i a 1' the Presidents card CHILDREN. UNDER THEIR HOLDING FOURTEEN WORK THE OttEGON DAILY JOiniNAL, rOliTLAyP TnTOSDAY EVENING JUNE 25 1003. LOCATIONS AND It Is Claimed -Youths Under. 14 Years, of Age Axt Working for Their Parents and : ; Not fof the Corporation " The Oregon statute which positively ceaiares usat "no child under 14 yaara of NT shall be employed la any factory, tor, workshop, la or about any mine, or la the telegraph, telephone or publio BMiiiin serrlce," la tolas; openly vio lated, at leaat la spirit, by Taral eon ooraa of Portland, many children who feaa not yet km tbalr 14th birthday aotag workad at exactly the sane oocvl patloaa girea parson of mature years .aaa fully developed bodies. Bat the letter of th lair. It la claimed. la belar complied with, for tbtaa ohild ra do aot directly oator tbo employ of the eoaipaalaa aad ara aot numbered apoa tha payrolls. Tb par seta of tbtaa little eaaa hire oat to the Corporations aad tb ehlldraa work With them with out themaelvss receiving- ram una rati oa. The eompanlaa ara glvaa tha fall bana na of child labor aad tbo paroata fat tha moaey tbalr ehlldraa a ara, bat at tha aama tlma tha ahlldraa ara working for tbalr father and mothers, aad ara aot aatployad la tha factories , where tbty work. Whether th la point 1 covered" by Section 8, of tha Oregon Child Labor Law. 1 a problem that the Child Labor Commission may be called upon to soiva. This section governs the sanction of parents or guardians to the unlawful .; employment of children, and reads: It "Any. parent or guardian, who ahall I - permit a. child to be employed In vlola- . I tlon of the provisions of this act shall, I upon conviction, be fined not less than I jSJf nor more than $26." f f 1 Complaints Are Mad. Labor unions and individuals kept doing; the work which otherwise would be theirs, have complained of this con ditlon, chareIns; that no effort was being made to observe the law. This statement Is dented by S. E. Hoi comb, local- manager for the Oregon Packing Company, one of the concerns against which complaints have been made. At the present time the Oregon Packing Company, in Its cleaning and tanning factory at East Seventh and Belmont streets, is working a force of between 200 and 300 packers, fully half of whom are under 21 years of age. That many of them have not entered their 14th year la attested by their email sice and extremely youthful ap pearance. However, no one appears on the payroll of the company who 1s under 14 years of age. "We do not employ children under 14 years of age," said 8. E. Holcomb. rest dent manager of the company,' 'and when youngsters appear and ask for Work we always explain the law to them before we assign them to work. If they are under 14 we reject them. But we eannot keep parents from bringing their children here' with them, and it la not .our business , If they allow those children to help them in their work. Turn Ho Oaa Away. "Any statement made that we turn women away front our factory that we may- employ children is absolutely j without truth. We would rather have' grown persona In our factory. - Any on ought to understand that mature labor t more advantageous. Children waata much of their time In play and eat a great ,dea! more of ' the fruit .than do aduita. - ' Tuesday we discharged a consider able number of youtha above .14. yeara who have been in our employ because we could get grown persona 'to do the work." Mr. .Holcomb then explained how It came that children under J 4 years of age were working in the factory., . "Grown people come here and ask for work and we give It to them". he aald. "We issue them carda and pay them at the rata of H-cent a pound for all the cherrlea they clean and pack. Thla amount la registered on the carda and on pay day we pay the person .for the amount of work which shows on the card. ' - -- - Mothers Ar Beepoaalbl. 'Now, If a mother cornea to ua and obtalna employment and we give her. a card, we pay her for the amount of work that Is shown uoon that card aa having been done. - If ahe haa several children assisting her with r the work. that Is her business and not oura. We dd not recognise those children and 'do not know that they are . working. The raaulta of their labor. If there are any results, come to ua only as shown by the mother's card, and we eannot ques tion that ahe' did the work' herself when she personally turna It In." Several children ranging In age from 9 to 13 yeara were found In the factory. although not one-tenth of the employee re'Bpoken with. All said they were working on their mothers' carda. Johnny May, aged 11, who resides at 431 Belmont street, aald he .had been working in the factory for three weeks, but th,at he was not hired. i wora on my motners eara," ne aald, "but I make money. Tea, there are lota of other little, boya and girl a working here, but they don't work for the company. They work for their own folks. Others made similar replies. Commission Will Aot. Dr. Stephen S. Wise, member of the Child Labor Commission, made the fol lowing statement this morning. "The Child Labor Commission Is hardly yet in-full working order, and has been organized but a ahort time. The chairman, Mr. Kundret, haa pre pared notices containing the provisions or the law, and these are ahortly to be posted in factories, stores and other places where children are likely to be employed. The commission Is glad at ny time to have Ita attention called to violations of the law and will take the proper atepa to sap that, the statutes are observed." - The Child Labor Commission, ap pointed by Governor Chamberlain for the enforcement of the child labor law en acted at the last session of the Legls lature, is made up of H. O. Kundret, Dr. B. a. Wise. Mrs. B. H. Trumbull, 11 of Portland; Mrs. Sarah Evans of Oswego and Mr. Belle Wright of Union. PRETTY YOUNG GIRL SHORN OF TRESSES Mysterious Stranger Cut Off Miss I ayiors Hair With a Knife or Scissors. V it- Gertrude Taylor, a pretty young woman about 18 years old, was assaulted and had her hair cut oft In a mysterious manner by an unknown man In the back yard of her residence. 829 Sttllman street. Saturday night, says the Phila delphia Inquirer. No clue can be learned as to the man, ' but it is be lieved by the police he Is the same who did a similar act in another section of the city a short time ago. Shortly after supper Saturday night a message was sent to Mrs. Taylor stat ing that her son. Harry Taylor, was badly hurt in a ateel works. John, an other son. - immediately left for the works to find out about his brother. About o'clock he returned and aald Harry was all right. Later Gertrude went out In the back yard and acreams for help were heard by her brother. She aaya that when she entered the yard a tall, thin man grabbed her and hit her on the head and body, and then with either a knife or a pair of scissors cut of her back hair. - . When she screamed he made hla es cape over the fence. Gertrude haa an acquaintance who resides in West Phil adelphia who. met - with the same expe rience about a year ago. Special offi cers are working on the case. i XiSTTEK-OASBISKS EXOTTBSIOV. On Sunday, June 28. to Seaside. Round trip $1.00. This ia the last 11.00 excur sion' of the season. Tickets on sale at Woodard. Clarke & Co. All street car lines will run early cars.. Patrons will have no trouble In getting to depot , en time. f t f terurni I Ontald of Card, Hhowlag Design whea Opened. til m mh nmm& 5s ' Xnsi. Xnvorlptloa. ," 5 Prospectors Work Under Im !.pressIon' 'that Labor Per formed on Discovery Will Coynt as, Assessment, Notes from the Mineral Section of the State Showing Activity in All the.Dlstrlcts Where the Leads Exist, New that the anow has gone from the foothills and the white line la receding toward tha higher peaka. the prospector la scratching the mountalna In search of the yellow metal that rules the world. This year the man with his pick ana glass la out In force. From present In dications he will stay till he finds some thing, for "atrlkea" are made period ically, and they are due. Borne of thoae which may be made will be heralded far and wide, only to fall back Into that atage termed "now being developed." It has been a com mon praetlre throughout Oregon, par ticularly in the Bouthern portion of the stats, to locate a good lead and in mak ing the location perform the so-called neceaaary amount of work on the dis covery. In doing that many proapectora have conaldered that they have been performing asaessment work. That la a mistaken Idea. Frequently they nave presumed that becauso they put down a 30 or 40-foot shaft or drifted Into the mountain an equal distance at the time of discovery thst they had done suffi cient work to cover the required assess ment That is another mlatake. No handsomer design could be con ceived and no more beautiful workman ship wrought by the hand of man than la displayed in the engraved gold tablet which proclaims President Theodore Roosevelt a member of the City Press Club of Portland. This valuable token of regard, remembrance and apprecia tion haa been completed by the gold smith who, had Its making In charge, and will soon be forwarded to Washing ton, D. C, addressed to the President of the United States. The tablet is made from Oregon gold. mined at Gallce Creek. As a gift from the newspapermen of Portland to the chief executive of the American Nation Its worth cannot be estimated. The tablet Is in the form of two cards, hinged together, on the outer face of which Is carved the shield of Oregon. On the Inner faces are the words which made Theodore Roosevelt a member of the Portland Press Club, bearing the signatures of Max M. Shlllock, Presi dent, and I.ouln McArthur. Secretary. The reverse side shows the hydraulic mine where the gold was gathered. The tablet is contained in a handsome plush case and will be sent to Mr. Roosevelt within the next few days. The law of Oregon requires, in its strict letter, a shaft or drift showing ten feet of a vein or ledge In place, "and such work shall not count as assess ment work." The law does not say that shaft or drift shall be ten feet but an exposure or ten rest or the lead must be shown In order to make a bona flde location, no matter how deep a shaft or how long a drift It may take to do It. It Is true that the true letter of the aw Is not lived up to In the matter of locations, nor Is the question of the le gality of the assessment work brought forward with any particular force ex cept In rare cases. When tBe county paper tells lis read ers that so and so is expecting to be gin development work on such and such (i claim. It Is usually nuggets to py raties that the lead has pinched and it will be a long tlma before anything Is done unless some capitalist receives a favorable roport from a reliable expert. The claim lies Idle. No further work Is done until the last of December of the following year , rolls around, and then the prospector drifts back and adds a few more feet to his 40-foot drift and goes away with the Idea that his claim Is ssfe from the jumper. To a great extent the mining inter ests of Oregon have suffered from such tactics, for many men are willing to take a chance of making a hit after a lead has pinched by going ahead from whera the original locators have quit and working for themselves. They are barred from doing so by the common recognition of the so-called assessment. And that Is wrong. OHIO CHRISTIAN ENDcAVORERS Are Now in Session at Elyria, Where Important Business Is Before Annual Meeting, (Journal Special Service.) ELYRIA, O., June 25. Hundreds of enthusiastic Christian Endeavorers have taken possession of Elyria for their an nual state convention, which will be in session here during the next three days. Large delegations have arrived from Toledo, Cleveland, Marietta, Columbus, Dayton, Springfield, Flndlay and other cities of the state, and the outlook Is bright for a highly . successful conven tion. Many prominent speakers will be heard, among them Dr. Francis E. Clark, founder of the society; Rev. J. Wilbur Chapman, the noted evangelist, and President H. C. King of Oberlln College. The" reports prepared by the officers for presentation to the conven tion show the society In Ohio to be in a highly flourishing condition. TO VISIT EASTERN CITIES Charles Ooopay Leavaa Today for a Six Weeks' Trip to Atlaatlo Ooaat State. Charles Coopey, the well-known mili tary tailor of this city, leaves today for a somewhat extended visit to many of the leading cities of this country. He expects to be gone six weeks, during which time he will visit with friends in St. Louis. Chicago, Philadelphia, New York City, and perhaps Boston and Washington, 1). C, returning by way of San Francisco. Mr. Coopey stated that he expected not only to have an enjoyable vacation, but that he would also attend to many business matters while in the East. R. M. Lewis of Lebanun, who re cently sold his interest in placer mines located in Steamboat district, haa be come involved in two promising quart ledges in the same section with J. M. Toms, the pioneer miner. Considerable work, is being done on the north slope of the Slsklyoua. A. F. Lundgren has a crew drifting on three feet of copper ore in the Green district. The Blue Lead has just been bonded by frank Asniey to John Harvey. Frank Blevins, one of the successful pocket hunters of Southern Oregon found a 3400 pocket on Wagner Creek last week. Blevins, who was mlr) near Gold Hill, recently returned Ovm Alaska and told his friends Southern Oregon was as good a mining country as Alaska. Eastern Oregon men have been ex amining the Yellow Jewel and Little Chieftain, In Myrtle Creek district, with a view to buying. A deal for the prop erty is said to De under way. Two shifts are being worked on the Cracker Summit ledge. In Sumpter dls- SOTHERNS DRAMATIC STUDY OF FRANCOIS VILLON. jr iV4&i'iVA .S . J W . .t L Jl . ST mimm wM fen 1 2fe ' , VyKV' '' I 'pr ii J tl-iS r ft i :J I t f n? it f1 i jf-'4 I., U it . I V hi - W J" . H v. a ,1 . ' if' 4 0 V'fl K A); m 1:V X.T X:vlJ J mm 4 HS T)J' 1 ' V:V;Vi'', 4 o i i i a It is that strange character, of the fifteenth century, sometimes called France's vagabond poet and again Omar Khayyam of France, ahd again the first erreat poet f 'the people,' Francois Vil lon, E. H.; Sothern will embody in bis production ' or tne medieval r romance, , "If I Were King,", ; at the Marqua ! Grand Theatre tomorrow (Friday) Batnrday afternoon and night Vlllo lived and loved and sang hla songs when Louis XI., was proving to the World tne ' - 'Perhapa no Stronger, " more contrast ing, , contradictory or unique character haa come fo ua through th ache of his tory. , ' Buch - a ' study y of poetry plc- turesqueness and perverseness has sel dom been met with In the record of the vagaries of mankind, and It Is strange that , this .Vllton, has .not' been .before brought to the prominent attention that he receives at. the hand of Mr. Sothern- and Mr. Mcc&rthy. the author. . During the. last few. year scores of tha moat brilliant wntere of France and' England have been fasclnatei". , by ' the ' strange history of this 'man whom Bothern' la to present to ua with the undoubted fin ish of portrayal ,!for.whlch .he W- ao noted; "Vllloa literature' Is bnly a recent tfad, f or until 1873 hla real name had not (been fully ascertained. ri -;v Francola V4Uon lived ia the aluma of J Paris, .yet ' .he 0 wrote , Ideal verse that touched the Alpine peaks of thought. He, wrote of noble warriors, of lofty deeds, and minds, yet he himself moved among the - gutter, .creature of Paris. Hla Intense longing to accomplish great tnings to , Ilv beyond his surround ing la shown ln avery- verse? he has Written. He haa been called a cutpurse, a' swordsman, ;a brawler, . yet always a poet and a dreamer. Swtnbbu'rne haa named him , "The sweetest singer of us all," and again.;, "Our sad, bad, glad, mad brother." - Stevenson has written of blm unkindly "In bis "Lodgings for a Night," which th great .novelist afterwards re- j-inted.- Soma' historians tell :us taat Francois Villon died upon the gallows, others again that he was banished from Paris - and died in England, and still others admit that his end, like much of his life, is shrouded in impenetrable mystery. In one of his verses Villon teljs what he would do of the. great things he would accomplish if the opportunity were given him. McCarthy aelxed thla theme for his play and gave to Villon of the drama the opportunity that Viilon, the poet, had sighed for. He trans planted him from his companionship of vice In which he is pictured in the first act of "If 1 WerevKing" to aurrounotnga and authority second, only to tha King of France himself., Through courage and .honor, which Is born to him- through these new environments, he lifts himself rrom , the mire in which he. had lived. Sothern's portrayal of this marvelous role has made the .study of Villon a moral uplift of a man through success ive stages which, while it entertains and fascinates, strikes to the heart a deep, floral lesson. The role affords Bothern he widest range Of dramatic expression, for It plays upon all the chords of hu man emotion that may' effect a, strong manly nature, and Bothern Jias made it a dramatic portraiture that avlll be re f erred to la the drama for many years to coma. mm,- nrr iakobst oxiorams nr m voTaTWMT. ronrth aaA Morrison Btreeta. THE MAN WITH A Comfortable SHIRT Is pretty sure to be com fortable all Over, even in hot weather. It doean't take an expert to tell when a man's shirt is comfortable, but it takes an expert to make one comfortable. It has to be roomy, well-shaped, well sewed; the alaevee daren't be too long, the collars cut too low or too high. Where can yoa find a better shirt than the Monarch at $1? Clactt's fl.SO and ap to $3.00 Stir Shim fl.SO to $3.00 " I ' 1 """" trlct, to tap the main schute. The tun nel is in 600 feet and progressing dally. A rich strike Is reported on the Red Lion, where a body of ore was encoun tered while running a cross-cut. A ledge of coal three feet wide has been discovered on property belonging to George, Ward, at Hoodoo Springs. about 36 miles from Ontario. The vein Is being opened and shows consjderable Improvement witn every iooi or aa vance. The Intention Is to supply On tario with Its winter fuel. The Gem mine, near Baker City, has been bonded to Eastern parties through H. T. Hendryx for $90,000. The bond covers all tne property, inciuaing tne 10-stamp mill. The Gold Bug Grizzly has been pumped out and work Is now going on In the way of sinking an additional 200 feet. The Black Eagle, In Malheur County, Is milling 120 tons per day, with a 20 stamp mill, at an average cost of 70 cents per ton. The ore Is soft, enabling the mlllmen to speed the stamps to 110 strikes per minute, with a 4 H -Inch drop, HOT LAKE, People contemplating a visit to Hot Lake should notify the management at least one day in advance. The new bath house is completed. Ratea $11.60 to tiRrt lnr!nrinr baths. MONUMENT TO DEAD : HEROES DEDICATED Great erowds Witness an Inter-. esting Ceremony Design .' of Rudolf Schwartz. ; (Journal Special Service.) - ,. SOUTH BEND, Ind., June 26. South Bend'a $25,000 soldiers' monument was dedicated today with intereatlng exer- . claee and in the presence of a great . crowd of spectators. In addition to the veterans of South Bend and . vicinity, large delegations were on hand from Grand Rapids, Mich.; Elkhart, Logana port. Frankfort and other polnta. With the exception of the magnifi cent memorial at Indianapolis, the mon- ument Is the finest of its kind in the . State of Indiana. It consists of a mas- -slve column of granite, aurmounted by a bronse figure representing a' color, , sergeant. The figure ia nlna feet high, -Four llfe-alse bronxe figures represent lng the army and navy surround the column. The monument was designed by Rudolf Schwarts of Indianapolis. Preferred Stook Canned CHedfc Allen Lewis Best Brand. IT. IU UP" IDTC MADE BY THE BEST WORKMEN FROM THE BEST MATERIAL WITH THE BEST MACHINERY , Flelschnerayep 7r. ,