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8 TKE SUXDAT OREGOXIA3T, PORTXAXD, MAT 11, 1916. RAILROAD RACE TO BEND IS INDICATED Surveyors Thought to Repre , sent Hill and Harriman In v terests Are at Work. SUPPLY SHIPMENTS HEAVY 6urvejs Krom Willamette Valley Points Uive Kise to Belief That Aim of Both Is to Go Through Minto Pass. ALBANY, Or.. May 13. (Special.) Are the Hill and Harriman railroad in terests to have a race to Bend across the Cascade Mountains from the Wil lamette Valley as they did up the Deschutes Valley to the same point a few years ago? There are certain indications which lend color to an affirmative answer. Active work of surveying parties, ef forts toward purchasing rights of way and shipments of supplies for pros pective work are the indications. Several months ago there was talk of building a railroad from Salem through Stayton. thence up the North Santiam Valley and across the Cascade Moun tains to Bend. This line was surveyed as far as Stayton some time ago. Re cently a surveying partv has been act ive in the North Santiam Valley east of there. It has surveyed a line from Stayton eastward to Mehama, thence southward across the North Santiam River into Linn County, running through Lyons and up Fox Valley and then turning eastward about five miles south of the Albany-Hoover branch of the Southern Pacific. This crew is still at work. Early Work Predicted. Members of the crew are reported to have said that active work will begin on the grade next month. Current rumor is to the effect that the Hill in- j terests are backing this proposed road. I Soon after this party of surveyors I began working in the vicinity of Stay ton, a party of surveyors went to Hoo-1 ver, the Bastern terminus of the old Corvallis & Eastern Railroad, now owned by the Southern Pacific, and have been at work east of Hoover about two weeks. When this railroad was built, the grade was extended about eight miles beyond where the track was laid, and this grade is yet in fair condition. The latter party of surveyors is working eastward from the end of this grade, apparently with the purpose of sur veying a line across the mountains. That the Harriman interests are con templating the extension of the line from Albany to Hoover and on to Bend is believed to be responsible for this survey. Such an extension has been rumored many times In past years, but t is is the first time that surveying work has been done on the present scale. Heavy Operations Indicated. That construction work in the near future is contemplated is shown by the fact that two and one-half tons of provisions were shipped recently to Hoover. People familiar with that section of the country assert that both of these proposed railroads will likely head for Mlnto Pass and cross the Cascade Moun tains by that route. The Corvallis & Kastern Railroad was constructed so that it would cross the mountains by that pass if extended,, and the work of the surveyors indicates that the pro moters of the Salem-Bend line are planning to follow the same route. The present activities of both surveying crews is what has led to the belief that the two great rival railroad interests of the Northwest may be planning a race for advantageous locations across that pass. The prospective railroad work has aroused considerable Interest in this section of the state and people who come down from Mill City, Detroit and other towns along the North Santiam report new developments almost daily. They assert that the work of surveying crews indicates that actual construction work must be contemplated soon. WINLOCK HAS CANDIDATE Manufacturer Is Boosted for Nom ination as State Senator. CENTRALIA, Wash.. May 13. (Spe cial.) Winlock people are boosting- the candidacy of Andrew Johnson, a promi nent ship knee manufacturer of that community, for Senator from Lewis County. Mr. Johnson has not yet an nounced himself, but it is expected that sufficient pressure can be brought upon him. Henry Rayton, an Adna farmer, has announced his candidacy for the Rep publican nomination for Lewis County Commissioner from the Second Dis trict. Mr. Rayton has served two previous terms as Commissioner, having been urst elected about ten years ago. ANNUAL 'SPLASH' PLANNED Aberdeen to Hold Three-Day Cele bration Over July 4. ABERDEEN", Wash.. May 13. (Spe clal.) A week of street carnival and a three-day celebration will constitute the fourth annual Grays Harbor splash to be held here this year under the auspices of the Aberdeen Moose. Monday. July 3, will be children's day, and will be in charge of a special com mittee. July Fourth, will be marked by a street pageant and water sports, the principal of which will be log rol ing and log-tailing contests for the world s championship. On July 5 an automobile parade will bo held and continuation of the water sports staged. FOREST LAND CLASSIFIED Of Malheur Reserve 1,030,547 Acres Are Vnfit for Cultivation. CANTON' CITY. Or.. May 13. SDe- cial.) The headquarters of the Malheur National forest, located at John Day, bave been notified of the classification as forest land of 1.050.547 acres within the forest, by the Secretary of Agricul ture. This practically completes the classification of lands within the for est, as only 8o3 acres remain to be classified and they will be classified as soon as a complete examination can be made. According to the Secretary of Aerri culture the land is not suitable for agricultural purposes. ROSEBURG GRADUATES 46 Vntverslty of Oregon Professor to Give Commencement Address. ROSEBURG. Or., May 13. (.Special. .The graduation exercises' of the Koseburgr Hirh School will be held at the Antlers' Theater here on tb,e even ing of May 22. rr. Sheldon, of the University of Oregon, will deliver the commencement address. The gradua tion class for the year 1916 comprises 46 young- men and women and is the largest class to graduate from the local schools' for many years. Last year there were 45 graduates. The members of this7 year's class follow: Thelma Alley, Mrytle Brisbln, Carl Black. Bessie Barker, Harry Burr, Karl Burr; Le one Coshow, Isabella Croucher. Paul Caa key, Jessie Cracroft, Mary Campbell, Char lotte Cawley, Ruth Caro, Kathryn Did tel. Katherine DeVoe, Crystal Emmltt, Sybil i-amsworth, Roy -Fpey,- warren GIeason, Elmo Henderson. Walter Hercber. Merwln Jeffrey, Lee Leonard, Christina, Lauerson, Ellen Millikln.. Ernest Morrison. John Mc- Clintock, Fay Metz, Waldo Ma raters, Eima Peyton, Marie Pickns, Vance Perry, Gladys Price. Herbert Quine. Leo Rapp, Marlon Roserant, Louise Rice, Lenore Scott, Bella j SALEM UOMAX PASSE I 1-V CABLTON. KS AWAY Mrav Clara- Eliza Hansen. Clara Eliza, wife of Paul Han sen, of Salem, - passed away at. the home of her sister, Mrs. G. W. Kutch. in Carlton, Or.. Thurs day, April 27. She was 37 years old, and had been in ill health for some time. Mrs. Hansen, formerly. Miss Clara Thomasen. was born in Carlton November 29, 1878, and passed her early life in that city. She was married to Paul Hansen in 3 905. They lived for a time in Salem, afterwards going' to Medford, where Mr. Hansen en ,nsen erv- T mill busi- I of Mrs. gaged in the planing mi ness. The ill health Hansen led them to return to Salem, and later, she went to the home of her sister in Carlton. The funeral was held at Carlton April 30. Smith, Roy Smith, Ialo Stephens, Grace Smith. Ernest Voorhtes. Alda Watson. How ard VV ines and Harold Zimmerman. GIRLS WIN IN SPELLING BOl'S GET OSLT OM3 TITLE IX SIX IX LANE COUKTY MATCH. I.uelln Moorhead, 14, Holds Ctfampiun- hlp by Defeating; All Comni In Eighth Grade Class EUGENE, Or., May 13. (Special.) Luella Moorhead, of Junction City, won the highest honors in the Lane County pelling contest Friday, when she spelled down all contestants in the eighth grade class. Schools from a.11 parts of Lane County were represented. The champion is 14 years old and is the daughter of Frank Moorhead, cashier of the First National Bank of Junction City. The results of the contests by grades follow: Eighth grade Luella. Moorhead, Junction City, first; Helen Rodolph, Cottage Grove, second; Frances JJres ser, Eugene, third; Leath Kibby, Eu gene, fourth. Seventh grade Ethel weatherman District 144, first; Laura Ruth, District 60, second; Frances Hemes, Kugene, third; Ida Whitsell. Marcola, fourth. Sixth grade Marjorie Swift, Junction City, first; Richard Collins, Spring field, second; Emma Parker, Eugene, third;. Edith Hickey, Row River, fourth. Fifth grade Donald McCornick, Eu gene, first: V eta Plaster. District 45, second: Helen Lane, District 163, third Rudolph Wolcott, Eugene, fourth. Fourth grade fc.sther McGee. Dis trict 11, first; Gordon Wright, Cottage Grove, second; Edith Copenhaver, Goshen, third; A&nes Taylor, Cottage Grove, fourth. Third grade Lera Dell Harper, Dis trict 85, first; Herbert Taylor, Thurs ton, Eecond; Anna. Peterson, Junction City, third; Eleanor Nixon, District 26, fourth. - EXPENSE BLANKS SENT OUT Secretary of State Mails Forms to 4 28 Candidates. SALEM. Or., May 13. (Special.) Blanks to all of the 428 candidates Of the Republican, Democratic and Pro gressive parties were mailed today by Secretary of State Olcott, upon which statements of expenses incurred in be half of their candidacy at the primary election May. 19 will be made. These blanks follow the provisions of the cor rupt practices act and provide for the return of all receipts and expenditures. Unaer the law candidates must nle their statements within 15 days after the primary election, and all other per sons expending money In behalf of any candidate are required to file state ments within ten days thereafter. AXXCAL IS ISSUED AT WILLAM ETTE I.MVERS1TV. WILLAMETTE UNIVERSITY, Salem. Or.. May 13. (Special.) A. E. Gillette, editor, and K. A. Chapter, manager, have just published the 1917 Wallulah. the annual year book of the university published each year by the junior class. This year's Wallulah is by far the best one ever published here ana great deal of credit is bein given Messrs. Gillette and Chapler for their strenuous efforts ia putting out the Is . y - i v 4 ' ' 1 ' - J ' r ; book. - BIG FETE ARRANGED Roseburg Will Celebrate Odd fellows' Visit. STRAWBERRY TO BE KING Festivities Will Open May 2 2 on Ar rival of Lodgcmen and Fruit Car nival AYUl Continue for Three Iays, May .2 5, 2 6, 2 7. ROSEBURG, Or., May 13. (Special.) All arrangements have been com pleted for the Eighth Annual Straw berry Festival to be held in Roseburg May 23, 21 and 25. according; . to -an announcement made by the executive committee last night. This year's car nival will be held in conjunction with the Oregon Grand Lodge of Oddfellows, and jSrobably will be the biggest event of its kind ever held in Douglas County.' As in previous years, straw berries will be featured py the merch ants, and all carnival visitors will be given their fill of this luscious fruit. The official programme follows: Monda-r. May 22 Reception to visit ing Oddfellows. Tuesday and Wednesday Oddfellows Grand Lodge sessions. Thursday Closing day of Grand Lodge sessions and opening day of carnival. Morning Crowning of the carnival queen. . Afternoon Parade of 2000 Oddfellows, band concerts and bal loon ascension. Friday School chldren's parade, dec orated automobile parade, balloon as cension and parachute drop, carnival bail at the Armory. Saturday Baby parade. strange. rural school, fraternal and industrial parade, Daiioon ascension and para chute drop, battle of confetti and masked carnival on streets, closing carnival Dan at the Armory. i ne street attractions for the ocasion Included a merry-go-round. Ferris wheel, and six carnival shows fur nished by the Brownim Amusement Company. Music will be furnished by the Roseburg concert band of 25 pieces, and the Roseburg Juvenile, band. The strawberry exhibit will be held at the Commercial Club rooms as will the eugenics contest. Liberal prizes have been offered in all departments of the carnival and it is believed the exhibits this year will be more numerous than ever before. A contract for the street decoration has been awarded. A committee in charge of procuring rooms for visitors is meetinsr with suc cess and accomodations will be pr viaed tor all who chance to visit ttosepurg during the week of festivl ties. GRESHAM ELECTION SET Special Issue Will Be Settled at Vote on Saturday, June 1 7. GRESHAM, Or., May 13. (Special.) A notice calling for a special muni cipal election was authorized by the Council at their meeting. Tuesday night, the election to be Saturday, June 17. The property which is to be voted on Is about 40 acres just west of the city limits and lying south of the Sec tion Line road. Twenty acres of- this property belongs to Henry Harvey and the remainder is the newly platted tract gusr oeyona his land. The owners of the property have de positea a cnecK to pay for the costs of the election. The following judg-es ana clerks were named: Judges. r. W Metsger. Dr. R. H. Todd and Mrs. o. A Eastman; clerks, Roy Kern and Miss Inez Lusted. COYOTE BOUNTY CONTINUED lvlamath Officials Keep Special Price On Fntil June 1. KLAMATH FALLS. Or.. May 13 (Special.) At a meeting today of the Klamath County Court, the special bounty on coyote hides was continued until June 1. ThiB rate applies only to coyotes killed within Klamath Coun ty and not merely those hides brought here for redemption. The court, how ever, lowered the special bounty from J5 to S2.50 a bide. In addition to this special bounty there is a regular bounty or i.5U ror each Hide. The special bounty has been in force since the rabies epidemic threatened last Winter. PRESS MEETING PLANNED Waslungton State Association Gather at Kllcnsburg. HOQUIAM, Wash., May 13. (Special.) -Major H. W. Patton. president of the Washington State Press Association, to day announced that July 13, 14 and 15 had been selected as the dates upon which the 1918 session will be held. This period was decided upon because it is agreeable to the people of Ellens burg, who this year will entertain the editors, and for the further reason that it is sufficiently in advance of the Sep tember primaries to enable all editors and others to attend. The people of Ellensburg have in hand a comprehensive scheme of en tertainment which will include dances, banquets, concerts, auto rides and pic nics. Albany Plans Band Concerts. ALBANY, Or.. May 13. (Special.) Plans -ore practically completed for series of band concerts here this Sum mer and it is expected they will begi in a short time. They will be held at the band stand on the old Central School grounds, just east of the Lin County Courthouse. The concerts wil be given by the Albany city band an Mrs. Frank M. Powell, of this city, has been secured as soloist to appear with the band at the concerts. Forbes' Candidacy Indorsed. BEND. Or., May 13. (Special.) Over 150 voters have signed resolutions in dorsing the candidacy of Vernon Forbes for the nomination for Repre sentative on the Republican ticket for this district. The resolutions were circulated and signed in answer statements purporting to have been made by another candidate in this sec tion to the effect that Mr. Forbes was not being supported in Bend. Dr. C C. Coe to Be on Committee. BEND. Or.. May 13. (Special.) Dr. U. C. Coe. of Bend, has been appointe by Dr. W. E. Kuykendall. president of the Oregon Medical Association, as one of the committee that will meet soon to standardize first-aid methods. Dr. Coe will represent the lumber Inter ests. With Dr. B. Ferrell he conducts a hospital here where employes of th two local lumber companies are treated when injured. 4 Temperament may be all right in an Artist, but not in a Motor Truck The good truck works without fuss or fret, all the time. It has the habit of being profitable, day in and day out. Its only business is to get the load to its destination, and get' it there economically. Unfortunately, all trucks are not good trucks. But all Packard trucks are. Ten thousand of them, serving in more than 200 lines of trade, are proving it every day and every year. And it's the year-through proof that counts. It's the steady, ready worker that makes the ledger cheerful, that keeps business at top pace, that makes income exceed outgo. v Why, a good truck is just beginning to show what it is made of after x it has paid for itself and has started in paying its employer. Then is the real test. Then the difference in Packard quality and Packard construction is shown conclusively in miles and money. " But maybe it isn't quite fair to expect other trucks to do as well as Packards. Being built right, with the benefit of years of experience, immense resources and incomparable facilities, they naturally are better and naturally are the choice of critical buyers. Taking it all together, with the fact that in seven sizes, ranging from the swift, light one-tonner to the 64-ton freighter, they provide an economical carrier for any service it is only reasonable that they should be the best hauling investment it is possible to make. FRANK C. RIGGS COMPANY 60-62 Cornell Road, 23rd and Washington Streets, Portland TEACHER DEMAND BIG MAM' POSITIONS ARE OPENED TO FORMAL SCHOOL STIDENTS. Special Attention la Being; Paid to State Liir Requiring; Specified Time In Training Course. ORKGOX NORMAL SCHOOL, Mon. mouth. May 13. (Special.) Karly de mands for teachers in the various schools of the state are being exhibited. The Oregon Normal tichool. through President J. H. Ackerman. Is receiving frequent requests for information con cerning its June graduates. A large number of positions already have- been laid open to those completing the standard course. Six superintendents and one principal have paid visits to the school and have made tentative plans for hiring teach era from the June class. They are: Su perlntendent George Hug. of McMinn ville schools; Superintendent H. K. In- low, of the Forest Grove schools: Coun ty Superintendent V. K. Fagan, of Sher man County; Superintendent F. A. Tied gen, of Marshfleld schools: R. L. Kirk. Superintendent of Springfield schools Superintendent W. R. Rutherford, of Kugene: David S. North, principal of Alsea schools. Unusual attention is being turned to ward the recent provision of the state law that teachers must have bad some experience or at least six weeks of training in a teachers' training course. The regular . Spring session is being utilized by many teachers ana early In dications show that the Summer school marks will rise high this year. Both city and country School Boards, in addition to negotiating for teachers for the next term, have made arrange ments in several instances to send their teachers here. More than 115 students will graduate from the Oregon Normal School in June and it is estimated that all will be lo cated m one month. O. A. C. Man Gets Appointment. OREGON AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE. Corvallis, May 13. (Special.) Charles C. Brewster, a. recent graduate of the Oregon Agricultural College and. dur ing the past year a graduate student at Cornell University, has been appointed ASK THE MAN WHO OWNS ONE instructor in poultry husbandry at Pur due University. While at O. A. C. Mr. Brewster was an assistant in the de partment of poultry husbandry under Professor Dryden, and also was an as sistant in poultry husbandry during his period of study at Cornell. HATCHERY ADDITION ASKED Roseburg Club Inaugurates Move to Obtain $5000 to $10,000. ROSEBCRG. Or. May 13. (Special.) To Inaugurate a movement in the direction of asking the state for an appropriation ranging from $5000 to S10.000 with which to Increase the capacity of the North TJmpqua River hatchery and to get an auxiliary trout hatchery, the members of the Rose burg Gun Club and the Douglas County Game Protective Association met here Thursday night. Arrangements were partially com pleted for the entertainment of Gov ernor Withycombe and the members of the State Game and Fish Com mis slon on May 21. when a salmon bake and shoot will be held near Winchester. POMEROY CHILD DROWNED Girl of Three Following Father to Work Falls Off Footbridge. POMEROV, Wash.. May 13. (Spe cial.) Ethel Crumpacker. the 3-year-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Allle Crumpacker. yesterday fell off a foot bridge over the Patacho stream and was drowned. The body was recovered an hour later. Accomuanied by her 5-year-old brother, she started to fol low her father to work. The brother, instead of going to the neighbors for help, ran after his father and told him that baby bad fallen into the water and been washed away. Karller in the week. Gene Nicholson, 4 years old, fell off the same plank and was saved from the torrent by Miss Marie Chard, who heard his cries. Ij-tacada Firemen Lay Plans. KSTACADA. Or..' May 13. (Special.) The Lstacada volunteer Are depart ment will stage an old-fashioned Fourth of July celebration In Estacada Parle this year. M 0 COOS TO HAVE EXHIBIT DISPLAY AT FAIR TO BE FIXANCED BV COCXTV COURT. Jay L. SmKk, County Agriculturist, Wha Has Done Maeh for District, to Assemble Goods for Salem. MARSH FIELD, Or.. May 13. (Spe cial.) For the first time in years Coos County will be officially represented at the Slate Fair this Fall. The County Court has authorised an appropriation to finance the exhibit in a manner equal to displays made by other coun ties in the state. The work of gath ering exhibits and supervising the dis plays will be largely under the imme diate direction of County Agriculturst Jay L, Smith, who has succeeded in bringing about a highly organised and efficient system of co-operation among ranchers. Among the organizations which have come into being since the county en gaged the services of an expert agri culturist are the Ave cow testing as sociations, the Coos and Curry Cheese- makers' Association. Jersey Breeders Association, corn contest system, which has resulted in a doubling of corn acre age in the past year. The breeders of Holstein cattle have In process of formation an association similar to that of the Jersey fanciers. The Jersey Breeders' Association is buying eight bulls from the best stock to be bad In the state. rne omcers of this organization, which was per fected last week, are: J. F. Van Luven, Bandon, president: C. K. fchroeder. Arago. vice-president; J. D. Carll. Nor Kay. secretary and treasurer. Other members of the association are M. Schmidt. Norway; W. P. Warner, Myr tle Point: Albert Schroeder. CoquiUe: H. B. Ferguson, Daniels creeK. . The County Court has also recog nized the Importance or corn cultiva tion and has set aside a fund for prizes to be awarded for the six best exhibits, three for men and three for boys. The prizes are to be round-trip tickets and expenses to the corn show to be held at Corvallis. Montaiians Recall Evangelist. CENTRALIA. Wash.. May 13. (Spe "cial.) Following the receipt of peti- lions signed by 3600 Butte people ask- Ing him to return to Montana, ur. L. J. Bulgln, who Is conducting a scrlea of city. Thursday night sent Rev. Mr. Rose. i ninhpr n f fitd i-i.ninntiv In Rillincra (o confer with representatives of BllllnKs. Ii-inpalrin, MiRKnnlft. Allien I V Vir- gima City, Rozemin nia Jlty. l-tozeman ana ureal raiii each of which wans the evangelist for two weeks. It is said that the Mon tana "dries" are after Dr. Bulgin to help swing the vote of the state at the Fall election. We Give Trading Stamps. 5 - v. ..r ' X - ", y,' rt It rays to Buy the Best Rosenthal's Sole Agents 129 JOth St. Near Wash. jo is ran en 'jfT?. Store ! . in