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THE MORNING OREGOXIAy, TITCTISDAT. OCTOBER 1. 1914. 11 CITY NEWS IN BRIEF OREGOSJIAJJ TELEPHONES. managing Editor Main 7070. A 009 f-Ity fcditor Main 7070. A SOBO Sunday Editor Main 7070, A f5 Advertising Department. . . .Main 7070. A 8005 City Circulation Main 7070. A 6095 Composing-room Main 7070. A 6085 Printing-room Main 7070. A 6095 buperintendent Building. . .Main 7070. A 6093 AMUSEMENTS. ITPTt T ( ' TUTT TPD ' . - - , . THe cofedy, -Kitty llacKny." Tonight at 8:13. BAKER Baker Players In "The - Family uwuui-ru. ionium at 8:J0 o'clock. LYRIC (Fourth and Htark) Musical com edy. "Dr. nippy's Banitartum." This af ternoon at 2:30 and tonight at 7:30 ani Baseball. RECREATION" PARK Portland vs. Loi An geiea. Weekdays. p. M.; Sundays. t:iO P M. Vaudeville. PANTAGES (Broadway and Alder) Per formances at 2:30. 7:80 and 8:30 P. M. Marcus loew empress (Broadway and iaajhili) Contlnous from 1:30 to XI. MoTlng-Plcture Theaters. PEOPLE'S West Park and Alder. MAJESTIC Park and Washington. COLUMBIA Sixth, near Washington. GLOBE Eleventh and Washington. NEW STAR Park and Washington. SUNSET Washington, near Broadway. v Ohesham Man Invents Water Pump. Eaj-1 Thompson, a Gresham man, 22 years of age. Is the Inventor of a novel engine pump operated by water on the some principle of the steam engine, only the power Is water Instead of steam. Mr. Thompson under took to pump water for the people of Oulver, in Crook County, from Crooked River, which is 840 feet below the town. There was found no pump that could lift water that height. After several failures to lift the water Mr. Thompson conceived the waterpower pump, and it worked, lifting 40 gallons a minute into the mains of Culver. The engine, the only one built so far, was made at the Smith and Watson ironworks of Portland from plans fur nished by the inventor. Mr. Thomp son has his engine fully protected by United States patents. Earl Thompson is the son of S. S. Thompson, of Gresham, and a graduate of the Gresham high school. He attended the Oregon Agricultural College. Grange Members Number S32. Ac cording to the quarterly report of Mrs. M. M. Eaton, secretary of Multno mah County Pomona Grange, there are ten granges with a. total membership of 932. The members are divided as follows: Evening Star, 254; Lents, 175; Woc-dlawn, 88; Russellville, 79; Colum bia (Corbett), 72; Gresham, 64; Mult nomah, 58; Fairview, 48; Pleasant Val Jey, 47; Rockwood, 47. Rockwood, Evening Star, Multnomah, Gresham, Columbia, Russellville, Pleasant Valley own their own buildings. The next meeting of Pomona Grange will be held in December at the Evening Star hall. L. S. Davidson Is .Dead. La Roy S. Davidson died Tuesday at the family residence, 124 East Twenty sixth street, at the age of 61. He was father of R. L. and J. C. David son, and brother of L. M. Davidson, of Oswego, Or.; A. K. Davidson. Van couver, Wash.. and C. N. Davidson, Magers, Or. The funeral will be con ducted Friday at 3 P. M. from F. S. Dunnhig-'s chapel, 414 East Aider street, and interment will be made in Lone Fir Cemetery. The serviaes will be under the auspices of the Multno mah Camp, No. 77, Woodmen of the World. Waverlt Chcrch to Hold Rally. The Waverly Heights Congrega tional Church will observe rally day on Sunday. A house-to-house canvass of the parish is being made this week. More than 600 invitations have been distributed and a large attend ance is anticipated at all the Sunday services. The new pastor. Rev. A. C. Moses, is taking up all branches of the church work and is loyally .sup ported by his congregation. , Chemical Society to Meet. The first Fall meeting of the Oregon sec tion of the American Chemical So ciety will be held at the Hazelwood Restaurant next Saturday evening. An informal dinner will be served at 6:30 o'clock. Later Dr. Karl Taylor Compton, of Reed College, will speak on "Photographs of Molecular Struc ture the Basis of a New Method of Chemical Analysis." Russellville Grange to Meet. Rus sellville Grange is preparing to cele brate the winning of the iirst prize of J260 at the county fair, on the night of October 10. A programme will be rendered followed by a banquet This will be a special meeting for this celebration. At the meeting Sat urday night the Grange discussed the measures to be voted on in Novem ber. Fourth-Street Lights Permitted. Property owners and business men on Fourth street from Yamhill to Burn side streets were granted permission by the City Commission yesterday to install a system of street bracket lights. As soon as plans can be made work will begin. The cost and the lighting bill will be paid by the property owners. Prohibition Subject of Talk. Mary Harris Armor will speak in Port land Sunday, October 4, on State Prohibition for Oregon. In the morn ing m 11 o'clock, she will speak at the Union-Avenue Methodist Episcopal Church South. In the evening of Octo ber 4 she will speak at the Central Christian Church, East Twentieth and Salmon streets. Filling Is in Progress. The block owned by the North Bank Rail road at East Second and East Salmon streets, now covered with water, is being filled. The block on the north side of East Salmon street and east of East Second will be filled also. These and one other block are the only un filled grounds remaining in this dis trict. Harbor Bill to Be Explained. The Civij Club of the East Side Business Men's Club has arranged for a meet ing of taxpayers at the East Port land Library East Eleventh and East Alder streets tonight to consider the dock and harbor bill. F. W. Mulkey, of the dock commission, and C. S. Jack son will explain the bill. Alumni to Entertain Forester. H. S. Graves, chief forester of the United States, will be the guest of honor at an informal dinner given at the Uni versity Club next Tuesday by the Yale Alumni Association of Oregon. Mr. Graves is a graduate of the class of He was formerly head of the Yale forestry school. Man to Have Rubber Jaw. Richard Jenningj. Sr., resident of Eastern Multnomah County, will have a rubber jaw replace the natural jaw removed by amputation several years ago. The operation will be performed this week in Portland. The upper right Jaw was removed. The rubber jaw will be fitted with teeth. Reed Lbcture Is Today. In the Reed College extension course. No. 12, on natural science, the subject for this afternoon is "A Glimpse Through a Prism." Dr. Karl Taylor Compton will deliver the lecture. This course is being given in the biological lecture room at the college. Students of Dentistry and Pharmacy, Take Notice. The annual session of North Pacific College begins Thursday morning. October 1. Registration days, September 28. 29 and 30. Regular de Free students are required to enter at beginning of session. Adv. Parish Social Is Tonioht. The St, Clare parish will give a card social tonight in the new parish hall on I Capitol Hill. The entertainment will begin at 8 o'clock and a pleasant evening is assured.' All friends of the parish are invited. Calvary Presbyterian Church, Rev. O. S. Baum, Sunday. Adv. Chicken Dinner served. 15 minutes' notice. Friars Club. Adv. . ' . NOTED PRIMA. DONNA WILL MAKE HER FIRST APPEARANCE UN pujrtujjnd AT HEILIG THEATER OCTOBER 7. 'V MADAME OLIVE PREMSTAD. Fremstad's first appearance in Portland will be a musical event of great importance. The New York Sun said of this great prima donna's last appearance at the Metropolitan recently at the close of the grand opera season: "Mme. Fremstad has shown herself to be an artist of splendid in telligence, genuine dramatic instincts, vivid and creative imagination and vital, though perfectly guided, temperament She will leave be hind her a record of which any other of the world's great operatic delineators might well be proud." Fremstad's song recital will take place at the Heilig Theater under direction of Steers & Coman, Wednesday, October 7. Condemnation Suit ORcmm nnn demnation proceedings will be started Dy the city at once against a, piece of property at Broadway and Wheeler street needed in the straightening of Broadway. The City Council adopted recommendations of City Engineer Dater yesterday providing for the con demnation. The property needed has an area of 2100 square feet The owner has asked 4000 for it, while the esti mate of the City Engineer places the value at 3100. The city has been try ing for years to get the property, but every effort has met with defeat This is tne nrst time the case has been in the courts. Commission to Finish Road Work. Because the countv man fim haa been depleted, the Commissioners yes terday approved a resolution trans ferring the task of completing the Co lumbia Highway between the Sandy River and the Hood River County line to the Oregon State Highway Commis sion. That bodv Will i v. tha on sion of the expenditure of $50,000 con- li muiou wy citizens 01 Portland lor that purpose. Ten prominent Port land nennle hnvtv nlMltrAd tha that the road may be completed this V 111 IC1 . Y. M. C. A. TO HEAR Dramatist- What promises to be a most enjoy able evening has been arranged by the Young Men's Christian Associa tion for tomorrow night at 8 o'clock, when Miss Elizabeth Eugenia Wood bury opens the season with a mis cellaneous programme in dramatic in terpretation. Miss Woodbury- will render "The Gift of the Magi" (O. Henry); "The Old Nest" (Rupert Hughes), and "One New Year's Day'' iw. n. m. murray). Fainting Girl Aided, Money Gone. "Never again" was the solemn oath taken by W. S. Pollard, a manufac turing agent in the Northwest build ing, following a chivalrous a'ttempt to catch a "fainting" girl, at Twelfth and Alder streets late yesterday. Pollard rested the young woman against a telegraph pole while he went for water. She drank this and denartnd. An hour latr Pollard discovered that ne was minus 145. Men Invited to "KAffee. Klatsoh." For the benefit of the German Red cross work, a "Kaffee Klatsch" will be given this afternoon . from 2 to 5 o'clock at the Rainbow Grille, Broad way and Washington street It will be held under the auspices of the woman's auxiliary of the German Red Cross Society for Oregon. Mrs. Adam Mueller wil be hostess for the day. All are invlted,s men especially. Church to Greet "Home-Comem." Home-comers' night will be observed tonight at 7:45 o'clock in the First Congregational' Church. A brief prayer service will be followed by a social hour and a programme. The Bible school orchestra of 12 pieces will furnish music. Mrs. C H. Hennev. Mrs. Frank JJeem and Mrs. M. M. York win De among the contributors to the programme. Car Repairer Loses Suit. A verdict for the Northern Pacific Rail way Company was returned by a Jury in juage Mcuinn's court yesterday in the suit brought against it hv Gust Liedtke, who sued for $18,065 dam ages for injuries alleged to have been received through the negligence of the company. The plaintiff was employed as a car repairer at the time of the accident Forger Out on Bail. E. H. Car penter, who has been held in the County Jail for weeks awaiting sen tence on a forgery charge, to which he pleaded aruiltv recently before Judge Morrow, was successful in ar ranging ball yesterday. He deposited $500 cash and a bond for an equal amount He will bo sentenced Octo ber" 24. Saturday. Market day for women to sell and take orders for their work: Caning chairs, home cooking, useful and artistic articles. All invited to help by buying or giving order ' for some woman's work at Catholic Wo man's League. 129 4th st, 2d floor, from 9 A. M. to 6 P. M. Adv. Measures to Be Discussed. Today at noon in Moore's Restaurant 148 r-utn street the initiative measures which are to be voted on in the No vember election will be discussed. A five minutes discussion will be allowed any one who is promoting a measure. lecture Series Begin Tonight. The first of the series of lectures on current history, to be given under I ououilco ui tne . i (reirnn I lvii. League, will be delivered by Dr. C. H. inapman in ine Library Hall tonight It will begin at 8 o'clock. Women's League Meets Tonight. The Women's Equal Rights League will meet tnis evening at the Imperial Hotel. Broadway and Washington streets, at 8 o'clock. Ladies interested in personal liberty are requested to attend. Students of Pharmacy and Dblxttr-thv Take Notice. The annual session of North Pacific College begins Thursday morning, uctoDer A- registration days, September 28, 29 and 30. Regular de gree students ar required to enter at beginning of session. Adv. Oregon Poultry and Pet Stock As sociation stockholders will hold spe cial meeting, 8 P. L. Oct 6. room 448 Hotel Oregon. Order sect'y. Adv. N Ad Club Backs Mount Hood Road. Unanimous support of the Ad Club to the building of the Mount ,Hood road was pledged yesterday in the adoption of a resolution at the weekly luncheon of the club. A bill will be prepared giving the County of Mult nomah authority to build a road in Clackamas with the help of ClackanTas. under the supervision of the state. The road according to the resolution is not to be less than 24 feet with no grades more than 5 per cent A resolu tion of sympathy for Mayor Albee, whose son George died Sunday, was adopted by a rising vote. David M. Roth gave the address of the day on the subject of memory training. Crowds Attend Salem Fair. While the Portland Commercial Club is not organizing a formal excursion to Salem for the State Fair, special badges will be issued at the Commercial Club to all its members who care to apply for them. Many of the badges have been issued already and in this way the Commercial Club has had a broad rep resentation. Today being "Portland day" it is expected that many hun dreds more will secure the special badges to wear to Salem. A round trip rate pf $1.50 has been granted for today on both lines out of Port land. River Commerce Is Topic. W. D. B. Dodson, of the Chamber of Commerce, went to Eugene last night and will lecture today before the College of Commerce of the State University, on "The Commerce of the . Columbia River." This will be the second of a series of lectures which are to be given. H. B. Miller, director 'of the college, who arranged for the series, himself delivered the first last Thurs day, on "Oregon's Resources." Others dealing with various specific resources of the state will be arranged for the future. Dental Work Endangers Life. F. M. Ogden. of Jennings Lodge, lies at Good Samaritan Hospital in a serious condition as a result of a dental op eration performed two weeks ago at Oregon City. Ogden said yesterday that he visited a dental office in Ore gon City and had a tooth pulled. Im mediately afterward his mouth began to bleed. Upon the advice of the dentist that the bleeding would stop soon. Ogden went to his home, where he became unconscious as a result of having lost considerable blood. Market Proposedkor Needy Women. A market day set for needy women to sell fancy work and dainty cookery has been proposed by Miss N. C. Bruce secretary of the Catholic Women's League. It probably will be held in the rooms of the Catholic Women's League at 9 o'clock next Saturday morning. The object of the market is to afford a means of livelihood for women who are unable to get work or who are unfitted for other kinds of employment Ventilating, Change Bids to Be Asked. Bids will be asked at once by the County Commissioners for changes in the ventilating system of the engine rooms at the Courthouse. An order was made at yesterday morning's meeting authorizing the advertisement for tenders. Permission of the city to pierce the sidewalk in front of the Courthouse on Fifth street, is ex pected. Ralph W. Hoyt on Way Home. Ralph W. Hoyt is expected in Port land about October 10, according to word received in Portland yesterday. He had finally secured accommoda tions on a steamer leaving England last Tuesday. He is expected to come direct to Portland as soon as he reaches New ' York. Engineers Resume Luncheons. The weekly lunches of the Qregon Society of Engineers are to be resumed. The first will be held next Monday. In the Crystal room at the Benson Hotel, when W. D. Wheelwright will relate his experiences in the European war cone. Community House Desired. To con sider plans for a community house a mass meeting will be held in Sunny side school on Friday night The com mittee arranging the movement will meet today at 4 o'clock in the Young Women's Christian Association. Judge Summoned as Juror. Muni cipal Judge Stevenson was summoned as a juror for the October term of the Circuit Court yesterday. He an nounced that he would take advantage of the statute which exempts judges from serving on juries. PARENT-TEACWW! frpT.v Or. Tl. Portland - Parent-Teacher Association will meet today in the Library. The presidents will assemble at 1:30 and the general meeting will be at 2:30 P. M. Sailor Ends Life. Olaf Olson, a sailer, committed suicide some time Tuesday night by inhaling gas in his room at 381 Davis street , Attention, Friars! The regular $2 chicken dinner haa been reduced to $1 Fishing is fine near the club. Come early and get your basket full. Adv. Chicken Dinner served. 15 minutes' notice. Friars Club. Adv. Dr. Hubert F. Leonard has returned Adv. t Prohibition Debate Draws Many. ROSEBURG, Or., Sept. 30. (Special.) Enlist! Men! , Enlist in my regi ment of money-savers. We are strongly entrenched be hind the bulwarks of high value and low price. "This and our emblem of "Truth in Advertising" routs the fakers and insures further recruits for the grand charge on the high cost of living. The New Cravenetted Balmacaans are still at the front priced at . $12.25 and $14.75. Neat and natty, classy and - clever are the Men's Suits I sell at $14.75 and $18.75. They stand at atten tion for inspection. Jimmy Dunn 315-16-17 Oregonian Bldg. Elevator to 3d Floor Colonel E. Hofer, of Salem, and Dr. Clarence True Wilson, formerly of Portland, debated the prohibition amendment before a crowd that taxed the capacity of the Antlers Theater here tonight Each faction was well represented and the opposing speakers were wen appiaused. Talk For and Against Dog Weighed "by Jury. Entire Neighborhood Tnrna Out lm Suit of Man Who Asks S3232 for Shepherd's Allcsjed Bite. A SHEPHERD dog was on trial in Judge McGinn's department of the Circuit Court yesterday. The jury heard efforts to blacken the dog's rep utation by apparently credible wit nesses and others, equally worthy of oeiiei. gave the dog a good character. The case was that of Herman J. Kas per against Mr. and Mrs. William Gruhlke. Kasper Is suing for $5252 damages because of Injuries to his hand, Aliened to have resulted from the bite of the Gruhlkes' shepherd dog. whose good name was at stake. The value of a dog bite will be fixed by the jury and the verdict is expected to De returned this morning. Many witnesses testified yesterday, almost the whole neighborhood being in court. One neighbor said the dog barked. howled and jumped at the end of its chain all day long and that his wife was made so nervous by the dog's ac tions that she had to go to California. This witness, who was put on by the prosecution, had such a memory for ootau and was so Interminable in his testimony that counsel for the plaintiff tried to stop him, but the effort was vain. "Let htm run down," said the oppos ing attorney. A woman witness, equally verbose. ended her version of the misdeeds of the dog with the words "That's all I have to say." "That's enough." said an attornev. It was alleged by the plaintiff that while walking out with his dog last June, nis pet being properly muzzled the muzzle was introduced in evidence the dog was set upon and bitten by the snepnera, tne property of the defend ants. While trying to separate the two. it is alleged, the plaintiff was bit ten on the hand by the shepherd and a sun joint is said to have resulted. A Government Case Testimony In. ROSEBURG, Or., Sept 30. (Special.) The taking of testimony in the case of the. Government against the South ern Oregon Company was concluded here late yesterday before Miss Vivian Flexner. referee, of Portland. Many witnesses were introduced and exam ined during the progress of the hear ing, several of whom came from Coos and Curry Counties. SCHOOLS AND COLLEGES. Under Auspices Episcopal Diocese of Oregon FALL TERM NOW OPEN Grammar School and Collect Prepara tory oourses. Scbool sstate comprises 10O sores of fertile land, complete gym nasium. Indoor and outdoor athletics. Library, study hall, competent instruc tion In all branches. Send for rates and booklet: "When Boya ir Trained to Think." Address: - Bishop Scott School Yamhill, Oregon Xiooi of the Portland Art Association u. evening and Saturday class es; Drawl ng Painting. Com. position. Design year begins Oct 5 th. 114. Museum of Art and Crafts. 6tn 5th and Taylor mm T tory. I m unusual hei A SCHOOL ron BOYS Location of yi nln miles from Tacomtv d Wash. Individual Instruction in small classes. Gymnasium. Large athletic field. Separate reeldenca for younger boya r ui csHniggue sKiaraas we Headmaster, R, F. D. 1, Soutii T a coma, Waoix. All Hail ! To the ASSISTANT in business, pleasure and the home. The business man in his office, the house wife in her home and the great army of humanity finds that in business, emergency or pleasure the Pacific Telephone lends it self to increased efficiency. Economical, adaptable and consistent, the Pacific service forms the logical assistant in practically every business and the majority of homes in Portland. 42 J 03 Telephones Today Number Increasing Daily The Pacific Telephone and Telegraph Co. Telephone Building, Oak and Park Streets Sales Department Main 8800 life 11IIIP? jp pSs"l VfS We Oiv S. a H. Tradim Stamp. : srWfr'Jl --- fass&aj MAKE YOUR FEET GLAD Don't get "down in the mouth" about your shoes. Just remember that we're selling footwear every day to people who have the smile of shoe happiness on their feet constantly. And we know that one pair of-our shoes will make a steady customer out of you. Let TJs Prove It. Rosenthal's 129 10th, bet. "Washington and Alder. PORTLAND PROFITS GO EAST LOCAL STREETCAR SYSTEM CON TROLLED BY EASTERN FINANCIERS. Congressman Lafferty Remedy. Suggests . K s t J 1 , .-i'"- .r 1 i - J i . I j -: A Sinn in j. fr-m-T it. nn-ssrm' -i A. W. 1AFFEHTY. Portland Railway. Lljrht & Power Company, 1913, took in $6,723,742; to tal expenses and taxes were 33,298,310; net profits (over 50 per cent) sent East to bondholders and shareholders, $3,435,432. Portland is annually creating- 3H millionaires in Philadelphia and New York through , streetcar profits alone. Remedy: Municipal own ership, which will be aided by the pas sage this Winter by Congress of a hill for city ownership of the street railways in 'Washington. D. C A. 4V. lafferty is the first man who ever In troduced a bill for city ownership of street railways in Washington, D. C. If you favor this principle, you will ba voting to throw a wet blanket on your own desires if you vote against Lafferty. (Paid advertisement, by R. L. Mer rick, Lafferty's campaign manager. 733-736 Plttock block.) Olive Fremstad says of the ' Steinway Piano J OLIVE FREMSTAD, the premier soprano of the Metropolitan Opera House, will sing: at Heilig Theater Wednesday, October 7. Mme. Fremstad says (she refers to the Steinway Book containing; many expres sions of appreciation of the Steinway Piano) : "I should like very much to express my opinion of the Steimvay Piano, but this is difficult. If you take ail that is said in your little book of 'Musical Celebrities' and add a little more, you will have the opinion I would like to express." J The Steinway is universally acknowledged as the STANDARD by which all Pianos are judged. The Steinway Piano Will Be Used at All the Fremstad Recitals. MME. FREMSTAD RECITAL Wednesday Evening, October 7, at Heilig Theater Tickets $2.50, $2.00, $1.50, $1.00 and 75c Seat Sale Monday, October 5 Sherman, play & Go. VICTOR TALKING MACHINES. pi ivm STEINWAY. WEBER AND OTHER PIANOS.' Morrison at Sixth, Portland, Opp. Postoffice Motel Cserltoo Fourteenth and Washington Streets Rooms, with bath. .$1.50 day Rooms, without bath. $1 day AJ1 outside rooms, fireproof construction. Special rates for permanent guesto. ROSS FINNEGAN. Mgr. VICTOR BRANDT, Prop. WANTED CHAIRS TO RECANE. School for the Adult Blind, -11th and Davis. For particulars call J. F. Meyer Phone Main 548. IT'S GREAT' FOR BALKY BOWELS AND STOMACHS. w want all people who have chronic stomach trouble or constipation, no matter of how long standing, to try one doae of Mayr'a Wonderful Stomach Remedy one dose will convince you. This is the medicine so many of our local people have been taking with sur prising results. The most thorough system cleanser we ever sold. Mayr's Wonderful Stomach Remedy is now sold here by all druggists. Adv. FOOK SANG & CO. 246 Pine Street, Portland. Or. Phone A 3770 CHINESE PIKE JADE JIWFXKV, Gold bracelets, aisnet rlnss. belt huMfl..B In any design, made to order, with names or ffooa iuck imness characters ensravec thtreon. Prices reasonable. Orders nroinnt. ly executed and sent preosld anywhere in S. W. are skilled Chinese jewelers. VU CHONG. SIAN'AUKB. I y I jSfjac-poor sFtftta Street, Opposite C. S. Mint. One-naif Block Iran Market OU Mrictly sburvpeaa fLmn. Slng-le Uoomt ............. to tt Rooms with Bat to :t Doable kuaia .91 to t$ Koom wltb trail bed l f 3 sUooin wtta Wall bed ft Batn.Sl to J Virat-claaa dining-room wlta asionleninsly low prices. A Hotel Ixftokins for bb nouwD't f trsa-- pnpTI Book tM!1nK now easy it is to sHsKshl cur LIQUOR. DRUG and TO 1 ilLilj BACCO habita. Sent ternled Mnd unmarked. Bleution which jrou are tatereated tn. WHITE CROSS IN STITUTE. 714 Uavu Jforuand, o