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THE AfORTTCNG OREGONIAN, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 5, 1914. LATEST PHOTOGRAPHS FROM KNOWLES' CAMP SHOW PROGRESS "SEVEN SISTERS" BILLS IN NEW SNAG 3 DIE IN FOREST FIRE NEAR DRAIN MADE BY NATURE MAN. saw j; Delay of Review of Count of Washington Petitions Keeps Them From Booklet. Others Injured and Lumber Camp Is Destroyed, While Flames Spreading. Sir. t!sueUi4 &r -Git f r7sz -V-V " rTlfMfttt WW rf f IrVli DYNAMITE BLAST IS CAUSE Sien lighting Fire Suddenly Sur rounded as Wind Causes Change in Course One Leaves Bride of Only Three 3Ionths. DRAIN, Or.. Aug. 4. (Special.) Three men lost their lives today in a forest fire which destroyed all the camp equipment and three donkey engines of the Leona Mills Lumber Company, two miles west of the town of Leona. The fire Is still raging and a large force of men are fighting it. The dead are John P. Durfee. Albert Bafley and George Hughes. Hiram Applegate and several others were badly burned. The fire started from a log on which two blasts of dynamite had been placed. One of the charges did not explode and the men were afraid to approach the spot to combat the fire until it had spread beyond control. The victims were caught when the wind suddenly changed the course of the fire, surrounding them. Mr. Durfee is survived by a wife and two children, and Mr. Hughes leaves a, bride of three months. TOWX Df IDAHO IS SIEXACED Force or 9O0 Men Struggles to Stem Conflagration Xear Bovill. BOVILL. Idaho. Aug. 4. (Special.) Forest fires tonight are threatening to destroy Bovill. Potlatch and Elk River have sent large numbers of men, bring ing to 900 the force that Is fighting the flames. Practically all the women and children of the town have been taken to places of safety. Everything at Perdue and Camp Eight, with the exception of the ma chine shops, has been burned. No lives have been lost, but narrow escapes have been numerous. Settlers' homes throughout the fire area have been destroyed, and the loss of hay filled barns, horses and other livestock has been great. From what can be learned the fire area covers about lo square miles and the flames are racing toward Collins and Elk River. Large crews of men along the fire front are working under the leader ship of T. P. Jones, superintendent of the Potlatch Lumber Company, at Bo Till. Last night 40 men patrolled this town to prevent looting, which seemed to be imminent. Men who refused to work on the fire line were arrested by Deputy Sheriff Pat Malone and locked in jail. The fire is within a quarter of a mile from the outskirts of Bovill. The town has no fire protection, and even the supply of drinking water gave out yesterday morning. FIRE NEAR JASPER SERIOUS Large Force of Men Assemble to Protect Nearby Farms. EUGENE, Or., Aug. 4. (Special.) A large force of men was assembled late today at Jasper and from the farms In the vicinity of Thuston, eight miles east of Eugene, to fight a fire 6tRrted two days ago by lightning. which has become dangerous. J. M. Skinner, deputy fire warden, re turned today from Cottage Grove and Immediately took steps to get in touch with the fire at Jasper and also with a serious fire at Vlda. At Cottage Grove he left eight men In apparent control of a fire east of Coast Fork after it has burned over 100 acres. Eight men are also in charge of a fire east of London, which has burned over SO acres. BIG SLASHING FIRE STARTED Precautions Taken to Control Burn, ing of 1 1 0 Acres at White Salmon. WHITE SALMON. Wash., Aug. 4. (special.) The largest slashing fire in the White Salmon Valley this season was the 110-acre clearing of the Acme Orchard Company, which was fired Fri day night. This orchard is a 360-acre tract be longing to an organization of traveling men with Ed B. Dorsey -as resident manager. The blaze was spectacular and was witnessed by persons from au parts of Western Klickitat County. County Fire Warden Rankin, of Gold endale, had charge of the arrangements for safeguarding the surrounding ranches. R. C. Bruce, who has charge of a moving-picture outfit that has taken pictures of the White Salmon Valley and Mount Adams country for the past two months, took moving pictures of the blaze. SEVERAL BAD FIRE RAGING Clearwater and Salway Forest Sec tions Are Ablaze. LEWISTON, Idaho. Aug. 4. (Spe cial.) Several bad forest fires rage in the Clearwater and Selway forest re serves. C. A. Fisher, of the Clearwater reserve, stationed at Orofino, Idaho, came here yesterday in an endeavor to get 75 men to fight the fires. Electrical storms the past several days started a dozen new fires along the Lolo trail. The regular force of the forestry department has been fight ing fires for three weeks, and every available man in the upper country has been added to the force. Homes Near Yankton Threatened. ST. HELENS. Or., Aug. 4. (Special.) Fire Chief Allen and a squad of fire fighters have hastened to Yankton, in response to a call that Van Natta's farm house and several other farm places are threatened. The fire origi nated near Mas ten's Camp several days ago and, after much fighting, it was declared beyond danger. It has broken out anew. MILL BURNS; TO RISE AGAIN Shingle Plant Loss Near Chehalis Is About $25,000. CHEHALIS. Wash.. Aug. 4. (Spe cial.) The Bunker Shingle Company's mill at Bunker, ten miles west of Che halis. burned today. The loss was $25, 000 and the Insurance $18,000. One car load of the mill logging company's logs burned. J. F. Laughran. of Chehalis, owner of the burned mill, will rebuild imme-I'.ateL- - .. Tod Letter Written by Knonles on Center Professor C. L. Edwards dnls, Made of Bark and Twisted CHARCOAL RIS PEN Knowles Writes With Black ened Ember on Bark. NOTE TOUCHED UP AT CAMP Message From Woodsman Is Sent to The Oregonian Scientists . Pre pare to Visit Joe in His Re treat to Study Methods. KNOWLES CAMP. Klamath National Forest, via Grants Pass, Or., Aug. 4. (Special.) Charred wood taken from his woodsmen's fires was Joe Knowles' fountain pen used by him in writing his 11th message, which has been dis patched to The Oregonian. The letter was written on a section of green fir bark, which had been peeled from the tree with a stone Im plement. Originally It was written on- the smooth undersurface of this bark with charcoal. While Knowles' first letter was writ ten with charcoal from his fire and was scratchy and hard to read, the one for the seventh was written with smooth charcoal, which had evidently been specially made for the purpose by charring green wood. The letter in its present state is not as originally found. Charcoal is the only material Mr. Knowles has or can have until he is somewhat further along. Charcoal is, however, not per manent enough to stand shipment or handling. The 11th letter 1 -.s re touched by B. E. Lambert with Ivory blac after It had been received in camp, examined and transliterated. In nther words. Mr. Lambert traced over Mr. Knowles' handwriting with a brush. it is quite impossible to get tnese let ters written in charcoal out of the woods ir any other way. "Now that we know that Mr. Knowles Is likely to write with charcoal," said Professor Waterman, "we shall try to provide ourselves with 'fixitif,' which will make the recora permanent wn.ii- out modifying It. The bark record sent to The uregonian, ,o 0 fdmiln of the original. The bark is th original piece, tut the writing is in a 'civilized' material." Dr. Waterman and froiessor re wards started today to visit Knowles in his home in the woods. For lust two weeks the man of the forest has been alone except when he has been seen Dy miners, anu now moac nc cial observers, who were sent here to see how Knowles lived and made his weapons and instruments, are going into the woods to have him demon strate his work. Professor Edwards left a note for Joe two days ago, say ing it was the intention of the men to take photographs of his home and his work and asking for an appoint ment. In all probability they will hear from him the next time he sends a message to the outside world and then they will go in. Lambert has discovered a pool in the Indian Creek which is trampled on the bank in such a manner as might be made by Knowles' sandals, and it ap pears probable that this is the spot where he has been catching his fish. PARCEL POST TRADE HELPS Express Companies Not Hurt in Washington as Figures Tell. OLTMPIA. Wash., Aug. 4. (Special.) The parcel post has helped rather than hurt the business of express com panies in the State of Washington, ac cording to the indications - of resorts Bark Covering Movement on 11th Day. In Camp. Bottom Knowles' First San- Grasses. to the State Tax Commission. The gross receipts of the express companies on business originating within the state was $116,043.66 for the year ending March 31, 1S14, as compared to $112.- 505.82 for the preceding year. The busl ness of the past year is the greatest of any year for which the Commission has records. The privilege tax of the companies is 5 per cent of the gross re ceipts from lntra-state business. The Commission has certified to the State Treasurer for collection a total of $58,021.83 on this account and a total tax of $1500 against private car com panles doing business within the state. The State Supreme Court recently up held the privilege tax in a hearing en banc after one division of the court had held it unconstitutional. No "privilege tax has been paid by the express com panies since the Legislature passed the law in 1907, because of decisions of the lower courts that it could not be col lected. SCAFFOLD FALLS; 3 HURT Train Causes Drop From Bridge to Creek, 35 Feet Below. EUGENE, Or., Aug. 4. (Special.) Six painters narrowly escaped death and three were seriously injured when the scaffolding from which they were painting the underside of a railroad bridge of the Willamette Pacific, 17 miles west of Eugene, was caught by a train crossing the bridge jerked up against the bottom of the bridge until the ropes b'roke and then dropped Into the creek bottom 35 feet below. The unhurt fell Into the water. The others fell on the rocks. J. L Smith has a broken arm. a broken leg and bad cuts and bruises on his head; C. P. Cook has a broken jaw, and is badly bruised about the body and head; Joe Helfrick has an injured wrist and a mashed foot. They were put onto a freight train, brought to Eugene and taken to the hospital. OFFER FOR ROAD REJECTED Lane County Court Holds Hallway Must Replace Highway. i EUGENE. Or.. Aug. 4. (Special.) The Lane County Court today reject ed the offer of $17,000 made by the Willamette Pacific as a purchase price for 11 miles of road on the Siuslaw road, destroyed by the railroad. The rejection of the offer. It is said, means that the railroad must rebuild the road. The highway was an outlet for the people of the lower Siuslaw, and it also would be the last link in the for mation of a motor highway Into the Siuslay to connect with the coast road which will soon connect by way of Cape Perpetua and Newport with the Willamette Valley at Corvallls. PARK HIGHWAY WORK ON Crews of Workers and Teams Go to PIuvlus to Start Operations. CHEHALIS. Wash., Aug. 4. (Spe cial.) Several teams with grading equipment passed through Pe Ell this week headed for Pluvius to begin work on the National Park Highway. The recent work between Pe Ell and Walville by Lewis County and the work under way in the Meskill neigh borhood soon will make the road in good condition and it Is believed that by another season the highway will open a way to the Pacific County beaches that will make it one of the most popular roads in Southwest Washington. "Co-Operation" Lecture Topic. "Voluntary Versus Compulsory Co operation" will be the topic at to night's Bonville lecture in room A of the Central Library. J. O. Stearns. Jr., will preside and H. C. Oldhoff and others will speak. The lecture, which will begin promptly at 8 o'clock, is the 31st in the course now being given under the auspices of the Bonville In dustrial iaue . .. FOES PLAN VARIED ATTACK Contest of Old Suits and Filing of More Charges Outlined by Op ponents Names Wrongly Excluded, Is Plaint. OLTMPIA, Wash.. Aug. 4. (Spe Mull The decision of the Thurston County Superior Court not to start re view of the count of the protested ini tiative bills until Wednesday, August 12, has put new delay in the way of getting the bills and their arguments before the voters in the state's book let and has caused fresh embarrass ment to State Printer Lamborn. The joint legislative committee rep resenting the farmers and labor or ganizations, which circulated the peti tions for the "Seven Sisters" bills, has opened the battle in the courts by ob taining from the Thurston County Su perior Court a citation to review the count of No. 7, the bill to abolish the State Bureau of Inspection of Public Offices, and of No. 10, the convict high way bill, two of the four measures the petitions for which were found insuf ficient. Rehearing in View. Govnor Teats, attorney for the com mittee, is preparing to ask the Supreme Court for a rehearing of its refusal to mandamus Secretary of State Howell to print arguments on the bills free of charge in the state booklet. The law provides that proponents of bills must nay the added cost of printing and binding the arguments, but Attorney Teats takes the stand that this is in violation of the constitutional amend ment providing for the initiative, ref erendum and recall. Opponents of the initiative bills have inspected the petitions after the count by the Secretary of State and say they are prepared not only to contest the suits started by the friends of the bills, but to bring other suits to have those of the measures accepted by the Secre tary of State excluded from the bal lots. Proponents declare Secretary Howell had no right to constitute himself a handwriting expert and to reject sig natures apparently written by others than those whose names are used. They object also to his rejection of names where the initialing is not in the hand writing of the officer who certifies that the names are those of qualified voters. The opponents say they have found many additional names on each of the bills which should have been excluded. Margins Not Great. If the court decides against any of the rulings of Secretary Howell it will be necessary to recount the petitions and this will require several days. None of the "Seven Sisters has a large margin of signatures over or be low the number required to win a dace on the ballot and any .marked modification of the secretary's rulings might change the result in the case of any of them. CENTRALIA REPORT WADE Examiners Score Police Court and Would Oust Health Officer. CENTRALIA. Wash.. Aug. 4. (Spe cial.) The report of L. D. Brown and J. M. Rummell, state examiners, who recently checked the books and records of Centralia city officials, has been received by the City Commission. It states that the City Commissioners are giving the city faithful service. The examiners advise that the $20,- 000 bond of the Union Loan & Trust Company is Inadequate to cover the $76,000 of city money on deposit there. The police court Is scored for the loose manner in which the docket is kept and the Commission is advised to de clare the office of health officer va cant. Dr. Livingstone having refused to put up the $500 bond required by city ordinance. TWO PETITIONS ARE SHORT Fish Bill and Measure to Abolish Washington Tax Body Lose. OLYMPIA, Wash., Aug. 4. The final count on initiative measure No. u shows 31,214 valid signatures, or ,622 ess than required to place it on the ballot. This measure proposes the abolition of the state tax commission. The count on the so-called fish bill petition gives it 30.499 valid signatures, or 1337 fewer than required. This ends the count on the initia tive measures. Five of the nine sub mitted are declared to be entitled to places on the ballot. WIRE - STRETCHER KILLS Machine Breaks, Fracturing Skull of J. F. Smith, of Twin Falls. TWIN FALLS. Idaho, Aug. 4. (Spe cial.) James F. Smith died in a local hospital Monday from the injuries re ceived while stretching a fence on his farm near Rogerson. When the patent wire-stretcher broke a portion of it struck him on the head, fracturing the skull. He never regained consciousness. Ho leaves a wife and several children. CENTRALIANS IN GERMANY Two Sisters Studying Music Are in Zone of Conflict. CENTRALIA, Wash., Aug. 4. (Spe- ial.) -Lona and Lenora Pitzer, daugh ters of Herr Carl Pitzer, supervisor of music in the local schools, are in Ger many taking a three-year course In music, and their parents are worrying ver their safety in the present Euro pean difficulties. The sisters are believed to be the nly Centralians in the war zone. Dr. and Mrs. W. R. Scott left for Berlin two weeks ago. Centralian Dies Suddenly. CENTRALIA. Wash.. Aug. 4. (Spe- ial.) George R. Martin, a pioneer mill man of Centralia, died suddenly yesterday afternoon from paralysis. He had been in ill health for several years. Mr. Martin owned a big interest In the H. Martin Lumber Company, oper- ting a mill here. He is survived by is widow, mother, one brother and one sister, . Hart Schaffner & Marx Suits at X Off Many heavy enough for Fall wear This is the way they are priced $20.00 Suits . . $14.95 $25.00 Suits . . $18.75 $30.00 Suits . . $22.50 $25 and $20 Hart Schaffner & Marx Norfolk Suits While they last $12.50 $3, $4 and $5 Straw Hats, to clean up, at $1.00 $1.50 E. & W. and Arrow Shirts only $1.15 $2.00 E. & W. and Arrow Shirts only $1.35 Ladies' and Men's $5 Ruff-Neck Sweaters reduced to $2.50 Saml Rosenblatt & Co. Third and Morrison Streets ST No Train From East Reaches Baker in More Than Day. LANDSLIDE COVERS TRACK Rush of Water First Tears Lp Line Near Huntington and Then Dirt Covers Wreck Second Slide Adds More Delay. BAKER, Or., Augr. 4. (Special.) As result of a downpour like a cloud burst, followed by a landslide, yester day afternoon, which covered tne O.-W. R. & N. tracks for a long dis tance near Huntington, no train camo through this city from the East be tween yesterday morning and this afternoon. The slide occurred about eight miles this side ot Huntington. Word was speedily sent for help and a big gang or men was pui 10 wore clearing the track. More trouble occurred this morning just as the workers were beginning to get the track clear, when another slide took place and made it necessary to begin all over again. All westbound trains were held up 01 BLOCK ROAD jr Mm WHO KNOW MOTOR TRUCKS THE great oil companies of America were one of the first big lines of business to use motor trucks exten sively. Naturally, then, these companies are probably more familiar with the good and bad points of the various motor trucks than any other important line of business. The great oil companies know motor trucks by long experience. d, In June, 1913, the great oil companies operated a total of 150 White Trucks. Ct, In June, 1914, these same oil companies had increased their White Truck equipment to more than 270, an in crease of over one hundred and twenty White Trucks during the past twelve months. THESE FIGURES SPEAK FOR THEMSELVES If ill :: ::::: :: W:: : : ::; :;: : : : : : : : m THE WHITlTfejrCOMPANY 74 Broadway Both in Quantity and Value of Production, the Largest Manufaeturera of Commercial Motor Vehicles in America 'ivdfe.:. as a result and it whs not until 1:30 this afternoon that the first train reached Baker. The trains came through rapidly then, but there was more trouble on the trark this after noon, as the repairs had been only temporars'. The thunder storm and downpour came without warning over the Rye Valley divide. It tore up the track and then covered the wreckage with earth from a landslide In a cut. The bridge on the Snake River branch of the Oregon Short Line also was carried out and several hundred yards of track was washed away. MOTHER SEESB0Y DROWN Harlan Jackson, 1 1, Slips Into Cow litz River at Castle Dock. CASTLE ROCK, Wash., Aug. 4. (Special.) While playing on some shingle bolts in the edge of the Cow litz River here Sunday afternoon. Harlan, the 11-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. Henry Jackson, who live near this city, slipped off a bolt and drowned before help could reach him. Although there were u number of persons on both sides of tho river when he went down, the men were so far away that by the time they reached the water's edge he had dis appeared. The body was recovered In about an hour. Though strenuous efforts were made to resusctlate the boy, the at tempt proved useless. The lad's mother was sitting on a log but a short distance away and saw him sink. Father Would Shoot Son, Says Wife. ROSKBURG. Or.. Aug. 4. (Special.) Alleging that her husband tried to shoot her son to drive him away from . .w. V REPEAT ORDERS from mi ..w - .mat - home, Mrs. Ora May Starbuck filed suit for divorce yesterday against Leward Starbuck. The couple former ly lived 'n Portland. In addition to a decree Mrs. Starbuck asks for $60 a month alimony and equal division of property. QUINABY SERVICES DRAW More Than l(M)0 Attend Inltcd Bisacvlleal camp Mart lag QUINABY, Or., Aug. 4. (SpclU) More than 1000 persons attended th. services at the Qulnaby Park taber nacle Sunday, where the United Evan gelical Church Is holding a conven tion and camp meeting. From the early morning eervlces until 10 o'clock at night thero was not a vacant mo ment on the programme. Hev. C. C. Poling, of Portland, mad. a ttlrrlng address at 3 o'clock. Rev. O. L Lovell. of the Ockley Oreen Church, of Portland, had charge of the music. The veteran minister. Rev. J. Bowersox, and Rev. J. A. Qoode, of Portland, spoke yesterday on the sub jects. "The Obligations of the Com munity to the Preacher." and "The Obligations of the Preacher lo the Community." Today was Christian Endeavor and Sunday school day. Greshain Growers After CaiiiU'r Mtc QRE8HAM. Or.. Aug. 4 (Special.) A meeting of the Greaham Fruit growers' Association will be called thin week to select a site for the co-operative cannery. This announcement Is made by President II K. Davie. Six sites in Greshain has been offered Field Superintendent Sterling, and Troutdale has offered a free site, trackage and a 11000 bonus. Grounds for tho new cannery will be broken by September L lay the directors. GASOll FIRMS ?