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About The Sunday Oregonian. (Portland, Ore.) 1881-current | View Entire Issue (Aug. 4, 1912)
- . . . . . . - 7 - . . -n-r-is-, j-t ---- v TTrrT V"n A TT3.TTBT' A "f 11 1 '. : i ' ! 1 1 : i) 6000 IN HEEDED Employers Jn Portland Cry for Laborers on Short Hours and Good Pay. WAGES $2.25 TO $3.50 DAY Improvements, Railroad Construc tion. Harvest and Federal Jobs Await While Hundreds Loaf Listening to "Agitators." Employers of labor in Portland need (000 men at once at wages varying- from 12.25 to $1.50 a day, yet thousands of idle men walk the streets, crowd the publlo parks and stand on the curbs re fusing to go to work. The labor situation Is growing- seri ous. Ctaless relief is offered In the next few weeks, completion of many improvement projects will be delayed. With the labor agencies crying- loudly for help on every side the employers continue to pour in their orders lor more help. ' In the offices of the loading employ ment agencies last night were orders for more than 600 laborers and un skilled workmen at the prevailing standard of wages. These orders are divided among the several agencies as follows: C. R. Hanson & Company. 2000; Pioneer Employment Company. 1000; E P. Evans. 600: Northern Pacific Em ployment Bureau, 600; Butts & Mc- Cauley. 350: Harney tmpioymeni mm nan v. 300: Red Cross Employment Com pany. 300; Portland Employment arency. 250; Columbian Employment Company, 250; Bennett Employment of fice, 200; Canadian Employment office, 300; T. M. C. A. Employment Bureau. 150. Other smaller offices may increase this number by 1000. Few Otter Leaa Thaa 2JW Daily. Few of these Jobs pay less than 12.50. While some of them are entered on the boards at $2.25. the agents have no hope of filling them at that figure while jobs of $2.50 a day go begging. Typi cal of some of the orders for which workingmen are sought are the follow ing selected at random from various offices: Fifty men digging ditch at Carlton. Or- $2-50, nine hours. Twenty men on irrigation ditch at Vancouver. $2.70. nine holrs. U Twenty men on house wrecking. $2.50, nine hours. Twenty-five men on street Improve ments in city. $2.75. Ten laborers In city. $2.50. Fifteen Austrlans on cement contract, nine hours. $2.75. These are among the smaller con tracts. The big railroad construction concerns are asking for men by the hundreds. They are paying from $2-25 to $2.76 and are charging them but $5.26 a week for board. One paving concern doing work In the city has a standard order with an employment agency to send "all the :nen you can get." They fear they cannot complete projects upon which work has been started before Winter approaches. City Work "eed Men. Many men are needed on the street Improvements on Sandy road and otn ?r parts of the city. There has been a icarcity of workingmen on the Sandy road Job all Summer. Wood choppers and farm hands are constantly needed. Farmers have been well supplied with help thus far. but any man who wants to work in the harvest fields need not be Idle more than 10 minutes. The traditional "good grub" secured on the farm is the bait that generally lures the spasmodic worker. That is one reason that farm ers are not suffering a serious short age of help. . The Portland Railway. Light & Pow er Company needs a lot of men on its dam and power construction above Es tacada and promises steady work for a year and half, at $2.50 and $2.75 a day. Superior camp conditions pre vail here, the bunks being equipped with electric lights, running water In every bunkhouse and many other con veniences not usually found In a con struction camp. Yet they are having a hard time to fill this order. Federal Work Available. At Celllo the Federal Government Is railing for help. The wages vary from $1.20 to $1.40 a day "and found." mean ing that the men are boarded and given lodgings free. They are required to work but eight hours a day and have every Saturday afternoon a half holiday on full pay. These Jobs are still "open. Steady work is assured. Near Wenatchee. Wash, where the Great Northern is building a change of line 600 workmen are needed lm ' mediately. They want to get the Job finished before the cold weather sets in. One Portland agency has an order to send 50 men a day to this project Transportation is free. Seldom are they able to recruit more than a dosen. The contractors are lucky If they retain half of these. Desertions from the gangs that are "shipped" out on free transportation are numerous. The several power development proj ects on the Wliite Salmon River are; demanding help now. The standard there Is $2.50 and $2.75. Contractors on the Southern Pa cific extension to Coos Bay are calling for men by the hundreds. Contractors on the electric lines in the Willamette Valley can use 1000 men Monday morn ing. In the southern part of the state, where the Southern Pacific is bulding a new line, additional help is needed. Small Tewna Have Work. Numerous small cities and towns In Oregon and .. aRhington are paving streets and digging sewers this year and their demands upon the labor market have been unusually heavy. It is absolutely impossible for con tractors engaged In sewer work in Portland to get men to dig the ditches. They are ottering $2.75 and $3 a day. In some Instances they are paying $3.25. Not for many years has there been' such activity in the logging: ' camps. While the big concerns are not un usually active numerous small camps have been started snd they are In need of men. The boards yesterday held orders for more than 250 buckers at $2.50 and $2.75 a day. All clauses of lumber camp employes are wanted. Several foremen jobs at $3 and $3.60 a day are open. Hook tenders are wanted at $4.7S. Even among section hands there Is a severe shortage. This Is the kind of labor that usually is readily found as it does not require hard work and, the prevailing sentiment, among the, groups who crowd the curbs near the employment agencies is not to work hard. But the section hand positions, risen to the dignity of paying $2.60 a day. now are hard to fill. Laborers Are Independent. The very fact that a shortage in the labor market exists has aggra vated the situation for it has made men who are out of work independent., They know that employers and con tractors need them and therefore they are demanding maximum wages. Not GAMP A! FIELD until the harvest days are over will there be relief. On top of this situation Is the de plorable annoyance caused by so-called "friends of the womingmen" who mount store boxes In front of the labor agencies night by night and urge the men not to go to- work. The con tractors blame them for the scarcity of men. They say that there are enough men in Portland now to fill every Job that Is open. However, it is apparent that the ranks of the unemployed are thinning. The loafers on the curbs are fewer than they were six months ago. The groups in the park and plaza blocks are not of the idle kind, but contain many men who are regularly employed and who go there to rest. Yet a spirit of unrest permeates the atmosphere. While wages are higher, hours constituting . a working day fewer and conditions of employment better than ever before In the history of the Northwest, the men who might go to work are dissatisfied. The em ployers say it is due to the agitators. The agitators say It is "the system." EUGENIC SHOW IS INDORSED Evening Star Grange Gives Support to State Baby Iijhll.it. At the meeting of Evening Star Grange yesterday in the hall on the Section Line road, a resolution was adopted indorsing the eugenic baby exhibit during the State Fair. O. M. Plummer. Interested in the movement, was present and explained the purpose. Mrs. Hattie L. Vail, J. J. 'Johnson and others spoke. The Grange also decided to place an exhibit at the county fair at Greshsm, and a large committee was appointed. to make arrangements. R. R. Steele, principal of the Stephens school, told of his methods of hand ling his school, which is governed by "The Stephens School City." He said that the pupils have a 'eompletf: city government, with a Mayor, Council and officers, which handle all offenses In a very effective manner, the responsi bility resting on the pupils of the school. James G. Kelly explained that the high cost of living was due to the ex travagant methods of the people, and he illustrated his topic by pointing out that articles are bought In small pack ages and not In bulk as formerly. He also said that one reason for the high cost of living is due to the fact that there are fewer producers now than formerly and more consumers, and that people are flocking to the cities. A. L. Keenan discussed the "Horseless Age." In which he said that the horse never will be displaced entirely by the auto mobiles. One of the features of the day was the presentation to the Grange of 200 dahlias raised on the farm of Gill Brothers, every one present wearing one. Mrs. E. Nelson, lecturer, pre sided. EUGENE TO LAY SEWERS Improvement to Cost $200,000 Will Be Provided for by Bond Issue. T " T7" X" T." Ami. 1 f CrflA.l ij.i i-.. u, w . . , - n . t ft... fi ,r t mi n i' 1 1 a Its moAtlnr last evening directed the Recorder to ad vertise for bids for a main trunk sewer snil T-rt mafn hranrhea. which togeth er will cost upwards of $200,000. Bids are to be received until September S, and are to be made on the basis of three units. If the prices bid are louna 10 on In excess of the amount of money avail- ble. then only two of the units will be let at this time, and the tnira later. The main trunk sewer will be 800 feet long, ranging in diameter from , a . oa in.h.. nri win rj&raiiei the Willamette River, so that all the sewage of the town win oe carried w the river belowythe town. The system has been planned with the idea in view that some time int smio forbid the dumping of sewage Into the i awA hv thA jihandonment of a small portion near the outlet, the sew age can be carried to a surname stpw tank and sewage farm for disposal. Bonds to the amount 01 iso, . . - ,j n-nviriA fitndii for the im- lO IK Bum m.v provement. the bond bids being called for August 22. The call for construc tion bids is contingent on the sale of the bonds. " , v .t-t- -siroAHv comlnar in from j - - anrlniia tfl bid On QUUIUO tunwt." - the sewer contract, one request for in formation coming irom HORSE AHEAD STOPS TRAIN Stray Animal Interferes With South ern Pacific Schedule. OREGON CITY, Or., Aug. 3. (Spe ilaL) Somebody in Canemah is "in one horse, and the Southern pacuic T 1 1 fnrrt nanv im fill t whatever it costs to stop the Shasta Limited in less than its own lengin. una .. no small item. The Limited was late hi afternoon, and its whistle caused several bass fishermen to speculate what northbound passenger cuuiu nm.ndintr through the Hot Springs country at 1:30 P. M. Just by the old caneman aocn railroad curve somewhat obscured by brush. The Limited was rounding the n.K.n k engineer snled an Old horse' on the right of way a short dis tance away. me animai was niiuuus Hos-n the track for dear life. A shrill v. -1 nm the whlfttl. a shower of sparks from the air-clamped wheels. quivering coacnes ana winuu w tered with white-faced humanity, and the flyer answered splendidly to her brakes. But the suddeness of the stop will be remembered by the passengers for some time to come. With the engine "dead witnin ten inches of the horse, which had fallen, the horse regained its feet, flicked an ear and leisurely left the track. Then the Shasta Limited went on. It is doubtful if the horse is worth what It cost to stop the train. ST. JOHNS GETS FACTORY Novelty Manufacturing Concern to Operate August 1 5. ST. JOHNS, Or.. Aug. 3. (Special.) St. Johns Is to have a new factory. The C. A. Hopping Novelty Manufac turing & Importing Company has Just been organized for the purpose of man ufacturing wooden novelties, novelty furniture, wooden and paper calendars and leather goods, also to Import such novelties as the trade demands. Although the matn products will be advertising novelties, yet the company Intends to design and manufacture novelties that may be sold to the re tall trade. The factory and main of fice will be situated at St. Johns. The company has leased for a term of years the factory owned and at pres ent occupied by N. J. Bailey on Erie street. The company will take pos session August 15 and Immediately start operating. Twenty-five people will be employed at the start. The of ficers are Portland men. President. W. J. Patterson; vice-president and general manager, C. A. Hopping: secretary ana treasurer. H. B. Haines; attorney, Henry E. Collier: directors, H. T. Bootn and Dr. E. B. McDaniel. Albany ex-Residents to Meet. Former residents of Albany. Or will hold a picnic Tuesday, August 6. at the Oaks. Former residents of that city are Invited to attend.' A basket lunch will be served at 1 o'clock, participants carrying their own baskets. MEN ABOUND EMPLOYMENT OFFICES, IN PARK, AND BLACKBOARD ANNOUNCE Juca WHICH WORKMEN ARE WANTED. 1 ' w uw ws iiitt; . J? v mlT lj! &) v-ORKME OX BENCHES. I PI.AiS B.HRDOF EMPLOYMENT AGEXT, IX FRONT OP EMPLOYMENT OFF DRY FARMING KiN8 Lethbridge Great Assembling Point This Season. IMMENSE SHOW EXPECTED Canada Has Invited Every Xatlon in World to Exhibit and 30 Have Accepted Knowledge Will Be Disseminated. , Oregon won the chief awards at the International Dry Farming Congress last year at Colorado Springs, and the year before at Spokane, and it appears to have an excellent chance of dupli cating Its former successes at the con gress to be held at Lethbridge, Alberta, in the fourth week of October. Former successes were chiefly due to the excellent exhibits entered by Till man Reuter. the pioneer of dry farm ing in Oregon, and Mr. Reuter is now enlisting the assistance of men in every dry farming section of the state. The exhibits will consist of grains, grasses and vegetables grown by dry-farming processes throughout Eastern Oregon, In the sections that cannot "be irri gated. Mr. Reuter himself will again be a large exhibitor. He will bring to Portland, in the near future, a display of dry-farming products to be placed In the Chamber of Commerce to arouse interest In the coming congress at Lethbridge. KxrarmloB Is Planned. Vice-President Morgan, of Spokane, representing the International Congress In the Northwest states, will return to Oregon from Callfdrnia the latter part of this month, and will endeavor to organize an excursion from Portland to Lethbridge, to attend the congress. "It Is claimed that the Dry Farming Congress at Lethbridge will be the greatest agricultural convention In the world during 1812." says Mr. Morgan. "Combined with It will be great sec tional gatherings and all quarters of the globe will be represented both In attendance and by exhibits. Every na. tion in the world has been invited by Canada, and 30 have accepted. The dry-farming states in this country are to be represented by delegates and ex hibits. The United States Government will be represented,by an exhibit, the collection of which cost . 510,000. "His Royal Highness, the Duke of Connaughtt Governor-General of Can ada, will open the congress formally Monday morning, October 21, acting as A BLOCK, MOST OK WHOM ABB REGULARLY EMPLOYED 2. BLACK. SHOWING ORDERS FOR WORK-3, AD 4, TYPICAL GROUPS OK LOAFEBS ICE REFUSING TO GO TO WORK. the official representative of the gov ernment of Great Britain. Hon. James Wilson, Secretary of Agriculture, of the United States, will respond on Denau of President Taft Daily sessions will be held, both afternoon and evening, throughout the week and Dr. James Widstoe, international president, also president of the Utah State Agricul tural College, one of the leaders of the dry-farming movement, will preside. Sectional Meetings Scheduled. "The sectional conventions, to be held at the same time, will be nine In num ber and will comprise conferences on soil tillage methods, machinery, crops ajid crop breeding, agricultural for estry, livestock and dairying, agricul tural education, farm management scientific research, agricultural colleges and experiment stations and the Inter national Congress of Farm Women. "Twenty Western states, and four provinces of Canada will contest for supremacy In the exposition of dry farming products. Government exhibits will be made by Uruguay, Australia, Bo livia, Russia. Hungary, Turkey and other countries.. There will be a ma chinery exhibit that will probably be the most complete farm machinery show and power demonstrations ever made on the continent. A traction engine, valued at 52500, Is offered as a- prize for the best bushel of hard wheat grown in 1912. "In the official programme, more than 100 men of world-wide fame are listed; presidents of railroads, of this and other countries! well-known au thorities on all phases pf agriculture, and experts In the various lines or farming will make addresses. Leth bridge, Itself, Is making great prepar ations to entertain all visitors in a splendid manner." PEDDLER AND HORSE FALL Brldgeworker Drops 2 0 Feet to Shoulders of Another, Is Hurt. Three accidents, none of them of a serious nature, were reported yester day. 'Joe Vlaniii, a licensed peddler of vegetables, in attempting to stop his runaway horse, fell in front of the an imal, which stumbled end came down on top of him. Alexander Dooley, working on the new bridge for the Robert Wakefield Bridge Company, fell about 20 feet, landing on the shoulders of Oarl John son. The latter, who was practically unhurt, got up and walked away, but Dooley had to be taken to St. Vin cent's Hospital, where he was exam ined by Dr. W. H. Skene and found to be suffering from a severely sprained back. . The peddler, Vlannl, whose home is at Glendale, near Woodstock, was ta ken by the Red Cross ambulance to St. Vincent's, where an examination revealed surface injuries, of no serious nature, so far as could be determined. ; : S Delta V to Lunch Tuesday. The Portland Delta Upsllon Club will meet for luncheon at the Oregon Grille, Tuesday, at noon. SINGLE TAX WRONG Claims of Advocates Lack Es sential of Truths CANADIAN' CITATION UNFAIR Writer Says That If Portland Were Bonded at Same Ratio as Van couver Indebtedness Would Be $100,000,000. BY CHARLES H. SHIELDS. Secretary 'of the Oregon Equal Taxation League. These be the days of mad dogs and rabies. Accordingly, our friends, the single taxers, to be in proper style, produce their own version of a rabies that is terrifying only to themselves. Our present tax system is their pet form of hydrophobia and single tax Is the means by which they would de stroy It. Across the line In British Columbia they point to a delightful state or so they say of prosperity and happiness. o ,M..tfa. omri TTtrtnlnn mllnt Rritish ov J,, l .1 1. ... I. u u . . Columbia be, to Judge from the descrip tions OI tne saiariea memuers ui mo Fels army, that it is to me a perpetual wonder that ITRen, Cridge, et al. do not remove the encouragement their lives afford to the Canadians.. W$at a delightful example to the remittance man, whom we occaslonaly scorn, would be these remittance men of re mittance men these salaried workers of Joseph Fels. And since Mr. Fels is soon to visit us and will add his paeans of praise to the wonders of taxation in British Columbia, suppose we stop soaring in the clouds and tell the facts. h.a. fola la h n t -Rrtttffh Columbia has not single tax. On the contrary, It nas 10 separate ana aisunti ways and means of taxation or raising revenue. Troth Lm Sight Of. That leads me to 'support The Ore gonlan in its charge that neither U"Ren nor his cohorts stick sufficiently close to the truth. While the States of Oregon and uaaiilUBivu " " " " - - " San Francisco, Portland, Tacoma, Spokane, Seattle, Everett and Belling- ham. were enjoying tne nura oi immi gration and capital seeking invest- . - t Watt nrhll. all th.c cities enjoyed unprecedented growth, tnere was ou magic jimuciii-e ui aujie tax. TATV.I1. fvi rrn-n .nil Waflhlnirtnn Wam thus enjoying this growth the provinces boast of the maglo constructive in fluence of single tax, were au dui ueau. yet Vancouver had what some are pleased to call single tax. The cities of Oregon and Washington had their boom, had reached a point in develop ment equal to and. even in advance of the resources from which they drew their support. A halt was necessary. Just at tills time Western Canada and British Columbia began xto awaken, stimulated by the coming of the Grand Trunk Pacific, the Canadian Northern and the extensions of the Canadian Pacific, and by the expenditure of over $100,000,000 by these different railroad companies, together with vast unde veloped resources. Chances Exist In Canada. With her forests, mines and great agricultural belts of free land yet un touched, all of which were made avail able by the coming of the railroad, and a climate that is congenial. Is it to be wondered that the cities of British Columbia should have a marvelous growth? Is it to be wondered that the people of Oregon and Washington should go to British Columbia., where free land may be obtained, where an army of laborers Is required to brlr.g the Province of British Columbia to that state of development equal to Ore gon or Washington? With all of these resources and with the borrowing power of the cities of British Columbia equal to 20 per cent of the assessed valuation, and where the assessment is full value, using that power up to the limit, to the extent that, should Portland or Seattle in dulge In such recklessness" as Vancou ver has, it would now have a Donaea Indebtedness of over $100,000,000. I ask, is it (o be wondered that the building permits of Vancouver and Vic toria and the general activities of British Columbia are what they are? This Influx of capital has all hap pened within a few years. But the great day of reckoning is close at hand for the cities of British Columbia. The magic of the so-called single tftx will not save them. They have not less than 15 different ways or methods of obtaining revenue in the Province of British Columbia. Quite different from the graduated single tax offered in Oregon! And dif ferent, too, from the pure single tax offered in Multnomah, Coos and Clack amas counties. MAIL FLIRTATION TABOO Postmaster Merrick Rules Against . Too Free Use of Department. Clandestine correspondence, as it is carried on through the general 'deliv ery department of the Portland post office, received a severe Jolt yesterday, when Postmaster Merrick Issued an or. der which will have the effect of cur tailing the enormous "general deliv ery" business of the local office. The order requires that every porjon. re siding within the free delivery limits of the city who is now receiving his mall at the general delivery window shall, within ten days, furnish the Postmaster a satisfactory excuse for having his mall delivered In that man ner if he would continue the practice. The excuse must be furnished In a written statement, which shall also give the name and address of each pa tron. Modern day "affinities," lovesick youths and the equally sentimental ob jects of their adoration have convert ed the general delivery department Into a veritable clearing-house for the Interchange of loving missives until the postoffice lobby at almost any hour of the day resembles the ante-room of an extensively patronized matrimonial bu reau. Consulting the postal laws and ragulatlo'ns. Postmaster Merrick dis covered that the general delivery Is maintained for the convenience of transients, those residing outside the free delivery limits and those who can give a legitimate excuse for not hav ing their mall delivered at their resi dence or plane of business. Hence yes terday s" order. CATTLE SUPPLY IS SHORT V. O. Lively Says European Scarcity Will Be Rivaled Soon. Commenting on the strength of the cattle market "and the prospects for higher prices. D. O. Lively, vice-presi dent of the Portland Union Stock Yards Company, says in his weekly market letter: "There has been a great amount of agitation with regard to high prices of beef, and while the agitators seek to find a bug under the chip in price manipulation by the killers, there has been no satisfactory, solution from that source. The real and only reason for the continued high price of beef Is Its absolute and undeniable shortage. If the rate at which calves and cows are being marketed is maintained it will only be a few years until this country will rank with the countries ot J.u rope in" the great scarcity of beef. "The mutton supply offers a tem porary substitute, but as beef becomes scarce and mutton receives more at tention, it will only be a few years un til mutton prices will make Its use as costly as beef. "The opportunity for profit making In beef raising was never so great as at this time, and when it Is consid ered that permanent fortunes in the cattle industry have followed breeding and raising as against the losses In steer speculation, the attractiveness of the cattle breeding ranch can be eas lly discerned." ROBERT ROSSITER IS DEAD Aged Man Lived 33 Years In Oregon and Leaves Six Sons. Robert Rossiter, aged SO years, a na tive of Devonshire, England, and for 33 years a resident of the United States, died at 7:35 o'clock yesterday morning at bis residence, 817 East Stark street. The funeral will be held at the family home at 10 o'clock this morning and Interment will be In Rlv- erview Cemetery. At the age of 30, Mr. Rossiter left England and went to Canada, locating at Brampton, where he lived until 1879, when he removed to Salem. After re siding In Salem It years, he moved to Portland, where he lived continuously until his death. In 1866, while living at Brampton, Canada, Mr. Rossiter married Elizabeth Humphrey who, with six sons, survives him. The sons are: R. H- H. E., A. E. and L. H. Rossiter, of Portland, and C. F. and L. J. Ros siter, of Vancouver, Wash. Stay In Disbanding Order Asked. SALEM. Or., Aug. 3. (Special.) Acting-Governor Olcott today received several letters from Portland people urging that the carrying out of the disbanding order or the Second Batal lon. Third Regiment, be deferred until such time as the officers and their friends have an opportunity to be heard. It is not a simple matter to sell 23 carloads of pianos in addition to the regular quota, but we're going to do it. First of all, we re going to sell these pianos at the lowest possible prices; secondly, we are going to make terms of payment extremely easy (some only $1.25 a week), and third, we re going to furnish with each one of these in ments a term of free music lessons. A purchaser of one of these pianos has a rlgh.t to select a teacher from the great list or names or teacners in this town to whom we have sold and who are using our pianos. Sea our announce ment on page il, section 1, of this Issue. COUNTY NEGLECTS T Sheriff Stevens Grows Impa tient on Corporation Tax Cases. TRIO OWE ON BACK TAXES Pacific Telephone & Telegraph Com pany, Western Tnion and Postal Indebted to County Xo . One Knows, They Say. It developed yeWterday that owing to a misunderstanding or to failure on the part of Lionel R. Webster, who was employed by the County Court to handle. th matter, nothing has been done by the county towards moving against Injunctions secured In the Fed eral Court In March, restraining Sher iff Stevens from levying on the prop erty of the Pacific Telephone Tele graph Company and the Western Union Telegraph Company as a means of col lecting from these corporations taxes due for several years prior to and in cluding 1910. Sheriff Stevens yesterday caused the Federal Court records to be examined and found that there Is no attorney of record for Hie county and that argu ment on the question of the perma nency of the Injunctions was necessar ily postponed indefinitely because of the failure of the Sheriff to make a return. Stevens recalls that he was requested by the County Court to turn all the papers and information in his posses sion over to Mr. Webster. He did so, and It was not until he became Im patient a few days ago- that he discov ered the real ftatus of affairs. Sheriff Buffeted About. The Sheriff at that time took the matter up with County Judge Cleeton, and the latter referred him to the District Attorney, who promptly said that he knows nothing whatever about the case. Judge Webster's employment was then recalled by Robert Shaw, clerk of the County Court. Commis sioner Llghtner said that If Attorney Webster Is not inclined or has not the time to look after the case, there are plenty of young attorneys who would be glad of the chance to do so. The Postal Telegraph Company also owes the county for bank taxes, but It was understood that the outcome of the fight In the United States Court would govern as to that company, the facts and conditions being similar In all three cases. PERSONALMENTION. J. A. Adams, of Baker, is at the Per kins. J. S. Kllngard, of Pullman, is at the Oregon. D. W. Bennett, of Eugene, is at the Bowers. C. R. Hallberg. of Ontario, Is at the Cornelius. H. P. Stockwell, of Aberdeen, Is at the Portland. J. P. Akin, a banker of Kalama, is at the Imperial. H. jj. Kelley, of Kelso, Wash., Is at the Cornelius. G. G. Smith, of Olympla, Is registered at the Carlton. W. L. Tooze, of Dallas, Is registered at the Portland. J. A. Richmond, of Little Rock, Ark, "is at the Annex. H. K. Seltzer, of Kansas City, Mo., Is at the Imperial. A. P. Cole, of Aberdeen, is registered at the Imperial. M. T. O'Connell, of Winlock, Wash., is at the Oregon. T. C. Smith, Jr., is registered at the Bowers from Salem. M. O. Walton, of Spokane, is regis tered at the Carlton. F. J. Brown, of The Dalles. Is regis tered at thu Carlton.. C. Rosendorf, of Corvallis, Is regis tered at the Perkins. W. I. Dixon, of Roseburg, is regis tered at thte Perkins. F. W. Kelly, of North Yakima, is reg istered at the Oregon. Mr. and Mrs. N. F. Heath, of Grants Pass, are at the Oregon. P. Konnacher, a lumberman, of Ya colt, is at the Oregon. H. W. Beard, of San Francisco, is registered at the Bowers. J. P. Rhodes, a railroad man of Spo kane, is at the Imperial. Jacob Bland, a steel manufacturer of Chicago, is at me Imperial. G. S. Tunrbuil. of the Seattle Post-Intelligencer, is at the Oregon. E. C. Christy, a merchant of Seattle, is registered at the Portland. E. J. Warner and L. W. Tebbel, of Spokane, are at the Cornelius. F. W. Settlemire, a business man of Woodburn. is at the Oregon. Mr. and Mrs. J. D. Sherwood, of Spo kane, are registered at the Multnomah. C. B. Johnson, a railroad contractor from Yamhill County, is at the Port land. ' M. L. Requa, a business man of Oak land. Cal., and Mrs. Requa, are at the. Multnomah. D. W. Beatty and J. A. Rockwell, of Warren, Pensylvania, are at the Port land. They are timber owners. Mr. and Mrs. R. R. Hlnton, of Shanl ko, are at the Portland. Mr. Hlnton Is owner of a large sheep ranch in Morrow County. J. F. Ensign, chief boiler Inspector for the Interstate Commerce Commis sion, is registered at the Multnomah from Washington. B. F. Yard, conducting a party of 25 Raymond-Whitcomb tourists from Alaska, was at the Multnomah yes terday. The party is on its way to Yellowstone Fark. - Mr. and Mrs. W. D. Porter and Mrs. E. Porter left yesterday with their auto for Salem, to visit relatives. They will continue their auto trip to South ern Oregon, and will spend the re mainder of the Summer vacation at Seaside. CHICAGO, Aug. 3. (Special.) L. A. Colton, of Portland, Or., registered at the Congress Hotel today. Klickitat Taxpayers Summoned. GOLDENDALE, Wash., Aug. 3. (Special.) Sheriff Warner has re ceived 70 subpenas from the State Board of Tax Commissioners for resi dents of Klickitat County summoning them to appear at a meeting of the board, which will be held at Golden- dale August IS and 17. Testimony will be taken relative to the value of Klickitat real estate to determine the percentage of the actual cash value that the assessment for 1912 is based on. Fifty of the witnesses were select ed by the state board from the real estate transfers in the auditor's office. The rest have been named by the county assessor and are representative property owners from all sections of the county. NUNGT ONS GT1 106.2