Morning Oregonian. (Portland, Or.) 1861-1937, June 04, 1919, Image 1

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    VOL. L,VIII.
NO. 18,259
Entered at Portland (Oregon)
Poptofflce as Pecond-CIassMatter.
PORTLAND, OREGQN, AVEDXESDAY, JUNK 4, 1919.
PRICE FIVE CENTS.
LIGHT VOTE
MARKS
ELECTION
IN STATE
All but One Measure
Seems Approved.
LIEUTENANT-GOVERNOR IS HIT
Coast Counties Vote for Roose
velt Highway Strongly.
JILLAMOOK VOTE IS LARGE
Eastern Oregon Counties Generally
Support Irrigation Bonding Meas
ures Returns Show.
Incomplete returns from 16 counties
Including Multnomah, Rive the follow
ing? totals:
County dent increase Yen, 4522$ no,
S210.
Hospital amendment Yes, 3705 1 no,
2S00.
Irrigation Interest guarantee 1 es,
lteconstrnetion " bond amendment
'Irs, 401 4t no, -'7 SO.
Lieutenant-governor amendment
Yes, ZEISI; no, :tft:i.
Itoosevclt highway Yes, 5722; no,
1SS0.
Reconstruction bonding bill Yes,
S7UO; no, 2871).
Soldiers' educational aid Yes., 4328;
no, 2120.
Market roads tax Yes, 4GS4; no, 2025.
.Indications given by the Incomplete
count in up-state counties and Mult
nomah indicate that an extremely light
vote was cast yesterday on state meas
ures, and that all the amendments and
bills, with the probable exception of
the amendment creating the office of
lieutenant-governor, have carried.
As to some of these measures the re
sult is a practical certainty. In none
of the 15 upstate counties from which
partial returns have been received is
there an adverse vote on the Roosevelt
highway bill, the educational aid bill
fur soldiers, sailors and marines and
the market tax bill. As Multnomah
couiitj also voted strongly in favor of
these measures their adoption seems
spttied.
Kastem Orcxun for Irrigation.
While indications point to the ap
proval of the amendment guaranteeing
interest for five years on the bonds of
irrigation and drainage districts, some
of the Willamette valley counties have
gone against the measure. The eastern
Oregon and the coast counties gener
ally have gone in its favor.
In nearly all counties approval is in
dicated of the amendment authorizing
counties to create indebtedness for road
building up to 6 per cent of their as
sfssed valuation.
Tho reconstruction bonding bill, au
thorizing an issue of $3,000,000 for
building purposes and for co-operating
with the government in land reclama
tion, and the enabling constitutional
amendments that went with it, seem to
havo met a varying sentiment in the
counties of the state. The two amend
ments pertain to the location of the
reconstruction hospital, which is pro--Med
for in the reconstruction bill, and
e authority to adopt the bond bill.
Multnomah Vote Aids.
"While carlv returns Indicate si dr3l
vote upstate on these three measures,
it appears that the favorable vote cast
for them in Multnomah will pull them
through.
Tiie amendment creating the office
of lieutenant-governor seems to have
been more favorably received in coun
ties outside of Multnomah than in Port
land, yet the affirmative majority, if
there is one in the upstate counties,
probably will be offset by the adverse
vote in Multnomah.
A notable feature of the election was
the indorsement given the Roosevelt
highway and the market tax bill. The
coast counties, which will particularly
benefit from construction of the Roose
velt highway went almost unanimously
for it. Eastern Oregon, so far as re
ported seems also to have given Its ap
proval, while in turn the coast counties
have rallied handsomely in support of
the irrigation measure.
APATHY RULES IX BEXTOX
Few Persons Take Trouble to Go
and Vote, It Is fiaid.
CORVALLIS. Or.. June 3. (Special.)
General apathy had charge of the
election precincts in Benton county to
day if reports from the city of Cor
vallis may be taken as indication
There was no fight to amount to any
thing on the bond, measures in any
quarter. Nevertheless certain school
districts are reported to be against
them on general principles.
On Saturday a letter was mailed to
every voter in the county urging him
to go to the polls and vote yes on
every bond and construction measure.
The measures were thoroughly ex
piainea. in Loriams, with a tab on
two-thirds of the precincts, only about
a 40-per-cent vote was cast.
VOTE HEAVY IX TILLAMOOK
Interest in Roosevelt Highway Is
Enough to Draw Out Voters.
TILLAMOOK. Or., June 3. (Special.)
A fairly good vote was cast in all
parts of Tillamook county. The women
of Tillamook City rounded up voters
-Concluded on Fife a, Column l.
SAILOR PUT ADRIFT
BY BRUTAL SKIPPER
STORY OF SEA MURDER AXD
CRUELTY TOLD IX COURT.
Ancient Form of Indictment Is Used
by Government In Trial
of Seafarers.
NEW YORK, June- 3. Seafaring of
the sort that flourished In the early
18th century, when a foremast hand
was virtually a slave and his brawny
skipper, -med with a belaying pin,
his undisputed master, was described
in federal court here today by John W.
Campbell, a 22-year-old high school
boy of Maquoketa, la., who answered
the call of the sea and ran away from
home to ship with Skipper Adolph C.
Pedersen -as cabin boy on the anti
quated barkentine Puako.
Campbell was the first witness for
the government, which has charged
Pedersen and his eon, Adolph, mate
of the Puako, In an old-fashioned in
dictment with trie murder on the high
seas of Axel Hansen, a seaman. They
are alleged to have driven Hansen
overboard by cruelty, and to have left
him to perish in the eea.
An old English style prisoner s dock
had been constructed in the courtroom
to match the antiquated form of the
indictment, which used to carry the
penalty upon conviction of hanging on
a public gallows.
Campbell was asked to recite twhat
happened on board the Puako on the
morning of August 6, 1918, as the ltttle
vessel clipped through the waves with
all sails set for Cape Town, South
Africa. v
t came on deck at 4 A. M. to stand
watch," Campbell began. "Jack Joe,
Henry Riley and Axel Hansen were in
the same watch and were already on
deck.
"The captain's son, who was in
charge, told Hansen to go aloft and
loose the royal'sl. Hansen went aloft
and loosened tl.e sail. He then came
down and I saw him talking to the
mate.
"Suddenly I heard a sharp sound as
of one man slapping another's face.
Then I saw the mate strike and kick
Hansen, and Hansen came racing down
the deck with the mate close behind
him. When he got to the starboard
side, near the stern, he slipped under
the rail and went overboard."
The mate, Campbell continued, ran to
the wheel and ordered Jack Toe to
bring the ship about, but a moment
later Skipper Pedersen appeared,
looked over the stern of the bark
where Hansen was clinging to a log
line and then turned to the helmsman
demanding to know who ordered hint
to swing the ship around.
"There is a man overboard and the
second mate told me to swing the wheel
about," Campbell said Jack Toe
answered.
"To hell Qv ith the man overboard,"
Campbell declared the skipper yelled.
"Then," the witness continued, "he
ordered Jack Joe to turn th boat back
into its course, and, picking up a tiller
pin, ordered both Riley and myself to
go below. As I started forward I looked
back in the sea and saw Hansen strug
gling at the end of the log line, and
I heard him shriek for help three
times. The vessel continued on its
course and Hansen was left to perish
in the sea."
The Puako left Campbell at Cape
Town while he was ill in a hospital, he
explained, and he went to the American
consul and made a statement similar in
detail to his testimony today.
During the trip to Cape Town, he de
clared, every man on board, with the
exception of himself and the ship's car
penter, were taken below, and after be
ing placed in irons were beaten until
their bodies were covered with welts.
A heavy piece of wire and a razor storp.
he testified, were employed by the skip
per and his son to administer the pun
ishment. They also kicked the pris
oners with their heavy boots, he de
clared. Skipper Pedersen, he said, re
ferred to punishment as the "third de
gree." FOG FORCES AIRMAN DOWN
Half Made in Flight From Chicago
to Denver.
CHICAGO, June 3. Harry Johnson,
an aviator of Denver, left Ashburne
field, Chicago, this morning, in an air
plane with the intention of flying to
Denver. He purchased the machine here
yesterday. He expects to arrive in
Denver about noon tomorrow.
Johnson carried two passengers and
expects to make the trip with one stop.
DENVER, June 3. Harry Johnson,
flying to Denver from Chicago, was
forced to alight at Creston, la., accord
ing to a message received by his father
tonight. A heavy fog caused the land
ing. NATION'S DEBJHUGE ONE
Total Xow Reported to Be Xearly
2 6 Billions.
WASHINGTON. June 3. The nation's
public debt reached a new high mark
of f 25,921,151,270 at the end of May, an
increase of $1,096,640,750 during the
month, resulting from new issues of
certificates of indebtedness and pay
ments on victory loan subscriptions.
Ordinary disbursements in May
amounted to $907,492,920. only slightly
less than the $1,068,203,020 in the same
month last year.
KILLING OF BOY CONFIRMED
Miguel Otto's Body Mutilated by
Mexican Bandits.
NOG ALES, Ariz., June 3. The re
port of the killing Sunday of Miguel
Otto, an American, by Yaquis, near La
Colorada, Sonora, was confirmed today.
Otto's body waS found, stripped of
clothing, mutilated and with a bullet
hole through, the head,
QUAKER CITY CITED
BOMB PLOT CENTER
Washington Victim of Ex
plosion Identified.
FEDERAL AGENTS KEPT BUSY
Eastern Police Work as Unit to
Run Down Radicals.
IMMIGRATION LAW BLAMED
Secretary Morrison of Federation of
Labor, Says Foreigners Here Rcc
ognize Xo Statutes.
AVASHIXGTOX, June 3. Investiga-"
tiori of the bomb explosions in eight
cities, which were intended to kill pub
lic men, has convinced secret service
chiefs here that the outrages had i
common source, and that they prob
ably can be classed as an unsuccessful
attempt on the part of a still unknown
anarchistic group to resume a cam
paign of terrorism begun with the May
day attempt to deliver a series of In
fernal machines through the mails out
of New York.
Washington police today devoted ef
forts to reassembling fragments of" the
man who was killed last night at the
door of Attorney-General Palmer's
home, while attempting to plant his
cargo of explosives.
Mr. Palmer himself dismissed the in
cidents today as "utter failure to ter
rorize the country and stay the hand
of the government," which purpose he
ascribed to the authors of the out
rages. Police Work In Concert.
Police at New York, Philadelphia,
Pittsburg, Cleveland, Newtonville,
Mass.; Boston and Paterson, N. J.,
were engaged in the widespread hunt.
Detectives were sent from Washington
to the first two named cities in order
to connect up operations.
: The hat ot the Washington bomb
planter, purchased in Philadelphia, and
other details, indicated a possibility
that the consignment of explosives ha'd
been sent out from there. Another
connecting link in the view of author
ities here was the similarity of the
anarchistic handbills found near the
scene of the explosions in several cities.
Government experts on explosives,
after surveying the site of the explo
sion here and the partially demolished
dwelling, came to the conclusion that
two separate bombs exploded, probably
when the man carrying them tripped
over a stone step at the entrance.
Congress Takes Hand.
In both .houses of congress members
began the preparation ot measures pro
viding new and severe penalties for
convicted perpetrators of such crimes.
References to the outrages were made
I References to the outrages were made I
Concluded on Pace 2, Column 1.)
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International Situation.
(By the Associated Press.)
THERE is a probability that Germany
may secure, as a result ,of her
strong counter-proposals, some lessen
ing in the severity of the peace terms.
Germany's pleas that it will be impos
sible to fulfil the financial require
ments of the allies, and her protests
against certain territorial relinquish
ments, have been heeded and are being
discussed by the council of four. Paris
report has it that in certain quarters
of the peace conference the German
viewpoint is receiving strong support.
A full discussion of the German
counter-proposals, especially concern
ing reparations and other economic
features of the treaty, has been held
by President Wilson and the staff of
American experts. Great Britain is
said, to favor a number of concessions
to Germany, but France continues firm
in her stand not to waver from the
original terms. The Americans are de
clared to be not averse to minor con
cessions, but are not In favor of going
to the extent the British propose.
The German government is incensed
over the formation of a Rhenish re
public. It has ordered the arrest of Dr.
Dorten, the president of the republic,
and also has protested to the peace
conference and the armistice commis
sion at Spa against the behavior of the
French authorities in the occupied
Rhineland. The French support of
the Rhenish republic Is characterized
by the German government as high
trea.-jn against the empire. Strikes by
dissatisfied Germans in the American-
occupied area, called in protest against
the formation of the republic, ended
Quickly when the American authorities
issued a warning against the move
ment.
The supreme council has been re
quested by the Lithuanian peace dele
gation to have an allied commission In
vestigate alleged pogroms and other
illegal acts by the Poles in occupied
Lithuania.
An unconfirmed report has reached
Copenhagen that Petrograd has been
captured by Finnish and Esthonian
troops.
The head of the Austrian peace dele
gation has departed from St. Germain
for Innsbruck, carrying with him the
allied peace treaty. Counter revolu
tions are reported from numerous
towns in western Hungary.
Sweden and Denmark have come into
line with Switzerland and Norway in
declining to join a blockade against
Germany in case Germany refuses to
sign the peace treaty, on the plea that
such action would be a vii latlon of
their neutrality.
Big strikes have begun in Paris, Lille
and other cities in France.
COAL PRICE WAR FORECAST
Fuel May Take Drop If Prediction
Conies True.
SALT LAKE CITY, June 3 A war
between coal producers of Wyoming
and Utah which may force the price to
low levels in August was made ap
parent here today at the annual meet
ing of the Utah Retail Coal Dealers'
association, which was addressed by
prominent coal operators of both states.
D. A. Pape, representing the Eccles
coal interests in Wyoming, during the
meeting announced that within 10 days
an announcement would be made of the
purchase by the Eccles interests of one
of the largest coal producing properties
in Utah. Mr. Pape refused to amplify
his statement, saying that the an
nouncement would not be made - for
several days.
2 DEAD, 13 HURT
IN STRIKE RIOTING
Soldiers Guarding Willys
Overland Plant Shoot.
MOB OF 5000 RUSHES GATE
Toledo Factory, Idle 2 Weeks,
Attempts to Resume Work.
EMPLOYES ARE BEATEN UP
Three Attacks on Automobile Con
cern's Shops Are Staged in. Day.
Last Being Fatal.
COLIMBIS, 0 Jane 3-midnight
tonight Mayor Cornell Schrelber of To
ledo wired Governor Cox. saTiac, "Send
troops Immediately to Toledo.
The mayor aald all available deputy
aherlffa had bees iwora la. but that he
was unable to cope with the situation."
TOLEDO, O., June 3. Two men were
shot to death and two others were
dangerously wounded In a riot late to
night growing out of the labor dis
turbances involving 13,000 employes of
the Willys-Overland Automobile com
pany.
The victims, presumably idle em
ployes of the company, were killed by-
discharged soldiers, who are guarding
the plant. The killing was the culmi
nation of three riots today and tonight.
which resulted in injury to 13 persons.
The piant opened a week ago after
two weeks idleness. Discharged sol
diers, acting as guards at the plant,
fired more than 100 shots over the
heads of the rioters, finally dispersing
them
Violence started early in the day
when a crowd of idle workers stormed
cars carrying employes to the plant,
smashed the car windows with stones
and bricks, and pulled workers into the
streets wh,ere they were beaten. The
situation flamed into a pitched battle
tonight, when idle workers numbering
tOOO, including many women, stormed
fiw entrances of the-plant as the "em
ployes were leaving, beat them with
clubs and felled them with a shower of
stones and bricks.
Mayor Schrelber, under whose direc
tion the former soldiers, still wearing
their uniforms, are guarding the plant,
Issued a statement in which he declared
I that no more violence would be tolerat
ed and that "every one who starts
trouble will be dealt with forcibly and
in the manner which the occasion de
mands."
Bank Head Is Sentenced.
Schaefer. owner of a string of 14 state
banks, closed by the state superintend
ent of state banks shortly before
Schaefer's arrest on a charge of grand
larceny to which he pleaded guilty, was
sentenced to from one to ten years in
I state prison today.
SIX CITY MEASURES
WIN; FOUR DEFEATED
THIS IS INDICATION- WITH 73
PRECINCTS REPORTED.
Police Telephone and Substations,
City Hall Repairs and Salary
Bill Are Behind.
with an extremely light vote in
Multnomah county, early returns seem
to assure the success of the two mu
nicipal park measures, the bond issue
for the replacement of fire stations and
me aereat of the two-mill levy, the
bond issue for the erection of the two
sub-police stations and the police tele-
The two-m'iu tax levy for the pur-
pose of increasing the salaries of city
employes and the increase of the notice
ana the fire departments is slightly be
hind in the early returns.
The three city measures carrying no I
?rrr"taV.":;
st. jonns : the correction r o
n ln police pension bill, and nrnvM.
ing ror a new method of extending cltv
streets, are carrying by substantial ma- I
Jortties.
The following table shows the vote in
precincts, mostly complete:
Park Repair Bonds.
300
3ul
Ys
Majority for
-,'uj I
502
Ye .7"
No
sjorlty for
T PoUce Telephone Honda.''
No' .". .';"..".'.;:"" :
1.442
902
04
W1
1.31S
Majority sgalnst
418
I'olire bubMatioa Bonds.
JOB
Tea
No
fine
1.161
V-i 1 4BO I
'trpann.eni Building Bonds.
5" 1.042
04JU No
Majority for
Clly Hall Repair Bond it." "
510 Tea
.It No
Majority acainst
... Mrthod of Opraii- tiln-ti.
M4 Tes
146
O0
.21.7
637
515 No.
U. .-(,.. ..... I
...r ....
312 Tn j.nns
- ' .to DIO
Majority
for
9j
Tea ..." . 1 0-.4
SIB
017
No
Majority for .
Tax for
SIS Tes
Folife and l-'iremen.
KSO
510 No
t.o.-.i
Majority ngalnut 175
EMBICH ASSIGNED TO FORT
Order Dispatching Colonel Lecocq to
Oregon Camp Revoked.
OREGONIAX NEWS BUREAU, Wash
ington, June 3. Orders dispatching
Colonel Franc Lecocoq from Camp Dix,
New Jersey, to Fort Stevens, Oregon.
were revoked today and First Lieu
tenant John R. Embieh was ordered
rrom Fort Monroe, Virginia, to Fort
Stevens. Captain Everett B. Wettengel,
field artillery, was relieved of duty as
acting quartermaster at Oregon Agri
cultural college.
Two officers and T5 men from Oregon
and Washington are with the 23d en
gineers, who sailed from Brest on the
transport Cap Finistere June 1. These
men will be sent to Camp Lewis.
PORTLAND BOY IS KILLED
Corporal Walter Schaffcr's Xante in
Latest Casually List.
WASHINGTON. June 3. Army cas
ualty lists today contained the names
of nine men killed In action, including:
Corloral Walter Schaffer. 618 Twenty-
xive ana a air street. North. Portland,
Oregon.
INDEX OF TODAY'S NEWS
The Weather.
TESTE RDAT'S Maximum temperature, 74
des-rees; minimum, 48 degrees.
TODAY'S Fair and warmer; moderate
westerly winds.
Election.
Light vote 'cast throughout state. Page 1.
Port of Portland bonds running ahead
Pags 1.
orefgo.
Lenine's efforts to win over allied caoital
fall. Page 1.
Mediation proposals eaure lull in Winnipeg
strike disorders. Page 3.
Mohammedans and Christiana united by -e-
von in cKypi. i-age 4.
Rhenish republic seeks recognition by allies.
Page 2.
Europe's food needs can be supplied, says
noover. r-age o.
British ministers would make some conces
sions to uermans. Page 7.
National.
Hires proposes merger of u. S. railways into
several big systems. Page 6.
Suffrage again delayed In senate. Page 3.
Coast shipbuilders' fight at capital looks
futile. Page 4. .
Domestle.
Philadelphia held to be renter of bomb plot
that reached eight cities. Page 1.
Two persons dead. IS Injured in riot at
Willys-Overland Toledo plant. Page 1.
Parinc Northwest.
University of Oregon to honor Portland at
torney. Page 4.
Sports.
racifjc Coast league results: Los Angeles 10,
San Francisco 2: Oakland to. Vernon 8;
no games at Portland or Seattle. Page 12.
Wlllard starts training at Toledo. Page 12.
Lincoln high beats Jefferson. 14 to 10
Page 13.
Miller meets Thje at Hcilig tonight.
Page 11.
Commereial and Marine.
Listing completed for third wool auction
sale. Page 21.
t;ompetitlon ror corn advances prices at
l mcago. fage .1.
Stocks decline under pressure of bear sell
ing and realising. Page 21.
Portland and Vicinity.
Standifer shipyard opens gates again.
I'age zu.
"Al Kader speclHl." with fihriners aboard,
departs for eastern meet. Page 7.
Commissioners adopt school textbooks.
page iu.
Real estste dealer accused of forgery.
Page 14.
Dr. Morrow claims he Is democratic na
tional committeeman for Oregon. I'age 10.
W averly Haby home awrul. says report.
Eastern editor says Wilson will not be re
elected. Page 22.
Army- engineers will be Portland'a guests to,
day. Page 15.
Weatlier report, data and forecast. Fag 20.
STATE
ACTS
CARRY
COM
Measure for Lieutenant-
Governor Losing.
22 PER CENT VOTE IS CAST
Bi9 Leads Given Measures for
DflMntnMinn
ncGUnSirUCllOn.
R0SEVELT ROAD POPULAR
Returns From
S Precincts Com
plete Give Port of Portland
Bonds Lead of S19 Votes.
A ith the Dossible ext ern ion nf th.
measure creating the office of lieu
tenant-governor, an or the measures
on the state ballot have apparently
carried in Portland and Multnomah
county.
There was a remarxably light vote
" esteraay s special election, and not
withstanding the vast sums of bonds
submitted for the approval or rejection
or the public, and proposals to add new
tax levies on the people, only 22 per
cent of the registered vote went to the
polls. This is the smallest percentage
of a registered vote that has been cast
in an election of this character since
Oregon had a registration law.
Election Wlttwut Ineide.
The election in Portland was abso-
I l'Jtely devoid of incident, other than
I th V-atn.l 1 : V. . . -
I ... - - . .. n . .j 'i ft L , Ulc V. I'lllill 1 I -
I tees who have been campaigning for
SOme of the more ,mP""tant measures
had hoped for a 50 per cent vote, but
the figures disclose that less than half
that per cent was attracted to the polls.
There appears to have been the
greater unanimity regarding the state
measures than the measures on the mu
nicipal ballot. The practice of voters
.was to mark their ballot yes" almost
exclusively on the staet ballot. There
had been an organized effort on the
part of friends of several measures to
get out the vote, and had it not been
for this the percentage of voters tak
ing the trouble to pass on more than
$9,000,000 of bonds would have been
even less. No organized opposition to
any measure developed anywhere In the
city.
Reports . from 75 precincts, mostly
complete, show that the Port of Port
land measure has carried by a big ma
jority of votes cast. The returns from
these precincts give 1576 votes for and
657 votes against the issue of $1,000.00"
cf bonds to aid in the establishment of
water transportation line?.
New Office Not Approved.
The Vote against the lieutenant-gov
ernor measure in 75 precincts" was 1466
to 1000 votes favorable. Twice before
this measure has been turned down by
the people. Although the measure was
the source of considerable agitation in
Salem during the legislature and a
bitter fight was made to pass the bill
and refer it to the people, when the
election was held none of the men
who had advocated the measure made
any speeches or wrote articles recom-
mending it.
With a margin of 449 to the good
the reconstruction bill. otherwise
known as the $5,000,000 bond measure,
has every prospect of carrying in Mult
nomah. There are 1481 favorable votes
and 1032 unfavorable in the totals of
'5 precincts.
Apparently the Roosevelt highway
will prove the most popular of the
measures on the state ballot. With
1949 votes for it, the bill has a lead of
1283 over the opposition to it.
The measure to increase a county's
road Indebtedness from 2 per cent to 6
per cent will carry in this county, it
having 1664 votes for it and 820 against
in the returns thus far received.
Rsral Road Favored.
Although Multnomah county will fare
worse than any other county in tne
state by the market roads tax bill, the
measure Is safe In Portland. There are
15S8 for anw 857 votes against it. Aside
from Multnomah, every county can
take from the road fund thus raised
more money than it puts in. Mult
nomah and Portland money will be
used to build roads in all other coun
ties.
Another of the state measures meet
ing with support in Portland is the
measure to have the state guarantee
the payment of interest on bonds of
irrigation and drainage districts. There
were 1516 votes for the measure In 75
precincts and 901 against, giving the
measure a lead of 615.
For the soldiers' aid bill, which in
intended to assist them to the extent of
$200 a year toward defraying their edu
cational expenses, Portland has also
placed the seal of approval, with 1670
affirmative votes to 19 negative, giv
ing a majority for of 751.
The amendment to the constitatloD
authorizing the bonding of the stata
for $5,000,000, which is a companion bUl
to the reconstruction masure, is running
BOND
about the same as the latter.
For the Industrial hospital measure,
amending the constitution, there are
1553 to 925 votes against it. The meas
ure was essential to enable the estab
lishment of a state hospital In Portland.
The vote in 75 Multnomah county pre
cincts follows:
Industrial Hospital.
302 Tes 1.R53
203 No 925
Majority for S-
iCoaciuded oa Page 5. Column 3.)
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