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TIIE SUNDAY OREGOXIAX. PORTLAND. MARCH 31. 1913.
CAMPAIGN RECALLS
ATTACK OH LINCOLN
Between Crusades Against
Taft and "Honest Abe."
PRESIDENT PROVES WORTH
I one 1.11 of Notable Achievements
Miows Nation's Chirr Executive
stand Without Peer In the
Pat Fortj-flve Years.
PORTLAND. March 30. (To the Edl
lor. In the pending- crusade aaralnst
President Taft there Is a rtmrkbl
parallel with that acalnst Lincoln In
1. Then Salmon P. Chase wished to
run. but John C. Fremont, the candi
date In nsi. nominated aa an
Independent Uepubllcan.
Cvcn then they were- demanding- a di
rect vote by the people for President,
but they violently declared for only on
term Instead of three. Fremont In hla
latter of acceptance charged the IJn-
roln administration with "Incapacity
and Infidelity to the principle It was
pledged to maintain." and It was vehe
mently asserted Lincoln could not be
re-elected.
The call which preceded the antU
Lincoln convention declared the Na
tional Republican convention was 'rest
lns; wholly on patronage" and the
"f'omeroy circular." which was an ante
cedent statement of principles, con
demned Lincoln for "his manifest ten
dency toward compromises and tempo
rary expedients of policy." How much
all of tills sounds like the present cru
sade ag-alnvt Taft.
f.raat'e Defeat Predicted.
In JS: a much creator defection ap
peared acalnst the renomlnatlon of
general Orant. It Included the -reatBt
Republican newspapers and such arrest
l.epuhllcans as lavld Iavls. Charles
Kran.ts Adams, faaslu M. 'lay. Wen
dell Phillip and I'liarles sumner. and
scores of others of equal rank. lie-publican-defeat
was everywhere pre
iN ted. Horace Oreely. the foremost Ite-
publican Journalist of his time, wu
nominated as an Independent Republi
can, and Indorsed by the National Iem
ocratlc Conventltn. It Is Interestina; to
compare all of these (treat men with
the seven Oovernors whose fight
aaalnst Taft has been heralded as "a
reat uprising of the people." Their
-tales polled less than one-fifth of the
xotes that were cast for Taft In 1S.
nnd there are nearly SO Governora and
hundreds of e-Uovernors In the Union.
The entire Itst belled down, with a
doien plnchots anil Jlmmle tSarfields
thrown In for a-ood measure, would not
make a single Wendell Phillips or Hor
ce Oreeley or Charles Sumner or Sal
mon P. Chase. They ware Just as vio
lent In denouncing; Lincoln and Orant
as are their pigmy Imitators In abus
ing Taft.
Iteaabtleaaa et Ley I.
Thou who are today the noisiest In
criticising the Administration are th
ortee who. In season, and out of season,
have exerted all their powers to make
It a failure. Instead of giving It the
loyal co-operation It had the right to
, expect.
Roosevelt and his so-called progress
ive allies lent their aid to defeat Cana
dian reciprocity and the arbitration
treaties.- The success of these two
r.teasure would have meant more of
real value to the American people than
all that Rooseveit accomplished In his
two terms. The duello, as a relic of
barbarism, has no defenders, but the
taxpayers of the Nation are to continue
bmlillRit battleships and keeping a
standing armv ready to march down to
the field of battle to settle the quar
rels of the politicians, and determine
the right anil the wrong of all ques
tions by shooting bullet holes Into the
fellows on the other side.
That the majestic dignity of the Na
tional Snate may be vindicated we
have decided to arbitrate only where
we ran sav what and how to arbitrate.
This simply means that arbitration la
rn Iridescent dream and that as an
issue It is dead for all time.
vYaeafarewers el 4'easlsfeet.
The lst National Republican Conven
tion declared for a downward revision
of the tariff, a matter that Teddy"
overlooked for nearly eight years. Ca
nadian reciprocity was an advance step
along that line, and along the whole
'anadlan line ther are horrified at Taft
for slgnlnr a bill that did not suffi
ciently revise downward.
The wheatgrowers of North Pakota.
raring nothlnjr for the brea.dea.tera of
the rest of the Nation, are as rrssy for
revision and progression aa the steel
interests of Birmingham and the sugar
growers of Louisiana, until the matter
comes home to them, when It develops
that all of their progressive patriotism
is bound up In "the pent-up I'tlra" of
their own pockets. What is a stand
patter, and what Is a progressive, and
whet is tariff revision?
The roar agtinat Taft la no more ra
tional than that against IJnroln and
irant. No President has been truer to
his campaign pledges and no greater
or better President lias occupied the
White House ainre the day of Lincoln.
The roar we hear is simply our reg
ular quadrennial political racket. Aa
Webster said. "There are persons that
constantly clamor." but their violent at
tacks are Intermittent. This la the open
season for the born kicker and the
man with the chronic grouch, where
every personal grievance, every local
prejudice and every vaulting ambition
is being capitalized.
The Adullamltes "every one that Is
In distress or In debt or discontented"
have all left their ravea and are run
ning loose on the range. We are ap
proaching the end of another 29-year
period, when complaint Is universal and
the whote Nation la due to throw a fit.
PreelaVat 1'alveraal eat.
The sovereign remedy for all I'ls la
to kick the President. No preceding
campaign, however, baa developed a
more determined mania for obscuring
the real Issues by clamor, subterfuge,
distortion, suppression and misrepre
sentation. A fair sample was the Tin-
hot-Controller Bay conspiracy. There
I. as never hern a more shameful epi
sode In American politics. It was rot
ten from Its Inception In "the Dirk In
pick forgery" down to Ms end In the
refusal of the Democratic committee of
Investigation t- continue tta work,
when It was certain that such continu
ance would vindicate the Administra
tion. There may be hundred of thousands
of honest and patriotic men swept off
their feet by clamor of this kind, but
who are the managers and moving
spirits of the antl-Taft campaign? Aa
usual then.- are village statesmen In
plenty denouncing the Payne-Aldrich
bill, who couldn't tell a tariff schedule
from a table of logarithms, but the
chief sponsors for the crusade against
Taft are discredited trust magnates and
disgruntled politicians with a personal
grievance..
Originally for . LFolletle until his
Philadelphia attack on the press abso
lutely eliminated blm as a dangerous
candidate, they then flocked to the
standard of "the great explainer." Their
headquarters are now In the Munsey
building. Washington, owned by "Muck
rake" Al'insey. the head of tho magaxlne
trust. His magaxinee -are two-thirds
advertising, and one-third conduit for
hired, sensational political refuse.
The Taft administration urged higher
postage ratea for magaxlnes to relieve
the taxpayers of the Nation and pre
vent postal deficits. Why is il unity
against Taft?
Who Real Baekera Are.
The chief financial backer of the antl
Taft conspiracy is George W. Perkins,
partner of plerpont Morgan, chairman
of the finance committee of the har
vester trust, stockholder In the steel
trust, that absorbed the Tennessee Coal
Iron Company, and the man who In
lu contributed to the Roosevelt cam
paign fund from the New York Life
Insurance Company. Why is he against
Taft?
In Ohio tt Is Jlmmie Garfield, who
waa refused reappointment as Secretary
of the Interior, and Dan R. Hanna, of
the prosecuted steel trust and hla
lieutenant. Chairman Brown, said to
be "the highest-priced lobbyist" In the
state. Why are they against Taft? In
Illinois the leaders are Charles R.
Crane, whose appointment as Minister
to China was recalled, and Medill Mc
Cormlck. of the prosecuted harvester
trust. Why are they against Taft?
In New Yo.-k the managers were W.
L. Ward, "the Westchester boss." and
Gifford Plnchot, who was removed as
chief forester for overriding the law
and assuming that he was the whole
Interior Department, and "Boss" Teddy
himself. Why are they against Taft?
In Indiana It was chairman Lee. who
was refused the appointment of I'nlted
States Marshal. Why Is he against Taft?
Ormsby McHarg Is another. Three
years ago he was In Oregon urging
Statement No. 1 legislators to violate
their pledge. Why is he against Taft?
When the President was In Oregon
three years ago you couldn't pry Ald
rich'a man. Jonathan Bourne, away
from him with a crowbar. Later he
wanted his man appointed United
States Marshal to strengthen Ms Sen
atorial machine, but President Taft
refused to remove E. B. Col well, be
cause he was vouched for by Judges
Bean and Wolverton. and all of the
officers of the I'nlted States district,
ss a capable and competent official.
Why Is Bourne against Tart?
These are samples of the men who
are worried about Taft "politicians."
and are abusing the poor old "steam
roller" that waa so ably engineered
years ago bv the distinguished author
of the 1260.000 letter to "My Dear Har-riman."
Both Itch for Spoils."
Now there ia a great spitting of cot
ton and profanity about a political
game of bunco that was worked on
La Toilette. The whole thing Is noth
ing but a political Kilkenny cat fight.
Both of them have an abnormal
itching for the spoils of office and
both have been working from ambush,
nursing. . coddling and promoting, "a
great spontaneous uprising of the peo
ple." an "uprising" that is absorbing
dally several thousand dollars of the
trust money of McCormlck and Perkins
and Dan It. Hanna.
It doea beat thunder how much work
and money It takea to keep these "up
risings" alive.
Oregon ia being specially warned
that Taft "politicians" are about to
put an everlasting kibosh on "the
Oregon system." And who is to save
tis. from the contemplated outrage?
Jonathan Bourne and the ambitious
Mr. Mickey? Mr. Fills, the recalled
Councilman from the Tenth Ward?
Jerry Rusk, candidate of the standpat
ters for the Speakership of the last
House? Colonel Hefer. who failed to
ouat Colonel Dave Dunne from the Col
lectorshlp of Internal Revenue? Our
friend, the perennial Dr. Coe. and our
other old friend. Colonel Ike Bingham?
Who are the politicians, and what Is
a politician? There are many worse
men than these, but In what respect
are they better or even as good ex
emplara of clean politics as Ben Sell
ing. W. B. Ayer, Mayor Rushlight, A.
M. Smith. Dr. A. C. Smith. Dan Malar
key. W. F. Woodward and John F.
Logan all members of the Taft com
mittee. A aether Waa tieae Wreag.
Another "good man gone wrong," Is
Senator Mulkey not a politician, but
a near politician who Is quoted as
saying: "I regard President Taft as re
actionary. His course on the tariff
waa disappointing." The Senator has
certalny been misquoted, for he knows,
as we all do. that a President who aat
nearly eight years in the Whlee House
without once raising his voice In favor
of revision of the tariff, la reactionary;
that La Follette. In advocating a non
partisan tariff board and then trying
to discredit It by Joining the Demo
crats In a lot of log-rolling popgun
tariff bills, is worse than a standpat
ter, and that the real progressive Is
the man who called a special session
for tariff revision, and secured the
best action that waa possible from a
recalcitrant Congress.
At the eleventh hour the coy and re
luctant Roosevelt appears and offers
to save the country. It is one of the
most pathetic examples of self-abnegation
on record. Warning Is given In
advance that any criticism of him will
be resented as an "attack." but criti
cism of Theodore Roosevelt Is no
longer Use majeste. So long as his
vitriolic tongue continues to wag he
must concede the demand of the "male
factors" and "weaklings." the "molly
coddles" and "ananlasea." the "nin
compoops." "falsifiers." "undesirables,"
"nature fakirs." and "Judicial Jack
aases" that he be Judged by the same
standards aa other men.
Let us not deceive ourselves with
polite and diplomatic phrases.
It Is for us to discuss before the.
primaries what the Democratic party
la certsln to discuss after them.
Beth Weal Bryee'e Tbaader.
Roosevelt and LaFollette have done
goon work In preaching civic virtue,
political purity and elevated political
standards, but neither of them bas ad
vanced any conspicuous reform that
Bryan did not advocate years before
them. They are not more safe or
progressive or well-balanced than
Bryan, and the political Ideals of none
of the three are higher than those of
President Taft.
Fifty per cent, of the Roosevelt
reputation Is based wholly on his
spectacular methods. He has a habit
of assuming the proprietorship of every
thing that has ever happened.
He picks up the universally accepted
platitudes of all the ages, and comes
marching down the pike, claiming the
credit of their origin In such a dramatic
and dogmatic way. as thoroughly to
hypnotise his enthusiastic worshippers.
Ha is a living Illustration of how
well it pays to advertise. No depart
ment store in the country has anything
on Teddy. Whenever he says or does
anything the leader of the orchestra
waves the big stick, and the fact that
something has happened Is announced
to a watting world, through the med
ium of the megaphone, the glare of
the red Are, and the tumult of cym
bals, the torn tome and the big bass
drum, while his worshippers all over
the country ecstatically make the sign
of the -cross.
Reeeevett'a Greatest Service.
The greatest service he ever ren
dered the country waa In pushing Taft
to the front, and to Taft he owes. In
greater degree than to any other man,
the success of his administration. To
day he is telling us of many things
Taft should have done that he him
self forgot to do. although Bryan had
called his attention to them years ago.
To Roosevelt alone belongs the eiclu- i
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slve credit of jumping on the little toy
Republic of Colombia, but the Panama
Canal has been under the eye and
control of Taft from its very Incep
tion. One great achievement claimed for
the Roosevelt administration is the in
stitution of civil government In the
Philippines. That work was wholly
Tsft's. In the old days," on all his
travels, he delighted to assure his
auditors that everything was all right
in Washington for he had left Taft
"sitting on the lid."
Twelve and eight years ago aa a
candidate and four years ago. as
engineer of the steam roller, he was
mute about Presidential primaries and
the activity of Southern officeholders.
Today his . seal knows . no. . bounds,
though he has nothing yet to say about
the activity of Boss Lyon l .rounding
up the officeholders of Texas for
Roosevelt.'and he frantically denounces
the primaries of North Dakota, In
diana and New York, and every place
else where he gets licked, as "a fraud"
and "a farce."
Taft, denounced as the candidate of
the "big interests." In ihree years has
done a work In prosecuting law
breaklns trusts, which, when their
number and sire Is considered, dis
counts all the prosecutions of any
three years of all preceding Presidents
combined. This Is a brosd statement,
but It Is based on the official records,
and not on the doctored and distorted
reports of the hired liars of the
"Muckrake" Munsey contingent.
Tafl'a Aeeompllshaieate nevlewed.
The storm center of the. clamor
against Taft has been the Payne
Aldrlch bill. All legislation Is the re
sult of compromise. The efficient ad
ministrator Is never an extremist, but
the man capable of getting the best
possible results that Inharmonious con
ditions will permit. Taft made an
honest effort to secure tariff revision
when he called a special session.
The Payne-Aldrich bill resulted. He
never pretended It was what he wanted
He personally secured a 10 per cent
cut in the cotton schedule, and. made a
like attempt on wool.
He got hides on . the free. Hat, and
lower duty on lumber, coal. Iron ore
and scrap Iron, and by urgent and
persistent personal appeal secured In
corporation of a provision for a cor
poration tax. that gives Government
access to corporation books, and the
provision for a non-partisan tariff
board, so long demanded by the pro
gressives of all parties. .
The inclusion of these Items made It,
in spite of lis defects, the best tarlX
bill ever passed. He signed the bill.
Why? Because It was a step forward.
It greatly Increased the public
revenues. It provided for the corpor
ation tax. It provided for a 'non-partisan
tariff board, whose work should
cripple the discreditable log-rolling
tariff, methods of the pest. He at once
appointed a tsriff board, all men of
conceded capacity and high character,
and urged a continuance of the work
of revision.
"Popaua" Bills Vetoed.
Later he vetoed the log-rolling pop
gun bills Intended ' to discredit the
work of the board.
Why did Taft sign the Payne-Aldrich
bill?
Because he hsd to deal with a large
Republican contingent who wanted no
revision, with a Democratic House of
tariff reformers for politics only," and
with a group of so-called Republican
progressives, who were prancing around
the halls of legislation like a band of
bucking cayuses In a Pendleton round
en. not knowing what they wanted, and
anxious only to hamper Taft. and mo
nopolise credit as the only truly good
and honeat. and as the only properly
accredited oracles of progressive leg
islation. The only alternative was to sign the
bill, or get no legislation. If he had
been a cheap demagogue he would have
yielded to the thoughtless and Ignor
ant clamor of the passing hour, vetoed
the bilk and then stepped out Into the
spotlight puffed up like a pouter , pig
eon, and asked the American people to
look at him.
He scorned to play the demagogue.
He signed the bilk It was the act of
a patriot, a statesman and an honest
man. In 10 years, when the fires of
personal and factional animosity have
died away, no honest and well-informed
man win question the wisdom of his
act.
Deeda Tell the Story.
The work of Taft' in the last three
yeara marks him as one of the great
est constructive statesmen that ever
occupied the White House. It covers
his efforts for International arbitration,
and Canadian reciprocity, tho setting
aside of forest, and coal and phosphate
lands, and water-power sites, urging
the leaning system, expediting work on
the Panama Canal, abolition of useless
navy yards, ending of corrupt practices
In the Port of New York, annulment of
Russian treaty, ending threat of Cuban
revolution, wide extension of the merit
system in the civil service, postal sav
ings banks, corporation tax. non-partisan
tariff board, demand for parcels
post, refusal to sign log-rolling tariff
bills, urging "employers' liability and
workmen's compensation bill." Increas
ing powers of Interstate Commerce
Commission, creation of Bureau of
Mines, submission of National Income
tax amendment, demand for reforms in
court procedure, economy in public ex
penditures, extending work of free
rural delivery, causing exhaustive In
quiry into overissue of railroad secur
ities, and such prosecutions- of law-"
breaking trusts as have not been
equaled in number and Importance bj
any other administration In twice the
same length of time.
In all of th'ls work there has been no
display of the big stick, no appeal to
the galleries, and none of the swagger
of the political swashbuckler. As
Roosevelt himself has said of htm, "Not
Lincoln himself is freer from the least
taint of demagogy."
Methods Aiwa a Open.
Open In all his methods, serene, un
tiring, but deliberate, in the face of
the passing gusts of passion and polit
ical hysteria, he is content to wait for
his vindication on the sober, cool, non
facttonal judgment of later and calmer
days.
As the man at the wheel, placed there
becaure of experience and faithful
service, seeing all the shoals and cur
rents and counter-currents that con
front the course of the ship. Tie bears
the complaints of the passengers back
In the cabin and down In the steerage,
knowing all will end- when the landing
Is finally made.
Having plenty of the fighting spirit,
he yet realizes that It Is the Judicial bal,
ance which Is the sheet anchor of safe
ty and of all real progress. Aa has
been well said of him. "he has the ca
pacity to see all sides, and all Inter
ests, tho patience to examine all the
evidence before acting and the Judicial
poise to weigh carefully and discover
justice."
No man doubts his sincerity when he
says, "I have tried to do in each case
what seemed to me the wisest thing to
do. regardless of Its effect on my fu
ture." Ills declaration that "all the admin
istration asks Is a square deal." Is an
appeal to the manhood of the American
electorate, a simple plea for an appli
cation of the ordinary rules of fair play
and common decency In the analysis
and criticism of the work of the ad
ministration. The longer the campaign progresses
and the better the work of the admin
istration is understood, the more heart-
11.. . V. An.A.i.lnan n.nnl. Mlnll. In
ll.T n 1 1 1 iiiq r ii i'-i ...... . - r . . .. ....... .
the saying- of Roosevelt, that "no man '
of better training, no man or more
dauntless courage, of sounder sense,
and of higher and finer character has
ever come to the Presidency than Will
iam Howard Taft."
CHAS. B. MOORES.
SEEKS LIFE MATE
FAIt.MKirS DAl'GHTEH OR WID
OW IS PREFERRED.
Xortli Carolina Citizen Says He
- Can't Ask. Former Sweetheart to
Come Way Out West.
Preferring Oregon to North Carolina,
but unwilling to have a young woman
break her home ties In that state and
come-to Oregon to marry him. Robert
Krtmonds, formerly from the MeCoy
rtatflcld district of West Virginia, a
man about 38 years old. Is seeking a
wife among the young women within a
radius of 60 miles of Portland
"The girl in North Carolina would be
willing to marry me If I would go
back there, but I wouldn't live In North
Carolina for anything," said Edmonds.
"I want to stay In Oregon. But I
couldn't expect- her to give up al) her
! " Vi
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? -e fV It
11 S -rSaa. - 1 t
fe. 'v-v;- . h 'fan, '-J f
f- k" ' i
Robert Kdmoada, Who Wants to
Marry Oregon Woman asa
Live on a Farm.
STATE FOREST BILL SEEN
Governor Receives Copy of Measure
Introduced by Chamberlain
SALEM. Or., March 30. (Special.)
Governor West yesterday received
copies of a bill which has been in
troduced In the Senate by . Senator
Chamberlain providing for the state to
create a state forest through exchange
of scattered scuool sections in Federal
forests for a compact body of forest
reserve lands. In substance, the bill
makes the following provisions;
Thst where any state or territory
owns lands lying within the boundaries
of a National forest, or where Its right
of Indemnity selection In respect to
school -sections within such boundaries
has not been fully exercised,' said state
or -territory -is hereby authorised, sub
ject to the approval of the Secretary
of Agriculture, to exchange such lands
for -or make indemnity selections of
other National forest lands of like
quantity and value; the same to be se
lected In reasonably compact bodies,
which lands shall thereon be excluded
from the National forests for the ben-eflt-of
said state or territory.
"Provided, that in fixing the value of
state school sections offered in ex
change the Secretary of Agriculture
shall take Into consideration the value
of such lands to the state by reason of
their being available and salable for
script or base, for Indemnity selec
. Big reduction. Alblna Fuel Co. Pee
our ad on page 1J, section 1. '
relatives and come clear out here, so
1 am looking for a wife in the state I
have chosen for my home."
Mr. Edmonds said that he had re
ceived several proposals from widows
and farmers' daughters, but that all of
them are elderly women.
"I don't want to marry a woman 10
or 15 years older than I am," he said,
"and I wouldn't do it if she had the
best farm in the Willamette Valley.
I am not a fortune-hunter and don't
care to marry & woman and have her
turn her property over to me. What
Humphreys' Seventy-Seven
Breaks up Grip and
To knock a Cold on the head,take
"Seventy-seven" at the first feeling
of lassitude ; before you begin to
sneeze and shiver; it's the first few
doses that count; don't wait till your
bones begin to ache, till the cough and
sore throat, set in; keep "Seventy
seven" handy, in your pocket, on the
dresser, always within reach and you
will not have a serious Cold.
It pays to keep "Seventy-seven"
handy. All dealers sell. 25c, or mailed.
Humphreys' Homeo. Medicine Co., Cor.
William and Aan. streets, tsw York.
I want to get is a respectable farmer's
daughter or widow less than 30 years
old. who will be willing to go onto a
farm with me and help me make a
place for myself in. the world.
"I want to get away from the city
and I want to marry a woman who
will be contented with the life of the
farm and not get to pining for the
bright lights and amusements of the
city. When I find the right one, she
will not regret having met me."
Mr. Edmonds says that he has ac
quired none of the tj'pically masculine
"bad habits" and is willing to call up
any number of witnesses to vouch for
his steady, good character. In order
to avoid the disappointments of hasty
proposals from elderly women, he Is
anxious that those who correspond
with him send their photographs and
ages in their first letter to him. Ed
monds lives at 287 First street and has
been working In this city for about
five years.
SHEEP HAS FIVE LAMBS
Quintet All Alive and "Frisky" on
. Rock Creek Range.
GOLDENDALE. Wash., March 30.
(Special.) Al Harden, a well-known
Klickitat sheepman, has a ewe in his
flock that is the mother of a quintet
of lambs. The little fellows are all
alive, basking In the sunshine and
frisking over the hills of Mr. Harden's
lambing range on Rock Creek.
According to sheepmen who have
been In the business for 25 years, this
is the first Instance of record in Klick
itat of a ewe giving birth to Ave lambs.
Triplets are not an infrequent occur
rence and several instances are re
called of ewes being the mother of
four lambs.
The nne Spring weather and recent
showers have made lambing condltlonn
ideal for the big flock owners in Klick
itat, and sheepmen are looking forward
to a record-breaking Increase. Andy
Bunnell, who lambs his sheep early on
the south slope of The Dalles Moun
tain, reports 1000 lambs from 800 ewes
and expects to mark an increase of
115 per cent from his entire band.
Homesites Sell Well.
Since the suburban sub-division
known as Lunalllo was put on the
market a few days ago by the Securities
Development Company, there has been
considerable activity In the district.
About a. dozen homesites have been sold.
The sites are one-quarter of an acre in
size. The tract will be improved with
streets and sidewalks and cleared of
all underbrush and stumps. A water
system also will be installed. The prop
erty lies about two blocks from Multno
mah Station, on the Oregon Electric
line.
Lot Angeles Resident Buvs Here.
Mrs. L. A. Thompson, of Los Angeles,
yesterday purchased the residence of
15. W. Hendricks, at 633 Terrace road,
Portland Heights. The price was $25,
000. the sale being negotiated by the
Goldsmith Agency. The Hendricks
house is of Colonial architecture, built
three or four years ago, and is consld.
ered one of the handsome homes of
that section of the city.
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