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TIIE SUNDAY OREGONIAX, PORTLAND, JANUARY 10, 1915. 12 SENATOR OF HORO SNAPSHOTS OF UP-STATE LEGISLATORS WHO WERE HT PORTLAND YESTERDAY. OUT TO SAVE FUNDS 1 I u?555''''''"''.. vAttrtual (Tkarance Sale tow ZZa!IIimZmmm mmmm sBBBBa-sssBBjsaassssssl sssnasaBasssajsjsjaaaaaaaavsjssB Varied Stocks to Choose. Trout "prices Sfyarpl? (Tut Books are herein featured, but every department is participating in this interesting Money-Saving Sale. BIBLES, TESTAMENTS L-rv d i,,. and PRAYER BOOKS at25 Reductlon Mr. Ragsdale in Favor of Con solidating Bureaus if It Is Economical. HURST DROPS CONTEST jt Linn Democrat to Join Republicans I ? : In Constructive and Remedial (! Measures Hal Patton i : ; Worts for Eaton. i t ii "I am not altogether satisfied with the plan for consolidating state boards ! and departments that the boys here In ; ; Multnomah County have prepared." said ! ! Senator Ragsdale. of Moro. who joined ' the local legislative colony yesterday. I : "While I believe that aome good ! thought Is represented In the suggea- tlon to combine ail existing boards. 1 ; commissions, bureaus and branches Into about 12 state departments, I am not ' : in favor of making the changes at all !. unless by so doing we can save a lot : : of money. , "I understand that some of the Mult- ' ; nomah delegates are determined to ! make the changes whether they result : in any savings or not. but what's the ! ' um of changing the whole government i - if you are not going to save anything;" Senator Ragsdale Is a holdover mem- ber, and says that anyone who has had 1 any experience whatever with the state j government knows that its multiplicity ! . of departments and Its complex organl I' zatlon make it inefficient and expen- ! I sive. ! , "There is plenty of room to cut ex- 1 , penaes and to eliminate unnecessary work." he said. I think it will do one of the greatest duties of the coming session to make these changes." Senator Kagsdale says that he has !; no consolidation bill of his own either j , in completed form or in preparation, J; but l ready to support any other mem ) 1 ber's measure that appears reasonable : and effective. "The people of Sherman County and the other counties of my district are anxious to see this Legislature do some thing in the way of reducing expenses all around, and don t want us to stop in consolidating some of the state boards. There are other places where we can save." Senator Von der Hellen. of Wellen, He also is a holdover and was busy I greeting his friends of the former ses- sion around the lobby of the Imperial Hotel last night. "I think I enjoy the distinction," said Senator Von der Hellen. who speaks with a delightful German accent, "of .' adding to the pile of bills as little as possible. I have not a single bill up my sleeve and have none in mind right now. I believe we are going to have . a pleasant session and do a lot of ef fective work." "Don t think that because I am a Democrat I won't have anything to , . jay." remarked Senator Garland, of . - Lebanon, to his Republican colleagues yesterday. "I can make just as much . noise as any of you and I'll be right . with you on everything that 1 think . Is right and right against you on everything I think is wrong." Senator Garland is one of the two . Democratic members of the upper house, lie will represent Linn County. Ha says he proposes to introduce no important legislation of his own. but . promises to work with the Republican majority In all its constructive and remedial plana Senator Cusick, of Albany, who will - represent the Lane-Linn Joint district, also visited in Portland yesterday and promised to add to the- emptiness of the Senate hopper by dumping no bills Into it. Mr. Cuslck. who Is In the banking Business in Albany, always has taken an active part in the development of that part of the state. J. H. Collins, of Rainier. Representa-"tive-elect from Columbia County, is in terested in educational legislation. He I is a former superintendent or schools, but now is engaged In the real estate business. Although he proposes to in troduce no. particular educational bills of his own. he says he will watch with keen interest the progress of xther measures on this subject. He also 'Is Interested in road legislation on ac- -count of the Columbia Highway de velopment through his county. Ki-Prnator Hal I. Patton. of Salem, "1s on deck. He came to town Friday ' night and yesterday morning pulled off '.)ils coat and plunged Into the Eaton t taaiDaien. Tatton has been one of the chief log-I -rollers at Salem for years and always I - has been active on behalf of the Marion Vounty institutions when state appro-1 1-riattons were being distributed. A few I " years aso he was a leader in the move-I nient to sell the old Cooke mansion to the state as an executive mansion. Two I .'.years ago he bolted the Republican I party and became a Progressive. Last " jn tnw t- . nn-nil-.H Ih. i H a n hni-nm ; inK a candidate for Railroad Com mis-I - eioner anu iciuincu iu nc ii,wliiiwiii - ranks for that purpose, but didn't get anywhere. Roscoe P. Hurst, who was the Demo cratic candidate for Representative I . from the Multnomah-Clackamas joint! . district against C. M. Hurlburt. has! abandoned his plans for a contest. "After mature deliberation." he said I ."Yesterday. "I have decided not to tile I .'t contest for the reason that the House I ' ran. of Its own motion, unseat Mr. Hurl '.burt if desired as well without a con- "lest being instituted on my part as if I .1 did so. 1 am perfectly willing to let V the House act and abide by any decision .-it may reach. c In a desperate effort to break Into ;Ben Selling's strength for the speaker. .".hip. Allen Eaton and his supporters testerriay began to circulate a report iMrotind political headquarters that -J-Iaton has 30 votes pledged and that he -jieeds "but one more to make 1C ' It is apparent that this statement is '- laterly false, as Ben Selling has at least - ;$. votes pledged either by letter or - telecram. and none of his pledged sup. -porters has a--ked to be released. The purpose of this kind of a campaign Is - oovious. It is the custom for Eaton or one of his henchmen to go to a Representative who has asreed to vote for belling and say something like this: "Now we have 30 votes and none of r them can get away. You come over : and we can win." ;'- Each man is led to believe that he '.will be the thirty-first and that with his support Eaton will win. V far he has been unable to break Into the Selling ranks and it seems cer . tain that he will remain unable to. : selling doubtless will have 36 or more -votes on the first ballot. Eaton may Jhave as many as 20 votes, as the four Democrats are expected to vote for htm. It Is understood that Governor West has asked them to support Baton. ;s Eaton was one- of the Oovernor'a V mouthpieces on the floor of the House at the last session. 4) nn lymaaq (6) . " f i ivmwnmmfl KA iSAS MAN MADE HEAD feLJ AMERICAN EXPRESS COMPANY PRO MOTES K. SI. WHITTLE. Charles L. Chase, of Topeka. Named Superintendent for Oregon and Washington Office Here. Charles L. Chase, of Topeka. Kan., superintendent of the American Lx- press Company on the general lines of the Kansas division, arrived In Port land yesterday to succeed E. M. Whit tle, who has been superintendent of the company's service in Oregon and Washington for .six years, with head quarters in Portland. Mr. Whittle left Portland last night with J. A. r. Vickers, of Chicago, vice- president and general manager of the Western lines of the company, for an Inspection trta of all the larger offices promoted to the managership of the Pacific department, wnich aproximaies 15.000 miles of road and all territory west of the Missouri River. His head quarters will be In Denver. He suc ceeds Robert K. M. Cowie, who has been elected vice-president and gen eral manager of Eastern lines, with headauarters in New York. J. E. Sanborn, wno nas neretoiore been commercial agent of the company at Seattle, also has been appointea general agent of the company at Port- land, to succeed W. H. Carroll, who died recently. Mr. Whittle has been In the service of the American Express Company for the past 30 years, while Superintend ent Chase started his association with the. comnanv in St. Paul in 1S90. He J ; r. v.- -4 iWl1,Aifil,iff,)-C''At-t Charles L. Chase, of Topeka Kasw Who Yesterday Became Snprrtnteadrsjt-of the Amerleaa Express Compaay'a Offices la Northwest. has also been connected with the com pany offices at Chicago.. Denver, st Louis and New York and he said last night that he was quite happy to come to Portland In announcing the changes yesteraay Mr. Vickers said that all promotions had been gained by merit alone and that the transfers were made lor tne benefit of the service. Japanese Held for Liquor Sale. For serving sakl a Japanese alco holic drink) la a grill which was not t ? l tgs? rnmi ,jig?l5F-:-.-y (1) Senator Butler. The Dalles; (2) Representative Childs. Brownsville) :t) Senator Strayer, Baker; (4) Roy Ritner. Pendleton: (5) Representative Collins. Rainier; (6) Senator Burgess. Pendleton; " Senator Oarland Lebanon; (S) Senator CualcJc, Albanyi licensed to sell liquor, Y. Nak'ota, who conducts a restaurant at 105 North Fourth street, yesterday was arrested by Sergeant Robson and Patrolmen Wellbrook and Miller. It was held that the sale of sakl was as direct a violation of the law as the sale of whisky without a license. WASTE MAY AID ROADS ENGINEER SAYS LIQUID FROM PULP MILLS SUPERIOR TO OIL. Plant at Oregon City Dumps Into River 180,000 Gallons Daily That May Be Tested on Stretches. OREGON CITY. Jan. 9. (Special.) The 180,000 gallons of waste dumped Into the river each day by the local paper and plup plants is the best road building material that can be secured. according to County Road Engineer Hodson who suggests that It be ap plied to the county roads during the year in place of oil or water. The waste is thrown away In the form of a ' liquid and consists of sulphite, pitch, turpentine, calcium choloride and, water. The sulphite dissolves the minerals in the rock in the road, while the pitch an turpen tine holds the material together. The calcium choloride draws moisture from the air and prevents dust. The same liquid in a condensed form has been used in Eastern states for about seven years. There it Is sold under the trade name, glutrin, and has an extensive market, sew ior nas built many miles of road, with the llqiisfi as a binder in place of water or oil. A number of New -England states, too, have adopted this material in road building. As a first step toward testing out the sulphite liquid, Mr. Hobson will treat a stretch of road in west unn. it tne experiments meet success, the liquid probably will be applied to many miles of Clackamas County road during the next - year. Oregon City mills alone produce enough of the product to sup ply a large part or viregon ana wasn lngton in the opinion of Mr. Hobson. With each ton of pulp produced, 1800 gallons of the material is thrown into the river, or a total of about 180,000 a day from all the mills. Ten thou sand gallons applied to a roaa in a year will Keep tne oust ao n buu surface In . an excellent condition, say those who have studied the merits oi the liquid. Thl sulDhite liquid may change com pletely the method of repairing, build ing and maintaining roaas in v.iacit- amaa County. Mr. Hobson preiers tne liquid to oil and believes that an oil bound macadam is not superior to sul phite-bound macadam. A lasting sur face is assured by the application of the liquid to roads during the Sumrnsr months, and arrangements may De made to distribute it over ail county highways. - Social Service League to Sleet. The regular monthly meeting of the Episcopal Social Service League will be held in room A of the Central Li brary. January 12. at 8 P. M. Mr. and Mrs. Collings will speak on the sub ject: "Three Months at Scadding House." Miss Jocelyn Foulkes will fur nish a programme of music for the meeting, to which all persons inter ested in social service are invited. HEALTH BILLS URGED Mr. Mickle Advocates Laws to .Regulate Sanitation. VIOLATIONS MADE CRIMES Sleeping In Bakeries or Like Places and Other Acts Prohibited and Labeling of Goods 30 Days Old or More Provided. Improved sanitation in all places where food products are handled and better facilities for keeping food under cold storage are proposed in two bills which J. D. Mickle. State Dairy and Food Commissioner, will ask the Leg islature to enact into law. The "sanitary bill" would require all such institutions as Daneries, conieu tioneries, canneries, packing-houses, bottling-houses, slaughter-houses, res taurants, hotels, dining cars, groceries, meat markets, dairies, creameries, but ter factories, cheese factories and the like to be maintained "in a clean, healthful and sanitary condition." It will give the Dairy and Food Com missioner and his deputies the au thority to designate when a place is in a "sanitary condition" and when it is not. and would define what circum stances would cause a place to be classed as "insanitary." rne aispiay ftf fnnH ni-nd nets on sidewalks and in stores and their transportation through the streets would be fully regulated. Contagion Guarded Against. No persons would be permitted to live or sleep in any room of a bakeshop. kitchen, dining-room, coniecuonery m place where food is prepared, served or sold. Persons suffering from com municable diseases would not be per mitted to work in places where food is prepared. It would be further provided that all nersons operating meal mumeu, slaughter-houses, bakeries, candy fac tories, eating-nouses, restaurants, luncu counters, canneries, . bottling works, cheese factories, creameries or any pub lic milk or cream depot should apply to the Dairy and Food Commissioner and receive a license, a ncenss lee of 1 would be charged. Violations of the provisions of the act would merit fines of not to exceed $100 and jail sentences not to exceed 30 days. Commissioner Mickle's otner bill aims to regulate the cold-storage prac tices in the state and would fix 45 degrees Fahrenheit as the maximum temperature to which the term "cold storage" can be applied It would require that all persons do ing a cold storage business in the state apply to the Commissioner for a license and would fix the license fee at J10. It would regulate the condi tions under which food could be placed In cold storage and would make It unlawful to sell food products that had been held in cold storage for more than . 30 dayB, without' notifying the purchasers of the- fact. It would be required, also, that all food offered for sale after having been in cold storage be conspicuously marked "Cold Storage Goods." 1 Heavy penalties also would be pro vided for violations of the law. "We now have no laws safeguarding! WASHINGTON HIGH SCHOOL TO PRODUCE CITIZEN." -.3 . jk Ji. ii II i iiiifl The February. 1915. class of Washington High School will give the play. "The American Citizen " January 15 and 16 in the school auditorium.. Ruth wmiam'nXjohn'ciemenson pjy lead part Others in the oast are Ellen Jackson. Charles Stolte. Carrol Day. Laura Moore, Winnifred Joyce Jul an Marshall, Waldo Grenfell, Barkley Loughlin. Marie Kohn. Gustav Voigt, Clif ford Duncan and George Cook. Francis D. Curtis former coach at Eugene is now coaching the cast, and the play promises to be a great success. The hon orary member of the class, umar Dinner, nas luaneu u u, be the mascot. Books on Religious " -and Devotional 1 1 0 I0 subjects reduced J Bungalow &-Home Building Books 20 Discount. The J. K Gill Company. iT'om". the public against any food vendor, other than a dairyman, who may han dle food in an insanitary way," said Commissioner Mickle yesterday. "And some deplorable conditions have de veloped in the state merely because we have no law. Rats Found In Candy Factory. "Can you conceive of a candy fac tory where rats are permitted to play on the windows and on the tables upon which the candy is handled? We have found such a condition and have the. material as proof, but we have no law to prevent a recurrence. "Do you want your children to drink soda water made and bottled In a place that is wholly unfit for a livery sta ble? We have such a factory in this state, and the bottlers with clean places must compete with this one, because we have no law to stop him. "Do you want the man who cooks your luncheon in the restaurant to be compelled to use a washroom Jointly with the patrons of a pool hall and saloon? We found such conditions and have been unable to compel the owners of restaurant building to rem edy them. "We have complaints that some of the popcorn venders seen on the streets of Portland are keeping their wagons ajid suDDlies in livery stables. Our present law makes no distinction be tween storing popcorn In a livery sta ble or a parlor. Mangy Rata Gnaw Carcasses. "We have found slaughter-houses In fested with mangy, diseased rats and wb have seen the holes they ate in the carcasses that were slaughtered In such places and remained hanging there over night. We have maucea many owners of slaughter-houses to provide screened rooms for carcasses, but without a law to compel those who are unwiUlng; progress Is very slow. t triort to tirosecute a man for offer ing for sale and selling the meat of a cow and call tnat naa oeun niausu tered a. few weeks before the calf was due to be born, but I failed in the orosecution for lack of law. "I could recite many other instances similar to these enumerated aoove, Dut feel that I will even now be accused or talklTiEr much too plain for comiort. io one will be censured for not believing some of these statements, for I can truthfully say that I should never have believed them myself naa I Deen toia the facts before I saw the conditions. We will gladly supply the proof of every contention and more to follow If more is wantea.- SEWER BID HELD TOO HIGH Only Offer on Sunnvside Trunk Work May Be Turned Down. Because a bid submitted by Giebisch & Joplin, contractors, for the recon struction of the Sunnyside trunk sewer in East Alder street from near East Second street to the river, is 22 per cent higher than the estimate for the work prepared by City Engineer Dater. City Commissioner Dieck will ask the City Council to reject the bid and read vertise for new proposals. The Gie bisch & Joplin bid was the only bid received for the contract. The estimate of the City Engineer was $19,602. The bid of Glsbisch & Joplin was $23,969. Brakeman Accused of Desertion. MARSHFIELD, Or., Jan. 8. (Special.) Sheriff Alfred Johnson arrested Rich ard Mills, alias R. L. Miller, a brake man on the Smith-Powers logging rail road, today and is holding him for Cali fornia officials. Mills is charged with wife desertion and non-support On being arrested Mills said he had ob tained a separation from Mrs. Mills and although he offered to contribute to the support of their child, Mrs. Mills had refused aid. "THE AMERICAN y f - Standard Authors 1 in sets, reduced 50 TWENTY to J Books of Children's Books 20 to 50 Discount. ONE TABLE OP FINE BOOKS AT IIALF PRICE Second Floor Specialties Reduced Broken Lines of Boxed Stationery Reduced, Leather and Brass Novelties One-Fourth Off Leather Handbags One Third Off. All Gift Bazar Lines at Extraordinary Savings. Contract Goods alone excepted. til 5 WEST GETS ADVICE "Follow the Law," Senator Tells Retiring Governor. CLARK ACTION HURTS In Keply to Woman's Right to Seat In Senate Should Contest Arise, Senator Kiddle Says: "I Ad vise You to Follow Law." Governor West got back some of his own advice last week. The Governor wrote to all members of the State Senate asking them their probable attitude on his proposed ap pointment of Miss Kathryn Clark, of Glendale, to succeed George Neuner as State Senator from Douglas County. He asked for telegraphic replies, as the time before the Legislature con venes is short. Some of the Senators replied. Some did not. But ,the reply sent by Senator Kiddle, of Island City, must have sounded familiar. "I believe in strict law enforcement. t advise vou to follow the law," Is what Senator Kiddle sent over the wire. In view of the fact that the Gov ernor has called a special election in Douglas County to choose Mr. Neuner's successor, it is apparent that most of the replies were no more satisfactory than was that of Senator Kiddle. The Governor's letter, which Inspired Senator Kiddle's laconic message, and which was repeated in kind to all mem hers of the Senate, was as follows: "This office has appointed Kathryn Clark of Glendale. Or., as State feena tor to succeed Hon. George Neuner. who recently resigned. A question having risen as to the right of the Governor to anDOlnt (see sections lb ana ii, article 5. of the constitution), I am writing to ask your view ot tne suua tion and whether you would see your way clear to favor her being seated should a contest arise. "Should I find that Miss Clark Is not likely to be seated, it will be necessary for me to call a special elction, ana it is a desire to avoid throwing this expense upon Douglas County which has prompted the appointment and caused me to request your co-operation. "As it is but a short time until the convening of the Legislature, I would ask that you kindly wire me your position in the matter." AFRICAN MISSIONARY BACK Fred V. Xeal Has Record of 13 00 Conversions In Past Xear. ALBANY. Or., Jan. . (Special.) Prni W. NeaL Albany College graau ate who has established the remark able record of securing 1300 conver atnna durinir the past year la the Pres byterian mission field in German West Africa, has arrived in the United States on a furlough ana is ue in Ainany nurt Fridav. Mr. Neal has been in tne jvamerun district of West Africa the past three years. He is now stationed at a new mission at Fulasl. In the last year of his work there he preached to im mense audiences, talking to as many as 8000 people at one time. Mr. Neal. who was reared near Turn er, in Marion county, was graduated from Albany College In 1907. and later attended McCormlck Theological Semi nary. Grover C. Blrtchet. a schoolmato of Mr. Neal, had planned to go to the same mission field this year, but the war his prevented the sending out of any new missionaries. OLD SEAL WANTED BACK Oregon Bodies Act to Restore Terri torial Murk of Commonwealth. The Oregon chapters of the Daugh ters of the American Revolution and the Oregon Historical Society are pre paring a bill which. If adopted by the coming Legislature, will restore the old territorial seal, which was discarded when Oregon became a state In 1859, a the official mark of this commonwealth. It was used for 10 years in territorial Oregon. "There is now no official seal of this state and It strikes me that the old seal would represent Oregon more fittingly than any of the six or eight that are now in UBe," said George H. Hlmes, sec retary of the Oregon Historical Society. and member of Its legislative committee, vesterdav. "The old seal bears an en- liiLVii& of a beaver, which stauds for Travel and Biography "2, Discount ri Streets Industry and Intelligence. It will ba nevessary to change the seal only by replacing the words "Territory of Oie gon" with "State of Oregon." Regents Accent Appointment. OLYMPIA. Wash.. Jan. . (Special.) Governor Lister announces that K. T. Coman, of Spokane, and W. A. Kits, of Walla Walla, both have accepted ten dered appointments on the board of regents of Washington Stat Colics j. The positions have been vacant nearly two years but this action Insures a full board to select a successor to trepi dant Bryan, of the KtI Coll ere, m ho has submitted his resignation to be come effective at the end of the pres ent calendar year. Railroad Officers Hold Over. WATERVILLE, Wash.. Jan. .(Spe cial.) At the annual meeting of the stockholders of the Watervllla Hallway, there was no quorum and the same di rectors will remain in office another year. These are George V. Wiley, C A. Grants, C. V. Ogle, J. C Brennesholls and J. D. Bonar. No dividend was de clared as it seems desirable to crest a fund for new equipment and other improvements. Highway Views to Be Kliown. There will be shown In the Whit Temple next Friday, at 1 o'clock, a series of views cf the Columbia High way. Samuel Lancaster, the htghwity engineer, will give a stereoptlcon lec ture on the plscea a TIZ" GLADDENS SORE, TIRED FEET No Puffed-Up, Burning', Tender, Aching; Feet No Corns or Callouses. 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