THE SUXDAf OKEGOXIAX. PORTLAND, JULY 11, 1909.
Some of Oregon's "Fool" Laws
Also Other Statutes That Are Honored in the Breach, Never in the
Observance.
jAKE lyt
PORTIAXD, July 10. (To the Editor.)
In Oregon we have acquired the
cheerfiA habit of leaning back In our
chairs and saying that we are not and
never can be bothered by fool laws and
blue laws such as obtain In the East;
that we are essentially a broad-minded,
liberal people, and that our good sense
Is so deeply ingrained as effectually
to prevent Intolerance or sumptuary
legislation. ,
We aleo pat ourselves on the back
because we are a progressive common
wealth, with every citizen a born
booster, and industrial and agricultural
progress an Oreson shibboleth. Citi
zens of Portland are peculiarly of this
frame of mind. Everything is pointed
to with pride, ami nothing viewed with
alarm.
By way of putting on the brake just a
little, it may interest some to know that
there exist among other queer stat
utes In Oregon the following:
"No negro or mulatto shall have the
right of suffrage." (Constitution, arti
cle 2. section 6.)
"We are a good many miles from that
part of the country which believes In
this sort of racial discrimination, but
fven down there they are aware of the
luth amendment to the Constitution of
the United States.
By literal construction of another
statute, a citizen may be Imprisoned for
one year for conversing with a mem
ber of either house of the Legislature
In regard to the passage or defeat of
any measure before it or which may
come before It. (Section 1S94. law of
3M".4. B. and C. code.) This would seem
to be in the nature of a conspiracy to
prevent some legislators from acquir
ing any information concerning sub
jects upon which they legislate.
The newspapers of Oregon would be
in a bad fix if the following were en
forced :
For printing. jmhliphlrtR. advertising, sell
ing, lending. Kiving away or shonlng any
book, paper or other publication that pur
ports to relate or narrnte the criminal ex
'. plolts of any desperado or convicted felon
there shall be a punishment by imprison
ment In the penitentiary not less than on
ear nor more than three years or by a
tine of not less than $500 or more than
i.-.oo.
The well-intentioned promoters of
church fairs and charity bazaars may
not know it. but they have sadly frac
tured the law of Oregon which says:
If any person shall promote or set up any
lottery for money or other valuable thing,
or shall aid or be In any way concerned in
setting up, managing or drawing such lot
tery, such person, upon conviction thereof,
shall be punished by imprisonment in the
penitentiary not less than six months nor
more than one year, or by imprisonment
1n the county Jail not less than three months
nor more than one year, or hy fine not less
than $10O nor more than $1000. (Section
lOO'.i. 1. 1SB4..
About a year ago an attempted en
forcement of the following state law
had the City of Portland In an uproar:
If any person shall keep open any store,
shop, grocery, howling alley, billiard room
or tippling house, for the purpose of labor
or traffic, or any place of amusement, on
Vie first day of the week, commonly called
"Sunday" or the "Lord's day." such person,
upon conviction thereof, shall be pilnished
Vy a fine not less than $5 nor more than
$"o. provided, however, that the above pro
vision shall not apply to theaters, the
keepers of drug stores, doctor shops, under
taker., livery stable keepers, butchers and
bakers. (Section 1868, L 1003, P. 17.)
Section 2too, laws 1891, page 153, pro
vides that all steamboats or other water
craft on the Willamette liver above
the City of Portland shall have smoke
stacks so constructed that they can be
lowered to a level with the pilot-house
when necessary to pass under any
bridge. Violation of this act carries a
penalty of $50 to $500 fine.
Under Sec. 2K. I. JS91, p. T4. any one
throwing or placing in any running stream
of sufficient capacity any log or drift
except for the purpose of driving or raft
ing shall be guilty of misdemeanor.
The last Legislature, with a lofty die
regard for less important matters, con
centrated their undivided attention upon
securing the personal comfort of our op
pressed citizenry and wrote in fat let
ters upon the statute booke of Oregon
the fiat that all beds in hotels and lodging-houses
shall be provided with sheets
not lees than nine feet in length. Viola
tion Is a misdemeanor, penalty is $50 and
every day that any person shall fail to
comply with the law shall be deemed a
separate offense. Ch. 22. p. 64. L. 1909.
Thus are the pedal extremities of a free
people guaranteed covering in the stilly,
chilly night, and the peace of mind of
solicitous legislators assured.
The City of Portland is not outdone by
the State of Oregon. It Is unlawful to
post bills upon sidewalk, crosswalk or
building without permission of the owner,
and they must be nailed or tacked at
least seven feet above established grade.
Also distribution of placards, etc., to
pedestrians on streets is illegal. Nobody
pays any attention to this ordinance.
Nevertheless it is there.
The speed limit for automobiles in the
city Is fixed at eight miles per hour. The
mere mention of this Is sufficiently humor
ous. Fines are fived at not less than
$5 nor more than $500, or Imprisonment not
to exceed 99 days.
Another ordinance prohibits the sus
pending of signs or advertisements over
sidewalks.
No goods or merchandise may be placed
upon the sidewalk by way of show, ad
vertising or otherwise. A fine and impris
onment is Included in the penalty. The
enforcement of this ordinance would ne
cessitate a tieet of airships from the
freight depots to our stores, which would
have to receive goods "in their midst."
It Is against the law of Portland to ex
hibit a cripple or deformed oerson in a
public place. Just what constitutes de
formity is a nice question. . Down at
the Oaks were exhibited this year a cou
ple of fat children of such longitudinal
dimensions as to lead one to believe they
might come within this provision. - If
the ordinance were enforced in this in
stance the capacity of the cells in the
city prison would be tested.
The throwing of confetti in the city Is
prohibited hy the maximum penalty of
$50 fine or 25 days' imprisonment. This
would have filled the city Jug during
Rose Festival week.
In the outlying portions of the city, be
cause there is no service for carrying
away garbage, the people burn their
waste material on their back lots. It is
well that they do. or we should not have
our present reputation for being a healthy
city. Nevertheless, any one who kindles
a fire upon a public street, or anywhere
in the open air. In any portion of the c4ty,
without a written permit, is liable to a
fine of $500 or six months' Imprisonment,
or both. Needless to say this ordinance
Is not enforced.
Fine or Imprisonment may be inflicted
upon any propertyowner who fails to
trim shade or ornamental trees in the
street each year.
These are merely a few gentle remind
ers that Portland and Oregon are not in
a position to laugh at Washington. There
Is no apparent corner on freak legisla
tion. G. H. F
BTATISTICS SHOW SllGHT AL
TERATION IN FIGURES.
Reformative Institutions Making but
Little Progress In Battle
Against Alcohol.
LONDON. July 10. (Special.) In his re
port for 1908 the inspector for Scotland
under the Inebriates act states that the
'admissions Into reformatories again
showed a decline, being only 19, as
against 42 in 1901, while the admissions
Into retreats numbered 75 as against 68.
As a means of reformation of police
court drunlcsj-ds, he Inspector says that
Inebriate reformatories must be de
scribed as only -ery moderately suc
cessful. Of 173 such cases whose subse
quent history. has been traced, only 12
can be described as completely reformed
a recovery rate of rather less than 7
per cent. On the other hand, as a means
of saving others from contamination,
these Institutions are of great service.
The treatment of drunkenness by pun
ishment is of undoubted value when the
habit is neither extreme nor of long
standing. More than 60 per cent of first
offenders never come bark to prison, but
the treatment by punishment of the
worst cases of inebriety, cases In which
the habit is extreme and of long standing
Is allowed to be a failure, and it is to
such cases that these reformatories give
n chance: a small chance certainly, but
nevertheless a genuine chance. A re
covery rate of from 7 to 10 per cent
cannot be disregarded when dealing with
cases insusceptible of cure by other
known means.
The superintendent of the Newmains
Hctrcat (Lanark), says he is often asked
what is the cause of alcoholic excess
among the ladies who come to that insti
tution. He states that it Is more instruc
tive to note certain characteristics which
are fairly constant among the patients
namely:
An absence of steady purposeful at
tention to definite duties in life. This
Is even with those who have a business
I. e.. teaching, housekeeping, wifehood,
or children to bring up: their work is an
unimportant factor in their lives, got
over quickly and forgotten, or left alto
gether. A. dread dullness, a fear of being bored,
and a habit of constant mild excitement.
The experience of the stimulative or
soothing power of alcohol and its equiv
alents. A habit of constant attention to them
selvesto aches mental and aches phys
ical, which would die away under neg
lect, but which grow to almostunbear
able acuteness if attended to: in short,
there is too much ego in their cosmos.
ewes, "devoted entirely to the service
of that one lamb."
One of his favorite sweet dishes is
compounded merely of milk, eggs, sugar
and vanilla, but "it , takes exactly 24
hours in the making." Of course, the
novelist's cook is a stout matron from
Gascony, and he despises men chefs, es
pecially Parisians.
PARIS DONS FULL DRESS
Change Comes Over Theater Crowds
and Evening Clothes Are Worn.
PARIS, July 10. (Special.) Visitors to
Paris theaters who have not been here
for some years notice a great change In
theatrical audiences. A dresscoat in a
Paris theater used to be a rarity.
It Is now the rule rather than the ex
ception in the stalls, boxes and balcony,
and the agitation against hats in thea
ters has led the ladies to wear evening
dress aswell as the men. It is not quite
the evening dress to which New York
theater-goers are used, but even that Is
coming.
SUNSET BEACH
On the Nehalem Two Hours From
Portland.
NOTICE '
All lots will be advanced $25 each on
August 10th Beautiful cottage given
away.
T5 We havo 3ust returned from Sunset
Beach, and can show you photos taken
of. Sunset Beach and surroundings,
which will enable you to select your
lots as satisfactorily as If you were on
the ground.
We are now preparing an accurate
map of the coast, showing all moun
tains, trails, etc.,. for the benefit of
those who wish to make trip down the
coast from Seaside. Call and get one.
REMEMBER THAT. Al.t, LOTS
ADVANCE f-O OSi A V til' ST 10th.
Good sand beach on ocean and bay.
Freedom from mosquitoes; beautiful
surroundings; great commercial possi
bilities. GODOARD A W1EDRICK,
HO Second St.
Mail This Coupin Today.'
noDDAnn a wiedrick,
HO Second St., Portland.
Send me map of Sunset Beach and
particulars about free cottage.
Address .
PREVOST "FUSSY" ON FOOD
French Novelist Particular About
What He Has to Eat.
ARIS. July 10. (Specla. ) M. Marcel
vost. the novelist, and the latest elei-t-
PA
Prev
ed Academician, seems to be something
of a Lucullua. In fact, even Roman re
finement of feeding hardly equals his.
He Is a Gascon, and is quite sure that "it
Is only In Gascony that one knows how
to dine." A description of a few of the
dishes off which M. Prevost habitually
dines is remarkable reading.
Ho likes ortolans, but "they must have
been fattened for six months in a cage
In my own house." A certain "estouf
fade de boeuf" seems a simple dish, but
it -'must have simmered slowly for two
days." Roast saddle of lamb sounds
equally simple fare, but when M. Prevost
has it at home be will eat only lamb that
has been brought up since birth by two j
YOU NEED THIS
Government reports show
that colonization and com
munity settlement work
has been greatly retarded
In all of the country west
of the Rockies owing to
the lack of detailed maps
and Information.
The Columbia Trust
Company, Board of Trade
Building. has recognized
this need and at enormous
expense has carefully pre
pared an authentic map of
the great Willamette Val
ley. No detail has been
omitted. For Instance, the
town of Broadmead. now
building at the junction of
the Dallas and Sheridan
branches of the Southern
Pacific, Is shown.
This map has been com
piled entirely from official
sources. A copy may be
had for 25 cents on application.
PORTLAND'S NEAREST BEACH RESORT
and the leading Summer city of Oregon in the near
future. Just think of a hard white sand beach eight
miles long, with a beautiful lake surrounded by
crystal mountain streams, situated by two pictur
esque bays, connected with good roads leading to all
parts of Oregon and less than three hours from Port
land by rail.
LAKE LYTLE
WILL BE A CITY OF 10,000 when the people find
out that they can leave business in Portland at 5
o'clock in the evening and eat dinner at Lake Lytle
by 8, or leave Portland at 7 in the morning and be on
the beach before 10.
$100 INVESTED NOW WILL BRING $1000.
Better investigate this Tillamook beach; it will pay
you a better increase in value than any other invest
ment. Graded streets, a good water system, a depot
and other extensive improvements.
RALPH ACKLEY
605 Corbett Bldg.
LIVELY Tiff IN DUBLIN
MAYOR , DENOUNCES COUNCIL
MEN AND FIGHT ENSUES.
Names Men Who Disturb Meeting
and Sinn Fein Party Starts
New Outbreak.
DUBLIN', July 10. (Special.) Such gen
tle words as "liar" and such little inci
dents as challenges to duels marked the
meeting of the Dublin Corporation this
week. When the roll had been called, the
Lord Mayor referred to what he described
as the disgraceful scenes which occurred
at the last meeting. " He named to the
citizens, the ratepayers and the electors
generally the following members, who, he
said, were responsible for this outrage
upon the council's deliberations and the
honor of the city:
Alderman Kelly, Councillor John Kelly,
Councillor Daniel McCarthy, Councillor
Sheehan, Councillor Patrick O' Carroll and
Councillor Cosgrave. The Lord Mayor
warned these gentlemen, all or nearly all
of whom belong to the Sinn Fein party,
that so long as he occupied the chair he
would preserve order and would. If neces
sary, use legitimate force for that purpose.
Mr. 0"Carroll angrily retorted: "You
can do what you like. I will defend my
honor with my life. I did it 17 years ago.
and will do it now." He complained that
at the last meeting he had been called a
liar and he resented it.
The Lord Mayor called upon him to
leave the chamber, but he refused to do
so. After some disturbance a resolution
was declared passed that the meeting be
adjourned, as the members were not in
a temper to discuss the business. Then
Councillor O'CarroIl rose and said:
"Now in the face of this assembly I
challenge Councillor Sherlock to meet me
as a man, and I will allow him to choose
his own weapons."
Alderman Kelly said to the Lord Mayor:
"All I can say Is this; you have Im
peached us as blackguards, and you will
have to answer for it."
"I will not be browbeaten," answered
the Lord Mayor.
"Very well, you will have no meetings
until you withdraw that document," said
Alderman Kelly.
A motion was proposed to adjourn the
House. In a violent scene which followed
two members were seen striking at each
other, and one of them fell.' In another
part of the building two other members
came to blows, and amid a scene of great
confusion and uproar the Lord Mayor left
the chair.
Eleven Hurt in Wreck.
WASHINGTON, July 10. Eleven per
sons were slightly injured as the result
of a spreading of the rails, causing the
derailment of a passenger train on the
Southern Railway near Blantyre, N. C,
late today. The first-class cars and the
parlor car were turned over.
If You Want to Live for Less
Money and Live Better, It
Would Pay You to Investigate
SUBURBAN
HOMES
CLUB TRACT
An
Acre
for less
than a
City lot
An acre will support an average family. It will also pay a net annual
income over and above living expenses. Aside from all this, one
acre in SUBURBAN HOMES CLUB TRACT will provide for you a
suburban home that cannot be duplicated in the Northwest. Trees,
cleared land, graded streets, free water for irrigation and domestic
use, the first year, electric lights, and the best transportation." Only
a few minutes from downtown. Ten-cent fare, with transfer priv
ileges. If you will take trouble to see the property, take Estacada or
Gresham car to Gilbert. We will meet you and show you the property.
GREEN-WHITCOMB company
The Only Irrigation Specialists in Portland
24512 Washington Street Portland, Or.
Main 8033 A 4928
FOR SALE, TILLAMOOK, NEAR EAST 36TH, FOUR
DWELLINGS.
FINE
i
12X33
Bungalows and two-story, five to eight rooms; new and modern;
fireplaces, dens, seats, bookcases, buffets, beamed ceilings, paneled
dining-rooms, sleeping porches, large verandas. Very, easy terms.
JOHN LOCKHART, Owner
Main 493, A 3363. 610 Chamber of Commerce
An ideal cranberry marsh of limited acreage almost adjoining Sea
View and Long Beach, Washington, and offering the solid satisfaction of
an unfailing source of revenue with the pleasures of nearbv Summer
resorts, is now offered in 1 to 10-acre tracts and will be sold, as long as it
lasts, on easy terms to those wishing a
Superior Income
tivestment
This property is to be improved and cared for by an Eastern expert in
cranberry culture and will take none of the purchasers' time from their
regular vocations.
, The acreage of desirable cranberry land is very limited and that this
coast is the most favored section in the climatic conditions that insure
the best quality of fruit and the highest yield per acre, is shown bv the
results obtained by practical growers in Washington and Oregon.
Our plan of co-operative development is similar to that which has suc
ceeded in building up cranbery properties in the famous Cape Cod dis
trict that are worth $25,000,000 to $40,000,000 today, out of lands that
ere ueia as Demg oi little value only a few vears ago. ,
itemeniDer, "une good investment is worth a lifetime of labor."
Fill out and mail attached coupon, phone or call for a free copv
ul vranueny luagazme, an illustrated periodical full of re
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utiuic jiij.urmai.ion irom growers and agricultural specialists
of the different cranberry districts.
SiL PORTLAND CRANBERRY
s; " " ' LAND COMPANY
Name
p q 319 Lumbermen's Bldg., 5th and Stark St3.
X Phone Main 1590. Portland. Oresron.
Street and Number
NECARNEY CITY, SEABRIGBT
and NEBALEM BAY
The greatest INVESTMENT PROPOSITIONS ON THE PAeiFIC COAST, from every standpoint, and
particularly from TWO FACTS, namely:
First-The NECARNEY CITY HYDROCARBON OIL COMPANY was incorporated last week for the
purpose of drilling for oil. on or near these properties, where the signs of oil are exceedingly extensive.
They have already ordered the necessary machinery and casing to put down a well 2000 feet, hired the driller
and will proceed this next week to put the machinery in place and commence drilling as soon as possible.
They believe in home industry, and bought the machinery of the Star Drilling Machine Co., located at East
Twelfth and Clinton streets. City. The expert manager of the company has every confidence in striking the
oil within 700 or 800 feet. Now. should this oil proposition prove a success, all this property will be worth
at least TEN TIMES the price it is now selling for.
Second If the oil proposition should not be a success, the property, as a beach resort, will bring at
least THREE times its present price, just as soon as the railroad is finished, which will be by the 10th of
next June, as per contract. REMEMBER THIS, no beach resort will ever be nearer Portland than our
Beach Resorts on Nehalem Bay. It is true that we have withdrawn from sale all unsold SOLID BLOCKS,
and all lots where ten or more lay together, unsold, b ut many of the most desirable lots in the GROVE and
IN THE FRONT TIER OF BLOCKS are on sale, upon our usual very easy terms, and to purchase NOW
means a big profit to the purchaser, no matter what happens. We have shown good faith in all our under
takings, and in this proposition of finding oil we have the utmost faith, and are backing it with OUR
TIME AND MONEY. Call on us for full information regarding either the oil proposition or sale of lots.
NEHALEM BAY LAND GO
274 OAK STREET, FIRST FLOOR, BOARD OF TRADE BUILDING
MPANY
BEAVER
TON-REED
REAGE
VILLE AC
"The Pasadena of Oregon"
3600 ACRES, platted into tracts of Y to 20 acres each, with a com
pleted road along each tract, only slightly rolling land; no rock, gravel,
white land or hillsides, but a deep, dark soil that is especially adapted to
fruit, nuts and vegetables.
Located 40 minutes out on the Fourth Street Railway, with five trains
each way per day; ten miles southwest of the Courthouse.
Why loan money at 7 or 8 per cent, whn nothing is safer than a real
estate investment and nothing more certain of increase than land at the
edge of a large city.
We are selling this acreage in such sized tracts as von desire, at from
$100 to $300 per acre, 10 per cent cash and the balance ' to suit purchaser.
Call and arrange to go with us, without expense to von, and examine
this property.
THE SHAW-FEAR COMPANY ssi;