woods, on whatever I find to draw upon, and they will be printed in The Oregonian. The origi nals will be sent to the office of The Oregonian, if anyone would like to see them They're all off now and I am the so-called wild man. I don't feel a bit wild. In fact I am rather sober for me and Just a bit lonely. I ve shaken hands with all of my good friends here and now I'm off. Au revair for a whle. I won't say good-bye. EARLY RESIDENT PASSES David J. Ingalls Dies at Astoria Near Where He Lived 52 Years. ASTORIA, Or.. July 21. (Special.) Daniel J. Ingalls, for 52 years a resi dent of this county and well known on the Lower Columbia River, died at his home here last Friday. He was born at Rlchford, Vermont. February 17, 1836. He went to California In 1860 and In the Spring of 1861 came to Port land. When work started an Fort Stevens he obtained employment there as a carpenter. On August 13, 1876. he received a patent to 160 acres of land on Lewis and Clark River, on which he lived until his failing health compelled him to move to the city four years ago.. A widow and two sons. Eaton W. and Clement C, of Astoria, Or., and a sister at Rockford, Conn., survive. KNOWLES IN WILDERNESS (Continued From First Pase.) there may be no controversy over his test with nature. He did not know until a day or so ago Into what part of the Sierra Nevada Mountains he would po, and his knowledge of the woods in California and Oregon has been gained by riding through the mountains on well-defined roads and through the country in a sleeping car. Dr. Waterman and Professor Ed wards will be with him almost continu ally. It will be almost impossible for them actually to live with him, but they will know without a doubt whether he really does as he says he will, and whether what he brings from the woods he has gained by his own efforts or not. To these facts both these men, who are well versed In the lore of the woods, will subscribe and from their report the world at large may draw Its conclusions. Knowles never heard of either man until they Joined his party, and he wel comed both with a heartiness and a man's handshake that showed but too plainly he was glad they were there. Both these men have stated that they believe he will carry out what he in tends, but they are at the camp to have the facts demonstrated, and until Knowles has made good there can be no report. That he will make good he Is sure. If he finds It Impossible to accomplish what he has set out to do, then he will accomplish the best substitute possi ble. He says If he cannot get a bear skin for a coat, then he will weave one from moss that hangs from almost all the trees in this forest. No Human Being Near Camp. In the vicinity of the camp there Is no human being, so far as can be dis covered. A few prospectors with pack trains have passed and said "How do you do?" Knowles will begin leaving his re ports so that they may be .'ound and sent to civilization as soon as he makes something to cover his feet and has found a place to sleep. The pictures he says he will make will be photo graphed at the camp and then will be sent to the courier, who said Just be fore leaving that he wanted to make a colored drawing In the woods. From the bark and berries he hopes to find his colors, and the paper he will use will be made by himself. He said last night as he sat before the crackling campfire with the others clustered around him that he had found white cedar growing near the camp and he was apparently pleased. Pres ently he pulled from his pocket a flex ible silky looking line and passed It around. FlnhUne Found. "Do you think I can fish with that?" he asked. "What's It made of?" asked some one. "The Inner bark of the white cedar." he replied. "I twisted it up this after noon. The old rancher, William Hie, who has packed the party in, was sitting near. "May I have that as a remem brance of you?" he asked between puffs from his pipe. "Sure," said Knowles, as he passed over the three feet or more of string, tough as rope yarn. Last night Knowles disposed of the few possessions he carried Into camp. His clothes and underclothes he asked to have sent to be pressed and laun dered so that he could have them when he came out. His old gray shirt he presented to Lambert, and his other trinkets he distributed for safekeeping to the rest of the party. After he had stripped lie was searched, searched so thoroughly that everyone was convinced he had nothing concealed about his person. There are but two things he carried with him, his brains and his woodcraft, that is a second nature to him. Knowles has burned every bridge be hind him. He has gone Into the woods to fight for his life alone and with help of no kind. It was a solemn minute when he ac tually started. After his last hand shakes, he hesitated a moment. Then he said: "Thank you all. I am glad that I am to have a report on this venture. I am glad there can be no chance of a controversy, and I go away from you with my mind at ease. Good-bye again." It was a minute, perhaps, as he swung across the little clearing, his arms working and every muscle of his great body In play, and then It was swallowed up by the forest. Ho dis appeared, it seemed, as though he had drawn back the deep curtain of the for est and made his exit. The first act In the Knowles drama had ended. HINDUS OIVE IN ID VESSEL WILL SAIL Canadian Government Only to Provision Craft for Voyage and Supply Medicines. DEPARTURE TODAY LIKELY Agreement Is Reached After Cruiser Rainbow Arrives in Harbor and Crowds Throng Waterfront Expecting to See Battle. VANCOUVER, B. C. July 21. The Hindus aboard the Komagata Maru have given In on all points and ac cepted the terms offered by the authori ties. The terms accepted are that the ship shall be provisioned for tne re turn voyage and medicines be provided. No points were conceded by the Gov ernment officials. During the negotiations, which took place all through the day, the Hindus had Insisted that the government should not only feed them, but should also pay their passage back on one of the regular liners and allow the Komagata Maru to discharge her cargo here, taking on fresh cargo ana pas sengers for Hongkong. The local Hindus have relinquished all claims against the steamer. It will take about 12 hours to get up steam and the vessel should leave the harbor about 7 o'clock tomorrow morning. Cruiser Rainbow Arrives. The Dominion Government cruiser Rainbow reached the harbor this morn, ing to Join with the military forces here to suDnress the trouble aboard the Komosrata Maru. Thousands of persons thronged the waterfront ex pecting to witness an attack on the vessel. An ultlmatium was sent to the Hindus, giving them until 2 o'clock In the afternoon for the surrender of the vessel to her officers. The attorney for the Hindus sent a letter Just before noon to the offi cials complaining that many of the Hindus had been starving for four or five days and suggested that if food and funds were provided for their re turn they might give up. Ultimatum Is Answered. At 2 o'clock Gurdit Singh sent ashore a reply to the ultimatum sent out by the immigration authorities. "We will surrender if you give us sufficient provisions immediately and provide us with passages across the Pacific" was the gist of his reply. He made no answer to the demand of the officials that the Japanese on board be reinstated In command of the Komo- gata Maru. A large number of the local Hindus went aboard early tonight to endeavor to persuade those aboard to accept the proposal that the authorities supply them with food. A short time later It was announced that the agreement had been reached. It Is planned that after the Komogata Maru is surrendered to her Japanese officers and crew she will sail for Asia, convoyed to sea by the Rainbow. SEVEN ALMOST DROWN PORTLAND COUPLE AND CHILD IN SEATTLE ACCIDENT. Ferry Hits Power Boat, Hydro-Aaro- plane Starts to Rescue, bot Over turns Canoe Before Arriving. SEATTLE, Wash., July 21. Mr. and Mrs. T. M. Learman, of Portland, their two-year-old son and four other per sons narrowly escaped drowning In Lake Washington Sunday afternoon. The Learmans and Earl Coldwell were cruising In a power boat when the Klrkland ferry collided with them. Learman threw the baby onto the ferry, dived for his wife and rescued her. The Learmans live at 414 Leo avenue, Portland. Silas Chrlstoffer.son, who was sailing over the lake in his hydro-aeroplane, headed for the ferry, but before reach ing the Learmans he tipped over a canoe carrying two young men. C. B. Stanchfield. a passenger on the ferry, saw the capsizing of the canoe, and Jumped into the water after the two young men. They were put aboard Chrlstofferson's plane and taken to the shore. The Learmans were picked up by the ferryboat. Mr. Learman described the accident last night. "We didn't seem to be very close to the ferry when it happened," he said, "but her front propellor had a strong suction. I lifted the boy up and ..ossed him over the stern Just as we went over. "I came up right after the collision, but dived again or my wife. All the time I was getting her to the Burface. I could see the stern propellor of that ferry going round and round not more than 25 feet ahead of me and that nearly scared me to death. When I reached the surface my head went right through a life preserver and we were hauled aboard the ferry. FIGHT REACHES SHERIFF AT TACOMA ORDERS COM MISSIONER REED JAILED. Escaped Negro Prisoner. Harbored by Official, Is Arrested by Deputy, Accused of Conspiracy. TACOMA. July 21. (Special.) A climax to the fight between Sheriff R. W. Jamieson and Chairman W. H. Reed, of the Board of County Commis sioners, both Bull Moose, who landed in office on the Roosevelt wave, came this afternoon when the Sheriff gave orders to have Reed arrested. If he ap peared around the Jail, on a charge of harboring an escaped prisoner, while Charles Williams, negro, three times a convict, in as many states, is back in the County Jail, from where he escaped. The negro was arrested by Jailer Des mond and Deputy Sheriff Coates, acting under orders. "If Willie Reed interferes or comes down here and so much as opens his head, throw him In the eame tank with the nigger," said Sheriff Jamieson. Williams was arrested at the Coun ty Hospital, where he had been given a Job by Chairman Reed, as porter. He hrd signed an affidavit to the effect that Jailer Desmond had assisted him to escape from the County Jail after he had served three months of a one-year sentence, on his plea of guilty to a cherg of highway robbery. Williams went from Tacoma to Port land and from there wrote the Com- missioners. Reed got the affidavit from him and brought him to the County Hospital and gave orders that no one be allowed to molest him. Last Winter, In company with a white man, Williams held up a pedestrian at mid night, at Eleventh and C streets, and was captured by a patrolman. He lias served terms In the San Quentin, Salem and Walla Walla penitentiaries. Commissioner Reed was et In his office when Williams was arrested, having gone with other County Com missioners to Inspect some road work at Lakevlew. Sheriff Jamieson, an nouncing that he had nothing to con ceal, sent word to the Commission ers that he had "Willie Reed's colored friend In jail." How to Feed Men on Sunday Under 8-Hour Law Asked. Coolc Couldn't Work and Neither Could Crew, Waehlugton Farmer Point Out in Argument Against Bill. rv KJ "How can a farmer feed his crew when a cook can work only eight hours a day, six days In the week? When Sun. day comes and the entire crew and the cook have worked the maximum for the six days of the week and are thereby disqualified from lifting a hand on Sun day, how are they to be fed?" This Inquiry shows the concern of some Washington farmers over the possibility that the state may adopt the universal eight-hour law, proposed through the Initiative. It is contained in an argument against the bill sub mitted by the farmers' union of Walla Walla, Garfield and Columbia counties, submitted for printing In the state's pamphlet to be circulated among all voters. The union has put up J200 to pay the cost of printing and circulating the argument. "Who will feed the livestock, milk the cows and do the thousand and one other chores required on a farm on Sunday?" is another query contained in the argument, which goes on: "The Intent of the measure Is clearly to restrict field operations to eight hours a day, six days of the week, and we contend that farming operations cannot be conducted successfully under such a handicap. "The-lncreased cost of the wages and board for the extra men would prevent the employment of two shifts of eight hours each." OIG SAVING IS CLAIMED STATE OWNERSHIP OF PRINTERY GOOD, SAYS PRINTER. It. A. Harris Surprised by Own l igurrs of Reduction la Cost Since He Buys First Machinery. SALEM, Or., July 21. (Special.) State ownership of a printing plant Is said by State Printer R. A. Harris to have saved the taxpayers of Oregon $16,332.56 in 10 months. In a statement issued by Mr. Harris, the saving by the plant is given as $7657.99 for the quarter ending June 30, or $2552 for each month of that time. Mr. Harris' statement, addressed to the taxpayers of Oregon, follows: "The sum of $7657.99 for the quarter ending June 30. last, or $2552 for each month of the quarter, is the gain due to the present state ownership system in the state printing department. "Every item of printing has been carefully computed at the rates fixed by the old law and the difference of cost under the present law, in your favdr, is as shown abjve. "These figures are higher than any estimate or prediction of mine, and are a surprise to me. "Detailed records of cost, showing minutely every Item of overhead and general expense, Is at your disposal In the printing department. "The complete record of gains to date by virtue of state ownership Is as follows: September 8 to December 31. 1913. .$ 8,157. M January 1 to March 31, 1014 5,417.23 April 1 to June 30, 1914 7.657.99- Total 16.332.56 "The amount saved to date, at the end of 10 months, Is nearly $1000 in excess of the Initial cost of the printing plant, although liberal depreciation and In terest has been regularly charged to the cost of the public printing." DALLY METEOROLOGICAL REPORT. PORTLAND. July 21. Maximum temper ature 74.5 degrees; minimum, 50.2 degrees. River reading. 8 A.M., 10.8 feet; change in last 24 hours, 0.1 foot fall. Total rain fall (3 P. M. to 5 P. M.). none; total rain fall since September 1, 1913, 3S.90 inches: normal, 44. 3S Inches; deficiency. 5.18 inches. Total sunshine, 12 hours. 17 minutes; pos sible, 15 hours, 12 minutes. Barometer (re duced to sea level) 5 P. M., 30.11 Inches. THE WEATHER. -3 63 Stats of Weather STATIONS. Baker 70IO.O0; 6'NWICIear 78O.00llOjW 'Clear 80 0.24 12 SW Clear 62 O.0O 2O N W('lear 94 O.OOl 4iE Clear SOIO.OO. .).. . .(Clear SsO.OOj 4 NW(Raln 9OO.08 10S Clear M ".("I !fi .VI-; i ,!'Ui,!y 58 O.OO 8 NW Clear Boise Boston Calgary Chicago Colfax Denver Des MoIu-s . Duluth Eureka Ualveston . . . Helena SS0.0010S iClear 72;o.0014lW Clear 860.01 'lOINK .Clear 84;o.l216SE Clear 7O.00 . . Clear Jacksonville Kansas City Klamath Falls Laurler 7610.001 6 S ,Pt. cloudy Los Angeles , 76O.0O 10UW ".tear Marshfleld I 68.0.00 16 NTV Clear Medtord 80 O.OO 8 NW.Clear MouLroal 74 0.00 14;NWfClear New Orleans 94:O.O0 8S IPt. cloudy New York , 3i;:NW,Raln North Head I 58O.00j3O NW'CIear North Yakima ...I 7610.00 4 VV Cloudy Pendleton 83 0.00) 6 W Clear Phoenix 102 0.00J 4.SW 'Clear Pocatello 740.04' 4'SW (Cloudy Portland 740.0O12!N ICtear Roseburg 80-0.00 12 N Clear Sacramento 84 0.00 10;s CIear St. Louis 900.00 0 SW Clear St. Paul 900.00,lL;s Cloudy Salt Lake 720.30 10E Cloudy San Francisco ... 64 O.OO 14 W Clear Seattle J 8SO.00 12 NW Clear Spokane 7410.00 8SW Clear Tacoma 68 0.00) I N .Clear Tatoesh Island ... 0;0 . 00! 6 S W Clear Walla Walla 78'o.OO 4 SW Clear Washington 9210.001 4 S Clear Winnipeg 840.2SU6)W Clear Yellowstone Park.f 08 0.02112 SW Clear WEATHER CONDITIONS. A depression of slight energy Is central north of Montana and a large high pressure area overlies the North Pacific States. The barometer Is relatively high over the At lantic States. Showers and thunder storms have occurred in Nevada, Utah, Southwest ern Idaho, Colorado, Wyoming. Montana, Nebraska. Iowa. Missouri, Minnesota, Ten nessee,' Florida, Middle Atlantic and New England States. It is much cooler over a strip of territory extending from Utah north eastward to the Dakotas and correspond ingly warmer in Kansas, Nebraska and Iowa. The conditions are favorable for fair weather In this district Wednesday with no marked changes in temperature. FORECASTS. Portland and vicinity Wednesday fair, northwesterly winds. Oregon and Washington Wednesday fair, west to north winds. Idaho Wednesday fair. EDWARD A. BEALS, District Forecaster. Officials Hear Riot Humors. ST. HELENS, Or., July 21. (Spe cial.) The County Attorneys office received word of an attempt to shoot persons and burn property by some of the foreigners employed on road work near Clatskanie. County officials are Investigating the nature of the trouble. E AT TE Last of Military Branches Are to Break Camp, Ready to Entrain at 8 A. M. Today. OREGON MEN BEAT IDAHO Final Day's Tactics Between Guards men of Two States Include Both -Defense and Attack or Sandhill Position. CAMP JACKSON. Gearhart, Or.. July 21. (Special.) Camp will be struck at daybreak in the morning by the Third Oregon and Second Idaho Infantry regi ments, the Oregon Cavalry troop and the Oregon Ambulance Company. These troops will entrain during the forenoon for home. Special trains, the first section leav ing here at 8 A. M.. will transport the force to Portland, from whence the various commands will leave for their home stations. The six Portland Infantry companies, cavalry and ambulance company will reach the armory during the afternoon. Cavalry Troop Stays Over. The Oregon battery left today with horses and field guns, the cavalry troop under Captain Tibbets, which was to have left today elected 'to remain for a brigade maneuver this arternoon, tne cavalrymen staying at their own ex pense. ... . Oregon and Idaho troops were pitted against each other in a regimental movement today, with the advantage strongly on the Oregon side. The Second Idaho, commanded by Colonel Edelbrut, took up a defensive position two miles northeast of Gear hart, in the sandhills, and was attacked by the Third Oregon, under Colonel C. H. Martin. Both regiments made ex cellent deployments and plainly showed the benefits of the 10 days of arduous field instruction work. In tactics the Oregon command got considerably the better of the argu ment, the distribution of the battalions and the attack being carried out most effectively. Oregon Wins Again. The problems then were reversed, the Oregon assuming a defensive position to meet the Idaho attack. Again the Oregon deployments and distributions gained the tactical ascendency. Majors L. A. Bowman and Carl E. Abrams were on the firing line, the latter delivering a hot battalion fire on the Idaho left flank, which was left exposed. Lieutenant-Colonel Morrison, camp commander, complimented the National Guardsmen highly on the efficiency and spirit they have shown throughout the camp. The encampment of 2100 men has passed off without unpleasant Inci dents and with the minimum of sick ness. No men are on the sick list In camp at this time. The Twenty-First Infantry, U. S. A., will take up the march back to Vancouver Barracks Thursday morning in heavy marching order. The regulars will make the hike of 120 miles under campaign conditions. Hardened by the march down and the ten days in camp, they will push through rapidly on the return trip and are due to reach Vancouver In from seven to nine days. mayorIoIechieftoo BOISE EXECUTIVE TO FILL JOB OF OUSTED P0..1CE HEAD. Four Members of Commission nemove Two Detectives Alao mm Reauit of Cltisena' Chargea. BOISE, Idaho, July 21. (Special.) Mayor Arthur Hodges, of this city, has decided to become his own Chief of Police, and notified the Commission to day that, in the future, he would act In that capacity. The Mayor's action fol lowed the adoption by the other four members of the Commission. Mayor Hodges opposing, a resolution drafted by the City Attorney summarily re moving Chief of Police Reeves and City Detectives Itouton and Mamby today. They had refused to give up their of fices when the Commission ousted them, demanding an investigation. Charges were made against the police department that it was permitting open violation of the laws governing the illegal sale of liquor and the running of bawdy houses. Private citizens se cured evidence over the head of the department and convictions. The Commission, with the exception of the Mayor, demanded the removal of the chief and detectives. The Commis sioners declared a hearing would be a farce. The Mayor says, for the present, he will try being Chief of Police him self. SUITOR, JILTED, DROWNS J. DUNN COMMITS SUICIDE FOR LOVE OF GIRL WHO REFUSES. Note Found lu Rock Says Woman Cares for Another nnd "Luck and World Are Against Me." THE DALLLS. Or., July 21. (Spe cial.) Because the girl he loved loves another, James Dunn, oi ivortn imi ma, is believed to have committed sui cide here February 28. An O.-W. R. & N. engineer today found the following note sticking In a crevice of a rock on the bank of the Columbia, just north of the rail road shops: "5:30 p. M., February 28, 1914. To the finder: Let it be known that I, James Dunn (the mysterious runt), threw myself into the Columbia River on the night of February 28. 1914, directly in front of where this, my last note, will be found. "I am 27 years old and have light hair. I am about five feet six Inches in height and weigh about 135 pounds. I am from the Takima country, and am doing this because the girl I love loves another. She can be found In the Yakima country. Her Initials are W. F. and I love her. "This is all. Luck and the world are against me." The note was written, irom appear ances, on a sheet torn from a notebook. The message was well constructed and very legible. No body has been taken from the Columbia near here since Feb. ruary 28 A Bed Bug Cure. Ask for Insecticide. Plummer Drug Co.. 3d and Madison. Adv. NGAMPMENT 114 6EARHAR S $26.75 SAN FRANCISCO AND RETURN Another Pre-Exposition Excursion via THE EXPOSITION LINE 1915. ""' FRIDAY, JULY 31 Tickets will be sold from all stations on the S. P. on the abova date good for return on or before August 10. A new pamphlet just off the press, "Seven Months Before," which tells of the wonderful progress already made in the Ex position. Ask for pamphlet, tickets, reservations, etc., at City Ticket Office, 80 Sixth street, corner Oak, Union Depot or East Morrison street. John M. Scott, General Passenger Agent, Portland, Or. CANAL WORK NEAR END FUNDS FOR THE DALLKS-CELILO PROJECT ALMOST GONE. Inlesa Congreaa Paaaea Rivera and Harbora BUI by August 1 Opere tlona Will Have to Be Halted. Unless the rivers and harbors bill is passed by August 1, operations on The Dalles-Celllo canal will be halted Since approaching high water caused a material reduction In the force of workmen there, several hundred hav ing been discharged since early In the Spring, about 100 to 125 men have been at the camps and, with funds getting low, It Is Intended to retain only suf ficient after the end of the month to look after equipment. The seriousness of the situation Is being generally felt by those having to do with Government Improvement projects and all are hoping that Con gress will hurry preliminaries so im portant work may not suffer. The fact that shipments of rock to the north Jetty at the mouth of the Co lumbia River have been cut In half will not work a great hardship, if ex pected appropriations are available soon, as more men then could be em ployed and much of the lost time made up. As It Is. the prospects are that the present reduced force can be car ried along for the remainder of the season. As to the dredge Chinook, working at the mouth of the river, there Is money on hand to Inaure her oper ating during the remainder of the sea son and for her skeleton crew and Once Upon a Time there was a Mississippi steamboat with a whistle so big that every time it blew, the boat stopped. The whistle took all the steam. There are lots of people today who exhaust all their energy every time they "blow their whistle." The trouble is, they have no reserve to carry them through the average duties of every-day life. Human strength and energy are obtained from food. And it is plain that it must contain the vitalizing elements which the system can take up and store as reserve power for occa sions, not only ordinary, but extraordinary. Grape-Nuts is the food for strength and energy. "There's a Reason" Made of wheat and barley, it contains all the nourish ment of the grain, including the vital mineral salts a com bination that builds brain, brawn and nerve. Grape-Nuts is the ideal hot weather food. Concentrated easy to digest easy to serve crisp, delicious! Sold by Grocers everywhere. Popular the maintenance during the Winter. The new Government dredge Colonel P. B. Mi hie and the dredge Oregon, both atv Cooa Bay, are Deing oprraiea raniuu at the expenae of the Port of Cooe Bay and it la felt certain they can be kept going. Had It not been for 1475.000 donated by the Port of Portland, and IU.OO0 by the port of Astoria, matters at tha mouth of the Columbia probably would have reached an acute stage before Projects at other polnta on tha Coaat are regarded safe, aa they are belli assisted through the co-opratlen of different port bodies. Marine Notes. To hare a larger propeller substi tuted the Hosford tug Anue W. lias been hauled out. Tha veaaal la aald to develop more power than was ex pected when her flrat wheel was cast. The steamers Weown and Kowena are out of service, and tne Wentworth Is handling rafta for tha company. Information reached the office of Henry L Beck. Inapector of the 17h llghthouae dlatrlct. yeaterday that the relief llghtvessel was at Astoria, hav Ing proceeded there after being re lieved off the Columbia by llghtvessel No. 88. On completing her unloading hers to day the steamer Hornet will proceed to Mukllteo In ballast to load lumber for San Francisco. Assisted by the steamer Orklahama the dredges Willamette and t'olumbia were shifted from Poatofllce liar to a point a abort distance below the mouth of the Willamette last evening to work for a abort time. On the arrival of the gasoline achooner Patsy here yeaterday. Captain Harry Valbusch was removed to hta home suf fering from Injuries auatalned Sunday at Newport, when he fell between the vessel and the dock.