THE SUNDAY OREGOXIAX, PORTLAND, SEPTEMBER 18, 1910. NEW ROAD COSTS SCENES ALONG NEW O. R. & N. CUT-OFF. UNDER CONSTRUCTION BEWARE OF FALSE PROPHETS Republicans Warned Against Demo cratic Advisers. 1 'fj SI 00.000 FEB MILE O. R. & N. Cutoff From Pendle ton to Yoakum Nearing Completion. GRADES ARE ELIMINATED J.lnc of 1 S 1-2 Miles Rrdncrs Dis tance Nearly Two Miles. Straight ens Curves and Is One of .Most Expenslre In 'West. rK.VDLrrON". Or.. Sopt. 1& (Special.) tn of the moat expensive bit of road building the O. R. A N. Co. haa ever undertaken Is now In profrrewi between thla city and Yoakum and will be com pleted within the next two or three months. The work covera but 12H miles of construction but will cost approxi mately ii.3Q,ja The Improvement In proicreaa Involve a complete cnanse or the main line or 1'ne O. R. & N. Co. between Toakum and Pendleton: none of the old line will be u.ti. The work ihortens the prewent line 1.7 milni: elimlnntca 13fil df(trees of curvature; reduces the maximum decree of curves from 10 deirreea to 4 degrees and reduces the rrade from eight-tenths of 1 per cent, uncompensated, to tenths of 1 per cent, compensated. On the new line there will be one 500 foot tunnel, cutting out the horseshoe b-nd; a high rill and a steel-bridge of two l.Wfoot spans with concrete piers and abutments, through the reservoir o the Kurnish-C'oe Irrigation Company. .Many Bridges liuilt. About four miles east of Yoakum the line will cross the river-twice and cut through a big ridge that makes another Jionpr.shoe of the present line; tlilti will require two more bridges, similar to the one described above. There will be two email changes In the channel of the I'mHtllla Kiver near Yoakum and an other about lSvfeet lor.g one mile west of Itarniiart. while about a mile each way from I'llot Koek Junction, there will be two channel changes about one-half mile In lenicth. On the present line the longes stretch of straight track is but ZU feet long, while on the new line there are two tan gents of two milea each and one a mile long. While the cost of the ll'i mile of new construction has been figured at Jl.lW.O. It Is iilte probable that the ultimate rout will be even greater. The ch.ingra In the channel of the 1'maiilla River will very materially as slst the run-off of that Mream during floods and thereby will prevent consider, able overflow during the flood seasons, TIe work W being pushed along quite rapidly and should be completed about th first of the year. The well-known construction firm of Twohy Bros, have the contract. They have jft men a; work. More would be employed If they could be secured and with the close of the harvest season. 1t ls possible that 1" or SO additional will ne available. A double shift Is used on the steam shovels. Hectrlc light plants having been established so that they can be operated by night as well as by day. &;x of these grat machines are at work and thousands of cubic feet of dirt and rock are being movt-d dally. fours o? Klvcr Diverted. While the steam srtiovets are being used extensively In the excavations to secure mate-'cls for the many long rills. It Is In r.irnfing the channels of the river that they come Into their greatest use. In one place the new channel runs straight down through the heavily tim bered river bottom for half a mile while In others It has been necemary to cut channels through almost solid rock. One of the contributing fators of the grrat expense attached to the work is the fact that several of the proserous farms along the Umatilla River bottom have been literally cut to pieces, neces sitating the payment of large sums of money for right of way, since much of the land was worth from 1100 to J.VO per acre. The J. H. Smith Company received ii.tjUO for the right of way across Ita ranch which extends up and down the river for a distance of four miles. Kami Cut to Pieces. One field is cut In two by the new channel for the river while two or three others are similarly divided by the rall- ro.-i.l and Its nils. Bareley miming the residence, the new line cuts through the valuable orchard, making necessary a removal of the dwelling and a oom plete rearrangement of the farm. This Is the largest farm affected In this way but a number of smaller ones are similarly treated. When the changes are completed the main line of the O. R. A N. from Its Ikistern to Its Western extension will compare favorably with the Western roads of more recent construction. Num erous changes and improvements have been under way for many years, but this the wort stretch on the' line lias been put off until nearly the last. It has been declared to be the crookedest piece of road between Portland and Chi cago. Fast time, even with J:ght trains, has been Impossible In the past. The new line, however, will be a verit able speedway with a practically straight track with slight grade from one end to the other. mn -1- i s .fur iV"r ,.-v jX-it effr " 4 575 jsfc"y-w. l v. Wiu ' -r 4wv fv- ,rR'" -vs s-Jgf la I HO FAULT IS F 01 Wife of Seattle Man "0 K's" His -Divorce Complaint. SHE RETURNS TO NORWAY ALFALFA IS PROFITABLE .Average Yield In Klamath Country Is Worth $23.65 an Acre. KLAMATH FALLS, Or.. Sept. 17. Sta tistics compiled by the Reclamation Serv ice officials show that during the current year tl acres of irrigated land were used for the production of alfalfa. The aver age yield was S.C5 tons per acre. Consid ering that much of the land was poorly farmed and the season haa not been the most favorable, the yield Is ron.-idered good. Many of the well attended farms produced from 4' to tons to the acre. The average value of the alfalfa crop is j:3 5 an acre. The cost of producing alfalfa and harvesting the crop Is light. Jt will show by the Government figures that the Klamath country Is well adapted to the production of alfalfa. This year the Government furnished water for ls.71 acres. The major portion of the area wa seeded to grain. Barley averaged about 3 bushels, but under fa vorable clrcumstani rs will yield 6l bush els to the acre. The average yield for oats was bushels, also a short crop. Big; Chemical Plant Burned. OMAHA. Sept. 17. A fire today de stroyed the plant of the Western Chem ical Reduction Company In East Oma ha, causing a loss estimated at JluO. ono. with J4S.000 insurance. The fire la believed to have been incendiary, as It Is s id to have started in two place at the same time Defendant Prefers Native Land to Seattle Deserted Spouse Sends Woman Notice of Suit and She Gives Her Approval. SBATTLEk Wash.. Sept. 17. (Special.) Cases are rare in which the accused wife places her "O K'" on her com- plulnlng husband's petition for a divorce, but such an action is now pending In the Superior Court of King County, and will won come before one of the Judges for the granting of a decree by default. Peter Ostby Is the plaintiff in the suit. and Moren A. Ostby, who for more than a year has been a resident of Myrvold Norway, Is the defendant. According to Ostby'e complaint, his wife became dls satlslied with America, after living with him In Seattle for five years, and when he refused to return to the old country with her, packed up her belonging and returned to her mother's home near Myrvold, taking with her her children. a boy of 11 and a girl of 10. After waiting a year for his wife to rhange her mind, Ostby retained At torney Thomas B. MacMahon and sued for a divorce. Complying with the statutes, MacMahon published the sum mons in the case, and mailed a copy of the complaint to the wife. Tills mjrning the copy of the com plaint came back to him from Bo rums Sar.den, Norway. Under the signature of htr husband to the affidavit appended to the complaint, petting forth that he believed the contents of the document to . be true, Mrs. Ostby had signed her vown name. Ostby says in his divorce petition that he has deeded to his wife 80 acres of land that he owned In Norway, and that she, and her children, are therefore well provided fox. CONFERENCE IN SESSION Methodists at Centralis Hear Lec tures and Klect Officers. CENTRALIA. Wash.. Sept. 17. Spe cial.) The Methodist conference, which has been in session here this week, yes terday heard a lecture by Dr. W. B. Ilclllngshead. superintendent of the Port land district. W. M. Randolph, of Bel llngham. presided. Dr. B. F. Young, of Portland, assisted by the faculty of the College of Music of Puget Sound Univer sity, delivered a lecture In the evenlag. A meeting of the Laymen's Association w-as held this afternoon. Hon. Lester K. Klrkpatrlck. of Seattle, presided. J. M. Requa was secretary. Resolutions were adopted Indorsing the county unit local option movement. The meeting was ad dressed by Dr. Park. Dr. Rees, Dr. Evers. Dr. Franklin. Dr. Sheaf. Thomas Houl- ston. H C. Utterbeck And F. H. Baxter. A resolution waa adopted Indorsing the proposed union of the Methodist Episco pal Church and the Methodist Episcopal Church South. The following officers were elected: President. Hon. Lester E. Klrkpatrlck. of Seattle; secretary. L. E. Seeley. of Seat tle: treasurer. Thomas Houlston, of Se attle; vice-president of Vancouver dis trict. Hon. B, E. Collins, of Ostrander; Olympla district,' R. M. Gibson, of Monte sano; Tacoma district, E. C. Utterbeck, of Puyallup; Seattle district. Judge B. F. Young, of Kent. On Monday the following clnss will be ordained: E. E. Bergman. W. W. Surtxer, Q. N. Day. Charles W. Blanpled, A. A. Brlttaln. W. Andusen, John H. Avery, E. R. Tracy. The conference will' be In session until next Tuesday. A Democratic primary will be held on the, 24th of September. The control of thiOprlmary Is properly left to the Democrats; we could not interfere In it without subjecting ourselves to Just criticism. Neither should Democrats interfere either directly or indirectly In the Republican primary. The dis organisation of the Republican party In the past can be traced largely to the fact that Republican voters have accepted the guidance In party affairs of such newspapers as the Portland Journal, the Pendleton East Oregonlan the Baker City Democrat, the Eugene Ouard and the Albany Democrat, all Democratic "organs, although they de scribe themselves as independent They all supported Bryan and Chamberlain and they will support the Democratic candidate for Governor this year. These papers are the last place In which to find disinterested and sympathetic ad vice on the conduct of the Republican party. They are the organs of the op position, and they do not want a strong, effective Republican party, nor do they want the party to nominate Its best ajid strongest men. Senator Jonathan Bourne has profit e&- by the division of the Republican party; and he gives his hearty co operation to the efforts of Democrats to foment dissension In Its ranks. He announces that he will not support the candidates recommended by the Re publican assembly, even If they are nominated by the people at a fair pri mary election. A similar announce ment set to at least one candidate has been made by Henry E. McGinn, who seeks the Republican nomination for Circuit Judge In Multnomah County. What shall we say of the ethics of such men? Why have a primary if not to settle differences between Republicans and present a united front to the enemy? If every man did as these men propose doing we could have no Re publican party. No one ought to vote at a Republican primary unless he Is prepared to vote" the ticket nominated at the primary. When Americans meet together it Is always understood that the majority shall rule. A man who will run as a candidate for nomination at a Republican primary with the In tention of knifing the ticket, except as the ticket accords with his personal choice, is unworthy the respect of his fellow-cltixens. Yet these men are loudest of all men In acclaiming their devotion to popular government. Great s humbug. The assembly candidates are pledged to support the ticket nominated at the Republican primary. This Is the best possible evidence of loyalty to the pri mary law. In their eyes it Is not a sure-thing gambling device to be Jug gled with for political advantage, but a law to be,obeyed. No amount of declamation In praise of the primary law can make a man a friend of the law. If he Intends to disobey and dis regard It. Republicans who desire the welfare of the party nre reminded of the signifi cant fact that every Democratic paper attacks the assembly and deylres the defeat of the candidates recommended bv It. In 1906 Governor George E. Chamberlain, high priest of Oregon's Democracy, went on record publicly In favor of an assembly as a itifam of working under the direct primary law. See his letter to A. D. Stlllman pub lished in the official pamphlet. All of these Democratic papers supported him for Governor vociferously and enthusi astically. Yet these same papers now advocate the defeat of Bowerman for the same office because he also be lieves in an assembly. Away with Such hypocrisy. Away with the absurd suggestion that can didates worthy and qualified should be defeated because they have been recom mended to their fellow citizens by a large body of men of character and standing gathered together from all parts of the state and made up of farmers, merchants, professional men and workers in all lines of useful effort.- . Nothing can be accomplished with out concert of action. In public affairs a way must be found for men to work together. This is so In all parties and also with those who' denounce parties and mask their political activity under the name of non-partlsanshlp. The real question is whether concert of ac tion shall be sought In the open or be hind closed doors:. whether the advice and Information which, voters' accept comes from a large body representative of the voters of their political faith, or from a small body of political non descripts who conceal their names and mask their own selfish purposes in in temperate denunciation of their op ponents. The anti-assembly ticket hi not put Itself together by chance. Dur ing the period of its incubation there were anti-assembly assemblies held every day composed of a few self-con- stltuted leaders who met in secret, ac tuated by no motive but self-interest. Some of the men responsible for this anti-assembly ticket are wornout poli ticians whose scandalous conduct In the past precludes the possibility of their working in the open. There Is design In the selection of the twelve Bourne candidates for the House In Multnomah County. Note how their names begin with the first letters of the alpTiabet. The difference between them and their opponents on the assembly ticket Is that one set of candidates was named In the open by a representative body of men who stand behind their recommen dation, and the other set was named by men who refuse to admit their father hood. It has been repeatedly said that the candidates on the Multnomah assembly ticket, or some of them, were named at a meeting In the office of W. D. Fenton held In advance of the assembly. The statement has been explicitly and pub llcly denied by truthful men who are charged with being present at such meeting. It Is unqualifiedly false; yet the statement Is reiterated by anti assembly speakers .and by the Demo cratic press. None could be present at the Multnomah County assembly or at the state assembly without seeing that they were deliberative bodies made up of Intelligent men anxious for good government and eager to do their part In bringing It about. The assem bly tickets are the advice given by these highly representative bodies after Investigation and 'deliberation. TCvery voter -who Is In doubt will be wise If he gives weight to their recommenda tions. He will he foolish indeed If he looks to Democratic organs for advice on matters pertaining to the welfare of the Republican party. REPUBLICAN STATE COMMITTEE. M. C. GEORGE. Chairman. E. V. LITTLE FIELD, Secretary. (Paid Advertisement.) SALMON RUN LIGHT I husband ran away with his sister-in-law, I Cleo Covey, aged 17 years. Flagg says that he waa simply accompanying the girl out of the city, when they were overtaken and arrested. In addition to the divorce suit Flagg must answer criminal charge of eloping with the girl. The parties all live In North Bend. Catch of Fall Fish on Columbia River Is Small MAY CHANGE WITH RAINS Plants Along the Oregon and Wash ington Coasts Are Doing Ex ceptionally . Well at the Present Time. 3 ARRESTED SCSPKCTKD MCRDEREIt AXI AC COMPLICES AHE IX JAIL. Officers Return From Deschutes to The Dalles After Investigating Italian's Death. THE DALLES, Or., Sept. 17. (Special.) Monday morning at U o'clock. Deputy Sheriff Glenn O. Allen and Constable Lew Kelly, with Coroner Burget, l?ft for the camp of George E. Randall on the DesJiutes, where it was reported that one man was dead and another ser Jously wounded in a fight which oc curred there. This forenoon the Deputy Sheriff and Constable returned with three prisoners. Sam Demur, who. It Is said, virtually admits the killing, and Ralph and Frank Demass, brothers, but not related to the suspected murderer. The father of these Is the wounded man In the hospital at the mouth of Eagle Creek, and they were brought in because of being implicated in stirring up the row. The suspected murdeter escaped to the hilb and was in hiding for two or three days, but returned to the camp, where he was taken Into coustody and delivered to the authorities. The trial will be lie Id some time next week In order to give the men, who re all Italians, a chance .to secure an interpreter. The man killed, Domlmck hurlllo, was brought to this city and burled earlier in the week. CtRI) OF THANKS. Mr. J. W. Thomas and family, of Oswegu, wish to thank their many friends for the klndnexs shown in their recent bereavement in the loss of their dear son and brother; also for the many beautiful flowers. J. W. THOMAS AND FAMILY. ASTORIA, Or., Sept. 17. (Special.) Reports from all tne streams, both along the Oregon and Washington coasts, are to the effect that good runs of fish are coming In and the packing plants are doing exceptionally well. The gasoline schooner Gerald C which arrived last night from Nestucca, brought 871 cases and ten tierces of salmon for Elmore & Co. The catch of Fall salmon on the Co lumbia River is very light at the pres ent time, and some of the guinetters who have been Ashing with large mesh nets have taken them out or tne water. ts:ow that the weather conditions are (changing, however, a good run of silver- sides Is looked for. YOUTH FLEECED OF $4211 Fake Race Horse Game Worked In Seattle Swindlers Caught. SEATTLE, Sept- 17. J. A. Enger, a young telegrapher from Moapa, Nev.. ... fl.-H out of $211 In cash and a ,hw for 14000 in a fake horse race game in this city yesterday. The two men who got Enger's money and check were arrested touay anu names of J. E. Owen ana varies Atl anta the aliases of Trainor and McCor mick being also found In Adams ef fects. ... . Payment on the check, issued on a Moapa bank, probably will be stopped. Owen and Adams followed Enger here from California, where he had been displaying his wealth, which he had In tended to spend on a tour of the United States. CHILD DROWNS AT PLAY While Pulling Vp llsh Net, CUfton Boy Falls In River. ASTORIA, Or.. Sept. 1.. (Special.) Jack Marlncovlch, the S-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. Andrew Marlncovlch, of Clifton, was drowned at that place last evening by falling into Wie river while attempting to pull up a crawfish net. The body was recovered a short time afterwards. Eloper Fuces Criminal Charge. MARSHFIELD. Or.. Sept. 17. Among the divorce cases to be tried this term of court is that of Inex Flagg against Oreo Flagg. The wife alleges that the NEW STRIKE IS REPORTED Judge Cushman Says Valdez Gold Deposit Is Rich. TACOMA, Sept. 17. Judge E. E. Cush man, one of the Federal Judges In Alaska, who haa Just returned to Tacoma, after a season of holding court in the North, brjngs news of a rich gold strike in the Valdez region. Mining in this district has formerly been confined to copper, and the new dis covery has resulted In a great rush for the fields, according to Judge Cushman. Clerks have deserted their stores and prospectors are coming in from all parts of Alaska to which the news has reached. The gold is In what is known as "blue- ribbon" quarts and is said t6 be exceed ingly rich. Forest Grove Couple Wed. FOREST GROVE. Or., Sept. 17. (Special.) A quiet, though pretty wed ding took place Wednesday morning. in St Anthony's Chapel. Rev. Father Buck, officiating, when Miss Mary Saunders wag married to Mr. Charles A. Gerrlsh, of Gaston. They were at tended by Miss Margaret Saunders, and Mr. C. P. Rlel. A wedding breakfast was served to the friends of the couple at the home of Mr. John E. 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