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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.
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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
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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'
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in a Big City, in two parti.
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