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About The Sunday Oregonian. (Portland, Ore.) 1881-current | View Entire Issue (March 21, 1915)
11 THE StTNTDAT OREGOyiAN, PORTLAyD, MARCH 21, 1915. MITCHELLS POINT ROAD TO BERUSHED .Completion of Link in Colum bia Highway by July 1 Is Predicted. CONTRACT DUE TOMORROW Not Commissioners Declare Delay Is Due to Intention to Violate Pledge, but to Be Assured of Hood River1. Desire. Pledge made to Port Hood Friday that work on the Columbia - Highway over Mitchell PoinU in . Hood Jliver County, would proceed without unnecessary delay gives assurance that the road win De raw V .H ti T Portland to Hood River before July 1. Active plans for completing: the road tt round Mitchell Point are under way ""The State Highway Commission has promised to let the contract for the construction worn wm""""- - -j t- ct.tn no tor Day. who protested against the plan to complete the Columbia mgnway u ...... i rn to Salem on Monday in an effort to throw further obstacles In tne way 01 ." ment, but members of the Commission, consisting- of the Governor, the State Treasurer and the Secretary of State, have assured the friends of the good roads movement, that they will keep tho HnnH River Deople xneir prumiow - and appropriate $50,000. or such part of it as will be required in the project to Ttiminate the prohibitive 2S per cent trade over Mitchell Point. Through Its long: years of idleness the road has grown over wim while huge stones and rocks protrude , VQr!niiN nnlnta. There Is a sharp curve at the summit of the high hill. The point projects out. o.a the tracks of the O.-W. R. & N. Com pany, and at places the present road hangs out on the edge, adding to the -dangers that beset the traveler. Traveler Courts Death. Without this improvement at Mitch ell's Point the Columbia Highway, as an artery of through traffic, would have no practical value. Its western link would end at the western base of Mitchell's Point. It is impossible for an automobile to go over the present road. A horse-drawn vehicle could not oven attempt It. The road has been open for 50 years, but has never been traveled by more than half a dozen -vehicles a year. Only one automobile ' nrer attempted to go over it. and this machine failed in the attempt. S. Benson, the 'i "rtland hotel man and good roads advVate. has agreed to advance the funds necessary, without interest, to meet the payrolls from the time the work Is stared by the con tractors unil he money is forthcoming from the regular Spring Instalment of I tax receipts. Grade Hmt to Evceed S Per Cent. Plans for the Mitchells point im provement call for a standard state road 24 feet wide, with no grade ex ceeding S per cent. The specifications -all also for a short tunnel at the top of the hill. The grade will be com pleted and the surface will be put in sood condition for eventual improve ment with one of the standard forms of hard surface material. "It would be suicide for a man to attempt to drive a machine over this jiiece of highway." says K. E. Coovert. attorney for S. Benson. All plans for development of the Co lumbia highway as a link in a future transcontinental road depend upon liminating the present dangerous road over Mitchells point. The present magnificent piece of road along the Co lumbia River in Multnomah County was built with the taxpayers' money with the understanding that the road east of the Multnomah County line -would be opened this year. Accordingly they bonded themselves ffr $75,000 with the written and official jiromiso of the stato highway com mission that the state would appropri ate the money necessary to eliminate the 2S-per cent grade at Mitchells point, connect the eastern and western links and aid in making the Columbia highway an asset of practical worth to the state instead of a mere attrac tion for tourists. The people of Hood River County a ntered into the road-building cam j'iiicn with the same spirit and the same understanding as possessed by the Multnomah County people, but on ac count of the limited population and limited resources the people there did jiot have the funds available for con struction work on a similar basis. Coiuraiasion's Delay Explained. Although this promise was made by the old i-tigiiway Lommiision oeiore tiovernor Withycombe came into office, jt was considered equally binding upon the present Commission. Treasurer Kay and Secretary Olcott were parties to the original agremeent and are mem bers of the present Commission. Despite the fact that the state had nolemnly pledged itself to do the work at Mitchell's Toint. State Senator Day asked the Commission to repudiate its V'edce and spend the money on roads ' ut s'ome other undesignated place. The people of Hood River County, together with the good roads advocates of "Multnomah County, immediately set up a mightv protest against the unex pected proposal of State Senator Day. Secretary Olcott and Treasurer Kay jiive given their assurance that they never intended to heed the suKgestions ih. ATiiltTirtmnh &nfltnr and held the letting of contracts in abeyance until ionday merely to icarn w neuici the people of Hood River County, as intimated by State Senator Day, would jirefer to have the money spent some place else. But they have heard from Hood Tciver and are assured that the Hood Kivcr people want the money spent at Mitchells Point and at no other place. Therefore It Is certain that the con tracts will be let tomorrow morning and the work proceed to early com pletion. MISS BONNIE TAKES PLACE l omirr Baker riayer With Stock Company Goes to Tacomn. To take- a special engagement In Ta- coma, where sl-.e win open as iraami w oman of the Empress Stock Company . 1- : t j -trie. fnr Belle an ii c Dio j n Xonnie. former leading woman at the J!aker Theater, lert last ween iur r u sret Sound. Miss Bonnie for the last -. . n-A.ira , a . Keen under the care ..k.-.ui.. with o i'pr cold- con tracted w-hile playing "The Dawn of a Tomorrow." Miss Bonnie will return to Portland In June, en route to v lora to ntgin , J -- , ...J,.n(I.Ti ti-i I r . j-enearsais m nu 1 ...... . - ill start on tour In August. Iyncinda'Hjnes Dies, Aged 84. Lucinda Hynes, widow of the late Joseph Hynes. one or the pioneer resi dents of Southern Wasco County, died at Boyd today, aged 4- She is sur vived by four sons. 20 grandchildren and six great-grandchildren, all resi dents of Oregon The funeral will be held tomorrow with interment at Da-far. FESTIVAL PLANS IS TOPIC East Side Clubs to Learn or Parade Features. Representatives of all organizations on the EaBt Side will meet with the East Side Business Men's Club, in the library building, Thursday evening, when details for the annual Rosebud parade will be discussed. It is expected that several hundred people will at tend to hear the Festival governors and East Side business men discuss the details of this feature of the pro gramme. O. M. Plummer.' chairman of the com mittee on school participation, says that there is great interest In the pub lic schools of the city regarding the SERIES OF FREE! CONCERTS 4 TO START AT V. M. C. A. TONIGHT. m j '.- 4- . -:vx V ' - V uttii Dr. Clement R. SUw. The first of a series of 20 free concerts under the direction of Dr. Clement B. Shaw and R. C French, educational secretary of the Young Men's Christian As sociation, will be given at 8 o'clock tonight in the T. M. C. A. auditorium. Several of the most prominent artists of the city will appear at the concerts. Dr. Shaw proposes to conduct these free entertain ments at the association until June 30 in the effort to popu larize the operas with the masses of the people of the city who seldom have the opportunity to bear them at the theater. The artists who will be on the staff have given their services gratuitously. forthcoming parade, and representa tives of East Side Parent-Teacher or ganizations and the principals and teachers in public schools are urged to be present. .... -. -i . xii. -. ioa ennrfire of the musical features, will be present- and outline his programme. . George F. Baker and Ira F. Powers, who will i v,n-rrA tii. fraternal and au tomobile parades, and President Olm- stead, or tne Doara, win "The Koseoua paraao is i. irn,iii-Dl thnt hrinsra much DUblicity for Portland every year, since children have such a prominent part in . parade. We find that motion-picture i iaii AauntfA much attention to IIICU 1 1 1 ' " v. ' " this feature, and last year s parade has been seen in nunareas oi uicawi. over the counto.1 This year new and attractive features will be added and the Rosebud parade is to be one of the big events of Festival week," declared Mr. Plummer. SIOUX LANDS ARE OPEN Government to Find Substitute for Former Land lottery System. SIOUX CITY, la.. March- 20. The Government has issued a proclamation opening the Standing Rock Indian reservation to settlement, according to word received from Washington today. This reservation is in both South and North Daaotas. A new system is to be used, which does away with the old lottery sys tem used at Rosebud and other places. ...I- i .... j ...ill K. nnnn tfl insnection from May 3 to May 19, and filing may be made on the latter aate. n ns event there are two or more applicants fnr the a mf. niece of land, then these contestants will draw lots. In North Dakota the filings will be mado in Bismarck and in South Dakota at Timber Lake, 'mere are i,airo, acres in the reservation, but after the state has taken its share, and with the Indian allotments made, there will re main 300,000 acres for settlement. ANNOUNCEMENT. Jerome B. Stelnbach desires to an nounce that he has taken the fire In surance agency for Portland and vicin ity of the American Insurance Company of Newark, N. J., and will handle same in connection with the office of A. B. Steinbach & Co., Corbett bldg., for which he is agent. Adv. Attorney Sears Released. Attorney C. B. Sears, accused of as sault and battery by A. Hylander. was released from the charge by Municipal Judge Stevenson yesterday. Sears ad mitted getting into a fight with the plaintiff and using a piano stool in self-defense during an argument over a business transaction. He asserted that the only force he used was nec essary to protect himself from Injury. Kelso Plans Cleanup. KELSO. Wash.. March 20. (Special.) Mayor C. O. Talbert has announced that Thursday, Friday and Saturday, April 8, 9 and 10. will be the official cleanup days for Kelso and that on these days every good and loyal citizen will be expected to turn out with the proper implements and aid in the clean up, not only of his own. but of his neighbor's lot and street. Citizenship Is Given to 41 . Forty-one were admitted to cltisen shlp by Circuit Judge McGinn during the naturalization sessions of his court on Friday and Saturday. Only one of the applicants examined was refused. This man admitted that he had been rrMipa in i n i r r i l H.11 u i-un .... w arson and that he ie still on parole. Roseburg to Elect Festival Queen. ROSEBCRG. Or.. Mar. 20. (Special.) Following the usual custom, the com mittee in charge of the Seventh Annual Strawberry Festival to be held here on Mav 21 and 22. will elect a "Queen" by popular vote. Ballot boxes will be pro vided and voting will commence .anj Furnish Your Home From Jenning's Great Stocks v - . . ' . . i . i i p j i : k We show a new stock of Furniture and Housefurnishings-larger than that of any other two stores in the city. ' Every want can be supplied here from tne most inexpensive quality to the finest that money can buy. We invite your inspection of our mammoth tioors, imea wiin lunuiuie " Open an account. Our credit policy is most liberal. If ; Xhrj Bedding Department Specials Fancy Window Curtains In madras, sunfast and Bilk-striped fabrics. Positively the greatest value we have ever offered at Yt PRICE. Second Floor, Main Store. Second and Morrison STORE Regular S4.00 Pillows of standard size, made of pure, clean feathers, special, pair Second Floor, Main Store. n.$2.70 Our Bedding; Department is growing rapidly. The values we offer in this department are recognized by our cus tomers as setting a standard not equaled elsewhere. Note these specials for this week: Regular $1.50 Comforters $1.10 Regular $2.00 Comforters $1.45 Regular $3.75 Wool-Finish Blan kets, full size, 72x80; (PO QC weight AY, lbs., special pOt Second Floor, Main Store. Staple Garland Ranges This splendid Garland Range is built of Wellsville blue steel,, with asbestos lining, sanitary base, aluminum ized oven of heavy gauge steel, with aerated feature, which supplies ventila tion and freshly heated air throughout. Top of heavy cast iron, braced to prevent sagging. High closet of Wellsville pol ished steel, with revolving sheet steel top. The highest standard of any range on the market. 18-inch oven $50.00 16-inch oven... . .$45.00 Basement Salesroom Main Store pit pfyn $1.35 Brussels Carpets at 92c Best quality Brussels, with or without borders; factory dropped patterns; sewed, lined and laid. To close, $15 Brussels Rugs for $11.75 A large variety of floral and Oriental patterns in 9x12 best Brussels Rugs. Regular $15 quality; your df choice this week for pl 1 f J Special Sale of Axminster Rugs Regular $1.75 Axminster Rugs, 27x54 ; mottled -l 1 A centers with fancy borders. Very special at p 1 1 J ' ' Second Floor, Main Store ...itti'rww-Mii... $12.50 Iron Bed $4.95 The greatest Bed bargain in the city. Splendid new Beds, with 2-inch continuous posts, with five 8-inch fillers; 'ither VernU Martin or ivory finish. Beginning tomor- CA QC row, special ij)T'ei0 $6.50 Springs $3.95 Strong, well-made Springs of all-metal fabric; a ten-year guarantee not to tQ sag. Special tpOeevO All Go-Carts Reduced Our new stock of Oriole Go Carts greatly under normal prices: $8.50 Oriole Co-Carts for $6.35 $12.50 Oriole Go-Carts at $9.35 Sample Go-Carts, Push-Carts and Sulkies at drastic redac tions to close out. A Full Line of 'Wearever" Aluminum Utensils Basement Salesroom, Main Store. Henry Jenning & Sons VdiuZfture Washington at Fifth Street Rug Specials $27.00 Axminster Rugs, 9x12, special f.50 Axminster Rugs, 36x63, special $2.95 .00 Axminster Rugs, 27x54, En.rin $1.85 Morrison at Second Street Second and Morrison Store MOST OF NATION w Country-Wide Prohibitoin Is Predicted in Ten Years. 20 PER CENT OF AREA WET Rev. P. A. Baker, General Superin tendent of Anti-Saloon League, on Visit Here, Says Next Step Is to Bar Idquor From Islands. r i v. n n vaayn Ttntlnn-wiHA prohibition will be in effect in the United States," sam .ev. r. a. oaier, ,i .niniiii.nl of tha Anti-Sa loon League of America, at the Hotel Portland last nlg-nt. At present ot per cent of the population of the United States is living in dry territory and nearly 80 per cent of the area of this country is under prohibition. rrh. v.Vtfhtlnn mnvpmpnt has been making rapid strides during the past few years, it Himpiy la tt blcp iui ward in our civilization. The business interests of the country have come to realize that traffic in liquor is -economic waste and that the excessive use of liquor means inefficiency. The enact- .nlnvare' l!nhilitv lHWR in thfl UICUI Cll.p'uj ., . V various states has had a pronounced effect against liquor. s i" wwa.iufeo of these laws demonstrate to what ex- QUX Ul. " - sible for accidents. Nearly all large employers now are uppuatu. w liquor traffic. Nine Statea Fall In Line. Within the past six months nine states have adopted prohibition. These lnciuue 6'"Jf w . 0 . .. - Idaho, Colorado, Iowa, Alabama, Ar kansas and Arizona. iine oiuer suiic. already on the dry list are Maine, North Dakota, Kansas, North Carolina, Georgia, Tennessee, West Virginia, . , i .. Ut.alealnnf ThAH Are now 18 states where prohibition is in effect and within 18 months we expect to see at least half dozen, more on the dry list. vMnm "National legislation on prohibition will come sooner than many people think. At the last session of Congress prohibition had its ftrst hearing be fore that body. We had a majority of eight votes in the House of Representa tives, although the leaders of both parties made a strong . fight against the measure." - Rev. Mr. Baker is on his way to his home at Columbia. O, from a trip to the Hawaiian Islands. " He was at Hon .inin month aim made a broad study of the liquor situation there. "We will asic me next wugioB establish Federal prohibition in tne Hawaiian Islands," continued Rev. Mr. Baker. "Liquor is killing off the na tives They are so constituted that they are unable to resist he effects of intoxicants. The liquor traffic was regulated much better when the islands were a separate nation. Since the United States annexed them the natives have been falling off nearly twice the rate they were before. "The population consists of about 90 000 Japanese, 9000 Coreans, 7000 Portuguese and about 10,000 Americans and other white people. The large proportion of the population is foreign born but the children are Americana On account of this peculiar racial mix ture it is the duty of our Government to look to their future. They will make good Americans if we protect them. The first important step to take is to establish National prohibition there. Rev Mr Baker will remain in Port land until tonight, when he will start for home by the way of Seattle. He will speak at the morning service of the First Episcopal Church and' at 3 o'clock today he will address a mass meeting at the First Presbyterian Church. MANCHUR!ANCORN COMING Japanese Steamer Due From Kobe With 5O0 Tons. SEATTLE. March 20- The Japanese steamship Hakushika Maru will arrive from Kobe late in March with the first full cargo of Manchurlan corn ever borne across the Pacific, amounting to 5000 tons. It will be used in the manu facture of stock food. The high price of grain in the United States has caused a brisk market for Manchurian corn. Returning, the Ha kushika will take a half-million-dollar cargo of corn to Vladivostok. BMK MERGER IS OF Northwestern and Lumber men's Will Not Unite. . NEGOTIATIONS ARE AT END although some additional space would have been required. .Since the consolidation plan has failed each bank will continue business In its present quarters the North western and the Portland Trust & Sav ings Bank in the Northwestern Na tional Bank building, and the Lumber men's National in the Lumbermen's building at Fifth and Stark streets. MRS. M. JJ'VEY DIES Resident of Oregon for 20 Tears Passes at Ape of 83. Mrs. Minerva J. MoVey, who had been a resident of Portland for 1l years, th lamn from miinKgl. powilnr, died yesterday at 6:40 A. M. The body is at Lerche's undertaking establish ment. The funeral will be held Hondas- at 11 o'clock trom the undertaker's. Mrs. McVey was born In Menalen, Favette County, Pennsylvania. May 1830. She was the wife of B. F. Mc Vey. veterau of the Civil War and member of the Masonic Lodge. hn had been a resident of Oregon for the past 20 years and was a member of the Relief Corps. Gordon Grtnufr No. 43. of Wooillawn. t-'he leaves two daughters and a eon Mrs. A. K. Lom bard, of Aurora. !.: Mrs. W. P. Garrison, and W. F. McVey. of Port land. United Ktt rl otrtiarK tm rt veloped a colord kIk lint rendu mium Representatives Unable to Agree on Details and Two Institutions Will Be Conducted Sepn- rately as at Present. Negotiations for the consolidation of the Northwestern and LumDermen s na tional banks have been discontinued, and it is announced that the proposed merger will not be consummated. It is understood that the stockhold- onl tii. directors of the two insti tutions have been unable to agree -upon terms that would be mutually satisiac tory. The banks, therefore, will con tinue as institutions separate from each other. Negotiations for the consolidation . i ,n ... .incA .nrlv in the DUO "ecu .... v. ... . year. The general terms and plans of procedure were agreed iu, "u of both banks gave much time to con- -jj taMe TTntll a few weeks ago prospects for the ultimate success of the plan were Drigni, uui. m L1 o.- tion necessarily was a complicated one. , mi,.ti vaitinbTA nranerty and millions of dollars in banking assets. It was found that tne terms mum nut be adjusted to satisfy all the interests affected, so it was mutually agreed to discontinue all further proceedings. Had the proceedings been carried to their " intended conclusion the -result would have been one of the most pow erful financial institutions in the North west . Had the merger been completed the v. i i kani, imHAr a. hvohenated title, would have occupied the present quarters of the iNortnwestern ihumo,!, hi r? 1 ! . A - ,!- frTvi-x " ICS - " 1 -(f'cx .'s,v -sua 33 J. '..-'--1 J : H-M'l SkiltlMM.Tl--T J - r vrv- , j . I Selecting a Piano at the Schwan Piano Co; j Weekly Growers' Guide March 19, 1915 Portland Seed Co. 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