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TIIE 3I0RXIXG OREGOXIAX, FRIDAT, - APRIL 18, 1919. IT I LUELKT CLUB Oregon Championship Tennis Contests Awarded. EVENT TO OCCUR IN JULY More Actire Participation by All Clubs In Fostering Tennis Is Recommended. tensive public hearing:, the Welfare committee of the city council presented the draft of the proposed measure, increasing the safeguards to the pub lis. The council postponed action on it for one week. The ordinance provides that shall be unlawful for any person for pay or remuneration of any kind whatever, by means of occult of psychic powers, faculties or forces, to under take or pretend to find or restore lost or stolen money or property, to under take or pretend to locate oil wells, gold and silver or other ores, to undertake or pretend to restore lost love, friend ship or affection, or to pretend to unite or reunite or to find lovers, husbands. wives, lost relatives or friends. The clause covering- advertising provides that It shall be nnlawfa to advertise, or for any person, firm or corporation to print or circulate advertisements of this class of bust ness other than the name, address. telephone number and hours of busi ness of auch person, together with the name or names of the Calling, oc cupatioa or profession or art car ried on, engaged In or practiced. The ordinance provides that noth ing contained therein shall be deemed to prohibit any bone fide church or religious organisation from publishing and announcing notices of the meetings or such church or religious oritani; lion. It is provided that fees, gratuities. emoluments or profits of such church ministers shall be paid solely for the benefit of the organisations, but nothing In the ordinance is to be deemed prohibitive of voluntary con tributlons to auch church or religious organisation by any person receiv ing Its services. This section is to meet the objections raised by mem bers of Spiritualist churches. Fortland'a tennis association awarded the Oregon state championship tourna ment to the Laurelhurst club at yester day's meeting, beld at the Hotel Port land. A letter was presented from Leonard C. Wilson, chairman of the tennla committee of the Laurelhurst club, who waa unable to attend the meeting owing to absence from the city. The event will take place the wwk of July 14. City championship was awarded to the Multnomah Amateur Athletic club. The Portland center championship, the qualifying evont for boys, girls and Juniors, was awarded to the Irvington club, the data to be set after consulta tion with high school representatives. In considering any offer for a new challenge cup for tna Oregon state championship to take the place of the Fiske challenge cup which was perma nently won last year, the following resolution prevailed: "No cup will be acceptable where tha donor stipulates that the winner thereof shall not be called open to play through the entire (President Wilson's Programme for tournament. TELLS MENACE AUTHOR OP ' IIOASTS FAMOIS QCEUY DRV IiAW. League of Nations Indorsed. Bolshevikt Arraigned. NEW T)RK. 1 raised my annual Income from six thousand cold beans to twenty-five thousand 4ron men, pretty good for a mental incompetent, don't titlon for bora and girl who have not I you think moV Thus epoke John Arm- Kepresentatlves wera keen in ex pressing recommendations to the effect that all clubs shauld take more active part in fostering tennis among the lOTirr people on tha public courts. Delegates pledged two challenge " cups, one for boys and one for girls, to toe played for each year under these terms: "Cups shall be open for compe- reacaed their 15th birthday on March a of the year of competition. 1 It was decided to hold contests among the Laurelhurst. Irvington and Mult nomah Amateur Athletic clubs. Owing strong Chaloner, author of the famous query, "Who's looney now?" In proudly referring to his business acumen a few minutes after he stepped from his room In the Hotel Brevoort at ten o'clock to the scarcity of material at Waverley I yesterday morning. Country club all this organisation will do this season is compete in challenge tournaments. James it- Markte. Irving R. Webster. A. D. Munger and Leonard C Wilson were appointed as a commit- Mr. Chaloner Is a brother of Lewis Stuyvesant Chanter, formerly lieutenant governor of the state. Ho also is a one-time husband of Amelia Rives, the novelist. He was preparing yesterday OIW. EX-SECRETARY Protection Against Recurrence of Incendiarism Wanted. INFORMATION IS REVEALED Statement Is Made Members Are Still Carrying on Cam paign of tbe "Torch." PHOENIX, Aria. Documents and alleged revelations of a former sec retary of the Industrial Workers of the World branch were made public here today by Sheriff John Mont gomery of Maricopa county, in a cam paign of publicity "to let the people of this citv and county know I. W. W. conditions here and to Impress Washington the necessity for protect ion." An alleged verbatim copy of state ment by a former JL w. w. secretary. reciDt for money and letter were among the naoerfl published. Sheriff Montgomery said nis imor mation had been- presented to a com mittee of citizens and this committee had decided upon publicity as a remedy. secret investigation ot L w. w member of Winston & Co., contractors, of Richmond; Senator J. E. West of Suffolk, a member of the senat.e com mittee on roads and internal naviga tion; Homer L. Ferguson of Newport News, president and general manager of the Newport News Shipbuilding & Drydock company; Fairfax Harrison of Belvoir, president of the Southern Pa cific Railway company; Wade H. Mas sie of Washington, Va a prominent farmer of Rappahannock county and a member of the executive committee of the Virginia Good Roads associa tion, and C L. Bentley of Roanoke, secretary of the Roanoke trades and labor council. It is understood that Governor Davis has created this board in order to bring to the assistance of the state the best engineering and business ability in Virginia in solving' the road problems. The governor has stated that "there is no more vital problem confronting us today than our roads, and he has re iterated Ms pre-election pledge to ieave no stone unturned to give vir ginia a system of modern, substantial highways." but he is determined that a procedure be adopted which will in sure the taxpayers getting real Toads built on the ground and not paper roads for the money to be spent. For the year ending February 29, 120. there are now provided for or unexpended in the hands of tho auditor of public accounts approxi raately S4.000.000 available for road construction and maintenance in the state. Matching the federal aid dollar for dollar, which is available for roads in Virginia for the three years 1919 1921. there will be an additional 10,- on 1 000.000 to be spent on our highways. Thus, irrespective of wnetner a more extensive road building programme, such as the nine-year 140,000,000 pro gramme advocated by Governor Davis In his address before the Virginia Good Roads association, is adopted or not. the road building organization and methods of the state are a serious con sideration. A dollar s worth or prop erly constructed permanent roads is desired for every dollar spent, and it tils secret investigation oi . vr. . , h - accomplish this that Governor affairs, he added, had been prompted -,n.d Into existence the ad- by a determination to prevent a re- ocurrance of alleged Incendiarism in the Salt River valley. Much of the matter given ont, he asserted, came from the Phoenix I. W. Davis has called into existence the ad v4inrv hnnrri on road construction. The question of whether a special session of the general assembly at this time will actually hasten road con struction or not has been gone into to"'rm,1B.tt,tb ,ntr-club schedule, to make a survey of the life of the city A. B. McAlpln and Walter A. Gon were re-elected president and secre tary, respectively. President McAlpln presided. In attendance were James H. afackie. Multnomah; Irving L. Webster. Waverley; A. R. Munger, Irvington, and secretary Gosa. Several big California stars will tonr the northwest this summer and Port land is certain many wilt" be here dur ing the Oregon state championships. Bill Johnston and Maurice MeLough- IhJ are going after the national cham pionship In the east this year, so they cannot be counted on to come to the northwest. Peck Griffin likely will go east also. John Strachan may be a Portland visitor. He has made no bones about eying that he Intends doing all his playing in the west from now on and it looks as if he means It. Word. from ban Francisco is to the effect that Johnny has a new position which will not allow him to take a vacation of two months to play tennis. This bars his trip east. fc.Ha Fottrell, who made good showing in the northwest In for the first time in almost twenty years, or since he fled the jurisdiction of the courts of the state by escaping from Bloomlngdale Insane asylum in November, 1900. He had ar.-ived In the city from his estate. Merry Mills. Cobham, Vs.. nine boura before to appear In the federal courts In a few days In tbe action he has instituted against a newspaper. Although he is rated In the archives of the supreme court of the state of New Tork as "a dangerous lunatic," In the states of Varginia and In North Carolina he is. engaged in "literary pursuits" and has been officialy de clared as a citizen in good standing, enjoying all the rights available to any normal minded person In those states. But In order to appear as a witness in the action in the federal court here It was necessary for Mr. Chaloner, who la a great-great-grandson of the first John Jacob Astor, to obtain a writ of protection from the federal court of the district to prevent the state authorities from taking him into custody under his old commitment to the Insane asylum, and that writ was W. office which he described as head-I , ,, .nirla hv Governor Davis. quarters second in importance only to and ne that he will take such ac the main office at Chicago. He said tlon M may be necessary to secure for he had obtained records and papers Virginia Its full apportionment of fed relating to L- W. W. operations in ., iH. nri which will actually has- Anzona, isew juexico, aauorcua, xuas, i ten the building or gooa roaas inrougu. Colorado and Nevada. I out the state. It la understood, how- A former secretary or the I. W. W- I that the governor wants to save according to a stenograpnic report w i the cost or an extra session oi iu ecu answers said to have been made by ral assembly. If possible, and is op- im to Sheriff Montgomery's questions, nosed to Increasing the tax burden un l credited with tha following admis- ib the state is ready and fully pre sions: . pared actively to launcn m mm ."" I.eendiarlam Laid e I. W. W. upon an extended roao. ouuaius yio- That incendiarism in tho Salt River gramme. valley near Phoenix last summer was carried out by members of the I. W. W. That members of the organization till are carrying on the campaign of the "torch." That members of the I. W. W. from California told him privately some of the "Sacramento bunch" of forty con victed there several months ago, were DAUGHTER ATTACKS WILL Mother leaves Bulk of Property to He? Second Husband . NEW TORK. A conspiracy to obtain -..it... r .i ...in.. tli fortune of tt.e late Mrs. George a." '" "6 ..r,tri to be between 500, tha.m. I - ... . ma . I 3 a-1 Ann AnA - v niitnnp' ni- UII . . v - itf i a rnrm a i in r luiuiciij - held conferences on "labor matters in is charged I against JSeorge G Stow .her common" in the Phoenix labor temple. At, nd 1 ne recoras or ido rnucuiJL ucu-i - ' ' - , , , , j, ... . - . . 1 . . , . . 1 nniv neie mnnr 111u.11 iici quarters oi tne organization in me ---- --- , ",, hrenk her sheriff's possesion show a total of Hearings in the action break her 17.000 received In dues during half a mother's will i hat Mrs. Thompson be- year. mostly miners' dues, those for ran before the Surrog ate s court of 17? ' v , Westchester county last November, j l At iwi A J I nfLVA OC1V JUSL UCKUI "Civ-o " -r ' uirc?,J." : B SZTlJfl Rtt. referee. In White Plains, N. Y. offices receipts from all sources for the second of which will be held to i.. th v.-- nt thi, mr,r. than morrow. The delay in proceeding with $80,000 Is represented as coming from the sale of literature, due stamps, six hour stamps and defense stamps for the prisoners' fund In this state. New Mexico. Nevada, California, Colorado and Texas. United States government doenments. declared Sheriff Montgomery were not safe from I. W. W.hands and in proof th. action was due to the failure of the defendant to place himself within the jurisdiction of the court until re cently. Mrs. Stowe was seventy-live years old at the time of her death last September. Four times married, her three former husbands each left her a million dollars wnen mej mco, sale 1 rum i. w . rv. nanus ami in prwi i aaa aaa ' . ,n.AI1.h of his assertion, he produced two This $3,000,000 'ortjine. orders to the United States marshal w.ls? lnvtments- l "i0 "ZJi r, nretrt- oiea 10 iraa inii - 1913. Is another possibility. He has obtained several days ago from Judge a. nana in tne ieaerai court. Although he has not been i ew lorn city lor almost a score or years, Mr. Chaloner revealed a remarkable knowledge of the affairs of the city acquired through a thorough perusal every day of the New Tork newspapers In his study in Merry Mills been, out of active competition for three years, as he has been managing a Dig ranch which has taken up all his time. He has said that he Intended to play tennla again this year. w fills Davis, another one of the big stars, is a puzzle, .no one. not even ofr Arizona for raids on certain prem ises in the city of Bisbee to the in icriptions on the back of these, the of which was left to Mr. Stow when she died. Mrs. Thompson opposes this be- " ov'lcrej Wl5SSb?nVw ZdiSTn e.bv..c:. J- McFarlane. who signed him- b.for8 the Surrogate tilmself. knows what he is going to do. I and on his estate in North Carolina. But he was particularly anxious to speak of the "rottenness" of the lunacy laws of New Tork state In particular ana tne same laws of the world generally. "New Tork society and I do not Jibe, announced Mr. Chaloner. as he care lessly adjusted his cravat. "I like the plain people, while the four hundred are back of the lunacy laws, which arc as rotten as a bottomless pit." No one caring to question the smile. Mr. Chaloner was permitted to talk on until he brought up the prohi bition question. 'Why if you had made such a sug gestion ten years ago." he declared, "they would have put you up in Bloom lngdale. Aside from the evil of drink ing that prohibition amendment only serves to deprive the people of their personal liberty. It Is not right." he continued, with emphasis, "and should not be permitted to become effective Mr. Chaloner then Indorsed President w ileon league of nations, said he hoped tha president would win out in his fight and the nappiied himself to a caustic arralngnment of the bolshe vlsts local and foreign. He declared that Trosky and Lenine are the cancer I of burope. and until they are severed Helen Raker and Anita Myers have I ,rom the body politic of that part of It waa thought that he was with the .American array of occupation in Cob lenz, Germany, when he dropped In on ttan Franciscans a few days back. Pa cific Coast Champion Roland Roberts win make the trip to Portland if he does not play in the east. Right now Roberts is the real No. 1 man on the coast. He Is playing great tennis. In tbe inter-club series at San Francisco ten days ago he defeated Johnny eiracnan in siraignt sots, lie received his discharge from tbe army two weeks ago. It h not Vnown whether Portlanders can count on Mervyn Griffin, young est brother of the famous Peck. The kid took his vacation from the federal reserve bank at San Francisco three weeks ago and went to foron.rtr. where he played Maurice McLoughlin. in the finals. The comet beat him in iour sets but Grunn made him work. Howard and Bob Klnsey. two San Francisco youngsters who are rapidly coming aiong. are anxious to visit Port land ana It IS pretty sure that they can be counted upon. They want to go east out it is not likely that they will n sent. netn expressed a keen desire to play on northern courts again. About the end of next month, things will assume a aeiinite snaps. the world choaa will reign supreme not alone in Russia and Poland, but in Germany ana all the smaller sur rounding countries as well. After he had said all he desired to say for the time being Mr. Chalorer sallied forth eventually attended the matinee performance of "Everything" Lo Angeles Ordinance Prevents Ac- I ,n the Hippodrome. While there he re- counted tneatricai lire in the city be- FORTUNE-TELLING IS HIT crptance of Taj. LOS ANGELKS. After months of consideration of what has been popularly termed the "spook" ordi nance. Including numerous and ex- Little AmDere ft Remarks: "An ounce of Willard Bat tery Service Is worth ten pounds of battery repair and It's a lot cheaper." Battery troubles are almost. Inexcusable when voi know thnt We Teat and Fill Any Battery Free. fore he was incarcerated In Blooming- dale four years before his escape from the institution, and said the last show he saw here was "The School for Scandal at Day s theater. His incarceration in Bloomlngale bv Justice Glldersleeve, in the supreme court was ordered to protect his estate here, amounting to about 91,500,000. His commitment followed the applica tion of members of his family to have him adjudged incompetent. Robert W. Chandler, another brother. in 1910 filed an action against Llna Cavalier! the opera singer, and his bride of a few months. Mr. Chaloner waa devoting himself to professional farming on his estate at Merry Mills when he received word of his brother's marital difficulties. He immediately despatched the following telegram to his broths : "Who's looner now?" AUTO AND LIQUOR SEIZED Carso of Machine Estimated to Be Worth $10,000. RIVERSIDE. Cal. An automobile and Its llquon contents appraised at 910.000 according to prices said to prevail in Arizona, toward which state it was be ing transported, has been confiscated by the Riverside county authorities. This, according to officials, established a precedent in confiscation incidental to enforcement of this county's bone-dry law. The action was taken in connection with the arrest of George A. Taylor near Indlo, Cel.. while driving Arizona ward an automobile containing 720 quarts of whisky. He pleaded gnilty to the Illegal transportation of liquor over the bone-dry road of Riverside county. . i self "Special employ Dept. of Justice ! .p.l"' '" rr "; One was dated March 18 and . v n. taHmnt. the other March 19, 1918. Kheriff u"""" t Montgomery declared these documents rLnp,J3.,t&Connor. counsel for Mrs. the United States commissioner s office Thompson, characterized the conspiracy uto uiiciii. .nsaiio " r - ..... - - at Bisbee. social blockade." In this alleged eonsDiracv. the papers set lorin, Air. Mails Freely Used. An efficient system of bookkeeping, I gt0w was aided by Miss May Haviand, fifty years old, who for twenty-rive years was companion and nurse for Mrs. Stow. B keeping away the old friends, many of whom were among the most prom with printed forms for every purpose, stamping the L W. W. organization as one run on strictly business like lines and not the intangible body it sometimes la supposed to be, is shown 331 Washington street, near broadway exc wear lusive easier for men your caster hat should have that distinction found only in headwear purchased at this store. agent for knox hats, caps and overcoats; john b. stetson hats, borsalino hats, christy cloth hats, jameson hats, monroe hats, berg hats, schoble hats. a wonderful collection of different shirts in silk and madras awaits your inspection. just brought from new york, cut silk and knit neckwear, both daring and conservative in design. agent for interwoven and phoenix silk hose for men. IP. 13 331 Washington street men's furnisher and hatter near broadway. dwindled from $219,000 to 951,400. Th onlv means Stow had at the time he married my mother was about duuu, which an old nurse had left him. Josenh C Levi, consel for Mr. stow, states in papers before the court that the charges against his client are un founded and that be handled his wue monev at her reauest. Mrs. Stow's first husband was jonn Tracy, who left her an estate valued at 91,000.000. Alan Robinson, neighbor of the late Theodore Roosevelt, was her second husband, leaving ner like sum when he died. Another million came form the third husband, who was Leopold Freeman, wealthy real estate operator. Mr. Stow, the fourth husband, is said to be a mem ber of several exclusive clubs. in its records now held by the Maricopa I inent in New York's conservative social county snerirr. j-iDeraj use oi tne Bets, and by introducing into her lire mails for ordinary transmission, spe-1 )nr. vnnnzer and livelier friends, clal delivery packages and registered I with Broadway fame and stage careers. letters also are in evidence, wnne mere . js alleged, Mrs. Stow was induced is abundance of testimony. said I to leave her fortune to her fourth Sheriff Montgomery, that money was I husband, excluding Mrs. Thompson and rushed to I. W. W. delegates by wire ner heirs. It is alfco alleged that fol- hen the occosion aemanaea. I iDwin- stroke of apoplexy a few In the verbatim statement which veara ago. Mrs. Stow became feeble Sheriff Montgomery asserted he ob- I and ner intellect and body badly shat tained from the former secretary, tered. "Taking advantage of her weakened condition," the papers coutinue, "Stow and Miss Haviland moved my mother form her old home to new surroundings in White Plains and New Rochelle, where she knew no one. They sur rounded her ' with new faces from I knew at the time of fires here among their acquaintances and barred the old-time friends." Mr. Stow is sixty-six years old, and Is now living in a villa Mrs. Thomp son declares belongs to ner motner, St No. S907 Pacific avenue, Atlantic City, NJ. During the twenty-six years or married life Stow did no work what soever," Mrs. Thompson's affidavits recite. "He had been a wine agent and previously a clerk in the city's employ. Under the handling of my mother's Wall Street securities her fortune before a witness, the following pues- tions and answers appear Q. There are still radicals In the state, men who believe in force and torch? A. I could not point them out. They don't stand very well in the organisa tion. in the valley that some of the boys were doing It, but I man t Know who. Q. You- were confident that some of the members of the I. W. W. were responsible for the fires? A. we were confident some or the members were doing it, but we didn't know who. Most of us are opposed to that, but I will tell you the truth, the old 400 are in the biggest part of that. (He is reported to have said previously that "400" waa the desig nation of the agricultural division of the I. W. W the mining division being "800.") Q. You have men in the organiza tion doing the same thing yet? A. Tea, but it is awfully hard to find out a man like that until he has gone an awfully long ways. Some of the men are in Sacramento. There was a fellow down here from there, who told me privately that some of the Sacramento bunch was guilty. Sheriff Montgomery stated he had been pursuing his Investigation into I. W. W. affairs since the first of the year. He declares that, if it were pos sible, he would prevent the outbursts of incendiarism In the Salt River valley which characterized former summers, and to this end he had concentrated on an I. W. W. Inquiry. 'I have laid my information before committee of business men," said the sheriff, "and they have decided that some of the details of my inves tigation should be published In an endeavor to let the people of this city and county know I. W. W. conditions here and to Impress on Washington; the necessity for protection." MARRIED MAN' SEEKS WIFE Police Chief Asked to Pick Out One Who "Knows Trouble." CLEVELAND. Ohio. If Police Chief Smith here can find an attractive little girl among his prisoners who is willing to become the wife of Frank u. wiikson the latter will divorce his present wife and espouse the prisoner-girl. He wrote the following to Chief smith. who made the letter public: My Dear Chief I have decided to write you a letter asking aid in my search for a good woman for a wife. want especially one who is lond or children and one that has bad all sorts f trouble, for I believe she would be the kind who would appreciate a good home and husband and be kind to my two dear children. I am just the kind of a man who would delight in giving some poor girl a lift who is in need of kindness from someone. And I believe there are lot of good souls in jail serving their time because they lack a good friend to get them out. I am a married man with two chil- ren a girl of four years old and a boy three but my wife ran away and left me two years ago and I have not seen er since. I have a little bungalow in West Park that is almost paid for. The two children are being cared for in children's home. I will divorce my wife and marry some girl who now is in jail and wishing for someone to get her out. want one that will be a real lover of her home and will make a home for my two children and myself. I am thirty-four years old and will leave it to your Judgement, chief, as to the age and beauty of the wife you select. "VAMPIRES" STEAL MEN Wife Declares on Witness Stands Husbands Are Menaced. - SAN FRANCISCO. "There are entirely too many vampires in this city who are trying to catch unsophisticated married men," said Mrs. Blanche Scheu, on the witness stand before Judge Graham. "I think it is about time the authorities did something to protect the men from the wiles of these women. Such action would save many a broken home." Mrs. Scheu sued Dr. Richard Scheu for divorce. She said she became suspicious of the stories her husband told her regarding the necessity for being absent from home evenings and Bhe followed him on the evening of January 28 last. She says he met a woman in a local restaurant. Mrs. Scheu did not learn this woman's name, but said she was a "very in significant looking woman." She asked her husband to come away home. - The other woman insisted that he escort her to her home In Ookland. Finally they compromised by Dr. Scheu1 escorting the "insignificant looking woman" to the Ferry building and put ting her on her boat and then takin his wife to their home, 1414 Cole street. When they got home Mrs. Scheu said she tried to reason with her husband, but he was positive that he loved the other woman best, so they separated. The Scheus were married in Sep tcmber, 1909. A property settlement was affected out of court. PAJAMA POETS DENOUNCED Tennyson and Others Were "Sick, Says Verse Writer. PHILADELPHIA, Pa. Out go Tenny son, Browning, Swinburne and the rest of the poets of the nineteenth century from all considerations. They couldn t write at all. Most of them mistook their vocations. Swinburne ought to have been market gardener by profession. Ten nyson was far better adapted fv rose cutter in a vicar's garden. Brown lng was cut out to be a canner of sal mon. None of them is a poet. Gravely Robert Nichols, British as pirant to the poetic crown, assured members of the Contemporary club at the Bellevue-Stratford that the writers of our text-books on literature are ail wrong. They don't know poetry. "All the poets of the nineties were sic k," Lieutenant Nichols decided. "They preferred to lie in purple paja mas and top hats, dreaming how to be terrible scamps without moving muscle to attain their desires. Their highest aim was to shock the common people by their audacities of speech, but they never got any farther. "The real poetry is only oelnff writ ten now, he added. 'Lieutenant Nich ols is a verse writer himself and Quot ed verses of his own and of his com panlons at Oxford to prove what lie -said. "Some folks don't like us at all, he reflected sadly. "Tbe old birds like to hop on us with pretty heavy toes because they can't appreciate the work we do. But the things that men like Siegfried Sassoon and Robert Graves and William Sorley write will luimor talize the people that they wrote about." FOREIGN COTTON FUMIGATE Fight Is Conducted Against Egyp- tian Boll Worm. SEATTLE. To combat the Egyptian boll wrom, a dangerous pink worm which insists on visiting Seattle every so often, nearly $1,000,000 worth of cot ton is fumigated by scientific process each year, in two government fumi gating stations maintained in George town, a suburb. The boil worm, it is said, has spread throughout nearly the whole world except the United Statese and because of its appetite for all classes of plant life, its entry into this country. Cotton shipments from India and China received here are promptly trans ferred from dock to these fumigating stations where the cotton is placed in large, airtight receptable filled with poison air. Manchurian and Australian corn have also been subjected to much the same treatment here to avoid the spreading of new pests, - Colorado Bean Replaced. COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. Compe tition of a Japanese bean in the Ameri can market, removal of the government price, limitation and a surplus of the product on the market from last year's crop have contributed to discourage tne growing of the Colorado pinto bean in El Paso county. W. H. Lauck. county farm agent, recently announced that a decided reduction in acreage would re sult this year for those reasons. It Is considered doubtful if the pinto acre age will exceed SO per cent of the 1918 acreage. SMOKELESS CITY IS AIM Efficient System Vc eloped in Pitts burg, Pa. riTTSBURG A smokeless Pittsburg In two years. That's the prediction made here by Charles M. Means, former manager of the Inspection section of the United States fuel administration. Probably no city in the United States has gone as far as Pittsborg In the developing of smoke preventive meth ods. It has been figured that the loss here on account of the presence of smoke runs into hundreds of thousands or aoiiars a yar. CARTERS J No metal are recommended by the mo& reliable mer chants. Good slores build reputations by offering standard, guar ajateed merchandise. " A STEIN &COMMNY IT PAYS TO SAY DlSTINCTLYt PARIS GARTERS why so good y o EL HALLO Each Ciaccr in its own nttmidor " ROAD BOARD IS APPOINTED Plans Will Be Outlined for Great Highway Campaign. RICHMOND, Ta. Governor Davis announced the apointment of a board on road construction to advise in the adoption of a good roads programme for Virginia. As chairman of the new board, which will be known as the governor's advisory board on road con struction, the governor has named Harry Frazier of Richmond, who Is considered one of the ablest consult ing engineers in the state. 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