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TTTE MORNING. OREGONIAX, FRIIAT, SEPTE3IBER 25. 1914. 9 JOSEPHINE COUNTY FAIR BEST 111 YEARS Grange Exhibits Show Great Improvement and Win Ex pert's High Praise.. GRAND BALL CLOSES FETE "Applegate and Williams Valley Ex hibits at Grants Pass Are Com plete Contests Lively and Stock Show Is Xotable. . - GRANTS PASS. Or., Sept. 24. (Spe cial.) The Josephine County Grange fair closed today with the most suc cessful session it has ever held. The most complete exhibits ever collected for the annual fair were shown and the varieties were more clOBely con tested. Farmers in the irrigated dis tricts of the Applegate and Williams valleys have had a prosperous sea son and the best of their products were shown at the grange exposition. The stock also was excellent, there being a great improvement in the class of stock exhibited over that shown in previous years. Tuesday was entry day and from 8 o'clock until 12 o'clock wagons, auto mobiles and vehicles of all descriptions brought displays and exhibits from the surrounding country. At 1 o'clock the programme began with the wood-chopping contest. Con tests continued until 4 o'clock, when a leather handbag was the prize offered the woman who could drive a nail best. The programme for Wednesday was primarily for the farmer, there being stock judging contests, exhibits of farm teams and lectures by notable experts. Professor Scudder, of Oregon Agricultural College spoke on soils and crops and Professor Gregg, of Michi gan Agricultural College, gave a lec ture on . judging fruits, grains and vegetables. , Thursday was contest day beginning at 10 o'clock with a girls' running race and ending at 5 o'clock with a half-mile bicycle race. The fair ended with a grand ball from 8 o'clock until midnight. Pro fessor Scudder says the Josephine County Fair was the best county grange fair he has attended this year, and that the exhibits of both products and stock cannot be excelled anywhere In the state. 60 00 ATTEND LANE'S SHOW Eugene Day Draws Throng and Pair Is Lively Event. EUGENE. Or., Sept. 24. (Special.) One hundred Salemites. Cherrians, their wives and friends were the guests of the Eugene Radiators at the Lane County Fair day. All Eugene closed shop and dismissed its schools to celebrate their arrival, and Eugene day at the fair. . From the Commercial Club the visi tors were taken about the city in motorcars until noon, when a banquet with 150 covers was served in the viuuruuiua. At the stock parade and at the horse racis at the county fair they were the guests of honor, and after the races 200 fraternity men and sorority co eds from the university were hosts at dinner. The day drew a record-breaking crowd 6000 persons to the fair grounds. In the contest among four county granges for the best exhibit, the Wil lakenzie Grange, the newest in' the state, was declared winner. The poultry department contained 650 birds from four Pacific Coast states. One hundred babies have been ex amined in the past two days by a staff of Eugene's leading physicians in the Eugenic contest. Mrs. E. R. Stevens, 80 years old, won first prize on biscuits. COLUMBIA FAIR EXHIBITS BIG Large Attendance Greets Blany Dis plays at St. Helens Event. ST. HELENS, Or.. Sept. 24. (Spe cial.) The Columbia County Fair opened yesterday with a good attend ance, including a number of Portland people. Since last year additional buildings have been erected, doubling the space for exhibits. Every stall in the horse and cow barns is occupied by excellent stock, and the poultry house is crowded with a fine breed of fowls and Belgian hares. Considering the dry .Summer, the showing in vegetables is very . good. Many specimens of fruit, both fresh and canned, some of the apples for which Columbia County is famous and a very creditable school exhibit oc cupy half the space in one building. A display of walnuts shows that nuts flourish here. A sunflower 60 inches in circumference on a stalk 12 feet in height attracts much notice. The exhibit of needlework would be & credit to any community. In variety and fineness it would be hard to equal. Mrs. Millard, of Portland, who Judged the work, stated that many of the pieces were perfect in workmanship. The Irish crochet and tatting were es pecially commended. The fair continues today and tomor row. BIG CROWDS SEE UNION FAIR Ideal Weather Favors Farewell Day of Show, With Schools Closed. LA GRANDE. Or.. Sept. 24-. (Spe cial.) With no incident to mar the three days' programme, and with ideal weather conditions throughout, the Union County fair closed here tonight. Today was school day, and all of the schools and stores in the city closed this afternoon to swell the attendance and boost the fair. A feature of the exhibits which at tracted particular attention was a dis play of parcel post packages and lit erature explaining the workings of this branch of the postal service. Consid erable sentiment has been created dur ing the past three days in favor of county ownership of the fair, a levy for this purpose being up to a vote of the people of Union County this Fall. CLATSOP COUNTY SEES FAIR Crowds and Big Displays Feature Gearhart Agricultural Show. , ASTORIA. Or, Sept. 24. (Special.) Clatsop County's annual agricultural fair at Gearhart opened today with pleasant weather, large attendance and under auspices that indicate it will be the most successful event of the kind ever held in the county. The displays of grasses, vegetables, various fruits and dairy products are large and are attracting favorable comment. Especially fine exhibits were made by Netel, Pacific and Logan Granges. The livestock exhibit is one of es pecial merit and includes some of the finest breeds of dairy cattle to be found. Among them are Holsteins, Guernseys and Jerseys, individual mem bers of which are worth hundreds of dollars. Professor D. C. Howard, of Corvallis, who is acting as Judge, re marked that the dairy cattle on display will compare favorably with any to be found in the West. The fair will end on Saturday, but the greater portion of the exhibits will be left in place ! over Sunday for those who are unable to attend during the week. MYRTLE POINT SHOW DRAAVS Fair Is Attended by 1600 and Four Close Races Are Seen. MYRTLE POINT, Or., Sept. 24. (Spe cial.) The second day of -the Fair proved of greater interest than yes terday and the crowd today numbered about 1600. Practically all the exhi bits are in place, barring a few which are to arrive tomorrow from various schools in this section. The general awards will be made tomorrow. Fri day is to be school children's day and the trains are already reserved for all that can be carried. The racing opened today with four exciting events, which were as follows: Half-mile trot or pace Wahke won In. two straight heats; Billy Murray, second; Polerton, third. Time 1:16; 1:14. Running, three-eighths-mile Eureka, won; Teddy, second; Mary D. Hume, third. Time, 37 seconds. Half-mile trot or pace Little Sham rock, won; Jim Raldwin, second; Ron nie June, third. Time, 1:12; 1:12. Novelty race, one mile Gift, won. at three-quarters and mile; Veloska, at half-mile; Ada Zane, at quarter-mile. LINN SEES FIRST BTRDMAJf Aviator Flies From Albany to Fair Grounds at Scio, 18 Miles. A LB ANT, Or., Sept. 24. (Special.) G. W. Stromer, a Tacoma aviator, suc cessfully piloted his biplane from Al bany to Scio. a distance of 18 miles, this afternoon. He ascended here at 2 o'clock and in 25 minutes had alighted at the Linn County Fair grounds near Scio. He will return to Albany tomor row afternoon, arriving here at 2 o'clock. Stromer carried no passengers with him on his flight today, but has an nounced that he expects to carry one person on each of his flights at Albany Saturday and Sunday. The flight to day was a fine one and a large crowd watched his departure. He was greet ed by another big throng when he alighted at the fair grounds at Scio. This was the first cross-country flight ever made by a birdman in Linn County, and many farmers, who had not seen an aeroplane before, stood in wonderment as the huge - bird sailed over them. CHEHALIS FAIR IS BOOMING Races Are Enjoyed and Judging of Displays Is Started. ELAM, Wash., Sept. 24. (Special.) The second day of the Chehalis Coun ty Fair was much better in every way than the first. Everything was in place, the rough edges were all gone and there was not a single hitch. The livestock was judged . today by Mr. Linklater, of the State College at Pull man, and the vegetable exhibit by A. Stahl, of the same, institution. Saturday and Sunday will be the big days and large crowds are looked for. The winners of today's races were: 2:30 trot Handsome Guy, George Woods, owner; time, 2:34. 5-8-mile dash Red Raven, Norwood, owner. -mile dash Old Settler, Gonter, owner. -mile dash Delucif, Shaughnessy, owner. WASHINGTON FAIR SUCCEEDS xtacehorse Drops Dead Near Wire at North Yakima. NORTH YAKIMA, Wash., Sept 24. (Special.) The .attendance at the Washington State Fair today, Yakima. day, was estimated at 10,000, and with good weather tomorrow and Saturday the officials of the liair expect to pay expenses, in spite of the shortage of funds caused by over-expenditure last year. The parade of all the. cattle and horse entries before the grandstand in the afternoon was the striking feature of the day. In the first heat of the first race of the afternoon the pacer Jack Turner, owned by. B. M. Turner, of Dayton, Wash., dropped dead one-eighth of a mile from the finish. TAX CURE IS NOT LIKED GRANGES AGAINST AMENDMENTS AND 91500 EXEMPTION. Women Oppose Eight-Hour Law and Say It Would Stop Dinner If It Were but Half Done on Time. ' PLEASANT VAT .LEY. Or., Sept. 24. (Special.) Multnomah County Pomona Grange, which convened here Wednes day, studied measures which will be voted upon at the November election and listened to a lecture un "Kuri Credits in Oregon" by H. G. Stark weather, of Clackamas County. J. J. Johnson, of Portland, spoke on the tax amendments and pointed out that of the numerous tax measures several are largely conflicting and mixed up. He was outspoken in con demning the proposed $1500 exemption law, declaring it was a single tax measure pure and simple, and that the farmer would suffer most from it in having his land taxes increased. Mr. Johnson also opposed the eight-hour law. H. E." Davis, a dairyman of Gresham, advocated the eight-hour law and urged that it could be made to apply to the farmer, who could adjust his work. Mr. Davis said farmers and men employed on the farm work( too long hours and have no time to read or study civic or political questions. Eugene Palmer replied by declaring that a universal eight-hour law could not apply to the farm labor and would prove a serious menace. He said that at harvest time, when it was necessary tor farmers and farmhands to work 15 and 16 hours to save the crop from de struction, the law would step in and prevent this being done and the crop might be lost. Mr. Palmer read the law and said that the farmer would be liable to fine ,and imprisonment if he worked more than eight hours. He characterized the law as absurd and impossible of application to farm and other occupations. Several women spoke against the measure and said it would interfere with the household work. "If the eight hours expire and the dinner is half cooked and half on the table," said one woman, "the cook or housewife must immediately stop work or be sent to jail." J. E. Perry, a close friend of Whit comb Riley, gave readings from his works. A musical programme was ren dered. Tonight a large class was given the fifth degree. Mrs. E. Palmer had charge of the programme and T. J. Kreuder presided. Nearly 200 grangers attended the meeting. Special professional uprights and others. Most unusual offer for Friday and Saturday only. See page 8, this paper. Adv. j MERGER IS BACKED Four Fruit Agencies Approve Plan for Organizing. WENATCHEE MEN TO ACT Invitations to Be Sent Oat for Ses- sion Probably at Spokane to Form Body to Keep Up Prices of Apples. WENATCHEE, Wash., Sept. 24. (Special.) An effort to unite practical ly all the fruit marketing organizations of the Northwest to combat demoraliza tion of the apple' market received the approval today of the four larger agencies here. Formal invitations will be sent out tomorrow for a meeting next week, probably at Spokane. Indorsement of the general purpose of the movement was given by Conrad Rose, president of the Wenatchee Pro duce Company; W. T. Clark, president of the Wenatchee Valley Fruit Grow ers' Association; W. O. Dow, local man ager of the North Pacific Fruit Dis tributors, and A. Baptie. local manager of the Northwestern Fruit Exchange. These four control five-sixths of the apples from this valley. "The purpose in organizing is to re tain the individual organizations in their present form, each competing strenuously to sign up tonnage, but co operating thereafter in a comprehen sive selling campaign, regulating dis tribution of tonnage, collecting and re porting vital information and, perhaps, carrying on an advertising campaign. The idea is to go as far as the law will permit in forming a coalition. The motive is to uphold prices for the sole benefit of fruit growers. All previous methods of co-operation in, the fruit growing industry of the Northwest have been to combine growers within organizations. The plan now is for organizations to co-operate. W. O. Dow, of the distributors, said that the demoralization of the apple market is due in a large measure to cutthroat competition, in which selling agencies are engaging, each under bidding the other to move tonnage. If the Distributors, the Wenatchee Valley Fruit Growers' Association, the Takima Horticultural Union and the Wenatchee Produce Company combine, they have 12,000 carloads under control. The to tal production this year in the North west is estimated at 13.610 carloads. WRECKING IS ADMITTED DALLAS PRISONER "CONFESSES" ICE DITCHED VALLEY LIMITED. D. M. : Deal Surrender While Vader Influence of Liquor and Says Be Is Wanted for Crime la 1913. DALLAS, Or., Sept. 24. (Special.) D. M. Deal, who gave himself up to officials here yesterday, confessed to wrecking the Willamette Valley lim ited train No. 28 on the Southern Pacific, near Salem, June 18, 1913. A reward of $5000 had been offered by the railroad company for the convlc tion of the person or persons implicat ed in this transaction. Deal came to Dallas while under the influence of liquor and asked City Marshal Chase and. Deputy Sheriff Kichter to arrest him. After being placed in jail he told the offi cers he had wrecked the train. The Polk County Sheriff's office got In touch with B. McShane, special agent of the Southern Pacific. McShane came to Dallas and in company with Sheriff Grant, Deputy Richter and Marshal Chase again confronted Deal. Deal, who had become sober, again admitted the crime and told the alleged details. According to his story, he was alone in his operations. No one was killed in the wreck, but one worn an was severely injured. Deal was taken to Salem this morn ing and placed in the Marion County Jail. DEAL REPEATS WRECK STORY Salem Sheriff Led to Scene by Man Who Says lie Wanted Revenge. SALEM. Or., Sept. 24. (Special.) D. M. Deal, who. surrendered to the police in Dallas, announcing that he caused the wreck of a fast Southern Pacific train near this city about two years ago, was brought to this city today. He told a straightforward story to Sheriff Esch and when instructed to lead the Sheriff to the scene of the wreck had no trouble in doing so. Deal said he drew the spikes holding several rails with his fingers. The wreck oc curred on a curve near the State Re form School. Three steel cars were derailed, but no one was injured. Deal says his motive . was revenge against the company because a section foreman had discharged him. He made his confession while in a semi-intoxi cated condition in Dallas and little was thought of it at first. Detective McShane, of the Southern Pacific, how. ever, was summoned and said the story was plausible. NORMAL SHOWS INCREASE President Ackerman Says Attend ance Grows to 230 in Week. OREGON NORMAL SCHOOL, Mon mouth, Sept.- 24. (Special.) The atr tendance at the Normal has Increased to 230 in the past week. President Ackerman says that others have sped fied their intentions to be enlisted among the number. The students have fully organized themselves into their respective classes and elected the following as their presidents: Senior II, Miss Hulda An derson; senior I, Miss Irene DeArmond juniors. Miss Margaret Holverson; sophomores. Miss Dorothy Bengston; iresnmen, unanes warran. GIRL HOLDS HUNTED MAN Miss Hazel Cole, Oregon City, Keeps Roy La Douix Prisoner. OREGON CITY, Or.." Sept. 24 (Spe cial.) Miss Hazel Cole, stenographer in the office of Justice of the Peace Sievers, arrested Roy LaDouix, wanted for assaulting Arthur McKennis, while Sheriff E. T. Mass and Constable D. E. Frost were looking for him through half of Clackamas County this morn ing. It was Miss Cole s first arrest. George McKinnis, the father, swore out a complaint this morning before Justice Sievers, charging LaDouix with assaulting his son. On the return of the officers they found LaDouix Miss Cole's prisoner in the office of Justice Sievers. LaDouix had wandered into the office and Miss Cole recognised mperSi All High Price w . it"."- -i .' - 4$ :rv : and $ 600, But in This Sale Only $333 and Many for Less; Many New L ' fXrHp W Per Month -?98and.$117 Terms 40, 30, 20 or 10 Months Player Pianos Same Prices With Just a Little Added for the Player '. - Action, That's All rail m Unusual Conditions Create Unusual Opportunity Best Upright Pianos, Best Player Pianos and Finest Baby Grands Included in Ruthless Price Slaughter Representatives of Eastern factories take charge of big piano house ; immense stock to be sold under special agreement. ' A house full of brand-new instruments nothing shopworn nothing second-hand all regular high quality stock. Nearly all to be sold at manufactur ers' cost some for even less. Excellent new warranted pianos, only $118; many for $98. Finest $550 and $600 pianos, $333 and $315. , - Open in the Ellsworth, Barnes him and held him until tha officials returned. Justice Sievers was out at the time. VALLEY EXHIBIT ITS BEST Eight Counties Plan Finest Showing at State Fair, Is Assertion. ALBANY, Or., Sept. 24. (Special.) That the exhibit of the eight Willam ette Valley counties at the State Fair at Salem will be the best of any pre vious exhibit from this section of the state, was asserted yesterday by C H. Stewart, of Albany, who was present at the Salem meeting; representing: this county. The counties of Linn, Lane, Marion, tenton, Polk, Clackamas, Washington raff f Less Than Chea; ' 301 r- l US- .-w lt ini and JIM -a i tw ;res3S ife -vf rs ilk jHhI i! 12s- . if villi $315 v. Ones for Only CHEO i Evening Until 9 o'Clock During This Emergency and Surplus Sale. and Davy Authorized Representatives of the Manufacturer and Yamhill have combined in an ex hibit of .farm, dairy and garden prod ucts, as well as other kinds. The ex hibit will be shown at the State Fair and the Land Products Show in Port land, after which it will be sent to San Francisco for the Panama-Pacific Exposition. War Veteran, 6 7, Weds, Bride, 65. ROSEBORG, Or., Sept. 24. (Special.) Eli Mills, until recently a member of the Oregon Soldiers' Home, was married at Coquille, Coos County, to day to Mrs. Emily McFarlln. of Sum ner. Mr. Mills left Roseburg a few days agro and had intended to return to the Home here Friday. He met Mrs. McFarlin later, and it was a case of love at first sight. This is Mrs. McFarlin's third marriage. Mr. Mills is 67 years of age. while his bride is 65 years old. ional Uirigife ! Ones Now For special ' IF YOU ARE RENTING, READ THIS Payments arranged to suit any customer's conve nience; some for only $1.00 a week, others $5.00 a month, special for Friday and Saturday only, all Pro fessional Pianos only $6 a month, less than renting; latest and best metal tube player pianos with free music rolls service included at corresponding reduc tions; payments $10 a month; some for $2 a week. Music makes home what it should be. There is no home in Portland now that cannot have a choice piano. It is well known that finished pianos in large quantities have accumulated in all of the Nation's piano factories. With a well-founded faith in the future, and a breadth of perception that the near future will verify, Eilers Music House has agreed to take the surplus of seven leading piano manufactur ers, under a special agreement to take three pianos for every two now sold and that these manufactur ers assume all expense of disposing of every instru ment in the great establishment. The factory's representatives now here do not care for profit. Their purpose is to have these pianos immediately out of the way, and commence shipping the surplus. Hence this opportunity, this most unusual price offering, which will never come again because con ditions which have combined to make this undertak ing necessary can never again arise. This sale as above is now in progress at Eilers Music House, Eilers Building, Alder street at Broadway. . If everyone in this city could but realize what a money-saving opportunity this really is all would be sold out in less than a week's time. Spoial: The low sale prices of every instrument are subject to a further liberal, and unusual dis count, to cash buyers. Please remember that no matter whether the cheapest organ, or old style piano is purchased, or the most expensive Chickering, or Sohmer, or Kimball, or Hazelton upright, or ' grand, or a genuine Autopiano player piano, or one of the won werful Player Pianos de luxe, not only will these and other instruments be furnished at heretofore unheard-of low prices (in many cases less than actual cost), but each instrument is furnished tinder a positive guarantee, countersigned for the manufacturers by Eilers Music Ilouse, which mean3 positive satisfaction to every purchaser The Nation's Largest She owns a ranch near Sumner, where she and her husband will make their future home. GIRL AND POJiY AT EUGENE Young Rider En Route to Fair De fends West's Ride in Capitol. EUGENE. Or.. Sept. 24. (Special.) "It was real mean of the Oregon pa pers to criticise Oswald West for rid ing: my pony through the Statehouse," declared pretty 18-year-old Miss Gladys Hardy, who arrived in Eugene, on a 1200-mile trip. The young; lady will spend two days in . Eugene before leaving for San Francisco. She is traveling from Spo kane to the Panama-Pacific Exposi Ones Terms for Friday Saturday Only EILERS BUILDING, BROADWAY AT ALDER Home of the Chickering Pi ano and the Player Piano de Luxe. tion alone, on horseback, and is mak ing expenses by selling and writing for an outing magazine. Grange Head tJp for Legislature. SALEM. Or.. Sept. 24. (Special.) C. E. Spence. head of the State Grarse, has filed as an independent candidate for Representative in the Legislature from Clackamas County. Other inde pendent candidates for Representative are Mrs. Fannie M. Penn and Mrs. Z. A. Rosebraugh. of Marion County. Bowling League Formed at Albany. ALBANY, Or.. Sept. 24. (Special.) A bowling league, including teams from Eugene. Salem. Corvallis and Al bany, was organized here yesterday. A series of games will be played this WJnter to decide the championship.