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THE MORNING OBEGONIAK. WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 5, 1917. TAX SUIT LOST BY RAILROAD COIf ANY iflllllWilMWI HliliUlillW iittll 1 lii fif Washington Supreme Court Restores Valuation Set for L q.-W. R. & N. in .1911. 35 PER CENT IS ADDED Settlement Is Made With SeTcral Counties Corporation Attor-- xeys Surprised, as They Say Jood Case Was Established. V P. '"Ji 'fr- ' 6L.TMPIA, -Wash.. Sept. 4. (Special.) In reaffirmation of a rule of action that the courts of this state -will not attempt to revise the findings of legal tax boards and officers unless fraud or the adoption of fundamentally wrong principles are shown, the Supreme Court today decided a tax contest of five years' standing: against the O.-W. Tt. & N. Company. This decision vali dates a valuation of $48,646,517 fixed by the tax commission in 1911 on the O.-W. R. & N. properties In the state lor which taxes were due in 1912. In the ensuing- years of litigation various counties have made compro mise settlements with the company, but those that have not are authorized to collect the full amount of original assessment for 1912. with IS per cent delinquency Interest added. By action Instituted in the Thurston County Court the company contended for a valuation reduction to f iv. u i ,i &. or about 9, 000. 000, and was granted a decrease of approximately $5,000,000. Attorney-General Tanner appealed the case on behalf of the state, and to- ' day's decision restores the valuation to the original total fixed by the state tax commission. O.-W. R. & N valuations for the years succeeding 1911 have been based on the . valuation protested by the company and have been paid on that basis except for a. general 5 per cent reduction that has been granted public service cor porations generally in recent years. This is the second time the tax suit Just decided has been before the Su preme Court of Washington. .It was taken there for adjudication three years ngo on a writ of review from the lower courts, the decision having been ad verse to the railroad corporation. After the Supreme Court deliberated upon It for some months it was suggested that an equity suit be brought instead. which was done. Attorneys for the O.-W. R. & N. Com pany were rather surprised last night that the decision had gono against them, as they said such a strong show ing of what might be called construc tive fraud on the part of the tax au thorities had been made that a favor able decision had been expected. The suit originally was the result of another action brought by the O.-W. It. & N. Company against the Tax Com missioners in 1910, which was won by the company. Taxes for years other than those of 1912 were not contested in suits by the railroad company, with . the exception of a few in 1913, as taxes j .. irenerally were lowered by the authori ties after 1912. The result of the decision will he to levy a heavy toll upon the railroad company in the collection of 15 per cent interest payment on back taxes held to be due. The amount of this penalty could not be estimated last night. The company succeeded In settling with . about half the counties In Washington in which it owns property. The other half of the counties with which settle ment was not made will be able to col lect the full amount of the original as sessment for 1915, with the delinquency penalty added. SECRET ARCHIVES REVEAL PLOTTING Kaiser Cunningly Lures Weak Russian Emperor to De sert Ally, France. UTMOST SECRECY SOUGHT i it - H v 7y - - I I S&frr- 1 i -C J It. - " 1 -:?Jj i-J., I'M iy , 1 "WIIIy-Nicky" Mcsages Show How Iioyal Pair "Framed" Plot to Force Prance to Align Herself Against Britain. a (Continued Prom First Pa ye.V the two allied powers, England and Japan, on Uermauy. In Europe as well as Asia enormous maritime superiority would soon make short work of my small fleet, and Germany would be temporarily crippled. This would up set scales of equilibrium of world to our mutual harm and later on, when you begin your peace negotiations. throw you alone, on tender mercies of Japan and her Jubilant, overwneiming friends." The very next day the Kaiser sent this telegram to the Czar: "Today again serious news reached me from Port Said and Cape Town. There Is now no time to be lost any more. Ko third power must hear even, whisper about our. intentions before we conclude convention about coaling. Business consequences otherwise would be most dangerous. I. of course, place full reliance in your loyalty. Nicholas replied to this November 28, 1904, as follows: "Fully agree that both our govern ments must now come - to permanent understanding. You may fully rely on my loyalty and wish to arrive at sneedy aettleemnt of this serious question." j ITALIANS GAIN DAILY f PEOPLES A PORTLAND INSTITUTION HURRY! IT'S THE BIG SHOW! ..-. "-; Doug FAIRBANKS IN SctffxT dtf ts oos pyV tardea- flour, an indefinite amount of crocKery and 200 quarts of ice cream in broad sides directed at his ample person since he started on his career before the camera. TODAY'S FILM FEATURES. Peoples D o u g 1 a s Fairbanks, ".Down to Earth." Star Charlotte Walker, "Mary LawHon's Secret." Columbia Enid Bennett, "They're Off." Majestic Bryant Washburn, "Skinner's Baby." Sunset Fannie Ward and Ses- sue Hayakawa, "The Cheat." Liberty George M. Cohan, "Sev en Keys to Baldpate." Circle "Further Adventures of Stingaree." PRICE OF SHAVING TO RISE M PORTLAND BARBERS AGREE TO . CHARGE 20 CENTS. Threatened Strike of Workmen and Advance In Cost of Supplies EJL; Said to Be Cause. Chaves will cost 20 cents, instead of the present 15, in Portland barber shops on and after next Monday. Iseck shaves Mill cost 6 cents extra, as at present. (All union shops have received notice to put the new scale into effect Septem ber 10. It is understood non-union chops will join in the new scale of prices. A threatened strike by union barbers of the city is said to have much to do with the Increased scale. Barbers agreed to demand a guarantee of $20 a. week from the shop owners. Con ttantly increasing cost of supplies that add heavily to the overhead expense of operating a barber shop also caused the master barbers to agree upon the new scale of shave prices. No other changes in the barber sched vie are contemplated at present, it is stated. Head The Oregonian classified ads. KGRA-KOWh 11 !! I rKnrlrt5 Buy a larga I .iriQCL' box now. It's K0" good to have III - for all year. It cools and soothes tender skin That's why so many thousands -of doctors recommend Kora- . Konia why 60 many thou sands of people use it daily. For- severe sunburn, for prickly beat, for all kind of . itches and skin sores Kora- Koniaisthemostcomfortable, the coolest, the most healing thing to use. Ccirwwi ftenrren Chvbou. vO Newark, N. J. ft The Movie Heroine. T movie queen! My movie queen! So eweet and full of virtue, no matter'what they do to you they never seem to hurt you! They tie you to the railroad tracks, they blow you up with powder, they pour invective in your ears and poison In your chowder, but still you never come to harm; you only laugh the louder. My movie queen! My movie queen! What is the secret charm? No matter what they do to you, you never come to harm! The scarlet-robed adventuress pur loins your marriage papers; the hand some villain always cuts ungentleman ly capers; they drop you from an air plane; they drown you in a river. I sit and watch the plots they naicn until I pale and shiver. I eee them aiming guns at you or doctoring your candy; I see them choking you with ropes, or anything that's handy, and tremble for my movie queen; the vil lains get me worried. But through it all my movie queen is smiling and un flurried. They tie you In the haunted house and menace you with axes; they send you into cholera camps devoid of prophylaxis; they throw you In a sau sage mill and chortle as they grind it. My movie queen I My movie queen! Vou never seem to mind it! But in the end, my movie queen, your goodness earns its price death comes to them as has done wrong and wealth to them that's nice. lou weep glycerin tear or two and with the hero chappie you osculate for 30 feet, and all is well and happy. ' Your Becret, girl, is wonderful, if one could only find It. for even when he kisses you you do not seem to mind it. Don Mar quis in New York Evening Sun. "Doug" Perspires for Fans. To have witnessed Douglas Fair banks working in scenes for "Down to Earth." his new Artcraft picture, one could not refrain from thinking of what Thomas E. Edison recently said: Genlud is 95 per cent perspiration and G per cent inspiration. "Down to Earth" was produced prin cipally in the state of California, where 75 per cent of the American photoplays are staged, due primarily to the ex cellent sunlight so essential to motion picture production. On midsummer days the athletic Fairbanks worked zealously in scenes for the ner Art craft picture, setting a rather etrenu ous pace for his supporting cast and working staff. "Perspiration never harmed a healthy person," smiled Douglas in speaking on the -matter one day when the sun threatened to wilt every collar in California, "and all of my people are healthy." 6crecn Gossip. - If "Seven Keys to Baldpate" had been imported from England without the name of an author, shrewd guessers would have stated that George Bernard Shaw was responsible for it. As it is, however, George M. Cohan is the au thor of this most emphatic novelty in years, founded on the story by Earl Derr Biggers. "Fatty" Arbuckle estimates that he has received 110 rolling pins, nearly 1000 pies, several kuiidred, sacks . of Paramount has selected the title for its first serial. The 15-episode mystery drama, starring Kathleen Clifford, is to be called "Who Is 'Number One'?" and the story by Anna Katharine Green greatest of all writers of mystery fic tion, will beaf the same title when it is published in book form after the serial has completed its run. Joe Ryan, who plays the lead oppo site Anita King in the latter's first Mutual feature, is going a popular Western screen lead one better by his use of three guns instead of two. Just how the versatile Joe Ityan accom pushes this must be seen to be appre ciated. Petersburg, Kurino, has reappeared in Jt-urope, is in .fans and seems au thorized to try and get France and England in entente cordiale to mediate in favor of Japan for peace. It seems also as If Chinese being pushed for ward by Japan to offer to mediate on their part. This shows Japan is nearlnr the limits of its strength in men and money, and now that they have gained advantage over Manchurlan army they fancy they can stop and try and reap fruits of their efforts by enticing other powers to mix in matters and get at Manchuria by peace conference. As I know your ideas on further de velopments of war, and that after se vere reverses you will, of course, never lend hand to such proceedings. I thought it my duty to inform you of what seems to be going on behind the scenes. 'I think the strings of all these doings lead across the channel." On October 23, 190, four days later. the Czar sent this telegram to the Kaiser: British Enmity Held Up to Ciar. Many thanks for information about Japan s activity In some European countries. I heard about it also, but cannot quite make out whether strings of the so doings lead across channel or perhaps Atlantic. You may be sure Russia shall fight this war to end. until last Jap is driven out of Manchuria. Only then can some talk about peace negotiations, and that solely between the two belligerents. May God help us. Hearty thanks for your loyal friend ship, which I trust beyond anything." On October 27, 1904, the Kaiser tele graphed to the Czar: For some time English press threatening ,Germany on no account to allow coal to e sent to Baltic fleet. now on way out. It is not impossible that Japanese and British governments may launch joint protest against our coaling your ships, coupled with sum mation to stop further work. Result aimed by such threat of war would be absolute immobility of your fleet and ability to proceed for want of fuel. This new danger would have to be faced in community by Russia and Germany to gether, who would both have to re mind your ally, France, of obligations she has taken over in treaty of dual alliance with you, casus foederis. Alliance Against Britain Asked. It Is out of question that France, on such indication, would try-to shirk her implicit duty toward her ally, though Delcasse Is Anglophile enrage; he will be wise enough to understand that British fleet is utterly unable to save Paris. In this way a powerful combination of three strongest con tinental powers would be formed, to at tack whom Anglo-Japanese would think twice before acting. You ought not to forget to order new ships so as to be -ready with some of thein when war is over. They will he excellent persuaders during peace negotiations. Our private firms will be most glad to receive contracts. On October 24. 1904, the Czar sent thia telesrram to the Kaiser Of course vou know hrst fletaus oi North Sea incident from our Admiral's telegram. Naturally it changes com pletely character of events. Caar Would Force France to Sign. Have no words to express my indiff- ATTSTRIAIf GENERAL STRIVES TO RALLY DISORGANIZED TROOPS. General Cadorna'a Army Frequently FInda Contingents of Foea Boa gry and Thirsty. LONDON, Sept. 5. The Italians nave captured Monte San Gabriele, according to advices to the Dally Mall. The Italians have been creeplns; lowly up tills hill for several days. UDINE, Italy. Sept. 4. Field Mar shal von Arz, chief of staff of the Aus trian army, is reported to be inspecting the Italian front for the purpose of re organizing his troops, demoralized by many recent defeats. Meanwhile the Italians continue their steady advance and are spreading over a larger tract of the country, especially through the Brestovlzza Valley and over the Basinzza plateau, capturing trench after trench and In-some cases finding contingents of Austrian troops literally exhausted and suffering from thirst and hunger, their means of com munication having been cut off by the well-directed Italian fire. Monte San Gabriele still is making desperate efforts at resistanae, but Italian pickets are gradually creeping up the slopes, making its fall only a matter of time. Since the beginning of the present advance the Italians have gained ground every day. while all Austrian efforts to recapture lost positions have been shattered by the energetic resist ance of Cadorna'e army. - GENEVA, Sept. 4. A dispatch from Innsbruck says that after several urg ent appeals Field Marshal von Hinden burg has consented to send two divi sions of Bavarian troops from the Rus sian to the Isonzo front to strengthen the Austrian defense. REED SEES GOVERNOR RESULTS OF CONFERENCE OVER STRIKE NOT ANNOUNCED. r DOWN TO EARTH I 5 REELS OP IM POSSIBLE SITUA TIONS, WRITTEN INTO A MIGHTY INTEREST ING STORY, 'VERY MUCH FAIRBANKS." f'i . NEXT 5 ?V Mary Pickford IN "REBECCA OF SUNNY BROOK FARM." 1RVINGT0N WILL FROLIG COUNTY FAIR TO BE WILDEST SHOW ON EARTH. . the wily Otto at this pastime deserves all the attractive prizes. Frank McCrillls will lure the unsus pecting onto the concrete tennis court t the club with his jitney dance. This feature will be a revel throughout both evenings and it is certain to be popular. Meeting Today to Hear Report on Sit uation, bnt Orders Not Changed, Officials Assert. Conditions were unchanged last night as regards tne tnreatenea striKe oi shipyard workers. It was announced at Metal Trades Council headquarters, ine order to strike Friday morning at 10 o'clock is still In efiect, it is under stood, unless the situation is changed meanwhile. Joe Reed, head of the executive com mittee of the allied metal trades of the city, was called to Salem yesterday and held a conference with Governor Wlthycombe. What took place at the conference was not divulged last night. A meeting is scheduled for today at 3 o'clock, when it is likely a report will be made by Mr. Reed of the objects of the conference. Announcements of Im portance may be made after this gathering. Friday and Saturday Nights Great Ex hibition Will Be Stased on Club Grounds and City Is Bidden. Irvington folks are going to disport at a county fair of their own contriv ing next Friday and Saturday nights. It will be staged at the Irvington Club grounds and there will be a wild time on both nights. That exclusive section of the city is agog over the forthcoming frolic and everyone in town is bidden, to come and play at the club fair. For real devil ishness and abandon, it will break all records in the tented amusement field. Ex-Mayor Albec, former Czar of Portland, will operate a sure-thing game and he guarantees to mystify everyone who tries to beat It. District Attorney Evans will give his well-known imitation of a bad man. lie will be a little tougher and a little more of the devil at the Irvington fair than ever before in his whole mottled career, it is said. Whiskers or no whiskers. Woolly Woodward will play the piccolo. While the others are raising the very dickens, this popular purveyor of poisons gives it out cold that he will at least raise a disturbance. There will be a -hoola hoola dance, of course. Charles E. Cochran will be In charge of as spirited a bunch of wis glers as ever earned an encore. It would be a sin to overlook the nigger baby game, to be presided over by Otto Mielke. Anyone who ran beat Thurston Hall, well-known young leading man of screen and stage, for- . 1 . . ... : 1 1 T ininn 1 r IT i i i i a !-.- I nation witn Jnsiana s rauuuuv. x lino ucch CJitsacu iv iiaj ici.il ai I , - . , Drtiifr i.-,-. n I cytllton ia her first coaling our THREE HURT IN ACCIDENTS ships by uerman steamers, wnereus ene understands rules of keeping neutral ity in her own fashion It is certainly high time to put a ston tn this. The only way. as you say. wnnlH be that Germany. Russia and France should at once unite upon ar ransrements to abolish English-Japa vv ouia picture. Robert McKiia heavy for Ince. iTAR THE HOUSE OF HITS Is to continue as Girl In Department Store and Two Shipyard Workers victims. A Xios Angeles Jury decided that riot and dynamite scenes will not cause a cow to retain her milk, when a dairy farm brought suit against the William nese arrogance and insolence Fox Company. Wheeler Oakman, former Sellg play er, who was with Fox for a picture or two and then Joined Mabel Normand In the making of that, mysterious pic ture, "Mickey," Is to be leading man for Mae Murray at universal City. Wheeler was one of the principals in The He 'er-do-well. "Shame" is the name of the first pic ture John W. Noble, former Met,ro di rector, has made. Zena Keefe and Niles Welch are the featured players. . Sessue Hayakawa, Japanese star, slipped on the steps when descending from hia "aerial" dressing-room at Laskyville the other day and wrenched his back so severely that he was forced to retire for a week or two. Jack Pickford was the hero of a fire at Rio Vista, Cal.. last week. The Lasky squad had gone there on a filming mis sion and the first night the hotel caught on fire. Jack rescued a crippled woman and her brother. m 9 m Universal will make no more two and three-reel dramas. Thus is clinched the dominancy of the five-reel subject. Anna Luther is to play with Charles Ray in Paramount-Ince features. Cleo Madison is back on the stage, appearing in a San Francisco stock company. Bessie Barrlscale once understudied Katherine Kidder in leading Shake spearean roles. The late Fanny Davenport was the wife of Melbourne MacDowell, the chap who scored such a hit in "The Flames of the Yukon. Robert Warwick and Florence Reed are both reported enrolled under the Pathe banner. Warwick was with World for a long time and then the head of his own company, releasing through Selznlck. Thomas Melghan will be seen oppo site Billie Burke in "The Land of Prom ise," from the stage play of that name. . m m w Gall Kane has been selected as a member of the recently appointed wom en's committee of the National Associa tion of the Motion Picture Industries, to co-operate with the Federal Food Commission to save the American peo ple and the allies from possible food shortage. Among other stars that are already active on this committee are Mary Pickford, Marguerite Clark and Ethel Barrymore, you like to lay down and frame out lines of such treaty? As soon as ac cepted bv us France is bound to join her allv." The reference to a isortn &ea inci dent in this telegram evidently con cerns the sinking of British trawlers In the North Sea on October si. iu bv the Russian fleet under Admiral Rozhestvenskl. The fleet which left Libau a week before steamed down the North Sea, expecting an attack by tor pedo-boats. Caar and Kaiser Plot. In the excitement one of the Rus sian ships fired on the trawlers on the Bank, killing several English fishermen. The incident provoked the wildest Indignation in England, and for several days England and Kussia were on the verge of war. For some time afterward the British fleet shad owed the Russian neet, out nnauy ai lowed it to nroceed. "It was my frpeciai wisn. ine raiser answered, "and, as I understood, your Intention, too, to maintain ana strengthen the agreement between Russia, Germany and France. That Is only possible If our treaty Decomes iact before previous Information of France lead. to catastropne. On November 23. 1904. the Czar tele graphed the Kaiser acknowledging re ceipt of a telegraphed draft of a treaty Three neoDle were slightly injured in accidents yesterday while following their regular occupations. James Kennedy, of the Giimore Ho tel, was the most seriously hurt, when he was struck by a falling piece or iron at the Columbia Shipbuilding nlant. He was taken to the Good Samaritan Hospital suffering from a fracture of the shoulder. Eva. Goldstone sustained a slight I sealn wound and was taken to the St. Vincent's Hospital by the Ambulance Service Company, when a cash box fell from the trolley wire at bhanahan s department store, striking her on the head. She lives at &5 Fourtn street. A. N. Noshberger, of 1013 East Thir teenth street North, was taken to tot. Vincent's suffering from a scalp wound caused by a piece of flying steel at tne Northwest Steel Company. GERARD DATE IS TENTATIVE Ex-Ambassador Expects to Be in Portland Middle or September. While James W. Gerard, ex-Ambassa dor to Germany, has not yet determined his complete Itinerary In the North west, it is possible that he may visit Portland about September 16, accord ing to a telegram received yesterday bv the Chamber of Commerce. The Chamber and Ad ciuo recently L. A S T D A Y Charlotte Walker IN "MARY LAWSON'S SECRET," A HEART-GRIPPING DRAMA. ALSO: Wild Women A REAL TWO-REEL COMEDY, WITH LONESOME LUKE IN THE LEAD. Cabinet Vacancy Is Icft. PARIS. Sept. i. After a long session of the Cabinet today at which Presi dent Foincare presided, announcement was made that no decision had been reached as to reconstruction of the Cabinet or the selection of a successor to Louis J. Malvy, who recently re signed as Minister of the Interior. Premier Ribot is still holding con ferences with political leaders. Only Today- George M. Cohan in the rollicking mystery farce ii Seven Keys to Baldpate" Also the clever com edy delight, "His Wedding Night," with Fatty Arbuckle Only Today Tomorrow : "Mother-o'-Mine" and indicated that he had changed his sent him an Invitation to visit Port mind about showing the treaty to France. On November 26, 1904. tne Kaiser telegraphed the Czar as follows Kaifter Sets Net tor France. "You have given me new proof of your loyalty by decision not to inform France without my agreement. It is my firm conviction it would be abso lutely dangerous to Inform France of treaty. Before signing last draft I think it advisable to let French see It. Long as unsigned one can make small modifications in text. I ask your agree ment to acauaint government of France with this project and upon getting their answer shall at once let you know. "Before we both, sign the treaty it would have effect diametrically oppo site to our wishes. It is only absolute sure knowledge that we are both bound by treaty to lend .each other mutual help that will bring French to press uoon England to remain quiet and keep the peace for fear of France's position being jeopardized. bnouia, nowever, France know that a Russian-German treaty is only a prospect, but still un signed, she will Immediately give short notice to her friend, if not secret any, England, with whom she Is bound by entente cordiale and inform her imme diately. "Outcome of such information would doubtless be instantaneous attack by land and he was asked to speak before the latter organization. His telegram yesterday from Hamil ton. Mont., says: "Movements uncertain. May be In Portland the middle of Sep tember. Shall telegraph later." S. G. Lutbrop Is Named. Sidney G. Lathrop. secretary of the Apollo Club and assistant secretary of the Portland Festival Association, nas been appointed business manager of the Portland Symphony Orchestra, as luccessor to Mrs. Bertha B. Talt, who has left to visit her son in Honolulu. Mr. Eathrop enters on his new duties at once. One of his principal duties will be to obtain guarantors and sub scribers for the symphony orchestra season. The first concert will take place October 28. Read The Oregonlan classified ads. CASTOR I A For Infants and Children In Use For Over 30 Years Alnravs hears 9 the - . s I Signature of yCiA6ii A Hurricane of Happiness A Cyclone of Smiles COME EARLY-TODAY N A
