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16 THE SUNDAY OREGOXIAX, PORTLAND, OCTOBER 21, 1917. NEW BOAT IN DOUBT Port Commission Questions Advisability of Building Now. TOWAGE LIGHT; COST HIGH Sionds or $50,000 Sold, Redeemable "ext July, Bring Slight Prcminra. Sinking Funds of $50,000 to Be Put in Liberty Loan. Before proceeding further in prepa rations for the construction of a much larsrer and more powerful sternwheel towboat than has hitherto been ope rated in handling vessels on the river, the Port of Portland Commission has decided to feel the pulse of commercial and maritime interests as to the advis ability of authorizing actual building at this period. That action was launched yesterday, following the opening of bids for the sale of $50,000 of towage and pilotage bonds. They were awarded to the Dev ereaux Mortgage Company, of this city, which bid a premium of 175.75 on the issue. The bonds draw 6 per cent in terest and will have a life of about eight and one-half months, as they are to be retired July 1. 1918. There was a bid from the Oregon Life Insurance Company of a premium of $60, and be sides that being a lower tender, the proposal contained a provision that the bidder's attorney must approve the bonds, which was not made part of the offer of the Devereaux Mortgage Com pany. J. II. Johnston, a well-known boat builder and designer of Portland, was retained a few months ago to draw plans and prepare specifications for the proposed new steamer, a committee of practical mariners from the Board hav ing reported on the tyne, size and power of the vessel wanted. The boiler is being built by the AVillamette Iron & Steel Works and is to cost $14,000. hav ing been ordered before the present ad vances in steel plate. Kngines are be ing designed and the Commission be lieves they can be obtained in reason able time, but with the heavy advance in construction cost and the fact that limited shipping now handled can be accommodated with the private tow boats available, it was thought best to submit the questions to others con cerned in the welfare of the Port. The Commission voted to buy $50,000 of yberty bonds from the sinking funds. TO TRY VXLICEXSED PILOT Captain George Tyler Cliarged With Piloting Remittent. ASTORIA. Or., Oct. 20. (Special.) Captain (George Tyler, the pilot who brought the motor schooner Remittent from Puget Sound and piloted her into the Columbia River yesterday, is to be tried on a charge of violating the state pilot laws. An information was filed in the Justice Court today and sworn to by Captain John Lapping, the bar pilot, charging Captain Tyler with "piloting a vessel over the pilot age grounds of the Columbia River without having a license therefor and not being either the owner or master of the vessel.' The specific acusation is that he hrought a registered vessel into the river when he had not state pilot's license. A peculiar coincidence is that exactly two years ago yesterday Cap- Iain Randall Rogers, of San Francisco, brought the Japanese steamer Bankoko Maru into the Columbia River. He was arrested on a charge similar to the one filed against Captain Tyler. On being tried in the Circuit Court he was found guilty and was fined $50, hut the collection of the fine was sus pended during good behavior. DYKE WORK IJKIXU HURRIED Double Crew Ordered on Slaughter's Task; Two More Planned. Orders issued yesterday at the office of Vo'onel Zinn. Corps of Engineers, I'. S: A., provide for the employment of a double crew in a pile-driving out fit engaged in the construction of a new dike at Slaughter's. Roek-dump-ing will start there tomorrow and it is hoped to complete the work in five weeks, after which the outfit will be shitted to Henrici's. where two dvkes are to be built. The dykes are a part of permanent works provided for in the Columbia River, planned to eliminate some of the shoaling at points where dredging is necessary now. The Henrici's dykes will he almost opposite each other and the effect is expected to be marked in maintaining a deepwater area there. Additional dykes are contemplated and they will be carried out as funds arc available. COOS BOATMEN RAISE RATES lairy Interests Hit Particularly Hard Jolt by New Schedule. MAIiSHFlIXP. Or., Oct. 20. (Spe cial. In line with the general up ward trend of everything eatable, drinkable or wearable, the boat oper ators on Coos Bay and the inlets have just awakened to the necessity of pro tecting themselves and getting their share of the war profits and extra money floating about. Accordingly, they boosted the freight rates on all deliveries and gave the dairymen a particularly severe jolt by an advance of nearly 50 per cent. Since the war profits have been In creased the milk producers have been enjoying a wonderful demand for milk and 70 cents for butterfat Is being paid here. Part of that profit, the boatmen believed, belongs to them, and so they Arranged to appropriate it. 3 VESSELS TO I5E LAUNCHED Crnvs Harbor Yards Will Have Had IS Launching in 2 0 Months. ARKHPEE.V. Wash.. Oct. L'O. (Spe cial.) One steamer and two hig auxi liary schooners will be launched at Crays Harbor yards before the close of this month. The first of these to take the water will be the steamer Clare mont. building for the Hartwood Com pany, which is to take the water Mon day at the Mathews yards in lloquiam. The two auxiliaries were ordered by Norwegian firms, but have been taken over by the Federal Government. When these vessels are launched they will make a total of IS ships com pleted here since the shipbuilding busi ness was revived in February, 1&16. FREIGHT IS LKl'T OX DOCK Rose City I'ails to Take All Portland Commodities Offered. Ainsworth dock contained an over flow of freight last night, following the sailing of the liner Rose City, for while the vessel was dispatched with all consignments that could be stowed, her capacity was unequal to the task of cleaning up the dock. Captain Parker found much the same condition WASHINGTON COUNTY SATISFIED AT ROUTING OF WEST SIDE HIGHWAY VIA ORENCO. MAP SHOWS HIGH WAY A.D OTHER ROAD ROUTES IV WASHINGTON COUNTY. ORENCO, Or., Oct. 19. (Special.) The decision of the State Highway Commission to route the West Side Pa cific Highway in Washington County b y way of Orenco gives general satisfaction in the county. The Canyon-Walker road via Orenco to Hillsboro, which th e highway will follow, gives a centrally located route and serves the Beaver ton and Reedville districts, as well a s the northern part of the county. This road will benefit Multnomah County and Portland also, as the highway will open connections with two other well-traveled roads leading into Portland, the Cornell road entering Lovejoy street and the Barnes road, which leads into the city at the head of Washington street. The main highway to Hillsboro comes into Portland by way of the present Capitol Highway, which enters the city In South Portland. The map shows the location of these various roads and the territory the southern part also is served by the the center of the county serves both the north and south sections, but they will serve. The main route through Rex-Tigard-Newberg road. on the northbound trip, the liner hav ing 2000 tons aboard, and more could have been transported had space been adequate. The Rose City is as popular as of yore with passengers, all staterooms being taken yesterday, and there are numerous reservations for the liner Reaver, Captain Rankin, which is due Wednesday and sails Kriday. Nothing additional has been heard regarding the ships being taken by the Govern ment, except that they are now actu ally under Kederal direction, and there is no prospect of another vessel being under the San Francisco &. Portland fleet flag to help out. TRAVELING INSPECTOR, HERE Man Who Checks Vessels in West to Pass on OrcRon Elcet. Captain Cecil Brown, traveling in spector for the United States Steam vessel Inspection Service and assigned to the Western district, which embraces all territory between the Pacif ic and the Rockies, is in Portland. Captain Brown has been here before and he expects to come again. There are a few masters who have had cause to remember his visits, for his mission is to keep check on conditions aboard vessels. It is said to the credit of the Oregon district that it shows decided ly few transgressions as compared to other sections, yet that has not prompted Captain Brown to omit his unannounced calls. The fireboat Geo. H. Williams will be inspected tomorrow and the tug Cruiser was gone over officially yesterday, that work being in the hands of the regular inspectors, Captain Edwards and John Wynn. Licenses were granted during the week to Government nautical school graduates and eight have been given tickets up to date. ILNOWLES TAKES TO WOODS Exponent of "Back to Nature" Life to Take Pictures at Scaview. Joe Knowlcs, the "back to Nature man," who has figured in movie scenes of how to lie in the woods on nothing, has selected Sea view, on North Beach, the habitat of "Captain" Ed Budd, of the O.-W. R. &. N. Company, for new scenes he proposes to depict in illus trating the changes in man from medi eval days to the present age. He left last night aboard the steamer Harvest Queen, accompanied by a team of horses and wagon, and after a visit of two weeks expects to return to as semble wild animals and all gear re quired for a stay of two or three months. In getting into the timber region be hind the beach country he hopes to have a choice of settings for moving pictures, so he can use inland views as well as those on the shore of the ocean. 1HRKCT SERVICE NOW FIXED Breakwater and Kilhurn to Ply Be tween Portland and (.olden Gate. Making her final southbound call at Kureka, the Emerald line steamer Breakwater departed from there for San Francisco at 9 o'clock yesterday morning, and on her forthcoming voy age from Portland will proceed direct to the Golden Gate. The steamer K. A. K i I burn, her fleet mate, sailed from Portland at 6 o'clock last night and goes direct to San Francisco, as she has for the past few voyages. The Emerald line officials reported that patronage at Coos and Humboldt Bay points had decreased to such an extent a continuation of the service was not justified, especially since the cargo offerings here are such now that the tonnage regularly employed is in sufficient to accommodate them. DREDGE CHINOOK TO TIE UP 12,000 to 15,000 Yards Pumped Per Day Through Season. ASTORIA, Or.. Oct. 20. (Special.) After five months and 19 days of con tinuous and successful work on the channel at the mouth of the Columbia River the big dredge Chinook, Captain A. C Cann, master, ceased operations last nisrht for the season and on Mon day afternoon will shift to Linnton. where she will tie up for the Winter and unrierao minor repairs. The dredge has pumped up and car ried out to sea from 1 2.000 to 1 3.000 cubic yards of sand on each working day this Summer and this is the first season that she has operated without a single accident. , SIXTH ASTORIA SHIP LAUNCHED Dorothy Roberts Christens Schooner 'Paulina." ASTORIA. Or.. Oct. 20. (Special.) The auxiliary schooner Paulina, sister ship to the May and the sixth vessel constructed at the McEachern ship yards, was successfully launched this afternoon in the presence of a large crowd. Dorothy Roberts, a niece of Manager E. W. Wright, acted as spon sor and christened the craft as she slid into the water. The Paulina will bo towed to the Port of Astoria wharf, where her ma chinery will be installed and her masts stepped before she is turned over to her owners, the Auditor Steamship Company, of New York. Notwithstanding th? continuance of the strike, construction work at the McEachern yard is progressing. Ten more men reported for work this morn ing, making a total of 396 on the payroll. Marine Notes. It is expected that the barge Isaac Reed will be in the river again the latter part of this week to work a cargo of shipbuild ing material for the Rolph. yard at Ku reka. On entrances to the lower level of Oak street dock being closed last night, t here w ill be no additional vessels berthed there. J. S. Pratt, of tho Farr-McCormik line, has planned to handle all future business of the fleet on Couch-street dock. Steamboat men complain that though em ployes of the ' street cleaning department wash debris from Front street onto slips leading to the docks, they do not sweep them clear, in spite of the city controlling street ends. It has been suggested that if nearby hydrants were tested regularly by means of a hose and the slips washed down, it would improve the sanitary con ditions. Though she left up from Astoria Kriday morning, it was not until yesterday after noon that the new auxiliary schooner Remit tent, from Seattle, reamed the dock of the St. Johns Lumber Company, where she will start her cargo, fog being responsible for the delay. It was decidedly t hick in the harbor yesterday morning and all vessels moved under slow be) I. Movements of Vessels. SAN FRANCISCO. Oct. 20. Arrived Steamer Wapama, from Everett. Sailed Steamers Atlas, for Ketchikan; C. A. Smith, for Coos Bay; Celilo, for Portland: Governor, for Puget Sound; Carlos, for Aberdeen. SEATTLE. Oct. 20. Arrived Steamers Lyman Stewart, from San Francisco; Alas ka, from Alaska. Sailed Steamers Queen, for San Francisco; Norwood, for Alaska. PORTLAND. Oct. Arrived Motor WAR IS ABSORBING TOPIC IN TENNESSEE, WRITES DR. CLINE Article Gives Interesting Glimpse Into Life in the South Land Yields $130 an Acre in Cotton, Where Negroes Cultivate Soil "On Shares." BY DR. C. E. CLINE. FRANKLIN, Tenn., Sept. 20. (Spe cial.) The country in Western Kentucky and Tennessee is pro ductive and prosperous. Cotton is the chief money crop, yielding one bale to the acre, which sells for an average of $100 a bale, and i0 for the seed, mak ing $130 an acre The labor is per formed mostly by negroes on the "shears" that is. tho owner of the land furnishes the land, team, feed for the team and seed, the parties sharing equally in the division. It is worthy of note that land own ers, if possible, let their land to the blacks only, and for the reason that they are better workers and more re liable than the "poor white trash." This is also a good country for straw berries, tomatoes, sugar corn and pota toes, both Irish and sweet potatoes, all of which find a ready way to the Chi cago market on the Illinois Central Railroad, which has a line through this country from Chicago to New Orleans. It is also a great country for chick ens, ducks and geese, shipped to mar ket in latticed freight cars, with eight to ten floors in a car. These "chicken cars" may be seen on all the railroads, hundreds of miles from Chicago. Small Dealers Bayers. It is generally supposed that all the cattle and hogs in the upper Mississip pi states are bought up by the big packing companies the Armours, Swifts, Cudahy and others but such is not the case. Countless small deal ers scour the country far and near, buying and shipping to market in car load lots all manner of stock, where it is sold by brokers to anybody that will buy. The big packing companies above attended to taking the stags, lean cows and miscellaneous buck heads, which they convert into "prime canned roast beef." And this reminds me that in Mount Vernon. Southern Illinois, I saw. in a big poultry and butter market, a stack of new barrels which, in answer to an inquiry, I was told were for shipping in quantity rank and stale butter to the great butter centers (Elgin, pre sumably), where it is made into "Gol- fden Rod creamery butter," and which delights the palates of Chicago. On account of the high cost of sugar, the cultivation of imp he. or sorghum cane, is coming to the front, especially in the region south and east of St. Lotus and in Missouri, where agents of syrup manufacturers are contracting for the homemade article. They say sorghum makes a good article of "Log Cabin maple syrup." War Great Theme. The one great theme everywhere is the war and our part in it. At a num ber of places your correspondent has seen men at the stations taking the cars for the training camps. The scene Is invariably a sad one. Mothers, sis ters and other relatives, sobbing as they come into the depots for what may be a last farewell. This morning I saw a beautiful young woman, sister of one of the departing soldiers, car ried away in a deathly faint. One scrub of a fellow within my hearing re marked: "Ail this war. on our part, is needless, and should never have been." My Oregon blood boiled over. "Sir," I said, "you are no part of a man. 16 things like you could ride on one buggy seat!" He quickly whisked himself away, or something might have been doing in muscular Christianity. With all readers of The Oregonian, we have the deepest sympathy with tho WD schooner Remittent, from Seattle. Sailed Steamer F. A. Kilburn. for Kan Francisco. PAX FRANCISCO. ' Oct. 20. Sailed At 1 P. M., steamer Celilo, for Portland. EUREKA, Oct. 20. Sailed At A. M-. steamer Breakwater, for San Francisco, via Coos Bay. SAN PEDRO. Oct. 19. Arrived Steamer Beaver, from Portland. SEATTLE. Oct. 19. Sailed At 6 P. M., steamer La Primera, for Portland. V. S. Naval Radio Reports. TOSEMITE. Port Ludlow for San Fran cisco. 110 miles south of Cape Flattery. NUt'AXI', Martinez for Richmond Beach. 22.i miles from Richmond Beach. PRESIDENT, Seattle for San Francisco. 322 miles north of San Francisco. ATLAS, Richmond for Ketchikan and Ju neau. 2tfn miles north of Richmond. JOHANNA SMITH. In tow of tug Defi ance, San Francisco for Marshfield, 189 miles north of San Francisco. CAPTAIN A. F. Lt'CAS. Latouche for Richmond. MOO miles north of Richmond. KLAMATH. San Francisco for Portland. 45 miles north of Blanco. MULTNOMAH, Sun Francisco for Tacoma, 57 miles north of Cape Blanco. WAPAMA, San Francisco for San Pedro, 10 miles north of Point Sur. HARRIGAN III. San Francisco for Santa Rosalia. 4. miles south of San Francisco. GOVERNOR. San Francisco for Portland, 2 miles south of Point Arena. BREAKWATER, Eureka for San Francis co, 100 miles north of San Francisco. TACOMA. Oct. 20. Arrived Stan wood, from San Francisco ; Alaska, from Alaska; Matsqui, from Vancouver; Gralner, from Victoria: Quadra, from British Columbia. Sailed Steamers Quadra, for British Co lumbia; Matsqui, for Vancouver; Gralner, for Victoria, Tides at Astoria Sunday. High. Low. 4:?.7 A. M 6.4 feet I 9:35 A. M 3.9 feet P. M . . . .8.4 feet ( 1 1 :." P. M . . . .0.4 foot mother who must make her fight alone in the silence of the empty home, with nothing but monotonous household duties to fill her days and with too much time to think the thoughts in which madness lies. Such a mother is as truly a patriot and a hero as any boy gone to the trenches in France. Yes, more so. He can die only once, while she dies a thousand deaths of anxiety and suspense. But war is not wholly a bad thing for our American boys. It is by no means as dangerous as the mother's fancies painted it. In numberless cases the boy who goes forth a weak ling will come back a man. Training Camp Good School. The writer happens to know some thing of what an army camp will do for a youth. In many cases it will save the young man's life who has never done anything harder than push a pen across a sheet of paper, or drive an auto. He will come back from the war broad-chested. big-muscled and hard as a nail, while five years more at the old lick at home woud have fin ished him up. Hard work in the open, sleeping out of doors, plenty of plain, substantial food will drive the angel with the scythe back 50 years for many a "breakfast food boy." This war will turn thousands of sickly little noth ings into husky men. A mother, whose elbow touches mine as I write these lines on a flying train, has three sons now in the training camps and a fourth will go as soon as he reaches his majority. Would to God it could cloud up and rain such mothers. Nor is this all. This war is doing more in a minute to stamp out in temperance than anything that has happened. The mother who sends her boy to the Army may count on receiv ing him back cured of the drink habit, if he ever had it or was acquiring it. No man, as I happen to know, can touch a drop of intoxicating drink with the uniform of the United States on. King Alcohol is deadlier, far deadlier, to American youth than Kaiser Bill can ever be. Discipline Badly Needed. Another good thing this war Is going to do for the boys who go is to give them the discipline mey need. Ameri can parents are too soft notorious ly so. Few of them have the backbone to stand up and fight their self-willed children to a finish. Portland, with every other city, is full of parents who know they can't do a thing with their children, both boys and girls. It is a common thing to hear parents say: "I don't know what is to become of my 14-year-old son. I can't do a thing with him, running out nights, and heaven knows who he is with." The result is, her boy, in due time, becomes a hoodlum and a loafer and. when grown, one of the men who are failures, always changing business because they haven't the grit to stick to anything. Now, the Iron hand of the Army will do for such boys what their parents could not, or rather did not, do The Army takes no heed to their likes or dislikes, their dispositions or tempers. The Army now being organized will teach many a boy, for the first time, the meaning of duty and obedience. Many a man who will make a big success in life after this war will owe it to the discipline he got as a soldier. I wish every mother who reads these suggestions might take comfort, in this time of grief, when their sons are marching away. s is Multnomah County Mills to Furnish Material. 26,000,000 FEET INVOLVED With Resumption of Work In Ship yards Monday, Mill Owners Expect Brisk Call for Material. Contracts for approximately 26.000.- 000 feet of lumber, to be used in the construction, of 20 steam auxiliary schooners tor the French government, have been placed by the Foundation Company of New York, which main tains a yard on the O.-W. K. & N. '"boneyard" property, the mills awarded the business being the Inman-Poulsen Lrumber Company and the N. K. Ayer Lumber Company. It is estimated that each vessel will require 1.300,000 feet of lumber in her construction, and much of that for the tirst one, such as keelson and frame material, is being delivered. Lumber from Inman-Poulsen's mill will be drawn from the mill in the upper har bor, while the Ayer interests have the Iorth Pacific mill. Just north of the Foundation Company's site, and the St. Johns Lumber Company, at St. Johns. uurintf the past five weeks mills have Rained somewhat on the wooden shipbuilding plants because of the strike, but, with the general expecta tion that all will be under operation again tomorrow, there will be a brisk call for material again. Each of the wooden steamers the Government is building requires about 1.700,000 feet of lumber, and as the mills must select that material in preference to all other, it is making a vast difference in the cut. Comparatively little Is left of a log in the way of merchantable lumber when long lengths and dimensions are first cut for shipyard orders. As mill owners agreed on a straight price of $35 a thousand feet for Gov ernment lumber, it is certain material for privately owned ships will not be less and, in fact, it is said recent orders have been on a basis of $37 a thousand feet. Some ships now building for private interests contain lumber that is being delivered, under old contracts for $21. Not only are ships on the river being supplied, but much material, such as is cut by the Ostrander and Hammond mills, is moving to other sections to help builders. The Ostrander interests are shipping to Grays Harbor and Puget Sound, there long lengths being wanted and California is drawing some from the Hammond mill. Pacific Coast Shipping Xotcs. ASTORIA. Or., Oct. 20. (Special.) Today was the most quiet in weeks along; the waterfront, and not a vessel crossed either inio or out or me river. The cannery ship St. Nicholas was shifted today from the foot of Sixth street to the port dock, and the ship Keuce was shifted Irom the port dock to the Sixth-street wharf The steam schooner Ryder Hanlfy en route from San Pedro, ana will load lumber at rortmnd. italiiler ana Oak Point. The steam schooner Santiam that is en route from San Pedro via San Francisco will take a hold cargo of wheat at Portland and a deckloau or lumber at the Hammond mill. The steam schooner Santa Barbara Is due from San Francisco to load lumber at Port land, Prescott, Oak Point and westport. SAX FRANCISCO. Oct. 20. fSp'eclal.) Steamship companies were notified yester day by the Southern Pacific that the com pany will decline to receive all carload lots for trans-Pacific destinations, Including; Honolulu, by way of San Francisco. Of ficials of tho Pacific Mail Steamship Com pany and the Toyo Kiaen Kalsha said the order of the Southern Pacific Company would not Interfere with Oriental ship ments, simply cutting off freight being; sent here from the Hast for which specific bookings had not been made on steamships. For some time freight has been arriving here for which no reservations had been made on ships and the railroad company lost the use of the cars In which the goods had been brought to the Coast. The steam ship companies are handling the freight about as fast as it comes, but tuko- it In the order In which reservations for steam ship space have been made. The salmon season will be closed in a few days with the arrival from Alaska of the Alaska Pakers Association ships Star of Scotland and Star of Russia. Friday night the ship Star of Greenland made port. She brought SS.171 cases of salmon. The voyage irom Loring- took 13 days. SEATTLE Wash., Oct. 20. (Special.) Another navigation school is to be estab lished by the United States Shipping Board on Puget Sound at Belllngham. This new school will open November 4. and already 23 candidates for Federal marine licenses have been enrolled. So far the navigation school at Tacoma has graduated 15 men. and the marine en gineering school at the University of Wash ington 17. Considerable anxiety for the safety of the power schooner Eunice was dissipated today when the Federal Radio Service picked up the little craft off Ketchikan. She had not been heard from since leaving Good News Bay in the Bering Sea. September U7. and fears, due to the prevalence of fierce storms off the Alanka coast, were enter tained for her safety. Charles R. Page, of San Francisco, the new member of the Shipping Board, spent the rlHv todav msDecting the beanie snip yards, but declined to make any statement for publication following his visit. Seattle concerns have been aked to bid for the repairing of the tug Lome, recently raised off San Juan islanu ana soia la mo riwan.i Trnnlt Pacific Steamship Company. She Is to be used In the towage service in British Columbia waters. Columbia River Bar Report. NORTH HEAD. Oct. 20. Condition of the liar at 5 p. M.. smooth; wind, south. 4 miles. World Briefs for Buy Folk. Domestic The Federal Farm Loan Board has approved loans to farmers throughout the country aggregating JS4.063.604. The amount loaned through the Spo kane district is $11,072,395. A group of alleged pacifists, headed by Rev. Floyd Harden, was ejected from a Los Angeles hotel, where the members had attempted to hold what they characterized as a business meet ing. The University of the State of New York has conferred the honorary de gree of doctor of laws upon Jean Jules Jusserand. French Ambassador, an honor which is now held by but two other living men Elihu Hoot and Thomas A. Edison. Dr. K. S. McDonald, of Cameron, Md., was elected president of the American Association of Railway Surgeons, which closed its fourteenth annual con vention at Chicago October 19. The National memorial reunion of the blue and the gray ended at Vicks burg. Miss., with an address by Rep resentative J. W. Collier, of Mississippi. A cable message to war work coun cil of the Y. M. C. A. of the United States from headquarters of the asso ciation in Paris announces the policy of the organization "is to select no man for its service in France who is subject to draft." An ancient Wal-street custom of paying the directors of corporations in $10 and $20 gold pieces for their at tendance at directors' meetings has been abandoned owing to the general plan on the part of the Government to conserve the gold supply for the liberty loan. Paper money is used in stead. The United Etatea food administra L umber BOUGHT tion has created a new milling divi sion for the Pacific Coast, with S. B. McNear as chairman, headquarters San Francisco. Division No. 8 Will hence forth comprise only Washington, Ore gon and Idaho. Fourteen employes of the Tieijen Lang dry docks in Hoboken were taken into custody by agents of the Iepartment of Justice and interned at Ellis Island. Foreign. General Garcia Vigil, leader of the Liberal Constitutional party in the Mexican Chamber of Deputies, declares it is the duty of Mexico to take sides against Germany. , The American Soldiers' and Sailors Club, in Paris, suppc ted largely by the Emergency Aid Association of Pennsylvania, and house of the Amer ican University Union, are now open. The French Chamber of Deputies unanimously voted that the memory of Captain George Guynemer, the famous r rench aviator, be commemorated by , an inscription in the Pantheon. The Central Council of Russian Workmen and Soldiers' Delegates has defeated the Bolsheviki resolution against sending delegates to the com ing allied conference in Paris. Premier Kerensky has left Fetroerad for the fighting front. The health of Bolo Pasha, under ar rest as a German propagandist, has been restored, and he will be trans ferred from the prison infirmary to a cell in the Sante Prison at Paris. The Greek investigation committee's report commits all the members of ex-Premier Lambros' Cabinet to the high court, with the single exception of Professor Helipoulos. who was Min ister of Justice. The accusations are that the Cabinet members attempted to provoke war with the entente al lies and fomented the events of De cember. 1916. The merger of all ma t.h facinrida in Sweden is announced. The new corpo ration will have 400,000 shares at 200 crowns each. The new trust will be the greatest match concern in the world, and has an output of 5.0O.000, 000 boxes of matches annually. Crime. Rev. Lyn G. J. Kelly, who is in jail at Red Oak, la., probably will be put on trial a second time for the Vil lisca ax slayings in 1912 within three weeks. riacing a revolver against the head of K. Lynn Arthur, accountant of the American Seeding Machine Company, at Springfield. O.. a robber secured the Saturday payroll of the company, amounting to H0.5S2. and escaped. Automobile bandits, terrorizing res idents, obtained $31,000 from the Farm ers' State Bank of Alta, Mich. Canadian authorities have arrested on a charge of conspiring to commit murder Charles Desjardin. whom tliev had employed to obtain evidence in connection with the attempt to dyna mite the country home of Ixird Athel stan, owner of the Montreal Star, some weeks ago. A warrant has been issued for the arrest of William H. Horn, cashier of tho First National Bank, Easton Pa who is alleged to be short $39,081 in his accounts. He has not been seen since last Tuesday. A dozen pedestrians on a down town street in Seattle saw three auto bandits slug Andrew Andrewson, a logger, drag him into their car and speed away. Andrewson was thrown from the car in the outskirts of the city after he had been robbed of $800 in gold and currency. Pacific Coast. Charles Ashleigh. who said he was publicity agent for the Industrial Workers of the World during recent troubles at Everett. Wash., has sur rendered to the Federal authorities at San Francisco. Fire almost completely destroved the California Fertilizer Works i'n the South Bay district of San Francisco with a loss of $250,000. Mayor Gill, of Seattle, will ask Judge Hiram E. Hadley. former Chief Justice of the State Supreme Court, to head a commission of eight other members which Judge Hadley will name, to in vestigate social conditions in Seattle and make recommendations for their improvement. DAILY CITY STATISTICS MarriHge I.lornws. FOULK ES-CARN KA U K. V. Koulkes. 28. St. Hfiens avenue, and Agai-r Caneau. 10. 423 South B street. BILLIMiS-LEPPKRE Klbert BillinRB. 21, 42 Kast Seventy-ninth street, and Olive J. Leppere. 21, 100 EaM Taylor street. BROWXLEY-COFFKT J. F. Brownlcv. legal, 204 South Kellogg: street, ana F. V. Cofiey, legal, 202 Fox street. BARNETT-HOCKS Leon K. Barnett. 21. 867 Kant Twelfth street North, and Mamie A. Hocks, 18, 1074 East Eighteenth istreet North. - . SCORCIO-FARTNA Frank Scorcto. 2. 647 Third street, and Maria Carmine Farina, 17, same aUdress. ROSS-JANSOX John T. Rom. leal As toria, or., and Alberta K. Janson, ieal. MELLUS-SORKNSON Thomas Karl Mel ius. 31. 2o4 Failing street, and Father B. yoreneon, 22, 312 Cook avenue. BUNTZEL.-BUNTZHL, louis H. Buntzel. 28, A 1 intra Apartments, and Alta May Buntzt'l. 20, vain a u dress. DOOXEY-KAXXAX Anthony J.. Dooney, 2.".. 511 Atbina avenue, and Vera K. K a una a 20. 6Srt Fast Seventeenth street North N KLSuN-HAIiPE K J oe IX Nelson. 23, Clarkaraua, Or., and Blanche Harper, 21, 704 Fatten avenue. KOLMITZ-DELLAR G. Meyer Kolmitz 24. Seattle. Wah., and Rae Dellar. 21, b74 Northrup street. PJKRCE-PRATT Thomas Pierce, 27 West Timber. Or., and Amelia Pratt, 22, 1508 Kapt Ntnteenth street. BECHELL-KADKLL George H. Bechell, legal, 72 Princeton street, and Inex Kadell legal, 1138 Taggart street. JORUAN-PFTT1GRKW Joseph 11. Jor dan. Jr., 2A. 10i3 Uenver avenue, and Edith Pettigrew, 20. 3W4 Columbia street. SWAIN-DRILL Henry Swain. 28. Yam hill, Or., and Ferris Marie Drill, 23, Y W C. A., city. PLASIL-KLEKAR Albert PIbfII. 35 545 Gicieon street, and Ethel Al. Klekar, 32. "Lti By bee avenue. ZWALD-KOTH John Zwal.l, legal, 6303 Twenty-iifui acenue Southeast, and Elsie Roth, legal, same address. COAKLE Y-GAYNOR MUea Coakley, 27, A merican Lake, and Theresa Gaynor, 3 Franklin Hotel. R1EG-SIMMONS Joseph M. Rleg, legal. 368 Ivy street, and Ida E. Simmons, legal. 546 East Twenty-first street north. Vancouver Marriage Licenses. BRADBURY-RANDALL Dana Eustiee Bradbury, 25, of Portland, and Mrs. Mary May K.tndaU. legal, of Portland. PARltOTT-COL'KTER- Carroll Parrott. 20. of Portland, and Vida D. Courier, u. of Portland. NELSON-KENNEDY AVilHam E. Nelson. 22. of Portland, and Miss Blanche Kennedy. 21. of Portland. SHERBAN-DE YAK Ntckoll Sherban. 32. of Portland, and Miss Mary De Yak. 1W, oi Vancouver, Wash. DAVIS-MYERS Floyd J. Davis, 21. of Estacada. Or., and Ora M Myers, 1 7, of Estacada, Or. K LUP PA - RAN KT N" William F. Kloppa, 22. of Vancouver Barracks, Wash., and Ab bie Rankin, 1 rt, of Portland. STOCKWFLL-SOUTHARD Walter W. Stockwell, 2o, of Portland, and Mildred M. Southard. 1. of Portland. FLOOD-MILLER Leslie H. Flood. legal, of San Francisco, and Louise A. Miller, le fcal, of Bellingham. Wash. 8CHORTGEX - KELLOGG Nichoias A. SchortK-n. 21, of Astoria, Or and Cathryu L. Kellogg. 10. of Wenatchee. Wash. BOLKE-ASPER Ole Bolke. 3W. of Port land, and Mrs. Amy Asper, ;13, of Portland. BLOCK-CHENEY Laurence M. Block, 21, of Portland, and Maud C. Cheney, iut of Pot tland. WILKOUS-COULSON Gus Wllkous, 34. of Port Ip. n d, and Mrs. Eva Coulson. 20, of Portland. PAGE-MARBLE Ernest Page. 24, of Vancouver, Wash., and Hazel May Marble. 20. of Vancouver. Wnsh. REYNOLDS-McCASLIN Albert O. Rev nolda, 28. ot Dunsmulr, and Mrs. Adella E. McCaslin. 2:, of Portland. HOLLEY-DEVER Lloyd Elbert Holley. 21, of Portland, and Anna Elizabeth. Dever. 18, of Portland. Building Permitff. MRS. A. K AH LIN Erect frame parage, 3Sti Forty -sixth street, between Hawthorne and Harrison: East Side Carpenter Shop, builders: 145. RALPH P. BROWNE Erect frame ga rage. 4;Hl4 Ninetieth street, corner Forty third avenue; builder, same: 3'0. NORMAN C. THORNE Erect frame ga rage, 843 Brooklyn, between Twenty-seventh and Twenty-eighth: builder, same; 35. DR. F. A, K1E11LE Repair two-atory Thompson's Dffp-( nre tvryptok LenMeM Are Better Prof 1 roressiona Qualifications are necessary in applying glasses for the relief of eyestrain and all errors of vision. J Inferior and poorly fitted glasses are likely to injure the eyes. J Avoid injury to your eyes by getting glasses only from skilled specialists. 3 Our 26 years' experience in scientific eyesight test ing is at your disposal. SAVE YOUR EYES THOMPSON OPTICAL INSTITUTE Portland!! Oldest mid Largest Kxrliinlvr Optical Place KstnlrllMhcd IDOl 2O0-10-11 Corhett Building Fifth and Morrison frame residence. H3.'i Cumberland road, end of Westover marline; M. W. Lorens, builder: fiooo. OH AS. prUMID Repair two-Ftoi-y brick, ordinary garage, Lnwnsdale and Washington streets ; builder, s;ime; $100. A. J. BUTLER Erect frame garage. 1025 East Twentieth streff North, between Al berta and Wygant: builder, same: $o0. s. s p rr t - ... - irience. 10P.3 East Twenty-third street North, between Alberta and Wygant; builder, same; EMMA O. KLEIN AN Erect one-story fram- chicken house. 10i4 Presr-ott. between East Thirty-seventh and East Thirty-eighth; builder, same: $25U. A. GLEI K Ereot frame garage. 116 East ForTy-eignth street, between Alder and Washington ; builder, same ; $100. T. E. HILLS Rvpair one-story brick or dinary store. HiH Lombari. corner Ports mouth avenue; George si. Palmer, builder; $17.V BROWNING COMPANY Repair two story frame flats. Htt-71 East Twenty-eighth Htreet, between Stark and Oak; George T. Moore, builder; $7.". G. E. WELLER Erect one-story frame garage, 6Sti East Forty-fifth street, between. Siskiyou and Klickitat; builder, same: $100. F. AMATO Repair one-etory frame resi dence. East Eighteenth street, corner Clinton; L. A. Jenkins, builder; $125. Births. COFFEY To Mr. and Mrs. Jay Russell Coffey. ;iJ5 South Sixteenth street, October lo. a son. POWER To Mr. and Mrs. Charles Edward Power. Rivera station, October 10. a daugh ter. JOYCE To Mr. and Mrs. Gilbert Joyce, Carmelita Apartments, October 13, a daugh ter. HURLBI'RT To Mr. and Mrs. Carroll M. Hurlburt, Hood River. Or., October 9. a son. MIETH To Mr. and Mrs. Richard Mieth, SCO East Yamhill. October S. a son. MORGAN To Mr. and Mrs. Peter Mor gan, 3111 Fifty-third street, October 4, a daughter. M I TC HEL L To Mr. and Mrs. Wa Iter Arthur Mitchell, October 2, Pendleton, Or., a daughter. ANDERSON" To Mr. and Mrs. Joseph H. Anderson, Belmont, October 12, a daugh ter. KOYCICH To Mr. and Mrs. Mita Koycich. 1 li"! Bvbee avenue, October 10, a daughter. KEIFEK To Mr. and Mrs. Charles W. Keifer. 453 Fast Sherman, October 15,. a son. BRAUX To Mr. and Mrs. Carl Edwin Braun. 330 Vista avenue. October 11. a son. SANSTRUM To Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence F. Sanstrum. 703 Vaughn, October IS, daughter. ML'RKAT To Mr. and Mrs. James K. Murray. 310 Monroe. October li. a aaughtcr. DAILY METEOROLOGICAL. REPORT. PORTLAND, Or.. Oct. 20. Maximum tern prrature. toS degrees; minimum temperature. 44 degrees. River reading, 8 A. M., Ltt feet; change in last 24 hours. -O.tf foot. Total rainfall i V. M. to A P. M. ), none; to tal rainfall since September 1, 1117, LOT inches; normal rainfall since September 1. 4.13 inches; deficiency of rainfall since Sep tember 1. 1017. 2.1S incht s. Sunrise. 6:30 A. M. ; t,unset. 5:1." P. M. : t--tal sunshine. S houts: possible sunshine, 10 hours 42 min utes. Moon rise, "2:21 P. M. : nioonset, U:1 P. M. liarom'ter Reduced se:i level), r P. M., ;:o.2u Inches. Relative humidity ut noou. US per cent. THE WEATHER. STATIONS. State of weather. 3 I- Raker ........ Boise Boston , Calgary ...... Chicago ...... Lenv r Ues Moines . . . Duluth Eureka ...... lal veston Helena Jacksonville Juneaut Kansas City. .. Los Angeles. .. Marshf leld . . . Medford Minneapolis . . New Orleans... New York North Head . . . North Yakima Phoenix Focatello Port land Roseburg Sacramento . . IPt. cloudy iPt. cloudy Clear 04 O. r.4 ti. 4Mt. rs o. 42.0. 44 U. :is 0. r.s 0. 04 O. 42 0. 7 . 44 1 . "0 o. Jo'o. (. 70 0. :;s o. s o. y o. fit! o. t2 0. sso. r M o . OH 0. S4 'I . S 0. r.s o . iu U . S2 0 . tit) o. 44 0. T4 O. " 0. 54 0 . 4 0. ;4 . f0 41 . ;.4 0. . . NW ::sli2. w omi . . ,nw uo'iti s 'Rain i4! i NW ' (Clear iCloudy ISnow Pt. cloudy i?lear iCloudy ICloudy IRain ICiear Clear Clear iCleir iCloudy 'Clear ICiear Oo'lO'XW HO 24 1 W 4t. . I W 4HI..j 11411 . . W IMUlfi'NE ;iii 4 s O4)l0NW mi . . SW mi . . jNW IM! . . lNW 0;18!NW W. -!NW m,2o;xw 0U . . S on . .1 ::oi 4S 4U 41 ;;o' 42i Ft. cloudv 'Pt. cloudy Clear ICloudy '!Clear ICiear ICiear ooj On; on; jNW ! .!nw no 1 . no . . !S St. Louis I Salt Lake 1 San Diego . . . . ; San Francisco! Seattle j SI l k a I Spokane t Tacoma 1'atoosh Island: Valdext J Walla Walla. . Washington . . ! Winnipeg - - ..i Oti 14 SW on; . . ;nw Pt. cloudy nw ICiear 'ICiear iCloudy i X w ' j"Ioudy iPt. cloudy I Rain jCitar Cloudy idea r 'Clear no . . V 1 2 24 S .00.. ..XE nit . . SE M4i M X 01 ' 4 W tA. M. report. P. M. report of preceding day. WEATHER CONDITIONS. A moderate storm has appeared over Al berta and Saskatchewan and the pressure In comparatively low over Southern California and Arizona. Over the remainder of the country the pressure is above normal. The weather is warmer in California, especially along the Coast from San Francisco south ward : over the northern portion of the I'acific Slope the temperature c.iangeci have been slight. Over the Bap tern states tem peratures are about tbe same as yesterday, with the exception of the A tin n tic Coast stations, where a drop of from S to 20 de grees is noted. Rain has fallen In the- Mid dle Mississippi Valley and rain and snow In the Upper M:s'sslppi and Missouri valleys' and Vpper I-ake region. Light ruin was also reported In e trenie Northwestern Washing- I ton. FORECAST?. Portland nnd vicinity Fiir : moderate easteny winds. Oregon Fuir; moderate southwesterly wind. Washington Cloudy; probably rain alon? Lie Coast ; stroiig southerly winds. Idaho Clou ay. A. If. THIESSEN. Meteorologist.