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Newspaper Page Text14 THE SUNDAY OREGOXIAIf, PORTLAND, AUGUST 20, 1916. PENINSULA YARD TO INCREASE CREW Framework of One Auxiliary Lumber Schooner Is Done; Keel of Another Laid. 150 WILL BE EMPLOYED "Vessels Under Construction Due for Launching in December and , .February 3 More Ways j AVill Be Added Soon. With the framework of one wooden auxiliary schooner almost completed and the keel or the second laid the plant of the Peninsula Shipbuilding Company, foot of McKenn'a avenue. Is assuming: an important place in the shipbuilding' activity of Portland. The programme of the concern calls for the construction of two vessels this season which are to be followed by several others of a similar type. The vessels are to be put in the lumber trade, according to present plans. The first of the two vessels now on the ways will be completed by the latter part of December, according to F. C Knapp, president of the company. Jt wi'l be a four-masted schooner equipped with semi-Diesel engines and twin propellers. The engines will be of 950 indicated horsepower and will give ths vessel an estimated speed of right knots. It will be 251 feet long, 43 feet deep and with a depth of hold of 18 feet. She will be of 1600 gross tons burden and will have a dead weight tonnage of 2600. The schooner will have no "tweeh decks, in that respect being similar to the City of Portland turned out at the SC. Helens shipyards. The second vessel will be of similar design and will be 255 feet long. It is expected that it will be ready for launching about February 1. A large number of additional men trill be added to the force at the plant this week in order to rush forward the work on the two vessels. There are 100 men on the payroll now and prob ably 50 will be added. Three additional ways will be put In later as they are needed to carry out the building programme of the con cern, making a total of five ways. Not only is there considerable activity in the construction of ocean going vessels at Portland, but work is also being done on river-going craft. The Portland Shipbuilding Company laid the keel for a new river boat yesterday. The steamer which is to be built for the Columbia-Cowlitz River Transportation Company, of Rainier, will be 110 feet long, 26-foot beam and 4.5 feet depth of hold. She will be operated n the towing trade and will be completed this S ail. The same yard is constructing a number of barges for the Port of Portland. RIG SHIP EXPERTS SUMMOXE1) Secretary Redfield Wants to Mobil ize and Organize Sea Kesourccs. Forty leading American shipbuilders. presidents and general managers of American steamship companies and American naval architects have been invited to meet with Secretary Redfield at his office in Washington, D. C. Wednesday, September 27. for an ex change of views on the subject of load lines and bulkheads and other phases of the construction of steamers on the ocean and Great Lakes. The United States Is said to be al most alone among maritime nations in having no regulations governing load line. The subject of bulkhead and hull con struction was carefully considered at the London international conference on safety of life at sea, and the American delegates had an important part in framing the chapters of the interna 1 ional convention on that subject. The United States, however, has as yet taken no steps to give effect to the ac tion taken by the international conven tion. Joseph P. Grace, of the W. K. Grace fk Co., and George F. Dearborn, presi dent of the American-Hawaiian Steam ship Co., are among those who have been invited to meet with Secretary Redfield. KENKON MARC CHARTERED Japanese Steamer May Take Cargo From Columbia When Repaired. Report was current on the water front yesterday that the Japanese steamer Kenkon Maru, which is now undergoing repairs on the Port of Portland drydock at St. Johns, has been chartered for taking a cargo from the Columbia River. The Kenkon Maru will be available for service early 'in October, and it is considered prob able that she will be used for handling a cargo of wheat. No bookings of vessels for Portland loading for handl ing this year's wheat crop have yet been announced. The British bark Birkdale has been chartered by Balfour. Guthrie & Com pany to load a cargo of barley at San Francisco, according to announcement made yesterday. The rate was 140 shillings. Another charter reported yesterday was that of the brig Geneva which is said to have been booked by Balfour, Guthrie & Company for taking a cargo of lumber from Knappton to the West Coast. SAILING DATES REVISION' MADE Late Arrival of Steamer Alaska Causes Alaska Route Changes. A revision of the sailing schedule of the steamers of the Southwestern Alas ka route, operating out of Puget Sound to Alaska, has been made, according to advices received by Frank Bollam. Portland agent for the line. This re vision was necessitated by the fact that the steamer Northwestern is to be sent off her regular course to Ber ing Sea and the steamer Alaska is sev eral days late on her schedule. The sailing dates from the Sound for the remainder of the year will be: Alameda, August 25; Alaska, August 31: Mariposa. September 5: Northwest ern, September 12; Alameda, September 18; Alaska, September 24; Mariposa, September 30; Northwestern, October 6: Alameda, October 12: Alaska, October IS: Mariposa, October 24; Northwestern. November 1; Alameda, November Mariposa, November 16; Northwestern. November 24; Alameda, December 1; Mariposa, December 8; Northwestern, December 16; Alameda. December 24. ROSE CITY STEAMS AWAY Big Liner Takes 125 Passengers and 1700 Tons of Freight. Captain Rankin got away from Alns worth dock yesterday afternoon at 3 o'clock with the steamer Rose City, of the "Big Three" line, bound for San Francisco. Aboard were 12o passengers and 1700 tons of freight. The cargo VIEWS SHOWING ACTIVITY AT PENINSULA SHIPBUILDING COMPANY'S YARD, WHERE SEVERAL WOODEN VESSELS ARE TO BE TURNED OUT. nrr consisted principally of flour, there being in addition 1270 sacks of bran and 925 cases of canned goods. With but two steamers. Rose City and Beaver in commission, the San Francisco & Portland Steamship Com pany is now operating- one veesel a week each way between Portland and San Francisco. A steamer leaves Port land every Saturday and one leaves San Francisco every Monday. TWO LVMBEK CARGOES TAKEN Two Other Carriers, Daisy and Daisy Gadsby, Arrive. The barkentlne Georgian, which ha3 been loading lumber at Knappton, got away yesterday for Sydney, carrying a cargo of 1.083,000 feet. She is one of a numerous fleet of vessels now operat ing in- the lumber trade between the Columbia River and Australia. The coasting steamer Shasta, which is operating In the lumber trade, cleared yesterday for San Pedro and way ports with 920.000 feet of lumber. The lumber was loaded at the North Pacific Lumber Company's mill and at Rainier for the American Export Lum ber Company. The Shasta also has aboard 25 tons of oats. Two other lumber carriers got into the river yesterday. They are the steamers Daisy and Daisy Gadsby and both will take on lumber for California shipment. The Daisy is now loading a Rainier and the Daisy Gadsby is taking on cargo at Knappton. XIPPO MARU BEING UNLOADED Japanese Steamer Expected to Get Away Willi Lumber This Week. The work of unloading the Japanese steamer Nippo Maru at Municipal Dock No. 1 is proceeding in a satisfactory manner and it is predicted that the last stick of timber and the last bag of sulphur will be discharged Tuesday. The vessel will not be worked today. After the cargo has been discharged the steamer will load lumber at three mills on the river for the west coast of South America. She will first take on a part cargo at St. Helens and will then go to the Clark & Wilson plant at Linnton and the Portland Lumber Company's mill. It is thought that she will be ready to get away the latter part of this week. News From Northwest Porta. ASTORIA. Or.. Aue. 19. (SpeciaL) Coming to load lumber at Knappton, the steam schooner Daisy Gadsby arrived from San Francisco today. She will shift to Wanna to complete her cargo. The steam schooner Daisy Freeman ar rived from San Francisco with freight for Aftoria and Portland. The barkentine Georfrina sailed for Syd ney, Australia, with a cargo or lumber from the Knaooton mill. The steamer northern facing sanea tor San Francisco. She carried a full cargo of freifrht and a fair list of passengers. After pumping out oil here large o. 91 was towed to Portland during the night. The steam schooner Wapama is due this morning from San Francisco. Bringing a cargo or ruel oil ror Portland, the tank steamer Atlaa is due from Cali fornia. The tug Navigator arrived during the night from California, having the oil-laden barge Monterey in tow. She proceeded to Portland. The steam schooner Daisy arrived during the night from San Francisco, and went to Rainier to take on lumber. A. Benson Lumber Company's log raft arrived from Wallace Slough, and was moored in the lower harbor to await the arrival of the tug Hercules, which wlil tow it to San Diego. The raft, contains about 7.000,000 feet of sawlogs. and it went aground yesterday at the mouth of Wallace Slough, but was floated at high tide. This will bo the fourth and last raft which, the company will send south this year. The new lighthouse tender Rose, Captain Modeer. arrived from Seattle and will go into commission at once. FLORENCE, Or., Aug. 19. (Special.) Gasoline schooner Ahwaneda, which ar rived from Portland last night, was held here today with rough weather outside. COOS BAT, Or.. Aug. 19. (Special.) The steam schooner Hardy arrived from San Francisco at A. M., bringing 325 tons 01 ireignt. Toe steam schooner Prentiss sailed with lumber for San ITrancisco at 5 o'clock. The steamship F. A. Kllburn is due from San Francisco Sunday forenoon. The Kll burn comes direct to Coos Bay and will be followed Monday by the Breakwater. Captain H. Michelsen. of the steam schooner Hardy. Is enjoying a vacation on Coos Bay aud will remain until after the jubilee. Movements of Vessels. PORTLAND. Aug. 19. Sailed Steamers Rose City, for San Francisco and San Pedro: Klamath, for San Diego; Shasta, for San Pedro via Rainier. Arrived Btirge No. VI. from San Francisco; schooner Mon terey, from San Francisco. Astoria. Aug. 19. Left up during the night uarKe -n o. ui. Arrived during tne nignt Steamers Daisy and Daisy Gadsby. from San Francisco. Arrived at 2 and left up at 3 P. M steamer Daisy Freeman, from San Francisco. Sailed at 2:15 p. M.. steamer Northern Pacific, for San Francisco. Sailed at ::15 P. M., barkentlne Georgina, for Sydney. San Francisco. Aug. 19. Sailed at 11 A. M. steamer Great Northern, for Flavel. Arrived at noon and sailed Steamer Willamette. from Portland, for San Pedro. Sailed last night Steamer F. A. Kliburn, for Portland via Lureka and Coos Bay. Ar rived last night Steamer Cannel. from Portland. San Pedro, Aug. 19. Sailed Steamer Beaver, for Portland. EUREKA. Aug. 19. Arrived Steamer V. A. Kilburn. from San Francisco, for Port land. San Francisco. Aug. 19. Arrived Steamers Multnomah, from Grays Harbor City of Puebla. from Seattle: Kiyo Maru (Japanese), from Hongkong: Tancred (Nor wegian), xrom Nanaimo; Elizabeth, from Bandon: Lakme. from San Jacinto Coaster, from Coos Bay; Willamette, from Astoria. Sailed Steamers Brooklyn, for "Random Celilo. Wlllaoa. Adeline Smith. for Coos Bay; San Gabriel. Umpqua. Great Northern, for Astoria; President, for Vic toria- Hongkong, Aug. 7. Arrived Steamer Tiisondari. from San Francisco. Callao, Aug. 17. Sailed Steamer Cuzco, for San Francisco. Antofagasta, Aug. 18. Sailed Steamer Pnc-ific. for San Francisco. Seattle. Aug. 19. Arrived Steamers Spo- knne. from Jefferson. Southeastern Alaska Admiral Evans, from Southwestern Alaska Ei Segundo, from San Francisco. Departed Steamer Despatch, lor boutbeastern Alaska. Notice to Mariners. California. Humboldt Bay entranc Smith -ieltv outer end buoy 2. replaced August 13. about 33 yards northwest of former position, in 3 Vx fathoms of water. m ,i'wii'iiitiiiiii..iiMimii..i feflriirisftx..... s-j. z7-,t.,....- . . a " " ' - I "- -IIs "" - -- n"-"WL'gjjgMjfp i ' ra, nnr Above t s , -tQ i.i i, JLLJJw f ' ' ' ' i mmm mmm -Framework of First Vessel. Which Is Kapidly AMnmlng the Yards, llelow End View of Same Structure. C. & G. S. chart! &S32, 5702. Buoy list. Eighteenth District, 1!16, p. 2S. Hp authority of Commissioner of Light house. H. W. RHODES. Inspector. MAKIXE INTELLIGENCE. Steamer Schedule DUE TO ARRIV3. Nime. Prom Dt. Northern Pacific. .. Bar Francisco... Aug. 23 Great Nortnera. ... San Franrlsca. . . .Aug. 21 Breakwater. ...... San Francisco. ... Aug. 22 i-eaver. .......... Los Annclfs Aug. Rosa City. ........ Kos Anaels. .... Aug. 80 b A. Kiiburn San Francisco. ... lnueft DVE TO DEPART. Nam. For Multnomah ...... San Diego Great Northern. ... San Francisco. Hi euk water. ...... San Francisco. Wo.pa.ma ..San Diego .Aug. 20 .Aug. 22 Aug. 23 Northern Pacific. . .San k raiclsco. . . . Aug. 24 ceaver . . .Los Angeles. .....Aug. - Hose City L. Anjrelei Sept. 2 F. A. Kilburn. . . . . Pan Francisco. . . . Inueft Murine Xotes. The steamer Daisy Freeman arrived in the river from Saji Francisco yesterday at 2 o'clock, bringing general cargo. Sh will discharge at the Columbia Contract Com pany's dock. The gas schooner Mirene, W. H. Clark, master, cleared yesterday for Florence, New port and Waldport with 50 tons of miscel laneous merchandise. She entered witn a quantity of clocks and oil barrels. The gas schooner Fatsy. commanaea Dy Captain John Finding, cleared for Bandon and Coos Hay with 150 tons of miscellan eous cargo. The Standard OH Company's barge No. v entered yesterday with 24,000 barrels of fuel oil. The llehthouse tender Rose arrived at As toria yesterday morning from Puget Sound. She will come up the river to Portland this week. Government inspectors reinspected the steamer Undine yesterday. After having caused some difficulty oy getting aground in Wallace Slough, & log raft belonging to the Benson interests, was towed to Astoria yesterday on the first leg of its trip to San Diego. The raft contains between 6,000,000 and 7.000.000 feet of lum ber and will be the fourth dispatched by he same concern to San Dieiro thl season. The raft was towed to Astoria by the Shaver towboats. Members of the O.-W. R. & N. Company employes band left for Ocean Park yester day on the steamer Hassalo. The American barkentine Makaweli, wnieh to load lumber at Westport for Australia, expected in the river in a few days, ohe sailed from Honolulu f or the Columbia River August 2. Marconi Wireless Reports. I Position of all 1 r-rif W nhown at S P. M August 19. unleH. otherwle designated). LraKe. El feeisundo for Honolulu. 808 miles fronr El SeKundo. August in. Lucas. beeundo for Katiului. 8S2 miles from El See -do. Autrust IS. Manoa. ti po-uiu for ban rranciBco, iuij mifm from San Franrlsco. Aucuit 18. Enterprise. San iranclaco lor Honolulu. 1513 miles from t-an Francisco. August la. Lurline. San v rancicco for Honolulu. Moo miles from San Francisco. Ausust 18. Logan, San ranctsco ror Manila. 4D3.S mll.fl fptim San Franc sco. Auarust 18. Yoseraite. San t rancisco- ror drayi narDor, lo miles north of i?an r ranclseo. Breakwater, San J: ranclseo ior uurexa, oil Point Reves. Adeline smun, ean prancieco ror joos Pin v 41 miles north of San Francisco. President, ban rrancisco ior Seattle, in miles north of San Francisco. San Jose. San Francisco for Balboa, mliM umth of San Francisco. scofield. Rlcnmond for Seattle. miles north of San Francisco. a I lance. San Dietto ror Mexico. 135 miles north of Caoe San Lucas. Auirust 18. San Juan, ran r rancisco for nainoa. tju mllM south of San Francisco. AuKust 18. Ecuador. New York for San Francisco. 935 miles south of San Francisco. August 18. Soeedweli. ran rearo zor nauaon. 211 miles west of San Pedro. Coronado, san pearo for san. irranclsco, 2V miles west of San Pedro. Atlap. Kicnmona ior roniana. iiui miles from Richmond. Richmond and barge 5, Richmond for Seattle, 60 miles north of San Francisco. Northern Pacific. Flavel for Ban Fran cisco. 110 miles south of the Columbia River. Great Northern. San Francisco for Flavel, five miles south of Blums Reef. Kilburn, San FranclFco for Coos Bay, 10 miles north of Cape Mendocino. Senator. Seattle for San Francisco. SO miles south of Blanco. Asuncion. Ketchikan for Richmond. SIS miles north of Richmond. Governor. Victoria for San Francisco, seven miles south of Blanco. Wapama. San Francisco for Portland. 145 mils south of the Columbia River. Moffett, towing barge 03. San Francisco for Balboa, 1283 miles south of San Fran cisco. August 18. Umatilla. Cordova for Seattle, 30 miles west of Nootk. Sound. Grar-e Dollar, San Francisco for Tacoma, 100 miles from Tacoma. Tides at Astoria Sunday. High. I Low. B:lrs A. U B.8 feet! 0:18 A. M 5:55 P. M 7.9 feetlll :53 V. ii .0.9 foor 3.3 feet Columbia River Bar Report. NORTH HEAD, Aug. 19. Condition of the bar at 5 P. M. ; Bea smooth; wind north' west. 30 miles. lXLE in Shape at 3 STEAMERS ORDERED SEATTLE COMPANY. WILL, BUILD STEEL FREIGHT CARRIERS. Norwegian Contract Increase Payroll to 20OO Men and Involves 9,tt50,. OOO Order la Record. SEATTLE, Wash, Aug:. 19. (Spe cial.) C. TV. "Wiley, vice-president and general manaarer of the Seattle Con struction & Drydock Company, today announced that he had closed a con tract with Norwegian interests for three 7o00-ton steel freight steamers, representing an investment of $2,650,- 0O0. The order just placed with the Seattle plant is the largest single con tract for merchant craft ever awarded to a North Pacific shipbuilding firm. The order means an increase of the 1760 employes of the Seattle Construc tion & Drydock Company to probably 2000 men and a still greater payroll for this city. Mr. Wiley said that the new steamers would be delivered in 15 or 16 month They will be big modern carriers of 7500 dead weight tons, equipped with reciprocating engines, Scotch , marine hollers and the very latest gear for the handling of freight. The steamers will De duplicates oi the lour Pig cargo vessels ordered recently by Norwegian interests from tne Seattle Construction & Drydock Company, the keels for two of which have been laid. The company has now contracts for 14 vessels, including three submarines and one torpedo-boat destroyer for the United States Navy. The total valuo of the vessels is more than $9,000,000, SIIIl CONTRACT IS AWARDED Coos Ray Lumber Company Orders $2 00,000 Lumber Craft. NORTH BEND, Or.. Aug. 19. (Sne clal.) The Coos Bay Lumber Company has contracted with the Kruse & Banks shipyard for the construction of wooden vessel to replace the steamer Nairn famith. recently sold. The vessel will be built in five months and equipped with turbine engines. The new craft will be 260 feet long, with a 50-foot beam, fehe will carry 1,250.000 feet of lumber In packages and ply between Coos Bay and San Francisco. The cost of the new craft Is estimated at over $200,000. LOCAL GIRL INVENTOR XOX-REFILLABLE BOTTLE PRODUCT OP YOUNG WOMAN'S GENIUS. Miss Resrlna Widahl Smith Perfects Invention Notice Is Received That Patent Uas Been Granted. A Portland girl is entitled to the honor of having invented what so many inventors have been trying for years to perfect a non-ref illable bottle. She Is Miss Regina Widahl Smith, 1185 Royal Court. Miss Smith has lust re ceived notice from the patent office at Washington, D. C. that a patent has been granted to her. The principle involved In the Inven tion is the collapsibility of a weighted rubber tube,' attached to the neck of the bottle, which will allow only the passage of liquid when the bottle is being emptied. Such a bottle can be used for many purposes, where It Is desired that the original contents be not tampered with and the bottle can be used only once. It is said that it can be manufactured at a cost that will not make its use prohibitive. Oswald West Cliecks Tax Records. SALEM. Or.. Aug. 19. (Special.) Oswald West, ex-Governor of Oregon, now special counsel for the Federal Government in the Oregon-California land grant case, went over the records of the State Tax Commission today in connection .with the Impending litlga' COOS BAR DEEPENED Local Engineers Advised Dredge Work Is Rapid. 30-FOOT CHANNEL GOAL Depth Is Reached at Mouth of Bay and Inside Digging Begins. Progress Is Made Toward 4 5 Foot Columbia Channel. Rapid progress in the development of a 30-foot channel at the mouth of Coos Bay Is being made by the Gov ernment dredge Colonel P. S. Mlchie. according to advices received by United States engineers here. A channel of that depth has been opened up across the bar proper at the mouth of the bay, and the dredge is now at work inside, where a quantity of material must be removed. I From the advance made by the dredge this month, engineers predict that no difficulty will be encountered in completing a 30-foot channel en tirely into the bay. thereby making it available for large ocean-going vessels. Reports received by engineers in charge of the First District are that the Mlchie removed 124.900 cubic yards of material during the first 16 days of this month. In case she con tinues at the same rate of speed dur ing the remainder of the month, she will very nearly equal the record hung up in June of 263,131 yards of mate rial. With the new jetty put in and a 30-foot channel completed this Kail, the harbor at Coos Bay will be fully equal to some of the larger Eastern harbors that handle heavy commerce. It is predicted that the Improvement will make for an Impetus in the devel opment of the lumbering, agricultural and other industries of that section. The dredge Chinook, which is oper ating at the mouth of the Columbia River, is still working at the steady deepening of the channel there. The work is necessarily rendered much slower now, owing to the fact that she is operating in a channel more than 40 feet deep. The distance which the material must be raised and trans ported is consequently a great factor In the progress made by the dredge. A good, safe channel 45 feet deep and wide enough to accommodate any volume of commercial activity is the goal which is now being worked to ward by the dredge. It is believed there will be no difficulty in achlev ingr this by Fall, and the engineers in charge are congratulating themselves on the splendid showing which is be ing made there. No surveys of tho channel have been made recently, and consequently any definite idea as to the given depth is not available at present, although it is known by soundings that a depth well over 40 feet has been attained. Mr. Stein's Obstinacy Results in Jail Sentence. Pawnbroker Ktfun to Let Water Inspectors on Ilia Premises. P. STEIX, pawnbroker, of 26 North Sixth street. Is obstinate. This trait of character will keep him in the City Jail for seven days and a half. When a city Inspector called to de termine whether Mr. Stein was using city water, which was supposed to have been cut off from his place of business. the pawnbroker refused to admit him. He was arrested and appeared before Municipal Judge Langguth yesterday. Judge Langguth afforded the de fendant every opportunity to compro mise the matter. Mr. Stein remained obdurate, even when his attorneys counseled him to make an amicable ad justment with the city. He denied the right of Inspectors to enter his store, maintaining that be was not using the water. Judge Langguth lost patience. He told Mr. Stein that his fine was $15. The defendant complained that he had only fS.40, and that he would go to Jail before he would pay. - Let me pay S.40 and serve the dif ference." he suggested with voluble eagerness. The court declined to bargain and Mr. Stein began serving his term. HUNTERS BAG BIG GAME Damp Woods Make Quarry for Deer Good, Say Reports. Deer hunters are having exceptional shooting, according to advices received yesterday at the offices of Carl Shoe maker, state game warden, from many points in the state reports have come that unusually good results are being obtained by sportsmen out after game. Throughout the deer territory hunt ers are successful in their quest for deer. One of the chief reasons given for favorable conditions is that the present damp season is conducive to good hunting. Last year at this sea son the woods were so dry that each step of the hunter resulted in the crack of broken twigs and brush so that it was almost impossible to get within shooting distance of the deer. TAX ASSESSMENT TARGET Suit Filed to Stop Collection on Hal sey-Street Improvement. Suit to restrain the city from col lecting an assessment of 7296.7 for the opening and widening of Halsey street, on the grounds that the Bound a rles of the district assessed were made arbitrarily and do not contain 50 per cent of the property benefited by the improvement, was filed in the circuit Court yesterday by A. M. Dewar and 46 other nroDerty owners. The complaint charges cnaries r , Fisher, of the City Engineer's office, with making the boundaries Ior the assessment small for the purpose of preventing remonstrance against the nroceedings, such as would have been the case had all property owners ben efited been included in the assessment, HUGHES BRANCH FORMED Oregon City Republicans Expect Nearly 400 Members. OREGON CITr. Or., Aug. 19. (Spe ciaL) With a charter membership of 52 obtained in a few hours, and with prospects of 200 or. 300 more members within the next few days, an Oregon City branch of the National Hughes Alliance, an organization favoring Charles E. Hughes for the Presidency of the United States, waa formed to day by Walter Tooze, Sr. E. L. Johnson is temporary chairman of the local branch: Miss Iva M. Har rington, secretary: F. J. Tooze. treas urer. and J. E. Calavan. vice-chairman. "From what I have seen, everything points to a most successful Republican said Mr. Tooze. Women are especially invited to join the local branch of the alliance. A large number have signed the mem bership blanks. BEND QUITS STATE FAIR Commercial Club Backs County Af fair for Same Date. BEND, Or.. Aug. 19 (Special.) Be cause the dates of the State Fair are the same as those of the Crook County fair, the Bend Commercial Club, at its meeting today, decided not to carry out the plan for the exhibit at Salem, pre viously made, but to concentrate all Its energies on the Prineville exhibit. The money appropriated for the pur poses of the State Fair will be used AGRICVLTl'RAL COLLEGE HAS EW PROFESSOR OF ECONOMICS. u i: V, V- t n j i: j : ; If !.-. K. a 5 1 :i7. . 1 t -. .;. ; f : A Dr. 1.. A Itafener. OBEOON AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE, Corvallis, Aug. 19 (Special.) Dr. L. A. Rufener. head of the department of social sciences at Lombard College. Ualesburg. 111., has been ap pointed assistant professor of economics in the school of com merce of the Oregon Agricultural College, succeeding Dr. E. J. Brown, who goes to the Unlvcr sity of Arizona as head of the de partment of economics. Dr. Rufener. who is a gradu ate of the University of Kansas, where he also took his master's degree, spent three years In grad uate study at Harvard, where he became a doctor of philosophy and where he served for two years as teaching assistant in courses in economics. to place sign boards on the roads lead- ing Into town. Through Its member- ship committee, the club is planning an extensive campaign for new mem bers. to culminate with a banquet- smoker to be held in September. It was also reported at the meet- In tr that the O.-W. R. & N. Co. had taken the exhibit of vegetables, grains and grasses from Friday's flowe'r show. to be placed on display in Tortland. . FORGER SUSPECT INDICTED K.ttraditlon From Tc.a9 Faces Man RIamed for Hotel Swindling. Indictments were issued by the Mult nomah grand Jury yesterday charging rnrrv aealnst "M. Grabfelder. alias M. Gelsenberg." and "M. Gelsenberg, alias M. Grabfelder." Uranteiaer was the name under which he passed a check for $100 on the Benson Hotel August 5, and Gelsenberg the name he used in cashing a 1100 note at the Port l.nH Hotel Auirust 7. it is alleged. He was arrested several days ago in El Taso, Tex., by detectives, and er fortu will be made to have him extra dlted for trial in Portland. He is also wanted for alleged bad-check opera campaign in Clackamas County,' 4 San Diego, the hotels' Sacramento. Alex- gether meeting at the Central Library. "d,ri s- Grant havin bH!:lL,Trhry tions in Sacramento, Los Angeies ana made victims, FLAX ACRE NETS $36.50 Oregon Vniversity Experiment Re- port Is Made. SALEM. Or.. Aug. 19 (Special.) The University of Oregon's experiment with the flax industry showed, accora ing to the report of Labor CommiS' sioner O. P. Hoff. that the net return to the grower amounted to $36.S0 an acre. Costs of producing no crop totaled J13.B0. divided as follows: flowing. 12: harrowing. -: seed. J4; planting, GO cents: cutting. SI: hauling. 14. The rM-olnta ner acre were: Ten bushels of seed. $20; straw, two tons. J30. ASK UNDERGROUND WIRES famrtalfrii Is Onoosed by Daly, Who Says Time Is Not Ripe. -A rnmDalirn nromoted by C. A. Appel gren and others to get the Council to force the public service companies to place tho present overhead wires on Broadway from tne Driage to umuu avenue underground oeioro iuo amci i- will come to nausrht if the ,?u"cu dpi jt r"rramtr.da.V.v,i O l I Ly LUlUllilJCiviiv -- - - 1 - I the time is inopportune to r.imnanlxio this expense. The netitioncrs say the poles and overhead wires are a nuisance and he rilsriosed of now at much less exDense than would be necessary after the street is paved. Methodist Superintendents Meet. ASHLAND. Or.. Aug. 19. (Special.) 11 j. Van Fossen, of the Klamath district: J. T. Abbett. of the Eugene district: J. W. McDougall. of the Port land district, and T. B. Ford, of the s.ieni district, all clergymen of the Oregon Methodist conference, met here! this week, pursuant to invitation oi lr. Van Fossen, of Ashland. These district superintendents were visited bv Dr. Frank L. Loveland, pastor of the First Methodist church of Port land: Dr. Feese, pastor of the Patton church of the same city; Judue Bald' win, of Klamath Falls, and Henry Jen n intra, representative of the Methodist Book Concern, of Chicago, who were on their way to the Klamath country on a fishing and hunting trip. Slock Decrease Is Made. SALEM. Or.. Aug. 19. (Special.) The Marine Supply Company, of Port land, today decreased its capital "stock from $100,000 to $25,000. Supplement ary articles of incorporation were filed by the Miniature Lumber Company, of Portland. Capital stock is $4S.0i". A decrease In capital stock from $10,00 to $3800 by the Gebhardt Lumber Com pany, of Porlli-nd, was mndo today. The Malheur Title & Abstract Company, of Vale, incorporated for $10,000. CAIRN FETE REVIVES ROULETTE WHEEL Fortune in Wampum Is Lost by Hundreds Who Tempt Old-Time Luck Games. INDIAN MAIDS IN BOOTHS Panel and Musical Programme Kntertain Crowds Tliat Clve Liberally to Ruy Shaft to Mark Historic Spot. SEASIDE. Or.. Aug. 19. (Special.) To the spin of the roulette wheel and the racket of a faro layout, the good old days of gambling frontier gam blingcame back here tonight and added zest and realism was imparted to the second annual carnival of the Lewis and Clark Salt Cairn Associa tion. The fete was an unprecedented suc cess in a social way and profitable for the Salt Cairn fund. There were between 500 and 600 in attendance at the programme, which was held on the grounds of the Hotel Moore, and a big step was taken in providing sufficient funds for the proposed monument on the site of the salt cairns. The grounds in front of the hoti-l were converted into a frontier rendezvous where the roulette wheels and faro layouts were set up and op erated with Indian money. Nearby booths conducted b- society women and girls and a Japanese garden were rallying places for thoe with desire to buy novelty wares and those who were set upon increasing the fund for the monument. Indian Girl Sell Klovrcri. Girls dressed in Indian costumes sold everything from flowers and candy to wampum money and young and old men in Indian costumes and all manner of eport togs bought with the avidity of true sportsmen. A programme in the dancehall of the Hotel Moore preceded the evening a general entertainment. Music was pro vided by Webb's orchestra, and Mis Maurine Tapley delighted with a ballet number. Mrs. J. C Harley. of Astoria, contributed vocal numbers, and Jamrs McDonald, costumed as an Indian chief. uttered a monologue which was mani festly diverting. Mildred Keats and William Hawkins. Jr.. In a fox trot and Catle canter, and Miss Keats In an Indian solo dance, provided an ar tistic interlude, and Miss Loris Uratke. of Astoria, drew some exauisite musio I from the violin. She was accompanied U. Sanfnrd Si-hlussel. of Portland. Mrs. H. w. Metzger. vocalist, of Portland, was scheduled to appear, but was un avoidably detained. Explorer's Granddaughter Seen. I. X. Klelschnor. president of th Lewis and Clark Salt Cairn Association. Presented Miss Anne Shannon Monroe, who Is a granddaughter of t.eorg I Shannon, a member of the Lewis and Clark exploration party. Miss Monroo nXH'X lnn' George Hyland was master of cere- I monies and was ably assisted by Mrs. uan J. iuoore. rouoning ihb pro- gramme, dancing was enjoyea in tne grill while the activities on the grounds assumed varied proportions. The affair was marked for Its bril liancy and artistic quality. Hundreds came from Portland and Astoria for the fete, which began at 8 o'clock and lasted long into the night. WOMEN DEMOCRATS MEET timbering Will Re Held at Library Hall August 2S. The Women's Democratic Club, of Portland, of which Miss Leon a Larra- bee is president, will hold a get-to- o'clock and the principal speaker will be Mrs. Sylvia McGuire-Thompson. can didate for the Legislature from The Dalles. Other speakers will be Judge Sam White. Judge W. X. Catena and Dr. Esther Pohl-Lovejoy. There will also be a programme of music A special invitation has been sent to the Woodrow Wilson League, the Jackson Club, the State Women's Press Club and the Daughters of tho Con federacy. ODDFELLOWS ENJOY PICNIC Six Hundred Van-ouverites Have Cay Time at Outing. VANCOUVER. Wash.. Aug. 19. wac- fS5ncfij.11 Trains, automobiles. ons and buggies carried more than 600 Odd Fellows to Battle Ground Lake to day for the annual picnic of the Clarke County association. The gathering was one or tne dih gest ever held at the lake. The sports V . .. . J ,Ka programme piuvcn p. v.,uv, ..... swimmirg race.. diving contests, ooat races, nail driving contests, women's foot race and other events being large ly contested. The attendance from the various country lodges was very large. in proportion to the number of mem bers. REGISTER EARLY IS ADVICE Secretary Olcott Says Total 56,000 Short of That in 191 J. SALEM. Or.. Aug. 19. (Special.) Promptness in registering was recom mended by Secretary of state Olcott today that voters may get election pamphlets to which they are entitled. Registrations prior to the May pri maries totaled 241.474. Since that time 6594 additional names have been re ceived by the State Department Prior to the general election of 1914 registrations numbered 304.730. This would leave 56.0o0 registrations to be maae Deiore tne ciose vr ti.e tober 7. aside from the natural increase in the state's population. Lewis tJruin Crop Is Hea.v. CHEHALIS. Wash.. Aug. 19. (Spe cial. Weather conditions in this sec tion the past week have been quite un usual for August. Two or three nights slight frosts were reported. Farm ers arc having all they could ask. how ever, for harvesting their grain crop. Grain, because of the late rains of he early Summer, will be unusually heavy, wheat and oats being especially fine. California Editor Drowned. MILL VALLEY. Cal.. Aug. 19. X. F. Douglass, editor of the Mill Valley Hecord. was fovind drowned today in the bay off Sausalito. He had just bought the paper and his wife and children are on their way here from Montana. The county authorities are Investigating.