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Newspaper Page TextJ' THE 3IORXING OREGOXIAX, FBIDAT, SKPTEJUTFUl 2G. 1910. 13 IffJIRVOFM GIFTS SET Oil after being discharged from service, BIDS IN FOR WORK SOI FOOT LA PRlMERfl IS IN PORT was Killed while hunting: near his, home at Tearsonia, Okla., according ' to word received here. It is expected ; that Mrs. K.ma will return to Cen-1 tralia. ; Oil ST. JOHNS COW . BADLY DAMAGED AND PORT ANCHOR GONE. room for other vessels and t!a P at 1 her home lerth, AJlw-rs dock No. 2. It is expected tiiat a he will b delayed a week or o by a short; of sailors. h bovnd for Valparaiso, Chlle. H. E. Wilson, chief engineer of Uia steamer Cokeslt, a Standifer vessel that carried flour to Newport News," returned to Portland Wednesday night from New York. He reported that no trouble of any Itind waa . j,-rl i-nrrj on the. jij-cl ay trip. Steel Vessels Assigned. SEATTLE. Sept. 25. The steel tramer Endlcott today was assigned to the Admiral line to load for the orient, thus erivinc- that line nine of the steel ships locally built. Three other steel vessels were assigned to DOCK BERKMAN QUIZ RESUMED Deportation Hearing Renewed Aft 1 ( President Suspected of Evad ing Customs Duties. INVENTORY IS ORDERED iloiise Resolution Calls for Value anil Source of Presents; Big Sum Mu lie Lott in Tuxes. V.'ASHIXGTO.V. Sept. 25. (Special.) An ifujiiify has been set on foot in the house to bring out the facta as to whether the presents received by the president, Mrs. Wilson, Miss Margaret Wilson and others of his party abroad were brought into this country without payment of customs duties. Several resolutions . have been in troduced to find out what gifts were leceived by the president, with the Him of showing he violated the con stitution. Today Representative Ro tlenberg;. republican, of Illinois, of fered a resolution to find out if cus toms were paid on the Kifts. He said he believed evidence can be produced to show that 40 boxes containing the fiifts were brought through the ports without beins examined, and that had tbn duties been paid the government would be from JIOO.OOO to $150,000 better off. reMeit Highly Valued. . . If an investigation is ordered some port of f icials-of Boston may be called. Mr. Modenburg declined to give any names, saying it would be necessary to determine later who the witnesses would be. He intends to press for consideration of his resolution, which . was referred to the judiciary commit tee. Mr. Rodenbcrg said newspaper ac counts indicated there are 40 boxes of presents in the basement of the White House, lie thinks the presents would be valued at from $."00,000 to $1,000, tiOO, including the gifts to Mrs. Wilson and Miss Margaret Wilson while in Kngland. Helgium, France and Italy. One pui pose of the inquiry is to learn what are the gifts. Public Entitled to Farts. . After outlining the constitutional provision against the receipt of pres ents from foreigners by the president. Mr. Jiodenbertf said: "It is also of general importance that the public should be informed if any members of the president's family or party that accompanied him to Paris have leceived valuable gifts that have passed through the custom house of the United States without appraisal and without payment of the duty im posed by the law. My resolution is comprehensive enough to cover every phase of tills matter, which, unless re jected as a result of an investigation, bids fair to become a national scan dal." Inquiry to Be Fourfold. The resolution directs the judiciary committee: i'irsi To obtain a complete inven tory of all such gifts or presents, if such have been in fact received and accepted, as alleged. Second To ascertain the source from which gift or present was so leceived and the value thereof. Third To ascertain at what custom house or custom houses said gifts or presents were entered, what value or appraisement was put upon each, and what custom duties, if any, were paid on them. Fourth' To ascrtain whether or not the president has unlawfully received any other gifts from foreign, sources during his term of office. The resolution adds: "Said judiciary committee is further Instructed to report s.11 of such facts to the housi' of representatives to the end that the house, in view of the f:ets and the law, may be able to de termine what further action it may be its constitutional duty to take in thu promises." DEFENSE PLEA IS POKER i:.-Dopiity Wardens on Trial for Kobbcry in lol ltoom. ASTORIA. Or., Sent. 25. (Special.) The taking of testimony in the trial of Joseph Craig and J. "VV. Killin, ex deputy fish wardens, on a charge of holding up and robbing five men In a local poolroom, was started today. The defense asserts the defendants had been drinking whisky in a pool room and then were "robbed" in a poker game." Also that the defend ants determined to get their money back, so one picked up a stick of wood, while the ' other grabbed an empty bottle and, lining the players up, took from them the exact sum which the defendants had lost. ELOW AT LENINE RUMOR Assassination Report Circulated on Paris Bourse. FAKIS, Sept. 25. A rumor was in circulation on the Bourse here today that Xicolai I.enine, the Russian bol shevik premier, had been assassi nated. LONDON', Sept. 25. Fierce fighting was in progress through the day yes terday in the region of Pskov, south west of Petrograd, where the Estho nians annihilated two bolshevik regi ments, according to Esthonian dis patches received here today. LENOIR TO SEE CAILLAUX Aceosi'il Man May Be Confronted by ex-Premier Today. PARIS, Sept. 25. Pierre Lenoir, whose execution was postponed last Friday morning by the authorities, will, it is believed, be confronted by Joseph Caillaux, former premier, on Friday or Saturday. According to the Echo de Paris. Lenoir is in a state of extreme weak ness and unable to stand, being ob sessed with the idea that he has been executed. MAIL PLANE RECORD MADE Cleveland-New York Trip Made in '2 Hours 57 Minutes. NEW YORK, Sept. 25. A speed record for carrying mail between Cleveland and New York by airplane was established today when the dis tance of 4:10 miles was covered in two hours and 57 minutes. The plane with 375 pounds of mail was piloted by John M. Knight. John Kines Reported Killed. CENTRALIA. Wash.. Sept. 25. (Special.) John Kints, who was sta tioned on Wiliapa harbor during the war and who ma. riod Miss Eulalie Kahlor, a. popular Centralia tsirl, er Russian Refused Answers. ATLANTA. Ga., Sept. 25. The hear ing of deportation proceedings against Alexander Berkman. now serving a sentence at the federal penitentiary here on a charge of conspiracy to ob struct the draft, was called again to day before Immigration Inspector Kessler. The hearing was temporarily halted Saturday when Berkman refused to PORTLAXD MAN DIKS MERE APTEB JJISCHARtiK FROM nit; maw. Rheinfcard O. Braak. Rheinhard O. Braak, 26, died Wednesday morning at Good Samaritan hospital after a short illness. He returned to Portland two weeks ago from Cambrjdge, Mass., where he had been a stu dent in the radio school and had Just received his discharge from the navy after about 18 months service. Braak was born, in Portland and received his education here, attending Failing grammar school, Portland high school and the Behnke-Walker business college. He is survived by a sister. Mallvina Braak of this city; a brother, Theodore of Sa lem, and an uncle and aunt, Mr. and Mrs. Alex Braak, with whom he made bis borne before en listing. Funeral service will be held this afternoon at 2:30 at Fin ley's chapel, with interment at Lone Fir cemetery. answer questions regarding his early life in Russia and the names of rela tives there. Berkman, in declining to reply to questions Saturday, said the hearing was an "invasion of my con science." Berkman's term in the penitentiary expires October 5. EXPLORER SEEKS CAPITAL Stefansson Wants Help in Develop ing Canadian Reindeer Industry. SEATTLE, Wash., Sept. 25. (Spe cial.) Vilhjalmur Stefansson, the Arctic explorer, will go to Xew York city in the next few weeks to make an attempt to interest American capi tal in the establishment of the rein deer industry in northern Canada. He is endeavoring to interest the Cana dian government in the enterprise. It is probable that a syndicate backed Ity American and Canadian capital will be formed to carry out the project. , City Librarians Meet. Librarians from all over the city last night held a closed session in the staf? room at the Central library to discuss preliminary arrangements for forming an association which would be for the mutual benefit of the women employed In the work. That this organization partook of the na ture of a union was denied emphat ically by several of th- leaders in the movement. Johnson to Speak in Portland. OREGONIAN NEWS BUREAU. Washington, Sept. 25. After, an agreement had been reached that his amendment to the league of nations covenant would not be taken up in the senate tor some time. Senator Hiram Johnson today arranged speeches in California, after which he plans to touch several northwest cities, speaking at Portland, Tacoma, Seattle and Spokane. Peruvian Cotigress Opens. LIMA. Peru. Wednesday, Sept. 24. President Augusto B. Leguia formal ly opened congress today. It is an nounced that Senor Leguia will be proclaimed president by congress within the next 30 days. The strike situation is unchanged. Operations on large sugar estates have been sus pended. Montana G. O. P. Against League. HELENA, Mont., Sept. 25. Repre sentatives of the republican party from all parts of Montana met here with the state central committee yes terday and sent a telegram to Sena tor Lodge of Massachusetts, chairman of the committee on foreign relations. sustaining the fight being made against the league of nations. Japanese Commission Arrives. BAN FRANCISCO. Sept. 25. A Jap anese industrial commission which will study railroad and shipping con ditions in the United States arrived here today on the steamer Persia Maru. F. Tanaka is head of the com mission. The other members are J. Nakamura and K. Asakura. 40-Acre forest Fire Burning:. BEND, Or., Sept. 25. (Special.) Although the forest fire season in Central Oregon was considered to be at an end on the first of the mon.tli. a blaze was reported today in the Pringle Kails district, and is covering more than 40 acres. Yellow pine and jack, pine are menaced by the flames. King- Alfonso Visits Bordeaux. BORDEAUX, France, Sepi 25. King Alfonso of Spain, who hr.s not visited since 1914, arrived here in cognito yesterday by automobile from San Sebastian. A large crowd gath ered around the hotel to welcome him. U. S. Buys Flour. NEW YORK, Sept. 25. The United States grain corporation announced today that it purchased this week 578,728 barrels of wheat flour of all grades at prices ranging from $8.50 to 10.1. x,' ' ' -1 'v. A t & ' - a I ; - i - g" ? v., ? : Proposals for Paving and In stalling Equipment Made. SHIP'S RUN RECOUNTED H't Islay Slakes Perfect Record In Carrying Grain o Rrance, Dock Commission Learns. Progress of the construction work on the St. Johns municipal terminal is shown by the receipt of proposals for a wide variety of work on 'the project, at the regular meeting yes terday morning or the commission, fit public docks. Bids were read for the paving of the roadway at the termi nal, the installation of a complete automatic sprinkler system and for supplying a number of electric trucks and tractors, a .grain truck and elec tric storage battery charging equip ment. All bids were referred to G. B. Hegardt, chler engineer for the dock commission. A perfect record has been estab lished by the steamer West Islay, carrying a cargo of bulk grain from Portland to France, acording to a letter from F. S-. Bierd. master of the vessel, which was read at the meet ing. The West Islay was the first vessel to take bulk grain from this port. Captain Bierd reported that the wheat arrived at Xew York in as good condition as when it left here, without a trace of beating or skin sweating. The ship received high commendation from inspectors in New York, Captain Bierd said, for its ven tilating system and its method of keeping records of the hold and air temperatures. The cargo of the West Islay has been sold at St. Nazaire, France, and the vessel is now on her way to that port. The commission decided to investi gate a suggestion by F. C. Knapp that a system of mechanical freight carriers similar to that in operation at Duluth, Minn., be installed in Port land's municipal docks. An application from the supply and sales division of the emergency fleet corporation .for permission to erect a storage shed 160 by 40 feet in dimen sions at its concentration yard in the old Grant Smith-Porter plant, was re ceived. An adjourned meeting of the dock comission to consider the proposals received at this meeting will be held next Tuesday morning. It is expected that by this time the proposals will have been investigated by the en gineer, and will be ready to be ac cepted or rejected. MEXICAN WORKERS WARNED Services as Strike-Breakers in San Francisco Held Risky. SAN" FRANCISCO. Sept. 25. A large number of Mexicans who came here from Alaska on fishing boats and from border points, and who were said to be seeking employment as strike-breakers in the strike of the longshoremen and the bay and river bcatmen, have bee.i warned by J'. Garz Zertuche, Mexican consul-general here, that they mt-Et avoid all such employment here "if they wish to keep out of trouble." Efforts wore being continued by Meyor James Rolph today to bring the double strike to an end. R presentatives of the employers said that S00 strike-bTeakers were at work. nd union officials, while ad mitting that many men had been se cured to take the places of the strik ers, said they were inexperienced and urable to do the work demanded. Coastwise vessels have been obliged4 iu icaujuti Llir-ii lit 'lllfw ana SOmf) trans-Pacific linen have been de layed on account of the strike. JAPAN PREPARED FOR RACE Nation Ready to Compete for Com mercial Sea Supremacy. NEW YORK, Sept. 25. Japan is ready to compete with Great Rri-.ain and the United States Tor commercial supremacy of the sea. Raron Kondo, president of the Nippon Yusen Kaisha Steamship company, the largest in the far east, declared upon his arrival here on the steamship Caronia from London. The baron is oji his way home from Faris. where he has been acting as an industrial adviser to the Japanese peace mission. Catlilainet Goes In Saturday. CATHLAMET, Wash., Sept. 25. (Special.) The steel ship Cathlamet will be launched Saturday at the Ames Shipbuilding company of Seat tle. Miss Bertha Hougren of Ska mokawa will be the sponsor. The launching- party includes Mayor ard Mrs. John Heron, Mr. and Airs. OTe Nilsew of Cathlamet. Mrs. Henry Vin son and Eratry Hougen of Ska mokawa and Mr. and Mrs. Martin Jacobsen of Seattle. The privilege of naming the ship was 'ftiven to this county because of the record In lib erty bond drives. Bout Burns at Cathlamet. CATHLAMKT, Wash., Sept. 25. (Special.) The Purse line boat Presi dent, owned by Andrew Kulgio of this place and M. Gorman of Astoria. burned in the harbor here today. The value of the boat is between $10,000 and $12.000. Flour Loading: Is Rushed. Peace and industry prevailed on the water front yesterday and loading-was rushed on the flour carriers West Munham and West Cheswald. Cereal workers, who went out on strike Sep tember 11, were back: at work in ac cordance with their announcement Wednesday afternoon that the strike had been called off. Scliooner Thought Lost Safe. SEATTLE, Sept. 25. Anxiety con cerning the whereabouts of the little power trading schooner Bender Broth ers was relieved today when a cable was received here reporting her safe arrival at Nome from Herschel island. The schooner had delivered 300 tons of supplies to the far northern post. Marine Notes. Government Inspectors looked over the Standifer steamer Wawalona yesterday. The West Karituns Is to be Inspected to day. The Pacific Steamship company expects to check in the wooden steamer Bell Brook today. The big steamer Wlndber with a lumber carrying capacity of about 2.000,000 feet, which has been chartered by Balfour. Cluthrie & Co. to carry lumber to China. Is expected to reach Portland today She will load at the Inman-Pouisen mill. The vessel Is being operated by the Pacific Steamship company. The sailing schooner Oakland, with her lumber cargo all aboard, moved away from the inman-Poulaeu mill yesterday Xu make day to carry cargo to Atlantic and European ports. They were the Che padoa. Brave Coeur and Ophis. The wood steamers Hyannis and Fasset were assigned to W. It. Grace A Co, to load lumber for the Atlantic, sail ing from Grays Harbor. Pacific Coast Shipping Notes. SEATTLE, Wash.. Sept. So. (Special.) . ..wuvii ii i i.i m tile ui.ru shipping- board, tbe aoo-ton lU-amfchipi Kasactt and Uiannli, isday were aaidKned to the shipping finra of W. K. tirare Jk t'u. for management and operation. The Kas aett will begin leading Monday in Aber deen, taking a fall cargo of spruce lum ber for Cuba. The Hannl will load a full cargo of ties at the Eureka mill in Hoqulum for New York. The 75K-ton uteri ateamihip Ophis to day ni assigned to W. K. Grace Co.. to load a full uarRO of flour for Europe. The motortthtp Helen rueeada. which left Vancouver, B. C. a few days ago for Urmya Harjor, has been ordered to fuget sound to load a cargo of lumber for Cuba for the Carpenter .umber company, ac cording to advices received in -Seattle to day. The Beleti Uuezada wai formeriy the steamship ZaTlro and served with Ad miral Dewey's fleet as a collier at the battle of itanlla. ABERDEEV, "Wash.. Sept. 2.". Spe cial. The steamer Hyannis. of the emer gency fieet. hi due toduy to load a tie cargo at the Eureka mill In Hoqulam. The eteamer Carlos arrived late today from San Francisco and will load at the Donovan mill, south Aberdeen. ASTORIA. Or.. Kept. 25. (Special.! The schooner Alumna, laden with himlwr from Portland, shitted to the local har bor. She wiil sail for Sydney tomorrow. If two mates arrive to complete her crew. The steamer Waklkl. built at the Wil son yard, lert for Portland, where she will be turned over to the operating depart ment of the shipping hoard. The steamer Aspenhlll, which has been delayed here for several days as a result of part of her crew quitting and also on aceount of a controversy between the ma rine engineers and the shipping bnnrd, failed last night with lumber from Grays Harbor for Grimsby, England. The motor schooner L.a Merced, carry ing lumber from St. Helens, sailed for San Pedro. The steamer Rose City arrived from San Francisco with freight and passengers for Astoria, and Portland. The steamer City of Topeka, with freight and' passengers from Portland and Astoria, sailed for San Krancisco via way ports. After discharging fuel oil in Portland, the tank steamer Washtenaw sailed for California. TACOMA. Wash., Sept. 2r. (Special. The steam schooner Kred Baxter arrived today. The Siskiyou is due from weat coast porta with nitrates for DuPont. In charge of Captain Itustad, formerly traveling inspector for the emergency fleet corporation, the new steamer Klkhorn ar rived today. The steamer will load lum ber, snooks and staves for the orient. BAN FRaXClSCO. Cat.. Sept. 25. A valuable consignment of silk which arrived from the orient today on the Persia &Iaru. Captain V. Kondo. of the Toyo Klsen Kai sha, was not discharged immediately after the berthing of the vessel because there were no clerks available to do the check ing. This, it was announced by the offi cials of the company, will cause an ex pensive delay in the transshipment of the cargo mhich is always rushed out of a ship into baggage cars and thence to New Tork bjr special train so as to save time and in surance. There was also delay In landing the bag gage of the passengers, of whom there were ti7 In the first cabins and 1BO Asiat ics in the steerage quarters. In the ab sence of stevedores and longshoremen, the employes of the Toyo Kisen Kaisha. includ ing a staff from the Market-street office, removed their coats and received the bag gage at the glde of the ship and trucked it across to the waiting passengers and customs inspectors. The steamer Johanna Smith, which was In collision with the Scammell steamer La ITImera recently off the coast f Cali fornia, is now at the Manlon Shipbuilding company's plant- being' repaired. Due to the stevedores- strike, the steam ers Enterprise and Sachem of the Malsnn Navigation onropany will not depart for Honolulu before next Satorday. The Dutch steamer Blntang. Captain Schlppers. which was delayed on account of the strike, sailed toriajr for Batavia with a full general cargo for. the .lava-Pacific line. TH Alaska packers' hark, sur of KuHsla. Captain Snarr, arrived from Cooks Inlet today arter a passage or davs. The Russia brought 1M1.34M ruM nr salmon. Murcmei is of Vessels. POitTI.AND. Sept. 23. Arrived at 5 A. M.. steamer Col. K. U Drake, from San Hrancmto: at 7 P. M., steamer Kose City, from San Prancieco, ASTORIA. Sopt. IT.. Left up at :."?0 lust niKht. st-amer col. K. I,. rn.ke. from San Pianr-isco. Mailed at 11 last nlsiht, stexmer w aahten fr Port San l.uis Arri-ed down at l::tn A. M. ana sailed at 12.0. P. M.. schooner Alumna, for Svdnev Ai rived down at X A. M. and sailed at 12 -an P. !.. steamer City of Topeka. for San Francisco, via Eureka and Coos Ray. Sailed nt midniBht. steamer Aspinhill, from Crays Haruor. for 1'nited Kiagdnm. Arrived at l:ii and left ub at 11 A. !.. steamer Pose City, from San Francisco. Sailed at 12. .'in P. M.. motor achooner l.a Merced, for San Pedro. SAN FRANCISCO. Pept. 2.".. Palled at noon, steamer Oleum, for Portland. TATOOSH. Sept. 2.-.. Passed outward at 10 A. M st.amer Wlndbar. for Portland. BALBOA. Sept. 2.1. A rrlved. steamer . ,,Uim ri uwtki, lor Jmmingham. TACOMA. Wash.. Ke.. -. a . i Steamers Klkhorn. from Seat tie : Kred Bax- iui. nd.nicr, irura ban r ranclsco. SEATTLE. Wash.. Kept. 25. a. rrlved Steamers Rainier, Admiral Sebree, from Sailed: Steamers Alameda, for Anchor aao: City of Seattle, for Nnmli..f ai..ui.. J. A. sloffelt. for San Pedro; Uenchu Maru) SAN FRANCISCO.' Cat.. Sept. 2.1 Ar rived: Steamers Persia Maru (Japanese), from Honrr Kong; Star of England' from !kkii rva.v ; i.rane. xrom nremerton. Sailed: Steamers Oleum, for Portland Yofeemite, for Seattle. SHANGHAI, Sept. 20. Arrived: Empress AiM, Hum dncouver. i or none Kong. LONDON. Sept. 2.".. Arrived: Canadian roup, irom Vancouver. SHANGHAI. Fept. 21. Sailed: Harold LfiniMi, iui Vancouver. ST. MICHAELS. Sept. 2t Sailed: Gray Eusle, from Tacoma. fir Falmouth. Vessels in Port. West Munham. Pacific Steamship com- .jnnns municipal terminal. ,. Ai,i,Kii-i(jriiana racKeri asso ciation, urjaoca. i . ... ,..c,,.i,.,. i oiumoia-racinc Shipping company. Victoria dolphins. Uertona. Columbia-Pacific Rhlnnin, nt. TKiuiiii u.oipnins. Oakland, Albers-OXell, Albers dock No. 2. West Cheswald. Pacific Steamship com- eciiiy. eicvmgr. .M. a bee. Columbia-Pacific Shipping Colindo. Pacific Steamship company, O. & C. dock. Harvard. Charles Nelson & Co., North t'acuic Lumber company; Else. A. O. -Anderson & Co.. municipal dock No. 1. Daisy Putnam, Freeman Steamship com pany. Wast Hartley, Columbia-Pacific Shipping ccmpany, municipal nocK .o. 1. Latoka. columbia-Pariric Shipping com pany, Columbia dock No. 1. Tiverton. J. O. Davenport, Westport. Muriel, J. R. Hanfy. Westport. H. C. Hansen. Balfour, Cluthrie & Co., O. C. dock. Daisy Freeman Steamship company, St. Helens. La Primera, W. M. Seammell, Albers dock No. :i. Claremont. Hart-Wood Lumber company. municipal flock o. l. Shasta. Pant & Russell, St. Johns Lum ber company. Col. E. L. Drake. Standard Oil company, Wlllbridce. Rose City. San Francisco and Portland Steamship company, Ainsworth dock. Barae UJ, Standard Oil company. Will-bridge. Steamer, After Collision at Sea With Johanna Smith, Makes Way In "Under Own Power. The steamer La Primera, with her bow badly damaged and her port anchor gone, reached Portland from San Krancisco late Wednesday nignt and tied up at municipal dock No. 2 She started to discharge her cargo yesterday. Injuries to the La Primera are dne to a collision at sea at 11 o'clock last Monday night with the steamer JohannaSmitn, bound from Coos Bay to San Krancisco. The accident oc curred in a heavy tog a few miles south of Cape Blanco. Both vessels were damaged, the La Primera more seriously than the other, but both were able to proceed under their own power. The Johanna Smith, which is also a wooden vessel, carried away the Primera's port anchor embedded in her bow. A report from the master of the disabled sfeamer wiil be received by the local inspectors of steam vessels., but will be forwarded to San Fran cisco where the case will be tried. The La Primera will be obliged to go in drydock for repairs. 2367 STUDENTS ENROLL TOTAL GRKATEST EVER REG ISTERED AT O. A. C. Of Xnniber 162 5 Are Men and 7 42 "Women; In College Iepurtnients Asrrlculture Leads. OREGON AGRICULTURAL COL LEGE, Corvallis. Kept. 25. (Special.) Registration of students in the col lege reached 2367 last night, at the end of the third day, with a few hun dred yet to enroll. This number is the highest In the history of the in stitution. Regular school work, which was scheduled to bejrin Wednesday, was somewhat held up. owing- to the rush of registration, but clat-scs are get tins: under way. Of the total 1C25 are men and 741 are women. Returning students num ber 1034 and new students 13J1. Segregated by departments, agri culture is in the lead with 502. Home economics has 449, commerce 467, for estry and lopping engineering 4, 'civil engineering 119, electiical engineering 160, mechanical engineering 2S2, min ing engineering 69, chemical engi neering 56. highway engineering 2, industrial arts 18, pharmacy 136, op tional 30, music 14. M'MIIMIMVILLE ROLLS GAIN 758 Pupils KoplsUr; 33 Graduates Tauter CoIIcjrcs. McMI NX VI LLK, Or.. Sopt. 25. (Spe cial.) The total enrollment in the city schools up to and including to day, is, according: to the figures sub mitted by jCHv Superintendent Hupp. 758 against 663 for the corresponding period last year, on increase of 85. This increase will he augmente'd by the enrollment at a later date of a great many pup lis who are now busy in the hop yards and prune orchards. Among graduates from the McMinn ville High school 31 are this year en tering upon their first year in col lege. Some of the number ore grad uate of last year, while others are returned soldiers who have been in the service for the past two years. They are represented in the various college as follows- lniversit y of regon J 1. McMinnville college 11. Oregon Agricultural college six, Will amette university two, uud 1'olorado School of Mines one. MEXICAN DEBATE ON OIL Kxprx'lftl l.-gi-lalion I.ikcl.v in lie Greiitly Drluyrd. MKXICO CITY". Wednesday. Sept. 24. The possibility that the MexU-an senate would act quickly on oil legis lation became uncertain today. Sen ator Juan Krlas, one of the authors of the bill being considered by the senate, began discussion of the meas ure, but Carloz Zetina offered a pro posal. for the amendment of article 27 of the constitution, which article nationalizes oil lands. The measure, backed by Senor Krias and his faction, make anticle 27 oper ative without being retroactive, thus meeting the principal objection of foreign Interests. The motion of Sehor Zetina. it is believed, will en tail weeks of discussion. LITIGATION ALSO GOES UP Coos IJay Atlornoys Prepare .ch Scliotlule of Charges. MAKSIIFIELI1, Or., Sept. 25. (Spe cial. Coos Bay attorneys have pre pared a tentative scale of increased f es for services rendered. For di vorce cases the new charge is $75 as against $50, the previous charge. For the execution of deeds, $3.50 in stead of $2 50 is to be asked. Bank rvptcy fees are advanced from $50 to $75. Fefs for oral consultation are raised from $2 to $2.50. while written opinions will cost $10 instead of $r, the old charge. The fee for organiz ing corporations is advanced from $50 to $75. I'uriner Put In A.-yliiui. PENDLKTOX, Or.. Sept. 25. (Spe cial.) Constantly confined with a de lusion that be wiil kill some one, Louis Zink, 40, a farmer of Milton, today appeared before the county au thorities and asked to be committed to the state hospital. An uncle was once confined iu an asylum, he said. He was sent to the institution here for treatment. Deaf Hoy, Aged 6, Missing. SALKM, Or., Sept. 25. (.Special.) Harold Nixon, 6 years of age. is miss ing from the state school for the deaf, according to a report filed with the police last night by Superinten dent Tillinghast. of the institution. Mrs. Harriet C. McCabe Dies. PELAWARE. O.. Sept. 25. Credited with beinK the founder and writer of the first constitution of the Women's Christian Temperance union. Mrs. Harriet C. AlcCabe. aged 2. died at her home here of the infirmities of age today. I'ruiiarluns to Visit Woodland. VANCOUVER, Wyh., Sept. 25. (Special.) The Fruii-iriuna of Vn- 1 r-ouver. who recently held ttie prune harvest -festival, will po to "Woodland and attend the fair. The train will leave Vancouver tomorrow at 1:30. JEWS END REUNION TODAY Kabbi Yi:e to Speak at Xew Yoar Services This Morning. The services of Horn yachana, the Jewish New Year, which has been ob served the past two days by the con gregations of Portland synagogues, will end today. A number of stores have been closed bo that employes might join in the feastinir and re nniotis, which are part of the cele bration. Rabbi Jonah B. Wise yesterday morning addressed an unusually large audience in Temple ieth Israel and will speak again this morning at the synagogue at Sixth and Hall streets. McMinnvill Wants CoBferen-c. McMIXXVILI.E, Or.. Sept. 25. (Special.) The congregation of the First Methodist church of this city today voted unanimously to send an invitation to tbe Oregon conference nt its meeting in Salem next week, to hold its 19:10 session in McMinn ville. This invitation, it is under stood, will te backed by the Com mercial club and other organizations. Worthless Checks Passed. SALKM. Or.. Sept. 2S. ( Special. ) Word was received at police head quarters here last niuht that an tin- I- - --yTss IhcAwulhuvit a I 1 f Z. Afl ( I Sails from Quab.e &11 I 47 IS V f0 -I R.ut!ful sutler-Rooms with fc.th Vu I Timtm-V. XT"-7 XaiPV . V fcngl. room -Two-brh room vTI I s-tx K J4T-5 i Tiiri2hs 1) U F.re. First CkM $1 P! I if QjSiferT'' V V X 1 Scna,-108; Third. tiJi. I W?l Alli- --Ss V CANADIAN PACIFIC J,N I tfflB&rfi 1- Z2S& OCEAN SERVICES El I H Thinl ktt I.waf LidJ Every grocer everywhere sells Kellogg's everyday llllllllllllllllllllllHllllllllllllltllUIIIIIIIIHMllllllllinillllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllJ FROM E 1 Portland, Oregon I FOR 1 London and Liverpool Direct I S. S. "Dewey" (Steel 100 A-l) 1 Sails October 7, 1919 1 Freight received at loth street Terminal Municipal Dock Xo. 1 until 5 P. M. October 7, 1919. PERMITS REQUIRED. For all particulars relative to rates, reservations, etc., apply 1 COlUMBIA PACIFIC SHIPPING COMPANY 1 Phones: Main 270. Main 5121, Main 5122, A 2732 Board of Trada Building. Portland, Or. 7iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiitiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiMiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiitir7 Trade Paper tells of a man who spent ten days hunting for merchandise without success. If you have been hunting, too, with like suc cess for your Fall Suit or Overcoat, don't spend as much time as this man did. We are "clothesologists" and are daily re ceiving shipments of the latest styles in Fall Suits and Overcoats, $35 to 100. UNDERWEAR in union and two-iece garments. Fall weights ?2.50 to $18 WINTHROP HAMMOND CO. CORRECT APPAREL FOR MEN 127 SIXTH STREET Sueceesors to Buffum & Pendleton Established 1SS4. Identified man had passed a number of worthless checks at Silverton. FULL EVACUATION NEAR All British Forces to He Out of Archausol November 1 . (Copyripht by lte Nrw Tork HeraM Com pany. All rcin reserved. L.OX1KJX. Scipt. 25. (Special Cable.) L'nless the unforeseen should inter fere with 1-ord Raw Union's plana, evacuation of the British forces from Archanee! should be completed by th end of the month. Major-Oeneral Mt. Frederick Maurice sys in the Daily News. It will then remain to look after the withdrawal from Mor rr.answk, which is much the simpler problem of the two. He adds that the "immediate aban donment of the Russian adventure Is simply not possible unless the allied powers asrree to come to terms with the bolsheviki. Its eems possible, since they have losct the corn country of I'kraine. that the bolshevik! may be reduced to extremities by cold and hunper. General Maurice says that short of some such development, on which there are no solid reasons for counting, there is no probability of obtaining: a settlement in Russia by present met h ods within the next six months. "That is where we Mnnl to day," he says finally. Quiiioy Defeats CartlinaN. Ql'INCV. 111.. Sept. In an exhi bition pa me t oda y the Qui ncy bae ball club defeated ttie St. lufs Na tion n Is. 7 to 4. VELOURS for Fall are Fashion's latest decree. Olives, Blacks and Naturals $12 and $18 Asia Minor is a promising1 virjrii. field for agricultural machinery. Foi the first t ime in its history tract 01 machinery will immediately come into general use. 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