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THE STTNDAT OREGOXIAX. , PORTLAXD, OCTOBER 17, 19T5.
BERLIN LIQUOR LAW
DEALS SEVERE BLOW
Sale of Ardent Spirits Re
stricted to Greater De
- gree Than Ever Before.
DISTILLERS IN DESPAIR
IFrorits of Restaurants Employing
Women Aro Curtailed and
; Growing "Bottle Trade" Is
Destroyed Altoffether.
BERLIN". Sept. 23. (Correspondence
of tho Associated Press.) The restric
tions regarding the sale of distilled
liquors In Greater Berlin, which were
proposed in August by Police President
von Jagow to the government authori
ties, have gone Into effect. They are
so drastic that landlords and distillers
are in despair, and the general public
feels that its indulgence In "schnaps"
and similar drinks is to be largely cur
tailed. The rules now laid down forbid the
sale of distilled liquor except between
9 A. M. and 9 P. M., the sale In res
taurants having women waitresses and
barmaids, the sale In "automatic" res
taurants find the sale to drunken per
sons. The liquor may be sold only for
cash, and must be drunk on the prem
ises. New Rules Are Drastic.
Casual examination of the new rules
does not reveal how drastic they are.
Jtelatively few persons, because of the
late working and eating hours in
Berlin, have either desire or opportunity
to indulge in spirituous liquors until
after the new closing hour.
Secondly, scores of reputable res
taurants and cafes now have female
employes in place of the waiters who
havo been drawn into the army, and,
therefore, these cafes are barred from
making their former profitable sales.
Thirdly, the provision that the liquor
must be drunk on the premises deals
a blow to a bottle trade that heretofore
has assumed considerable proportions,
especially in the less pretentious cafes
and saloons. Practically the only pro
vision to which there is no objection
is that governing sales to drunken per
sons. Hopes of Dealers Vanish.
President von Jagow's suggestion at
to the restriction of distilled liquors in
cluded the provision that none shoulc.
be sold after 7 P. M., and that only
liquor of a comparatively high grade
and cost be dispensed.
The distillers and liquor dealers
breathed easier when they heard that
the authorities did not favor anything
so drastic, but all their hopes vanished
when the authorities finally did make
public their new regulations. It is as
sorted on every side that many cafes
that do not specialize in beer the so
called "wine rooms" will now have to
close at 9 instead of at 11 or 1 o'clock,
and that many of them will have to go
out of business.
Orders Not L'nderatood.
These cafe proprietors allege that
they cannot understand the new order
nor the reasons for it- For months
now it has been forbidden to serve sol
tllers or sailors with distilled liquors,
and they say that, therefore, there is no
military need for the rules. They main
tain that there is a great sufficiency
or liquor for army, medicinal and hos
pital needs, now on hand, so that there
is- no necessity for extra measures to
conserve the supply in this drastic
was".
Also, they assert with the utmost
posltlveness that Berlin suffers not at
all , from any undue indulgence In
liquor which would require correction
through restriction of the supply.
YOUNG DU PONT TO WED
Mnrrlase to Take llace When Young
Man Completes Kducatlon.
WIMINOTON. Del.. Oct. 1 1. Gen
eral T. Coleman du Pont, of Wilming
ton, president of the Equitable Office
liuildint? Corporation, New York, and
ilrs. du Tont has announced the en
gagement of their son. Francis Victor
iu Pont, and Miss Katherine Clarke,
of Northampton, Mass.
Touns du Pont is now a student at
Massachusetts Institute of Technol
ogy, Boston, and will be graduated in
two years. Ho and Miss Clarke met
at the wedding here a couple of years
go of the young man's sister to Paul
K. Wilson, when Miss Clarke was a
bridesmaid.
Francis Victor du Pont, an enthusi
astic yachtsman and automobi list,
drove the hydroplane Tech, Jr., III. in
recent races in Mahasset Bay, when
the craft established a world's record
of 51.54 mites an hour. The hydro
plane is named after his alma mater,
as Is also General du Pont's i,tcam
yacht. The General attended the
same institution and it is generally
believed is the unknown mar. who
some months ago made a donation of
2:0.000.
TEACHERS ON TAX STRIKE
Pajinnit of jLevy Is Kef used I'ntll
Ballot Is Granted.
KANSAS CITY, Mo., Oct. 12. Woman
teachers in the schools of Indepen
dence, Mo., have announced they would
refuse to pay taxes until they obtain
the rttfht to vote. The teachers said
they had been notified they were as
sessed $50 each and must pay taxes on
that amount.
Anpered at what she called taxation
without representation. Miss Anna Bas
kln, teacher in the Columbia School,
together with several other teachers,
took the warpath to let men know they
could not dominate women in any such
manner.
"They don't let us vote we are not
heads of households, and we don't pro
pose to pay taxes," said Miss Baskin.
"When they give us suffrage, then we
v-ill be glad to bear our share of the
expense of government."
HORSE IS BEER DRINKER
Stable-mate Breaks Loosr Because
Toper Also Eats Onions.
SIOUX CITY. Oct. 11. Paddy Fargo,
an express horse, who drinks beer and
eats onions, has been taken to San
Francisco to participate In an express
company parade In connection with the
Panama-Pacific Kxposltlon.
Faddy has drawn an express wagon
In Stoux City for many years. Bar
tenders' used to give hlrn beer and it
was not long before Faddy refused to
pull his wagon until lie had an "eye-
opener.
Taddy's folKlnc.o for onions la de
clared to have lost him his atablemate,
who pulled loose front bis tether one
night and refused to re-enter th barn
when Faddy was kept.
SOME SCENES IN "OUR OWN LITTLE WAR" IN HAYTI
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TOP NEGROES KILLED 1ST BATTLE WITH AMERICAN MARINES. BELOW COLON EL L. T. 'WALLER, SIUN-
INU PEACE COMPACT WITH REBELS.
Haiti, the little negro republic in the West Indies imbued Itself with the spirit of the times and a -war on its own
account. Rebels overturned the government and captured the capital city and riot and bloodshed reigned supreme
until the United States interfered and ordered Admiral Caperton to restore order.
Colonel L. T. Waller was in charge of the expedition of marines sent against the Haitian "Cacis" or brigands
who opposed America's plan for restoring order in the turbulent negro republic. The United States forces made
short work of the rebels and a peace compact was soon signed.
MESSAGES, PURPORTED TO BE FROM
DEAD, GIVE RESEARCHERS NEW THEORY
Psychical Scientists See in 'World-Old Animism Religion Based on Word From Spirit World Several So-Called
. Communications Describe Sensation of Death.
BY GEORGE A. THATCHER.
Member American Society for Psychical
Research.
IT is about 35 years since, a body .of
scientific men began investigation
of phenomena purporting to originate
among the spirits of men and women
who had passed the gates of death.
and now there are several societies in
the world that are well organized to
pursue the quest. Tne American so
ciety in its published proceedings and
Journals has outlined comprehensively
the scope of the investigation and has
given reports of a great many interest
ing cases of psychic phenomena, in
cluding messages from the departed.
These communications have been
criticised pretty savagely because of
their trivial nature. This is doubtless
due to the Christian Eschatology which
places the future life so far outside ot
the ordinary possibilities of human na
ture that no one can imagine human be
ings taking any part in it. However, the
scientific investigation has been made
to determine the question of the sur
vival of the human Intelligence after
physical death, and for that purpose
tho question of tne identity of discar
nate intelligences is the only ques
tion to be considered. Naturally the
proof of identity depends upon the
verification of trivial, commonplace
incidents unknown to the psychic and
investigators at the time of the com
munication. SpirltaallntH Confuse Laymen.
Then, too, the mass of alleged com-'
munications which are accepted by
credulous spiritualists as genuine
have confused the whole problem for
the layman, for psychic researchers
aro not spiritualists in the ordinary
sense.
The psychic researcher knows that
it is necessary to establish fir.t that
there are discarnate intelligences
who communicate to men and women
and in the second place to prove to a
reasonable certainty that these intel
ligences can be identified as having
lived in the flesh. Further, and this
is most important, it is necessary that
such proof should not be accepted on
the authority of certain learned men
nor because such investigators are
recognized as being honest, for that
lowers the question of proof to a mat
ter of emotional likes and dislikes.
Matters of proof of survival of death
must be in the form of records which
will convince any highly intelligent
jury of the facts and so will stand on
their own merits. That is the problem
of psychic research and until it has
been solved to the satisfaction of a
respectable number of people any
thing about the nature of the life af
ter death is undesirable from the
scientific standpoint as well as use
less. Interest In Life After Death Keen.
At the same time everyone who is
at all interested wants to know some
thing abcut the life that we' may ex
pect after death if there is such a
lite. The Americar Society. In Its
last published volume of proceedings.
ofTers some communications from dis
carnate Intelligences on the nature of
the hereafter, but with the distinct
understanding that as these matters
are impossible of verlficaion, there
car. be po assertion made as to their
truth. They aro simply Interesting
and to those who are Inclined to be
lieve In the proof of survival they of
fer material for consideration, and
because we are emotional creature
they may give comfort to the survi
vors of dearly loved relatives and
friends who have departed from thl
earthly scene, 1 won't, attempt te
quote from the proceedings anything
about .he character of the psychic
but vt 111 merely give seme fragments
of statements purporting to ceme
from per nuns who Jiave lived on this
earth and who now live In a spiritual
world.
There is no claim that the messages
are exact or that they correctly rep
resent the .spiritual life. The reason
given for publishing them is their in
terest 10 psychology and for future
investigations of the subject. They
are colored, of course, by the subconscious-faculties
of the psychic and so
far as proof goes may be entirely the
product of the subjimnal. No final
proof can be given either way.
Question Eo you see the grosser
physical body when you see the living,
or is it something else that you see?
Flesh and Spirit Seen.
Answer Both; we see the flesh and
the appearance, but we also see the
spiritual the halo of light that ex
presses the personality.
Question What is the envelope that
can be seen about the body?
Answer The mist of light that sur
rounds the personality, the ether of
the innermost spirit.
Question What Is the color of the
envelope or envelopes?
Answer According to the spiritual
ity, impressiveness, the lighter rays
denote the greater powers, the faint
and dimmer rays the struggling soul.
Question How does anger affect, the
misty envelope about the body?
Answer At times it contracts the
envelope, the particles are concen
trated and rush together, forming a
hard, impenetrable' shell over the per
son, the vision is shut off, the body
is enveloped in a senseless shell.
Question How does Joy affect the
envelope?
Answer The particles radiate, the
illusion is one of motion, quickness.
Question Does the use of intoxicat
ing liquors affect the color of the en
velope? Answer The human frame is be
sotted and debauched, the spiritual ele
ment dulled, the spiritual ' envelope
therefore is dull and lifeless.
Question What is the special pur
pose of this envelope?
. Answer The envelope is the per
sonal atmosphere of the body and is
the safeguard of the personal spirit
uality. Sensitive (psychics) are aware
of this atmosphere, but ordinarily its
effects are attributed to dislike.
The interior of the human heart Is
hidden from all except the individual,
but the inner soul ia revealed and laid
bare in its condition of goodness or
evil by the aura, that Is, if a man Is
not known to man he cannot remain
complacent In the idea that his con
dition is . not known to us; the soul
reveals itself. v
A man dies, whence comes the light
that awakens him, not from beyond.
because he himself is the motive pow
er that acts; he has within him light,
his au pa on awakening assumes his
earth form, he sees, he knows, he real
izes the earth elips away.
Light Capable of All t sr.
"This light .not of material, la
therefore capable, of any use! it pene
trates, it vitalizes thought. It carries
companionship, sympathy, help and
comfort; It carries messages and It
makes a comprehension between earth
and heaven, between man and man,
man and spirit, spirit and God."
Another communicator was asked
about the revival of the dead.
Answer Yes, when the Just passed
over comes we find they are either
dazed or stunned for time being, and
sometimes It happens that they seem
to be In a deep aleep and almost be
yond awaking: now, this state of leth
argy is the result of earth environ
ment and its effects en the individ
ual! sometimes the earth has filled
the man so that he seems almost be
yond spiritual state, not that, bat be
yond spiritual responsiveness,
Question What does he mean by
rescuing those that are asleep?
Answer Those so overcome by earth
and its pursuits for material things
that the spiritual has been neglected
and deliberately overlooked; these
souls are dead almost to our sphere,
and it requires the concentrated will
power of multitudes to waken these
that sleep.
Another communication was heard.
Question What are the first experi
ences when one leaves the body In
death?
Sharp Chance Told Of.
Answer When we pass over the line
and are freed from the body we are
instantly cognizant of a most dis
tressful feeling of newness, a lack of
environment. This feeling is a nat
ural result of a change so totally un
anticipated that you cannot picture it
by any possible simile; the simple
fact that the existence is without ma
terial expression is wholly inexplic
able. This feeling passes according to
the personality, to the one who has
exerted a spiritual life and influence,
a new era has begun; to the lower In
tellectual life the change is not aa
pleasing, but it is still in the grasp
and is comprehensible; but to the -base
and low nature, where sin and de
bauchery have been allowed to over
come the spiritual, it is a deadly sleep,
a lethargy that cannot be shaken off
until the spiritual gains strength and
we can overpower the sinful negative
ness that is caused by the abuse of
arth life.
"The soul, when it has awakened to
the fact that it is no longer material,
but simply spiritual, is at first at loss
what to do, the longing is as wth you
on earth to be wtth our fellows and
ItKSIDRNT OF OREGOV FOR 70
YEARS DIES AT IIADO.
Richard Franklin Cox. t
BANDON. Or., Oct. 16. (Spe- ?
clal.) Richard Franklin Cox,
who died here' September 30, was f
a pioneer settler who lived more
than 70 years In Folk and Curry
counties. He was born In Mis
souri December 18, 1841, and came
West In 1848.
In 1863 ho was married te Miss
Iucy Llnch, They settled on the
Sixes River, and aided in the de
velopment of that then wild coun
try. Of 11 children, nine are living
in Coos and Curry counties, Mr,
Cox was buried at Denmark, Rev,
A, B, Keese, of the First Baptist
Church of Bandea, ef f iciatinfr.
I L i! i ff . It
to make ourselves like our fellows, and
even excel our fellows.
"As we grow In grace here our work
becomes of a higher nature, we are aid
ing on earth, we try and assume the
possession of human souls for their
good, we reach out beyond the heaven
ly sphere and try our powers to aid
the lower planes. The impulses you
call them, are of heavenly origin: take
credit for them to yourselves, if you
will, but the time will come when you
shall see. If you have a good impulse
thank heaven that you are given such
and do not feel better than another be
cause of it."
William T. Stead communicated as
follows:
"Since my death I have found my
friends on earth are calling my appear
ance, my spirit, to their plane to es
tablish my Identity with that of my
hand on earth: it is a common thing
to be expected to appear In every circle,
every seance and every sitting where
a medium holds forth.
"Now say that I was drowned In
mid-ocean, I was headless before the
drowning and did not suffer from the
death that those men died harder than
I that the parting was anguish and
sorrow; let this pass as a fact, you.
however, had a glimpse of the light
here from others.
Queer Sensations Recounted.
"Then I became aware of Julia with
me, then I was surprised for my head
was suddenly clear and she and my
own greeted me with smiles and re
joicing, my head became clear, I felt
as though I was in my body and not
for a few moments did 'I realize that
I was without my earth form, yet 1
did not miss that in my friends, as they
appeared as beings for mc. It is a
queer sensation that of realizing the
freedom from the material, like almost
being naked in public yet not so, see
ing you have no sense of shame. Now
the return of memory has brought me
to a realization of my work and Its
pursuit in a grander sphere."
Another communicator said:
"When the hand of death called me I
was thinking that the passage accross
the barrier was a thing of great relief
that it was less to be dreaded than
the common occasions that are in every
life so often a dentjst, a doctor and
even the common aches and pains, for,
though the end of earth may approach
through pain, the relief Is so complete
that the passing is forgotten and the
relief Is appreciated. Death is not to
be dreaded, it Is rather more the ltving
In the material that should be of dread;
and It is Indeed fortunate that you do
not understand the case or you would
like this side too well. Yes, we have
our sufferings, but at least we can
cure them, also what you have no cure
for. your physical failings and must en
dure from all the physical. But awake
to the spiritual, the frame Is gone, the
spirit at rest and the darkness gone.
I shut my eyes and awake In light."
Dread of Change Related.
Still another said:
"When the end came I was helpless,
hopeless and dreading the change that
I was to come to me. I had not lived
as I had been expected to live, i nao
not held the faith as my friends did. I
was sort of an outcast, unbelieving,
fatthless and hopeless: for I had seen
so little that seemed true to me more
than the human desire for approba
tion and fear of discourtesy that I did
not understand tho religious faith of
my friends. I knew that they meant
goodness, and had faith in their relig
ion for the best, but they seemed to
lack; so I had no- faith beyond the
common Idea that it was for all to
cherish all.
"When I passed I found that T was
not alone; my friends were still my
friends and the barrier that had been
between us was only one of dogma
not in heart we were alike."
Another case was -given as follows:
"I was strong in my belief and 1
lost no chance to improve my church
and its hold on humanity. I worked
and suffered and studied to improve
my people, prayed and suffered and
wrought, but when my time was come
I found that the little devil in the gut
ter, who ha-d fought and pummelea
for his bread and sought to help his
own. was no worse than I. I had lived
up to my consonance and he had fought
for what he had understood, and we
were alike, doing the best we could.
"Was I surprised? Yes, no, I was
stupefied, I was amazed."
Still another related:
"Passing over, the line of death is
an acute and critical time to you; we
who have passed do but wonder why
we ever dreaded the passing so much
when the after Is so much better than
the earth life. But on earth there Is
the dread, the bear of a nonexistence,
a punishment, a lack of self -continuation,
a fear of unknown evil and a
doubt of self-virtue."
One who believed in eternal pun
ishment and dreaded death, but wak
ened in peace relates:
"I was not alone, about me were
many, many people, all happy, but
working; busy, but so quiet; not work
ing, but a seeming of mind working,
a seeming of thinking goodness and
peace; then it seemed to me that their
thoughts entered mine as though a
new thought had come home and I saw
they were lifting away my fears and
I knew then what mercy was."
Still another case is:
Question How did you find out
that you had died?"
Answer- The consciousness that 1
was outside of my body and free to
come or go as I pleased without any
response on the part of the physical
frame. I was feeling as I did before.
I passed out, I felt in a body and
could move my limbs exactly as though
I possessed one, although I could see
the unresponsive frame lying in death. "
Various questions and answers are
as follows:
Question Are we merely veneered
savages or really transformed in na
ture? Answer The savage is the Intelli
gent beast: you are a yet more intel
ligent beast: we are more intelligent
and we repudiate the bestial.
Question Have we any grounds on
which to base expectation of immor
talitv or future life even, other than
desire?
Answer The Indestructibility- ot
matter is of less importance than the
indestructibility of spirit; desire is the
token of spirit.
Questions concerning occupation,
flowers, houses, etc., are answered at
length. The hereafter as described In
these communications is like what the
late Frederick Myers called It a ra
tionalized dream." The things that are
desired appear upon being wished for.
They have the permanency of the ma
terial so long as they are desired,
whether they are houses or flowers.
fruits or beautiful scenes. These for
the partially earth-bound spirits, but
In the higher realms the desire for
the appearance of material things dls
appear.
Old Question Arlaes.
Many of these discussions have
great interest for the student of the
human intelligence, though the things
related cannot be verified In any
fashion. Of course, the chief Interest
In publishing these records lies in the
fact that it is a deliberate facing of a
world-old problem. These phenomena,
whatever their explanation, are the
basis of the first religions among sav
age and barbarous peoples, and, as
Tylor observes In his studies In primi
tive culture, there is a remarkable
continuity between animism and mod
ern religion. The various phases of
good and bad conduct originating In
Intelligent or spiritual Impulses center
around the survival ot the human in
telligence after death. In both anim
ism and modern religion, the question
Is one ef facing ultimate realties, dis
cerning the good and preparing for a
long-distant future.
If there is truth In the Idea ef growth
or evolution the phenomena ef anim
ism may have quite as much signifi
cance in modern scientific religion as
they had in the philosophy of our
forebears. That is to say, they are
probably genuine and have an import
ant meaning which it will be the work
of science te discover.
WOODS AW IS COSTLY TO
STATE INSURANCE FUND
Portable Machine Found Most Prolific Source of Accidents and Commis
sion Is Devising Means of Preventinff Constant Drain on Fund.
Sal:
Or
Or
ALEM. Or.. Oct. 2. (Special.)
ne result of the operation of
regon's workmen's compensation
law has been to reveal the hazard to
which workmen are exposed In occu
pations which have heretofore attract
ed little attention. While the news
papers contained accounts of the se
rious accidents, no data had been avail
able as to the number and character
of Injuries occurring In the various In
dustries.
When the head of the household en
gaged the proprietor of a woodsaw to
cut his Winter's supply of fuel, he had
no way of knowing that this occupa
tion was. in fact, more dangerous than
probably any other in the state using
power-driven machinery.
The records of the State Industrial
Accident Commission show that in pro
portion to the number of men employed,
the portable woodsaws cause more seri
ous accidents than do sawmills, shingle
mills, lath mills or any of the other
woodworking operations. While no fa
tal accidents have occurred, the lose
of arms, feet and fingers has been the
toll exacted for the cutting of fuel for
Oregon's citizens.
The first serious injury under the
compensation act happened last Sum
mer, to Stephen Marston, of Gresham.
The young man was employed by his
father and was throwing the belt off
with a stick so as to stop the opera
tion of the saw without shutting down
the engine. The belt came off. flew
outward, looped around Marston's arm
and drew it Into the flywheel. The
wheel tore his arm off above the elbow.
Oiler Loses Arm.
At Salem Charles Smith was injured
while oiling a saw. He reached over
the machine to set the oilcan down
when his arm came in contact with thw
saw. The power had been shut off, but
the saw was still revolving with suf
ficient speed so to injure his arm as
to necessitate amputation above the
elbow.
Edward S. Taylor, of Tillamook, was
acting as a helper on a woodsaw, and
while placing wood in position, his foot
slipped, causing his right hand to strike
the saw. Thle resulted in the loss of
his hand at the wrist.
Another Portland accident was that
occurring to Fred X. Quimby. He was
trying to move the saw nearer the pile
of wood when the wheel struck a stick
of wood, throwing Quimby's hand
against the saw. He received a severe
cut. severing the tissues of the hand
and cutting Into the bone. As a result,
his hand was so badly disabled that
the Commission awarded him compen
sation for the loss of half of his hand.
At Pendleton Sim F. McFall was
turning a wet stick of wood on the
saw table when his hand slipped off
the wood, striking the saw. This acci
dent resulted In the loss of his thumb,
first, second and third fingers and se
vere injury to the fourth finger.
Although all the accidents cannot be
recounted here, they varied in severity
from those described to lacerations and
other injuries, disabling workmen for
short periods of time, but not result
ing in permanent disability.
Lea; Cost of Careleasneas.
While various conferences had been
held between the members of the State
Industrial Accident Commission and
Labor Commissioner Hoff for the pur
pose of co-operating in accident pre
vention work, a definite plan of pro
cedure had not been determined with
respect to woodsaws until a recent ac
cident occurred In Portland to Elbert
B. Skinner.
Skinner, while employed by Elmer E.
Smith as a helper, noticed that the saw
dust and splinters had accumulated
under the saw. He made an effort to
remove the debris by kicking toward
the saw. The resistance was less than
expected and the kick too high. The
teeth of the revolving eaw caught the
trouser leg and drew the man's leg tip
between the saw and wheel, severing It
about six Inches below the knee.
With the purpose of requiring owners
of woodsaws to apply necessary safe
guards, photographs were taken of the
machine upon which bklnner had been
injured. The owner of tho saw Indi
cating his willingness to have hie ma
chine properly saleguaraea. It was
taken to a neighboring shop. After a
hood had been placed over the saw,
shields fixed on either side of the lower
portion of the saw and a boxing or
housing; fixed over the driving belt.
photographs were .taken te show the
be
guarded.
Safeguards Are Ievtaed.
Letters were then sent by the Bureau
of Labor to operators of woodsaws. In
dicating that safeguards would be re
quired and explaining in detail the
manner In which they should be applied.
In Portland, woodsaw owners can ob
tain further information from the
deputy labor commissioner at 250 1
Third street. While much of the hazard
of the work cannot be eliminated. It
Is believed the application of the safe
guards required will at least greatly
reduce the number of accidents.
Of the workmen who were perman
ently partially disabled as the result
of woodsaw - accidents, one had four
children under the agS of six years, a
number were young unmarried men,
and two were men well advanced in
years, one being 64 and the other 65
years old.
That the compensation paid to In
jured workmen since the Oregon act
has become effective has been appre
ciated is shown by their letters to the
commission. One workman. 65 years
old, who had been permanently crip
pled by a woodsaw, wroto to the com
mission as follows:
"The money you awarded me was a
great blessing and help to me more
than any money before in my life. If
I had not got it. I do not know what
I would have done. The state would
have to care for me. I have lived In
this city for 25 years, and this is the
first time I ever got without work. I
have tried to earn something by sell
ing wood, and did earn 82.75. If I can
get your help to live for a few months
more. I will try and make it some way.
At the present time I must have help or
beg. I want to be able to work, but
the doctor says I will never have the
UBe of my hand. The law is a great
blessing to the helpless."
Crippled Men Ambitions. -
One workman, after the loss of an
arm. sought employment picking ber
ries and in farm work, but he said
that he was told there were too many
men with two hands who were seeking
work. Another one-armed man found
employment in a cigar store and hoped
later to start in the business. Still
another obtained an artifical arm and
again took up his former work in con
nection with the operation of a wood
saw. Workmen suffering permanent par
tial disabilities are entitled to benefits
under the compensation law of the
state, according to a schedule contained
in the act. In addition to having the
surgeon's and hospital bills paid by
the accident fund, the workman re
ceives a monthly payment during tho
period of total disability. This pay
ment varies according to the wage of
the injured man and his marital con
dition. When able to take up some
kind of work, he is entitled to an award
of a monthly payment ot $25 for a
period which varies from six months
for the loss of a - little finger to 9
months for the loss of an arm at or
above the elbow.
Referring to the cost of woodsaw ac
cidents during the past year, one of
the members of the Accident Commis
sion estimated that if one serious ac
cident could be prevented it would save
enough in compensation benefits to
equip all the woodsaws in the state
with proper safeguards.
County Sues B. M. Lombard.
Multnomah County has started suit
In Circuit Court to recover 8440 from,
B. M. Lombard, charging that he col
lected this much In rent from O. D. Up
ton, a tenant at the old county farm
on Canyon road, between May 25, 1914.
and May 25, 1915. Lombard once pur
chased this property, but the county
foreclosed because he failed to make
payments. It Is alleged that the $440
he collected from Upton was really due
the county.
Polk Potato Crop Heavy.
MONMOUTH. Or.. Oct 16. Special.)
The potato crop In Polk County Is
heavy thts year. Large quantities of
Burbanks are on the farmers hands,
while already several large shipments
have been made from the river bot
ton.s, where for the first time this crop
was planted. New varieties, obtained
from liastrrn Hcedhouses early last
Spling, have been adopted. Eighty
cents a hundred pounds has been the
price if several sales.
manner in which woodsaws should