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7 STONE IS LAID FOR SCHOOL FOR BLIND SCENES AT CORNERSTONE LAYING FOR BLIND SCHOOL AT VANCOUVER. Great Removal Sale of Hart Schafftier & Marx Overcoats at 25 Off Nows the time to take advantage of these prices. Coats of all styles; many patterns to select from. $15.00 Overcoats, $12.00 $25.00 Overcoats, $18.75 $20.00 Overcoats, $15.00 130.00 Overcoats, $22.50 Governor Lister and Board of Control Members Attend' , Vancouver Ceremony. BARRACKS RECEPTION HELD THE MORXIXG OREGONIAN. FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 18, 1916. f ir":w""T .. - -iIXp h yt-nJsi rv ' vi Jmpressive Services Are. Conduct cd in Administration Building Thnt T111 Cost $75,000. ' Students Participate. VANCOUVER, Wash., Feb. 17. (Spe cial.) The cornerstone of the State ""-hool for the Blind was laid this after noon, R. I Sebastian, grand master of ine Grand. Lodge of Masons, and Gov ernor Lister, the State Board of Con trol members and the Grand Lodge of Masons officiating. The services were Jmpressive, being held in the open on tne first floor of the new administra tion building, which is being erected fcy the state at a cost of 7a, 000. Governor Lister and party. Including Julius A. Zittle, architect, of Spokane, nrrived at 10 o'clock and were met at the depot by J. L. Sutherland, presi dent of the Chamber of Commerce of Vancouver, and a number of members. A reception was held by Colonel Francis SI. French and Mrs. French at Vancouver Barracks. Masons Officiate at Ceremony, The Grand Lodge of Masons officers were: R. L. Sebastian, of Aberdeen, grand master; A. L. Miller, deputy grand master; S. J. Miller, senior grand master; Dr. A. P. Ryan, junior grand warden ; William Laughlin, grand sec retary; A. G. Potter, grand treasurer; D. Nichols, architect; Rev. R. H. Saw yer, grand chaplain; Major W. Brooks, frrand marshal; Governor Lister, grand orator. In the copper box were placed names of the State Board of Control, a picture of Governor Lister and Colonel French, taken today, Vancouver and Portland newspapers, and a magazine telling of the Panama Canal slide, aerial naviga tion, and the present state of the war In Europe. Governor Lister, grand orator, made the principal address. Among other things he said was that the Federal Government gave to Washington, when it became a state, great tracts of school lands and that 10,000,000 of them have been sold. This irreducible fund brings in annually 600,000, which is used for the maintenance of the edu cational institutions of the state. He added that only about 12 per cent of the lands have been sold, and that some day this big fund may reach a (total of $"5,000,000. At present the idea has not been to lower the taxes with the I6U0.000 income, but to make better schools. Tribute Paid Late Superintendent. T. E. Skaggs, of the State Board of Control, paid a high tribute to the late Professor W. B. Hall, who was super intendent of the School for the Blind until last October, when he died sud denly. He also complimented Mrs. Hall upon the efficient work she is doing in filling her husband's place. The new building, to be the main ad ministration building for the State School for the Blind, will cost about 15,000 and will be fireproof. At the exercises today all of the pupils of the school sang, and a quartet rendered a couple of selections. A banquet, given in honor of Gover nor Lister at the First Methodist church tonisrht, was largely attended. STUDENTS HEAR MR. PIER Address on Lincoln Is Given at Pa ' cific T'niversity, Torest Grove. PACIFIC UNIVERSITY, Forest Grove, Or., Feb. 17. (Special.) In assembly of the students at Pacific University today S. C. Pier, of Portland, one of the trustees of the college gave an ad dress on the significant incidents of Lincoln's career. "Let us believe that in times of great stress God has a se lected messenger and leader to direct .the advancement of human progress. said Mr. Pier. "No man whose history 1 have ever read has seemed in as great a degree to be a response to the divine call for service of his fellowmen as Lincoln. Born in the obsequious sur roundings, he demonstrated what we .Americans may do with a fixed and high purpose to influence the civiliza tion of the world." Mr. Pier sketched with vivid descrip tion the scenes and incidents of Mr. Ijncoln's life, leading np to his tragic death at Ford's Theater, and closed with the appeal to the students to find in this unique and splendid career a motive of devotion to human service for their own lives. GILLIES MUST PROVE CASE Court Refuses Motion for Directed Verdict of Acquittal. OLYMPIA. Wash., Feb. 17. Judge T. F. Wright today denied the motion of the defense in the case of the state against John F. Gillies, former, claim agent of the Industrial Insurance Com mission, on trial on a charge of grand larceny, for a directed verdict of dis missal. Extended arguments were made, attorneys for Gillies contending that actual taking of money on illegal warrants was necessary to establish tbe crime of grand larceny. The state was attempting to prove Gillies' guilt by casting a cloud of sus picion about him and making him prove a negativei case, his counsel said. The defense opened this afternoon. irii 1 f- . -"sxis s s II If- jp? J'h. IW"7 ' in bUUHIIDHDID UttbtU YmmMM Oregon Assessors Discuss ;fik limrnn to nnmrnT SohooNTaxLevy. fex IVlINERS 10 PROTEST BILL WILL BE SUBMITTED ' VVJflS.h WW Change or Iate From aiarch 1 to I ' ''lllV' ' I January 1 1 of Each Year Also Is f ..wsaAMarff? V - Sought by Association Rec- I " - x - I I " - - X - ' ' ' - ofrnition by State Is Asked. ' i N y - ' i 1; ; - I NEW ARRIVALS IN SPRING SUITS AND OVERCOATS We now have on display many of the new Spring garments the newest creations in fabrics and styles. Come in and look them oven We Move to Our New Location on or About March 1st Sam'l Rosenblatt & Co. Temporarily Located 266 Morrison St., Bet. 3d and 4th Sts. Conjiif ht Hrt ScWhier t Mtn deep, and at Rockdale, the west por tal, three inches deeper. The Win ter's snowfall at Rockdale was ex actly 39 feet. The state road department at Olym pia is informed that no serious dam age has been done to the state roads anywhere during the Winter. SALEM. Or., Feb. 17. (Special.) The Oregon Assessors' Association today went on record In favor of legi 'ation whereby counties and not individual school districts would constitute the units for the levy and epportionment of school taxes. W. E. Ball, Lincoln County Assessor, fathered the resolution, which was adopted without objection, and the newly appointed legislative committee will prepare a bill for submission to the next Legislature. An effort to ex tend the resolution so as to include road districts in the county unit plan failed. The county unit plan In the levy of school taxes is indorsed by the State Department of Education. In addition to favoring the county unit plan, the Assessors decided to work for a change in the law provid ing for assessments. It is the plan to have assessments begin Jan uary 1 of each year instead of March 1 as now. w Officer Are Elected. Henry E. Reed, Multnomah County Assessor, was unanimously elected by the association as its president for the new year. He succeeds W. E. Ball, Lin coln County Assessor. Other officers elected are: J. P. Lee. Klamath County Assessor, vice-president, and James H. Davis, Wasco County Assessor, secretary-treasurer. The members of the legislative com mittee are H. E. Reed. Multnomah County; James H. Davis. Wasco Coun ty; y. P. Leinenweber, Clatsop County; Vt". K. Ball. Lincoln County, and Ben F. West, Marion County. Proposed Legislation Topic. According to present plans, the as sociation will meet prior to the next session of the Legislature to consider proposed legislation, which has been hampered by the legislative committee working in conjunction with the mem bers of the State Tax Commission. The association gave its Indorsement to a tentative form of school district budget proposed by Assessor Reed. An effort to obtain official recogni tion of the association by the state of Oregon will be made by the members. t was announced today. The associa tion members declare that the state Spokane -Club Is Opposed to Ferris Bill. Photos, Gordon Stuart. (1) Grand Manter Sebastian, Sealing the Copper Box In the Cornerstone! 2 Governor Lister; 3 Colonel Franeia M. French; (4) T. K. Skagga; (5) F. C. Mom, and (6) W. H. Cochran, State Board of Control; (7) Governor I. later, as Grand Orator of Masons, In Full Regalia. should provide for the printing of the proceedings. A resolution requesting the State Tax Commission to print the record of the convention was adopted. In introducing his resolution making counties and not individual school dis tricts the unit of levy and apportion ment of school taxes. Assessor Ball de clared that the present laws in this respect are inadequate to meet modern business methods, are uneconomic, dis criminatory and conducive to inequal ities and abuses. AUDITORIUM WORK BID DUE Offers on Superstructure to Be Opened by Council Today. . Bids for the superstructure for Port land's proposed public Auditorium will be opened by tne City-Council' today at 3 o'clock. No fewer than 20 bids are expected from contractors all over the Pacific Coast. At this afternoon's meetintr. the Council also will discuss the question ! WORD GOES TO CONGRESS Limiting Prospectors to Develop ment of Only 25 Free Horse power From Streams Is Called Hardship. SPOKANE, Wash.. Feb. 17. (Spe cial.) Members of the Mining Men's Club today appointed a. committee to prepare a protest to Congress against the provision of the Ferris bill which permits miners and prospectors to de velop free only 25 horsepower. They also protested against the action of the House committee in Congress which has refused to consider the Senate bill revising the Federal mining laws. J. W. McBride called the attention of the club to the provisions of the Ferris bill, which he says are not only indefinite in their application to the mining business, but altogether dan gerous. The permission to use free 25 horsepower and no more, when taken from streams and across Govern ment lands for the prospecting and de velopment of mining property, he said, would work a great hardship, for this amount is not sufficient to be of much value. President Dennis appointed a com mittee to act, and to forward a protest to Congress. It was decided to invite John Hays Hammond, H. W. Bradley and some representative of the United States Government, to attend the mining men's convention. Klamath Poultry Entry Wins. KLAMATH FALLS, Or., Feb. 17. (Special.) Bryan Hawkins, who con ducts a small chicken ranch on the Merrill road several miles below this city, recently won three second prizes on a coop of half a dozen single-comb Rhode Island Red chickens sent by him to the Southern Oregon poultry show at Medford. MISSIONARY SESSION ENDS Women's District Convention at Che halls Is Successful. CHEHALIS, Wash., Feb. 17. (Spe cial.) Last evening the fourth district convention of the Women's Missionary Society of the Christian Church ended a successful meeting in this city. The district embraces Southwest Washing ton, and there was a good attendance. Addresses were given by Mrs. Sergent. of Tacoma; Mrs. N. M. Field, of Camas; Mrs. G. R. Alverson, of Olympla; Mrs. W. S. Lemmon, of Centralia; Mrs. Clara Esffom, of Portland, and Rev. W. E. Rambo, of Chehalis. ZMst night 73 enjoyed a banquet. Rev. W. S. Lemmon. of Centralia, being the principal speaker. Among the ministers who took part in the meeting were Uev. n. E. Nor cross, of Kelso; Rev. J. W. Baker, state secretary, of Seattle; Rev. Judson Brown, of Elma: Rev. A. Vanderlinde, of Woodland, and Rev. Henry S. Cham pie, of Olympia. Mississippi Limits Use of Liquor. JACKSON. Miss., Feb. 17. Governor Bilbo today signed a bill limiting the amount of liquor any one person may import into the stato to one quart of whisky, 24 pints of beer, or two quarts of light wine, every 15 days. ! Fastest Growing Specialty Store in the Northwest j News thatll send women thronging to the Blouse Shop today Real Jap Silk Waists $1! SLIDE CLEARED OFF RAILS Great Northern Resumes Vancouver Service. Seattle With the silk market fairly "out of sight," 'it is a real achievem e n t to sell these genuine Jap Silk Waists now for a dollar. Really pre tty Blouses, of excel lent quality. Only 200 of them for t o d a y's sale. Seven pretty, new Spring styles, though our artist only had space to show three of them! Plain, allover embroide red sprays and fronts. "Two-in-one" collars worn high or low. Come early remember there are only 200! Just such a value as this Jap Silk Waist for a dollar, that i s making the Em porium the Waist Shop of the town. Last Call Any Suit $845 Your choice of any late-Winter Suit in the store, regard less of price. About 65 of them which sold at $19.50 to $35. Splendid for all-around wear $8.45 From the East our buyers are sending a stream of lovely Spring Suits Coats Frocks jew Silk UmbrHlaa In tip ple ftreen, cardinal 40 purple, national blue OwiU J Second Floor. Last Call 55 Coats ,045 Yes, they're really $8.45, though many will hardly be lieve it. Coats that sold up to $24.75. III lIIHM 124tol28 SixthSt, JustoffMCasKinSton. HIM II Dandy Coats for Spring wear. 55 to choose from today $8.45 SEATTLE, Wash.. Feb. 17. The mud slide that covered the Great Northern track between Seattle and Everett has i been removed, and train service to Van- couver is resumed. The snow in the Cascade Mountains is meltine- satisfactorily, the eool of the amount of revenue to be turned I weather preventing too rapid thaws. At over to the Oregon Humane Society j Hyalc, the east portal of the Milwaukee for operating the public dog pound. I tunnel, the' snow now lies 18 feet HUNGER STRIKE SOON ENDS Wealthy Man Kcfuscs to Pay Small Fine Until Sanity Is Questioned. HOOD RIVER, Or.. Feb. 17. (Spe cial.) Although he is aid to be worth more than J73.000. Elijah Chapman, said to be a miser, when fined $9 before Municipal Judge Henry L. Howe yes terday, on a charge of disorderly con duct, asked that he be allowed to serve out 'the sentence In the ctty prison. Chapman, who is past SO years of age, then went on a hunger strike In Jail. When City Marshal Carson suggested there might be investigation as to hit sanity. Chapman had a sudden change of mind to pay his fine, demanding his release. T. ir. Crawford Out for Delegate. SALEM. Or., Feb. 17, (Special.) Thomas H. Crawford, of La Grande, to day filed declaration of his candidacy for election as a delegate at large to the National Democratic convention which meets next June In St Louis. His slogan la "Woodrow Wllsoa for President." Political Letters From Forty States to Appear in The Oregonian as a Campaign Survey of the United States Beginnm the week of February 21, a scries of political letters, orue from each of the forty Republican and debatable states, will be started in The Oregonian constituting a Political Survey of the Nation. These letters will be penned by the editors of leading Republican newspapers one in each state including the Detroit Journal, Iflwotikm Sentinel, Pittsburgh Dispatch, Illinois State Journal, of Springfield; Nebraska. State Journal, of Lincoln; Springfield (Mass.) Union, Hartford (Conn.) Courant, Indianapolis Star, Reno (Nev,) Gazette, Knoxrille (Term.) Journal and Tribune, Louisville Herald, Cheyenne (Wyo.) Tribune and many others. Each editor wiH discuss these phases of the political situation in his state; Senti ment among Republicans on the Presidential nomination j strength of the Progressives; relative importance of the issues, the tariff, the currency, preparedness," Mexico and the European war; effect of the result of the election upon the returning prosperity; probable personnel of the ''Big Four" in the Republican National convention; the Democracy as a fighting force in the coming campaign ; sentiment among Democrats as between Wilson and Bryan and the views for which they stand ; prediction of the result of the election in state and Nation. IOI IOI I0E30I IOBOI IOI 201 EX4I IOI IOI 111 11 juflg j j How to make the best doughnuts you ever tasted A really good doughnut is one of the choicest deli cacies that can be set upon a table. Doughnuts shortened with and fried in Cottolene have an appetizing flavor and a wholesome good ness that cannot be equaled. Cottolene is a real aid to digestion. 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