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TTTTC MOTCXTN'G OUTSOONIAN, MONDAY. NOVEMBER 30, 1014. LAST CALL MADE ! FOB WAR TAXES You Must Pay to Get Married or to Take Trip in Pull- man or to Go Abroad. PENALTY IS ON TOMORROW Xdcenses Kequired Must Be Pro j cured or Applied For Today j and . Hereafter Stamps Will '.' Be Xeeded Frequently. ; Havs you taken out your "war tax" license? ' If you haven't, and tf your letter asking for application blank 11-A la not received at the office of Milton A. Miller, Collector of Internal Revenue, In Portland today, you will be subject to a 50 per cent penalty. . That ia, if you are a banker, broker, commission broker, custom-house bro ker, commission merchants, theater owner, billiard or poolroom owner, bowling alley owner or tobacco dealer. ; All persons engaged in any of these activities must take out Federal li censes. The law requiring these licenses became effective November 1, and today Is the last day that applications for licenses, or letters asking for applica tion blanks, may be received without the imposition of the 50 per cent pen alty. Bankers must take out licenses show ing that they have paid a tax of 66 2-3 cents on each $1000 of their capital stock, surplus and undivided profits. Brokers will pay at the rate of $50 a year, commission brokers $30 a year. Custom-house brokers $10 a year and commission merchants $20 a year. Real Estate Men Exempt. Real estate men who sell property for others on commission are not re garded as brokers by the law. Per sons who place loans on commissions are not Included in the broker class. Theaters must pay, not according to the business they do. but on their seat ing capacity. Theaters which seat less than 250 must pay at the rate of $25 a year. Those whlh seat from 250 to 500 must pay at the rate of $50. Those seating COO to S00 must pay at the rate of $75 a year, and all seating more than 800 muHt pay at the rate of $100 a year. Billiard tables, pool tables and bowl ing alleys open for public play are taxed at the rate of $5 each a year. - Tobacco dealers who sell more than $200 worth a year must pay a tax of $4.80 a year. These are not all, by any means, but they are all the taxes which become delinquent and subject to a 50 per cent penalty today, unless Collector Miller has received a letter asking for ap ' plication blank 11-A. Tomorrow, December 1, the long arm of the Government will begin to reach into the pockets of the patron of tele graph and telephone lines where the charge is more than 15 cents. On each such call a tax of 1 cent will be col lected from the patron by the tele phone or telegraph company. Luxuries Are Aamued. The same thing will happen to the person who buys a seat in a palace or parlor car, or a sleeping car berth, for the tax to be paid by the traveler here la 1 cent a seat or a berth, as the case may be. foreign travel is discouraged by the Svar tax" law to the extent that a .stamp costing $1 must be affixed to all tickets sold in the United States for passage by a vessel to any foreign port. If the ticket costs from $10 to $30. If It costs from $30 to $60, a $3 stamp is required, A $5 stamp is required on tickets costing more than $60. : Besides these taxes on tickets there axe stamp taxes on the shipments of hnggage, circus outfits, newspapers and lulls of lading, both domestic and ex port. ; For Instance, if you are traveling and check your bicycle, tricycle, baby car riage, dog "or other similar article," and a transportation charge of more than 5 cents is made therefor, you must affix the proper stamp to the baggage qheck before the said baby carriage or dog is delivered to you at the end of the journey. Bridegrooms on List. Documentary stamps must be affixed to many legal documents. Including marriage licenses, and proprietary stamps must go on packages or bottles irontaining cosmetics or toilet prepara tions. A 4-cent stamp must go on every $1 package of gum before It Is sold by the retailer. ; The O.-W. R. & N. Company has is sued a bulletin explaining the war tax in full as it affects the transportation business. -' j Sherman M. Miles, chief deputy Col lector of Internal Revenue, said yes terday that about 200 applications had been received for tobacco dealers' licenses, but that he believed this was not half the number of Oregon tobacco dealers. He believes not more than half the total number of applications for licenses that must be made in Ore gon has come in. ; Tax stamps may be obtained through the Collector of Internal Revenue, rmnks or postofflces, according to the O.-W. R. & N. circular. LECTURE TOPIC MILITARY Civilians Invited to Hear Discourse I by Colonel of Infantry. I "The Military History of the United Btates" will be the subject of a lec ture Wednesday night at 8 o'clock at the Armory, by Colonel David J. Baker, Commander of the Twenty-first In fantry at Vancouver Barracks. The lecture has been arranged for the of ficers of the Oregon National Guard by Colonel Martin, who has also ex tended a special invitation to civilians who may be interested in the military discourse. ', Colonel Baker Is an able and dis tinguished officers of long service, and recognized for hi3 acute observation and knowledge. "While this lecture Is arranged for the officers of the National Guard, I want to extend a special invitation to a,ll citizens who are interested," said Colonel Martin. THREE HURT IN RUNAWAY Woman and Two Children Thrown From Wagon at Canyonville. CANTONVILLE. Or Nnt. 59 rSns. clal.) Mrs. "Wilkinson, wife of a farm er, and two children were severely in jured when thrown from a wagon in a runaway Thursday afternoon. Two children remained lr the vehicle and were uninjured when the horse was topped two miles distant. Mrs. Wilkinson was severely bruised about the face and a baby suffered cuts on tne race and head. A 14-year old boy who was driving has i sprained, wrist. PORTLAND GIRL WHO WITNESSED DESTRUCTION OF BRIT ISH GUNBOAT BY GERMANS AND WAS NEARLY ARRESTED AS SPY FOR IT. I l - . . , ' 4 . t - ' r J i'l 1 f r- ' V - J - 'i it - if ' -y : I ft J - ' ' ' f . 1 tf I MRS. Kl'FrS ZOGBAUM (M ARGARET MONTGOMERY). I LETTERS END PERIL Mrs. Rufus Zogbaum (Marga ret Montgomery) Saved. SPY SUSPICION ROUTED Messages From Lady Katherine From Buckingham Palace Shield Portland Woman, Who Sees Gunboat Destroyed!. Pulling strings of the nobility in England to .escape embarrassment con tingent upon being arrested and almost held as a spy, just because she hap pened to witness the destruction of the British torpedo gunboat Niger by a German submarine and bears a Teu tonic name, was the thrilling diversion of Mrs. Rufus Zogbaum (Margaret Montgomery) formerly of Portland, who is now in London. Mrs. Zogbaum has just described her fate in a letter to her mother, Mrs. J. B. Montgomery, of 828 Hawthorne avenue. Mrs. Zogbaum is tha wife of Lieutenant-Commander Zogbaum of the United States Navy, who for a time after the outbreak of the European war was in charge of the German embassy in London. Her German name or rather the German name of her husband was her near-undoing, as about that time the English authorities were looking askance on and holding fast to all things and persons German. Mrs. Zogbaum witnessed the rare event, saw the rescues and retired to her home for dinner only to be appre hended by plainclothesmen, a major and all manner of military officials, who were convinced she was not a German spy when she unfolded to their gaze a number of letters dated Buckingham Palace from Lady Katherine to a friend who was with Mrs. Zogbaum. The event passed off without Mrs. Zogbaum being taken to the Tower of London, but on the letters from Buck ingham Palace alone does Mrs. J. B. Montgomery, of Portland, believe Mrs. Zogbaum's quick release was accom plished. Mrs. Zogbaum's letter, published Sun day in The Oregonian, was so filled with details of the experience and the near-arrest that the details of her re lease were meager, but Mrs. Mont gomery believes it was only by the let ters and the influence of those known at court that her daughter was saved from genuine embarrassment and t ri sible hardship. fahe could have brought sufficient identification to hand if the time had been allowed, but about that time, as now. England was dealing rather se verely with spy suspects. Kate Hearing Wednesday. Complaints of northwest shimun against present railroad tariffs oper ating lnter-Btate will be held before the examiners of the Interstate Com merce Commission in room 252 of the Courthouse, Portland, on December 2, 3 and 4. After taking the evidence, the notes and complaints will be forwarded to the Commission for action later. Two complaints will be brought be fore the Commission's examiners. The Eastern Oregon Lumber Company will seek non-discriminatory rates over the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy via Cheyenne, and over the Northern Pacific and Great Northern via Silver Bow." The lumber company alleges that the gateway Is closed at Cheyenne and also at Silver Bow so as to force the company to snip forest products over the O. W. R. & N. The Columbia Mining Company, of Sumpter, Or., is expected to complain at the alleged discriminatory rates for ore shipments from the eastern Oregon city to Tacoma. WRONG MAN IN ASYLUM One Thought to Be Crazy Tells Dep uty He's Other Fellow. What's in a name, if you're crazy? The insane asylum at least, whether you are adjudged insane or are merely waiting for the formality. Andrew Lee is believed to be vio lently insane by the authorities in Sheriff Word's office. G. P. Uckert has been found to be violently Insane by the commission. But Lee is at the in sane -asylum and Eckert Is In the County Jail enjoying the confinement, such as it is. It happened this way: Eckert was ordered taken to the asylum after the commission" had acted In his case. So Deputy G. Alger started to do his task last Friday. Jailer Kennedy was just going off shift, and Jailer Geardoff was just going on, when Deputy Alger sought out his man to transport. Going up to Lee, Mr. Alger asked if he was Eckert. Lee, according to Alger, admitted with glee that he was Eckert, where upon Alger said, "Come with me," and took Lee to Salem. Deputy Alger delivered his charge to the asylum and came back to Port land. Sheriff Word and Jailer Kennedy were checking up on the prisoners yes terday and missed Lee. "Why, Where's Lee?" asked Sheriff Word. "There he is." said one, pointing to Eckert, for Eckert and Lee look con siderably alike, thought the jail at taches. "No, that's Eckert," observed Sheriff Word, whose eye is keen in judging prisoners. Eckert was too much absorbed in the idlosyncracies of his ailment and didn't know whether he was Lee or Eckert, but when Sheriff Word and his deputies got together and compared notes with records, they readily agreed that Eckert should be at the asylum and that Lee should be back in Portland awaiting examination by a commission duly qualified to sit. tor But Lee will stay at the asylum and be examined there, announced Sheriff Word last night, in giving publicity to the mistaken identity case within his bailiwick. "You see, Lee Is as crazy as Eckert, In my mind, and would be there sooner or later anyway, and a commission can make the examination there just as well as here. We will send Eckert up Monday. ' "It's one W us, and I thought I'd like to tell you about it," concluded the Sheriff. ADVERTISING TALK NO. 17. Probably You Pass Over the Classified Columns Hurried ly. You Never Look at Them Seriously. But There Are Hundreds of Readers Who Are Keen to Look Through the Classified Ads First of All These classified advertising readers of The Oregonian have learned that there are many things advertised in these small ads at prices that are attractive. If you have something you Wish to sell, place a small classified ad. Put your offer in a place where hundreds of people will look for it. These little ads are inexpensive. Yet they get buyers. ' Or, if you have something you wish to ex change for something else, place an ad in the exchange columns. You never can tell when someone will be looking for just what you have to offer and want to get rid of the very thing you are looking for. - BLOOD GIFT NEEDED TO SAVE DYING MAN Volunteers Asked to Give Life Fluid to Restore C. L. Bots f ord, Veteran Lawyer. OPERATION ONLY COURSE Span of Life Short for Oklahoma's ox-Judge Unless Donation Comes Quickly Attorney Has Long Professional Record. For an operation rare in the annals of surgery, Portland physicians and surgeons have called for a healthy vol unteer to give a few ounces of blood to save the life of ex-Judge Charles L Botsford, veteran lawyer of Port land, who, suffering for nine years from pernicious anaemia, a week ago today underwent an operation for the removal of his spleen. Blood fusion is now relied on as a possible last step in effecting a cure from the disease which on several oth er occasions has sapped the vitality of Mr. Botsford, who is 65 years old, so completely that he was given up by specialists at different times. Healthy Man Is Needed. This morning two sons of Mr. Bots ford, David M. and W. K. Botsford, of Portland, will give several ounces of their blood, and a healthy volunteer has been called upon by the doctors in the case, Dr. Leo Ricen, Dr. Noble Wiley Jones and Surgeons Dr. R. C. Coffey and Dr. Thomas M. Joyce, to contribute several ounces to that of fered by the sons. Big remuneration has been offered the volunteer who will call at Dr. Ricen's office in the Broadway building this morning early. A healthy specimen of man is required. The physicians say there will be no danger incurred by the volunteers. In all about 32 ounces of blood will be required which will mean about a quart of blood. The operation will bs performed at St. Vincent's Hospital as soon as the volunteers are found and their bloed tested. It is certain the sons will give as much blood as they can be relieved of, after which it is believed, by the physicians in charge that a third or a fourth volunteer will supply enough needed to rebuild the wasting blood of the elder Mr. Botsford and insure his recovery. Climate Change Aids. ' Mr. Botsford has been suffering for about nine years and not until he came to Portland about six years ago was it conceded he had more than a couple of years at the most to. live. The change in climate and surroundings aided him for a time and he engaged in the practice of law. arguing several cases before the Oregon Supreme Court. For much of the time, how ever, be had been confined with his illness. His sons are well known, however, being members of one of the leading advertising agencies in the city. The removal of Mr. Botsford s spleen last Monday was In itself a remarka ble operation, but it was known of only among a few memberj of the Portland medical fraternity. It is only within the last few years that the re moval of a spleen has been attempted, and in the case of Mr. Botsford, it is the first on record in Portland where it was attempted as the last resort in saving' a patient from the ravages of pernicious anemia. It is understood there has been some six operations for the removal of spleen by specialists in Vienna and not more than that number through out the United States. Optimism Lengthens Life. It is generally conceded .Among physicians that a patient with perni cious anemia lives only about three years after the disease has shown de velopment. In Mr. Botsford's case it is his remarkable vitality and con sistent frame of mind and hopefulness or a cure eventually that have enabled aim to live and rally . for the last nine years. Mr. Botsford is well known in legal circles of the United States, especially in Oklahoma and Kansas City, Ho. At Norman, Okla., he was judge of the District Court and at one time secre tary to the Board of Regents of the State University of Oklahoma. It was while in Oklahoma he was attacked by the disease. Later he removed to Kan sas City, where for a time he was legal counsel for the Metropolitan Street Railway Company, and as such was prominently identified with many im portant cases. . Operation Appears Success. Dr. Leo M. Ricen, of Portland, has had charge of the -case since Judge Botsford came to Portland, and he has resorted to the removal of the spleen and blood fusion to bring about what appeared as a possible cure. The oper ation for the removal of the spleen seems to have been favorable. "There was everything to gain and nothing to lose in the operation," ex plained Dr. Ricen last night, after it had been discovered that an advertise ment had been inserted asking for a healthy volunteer to give a supply of blood. Dr. Botsford's sons are David M., W. K., G. S. and F. L. of Portland, and C. J. Botsford, of Salinas, Kan. Mrs. Botsford is Mrs. Annie L Botsford. of 1220 East Twenty-fifth street. DEPORTATION CAR COMING Immigrants Ordered Ousted Gathered by Inspectors. Are A special car to pick up European and Mexican immigrants from the Western cities for deportation,- will arrive in Portland tonight and then proceed to San Francisco and Los An geles. The car. Immigration Inspector Weiss in charge, will leave Seattle this morning on its Journey around the country. Immigration Inspector Topping, of Helena, arrived in Portland from Butte last night with Sidney James and Peter Kelly, two English subjects, who will be put aboard the train for deportation from New York. The men were lodged in the City Jail for safe keeping until tonight. Immigration Officer Barbour, of this city, said last night that he probably would have no prisoners to put aboard the car besides those brought here by Inspector Topping. Hotel La Pine Bar Robbed or $100. ' LA PINE. Or., Nov. 29. (Special.) The Hotel La Pine bar was burglarized Friday night and the cash register rob bed of more than $100. The burglars en tered from a window. As soon as the burglary became known the blood hounds owned by Cal C. Kocher were sent for and immediately took the trail, but up to this time the culprits have not been run down. This is tha third robbery that has occurred inl tha Iace during the past two years. J Slew D arums Delicious Peppermint flavor blended into wholesome chicle resilient, smooth chewing, mouth-watering. Doubly pleasing because the flavor is 1-o-n-g 1-a-s-t-i-n-g: lots of "Pep!" Double wrapped and then hermetically sealed to keep the goodness in and all impurities out Double value, for with each 5c package is a United sharTng Ciipn good for many valuable presents. Try WRIGLEY'S nt today! psSf Made by the manufacturers of the famous SPICY MINT LEAF JUIC United Coupons now with both these WRIGLEY "twin mints." 16 one 3 ono HILL BEING PUT BACK CAVE-IJT FOLLOWS FILLING IX OF MONTGOMERY GULCH. Portland Realty A Trnat Company Now Replacing Mod Takes to Level Hancock-street Gap. Mud is mud. That assertion stands without qualification, but tha value of mud is a debatablo subject. At least on fiancock street, between Larrabee and Koss streets, the value of mud grew to serious proportions recently. The trouble dates back to the time when Montgomery Gulch still had a place on the landscape of the East Side. A development company thought that a level in place of the hole would be moro desirable than the deep gully. Accordingly, it hired a sluicing out fit, placed several feet of railroad and a steam shovel and started in making over the Job of Nature, which had left the hole the last stand of the frontier in Portland. For years, the boys of the East Side had built their tree houses in the big maples of the gully. It was their park and their playground. It also was the battleground of the gang fights. In due time the company decided to tear down the hills and put them into the holes. The men worked for months and so enthusiastically did they enter into the game that they couldn't stop when they reached the southern bound aries of the tract. Instead the hill kept "washing down." The tract was brought to a level with Larrabee street, which is about 30 feet lower than Ross street, two blocks up. Finally, when what was left of the hill stayed "put," there was a drop of 30 and 40 feet right along the north property lino of the houses on Hancock street, on top of the hill, and pretty soon the hill began to move again, and with it some of the property of residents along that street. Then followed two years of litiga tion and now the Portland Realty & Trust Company is putting some of the mud back on top of the hill. The expense will reach into several thou sand dollars and the work will require a long time. The contractor has built a railway Incline and cars of dirt are now being hauled from the other end of the grade to the side of the hill WANTED Strong, healthy man to give a few ounces of blood to save a life. No danger incurred. Big remuneration. Apply at once at 801 Broadway Building. where the realty company has built a retaining wall. When that is all done, it will have to sow the filled ground with grass and plant pretty flowers "as it was in the beginning." PICKPOCKET GIVES FIGHT Man In JPear of Police Attacks De tector With Knife,, Trying to protect an unknown man from a pickpocket, nearly resulted in death for Gus Neml Saturday night, when the alleged pickpocket attacked him with a knife through fear that Nemi would report the attempt to the police. Neml, according to the pi'lice. while in a North End saloon noticed the attempt of the picKpocket and threat ened to call an officer. In the melee that followed, Nemi was cut seriously about the head, face and hands. Pa trolman Tully sent him to the police emergency hospital, where his wounds were dressed. While being cared for. he told In broken English of the attack with what he thought was a pocket knife. The police are looking for E. Nuku in connection with the crime. Believing that to be worthy of heaven they must be clean, the Cossmcks bathe and don their cleanest linen and best clothes be fore entering a battle, -writes a correspondent. WINTER TOURIST FARES TO FL OKIDA Have you ever spent a Winter vaca tion in Florida? If not, now is the opportune time. SPECIAL ROUND TRIP FARES FROM PORTLAND To Jacksonville $117.50 Palm Beach $136.00 To Key West S150.GO St. Augustine $119.80 To Miami $139.60 Tampa $129.10 Corresponding low fares from other Southern Pacific points. Tickets on sale Nov. 24, Dec. 1, 8, 15, 22, 29, 1914; Jan. 5, 12, 19, 26, Feb. 2, 9, 16, 23, 1915. Going limit 30 days from date of sale and final return limit May 31, 1915. Liberal stop overs allowed on all. tickets. Full particulars, reservations at City Ticket Office, 80 Sixth street, corner Oak, Union Depot or East Morrison street, or from any agent of the SOUTHERN PACIFIC John M. Scott, General Passenger Agent, Portland, Or. The Exposition Line. 1915