THE SUNDAY OREGOXIAX ' PORTLAND, FEBRUARY '8," t920
WALTER M. SEWARD
of the college. He has done post
graduate work in horticulture and for
the last four years has been at the
Idaho Technical institute, where he
held the position of director of agri
culture. D. L, Jamison, another 1915
graduate, has -taken up his duties as
county agent in Deschutes county.
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COUNTY FIXES WAGE RATE
Hotel Proprietor Plunges From
I. B. Doggett of Mt. Hood Secured
Six-Story Building.
as Assistant Roadmastet.
HOOD RIVER, Or., Feb. 7.-MSD6
cial.) The, Hood River county court
has established rates to be paid fo
labor engaged on .roacf work .here thi
Remember the cold spell
LONG ILLNESS HELD CAUSE
last December? - v .f
year. The following wages will be
paid: Laborers, 14.50; foremen. 15.50
team and driver, 11.25 per hour; truck
drivers, 65 cents per hour, and truck
Many customers were out
of fuel.
foremen; 70 cents per hour. The court
nas appointed J. B. Doggett, of Mount
Nnrc Males Valiant Effort to Save
They flocked in to order
Hood, as assistant roadmaster. He
Patient, but Fatal Vive Is Made
.'.Leaving Bathrobe in Hands.
will draw J6 per day.
some at the last minute,
The county has entered a contract
with Charles Pflughaupt, a Summitt
Which completely
swamped us.
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COMMITS
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In an evident moment of mental
aberration, due to illness from which
he had been suffering for several
years, . Walter M. Seward, proprietor
of the Seward hotel. Tenth and Alder
streets, committed suicide yesterday
morning; at 7:50 by throwing: himself
from the sixth story parapet of the
hotel building: to the roof of Klumpp's
stationery store, four stories below.
Death was Instantaneous, according
to report of coroner Smith, who was
called to the scene. The man suf
fered a fracture of the right leg, in
ternal injuries and a possible broken
neck as a result of the dive.
Mrs. Seward, wife of the hotel pro
prietor, was in an adjoining room of
the suite, on the sixth floor of the
hotel, when Mr. Seward took ad
vantage of the absence of the two
nurses, locking the two doors to his
room and crawling out on the parapet.
made the fatal dive.
Nurse Tries to Save Life
One of the nurses. Miss Ellen F.
Berglund. returned to discover the
man preparing for the leap. Sh
climbed out upon the parapet through
the window of another room and
seized his bath robe in the effort to
hold him back. He jumped, however,
jerking the robe from his body as he
fell.
Mr. Seward is believed to have made
another attempt to end his life sev
eral days ago. At that time he is
said to have climbed out on the fire
escape when his wife saw him and
called. At the sound of her voiae he
returned to the apartment.'-,
Mr. Seward had been suffering from
a nervous ailment for the last three
or four years. His illness was char
acterized by Intense headaches and
there were apparently times when he
was not entirely himself. His illness
compelled him to give up the active
supervision of the hotel about a year
ago. Less than a year ago he visited
a specialist at Rochester, Minn., who
failed to find any organic trouble to
account for his ill health. Arrange
ments had been made to take Mr.
Seward to a sanitarium for treatment
yesterday morning.
No Inquest Held,
Coroner Smith announced, following
his investigation, that no inquest
would be held, as the case was clearly
one of 'suicide. He turned the body
over to the establishment of J. V.
Finley &. Son.
Mr. Seward, who was 60 years of
age, was born in Vancouver, Wash.
He had been a resident of Portland for
the past 20 years and proprietor of
the Seward hotel since 1909, the hotel
building having been erected for him
at that time. Previous to entering
the hotel business he was in the real
estate business for some time. The
Seward hotel, for which he was espe
cially known, was opened for business
July 17, 1909, and he was actively
Identified in its supervision until a
year ago.
Besides his wife Mr. Seward is sur
vived by three brothers, Herbert Se
ward, of Portland, and George and
Loren Seward, of Vancouver, Wash.
There is also a sister, Mrs. Fannie
Bracht, of Vancouver, Wash.
Funeral services will be held Mon
day afternoon at 3:30 at the Finley
chapel. Services following will be at
Uie Portland crematorium. ,
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sky jlrlAiXY If ' low upstairs rent V ni,!:;;iT v!-;ii
X IV lfV7P' I CASH SELLING i'lilP1 ' I'ljii.
Ul 1 aB' economy in large buying fpfj&'l y'i;:'';j'!i
HSImV : L0W PERCENTAGE OF PROFIT Ijlfeliijlijjjii
fplS ENTIRE SECOND FLOOR OF
mtiBSBKk SIXTH AND 3
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W. M. Seward, who leaped
his death yesterday.
rancher, who agrees to operate a
county rock crusher at Odell, furnish
ing the county with crushed rock, up
to 1000 yards, at J1.65 per yard.
MANY APPLES IN STORAGE
Stock at Hood River Remaining
Unshipped About 3 75 Carloads.
HOOD RIVER. Or.. Feb. 7. (Spe
cial.) While all fruit was shipped
from here last year by this date, with
the exception of stocks held In stor
age for purchasers, the stocks re
maining unshipped this season reach
approximately 375 carloads. With the
exception of about 60 cars of Spitzen-
bergs and off varieties, ail unshipped
stocks of N'ewtowns. All the remain
ing stocks, with the exception of 25
cars, are held by the Apple Growers'
association.
Marketing conditions are uncertain.
Shippers are unable to predict how
the wind-up of the market is going
to be.
The Dalles Y. . C. A. Planned.
THE DALLES. Or., Feb. 7. (Spe
cial.) At a meeting Thursday after
noon in the Hotel Dalles, officers and
committee chairmen were appointed
from the provisional committee as
sembled with Mrs. Charles Hasey,
W. C. A. organizer, to promote a
Y. W. C. A. in this city. The appoint
ments made by Mrs. L. W. Curtis.
chairman of the provisional commit
tee, were: Mrs. E. M. Williams, chair
man of finance; Miss Elizabeth Hall,
chairman of headquarters: Mrs.
Joseph Stadelman, chairman of pub
licity; Miss Prudence Patterson.
chairman of membership; Mrs. A. E.
Crosby, treasurer, and Mrs. W. O.
Hadley, secretary.
We had warned them
throug-h the newspapers" all
last summer. .
But they forgot the ad
vice.
Now, Listen!
The same thing is groins;
to happen with the uasco
b urnace.
It has taken Portland by
storm.
It will be physically im
possible to wait on every
body m one month.
Therefore we urged you
to place your order now, be:
fore the price advances, so"
we may wait on you at our
option. -
Many have heeded our
advice.
Many will come in when
we will have to say No.
In order to give them an
other chance we will con
tinue the special sale one
more week.
But after that
The basic price will be
$350 instead of $325.
Don't procrastinate
Call tomorrow; and place
your order. '
Portland Gas & Coke Co.
Alder Near 'Fifth.
GRESHAM WILL BE HOST
FARMERS' WEEK' PROGRAMME
OPENS TOMORROW.
Notable Authorities of Northwest
on Agriculture Scheduled
to Make Addresses.
GRESHAM, Or., Feb. 7. (Special.)
Farmers' week will open at Gresh-
am Monday with all indication point
ing to a record attendance. The Mult
nomah County Farm bureau, with the
co-operation of the Business Men's
club of Gresham. has arranged a pro
gramme of the foremost authorities
in .the . northwest on rural develop
ment. Notable among the speakers
is Dr. J. W. Kerr, president of Oregon
Agricultural college, who will be the
principal speaker at the home prod
ucts luncheon at the Masonic hall on
Saturday. Dr. Kerr's subject is "De
velopment of Agricultural Education
in Oregon." Local agricultural edu
cation will be discussed by Judge G.
W. Stapleton, chairman of the board
of directors of the Union high school.
H. A. Lewis, president of the Multno
mah County Farm bureau and of the
county fair -board, will teU "What
Fairs Mean to Agricultural Develop
ment.
Paul V. Maris, state leader of coun
ty agents, is announced to speak on
"The Handwriting on the Wall"; and
D. E. Towlt, manager of the Co-opera-tive
Berry Growers' association, will
outline the future of the small fruit
industry in Multnomah county.
The meetings will be held in Gresh
am Grange hall, with the exception
of the banquet, and addresses at the
Masonic hall Saturday.
BOND ISSUE SUBMITTED
Landowners to Vote on $100,000
tor Completion of Dam Project,
PRIXEVILLE. Or., Feb. 7. (Spe
cial.) At a meeting this week of the
board of directors of the Ochoco irri
gation district, a final bond issue for
$100,000 for completion of the project
was ordered submitted to the vote of
land owners in the district at a spe
cial election March C.
The amount, which is an increase
of more than one-fourth the original
estimates, will make a total of $1,
350.000, against the lands of the dis
trict and will be used for the comple
tion of the Ochoco dam, the sixth
largest earth-fill dam in the world,
construction of various structures on
the distribution system, completion of
the htghline pumping plant and erec
tion of a permanent warehouse and
office building for the district.
R. E. Miller GeU Appointment.
OREGOS AGRICULTURAL COL
LEGE. Corvallis. Feb. 7. -(Special.)
Roy E. Miller, graduate of the Ore
gon Agricultural college in 1915, has
been appointed- county agent of Jo -phine
county b- t" ' '
Grangers Ignore New Parly.
COTTAGE GROVE, Or., Feb. 7.
(.Special.) None of the grangers and
farmers of this section are aligning
themselves with the recently organ
ized land and labor party. Members
of the grange have been emphatic in
denying that the grange will have
anything to do with the new party.
Grangers from here took airominent
part in the action of the Pomona
grange when resolutions were adopt
ed stoutly maintaining that the
grange was opposed to political alli
ance of any kind as against the very
principles upon which the grange was
founded. .
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cial.) Pete Chochos, Angeles Kapos,
Gus Karamas, Frank Chounpokos,
Pete Papps and Jack Joumaros were
yesterday arrested by the sheriffs of
fice on a gambling charge. Fifty dol
lars bail - each was required of the
men by Justice Westover, who will
later hear their cases.
Beach Highway Bids Galled For.
KELSO. Wash.. Feb. 7. (Special.)
The state highway board is calling
for bids for the grading and surfac
ing of 1.5 miles of the Ocean Beach
highway northwesterly from Shamo-
kawa in Wahkiakum county. These
bids will be opened March 1. En
gineer Charles Signer made the sur
vey of tho Ocean Beach highway
route in Wahkiakum cojnty early
this winter and his crew is now work
ing on the survey of the route be
tween Stella and Mount Solo. This is
the first project on the Kelso-to-the
sea portion of the Ocean Beach high
way on which the state has called
for bids.
Student Contracts Smallpox.
HOOD RIVER, Or., Feb. 7. (Spe
cial.) A student of the Parkdale high
school has contracted smallpox, ex
posing all the students of the insti
tution, it was said here today. Health
Officer Abraham has instructed the
school board that all students should
be vaccinated or the school closed.
The maximum number of influenza
cases that have developed here at any
one time has been 15. The disease
locally is light, and no deaths have
occurred.
Banker Fechter Favors Butler.
YAKIMA, Wash.; Feb. 7. (Special.)
Dr. Nicholas Murray Butler, presi
dent of Columbia university, was sup
ported as a candidate for president in
a statement last nignt by o. E. Fech
ter, president of the Yakima Valley
bank of this city and prominent in
political affairs of the state. Mr.
Fechter declared the time had come to
elect as president a business man,
rather than a politician.
Suspected Robbers In Custody.
CHEHALIS.- Wash., Feb. 7. (SDe-
cial.)--Castle Rock officials came
yesterday and -took home with them
Ralph Howard and Ed Jackson, who
were arrested here. They are sus
pected of being implicated in a Castle
Rock robbery that occurred Wednes
day evening.
Starkweather Addresses Students.
OREGON STATE NORMAL SCHOOL.
Monmouth, Or., Feb. 7. (Special.)
H. G. Starkweather of Portland, a
regent of the Oregon Normal school,
addressed the student body at assem
bly on Friday. His address was full
of interest.
Alleged Gamblers Arrested.
"HAT.IR. Wash., Feb. 7. (Spc-
CARDS OF THANKS.
We desire to express our heartfelt
thanks to our many friends for the
words of sympathy and acts or kind
ness during the sickness, death and
burial of our son, George K. Stewart.
We thank the snerwooa loage. i. u. u.
F. and the American Legion. Argonne
camp, for officiating at tne grave; also
are we aeepiy appreciative ior me
manv -LI oral tributes.
MR. AND MRS. FRANK STEWART
AND FAMILY. Adv.
We wish to express our gratitude to I
our many friends for tneir kindness I
and help during the bereavement and!
loss or our oeiovea wire ana motner;
also for the beautiful floral offerings. I
N. Li. ML':L.LiJK.
GERTRUDE WTNKLEBLECK,
ALBf.KT 1. MUI.1,1
SUSIE DAY,
ARTHUR M. MUELLER.
Adv. . .
We wish to express our thanks to I
our, many friends for all their kind-I
ness and help during the sad be
reavement and loss of our dear, be
loved mother; also for the many beau
tiful floral offerings. John. Ed.. Amos I
H., Andy, Cliff and Mrs. Ida De Lancey I
and Mrs. .uouy ivi. rucnaruson. aqv.
I wish to express my heartfelt I
thanks to all the relatives, friends and
fraternal orders for their assistance,
sympathy and beairtiful floral offer
ings during the illness and death of
my oeiovea wue.
Adv. j G. E. WATTS.
Wife, daughter, brothers and sis-1
ters of Hamilton Boyd Johnson wish I
to extend their gratitude to their I
relatives and friends for their ex-1
pressions of sympathy during their I
recent uereavenienuAuv.
I wish to thank the many friends
for their kindness during my hus-
band's illness and for the flowers!
contributed.
MRS. BESSIE McCOLLUM
Adv. AND FAMILY.
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