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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.
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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.
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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
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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
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