THE MORNING OREGOXIAN, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 1, 1919.
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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.
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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.
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