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6 THE MORNING OREGOXTAN. FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 3, 1915. To Be-Held by the Oregon-Washington Railroad & Navigation Co. on Satipraay, Sept. 4tl"n 11 Will take place in the store on the northeast corner of Broadway and Oak Streets, Portland, diagonally opposite the Hotel Benson Will Be Awarded the Winners in the Following Classes: NOVELTIES First $10.00 Second $7.50 Third 5.00 Fourth 3.00 Fifth 2.00 STAPLES 1st 2nT Peach Pie $5.00 53.00 Peach Cobbler $5.00 $3.00 Peach Dumplings $5.00 $3.00 Dutch Peach Cake $5.00 $3.00 Sweet Pickled Peaches $5.00 $3.00 Preserved Peaches $5.00 $3.00 Peach Jam $5.00 $3.00 Canned Peaches $5.00 $3.00 3rd $2.00 $2.00 $2.00 $2.00 $2.00 $2.00 $2.00 $2.00 GROUPS Fire to ten dishes First $10.00 Second i.. . . 7.50 Third 5.00 Fourth 3.00 Fifth 2,00 All exhibits to be installed between the hours of 8:30 aad 10:30 A. M. on Saturday, September 4. remove their exhibits after 10 :30 P. M. same dav. Application blanks may be obtained at the City Ticket Office of the Company, Third and Washington Streets, or will be mailed upon request. They must be filed with the Contest Secretary on or before 10 A. 1VL tomorrow Full instruc tions and rules governing the contest are printed thereon. For more complete particulars inquire of William McMurray, General Passenger Agent, or A 6121. Exhibitors may Phone Broadway 4500 GOETHALS' TERM IS FULL POWER TO ACT Conditions of City Manager ship Consideration Given by Canal Builder. MEW CHARTER PROPOSED Praft of Changed Plan or Munici pal Government Under Way, Eliminating Paid Commission for One Without Salary. Major-General Goethals will consid er a proposal that he become city manager of Portland, if it is made under what he considers satisfactory conditions that is. that he be vested with full authority and responsibility to make good or get out, without a commission standing- over him to ham per him in his work. He made this clear yesterday after S. Benson, who first conceived the plan of having- the famous builder of the Panama Canal as city manager, had discusssed the subject with him for more than an hour. Mr. Benson, in bringing up thd sub ject, spoke of the fact that General Goethals had said he liked Portland, and asked him if he wouldn't like to live here after he retired from the Army. General Goethals replied that ever ince he had served at Vancouver as a young Lieutenant of Engineers, from 1882 to 1884, he had liked Port land better than any other place in which he had ever lived. The General spoke more than once in his three-day visit here of his liking for Portland and the Northwest, and explained that one reason for his visit here was to have his son, Thomas, who will gradu ate from the Harvard Medical School next year, look over the country. General Answers Bluntly "When Mr. Benson spoke of the wish of many business men to have him as city manager. General Goethals said bluntly that he would not accept or even consider any proposal if he had to work under a commission. Mr. Benson then explained that the plan was to submit a new charter to the people abolishing the present sal aried City Commission, and substitut ing an unsalaried commission occupy ing a position muci like that of tho hoard of directors of any large busi ness corporation t'ais commission hav ing the power to appoint and remove a city manager, who would be in com plete charge of the city government. Such a commission would be much like those in European cities. "Well, that's the kind of commis sion I've been working under at Panama," said General Goethals. "That plan has been very satisfactory. General Goethals, his wife and son left Portland at 10 o'clock yesterday on the steamer train for Flavel, connect ing with the Hill liner Great Northern for San Francisco. Mr. Benson accom panied them to the depot. About the last thing he said to General Goethals was: "I want you to consider this." "Well, I will consider it if the pro posal is made," replied General Goethals. Proposed Charter Being; Drafted. Mr. Benson said last night that At torneys E. E. Coovert and R. W. Mon tague are already working on the draft of the proposed new charter providing for a city manager in place of the present commission government. At torney Charles H. Carey has also been asked by Mr. Benson to help in the work. It probably will bo at least two weeks and perhaps more before this proposed charter is ready. It will then be submitted to the Chamber of Com merce, as the most representative or ganization inj the city, for discussion and approval. The question .of salary wasn't men tioned in Mr. Bensois talk with Colonel Goethals. "But salary will certainly not stand in the way of his acceptance, if Gen eral Goethals will take the place," said Mr. Benson. "I promise that. Any amount necessary over what the city could offer will be made up by myself and other men who are interested in seeing Portland have an efficient city government." FLORENCE GREETS SHIP tHRIGKIXG WHISTLES HERALD EN TRY OK LUMBER CARRIER. Arrival of Grare Dollar Welcomed as Triumph for Labors for Har. bor in MunlaTr. KVGEXE. Or.. Sept. 2. (Special.) The arrival of the first steel train in the Siuslaw several weeks aero meant no more to the people of Florence than did the arrival today of the steel freighter.. Grace "Dollar, to load 800,000 feet of lumber for San Francisco. For two days Florence has read in the newspaper wireless bulletins. "Grace Dollar. San Francisco to Sius law." and the little Lane County sea port was prepared for the ship's ar rival. Whistles formed a salute, and the whole town celebrated. The entrance of this ship marked the arrival of not only the biggest boat ever in the Siuslaw, but the arrival of a new class of shipping. The Grace Dollar Is 221 feet long and draws 16 feet of water. Her en trance here is & triumph for the hun dreds of thousands of dollars which the Port of Siuslaw has bonded itself to pay. Contractors are now on the ground to prepare or a quarter of a million dollars' expenditure to obtain further depth. ALUMNI MEETING CALLED Representative of Michigan to Be Honored Today. Ford dealers of Southwest Washington. Prizes have been donated for land and water sports of all descriptions and for motor tests. A large attendance is expected. SCHOOL OPENING ARRANGED j Sanitation and Other Conditions Are Improved at Milwaukie. MILWACKIE, Or, Sept. 2. (Special.) The Milwaukie schools will open Sep tember 13 with better sanitation and other Improvements, due mainly to the efforts of Mrs. O. "Wissinger, of the School Board. Mrs. "Wissinger made a. thorough investigation of the condition of the schoolhouse and made recom mendations at the annual meeting, all of which have been carried out, in ad dition to provision for the new manual training and domestic science depart ments. x Preparations are being made for a children's industrial fair to be held at the Milwaukie School September 18. Exhibits will be by the children, in cluding garden and other products of school children. Superintendent Alder man and Principal Gary, of the Port land schools, will be speakers. FIRE-FIGHT FORCE IS CUT Federal Patrolmen and So County AVardens to Be Retained. OLTMPIA, Wash., Sept. 2. (Special.) With the rains general upon the Coast having ended temporarily the forest fire danger In Western Wash ington. State Forester E. W. Ferris Is reducing somewhat the force of more than 100 men which has been regularly employed to date in patrol work. The 30 county wardens and. 61 Federal pa trolmen will all be retained, however, for some weeks to come. What damage, if any, has been done to green timber by the Whatcom, Skagit and Snohomish fires, which have been burning fiercely, despite the ef forts of large forces of extra fighters employed by the state and Washington Forest Fire Association, is yet unknown. CROWD IN LINE ALL NIGHT Some Sleep In Autos to Obtain Choice Roundup Tickets. PENDLETON, Or., Sept. 2. (Special.) To obtain first choice of seats for the Roundup, which opens three weeks from today, four automobile owners drove their cars to the ticket booth early yesterday and remained In the machines all night awaiting the open ing of the booth at 7 o'clock this -morning. A large number of persons, without the luxury of improvised automobile beds, stood in line all night. Within an hour after the booth opened more than J1500 worth of seats were soid. More than J1000 worth of choicest seats had been reserved by mail before the general sale opened. FAIR NOT TO GET ROUNDUP Pendleton Decides Its Show Will Xever Leave City. PENDLETON,. Sr., Sept. 2. (Spe cial.) Because it will be impossible to box up and ship to the San Fran cisco exposition the spirit which has made the Roundup famous, the direc tors have definitely declined the mag nanimous offer toi take the Roundup down there and reproduce it. Another factor was the fact that the first city to be considered was Port land. Portland has always been loyal to the Roundup and many times the proposition has been broached to put on the show there, but the same plea has been made: That the Roundup would never be moved- from Pendleton. DETRICT BONDS FAVORED Pine Grove Section of Hood River to Vote on $50,0 0 0 Issue. HOOD RIVER, Or.. Sept. 2. (Spe cial.) When the members of the board of directors, the secretary and super intendent of the East Fork irrigation district met last night with landown ers of the Pine Grove district to dis cuss a proposed additional bond issue of $50,000 to be used in improving the big system, they found sentiment prac tically unanimous in favor of the bonds. The district, which is already bonded for $150,000. covers 13.000 acres of the most thickly populated sections of Ap ple Valley. Landowners of the district will vote on the proposed bond issue next Tuesday. SEASIDE HAS $5000 FIRE Colonial Hotel Damaged and Mes senger Boy Is Injured. SEASIDE, Or., Sept. 2. (Special.) The Colonial Hotel, one of the land marks of Seaside, was partially de stroyed by fire shortly before 1 F. M. today, causing $5000 damage, ravag ing the two upper stories and burning away the entire roof. The buildine was only partly insured. The upper floors of the hotel had been unoccu pied for several days. Harry Thompson, a one-armed West ern Union messenger boy, while! Jding his wheel to the fire, collided with a horse and wagon and "was caught be tween the wagon and the curb and his right leg was broken in two places. WARDEN IN WOODS EARLY AY. G. Emery Silent Even to Family When Inspection Tour Starts. NEWPORT, Or., Sept. 2. (Special.) To prevent telephone warning to game law violators, William G. Emery, on his first day as deputy game warden for Lincoln County, disappeared into the woods on an inspection tour Mon day without notifying even his family where he had gone. Mr. Emery says that he intends to use his newspaper at Newport in an educational campaign for the enforce ment of game laws. He is owner of the Taquina poultry farms here, where the state has placed Chinese pheasants and other game birds in an effort to restock the district. AUSTRALIA TO COPY OREGON'S BUILDING Victoria Commission at San Francisco Takes Plans and. Pictures of Exhibits. IDEA IS HOME DUPLICATION Many Oregoniana Register During Veek and Receive Social Invi tations r Second Popcorn Blowout Planned. BY ANNE SHANNON MONROE. OREGON BUILDING. EXPOSITION GROUNDS, San Francisco, Aug. 30. (Special.) Joy, oh Joy! Three days of continuous sunshine, and it is officially stated that the trade winds have ceased from trading and the foghorns are at rest. Now watch the Summer clothes, long suppressed, blossom out at the Ex position. Yesterday a daring pair a man In a straw hat and a woman in a Summer sown risked It and went strolling out to the Cliff House and along the beach, and not another Summer-clothes suggestion did they see. Where on any other beach in America would have blossomed gay parasols, shining white duck and flannels, there was only the usual San Francisco out door colors, gray and black, but today three Summer suits came into the Ore gon building, and here's hoping .for more. A pretty nice compliment has come to Oregon, if imitation really is the slncerest flattery, in the great personal interest shown In our building by F. T. A. Frlcke, official representative In America for Victoria, Australia, and resident Commissioner for the Governor of the State of Victoria, Australia. Mr. Frlcke has been watching the Oregon building and its success as a crowd gatherer for some time. He has now approached Manager Hy land with a request for a plan of the building, including the entire inner plan for exhibits. His idea is to re produce it in Australia as a permanent exhibit. He is gathering notes on the plan of organization and every detail that has made for the success of the Oregon plan. He has asked for a com plete set of photographs of every nook and cranny of the building that no point may be lost. Mr. Fricke is pleased with the whole conception, and especially with the method, which was Manager Hyland's personal plan, of having the counties represented not only by their products, but each by a leading citizen. Oregon Distributes Popcorn. Thursday Is "Taft day," but it is also Eastern Oregon popcorn day. when 20, 000 sacks of Kastern Oregon popcorn, grown and shipped from Fred Pills bury's ranch in Malheur County, will be given to visitors. This popcorn averaged 78 bushels to the acre and In some cases went as high as 122 bushels to the acre. Iowa with her giant cornucopia of corn in the Palace of Agriculture and Missouri and Kansas and' all the other corn-growing states are beginning to prick their ears and look Jealous already, for this is our second big popcorn blowout. They only tell us they raise the. best corn: we show them. Benjamin Sheldon, of Southern Ore gon, is to assist in floor management from now on, he being given especial charge of the work of the college men who are here as guides. Philip Jack son, son of C. S, Jackson, of the Port land Journal, arrived today. He is stopping at the Palace Hotel, but has been invited to make the Oregon build ing his home during his stay and is expected today. Edgar E. Piper, Jr., arrived today. George Putnam, secretary to Gov ernor Withycombe, is again in the city. Judge Thomas F. Ryan and two sons are guests in the building. Mr. and Mrs. W. E. Coman. of Portland, arrived today; also Mr. and Mrs. Clyde C. Evans. Wirt Minor, Robert Livingston and his family, Henry B. Theilson and H. L. Holgate. who is associated with Will R. King in reclamation work. Dr. L. F. Griffith, assistant superintendent of the Salem State Insane Asylum, with Mrs. Griffith, came down Monday. Miss Iris Hawley. a daughter of Represen tative Hawley, and Miss Nell Theilson are again guests of Mrs. Gray's, and will attend several of the social func tions of the week. Interesting Affairs Scheduled. Mr. Piper and Mr. Jackson have also been extended invitations to Exposi tion social affairs of the week and will attend a number of them. Among the most interesting are the Exposition of ficials' reception to Mr. and Mrs. Will iam Howard Taft in the California building, the Palace Hotel dinner given by Pennsylvania's Commissioners to Governor Martin Grove Brumbaugh, and the grand ball in the Netherlands build ing, given by the Netherlands Com missioners in honor of His Excellency, W. L. F. C. Chevalier von Rappard, envoy extraordinary and minister plenipotentiary of the Netherlands to the United States. John Barrett was a luncheon guest of Mr. Hyland's in the Oregon Agricul tural College luncheon-room this week. Other guests were the two Commis sioners from Argentina. Mrs. Eva Emery Dye was a dinner guest Monday evening in the Oregon Agricultural College dining-room. The famous Emery family, of which she is a member, held their convention at the Massachusetts building, annual lunch eon at the Inside Inn and their recep tion at the Oregon building. Mrs. Dye graciously extended the invitation to Oregonlans to be present at the recep ion. and many attended. Guard Platoon Plans Halted. ABERDEEN. Wash..- Sept. 2. (Spe cial.) Plans for organizing platoons of Company G, National Guard of Washington, at Elma and Montesano, have been halted by Adjutant-General Maurice Thompson. Thompson says that the regulations provide that all equipment must be kept where the commanding officer Is stationed. Had the platoons been organized. Com pany G would have been increased by ibout 40 men. Walla Walla's First House Burns. WALLA WALLA, Wash.. Sept." 2 The oldest building in Walla Walla, a log structure in the heart of the business district, burned last night, and with it another old frame struc ture. The former structure was erected in 1S53 by A. J. Lain, Indian agent, and while it since has been covered by boards, the logs remained until today. Kelso Harvest Ball Tomorrow. KELSO. Wash.. Sept. 2. (Special.) Kelso will celebrate with its grand annual Harvest Ball next Saturday night. A big canvas. 200 feet long and 34 feet wide, will be stretched taut over the pavement and thoroughly waxed for the dance. A great crowd from all sections of the county is ex pected to be on hand for the dance. MORE PIE DEMANDED Democrats Plan Attack on Forestry Service. BEST JOBS ARE WANTED New Charges and Exposures Said to Be Due in Effort to Dislodge Republicans Under Civil Service Protection. OREGONIAN NEWS BUREAU, Wash ington, Sept. 2. Appearances seem to indicate that recent attacks made on the Forest Service by Democratic writers. are but forerunners of a gen eral assault to he made in Congress next Winter, not so much with a view to bettering the service, as with a view to ousting Republicans in high posi tions to provide more places for Dem ocrats. Inquiry around Washington dis closes that Democratic politicians who thus far have had no recognition from the Administration, and who feel that they are entitled to substantial re ward for services rendered in 1912, have made the discovery that the For est Service was overlooked when the political ax was being wielded over the heads of Republican officials. That Is one bureau, and an extensive bu reau, where no political appointments were made by President Wilson. The officials who were in office when President Taft retired, are still In of fice, and what makes the situation embarrassing, these officials are under civil service protection. Notwithstanding the hungry Demo crats have been after Postmaster General Burleson, the expert on cir cumventing the civil service, ant also have been after other officials high up in the Administration, demanding that some of the Republicans in the Forest Service be ousted that they may have the places. The clamor is for offices paying from $2500 to $4000 a year. For the time being nothing more Is to. be said of the Forest Service and its organization, but about the time Congress reconvenes, the attacks are to be renewed; new charges and new exposures are promised, and a general "showing up" is scheduled, with a view to attracting the attention of Democratic Senators, whose henchmen are still on the waiting list. Then the fight is to be transferred to the floors of Congress, and an interesting lot of information is promised when the appropriations for the Forest Serv ice are next under consideration. Those who lead this attack, however, will run counter to Secretary Houston, of the Agricultural Department, for Secretary Houston has devoted a good part of his time to the Forest Service since he entered the Cabinet; he made a lengthy tour of the Western re serves this Summer to find out how the forest policy, operates. and . he came back to Washington with the idea that the forestry policy was right, but was somewhat hampered by rack of funds. Japanese Journalist at Wen a tehee. WENATCHEE. Wash.. Sept. , (Special.) Wena tehee will furnish a chapter in a book to be written by J. Miya-Gawa, a Japanese Journalist of Nagasaki, Japan, who la traveling across the United States and Canada. The oriental Journalist arrived here Tuesday on foot from Spokane on his way to the San Francisco Exposition. WOODMEN MEET TONIGHT Multnomah and Webfoot 'to Hold Rally and Roundup Respectively. There will 'be a big gathering of the members of Multnomah Camp No. 77, Woodmen of the Worid, at the camp's building. East Sixth street, tonight. A campaign to secure 300 new members by January wil be inaugurated, to bring the membership up to 2500. This number will entitle the camp to an other representative to the head camp. Provisions have been made to seat 642 persons in the banquet hall at one time. Webfoot Woodmen of the World will hold its monthly round-up tonight. As it is peach week, iced peaches and peach Ice cream will be served. Other special features are planned. Xortlmest Men Get Federal Posts. OREGONIAN NEWS BUREAU. Wash ington. Sept. 2. Harry A. Llndgren, of Portland, and S. Q. Ireland, of Cald well, Idaho, were today appointed ag riculturists In the Reclamation Field Service. John B. Walsh, of Portland, and Elmer A. Hilton, of Salem, were appointed guards at the NcNeil Island Penitentiary. Telephone lines are to be extended to Tromsoe. Norway. 00 miles north of the arctic circle. DRYS FOR AMENDMENT CAMPAIGN STARTED IN IDAHO FOR CONSTITUTIONAL PROHIBITION. Minute Organisation to Be Effected and Candidates Quizzed as to Views Even on Rational Act. BOISE, Idaho. Sept. 2. (Special.) The campaign to make Idaho constitu tionally dry or to ratify the constitu tional amendment passed by the last legislature to prohibit forever the man ufacture of intoxicating liquors in this state, has Just been launched here at a union mass meeting of drys. Senator Borah was one of the prin cipal speakers. Ie went strongly on record for law enforcement, asserting that while there Is an honest difference of opinion on the liquor question there is no place for a difference on law en forcement. He advised use of the pri mary law as the people's protection to make law enforcement possible by nominating and electing good officials. The campaign has been placed In the hands of Superintendent L. C. Wells, of Denver. who succeeded Rev. W. J. Herwlg. now in Texas, in a campaign there. At the mass meeting there was un usual enthusiasm, indicating that the Bght for an mendment to the con stitution is to be a strenuous one. The Pro h i b Uionlsts Leiieve that they will carry the amendment by a large margin. While Idaho goes dry under legis lative enactment. January 1. 1916. the constitutional amendment will not be voted on until the Fall of that year. The Prohibitionists are getting an early start. Resolutions adopted demand law en forcement and promise to assist in the prosecution of violators. announce plans for a statewide organization to carry the amendment and declare that the views of every candidate for office will be demanded. Jlembers of Con gress will be asked to "xpress them selves on the subject or Nation.nl prohibition. Emperor Nicholas of Russia has the dis tinction of being- the first ruler to establish a government department of spores It bears the name of the Department of' Physical Culture and is under the direction of a Cabinet minister. CASTOR I A . - For Infants and Children. TJif Kind Yea Have A!w!js EcjgM .Signature of !f&l&&t - sy x--( Indian Summer Excursions East via ROCK ISLAND LINES Daily to September 30 Return limit October 31, 1915 Route of the Famous Golden State Limited Via California and Rocky Mountain Limited Via Colorado Tickets Good . via Ocean or Rail M. J. GEARY Gen. Agt. Pass. Dept. Ill Third St Portland, Oregon. Phones: Main 334, Home A 2666. V II ... I . L .11 I ...1 In honor ,of M. H. Saier. an alumnus of the University of Michigan, who is representing the Michigan union on the I'aciflc Coast, a meeting of the Port land alumni of that school has been called for today at 12:15 in the Oregon Grill. It is planned to begin immediately a campaign all over the United States to raise money for the erection of a new building at Ann Arbor for the Michigan union. The union is an organization that represents the interests of every student and alumnus of the university. Ford Dealers Picnic Sports Planned CENTRALIA. Wash.. Sept. 2. (Spe cial.) The programme was announced todav for the first annual Forrl ntni. to be staged at Offut's Lake, four miles north, of Tenino, next Sunday by the CHERRYV1LLE HOTEL BURNS Landmark on Mount Hood Road Destroyed by $1500 Fire. SANDY. Or, Sept. 2. (Special.) The Onerrwille hotel and store building on the Mount Hood automobile road was destroyed by fire yesterday morning, causing a loss of about $1500, on which there Is an Insurance of $800. J. t. Friel was owner of the property. The Are started In the kitchen. Mrs. Friel discovered It but was unable to check the blaze. Neighbors saved a few arti cles. The building was a landmark on the road. A line of automobiles is carrying sup plies from Boring through here to the forest fire fighters. Iodge Brothers MOTOR CAR You can feel sure that the car is exactly as good as it looks if you will remember the wide experi ence which Dodge Brothers have had in motor car construction. The motor is 30-35 horsepower The wheelbase is 110 inches The price of the car complete is $7S5 (f. o. b. Detroit) Covey Motor Gar Co. Washington at Twenty-First