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I THE MORNIXG OREGONIAX. THURSDAY, JULY 23. 1914. MINER SAYS WASTE OF COAL IS LARGE Only 60 Per Cent Is Taken From Coal Veins, Industrial Commission Is Told. GLOOMY PICTURE PAINTED 1 men BecJCtMf Blames Superfluity or Men for Unemployment, Say ing in Illinois Alone 4 0,000 on Average Are Idle. CHICAGO, July Destructive com petition, wasteful mining and a super fluity of men in the industry were held responsible for the constant flashes between miners and operators by witnesses before the Federal Indus trial Commission here today. Edward T. Bent, secretary of the Illinois mine operators, and Duncan McDonald, sec retary of the United Mine Workers, of Illinois, were the chief witnesses. Mr. Kent declared conditions in the Industry were rapidly growing worse. National resources, he said, were being wasted by present methods of coal min ing. In which mines are deserted when only two-thirds worked out. Snorter Work Period l'rrdlrtrd. "If higher wages were given the men." he said, "they would be employed for a shorter period In the year. Their annual average now is about 170 days." "Do unnecessary restrictions by the miners have, the effect of preventing possible wage increases?" he was asked. "They certainly do." Mr. Bent re plied. McDonald agreed that a superfluity of men In the industry made for hard times for the rilners. He favored pop ular ownership and operation of the mines. Jlonr Miner Out of Work. "Industrial conditions are worse right now than I have ever known them." he said. "More men are out of em ployment than ever before. Fifty thou aand men in Illinois alone are out of work today, and 40.000 have been out f work as a daily average since April 1. "The Industrial depression Is caused bv there being three times enough equipment for the normal demand. The only remedy I see is for the people to take the mines over and operate them. There is an enormous waste in mining coal. Only SO per cent Is taken out." Elizabeth Maloney. of the Waitresses' Union, was asked to give her opinion of the minimum wage. Woman CltUllSSSS Wace Scale. "Mr. Taylor, counsel for the Chicago Employers' Association, who has Just testified, has said that a girl of 16 years starting to work Is incapable of earning her own living." she was told. "When you look at the millions of profits earned by concerns and then at the wage scale, on which there are salaries of 3. I and 5 a week, it seems as if more ought to go on this side." said Miss Maloney. "A girl Should earn enoush for the necessities of life and for some of the things that the employers want for their own chil dren. If a girl is worth hiring she is worth a living." HEAT CAUSES TWO SUICIDES HHdln Weal and Great tiakes Suf fer at 95 to 100 Degrees. CHICAGO. July 22. The whole Middle West and Great Lakes region sweltered today in midsummer heat that reached a maximum at Concor dia. Kan., with 100 degrees and ranged generally above 95 at all points of observation. Phoenix, Ariz., alone was hotter than Concordia. Six deaths and as many prostrations were attributed to the heat here. Two of them were suicides believed to have been the result of mental derange ment because of the heat. The tem perature here was 96 degrees and there was no movement of the air to give relief. Cincinnati, Evansville, Memphis. Keokuk. Ia., and Little Rock, Ark., also reported a maximum of 96 de grees. At Springfield, 11L. it was 98: Kansas City reported 98 and St. Louis 96 degrees. Milwaukee had a tempera ture of . Decatur, 111., with a record of 99 degrees, reported many prostra tions. MAN IN CUSTODY ESCAPES Handcnrfs Twisted In Seuffle Have to Be Sawed Off. Despite his handcuffs. Frank McWll llams. a railroader. 33 years old, bound over to the Sanity Commission for In vestigation, made a desperate dash for liberty as he entered the Courthouse on his way to the County Jail yesterday. He was recaptured by Patrolman John son. M -Williams was arrested Tuesday night on a charge of stealing a horse and buggy. Yesterday Municipal Judge Stevenson remanded blm to the County Jail, pending an examination Into his sanity. Patrolmen Johnson and Sims took him to the Courthouse with two other prisoners. The man had refused to wear shoes. "Well. I must be going." he remarked as they entered the Courthouse door. Like a flash he darted off up the street. Sims guarded the other prisoners while Johnson pursued McWllllams. At the County Jail the officers found that the handcuffs were so twisted during the struggle that the lock would not work. The man was taken back to the City Jail, where the "darbies" were sawed loose. HEAVY HAIRSAVES LIFE Window Pane Drops Nine Stories on Head of Kansas Girl. - at WICHITA. Kan.. July 19. A heavy coil of hair saved the life or Lucile Mc Nalr. 20 years old. here, when a heavy pane or glass rell rrom a ninth-story window or a building and struck her on the head as she stood on a sidewalk below. She was severely cut, but will recover, physician! say. A detective window weight let the sash tall, shattering the (lass. VETERANS T0 GATHER Yamhill Association Has Rally to Open at Xewberg Today. NEWBERG. Or.. July 23. (Special.) The annual meeting or the Yamhill County Veterans' Association, com posed or Grand Army posts or Newberg, Dayton. McMinnville and Sheridan, is to be held here tomorrow and Friday. An attendance of about 125 is expect ed. The relief corps of the various posts will also be represented. The first meeting will be held at 10 A. M. tomorrow, chiefly of a social na ture. At the afternoon session there will be an address of welcome by Ezra Hayes, of the Newbers post; response by David Turner, of McMinnville, and an address by H. S. Maloney. of Mc Minnville, in which he will tell of "a boy's experience in East Tennessee during the Civil War." At the evening session Rev. Walton Skipworth. of Kewberg. will speak. The election of officers will take place Thursday morning and there will be an address by M. L. Pratt and. at the evening session one by Leonard Hop field, of McMinnville. The various sessions will be enliv ened with recitations and vocal and instrumental music. At noon tomo'r- FALL FROM A STREETCAR LEADS TO DEATH. f Nathan Bryan Whitfield. Nathan Bryan Whitfield, civil engineer and resident of Portland for more than 30 years, died at his home. 1116 Williams avenue, yesterday morning at 79 years. Early In December he was thrown from a streetcar, sustain ing a fracture of the hip. from which ho did not recover. He was a son of General Na than Bryan Whltflsld. He was Lieutenant of Engineers in the Confederate service and was employed in building forti fications about Mobile bay. He Is survived by three chil dren D. S. Whitfield. Mrs. A. O. Jones and Miss Medora Whitfield. The funeral services will be held at Holmans undertaking parlors on Friday afternoon at 2:30. row a dinner will be given at the post headquarters. Son of Gipsy Has Inherited Traits of Parents. Linn County Youth Return .o State Training Sehool tor Third Time. Roving Complaint of Grandfather. ALBANY. Or., July 22. (Special.) So thoroughly imbued with the Gipsy spirit he Inherited rrom his father that at the age of four year he would stretch a cloth over a stick and lie under it even in the mud and rain. Harry McBriue, 16 years old. was haled before the Juvenile Court of Linn County yesterday as an incorrigible victim of the wanderlust and sent to the Oregon State Training School. According to the story which devel oped at the hearing, the lad's father was an American Gipsy, who deserted his mother before the boy was born. After the death of his mother, which occurred when when he was small, the boy lived with his grandparents and when not yet four years old he would take an umbrella and sit under It on the ground, or from a piece of cloth or carpet would construct a small, rude tent and Insist on staying under It in preference to the house. The boy was born in California, but came with his grandparents to Oregon several years ago and has been living since with his grandfather. Thomas Al vin. near Crabtree. He would live at home fairly well In the Winter time, his grandfather said, but the lure of the Spring always was too much for him and he would run away and re main in the woods alone for days at a time. During the light loaves of bread or pieces of meat would disappear from the house, eggs would be gathered rrom the hens' nests about the barn, but his relatives otten would not see him 'or a week at a time. This is the third time the lad has been sent to the State Training School. He was sent first when 10 years old. SIOCK PROFITS ARE BIG CHARGES MADE SOUTHERN RAIL WAY WAS VICTIMIZED. "These Deals Show How Millionaires Are Made," Says Witness Before Senate Committee. WASHINGTON'. July 22. Charges that the Southern Railroad has been imposed on much as the New Haven is said to have been through the unload ing on It ot branches or little worth at rabulous prices added an unexpected feature today to the investigation which a Senate sub-committee is mak ing of alleged discriminations against Southern ports in coal rates. B. L. Dulaney, or Bristol. Conn., made the charges In connection with an ex planation or why he believed the Mor gan Interests dominated the Southern Railway and directed the action of its officials. "These deals show how millionaires are made," declared Dulaney. Chiefly, his charge rested on what he said was the sale of the Virginia Southwestern to the Southern by H. K. McHarg. a director in the latter, at a profit of $4,000,000. Dulaney said he. as a member of a company owning the Virginia & Southwestern, offered con trol of the stock to the Southern for $500,000. with $1,000,000 bonds out standing. Later, he said. McHarg sold It to the Southern for approximately 6.500.000. The Knoxville & Bristol, Dulaney said, offered to him for $40. 000, was later sold to the Southern for about $500,000. Grays Harbor Merchants to Picnic. HOQUIAM. Wash.. July 22. (Spe cial.) The annual merchants' picnic of Hoquiam and Aberdeen will be held to morrow at the ocean beach at Mocllps and Indications are it will be the most largely attended of any similar affair ever held on Grays Harbor. A special train will be run rrom each city and ar rangements have been made to handle at least 3000 people. All store's and business houses of all lines In the two cities will be closed. The expression "an inch of rain" refers to the mark on a standard rain gauge, the amount of rain equivalent to the distance between two soeh marks being represented by nearly 101 tons over sn acre of land. M WOMEN NOMINATE FEDERATION TICKET Washington Convention at Raymond Revises Constitu tion of State Clubdom. PURE FOOD WORK PRAISED Committees Consider Arts and Crafts, Civics, Literature and Music and Reports of Biennial Are Made. RAYMOND, Wash., July 22. (Spe cial.) Wednesday was a busy day for the delegates to the Federation of Women's Clubs. The most important work today was the revision of the constitution and the informal ballot ing for new officers. Mrs. W. P. Reynolds. Tacoma; Mrs. O. K. Williamson, Prosser, and Mrs. J. C Wilson. Wenatchee, were nominated tor second vice-president: Mrs. W. W. Hays. Raymond: Mrs. O. M. Brooks, Cashmere, and Mrs. James Gleason were the nominees Tor second trustee. Mrs. W. S. Griswold, Seattle; Mrs. S. L. W. Clark. Seattle, and Mrs. G. R. Mor gan, Goldendale, for recording secre tary; Mrs. F. A. Noteous, Spokane; Mrs. W. G. Hall, Spokane, and Mrs. L. G. Humbarger, Aberdeen, for auditor. The election will be held Thursday morning. The afternoon session was given over to committee conferences which were largely attended and deeply Interest ing. The pure food conference presided over by Mrs. O. G. Ellis, of Olympla, was notably Interesting. Miss A. B. Wimple, State Dairy Inspector, spoke before the committee and told of the splendid work being done in the State of Washington, which, she declared, hud made greater strides in the matter of pure food work than any state in the Union. Public sentiment was pointed to by the speaker as the chief essential and aid to the organized movement. Arts and crafts, civics, civil service reform, conservation, food sanitation, literature and music were discussed In committee by large numbers of dele gates. Echoes from the recent biennial held In Chicago concluded the evening's programme. FUSION NEED TO FORE WASHINGTON DEMOCRAT AND BULL MOOSE CANDIDATES FEW. Two Parlies With Dearth of Men to Run for OrMce Expected to Get Together on Solution. SEATTLE. Wash., July 22. (Spe cial.) Democratic and Bull Moose conferences will be held before the flag falls against delinquent primary candidates to make certain that the two parties have a full ticket In the field. The Democratic confab probably will be held this week; the Bull Moose already have a special committee at work separating candidates or possi ble candidates from Innocuous desue tude and will make a report later on to the county executive committee. Both parties Have had to pry nomi nees loose from private lire In the past, but both had expected a rush tor filing when the limit was taken off. The story of the present year, how ever. Is similar to that or previous campaign periods: There is a surplus age or Republican material and a pau city or ambition in Democratic and Bull Moose circles. The self-efface-ment of Democratic and Bull Moose candidates has a shrinking air or mod esty about it that travels beyond the degree of reluctance and gets near the realm or won't. There has been, a. great deal or talk, otf and on, concerning ruslon between the two parties in the Fall campaign, and this agitation has been encouraged by some of the Bull Moose leaders. Now it is declared that there will be no attempt to ruse on any or the coun ty ticket places, but that some agree ment might be made between the two parties on legislative candidates. The Bull Moose idea is that the Democratic state convention copied most or its "progressive" planks from the Bull Moose platforms of the past, and therefore the Bull Moose and Dem ocrats might agree in districts where neither stands much or a chance or success, if split, against a list or Re publican nominees. The Thirtieth and Thirty-seventh Senatorial districts are cited as instances. BOY SCOUTS TO TAKE TRIP Vancouver Local Will Be Guests of Orchard Camp for Night. VANCOUVER, Wash., July 22. (Spe cial.) The St. Luke's Boy Scouts will go to Orchards tomorrow on the Slfton car. where they will be guests or the Orchards Company of Boy Scouts over night. Shelter tents have been furnished by Colonel George S. Young, or Vancouver Barracks, so the lads will make camp In real army tents. The scouts will pitch the tents, build campflres, prepare their beds, cook their own meals and have Instruction In woodcraft and woodmanship. They have already taken a number of hikes this Summer, but this will be the first over night trip they have attempted. CONSUL FISHER PROMOTED Former Albany Man Nominated for Consnl-General at Mukden. OREGONIAN NEWS BUREAU. Wash ington. July 22. The President today nominated Fred D. Fisher, of Oregon, to be Consul-General at Tientsin. China. Mr. Fisher is now Consul at Mukden at $4500 and his new appoint ment is in the nature of promotion, the Tientsin post paying $5500 per annum. Mr. Fisher was first appointed to the Consular service several years ago on recommendation of Representative Moody, or The Dalles. He rormerly lived in Albany, Or. BAD CHECKS FLOOD BANKS Stores and Saloons Believed to Have Paid $2000 to Artists. Twenty bogus checks, totaling $1000. were passed on the United States Na tional Bank last week and another $1000 in bad checks was cashed through the First National, the Lumbermen's National and the Scandlanvlan-Amer-Ican banks. A checkbook had been stolen from the Clark-Wilson Lumber Company and the checks on the United States Bank were on the blanks of this firm. Detec tives working on the case believe that the bad check operators are two men and a woman. The checks are invaria bly for small amounts and have been cashed In saloons and stores. The checks on the First National Bank were on the blanks of the West Oregon Timber & Lumber Company and the Tannhauser Hat Company and the Lumbermens Bank has six on the Spady Manufacturing Company's blanks. These cannot be called forgeries In the strict sense of the term, as they only bear the printed name of the firm which is supposed to be drawing them. They do not bear the names of any of the officers of the companies. MENU TO BE DUPLICATED REPRODUCED BANQUET FEATURE OF PEACE CELEBRATION. Same Toasts Also to Be Given Next Jannary at Ghent as Marked His toric Affnlr 100 Years Ago. MACKINAC ISLAND. Mich.. July 22. The martial music of the "Battle Hymn of the Republic," "Dixie" and "March ing Through Georgia" ushered in the final session of the American peace centenary committee xiere today. A special resolution presented by Judge John K. ClarK, of Cleveland, commending the etiorts of President Taft and President Wilson to attain the settlement ot international differ ences by arbitration was adopted. The resolutions committee reported no resolutions, but the chairman, Thomas J. O'Brien, of Grand Rapids, ex-United States Ambassador to Japan, read a report epitomizing the work of the centenary committee. A feature of the celebration will be a banquet at Ghent, Belgium, on Jan uary 6 of next year, at which there will be the same menu, the same toasts, as at the banquet 100 years before, with which the signing of the treaty of Ghent, diplomatically terminating the War of 1812. was celebrated. The Brit ish celebration will begin next Christ mas Eve with church services through out the United Kingdom, and will con tinue for some weeks. The first formal observance In the United States will be on February 14, 1915, when churches throughout the country will observe peace centenary Sunday, February 17 and 18, marking the centenary of the United States' ratification of the treaty. VANCOUVER FACES DEFICIT Law Cuts Levy While Town May Vote Dry, Loosing $20,000 Fund. VANCOUVER. Wash.. July 22. (Spe cial.) The Vancouver City Council cannot legally levy a tax for more than 10 mills tor the general rund far the coming year, according to the mes sage received today by Charles Hasson. City Clerk, rrom State Auditor Clausen at Olympla. The same law limits the levy of cities of the third class to 10 mills for all general purposes. The levy made for general purposes last year was 11 1-2 mills. As there Is a possibility of Van couver going dry this Fall, the Council Is taking Into consideration that near ly $20,000 revenue may not be forth coming. CANDIDATES ON TRIAL Clarke County Voters to Question Office-Seekers Openly. VANCOUVER, Wash., July 22. (Spe cial.) This Is the season of the candi dates and there are many for county office. As many as six or seven can didates for the office of Sheriff are ex pected. Voters throughout the county, not being able to meet in county conven tion and nominate candidates tlfat they desire, will hold' a series of public meetings, to which all of the county candidates will be invited. One of these . n i v.T,4 Aiiitct 7 nt Or. meetings win ..ci. . - chards by the Grand Army and Women s Relief Corps. Tulsa to Own soap Factory. TULSA. Okla.. July 20. Tulsa Is to have a municipal soap factory. In stead of destroying in the incinerators the tons of garbage that are daily col lected the City Commission is consider ing a proposition from an expert manu facturer to devote this refuse to the making of soap. The factory planned will cost in the neighborhood of $30, 000. In addition to soap, fertilizers will be made. The scarcity of wood for general purposes and the Increasing cost of wooden railway tlea in Europe has encouraged the manu facture of metal ties In recent years in the railways on the Continent. About 70 per cent of the ties in use on the federal rail- w ays of Switzerland are metal. Luncheon at The Portland Just the foods to tempt your appetite these Summer days, prepared for you as only the chef of this great hotel can prepare them. Served in the pleasant dining room above the street on one side, overlooking the vine-clad courtyard on the other. Luncheon, 1 1 :30 to 2. Fifty Cents The Portland Hotel G. J. Kaufmann, Manager. With Bayocean as Your you have surf bathing in the ocean; swimming in the bay- mountain climbing, hunting, trout and deep-sea fishing, and many otner pleasures,. Summer bungalows and hotel afford accommodations at reasuiwmo rates. BEN Spark Scorches Paper but Dies Out in Time. SHERIFF HAS M0 CLEW Orin Hays, Teacher Who Made Boy Salute Flag, Precipitating Bitter School Fight for Year, Is Intended Victim. EUGENE. Or.. July 22. (Special.) The mysterious appearance of a pack age of nine sticks of dynamite, with 20 feet of fuse which had burned to within one inch of the cap. found under the bedroom window of Orln Hays, a school teacher at . Walterville. 20 miles from Eugene, is puzzling the Sheriff, who has been working on the case 24 hours without results. The fire from the fuse came so close to the dynamite before it went out that a spark scorched the paper In which one stick was wrapped. Mr. Hays, who has been the center of a bitter school fight during the year, originating from an effort on the part of the teacher to make a lad salute the flag, was not in the house at the time the explosive was supposed to have been placed there. The discovery of the dynamite was made by children last week. Hays, who left a week ago Monday for a farm near Brownsville, returned last night and came to Eu gene this morning. He made an effort to see the Sheriff, who was already working on the case, but was obliged to leave again before the Sheriff could obtain his statement regarding his suspicions as to the prob able source of the explosive. Accord ing to neighbors with whom he talked, he has a strong suspicion. Last October Mr. Hays ordered his school children to go through a flag drill. One pupil, "Kel" Campbell, the 17-year-old son of Claud Campbell, Is said to have refused to salute the. flag, and Hays forced him to go through the motions or a salute. The father Immediately took him out of school. Later an effort was made to have Hays' salary reduced. A peti tion presented to the school board was ignored and an effort was made to recall the members of the school board. Mandamus proceedings brought to com pel the clerk to call an election carried the case through the court at some length, but the effort to recall failed. Prohibition Called Confiscation. MEMPHIS. Tenn., July 20. Declar ing that the proposed prohibition amendment to the Federal Constitu tion is both impractical and confisca tory, the National Association of Tight Tlarr'ell Stave Manufacturers today adopted a resolution opposing the pro- Summer Headquarters DYNAMITE PLOT VI 1, I u i r- YOU don't need binoculars to see the genuine worth of these men's suits, every one of which is now selling at a reduced price. Makes that are popular with men, young and old Stein-Bloch, Atterbury System, and L System other makes, too, showing the cleverest sort of tailoring. All these suits have regular established prices $15, $18, $20, $25, $30, $35 But during this sale you pay only $12.85 $13.85, $14.85, $19.85, $24.50, $28.50 A goodly array from which you may select 111 be glad to see you here today. Men, Main Floor Young Men, Second Floor. SELLING Morrison Street at Fourth. hibition movement. More than 100 rep resentatives of manufacturing In terests are attending the convention. A nartv of Greeks who landed In ew -fork recently displayed "me pretty long Innnl. TODAY UNTIL "The Motorboat Race Second "The Million Dollar Mystery Thanhouser's Great Mystery Serial. "A City A Country Boy's Adventures TWO OTHER 10 ADMISSION 10 POOLER to go East W through California. Also more interesting. You can stop at such places as the Yosemite Valley and the Grand Canyon, and most all transcontinental travelers are familiar with Santa Fe's superior service. Excursion tickets on sale daily until September 30. Let me arrange details of your trip. H. E. VERNON, Gen. Agt. Santa Fe Ry. 122 Third St., Portland. Phone Main 1274. Santa Fe LEADING names, but the winner, who claims to have the longest nam In the world, pella It I'apaiilmltracopouloa. As If this were not enough, his Christian name Is Holopoulout- SATURDAY. Episode of Beautiful' I" in a Big City, in two parti. BIO ATTRACTIONS. cfo