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THE MORNING OREGONTAN, FRIDAY, APRIL, 23, 1913. - PROBE OF ALLEGED ICE TRUST PLANNED cents a pound; selected, two bunches for a quarter. The White Jumbo va riety, from California, is also 10 cents a pound. Rhubarb has now lowered to ' two pounds for 5 cents and thre pounds for a dime. Local cucumbers, 10 and 15 cents each. California Early Rose potatoes are 10 cents a pound, but, in aristocratic quarters, both the white and red va rieties are quoted two pounds for a quarter. Green peas. 10 cents a pound and two pounds for 15 cents. Green or wax beans, 25 cents a pound, the price also of local sugar peas. Last season's potatoes are now quoted $2 a sack, 15 pounds for 25 cents; sweets. 5 cents a pound; artichokes, three for 25 cents; eggplant, 20 cents; green "pepper, 40 and 50 cents a pound; tomatoes, 20 cents; select Florida stock, 35 cents a pound. California Summer squash, 20 cents You know what Cotto is made of It is an exact combination of pure ultra-refined cottonseed oil (a grade so high it is not listed in the market) with beef-stearine from selected, high-grade leaf beef suet ' - That is what produces the splendid qualities for shortening, frying and cake-making in Opinion of City Attorney on Scope of Ordinance Barring Combines Asked. MR. BIGELOW WOULD ACT 12 Commissioner Proposes to Learn Ijiisls of l.cports If Possible. Makers Say They Only Are Protecting Business. An investigation to determine the verity of rumors and reports that an ice trust exists in .Portland is to be made by t'lty Commissioner Bigelow, provided City Attorney LaRovbe rules that a member of the City Council, or the City Council as a whole, has power to make such investigations tinder the provisions of an ordinance which has been on the books many years prohib iting the formation of combines in re straint of trade. Mr. LaRoche was asked yesterday for an opinion on the scope of the law and he expects to report soon. The ordinance provides that there there shall be no combine in restraint of trade. Whether or not this can be applied to the extent of calling in wit nesses and conducting a systematic hearing is a question which Mr. La Koche will decide. Mr. Blireloiv Prope Inquiry. Commissioner Rigelow says he be lieves such an investigation can be made and he proposes to conduct such hearings in connection with the ice business. He says he intends to get at the bottom of the proposition, if pos sible, and if there is a combine of the Icemen to hold up the prices- he pro poses to take steps to break it up. City Attorney LaHoche said yesterday that he has made no attempt to look into the law on the subject. He said he will give an opinion to Mr. Bigelow as to what the latter can do. It will he up to Commissioner Bigelow or the Council to conduct the investigation. Iwmtn Say There la Jo Trust. Icemen declare that there is no ice trust, but they say that steps have been taken by the larger producers to pre vent their businesses from being ruined by irresponsible dealers who get into the business only for the good ice busi ness period of the Summer time. It is declared that there is an understanding among manufacturers that they will protect their businesses by preventing price slashing by the dealers who get in only for the cream of the trade, tak ing the business of the plants which must be operated and maintained the year around. Charles Smith, president of the Port land Klectric Ice Company, and Harry Joy, president of the Bull Run Ice & Fuel Company, assert that charges that there is a trust in Portland are ground less. Reports that there was an ice trust were heard a year ago and at that time an investigation was threatened but never materialized. CHURCH HISTORY IS TOPIC Dr. A. C. Gaehclcin's Series ot Bible Conferences l.nd Today. Dr. A. C. Gaebelcin. of New York, who is conducting a series of Interde nominational bible conferences In the White Temple this week, preached last night on "The History ot the Church in the Light of Revelations II and HI." His address was heard by a. large audience. In the afternoon at 3 o'clock Dr. Gaebelein spoke on "The Seven Par ables, as Found in the Gospel of Mat thew." Today will close the conference. The subject for the 3 o'clock meeting will be "The Masterpiece of God" and to night the topic of discussion will be "What About the Millennium?" Dr. Gaebelein will give his Ideas regard ing a "Golden Age." EVANGELIST TO BE GUEST Luncheon at V. M. C. A. Arranged as Greeting to Rev. J. V. Hanson. Temperance and peace advocates of Portland will give a. luncheon at the T. M. C A. Cafeteria next Wednesday to welcome Rev. John Frederick Han son, who has just returned from a year's evangelistic work In England. Denmark, Norway and Sweden under the auspices of the Sunnyside Friends' Church. Mr. Hanson was born in Nor way and came to the States In 1856. Mr. Hanson attended the 35th anni versary of the National - Temperance Organization of Denmark, of which he was founder. Mrs. Mattie M. Sleeth Is expected to make the address of welcome on behalf of the prohibitionists and the Women's Christian Temperance Union. Good Things in Markets CALIFORNIA has a large consign ment of strawberries in our mar kets. The fruit Is large and ripe and looks most attractive. They are of fered at two boxes for a quarter and 15 cents a box. A new arrival of cocoanuts from Honolulu in the "original package" is on hand and are retailed at 16 cents each. Pineapples. 15 and 20 cents each. Sweet navel oranges can be had as low as 16 cents a dozen, the ascend ing scale mounts 20, 25, 30. 40 and 50 cents a dozen. Blood oranges, 15 cents; lemons, 15 and 25 cents; Mexican limes, 20 cents a dozen. Florida grapefruit, of small sizes, may be found at 5 cents and three for 10 cents; larger, 10 cents each, and the largest (and presumably most juicy) at three and two for a quarter; Californlans, 5 cents each. Bananas are 15 and 20 cents a dozen. A. few of the red variety are on sale at 30 cents. Cape Cod cranberries, 15 cents a pound. Oregon's splendid apple crop of 1914 that the state has . proved could be consumed at home has actually been almost absorbed. Apples are now get ting scarce, and several varieties dis appeared some time since. As a con sequence, they are rising in price, and choice Hood River Red-Cheeked Pip pins are now quoted 12.50 to fZ a box, 40 and 50 cents a dozen. The last Yellow Newtowns of the season are 10, 15 and 20 cents a dozen; Wlnesaps, 15 cents. Oregon, led off by her largest city, undertakes to make away with the apple crop of 1916, too, if circumstances render t necessary. , In the vegetable market the products are about equally divided by those locally grown and those sent up by California. asparagus, gron'n at Hood River and White Salmon, Wash., offered tn neat, compact bunches, can be bad at 10 RESIDENT OF OREGOV SINCE 134 IS DEAD. A I i v -i J ! I Edward Hnrd Stanbnrrough. Edward Hurd Stanburrough, California argonaut of 1844 and an Oregon pioneer of 1S54. died Wednesday night at the family residence, 644 East Thirty-seventh street South, at the age of 91 years and 5 months, after an illness of several months. He came West from New Jersey. On coming to Oregon he established a business at Salem. Ten years later he came to Portland and en tered the employ of the A. A. Johnson Packing Company, and continued with that company un til it was merged w-ith the Union Meat Company. He then entered . the employ of the latter company and retired only two years ago. Three children, Mrs. Frederick C. Forbes and Mrs. May S. Mont gomery, of Portland, and Charles A. Stanburrough, of Bend, Or., survive. The funeral will take place at 10 o'clock this morning from the family residence. a pound. Mushrooms are offered at 90 cents and as low as 25 cents a pound. Cabbage and cauliflower are both two for a nickel and 5 cents each; large cauliflower, 15 cents; dried onions, eight pounds for a dime. Lettuce heads, 5 cents each, and let tuce stalks, three for nickel; celery hearts, 10 cents a bunch; Oregon spin ach, 5 cents a pound and two pounds 15 cents; mustard greens and Oregon new turnips, two bunches, 5 cents; green onions, five,bunches for a nickel. In the fish, market, "Oregon City hook-and-llne Chinook salmon" has lowered to 15 and 17 cents & pound; sturgeon, rock cod, sand dabs and Cal ifornia or surf smelt and squib or Ink fish are "each 15 cents. Sea trout. 20 cents a pound; perch, soles, black cod and ocean or silver smelt are each 12 cents; halibut and flounders, 10 cents a pound; crabs, 15, 20 and 25 cents each; shad roe, 40 cents a pound. Columbia River smelt has silently passed away. In the poultry market: White-feathered capons, really choice, are 35 cents a pound. The birds range from five to eight pounds each. Hens, milk-fed, 25 cents; ranch, 20 cents a pound; friers and broilers, 35 to 40 cents a .pound: geese, 22 cents; ducks, 25 cents a pound; squabs, 50 to 75 cents each. Turkeys are getting scarce and average 30 cents a pound. Eggs, 20 to 25 cents a dozen. Butter, 30 and 35 cents a pound; 55. 60 and 65 cents a roll. Ham sausage, 20 cents; pork sau sage, 15 cents a pound or two pounds for a quarter. Homemade head cheese, two pounds, 25 cents. Fresh pork, 12, 14 and 16 cents a pound. Celery, pepper and tomato plants, two dozens for 25 cents thrifty, good stock. Young Belgian hares, 25 cents each. BUILDING CODE ASSAILED PROGRESSIVE BUSINESS MEN TOLD IMPROVEMENTS ARE HELD BACK. b. MacNaushtom Declares Low Structures of Fireproof Material Cannot Be Made to Pay. Business men of the city yesterday listened to an attack upon a feature of the present building code, which, it was declared, is halting structural work of Portland. E. B. MacNaughton. an architect, ad dressed the Progressive Business Men's Club at the Multnomah Hotel, and the applause he received at the close of his talk on Wood Construction and tne Building Code," was proof positive that his hearers had the matter placed to them in a new, concise and business like style. Mr. MacNaughton was as sured the club would give the question earnest consideration. While he had praise for Building Inspector Plummer for the code In gen eral, Mr. MacNaughton took issue with the city official that all construction should be absolutely fireproof within the 60-odd blocks Included In the inner Are district. The speaker went Into details on the valuation ot property, as a result of the ' Sommer system, which placed valuations in this particular district at from $3900 to $5000 a front foot, and showed how the property, owners were losevs in being denied the right to use mill construction In this section.- He showed how costly is the strictly fire proof building; how, to make such a building pay, the owner is compelled to build at least eight stories high, owing to the overhead expense at anything under this height. Previous to $lr. MacNaugtiton's ad dress D. C. Lewis, of St. Johns, told the club members why St. Johns wanted their support at the election In June when the merging question will be de cided. Jasper Dean McFall sang two selec tions with Miss Bonnie Replogle as accompanist. France Retires 2 9 More Generals. PARIS. Anrll 22. Twenty-nine more French Generals have been placed either on the reserve or retired lists to make way for younger or more active men. The official Journal contains names of 11 Generals of division and 18 Generals of brigade who have been relieved from active service. Cttt There is an appetizing appeal in the thought that your foods are cooked with Cottolene made of an oil that is far superior to most salad oils and as fine as the best, combined with the choicest part of rich, leaf beef suet. Order a pail of Cottolene from your grocer todav and use it in shortening, frying, or cake-making. It is economical you use one-third less than of any ordinary cooking fat. Arrange with your grocer for a regular supply. Write to our Genera Offices, Chicago, for our real cook book HOME HELPS " free. L2Ji-iLJL.FAIRBANKaANYj "Cottolene makes good cooking better" LENTS FOR ROAD BONDS IX.Il CTIO-" RUMORS DEMED BY ST. JOHNS FOLK, TOO. CummiMMlonrra Go On With Plana. Delegation Asks for Foster 'Highway Improvement. Injunction proceedings may be brought, against the County Commis sioners, it is reported, to prevent tnem from selling the special road improve ment bonds authorized by the people at last week's election. Although suggestions of Injunctions have been heard for the last few days, and in fact ever since the election, members of the County Board don't believe that anyone will have the te merity to apply for a restraining order tn the face of the overwhelming ma jority given the bond issue by the people. It was first understood tnat some people at Lents and at other points along the Foster road proposed to ap ply for an injunction, but Lents people emphatically deny the report. Although the Lents district developed consider able opposition to the bond Issue, the people there insist that they will not oppose the will of the majority of the people. There is no evidence of an Injunc tion sentiment among the residents of St. Johns. Despite, the rumorB. the County Commissioners are proceeding with their plans for improvement. A committee of Lents people appeared be fore them on Wednesday and asked that a top dressing of crushed rock b placed on the Foster road inside the city limits between the county line and the end of the hard-surface paving within the city. Roadmaster Yeon pointed out that there is at present a 10-inch rock base for this road, and that as soon as the equipment is available this base will be worked over, rolled and packed, placing it in good first-class condition as good as can be had with a mac adam road. ' Iceman Solicits Trade at 2 A. M-, He Testifies. Another Man In Party Arrested Telia Judge He Only Called to Say Goodbye to Girls. v HAT constitutes proper hours for business? This was the question which Municipal Judge Stevenson was called on to solve yesterday afternoon. The police had arrested J. L. Whit ney, William Kurrasch. Mrs. J. J. Carr and Mrs. J. J. Byrnes the pre ceding day on a charge of disorderly conduct, alleging that the four were having some kind of a lunch at about 2 o'clock in the morning. When asked what he was doing at that place at 2 o'clock, J. L. Whitney explained to the judge that, he was an iceman and, hearing that the two women were planning to install a re frigerator, had called to solicit their patronage. He said that he wanted to beat all the other icemen to securing an order from them. Mr. Kurrasch also had an explana tion. "I was planning to leave town and had called to tell the girls good-bye," he said. Asked how it was he staid so late, the man said that one of the women had fainted and he had remained to assist in the work of resuscitation. After urging them to confine their calls to more reasonable hours, the judge dismissed the quartet. 25-YEAR FILM DEAL MADE Paramount Gets Exclusive Clioicc of Famous Players and Lasky Reels. Copies of the longest-time contract ever yet made in the motion picture business were received yesterday by John F. Cordray, general manager of the Peoples Amusement Company. Both the Jesse L. Lasky Company and the Famous Players Film Company have guaranteed to let the Paramount Pic ture Corporation have exclusive choice of their output for a period of 25 years. The Famous Players company is pro ducing the Frohman and Belasco suc cesses, while the Lasky company in variably features a star in some dis tinctive play. Paramount pictures are issued semi - weekly. The Peoples Theater has the exclusive contract for Portland. EGG IS 8 BY 6.5 INCHES Black Minorca Performs Feat That 19 Portland Record Breaker. . With a joyous cackle denoting pride and translated as "What do you know about this?" a Black Minorca hen in the yard of Mrs. J. D. Dammon, of Woodstock, presented its owner with an egg measuring eight inches around the long way and six inches and a half in circumference, Wednesday morning, shattering Portland records. "She always did lay large eggs, but we never thought her capable of one f ;7?"Tfi Quick, 9 . ''-i-iSiyNL nyrri.oiit.T..MinLTOi,aAii. such as this," commented Mrs. Dammon, gazing upon the egg that rivaled the output of an ostrich. "I'm going to invite some friends over for dinner, and we will serve an egg," said Mrs. Dammon. She lives at 6221 Forty-ninth street Southeast. INDICTED LAWYER RESIGNS Cliarles Yates Gives Vp Membership In State Bar Association. Charles Yates, an attorney, now under indictment for "mbezzlement. late Wednesday filed, with County Clerk Coffey his resignation from the State Bar Association, to be sent to the clerk of the Supreme Court. His action fol lowed further investigations which are being made by Deputy District Attorney Collier into his conduct, and a second indicment was rumored. Under the law Yates' action in resigning from the Bar Association heads off any attempt to bring dis barment proceedings. AVenatchce Lake to Get Trout Fry. WENATCHEE, Wash., April 22. (Special.) Game Warden Watson left for Leavenworth yesterday to distribute 100. 000 silver lake trout in Lake Wm. "Just look at Its tempting color!" ,Yes, almost everybody; speaks of that and this color is purely natural. So is the fragrance and the flavor. Every thing is natural about Campbell's Tomato Soup The tomatoes are as fine as nature produces anywhere. We put them up with all their natural freshness and tonic quality retained. And their blending with the other choice materials we use produces a combination which is a nat ural food, which appeals to a natural ao- lIi. 1 1 1 ! peine, ana wnicn nounsnes and stimulates in a natural and healthful way. That's why it pays you to buy it by the dozen, and keep it handy. Your money back if not satisfied. 21 kinds 10c a can mmm ty COlfTl'-.;, I II ?l KINDS , , . Kg:4J atchee. The fry are from the Snohom ish hatchery. At present there are no silver lake trout in Chelan County. J. L. Carroll was fined Tuesday at Leav enworth for fishing without a license on the complaint of Warden Watson. Wallowa Presents "Border Land." WALLOWA. Or., April 22. (Special.) The junior class of the high school tomorrow night will present a three-act drama, entitled, "Border Land." The proceeds will be applied on the gym nasium. The gymnasium ha been built by the manual training classes. The different hi$h school classes subscribed money towards buying the material and they are now giving entertain ments and plays to pay their dona, tions. "I To the many users of this Log Cabin Syrup with the rich taste of MAPLE T I . II I II IIMI 'I I II M II Mill Hill II the v.- V (lit inrJ StS) Y new syrup TOWLE'S L.OG CABIH CAN E AND HONEY SYRUP Here's a syrup that is the same high quality as Log Cabin Cane and Maple Syrup. You will say it has the tastiest, most delightful honey flavor you every enjoyed The distinctive, palate-delightingj honey taste, extracted from the heart of flowers by the honey bee, is brought out to its greatest del icacy m Log Cabin Cane and Honey Syrup. No end of new users have said they never knew honey could taste so delightful. wraer a today or your A trial can costs 10 cents. Order Get a taste of new syrup and will keep it the house all the time, can , l grocer s only today. 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Your grocer will supply you with both Log Cabin Syrups They are both syrups of guaranteed quality and purity both are easy to identify. Log Cabin Cane and Maple is sold in the famous log-cabin-shaped can Ixg Cabin Cane and Honey has a large pic . ture of a log cabin on the front and back. ' Keep a Rupply of Log Cabin Syrups always on hand. Order of your grocer today. The Towle Maple Products Co. St Paul, Minn. New York, N.Y.