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.
Epwortli Leaguers Convene.
BROWNSVILLE, Or.. April 30. ("Spe
cial. Nearly 200 delegates are In at
tendance here today upon the annual
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LEADING CLOTHIER
district convention of the Epworth
League of the Eugene district. The
sessions began last night, when Dr.
Clarence True Wilson. of Portland,
spoke at the M. E. Church before a
large congregation. They will continue
over Sunday. Tonight will be "Wil
lamette University Night," when the
principal address will be delivered by
President Homan, of Willamette Uni
versity. Sunday morning at 11 o'clock
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R. A." 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. Mack, of Portland; L. R.
Mack, of Oregon City, and Miss Alma
Mack, of Oregon City. Mr. Mack mar
ried again on February 5, 1902, Miss
Jennie Clark, who survives him. De
ceased was a veteran of the Civil War.
Lumber Mill at Star Burns.
COTTAGE GROVE. Or.. April 30. (Spe
cial.) The sawmill of George Taylor &
Sons, located at Star Station on the Ore
gon & Southeastern Railway, 14 miles
east of here, was burned last night, to
gether . with the planer and some lum
ber. The loss is estimated at $2000, with
no insurance.
Silverton Early Settler Dies. .
SILVERTON. Or., April 30. Spe
cial.) E. Rupe. a pioneer of Silverton,
died suddenly at the Salem Hospital
Wednesday night after an operation for
the removal of a malignant growth in
his face. He was buried in the Silver-
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