THE STJXDAT OKEGOXIAX, PORTLAND, JOE 2, 1907.
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RESIGNS TQ ENTER
SULTAN'S SERVICE
IV. H. Leadbetter, Government
Hydrographic Officer, on
Way to Turkey.
HAS CHOICE OF TWO JOBS
May Serve Either as Lieutenant
Colonel In Army or Captain in
Navy Position Carries a
Lucrative Salary.
W. H. Leadbetter, United States hy
drographic officer at this port, has re
signed to enter the Bervice of the
Turkish Government at a very lucra
tive salary. He left Portland two
weeks ago for Kurope. His successor
has not been appointed.
Mr. Leadbetter has the option of serv
ing cither in the navy or army of the
Sultan. If attached to the naval forces
he will be given the commission of
Captain and will superintend the con
struction of a number of warships for
which Turkey has let contracts in the
shipyard of France, Germany and Ens
land. If he goes into the army he
will carry the title of Lieutenant-Colonel
and don the spectacular garb of
the military department of the Sublime
Porte's government.
To accept such a position will give
him closer InHight Into the inner work
ings of Turkish diplomacy that
strange system of affairs whereby the
Sultan succeeds in escaping the pay
ment of his debts to other nations. In
the event that Mr. Leadbetter superin
tends construction of .the battleships he
will assume command of a vessel as
soon as she is completed and take her
to Constantinople.
Mr. Leadbetter has had charge of the
hydrographic office at this port for a
number of years. He Is a graduate .of
the United States Naval College at
Annapolis, and held a commission in
the Navy. He has an extensive ac
quaintance in Portland and confided to
only a few of his closest friends his
determination to accept the position
with a foreign power. f He left here
more than two weeks ago, the terms
of his contract specifying that he must
he In Constantinople by the latter part
of May or the first week In June.
The appointment of his successor at
this port is daily expected.
The resignation and departure of Mr.
Leadbetter was not known publicly until
the failure of the timeball on the Customs-House
to drop at noon yesterday,
was noticed. Ship captains In the
harbor who were watching for
the timeball to fall promptly, so
as to set their chronometers, were
sorely disappointed. in fact they
did not get a glimpse of the big
sphere. The hoisting cable for sending
the ball up broke early In the day and
the "sign" for the noon hour lay mo
tionless in Its receptacle near the roof
of the Custom-House building. It Is
still there, where it will remain out of
commission for the next two or three
days.
H. M. PeFranre, who has temporary
charge of the hydrographic office at
Portland, wired to Washington Imme
diately after the accident for permis
sion to employ a mechanic to make the
necessary repairs to the cable. At the
hour of closing the office yesterday he
had received no reply: While It is es
timated that It will cost only about 6
to put the hoisting apparatus In good
condition, Mr. DeFrance did not care
to make arrangements to have the mat
ter attended to until he had been au
thorized to do so by the head of the
department. He Is ..merely looking
after the local office until a new hy
drographic officer has been appointed.
WILL PAY $40,000 IN DUTIES
Valuable Cargo Brought by Portland
A Asiatic Liner Numantia.
Though the cargo of the Numantia
will not measure more than 3000 tons.
It will net the Government in duty
more than $10,000, according to Custom-House
officials who have taken a
hurried glance over the manifest. The
freight consigned to local merchants
netting a revenue consists of 2000 sacks
of peanuts, 600 cases of pineapples, 2000
hales of gunnies, 4000 sacks of rice,
300 cases of firecrackers, 333 slabs of
tin. 2000 sacks of sulphur, 400 rolls of
matting. 2000 cases of Chinese and
Japanese groceries, and a quantity of
porcelain and curios.
in addition to this, a liberal part of
the freight will be forwarded to New
York. Chicago. Boston, New Orleans,
St. Louis, San. Francisco, Kansas City,
St. Paul. Baltimore, Milwarukee, De
troit, Omaha, Denver and Seattle.
Coining In this direction the Nu
mantia encountered fine weather, ex
cept a little fog she ran into now and
then About 600 miles off the motith
of the Columbia River she passed a
tramp steamer bound from Portland
to the Orient, hut her name was not
learned. On the outward trip from
Portland she had a rough passage. Jn
three days' gale the starboard life
boat was lost and the sides of the engine-house
were badly damaged by a
mammoth wave. Captain Feldtmann,
who had been taking a lay-oft at the)
other end of the line, returned as mas
ter. The work of discharging the Numan
tia will be rushed, as she is scheduled
to leave on the return voyage June 6.
Her outward cargo will be composed
almost wholly of flour.
In May the collection on '-nports at
this port amounted to lC9.fifi.;i5, and
for the 11 months of the cereal year
the sum totals considerably more than
$1,000,000. To this will be added the
sums taken in from the Numantia and
Arabia, which is expected to arrive
about the middle of the month with a
valuable cargo. The tariff on Imports
may be. increased by collections from
cargoes about due on a couple of
square-riggers.
WILL CARRY WHEAT SOUTH
Steamer Casco to Load Part Cargo
of Grain Here.
After an uneventful passage the
steamer Casco arrived from San Fran
cisco yesterday afternoon and moored
at the Irving dock, where she will re
ceive a part cargo of wheat for the
return trip. Her deck wilj be loaded
with lumber, of which she is expected
to take out 250,000 feet. The grain
shipment will comprise about 400 tons.
The steamer is In command of Cap
tain Ahlln. formerly master of the Re
dondo, an old trader at this port.
When the new crop arrives at tide
water local shippers believe that big
quantities of wheat will be sent from
Portland to California. During the
past year all of the tonnage on the
coast was used for carrying lumber to
the southern ports, the owners refusing
to accept grain charters. But recently
freights have decreased to such an ex
tent that the owners are willing to
accept any sort of business offered
them.
Marine Xotes.
Carrying 700,000 feet o lumber, the
steamer Daisy Freeman- sailed for San
Pedro yesterday.
The .steamer Maverick, Captain Dan
iels, arrived at Portsmouth last night
with a cargo of fuel oil.
In tow of the Samson the barge
Washtuccna arrived from Hoquiam,
Wash., yesterday with a cargo of
shingles.
The schooner Lilllebonne. which re
cently arrived from Manilla, was
placed on the drydock yesterday after
noon to receive an overhauling. She
is on the disengaged list.
The British steamship Hyndford is
coaling from lighters out in the mid
dle of the stream. the high water
making -it impossible for fuel to be
sent down the chutes of the bunkers
into her hatehe.
Tomorrow the river at Portland is
expected to reach a stage of 18. S feet.
8TE.IMER CITELUGEXCI.
Dm to Arrive.
Ntmf. . I'rom. Hate.
Numantia.. Hongkong In port
Columbia Sen Fran June 3
Alliance Coos Bay -June 3
Roanoke. ........ Los Angeles.. .June 4
F. A. Kl!burn....an Fran June 5
Costa Rica. . . ... San Fran. ..... June S
Johan Pouleen...&an Fran June 12
Geo. W. Eider.. .Los Angeles. June 12
Arabia Hongkong Junel6
Aleela - July IS
Nicomedla.H.. Bongkong July 26
Scheduled to Depart. 1
Name. For. Date. I
Alliance... Coos Bay June 5 I
Columbia .San Fran June 5 I
Roanoke Loe Angeles.. -June 6 I
Numantia ...Hongkong- June 6 7
F. A. KHburn...&an Fran June 7 T
Cfp'a Rlr.. Pn Won .Tune 10 T
Johan Poulsen.,an Fran June 14
Geo. W." Elder. ..Los Angeles... June 14
Arabia.... Hongkong June 23
Aiesia ..Hongkong Julv 22
NJcomedla .Hongkong Aug. 3
Entered Saturday.
a German steamship Numantia, Cap
tain Feldtmann. with general cargo
from Hongkong and way ports.
American steamer Jim Butler, in
ballast from Ban Pedro.
American steamer Casco, Captain
Ahlln, In ballast from San Fran
cisco. Cleared Baturday.
American steamer Daisy Freeman.
Captain Johnson, with TOO.000 feet
of lumber for San Pedro.
and 19.2 feet next Wednesday. Dist
trict Forecaster Beals says many Front
street merchants complain, that their
cellars are flooded. How much .higher
the river will get depends upon how
hot the weather gets in the mountains
near the sources of the upper Col-
umbia and Snake. -
Arrlvals and Departures.
San Franclsoc. June 1. Arrived-Ship
Acme, from Hakodate; steamer Johan Poul
sen, from Astoria; steamer Centralla. from
Gray's Harbor; steamer Montara. from Seat
tle; steamer Coaster, from Anacorter; schooner
Muriel, from Columbia River.
Sailed Bark Irene, for Ipswich; steamer
Alameda, for Honolulu; steamer Hilonian,
Johnson, for Honolulu: schooner Invincible,
for Blakeley; steamer Spokane, for Victoria;
steamer Watson, for Seattle; steamer Indiana,
for Nome; schooner B. B. Jackson, for Gray's
Harbor; steamer Carmel, for Gray's Harbor;
steamer Roanoke, for Astoria; steamer F. A.
Kilburn, for Portland.
JUSTICE LOSES HIS SUIT
Court Holds That T. C. Shreve Is
Not Under Salary.
A demurrer to the writ - of mandamus
that has prevented Justice of the Peace
T. C. Shreve from receiving his salary of
$2009 a year, was sustained by Circuit
Judge Cleland yesterday morning. This
decision upholds the action of Auditor
Brandes and the County Court in refus
ing payment of Shreve's claim for $1500,
which he asserted was due him. as salary
according to the scale approved by popu
lar vote at the last election. Unless!
Judge Cleland's decision is reversed by
the Supreme Court Shreve's remuneration
will consist of fees only as heretofore.
Shreve will appeal the case.
In his decision Judge Cleland held that
Justice of the Peace Shreve was an offi
cial for only four precincts and could not
legally claim his salary from a revenue
collected from the entire city. He also
held that this was true even though the
precincts presided over by Justice Shreve
were annexed to the city of Portland the
same day Shreve was elected as Justice
of the Peace.
The law says that justices of the peace
have Jurisdiction over residents of their
precincts and persons apprehended there
in. It has been contended that the law
Is unconstitutional ,but as yet it. has no
been tested. The appeal of Justice Shreve
may bring the question to an issue.
Judge Cleland's decision may affect Jus
tices of the Peace Olson and Held, both
of whom act under the same conditions
as Justice Shreve.
Cutting Off Navy's Barnacles.
MADRID. June 1 A sensation has been
caused among naval and military officers
here by the arrest of General Diaz del
Rio, Inspector General of Marine infan
try, following an altercation with Cap
tain Fernander Nino, minister of marine
respecting the latter's decision to reduce
the personnel of the Navy. The minister
holds that the service Is oversupplied
with staff officers, and he proposes to
retire 345 of them of various grades and
also 439 non-commissioned officers, de
voting the money thus saved to the im
provement of the naval equipment.
Yamhill County Hop Prospects.
M'MINXVILLa June 1. (Special.)
With the training and cultivation of the
hop ards, the condition of the crop has
somewhat improved. The total yield for
Yamhill County will probably fall short
of that of last year. The low price of
hops has been the main cause for the fall
ing short of the yield. Some growers
were unable to rent their yards and turned
the goats on them. Others did not culti
vate at all. Some growers are still hold
ing for better prices. John B. Fletcher
has refused 8c for 200 bales.
Tax Board Appoints Appraiser.
NEW YORK, June 1. President Lawson
Purdy, of the tax board, baa announced
the appointment of William A. Somer, of
St. Paul, Minn , as an appraiser of real
estate. It will be Mr. Somers' duty to
Introduce in this city a s ye tern of equal
ised assessment. There have been severe
criticisms of the present system of pass
ing real estate for taxation. Some of the
figures being purely arbitrary.
Import and Exports.
NEW YORK, June 1. Total imports of
specie at New Tork for the week ending
today mere $23,000 silver and $40,335 gold
Total exports of specie for the week were
I1.0S0.452 silver and 2.S13,87S gold.
Wool at St. Louis.
ST. LOUIS. June 1. Wool, steady; me
dium grades, combing and clothing, 24927c;
light fine. :i:Hsc; heavy fine, 16 17c;
tub washed, 808 S7c
BITTER FIGHT ON
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the ordinance, in declaring that the $1
fee will not be charged, assure them
selves that the ordinance will not be
enforced strictly in conformity with the
$1 requirement, which is one of its
plain provisions.
The fees for inspecting electric-light
and power wires are correspondingly
burdensome, say foes of the ordinance.
But this also Is denied by its defend
ers, tend the. latter apparently have
surer ground to stand on than in the
case of telephone fees. The measure
says the fee "on incandescent circuits"
shall be "5 cents for each outlet, pro
viding, however, that a minimum fee
of 25 cents shall be charged." The de
fenders of the ordinance aver that this
means 5 cents for each cluster or
bracket or chandelier, while those on
the other side declare it means & cents
for every light bulb.
Only National Board Rules.
The defenders point out that section
8 provides the inspection rules of the
National Board of Fire Underwriters
shall be complied with by the city in
spectors, which plainly define an "out
let" as a cluster of bulbs or a brgtcket
or chandelier, containing not more
than 12 16-candle-power lamps.
Whatever the cost of Inspecting light
and power wires, it will be charged by
wirp contractors and the electric light
company to the owners of property,
just as by the telephone companies to
telephone users.
The committee which advises electors
to vote "No" on the ordinance is com
posed of Thomas N. Strong, general
chairman W. H. MacMaster, S. H. Gru.
ber and Philip Buehner, representing
the Chamber of Commerce: George W.
Allen and T. S. Townsend, representing
the Board of Trade; Harry Gurr, Wil
liam Mackenzie and W. B. Pitschke,
representing the Federated Trades, and
F. W. Mulkey, Leo Friede and Isam
White, representing the Taxpayers'
League.
In a pamphlet issued a week ago, the
committee says, in opposition to the or
dinance: Objections Are Outlined. .
This act also will provide comfortable
places for an inspector and an unlimited
number of deputies, for it would require
a very large number. It also contains
the suggestion that this power so liberal
ly granted to an apparently underpaid
inspector (for the pay, considering the
responsibility and technical skill required.
Is ridiculously low), might be very much
more profitable than appears on the sur
face. The proposed act is useless for any
good purpose, for so far as outside elec
trical work is concerned. City Ordi
nance No. 16002, now in force, fully
cavers the ground, and all inside elec
trical work is now carefully inspected by
the National Board of Fire Underwriters,
who have a direct pecuniary interest in
careful inspection, and who are very
careful and stringent in their examina
tions and requirements.
As Ordinance No. Iti002 now in force pro
vines tbftt crrtKS-nrmn pnrpvin? wirM mn.
ducting heavily electrified wires shall
nave the word danger painted on tnem,
and this is abundant warning to the line
men and to the general public, who are
unable to climb the poles to get killed,
the requirement that such cross-arms
should be painted yellow is ridiculous, and
this smallpox color on green poles would
be a great blot on the beauty- of out
streets and roadways. The proposed act
would delay work, would be a heavy
burden on the builder and owner, and is
an unnecessary tax on the public.
Voters advised to vote no.
It Is contended that, though the sup
porters of the measure deny it has come
from the Electrical Workers' Union, for
the purpose of aiding them in case of
strike, through favoritism of union in
spectors, such is really the fact. The
measure declares, that the inspectors shall
inspect all wires and conduits, now exist-,
ing or hereafter to be placed, and that
they shall be "altered, installed, run,
constructed and maintained, under the
general supervision and direction of the
Electrical Inspector." It is argued that
this provision has been inserted for the
purpose of making employment for an
army of electrical workers, since so far
as the ordinance applies to existing
plants, large part of them do not meet
the requirements. Furthermore, the in
spector is not obliged to give the compa
nies sufficient time to do the work.
Said to Be) Impracticable.
It is complained also that the ordinance
is Impracticable in requiring a permit for
installing each telephone Or In moving a
telephone: that it gives too much power
to the Inspector over the companies: that
inasmuch as the inspector can enforce
drastic regulations, he can see to it that
an "unfair' company shall suffer; that
It lies in his power to declare that the
wiring of any company, at which he
takes umbrage, does not comply with the
ordinance and he may refuse to allow
sufficient time to make required altera
tions in wires: that the permit system
would greatly delay the work and cause
much inconvenience to the public; that in
the case of an openshop company, there
would be temptation to a Union man to
work in such a way that the inspector
would require Its being done over again,
or also if the work were done by a non
union man; in short that the ordinance Is
drafted for the express purpose of mak
ing Jobs in the city service and extra em
ployment in the companies' service, for
the electrical workers. '
While the telephone and electric
companies evidently do not want the
ordinance enacted, their officers say.
that they are not.fighting it. The fees,
they say, will be charged up by their
companies against the public, and as
f o other provisions, they are no more
onerous than those of an existing ordi
nance, passed by the Council last De
cember, to become operative two years
thereafter. F. G. Sykes, general man
ager of the light and power department
of the Portland Railway, Light &
Power Company, gave out a statement
yesterday in which he opposed the or
dinance, not as an officer of his com
pany, but as a private citizen:
Power Company's Position.
Following is his statement:
While the proposed wiring ordinance,
considered from an electrical point of
view. Is perhaps all right, yet. taken from
the point of view of the people of Port
land, It should not be passed, for the fol
lowing reasons.
(1) Ordinance No. 16002, entitled "An
ordinance regulating the placing, erec
tion, use and maintenance or electric
poles, wires, cables and appliances, be
came a law on December 22. 1906. This
ordinance is, in some respects, even more
stringent In its regulations than the pro
posed ordinance, yet the proposed ordi
nance is practically a duplicate of this
ordinance, insofar as outside wiring is
concerned. There being an ordinance of
this kind already in existence, a new
ordinance containing similar conditions
should not be passed.
(2) The proposed ordinance provides
(Section 2. Paragraph B) for the appoint
ment of an Electrical Inspector. who
shall receive for his services a salary of
$li0 per month, and for a necessary num
ber of deputies, who shall receive a salary
of $100 per month each. If the provisiois
of the proposed ordinance which relate
to the regulation of wires underground
and overhead in the streets of the city
of Portland, as well as interior wiring in
all the buildings, business houses and
re-sidences in the city are properly car
ried out, a large number of deputies will
be required to do the work. This will
entail a heavy expense on the city, and
will not be of material advantage over
present conditions.
At the present time the National Board
of Fire Underwriters have deputies whose
business it is to inspect the wiring In all
the buildings, business houses and resi-
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Hull Copper Advances to 35c
Stock Now 25c a Share
Only Until June 14, if Present 25c Allotment Lasts
, HOW STOCK IS SOLD
f.10 Buys 200 Shares at $10 Cash and $18 a Month, for 4 Months. Par Value
H2S Buys 500 Shams at $25 Cash and $25 a Month, for 4 Months. Par Value
$250 Buys 1,000 Shares at $50 Cash and S50 a Month, for 4 Months. Par A alue
$5U0 Buys 2.000 shares at Sino Caeh and $100 a Month, for 4 Months. Par Value
S125A Biiti ff.OOO aharea at S-2.1A '&h ud S25A m. Month, for 4 Months. Par Value
$3500 Buys lu.ooo snares at $ooo cash and $500 a Montn. xor 4 nonins. rnr vaiue iv,uvu.
Stock Is Full Paid and Non Assessable. We Reserve the
Right to Accept or Reject Any or All Subscriptions
Send Honey by Draft, Krtstered litter, F. O. or Express Money Order to
0. B. STANTON & SON
1564 Real Estate Trust BuUding
PHILADELPHIA
dences in the city of Portland, and see
that they conform to the rules of the
National Board of Fire Underwriters,
concerning interior1 wiring; in other
words, under present conditions all inside
wiring is looked after by the National
Board of Fire Underwriters, who have a
ftersonal interest in seeing that the wiring
s up to standard and in accordance with
their rules, while ordinance No. 16002
provides that all outside wiring is under
the Jurisdiction of the city through their
Superintendent of the Fire Alarm Sys
tem. The duplication of duties is not
necessary, and might lead to clashes in
authority.
Engineer Grows Sarcastic.
(3) Section 10, Paragraph J requires
each cross-arm carrying wires which con
duct more than 600 volts of electricity
to be painted a bright yellow color. Or
dinance 16002. Paragraph D, requires that
the word "Danger" be painted in white
block letters on each such cross-arm.
Yellow cross-arms on top of a green pole
would not conduce very greatly to the
beautiful streets of Greater Portland.
(4) Section 19 states that certain fees
shall be paid into the city treasury, be
fore a permit will be issued, approving
of the wiring in buildings, business
houses and residences. This fee will tend
to discourage prospective users of elec
tricity, and will be an additional tax upon
the community without doing any material
good.
(5) The proposed ordinance also states
that it will be unlawful io use electricity
lu any building, business house, or resi
dence In the city of Portland without
first obtaining a permit from the Electri
cal Inspector. Taken in conjunction with
the permit to be obtained from the Na
tional Board of Fire Underwriters, the
difficulties to a taxpayer in getting his
uuilding wired will be very much greater,
and necessarily a greater period of time
will elapse before he can be provided with
the electrlcty which he wants.
(6) Considering the sweeping nature of
..,e proposed ordinance, the Electrical In
spector, in order intelligently to carry out
its provisions, would have to be a man
of technical training and with a great
deal of practical knowledge. Electrical
companies throughout the country And it
impossible to obtain competent engineers
of this sort for the salary as stated in
the ordinance. If this Is so, the city
would be obliged to accept the services
of a second- or third-rate man, who
would pass upon the plans outlined by
higher priced and presumably better and
more experienced engineers and who
would be experts in their particular lines
of the business. The taxpayers should
not be placed in this position.
Speaks as Individual.
J. H. Thatcher, manager of the Pacific
States Telephone & Telegraph Company,
also made a statement, in which he said
that he' spoke not as an officer of his
company, since it is making no fight na
the measure. Said he: '
"As a taxpayer I object to the ordi
nance, because, of the additional expense
it will entail on taxpayers. The num
ber of inspectors Is not fixed by the ordi
nance, thus making possible the appoint
ment of any number. This is apparently
a dangerous feature of the ordinance.
Each inspector will be paid $100 a month.
If there were 20 appointed and 1 do not
see how a lesser number would suffice
to carry out the ordinance faithfully,
their combined salaries, together with
that of the Chief Inspector would be
S2150 a month or 25.300 a year. That
would be a heavy burden to the city and
the ordinance gives no assurance it
would stop there."
In answer to criticisms and objections to
the ordinance, members of the committee
which drafted the measure yesterday
made the following statement, signed by
B. A. Howell, Fred D. Wilson, W. L.
Trullinger, A.,W. Parks, R. D. Merchant,
W. L. Romen and D. D. McKay:
In Defense of Measure.
This proposed ordinance will work no
hardships on the public or any corpora
tion. The fees to be charged under it for
Inspection will be only large enough to
defray the salaries of three or four In
spectors. They will be collected not by
the inspectors but by the City Treasurer.
The sum of $5000 a year will pay salaries
of the chief inspector and deputies and
meet all expenses.
The chief Inspector at $150 a month and
two deputy Inspectors will do all the
work. Not more than three deputies at
most will be required. All will be ap
pointed bv the Mayor. The assertion that
the ordinance will create a large num
ber of positions for deputies and pile up
a huge cost on the city Is unfounded.
As a matter of fact the inspection work
will not increase in the same ratio as
the city will grow, because after two or
three years the inspectors will devote
their time entirely to new buildings,
whereas now many old building's and out
side construction will require their atten
tion. The fees are reasonable and any un
biased person will perceive this fact from
examination of the ordinance. For in
specting an ordinary residence of eight
rooms the fee will be but 60 or 70 cents,
and this will be collected only when the
wires are installed. The charge for in
specting ordinary light wires will be 6
cents for each outlet, provided no outlet
shall supply more than 12 16-candlepower
lights, this being the limit allowed by
the Insurance underwriters in their rules.
An outlet is a chandelier or bracket or
cluster of lights. The minimum fee will
be 25 cents for one inspection. The or
dinance does not mean, as its foes assert,
that a 5-cent fee shall be collected, for
each 16-candlepower lamp.
The fee for telephone wires will be
the same as for light wires. The minimum
charge . for inspecting a telephone will
be 25 cents. But a building that contains
a number of telephones will be charged
5 cents for each. The ordinance does not
intend that the inspection shall cost $1 for
each phone, as Its opponents allege. If
the City Treasurer should attemct to
IV! M ii on
Captain William McDermott, the Most Famous Mine Superintendent in America, Under
Whose Management the United Verde, Our Text Door Neighbor, Has Paid Millions in
- Dividends, is Now in Charge of the Hull Mines, Jerome, Arizona, having severed his
connection with Senator Clark's United Verde..
With Captain McDermott directing development, these mines will produce millions for stock
holders who are fortunate enough to share in the limited allotment of stock still for sale.
This announcement is of the greatest interest to the whole copper world, on accoxint of the
eminent standing of Captain McDermott. For the last ten years he has been the right hand man
of Senator Clark, the Copper King. The fact that Captain McDermott has become a Director and
Consulting Engineer for Hull Copper is significant to the mining world that the most successful
expert and mine worker in America has implicit confidence in it. Captain McDermott put enough
ore in sight in the United Verde to give it the stupendous value of $100,000,000.00.
Captain McDermott says :
"1 feel confident we will neeeed in developing; another -rent mine In Jerome. It
should not take long; to pnt the Hull Copper Company second to the great Vnlted
erde mine as a Copper producer.9
Here is the only opportunity you will ever have to invest your money in the Verde District,
where Senator Clark is making his millions, in a mine surrounding Senator Clark's famous mine on
three sides, now being rapidly developed by the very man who made it worth $100,000,000.00.
$300.
$500.
$i,ooo.
$2,000.
$5,000.
collect $1 he would violate the intent
of the ordinance.
Inspection will guarantee as great a
degree of safety from fire as modern
methods of wiring can obtain. It will
protect owners Of houses and large build
ings and neighboring structures. It will
reduce cost of Insurance and in manifold
ways protect the public.
It is not true that this ordinance has
come from union ranks exclusively. Non
union men as well as union were Instru
mental in drafting it and both are sup
porting it for enactment. Contractors
were represented on the drafting com
mittee and they, too, desire enactment.
v Will Not Obstruct Building.
Nobody contends that the necessity of
securing a building permit delays or
obstructs building. Neither will, a permit
for electric wiring delay or obstruct
building.
Foes of the ordinance claim that the
inspection done by the Are underwriters
Is sufficient. The fae's are that the
underwriter have but one inspector, Mr.
Newman: that while thoroughly com
petent he is unable to discharge more
than one-third of the duties presented;
that his work is entirely inside buildings
while a considerable part of the inspec
tion Intended by the ordinance will be on
the outside on poles and underground;
and that ilr. Newman has no authority
to enforce proper Installation unless by
high rates of insurance.
Critics of the ordinance and ita enemies
have said that It is "a long and techni
cal act drawn by some one familiar with
the art." This Is the assertion of a
committee which recently issued a state
ment against the ordinance. This is true
but is the best of all recommendations,
and tests of merit. The ordinance must
of necessity be long and technical to
withstand the attacks of its enemies and
to cover the subject in an adequate man
ner. It was drawn by persons familiar
with the art. If It were not it should
be defeated.
Portland has no ordinance regulating
electric wires at present. Ordinance No.
16002 passed by the Council last Decem
ber to regulate outside wires will not go
into effect for a year and a half yet. It
will provide no inspection of any wires
and will not touch outside wires, which
the public knows need regulation. Be
sides, ordinance No. 16002 contains so
many provisos that it is almost worthless.
10 LARGE SIZES
DRIED PRUNE OUTPUT MAY
EQUAL THAT OF LAST TEAR.
Growing Crop on the Trees Half
What It Was at This Time 1 2
Months Ago.
SALEV, Juno 1. (Special. ) Estimates
of the growing prune crop in the "Willam
ette Valley indicate a total yield of about
half the quantity grown last year, with
the chances good for a dried product fully
equal to the output of 1906. Just at pres
ent prunes are much larger than usual at
this season, and, if conditions be not un
favorable, the crop is expected to run
to large sizes.
Buyers are very active and are seeking
contracts on a basis price of 2 cents,
which would meSn 414 cents for those
going 45 to the pound. This price leaves
a good profit to the grower and It is re
ported that quite a number of contracts
have been made.
Nearly all growers say their trees are
as heavily loaded as they could wish and
even If there should be a normal June
drop, the loss would leave enough fruit
on the trees to make a good crop of large
prunes. Some estimates differ from this,
however, for a few growers think the
dried output will be much less than last
year, while one or two say It will be
greater. Last year's crop was enormous,
but a large part of the fruit rotted on
the ground.
QUOTATIONS AT SA2C FBAXC18CO.
Prices Paid for Pradnots In the Bar Cltr
Markets.
SAN FRANCISCO, June 1. The follow
ins prices were quoted in the produce mar
ket yesterday:
FRUIT Apples. choice. $1.25; common,
75c; bananas. $11T3.50; Mexican limes, $4;
California lemons, choice, $5; common,
$1.50). oranges, JiaveU $13.50; pineapples,
t2.JK.S-3.50.
VEGETABLES Cucumbers, $11.16; tr
11c, 3Mc; green peas. 2c; string beans, 4
9c; asparaRue, 4tf?llc: tomatoes. $l.RO4.
EfiGS Sore. 15gl8c; fancy rancb, l$Hc
POTATOES Early Rose, $1.60 1.75;
sweets. $4fi $4.50; Oregon Burbanks. $2
2.75; Oregon seed, Burbanke, $1.65 31.75;
Eastern, 22.10; new, 2t3V4o.
ONIONS Oregon. $22.25; Australian,
$3.2o3.50, Bermuda, $22.23.
BUTTER Fancy creamery. 23c: cream
ery eecoods, 22c; fancy dairy, 22Vic; dairy
seconds, nominal; pickled, 20c.
WOOL, Fall, Humboldt and Mendocino,
133rl4c; Nevada. 15618c; South Plains and
Ban Joaquin, 6g8c; lambs, 710c; Spring
Humboldt and Mendocino, S224c; Eastern
Orron. IB 23c.
HOPS California, S10c: contracts, 10
11c.
- CHEESE: Toung America. 134 14c;
Eastern. 18c.
HAY Wieat, $lvg23; wheat and oats, $10
$1S..V: alfalfa, $&313: stock, $&ff8; straw,
4SSS5C
MILLSTUFFS Bran. $2021.$0; mid
dlings. $27 30.
FOL'LTRI Roosters, old, $44.S0; young-.
s in. Copper
a Share on Friday, June 14
This allotment is the last that 'will ever be offered at 25 cents. On
Friday, June 14th, Hull Copper advances to 35 cepts a share or more,
according to the news we receive from the mines in the meantime.
To get in at 25 cents, act at once. Positively no stock sold at 25 cents
after that date Your order must be mailed on or before June 14th to
secure stock at 25 cents. . To make sure, wire your reservation today".
Fill This in and Mafl Today Write Plainly
O. B. STANTON & SON.
NO. 156 REAL ESTATE TRUST BLDG.
PHILADELPHIA. PA.
Please send mo. without cost or obligation on my part, your liter.
atuie, etc., relating to the Hull Copper Company.
Name.
Address......
You may reserve
$7.309; broilers, smallj $2.503.50; large.
$45; fryers, $67: hens. $1.80 7.50;
ducks, old. $56; young, $68.
FLOUR California family extras. $4.85
5.30; bakers' extras. $4 04.80; Oregon and
Washington, $3 754.50.
RECEIPTS Flour. 9S69 quarter sacks;
wheat. 4385 centals: barley. 71.710 centals;
oats. 940 centals; beans. 120 sacks; potatoes.
2370 sacks; hay, 54 tons; wool, 208 balea;
hides, 522.
NEW YORK BANK STATEMENT. "
Decrease of Nearly Three Millions in Surplns
In Week.
NEW YORK. June 1. The statement of
the clearing house banks for the week (five
days shows that the banks hold $12,782,450
more than the legal reserve requirements.
This Is a decrease of $2,906,325 as compared
with last week. The statement follows:
. Increase.
Loans ,..$1,130,931,100
Deposits 1,128.104.600
Circulation 50.fl28.9OO
Legal tenders .... 72,0B3.100
Specie 221,928.000
Reserve 294.831.100
Reserve required.. 2S2.048.65l
Surplus 12.782.450
Ei-U. S. Deposits.. 20.685,750
$13,541,600
15.554.1O0
30.70O
. 243.700
7S8.400
9S2.100
30.SSR.525
2.t06J5
2,92u,da0
'Decrease.
rORTI.A'I LIVESTOCK MARKET.
Prices Current Locally on Cattle, sheep and
Hogs.
The following prices were quoted In tha
local market yesterday:
CATTLE: Best steers, $4.2594.60; medi
um, $8.754.25; cows. $3.603.75: fair to
medium cows. $2.50$; bulls, $22.50:
calves. $45.50.
SHEEP Best, sheared, $4.50 4.75; lambs,
$6.
HOGS Best, $6.506.75; light fata anl
feeders, $6. 25 6. 50.
Eastern Livestock Prices.
SOUTH OMAHA, June 1. Catth
-Re-
ceipts, 800; market, unchanged.
Hogs Receipta, 6000; market, steady to
higher: beavy, $636.10; mixed. $6.0fi6.10;
light, $6.16.20; pigs, $5.50 6.
Sheep Receipts, 1000; market, steady;
yearlings, $5.70 6.75; wethers, $5. 40 6. 40.
CHICAGO, June 1 Cattle Receipts, 800;
steady; beeves, $4.506.56; good to prims
steers. $8.206.30; poor to medium, $4.505.50;
stockers and feeders. $36.15; cows, $1.75
6.50; heifers, $4.254.70; calves, $57.50.
Hogs Receipts, 9000; steady; mixed. $6.25&
M
en siiiseases
Cur
to
ecistayuuifei
Different doctors 'have different Ideas rn re
gards to cures. Some call a suppression of
symptoms a cure. They dose for drug effects
and olaim that nothing more can be done.
' But the real ailment remains, and will bring
the real symptoms back again, perhaps the
same as before, but very likely leave the
patient In a much worse condition. I claim
that nothing less than complete eradication
of disease can be a real cure. I treat to re
move the disease, and not merely the symp
toms. I searoti out every root and fibre of an
ailment, and I care to stay cured.
it
Weakness
X not only cure weakness" promptly, but I
employ tbe only treatment that can possibly
cure the disorder permanently. It is a sys
tem of local treatment entirely original with
me. and Is employed by no physician other
than myself. This may seem a broad asser
tion, but It Is just as substantial as it is
broad. So-called "weakness" Is but a symp
tom of local Inflammation or congestion, and
a radical cure is merely a matter of restorine-
normal conditions throughout the organic system, and this I accom
plish thoroughly And with absolute certainty.
My Fee for a Cure Is
In Any Uncomplicated Cas
$10,22
Varicocele Cured Without Cutting
The time was when every man afflicted with varicocele Twtd no choice
other than to allow the disease to go on undermining bis power and
health or submit to a surgical operation. Now he can choose a thorough
cure by painless treatment. I cure varicocele In one week, and It is
seldom necessary that the patient be detained from his buslnss even a
single day. My method is original with myself, and is the only safe
and successful treatment tor varicocele ever devised.
CONSULTATION A.VI ADVICE FREE,
. My Fees Are the Lew rat. Yen Caa Pay Win Ceurede
the DR. TAYLOR co.
3S4H MORRISON ST, COR. SECOND.
PORTLAND, OREGON.
BOrRS, TO 5- EVENINGS, T TO 9. SUNDAYS, 10 TO 1.
i
shares for me pending; Investigation.
6.40; heavy. fS.OOffl-S.oS; rough. $S.90S.10; .
light. $6.2036.424; pigs. $5.806.85.
Sheep Receipta, 40u0; steady; sheep, $4.25
6.35; lambs, $6.258: Western sheep. $4,252
6.40: yearlings. $6.107; Western lambs, $SJt5
7.90.
KANSAS CITY, June 1. Cattle Receipts.
1000; market, steady; native steers. $4.75Q6.15;
stockers and feeders, $3.25174.80; Western
com, $3.25$r4. 80; Western steers, $4.5u5.90;
bulls. $3. 404.75; calves, J4.iR6.50.
Hogs Receipts, oOOO; market, steady: heavy,
$6.156.22 ; packers, $6.20 6.32 ; light.
$6.206.30; pigs, $5.756.
Sheep Receipts, none; market, nominal y
steady.
Coffee and Sugar.
NEW TORK. June 1. Coffee Steady. No.
T Rio, 6e; No. 4 Santos, Tlic
Sugar Raw, steady; fair refining, 3.40c;
centrifugal, 96 test, 3.90c; molisses sugar,
3.15c; refine, quiet; No. 6, 4. 10c; No. 7,
4.55c; No. 8, 4.50c; No. 9, 4.45c: No. 10,
4.35c; No. 11. 4.40c; No. 12. 4.25c: NO. 13.
4.20c; No. 14. 4.15c; confectioners' "A."
4.80c; mould A, 3.16c; cut loaf. S.75;-;
crushed, 5.70c; pow'reed, fiiOc; granulated.
Be; cubes, 5.15c.
Metal Markets.
NEW TORK, June 1. There was no quot
able change In the metal markets, and busi
ness was quiet in the absence of cable.
Tin was quoted at 42 43c. Copper con
tinues more or leas nominal, with lake quot
ed at 24 25c; electrolytic at 2323.75o:
casting at 2222.50c.
Lead, quiet at 6c; spelter at 6.406.45c.
Iron was quiet and unchanged.
New York Cotton Market.
s NEW TORK, June 1. Cotton futures closed
steady, net unchanged to 7 points . higher.
June. 11.29c; July, 11.41c; August, 11.42c;
September, ll.B2c: October, 11.76c; Novem
ber, 11.80c; December. 11.83c; January,
11.93c; February, 11.94c; March, 12.04c.
Dairy Produce In the East.
CHICAGO, June 1. On the produce ex
change today the butter market was firm;
creameries, 1823ttc; dairies, 172mc.
Eggs, steady; at mark, cases included,
lsc; firsts, 14c; prime firsts, 15c
Cheese, easy; 13 14 He.
Yamhill County Wool Pool.
M'MINNVILLE, June 1. The Yamhill
County wool pool w4U hold a sale In Mc
Mlnnvllle on Saturday, June 8. All the wool
will be sold by sealed bids.
DS. TAYLOR
, Leading paeisHsi
You
Pay When
Well