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DEMONSTRATION OF SAFETY SIGNAL DEVICES BEFORE PUBLIC SAFETY COMMISSION YESTERDAY
COLOMBIA BEACH
TO BE .IMPROVED
AT POLICE STATION. .
AS BALM TO SOUTH
Newly-Found Bathing Resort
" on River Will Be Leased to
. Highest Bidder.'
Senator Tillman Would Appro
priate $100,000,000 for
Use of ex-Confederates.
INTERESTS FORM POOL
LIBERAL BASIS OUTLINED
THE SUNDAY OREGOXFAIf, PORTLAND FEBRUARY 21, 1916.
PENSION
PROPOSED
Measure Declared Just in Tien of
targe Sums Obtained From Cap- -
tured and Confiscated Prop
1 erty and Cotton Tax.
OREGONIAN NEWS BUREAU, Wash
ington. Feb. 24. While the South ia In
th saddle and guiding- tho course of
Congress, and while a President of
Southern birth is in the White House,
Southern Demlcrats are overlooking no
opportunities to direct I-ederal lunds
Into their section.
Perhaps one of the most startling
proposals yet advanced by any South
- arner is that of Representative Tillman
of Arkansas to appropriate J100.M0.000
out of the Treasury of the Ignited States
"t pay each soldier who served in
the Confederate army d to the widow
of any Confederate soldier the sum of
J500 ,and in aOdition to pay such sol
diers and widows i30 a month for the
remainder of their lives."
Union Men Not So Well Off.
Comparatively few soldiers who
served in the Union Army during the
war of the rebellion are receiving pen
sions as high as $30 a month. The
widows of Civil War veterans are pen
. stoned at the rate of $12 a month and
neither these soldiers nor their widows
received any bonus In addition to the
pensions allowed them by law.
No Union Army veteran is pension
able unless he was wounded In thi
service, or unless he served at least
to days with the colors; no widow of
a Civil War Veteran Is pensionable if
she remarries after the- death -of her
soldier husband, or if she. is divorced
from him. The Tillman bill cas no
limitation.
Bill Has Curloaa Preamble.
The excuse which Mr. Tillman offers
for his remarkable bill fs found In the
preamble, which reads as-follows:
"Whereas, a large amount of money,
approximating $10,0,000,000, was se
cured and collected from the people of
the South during the Civil War and
the reconstruction period that followed
from the following-named sources:
First, from captured and abandoned
property; second, fronj confiscated
property; and, third, from the collec
tion of the cotton tax from 1863 to
1868;
"Whereas, what is known as the 'cot
ton tax" was illegally collected;
"Whereas, the South, prior to the
Civil War and since that time, abun
dantly proved her loyalty teethe Union;
tamely 'lost, without murmuring.
4.000,000 slaves, valued at 2. 000, 000,
000; gave to the country much in mili
tary service; and, added much territory
by the genius and diplomacy of her
statesmen;
"Whereas, 60 years after the unfortu
nate struggle between the states there
exists only a scattered remnant of the
sray chivalry that rarely lost a battle,
many of whom are maimed and unable
to work; -
"Whereas, it is desirable to" destroy
the last vestige of sectional feeling
and emphasize the fraternal spirit that
should obtain in a happily x. reunited
country, and to permit a generous and
a Just Government to recompense in
part the South for her losses, not justi
fied by the stern demands of war:
"Whereas, it is practically impossible
to restore the 'cotton tax Illegally col
lected or other property confiscated to
the people from whom it wrs taken
during and after the war; and
. ''Whereas, the surviving soldiers of
the Confederacy are conspicuous and
deserving representatives of said sea
tion. etc" .
QAYTON . WOMAN ' IS - DEAD
Mrs. IS. E. Peabody, Wife of Veteran
Editor, PasseA Away.
DAYTON, Wash., Feb. 26. (Special.)
Mrs. R. E. Peabody. wife of R. E.
Peabody, veteran editor of the Colum
bia Chronicle here passed away at the
Brinney Hospital February 25.
Funeral services will be held at the
family residence tomorrow afternoon
at 3 o'clock. The body will be taken to
Spokane for cremation, in accordance
with Mrs. Peabody a wish.
Mrs. Peabody was born In Washers
County. Wisconsin, September 1, 1861.
When 12 years of age she came to 611
verton, Or., with her' parents. Mr. and
Mrs. S. Bowen, where they lived two
years. In 1876s the family came to
Columbia County and settled on Eckler
Mountain.
Mra, Peabody 13 survived by her hus
band, a daughter and a brother.
HOOD RIVER CASTS SNOW
Growing; Impatient alYIUng for
t Thaw, CityJcartnicnt Acts.
HOOI RIVER. Or.. Feb. 26. (Spe
cial.) While snowbanks are still
heaped on the roadside and In gutters
of the streets, tse arid east wind of
the past week has been so drying that
thoroughfares have become dusty, and
clouds like those of mid-Summer are
kicked up by the scores of automobiles
that have been put into commission.
Having grown impatient In waiting
for a thaw from a Chinook wind, the
city street cleaning department has
begun to cart away snowbanks from
the streets. The snow has disappeared
from orchard fields and almost all has
cone from the sides of ranges that
surround the valley.
WOMAN, COOKING, DIES
Baker Resident Drops Dead From
Heart Failure at Breakfast.
BAKER. Or.. Feb. 26. (Special.)
Leaving nine children and S3 grand
children In many parts of the United
States, Mrs. Rebecca Klggins gave one
cry for help and dropped dead from
heart failure while cooking breakfast
today.
She bad bad a pain sear her heart
for a week, but refused to con -tilt a
doctor. Mrs. Klggins was born in Dixon,
111., ii years ego and camo to Baker
with her husband three years see.
Among her survivors are her husband
and two sons E. O. and H. O. Klggins,
ct Baker. The Iwxjjr will bo sent to
Colburn. Colo., for burial,
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ARE - VARIED
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INVENTIONS
Committee Jfamcd by Council to
Choose Standard Implement for
. AVarnlng Reaches No Dc
x clsion as to the Best.
Wtaximm tir IA! A a 7,
It i Unrs4 t Atetiixsn $iri is wta-r
log nr lii away by eh-m gum.
Kofofir ii.vlrpi for automobiles, of
many fashions but with one. purpose,
-ro chnwn at the notice station jes-
terdav afternoon, -when the special
committee appointed by the City Coun
ril investigated the merits of each. -
All possessed the essential principle
of giving due warning of the motorist's
intention to turn either to the left or
fis-ht nr to come to a stop, the man
ner in which the Inventive minds had
vnrVml to a common end was extreme
ly varied. There were hands that
stretched forth to give the signal, ar
rows. indisators, etc, but by far the
greater number of devices showed the
words atop." "right, - "leu, .vm- illu
minated lettering.
Portland Inventors Prevnll.
All exceDt two of the devices offered
ware invented by Portland men. The
exceptions are those of Nokolyde Sig
nal nomoanv. of New TTork. and the
Tell You Traffic Signal Company, of
rjAvton. Ohio.
The local entrants were: Smith Sig
nal Company, 161 Grand avenue; Mc
intosh & Herman, 33 Barron Apart
ments: U. S. Auto Signal Company; J.
Robinson, 14 North Broadway; E. Cole
man. 1165 EverhaVd street; C. D. Chand
ler. 843 Seventh street; South Portland
Machine Company, J. A. Trimble in
ventor; C. V. Frey. 753 Everett street;
American Auto Signal Company, Louis
Simpson inventor.
- Committee Personnel .Given.
Members of the special committee
were: A. H. Averill, Fire Marshal Jay
Stevens. B. IF. Boynton. R. .U vv itnrow,
J. P. Jaeger and' Harry P. Coffin. All
of these are members of. the Public
Safety Commission, of which Mr. Coffin
is chairman. .
Several automobile dealers were
among the Interested audience which
packed the exhibit room. C. C. Over
mire, president of the Portland Auto
ClLb. and Aaron Frank, of' Meier &
Frank, were present.
"The Inventor of the Smith auto sig
nal is Claude F. Smith, a Portland boy.1
said Mr. Frank.
Factory Can Torn Out 500 Dally.
"His factory on the East Side is al
ready capable of turning out 500 of
the devices per Jay. It Is non-me
chanical. there is absolutely nothing
to tet out' of order, and only one is
needed to the car. Many of the Smith
signals are already in use here, and
they have also met with great suc
cess in Seattle and elsewhere. We have
the Portland agency."
The special committee went into ses
sion following the demonstration, but
arrived at no definite choice. It is
stated. They found several of the de
vices to be practical in application, but
will make no recommendations until
after the next meeting. It Is probable
that the Council will adopt as standard
certain of the devices and enact an
ordinance requiring tbelr use on Port
land streets. .
$239,715 JN TAXES PAID
Mr.'Wurlbnrt Clve Warning of De
linquency of FJrat Half April 0.
Although one-third c( iha tlma al
lottad for first payment pf tftea is gene,
only ene-thireieth of the total taxes
to be collected in Multnomah County
have been paid, announced Sheriff
Hurihurt yestafday.
The total payments in February ?4,
when the )as tabulation was raada,
w4 23s,fi8.p0, Assessments have
bean paid by 763 people, Intreot of
I per sent a msntit will begin on first
half-fayraetj of fates not made by
April 5. The second half-payraets
fnay be made any tima before October
Ail taxes become delinquent Novem
ber 6.
ABOVE SIGNAL DEVICES UNDERGO ING TSSTS. BELOW.
BLIi USING AUTO SIGNAL.
-yMRS. JOE TRIM-
Flans for Better Conditions at Rec
reation Resort Will ; Be Com
. 'pleted Soon -OffeM Due
Until March 15.-
- Columbia Beach, Portland's "newly
discovered" bathing resort fronting
more than a mile on the Oregon shore
of the Columbia River, directly across
fromT Vancouverand which sprang Into
sudden favor toward the close ' of last
season, will be opened for development
on an extensive scale.
Plans for improving It as , a recrea
tlon resort will be completed within
the next few montns, according to the
programme already outlined by the
group of interests owning the various
narcels of land Included in the big
tract.
At a conference of the biggest prop
erty owners concerned, including the
tJaniTiBiiln. Industrial Company, the
PAribnd Railwav. Lieht & Power Com
pany and C. K. Henry, held last week,
final steps were taken for pooling all
Interests and it was agreed tuat tne
entire 114 acres, with its aggregate-
shore line of 6500 feet fronting on the
Columbia River, should be placed under
Joint control of a committee and that
this committee should undertake to
lease It'at once. . .
The-property owners gave full,au
thorltv to Russell H. Brown, vice-presi
dent and general manager of the Pen
insula. Industrial Company, the- largest
individual owner, to negotiate for the
immediate development of the property
as a whole, for a big recreation resort.
It was also decided that proposals
for leasing the- beach would be re
ceived until noon, March 15, and thai
the lease would be closed up as soon
thereafter as the bids could be checked.
For the. past five or six months er-
forts have been made, from time to
time, to decide upon some plan for con
verting this extensive tract, of shore
land. into a modern Summer resort, but
It was not until a few days ago that
all the Interests involved were able
to reach a satisfactory agreement for
handling the proposition.
The pooling arrangement was then
proposed and the Peninsula Industrial
Company came In with Its 80 acres and
3800 feet of frontage. C. Is- tlenry and
the Portland Railway, Light & Power
Company joined with their 450 and
1000 feet frontages, respectively, and
the other, smaller owners readily con- ;
sented to the plan.
i
1 i Ptw" V,
Portland takes to
"Lifestaff'' like
Ducks to water!
First Carload already
exhausted.
Second Full Car on the
way - ready early
Monday morning.
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is the best '
yet in tho
line of strictly Non-AIcoholic beverages.
Rich !h food value. A highly nourishing
. tonic.
Served at leading hotels, cafes, soda foun
tains, lunch rooms, etc.; on dining cars and,
steamships. '
Order a case sent to your home.
You'll Like It Everybody Does
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309 WASHINGTON STREET, PORTLAND
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FEELS B
Dm
Unusual Prosperity and Busi
ness Activity Reported.
TWO MILLS RISING FAST
State Engineer Lewis Reports AJso
on Inspection of Route for Road
to Crat?r Lake That State Is
Afding Crook County Build. ,
6ALEM. Or.. Feb, 26. ( Special.)- He-
turning from a trip into the Deschutes
Val y. State Engineer Lewis said to
day that Bend and the surrounding
country gave evidence of unusual pros
perity and activity in business lines.
Mr. Lewis made an" inspetcion of tne
road to Crater Lake,, which the state is
constructing In co-operation with
Crook county at a cost of $20,000.
He announced that surveys of tbs
road will he undertaken In the near
future to lessen the grade, near Lava
jjutte. xr it is round tnat the grade
cannot be easily cut down another more
feasible route to avoid this long hill
will be selected.
The buslners activity at Bend struck
Mr. Lewis particularly. He said that
the two sawmills at Bentl are nearlng
completion and will commence opera
tions about April 1. One mill will em
ploy 1000 to 120.0 men, and the other
from 200 to S00. ,
Larcre 3(111 Costs fltOOOMO.
The larger mill." said Mr. r m.
being built by the Shevlon-HIxon Com
pany at an estimated cost of 11,000,000,
It will have a dally, capacity of J00.UU0
feet of lumber. A 20-stall dry kiln,
said to he the largest in the world, Is
nearing completion. Much of the mill's
output will be automatically stacked
and to at ones Into the dry kilns.
wnen ary tne lumber will be auto.
matloally unstacked and delivered to
the planing mill or sash and door fae
tory without the usual handilnsr in the
yards, Ths pdll has a storage room
12 by 033 ft The eaah and; deor
faotory is 110 bv (79 feet and ia da;
signed to turn et 8000 windows- and
tooo aoors every flay. The box laotary
measures 810 by '169 feet.
-rne company Has Puilt 13 miles ef
railroad, and bought CO cars to deliver
tna logs irom the pins forests which
ths eompany pon trots, These, forests
it is estimated will last 50 years," -
B Flotoif i Be Operated,
- fnngineer Lawjg gaj-s that the other
lumber mill is owned by the Brooks
Scanion Company, When completed
the mil) will sost more than 500,ooo
and will turn out 150,000 feet of um.
ber.in 20 hours.- A largo box factory
will be' operated in connection with this
plant, but most of the output win oa
shipped. This company, according to
Mr. Lewis, has a timber supply in sight
to last 20 years, and by. the close of
this year will be operating about 10
miles of logging road. v
The excellent quality of the
Deschutes white pine, together with
favorable climatic conditions for all
year operations,. declared to s the
controlling factors in the location of
these 'large lumber mills. ,
Mr. Lewis says the Deschutes pine Is
superior to the ordinary western pine
and because of this sells under a dis
tinctive local name.
50 CARS OF FISH SHIPPED
P ii get Sound and Alaska Salmon
Sent to New York.- .
SEATTLE, "Wash., Feb. 26. A solid
train of 60 carloads of Puget Sound and
Alaska salmon,, wfth banners on the
Sides, departed for New- York today
over the Union Paoific Railroad sys
tem. There are 2.400,000 cans of salmon in
the shipment, or -enough to furnish ons
meal for 10,000,000 persons. Much of
the fish will be shipped to Europe.
BABY'S STOMACH' SEVERED
Remarkable Operation by Philadel
phia Physician Saves Life.
PHILADELPHIA, Feb. 20. To save
the life of a new-born baby, starving
because- of its affliction. Dr. Mitchell
P. Warmuth performed successfully the
rare operation of severing the stomach
from the intestines, removing an ob
struction and sewing the organs to
gether again.
The operation, believed to be tno
first successful one of its kind in local
medicaL annals, took place in tho Na
tional Stomach Hospital. 1514 North
Fifteenth 6treet. of which Dr. War
muth is chief jSurgeon.
tiaa tne patiemj oeen a neaitny aauit,
the case would have been .regarded as
extraordinary; but it was made more
remarkable by the fact that the baby,
starving for two weeks, had been re
duced tov a pitiable state. Since the
operation the infant has' been gaining
weight at the rate of two ounces a day.
The child is Dorothy Frank, whose
parents live at 175 West'Columbia ave
nue. Three other babieB in the Frank
family were dead at birth, due, the
physicians believe, to the same trou
ble. Dorothy was born on Christmas
eve in the Jewish Maternity Hospital,
Seventh and Spruce streets.
HOQUIAM MILL 10. RON
CAMPS NEARBY WILL BE USED IN
toN'NECTIOX WITH PLANT.
HOME OF RIVAL BURNED
Deathbed Letter Tells of Act ' of
Jealous Suitor.
DECATUR. 111.. Feb. 21. W. O. De-
vore chief of the fire department, Jias
received a letter from David G. Gurley,
of Detroit, confessing he set the blaze
in the home or u. w. Aiexanaer, a .De
catur high school teacher, in Novem
ber, 1914.
"When we were young men we joved
the same girl," Guffey wrote. "He
won her, and I swore to get even. I
stole into his house, set a fuse to a
gasoline can and escaped. Firemen ac
cused Alexander of trying .to obtain
insurance. I am on my deathbed and
want it known Alexander Is an honest
man." -
Overhauling Is Bern Done and Opera
tions Will Be Resumed Within
the Next Two Weeks.
wnnttTAAr. Wnsh 'Feb. 26. (Special.)
After a shutdown of 13 months, the
National Lumber & Manufacturing
Company of this city will start up its
big mill in this city wn.m
nr s noon as the overhauling can be
,.nit.tA whlr-h mav be within two
weeks, according to the announcement
m,iA tndiv hv A. L. Paine; the man-
aBar. The plant will give employment
to about 600 men.
The company is opening up its own
logging camps in timber it owns at
Cedarville, in the east end of the coun
ty, and will employ auout i-a mew
there.
The National is one of the largest
lumber and manufacturing plants in
Hoquiam, and has a 10-hour lumber
capacity of about'250,000 feet. In addW
tion it has a shingle mill, sash and
door stock manufacturing plant and a
box t.nory. All branches of the con
corn will be put in full operation as
soon as possible.
One new lumber mill, the Panama
Eastern, has recently been completed
and is how in operation. What is to
be th biggest shingle mill on Grays
Harbor ia belnpr erected and will be in
operation by May, and another shinglo
mill Is projected and a deal ia on now
for a site on which ta build.
BUTTERFLY SURVIVES COLD
Amazing IJardihood Displayed by a
Jersey Family ret.
MONTCLAIR. - N.
Ruth Clark Bellah,
has a butterfly as i
J., Feb.' 20. Mra
of 4 Garfield place,
i household pet. Tho
butterfly Is probably the only one in
New Jersey that has Hvod throiiKh the
Winter. On October 23, last, it whs
found in the Bellah house under a l;u
curtain. Mrs. Bellah pluccd tho llttin
thing In a small box with a notiinif
over It rather than put It outdoors to
freeze.
To her surprise, the butterfly lived.
so she then put it in a larso lint box
with netting over tho top and sprinkled
the netting with sugar mid water. The
butterfly la a dark reddish brown, with
paTo yellow and bine splushes nour ttio
end of its wings. When ale-p or when
its wlnsrs sre closed it resembles a dried
leaf. Mrs. Bellah llnds that the butter
fly sleeps most of the time, but kIiw
never falls to put It in tlio sunshiim .
every blight day and give it sweetened
water. As soon as th sun warms it up
the butterfly opens its wings und flies'
back and forth in its csgn, tlitis taking'
its daily exercise. It Is considered re
inarkablo that the butterfly has sur
vived, even with the tender cure that
has been bestowed upon It.
JAPANESE BUY SUGAR LAND
Nipponese Will Pay $1,000,000 fr
KIS Tract 30 Miles l rom Manila.
NEW YOKIC. Feb. 20. A CHble to the
New York Times from Manila says:
Japanese have obtained an option for
the purchaso of tho' Dominican frlur
sugar estate, SO miles from Mjinilit,
comprising 2400 aees, with subsidiary
tracts, for $1,000,000. .
Another Japanese commission la no.
gotlatlng for similar properties In the
southern Islands, and tne natives aro
alarmed.
The Brute!
I Judg-a.
I ntudlrd rhythm, rhyme mi feet,
1 put rffuiua to the ppur;
In el-lap lainblci aouKtit to toil
How very much 1 thought of her.
I wrote, toe up, and wroto me more,
Until my head was In a whirl:
Her nam I could not rhyme, 'twas plain,
And ao 1 found another slrl.
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Mrs. Jane Gift. Athens, Ohio, K.
D. 1, says: - "I think I would have
been dead long ago if it hadn't
been for Peruna. Six years ago I
had tho grip-very bad. I grew
worse in spite of doctors and other
remedies. I -saw an account of a
woman who bad been cured of grip
by Peruna. My husband got some
Peruna and improvement began in
a very short time. I continued to
. mse It until I was entirely wefl."
Mr. C Happy, of Hardin, Ray Co..
Missouri, " took a very bad cold and
had la grippe v last February," he
eays, '"I took three bottles of
Peruna and it cured me."
PERUNA. is 111
They show that the system is Toeing weakened by a congestion of the breathing
'apparatus. This congestion in" the mucous membranes of the throat and
lungs decreases the supply of oxygen to the blood, ives off poisons that are
absorbed by the blood, and taxes the other organs with increased work.
Then your body needs help. It needs to be toned up to do the extra work.
The tonic used should also have a direct effect on those congested membranes.
iat Ionic-
Its effect upon the membranes i3 to relieve the conges
tion, banish the catarrhal symptoms, invigorate the digestion
and circulation, and thus enable the system to rid itself of
x all the inflamed condition known as cold. .
Because a cold is nothing less than acute catarrh and
because, in addition to its tonic effects, Peruna is a reliable
remedy for catarrh, its use in colds and coughs is more effec
J tive than any other remedy yet offered. This fact is amply
proved by the thousands who have found relief, by the forty
four years of success, and by the many thousands of hpmes
that regard Peruna as the beet family remedy.
You will understand why when you use it yourself.
Peruna may be obtained in tablet form for convenience, and
carried with you everywhere.
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