TIIE SUNDAY OREGOXIAN. POBTLA1r JIAT 1, 1910. STRIKE IS TALKED 8000 Men on Deschutes Said to Be on Verge. DEMAND FOLLOWED BY CUT After Contractors Voluntarily liaise Wages From $2.25 to 92.50, Jli.se to $2.7 5 Is Asked, AVhere iipon Trouble Looms Up. Laborers on the two railroad lines under construction in the Deschutes Canyon and numbering approximately 8000 men, are threatening to strike for higher wages, according to reports from the canyon that reached the office of Twohy Bros., the main contractors for the Deschutes Railroad Company, yesterday. After paying $2.23 per day all Win ter, both the Deschutes Road and the Oregon Trunk Railway last month raised railroad laborer's wages to $2.50 per day. The men are now demanding an advance to $2.75 and the railroads have responded by announcing a cut of 10 per cent, or a reduction to the scale of $2.25 per day. The rate of $2.50 per day was paid for Just one month. Porter Bros, contractors for the Ore gong Trunk Line, declare they are not expecting any strike on their line, al though the information received by Twohy Bros, was that the trouble threatened to spread to both sides of the canyon. J. P. Porter last night said they had been In communication with some of their camps by telephone during the day and received no report of a general quitting of work. Limit Placed at $2.25. Both contracting firms say emphat ically that they will not pay more than $2.25 per day hereafter and that men are now plentiful. The same reduction has been an nounced by the Southern Pacific on the construction work at Oswego and the laborers there were threatening to quit yesterday. At the present time the working force on the Deschutes Railroad is about 3200 and that of the Oregon Trunk Line 4ti00 men. One month ago both railroads, it was asserted, were seeking more men. as the result of large numbers having quit when the rwarm weather came on. J. P. Porter declares that the demand for men at that time was greatly ex aggerated in newspaper reports, which caused the men at work to believe that an Increase in wages could be forced. Labor conditions, ho says, have been very satisfactory, and at no time has the work been hampered for want of men. The line is now fully covered and a greater number than now em ployed could not be used to advantage. Within two or three weeks long stretches of grade will have been com pleted and as a consequence the men employed there will be out of work or , subject to transfer to other sections of the road. Ilarriman I.nes Lay Off Men. In the Ilarriman offices the state ment is made that numerous sub-contracts have been completed on that railroad within the month, which re sulted in the laying off of the men em ployed thereon. Fifteen miles of track have been laid and more is under way. Ballasting of the track of the com pleted railroad has begun. The- demands ot the men for more pav. It is said, have also been encouraged by the announcement of the letting of the contract to II. C. Henry for the grading of an extension of 125 miles of the Ore gon Trunk line. Both Porter Bros, and Twohy Bros, express the opinion, how ever, that Mr. Henry will not ba seeking men in large numbers for two or three months, as that much time will be consumed in freighting supplies, camp equipment and construction material to the Interior. By the time Mr. Henry is demanding men. large numbers of labor ers In the canyon will be available as the. result of the completion of grading along the lines of the two railroads. Mr. Porter asserts that laborers are now paid only $2.25 per day on the con traction work in the vicinity of Tacoma and Seattle. In amount of grading com pleted April was the blggost month for both the Oregon Trunk line and Des chutes Railroad since tho work started. The Portland employment agencies yesterday were still carrying the usual signs calling for laborers for the Des chutes canyon, in Hpite of the statement from tho contractors that tliev had all the men needed. The explanation for this is that there are always men quitting no matter what the conditions with re spect to weather or wages, and that it is desired to keep a full working force The agencies yesterday were also ad vertising for men at $2.50 to work on the double-tracking of the Northern Pa cific. PERS0NALMENTI0N. Benjamin Young, retired millionaire fisherman of Astoria, returned venter day after spending a Winter in Cali fornia, and is at the Portland in com- Piny with his daughter. Dr. Clara Reames. L. Lamb. a. K. Lamb and c. B. Meier f Clilton. Iowa, arrived at the Port land yesterday on a visit of inspection to timber lands which they recently ac quired along the coast. W. A White, of New York Citv. and a friend of the Corbett famflv of port land, arrived in the city esterdav ac companled by Hinsdeli Parsons and ft vV. Starr. Mr. White and Mr. Parson, are directors of the Oregon Klectric Company. . Roland W. Stebblns. of Hood River Portland""' fr0"' Xew YPrk- is at the Postmaster Yo.mg has recovered from the effects Pf tho operation re cently performed at St. Vincent s Hos pital so far that arrangements have been perfected for his removal to his tVJ ,jton,0!;r0w morning. Physicians attending the postmaster now exnress belief in his complete recovery. epr-!'a Walter H. Evans, assistant fnited States Attorney for Oregon, will leave tonight for San Francisco, where he will appear In the United States Court of Appeals. A. I.. Richardson, civil and hydraulic engineer at Cottace Grove, is at the Lenox over Sunday. I. J. Kadc. of Spokane, is at the I.CUOX. ,M"- C- BrlSs- a business woman of St. Helens, arrived at the Lenox yesterday n a trip to the wholesale and jobbing districts. Miss L. Brierwood. of Chicago, ar rived yesterday to take a position with the Owl Drug Company, and is at the Lenox. John D. Hoag. of Kelso. Wash., is at the Lenox, accompanied by his family. W. H. Wilson, a pioneer merchant of The Dalles, now retired, is at the Per kins. W. A. Johnston, of Astoria, is at the Perkins. , Willis P. Shelton and his bride, of Olympia, Wash., are spending their Honeymoon at the Perkins. K. E. Campbell, Hood River apple dealer and grower, was at the Perkins last night. Thomas Duncan, of Pendleton, a trav eling man representing Portland job bers, who confines himself to Kastern Oregon, is spending a vacation in the city, accompanied by his wife. They are at the Perkins. Sirs. P. S. Davidson came In from Hood River yesterday to meet her son, W. jr. Davidson, a resident of the Coeur d'AIenes. The reunion took place at the Imperial. Judge W. D. Slater, of the Supreme Court, is at the Imperial. James G. Kidwell. one of the largest cattle buyers and shippers of the Port land stockyards district, is at the Im perial, while looking for a consign ment of beef suitable to the Walla Walla market. S. C. Hulse. a merchant of Cazadero, is at the Oregon, accompanied by Mrs. J- M. Reynolds and Miss Reynolds, of Bedford. Pa. John H. Soper, of Honolulu, is at the Oregon. W. H. Smead, of Spokane, came in from Eastern Oregon yesterday, and is at the Oregon. Mr. and Mrs. Franklyn Underwood, members of the Baker stock Company, are at the Nortonia. Miss- Elmo Rowlins and Miss Myrtle Pearson, of Ashland, are at the Nor tonia for Sunday. K. R. Morse and H. H. Burrows, Californians residing near San Fran cisco, reached the Ramapo yesterday in search-of new locations. L. P. Forestell, who is largely iden tified with mining and commercial in terests at Butte, Mont., is at the Se ward. A. A. Croft, the Toledo, Ohio, manu facturer of flour milling machinery, is at the Seward. J. Spickett, postmaster at Juneau, and his wife are at the Cornelius. Mr. and Mrs. w. R. Peoples were passengers on the latest boat from Fairbanks. Alaska, and will be at the Cornelius until after the Rose Festi val. Captain C. T. Belcher, of Collins Hot Springs, is at the Cornelius. Mrs. S. W. Berry, of 600 East Oak street, has left Portland on a trip around the world. Mrs. Berry will be absent more than a year, and in that time will visit many points of interest away from the usual line of tourist travel. Charles F. Wright and M. C. Dicker son, proprietors of the Oregon, have been in Seattle the past week investi gating hotel opportunities. DESERTED, WOMAN DIES tilKL-WIFK OF CALLOUS HIS BAND GIVES BIRTH TO IWIXS. Columbus. . O., Home of Mrs. Celia Burflngton; Comes AYest; Weds Only to Be Left Destitute. Dying in a tubercular ward of the St. Ylncents Hospital, thousands of miles away from her, home, the case of Mrs. Celia Buffington' is one of the most piti ful in the history of the institution. Mrs. Buffington passed away Friday morning, and, had it not been for kind friends In this city, her sorrowing parents might never have learned her fate. About a year ago Miss Celia Burger left her home In Carrolltown, O.. to -visit her brother. George Burger, who Is a clerk in a store at Baker City. Shortly after -arriving there, it is said, she was enticed by R. B. Buffington, to whom she was married a short time afterward. The couple then came to Portland to live, Buffington going to work for the Sealey Lowell grocery concern. Buffington lost his job, and about Jan uary 1 deserted his wife, leaving her absolutely destitute. The girl, who was scarcely out of her teens, became ill in a short time and was forced to go to tne sr. Vincents Hospital, where she was placed in the maternity ward. On February 2S she gave birth to twin ooys, strong, healthy little youngsters who were doomed to lose their best friend on earth. The little mother was ill for days, contracting pneumonia and soon afterwards showing unmistakable signs of being a consumptive. She was then transferred to the ward set aside tor sufferers from ttiia disease, where she died Friday. The two boys are at present in the Babies' Home, but it is. probable that tney will be sent Bast to relatives of the dead mother. The body of the latter was embalmed and will be sent to the stncKen parents in Ohio tomorrow. A prominent woman of this city, who learned ot the case. Is making all the arrangements. She had attended the girl during Jier illness, assisting the Sisters at the hospital in ministering to the de ported wite. A feature of the pitiful story was the despicable action of the husband, who was last heard from in The Dalles. As serting that he was unable to secure worK ana maintaining that he intended coming back to his wife of a few months. Buffington wrote to her from j. ne t'Hiifs ior money wnne sue was confined in the hospital. He had writ ten to her previously, and chided her it ins last letter oecause sue had not sent mm money, search Is being made ior litimiigton. CITY'S COUNT DISAPPOINTS Oregon City Enumerators Allowed Two Yeeks More to Work. OREGON CITY. Or.. April 30. tSpeclal.) Oregon City is having her own troubles about the census, and learning that the enumerators have succeeded in register ing less than 6000 names here. Secretary Sawyer, of the publicity department of the Commercial Club, this afternoon wired Census Supervisor Hendricks, at Salem, for additional time to complete the count. Mr. Hendricks telegraphed that the enumerators could work until May i:. Monday night the Commercial Club will hold a meeting when arrangements will be made for a systematic canvass of the city, and all persons who have not been enumerated are requested to bring or send their names to Secretary Sawyer at the Commercial Club. Based upon the last school ceneus, in November, 1909. of 13o0. and the figures of Postmaster Randall through the free delivery of mail. Ore gon City should have a population of close to 0w. Escuped Insane Man Caught. OREGON CITY, Or.. April 30. (Spe cial.) A man who escaped from the State Insane Asylum, at Salem Thursday night was caught at New Era. He had built a fire in n old shack and was asleep when found. The postmaster at New Bra had informed the superintendent that the man was there, and Sheriff Beatie and Deputy Eddy ' were notified. Officers from the asylum arrived this afternoon, and re turned with the man. Asylum officers refused to give the name of the insane man, saying he was committed from The Dalles in December. 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Booth, of Eugene, his subject be ing, "The Application of Practical Christianity, the Need of the World." CHERRY FAIR DATES SET Salem Will Endeavor to Secure Aero planes for Exhibition July 7-9. SALEM, Or.. April 30. (Special.) At a special meeting of the executive com mittee of the Cherry i-air Association it was decided to hold this year's fair on July 7-9. Committees were appointed to make arrangements, raise money and secure attractions. An effort will be made to secure several aeroplanes for exhi bition. Oregon City Resident Dies. OREGON CITY, Or, April 30. (Spe cial.) F. L. Mack, a resident of Ore gon since 1883, died this morning after an illness of several weeks. Mr. Mack was born In Ohio. November 16. 1844. and married Miss Sarah J. Burnett at Boulder, Colo.. In 1880. They came to Oregon in 1883. Mrs. Mack dying March 21. 1901. Mrs. Mack was- the mother of six children Anna, who died in infancy;- L. W. Mack, of Dufur. Or.; A. D. Mack, of Grant County. Washing ton; M. B. 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