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THE MORNING O R EGO NI AN, TTTESOAT. DECE3fBEP 26. 1916. RECLAMATION AID NEW YORK SOCIETY WOMAN SUES HUSBAND FOR DIVORCE. pxao ronoi lOEaOl lOBOl IOBO! IOK30E IOESOI (OEXOl aoi '3 D D Business Hours of the Store 8:30 A. M. to 5:30 P. M. Saturdays Only 9 A. M. to 6 P. M. o YET BE GIVEN Reduced Attend This Sale Early Profit toy First Choice! in Section of the D o Oregon Stands Chance of Ob taining Justice if Congress Can Be Persuaded. Store! n o SECRETARY LANE WILLING MAY Every Star! on Owyhee and Malheur Projects Will In Part Atone for Past Neglect Opposi tion to Be Overcome. OKEGOXIA.N XETS BUREAU, Wash ington, Dec. 25. The long promised "square deal" for Oregon In the distri bution of money from the reclamation fund will soon be In sight If Congress "will act favorably on the recommen dations of the Reclamation Service and authorize the construction of the Mal heur and Owyhee Irrigation projects. A square deal for Oregon must now come from Congress, for the reclama tion extension act took the apportion ment of moneys out of the hands of the Secretary of the Interior and placed It in the hands of Congress Itself. Oregon Badly Treated. How badly Oregon has been treated In the past Is shown by the last report of the Reclamation Service. According to this report Oregon has contributed to the reclamation fund $10,836,127. and less than half that amount has thus far been expended or allotted for work in the state. The total allotment to date for the Umatilla project is $2,598,751. and for the Klamath an Oregon and California project $3,009,932. Probably half of this latter amount is creditable to California. Oregon's total benefits are below half of what the state has contributed. If Congress should decide to appro priate for the Malheur and the Owyhee projects the full amounts called for the state still would be far short of getting Its just due, but there is no likelihood whatever that full appropriations fa vored by the Reclamation Service will be granted this seEsion. Start All That Is Hoped For. The most that Oregon can hope for at the present session is an appropriation to start construction of the Warm Springs dam on the Malheur project and a like appropriation for the storage dam on the Owyhee project. This, however. Is as much as the Reclama tion Service thinks necessary, for It estimates that It will require two years to build the dams and if the start can be made the money necessary to com plete the dams will be appropriated by the next Congress. There Is, as is generally known, a decided shortage in the reclamation fund. There is not enough money on band to complete expeditiously most of the projects now under way, and Sec retary Lane personally has always be lieved It is better to finish those proj ects before turning to others not yet begun. If this attitude of the Secre tary is made plain to the committee, even though both Oregon projects are held to be feasible, it will be doubly difficult to get an appropriation this session. Officials Are Hopeful. Nevertheless. It Is the belief of of ficials of the Reclamation Service that it will be possible to squeeze out suf ficient money this year to begin the Warm Springs dam on the Melheur project, without doing serious injury to other projects. Furthermore, Repre sentative Sinnott will show to the ap propriations committee that the money appropriated for reclamation projects :omes out of a special fund which can not be used for other purposes, and that no matter how much may be set aside for new projects, in Oregon, the general fund in the Treasury will not be af fected one way or another. The di version of $200,000 or $400,000 for new projects In Oregon will not affect a Treasury deficit; it will merely divert that much from the general reclama tion fund which otherwise would be applied to other projects. It is going to require intense effort on the part of the Oregon delegation to get appropriations this session for the Malheur and Owyhee projects, for there will be opposition from members whose projects will feel the effect of a diversion of several hundred thousand dollars to Oregon. More than that, while appropriations from the reclama tion fund do not affect the state of the Federal Treasury, inasmuch as the fund is a permanent and revolving one, there will be opposition on the floor to any new projects. f&B i y o o Ends Surplus Stocks and Remnants Odds fc Surplus Stocks and o D Read the Following Items Carefully Economical Shoppers Will Do Well to Buy Here Now $3.95 MRS. FRED WATRISS. Mrs. Fred Watriss. well known to society In New York and Philadelphia, has sued her husband for divorce. She was Sarah Thomson when she married. They have been members of the fashionable colony at Westbury, on Long Island. BOARD REACHES OUT Bank of England Made Fed eral Reserve Agent. GOLD TO BE PROTECTED RAILROADS AT HIGH TIDE (Continued From First Paye.) closed. The overburdened railroads of the East have skimmed the cream of the traffic. The congestion at Kastern seaports and on almost every Eastern road, has spelled, In glutted sidings and slow-moving traffic, a flood of revenue the like of which was un dreamed of. even a year ago. For every mile of the 59.200 in the Eastern group, more than 320.000 hne been received in revenues, and every mile has earned a net income of nearly 35900. While the usual eastward trend of traffic, the great demand of nations at war and the local demand of most of the country's factories, munition and otherwise, in the East are attributed as prime causes for this condition, sec ondary attributes are said to lie in the fact that Eastern roads for the most part have short hauls and traverse densely populated areas. Especially is this noticeable in the revenue from passenger traffic. Eastern roads with 59,200 miles having received almost as much in passenger fares as all the rest f the roads in the country put to gether, with a total of 170.800 miles. Western Roads Pay Most Taxes. Western roads lead those of all other sections In the amount of taxes paid, $71,263,601, with Eastern roads second with $62,440,341. The annual taxes of Southern roads is placed at $21,323,604. Eastern roads, however, contracted more bad debts than those of other sec tions, the showing being: Eastern roads, $445,805; Western roads, $367,653; "Southern roads, $152,570. The figures show that the Ameri can people are traveling more and further than ever before at least on American railways. Beginning with $49,805,917 In January, the public's monthly passenger fare rose more than 40 per cent to $70,000,000, slightly sur passing this figure In the holiday months of July and August. Total pas senger receipts for the year. It is ex pected, will aggregate $700,000,000. Notwithstanding the enormous vol ume of business handled and the re sultant new high level In net income. officials declare that the car shortage situation has seriously handicapped the loads in recent months and that were it not for this and the congestion in the East the roads would show still greater revenues and income. To Cure a. Cold In One Day. Take LAXATIVE BROMO QUININE Tablets. Drusgimts refund money If It falls to cure. E. W. GKOVE'S signature is on eaca box. 5c. Hope Entertained That Dollar Will Be .Maintained, as Standard of Exchange Policy Marks Radical Departure. WASHINGTON'. Dec. 25. The Gov ernment today took its first formal step through the Federal Reserve Board looking to the establishment of financial connections abroad, through which It hopes to strengthen the posi tion of the United States as a world banker, and to maintain the American dollar as the standard of exchange. Tinder a section of the Federal re serve act. the board authorized the ap pointment of the Bank of England as a foreign correspondent of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, and an nounced that the 11 other reserve banks might participate in the agency relations. Connections with other foreign gov ernmental institutions. such as the Bank of France, is foreshadowed, of ficials say, by today's action. Bank Of England Flrat. The Bank of England to the first for eign correspondent whose appointment has been authorized since the operation of the new financial system In this country. In addition to being the first step by the Government toward going after foreign business, it Is understood that authorization of this appointment Is a part of general plans for establishing financial connections that will strengthen the United States as a cred itor nation in the commercial competi tion which probably will result when the war closes, and to provide a ready means to offset any tendency on the part of foreign bankers to withdraw the huge supply of gold accumulated here during the war. The action marks a radical departure from the previous financial policy of the country, inasmuch as It places the governments of the United States and Great Britain for the first time in di rect, continual financial relationship. Gold Export May Be Checked. The first effect. It Is thought, will be noticeable in transactions which might otherwise involve the exportation of gold from this country, as the connec tion with the Bank of England will afford a channel through which Amer ican banks can readily purchase Brit ish notes and securities to meet any tendency toward gold exportation. It also will tend, officials believe, to bring about a better feeling and understand ng between the bankers of the two countries. Whether operation through the con nection will be extensive, officials ad mit, is difficult to forecast. They might be on a tremendous scale, it was said, and, on the other hand, might be comparatively light In volume. Miss Lucy Burns, of Brooklyn, with a banner inscribed: "As he died to make men holy, let us die to make men free." Five speakers. Senator Sutherland, of Utah; Miss Anne Martin, of Nevada: Rowland B. Mahaney. of New York, and Miss Maud Younger and Mrs. William Kent, of California, delivered addresses. In a resolution, unanimously adopted. President Wilson was urged to act for universal suffrage, "so that by her death Inez Milholland Bolssevatn shall have delivered from the sacrifice of life her countrywomen." As the audience was filing from the hall to the strains of the "Marseillaise," at the conclusion of the services, a spectator began singing the song loud ly In French. His booming voice re verberated through the Capitol corri dors until the last note had been sound ed by the orchestra. SHIP'SAGTIQNS MYSTERY EX-GHRMA, UNDER PORTUGUESE FLAG, CIRCLES AMERICAN. $6.75 Performance Repeated Two Days With out Giving; Any Message Ex plaining Her Purpose. NEW YORK. Dec. 25. The officers and crew of the American steamer Sucrosa, which arrived today from Tuxpam. Mexico, were mystified by the peculiar actions of a vessel encoun tered on the voyage, which they identi fied as the Portuguese steamer Faxo, of Lisbon, last reported leaving New Orleans, December 18, for Newport News and Gibraltar. The Faro was formerly the German steamship Galata, one of the German vessels interned in Portuguese ports at the outbreak of the war and later seized by the Portu guese. The Sucrosa, her officers said today, encountered the Faro just at dusk De cember 23, about 60 miles south of Diamond Sboals Lightship, which is off Cape Hatteras. She steamed across the Sucrosa's bow, then circling crossed astern and disappeared in' the dark ness. Her name was not discernible then, but the next day (yesterday) at noon, the same steamer appeared and repeated the performance. This time the name "Faro, Lisbon." was distinguished on her stern. She steamed away southeast without sig nalling any message to explain her action, the Sucrosa's officers said. The Faro is registered as a ship of 2580 gross tons, commanded by Cap tain Asinedo. i 18c Quality Plain White and Stripe Outing Flannel, 36 Jnches Wide Odds and 1 C Ends. Sale Price, the Yard $5.00 Quality Plaid Blankets, in Blue, Gray, Pink, Yellow, Heho, Etc. Special Odds and Ends Sale Price, a Pair. . Hundreds Remnants of Ginghams, Percales, Suits, Outing Flannels, Flannelettes, Etc., at Half and Less ! $1.25 Quality Women's Figured Petticoats, in the Latest Styles With Deep Flounce QAn Odds and Ends Sale Price, Each 1C Values to $15.00 Women's Coats and Suits iiv Seasonable Styles and in All Sizes From 16 to 44 Odds and Ends Sale Values Up to 15c Women's Linen, Lawn or Crepe Handkerchiefs, Plain or Embroid- C ered Odds and Ends Sale Price, Each. . Values to 25c Women's Linen, Lawn or Silk Handkerchiefs Plain, Embroidered or 1 A Initial Odds and Ends Sale Price, Ea. Half Price Our Entire Stock of Women's Boxed Handkerchiefs, All Qualities and Styles Odds and Ends Sale Price at. . 2 Values to 85c Women's Novelty Neckwear, Collars and Sets, in All Materials. Odds and Ends Sale Price 35c Ea. Vals. to $1.75 Women's Novelty Neckwear, Collars, Sets, Vestees, All Styles and 70, Materials Odds and Ends Sale, Each W Values to 10c Yard In Dainty Laces Odds and Ends Sale Price, Yard l 3for$l Values to 25c Yard 12-Inch Shadow Laces Odds and Ends Sale Price, Yd. 12c D o Values to 40c Yard 17-Inch Shadow 1Q Laces Odds and Ends Sale Price, Yd. 3C Values to 50c Yard 24-Inch Shadow or Laces-Odds and Ends Sale Price, Yd. o Values to 25c Yard Narrow Venice Laces Odds and Ends Sale Price, Yd. 10c Values to 48c Extensive Showing of Plain and Novelty Ribbons, in All Styles and 1 Q Colors Odds and Ends Sale Price, Yd. 3t Values to $1.00 Great Stock Both Plain and Novelty Ribbons, in All Styles and Col- ACn ors Odds and Ends Sale Price, Yard Values to $1.50 Child's All-Wool Sweaters, in Cardigan and Fancy Weaves Ages (Qr 1 to 5 Years Odds and Ends Price, Ea. a a a Values to $1.25 All-Wool Caps, Tarns and Toques, in All Wanted Styles and Col- Cft. ors Odds and Ends Sale Price, Each M' D o Values to $1.25 Fine Wool and Silk and Wool Scarfs, Both Brushed and Fancy 7C Weaves Odds and Ends Price, Each Vals. to $1.75 Fine Wool and Silk and Wool Scarfs, Brushed and Fancy Weaves M 1 C Odds and Ends Sale Price, Each.PlJ Values to $1.35 Children's Bath Robes in Beacon Flannel, Ages 1 to 4 Years CQp Odds and Ends Sale Price, Each wt Values to 98c Fancy Tea Aprons, in Lace Embroidery and Ribbon Trimmed CQp Odds and Ends Sale Price, Each D o IOE IOE aoi D o o n o IO WOMEN MOURN LEADER MEMORIAL IS HELD IN CAPITOL FOR MRS. BOISSEVAIN. LEGION CLOSES LABORS RECORDS TURNED OVER TO SEC RETARY OF WAR. WRONG POISON UTILIZED CONDEMNED MAN'S BROTHER OF FERS INSANITY EVIDENCE. Pact That Dr. Walto Could Have Em ployed South African Drug but Did Not Urged In Ills Favor. NEW YORK, Dec. 25. That Dr. Ar thur W. Walte, awaiting execution at Sing Sing for the murder of his wealthy father-in-law, John E. Peck, of Grand Rapids. Mich., had confessed to his brother, Frank Walte, that he had se creted a bottle containing poison In Frank Walte's home shortly before his arrest was disclosed in a statement issued here tonight by the condemned man's brother. Dr. Walte Is quoted as saying that he brought this poison with him several years ago from South Africa, where he had been employed by a dental supply concern. If he. had used the South African poison Instead of buying a quantity of poison from local dealers to kill Mr. Peck, Frank Walte asserts, the authorities here probably would not have been able to trace the crime to Dr. Walte. This oversight, the broth er contends. Is of Itself proof that Dr. Walte Is not the confirmed criminal he has been described, but that he Is In sane. Frank Walte asserted this evidence would be presented to the court of ap peals In an effort to obtain a new trial for Dr. Walte. ganlzatlons some time ago. The plans for the new hatchery additions ton template an Increase in the output of salmon from 1,000,000 to 5,000.000 trout. This will restore the Umpq.ua to its rightful position as a trout stream. Another matter which is being con sidered by the local sportsmen Is the opening of the lower river so that steel heads may reach the higher waters. Under the present system of fishing near the mouth of the river, they de clare, it Is almost Impossible for a fish to dodge the many nets. The plan being considered as a relief to this situation is to pass legislation making' It compulsory for the fisher men to allow the river to be open or certain days of each week. They hope to secure such legislation during the next session of the Legislature which convenes at Salem on January 5. prise to their friends. Mr. Reynolds is manager of his father's ranch near La Grande. Succ Resolution Unanimously Adopted Asks for Suffrage That Life May Not Have Been Given in Vain. WASHINGTON, Dec. 25. Memorial services for a woman suffragist were held In the Capitol today for the first time. Members of the Congressional Union for Woman Suffrage gathered in Statuary Hall, by permission of Speaker Clark, to pay tribute to the late Inez Milholland Boissevain, and such a crowd tried to join them that the police had to bar the entrances. The hall and its galleries were packed before the programme began. Forming in the House office building, the suffrage leaders, with girls carry ing banners of suffrage colors, and choir boys led by Miss Alice PauV, chairman of the Congressional Union, marched across to the Capitol. Miss Paul bore a banner that Miss Milhol land as a girl carried in 1310 in the first suffrage parade held in this coun try. Close behind Miss Paul came of Defense Organisations At tributed to Generosity of One Man, Who Is Annoymous. NEW YORK. Dec. 25. Acting under the direction of Secretary of War Ba ker, the American Legion, a civil or ganization formed in February, 1315, for the purpose of classifying men of military and technical experience as a defense measure, has turned over its records to the recently-created Council of National Defense, of which the Sec retary Is chairman, and will on Janu ary 1 disincorporate. The American Legion, in making this announcement today, says that Its 24, 000 enrolled members will be "released from all obligations of promise of serv ice or payment of dues," but that it has requested the Secretary of War to communicate with each member, "in order that his willingness to render service, as expressed by his Legion membership, can be made use of by the Government, through the officers' reserve corps or enlisted men's reserve corps, or in such other ways as the Council for National Defense may de vise." Members desiring "to render further Individual service," are urged to join the American National Red Cross. The statement Is made that the work of the Legion could not have been ac complished "but for the financial sup port of one generous and patriotic of ficer, not a member of the board, whose identity the directors are not at liberty to disclose." MURDER TRIAL TO BEGIN Former Boston Broker Charged With Killing His Wife. OSSIPEE. N. H.. Dec. 35. Prepara tions were complete tonight for the opening tomorrow of the trial of Frederick T. Small, formerly a Boston broker, charged with the murder of his wife. Florence A. Small, early In the morning of September 29. Mrs. Small's body was found In the ruins of the cottage which she and her husband had occupied on the shore of Lake Osslpee. In the village of Mountain View. During the night the house had been burned. Small had left the home late in the previous afternoon for Boston. He declared that he had bidden farewell to Mrs. Small on his departure and that she was then In the house. At the Drellminary hearing counsel for Small offered no defense. Attorney-General Tuttle Introduced evidence to show that a short time before Mrs. Small's death Small had obtained a Joint insur ance policy for $20,000 on his own life and that of his wire. FLAX MOVE IS PROTESTED Turner Concern Opposes Sale In Ire land of State's Seed. SALEM. Or.. Dec 25. (Special.) E. J. Hansett. manager of the Oregon Flax Fiber Company at Turner and former superintendent of the flax plant at the penitentiary, has written a letter in which he protests against the move of the State Board of Control In plan ning to sell flaxseed to a firm In Bel fast. Ireland. He .state that If the move Is made it will mean a draw back to the flax industry In Oregon and that mills at Eugene and Turner must shut down. He gives as a reason for this assertion that the mills named have disposed of their seed, expecting to get more later from the state. He declares that he has Just received a telegram from a New York capitalist who is planning to come .to the state In January and construct a large plant in Oregon. In event the deal with the Belfast firm proves successful the pro posal of the capitalist may be check mated, he states. MAN KILLS 906 RABBITS Crook County Homesteader Collects 945. 30 In Bounty. PRINEVIlLE. Or.. Dec. 25. (Spe cial.) The Jackrabbtt bounty law re cently enacted by the initiative in Crook County Is getting results with a vengeance as was indicated today when Oscar Cruse, a homesteader of Near Brothers, this county, came to Prineville with the scalps of 906 Jack rabbits, which he had killed within the past week. He received $45.30 bounty from County Clerk Warren Brown. It Is reported in this county that Representative Sinnott has found a market for the pelts at ltj cents per pound, and If this is true, hunting Jackrabblts may develop Into profit able cold-weather occupation. Capfain's Request Saves Thief. ROSEBURO. Or., Dec 25. (Special.) Justice of the Peace L R. Riddle, acting upon the request of Captain J. A. Buchanan, of the local company. Coast Artillery, today dismissed th warrant of arrest charging Lor en, Boughton with the crime of larceny from the United States Government- It was claimed that Boughton carried away two Army rifles, which were a part of the paraphernalia of the local companv. The accused man was ap prehended In Idaho, but prosecution was dropped upon his promise to re turn the stolen rifles to Roseburg. issssssaBasBBiiiiiiiiiiiiiaiaiii Multnomah War Veteran Dies. ROSEBURO. Or., Deo. 35. (Special.) Edward Garland, member of the Ore gon Soldiers' Home, died here Friday after a four weeks' Illness. Mr. Gar land was a native of New York and served as corporal In Company C Ninety-fourth New York Infantry, dur ing the Civil War. He has never been married and left no relatives as far as the officers of the home have been able to determine. Mr. Garland was 74 years of age and was admitted to the home from Multnomah County on June 21. 1909. King of Happiness Douglas Fairbanks in I "The Matrimaniac 99 It's filled with romance, thrills, comedy and of joy. Records disclose that for several cen turies an infusion of nutgalls treated with sulphate of iron composed the only known, Ink. NORTH UMPQUA TO GET AID State Biojoglst Flnley Tells of Plans for New Hatchery. ROSEBURO. Or.. Dec. 25. (Special.) During his stay here William Finley. state biologist, said the State Game and Fish Commission was making plans to Improve the North Umpqua fish batch ery In compliance with resolutions adopted by the local sportsmens' or- Lee Reynolds Weds. LA GRANDE. Or.. Dec. 25. (Spe cial.) Lee Reynolds, two years ago captain of the O. A. C. track team and considered one of the fastest middle distance runners Northwestern colleges have turned out In years, was quietly married today to Miss Lillian Reynolds, an accomplished musician of this city. The nuptials came as a complete sur- Columbia River Highway in unusual pictures. BELL :ANS Absolutely Removes Indigestion. One package proves it 25c at all druggists... FLORENCE ROSE FASHIONS Costumes of Old Spain COLUMBIA 1 SIXTH AT WASHINGTON '.HSSSSBSfiSBSSSBSBSSSSSSSSS