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12 TIIE MORNIXG OREGONIAN, TIIURSDAT, MAY 23, 1916. LEBANON GROWING HOTEL IDEA NOVEL Albert F. Wilson Puts Morning Oregonian Under Door of a. Patrons' Rooms ' BANKS ARE PROSPERING Lebanon Express Conducted for Quarter of Century by G. Tj. Alex ander and V. "Chauncey" De v Pew Operates the Criterion. LEBANON, Or., Kay 24. "(Special.) The first thing that attracts the atten tion of the stranger entering Lebanon is- the neatness anvi beauty of its streets, which comes not simply througn well-paved and well-washed surfaces and the sidewalks of the same sort, but from the beauty of the buildings on either side of the streets. White is the predominating color of the buildings and they look to be newly painted as if for some gala occasion. It is not a large city. By the last census, 1910, it rankesl about the same as Springfield and Cottage Grove. Now the people claim to have 2500, which is true no doubt. At the hotel I met with quite a sur prise at the lunch hour. It is called Hotel Lebanon; the proprietor is Al bert F. Wilson, and he certainly knows more than the usual run of landlords about the hotel business, for his house Is noted from one end of the v illa-m-ette Valley to the "other as a good place to stop. When I went into the dining room I was astonished to find about 60 people at the tables, with about a half dozen busy waitresses attending to their wants, and, all told, more than 100 patrons vere served, and at dinner the number was greater. The dining room will seat about 110, and it is said often every chair is taken. Now just check up in your memory the hotels you know of in a city of twice, three times or even four times the size of Lebanon where there are 100 people who sit down to a meal on just an or dinary business day. You will find you can't think of another in the North west. Business In "Very Good.9 I went to the proprietor and asked him how business was, and he said, "Good; very good, indeed." And then he went on to tell me some of the se crets of his success, which I will not recapitulate; but I will mention one thing that he does that will show that he is above the average landlord. Every morning he puts a copy of The Morning Oregonian under the door of every transient patron as soon as the paper arrives, a little after 7. I would most respectfully suggest, for the ben efit of other landlords, that Mr. Wilson has not had this method copyrighted any landlord is welcome to use it. Yet the Lebanon landlord says it is one of the best and cheapest advertisements he yet has struck. One of the most prominent buildings in town is that of the First National, Bank. Perhaps some of the readers of' this article will remember the bank troubles in that city a number of years ago. The First National was started in 1907, lit a time when the old bank sores were still hurting. So it did not grow with leaps and bounds. Now it has a capital of $50,000, a surplus of $10,000 and undivided profits of J6, 196.26. Its deposits '- amount to J261, 663.11. S. P. Bach is president and Alexander Power cashier. Mr. Bach is one of the prominent and successful merchants of the town and his store runs along one side of the bank build ing and then across the rear to the side street, the bank being on a corner. So Mr. Bach has the bank "surrounded" on two sides. The Lebanon National Bank was started in December, 1910. It has a cap ital of $35,000. surplus of $4650. with deposits of 1114.814.99. S. C. Stewart is president and W. M. Brown cashier. Like the First National, the Lebanon National has fine banking quarters. Lebanon Express Old Paper. The Lebanon Express is one of the old newspapers of the state, having been established in 1887. Its present owner and editor has conducted it for the last 25 years. During all of that time G. L Alexander has published a nice, clean newspaper, has built up a large circulation, has an up-to-the-minute office and is doing a fine job business. There are not many newspa per editors or owners in the state who have been at the helm of the same pa per in the same office for a quarter of a century. Mr. Pittock is, of course, the dean of the West, not alone Ore gon; but the number who have been on the same paper for 25 years is small. Right across the street from the Ex press office is the office of the Lebanon Criterion, owned "ifnd conducted by W. C. De Pew. Thirty years ago Mr. De Pew and I were capitalists in Garden City, Kan. He was supposed to be con nected with New York financiers, for he claimed his middle name was Chauncey. Between us, I remember, our conversation was usually about the millions oh, well, you have all heard . those Kansas pipe dreams. Mr. De Pew is now leading a happy life, is do ing well with the Csiterion and would not trade it for the whole of Finney county, where we made our millions in our minds. Now let me tell you something just ro down to Lebanon and look the" -place over if you wish to get into a live town; if you want a piece of land just remember that there is none better than that around Lebanon, where practically all of the land owners are doingjWell. On the first two days in June the Leb anon people are going to hold a straw berry festival and industrial school fair, which will be well worth seeing. At that time it would pay you to go Just to see the school parade, as there are prizes of nearly $100 hung up for the young people.. Fine Farms Situated Near.' Making mention of the farms re minds me that two of the finest stock farms in Ores"" are located near Leb anon. Percy tearr has a fine place about one mile northwest of town, and the home of the great Jersey herd of J. G. Reed, Jr., is situated four miles southeast. The "Big Brothers" farm, which be longs to Mr. and Mrs. Chester A. Lyons, is situated about a mile and a half southeast of town.' Boys are sent here from sthe charity and other organiza tions of Portland, homeless boys be tween 10 and 16 years. They took 20 boys last year, this year they will have 40. They have found homes for quite a number of boys sent there and every one of them is doing well. It costs the boys nothing. The Lebanon Commercial Club is live organization. Just now they are bendinsr their energies getting a good road up the Santiam as far as Sweet Home, a distance of 14 miles. Mr. Slg urd Landstrom is the president of the club and H. R. Cost secretary. The Crown Willamette Paper Com pany has a pulp and paper mill at Leb anon. This mill has been in operation for a number of years. There is also a large, creamery, ice ami cold storage plant and ice cream manufactory, op erated by W. E. Bohle. And the Mu tual Cream Company, of Portland, has a cream receiving station in the town. These two institutions handle a largo amount of cream and pay out a. vast sum of money in the course of the year to the farmers and dairymen near the town. There is no better dairy coun try anywhere. There are several sawmills near and in Lebanon and a large sash and door factory and planing mill in town. , All of the manufacturing plants are op erated by water power, supplied by two large canals which tap the Santiam a short distance above town. HOLSTEIN NEARS RECORD Cow, Owned at Amity, May Give 20,000 Pounds of Milk in Year. GASTON. Or.. If . Johanna De May Kol. 24. of (Special.) Rush Court. keeps up her present gait of 2000 pounds of milk a month for another six months, it will mean a world's rec ord Holstein cow for Oregon. Johanna is a registered Holstein cow, 26 months old; owned by Herbert Jones, of Amity, Or., and on May 19 finished the first six months of her yearly test with 12,000 pounds of milk to her credit. Barring accidents, ehe should finish the year with 20,000 pounds of milk, which would be beating the world's record for a junior 2-year-old. She has an official seven-day record of 467 pounds of milk. 19.37 pounds butter, which is going some for a cow with her first calf. Mr. Jones is the "man he- LEBANON'S SPLENDID t 0 STRUCTURE RECENTLY ' COMPI.ETKD TO VX. nd the cow" and is one of the most enthusiastic Holstein breeders in Ore gon. He owns and operates a 300-acre stock farm at Amity, Ore. SPEEDERS LOSE CYCLES .ludge Laiigutli Says Duo Must Not Ride Until June 15. Two motorcycle speeders were told to refrain from riding their machines until June 15, when Municipal Judge Langguth passed sentence upon them yesterday. Leo Herman was fined $22 and for bidden the use of his motorcycle, while Albert Burrows was admonished sim ilarly and fined $15. Both were ar rested by Motorcycle Patrolman Frank Ervin. Four other speeders, arrested by Patrolman Erwin, received fines Fred Holman. $20; J. Dr McNeil, $22; Ar thur Berg, $22, and Mrs. M. B. Biddle, $20. LAST SAD RITES ARE HELD Tons of Primary Campaign Litera ture Go Into Incinerator. The last sad rites of the recent pri mary election campaign are being carried out at the city incinerator, where several tons of election cards, posters, pamphlets and other campaign matter is being sifted into the big burners. For the last week virtually every load of refuse has been made up in part. of campaign literature. Superin tendent Hilber says if it had all been put together it would weigh many tons. On election day policemen tore down all the campaign cards stuck up about town and these have been no small part of the incinerator refuse. Son IJorn to Dr. and Mrs. Kostec. Announcement was made last night of the birth yesterday of a son to Presi dent and Mrs. William Trufant Foster, Reed College. The baby has been named William Russell Foster. Dr. and Mrs. Foster have three other chil dren. PUBLIC SERVICE JOB IS AP PARENTLY WON BY COM MISSION'S SECRETARY i i H. H. Corey. SALEM, Or., May 24. (Spe--cial.) Official returns received here today by H. H. Corey, from Lake County, show that he car ried Lake County by a plurality of 189 over Edward Wright, of La Grande, his nearest opponent, in the race for PuHlic Service Commissioner. Mr. Corey said that the returns from Lake, according to his figures, now places him 657 ahead of Mr. Wright, and he is confident that he has received the Republican nomination for Commissioner. ' Mr. Corey is now secretary of the Commission, having occupied that position for the last four years. Formerly he was chief clerk for Secretary of State Ben son and also for a time was Act ing Secretary of State. He is '42 years old and was educated in the schools of Baker, Or. flh 1 Vf'J iDliYWiiii Tir "' $241,000,000 NAVAL BILL RECOftlEfJDED House Measure Provides for 5 Battle Cruisers and 75 ' Hydroaeroplanes. MINORITY . DEMANDS MORE Measure Declared Inadequate; Re serves and Mobilization of In dustry to Provide Munitions Automatically Provided. WASHINGTON, May 24. An elabo rate report explaining the $241,000,000 Naval appropriation bill was submitted to the House today by the Naval com- HIGH SCHOOL BUILDING. i 4 I UJHM- j as r,a...iVr. I" LIVE LIXN COl'STY mittee. "At the same time the Repub lican members of the committee joined in a minority report to be presented tomorrow, attacking the measure as in adequate and demanding that Congress provide for a Navy ranking second among the world's fighting forces on the sea. The bill, which authorizes a building programme for next year, including five great battle cruisers, is to be taken up in the House next Monday or Tuesday under a special rule limiting debate and providing for a final vote bfore the end of the week. All opposition to the measure is ex pected to come from the Republican side, as the building programme is a compromise on which the so-called "big" and "little" Navy . Democrats agreed. World Court la Suggested. A provision that may cause consider able discussion would empower the President at the close of the present war to invite all world powers to a conference for the purpose of organiz ing an international tribunal for settle ment of disputes and to discuss dis armament, and would provide that if before the bill's appropriations are contracted for. competitive armaments should be rendered unnecessary, expen ditures inconsistent with any engage ments entered into might be suspended by Presidential order. An item of $200,000 is included for expenses inci dent to the proposed conference. . Of this provision the committee re port says: "The committee, while desirous that the country shall be properly prepared against attack by foreign foe and fully realizing that the Navy is the first line of defense, yet with sincere hope that upon the conclusion of the Euro pean war. some steps might be taken looking to a settlement of international disputes by -arbitration and discontinu ance of the construction of competitive armaments, recommends the adoption of these paragraphs and appropriates $200,000." $160,000,000 la for New Ships. The total cost of the new ships rec ommended is placed at $160,000,000, of which $59,244,326 is appropriated in 1917, together with $28,367,127 for con tinuing present building. The bill carries an appropriation of nearly" $14,000,000 for ammunition in addition to $1,000,000 for ammunition of the five proposed battle cruisers. The report states that when work is done the present fleet will be "in a highly efficient condition as regards material.' The committee estimates that under the bill the shortages in the commis sioned men of the Navv will be met in few years, and that the 16.579 additional men provided ror are all that will be needed during the next fiscal year. vmong otner provisions are: San Diego. $250,000 for 232.000 acres of land for advance base, expeditionary and aviation purposes. Washington. T: C, $200,000 immediately-on a $600. 000 addition to the gun shop; $1,000,000 on a $1,500,000 experimental laboratory for standardizing war machinery. Naval Reaerve Provided. The bill includes a complete and de tailed naval reserve system. The rank of Admiral is provided for the chief of operations. A $2,000,000 item is provided to pur chase 75 hydro-aeroplanes and to put machines aboard the armored cruisers of the Atlantic fleet. Eighty-live thousand dollars is pro-, Vided for the naval advisory committee' on aeronautics. The Edison civilian consulting board is continued with a $25,000 appropria tion with a view to creating "such a potentiality for munitions manufacture that the organization will be perfected sc that automatically upon declaration of war or National emergency the vast industrial resources of the rountrv n-m begin munitions manufacture and de livery." A new appropriation of $480,000 is made for steel torpedo nets to be dropped from the aides of battleships when at anchor. A commission of five naval officers is created to investigate the navy-yard situation and report to the next session of Congress as to the necessity for additional yards on the Pacific Coast, the Atlantic Coast south of Hatteras, or on the Gulf. H. C. ECKENBERGER DIES Heart Disease Takes Railroader of 5 4 Years' Service. H. G. Eckenberger, for nearly a score of years commercial agent in Portland for the New YorkN Central system, and one of the best-known railroad men in ' ' J: the Northwest, died suddenly at his home near Milwaukie yesterday morn ing from an attack of heart disease. Mr. Eckenberger was 67 years of age and had been in the railroad service, first in the East and subsequently in the Middle West and Northwest, for a period of 54 years. He is survived by his widow. The funeral services -will be held Saturday at 2 o'clock from the Holman chapel at Fifth and Montgom ery streets. Interment will be in Riv erview cemetery. Mr. Eckenberger was a native tf New York state. He began his rail road career in the service of the Nor thern Central railroad, now a part of the Pennsylvania system, at the age of 13. He came to Portland 33 years ago to become chief clerk for the O. R. & N. Company at the Ainsworth dock. A few years later he was appointed gen eral agent here for the Chicago & Northwestern. Subsequently he was appointed agent for the Blue line. When the New York Central consolidated its various subsidiaries 10 vears ago, he became commercial agent for that road, which position he has held ever since. HUADt.Vr. OF REPORTS AT CHAM BER BANQUET IS FINALE. 40 Firemen of Flylnc Squadron Are GueiH Committee Heada Attend. Good Work la Shown. Here are some of the results of the late cleanup campaign in Portland: A total of 43,036 pounds of flattened tin cans, approximately 250,000 cans in all, were gathered up and sold. At 20 cents a hundred pounds, school children were paid $86.74 for these cans. At least $800 worth of various kinds of junk was likewise gathered up and sold. Neighborhood eyesores were re moved, vacant lots throughout the city were cleared of miscellaneous lit ter, insanitary gulches were swept up and made sanitary. The Street Cleaning Department re moved 396 5-ton truck loads, 3133 yards of unburnable rubbish. Tons of other litter was burned in the course of the campaign. These, and other facts, were enumer ated at the finale of the cleanup cam paign, a dinner at the Chamber of Commerce last night. Captains of each of the 13 districts were present and made their reports in person, with two exceptions. Mrs. J. D. Sullivan, captain of District L, was unable to attend, but a representative read her report. Harbor Master Speier. captain of District M, was absent fromthe city. The 40 members of the flying squad ron of firemen who went from house to house through the city during the 15 days of the campaign, mapping out the cleanup work in each district, at tended the dinner as guests of the Chamber of Commerce, under whose auspices the work was conducted. HIP HAS GINGERY BILL SEVERAL NUMBERS SCORE HEAV ILY IN VAUDEVILLE. . Jack Walsh and Ilia Girls Among; Those Who Provide Clever Song-and-Danre N ambers. This week at the Hippodrome brings back recollections of the strong man at the circus and the pretty girls of the musical shows. Six good vaudeville acts and a Gold Rooster photoplay. "The King's Game," starring Pearl White, combine to make a strong and snappy programme, full of fun and ginr ger. Phil E. Adams, with his "Fascinating Flirts." a clever boy comedian. Jack Walsh, with song and dance, carries off laurels for an unusual act.- Phil Adams as "the souse" makes merry in a hotel and makes his audience merry also. The girls and Jack Walsh pro vide popular song-and-dance numbers. Over 1450 pounds are lifted into air by Ralph Bayle, whose act is an as tonishing novelty. In a Japanese set ting, with a teahouse and flowers. Miss Anna Bayle sings. The act- is both clever and artistic and comedy is intro duced by a "bellboy clown." Feats of strength are shown, and Mr. Bayle lifts the teahouse with six grown occupants. Charles Kenna Impersonates the fa miliar old-time street fakir, with a laugh-bringing "rigmarole" and "a cure for all ills." One in the audience and one on the stage proves a successful arrangement for Vincent and Cunningham, two comedians who sing and joke. The audience is put to confusion by a great big laughing man in their midst. Boniger and Lester are a pretty girl violinist and a debonnalre young chap who present a lively dancing and musi cal act. A grotesque musical novelty, with all sorts of queer, uncanny instruments and two weird players is by Delphino and Delmora. FORGERY SUIT CLOSED JUDGE MORROW TO DECIDE CASE OF 30,000 NOTES TODAY. Foreclosure on Mortgage Provided for and No Deficiency- Judge ment Is Decreed. Final disposal of the litigation in volving Hacon Rostad's notes, totaling $30,000, secured by a mortgage on prop erty deeded to him without considera tion and promptly deeded back to the giver in an instrument which has not yet been filed, is provided for in a decree prepared yesterday, which Cir cuit Judge Morrow asserted he prob ably would sign today. Rostad was former cashier of the Multnomah State Bank, of Lents, and is now entering the second year of a 2-to-20-year sentence at Salem for the forgery of notes aggregating $21,700. Foreclosure of the mortgage for the Joint benefit of the holders of the notes is provided for in the decree and no deficiency judgement is handed down against Rostad or his .wife. Celia M. Rostad, who recently came into a small inheritance. In the finding O.. J. Hawk enson. representing the Scandinavian- American Bank, is adjudged the bona fide holder of a $20,000 note and George C. Flanders holder of two $5000 notes. The People's State Bank of Multno mah County, made a defendant by Plaintiff Hawkinson, who sues the Ro stads and Mr. Flanders, holds a judg ment of $3441.53 against Rostad. Lords Debate on Aerial Service. LONDON. May 24. The debate in the House rf Lords on the aerial service was resumed today. Earl Curzun said the -reason the government had not created a ministerial department to take charge of aeronautics was the lack of agreement between the War Office and the Aumiralty on this sub ject. Humboldt was born in 1769, and began writing the "Cosmos" in 1645, when he was nearly M ears oia. COLUMBIA NAVAL BASE NOT KILLED Senate May, by Amendment. Provide for Funds to Equip Station. SPECIAL BILL IMPOSSIBLE House Unfavorable to Project but Chanee Remains for Some Pro . vision at Least, Hearing to Be Held in Few Bays. OREGONIAN NEWS BUREAU, Wash ington, May 24. The fact that the Senate, backed up by the Administra tion, intends materially to enlarge the naval programme, after the naval ap propriation bill passes the House, will afford a splendid opportunity for at taching to the naval bill provision for a naval base on the Columbia River. Exactly the same tactics are to be fol lowed with respect to the Poindexter bill, .appropriating $2,06 5,000 to equip the Puget Sound Navy-yard for battle ship construction, and if the Oregon Senators take the same precautionary measures with regard to the naval base that the Washington Senators have taken with regard to their nav-yard. the navy base authorization can be made a part of the preparedness pro gramme of the present session of Con gress. Amendment Only Hope. There is no prospect whatever that Congress will pass an individual bill authorizing the establishment of a na val base on the Columbia River or any where else, any more than there is prospect that Congress will pass the Poindexter bill for Puget Sound. The Senate will consider, and upon a proper showing, will pass such bills, but the House will not. It is not In accord with the House policy. " But if the Senate once passes a naval base bill, that bill will be in order as an amendment to the naval appropria tion bill, when the navy bill comes be fore the Senate, and such an amend ment will not be subject to a point of order. The Poindexter bill having passed the Senate, can and will be of fered as an amendment to the naval appropriation bill and. for the same reason, will be adopted as a Senate amendment. Before the Columbia River naval base bill can be safely offered as an amendment to the naval appropriation bill, it must first be reported and passed by the Senate as a separate measure, and this must be done before the naval appropriation bill is taken up for consideration by the Senate. HearinBT to Be Held Soon. Within a few days a hearing on the Lane bill will be held before the Sen ate naval committee, participated in by the members of the Oregon Congres sional delegation and by F. C. Harley, chairman of the naval base committee. It is the hope of the Oregon delegation that Senators from some of the other Northwestern states will attend the hearing and participate - in the argu ment, for the base is being urged as a Northwestern project, and not alone an Oregon matter. The suggestion has been made by high officials of the Navy that the Columbia River bill be remodeled to provide, at this time, for the establish ment of a submarine base, to cost $1,000,000, and it further is suggested that the cash appropriation be held down to $500,000. If the Columbia River can get a sub marine base in the pending naval blt that base can be gradually expanded from year to year until in time the Columbia has a full-fledged naval base. SITKA IS MILITIA'S GOAL ADJCTAXT-GEXERAIi AVIIITE GETS XEWS OF CRUISEC Cruiser Marblcheatl to Carry State Militia From Portland on Sum mer Junket July 15. Adjutant-General George A. White received official notif icatlon yesterday from Secretary of Navy Daniels that the annual Summer cruise of the Ore gon Naval Militia will embark from Portland on the U. S. S. Marblehead on July 15 and proceed as far north as Sitka, Alaska, before returning to Portland. In company with the California Naval Militia on the U. S. battleship Oregon and the Washington Naval Militia on the cruiser New Orleans the Oregon men will stage a formal drill at Port Angeles, Wash., before proceeding north. The various delegations are due to arrive in Sitka on July 22 and will be allowed shore leave until July 25, when the five-day return trip to Portland, via Port Angeles, will commence. A crew of about 200, including the Portland High School boys who en listed recently, will be under the com mand of Captain G. F. Blair. All on board will receive ration from the Government and regular pay for every day spent on the cruise. The Marblehead is due to leave Mare Island next Saturday and should arrive in Astoria on Monday. A formal recep tion will be held during the coming Rose Festival. The Marblehead is rated as a third class cruiser, and will carry a regular crew of 20 Navy seamen in addition to 250 men and 18 officers of the militia. OPIUM RING TRIAL OPENS Thirteen Accused of Extensive Smuggling Operations. SEATTLE. Wash., May 24. Trial was bgun in the United States Dis trict Court today of 13 men, alleged members of the "million dollar yellow owl" smuggling ring. They are al leged to have brought large quantities of opium and many Chinese from Van couver, B. C, in fast launches. The defendants are: Louis F. Lortlr James F. Worthlng ton and Melvin B. Miller, alleged white ring leaders; Louis Ding, alleged Chi nese head of the syndicate; Louis Lung Gin, seven other Chinese and A. Ito, a Japanese chauffeur. Several other -white men and Chi nese are under arrest on a like charge and will be tried later. S. A. Kendall Coming Monday. ROSEBURG. Or., May 24 (Special.) S. A. Kendall, a member of the firm of Kendall Bros., of Pittsburg, and one of the men interested in the con struction of the proposed railroad from Roseburg to Rock Creek, will arrive hert next Monday. OS) 0b $7250 50 Automatic electric block signals all the way. $6022 $6022 QO00 J TWO DAILY TRAINS TITLE DUE STEWARD Be Baron Muncaster. WAPAMA POST IS RETAINED Barrister From England Declares McCormlck Employe to Inherit Itank and Vast Estates as Result of War's Ravages. "Lord Happy Jack." Pennington ar rived in Portland Tuesday. Aa the heir apparent to the vast estates in England, Ireland and Scotland and title of Baron Muncaster. he is an impor tant personage at present. In private life he is steward of the McCormick liner Wapama. but since his last trip to Portland, early this month, he has been discovered by a barrister sent from England. Other male descendants of Lord Muncaster were killed in the European war. but there are several women relatives liv ing. Mr. Pennington appraises his berth on the Wapama as more congenial and desirable now than a peerage, and has made no move to take advantage of his -M . - I John Pennington, Steward ef Wi. X pa ma. Who la Heir to English t Title. t ........... .............a prospects of receiving a fortune, though a friendly attorney at Stockton has in vestigated the case, following the ar rival of the English barrister, and Is satisfied that Mr. Pennington is the person sought. In his own behalf the head of the culinary department aboard the Wapama says he has not the slight est doubt as to the facts. He does not care to venture a trip abroad to estab lish any claim, preferring to wait until counselors forward him more evidence. At that he is being besieged by appli cants for all sorts of positions, from valet to keeper of the kennels, and several of his pais aboard ship have visions of being made general manager, traveling steward, marine superintend ent or given some other high billet when "Happy Jack" invests his wealth in steamship stock. And then there is the "Baroness," as the prospective Lord Pennington ad mits, for. like every other mystery. there is a woman in the case, whom he says he will wed. and it is understood that step is seriously considered with out regard to a settlement of the es tate. The latter includes 15.000 acres of rich mineral land, besides several private estates, a theater at Liverpool and such property from which rentals- are derived. Lord Muncaster was born in 1843 and there are said to be no direct heirs since the death of his brother in 1913. FROST DANGER HAS PASSED At Lcust Willamette Valley Fruit Men Feel Weather Is Moderating. ALBANY. Or.. May 24. (Special 1 After several days of worry the fruit men o this section are resting caty I : : v ') 1 Vf . i s j ROUND-TRIP FARES From Portland Daily June 1 to Sept. 30, 1916 To CHICAGO, ILL-, and Return To ST. PAUL and MINNE APOLIS, MINN., and Return To DULUTH; MINN., and Return $1 "11170 To NEW YORK. N. and PH1LA. XX U DELPH1A. PA, and Return $1 1 4TIOO To BOSTON. MASS, X X M and Return $1HQ50 To BALTIMORE, MD, and WASH 1U 0 . 1NGTON. D. C, and Return To TORONTO, ONT, and Return $1 neroo To Montreal, que, X VFiJ and Return $1 1 35 To QUEBEC QUE, X XW and Return $11 flOO To PORTLAND, ME, X X V and Return The Best of Everything Full information, tickets and reservations at ticket office Chicago & North Western Ry. E. C GRIFFIN. C A-. 102 Third Street (Phone A42 14 and Main 814) Portland, Ore. NW4201 again and believe that the danger oC frost has passed. Freezing temperature has 'been the Government prediction for several days. 39 was the lowest that the mercury dropped and it now seems certain the weather is moderating. All the foothill towns of this county report that the hills have been covered with snow, Detroit. Hoover and Cas cadia all being visited by snow storms. Mary's Peak, which is usually visited by many excursion parties every Spring is still covered with from 15 to 30 feet of ice and snow, is failing to attract its usual share of visitors. EUGENE TO GET AUXILIARY Action Will Be Taken nt Cirund Army Encuinpment, June 11. EUGENE. Or.. May 24. (Special.) -V state ladies' auxiliary of the United Spanish War Veterans will be insti tuted in Eugene in connection with the department encampments of the Grand Army of the Republic, Ladies of the Grand Army of the Republic. Woman's Relief Corps' and United Spanish War Veterans. June H to 16, inclusive, ac cording to an announcement made by I women interested in the plan. An ap plication for a charter has been made. It is necessary to have the approval of the National organization before the auxiliary can be organized. The "Battle of San Juan Hill" will be reproduced on the campus at the University of Oregon Thursday night. June IS. Veterans of the Spanish American War and the second and third companies of the Coast Artillery Corps will take part. WOMAN BEHEADS HUSBAND Ax Is Vscl on Man Following Do mestic Troubles. DILLON'. Mont.. May 24. Robert Moore was killed Instantly early today at Bannack. 25 miles west of Dillon, by his wife, who almost severed her hus band's head with an ax. Several houra later Mrs. Moore, unable to stand the nervous strain, notified neighbors of her deed and was brought here to Jail. The tragedy is believed to have been the outcome of domestic quarrels which began about a week ago. following the arrival of the Moores with a little child at Bannack. According to the woman's story, her huaband was unable to find work and took to drinR. ITALIAN SHIP IS SUNK Orealla, From Norfolk, Destroyed Off Barcelona. LONDON', May 25. The Italian ship Orealla has been sunk off Barcelona, according to Lloyds. The last record of the Orealla was when she sailed April 17 last, from Norfolk for Savona. 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