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.THE SUNDAY OREGOXTAX, POHTXA20V SEPTEMBER 17, 1916. 9 STATE NOT GETTING ITS 50 CARS A DAY Railroad Fulfills Only Part of Promise, While Shortage Is Growing Worse. LITTLE HOPE HELD OUT Ovegon Has Some Chance to Get Few , of 3500 New Cars Rushed West, but Vtah and California Are to Have First Choice. "Western Oregon lumber manufac turers have obtained little hope of re lief from the present distressing car shortage from the high officials of the Southern Pacific now In the state. Various lumber men have been In conference in the last few days with William Sproule, president, and W. R. Scott, operating vice-president of the Southern Pacific. who have been passing the last week in Oregon. Both Mr. Sproule and Mr. Scott have promised to provide Oregon's "full share of cars," but have cautiously re frained from giving any positive as surance that the present shortage will be relieved. The special consignment of 50 empty cars a day which the Southern Pacific started to send into the state at the beginning of the present week has not materialized in its entirety. True, an intermittent stream of available equip ment has flown into the Oregon lines through the Ashland gateway, but the volume igLS not been up to the 60-car etandarcL Some days it hasn't even approached that standard. The movement has been more brisk in the last two days, however, than at any time earlier in the week, an aggre gate of more than 200 empty cars was received at Ashland on Friday and Sat urday, Shortage Declared Worse. As a matter of fact the supply of mpty cars that reached Oregon this Week has done little more than accom modate the normal flow of business. It has not reduced the net shortage, say the lumber men. Indeed, F. G. Donaldson, traffic man ager for the "Willamette Valley Lumber Manufacturers' Association, said yester day that the shortage is growing de cidedly worse every day. "It is costing the state of Oregon thousands of dollars every day," he said. "Some of our biggest mills either have closed or are getting ready to close." The mills already closed, to which Mr. Donaldson referred, are those of the Sheridan "Lumber Company at Sheri dan, the Booth-Kelly Lumber Company at Wendling and the Euwana Box Com pany at Klamath Falls. The big Booth-Kelly plant at Spring field, employing 600 men, has been able to operate on part time this week only because it has hauled its products by motor-trucks a distance of three miles to the Oregon Electric tracks at Eugene. New Cars May Be Obtained. The Hammond Lumber Company's plant at Mill City is not attempting to run to its capacity. It has not received a full order of cars for months and Southern Pacific officials have not offered material relief. Mr. Scott, of the Southern Pacific Company, told local lumber men yes terday that some relief may be obtained by the end of the month through the distribution of 3500 new boxcars just completed by the Eastern manufac turers. The company is paying com mercial freight on these cars to, get them on its lines at the earliest pos sible moment, and Oregon, they say, should receive its due share of them. Delivery will be made, however, at Ogden and at El Paso, so they must run the gauntlet of the car-bereft indus tries to the east and south of Oregon. In any event, though, this movement Is expected to relieve the strain on the stock in California and thus reflect favorably on the situation in Oregon. No Relief Promised. Although E. E. Calvin, president of the Union Pacific, and J. D. Farrell, president of the O.-W. R. & N. Com pany, conferred here last week, on the car situation. tney were unable to promise any relief to the Southern Pa cific, which had been expecting a res toration of the arrangement for an Interchange 6f cars through the Port land gateway. At times past the O.-W. R. & N. Company has furnished the Southern Pacific with all the cars required to handle shipments destined to points on the Union Pacific system, but in antici pation of the tremendous wheat move ment across the continent this Fall, the Union Pacific, a month ago, canceled this agreement and has been assembling all the Cars it can get on its own lines. 35,000 Cars Needed for Wheat. Even this stimulus has failed to pro vide the Union Pacific with all the cars It needs. The railroads of the Northwest will be required to move fully 60,000,000 bushels of wheat across the continent this year and will require approximate ly 35,000 cars in the operation. They have no present idea where they are going to get the cars. The shortage in the wheat districts already has set in and within a few weeks ia expected to grow as acute as that now prevalent in the lumber districts of Western Oregon. LIFE IN ARCTIC TRYING (Continued From First Page.) iNew loric ana other Eastern points ana men return to JVlcMinnville. His letter follows: "West Coast, Victoria, Ld.. March 4 1916 "Dear Folks: We got here February z auer a. very nara trip. Thompson, Noice and I left Kellett January 6 and went south around Banks Land to Ram sey island, where we were snow-bound nine days with 17 dogs and nothing but etraignt oatmeal to live on, and no fuel but a few sticks of driftwood we could pick up. Ox course we lived In a snow house. Both Heels Frnen. "I froze both of my heels Just be Tore we got to this place, one so bad that I could not put my foot to the ground. I could not do & thing but lie in my sleeping bag and condemn my bard luck. "Finally it cleared up and here we were withi six miles of Ramsey island. This is where fateransson had five na tives hunting seal, of which they had plenty and us eo close about half starved! Such is life. They also had plenty of tea and rice, so we had a big feed of rice and seal blubber. "Snow houses are fine to live in in cold weather. Three men can put one tip in two hours and when they are up they are much better than a tent. The roof is made just high enough to en able you to sit up. Then the cracks are all plugged up, a big block of snow Is put in the door and plastered around the edge to make it air-tight, in fact you make it as air-tight as possible and you are fixed for the night. Then you strip to the akin and crawl In your deer skin sleeping-bag and lay there and enjoy yourself In general. minimum Temperature 33 Degree. "The most astonishing thing is that the temperature at night never goes be low 32 degrees. Rather surprising, is It not? "Stroker Storkerson. an old-timer on the expedition, left ten or 12 days ago in search of new land with Noice and Charlie Anderson. He said he would like to have me go, but I couldn't on account of my heel. I forgot to say that when we got to Ramsey Island we had 70 miles more to go before we got to the Polar Bear and me with a frozen heeL I thought I would croak before we got here. "Stefansson wants the expedition to stay another year, but everybody is against him, for by next Summer the sugar will be all gone, and most of the other stuff. If we stay another Winter we will have to get out of here, for there are no seal or bear here in the Winter time and all the dog pemmican will be gone by the end of this Winter. "Stefansson Is figuring on staying in Winter harbor on Melville Island next Winter, but everyone is against him. for they say if he does he will never get out with the schooner. Stefansson Hunts IVeir Land. "Storkerson and the party got back here on the sixth or seventh of March. He said he had to abandon the Ice trip on account of a shortage of dogs. Two or three died and the rest had sore and frozen feet. "The worst part of it Is that Stefans son expects Storkerson to come to Cape Alfred on the north coast of Banks Land and start his trip from there. Stefansson is figuring on going to the new land himself and he is waiting more than 200 miles from here and he has to come here before he can go to rthe new land. "Storkerson started out a few days ago with three sleds and five men to take a load of freight to the new land. "Henry Oonzolas. who is now Cap tain Gonzolas; Herman, a native, and myself went across the straits to Banks Land to hunt and to pick up a cache that had been left about 30 miles in land. We had six dogs and a good load when we left here, but when we got the cache on the sled we had an awful load. We made it home in one day, 40 miles, and we were harneosed up all the time like dogs. We were played out when we got home. "The caribou have left this country altogether and so has everything else no foxes, no bears and no wolves. This certainly is a deserted place. Jack Hadley. the second mate, went out one morning, before we got :ere, to take the meteorological obsei vationo and it was pitch dark. . He was just passing the corner of the storehouse, which is about 30 feet from tho house, when out walked a big bear. He walked right up to Jack and Jack hit him on the nose with his lantern. The bear did not go, so he hit him again. The bear backed off a few feet and sat down and Jack backed to the house and told the fellows that a bear was outside. Jack's gun was on the storehouse roof near the bear, so Jack borrowed Levi's (the cook) gun. Levi said there was a shell In it. Every one went out and Gonzolas shot the bear In the leg which made him mad. Bear Bites Assailant. 'Jack walked toward the bear and rested on one knee, waiting. The bear came for Jack and when he was three or four feet away Jack pulled the trigger. There was a cartridge in the gun all right but it was an empty one! Remember, It was pitch dark! The bear walked up to Jack and grabbed with his teeth. He grabbed just where Jack had hold of the stock of the gun. Two teeth went through his hand and one tore off a finger nail. Jack beat it for the house, the bear went out on the ice and two of the fellows went after him with lanterns and killed nim. Afterwards, they tell me. Jack spoke his mind to Levi. (Levi's real name ia William D. Braur. a Swiss.) When Stefansson comes he Intends to take a party and go and survey some of the new land and stay there all Summer. Five dollars a day, too! There is only me here, except the camp peo ple, so I am sure that I will go. I certainly hope we go out next Summer, for a man is foolish to stay in this country for any money. Wind Freezes Chin. "By the way, the Jack Hadley I men tioned has lived at Point Barrow now more than 30 years and certainly knows the ropes up here. He says when he goes out he will never return. I sup pose, though, he says that every Win ter. "Just to show how cold it gets some times with the wind blowing, yesterday I went' to the schooner and back, not over 1500 feet the round trip, and when I got to the house my chin was as white as snow frozen. That is just one instance, but it goes to show how careful one has to be. When I froze my heel I had on plenty of socks and did not know it till we got to camp. A freeze acts exactly the same as a burn. It feels like one and the after- affect is a big water blister. "If I re peat things in this Mss. do not pay any attention, for I have been writing this since I left Kellett and I do not look back to see what I have written before. "If we go out next summer yon will not see this letter, but if we do not I will send this to Kellet with the sled that is going. "Well, I will quit for tonight, as there is a good game of poker going on ana I am going to 'watch.' Fare Frozen Three Times. "Last night we had a blizzard of about 40 miles per hour and the tem perature was 30 degrees. It is abso lutely impossible to put your face in the direction of the wind for a few minutes, for if you do you will have a frozen face. I have had my face frozen two or three times, and every time have got a new face. But the black heads vlo not go. "Herman Killlan went up the coast a few days ago to get four sick dogs that are up there. He le long due back now, but we have only two sick dogs here, so there is no such thing as going to look for him. I guess he might be home tonight. I hope so. "It has been about a week since I last wrote with pencil, and Stefansson is not here yet. If he does not get here soon I guess he is not coming, and if he does not come, I see all hopes vanishing of me making anything besides my $45 per. Well, there la no use to worry about it, anyhow. "I suppose L. L. Lane, former owner of Polar Bear, told you I had a chance first at Noice s job and refused. 1 saia I would not stay in this country for $175, but later when Stefansson asked me if I did not want to stay, I pon dered a while and said yes." But I could not get more than $45. Will write more later. "April 4. Well, Stefansson Is not here yet and all of us are wondering what he can be doing. He was supposed to be here early in March. He must have heard that Storkerson did not go on the Ice, so he has set out from the North Star (schooner) at Cape Alfred at the north end of Banks Land. Deer Hunt Planned. "Tomorrow Henry Gonzoles, a native, and I are going back 30 or 40 miles inland to see if we can find some deer. We have been out of fresh meet for so long that I guess we would eat rats. Bear meat is good, but there are not any bears here, because there are no seals, and there are no white foxes here because there are no bears. Bears depend on seals in the Winter for a liv ing and foxes depend on bears and their leavings. "By this time of the year the cold weather is over, but we are now having 20 degrees, with a wind. It is pretty cold. Well, there is an argument com ing up, so will write more later. "April 14. We have not yet had any (Concluded on Pag IS,. Column 2.) HUGHES SENTIMENT-' SWEEPING OREGON W, L. Tooze, Sr., Makes Glow ing Report After Visit to Ten Counties. WOMEN ARE ENTHUSIASTIC Organizer of Bughes Alliances In itiates 2 7 Branches Jackson County Is 7eclared to Be Safe for Republicans. Ten counties have been visited and 27 branch Hughes Alliances formed In as many Oregon towns since August 11 by Walter L. Tooze. Sr., of Salem. one of the organizers In this state for the National Hughes Alliance. The 27 branch alliances have a combined mem bership of several thousand persons. Mr. Tooze came to Portland yester day from Medford. where he will form a Hughes Alliance this week, to con fer briefly with T. B. Neuhausen. vice president of the Hughes campaign com mittee, who is supervising the work of the Alliance in Oregon. since I started out in this work last month," said Mr. Tooze, "I have been in Clackamas, Marion. Lane, Linn, Doug las, Jackson. Josephine. Polk. Benton and Yamhill counties, and have had a fine opportunity of ascertaining the exact sentiment for Hughes and that for Wilson. I want to say that in my belief, formed after a thorough can vass of the situation in these counties, Mr. Hughes will carry this state by a large majority. Jackson for Hughes. I have found Hughes sentiment everywhere, and it has been very strong where I least looked for it. For example, Jackson County has- been re garded as a stalwart Democratic stamping ground. I have heard Repub licans who hadn't been there sav that it wouia even be wasting time to cam paign in Jackson County because it was so sure to go Democratic. I want to predict that, auito to the contrarv Jackson County is cotnr to arive Mr. nugnea a handsome majority and I am so sure of it that I am going to stake my tuture reputation as apolitical fore, caster on the nrediction. -JNO county in the state has responded more enthusiastically to the work of the Hughes Alliance than Jackson County. We now have charter rolls in circulation in Medford and Ashland for Hughes Alliances to be formed there next Wednesday and Friday nights, re spectlvely. These two branches will have at least 1000 members between them. "I have found absolutely no evidence anywhere on my tour to justify the taiic tnat the women are all going t6 vote for President Wilson. This is an unfounded assumption. As a matter of fact. I have found that the women are even more regular than the men. and ss far from being against Mr. Hughes, a great many of them are enthusiastic ally for him. Women for Mr. Hashes. "The Wileon rallying cry 'He kept us out of war Is not fooling the women tny more. It has become a campaign -nestnuc "In Medford, some of the most en thusiastic Hughes workers we have are women. Mrs. E. B. Hanley. first vice- president of the Oregon state branch of the Hughes Alliance, is one that is doing splendid work. Mrs. T. J. Reddy is another. "Mrs. Reddy is the wife of Dr. Reddy. a strong Wileon roan, She is a woman of great energy and ability and is win nlng votes for Hnghes every day. I wish we had more men who were as capable campaigners as Mrs. Reddy. Some 18 or 20 other prominent women of Medford also are working actively for Mr. Hughes. Other Branches to be Formed. "The total Democratic vote in Jack son County four years ago was 2000, compared to a Progressive vote of 1600 and a Republican vote of 800, or 2400 in all. With 1000 charter members as sured already in the two branch Hughes Alliances to be formed in Med ford and Ashland, the chances of a Hughes victory In the county are cer tainly very bright. The interest taken In the election of Mr. Hughes by women in Jackson County is not at all exceptional. The same general situation prevails in all the towns I have visited. Hughes sen timent will grow stronger every day. In addition to the 27 branch alliances formed by Mr. Tooze in the course of his tour, other branches are in pro cess of formation at towns where he was not able to stop long enough to conduct the formal work of organiza tion himself. DOCTOR IS CHEVALIER FIRST HAJIK OF ORDER OF LEO POLD IS BESTOWED. Dr. Earl V. Morrow Is Honored for His Services In Belgium In Red Cross Work. The tirst rank in the Order of Leo pold is the title bestowed upon Dr. Earl V. Morrow, recently head of the American Red Cross in Belgium. While the few Americans upon whom such decorations have been bestowed seldom find occasion to wear them, the dis play of decorations is always the rule in European countries. Up to March 16. 1916, no other Ameri can had been presented with the first class membership in the Order of Leo pold, and, according to Dr. Morrow, the honor, when it came to him, was en tirely unexpected. The Order of Leopold was founded by Leopold L. of Belgium. Possession of the order entities' the owner to the title .of chevalier, as in the Legion d'Honneur of France, and to certain dignities. The order meets once in 10 years at the Cathedral at Ghent, and a chair is reserved for each chevalier. KIDNAPPERS ARE FINED Mother of Stolen Girl Pleads for Leniency for Accused Trio. LA GRANDE, Or.. Sept, 16. (Spe cial.) Ralph Henllne and Troy Welper, high school teachers in La Grande last year, and Lois Henllne, wife of Profes sor Henllne, today pleaded guilty to an Indictment charging them with kid naping a 15-year-old high school girl last year for the purpose of forcing her marriage to Welper. A letter from the mother of the La Grande girl to the court recommended leniency and expressed the belief that Welper was really in love with .her daughter. Judge Knowles fined each of the men 1160 and the woman $100. COLO IWT The Pleasure Port of Portland Continuous 10:30 to 1 1:00 FOUR DAYS STARTING .FMANK TODAY T ttz mm t . . I I I A l I IN THE B "Majeh" Ainslee (Frank Keenan), of Kentucky's blue-grass country, and his young Northern Minister heartily agree on pretty Betty Ainslee (Margaret Thompson) , but emphatically disagree on horseracing. "The Thoroughbred" tells the story as only G. Gardner Sullivan, with his ready wit, keen sympathy and masterful genius, can portray. FORD STERLING IN HIS LYING HEART Two Reels Chock Full of Chortles and Guffaws TWO-REEL KEYSTONE JUMPING ANALYZED THE MOST INTERESTING PATHE EDUCATIONAL WE HAVE SHOWN Matinees, 10c; Children, 5c. Evenings and Sundays, 15c Columbia Where You Realize Your Notion of Pictures Shown in Motion Columbia BRITISH TRADE AIM Consul to Plymouth Investigat ing Conditions. LUMBER WILL BE WANTED J. G. Stevens Says America Ought Not to Overlook Country That Buys Heavily to Try and Open Up New Markets. Trade Investigations with the inten tion of building up a commerce be tween the United States and Great Britain after the war are being made here by J. G. Stevens, on leave ofab eence from his consular station, which for the past 19 years has been at Plymouth. England. Many changes which have taken place in the world's commerce are well worth noticing, ac cording to Mr. Stevens, for after the war the trade of the world is going to the nation that is best prepared to meet all conditions. Present trade activity, he points out. Is somewhat crippled at the present . i,. i.ir tt fthlns. Oregon products will be In demand abroad as soon as provision can De maae lor transport. Lumber will be a big Item in the foreign commerce of the United States, and many varieties wanted in England can best be supplied here. Mr. Stevens has made Inquiries as to the condition of the lumber market and, ; t Vita Tinct -nrill hfl able alter i cnuiiiin, t to act as an intermediary between Hie shippers and tne i-.neuan cunsumo Engllab Trade Praised. Mr. Stevens believes the attention of Americans should be called to the value of English trade. With all the agita tion for development of trade with America, he points out that England has been a much better customer of the United States than all of the Soutn American countries combined. The actual condition of English fac tories Is among the subjects upon which, on account of his official posi tion, Mr. Stevens must refuse to talk. It is generally understood that a great many English plants have been turned over to the production of munitiona Information as to the actual production of munitions in England has been at a premium among England's enemies. All information of a military nature i.iust be withheld by the agents of neutral countries. . , . An example of the changing trade conditions is manifested in the falling . FmrionH'R tmda in fine china clay since the war. The United States has lnveeugaiea ner own rcuui.-co the production of china clay and has worked some of her clay pits in Vir ginia and North Carolina. China Clay Causes Anxiety. The result Is that activity In this In dustry Is stimulated here, and the Eng lish are anxious to find out if there will be a resumption of trade In this commodity after the war. "They have asked me. "Will the Americans buy our clay after the war?' Possibly the Americans may use their own beds for most of their manufacture of plates and crckery. and depend on England for only a small supply of the finest grade. This question is one that I have come to investigate." Mr. Stewart considered that all Amer icans should understand the value of the foreign service which their gov ernment maintains. Questions as to trade "opportunities with foreign coun tries are always answered by coasular agents without charge, and persons with articles to sell can try foreign markets through these officials. Beside lumber and staple food prod ucts. Mr. Stewart estimated that Eng land would soon be calling for glass in large quantities, since this product was one formerly imported from her enemy. Germany. Condensed milk is going to be In demand soon, also, since the price on a can has risen 4 pence to 9 pence during the course of the war. STORE ROBBED OF $142 Money Taken From Safe While Mer chant Is in Basement. VANCOUVER. Wash.. Sept 16 Spe cial.) D. J. Van Nostrand. proprietor of a furniture store at Ninth and Main streets, tonight locked up his .safe minus $142.50, which had been "lifted" quietly about 9 o'clock as he was busily engaged in showing customers some wares in the basement of his store. Mr. Van Nostrand's clerk had stepped out for a few minutes and the proprie tor waited on two customers. While engaged with them, somebody entered quietly, opened the safe door, which was not locked, removed the currency and left as quietly, but more quickly, than they had entered. MISSING WOMAN FOUND Mrs. Edward Allen Is Lost Two bays In Wens Woods. ROSE BURG. Or.. Sept. 16. (Special.) Mrs. Edward Allen, of Grants Pass, who was lost in the densely timbered districts of the Fish Lake country for the past two days, was found esrly this morning, according to a message received at the local forestry office. When found she was about three miles from Fish Lake, where the Allen family was camped. She passed one night in the open, but is none the worse as a result of her thrilling ex perience. Mrs. Allen was found by forest rangers, who were sent out to search for her early Friday. W. A. Harrlman Gets Large Estate. NEW YORK, Sept. 16. Mrs. Edward H. Harriman, It became known hare last night, has transferred to her son. William Averlll Harriman, "Arden House" near Goshen, N. T. The estate, projected by the late Edward H. Har riman as his ideal country home, in cludes 2500 acres of forest, lake and stream. The estate is valued at (5,000.000. Alaskan Trade $11,000,000. SEATTLE. Sept. 16. Seattle's imports from Alaska in- August were nearly 2) Toothache STOPS THE ACHE j CLEANSES ."HE CAVITY PREVENTS DECAY Sold everywhere - 1 5c C 8. Dent & Co. 4 y SPECIAL RATES AT THE NEW PERKINS HOTEL Room, With Bath Privileges Sinale. 75 (n( I'pi Double, Sl.OO I' p. Room, With Private Batht Single, 91.30 Cpi Doable, S2.O0. AUTOBUS MEETS TRAIXS. 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