VOL. LX XO. 18,8T
Entered at Portland (Oregon)
Hoatoffice ns S?cond-C1a9 Matter.
PORTLAND, OREGON, SATURDAY, MAY, 21, 1921
PRICE FIVE CENTS
TEN HURT WHEN ONE
BIG LIBER MILL
NINE ALLEGED EXPERT
36 DESTROYERS HUNT
MISSING NAVAL JUG
, )
THREE CRUISERS ALSO BEGIX
COMBIXG PACIFIC.
POACHER SUSPECTS
FIGHT WITH OFFICERS
REVOLVER AXD FISH GAFFS
USED FX STRUGGLE..
FLOOD PROSPECT
GROWING RAPIDLY
TRAIN HITS ANOTHER
BOMBERS ARRESTED
WILL RISE IN CITY
SMASHP AT ECGEXE DUE TO
TERRORISM TACTICS CHARGED
OPEX SWITCH.
BY CLIQTJE MEMBER.
DRY AGENT CLERKS
ACCUSED OF GRAFT
Dishonest Deals Exceed
Salaries, Is Charge.
StAMENENJOINED
ROM
PICKET NG
Peninsula Company to
Build $750,000 Plant.
STORAGE SPACE TO BE VAST
Construction to Start When
Fill Is Completed.
Payroll to be doubled
Oregon Corporation Prepares for
Xew Era in Milling Opera
f ' tions of Jforthwest.
' Construction of an entire new mill
for the exclusive sawing of high
trade logs, with independent dry kiln
and planing-mill capacity., and the
utilization of the present mill for
handling timbers for the domestic and
offshore markets, was announced
"-. yesterday by the Peninsula Lumber
company. Actual building will be
undertaken as soon as a fill now
under way on the north side of the
site has settled sufficiently to per
mit the structures being begun. It Is
estimated the cost will be close to
$750,000. When in full operation pay
roll expenditures will be about dou
bled, reaching $1,000,000 annually.
News of the final approval of gen
eral details of the project, which has
followed three years of preliminary
labors by engineers and sawmill
draftsmen, under the direction of F. C.
Knapp, president of the company, has
been received by those in touch with
the programme as among the nfost
conclusive illustrations of how Port
land's stability and future develop
ment Is regarded by financial inter
ests concerned in lumber production.
Dock Space to Be Enlarged.
The plans Insure another monster
boost for the water-borne commerce
of the state, inasmuch as provision is
made for additional berthing space to
augment the 1000-foot dock now serv
ing the first unit, while the new mill
will have as admirable facilities for
increased railroad shipments. With
its main mill and essential auxiliaries
the second unit will mark the prop
erty of the Peninsula Lumber com
pany as distinctive among sawmill
establishmenta on the Pacific side.
Aside from the fact the combined
plant will turn out all classes of ma
terial, from timbers four by four by
ten feet to squares 40 by 40 inches and
up to 120 feet in length, to the high
est grades of structural and finish
ing fir, there will be provision for
the storage of vast stocks of its prod
uct, since space is reserved in the ap
portionment of the tract for fair-drying
and crosa-piling 70,000,000 feet of
lumber.
Conatrnctioa Walts on Fill.
Although there has been no previ
ous announcement of the construc
tion, the Port of Portland commission
is alre'ady depositing material dredged
from the berth of the new 15,000-ton
drydock at St Johns onto the prop
erty of the Peninsula Lumber com
pany just south of the east approach
of the Spokane, Portland & Seattle
Railroad company's Willamette river
bridge. There the second mill unit
is to be located. Early construction
of billkheads and spillway paved the
way for the big fill and an actual
tart waits sn the last yard of ma
terial being pumped there. -
Stretching south from the property
line of the railroad system the Penin
sula interests now control 3550 feet
of river frontage and the tract ex
tends landward to the Willamette
boulevard, the boundary line being on
auch an angle that the frontage on
the boulevard is about 3000 feet. The
average depth of the site between the
river and boulevard is 1700 feet.
Log Storage Provided.
On the south half of the property,
Is located the present mill and its
Various adjuncts. In front of the
plant Is the 1000-foot dock, which,
owing to berthing space available on
the inner side as well, really repre
sents 2000 feet for the accommoda
tion of vessels. Extending from the
main railroad artery into the prop
erty to the dock is a standard-gauge
track that not alone serves for mov
ing cargo Into position for loading,
but provides means as well for dis
charging any character of cargo fromi
juuouuu auupa ujrecuy into cars, lor
J : - V . . . .
Xone Seriously .Injured, -iccordln;
to Keports; Damage to Rail
road Property Also Light.
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EUGENE. Or.. May 20. In a col
lision between the outgoing Southern
Pacific Coos Bay passenger train and
a freight train In the Eugene yards
this morning ten people were Injured,
but none very seriously. The colli
sion occurred when the passenger
train went through an open switch
and bumped head-on into a freight
train standing on the track.
The injured are:
C. J. Griffith, messenger, cut on
forehead and sprained .back; Joseph
Hastings, conductor, bruised arm;
Engineer Deninney, bruises; Mrs.
Wharff of Marshfield, lip cut slightly;
Mrs. Christiansen. 2303 East Sixth
avenue, Spokane, bumped nose; -Ernes!.
Kitzler, 246 Burnslde street, Portland,
bruised knuckle. V. E. Daugherty
news agent; Donald Jlilliken, North,
Bend; Barbara Xaughton, North Bend,
minor bruises.
Neither train was- badly damaged,
railroad officials estimating the loss
at $200.
TKJHT ENFORCEMENT ASKED
Anti-Saloon League Counsel
Before House Committee.
PALMER IS , CRITICISED
ROBBER GETSMAIL BAGS
Clerk's Watch Is Taken and He Is
Forced to Stop Train.
SACRAMENTO. Cal., May 20. A
robber boarded Southern Pacific train
No. 20, eastbound, at Newcastle to
night, and after holding up the mail
clerks, escaped with several bags of
mail, according to a report received
here tonight at the sheriff's office.
Local dispatchers of the Southern
Pacific were informed that the rob
ber forced Mail Clerk Decker to stop
the train about a half mile from
Newcastle and robbed him of a watch
and chain. , He was then said to
have escaped from the car with the
mail to an automobile waiting in the
highway nearby.
A check of the lost mail could not
be made tonight.
SAN FRANCISCO, May 20 Post
office inspector W. I. Madeira here
tonight declared Tils belief that Roy
Gardner, escaped mail bandit, who
eluded authorities at Napa, Cal., two
weeks ago. held up mail train No.
20 near Newcastle tonight. Mr. Ma
deira said Gardner was last seen in
that vicinity.
PERSHING TO SEE CAMPS
General Lands Association of Mili
tary Training Bodies.
CHICAGO, May 20. A- letter from
General Pershing announcing his
whole-hearted sympathy with the
Military Training Camps' association
and its objects was read before the
convention of that body at the gen
eral session today.
"I plan to visit as many of these
camps this summer as possible to
meet the candidates," he wrote. "I
believe the purpose of these Institu
tions is so closely Interwoven with
the question of adequate national de
fense that all Americans should ren
der every assistance and encouragement."
STREET CAR IS HELD UP
Unmasked Robber Take Com
pany's Money From Conductor,
An unmasked man carrying a small
blue revolver held up
In charge of a
rison streetcar,
Several Investigators Hit Ruling
That Volstead Act Does "ot Pro
hibit Use s Medicine.
WASHINGTON, D. C, May 20
Wayne B. Wheeler, general counsel
of the Anti-Saloon league, declaring
it was not possible to draft a bomb
proof liquor law, told the house judi
ciary committee today that some
clerks employed by district prohibi
tion commissioners were mak'ng
more money in a week through dis
honest dealing with fraudulent per
mits for withdrawal of alcohol than
they would earn on straight salaries
in two years.
Approximately 35,000,0 0 0 gallons
had been withdrawn in the last year,
or considerably ..more than a quart
for every man, woman and child In
the country, Mr. Wheeler said. His
was the concluding argument on the
Volstead bill to tighten up the Vol
stead law and prevent sale of beer
to the sick.
Amndnwit la Suggested.
Mr. Wheeler contended that of the
35,000,000 gallons fully SO per cent
was used for beverage purposes. He
suggested amending the law so that
none of it could be removed until by
medicating and denaturing it had
been gendered unfit for drinking.
Mr. Wheeler presented hundreds of
petitions from many states, most of
them from doctors opposing any let
down in the Volstead Jaw under, which
beer could bs prescribed for the ail
ing. Medicinal Beer la Denied.
Dr Harvey W. Wiley, who was once
delegated! to find out "what is
whisky?" told the committee in a 10
mimite talk, that there were no med
ical properties in beer, and that it had
never been recognized by the medical
profession as a remedial agent.
Several members of the committee
took a whack at ex-Attorney-General
Palmer for ruling, as he stepped out
of office, that the Volstead law did
net prohibit that product as a medi
cine.
Representative Sumners. democrat,
Texas, took issue with such views, de
claring there was no good sense in
criticising the opinion of Mr. Palmer
Responsibility for Outbreaks in Re
cent Labor Troubles Is AN
leged by One Pirsoner.
CHICAGO. May 20. Nine men. said
by one of their number to be the
organized clique of .expert bombers
responsible for most of the terrorism
tactics that 'have marked recent labor
troubles, were under arrest tonight.
v A" tenth member of the' alleged
clique, Cornelius ("Con") Shea, labor
leader who headed, the 1905 team
sters' strike in Chicago, in which 21
men were killed and 415 injured, also
was being sought. . ' , '
" The arrests resulted from an al
leged confession made by Andrew
Kerr, a member of the etatlonary en
gineers' union. Kerr is said to have
named a dozen men who have becr
prominently identified either as per
petrators or as the instigators of
sluggings and bombings, during a
strike recently waged against laun
dry owners by the engineers' union.
Those under arrest included several
union officials, an I. W. W. member,
a dhauffeur and two men known to
the police as professional sluggers.
iterr was inspired to make his con
fession, according to the police, be
cause of the fact that he wa not paid
for several,bombings during the laun
dry strike.
TRAVELERS COMING HOME
More Trade With Orient Possible
Says Seattle Man.
MANILA, Way 20. Twenty mem
bers of the commercial commission of
the Pacific northwest, principally
from Seattle and Tacoma, arrived
yesterday on the jtrans-Pacific liner
Wenatchee. They will re-embark for
the United StateS'Sunday.
JamesS. Gibson, chairman, of the
Seattle chamber of commerce v de
clared that it is highly important to
establish more American steamship
lines and draw the Philippines closer
to the Puget sound region.
"It is certain that Manila, if nat
ural topographical advantages are
properly developed, will become the
clearing heuse for a tremendous traf
fic between the United States and
the orient," Gibson said.
(Concluded on Page 3, Column 1.)
WASHINGTON JURIST DIES
Ashley M. Gould' Passes Suddenly
at National Capital.
WASHINGTON. D. C, May 20.
Ashley Mulgrave Gould, associate
Justice of the District of Columbia
supreme court, died suddenly today
after a brief illness.
Justice Gould died of heart disease.
He was in court Tuesday, but that
that evening compfained that he had
injured his leg and remained at his
home thereafter. He rose as usual
this morning, but fell in a faint later
and died before noon. He is survived
by his widow, a son, Ashley M. Gould,
living in California, and three mar
ried daughters, all of this city. --
Craft Which Left Mare Island for
Samoa Xot Directly Report'
ed Since Departure.
SAN DIEGO. Cal., May 20 No re
ports .had been received here tonight
from the. fleet of 36 destroyers and
three cruisers which left this port
early todayto begin a search for the
Pacific fleet tug Conestoga, which
left Mare Island for Samoa late in
Marchxand has not' been directly re
ported since, although naval officers
have heard that the little 'vessel was
trying to ride out a gale some 500
miles from Honolulu on April 8.
Plans announced before the vessels
left port made it plain that a thor
ough search-was contemplated. The
cruisers and destroyers were to begin
combing the oceaa -east" of Cerros
island at noon tomorrowr
The rendezvous was set at a point
near the position off the Lower -California
coast in which the Admiral
liner; Senator reported that on Monday,-May
16, it picked up a lifeboat
believed to have been from the Cones
toga and in which some of the tug's
32 officers and men may have tried
to reach shore. The vessels will con
tinue steaming westward toward the
Hawaiian islands until about 1000
miles from the Lower California coast,
then will swing northward for 300
miles and then come back toward San
Diego. .
Three mine sweepers and the fuel
steamer Kanawha were sent out as an
additional division to search various
islands and shore lines on which the
missing tg or its wreckage may have
been swept.
Unless some trace of the tug Is foun
before that time, none of the small
fleet is expected back here before
June 1, a fact that may necessitate
several changes in the summer fleet
schedule already mapped out.
Orders for the search are said
have come from Washington and
have shown plainly the .desire of See
retary Dcnby of the navy departmen
that every possible effort be mad
to find the Conestoga or determine its
fate. These orders were transmltte
by the commander-in-chief of the Pa
cific fleet here late Thursday.
U. S. Court Takes Action
in Strike Crisis.
TEMPORARY ORDER ISSUED
Date Set for Unions. to Pre
sent Their Case.
DAMAGES ARE DEMANDED
Members of Striking Organizations
Ordered Forthwith to Cease All
Obstructive Operations.
TACOMA, Wash., May 20. (Special.)
Several Tacomans during the war
served in the missing navy tug Cones
toga and are greatly interested in th
search now under way by the navy
department. Captain Ernest Heinrici
now in Portland, was commander o
the tug for a part of the time on th
Atlantic when the vessel was engaged
in -submarine chaser convoy work
The tug was formerly a Philadelphia
Reading tug, ;'t was said.
PLANE KILLED
TWO IN
Pilot and Woman Are Victims of
Accident After Making 'Loop
PATERSON, N. J., May 20. Lieu
tenant Coates and Mrs. Jonn Brady
were killed today when an airplane In
which they were riding fell 2000 feet
to the ground at the Preakness flying
field near here.
Spectators told the police that the
machine had just come out of a loon
and was making a bank when the
wings crumpled and the plane fell.
T. E. Ellis,
one-man Depot-Mor-
last last night, re
lieved him of J15 of the company's
money, and refused to -take Ellis
watch because "you are a working
man." The" holdup took place on
Thurman street at the end of the
car's run.
Ellis reported to the police th
the man was inexperienced, as evi
denced hv his nervousness. The rob
ber disappeared In nearby brush and
nniir-n mild find no trace of him.
delivery inland. In connection with
plans for the second unit provision
is made for another dock at the north
end of the tract, which will add ap
proximately 1000 feet of berthing
pace.
The new arrangement on the river
side will afford the company space
for the storage of 15,000000 feet of
logs and, as the. first unit is up
stream from the site of the second
unit, all logs found in the timber
rafts that grade up to requirements
for cutting in the .stew plant can be
shifted into storage there by the as
sistance of the current.
Unit to Be Model.
In carrying out the aonstructlon
details not the slightest Interference
is necessary as regards the existing
plant, since the various structures
will be located toward the northV?nd
of the site, much of the intervening
space reserved for storage. In every
respect the second unit is to be a
model Trim be r manufacturing plant,
Concluded on Page 14, Column ST
STORM HITS TWO STATES
Man Killed in Xebraska: Havoc
Wrought in Minnesota.
OMAHA, May. 20. Violent wind
storms Jn Nebraska yesterday and
last night resulted In the death of
one man, injuries to others and con
siderable damage to farm property.
PIPESTONE, Minn., May 20. A tor
nado, which swept the southeastern
section of Minnesota last night killed
scores of cattle and destroyed a num
ber of farm structures. No lives were
lost.
WAGE CUT IS PROTESTED
Southern Pacific Engineers Refuse
to Accept "Reduction.
SAN FRANCISCO, May 20. Sta
tionary engineers and boiler-room
employes of the Souther Pacific fol
lowed the lead of other classes- of
railroad employes today by refusing
to accept a 20 per cent reduction in
wages proposed by the-- company.
Their announcement was made at a
conference between their representa
tives and company officials.
ATTORNEYS- MUST ACT
Aliens Must Get Citizenship Papers
in Six Months.
SACRAMENTO, Cal.. May 20. Gov
ernor Stephens today signed senate
bill 164, forcing alien attorneys to
bBtain their first citizenship papers
within six months after it becomes
effective.
j PUZZLE: FIND THE CAUTIOUS BATHER. j
IF 1- ,V & i -
i Tmms mil i
Continues molestation of crews of
shipping board vessels by pickets of
the striking harine unions led to the
granting by Federal Judge Wolverton
yesterday afternoon of a temporary
restraining order commanding the
various unions, their business agents
and all persons assisting them to
cease all picketing operations imme
diately. The defendants were ordered
to appear before the district court of
the United States May 26 at 10 A. M.
to show cause why a permanent in
junction should not Issue.
The specific commands of the re
straining order were to desist from
trespassing upon any of the proper
tics of the shipping board, either upon
Its vessels, or any dock, dolphin or
wharf, and from interfering in any
way whatsoever with employes of the
shipping board.
Even while the papers in the case
were being prepared in the office of
United States Attorney Humphreys,
four ex-navy men, who had been in
the office of the sea service bureau
applying - for positions on vessels,
emerged from the Concord building
and were set upon by a dozen or more
pickets who wereolterin about the
entrance of the building. The four
would-be strike breakers successfully
fou eh t off their assailants in a run
ning encounter from Second and Stark
streets almost to Third street, where
the assailants dispersed at the sight
of an on-rushing body of police re
serves. No serious injuries were In
flicted on either side and no arrests
were made.
Papers Served on Unions.
" Papers in the case were given into
the hands of George F. Alexander,
United States marshal, i and were
served by him upon the unions named
as defendants late yesterday afternoon.
The complaint, with affidavits
which served as the basis for the re
straining order, filed by United States
Attorney Humphreys yesterday in
federal court, alleged many acts of
violence against employes of the
United States shipping board and as
serted that continuance of such ac
tions on the part of the offending
waterfront organizations wouldjJo
IrreDarable injury to the merchant
marine. It was alleged that damages
amounting to 110.000 a day since
May 1 had been done and that amount
was sued for, in. addition to a re
straining order forever stopping such
practices.
The suit was one in equity, filed by
the United States against the Marine
Engineers' Beneficial association and
Benjamin Thomas, president, and Bar
ney Dlonne, business manager and
financial secretary; the Masters,
Mates and Pilots of the Pacific Port
land branch"! and W. C. Snow, busi
ness agent; the Marine Firemen. Oil
ers' and Water Tenders' union of the
Pacific, Portland branch, and Thomas
FarrelJ, business igent; the Sailors'
nion of the Pacific, Portland branch.
and Jack Rosen, business agent; the
Marine Cooks' and Stewards' associa
tion of the Pacific, Portland agency.
and Frank Dean, business agent; and
the Neptune Association of Licensed
Masters and Mates of Ocean and
Coastwise Steam Vessels.
Wilful Obstruction Charged.
It is recited that the plaintiff owns
nd conducts the shipping business of
the United States shipping board and
uses Montgomery, Alblna, Pacific El
evator. MerseyAO.-W. R. & N. com
pany, Portland Flouring . mill and
ther docks in the Portland harbor
and the Victoria Dolphins in the con
duct of its affairs; that on May 1
wages were reduced by the shipping
board. In accordance wun prior no
tice; that on that date the defendants
walked out and now refuse to allow
their members to work for the plain
tiff upon the terms and conditions
the plaintiff established, and that the
defendants since May 1 have been
obstructing 'nd hindering the plain
tiff and its agents in the operation
of-lts ships and its plans and have
knowingly and wilfully obstructed
and retarded the passage of the
United States mails on vessels carry
ing mall and that they continue to do
so, as shown by affidavits filed in
support of the suit.
Defendants are alleged to have been
guilty of threats, intimidation and
violence against persons willing to
wok for the plaintiff and its agents
and have picketed docks and vessels
and otherwise obstructed and Inter
fered with the plaintiff. Defendants
are said to have trespassed upon the
plaintiffs property and upon its ves
sels -and have assaulted and beaten
members of the crews of the vessels
owned and operated by the plaintiff
and have placed pickets who have
Charlie Straight and Bill Freeman
Charged AVith Angling in
Clackamas River.
A fierce struggle In which a re
volver and fish gaffs were used pre
ceded the arrest of two alleged no
torious poachers on the Clackamas
river yesterday, according to word
received by Carl D. Shoemaker, secre
tary of the atate fish commission.
The battle ended only when one of
the deputy fish wardens fired a shot
directly at one of the poachers, who.
It was said, was attempting to hit
him with a pike pole.
The prisoners were Charlie Straight
and Bill Freeman. They were arrest
ed, while operating in the Clackamas
river, by Deputy Fish Wardens John
son and Murphy. Their boat, a net
and seven Chinook salmon were
seized by the wardens.
According to the message received
by Shoemaker, the two men resisted
arrest and tried to upset the officers'
boat and run them through with their
gaffs. The fight waxed warm until
Johnson pulled a gun and fired point
blank at Freeman, who, he said, was
wieldjng a gaff. The bullet whizzed
past the hand holding the gaff and
the Implement was dropped.
The two men were charged with
fishing illegally in the Clackamas
river, a closed stream; with fishing
without a license and with not hav
ing their corks numbered. They will
come up for hearing before Justice
Noble at Oregon City Tuesday.
PROFITEER HUNT PLANNED
Lcnroot of WlsconMn. Wants to Run
Down Guilty Ones.
WASHINGTON, D. C, May 20. The
senate committee on agriculture to
day ordered a favorable report on the
Lenroot-Strong resolution, authoriz
ing a general survey of agriculture
and related. maTtcrs by a joint com
mission of the serate and house, to
be composed of five meinbern from
each body, three of them republicans
and two democrats.
"Let's find out just who Is profiteering,"-
said Senator Lenroot, urging
federal action on his resolution ami
Indorsing the suggestion of Presi
dent Harding tor some government
agency to give publicity to costs
and" profits in various lines. Pub
licity, with fair price findings, he
added, would be more potent than any
legislation.
Senator Gooding, republican, Idaho,
said the proposed joint commission
should b in sympathy with agricul
ture and Senator Lenroot agreed.
Front Street May Be In
undated, Says Welfs. .
25-FOOT STAGE EXPECTED
Melting Snows Fast Swelling
Columbia System.
BEND FLUME GOES 0U1
Damngc to Farms in Union Con ill y
Estimated at $250,000; Heavy
Hu in full Continues.
TEMBLORS FELT AT SEA
Two Severe Enrlhqtiakes Shook
Ship Orf Mexican Coast.
SAN FEDRO, 'cal.. May 20. (Spe
cial.) One of the most severe earth
quake shocks ever felt at sea, was
reported yesterday by the crew of the
steamer Spectator. The vessel was
off the Mexican coast, north of Mexico
City, when the quake was reit. ine
officers alnd crew thought the steam
er had struck a roctrr
The second shock was so severe tht
the officers made ready to i;nancn
the lifeboats.
DKVKI.nrMKST l .ORTII-
WMT KI.OOI MTUATIOY.
Portland possibility of
Front - street flood growing
hourly. Weather forecaster
counts on 25-foot sIhrc.
Vancouver. Wash. Columbia
river rises 12 Inches In 21 hours,
reaching 10-foot stage. Farmers
move livestock from lowlunils.
Tho Dalles Columbia contin
ues rampage. Grain cropp on
lowlands flooded. Mark of 21
feet reached.
La Grande Estimate of dam
age to farms KSP.lHO, and may
reach 1300. 000. Worst of flood
not yet past. Total of 22.000
acres In Union county under
water. Kai.-.s keep up.
Medford Heavy rainfall con
tinues. Bend Irrlgatlrn flume eight
miles from Ucnd wanned out.
Rainfall is heavy.
INDEX OF TODAY'S NEWS
The Went her.
YESTERDAY'S Maximum temperature,
06 degrees; minimum. 51 decrees.
TODAVS Fair; westerly winds.
Foreign
Harvey's address Is praised In London.
I'lie 2.
National.
Prohibition enforcement clerks accused of
graft. Page 1.
Whole nation pauses to nouor lata Lniei
Justice White, l'age 2.
Harding psya honor to Madams Curie.
Pago 3. -
Railway chief declares costs must be cut.
Page -l.
Base at Alameda target in senate. Page 4.
America's foreign polity mstlo clear by re
fusal to interfere In Silesia. Pago .
Domestic.
Thirty-six destroyer search for missing
naval tug. Page 1.
Nine alleged expert bombers are arrested.
Paaa 1.
West Virginia mine battle area put under
martial law Page 3.
Vice still rampant drolsns reformer.
Page 0.
Ten persons hurt when passenger train
hits freight at Eugene. Page 1.
Big llqour Influx foreseen for Seattle.
Page 0.
Four-cent bread rumor In Spokane. Page S.
Counties may aid enforcement of prohlbl
ton law, says attorney-general. Page 10.
Pports.
Elks' boxing card now complete. Page 12.
Kerns bpys and girls win grammar school
meet. Page 13.
Carnentler afraid of "xe reporters." Page
11.
American golfers face big test today.
Page 12.
Clear sky augurs well for coast conference
(Concluded on Page 2. Culuum 3.)
today. Page IS.
Kerns boys and girls win school meet.
Page 13.
' Commercial and Marine.
Many salmon canneries win not operate
this season. Page -I.
Chicago wheat soars oa bullish crop news.
Page 21. 1
Ralls and other stocks under professional
pressure. Page -l.
Terminal congestion problem is viewed.
page la
Portland and Vicinity.
Poacher suspects light with officers.
Page I.
Umpqua taxpayers rousea By deal for
dredge, page Ji.
J. C. Johnson, who robbed benefactor, sen
tenced to six years in prison, pags 7.
Girl cooks show skill to parents. . Psge 10.
Realty board starts drlvs to reduce tax
levy. Psge n.
Seattle business men to visit Portland
Wednesday, page (.
Peninsula Lumber company to build nsw
wmlll in j'uruauu. xnib a.
Location for automobile stage terminal
tentatively seiecieo. ran j.
Two men caugnt in a rug ram are Held
for ball, page jo.
Flood prospect Is growing rapidly. Page 1.
Members of striking seamen's unions en
joined by leoerai court, rage j.
Pacific univernity Jlay festival - depicts
landing of PDgrlais. I'sge 4.
Though prediction of river stages
more than a few days ahead Is lin.
possible with any degree of certainty,
Portland stands a good chance of see
ing Front street flooded st several of
the lower points along the water
front. It was .said yesterday by ICd
ward !. Wells, district forecaster.
Conditions are practically the samo
this year as they were In the sprlns
of 189-1, when the greatest flood of
Portland's recorded history took
place, and the future behavior of the
river all depends upon the tempera
ture at the watersheds of the Snake
and Columbia rivers.
The river will reach a stage of 2 S
feet above zero Monday, according to
Mr. Wells' forecast of yesterday, and
unless the melting of tho mountain
snows is checked by cool weather, t
rise will continuo after that day. .Mr.
Wells admitted yesterday that he
really expected to see a stago of 2.1
or 26 feet wlthhln the next threa .
weeks, though he would not Incorpor
ate this estimate into his'forecast.
Flood Prospects) Inerense.
Prospects for a flood st Portland
were Increasrd yesterday by a rapid
rising oi the Wcnati-hee river at Wc
natchce, the Snake river at Lewislon
and the Columbia at L'ni.'itlll.i and
The Dalles. Where tho Columbia Is
confined in a narrow channel at The
Dalles a rise of 2-t feet was reported
at 8 o'clock yesterday morning. At
Wcnatchee the water was up 12 feet
and at l.ejylston 1.6. Tlie rise at
Umatilla In 24 hours was of a foot.
The general conditions throughout
the drainage area that point to an
abnormal rso in the Columbia end
Willamette rivers this year during
the annual run-off are a generous
supply of snow In the mountainous
territory drained by tliu Columbia
system, and a prolonged cold spring
ending with a sudden turn to warm
weather. '
Dredging i:ffee Mlukt.
Normally the rrnako river, whose
tributary mountains are much farther
oiith than those of the Columbia'
should accomplish Its run-off quietly
before the Columbia starts. This year,
however, the two ore performing to
gether, with a consequent Increase In
the volume of water the Columbia is
required to dispose of.
Tho more or less popular belief that
recent dredging operations In tho Col
umbia and Willamette rivers have so
increased the depth and width of the
channel In these streams tin to expe
dite the flow and thus tend to keep
down floods was flouted yesterday
by G. 1. Hegardt, chief engineer' for
the commission of public docks, tv-ho
has made an intensive study of tho
flow of the rivers. The effect of dik
ing and dredging upon the flow of the
streams, he said, is entirely theoret
ical and Is so slight as to be unnotlc
able; , ,
Foar Floods Here on Heeord.
Four real floods worthy of being
classed as such are known to have oc
curred at Portland. The first of these.
In the early '50s, must have reached a
stage of about 30 feet. In June. 1S7C.
the river surface stood 8 or 10 Inches
above the sidewalk at First and Sturk
streets. The third flood Is tho most
serious winter freshet on record. It
occurred In February, 1S90. and sent
the turbulent Willamette swirling to
the corner of Second anil Alder
streets. Tho "great flood" of June.
1S91. resulted In a river stage of 31.5
feet and caused men to travel ubou
the downtown business section In
boats.
Because of the hlRh water Harbor
master Speier yesterday lsned un
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