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, .-y t t a k- naar'av-1-k 4 -arr 1 TTiTTCT I1? IfllJ THE JlOKMu UnrjuuniAi .tiujuai, j-vj t Portland Agents for Ladies Home Journal Patterns Agents for Standard Central Sewing Machines Olds, Wortman &Jting The Store of Best Service OREGON PRISONER'S -s Wbr Wi 1 MAN'S SPELL HERE FIRM DEALS I DEATH Li) afiOA Ipffi BLAMED BY WOMAN Four New York Suicides Laid . to Deals Made by Jack son Bros. There. MAN NEMESIS OF BOTH Attorney, Vto Convicted One, Now Is at Grants I "a-- and VoTW Vengeance on Other Farm Is Seized 2 30 Victims Listed. GRANTS PASS, Or., Aug-. 16. (Spo-r'-ii a Mnt onlv mammoth alleged rr..winini rcaltv deals, but four sui cides are charged to the account of Oslln K. Jackson, who is in Jail here after being trailed for nearly two years by New York detectives. Jackson was seized here last Friday i.,t hA had orided himself on nav tmm, h.B-nn life anew In the Far West, away from a record in the East that is listed, even in big New York, as nar- i ,niv on account of the detail of Jackson's alleged enriching thievery, but for the deaths his deals are taid to have caused. Since last Spring Jackson has lived on the Joe McCasslin farm, eight miles from here, which he had bought while Charles T. Hess and F. Kirkwood. New York detectives, were scouring a.a tinent for him a fugitive from New York, over whose head hang three in dictments alleging grand larceny to the extent of 85,000. E. A. Dennison, of New York, who charges Jackson with defrauding him of $54,000, rushed to Grants Pass upon hearing of the . v, .ffitiv. :m.i h.is attached the ISO-acre farm, which loomed big in Jackson's plan to tane up m aiaai in the Far West. 230 Victim Listed. "Jacksonizing" now is an accepted terra in New York as synonymous with the unscrupulous dealing of the thief of Action. J. Rufus Wallingford. The newly-coined word comes from the cases of the Jacksons there are two of them Edgar R. Jackson, who now is in the Tombs awaiting sentence for swindling, and Oslin N. Jackson, the Grants Pass prisoner. The convicted Jackson duped 230 men and women in various walks of life and his brother, now feeling the iron hand of arrest, is said to have aided and abetted in the wholesale death-dealing and land robblug enterprise. Servants and sage financiers were victims of the con victed Jackson and his brother is said to have exercised the same suavity in beckoning investors. Two of the four suicide dupes of Jacksonizing-- were women. One was a beautiful Western widow, who gave lvdgar R. Jackson her entire fortune. She was Mrs. Eleanor Berry, and she killed herself, a heartbroken woman. The other woman was a 70-year-old music teacher In Boston. She intrusted her little all to the magnetic and fluent Jackson, now in the Tombs. Charles Braiuard Clark, a Y'ale grad uate and a widowed mother's only son, invested her savings in E. R. Jask. son's real estate schemes and then committeed suicide. The fourth was a Cairo (Egypt) merchant, whose money was won from him by the genial real estate man now awaiting sentence. tiOYlS. Give Operator Aids. Florence Donner. a telegraph opera tor, who was famous along Broadway as "The Girl With the Starry Eyes." was associated with E. R. Jackson and was the hostess of a gorgeously fur nished apartment in the fashionable uptown district, where she entertained like a queen scores of out-of-town cus tomers of the Jackson Brothers' Real K-tate Company. The Jacksons are said to have had a wonderful instinct in reading people. They knew at once whom they could trust. Women helped them and they lavished money and affection on them. With one exception they remained loyal to the Jacksons to the end. E. B. Dennison, a lawyer, was Jack son's Nemesis. Jackson employed Den nison as a salesman to operate in Ohio. Dennlson's commission amounted to $4 3,000, and Jackson refused to pay it. it was this action on the part of Jackson that enraged Dennison, who has spent $20,000 of his own money to prove E. R. Jackson a swindler. Kemesla Now in Oregon. This same Mr. Dennison now is at - - - - Dasc u-.ar fll. MM IT1 P V I! T1 - ' ' . . i . i o-j . -. geance on Oslin N. Jackson that he wreaked on his brother. In tho Fall of 1907 Jackson met J Oslin If. Jackson, w York Pro moter Under Arrest at Grants pass, and Mrs. Jackson, Whom He Is Aliened to Have Deserted. toward bwanstrom, a oanxer. jnr. Swanstrom gave Jackson and his brother an option on some property in Mineola and Garden City and furnished them with good bank references in Brooklyn and New York, also aiding them in syndicating property. This was their first big start. xne iana cost the Jackson brothers $1200 to $1800 an acre. Their profit from this deal was $401,000. of which $150,000 was cash and $251,000 which was represented by a second mortgage to the Jackson brothers. This deal put them on their feet financially and they Incorporated under the name of "The Jackson Brothers' Realty Company." capitalized for $50,000 and opened offices in the Times building. Pendleton Hens Eat Gold. PENDLETON. Or., Aug. 1. (Spe cial.) Gold, in minute quantities, has been discovered !n the craw, of a hen killed by James Hutchinson, caretaker of the Roundup grounds here. He is at a loss to account for the mineral, as no gold is known to exist In these parts. The gold is in small nuggets, the larseat being the size of a pea. Mr. Hutchinson killed several fowls In Uie hope that discovery of further wealth mjght be revealed, but he found nothing. 1 gamma BSBBWHA -KBBHMHRfcl VOL. 1. MONDAY CRAWFISH. "It Never Crabs." M f.mlsi.i . Allimt 17, MM. REX LAMPMAN. Editor. Adv. rate: $1 a Una. Editorial EXTEND THE PROBE. The U. S. Oovt., using Asst Dlst Att'y Ev Johnson as Its long- right arm, is probing the alleged combination to raise the prices of life's necessities, such as eggs, sugar, meat, rolled oats and carlic. "Probing" is the word all our est. daily contemps. use when talking about an investigation, and we employ it here so that our readers will readily recog nize what we are trying to talk about. Aa we were saying, there seems to be a suspicion at Wash.. D. C, that dealers In foodstuffs are making the Euro, pean war a pretext for getting what little money we had left after we paid our income taxes and our last Winter's fuel bill. There may be something In this idea, but, be that as It may. The Crawfish suggests that while the Gov't Is at it it may as well have Ev probe the fol lowing burning problems: Why does a hen cross a road when she sees a grain of corn on the other side? Why does a farmer hold" his wheat for a higher price? Did the Gov't a short time ago Issue a bulletin advising farm ers to hold their wheat? is It all right for a man to keep the things he raises until he can get more for them? Why does the earth get so dry when it doesn't rain? Why do forest fires make the air so smoky? Is it a combination In re straint of trado for two men to make an agreement to swear off smoking? We uause for a flock of re plies. ENTERPRISE NOT APPRE CIATED. Quite a number of oar readers have taken us to task tor Issu ing an "Extra!!" last Moo. with nothing more than the usual run of news in it. and they didn't think it was a good excuse when we told them we were simply trying- to be as enterprising; as our est. eve'g contemps., the Telegram and Journal. Of what use are the specula tions of the military strategists In the editorial rooms when one can get the straight dope from the plaza settees, we ask? The Crawfish Is pleased to ex change with the "Just Lrfokln' On" col. of the Tacoma News. O. K. Chestnut Is the ed. of this amusing col., but It sounds like an assumed name. j Locals and Personal I Rain is needed A. L. Mills told the visiting buyers Fri. night that there was no danger of a financial strin-g-ency. We were glad to hear this, and we hope its true, ana as Mr. Mills knows nothing or scribe's private affairs, we will make no comment to the contrary. Otherwise we would "save au exception." as tney say In court. The war in our sister conti nent of Europe affects us all. For Instance, there's George J. Cameron. Rolled oats went up Sue per bbl. last Friday. Chester juoores wears wouo socks, and Mrs. M.. although 3he-ls not an active suffragette, makes him wash 'em himself. Woman Is rapidly becoming emancipated. North Beach was descended upon yesterday by the following party of freebooters, who went in swimming, played in the sand, hunted the wild and wary clam and did a number of other desperate things: Dock Marcel, lus. City Att'y La Roche. Cap Edwards, "Capt." Budd, O. Clarke Letter, George Amos White 'and Rosy Rosenthal. They went on the str. T. J. Potter. Except that Dock Maroellus worried all the time about not watering the lawn before he left, a pleasant time was had. Collector of Customs Burke, since the order came from Wash, that Gov't officials must not "even discuss" the doings in Europe, has taken to astronomy FIRE AREA Linn County Blaze Sweeping Private Timber Holdings. WEYERHAEUSER IS LOSER Oregon & California Grant Is De vastated, While Conflagration Defies Fighters and Imperils Mlany Other Holdings. STATUS OF FOREST FIRES. Grants Pass Buildings and hay valued at Z1750 burn. Lagrande Glover fire under con trol. Albany Private timber holdings near Foster destroyed. Carlton West wind fans fire burn ing Carlton Consolidated lumber tract. ALBANY, Or., Aug. 16. (Special.) Private timber holdings are being: de stroyed by forest fire for the first time this year in Linn County by the big: forest fire now burning: along- the middle and south forks of the South Santiam River northeast of Foster. The principal land-owner in the ter ritory is the Weyerhauser Land Com panv, with headquarters at Tacoma. Wash The next in Importance in the Oregon & California Railroad Com pany, or the United States Government, as the case may be, depending on the final outcome of the suit now pending: in the Supreme Court of the United States to forfeit the old Oreg-on & Cali fornia Railroad land grant. The Weyerhauser holdings and the old railroad grant land comprise most of the territory the fire has covered thus far. but the Oregon & Western Colonization Company, which pur chased the land of the old Willamette Valley & Cascade Mountain Wagon Road grant, has a little land over which the fire is believed to have swept The Lane & Linn Timber Company, owned by the Smith Timber interests, whose "headquarters are at Marshfleld. where the big Smith sawmills axe lo GROWING PORTLAND. OREG., MULT. CO.. AUG. 17, as being a neutral subject and when anyone asks him what he thinks of the Kaiser ho says he thinks he's a great man and that he wonders if the sunspots have anything to do with the present dry spell. Painless Parker came in as we were going to press and tried to tell us how he was being perse cuted hy the ethical dental trust. Painless says he suspects there is a conspiracy against him. Horace Thomas, the w. k. Irvington tennis star, came back from Saltalr, where he vaca tioned. Sat., and told us that the sea was unusually sad this sea son. Deputy TJ. S. Marsh, Billy MacSwaln went away out in the woods for his vacation. To add to Mrs. MacS.'s sense of secur ity while he was gone, and so that she would not miss him so much, he borrowed a bulldog and left It at home. When he came back the animal, true to his trust, would not let him In the house. The Instinct of ani mals Is simply wonderful. Dr. H. J. Harris, who fixed our teeth a while back, asked us the other day why we didn't mention his name in The Craw fish. Now that we have done so. we await developments Young Phil Metschan has dis covered that the New York Sun has a war corr. whose name Is Prince Lazaeovltch Hrebeliano vitcb. He says that If there was a prize offered for the correct pronunciation of the Prince's name, he would just take snuff, sneeze twice and take the money. J. Hennessey Murphy at first said that he thought those who started the war should be put inside a stockade and left to fight it out. But ho changed his mind on further thought, and now says that it would take more than a stockade to keep the Irish out of It. BUI Pangle is the most enthu siastic man in Portland. He sas that the smoke in the atmos phere Is really a blessing, as it shows us what our scenery would look Ilka If painted by a great artist of the Impression istic school. Dave Fuller, dep. U. S. Marsh.. Is married, having taken stra tegic advantage of the present war excitement to do it. so that none of his friends even guessed that he had any notions In that direction until it was rll over. Dave wore the conventional black. Tom McCusker got back from Wash.. D. C, last week and told us that It was so hot there that he'd rather live In Seattle. We asked John Logan to write us some theatric notes for this week's paper, but he said he couldn't do it, because he was so busy getting up theatric notes for tho N. Y. Dramatic Mirror, for which he is Portland corre spondent. Sol Baum went to North Beach a week ago Sunday wear ing white trousers, which were all right until It rained, after which they attracted more at tention than they did before. Otto Staub was in from Fair view not long ago and. having some idle time on his hands, stood at tho corner of 2d & MorrlsOn sts. and counted the people that passed. He stood three minutes at each comer. and found that S3 passed the NE corner. S7 the NW comer. G2 the SE corner and 36 the SW corner, making a general average of 73 2-3 per m!nute The time was between 6:25 and 0:44 P. M. . , A number of Portland school ma'ams returned from S. F. Sat. on the Beaver. They went down on the Bear, but one dark eve ning when a sharp lookout was being kept for war vessels, the Bear's searchlight was quickly reversed, and shone full on the deck where the girls were sit ting. That's why they came back on the Beaver, whose searchlight isn't so careless, and our Informant added a hint that there may he a few wedding bells chiming with the school bells in September. Hal White, city hall reporter for our est. morning contemp., got back from his vacation last week. His nose was so badly blistered with sunburn that he looked worse than when he went away. V. S. Dlst. Att'y Reames is spending his vacation in South era Oregon, amid such child hood scenes as Jacksonville. Medford and the Applegate, where he will hunt for deer. He will also renew his acquain tance with Bill Ulrich. George Putnam. Dock Ray, Judge Kel ley and other scenic wonders of the beautiful Rogue River Valley. Shad O. Krantz writes from Cleveland, where he Is spending part of his vacation, that he has not yet been Invited out to play golf with Mr. Rockefeller, but that he believes the coun try is safe. Miss Anne Rittenhouse, who edits the fashions for our est. morning contemp., nays that the spit-curl is no longer ,worn in Paris. We give this further publicity, so that it will not take the usual year or so for the Information to become gen eral in the Western Hemisphere. Mel Winstock aays that a man never knows how poor his teeth are getting to be until he tries to eat green corn off the cob. Aus. Prescott, who private sec retaries for Senator J. Bourne, Jr.. writes The Crawfish from Wash.. D. C, saying that he has a lot of fun reading the Senator's copy of The Crawfish, and that he intends to become a subscriber himself. Bill Petrain made the wild adventure of a trip to Seattle iast week. HI Gill is still mak ing good as mayor, he says, and politics Is lively all around the Sound. Larry Fernsworth. ed. of the Banks Herald, called at our sanctum the other day and talked over the war situation with us. He Is not taking sides, he a.-ivs, as the Herald has read ers or an nationalities. ELEVEN WEEKS W. J. Hufman was Bo Brum mcling around with Queen Thel ma. Postmaster Myers said that G Putnam, the Gen'l Huerta of Medford, must be ousted from the dictatorship of the So. Ore. Democracy. John Rigby was in town frum Vale, and said Wea Cavlness had gone fishing with baited breath. B. Elmer Kennedv had gone LOOKING FOR MOUNT HOOD. Oft cated, has consldeV&'ble valuable timber just north of the present fire zone, which is in serious danger. The Wright-Blodgett Company, Limited, of Saginaw. Mich., also has some hold ings a short distance northeast of the fire and in the path of the flames. OjEARWAter fiiji: rkntewkd Town of Weippe Threatened and Several Settlers Lose Ranch Home. LEW1STON. Idaho, Aug. 16. (Spe cial.) A high wind has been blowing this afternoon and reports from the fire on Joseph Plains in the Salmon River district are that the tire, wnicn was reported to have been under con trol, is again raging. tore men were sent out from Grangeville and Cottonwood today f aid those already on the ground in flsrhtintr the lire. The crops and build ings of several settlers in that district have been destroyea. The Washington Creek fire in the Clearwater district jumped the tire trenches about midnight, and is now beyond control, fanned by a heavy wind which has prevailed since noon today. Supervisor Fisher has 40 fires in the Government timber which are out of control anj burning liercely. A timber Are about a mile from the town of Weippe threatens tonight to wipe out that town if the wind does not either change or die down. DETROIT FIRES IN HAND Rangers Believe Flames May Be Checked With Little Loss. ALBANY, Or., Aug. 16. (Special.) That the rangers fighting the forest fire six miles northwest of Detroit will be able to keep it out of green timber altogether and can have it under control within three or four days was the report received today by Chief Clerk Kitchln, of the Forest Service headquarters here, fromJF. H. Brund age, supervisor of the Santiam Na tional Forest, who is in personal charge at the blaze. Thirty-five men now are fighting this fire. CAKLTON' FIRE SPREADING Blaze Runs Through Holdings, but Covers Logged-Off Land. CARLTON, Or.. Aug. 16. (Special.) Fire started at Landing 21 on the Carlton & Coast Railroad this morn ing anil, fanned by a westerly wind, is running down the side of the Coast Range Mountains, through the logging tract of the Carlton Consolidated Lum ber Company. The train crews succeeded In getting the outfit cars out of the range of tne fire and a large force of men is no fighting the fire and another arrived from Portland on the 5:30 train tonight. t .- a,- ,: h -xftZj&Z&h 8Sa?sPfc v '.S:'y? r. No. 15. 1914. to Calgary to see If something could not be done to keep the oil from overflowing and spoil ing his wheat farm. C. S. Woody was looking for the man who started the story that two could live as cheap as one. We Won't Pay It. Two years ago Alex Craib, Western Union operator, had two double-deck typewriters. He raffled one, and ye scribe won it on number 10. Since then he has taken a parental inter est In the venerable relic, and has kicked frequently because we didn't keep It clean, and last week it got so tired of the neg lect that it almost went on a strike, and we wared Alex to clean It. and he did. He lost a shiny little steel ball on the floor and we crawled around and found It, but otherwise we didn't help, and Alex put it all back together and it runs fine now, considering Its age and general debility. We thanked Alex, and he sent us the following bill: 1 gal. 3-ln-l oil $1.25 Draylng away dirt 1.50 Cleaning typewriter 60 $3.35 On receipt of same we de clared a moratorium. The ma chine Isn't worth that much. Little Journeys to Yel lowstone Park PENDLETON, Or., Aug. S. 1814. We returned home yester day from Yellowstone Park. We had a fine trip and enjoyed the scenery and the hotels very much. The weather was fine and we met many nice people, but we did have a little bad luck on our way. To make it short, we were held up in the park by a robber, masked, and a gun in his hand. He made us shell out our money, under the muzzle of a gun pointing to our heads. I gave up all I had In my purse, $33.40: had $160, in bills In my inside vest pocket. Glad it did not turn out any worso. It v.-as bad enough as it was. Thirty-three wagons and 165 passengers all had to donate ome. Well, such Is life in the Far West. It Is awfully warm here. Don't for get the Round-tTi. R. ALEXANDER. Nifty News From Nearby Burgs. Florence Fripperies. Bob Magulre, of Portland, is not spending his vacation in these parts. We are afraid he wouldn't get his name In the paper this week, so we wrote it hore. Does your periodical make club rates? If so, what is the price for your publication, the Police Gazette and Homiletlc Review? Dr. Buffalo Bill Deveny, the noted corn fpedicultural not ag ricultural) specialist, of Port land, Oregon, was resuscitating In our midst for a few days. We are very f Of " of the Joke column In your, jt. morn, con AGo" temp. edited by w. k. con. man, Amidon Abraham W. (Walter) Laugherty. S. Gelatin. Motor Notes. , . lf.NMtlM tin TnnA hi., car . a .nmh.f nf Colors. SO that at a little distance it looks like a discouraged rainoow. miu ,i little further off like a bilious Ronald Callvert, ass't ed. of our est. morning contemp., re ports that he is going to get a new Ai.nstrong. for family use. Milt C. Frohman has finally disposed of his veteran car, said to be the pioneer 2-cyllnder of the Northwest. Poet's Corner "Poeta Nascitur, Non tit." THE NEED OF RAIN. By P. Cecil Cholmley. wert I able to control heavens, that Inverted i .-i Oh. The Or nMh I. th ilescrintion got From Omar Knayyam a rauoi yat Wert I, I say. able to make The skies behave, I'd no mistake Make. If I called the storm clouds forth From east, west, south, south west and north, in ahli. season it were bet- Ter if things were a bit more wet. LBS FEAST IS Italian Roman Catholics Pay Honor to Madonna. STREETS ARE DECORATED Masses Said by Archbishop Christie, Fine JIusical Programme Under Direction of G. Tigano and Refreshments Served. The Feast of the Madonna was cele brated yesterday on an elaborate scale, under the auspices of the local Italians at the San Fillipo Nerl Church, East Seventeenth and Division streets, in Ladd's Addition. Masses were said in the early morning hours, and at 10:30 o'clock high mass was celebrated, but the principal event was the open air concert given last night by Tigano's band on a platform erected in the open field across the street from the church. Celebration of the Feast of the Ma donna is regarded as the most Impor tant of the year In Italy. East Seventeenth street for more than BOO feet north from Division was illuminated with thousands of colored electric lights. There was a profusion of American flags displayed all along the street. At the north entrance a cluster of colored lights had been planed. The bandstand and field surrounding It were illumi nated by electric lights and surmounted by an Italian flag, mingling with Amer ican flags. During the day thousands of Italians and others came to the church and grounds, and a t night at least 5000 attended the grand band con cert and witnessed the electric dis- i a .Hat cifip nf ih.-' street contained refreshments. Chairs had been placed in the field surrounding tne bandstand, but only a fraction of the crowd could obtain seats. Archbishop Christie presided, and besides there were many local priests. Musical Director Tigano had prepared a programme of exceptional interest. Eugene Cioffl. euphonium soloist, played the difficult "Original Fantasia" by Picchl, and the numbers by Mr. Tigano .. IntnrMt SOITIC Of the numbers were heard, for the first time. OBSERVED Mrs. Heim, Known as 'June, the Blonde,' Confesses Deal ing in Bad Checks. SINS LAID TO HYPNOTISM Prisoner, in Relating Portland His tory to Los Angeles Police, De clares Hammond's Magnetism Led Sleuth Leaves for Her. Declaring that she was held enthralled by a man's magnetic personality, Kota Pierce Heim, known as "June, the Blonde," says she helped George Ham mond write and pass more than $2000 worth of spurious checks in Portland. This confession was made by the woman In Los Angeles, where she is under arrest awaiting arrival of a de tective to bring her to Portland for Ural. "June, the Blonde," is a graduate aof Oberlin College. She is the wife of a Navy officer stationed at Bremerton, Wash. She asserts that for the love of Ham mond ahe sacrificed her ideals, came with him to Portland and unwillingly helped him pass bad checks. She de clares she was held under the control of his will and obeyed his every com mand, bowed to his every wish. Mother With Prisoner. The woman's mother, Mrs. Mary L Pierce, of San Diego, has gone to Los Angeles to be with her daughter. Kota Pierce Heim is from a well-known and respected family in San Diego. Her connection with Hammond and his as sistant. E. H. Carpenter, she explains by saying Hammond's will dominated absolutely. . Nearly a month ago a great number of spurious paychecks made their ap pearance in Portland. They were writ ten on checks as used by various com panies, and were drawn for odd sums. The checks were passed in Portland Thc Plnkerton Detective Agency and City Detectives Price and Mallett found that two men and a woman had planned the coup and had gotten away with more than $2000. They were traced to Los Angeles and identified as George Hammond, E. H. Carpenter and Kota Pierce Heim. Carpenter was arrested in Los Angeles, and the Port land authorities were notified. A few days later C. O. Murray, a Pinkerton operator shadowed a man and a woman, suspecting them to be Ham mond and Mrs. Heim. Hammond turned suddenly and shot the detective on the street. He fled and made good his escape. ' Woman Surrenders Self. Three days later "June tho Blonde" gave herself up to the chief of police at Pomona, Cal. She first met Ham mond, she said, in Bend, Or., where she had taken up a homestead, after being estranged from her husband, an officer at Bremerton, Wash. She met Hammond again In Seattle last May. So strong was his influence over her then, she declared, she followed him away. Then they came to Portland with Carpenter, said the woman. The men obtained blank checks and Mrs. Heim helped them make them out and pass them. "Hammond came home drunk one night and taunted me," said Mrs. Heim. " 'Why do you take a chance with me?' he said. 'I'm nothing but a com mon crook. You don't know me.' "But he said It In a laughing man ner and disarmed by suspicion," she said. "He told me later, though, that he was one of the best crooks in the business and that they would never crtt him " Hammond virtually forced her. the prisoner said, to cash some of the checks in Portland. She did not want the money, she said, and turned It all over to Hammond. Carpenter, also, was clever at the business, but his skill was nothing compared to that of Hammond, who was the brains and the motive force of the trio, Mrs. Heim told the Los Angeles detectives. DAILY METEOROLOGICAL REPORT. PORTLAND, Auk. 16. Maximum temper ature, 70 degrees: minimum. M degrees. River reading at S A. M.. 4.8 feet; change in last 24 hours, 0.2 foot fall. Total rainfall (5 P. M. to S P. M.I. none; total rainfall since September I, 1913. 3S.91 Inches; nor mal rainfall since September 1, 14.74 Inches; deficiency of rainfall since September 1. 191.1. S.83 inches. Total sunshine August 3 6. 4 hours. 40 minutes; possible sunshine 14 hours, 7 minutes. Barometer (reduced to tea-level), at 5 P. M., 80.18 inches. THE WEATHER. li I 51 T ATI ON3L Stat ol Wcethsr Baker Boise Boston Calgary Chicago Colfax Denver Des Moines Duluth Eureka Galveston Helena Jacksonville Kansas city Klamath Falls... Los Angeles Marshfleld Medford Montreal New Orleans New York North Head North Yakima. . . Phoenix Pocatello , Portland Roseburg Sacramento St. Louis Minneapolis Salt Lake San Francisco Seattle Spokane Tacoma Tatoosh Island. . Walla Walla Washing-ton Winnipeg Yellowstone Park 78UI. (KH141N Clear Cloudy tnjju UO ll NW 8210. 700. SO u. 0O 4 W 00' 6 NE 06112. S Clear Cloudy Cloudy Cloudy 80O. I 960 9Si0 0018S .001 4SE .00 llSW Pt. cloudy Cloudy Clear Clear Pt. cloudy 8410. 44 11 NE no II 0j Hi NW I 8010 . 14110, SE 80 1 ' soo 9210 10 OOi SlW 341 4SW 112 S 001 6iNW Cloudy Katn Clear Cloudy 88,0. OOi lew Clear 72 0. no s Y Clear Clear Clear 76,0. 00 12, N 00 12 W U6 4 W 74 0 9010 Cloudy 80'0. nnl s'VW Ft. clouny 08 0. 01 SlNW Pt. cloudy 72 0 loe'o OMUINW Clear 00 6 W Pt. cloudy 9210. 70 O. I'll s OOllOiX Pt. cloudy Cloudy Clear Clear Clear Clear Pt. cloudy Clear Cloudy Cloudy Cloudy Clear Cloudy Clear Pt. cloudy Cloudy oa ot 00 10 s 0016,SW 02 6 NE 001 6 NW 94 0. 94 0. 82 0. 96 0. 64 0. 00,161SW 01 4 NE OOjlS SW 00 4 NW 00 6'SW On 12 SW 001 41SE 00 4 NE 00 4 S 62 0 78 0 62 0 62 0. 760 86,0 80.0 80 O. WEATHER CONDITIONS. A large high-pressure area Is approaching this district from the ocean and the barom eter Is relatively low over the Northern states between the Rocky Mountains and the Mississippi River. Light sprinkles of ram have occurred in Northwestern Oregon and in portions of Washington, Utah and Colo rado Local rains have fallen In the Gulf states, Upper Mississippi River Valley and upper lake region. It Is much cooler in Eastern Oregon, Eastern Washington. Northern Idaho. Western Montana, British Columbia and Alberta. . The conditions are favorable for fair weather In this district Monday and Tues day It will be cooler in Southern Idano and' the temperature will rl.ie during the next two days In Oregon, Washington and Northern Idaho. FORECASTS. Portland and vicinity Monday, fair and warmer; northerly winds. Oregon and Washington Monday, fair, warmer except near the coast; northwest erly winds. . Idaho Monaay, . li'"1 " '-.VV. portion. District Forecaster. 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Choice f7frtav70 Carload Fancy On Sale Today at a Box, Only Firm pack fancy Peaches from the famous "Holt" Orchards Ideal Peaches for canning. Order early in the day if possible in order to insure prompt delivery of the Peaches. NEW VERSION GIN Rev. C. C. Rarick Declares We Are Living in Millenium. PROPHECY IS DISCUSSED Methodist Episcopal Clergyman Is of Opinion That Prediction or Second Coming of Clirltat Whs Fulfilled 1800 Years Ago. 'Christ's aecond coming was 1800 years ago. II tnls material world ever comes to an ena. It will not be in the fulfillment of prophecy." declared Rev. C. C. Rarick. pustor of Central Methodist Episcopal Church, in lilfc sermon yesterday rrrorninir. In view of the thronging predictions of the end of the world and the second coming of Christ that have sprung up simultaneously wmi aim rope, Mr. Rarlrk's view presented a somewhat new and unusual conception of the views of the end of the world and the rallennium which are currently expressed. Mr Rarick contended that the 'end of the world" predicted hy Christ and Ills apostles and the establishment of the milennial period In which Christ should come asaln to reifen over the world has already been fulfilled and that it is vain for people to look into the future for a miraculous fulfillment of the prophecies. "With some today," he said, "Christ s coming is to be pre-mllennial : with others it is to be post-milennial: with others It is an event to bo looked for soon. I differ from all of these. "When Christ speaks of his coniln he does not always refer to a reincar nation or to a visible coming and It Is not to be assumed that hla-second com ing necessarily implies a second in carnation. ... "Christ's second coming was 1800 years ago. The Jewish dispensation then came to an end. According to the prophecy of Daniel, his kingdom was then set up. And it l to last forever. , . "The world is not made to De oe stroyed. but to be redeemed. It Is yet to become the kingdom of the Lord and his anointed. This world is to grow better and better. More and more, from age to age, It Is to be dominated by the living Christ through the Eter nal Spirit. "It is far better for us to be expend ing our energies in the work of saving men and training them for life here and hereafter than to spend our time antl thought in cherishing the delusion and dream of the bodily presence of Christ as a reigning king in Jerusalem. We may ever be with the Lord if we will but open our hearta and lives to his in coming. Christ's presence is here, not there The world will see him as you and I manifest him In our individual lives. We shall never see him per sonally on this earth, though we should live here 10.000 times 10,000 years; but we shall soon be 'over there' and see him as he Is." Glover Fire Under Control. LA GRANDE, Or.. Aug. 1 (Spe cial.) Although officials say tha Glo ver forest Are Is under control, the blaze continues today driven by a high wind, which is bringing heavy clouds of smoke into the valley over the moun tains. The fire-lighting force Is still on duty, undiminished In numbers. CRAWFISH That Made Portland Famous. FALTS, 293 MORRISON ST. Phones, Main 3484, A 1191. Holt Peaches 65c II M I.N 1. HROADtVAY AT TAYIXR HEILIG ALLWEEK;;!;rT" Fanioua Motion ricturc at CABIRIA" SPECIAL OB I 'WIT "ft rori i Ait pricks). EVENING Lower floor, ui . Ml cony, .'".'. AFTERNOONS -Ana- seat. li'-"w.l - . Melltnf. Will- Rl i a m MD1 i. in - W HI a II I i lO Big Features lO OVriNa Ol ! -Afternoon, t :0 to :U; night, 6:to to 11:00; Sumiayn. w in 11 . PRICES Aftatrnosn. 100 and ISO. Nights, 15c nnd 23c. (fANTAGES MATINEE DAILY 2.30 llroadaaaaa and Alder w Mi. aii;. 11. The I ion'n Bride. In! nulm ln I lie I - i I lie i mill NnMim I lull. "Nero." Ilnaauiil mill Keluie.. Carter'.. I Illinalnnn. "Thoe Here Hi" Hupp.i llnar.." Nadje. Mnlliaal Meekl. No. l 'ijfe Oaks I'nrlland'a l.renl tnauaemenl I'arh t'tiailele Chaanse of rregria matte, ('.'ipelll Munleal Duo a. i lion anil Jolinain. iindevtlle ael.. Mul Ion Itelnrea. Orehe.lraa f'oncert at i; to attail it . ;n iiuilriille at 4 and in r. M. A I.I, I-KRI-OKMANCKH I Id I i ,1. aat rirt and Alder. l.Miinh Murrl.on Itildge. Oregon State Fair SALEM. SEPf. 28 TO OCT. 3, 1914. Every day m feature. Keduceil i rates on all lines. For informa tion address Frank Meredith, Secretary. CLASSIFIED AD. RATES" latitr u ml Hiiadat lr Uaae. One time Same ml tttn etneeullve huh- Io Same ad three tttowutlte llniew ; no Same tad (tlx or nearen t-oneaiit It e ilme..4ki The above rate aapplr In aaila ert Uementa under "Neaa Todaa" and all nllter elaaWe tlonn except the following: Ml mat Inn Wanted Male. Ml nut toim Wattled I emale lor Kent. Kmim. ITIaale latnllle.. Room, and Hoard, frit ale I ami lie.. It.,!., on Ihe abuae . l.i- " n i "'- l real ii line raelt In.ertluo. On "cburse" ailaerlUenieni. i Itaiattt will he haawd on the number of lliie altpeariuK In the patter, reaai ill. Hie number or trordtt hi each line. Minimum Itarse. MM line. , The, oregnnian atlll at eepl rla.lfled art-vertl-ementi. titer the telephone, proa Inert the atlverll.er U a nuh.i-rllier to either phone No prices aalll be nitoleat over the phone, bill bill aalll be rendered Ihe follottliial rtv Whether libeeaiient ada ertlemenl ta-lll be accepted over the phone depend, upon Ihe proniptne.it of pntment of telephone adver ILenient.. Mluallun. Wanted and I'er.onal adaertl-meill. aalll not be accepted naer Ibe telephone. Order, ror one ln.ertl inlj t, HI be accepted for "I iirnltnre for Hale.' "Bttaal ne Oiportuiiltie,'' " Rooni lng-houe, anil "Wantetl to Kenl.'' The Oreajnnlan aalll nt.l guarantee m . or an.iime re.pun.lhllllt for errtira nceiirrlnaj In telephoned adverllaemenla. Adiaertl.emenl. to reeelte prompt rlaaelll cation nin.t be In The Orrgoutitii offlee he fore 10 o'clock al on in except Maxlurdaj. Clo.lng honr for The Sunday Oienonlan aalll be 8 o'clock Kalurdaa night. Ihe mi. e will be open until l o'clock I". l.. - ai.uaJ, and all atlia received loo late for proper rla.fl cation aalll be run under heading "Too J.altt to Clalf.a." ... . The Oregonlau atlll nol In re.pon-IMe '.r more than one Incorrect In.i rtloa of ant iiai vertUcmcal offered for moro than an t.imv mam I kaaaW!l I 1 E3 1 1 1.2