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TIIE SUNDAY OREGOXIAX, PORTLAND, FEBRUARY 20. 1916.. LUMBERMEN PLMK PROMINENT RETAIL LUMBER DEALERS WHO WILL PARTICIPATE THIS WEEK. CONVENTION DIAMOND QUALITY t nr. 9- ID 1 in Portland! nniiTninmn mill lr .v "imiiufiiiiiu iwinv uuiiinnuiun iiihi a. jV-r liiTunoAii Diiiwno Ary ksr TOBHOAC V MARKET ill I MUmHii. U -L- Dealers of Pacific Slope Will Hold Conference in Port land This Week. MANY PROBLEMS LISTED Retail Atotciation and Mutual So ciety Will Hold Joint Sessions at Chamber Many Speak era on Programme. I How to extend the market for retail lumber is the problem that will con- front lumber dealers of the Pacific Slope, who will meet in annual con- ; xerence in Portland this week. The sessions will bring together members of tho Western Ketail Lum ; bermen's Association and of the Lum bermen's Mutual Society from all the I states west of the Kockies. The meet- ings will be held in the assembly-room : of the Portland Chamber of Commerce. ; Headquarters of tho convention will be ; iLt the Imperial Hotel. Many problems affecting the retail ; lumber business will be up for discus ; tion. But none, probably, will meet ! with more consideration than the ques ; tion of extending the retail market. Many able speakers will touch on this topic. 1 The convention will open at 10 o'clock "Wednesday morning by a song from the Ad Club quartet, . The same song sters will entertain at each subse quent opening session, f J. il. Crawford, of Walla Walla, is f president of the Western Retail Lum bermen's Association and will give his annual report at the opening session. Following Is the complete programme for the week: Wednesday moraine, 30 o'clock sharp Ad Club Male Quartet; "America." by the entire assembly; president's address, "A lrfok Into tho Future." J. M. .Crawford; sec- I retary's report. "A Short, Terse Chronicle of tho Past Year." A- L.. Porter: "The JIand writing on the Wall," Parson Peter feimpklns, Salt Lake City, Utah; appoint ment of committees: resolutions, nomina tions, auditing and 1917 conference. Wednesday. 2 P. M. Ad Club Male Qur- et: "A Woman's Point of View." Mrs. C. C. Bowerman. secretary of the Bowerman Lum ber Company, Pocatello, Idaho; "How We Put Two Silos in Use Where None were Used Before." John C. Cuneo. manager Tuolumne Lumber Company, Modesto, CaJ ; "The Schol Manse," Josephine Corliss Pres ton. Superintendent Public Instruction, State of Washington. Thursday mornlnsr, 10 o'clock Ad Club Male Quartet; "The Powers and Liraita tions of a Trade Association," A. L. Porter a discussion of the opportunities and re sponslbllities of co-operative action In the retail building material industry); address. Mary Ellen Gunby, Chico, Cal.; "What '14 Year Thinks of the Way '40 Year Does Busine&s." William Graham, Salt Lake City. Utah; '"Traffic Troubles aud How to Handle Them," R. W. Franklin, traffic manager Western Association (the following subjects will be specifically covered: (a) Arbitrary demurrage rules; (b) reweighing coal; (c) interest on overcharge claims; (d) damage ..to coal; (e) contraband shipments; (f) freight money wasted). It is probable that a meeting. will be ar ranged between mine operators, carriers and retail building material merchants handling coal for a frank and open discussion of re weighing carload shipments of coal and to ascertain the cause or causes of the radical discrepancy between mine and destination weights. Thursday afternoon, 2 o'clock Ad Club male quartet; 1, "Shall we advertise the - price per thousand feet or a lump sum for all the material necessary to construct the building?" 2, "Terms of bale for the Ke ' taller," W. B. Dean, Chico, Cat; 3, "Guar anteeing that a specified list of material will complete th structure," Harold K. Crawford, Walla Walla, Wash.; 4, "Is it pos sible to create and obtain business before it reaches the point of competition, and If so how? If not, wl-y not" 5, "What is the best medium for profitable advertising, the local newspaper, the individual house organ, pamphlets or circular letters?" 6, "'What system have you found most economical In unloading cars and putting the material In yard or sheds?" 7, "Concrete Facts About ' the Selling of Cement," A. H. Cox, Pendle ' ton. Or. ; general discussion; the managers of the 16 cement companies operating in this territory have been invited to par ticipate, j Thursday evening, 8 o'clock Hoo-hoo din ner; short Initiation of candidates; after this an attraction will be staged in the form of a kangaroo court, par excellence; : theater party for women, compliments of the Empress Theater. Friday morning. lO o'clock Ad Club male quartet; report of committees; election of officers: Immediately following adjournment of the association will convene the annual . meeting of the Lumbermen's Mutual So ciety: reports of officers; election of di rectors; immediately following adjournment there will be a meeting of the managing board of the Mutual Society. Friday afternoon. 2 o'clock This session will be under the personal charge of Thorp Babcock. secretary of the West Coast Lum . bermen's Association. Both retailers and manufacturers are most earnestly urged to attend, as many questions of great import ance to all bra itches of the Industry will be discussed. "The red cedar shingle. How it Is made and why. How it is going to be advertised and why. Can and will the manufacturer of red cedar shingles furnish and ship the urorer nail with the car of shingles." Trade extension. What the manufacturer should do and how he proposes to do it. George M. Cornwall, editor of the Tim Herman. Portland. Or., is. with the as sistance of the secretaries of the several manufacturers' associations, arranging a series of conferences which will represent all of the wood-producing territories of the Northwest. Friday evening, 7 o'clock Annual dinner In the large dining-room of the Portland Chamber of Commerce. If the weather conditions are favorable, arrangements will probably be made to give the visiting women an auto trip along the Columbia River Highway, with compliments , of the Portland Chamber of Commerce. I i T'v ' ' " X y-e I f . I Xs' . Suggestion Made That Hans Pederson Is Likely to Forfeit $1 6,000 on AuditoriumBid. INDICATION GIVEN CITY Point Made That Seattle Man and Boyajohn-Arnold Company, Next to Lewest Bidder, Have Taken Work Together Heretofore. H00-H00S TO MEET Concatenation Will Be ' Held Thursday Night. PLANS LAID AT LUNCHEON MISS MOULTON MARRIED -' Daughter of C. E. Monlton Becomes Bride of Otto H. Mattern. Miss Dorothy Drurjr Moulton was quietly married at noon yesterday to " Otto Henrichsen Mattern at the home of her parents. Mr. and Mrs. C. E. Moul ' ton. 868 Lovejoy street. The ceremony was performed by Rey. 7: Oswald W. Taylor, rector of Grace Me ' mortal Episcopal Church, in the pres ence only of the immediate family, Mr. and Mrs. C. E. Moulton, father and mother of the bride; Mrs. Anna H. Mat - tern, mother of the bridegroom, .and Mr. and Mrs. Oscar J. Closset. " Mr. and . Mrs. Mattern left in the afternoon on the steamship Bear for San Francisco, where they will pass their honeymoon. Their permanent home will be in Laurelhurst on their return to Port- land. RIVER ROAD IS BLOCKED Damascus Highway Along Clacka mas Being Cleared of Slides. DAMASCUS, Or- Feb. 19. (Special.) : A large crew of men has been at work on the river road along- the Clack ; amas River east of Baker's bridge, : which was impassable on account of the landslides. Z What is known as Grim's Bluff slid lnto the river. Farther east biff trees '. and tons of rock and debris covered the road. The Foster road is impassa 7 ble on account of the bad slides on the Xieep Creek hill. W. P. IiOckiVood, of Seattle, Supreme Senior, Arranges for Gathering That Will Mark Session ef' Western Lumbermen. Twenty ancient and reliable members of the order of Hoo-Hoo yesterday handed the high sign to the supreme senior of the Concatenated Order, W. P. Lockwood. of Seattle, lunched with him and started plans for a ceremonial session to be held in Portland next Thursday night. The worshippers or the black cat are intending to make it memorable. Several hundred delegates to the ltn annual conference of the Western Re tail Lumbermen's Association will be in Portland next Wednesday, Thursday and Friday, and out of a . desire to do something thatwill lift the entertain ment features of the convention to high plane. Supreme Senior Lockwood will set aside the sacred number "9" for the time being and confer the de grees on a selected class of applicants. As a usual thing the order ot hoo- Hoo meets at nine minutes past nine of the ninth day of the ninth month of the year. Nine officers open the ses sions of the lodge, the candidates take nine days in retirement to think things over. Nine black cats sit on nine fences and nine bootjacks are supplied to nine heavers. But because of the fact that the Portland convention is one of the most important gatherings of lumbermen from Colorado, Wyoming, Montana, Utah, Washington, Oregon and Cali fornia that will be held in the North west this year, the rules will be tem porarily suspended. R. D. Inman was appointed yester day by Mr. Lockwood vice-regent Snark for the northern district of Ore gon. The concatenation will be held at the Chamber of Commerce and will be fol lowed by a banquet. Those present at the luncheon, at which Jay S. Hamilton presided, were: F. A. -Sullivan, W. W. Clark, George Wentworth, Kurt H. Koehler. J. L. Jackson, A. L. Bratton, Roy Slocum. George W. Cecil. R, B. Oakleaf, Miles Jameson, George Leuders, It. B. Stewart, George M. Cornwall. George Douney, W. P. Lockwood, W. Phillips, E. R. Blair, George F. Cornwall and A. Whis nant. home of A. D. Norris, where the street is undermined as a result of a slide on private property. It is expected the whole problem will be put up to the Council by Commissioner Eieck. MONTHLY PAY PROPOSED City Official Thinks Plan Would Se duce Cost of Grade Elimination. Monthly payments to contractors as work progresses on the elimination of the O.-W. R. & N. grade crossings from the head of Sullivan's gulch to the city limits on the East Side, has been pro posed by Special Regrade Engineer Ed mondstone as a means of saving money in the project. He says the paying of the contractors as work goes on will mean a 10 per cent saving in the cost of the work. To force the contractor to finish the entire job before drawing any money would necessitate him borrowing the money to meet his bills, and interest for this would be included in the bid for the general contract. secretary, Heinie Junker; treasurer, R. S. Smith; librarian, Cyryl Gray. During tne past is months the band has been under the leadership of Professor E. V. Nye, and has made rapid progress and is one of the organizations of which Sandy is proud. Several experi enced musicians have become members recently. Woodland Cheese Factory Kcopens. Although Hans Pederson, Seattle contractor, who submitted the lowest bid for erecting Portland's Auditor ium, has not indicated in any way to city officals that he will not accept the contract for the work, a rumor is going the rounds of the City Hall that the concern may drop the con tract in favor of the Boyajohn-Arnold Company, the next to the lowest bidder. Such a course would involve the forfeiture to the city of a certified check for $16,000, furnished by the Pederson concern to guarantee good faith. It is said Hans Pederson and the Boyajohn-Arnold Company have been associated in several projects before and that the two, by combining in some way on the Auditorium contract, could afford to forfeit the $16,000 cer tified check. The Boyajohn-Arnold bid s about $27,000 higher than tne ma submitted by the , Pederson concern. Apparent Discrepancy Cited The rumor is given weight by the statement of J. A. Fouilhoux, archi tect, to the effect that while the Ped erson bid, which is consiaered un usually low, is regular in every way, there apparently has been a mistake made in the figuring of brick prices. Whether this was a mistake or whether the contractor intended to make the bid in this way, Mr. Fouil houx does not know. He says he has had no intimation' that a consolida tion of the two concerns is planned. Mr. Fouilhoux says the Pederson bid for brick work is $23,000, which, he says, would cover tne Dare cost or me brick. The work, he says, would in volve an outlay possibly of $23,000 more. This, Mr. Fouilhoux says, may have been a- mistake or it may have been what the company intended. Mr. Fouilhoux will recommend to Sandy Band Reorganizes. SANDY, Or., Feb. 19. (Special.) At the meeting held Thursday night the Sandy Band was reorganized with the election of M. A. Deaton as gen eral manager. The other officers elected are: President, B. E. Sykes; WnODLAOT). Wash.. FV-lv 19, fKn. cial.) John Bogart. the well - known Commissioner Baker the acceptance of cheesemaker and dairyman of this t"e eaerson Did ana tne awara ai me viHnitv ha nntwncH tho oiri Wnrai- contract for the Pederson price of land cheese factory and will manufac- $317,400. Mr. Baker will send the turo rhoos r.H shin miiv onrt .rom same recommendation to the Council rrnm this. Kor-tir.!. Tho Wni.nJ Wednesday. The next lowest bid is cheese factoryis the oldest one in the that of the Boyajohn-Arnold Company Pacific Northwest, having been estab- Ior .. lished here more than 35 years ago, but for the past few seasons has not been in operation. Pasco Eagles Elect Officers. Funds Are Adequate. A tabulation of the bids as received was made yesterday. They show that under either one of the two lowest bids the entire building, with all the proposed original ornamentations, can PASCO. Wash., Feb. 19. (Special.) be built within the money available. The Eagles' lodge of Pasco. No. 1530, in the advertisement for bids, the has elected the following officers: E. main figure was asked for the build D. Donnelly, worthy president; W. E. jng with many extras left out. The Burns, worthy vice-president; W. P. bidders were asked to submit figures Kelly, past worthy president; J. H. on the amount they would add to their Sylvester, secretary; S. N. McGee, price for the inclusion of these extras, treasurer; G. A. Haven, worthy chap- The frills were outlined in 10 alter- Jam; Charles M. Ban, George A. Haven I nate provisions in the specifications. and L. D. Conrad, trustees. HOME LANDMARKS IN DANGER PHOTOGRAPHED Childhood Residences of C. Minsinger and H. L. Pittock Are Preserved to Memory by Pictures Taken in Nick of Time. CITY BLAME IS LIMITED RESPO.VBIL1TV FOR SLIDES IS AP PLIED ONLY TO STREETS. Work of Repairing Damage la Held Up Pending- Settlement aa to Who Will Pay Bills. witn airt-sitde troubles at an ap parent end, difficulties now have arisen as to the repair of damages. The problem involves serious questions, both of engineering and the responsi bility for the slides. Commissioner uiecK, wno Has cbarge, called upon City Attorney LaRoche for legal ad vice on the subject. An Investigation of the damage was made by these offi cials yesterday. The city, it Is said, is responsible only for damage to streets. Just how streets can be repaired in some of. the cases without making extensive re pairs on abutting property is a ques tion; Also there is a question as to who will pay for the damage caused to both public and private property by slides which originated on private property. The slide which started near the home of Edward Holman on Sixteenth street and swept down over private and public property, taking out the College-street bridge and damaging two houses owned by B. O. Case, on Hall street, is the most perplexing case. Whether the owner of the prop erty on which the slide started should be held responsible for the damage to the bridge and also the damage to other private property is a question. On Thurman street there is a ques tion as to the extent to which , the city can go in repairs. The street is under mined and to repair it will necessitate fill on private property. Whether the city or the property owner should pay for the fill is undecided. The same question has arisen as to repairs on Montgomery, street near the. , -OX'S S S" rt ? 1? I: sr.-H'i n 1? - w II ii! 3 tt The alternates were as follows; J. Omitting excavation work. 2., Use of Wilkinson stone in place I of granite on steps and buttresses. 3. Use of mat glazed terra cotta in place of standard terra cotta. 4. Use of Wilkinson stone in place terra cotta in facing tho base of the exterior walls. 5. Use of Wilkinson stone in place of terra cotta in the facing of the base of exterior walls using mat glazed terra cotta. 6. Use of Xeene cement gauged lime plaster in place of patent plaster. 7. Use of weather strips in case- I ment windows. i. Use in ceiling of main Audi torium of ornamentation in soffits of beams and panels, as provided in I original drawings, and providing full amount of decorations. 9. Use of ornamental grilles on win- Idows on upper part of building and on small balcony. 10. Use of Dahlstrom metallic doors in place of kalamlned. For February Planting A SPLENDID ASSORTMENT of the best Roses for garden decoration or cut flowers. Proiv erly budded by the most skillful growers on the right kind of stock to make a sturdy, thrifty growth and bloom freely. LEADING VARIETIES and LATEST NOVELTIES, $3.00 per dozen up. Rhododendrons, Holly Trees, Evergreens, Shrubs, Trees, Perennial Plants, Climbing Vines You Should PLANT NOW For Best Results First Planting in Your Vegetable Garden Just as soon as the ground can be prepared plant ONION SETS, PEAS, RADISHES, LETTUCE, SPINACH, BEETS, TURNIPS, CABBAGE PLANTS, STRAWBERRY PLANTS, RHUBARB AND ASPARAGUS ROOTS. 1916 CATALOGUE, 164 pages listing the newest and best Roses, Sweet Peas, Flower and Vegetable Seeds, Sprays and Fertilizers, the best of everything for home gardens is a safe guide to your purchases and a useful and dependable reference every grower should have. TYour name should be on our mailing list. Ask for Catalogue No. 360 TRADE MARK Portland Seed Company Front and Yamhill Streets. Phones: Main 4040, A 6015. purchased. Including a $6000 building, the company will expend this year 110,- 000 in improvements on the place. which Includes lbO acres. HOOD RIVER TREES AFE Slow Melting of Snow and lec Obvi ates Stripping Danger. HOOD RIVER, Or., Feb. 17. (Spe cial.) So slowly has the deep snow melted during the past week that dam age to orchards, according to. reports from all districts, will be comparatively light. Grave fears, a week ago, existed among: growers when rain formed half an inch of ice crust on the surface of the snow blanket. This heavy crut. if a sudden thaw had followed, would not only have stripped younsr treef, but would have taken many limbs off 6 and 6-year-old orchards. This crust, however, melted before the snow began to settle. Growers report tho breaking of young trees by shifting snow on hillsides. In older orchards the damage will be no greater than that of a normal Winter. the Three-S Milling Company feed store of this city, died suddenly this week. Pleurisy was the cause of his death. Mr. Butler has been ill for five dayn. Mr. Butler has been in business hern for four years and is survived by his widow, a son and a daughter. Klamath Falls looses Miller. KLAMATH FALLS. Or.. Feb. 19. (Special.) AV. H. Kutler, proprietor of NURSE PROCURES $10,000 Jury Gives Verdict Against Estate of Tailor Who Killed HlntxoH. NKW YORK", Feb. IX A Jury in .lu. tice Keogh's part of the Supreme Court at White Plains gave a verdict for 110,000 in favor of Willium Henderson. of Manhattan, against the estate of Theodore B. Dale, who was a Sixth- venuo tailor. Palo committed suicide In his home in HarltMn on March 20, 1913. Mr. Henderson testified that in Sep tember, 1897, he went to work for Mr. Dale as attendant and nurse and served him until his death. He said Dale told him that he would reward him by leaving him ll'O.OOO in his will. The will gave Henderson nothing. ll sued for $-0,000 damages. There was no written contract, but tho Jury believed Henderson's mother, who testified she. heard Dale, snv ho was going to leave Henderson $0,ono for his service. Oaf clc A for-, T2 jltt slr-gA unhi 1H iJkv w its! 11 r - ' : ALL FRANCE WILL , FARM Government Orders Kequisltion of Ijand Nbt Tilled by Set Time. PARIS. Feb. 17. The cultivation of every parcel of land in France to as- I sure the maximum agricultural pro duction is the aim of the French gov ernment, and to bring this about the government itself will act temporarily as a farmer. A bill has been prepared, under the direction of Jules Meline, Minister of Agriculture, requesting the owners 'of uncultivated land to begin tillage within two weeks after notice. If land is not cultivated wltnin tne time specified the bill provides tnat I Mayors of communities have the right to requisition the ground and order its cultivation, tho towns to assure the funds necessary to carry on this work. The bill further provides for a municipal or an ' agricultural com mittee to supervise the cultivation of such land. Minister Meline says that there has been a deficit in grains of 10 per cent in 1915. as compared with 1914. The Minister declares that there is not minute to be lost if France does not want to be surprised by developments and exposed to the possibility of ar riving too late on the economic bat tlefield. mrnmrn You What to Plant, When to Plant and How to Plant Shows you how to have a successful garden every month in the year. Lists all best varieties of Sower and vegetable seeds, flowering and ornamental plants, bulbs, berries, fruit trees, grape vines, etc SEND POSTAL FOR YOUR COPY-TODAY fO BEAUTIFUL -A Post L Rote Plant $1,311 Paid Bush - clunbms of assortment of both. Strong, healthy, two-year-old fid d -crown olants. Our elecUoa from catalog varietiot. Unlabeled. (HAS. C. NAVliKT CO. Inc.. Nurserymen. Seedsmen and FlorlMn. 20 K. San Fernando St.. Jan J one, Cal. W" HEN C. Minsinger, president of the Star Sand Company, re cently visited his old home in Pittsburg, he found that many familiar landmarks were disappearing before the ruthless march of progress. Lest he should not have another op portunity of obtaining photographs of some of the places that he wanted par ticularly to remember, he obtained pic tures of the home of H. L. Pittock's parents and of the old Minsinger home, both in the Mount Washington section of Pittsburg. Ml. Minsinger brought copies of the photographs with him on his return to Portland. ' On a previous visit to Pittsburg, Mr. Minsinger accidently met Mr. Pittock in a restaurant. Both had gone there I surance circles is that the blow dealt INSURANCE IS $20,000,000 Vast Amount Is Paid on Policies of British Soldiers. NEW YORK, Feb. 13. A summary of British life insurance records snowr that up to the end of last yearabout $20,000,000 had been paid out in death claims on men of the rank and file of the Army and Navy killed in the war. In addition, approximately 16,000,000 was distributed by industrial assur ance companies In benefits to relatives of soldiers and sailors who lost their lives, and fraternal organizations dis bursed $1,800,000 more The opinion expressed in English in to visit their old homes. Each ex pressed a desire to get a photograph of his respective former residence, but the actual detail of taking the plc tures was postponed. 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