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THE .SUNDAY OREGOXIAX. PORTLAND, OCTOBER Id. 1C15. 17 FEDERAL CONTROL ADVOCACY SET UP Senator Walsh and Colleagues Report to Governor of Mon tana on Conference. LEASE POLICY IS DEFENDED Tiewu or Issues Voted On at Kceont Western States Power Session Outlined and Itcasons for Opposition Are Voiced. ' The following: report on the recent Western States Water-Power Con ference, has been made by .Senator T. J. Walsh and his colleagues to Gov ernor Stewart of Montana: The undersigned, delegates designated by you to represent the State of Montana at the Western States Water-Power Conxresa, whica convened at Portland on the 21st in- tHant, submit the loilowinff report of its ! jiroceedings with comment more or less rertinent to the subject-matter of Its de liberations. In which the people of this state are so vitally concerned. The work of water-power development baa proceeded with euch rapidity In Mon tana that It enjoys the signal distinction of having available more hydro-eleotrlo enerjy per capita than any other state In t he Union. And et the works In oper ation and in course of construction are npable of generating scarcely more than XoMfOO horsepower out of a tital potenti ality variously estimated at from 2.000,000 to r.00,000 horsepower. The undeveloped sites of first Importance are on tho public oomain, for example, the site on the pend I'Orill at Poison with Klathead J-ak as a great natural storage reservoir, the cas cades of the Kootenai, and the canyon of the Big Horn. The only law under which powersites on the public domain can be occupied waa laseei in IJW1. it authorises the Secretary "f the interior to issue a permit which Is revocable at his pleasure. Capital will not p Into power enterprises on so precarious a title, and, accordingly, an imperious de mand has gone up for a change In the law. Over the character of the law demanded by this situation much rancorous debate has nRue4 between certain earnest gentlemen jrenerally referred to as the advocates c( federal control on the one hand and the supporters of state rights on the other, until t he public generally have been disposed to cry oJt, "a pleguo on both your houses." Leasing or Perpetual Grant. Tha isue at Portland was not whether the Federal Government or the states should ex?rciso control over power development end the operation of plants which include ciams abutting on publiu lands, but whether such powersites should be granted away in Trpetuity or leased for a limited period, say for 50 years. The Government has never departed from the policy of selling Its agri cultural lande. alienating them In fee. All history has taught that the men who culti vate the soli ought to own the land they till. But a powerful sentiment has de veloped In recent years that a different pol icy ought to be pursued with reference to the peculiar public property with which the contemplated legislation will dual. Power Is the basis of industry and the sources of power ought to be safely guarded In the jiublio interest. A widespread belief, ac cordingly, prevails that the powersites on the public lands ought not to be granted away in perpetuity, alienated In fee, out Jor-a limited term only. -Formerly munici ja.ljtii lmprovidently granted perpetual franchises to streetcar companies, electrlo liKht companies, pas companies and other like public service corporations. At an ari;-r period, in tho development. of titunlol-. pal government, not only perpetual, but mo Tiopultxtiu franchises were prodigally be sto.vcd upon corporations undertaking to serve the public. it is coming to be be lieved that the disposition of the power sites should be made with regard to the policy now generally pursued in Investing public utility corporations with the fran chises they enjoy rather than that followed In reftpeot to the granting of agricultural lands. It was In this belief that the ma jority of the delegates from Montana to the Congress at Portland acted. On that principle the so-called Ferris bill was framed. This bill, at the last session of Congress, passed the llousa and was favor ably reported by the Senate committee on public lands, of which Senator Henry L. Myers Is the chairman. Since the right of the lessee ceases, as the bill provides, at the end of r0 years, and the plant would be useless if separated from the site, it authorizes the tiovernment to release of take over the property, on paying the amount Invested in It. not including any thing on account of the site the title of the lessee to which hns lapsed. For the use of the site, the lessee Is required, under i he bill, to pay an annual charge based upon the power produced and sold, the rate to be agreed upon in advance and specified In the lease. In any . state having a public tit 11 it ies commission or other authority In which Is reposed the power to fix rates for hydro-electric power, such authority regu lates prices which the Government lessee may charge. If the stste does not under take to regulate rctes. the Fecretary of the Interior may do so until it provides the Appropriate machinery. The one-half of all. rentals go into the treasury of the state in which the site may be located; the other half into the reclamation fund. Right to Lease Asserted. Thls prooJed measure was vigorously at tackel before the Congress as being vio lative, of tho rights of the states. Senator tsnnot, of Utah: Senator Clark, of Wyo ming, and ex-Snator Piles, of Washington, assigned places on the programme, read carefully prepared papers advancing this view. Senator J-mcs, of Washington, who is prepared to support the idea of a 30 -year leuso but who oppose the Ferris bill, as It ai said at the Congress, was likewise n tho progra mr.ie, though he did not ap pear. Sera tor chamberlain, alone among those of th upper branch of the National Congress who supported th bill, or either branch for that matter, was on the pro gramme for a formal address and he was jioi a delegate. The oOicr speakers billed, who favored the measure, were subordinate officers of the oovernment. It wan stoutly urged against the Ferris bill that the National Government has bo right to leaso the public land that a policy of leasing operates to plate the public land states on a footing other than one of equality with the 15 original states. It was doclded to the contrary nearly 80 vesrs ago by the Supreme Court of the nlted States In U, b. v. Gratiot, 34 Pet. (V-'rt. as was shown in the dsbatc. A very modern case nn noun lug the same doctrine Sn Light v. United State. L'JO U.S. 51:3. The p-m er to lease is indisputable undebatabie. It -Matt thtu ttald that, conceding the power, the polity is bad, beoaime tho land thus leaded would remain the property of the 1 nited States, not subject to taxation, and thht the si;tfs, denied ths right to list such, would be impoverished. Sympathy for this view was sought by carefully prepared mars shelving the vast a iv-as in t he Western states tint subiect to taxation because owned Nationally, which, however, disclosed that the powersites were Infinitesimal In ex lent as compared ih tho total taxable or untaxable area. But this argument, on which store was put in the beginning of the debate, lost its force when It was shown that the highest court of the Nation had iir-idd ncpestedlv that, though the land t-rtuld not be taxM. the right of th leasee In. his right to occupy, tho land, with ail Improvements which he might put upon it. might he. The testimony of Hon. John TV Jln before the Senate rominitiee was nuotsd to the effect that the Montana Power company is taxsd on is right of way over the public domain fr its transmission lines, through that rjsht ia revocable. Air. Ryan advanced the view that a company operating under a 30-year lease would be txed as high as one owning Its damnUe in feo, ana that the state would suffer no loss of reve nue whatever under a leasing system. Forbes v. Gracey, P4 t S. 7rt5. and Elder v. Wood. JO u. S.. are controlling on the tax ability of pos?e.t-ory rights and improve ments on the public domain. kalns7 of Rent on Power. Then the changes were rung ei'tqueutty en the right of a slate to reguiato t)a rates of juMle service corporations operating with in its borders. uDOn the Idea industriously inculcated that the whole power in that re gard was vested in the secretary of ths Interior. The aim pie reading of t ho bill tiisolosed that It was proposed to Invest him with no such power, except in cases of those states thst had not made provision, and then only until they should provide. It ap peared that at least Oregon. California, Waahington and Montana had acted. It was in connection with the provision th. t'ie annu.il charge should be based on tn pem-ct produced and sold that the champions of state's rights found most food for argument. The state." it was asserted, ! and reasserted, asservated and reasservated. 1 "owns the waters of the streams flowing throug-h them, and to require a. power com pany to pay upon the basis of ths power produced a ad old Is to charge it for ths use of the water, which does not belong to the Federal Government. It is charging for the use of the state's property." The question as to whether the states own the waters of the streams flowing over the public domain or whether they belong to the Nation aa a. part of its lands is by no means settled. Judge Know k?a. esteemed as the most vigorous mind that' ever graced our bench, once wrote an opinion in vindication of the theory of National proprietorship. But the proposition is not Involved here at all. The Federal Government does own the site.- It owns the land on either side of the stream on which the dam must rest. It may make such terms aa It sees fit as a condition of right to occupy such a site. It may demand a lump sum. It may ask an annual rental based on the acreage, or an annual rental based upon the energy generated, 10, -jo. 50 cents, or $1 per horse power. A private owner might contraot to allow his land oa either side of a stream to be occupied for SO years by a company proposing to develop a power plsnt on it, in consideration of an annual rental equal to 25 cents for each horsepower generated snd sold. His right to do so Is undeniable, but if the Federal Government, as. a land pro prietor, should undertake to do so, wo are to understand that the fabric of the Union wl 1 totter and tumble Leave It to Futurs Generations. The guardians of the sacred rights of the states were evidently driven to rely upon ths suggestion that at ths end of i0 years, when tho Government takes over the plant. It wiii not be subject to taxation and neither will the rates it may c noose to charge be subject to stats regulation. To this it was replied that no plants can be taken over un til Congress authorizes such a course and makes the proper appropriation to pay for it: that the argument referred to might bet ter be deferred and addressed to our grand children when, in their day, ths question of what to do with them shall arise, as ths leases, from time to time, expire. It is pro posed so to legislate as that their hands shall be free. Holding the visa's therein elaborated, Messrs Walsh. Goza and Erickeon voted in favor of the adoption of the resolutions rs- i ported by the representatives on the com- i mittee from California. Nevada, Washington , and Moptana, herewith submitted. They re fused t6 give their assent to the majority report, also herewith transmitted, and par ticularly to the fourth "whereas" and ths fourth "resolved." The former ia historically false, politically unsound and legally absurd. For the first half century of our history, the public lands were treated as a legitimate source of reve nue. The usual method of disposing of them was by public auction. While the Consti tutional Convention was in session 500,000 acres of the newly acquired lands in Ohio were sold to Manasseh Cutler and bis as sociates from Massachusetts and Connecticut at 50 cents an acre, to get revenue with which to start off the new government. Many a ts still In existence look only to the realization of revenue out of ths public lands, the coat land act, the isolated tract act and others. The reclamation fund is replenished by sales of publio lands. If to dispose of the public lauds with a view to deriving revenue from them over and above the expense of the "surveying," classification and disposing" operates to destroy ths equality between the public land states and the original thirteen, there never was a stats west of ths Alleghenies admitted on such footing of equality, for within them all pub lic land was sold with a view to raising revenue and in most of tliera primarily for that purpose. Klght to Condemn Denied. The "resolved referred to declares that no legislation at all is needed, only a declara tory aot. Such en act merely says Wo at the law really is. It awards no new rights. It simply confirms exisilng rights. It specifies what the law is in order to remove doubts. This resolution asserts that the law Is and an act so declaring is asked that the states have the right to appropriate public lands of tho United States by virtue of the power of eminent domain, just, as it may seize the property of a private person for a public use. It means that the state or a corpora tion which it creates, with the privilege of exercising the power of eminent domain, may go out and seize a piece of the public land suitable for a power plant and, de voting it to such use, may defy the Federal Government which must suffer the tract to be so occupied, though It may sue to re cover the value of the land appropriated. It is doubtful whether any of the lawyers who advance this doctrine have sufficient confidence in its soundness to advise their clients to act upon It. or that they ever did so advise. But think what a grand rush to grab power sites there would be if only general belief In the doctrine could be In culcated or any stlt-respectlng court' should ever announce it. None of the "fathers" of our system of government ever dreamed, ap parently, that such a right existed in the elates. Congress never in all the 126 years in which the Constitution has been In op eration authorized suit to be brought against tho United States that such a right might be exercised. Our statesmen and commen tators have been strangely silent about the existence of any such right. It cannot be found vindicated In the works of Madison, Hamilton, Marshall. Kent or Story. The modern writers on Constitutional law seem all to have been oblivious to it. It remains to be seen with what hospitality the idea will be entertained by tjie Supreme Court. Congress Will Not Consent. That Congress will give its approval to any such novel doctrine by a declaratory act Is unthinkable. It never has done so and, until some further sanction Is given to It, will not. But in this resolution are dis closed the hopes and purposes of those whose influence shaped the conclusions of the Congress. If it expresses the law, the states may go out and seize the power sites on the publio domain within their borders. Some have advocated the passage of an act turning them over to the states. This is a simpler method of accomplishing the same result without even asking leave of Congress. Moreover, if the power com panies may appropriate the site, by virtue of the power of eminent domain, either with or without a declaratory act, they ret them in perpetuity. This resolution declares in favor of a perpetual holding. However the Issue may be disguised, it comes to this: Shall the power sites be alienated In fee, or shall we lease them for a limited term, reserving to another generation the right to recapture them? It is simply a question as to whether power projects can be financed on such a plan. Practical power men as sert that there tn no doubt about It, if the terms upon which the property is to be sur rendered at the expiration of the period of the lease are satisfactory. Generally they Insist that the Ferris bill must be liberalised in this respect. Such is the attitude of Hugh I. Cooper, well known in this state by reason of his connection with the Canyon Ferry project in the '00s, now one of the foremost hydro-eiectric engineers in this country; the builder of the great Keokuk dam across the Mississippi. That the action of the Congress evidenced a purpose to convey away the power sites in fe and that its opposition to the Ferris bill was not based noon the details of that measure was demonstrated by the second vote taken on the resolution offered. Having rejected the minority report ss a whole, a motion was made to substitute for the majority report the preamble and the first principle of the minority report, which de clared in favor of leasing the power sites for a period of . years. There was tnus squarely presented the question of a per petual grant or a definite lease for a lim ited period. The proposition to lease for a period of r9 years was rejected by the same decisive vote as was recorded on th minority reoort ss n whole. It is to bo regretted that the Congress did not devote itself to a study of the bill in its details with a view to evolving something constructive that might be helpful to Con gress in the arduous ana important task be. fore it of freeing the way for investment In and development of our Invaluable water powers. Respectfully submitted. F. .T. WALSH. HAM I. GOZA, .T. K. KR1CKSON 1 S 1 - - -v. Vjo. . :. ' v:..' A. Which.Was Slightly Damaged by Fire in the Alisky Building c5i TVlo SIMON'S .ni. 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Simon & Bro. Near Alder 50c Purses at .10 50c Mirrors at . . . . 10c 50c Hair Brushes at. . . ., 10c $1.00 Mirrors at 35c $3.50 Mirrors at S1.50 $3.00 Hair Brushes at. . . . . -S1.50 $1.50 Ivory Combs at 75c $1.00 Purses at 25 $1.00 Pocket Knives at 50 $1.00 Bath Brushes at 50C 50c Tooth Brushes at 10c 75c Tooth Brushes at 15 Odd Pieces of Ebony at 't Price A beautiful line of French Plate Hand Mirrors at 't Price Thousands of Items Not Advertised COMMERCE CLUB ELECTS University Students to Hear Promi nent Speakers. UNIVERSITY OF OREGON. Kugen, Or., Oct. 9. 6pecial.) Tho University ot Oregon Commerce Club, an orgran ization of commercial student, met recently and elected the following of ficers to serve for the ensuing emes- ter: Leslie Tooze. Kalem. president Flody South. alem. vice-president Berney Corbitt, rortlana, secretary- treasurer. Prominent business men from Tort lana ana omfr jreuon cmes will ap pear before the commercial students and speak. Xoted "Lecturer Is Coinins- Superintendent Alderman, of the Portland schools, was advised by let ter yesterday that Mrs. Winifred Sack vllle Stoner. the well-known lecturer on natural eduoatien, will visit Port land October 19 and that while here will give a lecture on the subject of natural jaucation. sue will be asked to address Portland educators on this euojecL 1916 BAH IS EXHIBIT Next Year's Beverages to Be Feature at Show. 21 COUNTIES ARE ENTERED Manufacturers and Land Products Exposition to Open Here Oc tober 2 5 Will Include Most of Oregon's Industries. More than 200 exhibitors will particl pate In the second annual Manufactur ers' and Land Products show, to open at the Armory, and temporary exposi tion buildings, October 25. This will lncludo both industrial and agricul tural exhibits, concessions, and special dieplaj-s by the United States parcel post. Forestry service, Portland Public Library, O.-W. R. & N corn exhibits, Kiser photographic display of Oregon scenic wonders, walnut exhibits, la It; bar, serving beverages to be featured next year, and other attractions. Installation of exhibits in the Armory will commence about October 15. The temporary exposition building's adjoin ing the Armory will be complete within a few days. Polk County already has started booth construction. The struc ture on Eleventh 'street is 260x73 feet with an extension of 190 feet on Lvavis street. This provides room for a free theater, seating more than 400 people, and an amusement section where many of the concessions will be assembled. Up to Saturday afternoon a total of 21 Oregon counties had been civen space. This will provide the greatest showing: of the state's agricultural and horticultural wealth ever made. The counties to participate are Josephine, Wheeler. Lincoln, Washington. Juck son. Wallowa, Linn, Union, Multnomah, Columbia. Baker, Clackamas, Crook, Wasco, Klamath. Umatilla, Marion, Malheur. Hood River, Polk and Mor row. Indications are that both Clatsop and Tillamook counties will come in and space has been set aside. Clarke County, Washington, will have an ex hibit and Walla Walla and North Yaki ma, have the question under considera tion. The Industrial display, to represent Oregon manufacturers, will provide the greatest array of exhibits ever seen. Many models and working exhibits will be featured, and when the show opens practically everything manufactured in the state will be displayed. Very little space is left at the ex position for exhibitors, and nearly all booths are taken. Applications are still coming in at tho manufacturers' bu reau at the Chamber of Commerce. Various committees are arranging the details of the show and everything will be in readiness for opening day. October 25 will be the day on which every member of the Chamber of Coni merco is expected to attend the expo sition. C. C. Colt, president of the organization, is general chairman. Di rectors of the various bureaus, mem bers of the executve committee, and all officers of the Chamber will be present opening day. The amusement committee Is work ing out th programmes for the 18 days, and general chairmen to handle the many features will be selected soon. The exposition will be open af ternoon .and evening. Xewtowns. and two firsts on grapes. George Withycombe's Jerseys carried off the honors ia the aged cow class and in the ' two-year-olds against a large bunch of competitors. Benjamin Ward, a young and new exhibitor, was showing a small herd of Jerseys and brought homo some good prises. ASSESSOR LAYS 1916 PLAN Grays Harbor Officials Work Out More Accurate, Speedier Method. HOQUIAM, Wash., Oct. 9. (Special.) County Assessor Sherman Hoover and Chief Deputy Asa B. Wilson already have begun, the work of outlining plans for the ses,r rext Spring of the ical p.:A;r'y tJrl. Harbor Cou'jty, and expect'that by the time the actual field work begins next Spring they win have their data, in such shape and the work so well organised that they will be able to carry on the assessment much faster and more accurately. OnA nf thA fmlnr.. fhn. ska 1. Ing Is the 'assessment of city property. l'o r several venra t lif rp ha, h.an mmh complaint that assessments b-twTt cities and in the various cities were not equitable. SOCIETY HORSES COMING PAXTAGKS BILL. OPENING MONDAY HAS STRONG HEADLINER. New York Hippodrome Act Handsome ly Staged and Presented Other Stream; Xumbera on Card. One of the recent features of the New York Hippodrome is to head the programme at Pantages for the week opening with the matinee tomorrow. wnen Holland ana Dockrill present their rinr beautiful milk-white society remarkable eques- GASTON EXHIBITS NOTED Washington County Fair at Forest Grove Attracts Matty. GASTON, Or., OiL 9 (Special.) Visitors at the Washington County Fair held at Korest Grove this week, were reminded by the display of blue ribbons that the stockraisers and fruitgrowers of Gaston were much in evidence. Somerset Farm, owner by L. L. Paget. received rirst prize and champion on two-year-old Holstein bull; first prize and champion on one-year-old bull calf: first prize on Shropshire we: first prise on display of oats and first on plate of apples. Miss Paget's Shetland ponies got two bine ribbons and several reds. W. K. Newell received first prizes on his Kings, Baldwins, Grimes Golden. Spitzenbergs, " Jonathan, and Yellow Children to Appear in Cantata. CORVALLIS. Or.. Oct. 9. (Special.) More than 100 Corvallis children will appear in the musical cantata, "EIraa in Fairyland." to be given at the Pres byterian Church here on October IS. Lucile Foster is to be Fairy Queen, with Marian Gunn as Princess: Rodger Ball as Puck and Wanda Johnson as Elma. There will be tiny tots as wee wees, boys as pexies and chinee elves and girls as wood nymphs, gypsies, but terflies, hobgoblins and fays. The can tata proceeds are to form a "Help-U" fund. Portland School Methods Asked. L. R. Alderman, Superintendent of the city schools, was surprised yesterday to receive a circular letter from his cousin, Edwin A. Alderman, president of the University of Virginia, in which information was asked on educational matters. Tendency, equipment and practice in matters educational were inquired into in the circular, which is being sent to a large number of edu cators throughout the country. ' VETERA!?, RESIDENT OF" Tl l. I.AM OK 2S YEARS, LEAVES MAM' DESCENDANTS. . -?J ' - ' .. .... t... s : 4 " , " X - 1 l T 1 salesman. It Is said that bank drafts, we'.l executed, were found in his pos session that lead the officers to think he has operated or. a large scale. norses in a series o trian feats. This act . is a recent vaudeville re cruit and it' is presented here for the first time since Holland and Dockrill became so widely known for their feats of horsemanship. The act Is handsome ly staged and tho remarkable intelli gence displayed by the magnificent animals is amazing. Another act of promise is the first professional appearance of the Uni versity of Oregon Four, a quartet com prised of Portland boys. The members are Paul F. Sprague, Ray W. Stanton. Larry C. Mann and Heinrich Holden relch, and they have excellent voices. Their programme consists of a series of glees and they also Introduce the most popular hits, coupled with an occasion al selection from the classics. Ezra .Kendall was one of the best liked comedians of the American stage, so exceptional interest will be taken in his best playlet. "The Halfway House." which is used as a vehicle by Mr. and Mrs. Perkins Fisher. The dramatic strength of the play is strik ing, and Mr. and Mrs. Fisher handle the parts of the farmer and the actress in clever manner. The Four Gillespie Girls are among the stage beauties who have attracted much notice in the recent seasons. They have earned the pseudonym of the Harmony Queens. One of the standard acts in vaude villo ia that presented by the Four Rennees, who offer the songs and dances of "Twenty Countries in Twen ty-Minutes." the act being of instruot ive as welt as entertaining merit. A funny comedian is Sol Berns, who doe not caricature the Jewish race. but gives an accurate exploitation of the Hebrew character. His jokes are new. The Marvel Movies will round out the bill. "Concentration." the remarkable ex hibition Of transmission of thought, will be seen for the final performances this afternoon and tonight, supported by unequaled vaudeville. AID TO CHILDREN LAUDED A Kansas UnlvcrBity WelCare Worker Says Portland Is Mist Advanced. Favorable comment ujien Portland's work for child welfare was made yes terday by William A. McKeever, head of the department of child welfare at the University of Kansas, who has just come from Seattle, where be had gen eral direction of the Child Welfare In stitute held there October 4-7. He is on' his way bak hom?.-- t He visited the Portland schools yes terday and the Portland cjiild welfare workers. He told Superintendent L. rt AIderman that Portland is doing more along child welfare lines than any other ctty in the United States, and he was agreeably surprised to find so much in terest in this work here. school in honor of her father, W. T. B. Nicholson, pioneer of the city and founder of the NicholsonAddition. This subject will be taken up by the Board at Its next meeting. CHECK MAN ARRESTED DETECTIVE MOLONEY ISES CLEVER RISK. ON" JACK HARRIS.' Jacob Blsm. Jacob Blum, who died at his home in Pleasant Valley recently. was born in-Switzerland April 7. 1S34. Ho came to America and to New OlaruF. Wis., in 184S. and there married Miss Klizabeth Babbler in 1861. Immediately after his marriage he left with the Ninth Wisconsin Regiment and served two years in the war. He came to Oregon In 1877. For the past 28 years he had lived in Tillamook County. He is survived by his wife. 13 children. S3 grandchildren and 15 great grandchildren. The children are: Mrs. M. K. Graf. Portland: Mrs. Lydia Mill. Portland: Mrs. ror atha Detje. Portland: Mrs. Es ther Franklin, Salt Lake Citv. Utah: Emll Blum. Edward Blum. Charles Blum, Fred Blum. John Blum. Alvin Blum, Mrs. Anna Simmons and Mrs. Martha Sim mons, all of Tillamook County. Prisoner Is Suspected of I'tterlaa; Worthless Payer aad la Held la Jail for Investigate. . Believed to be a skillful bad-check operator with a trail of worthless pa per behind him along the Paclflo Coast, Jack Harris was arrested yesterday by City Detective John Moloney and is held in the City Jail. The manner of his arrest is consld ered decidedly clever. Harris bought a suit rf clothes rnd a. valuable ring at the store of Meier si Frank Co. yes terday. directing that the merchandise be sent to his room. 226 Sixth street. cash on delivery. His bill was $130. Store detectives were suspicious of the man and telephoned the police. Detective Moloney was sent out on the case and he reported to the store for instructions. The detective is a com petent chauffeur, and ho stepped into a Meier & frank Co. uniform and in a store delivery auto motored out to the address civen by Harris. He knocked on Harris' door, which was opened, and Harris asked: "Are you from Meier A: Frank's?" "Yes." was the answer, "here's your packajre." "And here's your check." said the man, handing out a piece of paper that is believed ta be worthless. "I am also a detective from the City Police Bureau." said Mr. Moloney, "and I will have to ask you to come with me to the station." Whereupon he bundled Harris into the delivery auto and drove to Jail with him. He was held at the station for in vestigation. He gave his -age aa It years, and his occupation as that of LOW WATER DELAYS FERRY Dredge Deepens Channel at Nig:ht Till Columbia Rises Ag-iiln. VANCOUVER. Wash Oct. 9 (Spe cial.) The Vancouver ferry, operating on the Columbia River between Van couver and Hayden Island on the route to Portland, is having much trouble in landing on the Oregon side when the tide is out. The Columbia River is falling and is now almost at zero. During the night a dredge has been cutting out the channel where the ferry lands. The Columbia River will probably not rise until the Fall rains set in. SCHOOL BOARD MAY MEET Session, Probably Tomorrow, Will Consider Routine Business. An effort will be made to hold a meeting of the School Board tomorrow if a quorum of directors is in the city. The session will probably be scheduled for 4 o'clock. Routine business only is scheduled. As the Board has not met for the past three weeks, a great many detail matters will como up for con sideration. Mrs. Edward R. Root has sent a com munication to the Board asking that the new school to be erected on the Nicholson tract be named tho Nicholson HANDY STOMACH REMEDY TO HAVE TTHE ABOU HOME iWantly , Stops InrJijrrstion, Gas. Sourness, Heartburn or Acidity. The Moment "Pape's Diapepsin" Reaches the Stomach All Distress Goes. As there is often some one in your family who suffers an attack of indi gestion, acid stomach, dyspepsia or some form of stomach trouble, why don't you keep Pape's diapepsin in the house handy? This harmless blessing will digest anything you eat. without the slightest discomfort, and overcome a sour, gassy stomach in tive minutes. Tell your pharmacist to let you read the formula plainly printed on these &)-cent cases of Pape's Diapepsin. then you will readily see why it makes Indigestion, sour stomach, heartburn and other distress go In live minutes and relieves at once such miseries as belching of gas. eructations of sour undigested food, nausea, headaches, dizziness, constipation and other stomach disorders. ome folks have tried so long to find relief from indigestion and dys pepsia or an out-of-order stomach with the common every-day cures adver tised that they have about made up their minds that they have something else wrong, or believe theirs is a case of nervousness, gastritis, catarrh of the stomach or cancer. This, no doubt, is a serious mistake. Your real trouble ia. what you eat does not digest; Instead, it ferments and sours, turns to acid, gas and stomach poison, which putrefy in the digestive tract and Intestines, and. besides, poi son the breath with nauseous odors. A hearty appetite, with thorough digestion, and without the slightest discomfort or misery of the stomach, is waiting for you as soon aa you decide to try Papa's Diapepsin. Adv. Geo. Baker & Co. AUCTIONEERS 166-168 Park Street Preliminary Announcement Of Auction Sale A Collection of Superb Russian Furs, which arrived too late for the Exposition at San Francisco and were excluded from the Palace of Manufactures by Mr. C. H. Green for want of space (the correspond ence to thin effect will be. posted at our salesrooms, 166-168 Park street), is coming to us for exhibition and sale. In view of the grow ing scarcity of furs and tha imperative necessity of converting this collection into cash, we ask our customers and the public generally' to first familiarize themselves with store prices and then attend this grand exhibition and auction. We wish to impress you with these facts: When there is an auction of furs on the tapis some keepers of fur stores tell them that the stock is composed of seconds; the workmanship inferior, and the whole prepared for auction purposes. An inspection of this extensive collection will convince you that it was gotten up for Exposition display and competition; that the styles are the latest Parisian modes, and that nothing superior is procurable in our best shops. The exhibition has been fixed for Monday and Tues day, October 18 and 19. followed by the auction On Wednesday and Thursday. October 20 and 21. each day at 10 A. M. and 2 P. M. Catalogues will be furnished and the description of each item is absolutely truthful. If dye has been used in the preparation of a fur the catalogue recites the fact. In view of these safeguards and the pains this firm always takes to do exact justice to both buyer and seller, we ask your confidence. and patronage. Geo. Baker & Co., Auctioneers 166-16S Park Street