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14 TTTE MORXTXG OREGOXIATT, MONDAY, SITPTraiBTTR 21, 1914. PLAY REVIVES JOY "Trail of Lonesome Pine" at Heilig Brings Back Story. MISS LOWE'S WORK GOQD Others in Cast Play Capably and Presentation Strikes Joyous Xote in Its Impressive Scenic Embellishment. "THE TRAIL OF TUB LON'E SOME rrNE." June, John Hale . . . Bob Berkley . Uncle Billy... Old Hun Judd Tolllver Dave Loretty Cal. Heaton . . Isabella Lowe John Davidson ....Jack Pendleton John Kennle Eva Benton Noah Beery . .C. Paul Scbwaser .Marguerite Abbott Adrian Morgan BY LEONE CASS BAER. Those of us who read with affec tionate interest John Fox Junior's novel, "The Trail of the Lonesome Pine." and found their hearts steeped to the brimful measure with sunshine and gentle sadness, as they went with June along the rough trail to the lonely, gaunt old pine that stood sentinel at the entrance to Lonesome Cove, were lost again in joyous bewilderment when once more they struck the trail hewed out for them by Eugene Walters, In his dramatized form of the book, which came to the Heilig last night for a four nights' run. Last season Eugene Walters pre sented the beautiful and talented Mrs. Walters, who is Charlotte Walker, in the role of June for a tour of this Coast, following the play's New York presentation. At the same time he sent another company touring through the Middle States, down into that part of the South not Included in Miss Wal ker's tour, and at its head he placed a young and lovely girl, Isabelie Lowe. This year, while Miss Walker tries out a new play of her husband's making, the responsibility for the success' of June Is left entirely to little Miss Lowe. And a right good accounting, or to quote her line in the play, "a right smart showin'," she makes of the difficult role. Best in Story Culled for Play. It is easy to sit calmly down and read with our own good or bad inter pretation the written lines of an au thor. John Fox makes his characters human and the lines he gives his peo ple of the Virginian mountains are simple and rugged, but beautiful in the quaint philosophy they breathe. Eugene Walter has culled the best lines, the bravest characters, the most thrilling bits from the story and woven them into a beautiful play. We are in troduced to June, and to John Hale, who means so much in her poor little life, at the very rise of the curtain. They meet in the shadow of the whispering tall old pine. Nature's motif of a for est melody, a thought that slips gently inrougn me play in vibration respon sive to its pretty story. Barefooted, untutored saved in the lore of the birds and flowers of her woodland home, June foreshadows the great miracle of the dawn of love and womanltood and her unconscious wooing of Jack sweeps onward with the fresh ness of a breeze from one of June's own lovely blue mountains. Fend Mixes In Story. Keud and the battle of brother against brother mix into the romance, and told in its play form, this part of the story affords a truer interpreta tion of the primitlveness of the folk 6f the Virginia hills than one could possibly conjure from the story on the printed page. Isabelie Lowe invests the role of June with a rare deep sympathy and a youth that adds much to the romantic element. John Davidson, quiet in his methods but purposeful, is John Hale. Jack Pendle ton, a Los Angeles actor, gives a highly natural portrayal of the part of Bob Berkeley. John Kennie, as Uncle Billy, who couldn't think without scratching his sparse locks, and Eva Benton as his wife, Ole Hun, afforded comedy, as does also marguerite Abbott, in the role of Loretty, and Paul Schwager, as Dave, two primitive mountaineers whose "bantering" is delightful. Noah Beery, as Judd Tolliver, and Adrian Morgan, as Cal Heaton, both big roles, play capably with attention par ticularly to the difficult vernacular of the types.. "The Trail of the Lonesome Pine" strikes a Joyous note of coloring in its Impressive scenic embellishment, and author and artist have charmingly in terwoven their conception of action and scene. The play ends Wednesday night. There will be a matinee that day. DEFENDANT IS SCARED OUT POPULAR BARITONE WHO IS APPEARING AT SUNSET TTTRATER. ' , s i - J" t:'- i -. ' . - . - - t- i - - v - v-v - - "v ' ' r s L, - v , , f ' , - ' 'ft'. V - - - - ' ' ' ', 5 ? v' . ' ' - v - - ! 4 - , x , : MATT DENMS. BAKER GETS GIGGLES! "Stop Thief" Rollicking Com edy, Well Presented. LOVE AND FUN ARE MIXED FILMS ALL STELLAR "The Plum Tree," Story of Treachery, Is at Majestic. JACK LONDON AT PEOPLES Columbia Thrills With "The Final Verdict" "Trey o Hearts" Is' Star Feature and Globe and Snnset Have Great Show. Ralph Ackley Called Robber Judge McGinn, Flees Court. After cross-fire from the bench and from attorneys questioning him, Ralph Ackley, one of the defendants in.' a suit for the return of land traded. It was charged, through fraudulent rep resentations, fled from the witness Etatid Saturday and hurriedly left the courtroom. The case was that of George C. Held against J. B. Kennedy and Mr. Ackley. "You are in a mighty poor business," declared Judge McGinn to Mr. Ackley. "You are nothing nore than an ordin ary robber." "That's enough for me: good-night," exclaimed the witness, and fled. The plaintiff had traded a house and lot in Portland for 32 acres of land near Woodburn said to have little value. A return of the property was asked and $1000 damages. Judge Mc Ginn ordered that the litigants trade back and $100 punitive damages were assessed. CAPTAIN JOHNSTON DIES Veteran of Two Wars, Nearly 100 Tears of Age, Passes at Poor Farm. Captain Thomas Johnston, veteran of the Civil and Mexican wars, nearly 100 years of age, died at the County Farm Friday and the funeral services will be conducted tomorrow afternoon from Cunning's chapel, 414 Fast Alder street. Services will be under the auspices of the Grand Army of the Republic posts and interment will be made in the Grand Army Cemetery. Rev. C. E. Cline will officiate. All members of the Grand Army of the Republic are in vited to attend the funeral. Captain Johnston Ifad lived at the County Farm for the past 14 years, from choice largely, as he had access to the Soldiers' Home. He has no rel atives in Oregon as far as known. He would have been 100 years of age in November. Francis X. Bushman, the "typical American hero," and Beverly Bayne, the delightfully pretty girl who plays oppo site him, are at the Majestic Theater for three days beginning yesterday in "The Plum Tree," a story of treachery, love and war. The photography Is good and the 'scenes are well laid and well selected. The story is woven about a man, the , victim of his own desire for wealth, ! who is trapped by his rival and serves a 'long term in the penitentiary as a result. The rival sees a chance to make money in Mexico by arousing the enmity of the constitutionalisms, and goes there for that purpose, but he is defeated by his one-time victim and pays the penalty of death for treach ery. Another drama of unusual strength is the struggle of a young man against the evil in politics through the medium of a small newspaper. The story is en titled "Politics and the Press." A comedy that is full of complica tions and fun is "The Wrong Flat." Pictures .ken at the Vancouver fair conclude the programme. "The Fortune Hunters," from Wln chell Smith's famous book, will be the Wednesday offering. IXDIAJff PLAY AT OOLXTSIBIA "The Final Verdict," Western Tale, Has Many Thrills. Haoul Walsh, Francelia Billington and Eagle Eye, young Indian chief, make "The Final Verdict," a two-act Majestic drama which opened yesterday at the Columbia, a great success. It is a play that is distinctly Western. It has a thrilling climax and splendid bits of character portrayal. It is a story of how a young man revenges the death of his sister, who has been robbed and left on the desert. The Thanhouser players offer "The Emperor's Spy," a drama of diplomatic life in which the Emperor of Germany sends a beautiful woman to this coun try to obtain plans of fortifications of American forts. She succeeds, but falls in love with the young officer from whom she has stolen the charts and maps. The heart Interest is most en joyable. Charles Chaplin and UFatty" Arbuckle, Keystone favorites, make everybody laugh in a clever farce entitled "The Rounders." In the Mutual Weekly there are many entertaining and instructive features, including a number of late war pic tures. This bill runs until Wednesday. AERIAL . THRILLER AT STAR Seventh Installment of "Trey Hearts, 'P Is Romantic. Swinging many hundreds of feet above the pavement. Alan Law and Judith Trine escape from the hotel by the use of a huge iron crane in the seventh installment of "Trey o' Hearts, at the Star Theater this week. Com plications galore arise in this serial, when Judith's accomplice falls in love with her, and she in love with the man who was to have been her victim. The excitement of this picture is intense. King Baggot, one of the best-known portrayers of character, appears in "The Man Who Was Misunderstood," the half pathetic story of an old man robbed of hi3 happiness in youth who tells his story to a child. The picture Is original in visualization, and gives Baggot a chance to display his wide range of emotions. "The Dear Hunter" is a comedy which is more or less "educational." The play is full of real humor. The Universal Weekly has interest ing war scenes, and shows Portland's boy Mayor and his secretary in Los Angeles In their recent trip to the south. GLOBE AUDIENCES PLEASED Canal Pictures and War Scenes on . Hearst-Selig Weekly. "Some programme" was the univer sal verdict of the' crowd which attend ed the Globe Theater yesterday. The weekly of the Hearst-Selig combine contains better features than seen for some time: A complete review of the old-time county fair at Salem, N. H., the parachute Jumper, 'the tight-rope walker, a most daring equestrienne act, society horses at Newport, com prehensive views of the workings of the great canal and war scenes of real merit. There are two dramas. A mystery by L. J. Vance, "Sheep's Clothing." in which the rogues who Infest the trans-Atlantic steamers are depicted, and a two-part Vitagraph, "The Re ward of Thrift," which is designed to show how a skilled workman can live well and yet get ahead. In contrast, is shows the injudicious man and how he might lose out. Woven through is a timely and dramatic story of much in terest. This bill will run until Wednesday.. LOXDO STORY AT PEOPLES "Burning; Daylight," Story of Far - . Xorth, Most Realistic. "Hi, you, get out. You're burning daylight!" Thus does Elam Harnish announce himself as he pops out of his sleeping bag in one of Jack London's famous stories of the North, "Burning Daylight," which began yesterday at the Peoples Theater and which runs for one week. The play is forceful and realistic. The rough little mining camp with its half barbaric manners, the bitter ness of the long Arctic Wlntgr, the pathless forests, the trailless snows, the stolid dog teams, the crude miners, all that go to make for realism in motion pictures are shown in the film. The big "Burning Daylight" wades waist deep in icy waters, and tramps for miles with his breath freezing as it comes from his nostrils. The picture is vivid, beautiful holds Intense interest throughout, the photography making the Far North scenes startlingly realistic. BARITONE IS AT SUNSET Matt Dennis, Popular Singer, Wins Great Applause. The most pleasing feature of the show at the Sunset Theater is the bari tone singing of Matt Dennis. Mr. Den nis' voice is remarkable for its sweet ness and carrying Qualities. His "When You and I Were Young" and "I'm Afraid, Pretty Maid, I m Afraid" were encored to the echo, and the negro lullaby. Don t xou Cry. My Honey, was popu lar. Starting Wednesday he will sing Haunts of the Witches." "Come to Me" and "I Want to Linger." The Keystone farce. "The Baggage Smasher," is brimful of side-splitting situations and laughable antics. The feature, a three-reel Pathe film called In the Lion's Den." which shows the inside workings of the giant Pathe plant in t rance, tne hero s escape from the lions' den, furnishes a great tnrut. The Northwest Local pictures the hop industry of Oregon. War pictures are shown principally in tne .rauie weeKiy. Interesting Situations Emphasized by Clever Work of All Players, Especially Charles Halton and Cora Belle Bonnie. STOP, TfflEF." CAST: Ja?k Toosran ..Robert Gleckler William Car. Charles Halton James Clunky Harry, 1 Fr&ser Or. Wlllouenby. ...William H Powell Jamison John Adams Clergyman Walter Siegfried J os. : Thompson. ...... .Walter Gilbert Sergeant of Police. . .Brandon Evana Police Officer O'Malley. .C. U. WlUon Folice Officer Chancey G. Dorman Polico Officer Casey.. . .Scotte Brebuer Chauffeur Charles Trojan Nell .Miss Cora Belle Honnle Mrs. Carr Miss Florence Roberts Joan Carr. ..Miss Mary Kdett Baker Madge carr Miss Helen Travers Caroline Carr Miss Janet Young Richards to make up the lost time. They sold newspapers along the route of travel to earn their living and to pay for repairs to the much-overworked and creaking automobile. Finally, as their pocketbooks had become almost empty, the automobile became more balky. At Seattle the negotiator of the trails made its final grunt and ex perts pronounced It "dead" so far as further use was concerned. The youthful trail-blazers left the automobile "cemetery" with heavy hearts. The attention of one of them was attracted to a new seven-passenger automobile standing on Cherry street, in the Sound city. "Ain't that a fine machine," admir ingly spoke one. "Gee, I wish we owned it, then we could finish this trip and win that S10.000 wager," Bald the other. It is useless to dwell further on the dialogue at that time, but the ultimate result was that Leitx and Richards drove out of Seattle In a seven-passen ger automobile alleged to be owned by A. R. Chambers, 901 Hoge building, Seattle. When the boys arrived in Portland yesterday they were accosted by De tectives LaSalle and Abbott. Visions of the $10,000 disappeared on the gray walls of a lonesome cell In the Munici pal Jail, where the two travelers were locked up yesterday to await an officer trom seatue. WOMAN'S DAY PLANS UP GATHERING AT WELFARE EXHIBIT OUTLINES FAIR PROGRAMME. LYRIC COMEDY MAKES HIT Home Talent Chorus Provides Screen for Funny Production. The home-talent kid chorus of the Lyric, every smiling one of 'em tickled to death to be "on the stage," provides a dainty screen against which Manager Flood has projected one of the fun nlest, completest, wholesomest musical comedies that has rasped the ribs of a Portland audience in the proverbial many a day. "The Gasey Twins" is the title, and what was anticipated of a piece bear ing such a fun-promising caption was evidenced by a full house last night a house that rocked and roared with merriment as one absurd situation crowded another. There was little handclapping. Everyone was too busy laughing. An Irishman with a Hebrew wife, a Hebrew with an Irish wife, the two families living opposite each other on a goat-infeBted alley, provide the set ting in which the Casey twins unwind their destiny. Everybody is fooled at his or iier own game, and the well-worked-out plot explodes with a bang when a mock marriage of Nora, one of the twins, to the young tenor. Joe Hun ter. turns out to be the real thing. . fn i ..11.. T . ' real-thing "Irishman: Solly Carter, as .Lvi uonen, accompiisnea true drollity. I. M. Hasty, a censustaker, done by Gene Gorman; Madeline Rowe, as Mrs. Cohen, and Gwyneth Dorsey, as Mrs. Casey, all handle their characteriza tions with vim and sparkle. All the musical numbers are full of pleasing old-time melody, and Miss Rowe's sflo was a special favorite. - "The Casey Twins" will be continued through the week. "Stop, Thief a farce of rwlft ac tion, thoroughly refreshed capacity houses at the Baker Theater yesterday afternoon and last night. As Baker patrons of years' standing left the playhouse the words "best ever" drop ped from the lips of many. The plot, with all its by-plots, is hung around a fashionable wedding ceremony in the home of William Carr. The maid who is engaged to serve the bride is the pal of a crook she is to wed as soon as they make their last haul." Soon after the maid gets into the house a pigeon blood ruby ring. a valuable diamond sunburst, steel stocks and wedding presents by the yard disappear. Suspicion soon rests on all present. Goods Carefully Planted. ' It happened that William Carr was 1000 per cent absent minded, and that James Cluney. the bridegroom, once had an uncle who was a kleptomaniac By "planting" stolen articles on one or the other of these susceptible sub jects just as they were about to be discovered, Nell and later Jack Doogan, her partner thief, managed to convince both Absent-Minded Carr and Klepto maniac Cluney, and many of the wed ding attendants as well, that they were responsible for the wholesale thievery that was going on. The members of the Carr family tell the supposed detective where their valuables are stored so that he may take an Inventory and trace stolen articles. This Inventory Is turned over to Nell, who fills a steamer trunk and suit case with booty and has a taxi cab ready to make a grand getaway for their marriage and honeymoon. But the house is suddenly closed on a searching process. Following the arrest of the real thieves as Nell is about to get away in the taxicab with the entire haul. Jack Doogan bats down one of the police officers and covers the crowd with a revolver until he and Nell have escaped. The thieves slipped around a side way and come back to recover the booty while the officers tare down the street yelling, "Stop, thief! Love Mixed la Comedy. Being foiled at last. Nell and Jack assure Mr. Carr and Mr. Cluney that they are not weak characters in spite of their insistent confessions and play ing the "sympathy gag" to the limit and are allowed to go "scot free. As the final curtain falls, three lov ing pairs. the wedding principals, the crooks and Dr. Willoughby and Joan Carr, who had been successful in mak ing love while the plot" was progres3- inif. were married. Charles Halton, as William Carr, the absent minded innocent, was positive ly "killing," as he batted his eyes be hind an old-fashioned pair of glasses and scampered about the stage as he was being covered by eyes from every 'direction. Cora Belle Bonnie played Nell, the deceptive maid, so neatly and inof fensively that she seemed a heroine, and the audience liked every move she made. Her partner in crime. Jack Doogan, interpreted by Robert Gleck ler, was a clever impersonation of a fearless robber who had the experience to know how to solve every crisis as it came and the nerve to put his solu tion across without flinching. Harry L. Fraser was realistic as the trembling brodegroom who believed himself to be a kleptomaniac, and Wil liam, H. Powell, as Dr. Willoughby, his close friend, played true blue In trying to shield him from the numerous "guilty acts." Walter Gilbert, "the best detective In the State of Rhode Island," had get-up and presence that won giggles whenever he was on the stage. Mary Edgett Saker was stunning as Joan Carr, and coquettishly made love to Dr. Willoughby. Florence Roberts, as Mrs. Carr, the old lady who was always getting into trouble because of the loss of her ear trumpet, and every other member of the cast, were enjoy- ably adequate. $10,000 WINNING FADES DUETT OUT TO CAPTURE BIG WAGER REPOSE IN CELL. Nurse Fund Nets $1000. When .all the money due the Visiting Nurse Association is collected It will be found that the campaign of Monday will have netted $1000, When Car Driven From Cleveland Breaks Dews in Seattle Method of Replacing; It Questioned. Ten thousand dollars is a large for' tune in the eyes of two 18-year-old Cleveland, Ohio, young men and it was ambition to win a wager amounting to that figure for their sponsor, a mem ber of the Cleveland Elks, that led the two boys to a jail cell in Portland yesterday. Floyd Leitz, an Ohio farmer boy, and Carl Richards, a Cleveland chauffeur, are the two young men who started from Cleveland May 24. on a wager o J10.000 made by members of the Cleve land Elks' Lodge, that two young men could not drive an automobile from the Ohio city to Seattle, San Francisco and return before January 1. 1915. leaving Cleveland without funds and wlthou borrowing, begging or stealing while en route. Leitz, Richards and a third young man. Clifford Hughes, composed th automobile party selected for the trip which left Cleveland. - All went well until the tourists came to the Kansas harvest fields, and there young Hughes contracted typhoid fever. His companions risked losing the wager by remaining with thel fevered partner in this latest voyag for treasure, and a few weeks later Hughes died. Every effort was made by Leitz and Better Babies Testa Conducted at Af fair Close and Mothers of Low Score Children Get Advice. To plan for woman's day at the State Fair a, large number of representative women met Saturday in the headquar ters of the Oregon Congress of Mothers n the Health and Welfare exhibition in the Yeon building. Mrs. Arlstene Felts presided. Among the organizations represent ed, members of which number more than 16,000. were the Oregon Federa tion of Women's Clubs, the Oregon Congress of Mothers, the Catholic Woman's League, the Parent-Teacher Association of West Portland. Woman s CITristian Temperance Union, the Woman's Work committee of the State Grange and the Corriente Club. It was decided to have several 10- minute talks, beginning at 11 o'clock the morning of Tuesday. September 29. There will be speakers from the Con gress of Mothers, the Federation of Women's Clubs, the State Grange and the Women's Christian Temperance Union. In the afternoon a reception will be held. The better babies tests, conducted at the welfare exhibit have Just closed and have been most successful. Each child was examined carefully and by skilled specialists. Separate booths were arranged so that the greatest privacy and discipline were main tained. Advice was given freely to the mothers whose babies showed any tendency to weakness or ill health. Mothers were asked to bring their babie3 back to the educational bureau for a second Inspection in six months' time, so that the Improvement could be noted and further advice given. "We want to encourage the mothers of low-score babies to come and get the benefits of expert advice, said Mrs Felts at the close' of the baby show. "Our organization is banded to gether to help humanity. The mothers who have delicate babies should feel that we stand ready to assist them in making those same babies strong and healthy." ft . fV'tn ' Kip fe&U I feat Opening Display OF Fall Fashions BEGINS TODAY AT Meier & Frank's Surpassing in Beauty Every Previous Showing SEE SIXTH-STREET WINDOW! II II llll GRANGE PLANS DISPLAY BUILDING MAV BE ERECTED OH ROAD NEAR COLUMBIA HI II WAY. Proposal of Master of Colombia Is to Put la Permanent Exhibit so Tour ists Can See Prod nets. A movement has been started to erect a small building near Columbia Grange Hall, on the road leading to the Co lumbia Highway, in which will be placed grains, grasses, vegetables and fruits of all kinds for inspection of tourists. R. P. Rasmussen, master of Columbia Grange, is highly in favor of the erec tion of the building, and Is doing all he can to promote the movement- Mr. Rasmussen said that the plan is to erect the building near the road and mostly of glass so the exhibits can be seen to best advantage. Columbia Grange ex hibit, now at the county fair in Gresham, will be saved as far as pos sible and used for exhibition purposes The grange has a large assortment of fine grains and grasses grown east of Sandy River, which will be saved for the exhibit when the building is erected. Columbia Grange will support the plan in every way it can, said Mr. Ras mussen. He said that a number of enterprising Portland men are back of the plan to erect the building. Mr. Ras mussen pointed out that "this building will be located close to the road, and that thousands of tourists who will pass there could stop a few minutes and see the exhibits. SIXTH STREET BUILDING. Fancy Groceries a Feature at Meier & Frank's Including delicacies favored by dining-car service. Grilled Mushrooms Royal Champignons, popular on dining cars, tin 3rC Fish Flakes Corned Codfish and Haddock, popular on dining cars, tin 15 and 10c1 Kippered Herring Large oval cans, each 20 Pickled Onions Cross & BlackwelPs, V-pint bottles 30c Pickled Walnuts Cross & Blackwell's, 4-pint bottles 30 Imported Pickles Gherkins or mixed, pints 39S Yz pints.... 20 Tarragon Vinegar Cross & Blackwell's, pint bottles 350 German Lentils Imported style, pound STAPLE GROCERIES Holly Milk Case $3.59, dozen 90S can 7Y Victor Flonr Best for bread and pastry, sack $1.35 Solid Tomatoes Latest pack. No. 2l2 cans, each 1O0 Olive Oil Royal Banquet, medium bottles 350 Naphtha Soap Victor grade. 7 bars for 250 Gloss Starch Kingford's 6-lb. wooden boxes 590 Pure Lard No. 10 pails $1.45, No. 5 pails 750 EXPERIENCED GROCERY TELEPHONE SALESPEOPLE WILL TAKE YOUR ORDERS FROM 8 A.M. -Hnre Food Grocery, Basement Slxth-St. Bldg. The: qjjality Store of Portland FHlho SbctK. "Mos-riaorv Aider Sta. Commercial Club at luncheon Satur day and was taken for an automobile trip about the city later. NATION BOWS TO ROUNDUP Federal Subpcnas Halted Until Pendleton's Fete Is Over. The Government has officially recog nized "the epic drama of the West." Uncle Earn will stand aside politely and let his business wait until the Pendleton Round-Up is over. Deputy United States Marshal Fuller took 40 subpenas to Pendleton, sum moning members of .the police force and many Umatilla Indians to appear before the United States grand Jury in Portland next week. He began work in the Round-up city Saturday morning, and by noon Dis trict Attorney Reames had received many telegrams, one from Chief of Po. lice Carney and another from Major Swartzlander, superintendent of the reservation, asking that they and their men and the Indians be not compelled to be In Portland at a time when Pendleton, to them, will be the center of the universe. Assistant United States Attorney Johnson accordingly altered the sched ule of cases that will be taken up by the grand jury, so that no case requir ing witnesses from Pendleton will be considered until alter tne isi rtouna Up is over. j BUSINESS RISE IS SHOWN Insurance Magnate Visiting Here Started as Office Boy. The career of Walter Le Mar Talbot, president of the Fidelity Mutual Life Insurance company, oi r-niiaaeipnia, who was entertained in Portland Sat urday, has risen from office boy to president in 33 years. He was 11 years old when he started work. About $500,000 of the company's $135,000,000 working capital is invest ed in first mortgage bonds In Portland, about half of which is in the Portland Railway, Light & Power Company. Mr, Talbot was guest of honor at the Vancouver Masons Hosts. VANCOUVER. "Wash, Sept. 20 (Special.) Forty Masons of Portland Lodge. No. 46. came to Vancouver to- night and were guests of Washington Lodge, No. 4. Secret work was put on, addresses were made by speakers for both lodges and a banquet was served in the banquet hall at a late hour. The visiting Masons returned to Portland on a late ferry. India's Juts crop Is largo, estimated at 12.(100.000 IihIs. SAYS AKOZ PRACTICALLY CURED HIS RHEUMATISM IN FEW WEEKS J, W. Brock of Astoria Uut With Big Boost for Great Mineral Remedy. Crippled up with rheumatism. J. W. Brock, of Astoria, Oregon, a well known carpenter, was hardly able to follow his trade until he took Akoz, the wonderful California medicinal mineral. Three weeks of the treat ment stopped the pains and enabled aim iu roouuiv . n v. u. . . a letter to the Natura Company of San Francisco: "I had muscular rheumatism for ten years. My legs and arms were affected as well as the chest. I en dured great pains, especially when I breathed. I used other medicines but never got the results I have obtained from 'Akoz. My rheumatism was so bad that It was hardly possible for me to work. 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