RESOLUTIONS BASED ON STATE CONTROL Committee to Report Against Lease Plan. CONGRESS ASKED TO SPEAK OUT Dawson Water Power Draft Approved by Big Majority. CONFERENCE TO ACT TODAY Senator Wulsli Submits Minority Iteport, Indorsing Tcrris Hill. I Principle of Eminent Domain of States Emphasized. PROGRAMME FOR CAST DAY OF ESTKIIN STATES WATER rottEU CONFERENCE. Meeting place, mezzanine floor of Multnomah Hotel. Horning session, 9:30 o'clock Address, "Duties of Government Towa rd Development of the TVest," by Clarence D. Clark, United States Senator from Utah: address, "Constitutional Aspects of the Ferris Bill," by Frank H. Short, of Fresno, Cal.; report of committee on resolu tions. Afternoon session, 2 o'clock Discussion of addresses and de bate on resolutions; adoption of resolutions: adjournment. 1 Resolutions declaring for state con trol of water-power resources and de velopment, and. voicing opposition to any policy looking toward a. system of leasing generally of the public domain, will bo reported, to the West ern States Water-Power Conference this morning by Its committee on resolutions. The resolutions call on Congress to pass a declaratory act recognizing that the proprietary interest of the United States to the vacant land within the states is subject to the Jurisdiction and eminent domain of those states, for all uses declared by their laws to be pub lic uses. Resolution Are Approved. Supported by a strong majority of the committee, these resolutions were approved just before 6 o'clock iast night after an all-afternoon sitting. Members of the committee declined to give particulars of the discussion and final vote, except to say that two eets of resolutions were presented. Clyde C Dawson, of Denver, head of the Colorado delegation, presented the resolutions as adopted, with some minor changes. The other resolutions, embodying the principle of Federal control in the Ferris bill, were intro duced by Thomas J. Walsh, United States Senator from Montana. Majority About Two to One. It Is understood that the committee stood about in the ratio of two vo one In favor of the Dawson resolutions. The majority report of the commit tee will be presented to the confer ence by Reed Smoot. United States Senator from Utah. Senator Walsh, leader of the minority faction, said last night that he will present his resolu tions as a minority report. The stand of the resolutions com mittee may be considered a good in dex of the sentiment of the conference, as this committee is composed of one man from each of the 12 states having ' delegations at the conference. These members were selected by each delga tion as representing the sentiment of the delegation. Membership la Representative. Its members are Reed Smoot, United States Senator from Utah, chairman; James II. Hawley, of Idaho; Clyde C. . Dawson, of Colorado; Kdgar B. Piper, of Oregon; Governor Ernest Lister, of Washington; A. K. Chandler, of Cali fornia; Howard S. Reed, of Arizona; W. M. Kearney, of Nevada; D. V. Moore, of North Dakota; T. J. Walsh, United States Senator from Montana; Clarence D. Clark, United States Senator from Wyoming, and George Lyon, Jr., from Nebraska. New Mexico and South Dakota are the Western water power states not represented by delegates. Here is the text of the resolutions as rcommended by the majority report of the committee: "Whereas, The new states admitted into the Union are of necessity upon an equal footing in all respects whatever with the original states; and State Jurisdiction Emqnaatized. "Whereas, Each state has full juris diction over all lands within Its bor ders, including the beds of streams and other waters; and "Whereas, The ownership by the Fed eral Government of the technical title to vacant public land within a state does not confer upon the Federal Gov ernment any greater or other govern mental powers than It possesses within the original states; and "Whereas, the long-established and sound policy of the United States, with respect to the disposition of Its unap propriated public lands. Is opposed to the making of a direct revenue there from, beyond the expense incident to the surveying, classification and dis posing of such lands, but on the con iConluued oa Fas S, Column 1.) MILLION IN 5 YEARS IS POULSEN PROFIT LUJIBEIDLVX TESTIFIES IX COURT TO AMOUNT MADE. "Molasses Attracts Flies," Says De fendant In Attorney's Suit for $25,000 Fee. R. B. Poulsen made Jl, 000.000 In five years, he testified on the witness stand in Circuit Judge Davis" Court yester day. Mr. Poulsen is head of the Inman Poulsen Lumber Company. "Did you testify before the Federal Commission that you made $1,000,000 in five years?" asked Judge "W. W. Mc Credie. "Yes, I did," responded. Mr. Poulsen. "That was partly what caused your trouble, wasn't it?" "I guess so," replied Mr. Poulsen. "It's always the molasses that attracts the flies." Mr. Poulsen. was testifying in the case of George S. Shepherd against the company for $25,000 attorney fees for services in the suits resulting from the city's attempt to open street-ends through the lumber company's prop erty. Several attorneys estimated the value of Mr. Shepherd's services at amounts ranging from $20,000 to $50,000. Among them were Frank S. Grant, W. M. D,avis, L. A. McNary, A. E. Clark. Mar tin L. Pipes, R. R. Duniway and Guy C. II. Corliss. BAKER OFFICIAL RESIGNS City Commissioner Scorns Salary ot $100 Monthly for Labors. BAKER, Or.. Sept. 22. (Special.) City Commissioner Anderson Finley to day tendered his resignation because he was dissatisfied with $100 a month sal ary. He will leave office October 15, waiting until that date to legalize a bond election of $118,000, which today was called by the Commissioners for October 11. Mr. Finley's resignation came during the meeting of the Com missioners. "I am sick and tired of sweating and toiling over city matters for the salary I am being paid," he said. E. A. Whittier was chosen to succeed Mr. Finley. The bond election is to extend the city water lines to Insure a larger supply. 8-YEAR-OLD MILL STARTS Plant Built Xear Marhiield in. 190 7 Not Run Since That Year's Panic. MARSHFIELD, Or.. Sept. 22. (Spe cial.) A sawmill which had been built eight years, equipped fully and pre pared to operate, but never sawed a stick of timber, started Monday, Sep tember 20, on Isthmus Inlet, on regu lar run, after having been improved and overhauled. The mill was erected in 1907 two miles from Marshfield by A. A. Courtney, who was then secre tary of the Pacific Coast box combi nation. Just at tlie time the mill was com pleted, the panic of 1907. came on and Courtenay and his associates failed. Portland parties. Including E. O. Sam uels, purchased it and arranged to operate. CLOVER ACRE RETURNS $65 V. 1. Hufr Grows Crop of Hay, Then Harvests JUgh Quality Seed. COTTAGE GROVE, Or., Sept. 22. (Special.) A return of $65 an acre le what If. P. Huff made from 614 acras of clover this year. The first crop, netted two tons of hay and from the second crop Mr. Huff got 3214 bushels of seed, or five bushels to the acre. The man who threshed the seed said that it is the best clover seed he has seen raised in Lane County In 20 years. Mr. Huff is so' well pleased with his profits that he will put 30 acres more into clover next year. FIRE CAUSE COURSE URGED Illinois Insurance Superintendent Would Teach Pupils. MONTEREY, Cal.. Sept. 22. Fire prevention should be taught in every public school, Rufus M. Potts. Insur ance Superintendent of Illinois, de clared here today before the National convention of Insurance Commissioners. In each state, Mr. Potts eaid, also there should be published for free dis tribution a plainly written book detail, ing the causes of enormous annual tire losses and the means of fire prevention, and this book should be used as a school text. EXTRA SESSION POSSIBLE YiIsoii Considers Calling Senate to Revise Rules to Curtail Debate. WASHINGTON. Sept. 22. The advis ability of calling a special session of the Senate within the next month is being seriously considered by President Wilson, it was said today at the White House. If the session is called. It will be primarily to give the Senate an op portunity to revise its rules to curtail debate. The Senate has had a special com mittee working on the proposed revi sion of the rules since the last session. First Keystone Citizen Honored. SAN FRANCISCO. Sept. 22. Dr. John Alfred Brashear. of Pittsburg, was hon ored today as the most distinguished citizen of Pennsylvania in ceremonies at the Panama-Pacific Exposition. He was named by Governor Martin Grove Brumbaugh, of Pennsylvania, for the distinction. IDOLLAR-DAY HERE: BARGAIN SALES OfJ Scores of Merchants Prepare for Rush. $500,000 BUSINESS EXPECTED Authorized Stores Are Desig nated by Banners. SHOW WINDOWS ATTRACT Tradesmen Sacrifice Profit on Standard Goods to Induce Public to Examine Stocks Carried in City. Today is Dollar day, and the citizens ot Portland and vicinity are going to save between $100,000 and $150,000 shopping around among the bargains offered in all of the principal stores of the city, both on the East Side and the West. At least, it is estimated by members of the general committee that the pur chases of Dollar day will amount to about $500,000. The average saving on each of the dollar bargains offered will be between 20 and 30 per cent, accord ing to the committee, and, on an amount like that, this means between $100,000 and $150,000. Which is quite a saving for Old Man Portland to make in a single bargain day. It is doubtful if there will be much necessity for the stores of the city to resort to additional lures, for the bargains offered are in themselves enough to bring the -dollars forth readily, and to keep them jingling through the avenues of trade all day long. Profit Is Not Aim. The Chamber of Commerce, through its retail merchants' bureau, instituted the movement, for Dollar day, without the idea of the business men making a real profit on the actual sales of the day, but rather to serve as a great stimulus to get all the people of this vcinity to thinking at once and to ob serving at once the truth that Port land's stores are capable of supplying every need that any family or individ ual may have. The beneficial results to the mer chants are expected to follow indirectly from the powerful educative effects of the great Dollar-day celebration. "The range of the dollar bargains offered is infinite," said Charles F Berg, chairman of the general com mittee yesterday, "and the goods offered are, in practically every case, standard articles, which are familiar by their trade mark to the public and in which the buying public will realize that it is actually getting the article at a lower price than would be possible under any other conditions. "There is one big store in the city which is offering a standard article. ICon-Iuded on page 21. column 1.) TH OSY RIGHT 0Y ri! fV" " . Zir J lTC M COtJS: 1 b&ts foNLV on Xiigm I STvr ) ill AorAVV svG-y iT INDEX OF TODAY'S NEWS The Weather. YESTERDAY'S Maximum temperature, 6 degrees; minimum temperature, 54 de grees. TODAY'S Probably fair: westerly winds. Water Power Conference. Plan for water power commission is offered conference. Page 8. Definite division of land control power sought. Page 8. "Water power conference resolutions com mittee approves report upholding state control of utilities. Page 1. ' War. British said to have destroyed 67 German submarines. Page 'Z. Mexico. Administration forced to back down from attitude toward carranza. Page 2. Senate. Little itirl explains high finance to John 1. Rockefeller. Jr. Page 1. Domestic. Engilsh woman dancer on parade startles Fifth avenue witti Oriental garb. Page 3. Loganberry may lose laurels to phenomenal. Page 3. Sport. Pacific Coast League results: San Francis co 4. Portland 3; Los Angeles 10. Oakland 3; Salt Lake 4. Vernon 1. Page 14. Hal Boy, Oregon horse, wins $3000 race on granj circuit. Pago 14. Ited Sox win two games and . Tigers one. Page 14. Beavers win three players in draft. Page 10. Pacific Northwext. Yamhill County Fair draws tremendous throngs. Pago C. Four killed when train hits auto at Gal bralth Stltlon. Page 5. Chehalis, Lewis County, Wash., one of conn try's fast developing little cities of 6U00. Pago 6. State Fair soon will open at Salem. Page 7. Six are hurt when racehorse scatters Canby Fair crowd. Page 3. Bishop Cooke, cpening Rose-burg Methodist Conference, intimates change of leaders likely. Page 7. Commercial and Marine. Visiting Eastern port officials study harbor conditions. Page 10. Low bids are tendered on Government oati contract. Page 111. Wheat higher at Chicago, owing to lighter deliveries. Page l'J. Steel Is feature ot strong stock market. Page 19. Portland and Vicinity. Four indicted for eight Portland fires. Page Dollar Day rush begins this morning; mer chants expect $."uo,00H) business, page 1. Chairman Munly favors voluntary military training In schools. Page 9. Knights Templar conclave begins here today. Lodgemtn will visit Vancouver body. Tage 28. National Dahlia Show will open here today. Page :s. R. B. r.iulsen testifies he made $1,000,000 In five years. Page 1. PANCREAS CLAIMS NOTICE Organ Hitherto Unnoticed to Rival APpenJix in Medical Esteem. PHILADELPHIA, Sept. 22. (Spe cial.) The pancreas within a few years will supplant the appendix both in im portance and popularity, according to opinions expressed, by Doctors John B. Deaver and Ernest La. Place, two prom inent surgeons, in addresses before the Pennsylvania Medical Society, today. Many diseases of this organ are un recognized and often are attributed to other causes, declared Dr. Deaver, but tho profession is learning more and more about it all the time. Other speakers said it was necessary to perfect some hatmless method of painless maternity more practicable and less injurious than the so-called "twilight sleep." Hank of England Iteported Hit. BERLIN", Sept. 22. by wireless to Tuckerton. X. J. "According to private reports brought by a traveler who has reached Amsterdam from Kngland," says the Overseas News Agency, "the Bank of Kngland was hit by Zeppelin bombs during the iast air raid on Lon don. The damage done was much greater than had been reported." TODAY THE DOLLAR TALKS. CHILD OF 12 TELLS ROCKEFELLER HOW dividend on .on Cents Explained. PUPILS MASTER HIGH FINANCE Magnate Depely Interested in Youthful Methods. MORE CAMPS ARE VISITED Ho unci or Colorado Properties Is Almost Completed Miners Cllng- to Old Homes, Though New Ones Are Being Built. TRINIDAD, Colo., Sept. 22. A 12 year old girl today told John D. Rocke feller, Jr., how to deal in stocks and bonds, how to run a bank, and how to finance a corporation that would tay a 40-cent annual dividend on a 10-cent block of common stock. It was at Soprls, where Mr. Rockefeller, In the course of his examination of Colorado Fuel & Iron Company properties, stopped long enough to visit the public school. In the highest grade of the school the teacher told the Standard Oil magnate that the pupils had estab lished a bank and a store in which school supplies were sold. "Really," said Mr. Rockefeller, with the delight of a boy at a country fair; "I should like to know something more about this system of high finance." Miner's Daughlrr Explain System. "Blanche." said the teacher, "will you ex; -iln it to Mr. Rockefeller?" Then Blanche McArthur. daughter of a coal digger, walked to the front of the room, shook hands calmly with Mr, Rockefeller, and gravely began her fi nancial lesson. "You see," she began, "I am cashier of the bank. We already have $5 on deposit, all brought by the children." 'Five dollars," exclaimed Mr. Rocke feller. "Wonderful." "We have j!art of this lent out to pupils on good security, of course. We are looking around for a permanent in vestment for the rest of the money." Children's Store Pays Dividends. Blanche then branched off Into a discussion of stocks and bonds. Mr. Rockefeller listened gravely as the child detailed the elements which make bond lssuses safe or unsafe. We have a store, too, Mr. Rocke feller," she continued. "It was formed by some of us boys and girls, who each subscribed 10 cents to the capital stock V e buy school supplies pencils and tablets at wholesale and sell them to the pupils. Last year the store paid between 30 and 40 cents dividend on each 10 cents In stock. Don't you think that was doing pretty well, Mr. Rocke feller?" Mr. Rockefeller murmured an as- M"onrltwiM on rage Column 1.) Wednesdays War Moyes AMOVE which may solve the riddle of the Balkans Bulgaria's mobil ization has struck London with dra matic suddenness. The afternoon news papers, howevtr, refrain from editorial comment. Neutral readers of these publications, except for drawing their own conclusions from large heads and such captions as "Balkan Sensation." would be none the wiser as to whether Kngland regarded the developments as a preliminary victory for the central powers, or merely another overnight turn of the Graeco-Serblan-Bulgarian negotiations. The consensus of opinion was that although the Bulgarian army now is on the move. Bulgaria has not yet cast her lot with one side or the other, but is, as her Minister here expressed It. still neutral, still waiting, but armed. The first bulletin announcing Bul garia's mobilization reached London by way of New York. It was followed quickly by a stream of telegrams from the European capitals to the effect that mobilization, partial or (reneral, had been ordered at Sofia: that Bulgar cav alry had taken the field and that Bul gars of fighting age were hurrying home. Subsequently came the news of ex citement at Athens and of the confer ence of the King with political lead ers. From Sofia the British press re ceived no details. There is general activity of the Aus-tro-German forces along the Serbian frontier. A semi-official dispatch from Nish repudiates reports that Serbia has been asked in effect to remain quies cent while the Austro-Germans con duct their campaign southwards. I ine events In Bulgaria throw into comparative obscurity the continued Russian retreat from Vilna. but. with the exception of the northern tip of the Polish front, where the Russians are on the offensive near Frtederich stadt, the Germans tell of progress throughout mid-Poland as far south as Ostrow, which-they have captured. The greatest number of prisoners taken at any point, however, did not exceed 2000. which would seem to indi cate that the attempt to complete the coils around the retreating Russians has proved unsuccessful. September 23, 1015. Soissons bombarded by Germans. Allies' left wing attempts movement in North to envelop German right wing. One thousand four hundred British believed lost on cruisers sunk by Ger mans September 22. Belgian citizens ordered to doff hats to German officers. World-wide misery, due to war. re vealed by Presbyterian missions. SHIRT INSPECTORS BUSY Health Conditions as Afreotert by Laundries Bein Studied. Inspection of shirts, stockings, nap kins, handkerchiefs and other things that make up the family wash is the latest service provided by the City Health Bureau. City Health Officer Marce'Ius, yesterday put sanitary in spectors to work gathering samples from the various laundries. . The pieces will be examined and test ed to see that the laundries are wash ing them clean and not turning them back infected with germs, which, it is ii6in rii) accumulate lr the laundries fail to use proper piocau tions tnd sufficient water and disin fectants. The Chinese launderers who spray with their mouths arc receiving special attention. EASTERN MAN PROBABLE Successor to President Crooks May Be Chosen Xext Month. ALBA XV, Or., Sept 22. (Special.) An Eastern man in all probability will be chosen president of Albany College to succeed II. M. Crooks, who has re signed to accept the presidency of Alma, College, ot Alma. Mich. It is said that President Crooks' suc cessor probably will not be chosen for at least two weeks and possibly long er. In the event that no one Is se lected before President Crooks leaves Albany on Xovemher 1 it is probable that Dr. Wallace Howe Lee. professor of education, will be made acting president. 10,000 TO GET APPLES Five Girls at Fair to I)il ribqute Gift of Ilaker I.andon Oivlmrd. WALLA WALLA. Wash.. Sept. 22. (Special.) Ten thousand Jonathan ap ples, the finest to be found in the val ley, have been shipped to San Fran cisco for free distribution Walla Walla day. September 29. at the exposition. The 100 boxes are the gift or the Baker Langdon. orchard. They will be distributed by five girls. Literature describing the orchard and the valley wm also be distributed. With this shipment was one of equal size for exhibit in the Washington dis play. DOG IS INDUSTRIAL HAZARD Meter Header Paid Insurance hv Commission for Bite. OLTMPIA. Wash.. Sept. 22. (Spe- cia.l) Dog bites are part of the profes sional hazards of a meter reader, ruled the Industrial Insurance Commission, allowing the claim for compensation of Joseph O'Connell, a Spokane meter reader. O'Connell was bitten in the lc-rt eye brow by a woman's lapdog. which Jumped on top of a gate to accomplish Its purpose, declared the claimant, who Is employed by the Washington Water Power Company, of Spokane. FOUR INDICTED AS ARSON TRUST GANG 18 Portland Fires Laid at Door of "Ring." CONFESSIONS IMPLICATE 20 Mordie Keeney, W. Stewart, G. W. Woolette Accused. NAME OF FOURTH SECRET California Merehunt Said to Have Been Involved in Statements to Prosecutor I'ire Muirshal Trails Former Comrade. Four members of the alleged "arson syndicate" were indicted by the grand Jury yesterday after the jury had de liberated two days over disclosures made by District Attorney Evans and Fire Marshal Jay Stevens as to the ex istence of a coastwido organization for the purpose of setting fires and col lecting insurance. Those Indicted are Mordie Keeney. formerly a lieutenant in the Portland tlra department; George W. Woolette, a plumber; Wil" Stewart, and a fourth man. whose name is withheld by the authorities pending his arrest. Two Confess Part In Klres. Woolette and Stewart made complete statements to the authorities admitting their connection with a number of fires and implicating Keeney and several others. Keeney is the only man thus far arrested in connection, with the ar son disclosures who maintains his inno cence. Woolette and Stewart at rresent are at liberty on their own promise to ap pear when wanted. Keeney is lr the County Jail under $5000 bonds. San ford W. Currier, the first man indicted for the "firebug" activities, is still in jail awaiting trial. Fearing that an attempt may be made on his life as a result of his confession, the authorities say Stewart has appealed to them to put him in jail or hurry his case to a climax. More Are Laid to Kiss. Right rortlaml fires are laid at the door of the latest "arson ring." but some of these occurred so long ago that the time for prosecution has passed. District Attorney Evans be lieves, however, that the eight fires mentioned in various confessions he has received are but a small part of the gang's actual operations. Keeney and Woolette were indicted specifically for setting fire to a housft at 269 Lombard avenue. Stewart was indicted for firing his house at 13Ci2 Greeley street on August IS. This is the latest fire in the long list which the officers say they have fastened on the suspects. Nearly -O Mentioned In CunfmMion. Thus far 10 statements and con fessions have been made to District At torney Kvans and 'Deputy Charles W. Robinson. Nearly 20 persons, many of whom are out of the state, have been ' involved. The number ot fires set cannot be estimated there are so many, the officers say, that tho in formers themselves cannot remember all. The property loss and the insur ance money collected would reach an immense sum, Mr. Kvans believes. The operations of some of the "fire bugs" began 10 years ago. They have set fires in many parts of Oregon and numerous cities in California, the au thorities declare. California Merchant Accused. The latest confession received by Mr. Kvans is said to iniplicate James Barni man, a wealthy merchant of Richmond, Cal., in the setting of a fire at Kir land station in Portland several ycar3 ago. The name ot this informer is withheld for the present. He is said to have also implicated Irvie Rarni nian and Lester Burrlght, who are un der arrest in Oakland, Cal., on arson charges. Many peculiar features have been developed by Mr. Kvans' force and Kire Marshal Stevens in the investigations, which have extended over a period ot three or four months. The dropping of a kerosene lamp is the most popular excuse given to the firemen by the alleged incendiaries after a house has burned. Kvldrnce Planted, Is Report. In some cases the "firebugs" paid as little as $25 down on a lot, says Mr. Kvans, built a house on It. and no sooner was the structure completed and insured than it "accidentally" was burned to the ground. Casters, screws, drawer handles and the like were thrown on the floors of the houses, say the officers, as "evidence" to the underwriters that the house was fully furnished. Sometimes, it is de clared, broken bits of Hiviland china and cut glassware were secured from china stores and placed In the house before the fire as "evidence" of an expensively-furnished china closet. Mixture Generated Gas. Currier himself was a contractor and builder by trade. Much of his busi ness was legitimate, it is said, but he is known to have constructed many of the houses of the alleged "built to burn" kind. These houses were not always plastered nor fully completed. Uniformly, it seems, the members of the so-called "arson syndicate" ut-ed a Ctr.wluaeu oa PS ... co. uina