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About The Sunday Oregonian. (Portland, Ore.) 1881-current | View Entire Issue (June 13, 1915)
THE SUNDAY OREGON! AN, PORTLAND. JUNE 13, 1915. OFFICIAL COUNT IS ABOUT TO BEGIN EXPERTS TELL FARMERS OF CENTRAL OREGON HOW TO COMBAT PROBLEMS Fourteen Meetings Held in District Which Is Being Reclaimed and Where Towns of Merit Are Springing Up. Addison Bennett Says Homesteaders Still Face Many Trials, but Will Win in End. Official Checking of Votes of Recent City Election to Take Two Days. 3', i. MAYOR TO SETTLE RUMORS 4 v 11 10 Meiij Be Sore! 1 , A ' Vy ' - - , I ' ti" " Iecision Concerning Assignments to Commissioners to Be Eade This Week, Says Executive Many Reports Are Circulated. Official count of the vote cast in the city election last Monday will be started tomorrow by clerks in the office of City Auditor Barbur. All necessary blanks have been prepared and the count will go ahead without delay. It will take about two days. Uneasiness which prevails at the City Hall because of the retirement of Com missioner Brewster and the election of George L. Baker to take Mr. Brewster's place July 1, will be set to rest this "week by Mayor Albee. He announced yesterday that he will definitely decide this week on what assignments will be made to the Commissioners. He refused to disclose any of his plans yesterday, declaring that they are still indefinite. Rumors Are Many. There are many rumors at the City Hall about what is likely to take place. One rumor is that the Mayor intends to take the water bureau from Com missioner Daly and turn it and the park bureau over to Commissioner-elect Baker. The Mayor neither affirms nor denies this rumor. It is rumored also that there will be no changes in assignments, the Mayor purposing to place Commissioner-elect Baker in the position now held by Com missioner Brewster, with no change in the bureaus under him. This also is neither affirmed nor denied. There is much uneasiness among offi cials from the Commissioners on down to some of the clerks and lesser em ployes. String; Being Ynlled. Strings are being pulled on every side by the many individuals inter ested in the rearrangement of the municipal affairs which will be neces sary with the change in officials. It Is rumored that Commissioner Bigelow, who was re-elected, is seeking to get more of a department to handle than that he now holds, and that Commis sioner Daly is striving to cling to the the Water Bureau, which is the largest bureau in his charge. Another rumor which is being cir culated is that Commissioner Bigelow Intends to try to oust City Treasurer Adams, who was his principal oppo nent in the election. J. O. Wilson, one of Mr. Bigelow's supporters. Is men tioned as a likely successor to Mr. Adams. Commisioner Bigelow said yesterday that he had given the sub ject no serious thought. Chance ot Certain, He Says. "Neither the name of Mr. Wilson nor any other person is being consid ered for the position, and I do not know that there will be any change in the office." said Mr. Bigelow. It is known that E. T. Mische, ex Park Superintendent, is endeavoring to set back into the position which he gave up last Fall because of friction between himself and Commissioner Brewster. The position now is held by J. O. Convill. It is not considered likely that there will be any extensive changes in the heads of bureaus as a result of the change in Commissioners, owing to the fact that to make any changes will require a- majority vote of the Coun cil. It is said that the Council mem bers generally are satisfied with the bureau heads as they exist. CEMENT PAVING URGED 1000 FARMERS PETITION BOARD TO USE CO.NCRETE. Another Petition, Signed by 1O0, Qn tlona Motives of Cement Advo cates In Their Part of County. Signed by more than 1000 farmers living in Eastern Multnomah County, a petition was presented to the Board of County Commissioners yesterday morning strongly indorsing cement con crete pavement for county roads. The petition was presented by J. J. Johnson. Simultaneously another petition from more 100 residents of the southwestern part of the county was presented ask ing the Board not to be unduly in fluenced by petitions of cement advo cates from that section. This docu ment declared many of the circulators of previous petitions were engaged in the business of selling cement. It ex pressed the hope that the Board, "will not be unduly influenced by a", peti tion actuated by personal Interests." The eastern Multnomah farmers gave three reasons why they thought ce ment concrete was best suited for county roads. In this connection the petition said: "That a larger per cent of the cost is represented in material value in ce ment concrete roads than any other; "That they afford the safest sur face for all sorts of vehicles, being less slippery, and suitable for safe travel a larger number of days through the year than most of the other forms; "That relative to the "wearing quali ties they are the most economical, if built under proper conditions." The Board has under consideration the bids of 12 paving companies for contracts for the paving of 70 miles of county roads. No indication was given at yesterday's meeting as to when these bids would be returned from the engineers' hands. The Olympic Paving Company wrote the Commissioners asking to withdraw its quotation of 87 cents for bitulithic paving with a concrete base on sec tions of the Powell Valley and Foster roads. The company's agent declared a mistake had been made in figuring this estimate, and that the cost of the concrete base had not been taken into consideration. This letter was re ferred to Roadmaster Yeon. iJg ( csc3s? e5- 7ra7 cr? , aaHliaiiaaBBBHHBBBaaaBBBBBBIBBBBailBBBBBaBa l-4, T-i-"- 1 111 ' " ""nrnvrr r??7v n ijjte ASTORIA HAS BAD BLAZE I.os Amounts to $14,000, With In surance One-Third That Sum. ASTORIA, Or.. June 12. (Special.) ' Astoria was visited by the most serious fire in several months at about o'clock this morning, when the E. Ilauke &. Co., grovery store and butch er shop, at 14S9 Franklin avenue, were destroyed with their contents. There is every reason to believe the fire was of incendiary origin and was started by thieves who were robbing the store. The loss amounts to as proximately $14,000, with insurance of about one-third of the sum. BT ADDISON BENNETT. BEND. Or.. June 12. (Staff Corre spondence.) The agricultural campaign organized and conduct ed by the joint forces of the Northern Pacific, Great Northern, Spokane, Port land &. Seattle and the Oregon Trunk Railways closed its week's operations here last week. The great importance of the work being done cannot well be estimated by those not conversant with the agricultural and social affairs in the vast country tributary to the Ore gon Trunk Railway. This vastness al most staggers those who know the most about it. and particularly those who. like myself, were conversant with every portion of it before the road was put in operation some (our years ago. Taking Bend as the base of supplies and because I am writing from here, it is found that from here the road is in touch, through automobile service, with points as far south as the state line below Klamath Falls and Lake view, and as far east as Burns, in Harney County. It is 150 miles to the latter place and nearly as far down to the California line. Then there is the large territory west of the railroad, in the Sisters and Black Butte sections, and all of the country around Prine- ville and up the Crooked River and other streams east and north of there. Thousands Settle in Country. To show the remoteness of even Bend from Portland it is only necessary to mention tnat tne trip from here to Portland that can now be made in about ten hours by rail usually took five days by team and rail via Shaniko or The Dalles. Just previous to the ending of the railroad construction and since then thousands of settlers have come into this country and nine tenths of them are making, or attempt ing to make, homes on the lands. Most of them are homesteaders, some of them taking their claims on what the Government calls the dry farming lands, where the unit is 320 acres. others on lands of a different charac ter where the unit is 160 acres. Still others, of course, have purchased ir rigated lands. Right here I might stop and write several columns about the troubles the latter class have experienced, rather the majority of them. But that would entail the report of failure or partial failure of such projects as that at Laidlaw, La Pine and those of the Deschutes Valley. Such a story would bring forth heart-burns and would have to deal with occurrences and con ditlons that would make interesting reading but would serve no good pur pose to either side or to the public in general. Practical Farminc Taneht. The object of the present campaign was, aiftT Is, to teach the so-called farmers something more than they know- about how to raise more crops and better crops and what to do with those crops after harvesting them; also how to do such harvesting. Professor Thomas Shaw, the chief agriculturist of the railroads mentioned, was select ed to head the campaign and surely no better man could have been chosen. He got his education on the farm, like Governor Withycombe. he graduated from the farm to the college. He is not a theorist only so far as he has tested his theories by actual farm op erations. Moreover, he has had a vast experience in both arid and humid sec tions, he has rehabilitated farms that were blowing away and becoming valueless: he has likewise redeemed farms that were becoming swamps from the excessive rainfall or too much irrigation. The personnel of the party is as fol lows: Professor Thomas Shaw; A. E. Lovett. agriculturist for Crook County; Fred W. Graham, Western Industrial and Immigration Agent of the Great Northern; C. E. Arney. holding the same position with the Northern Pa cific; D. C. Freeman, publicity agent, and J. T. Hardy and W. C. Wilkes, as sistant general freight and passenger agents of the S. P; & S. and Oregon Trunk roads. Also the correspondent of The Oregonian. Autos lined by Party. The party has Kad usually three and sometimes four automobiles and the distance covered by machine from the time Redmond was left last Monday until our arrival here tonight is a trifle under 400 miles. Meetings have been UNIVERSITY OF OREGON GRADUATES WED. .'-' L , SI -7 yy? r?c? yvyr. -ys??cjfr ?. jgctz. HOOD RIVER. Or., June 12. (Special.) The wedding of Lyman G. Rice, of Pendleton, and Miss Florence Avery at the orchard home of the bride's parents, Mr. and Mrs. Thomas E. Avery, on the East Side, on Saturday, June 5, came as a great surprise to local friends as well as those in other cities, where the principals are well known. In the presence of members of the family only, the wedding ceremony was performed by Rev. G. E. Heineck, pastor of the Pine Grove Methodist Epis copal Church. Mr. and Mrs. Rice left Immediately on a wedding trip to Victoria, B. C, and points on Puget Sound. They returned to the University of Oregon, of which they are both graduates, for the commencement exercises. Mr. Rice is a member of Beta Theta Pi. while his bride is a member of Kappa Kappa Gamma. Mrs. Ricd was prominent in musical circles in Eugene. Mr. and Mrs. Rice will make their home in Pendleton, where Mr. Rice is In business, ' held at Lower ' Bridge, Cloverdale, Sis ters, Tumalo, Powell Butte, Bend Grange Hall. Bend, Grimes Chapel. Prineville, Hampton Valley, Imperial, Millicans and La Pine. Briefly it can be said that never were 14 meetings held in any section where the audiences were a people of better average intelligence or where they were more greatly interested. With one single exception the most re spectful attention has been given to every word the professor has uttered. He has been plied with questions of vital interest to the questioners, their families and their communities. He has answered, so far as possible, every question. Some of these questions and some of the answers were almosf tragic, for there Is no manner of use in denying that a scant rainfall, a high altitude, in some places frost every month in the year, in many places well water beyond the reach of a poor man it is too true that many settlers who have come in here are up against a proposition that is near the tragical point. In the one place mentioned where the professor was treated with levity should not count against that section as a whole. It has just happened that too many trouble makers have settled in one section and having a surfeit of Internal strifes they attempted to put up a Job on Professor Shaw and be come his teachers instead of his listen ers and pupils. But the great versa tility of knowledge shown by the pro fessor and his great good nature even there got the better of his audience and many of them will no doubt profit by his advice there given. Oreat Cbanstea Shown. We visited no place that I had not visited before. I had been at most of the places and in all of the localities many times, both before and since the road came in. And let me say that it is only those thus conversant with the facts who can appreciate the vast changes that have taken place all over this section during the last four years. And let it be said, here and now, that the advancement of the country as a whole has been wonderful. I speak ad visedly. ' I speak with the knowledge gained by being at one time a pioneer homesteader myself. I speak with the knowledge gained by visiting and writing about various pioneer settle ments in several states. And again I say that I wish to emphasize the re mark that the pioneers who followed the railroad into this great interior country, and those who came In Just in advance of the railroads, have made a better record than I ever saw pio neers do. Let it not be forgotten that these' pioneers have in most cases a gigantic task still before them. Let us not close our eyes to the altitude or the temperature or the rainfall of the country. These homesteaders did not settle upon garden spots: far from it. But let me say that I never saw set tlements made up of as good a class of people as have come into this country. I mean as to intelligence and industry. Some of them have accomplished and are accomplishing miracles, or what look like miracles. Toma Are Flourlfthins As to the towns that have sprung up (let it be remembered that the towns will not build up the country; the country must build up the towns if they are there to thrive and grow) there are some as sprightly and beau tiful little towns as one can find any where in old settled communities. I do not mean that these places surpass such old and wealthy places as Prine ville, the-old metropolis of this entire section; but even that staid and pros perous city must look to her laurels lest they be taken from her by a Bend, a Redmond, a Culver, a Madras, a Me tolius, a La Pine, a Tumalo or some as yet unnamed place in this section. Professor Shaw has been preaching Tomorrow morning you should be on hand to get the good clothes and other things you will certainly need. As all sales are strictly for cash, it is understood that clothes value and your money will evenly meet each other. There are many choice bargains to be had. njamm (Rrrect Clothes MM bt ALFRED BENJAMIN-WASHINGTON COMPANY mew you. Every Benjamin Suit, Overcoat and Raincoat in our stoclc, including Full Dress Suits and Tuxedo Suits, reduced in price. $20 Suits and Raincoats, now $25 Suits, Over coats, Raincoats $30 Suits, Over coats, Raincoats $35 Suits, Over coats, Raincoats $15.00 $18.75 $22.50 $26.25 Prices on Underwear, Bathrobes, Nightwear, Suitcases, Grips, Etc., Are Lowered as the Result of This Sale Shirts $1.50 Shirts now for $1.05 $2.00 Shirts now for .. $1.35 $2.50 Shirts now for $1.70 $3.00 Shirts now for $2.05 $3.50 Shirts now for $2.45 $4.00 Shirts now for $2.85 $5.00 Shirts now for $3.55 $6.00 Shirts now for. ...... .$4.25 Buffom Morrison Street Pendleton Opposite Postoffice i i the rosoel of livestock and rotation of ops He has been telling the settlers how to secure pasture for livestock and whafsort of livestock to grow. He has been teaching them how to conserve moisture and how to use that moisture. In many localities (let ace the, r "fhe this has been difficult. for the conditions here differ almost as far as differs the climate of Dakota and Ar kansas. But Professor Shaw Is a man of wisdom and he has met every argu ment with that most cbnvincing of all arguments "I have done It my self." From such conclusions from such a man you cannot get away. So I say. in conclusion, that in send ing to these troubled people a man like Professor Shaw the railroad offi cials have done something that places them as heavy creditors to every sec tion of this vast Interior country. While I give first place to the speeches of Professor Shaw I do not wish to detract one iota from the splendid talks given at nearly every place by Messrs. Arney. Graham, Hardy. Freeman and particularly to the great assistance rendered by Pro fessor A. E. Lovett. the County Agri culturist of Crook County. He is not only a fine talker but a clever and ac complished gentleman and his services were Invaluable to the party. Wife, 16, Obtains Divorce. Pvhoda May Dillon, 16 years old, won a divorce yesterday morning from John A. Dillon, to whom she was married at The Dalles July 8, 1914. Judge Mc Ginn awarded the decree. The couple eloped from the girl"s home at Rowena, Or. The girl alleged that Dillon de serted her. Her mother, Mrs. M. Meyer, brought the suit in her behalf. About 100 colorw ara known to dyers, of which only about 10O are mads in the -United PtatM. SUIT IS OFF ATTORNEYS REPRESENTING HUS BAND PETITION FOU DISMISSAL.. No IteasOD Given for Withdrawal of Divorce Cane Brenght by Son of Noted Actress. The divorce suit of Ralph Modjeski against Mrs. Felicie Modjeska was dis missed yesterday morning by Circuit Judge Morrow on motion of Mr. Mod jeskl's attorneys. No reason was given for the dismissal, nor was either Mr. of Mrs. Modjeska present in the court room. The suit has been pending in Circuit Court here since January, 1914. Mr. Modjeski, son of Mme. Modjeska, the famous Polish tragedienne, complained that his wife did not want to live in the United States, where he had made his home since 1890, and left him to return to her native land. Disputes over property rights and financial set tlements delayed the case from time to time. It was scheduled to be tried before Judge Morrow in February, but was twice postponed. Harrison G. Piatt and B. B. Beek man appeared in court yesterday on behalf of Mr. Modjeski. Mrs. Modjeska was represented by Harrison Allen. Mr. Piatt said he could assign no rea son for Mr. Modjeski's determination to dismiss the divorce suit against his wife. He said he had received a let ter from Mr. Modjeski, who is now traveling in California. He did not know where Mrs. Modjeska. was, but she is said to be in Chicago. Mrs. Modjeska, accompanied by her son and daughter, came to Portland three months ago, when the suit was scheduled to be tried. At that time Mr. Modjeski's attorneys asked for a post ponement. This was granted by Judge Morrow only after Mrs. Modjeska's ex penses had been provided for. Mr. Modjeski was the engineer who supervised the construction of the Broadway and Harriman bridges in Portland. THE DALLES IS TO ELECT Ex-3Iajor, Defeated Last Year, Out for Office In Vote Tomorrow. THE DALLES, Or., June 12. (Spe cial.) Dr. J. E. Anderson, representa tive of Wasco and Hood River counties in the State Legislature, who was elected Mayor of The Dalles two years ago and was defeated for re-election one year ago, is again trying to come back. Hid opponent is J. T. Rorick, whom he defeated two years ago. A Mayor, City Treasurer, three Counciltnen and three Water Commis sioners will be selected by the voters of The Dalles at their annual municipal election Monday, June 21. Mrs. Mabel C. Ellis has no opposition for re-election as City Treasurer, and Paul W. Childers is unopposed as candidate for Councilman in the First Ward. Joseph Kirchhoff seeks re-election as Third Ward Alderman, and is opposed by Clyde T. Bonney. County School Super intendent. A. E. Crosby and James Rees are the aldermanic candidates in the Second Ward. N. A. Bonn. Alfred Dellinger and Fred Hansen are not op posed as aspirants for the Water Commission. Osaka is a preat Japanese toymaking center, with, Tokio next. Beautiful Dental Work for Little Money 5 X r t Dlt. E. C. Al'SPLUSD, Mgr. Is What We Give You, Performed Without Any Pain 1 No matter where you live, it will pay you to come to Portland and let us fix your teeth. Our reputation and guarantee stand back of all our work. It means the very BEST DENTISTRY at prices that will astonish you. 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