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16 THE SUNDAY OREGOXIA PORTLAND, NOVEMBER 23, 1910. E Double Murder at Tavern Prompts Quick Action. LEGION POSTS TO HELP Amendment to State Constitution Ordered Drawn for Submission at General Election. Utah. Officials of the Oregon Hu mane society have called attention to the fate of deer, elk and other Rocky mountain game with the ad vance of a severe winte-. "With the report that game animals are dying from hunger and cold, the local offi cials have appealed to the heads of the Benevolent Protective Order of Elks to start a movement within their organization to relieve the situation. Restoration of capital punishment In Oregon as the penalty for persons convicted of first-degree murder will be provided for in an amendment to the state constitution being drawn by City Attorney LaKoche upon In struction from Mayor Baker. Docu ments necessary for the circulation of petitions for the submission of the act to the voters at the next general election by the initiative will also be prepared and the work of obtaining necessary signatures to the petitions will begin immediately. The decision of Mayor Baker to start the ball rolling toward restor ing the extreme penalty for convicted murderers followed the killing of Newton Burgess, state highway com missioner, and George Perringer, both of Pendleton, by bandits, who robbed Claremont tavern late Friday night. Need for Penalty Shown. 'This is no time for sympathy for the vicious element," said Mayor Ba ker. "The plain statement by Mur derer Johnson that he would not have committed the atrocious crime for which he was convicted had capital punishment been in vogue in this state should be enough to convince any right-thinking person that the lack of such a penalty is dangerous to .society. "The outrage of Armistice day at Centralia is another reason for the immediate resoration of captial pun ishment in Oregon. Had such a crime occurred in this state, the best that could have been done with the guilty would have been to send them to prison for life, with the opportunity of obtaining a pardon after a few years of the sentence had rolled by, Tavern Murder Is Climax. "The terri ble, cold-blooded murder of two representative men - of our state at Claremont tavern Friday night caps the climax. Someone must begin the work of preparing the amendment to the state constitution which will provide the opportunity of imposing adequate punishment to per sons who place no value on human life.' The mayor will send petitions to the American Legion posts throughout the state and to all other clubs and or ganizations which he believes will support him in the plan of obtaining sufficient signers to place the act on the ballot. - Many Namei Necessary. The act cannot be voted on by the people until the next general election, which will be held in November, 1920. The initiative law provides that to submit a measure to the voters by the initiative it is necessary to obtain the signatures of 8 per cent of the leg voters of the tstate. The petitions and the act must be submitted to the sec retary of state not less than four months prior to the date of the gen eral election. The death penalty for convicted murderers in the state of Oregon was removed by a vote of the people on November 3, 1914. The success of the abolishment act was by a narrow margin of but 157 votes. The cam paign in favor of the removal of the death penalty was carried on by league known as the Anti-Capital Punishment league. Former Governor Oswald West was one of the prime movers in this league and gave much aid to the campaign to remove the death penalty. SPIRITS LOOSE TONIGHT Medium Will Give Demonstration at Auditorium. . Ghosts will hold sway in the munic ipal auditorium tonight when Dr. C. M. Eddy, a medium, will conduct a series of spiritualistic demonstrations. Unlike other mediums, he gives all of his experiments upon a brilliantly lighted stage and a committee sits there with him during all of his tests. For this reason the manifestations are said to be extremely bewildering. Some of the phenomena Dr. Eddy will exhibit tonight will include slate writing and supernatural visions. Questions written and retained by the interrogators will receive full and telligent answers. The medium is understood to be past master of the art of floating ables and chairs, but his most in- eresting manifestation is said to be the materialization and dematerializa- ion of forms which he has brought to such a point that even faces can e detected, he maintains. CHAUTAUQUA IS SUCCESS ITVE-DAY SESSION" AT PHILO MATH COXCITTDED. Convention of Oregon. Association of Independent Colleges to Be Held "ov. 2 7 and 2 8. PHILOMATH Or., Nov. 22. (Spe rial.) The annual Chautauqua Philomath closed a successful five day session Wednesday night. The meetings were held in the college chapel. All expenses were paid an nearly $30 left for next year's Chau tauqua, contracts for which hav been signed by SO representative bus ness men and women of the com munity. Philomath college is well lined u with the inter-church world move nent and also with a similar move meat in the United Brethren churc Joel Berreman of Philomath was chosen Thursday to represent th college in the- student volunteer con vention to be held in Des Marines, la,, the first of the year. The Oregon Association of Inde pendent Colleges will be in sessio here November 27 and 2S, to consider questions of interest, and especially how to bring the claims of these co leges more clearly before the peo pie of Oregon. Reed college, McMinn vi He college. Pacific college, Pacifi university, Willamette university Albany college, the Eugene Bible university and Philomath college will be represented. WAR SAVINGS PLAN . APPEALS TO MAN! Elks Rush Campaign for Sale . of Certificates. S. BENSON TAKES $10,000 Seid Back Gets Honors for Second Largest Subscription Others Are Buying Limit. Results of the campaign toeing staged in Oregon for the sale of war savings certificates are already shown in the report made by the sales agen- Supply company. S. M. Hears and Pas- mus Pearson. 1 Limit subscriptions rr:ade d- 'ng the past week in the state outside of Portland are as follows: Charles W. Pelkey, Molalla: A. L. Perkins, Gar diner; C. E. Ricker. Gardiner; John Phelan, Cochran; Mary F. Riddle, Riddle; W. H. A. Williams, Roseburg; Hans Jorgensen, Klamath Falls; J. W. Siemens, Klamath Falls; R. E. Morris, Coburg; A. Von Readen, On tario; Cora Von Readon, Ontario; L. Barmner. The Dalles; F. L. Barnett!, Wasco, and S. A. French. The Dalles. Portland Elks In Charve. The committee In charge of the campaign in Multnomah county, -composed of members of Portland lodge No. 142, B. P. O. Elks, and headed by G. W. Streicher, chairman, has sent letters to every member cf the ant- lered herd in this city calling for subscriptions in war savings certifi cates. In addition to the letter to all members of the order the committee also is preparing to mail letters to 40,000 citizens of Portland who will be urged to aid the Elks in putting the war savings campaign across. The committee handling the work in Multnomah munty is composed of the following Elks: G. W. Streicher, chairman; Dr. A. K. Downs. J. E. Dunn, G. W. Stearns, 3. T. Keenan, Stanhope Pier. William J. McGinn, A. B. Fox, G. E. Sanderson, E. L. Kronp. SCHOOL REUNION PUNNED OLD-TIME SCHOLARS TO GATH ER AT CIJXTOS KELLY. November 25 . Is Date Basket Lunches Requested Pioneer Teacher to Be Honored. HAPPY INCIDENTS OF SCHOOL DAYS OF PIONEERS TO BE REVIEWED AT REUNION. y "i ... tttTv MEMBERS OF PORTLAND PIONEER FAMILIES SHOWJ OS YARD OF PORTLAND SCHOOL SO, 2. DR. J. K. HART AT TACOMA Reed ProTesssor to Change War Camp Community Service. TACOMA. Wash.. Nov. 22. (Spe cial.) Dr. Joseph K. Hart, on leave of absence from the faculty of Reed college, is in Tacoma developing- a plan to shift war camp community service to community service. Dr. Hart and the workers who have given heir time to War Camp Community Service will develop a programme of activity. He was sent here by na tional headquarters of the organization. As manv thousands of men were near Tacoma during the war, it be came one of the foremost cities in the United States in War Camp Commu nity Service work. A strong organ ization was built up and this is still serving the city., It is to bring this machinery into use Tor an indetinite period that the programme is being mapped out. cies throughout the state to Harry G. Allen, president of the Oregon State Elks association and associate direc tor of the war loan organization of Oregon. 4 The largest subscription made in the state came in last week when Simon Benson, state highway commissioner, purchased $10,000 of war savings cer tificates through the Tank of Cali fornia. Mr. Benson purchased the securities for himself, family and rel atives and has set a pace which will be difficult to duplicate. Second honors for large subscrip tions in the campaign go to Seid G. Back, attorney for the Seid Back ca sta te and manager of the firm of Wing, Ling Long- Kee & Co. Mr. Back purchased the limit of $1000 ma turity value of the securities for the firm of which he is the head and an other $1000 for the estate he repre sents. 'l am grateful for this opportunity to further do our bit," wrote Mr. Back with his pledge card, "a,nd trust that our great state of Oregon will not fall down in meeting the quota that has heen assigned to her. Others Take Limit. Other limit members reported to headquarters last week Include the following: George L. Greenfield, 719 East Nineteentu street North; Mrs. Dora Poulsen, J. Poulsen, Louise Poul een, John C. Ross, K. C. Johnson, Lake D. Wolfard, H. B. Davis, Kath- nf- nr- wm-rr-n ir A oirn I erine Ainswortn, J una. s. uraer. &. Ubt Ur W A I LR lO HorVCU Benjamin Fisher, J. Durkheimer, West Oregon Lumber company; Walter to Trrisrnt tsurgess .Warren. t. K. Klauvelt, D. Vrom Gittinirs Creek. I heimer. O. C. Pierce, Portland Marine EUGENE, Or., Nov. 22. (Special.) For the purpose of irrigating his I ItiO-acre farm near Saginaw, Lane I countv. C. Henry Haight has filed I with the county clerk application fori the appropriation of two cubic f eet 1 per second of the waters of Gittings 1 creek, which runs through his place. He states In his application that I he will have two main ditches, one of I them to be a mile and a quarter long 1 and the other to be three-quarters of a mile long, with a number of laterals. he project is to be called the I Haight irrigation system, according to the application. E. B. Allen, W. E. McCann, J. W. Baker, G. W. Thatcher and M. R. Klepper. Members of pioneer families of Portland, who attended the old No. 2 school of Portland, will have op portunity of recalling the many inci dents of school days, when a reunion in honor of the surviving members of the teaching force of the school will be held in the Clinton Kelly school Tuesday, November 25. Staid business men of the city will recall the' pranks they played as youngsters when they attended this school, and it is expected that the re union will be one of the most unique gatherings ever staged in Portland. Number 2 school was the second built in Portland, and stood on the sisrht of the present Clinton Kelly school. In the early days of Portland the school building was pointed out ! as one of the best equipped educa tional edifices of the city. About a dozen years ago the building burned to the ground, and a larger and more adequate school building was erected in its stead. The reunion Tuesday will begin at 5 o'clock and continue until about 11 P. M. The committee in charge re quests those planning to attend to bring basket, lunches in memory of the days when the pupils carried their lunches to the school building. The affair is being staged in the special honor of J. C. McGrew, Port land pioneer, ' one of the- best be loved of the early teachers of the school. For many years Mr. McGrew was in the real estate business, but for the past few years has been retired. LITERARY BODY INSTALLS Eulaxian Society of University Has 'ew Ofricers. UNIVERSITY OF OREGON, Euerene, Nov. 22. (Special.) Eutaxian Liter ary society, the oldest student organi zation on the campus, installed ol ficers at its latest meeting as follows: President, Luceil Morrow, Portland; vice-president. Irva Smith, Walter- ville; secretary, Mae Ballack, Albany; treasurer, Grace Knopp, .gene. New members were elected as fol lows: Irene Whitfield, Laura Rand, Ruth Griffin, all of Portland; Alice Hamm, Mary Turner. Margaret Fell and Marie Ridings, all of Eugene, and Mary Mathes, Ashland. Mrs. G. R. Stephenson or Portland, graduate of the university in the class of 1896 and mother of Elizabeth Stephenson, now a. student, spoke at the meeting of the early days of the organization, when, with the Laurean society, the corresponding men s or ganization, it had general charge of forensics on the campus. KELSO DETOUR SURVEYED Road to Be Built Over Hill to Avoid Washout. ' KELSO, Wash.. Nov. 22. (Special.) Fred C. Cramer, county engineer, has completed the survey of a detour road over the hill at the Hagle place on the west-side Kelso-Castle Rock road which was blocked by a wash out into the river. The county com missioners were prevented by the United States engineers at Portland from building jetties to protect this portion of the road and as a result it washed out and was closed. Not having the money available to build the detour caused inconvenience to persons living In that section. As an emergency the commissioners will issue warrants on next year's funds to build the half mile of detour road made necessary by the washout. Working Men One best store for g Shoes, Clothing, g Dry Goods, Hardware, Auto Goods Cottage Grove Gets Dairy Herd COTTAGE GROVE. Or.. Nov. 22. (Special.) Cottage Grove producers, who have in recent years brought this section to the fore as a producer of chickens and hogs, are now also turn ing their attention to dairy herds, with equal success. J. L Jones is the most recent to start a registered Jer sey herd, having bought the entire Redford herd of 12 registered cows and a registered bull, moving them here from Drain. Duke Knox recent ly shipped in a fine herd of Holsteins. 5c, 10c, 15c Goods (Open Evenings) WOOSTER'S 488-494 Washington St. Take car home from Wooster's. i lF I CAN KISS A W0MAN-I CAM WIN HER Moose Smoker Is Wednesday. On Wednesday night the Moose herd will gather at the Moose temple. Fourth and Taylor streets, for a smoker. There will be sports, ex hibition of skill and music by the famous Moose band. "Pap" Leslie R. Mutch, Vancouver lodge, L. O. O. M will deliver an address on the sub ject. "Determining the Qualifications of the Man Seeking a Job: or How j to Size Up Men." visiting Moose are irrvited. EXPRESS RATE AMAZES Southern Division. Charges More Than Others of Same Concern. HOOD RIVER. Or., Nov. 22. (Spe cial.) Local fruit growers who have relatives in cities and towns of south eastern states served exclusively by the southern division of the American Kail way Express company are at a loss to understand why the southern division of the carrier concern is per mitted to make a charge of nearly twice as much on fruit shipments as other divisions of the amalgamated express company. While a fruit rate, permitting the shipment of a 50-pound box of apples for 2.24, exclusive of war tax. has fcen adopted by all other divisions. the points of southern states served exclusively by the division formerly the old Southern Express company carry a rate oi 9.lu lor the sara package. Elk and Deer Die. 'Elk are piled all along the rail road track." In a letter written from Denver, a traveler from Portland, writing to the heads of the Oregon Humane society, vividly describes tne tragedy that has befallen the deni zens of the wilds with the coming of early and heavy snowfall in the mountains of Montana, Wyoming and 8 TcHs How to Sfop a g Bad Cough . if) 1 V i Snnrtn rrmiU from thU tanwui 5 V old bomf-mido jrvp. Eali ' If y.ou have a severe cough or chest cold accompanied with soreness. throat tickle, hoarseness, or difficult breathing, or if your child wakes up during the night with croup and you want quick help, try this reliable old home-made cough remedy. Any drug gist can supply you with 23 ounces of Pinex. Pour this into a pint bottle and fill the bottle with plain granu lated sugar syrup. Or you can use clarified molasses, honey, or corn syrup, instead of sugar syrup, if de sired. This recipe makes a pint of really remarkable cough remedy. It tastes good, and in spite of its low cost. 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