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4 THE MORNING OREGOXIAN, WEDNESDAY. NOVEMBER 11, 1914. " END OFDEPRESSIDN !IS SEEN BY BANKER A. L. Mills Predicts Better act. Ho was given a verdict of J12 500, the defendant alleging that the i amount was excessive. The Supreme Court in a former opinion held that a status fixing- the maximum amount or I damages in a case of death at $7500 was repealed by the employers lia bility act. and under that act tlere was no limit to the damages. Upon re-argument the defendent con tended that the trial court erred in allowing testimony as to ' the habits and probable length of life of the father, but the court holds that a habit of a beneficiary has nothing to do with the points at issue. The case was appealed from Jackson County. Other opinions today were as follows: "Frank Lone. Sr., versus Pacific Railway & Navigation Company, appellant; appealed from Tillamook County, suit for damages; reversed and dismissed. Postal TelenraDh Company, appellant, ver- ' pamibv d flnnM pn t mill HOPfcFUL SIUN5 . ArrAntN I ."ei en3oln lnterfe,ence WKB Oreeg-on Surety & Casualty Company ver- .Times by Spring Despite Freak Legislation. t Voters' Tendency to Consider Jleas iures Carefully Held Shown at ,'. Election Prosperity for Farmers Is Near. ' "In epite of handicaps caused, by un wise and freak legislation, I believe that times will Improve by next Spring and that we will find ourselves fairly well out of the depression that has been recently apparent. said A. Ij. Mill president of the First National Bank, In lils address before the Retail Merchants' Association at the Commercial Club last ni2:ht. "The indications of Improvement In conditions are already' apparent. One hopeful sign is the tendency mani fested by the voters at the recent elec tion not to vote without consideration Jn favor of any and every initiative measure that was offered. "The general impression In the land ithat Oregon is a freak state and that ohe can never tell what laws may be enacted under the initiative has done a great deal in the past to keep capital Irom coming here and it is a good sign when the . people show a tendency to net away from reckless and freak leg Islation. Farmtn' Prosperity Factor. " "I believe that conditions will im prove before next Spring, first because the farmers of the Northwest are en- terinE a year of prosperity that far ex ceeds that of the years preceding, and js the farmer prospers so prospers the rest of the people. W here we export cd last year 25,000,000 bushels of wheat We will export this year 30,000, oou Dusn els, at prices about one-third greater than those of last year. This means that the farmer will have 135.000,000 this year, as against $20,000,000 last year from his wheat crop alone. "In the second place, Portland's in dustries are already beginning to show the evidences that they feel the ap ipro.ach of better times." Jlr. Mills pointed to the fact that the woolen mills in Portland, Oregon City and other parts of the state are run ning on full time night and day and ' w ill be obliged probably to put on additional forces and equipments. Lumber Industry to Improve. "The lumber industry," he continued "which has been at its lowest ebb, I believe is ready to begin improving and within six months we shall see all of the mills running on nearly full time on paying orders. The opening of the Panama Canal will throw open to our lumber dealers a vast market in the Kast and the demand fos our light fir lumber is much greater than for the yellow pine of the South, now that there is prospect of the freight rates to the Eastern markets being reduced by water haul. "One firm here informed me the other Isy that it had Just placed an order for 1,300,000 feet in Philadelphia and that It could be delivered there by way of the Panama Canal at $1 a. thousand feet Jess than it could be delivered by rail In San Francisco. Fair Likely to Help. The Panama-Pacific Exposition he also pointed out as one of the factors that will produce good times. He noted that tourists have spent annually in liurope $150,000,000 and that this year the majority of that must come to the West Coast if it comes any place. "It seems reasonable to imagine," he said, "that the war abroad will turn them to the West and that we will have a larger attendance of the wealthy in vesting class than otherwise at the fair. I believe that in the coming year we will see more people of this class in the Northwest than we ever saw in our lives before, many of whom would never have come to the West had it not been for the present conditions in Europe.1 Lastly in his address he declared that the opening on Monday of the Federal reserve bank in San Francisco will have the greatest effect of all in giving re lief to business and hastening better times. Business te Be Aided. "It will make for stability in finan cial affairs and help immeasurably the legitimate business of the country," he said. "If it had not been for the emergency currency issued under the Vreeland Aldrich bill, I believe that we would have had a panic this year that would Sia1e taken the hair off of all of us, tout the Government wisely utilized that legislation to tide over the emergency and the danger has passed. - Permanent stability -of conditiens will be estab lished when, the reserve bank begins its business. "Under the new and efficient finan cial system that has been established I believe that not one of us here shall ever see again such a panic as the coun try suffered under in '73, '93 k and in 1907." sus A. S. Paulson and wize, appellants, my pealed from Multnomah County, action to recover real estate: affirmed. Mary Hamm versus Gertrude McKenney et al.. appellants; appealed from Multno mah Coiiniv. suit to oulet title: affirmed Ross C. Barnes, appellant, versus earn Silverfleld: appealed from Multnomah County, action for damages for maucloua prosecution; reversed and remanded. 8. a. Barrent. tiuperintenaent or appellant, versus Oregon Savings & Ioan Comoanv: annealed from Marlon County, ac tlon relates to complying witn nanaing laws: reversed. George F. Felts versus James L. ijoyer and wife, appellants; appealed from Douglas County, suit to quiet title; reversed. S. T. Howard, et al., versus Hartford nri Insurance Company et al., appellants: ap pealed from Jacnson County, motion to dis miss avoeal denied. Louis Belrl, appellant, versus commnia County, to restrain collection of special road tax; affirmed. James A. McCarthy. appellant, versus Louis Helbling and Oscar Barnes; appealed from Multnomah County, performance of contract to convey realty: reversed. In the matter of the determination of the relative rights to the waters of ortn Powder River and its tributaries; appealed from Union County: Judgment modified. Petitions for rehearing were denied in the following caseB: Isaacson versus Heaver Logging company, Beaver versus Mason-Ehrman company. Blackford versus Boak and Richards versus Mohr. In Cooper versus "Keady, Jones versus Scheffler and Yeaton versus Barnhart, mo tions to dismiss denied. Motion to dismiss allowed in case of Ore gon Lumber & Fuel Company versus Gar land. Motion to recall mandate denied In case of Anderson versus Phegley, BRIDGE SUM AVAILABLE $100,000 ORDERED SENT TO VAN COUVER FOR FIRST WORK. First Money Comes From State School Fund In Exchange for Bonds Llt- . tie Litigation Left. VANCOUVER, Wash., Nov. 10. (Spe cial.) Within a few days $100,000 will be deposited in the Clarke County treasury to be available for the con struction of Calrke County's share o the Columbia River interstate bridge, joining Portland and Vancouver. Thi money will come from tho State School fund in exchange for 5100,000 worth of Clarke County bonds, voted for the bridge, and the interest paid will not be above 5 per cent. Multnomah County has sold her firs installment of $250,000 worth of bonds Clarke County has made good her share, and more money will be available, without doubt, when needed. By sell ing the bonds in blocks several thou sand dollars in interest will be saved the authorities holding it would be use less to sell the entire block of $500,000, the sum the county is bonded for, until the money is needed. The interest starts as soon as the money is turned over to the county, but the county will be unable to use this for bridge con struction for many months, and it i thought that the J100.000 will b enough to carry on- Clarke County share of the work for several months Word has been received from the Stat Treasurer that luo,ooo will be sen here at once. The County Commissioners are con sidering advertising again for the sale of a second block of bonds, as it not certain that the school fund will be able to absorb the entire issue, and in case it is not the Commissioners de sire to be prepared to obtain the money as needed. Practically all litigation on thi3 side. with the exception of one curve, has been disposed of satisfactorily. LOTS OF ALLEGED SHYLOCK LAID BARE Woman Stops Husband From Using Tobacco. a Ohio Wife Broke Her Husband of the Tobacco Habit With m Recipe She Gave Secretly. rial of Manager of State Se curity Company Begun Be fore Judge McGinn. She Tells What She ITsed. Details of Operation Among Bor rowers Descrfbed in Pressing Charge of landing Money "Without Legal License. A. well-known Ohio woman, whose husband has been a heavy user of tobacco for years, broke him of , the habit by the use of a simple home recipe that she gave secretly. She very gladly told what she used, but request- . s--i ,rnn nnrrK I rn tea inat ner name snouia 001 do znaae SEIZED LETThnb KEVtALEU public, as her husband does not know why.be quit using tobacco. She said: "The recipe is inexpensive and can be obtained from any drug store, and giv en secretly or with the patient's knowl edge. To 3 oz. of water add 20 grains of muriate of ammonia, a small box of Varlex Compound and 10 grains of pep sin. Give a teaspoonful three times a day at meal time in the food or in the coffee, tea or milk. This recipe 16 per fectly harmless and has no color, taste nor smell, and will be found effective for the tobacco habit in any form." Adv. Insight into the inner workings of the State Security Company, alleged to be a "loan shark" concern, was given yesterday when E. E. Ware, its man ager, was placed on trial in Judge Mc Ginn's court, charged with lending money at a greater interest rate than 10 per cent a year without having a state license, which would permit an interest charge of 3 per cent a month. How clients were drawn into the net by introductions which were paid for by the money lenders and the plan of operations whereby the debt mount ed skyward until escape was almost im possible, was revealed by correspon dence taken from the offices of the company, raided last July by District Attorney Evans' office and Deputy Sheriffs. Evidence Obtained In Raid. A taxicab load of office records and letters was hauled to the Courthouse at the time of this raid. This mass of evidence has been prepared for the trial until the authorities declare they have an absolutely certain conviction in store for Manager Ware. - Damaging as this evidence is. It was supplemented yesterday by the testi mony of witnesses, who told of Deing drawn into the clutches of the money lenders. One testified that he bor rowed $50 and has already paid back $75.60, with still further claims held ainst him by the State Security com pany. To secure tne original loan ne was made to sign a power of attorney and an assignment of salary, by means of which the money lenders relieved him of the trouble of drawing his own pay check and took charge of his finances themselves. The State Security Company, it was shown yesterday by the office records, is a non-resident concern, the owner being J. Weisen, of Milwaukee, W is. " Home Instructions Read. Letters advising Manager Ware how to oroceed to evade the state law, pro viding that licensed money lenders only may charge - as high a rate as a per cent a month, from the Eastern man agers of the concern, which operates a chain of loan offices tnrougnoui me West, were read. A meager 3 per cent monthly toll from' "clients" did not appeal to the State Security management. Ware was advised not only not to attempt to ob tain such a license, but to operate in entire disregard of the Oregon laws. One paragraph of advice from his su periors ran: N "The facts of the matter are that we cannot operate under the provisions of this law and would not take out a li cense, even though we could obtain it. We do not believe you will trouble, as we do not think they will PRUGsl Mm Double S. & H. Stamps Till 2 Today! wanted money for holiday ' gifts. Ad vertisements were suggested to be run from December 6 to December 23 to induce borrowers to apply to the com pany for money. A letter was read from a client, who said he was unable to pay promptly because of an ailing wife, but he prom ised to make good his obligation Just as soon as possible. The reply to this was that his remittance would be ex pected by return mail, or they would take action against him. A letter from the Eastern headquar ters referred to Ware's list of delin quents. "Pound hell out of them," was the advice, and when tho witness, Geren, read it. Ware laughed aloud. Records of the accused concern show that "clients" of another money-lend ing concern that retired from business were bought by Ware at $2 a head. The names and cards of introduction changed hands at that figure. A Portland policeman, the records showed, made 34 successive loans; a switchman negotiated 30 loans and a box factory worker was unfortunate enough to obtain credit 24 times. One preacher wrote the company for a loan, but he was regarded as a bad risk. Other witnesses will be introduced by the state this morning and the de fense probably will take up most of the afternoon. uThe case may be given to the Jury by night. Multiply the pleasure of your evening at the theatre with a pair of our beautiful Oriental Pearl high-power French OPERA GLASSES LEMAIRE COLMONT LE FILS MAECHAND Prices for every purse, G to $45 Also in Grain Morocco finish AT $2.00 Watch the Temperature Thermometers Barometers Aneroids All of the famous "Tycos" brand each perfect and guaranteed. Lorgnettes, Readers, Magnifiers Field Glasses, Binoculars, Compasses Our Display is complete Wood-Lark Building, Alder at West Park drugs! WEST DELAYS HANGINGS TWO TO DIB SO LKGISLATIRE MAY SEE HOW ROPE WORKS. Governor Say. Lloyd Wllklna and John A. Pender Will Wait for Convention of Solona. SALEM. Or.. Nov. 10. (Special.) With latest returns Indicating that the proposed constitutional amendment providing for the abolition of capital punishment has been defeated. Gov ernor West said today that he would adhere to his original decision to defer the executions of Lloyd Wilkins. sen tenced to be hanged December 29. for killing Lou L. Winters In Portland, and John A. Pender, sentenced to be hanged November 28, for killing Mrs. Daisy Wehrman and child at St. Helens, until ho -nv atter tne Legislature convenes. xae viovernor announced mat ne De- care to' buck up against us when they Jieved there would be another attempt know the stand we are taking." ; ,h . i. vU wvx. ""K''8 woi oEnt for th "at h wanted members of the District Attorney's office, who headed the raid on the State Security Com pany's offices in the Failing building, was the first witness for the prosecu tion and identified records and letters. Court Dovnu Objections. Legislature to have first-hand infor mation regarding the merits of the noose. As a consequence of the Governor's decision the men will not be hanged during Mr. West's administration. He said today that if there had not been Attorney G. E. Hamaker, counsel for so many measures on the ballot at the The island on which is situated the Eddy- stone lighthouse is the Bmallest bit of all-the-vear-round inhabited land in the world. the defense, objected again and again to the introduction of this evidence, but he was consistently overruled by the court. Chief Deputy District Attorney Collier was able to get the whole mass of material before the jury. Letters from Eastern offices of the concern advised Ware on many details of the business. One suggested that 3 TRANSPORTS SUNK Russians Report Officially on Black Sea Affair. 248 OF MEN ARE SAVED Several Germany Anions Those Res cued and Taken Prisoner Des tination of Troops Said to . Have. Been Trebizond. PETROGRAD. Nov. 10. An official communication from the general staff of the navy Issued tonight gives the details of the sinking recently of sev eral Turkish transports. The commu nication says: "The commander of the Russian fleet on nearing Port Sangouldak sent two of his ships with some torpedo-boats to destroy the buildings and work- recent election he believed the amend ment to abolish capital punishment would have been approved by at least 25,000 votes. "It will cost a great deal of money to substitute the electric chair for the i noose," continued Mr. West, "and the j memDers or tne legislature who are i thinking of making a change should ' a good opportunity to get "clients" was 1 have an opportunity to see how effi- just before Christmas, when everybody cient the present system is. It Is not cosily, ana Tne ropes can De put to good use on the prison farm after the hangings." ADVERTISING TALK NO. 2. $30,000 VERDICT ; VOIDED Supreme Court Kemands Case bt In- Jured Electrical Worker. " SALEM. Or., Nov. 10. (Special.) Holding that Circuit Judge McGinn erred in his instructions to the jury, the Supreme Court-today. Justice Eak- in writing the opinion, reversed the verdict for $30,000 damages for the plaintiff in the case of William D. Hoag against the Washington-Oregon Corporation, appealed from Multnomah County. While employed as a lineman lay the defendant in July, 1912, the plaintiff was seriously Injured by an electric current. The current had been turned off for repair work, and while Hoag was engaged at that, according to the complaint, it was switched on. W. R. Turner, general manager, and Art Gilmore, superintendent of the com pany, were also made defendants, but the Supreme Court dismissed the action as against them. DEATH DAMAGES UPHELD Supreme Court Says Limit Is Xotl ' Fixed by Law. SALEM. Or., Nov. 10. (Specials- Reaffirming an opinion recently handed down, the Supreme Court today, in decision by Justice Bean, holds that there is no limit to the amount of damages that may be recovered under the employers liability act in case of death. The opinion is in the case of Joseph P. McClaugherty against the Rogue River Electric Company. James McClaugherty, a son of the plaintiff, was killed while in the em ploy of the defendent by an electrlo current. The rather, as next of kin. filed suit, alleging that the defendent I Streetcar Circulation The other week a merchant said: "So much of The Oregonian circulation comes down on the street cars every morning." He wa3 sincere and almost made us believe it ourselves. So we asked the Street Railway Company to take a count. They did so on a Thursday, which is an average day. Up to 10 :30 in the morning on every line, on every car, the con ductor counted his passengers and counted the papers. He counted ALL papers because he could not segregate The Oregonians from the last night's papers and home-town papers-brought down and read on the car. A special prepared card was used. The result was 34,451 passengers and 2552 papers. This is a small percentage of the total circulation, and in war and election time, too, when newspapers . are more eagerly read. . , ' The cards showing the detailed report from each conductor for each trip can be seen at the Advertis ing Manager's desk. No one will assume that papers coming down on the cars are of no value to advertisers. They go into offices and stores and remain there all day ; are read by girls, women and men, and many are taken home ' again at night. Did you ever see a passenger throw a copy of The Oregonian on the car seat in the morning" No! But you see plenty of the afternoon papers left on the seats. How many afternoon papers do you suppose never . reach the home I Ever think of thi3? More, to be sure, than Oregonians that come down on the street cars in the morning. The Oregonian goes into more Portland homes than any other Portland newspaper. ' Uncle Sam has 202 regular mail carriers deliver ing mail to EVERY home in Portland every day. The Oregonian has 192 regular carriers delivering Oregonians to NEARLY EVERY home every day. This shows how intense the circulation of The Ore gonian really is. STOLEN GAR BACK SOON AUTO FOtrsD IJT LESS THAN HOUR AFTER THEFT BY YOUTH. When HonseworK? 15 Burdensome 2 srerrn IS - I shops- of the port This was done suc cessfully. Moreover, a Turkish steam er was sunk. "At the tame time our scout ship sighted a Turkish military transport filled with soldiers which was about to put to sea. Our cruiser approached this vessel,- opened fire and sank it. Then the Russian fleet put to sea. "Shortly afterward the Russian fleet slighted through the mist a Turkish naval column of two transports, one of which, the Midbat Pasha, had hoisted the war pennant. Torpedo-boats sent to destroy these transports soon sight ed a third one. "The three transports, laden with ammunition, guns, automobiles and aeroplanes, were sunk. We saved and captured 248 men on the ships, among them severo' German officers and a staff officer, who was bearing docu ments. The prisoners declared the transports were to be used to take troops to Trebizond." ATLANTA, . 2H in. high WHITBY, 1 in. high AHHOW C OLLARS 2 for 25 cents Clnett, Peabody & Co., Inc. Maker when you tire easily, when iintir nenies. are exaiaoie, ana amomon is gone, you need medicinal food not drugs or stimulants. SCOTT'S EMULSION is rich in food value; it supplies the very elements to enliven the blood, strengthen the nervous system and restore the courage of health. SCOTT'S EMULSION is not a patent medicine but C? a pure, healthful, upbuild iH ing food-tonic, free from alcohol or harmful drugs. 1 Patrolman, Recognising: Dr. H. Fenton'i Machine, Leap Onto Running Board and Arrest Driver. At 6 o'crock last night Dr. Horace B. Fenton telephoned to police head quarters, reporting the theft of his au tomobile. By 6:30 o'clock officers, call ing in for instruction, had been noti fied. At 6:45 o'clock Patrolman R. C. Nelson leaped on the running board of a passing machine, which he had rec ognized from description, and arrested the driver, Harry Dellar, aged 17. For quick recovery of a stolen article this record has seldom been equaled in the annals of the Portland police de- partment- "Oh. I Just thought Td take a little ride," said the culprit., when asked why I he .had taken the machine. He ex plained that he had recently come from Seattle with another boy, looking for work. We had found the automobile, with the engine running, at Eleventh and Hall streets, where the physician had left it while calling on a patient. When Dr. Fenton could not find his machine, he thought at first that some one had released the brake and that it had coasted down hill, but search I did not reveal the missing car, so he notified the police. Patrolman Nelson, who is stationed at Williams avenue and Russell street, saw the automobile speeding past, rec ognized it as the missing machine, and after a brief sprint, managed to leap to tne step. Dellar is being held for the Juvenile Court- WHY GOOD BLOOD IS RED Why are we continually being told that good blood must be bright red? What has color to do with the quality? Just this. The oxygen in the air is the great supporter of animal life. One business of the blood is to take oxygen from the air (which it meets in the lungs) and deliver it to the tissues of the body. When the blood, filled with life-sustaining oxygen, is sent out by the heart it Is bright red. Wnen it returns, gilled with impurities and de prived of its oxygen, it is dark. From this -it is clear that there are two prime requisites of health, pure air and bright red blood the pure air to furnish the oxygen, the rich blood to carry it where it is needed. 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The car was driven into the garage Thursday for repairs. The young men said they were from Washington. They exchanged a new inner tube for gaso line Friday. Mr. Parker received a tel ephone call from the young men to go to Drain - and get the car Saturday. They returned with the car and left Not merely Legal, but Absolute Purity. rfert Schafmer Yoo can buy suit, silk lined, Our label in the clothes is a small thing to look for, a big thing to find a dress for $35. Ovniiht 1914 Han Schaffncr A Marx Sam'l Rosenblatt & Co. Exclusive Agents for Hart Schaffner & Marx Clothes. THE -SHORT LINE 25c ' WtWgj Lb- to PUGET SOUND CENTRAL OREGON SPOKANE and EASTERN CITIES IS THE OREGON-WASHINGTON RAILROAD ' & NAVIGATION CO. 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