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MAY 2 p. "S VOL. XLI ISO. 19,191 Ep"r0e,dr,at Poartl5n,a '"r"' Postofrlcg as Second-class Matter. PORTLAND, OREGON, WEDNESDAY, MAY 24, 1923 PRICE FIVE CENTS mi IMP!! AQKQ AnUIPC I POWER DEVELOPMENT PLANS ARE PUSHED TV0 RADIO CONCERTS PROMISED TONIGHT THREE ENTER RAGE TO LEAD HOUSE SIGNS OF DINOSAURS ARE FOUND IN ASIA ON DAYLIGHT SAVING CLOCKS TO BE SET AHEAD IP PUBLIC SO WISHES. OP IS northwesters; electric company gets permit. HAWAIIAN ORCHESTRA MUSIC TO BE BROADCAST. DISCOVERY OF EXPEDITION OF GREAT SCIENTIFIC INTEREST. GOVERNOR OLCffn WIPJSNOMIMATIQN nnnwir nn mm inr 01 POUND iviuwt nuuau int OFPRESBYTERIftNS WOO Returns Complete From All but One Precinct. LEAD NOW IS 395 VOTES Increase in Plurality for In cumbent Expected. HALL CLAIMING VICTORY Coos County Candidate Declares Private Elgures Give Dif- . fcrent Results. Vote by counties on governor. Hall. Olcott. Baker 151 543 771 Benton 216 Clackamas 2.054 Clatsop 1,996 Columbia 638 Coos 1.825 Crook 104 Curry 416 Deschutes 270 Douglas 1,895 Gilliam 35 Grant 68 Harney 38 Hood River 88 Jackson 1.245 Jefferson 31 Josephine 490 Klamath 307 Lake 26 Lane 1,472 Lincoln 203 Linn 616 Malheur 62 Marion 2,721 Morrow 124 Multnomah 19,196 PolkJ- 493 Sherman 71 1,900 1,680 499 728 . 122 64 596 S21 200 288 166 393 1,236 133 235 823 126 1,365 443 872 308 3,187 216 18,303 604 295 375 1,620 627 287 891 1,120 350 827 Tillamook 1,132 Umatilla I.235 361 119 492 807 82 530 Union Wallowa .. Wasco ... Washing-ton Wheeler . . Yamhill .. Totals Olcott's lead, . ..f.42,499 42,894 395 Complete. Official count.. With returns, official or unofficial, practically complete from all coun ties, and but one precinct in the state not reported. Ben W. Olcott has won the republican nomination for gov ernor. Disregarding, the vote in the one outstanding precinct, which will Increase rather than decreaseJJlcott's lead, he has 395 votes more than Charles Hall. The unreported precinct is one in Baker and in this county Olcott has steadily led his opponent. The latest tabulation shows: Olcott Hall .. .42.894 .42,499 Olcott's lead 395 The count in the following coun ties is both complete and official: Benton, Clackamas, Clatsop, Colum bia, Coos, Crook, Deschutes, Douglas, Gilliam, Grant, Hood River, Jackson, Klamath, Lane, Marion, Morrow, Polk, Sherman, Tillamook, Umatilla, Union, Wasco, Washington and Yamhill. The count is complete but unofficial in Curry, Harney, Jefferson, Joseph ine, Lake, Lincoln, Linn, Malheur, Multnomah, Wallowa and Wrheeler counties. No Upset Likely. Official returns of the canvassing boards have not materially affected the complete but unofficial returns, nor is it likely that official returns In the remaining counties will change the result, albeit some slight devia tions from the complete unofficial count may develop. In the official figures on. Coos county both Hall and Olcott lost. The official count cost Hall, resident of Coos county, two votes and Olcott was reduced 16 votes. Despite the official and complete returns and the evident nomination of Olcott, Hall's managers in the Mult nomah hotel expressed confidence in Hall's success and their tabulations have satisfied them that the candi date from Coos bay has defeated Governor Olcott in the primaries. At Governor Olcott's offices in Salem it" was said last night that the Governor would make no statement in regard to the results until the of ficial count is completed for the (state. Mr. Hall left last night for his home in Marshfield, and just before leaving said: "I have figures which do not tally with those published by the newspa pers and 1 expect the nomination on the otficial count; we will await that." Nomination Is Expected. "Lacking the nomination what then?" Mr. Hall was asked. "I cannot discuss that," he replied. "I would submit the situation to my executive committee. However, I ex pect the nomination on the official count." Every county in which Hall was leading has reported its vote, official or complete, so that there is nothing left in sight which can offer a pros pect of upsetting the present result. Curry county, which went over whelmingly for Hall, is complete, but the vote has not been passed on by the county clerk. ' The lone Baker county precinct is said to be for Olcott. Twenty -two counties have been carried by Olcott and 12 by Hall. With the exception of Umatilla county, all of the counties in the Hall column are on the western side of the Cascade mountains. Hall carried every coast county other than Lincoln. (Concluded on Page 6, Column 3.) Citizens May Decide Matter by "Expressing Desires, Says Mayor Baker. Careful consideration will be given to the proposal of daylight saving in Portland and unless the public shows a demand for turning ' the clocks ahead one hour during the summer, the city council will 'not enact any ordinance along this line. This was made known yesterday by Mayor Baker and the councilmen, who explained that there would be no speedy action in connection with the proposal recommended for passage by the directors of the Portland Chamber of Commerce and indorsed by the Portland clearing house. "Daylight saving is in vogue in practically all of the eastern cities, and I am willing to vote for an ordi nance of this kind if the people want it here," said Mayor Baker. "The bankers state that daylight saving is necessary because of the difference of time between the Atlantic seaboard and Portland. The business men rep resented by the Portland Chamber of Commerce seem to favor it. "The question that the council wishes to have answered is how the rest of the public feels about it. .If thi majority of citizens favor the pro posal I will favor it." The council took about the same stand on the proposal as did the major. NEWSPAPER MEN HONORED Six Editors Elected to Membership in Fraternity. UNIVERSITY OF OREGON', Eugene, May 23. (Special.)- Six newspaper editors, well known throughout the state, were elected to associate-membership in Sigma Delta Chi, national honorary journalism fraternity, today. The new members admitted are Horace Thomas, city editor of The Ore gonian; O. C. Leiter, managing editor of the Telegram; Fred Lockley, edi torial writer of the Journal; Albert Hawkins, editorial writer of The Ore gonian; Frank Jenkins, editor of the Eugene Register, and Robert C. Hall, head of the University Press. Initiation of the new members is set for tomorrow night, after which a banquet will be held. Edwin Fraser of Ashland, Fred Michelson of Eu gene, and John .Anderson of Ashland, all students, will also be initiated at that time. Sigma Delta Chi endeavors to unite the student journalists with the promi nent newspaper men of the. state in an effort to better : the journalistic profession and promote the ideals of the organization. GENERAL WOOD MISSING Wireless Calls to Yacht After Ty phoon Go Unanswered. i MANILA, P. I:, May 23. (By the Associated -Press.) Wireless queries to the yacht Apo, on whicn Governor General Leonard Wood and his wife and daughter sailed Saturday for Mindoro, have not been answered, and the typhoon which raged yesterday was believed responsible for the de lay in their return., The Apo was be lieved to have sought refuge in some port of Mindoro. General Wood planned a brief visit of inspection on the island. The storm rose so suddenly, the dispatch said, that many vessels navigating the open sea were unable to reach safety before it was on them and the governor's yacht was one of many vessels reported missing. The storm was said to, have done considerable damage in and around Manila, many persons being injured. No deaths were reported. RETAIL DRUGGISTS RAPPED Senator Smoot Says Prices for Medicines Are Exorbitant. WASHINGTON, D. C May 23. Re tail druggists came under fire today in the senate for what were described as excessive and exorbitant price charges for medicines. Senator Smoot, republican, predicted that an investi gation of prices was coming and sa'd that when it did the people would know the truth about who made the profits. The attack on the druggists was made during debate on a committee recommendation that the present tar iff duty of 15 per cent ad valorem on calomel be tripled. Senator Norris, republican, Ne braska, said: "We cannot reach the druggist who charges exorbitant prices, but we can take away from him the argument for that pr'ce." CHINESE WED WHITES Mixed Couples From Portland Are Married in Vancouver. VANCOUVER. Wash., May 23. (Special.) The two Chinese men and two white girls, sisters, who obtained marriage licenses here yesterday, but. were refused the services of several of the members, of the Vancouver Ministerial association, finally found a retired minister. Rev. W. H. SWartz of the Baptist church, who performed the ceremony. The couples were Frank Kim, 34, and Celesta Carson, 22, of Portland, and Andrew Wee, 24. and Deloris Carson. 24, of Portland. One couple, a Japanese and a white woman, came here in March or April, and, finding no one to marry them, went to Kalama, where a justice of the peace performed the ceremony. "Insults Aimed at Us," Declares Pastor. BILL HART LETTER IS READ Parson Robbing Coach to Build Church Pictured. MOVIES HELD RESENTFUL Darts Aimed at Protestants Held Result of Church Campaigns for Cleaner Films. DES MOINES, la.. May 23. (By the Associated Press.) Rev. Dr. Gus tav Briegleb of Pasadena, waving a letter from William ("Bill") Hart, two-gun motion picture star, in the faces of 800 Prtsbyterian commission ers of the 134th general assembly here this afternoon, charged that films are ridiculing Protestant past ers in their pictures in retaliation for censorship campaigns being con ducted against them by Protestant denominations. Hart's letter was in reply to one from the California pastor protesting against a picture in which a pastor is portrayed as robbing a stagecoach in order to complete the construction of a small church. The "grim hero of the studios," who is himself the author of the scenario in question, replied to the criticism that he ad mires "a man brave enough to go ahead with his good work although it involves robbing a stage coach." Later in the picture the pastor is caught by a posse and Hart saves him from hanging only by cutting the rope withi a well-directed shot from his trusty pistol. "Show me a film which ridicules or insults a Catholic priest or a Jew ish rabbi in this manner," shouted Dr. Briegleb. "Their insults are aimed at us." Twice Dr., Briegleb's speak ing time was extended by vote of the general assembly. - The attack on motion pictures made by the committee on temperance and moral welfare in its report earlier in the day gave only a hint of the storm which burst when Dr. Briegleb of the sub-committee on movies, took the platform. The California moral crusader described a scene . from a picture now showing in Des Moines, in which a woman, stooping to pick something .from the ground, is bitten on the breast by a viper. The" hero undaunted by convention, tears off her bodice and sucks the poison from the wound. "Why, if the motion picture men's intentions are so moral, did the director not have the viper bite the woman on the wrist?" asked Dr Briegleb. Boycott of theaters showing ob (Concluded on Page Colmnn 1.) THE CORNER GROCERY OUT-OUCotT VOTES TttfW AND UGS.T 17 &3 TO -TO M -tvmo v&U OU.CC YT HOW rWY VOTES WflULCs A &CY P HE. ; V0Ye:O A2 iN Big Projects Contemplated in Washington and in Southern and Eastern Oregon Also. THE OREGOKIAS NEWS BUREAU, Washington, D. C, May 23. A per mit for one year has been granted by the federal power commission to the Northwestern Electric company for a power development project on the Lewis river, Washington, about 35 miles from Portland, the plans for which contemplate construction of a dam 200 feet in height, to create a storage capacity of 200,000 acre feet of water. The power house is to be located at the base of the dam and is to have an installed capacity of approxi mately 60,000 horsepower. About 28,000 primary horsepower will be available. The power developed by the new project wili be used to supply the growing demands of Portland, Van couver and other communities where the company operates as a public utility. The period of the permit will be utilized in continuing engineering investigations of the site and in pre paring plans for use in connection with application for a license. The commission also has authorized issuance of a license to the Califor-ria-Oregon Power company for a 115 mile power transmission line in the Crater and Umpqua national forests and in Jackson, Doulgas and Lane counties, Oregon. The Enterprise Electric company has filed an application for a license for a constructed project on the east fork of the Wallowa river, in Wal lowa county, Oregon. O. L. LeFever, general superintend ent of the Northwestern Electric torn- pany, said last night that preliminary plans of the company for power de velopment on the Lewis river provide for the establishment of a $3,000,000 plant in the vicinity of Yale, Wash. This, he said, would develop 20,000 kilowatts of power. He said that it was not expected to go ahead with this work this year, as the entire ground would have to be gone over and a complete survey of the territory made first. He said the plans, which were the result of preliminary surveys, might be ma erially changed as. a result of this later survey. "The Northwestern Electric company has extensive holdings all along the upper north fork of the Lewis river,' he said. "Our plans contemplate ulti mately the establishment of at least three dams which would develop in the ' neighborhood of 60,000 horse power." Yale, where tentative plans provide for the establishment of the first unit of the plant, is about 25 miles up the north fork of the Lewis river from Woodland, Wash. Tacoma Strawberries on Market. TACOMA, Wash.. May 23. The first local strawberries of the season. grown at Purdy. across the sound, reached the local market today and were sold for $8 a crate. Last year th first of the crop also appeared on May 23. First eastern Washington berries from Kennewick arrived yes terday and were sold for $7.50 crate. They were several days behind schedule this season. CLUB "HAD A HOT SESSION DISCUSSING THE ELECTION. fA. TVAT USE TttAY . C U A MAY 1 0 N STAWrTrVE. y nrri I wvm v ruxt a I 1 II ai( iCniMtsl I S0 ?OR. w' " . - l ,- . it r cj Other Features of Programme Will Be Vocal and Instrumental Solos of Excellent Quality. Two separate concerts, each of an hour's duration, comprise the offer ings of The Oregonian radio service to listeners tonight between 8 and 10 o'clock, and features of both in sure a' splendid evening of entertain ment. The first will consist of Hawaiian music and the second of vocal and instrumental solos. Due to many requests received by The Oregonian for a concert by a Hawaiian orchestra, John Sheffler'a band of zither, guitar and ukulele players has been secured through the efforts of William Hodecker of the Seiberling-Lucas Music company. It is a "live-piece orchestra, which now makes Portland Its headquarters, all members of which have traveled on udcvjlle circuits throughout the country. The programme the first hour will consist of old-time Hawaiian selec tions played in genuine Hawaiian style, a string of popular numbers and several dances and marches. It will be the first time Hawaiian music has ever been attempted in The Ore gonian tower, and the necessary ad justments will be made today by J. B. Weed, operator and installer of The Oregonian set and local manager of the Shipowners' Radio Service. All of the four soloists who will take part in the second concert from 9 to 10 o'clock are what might be called debutantes in the world of music. Miss Dorothea Anderson is a young pianist of note who has played radio accompaniments several times and tonight will play three piano solos. Miss Kathleen .Jordan is a violinist who has never played in public on--cert before. She is a youthful artist of much talent who has studied with Maurice Leplat, a violinist who fig ured notably in the large solo con cert broadcast from The Oregonian tower last Wednesday night. Miss Jordan's debut promises to be an in teresting feature of the programme. A voice which charmed thousands of listeners last Wednesday night xin two solo selections, is that of Miss Winifred Campbell, soprano, a pupil of Mitylene Fraker Stites, who is just coming into musical public no tice. Miss ' Campbell has a well- trained, rich voice and will sing three solos. The fourth soloist on the list 1: Elbert L. Bellows, tenor, a new voice to Portland. Bellows came here three, weeks ago from Chicago after he had finished his course in th Boston Conservatory of Music. His work is highly commended by local musicians, and for tonight he has chosen three songs which have made themselves popular with radio $ans. They are "Thank God for a Garden," "Smilin' Through," and "The Road That Brouglit You to Me." Mr. Bel lows will be assisted at the piano by Mrs. Amy Olmstead Welch. RADIO PROGRAMME MARRED Amateur Spark Stations Interfere Somewhat With Music. An excellent programme broadcast from The Oregonian radio tower yes- Concluded on Page 2, Column ) XH-COUHY- TiYvXHCl-q AND YrEY VNONT G-eY'r CounYeld YlLL H E.X.Y" .YEVE GO' COU?V-A ne.w v"uei-c f rxuYfU-VKE. m v. Gordon, Burdick and Kay Are Candidates. K. K. KUBLI IS MENTIONED Aspirants on Still Hunt to Gain Support. 31 VOTES NEEDED TO WIN Reports Say Ku Klitx-Klan Plans to Take Active Part in Organ izing Next Legislature. Thirty-one voters will elect the speaker of the house of the 1923 ses sion of the legislature. Already a still hunt is in progress by aspirants for the position to round up the con stitutional majority. Unless there should be a great up set in the general election in Novem ber, the house and senate will be or ganized by the republicans, although a stray democrat or two may be used in a pinch. There are now three avowed candidates for the speaker's joby two in western Oregon and one in eastern Oregon. There is a tenta tive candidate for president of the senate in the Willamette valley. Geography usually cuts a consider able figure in the election of the presiding officers. Those who are openly in the field as eandidataes for the speakership are Herbert Gordon of Multnomah. Thomas B. Kay of Marion and Denton G. Bur dick of Deschutes, Jefferson, Crook Klamath and Lake. All three are ex perienced legislators, having served many terms, and they know the ropes. Also, each of the trio has in the past been a candidate for presiding officer. Others Bit Interested. Aside from those who are frankly candidates, thqre is a rumor that K. K. Kubli of Multnomah will be a candi date, but Mr. Kubli says he reserves the right to announce himself. He does not deny that he will not be a candidate. Then, in the lobby gossip, is the report that Walter U. Lynn of Multnomah is in the field and that he has 24 votes for the office. It has been common report in po litical circles for months that the Ku Klux Klan Intended taking a hand not only in the election of various candidates for office, but in the or ganization of the legislature as well, and would try to dictate the election of the speaker of the house and the president of the senate. That the klan will undertake this task is generally believed, but no one yet knows how many legislators have been nominated by the klan and its ally, the Federation of Patriotic So cieties. This combination won all but one of the house nominations in Mult nomah and won two of the state sen atorships. Hard Fight Certainty. One thing is positive, the battle for the speakership will be hard fought, Tor all of the avowed candidates have strong friends who have served with them in the past. The big job now is for Kay, Burdick and Gordon to build their fences and they are losing no time doing so. Of course, there is always the possibility of a few demo crats edging some republicans out in the general election, but such possi bility is remote. In the senate the situation is different. Therei are several nomi nees who were elected by the federa tion, but there are many who were not and there are also a number of hold-over senators who must be taken into consideration. For presi dent of the senate, E. D. Cusick, nominated from the district of Linn and Lane, is the outstanding figure. He is considered a sort of compro mise between the men of eastern Oregon and those of Multnomah who became embittered during the 1923 exposition controversy at the special session of the legislature. State Senator Eddy of Douglas is a pros pective aspirant for president and, like Senator Cusick, has served sev eral terms in the senate.' Much will depend on the attitude taken by the senators from eastern Oregon. The senators and repre- I eentatives from east of the Cascades usually line up together, having learned from experience, that a solid delegation can accomplish results which an individual cannot. A get- together meeting will probably be held by groups of senators and sena torial candidates before November to look things over. CORNERSTONE IS LOOTED Sacrilegious Thieves Find No Money in Tacoma Edifice. TACOMA. Wash., May 23. Sacri legious thieves robbed the cornerstone of Bethlehem Baptist chyrch, it was discovered today. The cornerstone was laid last Sun day with appropriate ceremonies. Many articles were placed in the re cess of the stone, but no money. This the thieves discovered for themselves. Workmen noticed today - that the stone was out of adjustment and, in vestigation disclosed that its contents bad-been removed. - Cablegram Says Cretaceous and Tertiary Beds With Fragmentary Fossils of Mammals Located. NEW YORK. May 23. (Special.) Harry Fairfield Osborn, president of the American Museum of Natural His tory, has just received the following cablegram from the museum's third Asiatic expedition, now in the desert of Gobi, in Mongolia: . "Expedition immediately discovers important cretaceous and tertiary beds with fragmentary fossils of mammals and dinosaurs." This expedition was sent out in co operation with the American Asiatic society and Asia magazine for the purpose of collecting the animals of China, past and present. Little has been known of the geological history of Mongolia, but in the opinion of ex perts the discoveries indicated in the message will be of great scientific interest. No dinosaurs have ever been found in central Asia and very little has been known of the fossil mam mals of his vast region. The expedition left Pekin on April 17 for Urga, whence the members planned to explore the country to the west and south. This country, al though called a desert, is a region of rolling plains and foothills leading up to snow-covered mountains.- It is riot unlike the western plains of America. The discovery of fossils in such re gions is not surprising, for it is in such places that most of the extinct animals have been found. Roy Chapman Andrews of the American museum," is in charge of the expedition. Other members are: Wal ter Granger, expert fossil collector of the museum; Professor Charles P. Berkey of Columbia, geologist Pro fessor Frederick Morris, formerly of Columbia and now of the Peiyang university at Tientsin, geologist and topographer; Bayard Colgate, trans portation officer; Mr. Larsen, field manager; J. Persender, assistant transportation officer, and J. B. Shack elford, cinematographer. TOOTH FOSSILS ON SHOW Brownsville Woman Has Relics ot Prehistoric Monster. BROWNSVILLE, Or.. May 23. (Special.) Mrs. George Evans has on display at the Evans hardware store three immense fossilized teeth from some prehistoric animal. The teeth are embedded in two pieces of lava rock. The largest tooth is about four inches across and the specimens are perfect. Dr. Shelton, Brownsville dentist, has pronounced the speci mens genuine teeth. Mrs. Evans' sister, 4vho was here visiting, left the rocks at the Evans home. Mrs. Evans has written to ascertain where the teeth were found and what they are. C0PC0 DAM TO BE RAISED Transmission .Line to Eugene. Or., Authorized to He Built. SAN FRANCISCO. May 23. The California - Oregon Power company was authorized yesterday by the state railroad commission to expend $105, 619 from the proceeds of a recent bond issue ; to finance construction expenses incurred prior to March 31, and to expend $300,000 of the same issue for the improvements and ex tensions. These will include the raising of the Copco. Cal., dam, the installation of a second unit to the Copco hydro electric plant and the construction of a transmission line from Prospect, Or., to Eugene, Or. INDEX OF TODAY'S NEWS The Weather. YESTERDAY'S Maximum temperature, 69 degrees; minimum, 43 degrees. TODAY'S Showers and cooler; southerly winds. Foreign. Tardieu makes stinging attack on Amer ica. Page 2. National. Democratic woman fights republican man for Minnesota senatorship. Page 4. Army of 133.000 favored by senate com mittee. Page 2. Northwestern Electric company gets fed eral permit for big plant. Page 1. Criminals found handling U. S. mails. Page 7- Domestic. Prohibition inNAmerica has ajded in spir-; itual regeneration, says Lady Astor. : Page 3. I Fossils of dinosaurus found in Asia. Page 1. 1 Movies are ridiculing Protestant church--! men. declares Pasadena pastor.. Page 1. i Evelvn Nesbft weeps at hearing co-respondent charge. Page 3. , Pacific Northwest. ! Bootleggers get official fanction. Tage 5. But few democrats in Olympia for con- ' vention. Page 6. Sports. Pacific Coast league results: At Portland 13, Salt Iake 2; at Los Angeles 2, San Francisco 0; at Oakland 7, Ver non 6; Seattle-Sacramento traveling. Page 12. 1 Kedft beat Giants third straight. Page 13. Greb beats Tunney. Page 12. ('oinmerctHl and Marine. Stronger demand for wheat In northwest ern marketB. Page 20. Accumulation of wheat at Chicago moving out rapidly. Page 20. Trend of bond market is upward. Page 21. Business revival greatest ever, fays Rich ard Spillane. Page 20. Stock market uncertain with trading on active scale. Page 21. VInita is scheduled to arrive today. Pageliy Portland and Vicinity. Governor Olcott wins nomination Page 1. Senator Stanfield sells wool clip. Page 1. Council asks advice on daylight saving. Page 1. Hawaiian music for first time to be broad cast from Oregonian tower tonight. Page 1. - . Shipping board and union longshoremen 1 agree on hiring nail committee. - Page It. Make Portland more beautiful, advice of John Barrett. Page 10. Race for house speakership in next Ore gon legislature already on.' Page 1 fl - Stanfield Clip Brings About $600,000. SHEARING IS NOT FINISHED Demand for Product Makes Buyers Eager. PORTLAND MARKET BUSY Price Declared 100 Per Cent Greater Tlian Was Paid for Product One Year Ago. The Robert N. Stanfield clip of wool, estimated at 1,750,000 pounds, most of which is still on the sheeps' backs, was purchased yesterday by E. J. Burke of this city at a price said to be around 35 cents. The figure given was said by Mr. Burke to be 50 per cent greater than the price paid for the 1921 clip from the same sheep, but four months ago, and 100 per cent greater than the price of wool a year ago. The transaction is significant of the demand for northwestern wool at the present time and the improved con ditions which the wool men are fac ing. Yesterday's deal, which Involves In the vicinity of JS00.000, was for the wool from all the Stanfield flocks in various sections of Oregon and Idaho, amounting to 200,000 head in all. Shearing has just begun, and the amount of wool can only be esti mated now. Mr. Burke said that de livery of the wool would be made in parcels and that the first was expect ed to arrive in Portland shortly. He said that as delivered the wool would be shipped to eastern markets by water. Deal Biggest Reported. , The deal for the Stanfield clip was the bigcrest so far reported here and is of special interest to the wool men as indicating the present trend of the market. The purchase of the 1922 clip of the Stanfield sheep means that Mr. Burke during the past four months has purchased more than three million pounds of wool from Mr. Stan field. Since the first of last June. Mr. Burke announced, he has bought 10.0iio.000 pounds of wool, a fact which is significant of Portland's de-' velopment as a wool shipping center. Most of the wool handled by him goes through the Columbia basin ware house. Sheepmen are well pleased with the situation at present, inasmuch as dur ing the past four weeks 95 per cent of the wool crop of Oregon has been sold. Most of this is still on the sheep's back. Usually' buyers wait until the clip has been cut. Wool Grades High. The Stanfield clip was declared to grade comparatively high. It runs well to cross-bred. The' improved cond tion of the wool market here is largely a reflection of improved con ditions in tha large wool centers of the east, especially Boston. Late re ports from there tell of greater activ ity in wool with a good demand. The demand for woolen goods was also reported by mills as good, with man- buyers and possibility of an in crease in price. The average Oregon wool crop is In the neighborhood of 15,000,000 pounds. It is still too early' to give a definite estimate on this year's clip. Some wool men are of the opinion 'that it may be slightly below normal. BUNCO MEN GET $2600 Victim Admits Loss Did Xot Occur in Hobbery as Reported. Frank Sugura, who told police Mon day night he had been robbed of $1800. admitted to detectives yester day that instead of it being a genuine robbery it was the time-worn box trick, through which a fellow coun tryman had buncoed him out of $2600. The game was just another version of the old box game. Sugura and some man known to him as George Korich were to wager their combined resources with a third man. Sugura put his $2600 in a tin box and was left holding the box while the others went for additional funds. The boxes were switched and Sugura found him self with an empty box when the -others failed to put in an appearance. DRUG HIDDEN IN BOUQUET Narcotics Found in Negro's Bunch of Gaudy Tulips. SPOKANE, Wash., May 23. Will Brazil, negro, strolled down a busi ness street here today, carrying a large bouquet of gaudy tulips. The early hour and the colorful floral dis play attracted the attention of a de tective of a speculative turn of mind. He followed Brazil and saw him he declared, slip from beneath the bouquet a package of what later proved to he a drug, valued at "go ing" prices at $200. Brazil was ar rested on a charge of drug peddliny and the other party to the transac tion was held as a witness.