THE MORNING OREGOXIAN, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 1, 1919. 9, JILTED WAR HERO ATTEMPTS SUICIDE Shooting Laid to Wife's Re fusal to Live With Veteran. GRIEF CONFIDED TO FRIEND Horace Mileham, Wounded With 91st Division, Reiterates De sire to End Life. MOSCOW, Idaho. Oct. 31. (Spe cial.) "Here's where I do it," eaid Horace J. Mileham, veteran of the world war, who was gassed' at- St. Mihiel and wounded in the leg and hip in the battle of Argonne forest, as he placed a 44-calibjr Colt's re volver against his breast and pulled the trigger this morning. Despondency because his wife, daughter of a wealthy pioneer of Salmon City, Idaho, whom he married ecretly in Utah as she was en route to Berkeley to attend the University of California, where she is enrolled under her maiden name Esther hig gles, and lives in Berkeley, refused to talk with him when he went to Berkeley to persuade her to come here and live with him, was respon sible. Veteran Still Alive. He returned .from Berkeley yester day at noon, having been gone just a week, and spent the afternoon and. it is believed, part of the night, writ ing to his wife and his aunt, Mrs. O. D. Nagel, at Stockton, Cal., telling them of his contemplated act. He( was still alive tonight, with slight chances of recovery. The bullet passed entirely through his body, just below the heart. He is conscious and in sists that he wants to die if his wife will not live with him. Mileham served with the famous 91st division in France and was badly wounded at Argonne after recovering from hav ing been gassed. He was sent here as a vocational training student by the government. Effects of 'Wounds Kelt. He is still iuite lame from his wounds. He had lived" at Salmon City prior to enlisting and returned there. He met and fell in love with Ksther Diggles', but her parents op posed his attentions to her. They met secretly and became engaged. Then she was sent to Berkeley and the government arranged to send him to the University of Idaho to study agriculture. When she started for Berkeley, Mileham boarded the train and joined her after the train got under headway. They left the train in Utah and were secretly married. After a short honeymoon together she went on to Berkeley and he returned to Salmon City, and then came here and entered school. He longed for his bride and wrote and urged her to leave the University of California and come to Moscow, but she refused. He thought he could i persuade her and went to Berkeley a week ago to induce her to return with him. He told his roommate, E. H. Briney, that she not only refused to come to Moscow but refused to see him and talk with him. Grief Confided to Krtend.. He said: "I am heart-broken and do not want to live." This morning he and Briney started up town to mail some letters that he had written to her and his aunt. When they had gone a short distarice, Mileham handed the letters to Briney and asked him to mail them. He said: "I'm going back to the room." He startt J back and Briney started up town, when he heard Mileham eay: "Here's where I do it," and a shot rang out. Briney turned in time to see his room-mate collapse and fall to the sidewalk. He called for help and the bleeding man was rushed to the hospital. HALL ALLOWED DE VALERA COUJVCIIj refuses to dexy right to speak. FORSYTH SAYS HE TALKS TO MEN WHO DIED IN FRANCE Leading Man in "John Ferguson" Says Spiritualism Is Coming Religion and Declares "That It Is Based on Facts of Life. BY LEONE CASS BAER. ROBERT FORSYTH, the 75-year-young player of the tittle role in "John Ferguson" at the Helligy ap preciated with me the story retailed to him of a telephone Query I had received at my desk. ' Is this John Ferguson playing at the Heilig any relation to Elsie Fer guson? an anxious girlish voice-had asked me. Robert Forsyth, from Ballymacar- rett, a wee village separated from Belfast in Cpunty Antrim by the pic turesque river Lagin, wears no make-up for. the role of the fine-old religionist John Ferguson. Off stage and on he looks the same, but there the , resemblance ends, for John Ferguson is a rabid churchman, a firm advocate in predestination, while Robert Forsyth is a spiritualist. "A belief in predestination, that our acts are pre-planned and our lives good or bad prearranged in en tirety, is to admit that we shouldn't be held accountable for whatever we do. God would be the author of crime if he predestined men, to be criminals. Spiritualism, I believe, is the coming, religion," avowed Mr. Forsyth. Religion Baaed on Facts. He Says. "It is written largely in the signs of the day. He who runs may read it. Tennyson wrote: There is no death in God's wide world. But one eternal change of scene. The flag of life is never furled, It only taketh wider range. "The foundation of the spiritualism belief is purely scientific, and is based on facts. It has its origin in infinite spirit who unfolds the reality of future existence to spirit man in the flesh through the medium of spirit man out of the flesh. "What sounder basis could it have, I ask? What grander origin, what stronger testimony? Its power is greater than that of any other re ligion. It comforts the mourner, it brightens pathways through material existences, it robs death of -its sting, the grave of victory. "The literature of the hour is satu rated with accounts of demonstra tions in psychic phenomena, the stage is producing plays, as "The Return of Peter Grimm," 'The Blue Bird," and year after year a belief in spiritism spreads. It will some day become an un'versal religion. "Skeptics sneer, scorners deride, and yet 'Truth will prevail.' Facts are stubborn things and cannot be crushed. Spiritualism, taking the book of nature for its authority, finds that nature's laws are eternal and unchangeable, that 'God is the same yesterday, today and forever." "The belief rejects miracles, and 'WE'RESLAVESSAYS I TD EQUI jf- "V; I j Js I , , Xfm Jl I I ; ) ---OA ' i y fc XX st ' A Woman, Sentenced to Serve 2 Years, Asserts Class War. FREE COUNTRY RIDICULED so does anyone who gives the sub ject -deep consideration. Personally I have had myriads of demonstra tions," said Robert Forsyth. "A half dozen young lads, relatives lost in the big war, have returned to talk with me. There i3 no mystery about it. No dark rooms, no mechanical devices. Only a receptive mood, an earnest and sincere desire to get V! touch with those passed on. Spirit ualism teaches that man is a spirit now, a material body, and after so called death he is , still the same spirit, but out of body, and that he can return is not a supposition but a fact. "Fraudulent mediums, charlatans, false 'clairvoyants, fakirs vho take advantage of some sick soul's earnest desire to learn of those gone on. are the greatest obstacles in the progress of the real spiritualism. But in every faith there are falsifiers. They can not prevail. "Indifference is giving way to in vestigation, even our best magazines, our most noted writers, are seeking to commune and have communed with friends passed on. While all other churches teach immortality through faith, sp.ritualism teaches it as a fact, end proves it by spirit return, and in doing so it has made the greatest contribution to the spiritual welfare of the generation that it is possible to make." BIG TRUCKS SHAKE BRIDGE GATEMEX MAKE COMPLAINT TO COUNTY COMMISSIONERS. Mayor Baker Puts Responsibility for Irishmen's Presence Up to U. S. Authorities. The city council by unanimous vote yesterday denied, a petition eigned by J56 persons, asking that the city refuse the use of the auditorium on November 5 ' for an address by Eamonn de Valera, self-styled "pres ident of the Irish republic." The petition was presented by a committee of 20 men, eaid to be mem bers of the Masons, Oddfellows and Knights of Pythias. The petition charged that De , Valera was attempt ing to foment revolution in a coun try with which the. United. States is at peace, is attempting to sell bonds of & nation which does not exist and that he is a radical agitator who is a dangerous element to this country. Mayor Baker eaid that he did not feel justified in following out the suggestion offered in the petition, saying that he felt De Valera should be given a hearing. "De Valera haa been permitted to enter the United States by our gov ernment. If he was or is a danger ous person, spreading propaganda about the country, it is the function of the government to handle his case. Personally I do . not feel that we should bar any person without the absolute evidence of wrong, or with out a hearing." Upon referring the petition to the city council City Commissioner Bige low moved that the petition be de nied. Commissioner Pier seconded the motion, and the denial was voted lor by all members of the council. If City Does Not Enforce Speed Laws, Test of Authority in Court Is Proposed. Gasoline and fuel oil trucks weigh ing, when filled, in the neighborhood of 10 or 12 tons, have developed the practice of rumbling across the Morri son bridge during the small hours of the morning at a speed between 20 and 30 miles an hour, causing the structure to sway dangerously, ac cording to a report of gatemen made to the county commissioners yester day. Although the commissioners have received unofficial advices that the city would attend to the policing oi traffic over the bridges as county forces cannot do this legally no action has yet been taken. If ar rangements are not made shortly, Commissioner Hoyt announced yester day that he would instruct gatemen to make necessary arrests and try their authority out in the courts. The Albina ferry, which has been out of commission for more than a month, owing to the dredging of the lower harbor and the proposal to take the ferry off the run permanently, will be tied today to the Fulton moor ings and the crew will be laid off. Indications are that it will, be put back into operation but,", not until suitable landings have been selected north of the Broadway bridge. By laying off the crew about $500 a month will be saved the county. The appointment of Elizabeth M. Sawyer, court reporter, at J125 a month; Chester A. Lyon, probation officer at $125 a month, and the rais ing of th salary of E. H. Pickert from $110 to $125 a month, all effect ive October 1, in the court of domestic relations, were affirmed by the com missioners. A communication from Mrs. George Williams, chairman of the war aux iliaries central committee, asking the commissioners if they had legal au thority to provide relief for feeble minded children over the age of 5 years, was referred to the district at torney. 1 in the work rooms of Lowetigart & Company's hat factory yesterday aft ernoon, when the work day ended at tioon, and the designers observed Halloween with all the rites that give the night its character. More than 100 employes of the firm donned the traditional orange and black and gathered for the holiday. The party, which began at 3:30 o'clock, was planned particularly for the designers employed in the hand work department of the local manu facturing firm. The entire floor, which is occupied by the workers was given over to the festivities, and orange crepe covered work benches and hat forms as gayety reigned. In the rest room, which regularly occu pies a part of the floor space, tables were set and adorned with dainties fitting the occasion. A fortune tel ler gave secrets of past and future in one corner and a phonograph op erated in another corner furnished music for dancing couples. Money Subscribed at Meeting to Gain Release of "Politi cal Prisoners-." "If I go to Jail it will be with un broken and undaunted sprit," declared Dr. Marie Equi, Portland woman sen tenced for violation of the espionage act during the war, in speaking last night before a gathering at a hall at 126 V4 Fourth street, which had con vened to consider a movement under foot to work for the release of so called "political prisoners" through cut the country. Dr. Equi has been out 'on $10,000 bail for some period, awaiting the result of an appeal of the case. The verdict of the lower court .Was up held a few days ago by the higher court in San Francisco, and the Port land woman was sentenced to two years' confinement. Her sentence is to begin within a week. "Class War, Says Woman. "We may think w,e live in a free country," she declared, "but we are in reality nothing but slaves. When President Wilson recently said that we are at war he spoke the truth for once. But it is not a war against another, nation, but a never-ending class war within our own, country." Dr. Equi .charged that her arrest under the espionage act had been or dered from the office of General Dis que, head of the government spruce production- here at that time, and that while General Disque and others got away with "swag," she must go to jail. Labor's Power Asserted. "The same class that owns th ships, the mines, the railroads and the land also owns the Jails and dom inates whatever kind of government there may be," was the declaration of Aben Woodruff of Seattle, chair man of a northwest bail and bond committee organized for the purpose of attempting to secure the release of prisoners serving under the espion age act. He urged closer unity of the workers, asserting that "when labor is properly organized it isvible to im pose its will upon the community." 'During the evening a collection netting about $70 was taken for the purpose of establishing a branch of the bail and bond committee in Port land. Meetings were announced for Sunday afternoon and evening in Co lumbia hall. Cal., according to word received here yesterday. Mrs. Branin was the wife of the late Walter Branin, former local manager of the Portland bureau of the United Press. News of the death of Mrs. Branin, which was received here through a telegram from her sister, Mrs. Judson Brown, came as a shock to the par ents, as Mrs. Johns had received let ters as late as Saturday giving no intimation that the daughter was ill. Mrs. Branin was born in Lawrence, Kan. She spent her girlhood there. coming to Portland at the time of her marriage to Mr. Branin. Besides her parents here and her sister, Mrs. Brown of Long Beach, she is survived by a daughter, Janet, aged 5; a sister, Mrs. Jeannette Benson, 470 Hancock street, and a brother, W. F. Johns of San Francisco. Interchange of tele grams between the relatives will de termine funeral arrangements. LOVETT ARRAIGNS PLAN CNION PACIFIC HEAD SATS Limit on returns is unfair. Need of More Liberal Legislation for Railroads Pointed Out at Luncheon Given by Chamber. That the railroads, when they are returned to private operation, prob ably on January 1, 1920, must be ac corded a more liberal policy than present legislation now contemplates, if they are to furnish service and make the necessary expansions, was the declaration of Judge Kobert S. Lovett. head of the Union, Pacifio system, in an address delivered yes terday noon at the luncheon tendered him by the Portland Chamber of Com merce. Judge Lovett referred to a measure now pending in congress, to limit the returns of the roads to 6V1 per cent of the book valuation of the proper ties, as "grossly immoral," in that it would take from the investment a portion of the returns permitted by rate legislation, and would effective ly discourage investors from backing the lines in needed development and expansion. "Private capital will take up the railroad systems if It gets a chance," said Judge Lovett, "but I don't" be lieve that it will turn aside from the world-wide opportunities for fin ancial return unless the railroad in vestment is ordinarily attractive. "It is proposed that the interstate commerce commission shall fix rate; which the shippers shall pay and which the railroads must accept. The sole question is the right of the government to take the money that is saved out of the rates that the government has fixed. It is as much private property as are homes and bank accounts." Judge Lovett and his nartv left last night for Seattle. TI.ey will pass mrougn t-ortiana again tonight, on their way to Los Angeles. PRANKS EVOKE LAUGHTER UNIQUE HALLOWEEN COS TUMES WORN BY 'WOMEN.' MRS. CHRISTIE IS CHOSEN Post as General Secretary of Y. W C. A. to Be Taken November 15. Mrs. Norman Christie, former head of the War Camp Community Service in Portland, has been chosen general secretary or the Portland Y. W. ,C. A. and will take up her new duties on November 15, succeeding Miss Ida V. Jontz, whose resignation was an nounced on September 1. For the past two months the Y. W. C. A. has been without a general sec retary, and Miss Carrie A. Holbrook, president of the board of directors, has assumed general executive charge of the institution. "Mrs. Christie is a very capable executive and splendid woman and we feel that we have secured a splendid asset to the work of the Y. W. C. A. said Mrs. George F. Wilson, vice-pre ident of the board, commenting on the appointment. TIMBER CARE HELD NEED FIRE PREVENTION ON. CUT OVER LAND ADVOCATED. CITY BANDSMEN TO MEET Eric V. Hauser Hopes to Organize Band of 60 Pieces. Eric V. Hauser, president of the board of guarantors of the Portland symphony orchestra, and one of the most influential boosters for good music in this city, has called the bandsmen of Portland to attend a meeting in the Arcadian garden of the Multnomah hotel, tomorrow at 10:30 A. M. Mr. Hauser hopes soon, to have or ganized a big band of 60 pieces which will be available for concerts, and managed on lines which will entitle it to rank as the principal band in the Pacific northwest. In this enterprise Mr. Hauser hopes to obtain the co operation of Portland business men so that a subscription list may be or ganized, to take care of the financial part of the project. William B. Greeley, Head of Tim ber Sales Department of Forest Service, Visits City. When the westerner becomes' edu cated to the point where he will prac tice fire prevention in the cut-over lands as well as In the standing tim ber, he will have assured the north west an inexhaustible lumber indus try, according to William B. Greeley, head of the timber sales department of the United States forest service, who is here from Washington. Mr. Greeley, after two years" absence in France, where he was a lieutenant colonel in the forest engineers during the war, is now going over the coun try visiting all district offices and checking up on what has been ac complished. "I'm particularly interested in put ting the lumber industry on the map 10 siay, me omciai explained. "I've been in this work 15 years and I can see the thing growing every year nearer 10 mac point. we don t want the northwest to lose its big source of natural wealth and have a pile of sawdust, as is the case in the lake states. That is the point of view that it is difficult to bring you people around to because you think vour supply is inexhaustible." Mr. Greeley believes It Is up to the state and federal government to take up the cut-over lands not suited to farming and control fires that endan ger them. He is enthusiastic over the improvements In Oregon fire-fighting equipment and says this state always has held one of the topnotch places in the whole system. VANCOUVER ORDERS WOOD Coal Users Make Preparation for Strike Shortage. VANCOUVER, Wash., Oct. 31. (Special.) Interest in the impending coal strike on the Atlantic coast was reflected on the Pacific coa3t by the great number of orders for wood received by local wood dealers. Persons who have been depending upon coal, for their fuel, both for heating and operating industrial plants, have placed large orders for wood with the expectation that coal will be hard to get within a short time. WITCHES RULE FACTORY 1 Hat Plant Stops Work While Em ployes Celebrate Halloween. Black cats snuggled on the tables and witches perched on lamp shades Cars Skid on "Soaped" Tracks, Clortieslincs Fall and Yard Gates Disappear as if by Magic. She was about 50 years old and somewhat shabbily dressed. Her shoes, somewhat worn at the heels, re sembled on old paid such as mother might wear around the kitchen. She walked sedately up Third etreet with a little girl skipping at her side and to a pedestrian overtaking her she ap peared a working woman going home from tne shop. But pedestrians who glanced at the faces of the pair in passing always stopped short. Both woman and girl wore grotesque masks. "What the " the pedestrian would begin, and then, "Tee-hee. by gummy, I had forgotten that it waa Hal loween." The elderly woman and the little girl rounded a corner and disappeared while the Halloween pranks were In full blast, as became women on a night dedicated to the "fellers" from time immemorial. And with the aid of absolute darkness, which shrouded a large portion of the east side after a transformer blew out in the Port land Railway, Light & Power com pany's sub-station, near East Sixtieth and East Stark streets, the "fellers" made a fairly good night of it. There was little actual damage, ac cording to reports to the police. The Williams avenue. Rose City and Mis sissippi avenue car tracks were "soaped," with the result that the cars skidded along under partial con trol. Several clothes lines, containing the weekly wash, were cut down and the clothes bespattered. Screen doors and yard gates disappeared as if by magic The police assumed ' a. tolerant at titude toward funmakers who did not violate the curfew law. Even at a late hour no arrests had been made for violations of the curfew law. Most of the patrolmen evinced a fatherly desire to send the "kids" home. PORTO RICO STOCKS LOW Soldiers on Rice Ration; Govern or Appeals to Washington. SAN JUAN. P. R., Oct. 31. Because of the continuance of the longshore men's etrike at New York and the consequent failure of' food supplies to reach Porto Rico, Governor Yager has sent the following message to Washington: "The stock of provisions.- in Porto Rico, especially flour, rice and pota toes, haa greatly diminished. Unless vessels arrive immediately with pro visions, very serious conditions will arise. The soldiers of the Porto Rico regiment have ben reduced to a rice ration. If the strike continues a transport with provisions, especially rice, iiour ana potatoes, should be sent to Porto Rico. The price of flour has nearly doubled in the last few days." The department of Justice has re quested the public to report prof iteering. BARBERS'HOURS CHANGED Vancouver Bald Heads- and Other? Pay 50 Cents for Haircut. . VANCOUVER, Wash., Oct. 31. The Vancouver barbers' union voted to change the hours of their shops, beginning at once. The shops, from Monday to Friday, will open at 8 A. M. and close at 6 P. M., and on Satur day they will open at 8 o'clock and close at 9 P. M. While the barbers In . the Grays Harbor country raised the price of shaves and haircuts, the price was left the same here by the master bar bers at the meeting last night. Shaves, including neck shave, are 25 cents each, -one to a customer a day, and haircuts are 50 cents. No reduc tion is made for men who have bald heads. W. C. REDFIELD RETIRES Secretary of Commerce Leaves for Home in Brcvklyn. WASHINGTON. Oct. 31. William C. Redfield today retired as secretary of commerce after serving for six and a half years. He leaves tomorrow for his home in Brooklyn, but eaid today that he had made no plans r the immediate future. Until the appointment by the presi dent of a successor to Mr. Redfield the assistant secretary of commerce. Ldwm D . sweet, will be acting sec retary. WOMAN, 109, IS DEAD Family Records Show Birth in 1810 in Mexican Border State. RIVERSIDE, Cal., Oct.- 31. Mrs Francissa Rodriguez, said to have been 109 years old, died here today after an illness of six days. She was born October 4, 1810, in one of the border states of Mexico, accord ing to family records. ' DRY INJUNCTION GRANTED Saloonkeepers May Be Imprisoned for Contempt of Court. NEW YORK, Oct. "31. United States District Judge Augustus N. Hand to day granted a temporary Injunction at the request of the United States district 'attorney prohibiting the sale of all liquor containing one-half of 1 per cent or more alcohol. Undet the injunction saloonkeepers who violate the prohibition enforce ment law can be summarily arrested and imprisoned for contempt of court. FIREMEN LOSE IN COURT California Judge) Rules Against Eight-Hour Contention. BAKERSFIELD, Cal.. Oct. 31. The city firemen of Bakersfleld today lost their contention for an eight-hour day by decision of Judge Harvey in the Kern county superior court. The firemen will appeal to the state su preme court. The city charter of Bakersfleld pro vides that, no laborer, workman or mechanic employed by the city or by a contractor working for the city shall work more than eight hours day. Every employe of the city, in cluding the policemen, is classified under this eight-hour provision, the firemen excluded, they having th two-platoon system. Judge Harvey held that the fire men do not come under the classifica tion of workmen or mechanics. SENATOR ASSAILS STRIKE Polndexter Declares Anarchistic Agitators Plan Dictatorship. LOWELL, Mass., Oct. 31. In his first public utterance since his re cently announced candidacy for the presidency. Senator Miles Polndexter of Washington, at a political meeting tonight, declared the strikes which are "plunging the nation into in dustrial chaos are part of a plan by "anarchistic agitators'" to bring about "dictatorship of the proletariat." "A species of government within government, the tyranny of radical walking delegates in the labor or ganizations, has coerced and intimi dated many laborers to quit work when they really wanted to work. No man is more interested in the pres ervation of law and order than the laboring man," said the senator. WHITES EJECT NEGROES One Black Killed, Two Wounded at Corbln, Ky. CORBIN, Ky, Oct. 31. Angered by a series of attacks on white men. mob here last night placed more than 200 negroes on departing trains and forced most of the remaining negroes to leave on foot. One negro was killed, according to reports, and two others wounded. The town is quiet today. J. H. R0SSETER RESIGNS J. E. Cushing Is Successor as Di rector of Ship Operations. WASHINGTON. Oct. 31. J. H. Ros seter. director of operations of the United States shipping board, has re signed. John E. Cushing, assistant director, succeeds him. MRS. E, K. BRANIN DIES Widow of Late Press Bureau Head Leaves 5-Year-Oldj Daughter. Mrs. Edith K. Branin, former resl dent of Portland and the daughter of night, the proposed 2-mill tax levy Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Johns, 274 College I of the city of Portland was unani street, died Thursday at Long Beach, I mously indorsed. Two-Mill Tax Indorsed. At the regular monthly meeting of the Oregon chapter of the Amer lean Association of Engineers last ir i I snrsWrfffi Owes n si How American Women Break Down Owing to the modem manner of living and the nervous haste of every woman to accomplish just so much each day, they overdo, and as a consequence develop ailments peculiar to their sex, as is indicated by backache, headache, nervous ness, the blues, displacements and weakness. Women who find themselves in this condition should slow down, and depend upon that good old fashioned root and herb remedy, Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Com pound, to restore them to health and strength, for there is no other remedy known that so quickly restores a healthy, normal condition. Here is the Story of a Most Remarkable Recovery Minneapolis, Minn. "I was run down and nervous, could not rest at night, and was more tired in the morning than when I went to bed. I have two children, the youngest three months old, and it was drudgery to care for them as I felt so irritable and generally worn out. From lack of rest and appetite my baby did not get enough nourishment from me, so I started to give him two bottle feedings After taking three bottles of ia EL. Pinkham's Vegetable mpound I felt like a new woman, Jl of life and energy. It is a leasure to care for my children and I am very happy with them 1 r t f w and teel tine. 1 nurse my by exclusively again, and cant say too much tor your medicine. Mrs. A. L. MILLER. 2633 East 24th Sl (Surely this proves the curative value of m m r bh a i i m ma em m -b" a i i i turn xl I witsm LYDIA E.PINKHAM MEDICINE CO-. UYNN. MASS. noGKFiLE run mum MAYOR SEES WAY TO REDUCE CRIME IX PORTLAND. Hard Labor Believed Most Feared by Outlaws; Co-operation With County Indorsed. Mayor Baker approves the plan urged by Sheriff Hurlburt for the reopening of the Kelly Butte rock pile, where prisoners can be forced to work during their detention. Further, the city's executive favors some plan by which the city can co-operate with the county so that city prisoners may be sent to the rockpile. "A few months' breaking rock will do more than a year in the city or county Jail to break up crime," said Mayor Baker. "I believe that Sheriff Huriburt's proposal to reopen the rockpile is a good one from a doren angles. There is one thing certain that a bunch of crooks who hate work would evade Portland and look for other cities in which to operate should they know that their arrest and con viction meant a month or two at the rockpile. "Lender nresent conditions the most drastic punishment that can be meted out to a law violator is a term in Jan. Here they have the best of condi tions good food, comfortable beds and plenty of reading if they desire it. "Then, too. I agree with Sheriff Hurlburt when he says that the pris oners would benefit in health by work at the rockpile." STUDENTS TO BE HOUSED Vancouver Called On to Put l"p Livestock Show Visitors. VANCOUVER. Wash.. Oct. 31. (Special.) Headquarters for the students from agricultural colleges sent to the Pacific International Live stock show, to be held in the great exposition building Just across the Columbia river from Vancouver, will be established in this city. Vancouver will be asked to furnish sleeping ac commodations for 1000 persons during the show. In addition, it is expected that 3000 more will secure meals in Vancouver. O. M. Plummer was in Vancouver today making arrangements for the guests, and placed the work in charge of Clement Scott, president of the Vancouver Commercial club. Those having rooms for the college students are invited to call Mr. Scott at i'8 night or day. i Watch the Little Pimples; They Are Nature's Warning Unsightly and Disfiguring Sig nals of Bad Blood. Don't close your eyes to the warn ing which nature gives, when un sightly pimples appear on your face and other parts of the body. Not only are these pimples and splotches disfiguring, but they lead to serious skin diseases that spread and cause the most dicomforting irritation and pain. Sometime they foretell Eczema, boils, blisters, ecaly eruptions and other annoyances that burn like flames of fire, and make you feel that your skin is ablaze. When these symptoms appear on anv- part of the body, take prompt steps to rid the blood of these dis orders. And the one remedy which has no equal as a cleanser is S. S. S., the purely vegetable blood medicine, which has been on the market for more than 50 years. It is sold by druggists everywhere. If you are afflicted with any form of skin disease, do not expect to be cured by lotions, ointments, salves and other local remedies, as they can not possibly reach- the source of the trouble, which is in the blood. Be gin taking S. S. S. today, and write a complete history of your case to our chief medical adviser, who will give you special instructions without charge. Write at once to Swift Spe cific Co., 260 Swift Laboratory, Atlan ta, Ga. Adv. ! SHEET (MUSIC) I SALE 1 I SATURDAY 5c 9c 15c 2 -"Blowing Bubbles" Q "Blue Bird" ( "Dixie Lullaby" "Salvation Lassie" j "Girl of My Dreams" and Other Popular Hits f "Our Musical Floor" Seventh. cnercnanuisecn ricni Vi