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THE MORNING OREGOXIAJT. SATURDAY, OCTOBER 3, 1914. 9 CITY NEWS IN BRIEF OREGONIA3T TELEPHONES. Managing Editor ........ .Main 7070. A 609o City Editor . .Main 7070, A BOBS Sunday Editor Main 7070. A 0010 Advertising Department. ... Main 7U70, A 6O03 City Circulation Main 7070, A 6095 Composing-room ..........Main 7070. A 6095 Prin tins-room .Main 7070. A 6005 Superintendent Building Main 7U70. A 8093 AMCSEMESTS. HEILIG THEATER (Broadway, at Taylor) The comedy, ''Kitty MacKay." This aft ernoon at 2:30 and tonight at 8:15. BAKER Baker Players In "The Family Cupboard. This afternoon at 2:15 and tonight at 8:15 o'clock. I.TRIO (Fourth and Stark) Musical com edy. "Dr. Dippy's Sanitarium." This af ternoon at 2:30 and tonight at 7:30 ani 9:10. Baseball. RECREATION PARK Portland vs. Los An- geies. double-header, o'clock. YandevUle. PANT AGES (Broadway and Alder) Per formances at 2:30, 7:80 and 9:30 P. M. MARCUS LOEW EMPRESS (Broadway and Yamhill) Contlnous from 1:30 to 11. Moving-Picture Theaters. PEOPLE'S West Park and Alder. MAJESTIC Park and Washington. COLUMBIA Sixth, near Washington. GLOBE Eleventh and Washington. IvEW STAR Park and Washington. 6UKSET Washington, near Broadway. - Advertisements intended for the City News In Brief columns in Sunday's issue must be handed in The Oregonian business office by o'clock Saturday evening. Malwjickie Has Improved Kibe Pro tection. A new fire building has Just been completed in East Milwaukie, and yesterday a hose cart and chemical fire engine, costing: $600, were placed In the new building. The new building Is 30x36 feet, of the bungalow type. A room 20x24 has been provided in which to hold elections and public meetings. The Milwaukie Commercial Club probably will occupy this room. The building is on a lot leased from the Southern Pacific railroad and the cost was met out of a fund, raised by special tax. Daniel Mazzia is fore man of the hose company and L. O. "Warren, foreman of the chemical com pany. Many additional fire hydrants have been installed in East Milwaukie. Ann Swinburne Back Fbom Europe). A telegram was received yesterday by John Ditchburn from his daughter Ann Ditchburn known In stageland as Ann Swinburne, to the effect that after much trouble and a rough trip she has arrived in New York from Europe, where she' was caught in the panics following the outbreak of the war. She was- held up for a long time in Germany, Austria and Italy because of inability to get passage on trains or boats. She finally got a boat out of Genoa and arrived in New York yesterday morning. Because of the delays the opera in which she Is to sing during the coming season will not be staged until January 1. Short Stort Clabs to Organize. The class in short story writing con ducted by Mrs. Mabel Holmes Par sons, associate professor of English In the University of Oregon, will be organized this evening at 8 o'clock In room B of the Public Library. The class will meet on alte'rnate Saturdays during the Winter. The class will begin with Btory writing of the simple forms and develop the more advanced forma ' as the work proceeds. All In terested are invited. Cocntt Gits $293.51. Multnomah County continues to show a profit in the operation of County Clerk Coffey's office in respect to transactions for September in Which, under the old fee system, cash received would be paid to the officials instead of the county as at present. Declarations of intention brought in $40 and petitions for citizenship $56. Interest on daily balances during the month amounted to $197.51, making a total of $293.51. Cyclist's Claim Mat be Denied. City Commissioner Dieck will recom mend to the Council the rejection of a claim of $250 made by O. W. Buck man for injuries received in a col lision with a city automobile truck August 7. Mr. Buckman was riding a motorcycle and ran into the city truck driven by F. T. Dietz. Mr. Dietz claims Buckman was running at a high rate of speed and the accident was entirely his own fault. Babt Show Committee to Meet. The general committee of the Women of Woodcraft having charge of the old fashioned baby show for the Manufac turers' and Land Products Show will meet in the auditorium of the Women of Woodcraft building. Tenth and Taylor, this afternoon at 2 o'clock. Plans for receiving entries to the show will be taken up. Mrs. Catherine Stites is chairman. EiBL Arnold Resigns. Earl Arnold, assistant to tho solicitor of the United States Department of Agriculture, who has been assigned to the Government forest service in the Portland field for the past two years, has resigned to ac cept a position as professor of law in the University of Idaho at Moscow. He left Portland Tuesday to assume his new duties. Reception Tendered Rev. W. Boyd Moore. A reception was tendered Rev. W. Boyd Moore at the Lents Church Thursday night. Seventh avenue and Jordan street, which was well at tended. Rev. Mr. Moore was returned to that charge by the Methodist con ference held at Centenary Church, for his seventh year. Refreshments were served. Miss Brookman's Fittjerai, Held. The funeral of Miss Olga Brookman, who died at St. Vincent's Hospital September 29. was held yesterday at tho Lents Evangelical Church. Rev. T. R. Hornschueh officiated. Inter ment was made in Mount Scott Ceme tery. Miss Brookman is survived by two brothers, O. B. and G. B. Brook man, of Mount Scott. , Policb Band to Aid in Services. The Portland Police Band will play in the Baker Theater ' at 12:15 P. M. Sunday at the Peace day exercises. A request for the services of the band was received from the Portland Ad Club, the Rotary Club, the Progres sive Business Men's Club and the Realty Board. M. H. St. John to Lectitre. "World Peace or Armageddon. Which?" will be the subject of a lecture this after noon at 3:30 at the Women of Woodcraft Hall. Tenth and Taylor streets, by evaneelist M. H. St, John. Mr. St. John will endeavor to show what the Bible really says concerning the millenium and Armageddon. Twig Bears Six Pears. A tiny twig on a pear tree in the yard of County Treasurer Lewis at 604 East Ankeny street bore six perfectly formed pears this season. The tree was planted 25 years ago. and is of the Pall Butter variety. It has never borne more heavily than the present season. Church Class to Hear Talk. At the opening meeting of the current events class of the First Presbyterian Church, Sunday at 12 o'clock, noon. J. B. Kerr will speak on the moral values of certain measures to be voted on at the general election in November. The meeting will be held in the main auditorium of the church. First Presbtterian Church, corner Twelfth and Alder streets. The pastor. Rev. John H. Boyd, D. D.. will preach at 10:30 A M. on "Peace on God's Terms"; at 7:45 P. M., on "Sugges tions for a Moral Equivalent of War." Morning offering will be for the Red Cross Society of America. Adv. ForRTH "Tri-th" Lecture to Be Held. Tomorrow evening at 7:45 o'clock in Central Library Hall Florence Craw ford will deliver the fourth lecture in the series of "Lessons in Truth." C E. Patterson will sing. These are open to the public. Doctor's office, living rooms. Main 136. Adv. Feast op Holt Rosart Sttndat. The feast of the' patronal saint, St, Dominic, will be celebrated Sunday at the Dominican Church.- East Third street and Grand avenue, with solemn ceremony. The Dominican Fathers of Portland will take part. There will be solemn high mass at 11 A. M., cele brated by Rev. J. D. O'Brien, O. P., with Rev. J. S. Rice, O. P., as deacon and Rev. A. Lamarre as subdeacon. The sermon will be preached by Rev. A S. Lawler, O. P. Following the mass, roses will be blessed and distributed, after which the congregation will join in the rosary procession, which will be extended to the outside if the weather will permit. In the evening Rev. A. Lamarre will preach. Observance of the Holy Rosa dates from 1571, and will be held in all Dominican churches in the United States. Southern Pacific Starts Dock. The preliminary work has been started on the dock for the Southern Pacific Railroad north of the Burnside bridge approach on the East Side. All the shipping and boats that had been moored on the East Side waterfront between Burnside bridge and East Glisan street have been moved else where to make room for the new dock. A sidetrack has been constructed on the west side of East First street from East Burnside bridge out on the water front, where the dock will be con structed to facilitate handling of build ing material. A considerable All has been made between East First and East Second street northward from East Burnside, over which an entrance to the new dock will be built. Active pueoriving will start in a few days. District - Assessments Are Made. Improvement of Simpson district has been completed and the assessment maie amounting to $7790. It includes portions of Simpson, East Thirty-fifth, East Thirty-sixth and Jessup streets north of Killingsworth avenue. The Thompson street district, which in cludes portions of Thomason, East Sacramento, East Fifty-fifth, East Fifty-seventh and East Fifty-eighth streets, has been improved at a cost of $12,688. Assessment for the East Burn. siae, tast orty-nrst and East Ankeny street district has been completed and the assessment is $20,229. East Harri son street has been paved through the Ladd Addition at a cost of $5086. Democrats to Be Given Luncheon. Arrangements have been completed for a luncheon Monday at Hotel Ed wards, Grand avenue, at 12:15, under the auspices of the I'.ast Side Business Men's Club, for the entertainment of Democratic candidates. Several Re publican candidates have been given opportunity to speak at the club luncheon and Monday will be for the Democratic candidates. G. E. Welter will preside. Dr. C. J. Smith, Demo cratic candidate for Governor; A F. Flegel, candidate for Congress; T. M. Word, for Sheriff, and Dr. A K. Higgj, for Representative, will speak. Gresham High (school. Organizes. This week the Gresham high school student body elected Frank Rogers, president; Miss Laura Shipley, vice president and M"iss Katherine Honey, secretary. A mixed chorus was or ganized with 63 members under the direction of Mrs. L. E. Coovert- About 60 have entered the domestic science course established this week and more are expected. . The high school foot ball schedule has been fixed as fol lows: Came with Franklin High School, October 10, at Gresham: Hills boro, October 17, at Gresham; with Estacada high school, October 24, at Gresham. Five-Cent Fare Sought. Deputy District Attorney George Mowry has prepared two mandamus suits against the Portland Railway TJo-Y, f. I .. Company to compel the enforcement of a. o-cem iara Detween Watson, a sta tion on the Estacada line, and the First Anri AlHo. . railway. They will soon be filed at the request of the State Railroad Com mission. It is believed the suits will be fought by the railway company on the ground that the line on which lower fares are asked provides in terurban service and conditions are not the same as on the various lines within the city. Rev. M. P. Smith Goes to Nbvw York. Rev. M. P. Smith, C. S. P., Pauiist in charge of St. Philip Neri, in Ladd's Addition, recently was elected first consultor in the Pauiist Community, which necessitated his going to New York, the mother house of the com munity. In his place -Rev. William J. Cartwright, C. S. P., has been appointed to the pastorate of St- Philip's parish. He has entered on his work and de livered his first address last Sunday. A parochial school is maintained at St. Philip's Church. Feast op "Succoth" to Be Observed. The feast of "Succoth" or the scrip tural "Harvest Festival" will be ob served at the Sixth-Street Synagogue beginning with the evening service on Sunday night at 7:30 o'clock at which time "peace services" will be held. Dr. George Rubenstein will deliver an ad dress appropriate to the occasion. Services on Monday and Tuesday morn ings will begin at 9 o'clock. Evening services are held at 7:30 P. M. All men and women are welcome. Adventists Hold Peace Services To dat. Today is "Peace day" for the Seventh-Day Adventists throughout the country and special services will be held in all the churches. A general call has been issued by the general conference committee at Washington, D. C. in accordance with President Wilson's suggestion that the first Sabbath in October be devoted to this cause. Sportino Licenses Net $3565. County Clerk Coffey yesterday mailed to the State Game Warden receipts from the sale of hunting and fishing licenses for the month of September to the amount of $3565. The County Clerk's office took In $1800 and local sporting goods stores that have authority to sell licenses added the balance. "Peace Sundat" In the First Con gregational Church, Park and Madi son streets. Dr. Luther R. Dyott, the minister, preaches. Themes: At 11, "The Power and Province of Prayer": 7:45, "The Peace Needed by All the World." Special music. Welcome. Adv. Candidates at Luncheon Todat. Congressional candidates will speak at the regular noon luncheon of the Ore gon Civic League today at the blue room, Multnomah Hotel. R. L. Sabin will be chairman. Representatives from all of the parties will be present. Man Faints When Sentenced. Fined $20 for assaulting Mrs. James Garley, M. J. Butzer yesterday morning fainted in court, and it required the attention of County Physician Geary to bring him to consciousness. He told the court he had asked the woman to pay her room rent. Rationalist to Lecture Tomorrow. "The Need of Rationalism in Modern Life" will be the subject to be dis cussed by H. C. Uthoff at the meet ing of the Portland Rationalist Sooiety tomorrow evening at 8 o'clock, room A, the Public Library. Ministers Meet Mondat. The Minv Isterlal Federation of the city will have their regular meetng at the Young Men's Christian Association Monday. Mayor Albee will give an address on some theme of civic importance. Prohibition Meeting Is Tonight. A public meeting will be held tonight In the Sellwood Y. M. C. A of those In terested in the state-wide prohibition campaign. Special today at Mace's Market, Broadway and Couch streets: Spring turkeys, chickens, fowl, geese, ducks; fruits, vegetables and mushrooms. Free delivery. Adv. Church Offering to Aid Red Cross. The offering received at tomorrow morning's service In the First Presby terian Church will be devoted to the Red Cross Society of America. Dm. Hubert F. Ltonaild has returned. Adv. j Rainfall Now in Excess. The man who asks if "anyone ever saw the weather bureau report anything but a shortage of rainfall," is put to scorn by the record of the month of Sep tember. The normal rainfall should be 1.84 inches, but the total reported this year is 3.10 inches, or an excess of 1.2 inches. At that there were only la days on which rain fell in the state, but when it did rain it usually did a good job of it. There were no frosts reported in September. Rosarians to Consider Trips to Fair. Proposed excursions to California will be discussed by the Royal Rosarians Monday, and G. M. Hyland. director of the Oregon exhibits at the Panama-Pacific Exposition in San Fran cisco, will bring the subject to the at tention of the meeting. The meeting will be held at the Royal Rosarian room in the Commercial Club, at noon. Crrr Employes Send Gift. A beauti ful solid silver set was sent last night to the home of Mrs. Ert Smith as a wedding present from employes at the City Hall. Mrs. Smith formerly was Miss Marcia Burton, assistant secre tary to the Municipal Civil Service Board. She resigned . from the service last month and was married. . Calvart Presbyterian Church. Rev. Oliver S. Baum tomorrow, 10:30 A. M., communion 7:30 P. M. "Some of Christ's Moving Pictures.'" Adv. Dr. Otto S. Binswanger moved his offices to Stevens bldg. Adv. STUDENTS FACE PROBE CHARGES IWOLVI.NG BALL PLAY ERS BAY TAKE 1ST PVP1LS. Bail of 920OO for Frank Arellanos, Mis sions' Pitcher, Deposited Here and He la Released Just where Investigation of charges Involving schoolgirls made against Elmer Lober and Robert Davis, Port land ball club players; Frank Arel lanes, pitcher for the Missions team; Bert Roach, actor, and Joseph Berger, a merchant, will end puzzles the au thorities. Each day's findings threaten to implicate more persons, the latest evidence involving students of Port land's high schools. It is said. The October grand jury will be called upon to probe alleged actions of stu dents in one or more of the high schools in investigating the charges against the ball players, believe de tectives, who have several young men well known in the schools under sus picion. Detective Thomas Swennes, whose investigations led to the expo sure, said yesterday afternoon that the detention of two more high school girls was likely. Of the five girls be ing held two are said to have made statements Involving men. Upon application of George 8. Shep herd, attorney for the Portland ball club, the preliminary hearing of Frank Arellanes. pitcher for the Mission team, was set for October 31 and bail placed at $2000 yesterday morning, and in the afternoon bonds guaranteeing that amount were put up, securing the release of Arellanes from the Los An geles jail. Judge Stevenson set the date for the hearing so as to permit Arellanes to fill out his season with the Mission team. Arellanes denies any connection with the charges, as serting that someone must have used his name As Arellanes was arrested on a fugitive warrant bail was not considered in Los Angeles and he was forced to remain in a cell from the time of his arrest yesterday until this afternoon. Ralph Stroud, of the Missions, and "Biff" Schaller, of the Seals, detectives suspect, could throw some light on the GILBERT & SULLIVAN TENOR COMES TO HEILIG Of. TO HER 11. Arthur Aldrldge, With Dt Wolf Hopper. Following the marked success of the double bill, "Trial by Jury" and "Pinafore" at Los Angeles this week, where De Wolf Hopper and the Gilbert & Sullivan Opera Company are appearing, a change was made yesterday in the repertoire to be played in Portland when the singers open their week's en gagement at the Heilig Octo ber 11. The change means that "The Pirates of Penzance" will- be played only on Thursday night with "Iolantha" Tuesday and Friday nights ass previously ar ranged. "Trial by Jury" is the light opera which has been revived after a rest of 30 years. De Wolf Hopper and the Gil bert & Sullivan Company open Sunday night in "The Mikado." The same opera will be repeated Saturday matinee and night, the remainder of the repertoire be ing as rearranged by Manager Pangle, of the Heilig, yester day. affair, but it Is said there Is little evi dence against them and they may not be called on to face charges. 10,000 BOOKLETS READY Ad Club to Distribute Copies of . L. Miller' 'Prosperity Speech." Ten thousand copies of A. iL. Mills' "prosperity speech," which was de livered before the retail merchants of Oregon during the recent Buyers' week. have been secured by the Portland Ad Club, and will be distributed widely. The speech was deemed so timely a review of the financial and commercial situation by the United States Senate, that It was ordered printed as a public dooument, and the Ad Club secured the copies from the Oregon Senator. Copies will be sent to the Commer cial Club, Chamber of Commerce and other organizations In large quantities by the Ad Club and they will assist In the distribution of the speech among the citizens of Portland. Copies may be secured by. application to tho Ad Club or to any of the clubB to which it has sent copies. Clerks in Mexican stores smoke while on.-d.utx. , f l AJ I Vs. ALBERT IS ACCUSED Self-Confessed Agent of 'Arson Trust' Continues Story. WITNESS PLEADS GUILTY Acting on Ad-vice, Former Russian Convict Puts Himself on Mercy of Court by Revealing Meth ods of "Firebugs." Philip Davis, self-confessed agent of the local "arson trust," testified on the witness stand yesterday during the trial of Max Albert, another alleged firebug, that he had lighted four fires in this city in 1912, besides collaborat ing with Albert to bring about the fire that forms the basis of the present prosecution. These incendiary blazes were set in the store of A. Wolfman, 227 Burn side street, in February; the store of A Zalk. 206 First street. In June; store of Philip Davis, 25 North Second street, in July, and tne cleaning establish ment of B. Miller, Twenty-first and Northrup streets. In November, 1912. Substantial sums were paid by the In surance companies on all these losses. The witness entered a plea of guilty yesterday morning to the charge of arson now pending against him and said he hoped by telling the truth to receive the mercy of the court. He had been told by the District Attorney, he said, clemency would be sought for him if he told the truth. This led him to make a confession to the authori ties some time ago. Methods of "Trait" Told. He told some of the methods of the alleged trust during his testimony, which occupied most of the day. He said the regular rate for starting a successful fire was 10 per cent of the Insurance premiums paid. He testified he received 50 per cent of the $400 paid for the burning of the Sax store, for which Albert is now on trial, because he got Albert the chance to make $200 and acted as agent between Sax and Albert. Davis said he earned $100 by taking a quantity of goods from the store of A Wolfman to his own store prior .to a fire Wolfman was arranging, but that he was never paid. On that account, he said, he testified In a case against Wolfman, although he told him he would not appear in court if he would pay him the $100 due. Davis, it was developed on cross-examination when attorneys for the de fense sought to discredit the testimony of the witness, was born at Trovon lka, Russia, and served a year in a Russian prison at Vilma for horse stealing. He - also was arrested after ho came to New York on suspicion of having knowledge of an arson case. He. says he unwittingly acted as the holder of money to be paid after a store was burned. Although he neither can read nor write, Davis showed considerable shrewdness on the stand. He asked eagerly to be allowed to ask Attorney Dan Malarkey, who was putting him through a grilling cross-examination, one question, but this was not allowed. Half of "Profits" Offered. In language. reminiscent of the Potash & Perlmutter stories, Philip Davis told on the witness-stand yes terday the part he played as agent for the alleged "arson trust." -Following his plea of guilty, he became at once the star witness for the prosecution. He told of his talk with Max Albert when he offered Albert half ,of the $400 to be earned by starting a successful Are in the store of L. Sax & Son. "He told me," said the witness, "that he was willing to show somebody how to make the fire, but he did not want to do it himself. I told this to old man Sax and he said if Albert would show him how to do this, his son would light the match. ' "After this. Sax gave his note to Albert for $400 and said that after the insurance company paid the loss, the money would be paid. Albert told me later he brought In two gallons of gasoline at a time in a telescope grip until he had ten gallons there. "It was settled that on Monday, Au gust 5, should be .he Are. I would not be here. 1 s away to Astoria because I am a lit .suspicious. I am afraid I don't wai to be here, so I go away. When . come back on Wednesday the Saxes are arrested. I see Albert and ask him what is the matter and he say the Saxes are in big trouble. I say to him, 'What is the matter? -Maybe you have not done right.' " "Mixture Is Too Rich." Davis told of the method of light ing tho fire, how the gasoline was poured upon clothing in the store and a candle fixed so that it would burn for several hours and Ignite the oil at an early morning hour long after the candle was lighted. Because of the quantity of gasoline vapor in the place, however. It seemed an explosion oc curred and the lire was earlier than had been planned. In automobile parlance, the mixture was too rich. An amusing Incident occurred, testi fied Davis, In connection with setting this Are. Young Sax, he said, was stationed outside the door of the store on guard while Albert spread the gaso line and lighted the candle. Albert was to knock on the door three times when he was ready to be let out. Sax, it was said, got to talking with a stranger who happened along at this inopportune time and was compelled to walk some distance away with him. Albert, within, was said to have been almost smothered by the gasoline fumes before his knocks were answered and he was let out. Davis testified that after the in surance was collected, he received his half of the $400 in checks, four of $25 each and two of $50, from the elder Sax. He said he took Albert's $200 from Sax and delivered It to the defendant somewhat later. Ho said Albert was in need of money at that time for bail, as he had been arrested for setting fire to his furniture at his residence in Alberta. CLARK MOTIONS DENIED Effort to Reopen Divorce Suit Xot Granted by Judge Cleeton.- Wholesale denials of motions were made yesterday by Judge Cleeton, when suits growing out of the troubled do mestic relations of A. E. Clark and Marcella Clark were brought before him. Attorneys for the persons inter ested had effected an agreement out side of court so that this action was desired. A formal denial was entered to the motion of Mrs. Clark that the divorce suit whereby her former husband ob tained a decree be reopened, and this was also the disposition of the damage suit brought by Mrs. Clark against Malcolm H. Clark for alleged aliena tion of the affections of A E. Clark. The suit filed by Mrs. Clark against A. E. Clark, Sheriff Word, District At torney Evans and Deputy District At torney Ryan asking damages for al leged ill usage prior to the divorce suit hearing was also dismissed. Tho motion-of A. E, Clark, supported j by affidavits, asking that the divorce decree be amended because of the al leged violation of the contract signed by Mrs. Clark and that the alimony of $150 a month and house rent be re duced, was also denied. FREMSTAD'S ISOLDE HEARD Easterners Captivated by Genius of Singer Here Wednesday. New York critics have gone wild with enthusiasm over Mrae. Fremstad'a ''Isolde." and it is indeed a matter of congratulation to Portland music lovers that the beautiful Impassioned "love music" from "Tristan and Isolde" is to find a place on Fremstad's pro gramme next Wednesday night at the Heilig. when sne sings here for the first time under the direction of Steers & Coman. The Brooklyn Eagle says of her: "The repressed passion of Toscaninl's orchestra was caught up by Olive Fremstad on the stage and blown into living flame. It is hardly an extrava gance to say that Mme. Fremstad's Isolde Is now touched with the divine fire and the divine beauty. It glows with the white light of inspiration as steadily and as luminously as it is not often given to the work of mortal man to do. But back of .the inspiration is a severity of labor at which tho un initiated would stand aghast. "She Is free and impassioned In tho utterances of Isolde because this ter ribly difficult music no longer fright ens her. Her voice and her method are equal to it and she can hurl herself into it with no fear that there is com ing a pinched and squeaky tone at the top of a trying phrase. Being abso lute mistress of herself and her vocal instrument, she is free to let herself go, and she moves her audience pro foundly.." WAR DISPUTE DISASTROUS John Xikolai in Hispital and Joseph Mlstich In Jail. As the result of a fight growing out of a heated discussion of the war John Nikolai, proprietor of a Greek coffee-house, is lying at the Good Sa maritan Hospital dangerously wounded and Joseph Mistich, an Austrian, aged 19, is held in the, Ci :y Jail on a charrre of assault with a deadly weapon. The dispute occurred early yesterday morn ing. Though numerous petty quarrels have occurred in Portland as the result of war discussions, this is said to be the first where consequences threaten to become serious. CAMPAIGN CARDS MAY GO Mayor Preparing- Ordinance Against Signs on Trees and Posts. Campaign cards and signs that decor ate trees, posts, fences and every other available place along streets during pre-election campaigns may be placed under the ban. Mayor Albee yesterday announced that he would take steps to have an ordinance against the posting of these signs enforced strictly. The announcement came as a result of complaints that the signs are being nailed to shade trees and private build ings, and are a nuisance as well as un sightly. Two Held on White Slave Charge. Howard and Lloyd Detwiler, of Bel lingham. Wash., are held in the City Jail for the Government authorities on charges of violating the "white slave" law, and Belle Munn and Belle Van Demark are held as witnesses. They were arrested In a rooming-house at 120 Grand avenue Thursday night by Police Sergeant Van Overn and Patrolman Ferry. The four drove into Portland In an automobile bearing a Washington license. Portland Business Men Starting to Be Put in Proper Physical Condition. The Y. M. O. A. "Gym" Takes Men of AH Kinds and Kit. Them to Do Effective vtorK Also It's; Enjoyable. Join This Week. Portland Btmlneii Mei After Be-nff 1 the Y. M. C. A Classes. Fifth Street. OddosIis V. 8. Mint. One-half Block From Market at. (Strictly Uurvpesus l'iao. Single Rooms .75o to ? Rooms with Bath . .l to fs Double Boom II ( S Koom with wail bed SI to S3 Boo in wUb Wail Bed ss Bath. SI to S3 First-class dlninc-room with asloniBhlnicly low prices. A Motel Looking- for Women's Patronage, nr 3i The Dealer's Counter The battle ground of commerce on which production must win sue cess or defeat Is the dealer's counter. , There must be public demand and there must be desire to meet that demand on the part of the dealer if complete success is to come. A weapon is always ready for the wise manufacturer to turn tho tide of success. It is newspaper advertising. Con sumers read newspapers and so do dealers. The latter know from experience that demand at their counter fol lows advertising in the newspapers. They are only too glad to supply the needed, push. i 'w A Absolutely - eSSTT II la&etttaig For Our Regular Saturday Special We Offer Choice Milk-Fed Veal Legs, Loins and Racks at . . . Shoulders and Breasts at . . . . trp, MM P1914 LhfCi Legs, Loins and Backs at Shoulders at Breasts at On all meats advertised on sale at our Special Bargain Meat Counter No phone orders taken. Xo delivery SPECIAL BARGAIN MEAT COUNTER OFFERINGS F BICES CUT TO THE LOWEST NOTCH Legs, Loins and Backs of Veal 15? lb. Veal Fricassee, Shoulders and Breasts 12V2 lb. Fresh Spareribs 12Vi lb. No. 1 Ster Boiling Beef 10 lb. Shoulders of Lamb 10 lb. Breast of Lamb S lb. Track and Train Spokane By Day 9:55 A. M. Leave 9:45 P. M. Arrive The NORTH BANK ROAD Men, money and material made Tho North Bank Road the twentieth-century construction standard. The engineers' attainment of easy grade and curve produces the smoothness of train movement for which this line is noted. The best equipment gives every com fort observation, parlor, dining and sleeping" ears, and large, com fortable coaches. ' , Tickets, parlor nd-sleepmg-car accommodations-ancfc-details at: CITY TICKET OFFICE, Fifth and Stark Stmts. KOBTH BANK STATION. Tenth and BToyt Streets. For Your Sunday Dinner Come arid enjoy the hospitality; of The Portland, .-which is best ex- ' pressed in our delicious Sunday Table d'Hote Dinner Served 5:30 to 8 in the Main Dining Room A. delightful musical programme in the hotel lobby on every Sunday evening. The Portland Hotel - J-aaa;an HOTEL CORNELIUS The Honse of Welcome Park and Alder Streets Portland, Or. In the theater and shopping district, one block from any earline. Bates $1.00 per day and np. With bath, $L50 per day and up. Take our Brown Auto Una. C. W. Cornelius, President H. E. Fletcher, Manager F'W'BALTES & COMPANY, FINE PRINTING First and Oak Streets Telephones: Main 165 A 1 165 ...1S lb. ...15 lb. 17? lb. 10 lb. i0. TO THE BEST By XlKht Portland 7:25 P.M. Spokane 7:2 O A.M. via Hotel American Comer Kortn, Third and Ptnnders Sts. Knr Farsltnrc nnd Fnr nlshlnss Tnrougnont. EverrtnlnK First Class. Hot and cold water. E 1 e v ator. Free baths. Tourist car tor hire. 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