The Sunday Oregonian., September 27, 1908, SECTION TWO, Page 12, Image 22

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t5 TnE SUNDAY OREGOXIAX. PORTLAND. SEPTEMBER 57, IPOS.
xtraordinary Value
LOUD HA! I FOR
SUNDAY LID LAW
ARE YOUR EYES WEAK
Shops to Keep Open and Ar
rests Will Be Made for
Test Cases.
STATUTE THOUGHT INVALID
Amendment Exempting Theaters BOr
lieved to Make It Class Legisla
.1on Grand Jury AV111 Take
Up Infractions at Once.
Of the shopkeepers, druggists, billiard
hall keepers and small dealers who keep
open today, from a dozen to a score are
to be arrested. Thejr will be taken
quietly to the police station, required to
put up bail, and will then be at liberty
to return unmolested to business.
This was the understanding with which
District Attorney Cameron and Chief of
Police Gritzmacher parted company late
yesterday, after an hour spent in talk
ing over the situation. Previous to this
meeting with the Chief, Mr. Cameron
had been talking with representatives of
the druggists and retailers. He said he
was willing that the trades people have
every chance to test the meaning of
the law.
Arrests will be made In numbers suffi
cient for test cases. According to the
plan as laid down yesterday, some three
or four druggists will be taken to the
station, some three or four billiard
hall keepers, and representatives of all
other lines of trade. The entire day
shift will be assigned to the gathering
of names of the open shopkeepers and
these names will later go to the county
grand jury. Chief Gritzmacher issued
the following order to his Captains, last
night.
Chief Grltzmacher's Order.
"In regard to Sunday-closing, to take
effect tomorrow. It being impossible to
arrest everyone If combined resistance
of the closing order is made, therefore
Instruct your officers as folloys: Arrest
all keepers of bowling alleys, billiard
halls, stores, shops and other places spe
cifically mentioned in the statutes;
stores will Include clothing and cigar
stores and other places not clearly de
fined. Get names of owners and location
of business and kind of business engaged
In and report same with a view to sub
mliting same to the grand jury."
That the District Attorney's closing
order will be resisted there is no doubt
for on every hand small dealers were
saying yesterday that they would open
early and stay late. No particular ones
have been singled out for arrest but it
Is said that such as may be gathered in
will be willing victims. Their ball will
be supplied them and the funds for fight
ing the cases will be furnished by the
.combined trades people.
Druggists, without exception, have de
rided to sell tobacco and sundries. The
law gives authority for the keeping open
of drugstores. But is not a drugstore
essentially a place where drugs are sold?
And Is not the selling of cigars the func
tion of a cigar stand so that the drug
store Is overstepping itself In the sale of
sundries? These are the questions which
have been suggested by the situation as
regards druggists.
Billiard hall keepers haven't the sym
pathy that attends the others. The law
expressly names these places as being
under the han. .It is not likely that pub
lic sympathy will go to their rescue. But
If the law Is not valid then It cannot deal
with billiard halls any more than the
other places, so the billiard interests
aver. Ball, it was learned, will be
nominnl. ranging from $10 to $25, accord
ing to the character of business In
operation. It is understood billiard hall
keepers will have to put up J25 and other
'violators of the law 10 apiece. The ball
game will .lot be molested. Mr. Cameron
said, it being the last game of the sea
son. Go Refore Grand Jury at Once.
Ordinarily the prosecutions might rest
on the table until mildewed by age and
forgotten but the possibility of this has
been provided against. The cases will be
laid immediately before the grand Jury.
This applies to those actually arrested
and to those whose names are culled by
the dav shift today. The situation will
bs in the hands of the grand Jury by to
morrow. It doesn't happen to be the function
of grand Juries to pass on the validity
of laws. The one question with them
will be: Was the law, as laid down In
the code, violated last Sunday? Since
there will be most conclusive evidence
that the law was violated it follows,
necessarily, that indictments will be re
turned. Still, this may not apply to all cases,
although It id bound to apply to a num
ber. For the law sets up that "all cir
cumstances of necessity and mercy may
be pleaded in defense, which shall be
treated as questions of fact for the jury
to determine when the case Is tried by
Jury."
Plan to Show Necessity.
Thus, fruitstand keepers may show that
necessity impelled them to remain open,
since they deal In perishable goods. Other
tradesmen nvcht interpose the same plea,
while It would be just possible for a cigar
dealer to prove that he was performing
an act of mercy" in selling cigarettes
to some suffering slave of nicotine.
The effect of grand jury indictments,
however, would be to get the law before
the Circuit Court without delay and that
is the object aimed at. It is understood
that the tradesmen will contend that the
orlsinal law of lSt was rendered uncon
stitutional by the amendment of 1903.
That amendment gave to theaters the
right to remain open but shut down on
all other places of amusement. The
amendment is commonly said to have
been promulgated by the Baker theater
Interests, and to constitute the rankest
order of class legislation. Inasmuch as
the law was Intended primarily as a
measure to promote public morality it
is contended that it would lose its sup
port by excepting theaters, the moral in
fluence of which has been far more wide
ly disputed than that "of transacting or
dinary business on the seventh day.
Cameron Denies Persecution.
An order suggesting that all trades
people who wish remain open this Sun
day was passed around quietly yesterday
afternoon at the suggestion of the com
mittee, headed by Herman Wittenberg,
which has the interests of the trades
. men at heart. W ittenberg called on Cam
eron and talked the situation over at
length, but the only outcome was that
the District Attorney said he merely
wwhed to learn the meaning of the law
and not to persecute the trades people.
The druggists have secured Teal & Minor
to look after their interests, but the re
tailers have not yet hired lawyers, al-
hnti.h a fund of JiXjOO. raised on Friday,
is immediately available for this purpose. I
Should the Sunday dealers win in the '
Circuit Court the matter would likely
be at an end. unless the decision was
based on a demurrer to grand jury In
dictments, In which event Cameron would
have the right of appeal to the Supreme
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THE WESTERN IMPORTING CO.
462 Washington St., Between Thirteenth and Fourteenth Sts.
Court. But should the constitutionality
of the law be upheld, its enforcement is
in the line of probability, at least until
such time as the Legislature could be
induced to exercise its prerogative of ap
peal. CHIEF IS AXXIOUS TO BEGIN"
Declares That Crusade In North End
Is Practicable.
Chief of Police Gritzmacher ex
pressed the opinion yesterday that
Mayor Lane's crusade in the North End
is a good move and that it is practic
able to banish the disorderly women
and their cohorts from Portland and
to keep them out. The Chief said he
feels that the city will be better off
when the women are run out, and that
he is anxious to get to work on the
crusade.
"I certainly think that it is prac
ticable to drive the bad women from
the city and to keep them out of the
city." said the Chief. "The Mayor is
making the right move, I think; I want
to get to work and execute his order
as soon as possible, but I must wait
until I get the ten patrolmen allowed
the department by the City Council."
An eligible list rff patrolmen will be
furnished Chief Gritzmacher this week,
probably not later than Wednesday,
upon which day the Civil Service Com
mission is to meet in regular session.
From this list the Executive Board
will appoint the ten extra officers, and
the new men will be used as patrol
men. A specially-selected squad will
be put at work to execute the order
to put out of commission all disorderly
bouses in the city and to see to It that
the women Inmates get Into legitimate
occupations or leave.
Offers Worthless Check.
F. Manson White, said to have been at
one time one of the leading architects of
Portland, was arrested last night by De
tectives Price and Coleman, while at
tempting to pass a worthless check for $5
on the Lion Clothing Company, First and
Taylor streets. The check was drawn in
White's own favor on the Security Trust
Company and signed by himself. He ad
mitted that he had no funds on deposit
at this bank but said that he had hoped to
be able to take up the check by Moiyiay
morning. White pleaded hard to be re
leased but at the request of the detec
tives. Captain of Police Moore locked him
up on a charge of drunkenness in order
that the detectives might further investi
gate his movements during the past few
days. It is said that White succeeded in
passing several worthless checks and the
police will try to locate his victims. The
proprietor of the Lion Clothing Company
telephoned the police that he would sign
a complaint against White Monday.
Missionary Secretary Here.
John R. Nelson, secretary of the Mis
sionary Board of the Methodist Episcopal
Church, South, whose headquarters are In
DONT WASTE
This wagon calls for and delivers clocks, watches and jewelry takes
vour heavy clock from your home to Staples the Jeweler, where it
will be put in first-class" order, then returns and sets it up properly
on its own shelf you send in your order, we do the rest. Jewelers,
as a rule, do not care to repair clocks, but Staples has a clock man
who is thoroughly equipped, and also several watchmakers and jew
elers, and he wants your work and takes pride in having it done well ;
he also carries the largest stock of watches at retail in the city. CALL.
Nashville, Tenn.. arrived in Portland last
night from Seattle. He Is making a tour
of the West, with Bishop Atkins, looking
after the new enterprises of the church.
He will preach today, both morning and
evening at Foresters' Hall, 171 Second
street.
SPRING SOURCE OF TYPHOID
Oregon City Cases Traced to Con
taminated Water Supply.
OREGON CITY, Or., Sept. 26. (Spe
cial.) After several days of painstak
ing investigation. It has been deter
mined beyond a reasonable doubt that
the prevalence of typhoid fever here
is due in a measure at least to a spring
that is located between the Weinhard
building and the Southern Pacific
tracks. At least four cases of typhoid
have been traced directly to this
source, and there are probably more.
The spring comes trickling down the
hill, and for 25 years has been gener
ally considered the finest water to be
had. Many years ago when a brewery
was operated here, a reservoir was
constructed and the water piped into
it, but the ravages of time have caused
breaks in the pipe, and seepage from
the hill has contaminated the spring
water. After a day's rain the water
becomes riled, indicating its pollution
from some source, and it has been
found that the bed of the spring is on
about the same level as the creek that
brings water down Singer Hill.
Mr. and Mrs. Ben ' Hayhurst, .both
cyphold fever patients, who conducted
a store a block from the Weinliard
building, used drinking-water from
this spring. Mrs. Tina Silvers, .jvho is
employed In the furniture store of W.
1. Block, used the water, and so did
Edson O. Pond, bookkeeper in the
office of the Oregon City Courier,
which Is located in the Weinhard
building. Two clerks in the Harris
grocery, Gaylord Godfrey and Frank
Schoenborn, are said to have used this
water. The discovery recalls the case
of Mary Roos, who was ill with typhoid
several years ago. The Roos family
lives directly across the street from
the Weinhard building, and at one time
used the spring water for drinking
purposes.
Frank Busch, who occupied the
Weinhard building up to one year ago,
states that he believes the water un
fit for use, and so do several prominent
physicians. Officials of the United
States Land Office, which was .formerly
located in the Weinhard building, were
warned by their physician to leave the
water alone, and Peter Nehren, who
probably knows more about the spring
than any other man In town, declares
emphatically that seepage from the
hill is mixed with the spring water.
Tries to Untie Nuptial Knot.
OREGON CITY, Or., Sept. 26. (Spe
cial.) Stating that on November 20,
1907, at Portland her husband threat-
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Raleigh Ford, to whom she was mar
ried January 21, 1902, in Oregon City.
They have one child, Goldie May Ford,
aged 4 years.
Dies at Age of 83 Years.
OREGON CITY, Or.. Sept. 26.-(Spe-cial.)
Mrs. Thomas Shute died this
morning at Maple Lane, where she had
resided with her daughter since 1904.
She was born February 9, 1823, in New
Hampshire, and was married 64 years
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Push-and-PuII Exercise.
New York Press.
One of the fat-inclined men of New
York has a novel method of keeping him
self in fine fettle. It is a push-and-pull
exercise. In the basement of his home,
which has a level concrete floor, he has
installed several 'wheeled objects. One is
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box of chains that used to belong on a
Staten Island ferryboat as a balance; it
weighs 9000 pounds. Still another is a
cast-off bullion cart that used to do duty
In the assay office; it weighs 1000 pounds,
but may be loaded with plRiron up to lo.
000 pounds. The exercise consists in pull
ing and pushing therj vehicles over the
floor, end Judging by the development or
our friend it Is effective. His general
strength is prodigious, and there is no
muscle-binding.
A company has been formed In Europ.
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