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About The Sunday Oregonian. (Portland, Ore.) 1881-current | View Entire Issue (Oct. 10, 1915)
THE SUNDAY OHEGOXEAX, PORTLAND, OCTOBER 10, 1915. 11 1. STRAHQRN SAYS RAILROAD BUILDER WHO PROPOSES TO mSXHT rFWTRAT. rtnv. GON BY NETWORK OF NEW LINES. ALL 1ST ASSIST The Largest Exclusive House Furnishers St Coast Henry Jenning & Sons Will Materially Aid You in Brightening Up the Home Wintry days are coming:; it's the season of "indoors. Make your home cozier and more attractive by a new piece of Furniture here and there, a new piece of Floor Covering: or some other needed article. Below are some offerings that will suggest things you probably need. Our entire mammoth building at Fifth and Washington affords you the greatest selection possible. Development of Centra! Ore gon Declared Necessary to Make Railway Success. PIONEERING IS HELD NEED i ., i . , . ,.. ,. . .., .1 -.1 i - . . i ,, . , . ,-- Completing Irrigation Projects, Cut tiny Up Biff I-wiid Holdings, Building Sawmills, Marketing literals Among Proposals. If Central Oregon is to be developed on a scale such as that proposed here Is at week by Robert K. Strahorn. it ivjjl be necessary first to prepare the nay for development, says Mr. Stra horn. who has planned to build a series of railroads to connect all the existing lines in the state's interior. Building: the railroad is not the most important project." said Mr. Strahorn yesterday. "The railroad can be built and. of course, must be built If Central Oregon is to be opened up. But much other important work must be done if the railroad is to be a success." Among: the other undertakings neces sary to a full development of the In terior. Mr. Strahorn enumerated the following: The Carey act and other irrigation enterprises now proposed and partially completed must be placed on a practlca. ble working basis, so that they can be completed and placed in operation. The big land holdings which now are held in tracts of 100,000 acres and upwards, must be broken up and placed on the market at the lowest possible figure, so that they will attract the settler. I'lonrrrlng Retarded Accessary. The agricultural lands in the forest reserves must be withdrawn and opened to settlement. The timber lands must be made ready for development as soon as the market for lumber justifies activity in this direction. The potash and ether natural de posits must be opened under lease or under terms favorable enough to at tract capital. The eommerctal interests of Portland must take an active interest in the de velopment of Central Oregon and must be ready to do some pioneering in that (section without hope of Immediate re turn. "If all these things are done," says Mr. Strahorn. "financing the railroad will be comparatively simple. "Portland must show that it is In terested in the new enterprise and must express its confidence in it. It will not be easy to attract capital from out side sources if the people who are to get the most benefit out of it are un willing to do their share," Plan Widely Indorsed. Mr. Strahorn has complete confidence, however, that the people of Portland will display the required activity. Since launching his. plans for interior rail road construction on Thursday ha has received much encouragement from business men, not only of Portland, but from many other parts of the state as well. His office in the Northwestern Bank building has been besieged almost con stantly by earnest persons desiring to lend their moral support to the enter prise. "Portland seems to be thoroughly alive to the importance of this project," he said yesterday. "I hope the people of Portland appreciate that this is not one of the familiar boom railroads or a scheme to promote a real estate mar ket." As Mr. Strahorn explained to the local financiers and business men on Thursday, the railroad work- that he proposes is to be done by private cap ital. For that purpose he has Incor porated the Oregon, California & East ern Railroad, with small capital. As soon as arrangements for permanent financing are completed this company will proceed with the work that Mr. Strahorn proposes. What he considers one of the most Important links in his new enterprise is the line between Bend and Klamath Kalis, giving the Klamath country its first direct connection with Portland. It is probable that thla piece of road will be built first. The next project will be construction cf a line from Silver Lake, on the pro posed Bend-Klamath road, to Lakeview and the Warner Valley, giving Lake view its first direct railroad connection with Portland. The third project calls for a connection from a point midway between Bend and Silver Lake to the 0.W. K. & N. Company's line now be ing built westward from Vale. This will bring all the disconnected parts of Central Oregon together and will make the entire interior territory tributary to Portland. Much trade in this territory now goes to other cities. Mr. Strahorn has completed his pre liminary surveys and has estimated that the 400 miles of road can be built at an average of 15.000 a mile, or (6,000,000 for the entire nttwon. of roads. His engineers now are making a sec ond survey to determine whether these preliminary estimates are correct. COUNTY CRUIGE BEATEN CI.ACKAHAS ORDERED TO BEFl'SD S-JOOO TO VEVBBHAEt'SEHS. Attorneys Say Return of Taxes Is Minor Matter but Correctness of Records Is Importaat. A decision in favor of the Wfyer haeuser Land Company was given by Circuit Judge Campbell at Oregon City yesterday in that company's appeal from (he ruling? cf the Clackamas County Board o( Equalization refusing to set aside the county's cruise of the company's timber made by M. G. Nease. The court adopted instead of the coun ty cruiso a detailed cruise made by the company itself, showing its timber holdings in Clackamas County. The decision means it difference of $2000 to the company in 1914 Clacka mas County taxes. The county will be obligated to return this amount. The point at issue, however, according to Attorneys C. L. Starr and Littlefield & Masuire, who represented the com pany, was not so much the recovery of money as the correctness of the coun ty's cruise. For Instance, it was brought out in the evidence that some an) covered by a lake had been cred ited with having a large body of tim ber by the county cruise. Timber owners generally, it is said, have been complaining of the cruises in several counties, asserting that they are being done an injustice. Montana Chancellor to Be Chosen. MISSOULA, Mont., Oct. (Special.) The State Board of Education will meet Monday at Helena and it is ex. peoted that a, chancellor o the State College will be elected, h - - l. v.-":- J A " kw METERS BEING PUT IN REQUESTS FOR SERVICE MET, BUT PROTESTS ARE IGNORED. Instruments Taken From Vacant Places Repaired and Pnt Into Use Elsewhere. Although no new water meters have been purchased since the voters re jected the meter plan at the election last June, metering of the city Is going merrily ahead by use of old meters which are being taken out of vacant places and put on services where water users have asked for meters. A total of 807 such transfers have been made since June 1, according to the Water Bureau records. The plan involves the ultimate purchase of an equal number of new meters to place on the old services. Because of the rapid deterioration of water meters when they are not in use the Water Bureau upon finding a place vacant for any length of time takes out the meter leaving the water service at the place disconnected. The meter is repaired and installed on a new service where there has been no meter before. Throughout the city since June 1 there have been 246 meters taken out and 207 reset. To make these transfers keeps a force of men busy. As the vacant places become occupied meters are reset there. The policy of Commissioner Daly now is to Install meters wherever there has been art application for such installa t;on. The plan works only the one way, however, because no meters are being taken out where a request is maae lor removal in favor of flat rate service. A number of requests for removal of meters have been denied. The Water Bureau records show that during June 22 meters were taken out of vacant places and 33 were reset. In July S2 were taken out and 41 set; in August 138 taken out and. 37 set and. In September 34 taken out and 96 set. The same plan is being followed in the repair of meters. Many meters are round to be out of order and these are taken out and repaired meters are put in. The old. meter then is taken to a repair shop maintained by the Water Bureau, where it is fixed up and in stalled on other services. Rose-burg PyUiians Celebrate. HOSEBURG, Or.. Oct. 9. (Special.) Alpha Lodge, Knights of Pythias. Wednesday celebrated the 24th anni versary of the Institution of the lodge in this city. The programme included vocal and instrumental numbers, ad dresses and many other entertaining features. teiresnments were served by tne -ytnian sisters. Willa-pa Line to Open November 1. CENTRALIA, Wash., Oct. 9.-( Spe cial.) General Passenger Agent Ball, of the Milwaukee, was in Centralia Thursday on business attendant on the inauguration of passenger service on the new line of the Puget Sound & Willapa Harbor Railway. Mr. Ball said that the first passenger train through Centralia to Raymond would- probably be run over the new line November 1. oregon elks who have been appointed to staff of grand exalted ruler. s. m ; -i' Writ -i II ..dflw. I!! I i t :v k if r-. g -s" . - s Mia r ; . k K S.. -, i 4 THREE prominent Oregon Elks have been recognized by James R. Xlcholson. the grand exaltedruler of the order. In making up his staff for tiie coming year. They are K. K. Kubli, of Portland, a member of the credentials committee; W. It. Logus, of Oregon City, district deputy grand exalted ruler for the Southern Oregon district, and A. W. Norbled, of Astoria, district deputy for Northern Oregon. The district deputies are the official representatives of the grand exalted ruler in their respective districts. They are empowered to visit all the lodges in their districts and to report conditions of the order to the grand lodge con vention in Baltimore next July. 2 iTcfo rv EXAMINATIONS TO BE HELD Federal Civil Service Board Gives Out List of Vacancies. The United States Civil Service Com mission announces the following exam inations, for men only; November 2, senior civil engineer, senior sig-nal engineer, senior mechan ical engineer, senior electrical engi neer, senior structural engineer, senior architect, senior telegraph engineer, senior telephone engineer, for service with the Interstate Commerce Commis sion, at salaries ranging from $1800 to 15700 per annum; physiological chem ist, for field service in tne Bureau of Animal Industry, salary 180Q to 2220 per annum; aeronautical engineer, for service at San Diego. Cal., entrance salary $3600 per annum. November 3, teacher of metal work ins; and mechanical drawing, for a po sition at Haskell Institute. Kansas. In dian Service, salary $720 per annum and quarters; supervising, telegrapher, for a position in the Office of Markets and Rural Organization, salary $1400 to $1880 per annum: assistant in fish investigations, for a position in the I Bureau of Chemistry. Waahlntten, D. It J -.7W ? 1? is vnjfc x ' - " -" V,- -7 S At- C. salary $1200 to $1620 per annum: physical laboratorian, for service in the Navy-yard, New York, N. Y salary $3.04 per diem; timber inspector, for a position In the Navy-yard .Portsmouth, N. H., salary $4.48 per diem: sub-inspector of ordnance, for service at Ar lington, N. J., salary $4 per diem; "as sistant in dry land arboriculture, for field service in the Bureau of Plant Industry, salary 9j0 to $1500 per an num: marine draftsman, to ftll a va cancy in the Bureau of Lighthouses, Washington. D. C, salary $1440 per an num: engineer, electrician and plumb er, for a position at the Phoenix In dian School, Arizona, salary $S40 per annum; engineer, plumber and'general mechanic, for a position at the Shawnee Indian School, Oklahoma, salary $720 per annum. Information and application blanks may be obtained, from T. V. Hutchina, local secretary, Postofrico Building, Positive Saving on Brass Beds Main Store. Fifth and "Washington ii.lil ! ill -Mi'li In calling attention to these Brass Beds that go on sale tomorrow morning, particular attention Is called to the fact that they are a fereetal ei example of the quality of goods displayed on our floors at all times. Tou positively can't find finer goods, no mat ter where you go North, East or South. Note these price, then see our wlndowa on Washington-street aide. No. 256 A Poster Bed with two-Inch continuoua posts and two-inch top rail, seven full one-Inch fillers. A rr heavy rz:ja:trrl" $20.00 No. 4SS Full-sized Brass Bed. five one-inch, fillers, two-inch continuous posts, absolutely tarnish proof. Ketru-COO 7C lar $30. now 4.4,10 No. 4 94 A two-Inch Poster Brass Bed. with 1 -Inch top rail and Ht-inch fillers. A very massive bed-tOG DC Rezular 132. now dZO.O J No. 43 Two-inch Continuous-Post Brass Bed, with, one- I Q 0C Inch fillers. A regular $25 bed now for. W I Ui03 All these beda are absolutely tarnish proof aqd are coated with acid-proof lacquer. A .l.ii.l.....Uilll iiiiil No. 472 R isiUl S18.O0, Ml OF speelal at. lli03 Two - inch continuous posts, i-lnch fillers High-Grade Brass Bed. Special Sale This Week . Dining-Room Furniture Second and Merriaon-Strtt Store Quarter-Sawed Oak Six-Foot Extension Table, 48-ir,ch top. Regu larly $21.50. Special . .$16 45 Quarter-Sawed Oak Six-Foot Extension Table, 48-inch top. Regu larly $24.00. Special ; ..$17j2. Quarter-Sawed Oak Eight-Foot Extension. Table, 48-inch top. Regularly $32.00. Special $19 85 Quarter-Sawed Oak Buffet. Regularly $22.50. Special. ..$1 4)45 Quarter-Sawed Oak Buffet, Colonial pattern. Reg-ularly $25.00. Priced special at $17 "rt Solid Oak Dinint; Chair. Regularly $2.50. Special... ".".".'.'.$ t!75 Box-Seat Diners. Regularly $3.50. Special $2.10 The Better Grade Wilton Rugs Sreead Kloor Main Store Two rare values are offered you in our Rug Department tomorrow selected by our rug salesman from a stock of the finest collec tion of high-grade rugrs in the Northwest. Bigelow Bagdad Rugs, 8x12 size. Regularly $55. This week , $37.75 Fine Wilton Rugs, the distinctively higher grades, 9x12 size. Regu larly $45. Special $33.50 Small and large Oriental effects, rich combination of colorings. DRAPERY DEPARTMENT Velours A particularly attractive assortment of Velours in guar anteed sunfast materials are among the late arrivals of our new Fall stock. Odds-and Ends in Scrims, from 2 to 25 yards. Regularly 20c to 40c per yard. Special, the yard 12 Vt$ A Written Guarantee With Every Garland Range Don't Buy a Stove or Range Until You See the GARLAND "Combination" This isn't purely selfish, for you will be, indeed, grateful to us for our suggestion. Just take the time to investigate this meritorius (two-in-one) Range. It burns both gaa and coal, and the drudgery of the kitchen will be like the lifting skies sun shine ahead." Ask our stove salesman to show you the ad vantages of this really wonder ful Range. It will please him as much aa it will prove bene ficial to you. Way Sagless" Bedsprings Aiiora iompieie itesi Its big feature supreme sleeping comfort, absolutely sagless, absolutely noiseless, cannot tear bedclothes uniform price, $9.00. We Are Exclusive Portland Agenta Just the Thing for. the Chilly Evenings and Mornings TI?J? Garland Heater and the Cole Hot-Blast Heaters are the most widely-known and most g-enerally used heating- stoves today. There's There is a Uarland Store to satisfy every heatina need possible and a "Cole Het-Blast" that will prove to you that our Heat inr fatove Department is the place to select your heater this FalL Prices to meet every purse. Liberal Terms of Credit When Desired Henry Jenning & Sons "The Home of Good Furniture" Fifth and Washington StS. Also Second and Morrison All Cars Pass Our Doors - 1 " I " ' 1 1 ' "' 11 '" -a LAND IS AVAILABLE U 0. Ralston Has Property Valued at $58,100. $50,000 JUDGMENT PENDS Amount Is Enough to Satisfy Bank Depositors In Invent Oregon Supreme Court 6hould Affirm Decision. Should the Supreme Court of Oregon affirm a Judgment approximating $30, 000 against L. O. Ralston and In favor of the depositors of the defunct Amer ican Bank & Trust Cqjnpany, no diffi culty will be experienced by State Bank Examiner Sargent In finding; sufficient property standing in Ralston's name in Multnomah County to satisfy the judg ment. Charles A. Johns, as attorney for Ralston, yesterday, during the progress of supplementary proceedings in Judge Morrow's court, turned over a deed by which the Marietta Realty Company retransfers to Ralston property in Multnomah County the assessed valu ation of which Is $58,100. The property retransferred includes a lot in Davenport's Addition, two lots in Hawthorne Park Addition, three lots In Is'asher's Addition, 120 acres of tim ber land six miles northwest of Fort land, property In Carter's, Greene's and Caruthers' additions, a lot at Twen tieth and Clay streets, a lot at First and Oak streets, which Is, however, subject to a $10,000 mortgage, and 75 lots In Sweeney's Addition View Property Included. This last-named property lies along the Willamette River in South Port land. It is view property and at one time was appraised at $150,003. Other property said to have been re transferred to Ralston but not men tioned in court yesterday includes 100O acres In Cowlitz County, 200 acres in Clarke County and a half interest in 800 acres in Klickitat County, all in the State of Washington. One reason for making the transfer is the fact that personal property once sold under execution la net subject to redemption. Stock of the Marietta Realty Company la personal property. Ralston at one time owned 8 of the 50 shares of this company, and in the event of the judgment being upheld, the State Bank Kxaminer. according to Sidney J. Graham, his attorney in this case, would have commenced proceed ings at once to attach this stock on the ground that the transfer of it was not legitimate. Roth Side Shea Tears. In a statement accompanying the of fering of the deed. Attorneys Johns said that it was being done principally to stop further supplementary proceed ings, as they had caused Mrs. Ralston many tears and much worry. In reply. Attorney Graham said that there had been more tears on the part of depos itorStOf the bank, many of whom had seen the savings of a lifetime swept Supplementary proceedings were con tinued fer a week. In the meantime Attorney Qraham ani Assistant Attor ney-General Van Winkle will make an examination into the value of the prop erty retransferred. It is doubtful if the proceedings will be taken up again, as the ease was argued In the Supreme Court Thureday'and a decision has been promised with the next few weeks. CITY HAS $859,744 BALANCE Monthly Financial Reports Indicate Amounts In IHinds. A balance of $859,744.27 In the vari ous municipal funds with & balance of $373,410.65 in the general fund, from which all operating- expenses of the city are paid, is shown in the monthly financial statement issued yesterday by City Treasurer Adams. The balance in the general fund wilL be augmented this month by tax receipts and tax de linquencies which have been or will be paid Into the tax collection department of the county. Following- Is a statement of the bal ances In the various funds: General fund $A73.4ie.3ft Water fund 1UB.814.39 Linn ton water fund 41.14 Bonded Indebtedness Interest fund 89.720.15 National Park Bank, Improvement bond interest account 585. SO National Parle Bank, Linn ton water bond account 2,750.00 Library fund 9.31 Park and boulevard fund - 2,533.24 Bill Iit. badge fund 230.00 Broadway bridge fund 5,693.19 Flreboat and fire main fund...... 10 M W ater bond alnklns fund........ 5T.140 8T Water fund bond account a '2 95 Bonded indebtednei linking fund SiM.74 Special bridjre fund 15,619.01 Police and fire department relief 'und 25.33 Public auditorium fund........... 14.62 Da Redemption fund 972.33 Kxtenslon bond sinking fund..... 1 UOtt "6 Kxtension bond interest fund 2.J4 Sinklnc fund 28.448 00 Polic-e relief fund., 4.60966 Improvement bond sinklnc fund, St. Johns 8,706.89 Improvement bond Interest fund fit. Johns 81T 7 City ball fund. St. Johns lofKdT Rice Interest fund, St. Johns..... 150 00 Maintenance fund, Linn ton 5.93 First extension water fund, Llun- , ton 3.251.73 Improvement bond alnkln and in terest fund 21 T Special 191ti tax fund l fteu'-.'C Street Improvement fund. ....... . 2s.2J.72 Sewer fund 12,4fi."i '22 Stark -street extension fund 60-).oO Street extension fund T.oss. IT Water main fund 4.S3S.9S Street and sewer interest fund... 1,393.53 Street and sewer interest fund, Bu Johns -........ 11.19 Total tSj9.744.27 Wirilock Pupils Publish Paper. CENTRALIA. Wash.. Oct. 9 (Spe cial.) No. 1, volume 1, of the X-Ray. pubjllshecTby the pupils of the Wlnlock High School, made its first appearance this week. The paper has four pares, containing items of school interest. Christine Curtis is editor-in-chief. It in 1 planned to make the paper self-sup- Be Loya To Your Stomach j and you,are7sure to be "well re-! warded. You will enjoy your ' meals, the appetite will be keen, the digestion will be good and the action of the liver and bowels will be normal. This really consti tutes good health. But, there will come a time when weakness is manifested, when help is needed promptly; then you should take TETT STOMACH BITTERS It soothes and strengthens the'entire digestive system and is bound to help you very materially. , A 60 years' record Is back of it ,Z-J, JAKElAl80TILElH0MEil0DAY, i ER"'S porting, the merchants of the town apt to be rolicitfd for advertising. APPLY SAGE TEA IF HAIRJS GRAY Grandma Used Sage Tea and Sulphur to Darken Her Hair and Nobody Knew. The use of Sage and Sulphur fer re storing faded, gray hair to its natural color dates back to grandmother's time. She used it to keep her hair beautifully dark, glossy and abundant. Whenever her hair fell out or took on that dull, faded or streaked appearance, this sim ple mixture was applied with wonder ful effect. But brewlnpr at home is mussy and (ftit-of-date. Nowadays, by asking at any drug store for a S0-cent bottle of "Wyeth'a Hase and Sulphur Com pound." you will get this famous old recipe which can bo depended upon to restore natural color and beauty to. the hair and is pplendid for dandruff, dry, feverish, itchy scalp and fallinc hair. A well-known downtown druggist says it darkens the hair so naturally and evenly that nobody can tell it has been applied. Tou simply dampen a sponge or soft brush with it and draw this through your hair, taking one strand at a time. By morning the gray hair disappears, and after another application or two it becomes beauti fully dark, glossy, soft and. abundant. Adv. Rheumatism A Rome Cora Given by Cne W&i Had It In tbe spring of 19M I atucked by Uaeuiar and Inflammatory Kaciunatlam. I aOaraa a only Uioae wbo bate it kugw. for eer three years. I tried remedy atter remedy, and doctor atter doctor, but aura raiief aa I rasTad wu only tamporary. rioallr, I found a remedy Ut curad mt completely, aud lr has nerer returmed. I aava U to a aaisbav wtio war terrfbly affllctad and crea bedrmdea wttb Bbeoma. Us in. aod It effected a eure 1m erery ease. 1 want every sufferer from anv form ef rbeumaile trouble to try tbli marreloui heal Ids' powor. Boat &! a eeat atmplr mvi Jour mmmm and a4draa and 2 arm aead It rea to try. After yoa bare naed it and 11 baa proreo ftaclt to be tbat lonf-iooked.for maans ot earing your ftheamatiam, yoa may end tbe price of It, one dollar, but, soder tand, 1 do not want your money unless yea are perfect fty sstlsned to send It- Isn't tbat fair? Wbr suffer any ion iter wbea positive ranaf is tbua oaered yea freer Dea't data TTrtta today. " Mara H. .acksoa. Ko tMBSanef Blex.. 8 rr scute, jr. I -