The Sunday Oregonian. (Portland, Ore.) 1881-current, February 16, 1908, SECTION THREE, Image 30

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Newspaper Page Text9e 8 THE SUNDAY OREGONIAX, PORTLAND, FEBRUARY 16, 1908. Map Showing Location of Inman-Poulsen Lumber Co.'s Plants and Streets Which the Company Wishes Vacated TO BE HAPPY WHEN MARRIED You Should start Begin with a nice ly furnished cot tage all alone and enjoy real life. GERMANY'S POWER ALARMS ENGLAND I.. .11 II I - I I nX" WJg umj C. M''S'rvL r , AT right. Create a happy environ ment. You can Britain Fears Her Navy Will Soon Be Equaled by Rival Nation. do it. LATTER INCREASES ARMY Adopts New Sfliwazlof.o Gun and Slay i Try Airship Destroyer Miown to Be Effective by French Kxperimenls. LONDON", Veh. 13. (Special.) Thf Gorman bugaboo is constantly growing larger In the eyes of the British peo-r-le. The naval plans of the Germans are causing positive terror in this? country, because of the fact that in time the Ocrman navy will equal that of the British in efficiency, if not excel it. anil Germany's standing army is ten time 8 as great as tha.t of Great Britain. Consequently, the possibility of a Gerninn invasion of England is no longer a phantom. Moreover. the warnings of General Lord Roberts. Gen eral French and others that England must lie prepared for eventualities tend to increase the alarm. Of course, Germany is constantly making im provements in her army and navy equipment which may well cause ap prehension to an enemy. Discards Maxim Gun. Germany has hitherto used the Maxim machine (run, but she is about to introduce . in its stead a similar weapon invented by an engineer named Schwarzlose. The Schwarzlose gun, which is now undergoing a series of tests at the Spandau arsenal range, has. already been introduced in the Austro-llungary army. ' It is consid erably lighter and simpler than the Maxim. The latter weighs .13 pounds and the German gun only 38 pounds, which will enable the German weapon to be carried not only on the bucks of horses, but by human beings. A Maxim costs $ 1000. while the Schwarz lose can be bought for $600. In the Austrian trials of the new gun 266.000 rounds were fired during the period of test by four of the guns without Inflicting noteworthy Injury to any of them. French Airship Destroyer. The military authorities of France also have conducted a series of high ly successful experiments with a new weapon designed to destroy airships, A specially constructed gun, it Is stat ed, is able to throw a shell of a new type nearly a mile Into the air. The head of the shell ignites Immediately on leaving the gun and remains alight throughout its course, with the result that if. It pierces or even comes In close proximity to the envelope of the airship an explosion of the gas, equiva lent to the annihilation of the airship and its crew, is bound to ensue. Doubtless the Germans will bring out this weapon In another form and in the event of war the British airships would stand a poor show. OLD-TIME BRIGANDS IX SICILY Outlaws Generous to Friends hut Merciless in Revejge. liO.VR, Fob. 15. (Special.) Sicily can Mill lions t of a few old-time brigands, and among them are the renowned Failla Mulone and the not less dreaded Salo mone. Failla Mulone is a sturdy shep herd of Montedoro, in the province of Oal tanissetta. who took to the forest after he had killed I1I3 sweetheart and another shepherd who had paid hrr attentions. Failla Mulone is the true brigand of ro mance or melodrama, and is beloved by the people, who recognize in him the ar dent disposition as ready for ferocious revenge as for ' magnanimous generosity,' which is characteristic, of the Sicilian race. And although they fear his ven geance and his extortions, the people have a sneaking regard for him. Thus Failla Mulone continues to scour the country, armed to the teeth, and ready to fight with the Carabineers or to retire to a solitary grotto and the arms of one of .his numerous sweethearts. Two years ago Failla Mulone had one glorious hour of celebrity when he was surprised by a squad of policemen in a house in- the Montedoro country, but man aged to escape, killing two of the police and wounding several others. On that occasion a Montedoro journalist tele graphed a long account of the affair to a Palermo newspaper. But Failla Mulone, who !s a modern brigand, and therefore reads the papers, was dissatisfied with the narrative of his prowess. Accord ingly he wrote that if the reporter re turned to Montedoro he. would be killed. He inclosed in the letter J2 to pay for the publication. The poor journalist hurried ly left Montedoro, where he lived, and settled In Palermo. The other Sicilian brigand. Salomone. is not free, like Failla Mulone. He was arrested six months ago. rol Ittcs, not love, made him a ban dit. He fled to the woods for rea sons connected with dissensions over the local elections. Salomone was arrested tinder tragic circumstances. A landlord, from whom, rifle in hand, he had de manded hospitality, administered to him a narcotic, mixed in his food. When Sa lomone was asleep the landlord sum moned the carabineers. The brigand, however, managed to awake at the right moment, and took to his heels. He had not gone very far before he found him self surrounded by eight carabineers, who managed to secure him after a struggle. Then Salomone called the leader of the carabineers, and offered him $1000 for permission to escape. Naturally the bribe was refused, and the brigand was hauled off to jail. The history of Salomone is a curious mixture of horrid crimes and deeds of splendid generosity. He adopted bri gandage as a career after having shot in tiie back the Syndic of Barra franco, who was his political opponent. Since then he has lived by robbery, and has never hesitated to kill anybody who dared to spy upon or attempted to betray him. With him were arrested two priests and two gentlemen of Barrafronea. who urged him to kill the Syndic, and they will be tried with him. Benefit for Mrs. Gittings.' A benefit dramatic performance is to be given Wednesday, February 19. at Barkhard Hall, Union avenue and Burn side street, for Mrs. Glttings. the wife of the policeman who was killed just be fore Christmas. Mrs. Gittings is still at the Good Samaritan Hospital and her children scattered, one being cared for at the Children's Home. This perform ance is a comedy entitled, "Wanted, a Wife." and those participating are donat ing their services. It is under the man agement of Mrs. Emily L. Driscoll, who Is assisted by Miss Ethel E. Griffiths. "HE accompanying map shows the cation of the Inman-PouLsen Lum ber Company's plant, 'the East Sixth- street fill, as ordered by the City Council, the Grand avenue fill, as proposed 'by Inman-Poulscn, and the streets which the company's officials wish vacated. The fill ordered for East Sixth street, be tween Sherman and Division streets, may bo rescinded, and a proposition will be made to the Council by A. N. Wills, its president, that the mill company be granted vacation of the streets sought for, If the company will make a fill across the gulch on Grand avenue. x Lawyer George S. Shepherd, counsel for the mill company, yesterday stated his clients' 6ide of the controversy as fol lows: "The company maintains the streets occupied by it never were dedicated, and that it has occupied them in consequence without reference to them as streets. The tract lying north of its property likewise was never platted, and no use could be made .of any of the streets sought to be vacated, as no property can be reached except that owned by the company; also that the whole tract has been used as one parcel of land by the company for' IS years as a millyard, and its buildings have been erected across streets if any existed and its grantors had the whole tract fenced and which for years was used as a ball park. It also maintains that as a legal proposition the city could be estopped from ordering the streets opened, according to numerous decisions of the Supreme Courts of different states, including a recent decision of the Su preme Court of Oregon, in the case of Schooling vs. Harrlsburg. The syllabus of that case is as follows: " 'Highways and streets may be lost to FREE FERRY FDR ST. J XTiKDED AS !LIXK IX PICTUR ESQUE DKIVEWAV. ( Improvement Clubs of Peninsula Work for Project Better Car Service Asked For. At the meeting of the Peninsular De velopment League, composed of delegates from the seven civic improvement clubs on the Peninsula, in the rooms of the St. John Commercial Club Thursday night, it was decided to advocate three measures with all the influence of the seven or ganizations. Two measures are so close ly linked together as to really constitute one. They are the establishing of a free ferry at St. John and the forming of a driveway on both sides of the Willamette River. With a free ferrv It will be possi- 1 I, .mm .mil, mi. ". i. J J M' k'n. H'll.ilHHW'l ,,1,1 liiiuliiKJWmll tiillJU. UUii '.V-M-Hy I UflU "J. " .....ill. .' I'l.ii. ' ... ii.iniiii.i i .mi . ..II , ...I. i, 1.,,., . Lv'Sy ITT V Jf 3 I Vt4 :: W-Hht I r I V W-V UuCif r Mi ivt 1$ ll ;: PORTLAND WOMEX'S UNIOX IS SCEJTE OF A MASKED BALL OJT ST. VALENTINE'S NIGHT. The dining-room at the Portland Women's Union, Fifteenth and Flanders streets, was the scene of a gray valentine masked ball on Fri day evening:. A gathering which comfortably filled the large room enjoyed four hours of dancing to the lively strains of an orchestra. The cos tumes were varied, tasteful and in some cases extremely comical. Much effort had been expended by the girls on the decoration of the ballroom, which, in the memory of the oldest inhabitant, had never looked so handsome before. Both the front and back staircases were specially attractive with decorations of ivy leaves, enlivened with scarlet streamers. This part of the work was accomplished by Miss Gilman, Miss Sweeney and Miss Atkinson, and was the subject of much admiring comment. The thanks of all concerned were voted to Mrs. Rawlings, matron, and Mrs. Shirley, housekeeper, for their kindly co-operation in making "the valentine -ball of "08" one of the pleasantest and most harmonious that has ever been held under the roof of this most valued haven for 'women and girls who earn their own livings, and who. in many instances feel towards it all the tenderness of home ties. L IL tr 11 J P.Z.Co.'S.P.Z.Co. ZP.Z.Co. ip 10-! m.,L. 7z I THE SHADED STREETS ARE THOSE OCCUPIED BY THE COMPANY, j the public by continued non-use and failure of the public authorities to accept the dedication thereof: thus, in 1871, the plaintiff's predecessors in title acknowl edged and recorded a plat of an addition to defendant city on which certain streets were marked, and thereafter conveyed lots in the addition with refer ence to the recorded plat. The streets and alleys so designated were never opened, and the. donation was never accepted by the public, but the owners fenced the land, which was then, and since continuously has been, used by plaintiff and his grantor as a farm, fruit trees being planted In the streets, and a barn being erected across one of the alleys so designated. No steps were taken by the city to open the streets until April 16, 1901, when the City Marshal was1 directed to compel the removal of all ob structions thereon; It was held that the' city was estopped from opening the streets.' "However, in order to save any liti gation that might arise If perchance some official should be elected having a desire to harass the company for politi cal effect, its officials thought the com pany would save some annoyance to it ble to establish what Is considered one I of the finest scenic driveways out of Port land. It will be by way of the Linnton road to Claremont tavern, and across the river at St. John, then by way of the Willamette boulevard and the county road, which leaves Lower Alblna at De lay street, skirts the north side of the terminal grounds and the Portland Flour ing Mills", then follows the side of the bluff to the top and connects with Wil lamette boulevard. The county will be asked to put the Linnton road and the Willamette boulevard, and possibly the connecting county road, in order by pav ing them with gravel or crushed rock. The . St. John Council has decided to submit the question of issuing bonds to purchase the ferryboat with the under standing that the county will operate the boat free to the public. George J. Per kins, secretary of the Development League, was appointed to bring these matters to the attention of the County Court next week. The league will .also ask the manage ment of the Portland Railway, Light & Power Company to make some important changes in its streetcar service on the Peninsula. It will ask that the Upper Albina cars be run through to Peninsular station, Instead of stopping, as at pres- self and the city if the streets should be vacated. Those running north and south only extend from the river to the unplatted ground on the north and serve no use whatever. The blocks are so small no large plant can operate with out using the whole tract. The com pany urges the point that it must have control of the entire premises, as idlers in times past have built fires under the docks to keep warm while fishing, and not to be able to clear the premises) would soon or late work destruction of their whole plant. The company also refers to the fact that nearly every com munity will vacate streets and grant concessions to a new enterprise seeking to locate In a city, and deems that those already located should be granted equal consideration. It claims the fill pro posed for East Sixth street would cost from 25,000 to 135,000 at 33 cents a cubic yard and would serve no useful purpose, as the street runs out five blocks from the fill and there is no traffic to Justify the confiscation of their property. It would cost a similar sum to fill Grand avenue, but In-order to settle the whole controversy It would make the conces sion demanded by Councilman Wills." ent, at Piedmont, some distance north of the carbarns. It will also ask that the St. John cars, which now stop at all points, make no stops on trips to St. John except at the carbarns, until reaching Pentusular, and then make no stops on the way to Portland after leaving Penin sular station. It Is proposed that the "U" cars operated to Peninsular station shall take care of the local travel. A time schedule will be prepared by a sub committee showing how the proposed change would benefit the whole of the district north from the railroad bridge. Including St. John, by relieving St. John cars and from crowding and making it possible for them to make better time. "We consider it fair that the ferry at St. John should be operated free to the public," said Secretary Perkins, "and that the county should put the roads on both sides of the river in good condition. There are growing sections on both sides of the Willamette River north to St. John worthy of recognition. I think also we shall be able to show the managers of the car company that what we are ask ing In- the way of improved car service on the Peninsula is fair and reasonable." Advance styles fine shoes have ar rived at Rosenthal's. ABOVE ALL, BOY YOUR FURNITURE JUDICIOUSLY If you pay too much for it you'll get "riled! up" every time you think about it; you'll feel awfully unhappy over it Ottiers Pay Rent; We Collect Rent WEio Can Sell tne Cheapest? Our very ..Sod Otters Pay Rent We Collect What is home without music Victor Talking Machines bring to your home the world's greatest artists. E Z Payments. SEVENTY ARE EXAMINED APPLICANTS TOR TKACHERS CERTIFICATES VESTED. Equally Divided Between Aspirants lor City and County Positions. Difficult Questions Are Asked. Seventy applicants for teachers' cer tificates completed taking examinations at the Atkinson School yesterday after noon before the County Board of Ex aminers, composed of R. V. Robinson, County Superintendent of Schools; J. T. Greggr, principal of the Hawthorne School, and Hopkln Jenkins, principal of the Holladay school. It will be about ten days before the result of the examinations will be determined. The applicants were about equally divided into city and county classes.' An examination for teachers in the city schools ts to be held later, but those $52.00 Bed room Set Special $35.00 Remember, our valuations are 25 per cent lower, too. Rug:, all wool, 9x12, value S12.00 Bed Springs, Mattress, value S16.00 Genuine . Oak Dresspr, value S15.T5 Rocker and Chair, value S 4.30 Round Center Table $ 3.75 low price. . . . $52.00 Special This Week, $35.00 $54 Dining-Room Set, Special $35.00 Remember, our valuations are 25 per cent . . lower. Genuine Oak Table, value S15.00 Genuine Oak Chairs, four 12.00 Buffet, weathered oak finish, value. .SjsXS.OO Kug, all wool, 9x9 feet, value 9.00 Our very low price $54.00 Special This Week, $35.00 Rent on Half Our Own Building. Who Can Sell tne Cheapest? r!jgg'iMuwffl mmuLMmmiMM iwibmuipbwbbi desiring to participate were admitted to this one. At this examination th first tests in physical geography anf English literature, as provided for un der a new law. for the first-grade ot the county schools, were had. The questions the would-be peda gogues were supposed to answer wore difficult. Among them were the fol lowing, one of each being selected from the various courses: Why have other than Supreme National Courts? In how many ways may Congress borrow money? When - was th Jast cession of the State Text-Book. Commission held? Name the text adopted In arithmetic. . geography. United States history, grammar and physical geography. . South America (a) Name the countries bordering on the Caribbean Sea. and give the capital of each: b) Name and locate the four extreme capes, (c) "What are stlvas, savannas, llanos, pampas? (d ) Name three important industries. Name three natural products. Iiscuss cleanliness of the schoolroom under the following headings, giving a rea son for each statement that you make: Sweeping, manner of dusting, blackboards and chalk troughs, care of cloaks and wraps, personal cleanliness. What kind of a sentence is the following? Name the principle parts, and show what each phrase modifies: "With a wild rattle and clatter and an Inhuman ' abandonment of consideration. the carriage dashed through the streets and swept round cor ners, with women screaming before It. and men clutching each other and clutching children out of its way. Two houses rent for $300 a year, the rent being paid monthly In advance in one case, and at the end of each quarter three months) In the other. What is the difference In the amount of each rent in two years, allowing 6 per cent simple interest? a) In what way may the age of an oak be estimated? b) Why may not a palm's age be learned in he same way? Shakespeare (a) State what is known of his life. b) Name two of his comedies, two tragedies, two historical plays, fc) Point out scenes to show that he understood the conditions of life in Athens, in Egypt, in Rome, (d) It has been said of -Shakespeare that "he lived the life of all"; that he could realize the thought and feeling of men in all the different actions of life, Burn as the Too Risky Ask your doctor if he does not think it would be wise for you to eep a bottle of Ayer's Cherry Pectoral in the house. ISMSSSSSMBSSllllllSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSBSBSBSSSBBBiBBBBBBBSSSSBSSSSSSSSBSB A.yers Cherry Pectoral REVISED FORMULA "A hard chill, pain through the chest, difficult breathing."- If this should be your experience, send for your doctor. It may be pneumonia! To doc tor yourself would be too risky. If your doctor cannot come at once, give Ayer's Cherry Pectoral. When he comes, tell him exactly what you have done. We haoe no secrets I We publish the formulas of all our medicines. J. C. AYER CO., Manufacturing Chemists, Lowell, Mast. Open an Account With Us Open Friday and Saturday evenings till 9 o'clock. What is home without music? The Edison Phonogr aph makes millions happy. E Z Payments. terrible regret and despair which followed wrong doing. Point out and explain three different scenes to prove the truth of this. Prove that the exterior angles of a poly gon, made by producing each of its sides in succession, are together equal to four right angles. Causes of the Revolution (a) How was the French and Indian War an indirect cause of the Revolution? (b) What were the Townshend acts? (e What was the purpose of the meeting of the First Continental Con gress? Give two acts passed by this Con gress. When Is the warmest time of the day, the coldest time. Give reason In full. What is absolute humidity? What Is the greatest evil found in the different departments of our city govern ments? Make your answer clear bv on Il lustration. What remedy ran you suggest? SCALDS BABY IN REVENGE Brutal Indian Fiendishly Kills Child With Hot Water. CHICAGO, Feb. 15. Michael Dewala. 41 years of age. is under arrest charged with having caused the death of Joseph Devenick, the 3-year-old son of John Devenick, of 8548 Mackinaw avenue. The child died early today at the South Chi cago Hospital from the effects of scalds received last night. Dewala was a board er in the Devenick home. According to the police, Dewala, following a quarrel with Mrs. Devenick, caught up the child and, holding him between his knees, de liberately poured boiling water from a tea kettle over the boy's head and down his back. Uuby Roasted Alive With House. ELSIXORK. Cal.. Feb. 13. In a firo which destroyed- the home of Mr. and Mrs. Otis Young at the head of the lake here last night, the 21-months-old child of Mrs. Young was burned to death and her sister, 8 years old, was so badly scorched, by the flames that she is not expected to live. The house was totally destroyed1 and Mrs. Young escaped with slight! burns. The flames caught supposedly from a liehfpd candle.