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TJTE SUNDAY OIIEGOMAN. PORTLAND, JUNE 2, 1912. CONVICTS JBEGIN WORK ON SCENIC ROAD AROUND SHELL ROCK Barrier, Which Has "Long Been Impassable to Wagons or Automobiles, Is to Be Removed in Building the New Columbia Biver Highway Connecting Hood River and Multnomah Counties. IS1 G V . ; r-W tsA III f M. z- . 7inlfX'r--.;- II hi: r 1 1 12 - - 2. jozairer ,o9JJZis- lZrr vfi Cut JkZt'crJZocSr. H OOP RIVER, Or.. June 1. fSpe- clal.) Because it the Initial mcrfc done on the new Columbia River highway around Shell Rock Mountain, which haa long been an Im passable barrier to a wagon or auto mobile on the road connecting- Hood River and Multnomah counties, the be ginning made br the IS convict at Camp Beneon on the west end of the towering maaa of sliding atonea Thurs day afternoon will be hlatorlc. The logan of the cltliena of Hood RIvsr County, who are eager to see the com pletion of the scenic highway. Is "Make the route to Portland from Hood River passable a soon ae possible. A few local man have been using- their ef forts toward securing the highway for the past three 'years. C. K. Marshall nd W. L, Clark have spent their time and money In making personal Inspec tions of and eecurlng data for the right of way of the propoeed route. The lo cal business men ae a whole and ma jority of . illey orchardlsts have be come greatly Interested In the road Ince the beginning of the year and are lending It their support. The convicts who have been at Camp Bensou, named for 8. Benson, th donor of the $10,000 fund to be used In the Shell Rock construction during the coming year, began their task without ceremony Thursday afternoon. The crew has ben at the scene of opera tions for three weeks, awaiting an agreement between the O.-W. R, A N. and the county, With the exception of a dispute relative) to a point at the east end of the mountain, where a solid rock overhangs the. railroad right of way, and as to liability for damages that may be sustained by passengers over the railroad and travelers using the highway around Shell Rook, the oounty officials and the railroad have come to terms. These details remain unsettled. However, It was thought ad visable to begin work at once and set tle the disputed matters later. ltoad Will Parallel Railway. The. rout of the way around Shell Rock Mountain wilt parallel the rail road track. A plan was proposed whereby the railroad would move Its tracks over the water of the Columbia by means of a trestlo. However, be cause of the. depth of the water at this point and the necessary exDensa that MUTILATED BODY IN LOS ANGELES HARBOR IS CLAIMED BY SEVERAL Kansas Children Get Box of California Trait in Answer, to Pathetic Appeal to-Chamber of Commerce Million aire Completea Jail Sentence for Speeding, Bi dee Home on Streetcar to Aroid Tnither Trouble. ' LOS ANGELES, Cel., June 1. (Spe cial.) The local police are mysti fied as to the Identity of tha man whose mutilated body was recently found in Lrfis Angeles harbor. That the man Is Bernard Rein, alleged btgamlst and former automobile dealer of De troit, Is doubted by the detectives at work on the case, but Mrs. Frances Neal Rein, who had prevloualy Identi fied the body, declared this week, after another inspection. sh waa correct In her lilnntlncatlon and said she would have the body burled at her expense. On the other hand. C. W. Verden and Ms sister, Mrs. Viola Fandow, identified the body as that of their uncle, James W. Orundy. formerly a rahlnet-maker of Kaneaa City. They said Orundy had been living with them since he came to California, eeveral months ago. He went to Sun Pedro May g and stayed at the American Hotel until May IT. when he disappeared. They base their Identification on the general appear ance of the body and a scar on one ankle. The police are endeavoring to locate a man named Herrlck. who disappeared from Oakland soma time ago. Detec tives are inclined to tha belief that tha man Is a suicide, basing this belief on the fact that the hands were loosely tied, as If merely to support the iron bar which was suspended from the cord. The Injuries on the head, they eay. may have ben caused by the body striking the Wharf or tha rock piling. e e Chief of Police Sebastian has renewed his effort to have a police patrol boat provided for the harbor. Some weeks ago he applied for an appropriation for a boat. At that time It was sug gested that should the city not care to expend the amount necessary for a new boat, one of the harbor tugs might be purchased and ntted out as police and It re boat combined. Tha matter Is now under consideration. see Krom a Utile "dugout" with an earthen floor out on the wind-swept prairies of Western Kansas four little ,-hlldrentwo boys and two girls Dora, Wayne, Earl and Henry Wlnsor have written to Frank Wiggins, secre tary of the Los Angeles Chamber of j onimerce, a ((atretic request for a box of California fruit. Wigging la In Roma '' -V- " - -W: v ' J a- ' - I ' I AS J . . ' ' ' lk-W 7 - V Mt - ' 1 J V- - " . "III Jw- JSP- jbw - w " v - Tt "raafc i i a . ... -a aw w aTar ay w , " i t I TV V, J-W-3- , ' 7 rirSr H i woJTT. entailed for the work, the 'V4". J?1 ''-YV' ' ' ''W ' ' ' J - ' ' '' 'LJ -,Jt II ? railroad company refused to concede I ?fjtfYittl?S'3 ' ' : 3 1 ' W H$ ira. II ' thl ,olnL Tn Tir" ,,,r fet frora I XJ?Jifj itiXi':'' ''";V1' v l : ' ' : ' J-f th bmnk her M,d b u t I 1 J "v. . yt . d"p- "' ago a carload of t I'JSaCfr-Vi t- I v ' IxV jra' rails w,, overturned at this point and III 'y3lfX V'-'V'-V' .y.".. I I I declared that the stream had cut far I i v.-Vyj- STt K " ' 1 'II nto the side of the cliff, and the rati- 1 1 SJiJ-' 1 - .' 1 ' " ' I road was built on a Jutting cliff. 1 -k''Ti 1. '-"t - In search of health, and the appeal from the youngsters would have gone amiss had not C. I Wilson, superintendent of exhibits opened the letter and respond ed by sending them a box of orangea from the grovea of Redlands and River, side millionaires. The letter from the children read: "Lakeland, Mead County. Kan. Dear Mr. Wiggins: We are four little chil dren living out on tha prairie of West ern Kansas. We only have half a dug out for a home, with Just a dirt floor, and aa papa Just came here last Fall, we haven't got a start yet, and when It ralna our house leaks awful Last Winter wa nearly starved and f rosed as well. "A neighbor gave us some pretty magaslnes and we saw the pictures of California and the fruit that growa there. Then we saw your picture, and read about you, and It said you was born In Missouri. We came from Mis souri. lUtna waa born tn Scotland County there. "You can make us tha happiest chil dren in the world if you will send us a box of fruit at lnglewood station, Kan sas. That la our nearest railroad. We will love you always for your kind ness." see As a friendly test case, to determine If girls In charge of branch offices for laundries come vnder the laundry workers' section of the state labor laws for women, B. IL Ward waa taken Into Vnlverslty police court this week by Henry H. Lyons, of the atate labor bureau. Ward Is charged with employing Mary A. Cooper In a branch office for receiving and delivering laundry for a longer period than eight hours day. In order to get an early decision from a higher court. Ward pleaded not guilty and refused to give ball. He then waited tn the courtroom while his attorneys took the matter to tha Supe rior Court on habeaa corpus proceed ings, which will come up early next week. Ward'a attorney argues that the girls In charge of the branch offices are not laundry workers as meant In the state laws, and that tha right-hour law does not cover their employment. When George Fetterman. millionaire ranchman and realty dealer, completed muvilihl t W3 J ,, M i2 Ti, -5&r.:. -J rOrtuiy jyfrum 4SKfMrt his 10 days' sentence for violating tha speed laws In Ms automobile, ha was asked if he Intended to rVde borne in his machine. "I'm afraid to try It," he answered as he stepped out of the city Jail. "If I should drive that car now, the way I feel about getting boms to Duarte, I'd be back here for several years In no time. I'm going to ride home rery quietly In a streetcar. Within a few days I may get tha old machine out and see If I can tame It a little." Fetterman had apent 11200 In his endeavor to avoid serving a Jail sen tence. His time would have expired at 4 o'clock Sunday afternoon, to be mathematically correct but. according to custom, the hour did not matter and he waa released at sunrise. By that time be had the dlshea wiped In the Jail kitchen, the table aet for break fast, and a large pile of potatoes nice ly peeled, but Fetterman was not bout. Near the door of the Jail, with a handbag In one hand, ha stood first on one foot and then on the other. It was plain that he did not Intend to re main for breakfast. When his nam was called he answsred Ilka a pistol crack, and the next moment ha was selling his money, watch, diamond ring and stud and was vanishing to ward the depot. With the adoption of resolutions condemning tha county Jail system, tha Episcopal diocesan convention, which closed In Los Angeles tha first of the week, put Itself on record in favor of the abolition of the present prison methods and the substitution of reme dial treatment for crlmlnala. The subject was brought up by T. C Marshall, archdeacon for tha Los An geles diocese. His report also took up the Industrial situation, and said: "The Episcopal Church must concern Itself with the hours and condition of labor, the scale of wages as compared with the cost of living, the difficulty of obtaining employment, the exploita tion of childhood and womanhood In the Interest of gain, with all the com plex questions that together constitute the Industrial problem." The report recommended that com mittees be formed to awaken more pub lic Interest In the problem, and the recommendation was adopted by the convention. A committee will also be .Jlr AV" Qv. appointed to work for the passage of the industrial disputes arbitration act. with a view to having It come before the Legislature again. "More effective breeders of vice and crime than some of the Jails In South ern California could scarcely be in vented," declared Marshall, In report ing to the convention the findings of sn exhaustive Investigation- of prisons. The report arraigns the prison system aa It exists, criticises the construction that often necessitates Jail inmates walking in darkness and breathing foul air, cries out against a method of pun ishment that locks up Insane patients, vloious criminals and suspects togeth er, and declares that few know of the conditions existing behind the archi tecturally beautiful walls of aoma Southern California Jails. Marshall's Investigation Included every Jail In tha Loa Angelea diocese, which takea In many counties, extend ing south to the Mexican border. e ' Old South Fort, historic as tha bul wark at Tla Juana. that withstood the shot and shell of rebels and federals In the revolution against Diss last year, la In ruins, as the result of a run away team of horses driven by George Vnthank. a Los Angeles business man, who waa visiting the place. The federal garrison is busily en gaged In repairing the damage and strengthening the fortification, as It affords the only means of protection from the south end of the town. Unthank was driving about Tla Ju ana taking In the eights when the blast of a bugle throw his horses Into a panic, and they tore down the main street, scattering soldiers right and left. Turning suddenly to the south they dashed headlong Into and through the fortifications. The horses would have stopped there, but Unthank. hearing the angry ahouta of the Mexicans, decided to drive the remnant of his rig, and what was left of himself over the line and out of danger of any retaliation. "I am somewhat proud of that run away." Unthank said upon his return to Los Angeles. "I understand I ac complished the work of an entire bat tery of artillery. How I ever came out of It alive I don't know, but there was Just enough left of the wsgon ts hang to the wheels. If I had remained to apologise I am afraid the soldiers would have put In a bill for damagea." see Pasadena went "wet" at leaat as "wet" as Pasadena haa aver been at a recent election over tha liquor ques tion. Amendment No. 10, allowing the serving of liquors with meals in hotels nd restaurants, fared as follows, ac cording to complete returns: For. 61:1: against. 4t(l. Amendment. No. 11. pro hibiting sale, serving or delivery of wo, entailed for the work, the railroad company refused to concede this point The river a few feet from the bank here Is said to be i:t feet deep. Pevera! years ago a carload of rails was overturned at this point and dumped Into the river. A diver mho waa secured to reclaim the lost rails declared that the stream had cut far Into the side of the cliff, and the rail road was built on a Jutting cliff. Shell Hock Mountain ts declared by scientists to Ue a glacial moraine. The heap of loose stones, which In the Winter time, when covered by snow. Is a source of great annoyance to th railroad company, as It covers the tracks with slides. Is said to be the blanket over tona of Ice. Although It la known to but few peo ple, the state attempted more than a quarter of a century ago to build a road across the Cascades - by the Co lumbia River route, and was thwarted by Shell Rock Mountain. Indeed, the road was completed as far as Herman Creek, beyond Bonneville. The re taining walls of the old highway may be seen today, on the side of the moun tain, several hundred feet above the right of way of tie railroad track. However, It waa a difficult pass, and slides of the loose stones have de liquors within Pasadena city llml complete returns for, 4i02; against, ill 7. The prohibition measure was more than BOO votes behind, and the measure allowing the serving of liquor with meals In hotels and restaurants waa more than 400 votes ahead. One Of the most Important results of the defeat of tha prohibition measure will be the perpetuation of the famous Adolphus Busch sunken gardens. Had tha "wets'" been defeated the St. Louis brewer, owner of the gardens, would have at ones begun the construction of a new home at Santa Monica, accord ing to Otto Mathi, Busch's secretary. Seven other amendments were voted and carried. They were: For a com mission form of government; direct primary nomination for municipal of ficers; fixing and granting of fran chises; power of the city to Join with other municipalities In aoqulrtng parks and public utilities; city regulation of building, plumbing and electrical wir ing; expenditure for municipal public ity, promotion and entertainment; ap propriations for care of alck and help less, and trial and probation of Juve niles. e ' A Theodore ' Roosevelt letter is al ready aa valuable aa one penned by Oeorge Washington, according to J. O. Lynch, a dilettante collector, of Loa Angeles. Lynch is prosecuting a suit gainst the Beklna Van Storage Com pany In Superior Court to recover 111. 000 damagea to household goods and antiques destroyed In a flra at the de fendant's warehouse. In the lot were five letters written by George Wash ington to George C'.ymer, signer of the Declaration of Independence from Pennsylvania. "Of course the letters will never be replaced, and they are valuable." de clared Lynch this week. "But para doxical as It may seem, they are no more valuable than one of Roosevelt's official tetters.' In Washington's dsy letter-writing was considered an art, and the lack of transportation made volumtnoua letter-writing necessary. The number of Waahlngton'a letters In existence has reduced their value from collector's standpoint." Their Apology a Reminder. Philadelphia Record. Senator Williams In an address In Yaano said of a movement he opposed: "These men try to apologise for their course, but their apology reminds mo of that of the Tasoo office boy. "A business man, looking up from an Important letter he was drafting, aid to this hoy testily: " "Don't whistle at your work. Cal houn.' " 1 ain't working, sir.' Calhoun an swered. I'm only Just whlsUin'.' " stroyed all traces of It In some places. At the weet end of the mountain and on the other aids the railroad company has made use of the old right of way. Where the old- road still remains Intact It would be passable were the bushes that have sprung up tn the roadbed during the last Ii years cnt away. Ileaeer Rrnlla First Werk. James Wallace, who came to this city with his parents In lt;i and who Is now Janitor of the Commercial Club, spent three years at work on tha old Btete road, which waa built under the supervision of the late John Marden, of Tha Dalles. "We began work on the top of the divide between the Mosler hills and this vslley," said Mr. Wallace, "and for three years continued the con- ! structlon of the highway. In that length of time the highway was com pleted to a point near Herman Creek, beyond Bonneville. "The road waa good around Shell Rock and I have driven around there many times. The road was used as mall route between here and Boise. ; Idaho, before the railroad was built. ' When tha railroad wag constructed, the right of way of the road was used In ' all of the points difficult of passage. Tha removal of loose stone at Shell Rock cause slides which obliterated SOCIAL INEQUALITY AS AID TO CIVILIZATION Writer Declare! That Without Incentive of Claw Position, or Even of Wealth, Human Industry and Progress Would Die. BT MADISON a FETUtS. w TRAVELER met an old darky, j whose poor,, starved mule drew a 'heavy load. Tied between the shafts, two feet beyond the mule's head, waa a fine bunch of green grass. The traveler asked: "Why have you put that grass where the mule can't reach It?" The old darky laughed and said: "Boss, dst bunch of grass am an In centlf:" "A what?" asked the traveler. "In Incenttf." replied the darky. "What's an Incentive?" "Why, boss, an tncentlf am eonthln' pokln' ahead an' mighty well worth walktn' for. boss; dat grass am an tn centlf of dat 'ere mule. It looks mighty good to him. like aa If lie walk far enough he gets It, but If I glf It to him now, he'd forget It and plum sudden stop walkln'. I know dat mule, boss!" ass la Life. It Is the same In life, and tha darky's philosophy applies with euual force to men aa to mulea. The whole tendency of aoclety Is to improvtment in knowl edge, virtue and happiness. Muny evils attendant upon our social atate are to be gradually ameliorated. The Increasing attention paid to political economy Is a hopeful sign of our times. The poor man will still be found In every community, because riches and proverty are relative terms and Indi cate no absolute cocdltlon. I look for ward to a state of society In which a man will be called poor, not because he Is destitute of tha means of a com fortable subsistence for himself, his wife and children, but poor simply by contraat with his neighbor, who haa been endowed with firmer health or mora active body and a more enter prising mind, or who has enjoyed more favorable oportunlties for the exercise of his powers, or because these bless ings have been bestowed upon his par ents, and be haa Justly Inherited the fruits of their successful labors. Kaaallty Oaly Aatoag Heathen. But why should not Inequalities among man as to outward condition be removed. As we are all members of one family, why may we not hope that the bumaa race will. In the process of time, be prepared for an equal distribu tha old road at the east end of the road. "ettlera Contribute Liberally. The new toad beyond the West Slds of the mountain will use the old right of way of the railroad track for about half a mile and construction work here will be comparatively Hicht. The Wy eth road district has sviillahlo from a speclul road tax levied lust )enr about f7b00, which Is being expended by the district 'on a nw hitch way to connect with the stretch of toad around shell Rnck. Although the Valley between Wyeth and Caucado luk. Is sparsely settled, the cltlseiia there are aiding the construction of the highway In every way possible. They voted tha highest road lax In the county last year, and nearly every male cltlsen In the district haa been busy working on the roads. While lha special road tax struck the railroad. Western Union Telegraph Company and' the Taclno Telephone and Telegraph Company pretty hard. It laid a burden on tha citizens, but they declare that thsy are willing to use more of their fund to see the road completed. The construction In the Wyeth dis trict, where Hupervleor Hendricks is at work. Is comparatively easy, for tha route lies over a bed of loose stones and the only work of the men is In leveling and crowning the right of way, which will be covered later with an 1-Inch layer of cinders. tion of wealth? Why? Because, eon atltuted as the world Is, such a social relation would not only be Impractic able but not conducive to the virtue, happiness and auccsss of men as Indi viduals, or to tha progress of aoolety at large. The system of equalized property among men haa nearly always existed among the native tribes of our country, and who, to purchase his freedom, would assume the manifold evils of their condition. Look at their want of enterprise. Industry, and self-denial. Flaa. Waa Tried. The most enlightened state In which the principle of equalization was ever tried deliberately, 'and for any con tinued period of time, waa tha republic of Lacedaemon. But who would place himself under the laws of Lycurgus and for the sake of euual distribution of property expooe himself and his chil dren to deetltution of domestic com forts, and all the thlnga that gladden life, such ss Spsrta waa subject to at Its best estate? They were brave men, and for a time nobly maintained tha freedom of their land, but It waa only freedom from a foreign yoke that they enjoyed. Their bonduge was crusl In the extreme. The leveling process might add a very small amount to jour Income for a little while, yet even this could not last, for the Incentive to Individual ao. cumulation could not grow, but di minish, and every man'a share be leas. Industry WeoU Die. Equalize wealth and you oblige every man to be his own machine, farmer and manufacturer, and tha knowledge and dexterity which men now possea In their varloua callings would rapidly diminish. What stlmulua would there be to activity. Ingenuity and enterprise In the hope of bettering our condition If all were equal? The bopa of ad vancing our selves Is the exciting principle that overcomes our natural love of ease and sharpens all the hu man faculties. Strike this Incentive out of the social state and we should deteriorate till we dropped down to the level of our North American Indians. Give us the opportunity of bettering our condition and wa rheerfuly take with it all the hazards of failure.