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THE SUNDAY OREGONIAN, PORTLAND, SEPTEMBER 19. 1915. 19 ARSON DISCLOSURES INVOLVE 6 PERSONS Ex-Lieutenant of City Fire De partment Is Jailed as i Head of Ring. f THREE SUSPECTS CONFESS Svo. Women and Supposed National Guard Officer Are Implicated Jn Crimes, According to District Attorney. At least six persons are involved in the latest arson ring which has been uncovered by District Attorney Evans' office and Fire Marshal Jay H. Stevens. Statements or confessions have been secured from, five persons. 6t 'whom three are known to be connected with the ring. Monte Keeney. ex-lieutenant in the Portland Fire Department, is in the County Jail as the leader . of the newest arson ring, and George L. Woolette has been released on his own recognizance. Others implicated by Mr. Evans are two Portland women, a man who is said to hold a lieutenant's commission in the Oregon National Guard, and a woman who is now in California. The names of these are being withheld by District Attorney Evans and his depu ties. According to the officials, the al leged Keeney ring is connected with the gang of which Sanford W. Currier, now under indictment and in the Coun ty Jail here, is said to have been the leader. The District Attorney doesn't say that there was a olid organiza tion of ilrebugs for the purpose of set ting fires, and that two organizations of the same kind recognized each other. But he does say that there were a large number of men and women on the Pacific Coast who we "on the in eide" of what Currier did. and some of these alsp knew of Keeney's al leged operations. Prisoner Declines to Talk. "No, I have nothing to say. Don't want to say a thing." said Keeney yes terday. He was silent and unrespon sive when called from the jail corridor. "Do you know Currier?" Keeney pondered a" minute. "I know him when I see him." Keeney said he wanted to talk to 'Tils attorney before he said anything to anyone. He hadn't selected an at torney yet. he said. According to Mr. Evans, the alleged Keeney "ring had a few peculiar meth ods of operation. After a fire, they listed with the underwriter quantities of cut glass and Haviland china. The underwriter -would protest that there could not have been any such ex pensive goods in the house. The man whose house burned down then would rake through the ashes and bring forth pieces of real Haviland and real cut glass. "The way they did it was this." said Mr. Evans. "They would go to glass etores and chinaware stores and buy up all their broken glass and broken Hav iland china. Before a fire they would sprinkle this broken stuff around where' the buffet was supposed to be." Insurance Stockholder Patronized. They had a peculiar sense of the fit ness of things, too, according to the District Attorney. They insured most of their houses in the Pacific States Fire Insurance Company. They hap pened to know that F, E. Beach was a. heavy . stockholder in this company. Mr. Beach runs a paint and oil store. So, just to preserve this eternal-fitness of things, says Mr. Evans, the alleged firebugs bought the turpentlne-var-nlsh-llnseed oil mixture from Mr. Beach, and then used it to burn down a house which was insured by his com pany, "In one case that we know of," said the District Attorney, "they bought the oil mixture from Beach and had it charged to their account and didn't pay it until they collected the insurance from his company." The cases of Keeney and Woolette probably will be taken before the grand jury directly. Another incendiary fire occurred Thursday, said Mr. Evans, and a wo man has confessed that she set the fire. This case, however, is not con nected in any way with the "arson rings." according to the District At torney. He is w-ithholding the name of the woman because of her physical prostration. "She told me she had become de spondent, afraid they never were going to get out of debt, and she burned the place to get the insurance so , they could pay out. She fainted after Bhe got through telling me the story," said Mr. Evans. SING1NGW0LFIS FEATURE JOHN . AY EST BRINGS ATTRAC TION TO EMPRESS. Broiu Is Declared to Have Finer JNotes Than Human Reins and Carrying Capacity Wonderful. When John A. West, the trainer of singing animals, talks of great per formers he has known, he means four footed creatures which have vocal pos sibilities, and particularly wdlves. Mr. West never speaks of human singers as being in the same category as musical animals. The trainer con tends thit the notes of the voice, of the common, ordinary timber wolf are far liner than anything that ever came out of a human throat, and today he expects to prove it. Mr. West is bring ing his famous singing wolf to the F.mpress for the week and will give the first performance today. "I know a lot of Portland people will think that this is a human being in the skin of a wolf, but 1 assure you this is no Red Riding Hood act," said Manager Conlon. "It is a real wolf, and the brute actually attempts to sing the notes his trainer gives him. "Mr. West began his study of the wolf to determine in what way the animal was enabled to send his call to puch distances and with such clearness. Bis voice will carry farther than that of any other animal, as men who have been in the big timber or in the North will testify. Mr. West wanted to apply his knowledge to teaching voice culture. Then he discovered the love of tae wolf for music and he started out to teach him a scale. "The wolf will be here to sing for himself." PICTURE ROUSES MEMORIES Early Day Rivalry of Kire Boys Re called by Jack Flynn. A photograph of the East Portland Volunteer Fire Company Hose Team, taken in 1888, which appeared in The Sunday Oregonian July 11. last, lias aroused memories of the days when Portland was young in the minds of old residents, and among" these is Jack Flynn. a resident of Portland for 48 years, who built the hose truck shown in the picture. This truck, he says, was the prop erty of the West Portland Fire Com pany, East and West Portland being distinct cities in those days. Jimmy Kiernan. he says, helped furnish the material for the truck, and Ed Thayer helped build it. Harry Morgan was then Chief of the Fire Department of West Portland. The truck, says Mr. Flynn, won seven races out of nine in which it was en tered. Among those on the West Fort land team were David Campbell, Fred Hicks. Dr. E. A. Sommer, Dode Baker and Ben Hirsch. "There was the keenest rivalry be- t - it 't r '4 Monte Keeney, ex-Lleatenant Portland Fire Department, In volved In Arson Charges. tween the two cities in those days," said Mr. Flynn, "and the hose teams ran their best. The race referred to in The Oregonian. when the picture of the East Portland Hose Team was shown, was run in August, 1888, and West Portland won by three seconds. "It -was great sport in those days for the various hose teams to race, and the Council of West Portland proposed that teams from outside cities come in and contest. This was done, various Wil lamette Valley cities being represented. But West Portland held its own pretty well in these tests of speed by the vari ous companies." TANGO SLOW FOR QUAKERS Philadelphia Masters Refuse Follow in New York's Steps. to ATLANTIC CITT. Sept. 11. The tango is passe. New York can have that worn-out and overdone species of the terpsichorean art if it wants, but It's far too slow for speedy Philadelphia. Members of the Philadelphia Dancing Masters' Association, in semi-monthly session on the Grand Pier, refused quite positively to consider the tango, even after Professor Morris Eschner, of Atlantic City, with the aid of a music box and two vivacious partners, had endeavored to demonstrate that MAP OF PORTLAND SHOWING ORIGINAL LIMITS OF PORTLAND AND ALL THE ADDITIONS MADE SINCE THAT TIME, INCLUDING THE INCORPORATION OF LINNTON AND ST. JOHNS. ;- I i i I y r v . ! v . oY r I 1 I y t Free motion pictures are displaved In I fci - Kijkji.Ij..H iS I I urment Prk Ht Seville. Spain, the I , rvtVVVvjVVV I VSTT-! S i f Profits romlnc from refreshment uld or v "2. ST lCHHS i tL - from a'tiny rental charged for chair. " Si 7 ! 8 ' 9 V?C?rr: 7 AA . ; X . 'SArov x-. ! I 'tfiNw . -- JB97 (ConxotJa fion ) . 1 L?'fA. 1 I ! iTAwJ- BDO - iflw " ' i ! TnjVV J i I . "r? ; .. .wooer. J 'r23 2 I " " 9 r-V" x1 ! 22 25 24- ' -LA, 4. V j InneXBcfn 7832 i? I f N J , Ouiniaes V I 1 J C n S93 ' I Q 27a D 0 ' " 2s- 29 sXNNafr?D 26 4- 25 ' 23 : A .KL5 ' L ?a . what he called "the New York stand ardized tango" was an ideal dance. It was conceded that the tango under some alias might have a chance, but simply as the "tango," never. The New York revival of the tango as Pro fessor Eschner executed it was in four figures and was something like this: First figure, side chasers, one foot pursuing the other; second figure, demi-corte (corte being a step derived from a. Spanish Gypsy dance of 40 years ago), and an inside slide: third figure, walk and mediocorte; fourth fig ure, demi-corte, turning on mediocorte. The vote of rejection was decisive. The meaning agreed that the old dances are coming back, but not half so fast as the dancing master would like to see them come. r ' "The way to force action is to get the society people to set the pace," said Professor Kowe. "If Mrs. Stotes bury were to favor old dances ex clusively, everybody would clamor for the old." The fox trot and the one-step, un righteously called vulgar when first introduced, and- the canter waltz are to be the thing in Philadelphia this Winter. Fire Marshal Talks on Tuesday. The Woodmere Parent-Teacher As sociation will meet Tuesday at 3 o'clock in the Assembly- Hall of the school. Fire Marshal Stevens wil speak on the "Prevention of Fires." Plans for the ensuing year will be dis cussed. War Chatter. Chicago News. "A golfer criticises the German drives; he says they have no follow through." "Lord Kitchener has repudiated that interview. He admitted the Cobb, but won't acknowledge the corn. CITY SEAT t With Expense Cut Impera tive, Higher-Priced Servants Face Cut or Dismissal. PRUNING KNIVES WHETTED Commissioner Baker, Leading Cru sade, Assured of Support in Keeping Costs Down, in View of Loss ofIiqnor Revenue. With municipal economy not only desired by a majority of the Council, but absolutely necessary, -uneasiness is the prevailing spirit at the City Hall now that the budget making for next year has been started.' If it is not uneasiness about being lopped off the payroll altogether it is uneasiness about salary reduction. The only people in the service who are not "doing much worrying about prospects for position and salary after December 1 are the Commissioners themselves and the men and women who are doing work that cannot be dispensed with and who are now re ceiving less than $100 a month. They are safe. Preliminary budget operations are well under way in the various depart ments. Figures in detail are being prepared ready for submission to the Council October 4. which is the last day for filing. In the department bud gets virtually everything in the way of special appropriations is being trimmed out, but the salary rolls are being left about the same. In some cases in creases in force and salary increases are being recommended. This, however, is only preliminary. The Council as a whole is whetting the pruning knife with the idea of cut ting the budget heavily. The uneasi ness among employes all the way from some of the higher ups down to the men and women now scaling the lad der above $100 a month. has been caused by the investigations which are known to be going on to ascertain points of vantage for the ax. Commissioner Baker heads what has come to be known as the "City Hall budget bushwhacking brigade" or "the pruning squad." He says he has prom ise of sufficient support to go down the line for economy. While time only will tell of tne results, there are bright prospects for a basketful of plump heads. Also there is said to be reason able assurance tha some of the un easiness on the part of men receiving snug salaries Is not without cause. Through resignation and dismissals some of the department payrolls al ready have been i educed considerably. It Is probable that such vacancies Will not be filled. This includes about 10 or 12 policemen, some men in the Health Bureau, a municipal traffic en gineer, an assistant city engineer and a number of others. . This- year the desire to trim ex penses is general among the Commis- sioners i sity. TI ccive a nue. Th $300,000 littie. :j a balanc penses. was car It is in prospect imposed for municipal purposes in Portland that the economy crusado is receiving momentum. The first use of the treadmllt was In China, where It dli service In remote times la Irrigating the land. EMPLOYES OF ON ANXIOUS - r- . -j . I S I S V V1 I Vk CryoFfiMTtAMA l ) 1 . i I Sk t - g4 ?i'ML . A ) , : t I ! . I SIjtca 2 ffco (LI t (wW"t , ! ! s ff ' W i i y" 07 - 1 I 4 . Syimn Z)edare S , l V J 2 . . " t ! VordtyScipr-amoCoijrl -y Nfr ' Ai. a' , i Z-Jv'.i97 p. I "Vr i - ' ! ! K ? x Annexe Jineaa X ! ! " r X Amend JOSS )U , . 9 I ' 7 - 3 Youiees V SO ) 111 I . 0 i f , i S N i In 1 fi i i : . ,.i I " i i : -' : n ffl . : 5 i i ,). Ssncf ) N I ' !-r -' QjTWi . y . " d backed by a decided neces- J I s ' SI l city next year will not re- 4 I ? ' 5 X yr , SS AAM i nt from liquor license rcve- j . J JT ZX 'l " heretofore has amounted to 1 1 C) ' ' I year. Further there will be ' 22 ( ! " 1 0 2 ny, money to carry over as J 1 I 23 y Z ' " ' to apply on next year's ex- J J 1 1 '-y J. Ju!t17lI ' 1 or the present year there f 11 Ot o ' o o o o ' 11 ed over a total of $840,000. ' , J, To,vSn ! " lew of these facts and the SS ys, X M, Snceroor ae?y of the highest tax levy ever " V C rv, ' !" a. FREE Ec White Laundry large bars for 10c Lye placed on at only 10c Mustard on sale for -. Need Any Barbed Wire? We just received a con signment of 500 rolls of barbed wire which you can buy now tr r O E? at, 100 lbs. .iDli.ZLiJJ CITY MAP . PREPARED Assessor Reed Has Plan Greater Portland. of ADDITIONS ARE SHOWN Present Area Is Defined and All Increases to Original Corpor ate Limits Are Clearly Marked Out. An attractive as well as useful map of Portland has been compiled by em ployes of the County Assessor's office, and Is hung on the wall of Mr. Reed's private office. The map indicates the corporate lim its of Portland when incorporated in 1851. and cross hatching's show the lim its of each new addition that has been made to the city. In 1S51 Portland a-Misus'JUJl IM B J'JI IWILs.ni - Sac -V- E2 2 . Monday A Big Sale That Means a Saving Real Money to And please bear in mind Delivery System for purchases Soap, 10c Gelatine is placed on Cf sale at J0 10c package of 12 Jar C- Rubbers for Ou 20c Catsup Is placed on I fin sale.' at Uu sale Cm 3u , now c wu "Special Blend "ICn Coffee for. the pound.. I Uu 50c Extra Fine Tea at, OCn the pound Jijlt 2Z6 Bottle of LiQUldlCn Veneer for I Large Italian PrunesCn on sale at. the pound. . R e k u 1 a r 7Vc Toilet M n Soap on sale at 2ac Palmette Brand I flp Scrubbing Brushes for.. I U CHI-NAMEL PRODUCTS All kinds of paints on sale at a. saving of from 35 to 50 per cent SIMON SALVAGE STORE J. Simon & Bro. 131-133 FIRST ST. contained but 2.1 square miles and had as ambitious rivals Linnton and Mil waukie. At the absorption of the for mer town by Portland recently one of the rivals was disposed of. When Portland was first incorporat ed, two towns were a possibility. They were Albina and East Portland. Before the Legislative Assembly prior to 1S91 met and decided to put the question of annexation of the two East Side towns with Portland, both Albina and East Portland had as much or more territory than Portland proper. Consolidation of these three occurred in 1891, and the boundaries of Portland were increased greatly. The map also shows aeveral of - the parcels of land that have come into possession of the city, only to be ruled out. and later again acquired. With the consolidation of Albina. East Port land and Portland, part of St. Johns became a part of Portland. It was later taken over by St. Johns in 1905. A parcel of land that lies between the limits of Portland and St. Johns, prior to annexation of St. Johns, waa lost to both ritica in the boundary ad justment of 1905. It contains 42.1 acres and is owned by the United Artisans. It Is bounded by McKenna, Ida street extended. Willamette boulevard and the Willamette River. It lies now wholly w-ithin the corporate limits of Portland. The buildings of the Peninsula Lumber Company occupy part of the grounds. VICTIM ARRESTS CULPRIT Saloonman Brlnjrs in Patron Said to Have Passed Bad Check. "He passed a bad cheek on me last night," said 11. A. Anderson, a saloon man, as he walked Into detective head quarters yesterday afternoon with Tom McLean, a veterinary surgeon. "All right, he's under arrest." an nounced Acting Captain of Detectives Pat Moloney. Anderson exhibited a check for 115 that had been passed on him the night before by a man and signed "J. A. Mc Lean." When he saw the man on the street yesterday who. he said, passed he took him to police headquarters. at Simon that we 10c "Holly" on sale for. . 15c - Cookies the pound... Choice Whit the pound. . . Regular 10c on sale at for Toilet Paper six rolls 10c Box Shin ola sale . for 5.n.5c 10c Campbell's Soups on I. sale for tw IOo .Cornstarch on sale C now for Oil 25c Til lamook Cheese I 15c at, the pound .... NEAR ALDER DRUG FIRM LONG HERE WOODARD, CLARKR Jt COMPAXV OBSERVE SOTH ANNIVERSARY. FJrut Prescription filled by Old-Tliue Business House From Dr. Daven port, Prominent In Karly Days. Prescription orders that were filled out for our mothers and fathers form part of the window display in celebra tion of the 50th anniversary of the foundation of the firm of Wood:ud. Clarke & Co. A sketch of the first building occupied bv the drug firm and the methods used by the employes 50 years ago contrasted with the modern methods of making "pills" are also part of the display. The first prescription was ordered by Dr. Iavenport, one of the oldest and best-known of the professional men of the early days. It contained one-half dram iodide sulphur, one-half dram glycerine and one-half; ounce cerate cetacium. Some of the old-timo practitioners whose names appear on the prescription files nre Dr. R. B. Wilson, father of Holt C. and George, both of this city; Dr. James Gieslin, an ex-Army officer who had a substantial practice in Portland; Dr. Chapman, who practiced medicine and acted as Mayor at the same time; Dr. John Wells, whose brother is a Portland physician; Dr. Frances Mary Murray, who I now Mrs. Louis Ftlumaur: Dr. H. K. Jones, still a resident of this city; Dr. W. IL Sav ior, Dr. Cooper, another ex-Army of ficer; Dr. George 10. Nottage and num erous other professional men of the early hl&tory of Portland. From Front street, the store of VVoodard, Clarke &. Co. removed to First and Alder, then to Fourth and Washington and finally to its present location. West Park and Alder streets. Russians Use Postal Banks. ABERDEEN. Wash.. Sept. IS. (Spe cial.) Depositors born outside the t'nlted States own more than three fourths of the postal deposits here. Of $110,513 on deposit on July 1. aliens owned $S5.456. Sixty-eight depositors have reached the $500 deposit limit and You! Eg have inaugurated uff S Brand Milk C. 23c K. C. Baking Fov-IC. UtHsSS I " der on sale at Jt E on sale at. On 13c Comb Honey on sale Q lsiv V UU at only ,,...0b JJPyii t e Beans at. Cp 15c "Del Monte " Toma-lp INf toes on sale aPrr. I u JJ r of 325 or over. Kf& Buy FLOUR NOV! Tested - and guaranteed Sperry Mills Choice Flour nt 1 Hr.Kso sacK tor S1.2. VI 10-lb. Sack for. 330 ;j BB3BZ52EZ52532 of these 51 are foreign born. Russians lead all other nationalities In the total of deposits, and Austrians are second. Russians have $28,690 to their credit Many appear greatly disappointed be cause they cannot deposit more than. $100 a. month and not more than a total of $500. DYING COST COMES HIGH Why ajwl Wherefore of the Profits of Undertakers. Pictorial Review. y) In the United States there are tiiny something more thar; C0.00O under takers. Attracted by the enormous profits to be made in funeral goods, more men are constantly swarming into fho business. At the time the School of Ph'.lanthrophy made its investiga tion there were, according to a church paper. 410 undertakers iti Chicago. On the. average, each undertaker secured a trifle more than one funeral a week. In New York City there were 110ft un dertakers and about 74.000 deaths an. muilly. which gave each undertaker an average of less than four funerals in three weeks. For the country as a whole, tlio average was hs than on funeral a week tor each undertaker. Some undertakers get more than one half of till the business during a given fortnight, leaving 41:0 undertakers t divide the other half. Many under takers hud no funeral at all during there two weeks. In the ortirse of an entire year they would secure only handful. Others would pet only onn or two funerals a month. Yet eaeli undertaker had to keep up his estab lishment where ho had one pay of fice rent, bills for light and heat, clerk hire, and other expenses, and in addi tion make a living, all from the profits of one or two funerals a month. But it is not the lack of business alone that makes necessary this great margin of profit. One of the leading undertakers of New York City said to me: "There is every cent of $50,000 In unpaid bills on our hooks. We have to make up that loss or we could not stay in business. So we have to chars high prices and the people who do pay make up for those who don't." AUTO DIAGNOSIS COSTS S10 Racer l'lnds Trouble With Machine Is Only IJrokcn JSprlns. ST. PAI'I., Minn.. Sept. 1C Oscar Lindeke. 1S25 Summit avenue, gazed nt his racy-looking roadster in disgust. What made the larn thing rattle? He overhauled it himself In an effort to ascertain the trouble. His work was in vain. The car rattled as usual after three hours of examination. He took it to a garage. Expert me chanics overhauled the car. They pulled the carburetor apart. They pried among the connecting rods. They over hauled the motor. They dissected the Bhaft and gears. The next day Mr. Lindeke took th car out. for a spin. The thing rattled as much as ever. Curses! In a fit of desperation Mr. Lindeke a salesman on the Lindeke. Warner & Hons' force, confided his troubles to an acquaintance at a downtown hotel. "O. F. Haibe. the automobile racer, is here at this hotel." advised the friend. "Why not ask him if bo can tell you the trouble?" "Mr. Haihe." asked Mr. Lindeke. af ter he had found the racer. "1 wil! give you $10 if you will tell me what makes my car rattle." Not being averse to picking up $10. Haibe suggested they take a spin around the block. On the trip the car rattled as usual. "Give me the $10," said Haibe. The money was handed over. "Now.'' said Haibe. "why not have that broken rear axle spring fixed?'" RARE VOLUME IS .LOANED Montana Man Is Owner of Martin Luther Bible of 1565. HELENA. Mont.. Sept. 14. One of the most valuable books in the- world a Martin Luther Liible. estimated to be worth $1.000 has been loaned to the Montana State Historical Library by Richard Manger, of Meagher County, who will leave it in the care of the library until his son grows up and claims the relic as his inheritance. The volume was puMished at Frank-fort-on-the-Main in 1565 from manu script furnished by Martin Luther. Only seven copies of the volume were pub lished, and four years' time was re quired to print the edition. One of the seven copies came into the possession of the Manger family at the time of its publication and has been handed down from father to son ever since. Doctor Killed in Experiment. MILWAUKEE. Wis., Sept. 12 An explosion the other day during experi ments to find a process of manufactur ing potash caused injuries which, proved fatal to Dr. Frederick C. Gil len. 919 Newhall street. prominent physician, and may result in the loss of both eyes to his brother. William II. Gillen, a contractor. The experi ments were being conducted in tbe yard of Dr. Gillen'a home.