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THE 3IORNIXG OKEGOXIAX, TUESDAY, -JULY 18, 1916.
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FLOODS
COST
Hi SOUTH
$15,000,000
Thirteen Persons Are Dead, 10
or More Missing and Hun-
dreds Are Homeless.
CROPS BADLY DAMAGED
Railway and Five Highway
Bridges Are Known to Have
Been Washed Away Indus- .
trial Plants Hard Hit.
cation of the Southern Pacific Rail
road Company for a freight tariff over
the Willamette-Pacific Railroad which
will meet water competition.
The Chamber of Commerce was
served with a notice of the hearing to-
ay and a copy of the proposed rates.
which reveals that it ifl planned to
charge practically the same rates from
Portland to Marshfield and North
Bend, the larger seaport cities, at the
southern terminus or tne v lllamette
Paciiic, as to Danebo, almost in the
suburbs of the city of Eugene, not
withstanding a difference of almost
120 miles in the haul.
Another feature of the proposed
schedule of rates attracting attention
Eugene is upon a 2000-pound ton of
coal from Beaver Hill and Marshfield
to points in Oregon, as follows:
Eugene. $2.40; Springfield. 32.50: Co-
burg. $2.60; Salem. $2; Portland. $1.75:
Klamath Falls, $6.60.
The papers have been turned over to
the bureau of trade and commerce of
the Chamber of Commerce and what
action will be taken will be decided
upon before the date set for the hear
ing.
RALEIGH. N. C. July 17. Thirteen
persons dead, at least ten missing and
property damage estimated at around
$15,000,000 is the known toll of floods
In five Southern states in the last 48
Iiours.
Although the waters are receding In
nearly all districts, railroad and tele
graph communication still are demor
alized and reports from towns and
villages now Isolated may Increase
both the number of deaths and the
property loss.
North Carolina, South Carolina, Vir
ginia, Tennessee and West Virginia all
suffered heavy damage from the over
flowing streams, swollen by torrential
rains which followed last week's hurri
cane as it swept inland from the coast.
but the heaviest loss was in North
Carolina, where 11 of the 13 deaths are
reported, and where two-thirds of the
material damage was done. The dead
were apportioned as follows:
Asheville, 2; Biltmore, 4; Alexander
County. 3: Marshall, 3; Radford, Va., 1
All but one of the dead were white.
Men on Bridge Missing.
In addition 10 Southern Railway con
struction men who went down with the
Southern bridge near Charlotte, are
missing. The property damage in
North Carolina is summarized from the
latest reports as follows:
Asheville, 25 industrial plants de
stroyed, including cotton and lumber
mills, machine shops and coal and feed
yards. Sixty residents in the lower part
of the city washed away and 400 per
sons homeless with 1200 out of employ
ment. Power and gas plants out of
commission.
h.lKin, small hotel, farmers ware
house, three stores, three machine
shops and two livery stables carried
away.
Monbo, East Monbo, Alspaugh and
Liledon. cotton mills badly damaged.
Buncombe, Henderson and Madison
counties, many mills damaged and hun
Areas of persons out of employment.
Statesville, brick plant destroyed and
Long Island Cotton Mills, nearby, dam'
aged.
Catawba County, cotton Warehouse
with 1500 bales of cotton carried away.
People Driven From Homes.
Biltmore, many persons driven from
their homes and mills and crops in
surrounding territory damaged.
Marshall, three homes destroyed.
Johnsvllle, many homes flooded.
Hendersonvllle, two dams washed
out; damage to mills and to crops In
Henderson County.
Lexington, several lumber mills in
surrounding county carried away
Stock Killed and crops destroyed. '
Cleveland County, Drovo power dam,
rear Shelby, destroyed; crops in coun-
ty damaged.
Five highway bridges are known to
have been washed away, while at least
six railway bridges were destroyed.
The Yadkin River has destroyed all
communication into Wilkes County.
Elkin, a town of 2000 population, suf
fered $200,000 damage, and the loss to
the county is estimated as high as
$3,000,000.
Crops Badly Damaged.
Crops were badly damaged through
out the Piedmont section of South
Carolina and several railway bridge
washed away. At Georgetown ware
houses and stores on the waterfront
and two lumber mills were damaged.
At Kadtoro, v a., several buildings were
destroyed and crops in nearby coun.
ties damaged. Four Norfolk & West'
ern Driages on uaiax branch, one on
Little Creek extension. Pepper bridge.
near Radford, and another bridge near
'I earisourg were washed away. Dam
age in the Pearisburg district alone
estimated at $1,000,000.
Newport, Tenn., is partly inundated
nd many families have been forced
from their homes. A Virginia & South
ern Hallway bridge near Butler. Tenn.
. was washed away. Thousands of acres
of corn and peanuts between Chatta-
nooea and Paducah. Ky., on the Ten
nessee River, are inundated, and th
river is reported still rising. All rail
roads in Eastern Tennessee suffere
heavily.
SHIP BILL IS AGREED ON
CONDITIONS OF GOVERNMENT
E RATI ON RESTRICTED.
FUSION OF PROMS
MOOSE URGED
AD
Idaho Progressive in Van of
Movement to Nominate Foss
or Ford for President.
2 CHIEF ISSUES OFFERED
length of 17,258.8 feet, according to a
communication received yesterday by
Rufus C. Holman. County Commission
er, from Frank M. Cortelyou, resident
engineer overseeing the construction
work, in reply to inquiries. Mr. Cor
telyou says:
'From the south line of Second
street, on Washington street, Van
couver, to the north line of Columbia
boulevard, at Union- avenue, is 17,258.8
feet. This is made up as follows: 308
feet fill for the Vancouver approach,
3531.5 feet of steel bridge over the Co
lumbia River channel. 1476.5 feet of
fill over Hayden Island. 1137.5 feet of
steel bridge over Oregon Slough,
857L5 feet of fill from Oregon Slough
to Columbia Slough. 307 feet of steel
bridge across Columbia Slough and
1926.8 feet of fill from Columbia Slough
to the north line of Columbia, boule
vard."
Prohibition and Woman Suffrage
Tint First Progressive Vice
Chairman Also Shows In
terest in Scheme.
Private Capital to Have First Oppor
tunity to Bay or Lease Naval Re
serve Section Dropped.
WASHINGTON, July 17. Final agree
ment on amendments to the Admin
istration shipping bill was reached by
Democratic members of the Senate com
merce committee today and tomorrow
the full committee will vote on the re
vised measure. It will be taken up
in the Senate after the naval and army
appropriation bills have been passed,
and Republicans have promised not to
filibuster against it.
Closer restrictions on conditions
under which the Government may oper
ate merchant vessels Is the principal
object of the amendments agreed upon.
Under the House bill the proposed ship
ping board could have taken over oper
ation of the vessels bought whenever.
in its judgment, such action was neces
sary to carry out the purposes of the
act. The committee amendment to that
section says:
No corporation in which the United
States is a stockholder formed under
the authority of this section shall en
gage in the operations of any vessel,
constructed, purchased, leased, char
tered or transferred under the authority
oi tnis act unless the board shall be
unable, after a bona fide effort, to con
tract with any person a citizen of the
United States for the purchase, lease
or charter of such vessel under such
terms and conditions as may be pre
scribed by the board."
The committee struck out the section
listing vessels purchased, leased or
chartered from the board as a part
or tne naval reserve and that provid
ing lor enlistment of their crews in
the reserve was stricken out by the
sub-committee, but Chairman Simmons
said tonight it might be restored by
tne committee in a new form.
$100 GIVEN ARMENIANS
LARGE CONTRIBUTION MADE
FIRST BAPTIST CHl'RCH.
Total Reaches 36S and Committee Is
Hopeful Oresona Share Will Be
Made l Soon.
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A contribution of $100 was made to
the Armenian relief fund yesterday by
the First Baptist Church. This is the
largest single contribution made in the
last few days.
The fund now aggregates $5669.25
and is growing steadily. The committee
hopes to collect the state's quota of
$15,000 from Portland and the state at
large within the next few weeks.
Following are the donations receivdl
since the last list was reported
Forwarded .,
J. K. Gill
W. M. Seward
John H, Burgard
O. B. Hcirardt
Mrs. C. M. Commack .
J. H. Davis. Banks, Or.
nation
McFadden & Clark. Corvallls. . . .
Interested. Corvallls
l. R. Parker. Condon. Or.
J. B. Schaefer, Linnton. Or
lwis-Stenirer' Barber Supply Co.
M. L. Kline
Ida A. Kidder, corvallis
J. E. HiKKlns. Astoria
C. R. HiKKin. Astoria
Mrs. Clarence S. , Jacobson ......
Cash
A. S. Patiullo
J. K. Stern
Cash
Mrs. A. C. Charlton
(?lencoe Baptist Church
First Baptist Church
H. U. Kamsdell . . .
F. M. Colkins. Medford. Or
Carl Schallinper
Kathleen B. Robertson
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ST. PAUL. July 17. (Special.) Pro
gressives who refuse to follow Theo
dore Roosevelt into the Republican fold
and likewise balk at the acceptance of
overtures made by Democrats became
factors today in Prohibition party de
liberations.
Colonel J. M. Ingersoll. of Idaho, one
of the members of the Progressive Na
tional Committee who held out to the
last against the Indorsement of Charles
E. Hughes at the recent Chicago meet
ing, arrived in St. Paul prepared to
take the lead in a movement for the
formation of a new fusion party, com
osed of Prohibitionists and Progres
ives.
Idahoan Favors Chance of Name,
The Idaho Progressive leader wants
the Prohibition party to change its
name, adopt a platform with National
prohibition and woman suffrage as the
leading issues, and nominate either ex
Governor Foss, of Massachusetts, or
Henry Ford, of Detroit, for President.
Following such action. Colonel In
gersoll would attempt to persuade the
Progressive conference called by John
M. Parker, of New Orleans, for August
in Chicago, to approve the programme
adopted by the Prohibitionists.
Colonel Parker, who was the Pro
gressive Vice-Presidential nominee up
to the time Colonel Roosevelt refused
the Presidential nomination, will be
placed on the Prohibition ticket for the
same office if Colonel Ingersoll is able
to bring it about.
Get-Together Conference Called.
Colonel Ingersoll will figure promi
nently in a "get-together' conference
to be held tomorrow as a preliminary
to the National convention of the Pro
hibition party, which opens on We-nes-
day. He also will be accredited as
delegate to the Prohibition convention
and expects to cast his lot with the
party, regardless of whether or not it
acts exactly in accordance with his
suggestions.
Matthew Hale, of Massachusetts, who
as vice-chairman of the Progressive
National Committee presided at last
month's Chicago meeting and sided
with the minority against Hughes, also
gave indications today of willingness
to co-operate in a movement for the
amalgamation of Progressives and Prohibitionists.
One of the officers of the Prohibition
National Committee received from Hr.
Hale a telegram requesting that full
nformation regarding developments
along this line be forwarded each day.
Colonel Paurker Will Not Attend.
From Colonel Parker came a letter to
National Chairman Virgil G. Hlnahaw,
of the Prohibition party, saying that
business engagements would make it
mpossible for him to attend the "get-
together" conference. Colonel Parker
previously had expressed to Mr. Hin
shaw his belief in National prohibition.
Colonel Ingersoll was in conference
with Mr. Hinshaw and others of the
advance guard of Prohibitionists.
I believe the time is ripe for
strong third-party movement, said
Colonel Ingersoll. "Unfortunately,
Colonel Roosevelt showed that he was
more anxious to be with a winner this
year than to stand for his principles.
With such a man as ex-Governor
Foss or Henry Ford as our nominee. I
believe .we can poll a large vote this
year and win in 1920."
At the conclusion of tonights ses
sion of the executive committee of the
prohibition National committee a tele
gram was sent to John M. Parker, of
New Orleans, by Robert Patten. Na
tional Committeeman from Illinois, and
H. P. Faris. of Clinton, Mo., treasurer
of the National Committee. The mes
sage follows:
"Will you accept the nomination for
Vice-President on the Prohibition
ticket? Some of our delegates are
favorable to your nomination if you
will accept and believe your acceptance
will be a great step toward unity.
Please wire fully where you stand.
Total $5,060.2.
EUGENE TO MAKE PROTEST
Turin" of Southern Pacific to Coos
Bay to Be Fought.
EUGENE. Or.. July 17. (Special.)
The Eugene Chamber of Commerce in
all probability will take steps to ob
tain representation at the hearing to
Ve held by the State Utilities Commis
sion in Eugene July 27 upon the appli-
WhyCi
Is
-uticura
So Good For The
Skin and Scalp
1. Because the Soap is
a pure neutral sapona
ceous solvent for im
purities which clog the
pores, often causing
pimples and blackheads.
2. Because the Oint
ment is a super-creamy
emollient for soothing
and healing conditions
which cause the skin to
redden, roughen, itch,
burn, crust and scale.
Sample Each Free by Mail
with Sl-o. book oa U akla. Address poat-rard:
RAILROAD ACT VETOED
KOSEDIRG MAYOR SAYS PLANS ARB
NOT SPECIFIC ENOUGH.
City Has No Assurance Mills Will Be
Constructed or Ballast Provided,
for Line, lie Declares.
ROSEBURG. Or.. July 17. (Special
At tonight's meeting of the Council
.Mayor Napoleon Rice returned the or
dinance passed at a previous meetin
authorizing the expenditure of $300,000
by the city in the construction of th
proposed Roseburg & Eastern Railroad
In his veto of the ordinance th
Mayor asserted that he considered th
plans and specifications insufficien
for the reason that they did not specify
proper ballast or equipment sufficient
to operate the line.
"If we could enter into a lease of
this road providing for ballast and up
Keep, or nad assurance that mills wou
be constructed at Roseburg to provid
trartic lor the road, the question
ballast would not be so material," said
the Mayor.
"Unless either a valid lease provid
ing for ballast and upkeep, or unless
a lawful and binding contract for th
construction of mills at Roseburg
can be entered into contemporaneous!
with the contract for the construction
of the road, I cannot approve the or
dinance.
Whether or not the Council will pass
the ordinance over the Mayor's veto
will not be determined until the nex
meeting. It is believed, however, tha
six of the eight Councilmen will vote
to pass the ordinance over the Mayor's
disapproval.
TROOP A HAS FLAGPOLE
FORAGERS EFFICIENT AND
BLEM WAIVES HIGH.
EM.
Non-Commlssloned Officers 'Will Have
First Tactical Ride Today to
Work Out Wr Problems.
BY WILL G. MACRAE.
CAMP BALBOA. San Diego. July, 17.
For the first time since Troop A be
came a separate command, the Amerl
can flag floats In the breeze from the
top of a flagstaff 60 feet high. The
flagpole was the work of the efficient
foraging 'squad, and one non-commissioned
officer remarked after the flag
had been sent afloat that if the troop
remains in this camp another 10 days
each soldier would have a tent lighted
with electric lights.
It did not take long for the Oregon
troopers to straighten the kinks out of
the unbroken and broken mounts that
have been received. With the officers'
mounts that were brought from Port
land, Troop A has enough horses for
the non-commissioned officers to get a
touch of the high lights of a cavalry
man. This morning and afternoon drill
was devoted to adding "frills." During
an hour and & half this afternoon the
cavalrymen were tried out on some
thing new. They were called out of line
and made squad leaders, each leading
his squad as if he were an officer.
Tomorrow the non-commissioned of
ficers have their first tactical ride. Just
where Captain White will take his men
he did not tell. They will be called on
to work out several problems and after
mess tonight non-commissioned officers
were grouped around a smoking lan
tern "boning" up on every hypothetical
war problem they could find In the
book.
COLLEGE TALK IS SURPRISE
Albany Head Going Forward With
Plans for Improvement.
ALBANY, Or.. July 17. (Special.)
That the action taken by the mem
bers of the different Congregational
churches of Portland yesterday oppos
Ing the merger of. Pacific University
and Albany College was unnecessary
as it had already been definitely de
cided that it was impossible to unite
the two schools, was the comment of
the members of the Albany Collc-g
trustees upon the article in The Orego
nian regarding the action in Portland
yesterday.
President Lee is proceeding with hi
plans for opening here next Fall with
the best faculty in the history of the
nstituticn and no mention of the mer
ger is expected at the synod In Eugene
this week.
BEAR GETS MORE PUMPS
Oatlook for Saving Vessel Grow
More Favorable.
EUREKA, CaL. July 17. (Special.)
An additional set of 10-inch sand pumps
was landed at Eureka today and will be
transported to the wreck of the steam
er Bear near Capetown. All hands at
the wreck are engaged in setting
new machinery and making fast neces
sary rigging preparatory to an at
tempt to float the vessel.
The outlook is far more favorabl
than it was a week ago. The san
movement has nearly ceased, while th
vessel's position has changed little re
cently.
John Francis Campion Dies.
DENVER. July 17. John Francis
Campion, widely known capitalist
Denver, died here today arter a long
illness. Campion came to Colorado in
1879 from California and Nevada. He
was identified with mining develop
ment in the West.
FEDERAL TEACHER COMING
Miss Florence Fox Assigned for In
stltutc Work in Oregon.
SALEM, Or., July 17. (Special.)
Miss Florence Fox. representative of
the United States Bureau of Education
in the supervision of primary work,
will do institute work in Oregon in
September and October. Word of Miss
Fox's assignment to Oregon was re
ceived today by Superintendent of Pub
11c Instruction Churchill from P. P.
Claxton, United States Commissioner of
Education.
An inspection of educational work in
Oregon by Miss Fox Is welcomed oy Su
perintendent Churchill, who said that
Oregon's rural school system is re
garded as one of the best in the United
States by Federal officials of the Bu
reau of Education.
"In progressive- work educationally.'
declared Superintendent Churchill, "the
West is leading the East today."
School Flection May Be Contested.
CENTRALIA. Wash.. July 17. (Spe
cial.) Several Oakville residents have
started a move to contest the election
recently held there to authorise the
erection of a new school gymnasium.
Deputy Prosecutor O. M. Nelson, of
Grays Harbor County, was in Oakville
Wednesday procuring data on the election.
The Japanese servant a-irl hai a flat fan
1 made of rouich paper to blow the charcoal
Urea with or to use as a dustpan.
FISH WARDENS LOSE $1000
Court Holds Demand Illegal and Or
ders Money Keturned.
ASTORIA. Or.. July 17. (Special.)
Circuit Judge Eakin handed down
decision today in the case of Theodore
Siverson against R. E. Clanton and
Frank M. Sweet granting a judgment
for the plaintiff against Mr. Clanton
in the sum of $1000 with interest at
6 per cent from September 12. 1912.
The action was brought to recover
money paid for redeeming a fish trap.
The defendants are state fisheries
officials.
In his decision the court held that
Mr. Clanton had deprived the plaintiff
of the use of the trap without due
process of law. that the payment of
$1000 by the plaintiff to prevent sale
after seizure was not a voluntary act.
but made under duress, and therefore
the plaintiff is entitled to recover the
money.
BRIDGE 3.27 MILES LONG
Interstate Span, Including Fills
Measures 17,358.8 Feet.
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DRY FORGES ORGANIZE
CAMPAIGN PLANS DISCl'SSED AT
MINISTERS MEETING.
Business Men, Four Governors, Mayor
Gill. ( Seattle, and Billy Snnday
to Be Asked to Take Part.
Church workers and "regular prohi
bition speakers" aren't going to be the
most active factors In the campaign
against the brewers amendment, ac
cording to plans discussed by the minis
ters and the Anti-Saloon League at the
Portland Ministerial Association meet
ing yesterday morning. Business men
will be asked to address various civic
and club gatherings, and the campaign
ers will endeavor to have men at most
of the meetings before the November
election.
The prohibition workers are point? to
bring Billy Sunday to town. He will
b3 asked to pass at least one day here
and give temperance talks. Invitations
will be sent to Governor Alexander, of
Idaho: Governor Lister, of Washing
ton: Governor Carlson, of Colorado:
Governor Johnson, of California: Major
Blethen. of the Seattle Times, and May
or Hi Gill, of Seattle, to come and
give talks.
"If voted on "now the amendment
would surely carry, but with a per
sistent campaign, which will be much
more difficult than ever before, we
think we will win." said H. P. Hutton.
secretary of the Anti-Saloon League.
Rev. W. O. Shank, president of the
Portland Ministerial Association, pre
sided and gave a short address. Talks
also were made by Rev. W. C. Kantner,
Pr. John H. Boyd, J. E. Anderson, May
or of The Dalles; Frank Hilton, and
E. A. Baker, of Elkhart, Ind.
Streams Being Well Stocked.
ABERDEEN. Wash.. July 17. (Spe
cial.) Numerous trout fry are being
put in the streams of thin county this
Within the
$f Thrift Circle? Igh
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LUMBERMENS f j
XjgL National bank foJ
VVL Fifth and Stark Jy
. Interest Paid JTw
on Savings jdfJr
year. The state hatcheries already
have furnished the county 347.550 fry
and within the next 30 days will ship
108,000 more. Besides these trout the
county has received about 100,000 from
Federal hatcheries this year and within
the coming few days Is to receive an
other 100,000 from the Blrdsvlew Fed
eral hatchery.
Registration Is Itelow Normal.
ABERDEEN, Wash.. July 17. (Spe
cial.) Unless the present registration
is more than doubled in the next SO
days, which seems unlikely, the regis
tration for the primaries will be much
less than in 1914. In Hoquiam only 938
voters' have registered, whereas ordi
narily 3500 are registered for the pri
maries. In Aberdeen about 2500 are
registered, as against over 4809 for the
1914 primaries.
Ttorcc More File in Lewis County.
CENTRALIA. Wash., July 17. Three
more candidates for Lewis County of
fices filed Saturday with the County
Auditor, making eight who have filed
to date. R. C. Rayton has tiled for
County Commissioner. J. R. Buxton, of
this city, for State Senator and C. L.
Sticklin. of this city, for Coroner. All
are Republicans.
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