THE MORXTXG OREGOMA3T, FRIDAY, AUGUST 11, 1916.
EXPENSES REDUCED
BY FAIR SECRETARY
A. H. Lea Produces Figures to
Show He Has Materially
!. Cut Operating Costs.
JOURNAL CHARGE REFUTED
State Exhibit Executive, in Answer
ing Salary Complaint, , Says He
Would Be Glad to Tate Only
What He SaTes Board.
SALEM. Or., Aug-. 10. (Special.)
Conduct of the Oregon State Fair ad
ministration has cost the state of Ore
gon an average of $247.49 a month less
this year than it did last year, accord
ing: to A. H. Lea, secretary of the Fair
Board, who submitted figures from his
books to refute assertions in the Ore
son Journal that his administration is
proving: more expensive than that of
is predecessor.
In support of his contention that he
has conducted the business of the State
Fair in an economical manner Mr. Lea
declared that his total expenditures for
, ell purposes for the six months ending
August 1 were 15233, or an average of
J873 monthly. Last year under the ad
ministration of W. Al Jones $4481.95
was spent In the months of April, May
June and July, an average of $1120.49
a. month, according to Mr. Lea
Labor Expense Reduced.
"Reference has been made to the fact
that I have hired a farmer to help out
in improvement work here at the fair
grounds." said Mr. Lea. "and to the fact
that my predecessor hired no farmer.
I quite agree that no farmer had been
at work here last year, as the condition
of things gave ample evidence of the
need of one. Despite that no farmer
was hired last year, the amount paid
out for labor by my predecessor during
April. May, June and July was $1764.86.
In the six months which I have had
charge here the expense for labor has
been but $1019.10."
Secretary Lea said that his personal
expense account of State Fair work so
far amounted to $340.35, all of which
he had kept itemized. Seventy-five dol
lars of this sum, he declared, was for
a trip he made to San Diego, Cal., on
State Fair business. The secretary said
that the personal expenses of his prede
cessor in transacting business for the
fair totaled $367.78, of which sum
$237.71 was for the expense of a trip
to San Francisco.
Personal Advertising Alleged.
"In December, 1915, and January,
1916, the two quietest months in the
year," continued Secretary Lea. "my
predecessor expended $3725.75. the prin
cipal items of which were $596.37 for
labor. $1110.60 for salary, per diem ex
penses and mileage, and $765.54 for
miscellaneous expenses, which are not
itemized. One 'Of the miscellaneous
items I have found was $91 for print
ing and sending out Christmas greeting
cards mere personal advertising.
"The Journal asserts that I have
drawn more than is coming to me in
salary, figuring on a basis of $2000
a year, the salary of my predecessor.
In six months I have drawn $1050. only
$50 more than the former rate, and
when I took this job it was with the
understanding that I was to be paid on
the basis of what my services were
worth to the state. The Board has
not yet fixed my salary, leaving it
open until after the fair, when the
members will be able to judge better
the amount to which I am entitled. I
would be more than willing to take for
my salary the amount I will save in
expenses over the State Fair expense
last year."
spite of the slight decline in Chicago
and close to 150.000 bushels were sold
here. Dealers quoted J 1.0 1 and $1.03
for club and $1.07 and $1.08 for blue
stem, but men with wheat to sell got
even better figures.
Sajes were - about equal to those of
yesterday. As yet the higher prices
have not smoked out the really big
lots. Some of the big growers have
sold some wheat, but it has been small
lots.
Around 2,000.000 bushels have been
sold, somewhere between a third and
half of the present crop, but exact fig
ures are hard to get. as dealers are
reticent about talking about purchases.
It is a certainty that never so early
in the season has so much of the new
wheat been sold.
The principal lots sold today were
Will Struthera, 20,000 bushels of blue
stem; Rogers & Greenville. 30.000
bushels of bluestem, and these club
lots: Henry Vincent, 15,000; Dimmlck
& Elliott, 11,000; Frank Baker, 10,000;
Scott & Gorham, 10,000; Lester Robin
son, 10,000.
In addition there were numerous
smaller lots.
60 PER CEXT YIELD ESTIMATED
Klickitat Grain Contracted for $1.04
Per Bushel.
GOLDENDALE. Wash., Aug. 10.
(Special.) Harvesting of wheat in the
Klickitat valley is under full headway.
A 60 per cent yield is estimated.
Local buyers are offering $1 per
bushel, but few contracts have been
made around Goldendale. It is esti
mated that about 10 per cent of the
1915 crop in the Klickitat Valley is
still in the hands of the growers.
Frank W. Sanders has contracted for
several thousand bags of new grain at
$1.04 per bushel for bluestem, forty
fold $1.03. club $1. Grain bags are
quoted at 12c.
DEADLOCK REACHED
IN RAILROAD STRIKE
Federal Mediators Unsuccess
ful and May Make Appeal
Direct to Wilson.
BOTH SIDES HAVE "HEARING
POISON MYSTERY DEEP
THEORY SALTS WERE MIXED WITH
CYAMDB IS EXPLODED.
Man's Son Says He Knows Nothing of
Father's Marrying Again and Falls
to Clear Up Situation.
CHICAGO, Aug. 10. (Special.) The
poison mystery surrounding the death
in the Congress Hotel of Morse E.
Davies. a Victoria, B. C, mining engi
neer, deepened today.
Coroner's Chemist McXally injected a
new element into the case when he an
nounced, following an examination.
that no cyanide of potassium was
found in the dead mining engineer's
stomach. This blasts the theory that
Davis by mistake took salts accident
ally mixed with poison.
'There was no chance of mistaking
the poison for the salts,' he said, sig
nificantly.
Morse E. Davis, Jr.. son of the dead
man. arrived in Chicago to clear up the
mystery, but failed, according to At
torney Rothschild, who represents rel
atives.
Morse, Jr., left St. Cloud, declaring
the woman living at the Congress was
not married to his father as far
he knew. He also said he believed his
father killed himself because enemies
were watching him.
"The boy failed to mention either
of these things to me," said Attorney
Rothschild "He never had seen his
stepmother. He did not know his
father had married her."
W00DBURN RANCHER DIES
Perry L. Kenady, Who Came to Ore
gon in 1853, Well Known in State.
TV'OODBCRS, Or., Aug. 10. (Special.)
Per-y L. Kenady died this afternoon
at his home near Woodburn from in
ternal injuries resulting from being
Kicked by a horse Thursday. The -de
ceased was well known throughout the
state.
Mr. Kenady was a native of Pleasant
Hill, 111., a son of William and Mary
A. Kenady, and came to Oregon with
his parents in 1S53. He was the owner
of a fine farm of 217 acres one mile
couth of Woodburn. Two children sur
vive him, Marvin Kenady, of Portland,
e-na jits. . Aiaoei urune, who lives on
the Kenady homestead.
FLOUR IS KEEPING PACE
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of frost last night at Edmonton. Al
berta. in the heart of the Canadian
mheat region. The temperature there
went to 32 degrees. This report added
to the rear which dealers have felt re
Karding the Canadian crop, despite en
couraging statements by Government
officials.
Trading was further stimulated in
the Chicago market on the advice of
commission merchants to their cus
tomers to take advantage today of
whatever profits were offered without
holding out for higher prices until
buyers had all the grain they could
handle.
Brotherhoods Representatives to
Meet .Again Today, but Whether
Mediators Will Join Them
Is Now Uncertain.
NEW YORK. Aujt. 10. President "Wil
son will be called upon to take a hand
in the settlement of the differences be-,
tween the four railroad brotherhoods
and their employers, unless an apparent
deadlock in the negotiations which de
veloped today can be broken, it was
Indicated here tonight by representa
tives of both factions.
After It had heard the contentions
of the workers and later those of the
railroad managers, the United States
Board of Mediation and Conciliation
was undecided tonight as to when it
would again meet with representatives
of either side.
Deadlock: Seems Apparent.
Martin A. Knapp, one of the Federal
mediators, when asked whether there
had been any change in the situation
6ince the Board began its work, replied:
There is a deadlock on the face of it.
Whether we can change it lies in the
bosom of the future."
Mr. Knapp said the Board had not
been in communication with President
Wilson since it arrived here, m When
asked however, if "conditions already
had come to the point where an appeal
would be made to the President," Mr.
Knapp said he could not discuss the
matter. He added that the Board would
continue its" efforts to adjust the differences.
'We are going to consider tonight
what the next step will be." he asserted.
Secret Meeting Is Held.
What concessions, if any, the rail
road managers offered to make to the
men could not be ascertained. The
mediators met the managers secretly
this afternoon and remained in con
ference with them more than three
hours.
The mediators earlier in the day
heard the side of the brotherhoods.
whose chief demand is for an eight-
hour day and time and a half for over
time. It was said the brotherhoods
would remain Arm In this position.
A meeting of those representing the
brotherhoods will be held tomorrow
morning, but the mediators have noti
fied them, it was learned tonight, "that
It is uncertain whether the mediators
will attend."
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LONE DEPUTY SHERIFF LINES UP
WHITNEY WOODS WORKERS.
Sixteen AVeapons Taken From Irate
Crew, Many of Whom Are De
clared to Re Foreigners. .
BaKER, Or., Aug. 10. (Special.)
Twelve angry and threatening foreign
lumber workers of the Hillgard Lum
ber Company, near Whitney, were
lined up today by Deputy Sheriff Ray
Preston, who took away irom tnem l
fire arms before they had time to
resist or to compromise.
After the men were disarmed they
were discharged and three more also
ordered to quit because of flagrant in
subordination.
Now the men want their weapons
back and Sheriff R. P. Anderson says
they canno. have them until they leave
this part of the country or until all
troulJe at the camp is over.
Many -f the men assert they are
American citizens and should have the
firearms, which range from automatics
to huge caliber revolvers, but the
Sheriff is awaiting proof of this;
The trouble started when Foreman
George Maikley discharged a logger
t'nd his companions tried to compel
his retention.
PORTLAND PRICE IS RECORD
Millers Advance Flour to Keep Pace
With Rising Wheat.
Wheat prices scored another record
in the Portland market yesterday when
quotations for bluestem at the Mer
chants' Exchange jumped to J1.17 a
bushel. The advance on all grades of
wheat was from 1 to 2 cents, with a
Btrong market.
With the advance in wheat came
simultaneously the announcement by
Portland millers that the price of flour
had been advanced ft cents a barrel.
This advance placed quotations on pat
ents at $6 a barrel and was accom
panied by similar advances on all other
grades.
This is the second advance in flour
following the beginning of the sensa
tional advance in wheat prices 10 days
ago.
Wheat sales were numerous yester
day, reports coining from all the big
wheat centers of the Pacific Northwest
telling of heavy movements of the
grain. Portland dealers bought heavily
and it is estimated that Che sales with
in the past two days would aggregate
several million bushels.
The further advance in flour brings
forward anew the question of the 10
eent loaf of bread, and some action on
the part of bakers in this direction is
expected soon.
PRICE AT WALLA WALLA FIRM
Sales of Wheat for Day Estimated at
150,0 00 Bushels.
WALLA WALLA. Wash.. Aug. 10.
.(Special.; Wheat stayed up today in
THE DALLES BOY DROWNS
Orville Davidson Victim of Swell
Raised by Steamer.
THE DALLES, Or., Aug. 10. (Spe
cial.) The first local drowning of the
season occurred this afternoon at i
o'clock, when Orville Davidson, the 16
year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. Charles
Davidson, of 210 West Tenth street.
disappeared in the Columbia River. Or
ville was with about 20 young fellows
who were swimming near the Portage
dock, loung Davidson could not swim,
but was on a sandbar in the water
when the Bally Gatzert was turning
around. One of the heavy swells struck
the boy and he toppled over and dis
appeared.
The alarm was immediately given
and. every effort made to locate the
body.
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She finds them equal to every purpose of
the ordinary soda cracker and they have
an added daintiness of shape and quality
that lend distinctiveness to luncheon or for
mal dinner service. The first trial wins her
lasting enthusiasm.
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TRU-BLU BISCUIT COMPANY
PORTLAND
EQUIPMENT LOST BY ROADS
Locomotives and Freight Cars Feivei
Than Vear Ago.
CHICAGO. Aug. 10. There were 7342
fewer freight cars and 815 fewer loco
motives in service in the United States
at the close of the fiscal year 1915 than
at the close of 1914, says the current
number of Railway Age Gazette, not
withstanding the natural growth in de
mand for equipment from year to year.
These figures, the publication says, are
shown in the annual statistical report
of the Interstate Commerce Commission.
Only one other year since 1890 has
the number of locomotives shown
falling off from the previous year, and
in only three years during the last 26
has the number of freight cars in serv
ice shown a reduction from the number
of the previous year, according to the
Gazette.
On a theoretical basis, this falling
off in equipment in 1915 is a reflection
of a condition in support of whose ex
istence no argument is required. .
A practical point of view, it says, in
dicates that as a measure of economy
the place of missing numbers was sup
plied by the use of old equipment.
DANES DEBATE BILL
Lower House Believed to Fa
vor Sale of Islands.
MUCH EXCITEMENT CAUSED
Women Join in Demonstration When
Measure Is Discussed Tapper
Body Thought to Desire
Postponement of Issue.
COPENHAGEN, via London. Aug. 10.
The first reading of the bill provid
ing for the sale of the Danish West
Indies to the United States was taken
up in the Folkething, the lower house
of the Rlgsdad. today and will be con
tinued tomorrow. It is believed that
the Folkething will adopt the meas
ure, owing to the fact that the Radi
cal and Socialist parties will have
majority.
On the other hand, the Landsthlng, or
upper house, it is thought is opposed to
the measure, the Left party having
Joined the Conservatives, who desire
to postpone consideration of the question.
In the course of the discussion today
there was much excitement In the
house and some women among the
spectators shouted. "We will not sell."
WASHINGTON. Aug. 10. Senator
Stone, chairman of the foreign rela
tions committee, today denounced as
a "dishonorable act" the publication
of the terms of the treaty for purchase
of the Danish West'Indies. and served
notice in the Senate that he would ask
for investigation at the legislative ses
sion of how printed copy got Into the
possession of a Washington and a New
York newspaper. Specific requests, he
said, had been made by President Wil
son and the Danish government that
details of the treaty sent to the Senate
Tuesday be held in confidence until
its promulgation should be authorized.
"If any Senator disclosed this treaty
to the public he did a dishonorable act
and ought to disciplined by the Senate."
said Senator Stone. "Every Senator
and every patriotic citizen can have but
one opinion of a great newspaper,
which, when it comes Into possession
of a confidential communication from
the President of the United States,
prints it to the detriment of the Presi
dent's interests."
OLD LANE RESIDENT DIES
Mrs. M. II. Calloway Passes Sud
denly at Eugene.
EUGENE. Or.. Aug. 10. (Special.)
Mrs. Mary H. Calloway, born in Lane
County in 1854. died suddenly today.
at the age of 62. She had been in poor
health for several months, but her con
dition had not been considered critical.
She is survived by her hueband
James H. Calloway, whom she married
in 1S74; one daughter, Mrs. D. E. Mar
shall, of Portland; and three sons. John
A. Calloway, of Eugene; Charles C
Calloway, of Walla Walla, Wash.; and
Louis H. Calloway, of Whltla, Alberta,
Canada. She was a daughter of Mr.
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Shirt Sale Begins Today
-My entire crisp, new stock of fine , MANHATTAN
SHIRTS goes on sale today at money-saving reductions.
See these new prices on the best shirts made :
$1.50 Manhattan Shirts S1.15
2.00 Manhattan Shirts 1.55
2.50 Manhattan Shirts 1.95
3.00 Manhattan Shirts 1.95
3.75 Manhattan Shirts 2.85
4.00 Manhattan Shirts 15.85
5.00 Manhattan Shirts 3.85
Madras, Percale, French Flannel, Silk, Silk and Wool.
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Morrison dlTomthO
and Mrs. Ezekiel Bailey, early pioneers,
and. she passed her whole life in this
county.
The funeral services will be held
Saturday afternoon at 3:30 o'clock, and
interment will be at the Mulkey Cemetery.
Dr. Manlon Gone to Convention.
Dr. Florence Manion, of this city.
left on Tuesday to attend the conven
tion of the new "Woman's party'
which opened last night at Colorado
Springs with a reception given at the
home of Mrs. Leonard E. Curtis, at
Austin Bluffs. Another woman, prom
inent in the Congressional Union, Mrs.
Sara Bard Field, is a delegate and will
be one of the speakers at today's session.
Read The Oregonlan classified ads.
MAPLET0N HEARING IS SET
Property-Owners Want Railway to
Keep Agreement. s
EUGENE, Or.. Aug. 10. (Special.)
Announcement was made today that a
meeting of the Oregon Public Service
Commission will be held at Mapleton
August 18 for the purpose of settling a
dispute between the Southern Pacific
Railroad Company and residents in the
territory between Mapleton and Acme.
At the time of the construction of the
Willamette-Pacific Railroad the greater
part of the county road between the
two points was taken as a right of way
for the new railroad under an agree
ment that a new county road should be
constructed.
The property owners concerned are
unwilling to accept settlement offered
in lieu of the new road by the railroad
company.
$5000 SLANDER SUIT FILED
Clarkes Farmer .Alleges Xeighbor
Accused Him of Stealing Steer
OREGON CITT. Or.. Aug.' 10. (Spe
cial.) Christ Zwahlen today filed
$5000 slander suit in the Circuit Court
against Fred Baurer, a farmer of the
Clarkes district. -C. Schuebel and L.
Stipp prepared the papers in the case.
Zwahlen alleges that Baurer made
the following remark to W. H. Wett
laufer. another farmer of Clarkes: "He
ate my steer. He was without meat
and had to steal for a living. If he
had come to me I would have given
him something so that he would not
have to steal. He took my heifer and
put his brand on my heifer, and kept
the heifer in his pasture. He butch
ered my steer."
The alleged remarks were made
last month.
B0YSEN LEAVES OREGON
Man Exiled From Clackamas Connty
Flees State, Says Attorney.
OREGON CITT, Or., Aug. 10. (Spe
cial.) Fritz Boysen. three times con
victed on a liquor charge and paroled
the last time on condition that he stay
out of Clackamas County, has left the
state, according to word telephoned by
John Stevenson. Boysen's attorney, to
Judge Campbell today.
Boysen was arrested in Mjlwaukie a
week ago for violating the parole.
Judge Campbell released him after he
had been in jail five days, under $200
bonds, until he could investigate the
case.
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If you are an employe you'll be
more valuable to yourself and your
business if you own your Home
Uniform Prices Made.
Acting on the advice of - the Alberta
Market Association, the producers who
sell at that market got together and
made uniform prices on eggs and other
commodities. The system was tried out
on Tuesday and Thursday and was suc
cessful, doing away with haggling over
prices. Home baking will be a feature
at the market Saturday morning. The
hours are 8 to 10 o'clock.
Autoist Has Narrow Escape.
OREGON CITT, Or.. Aug. 10. (Spe
cial.) S. M. Kellogg narrowly escaped
death ' late this afternoon when the
chains slipped off his car as he was
coming down Singer Hill road, leading
from the top of the bluff to the busi
ness section of the city, and the ma
chine dashed wildly down the steep
grade. Mr. Kellogg tried to steer the
machine along the edge of the road,
but it went over the railing at the edge
of the road and onto the Southern Pa
cific track. The car was wrecked.
Mr. Kellogg jumped and escaped with
a few minor scratches.
Read The Oregonian classified ads.
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" have suggested, even urged, the 'coming'
men in my business to own their own homes. "
The employer who recently made this statement had business reasons for advising' his men as tie
did, but they're as good reasons for an employe as they are for an employer.
This business man was naturally more willing to advance a man whom he knew intended re
maining in Portland. He further knew that a man who owned his home or had started buying it would
work more loyally and industriously because of that responsibility.
- On the whole, it means a lot more to the man above you than yon think.
Westmoreland, for which this house was designed, is a district for men of moderate means and
medium salaries..
The home shown above was especially designed thra-our architectural plan. It can be built under
the Ladd Thrift Plan if desired. Investigate this plan.
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