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THE OREGON DAILY JOURNAL. PORTLAND. FRIDAY EVENING. OCTOBER It. HQS. EXITS LOCKED AT SOME SCHOOLS Public Safety Board Discovers Unfavorable Conditions in Several Buildings. DANGER TO PUPILS IN TIME OF FIRE Will Recommend in Report That Change Be Made to Render Safety of Children More Secure During School Hours. Further report of the conditions of 1 the puullc tcnoou win oe mam 10 m executive hoard this afternoon by the tin chief, fire marahal and building in Meter. In several schools locked exit doors have been found. In nearly every building visited the keen eyes of the public safety offi cials detected dancer from rubbish piled teo near furnaces and chimney, in their first report they recommended that the use of oil and oily sawdust . for cleanlnr floor be slopped. They have found oil used In the Stephens ana Montavllla schools, besides the Williams ' avenue and other building mentioned in the first report. In the North Central school locked xlt door wss found. In caae of fir this door might be opened in time to allow the children to pass through It, and acaln It mlrht not. In the Sunny aide and Portsmouth school looked xlt were also found. Seat plied gainst the door have blocked one exit in the South Mount Tabor school. A chimney extinguisher I recommended for the Olencoe school, end the patent chimneys there were found too near the woodwork. In the East Twenty eighth 'afreet school there 1 but on exit door from the assembly hall. A Hew electric wiring system In the Sun nyslde school la recommended. The first report of Messrs. Campbell, Robert and Spencer waa transmitted to the school directors by the executive hoard. The director were given 0 days to comply with the few recom mendation made. The suggestions ap pended aa to uniform fir drill signals will not be forced upon the director. If move to carry -oat the Instruction of the public safety official has yet been made by the board of education. Several private institutions were also visited A few changes were recom mended, bat all were found to be In Thirty aafe condition ao far aa fire la concerned.- PYTHIAN SISTERHOODS TO BE CONSOLIDATED Rathbone Staters to Units With Sisterhood to Form One Order. Ioorsal Seselel karri New Orleans, Oct !. The feature of last night s Pythian meeting waa the decision to oeneolldate the Pythian sis terhood of 7,000 members and the Rath bone Sister, which has 15,000 members. It la announced that a new name, that of Pythian Slater, will probably be adopted. The organisations wUl merge their rituals. The supreme lodge elected the follow ing officer: Supreme chancellor, Charles A. Barnes, Jacksonville. II.; supreme vto-chancellor, Henry H. Brown, Cleburne. Tex; supreme pre late, lieo A. Caro, Grand Rapids, Mich.; supreme keeper of records and seal, R. 1. White, Nashville, Tenn.; supreme master of the exchequer, Thomaa D Mearea, Wilmington. N. C; supreme master-at-arms. Noble Btnna. Trail, British Columbia; supreme Interior guard. 8. H Davis, Davis, I. T.; supreme outr guard. Joseph H. Lyon, Leaven worth, Kaa. (reelected). The following officer were elected by the National Grand Keeper pf Records and Seal association: U. 8. Burns. Mil waukee, president; Alonso Bedell, New York, first vice-president; J. D. McLean. New Orleans, second vice-president; H. D. Walker, Iowa, third vlce-preatdent; B W. Bartlett. Little Rock. Ark., sec retary; H. M. Quinn, Jackaon. Miss., treasurer. The revision of lawa la etUl being considered. HUSBAND PELTED HER WITH $50 MO SI 00 BILLS Mrs. Fannie Eberson Tellt of Spouse's Generosity Before Wedding Ceremony. MRS. OELMCHS IS SUCCESSFUL Heirs of Husband Forced to Compromiss to Hsad Off Threatened Legal Fight. SECURE8 MILLIONS FOR SON FROM HIS RELATIVES Charles M. Oelrkhs and Mrs. William Jay Make Terms With Widow Who Originally Gave Husband Fortune He Willed Away. LOCAL FRATERNITY FORMED AT SALEM Salem, Oct II. The new college Spirit which la permeating Willamette university has manifested Itself in the organisation of a fraternity. It 1 not one of the Greek "frets," but a local organisation which promisee to do thlnga and add to the aoclal life of the university. It I difficult to ascertain the real . ptirpoa and aim of the f ra- tvMte wmrea T$ltaa,bca(ue,of the emblem they wesr on the green swest r they have chosen aa a mark otdls tlnctton. The member of the fraternity ari Foster P. Went of Santa Rosa. Califor nia; Wlniock W. gteiwer of Jefferson'. Orley Lowell of Salem; John Moore of Salem; Lloyd Wesley of Salem; Paul Bowers of Spokane. Washington, and Ruael Stephens of Portland. (Jearaal Special Semes. St. Louis. Oc II. Mrs. Fannie Kher son, wife of A. A. Eberson. a at- lxiuts capitalist, testified In bar divorce suit today that before their domestic trouble began Bberson had a playful habit of pelting her with 1(0 and 1104 bills rolled into little wade. He wanted her, ehe said, to wear the finest dresses and outshine her neighbors and friends. Mr. and Mrs. Bberson still live at the Washington hotel, but have separ ata, apartments now. In itemising her expenses she testified that tips coat her M a month, aa "you really can't got waited on without tipping." She said her husband never ate Sunday din ner with her, and was in the habit of getting home as late aa o'clock In the morning, and waa very noisy. Mrs. Bberson said she expected to take depo sitions In her suit In London, Pari, New York. Norfolk and Little Rock. FUNERAL OF FATHER FLOHR HELD TODAY (Seeetst Mssatrh to The JsarsaLI Walla Walla, Wash , Oct II. Funeral services .over the late Father M. Flohr. pastor of St. Patrick's church, who died Tuesday evening after a lingering 111 ness. occurred at 10 o'clock thla morn ing and were attended by some IB of the most prominent Catholic priests In the northwest. Including Bishop O'Dea of Seattle and Bishop O'Reilly of Baker City. (Jearaal Special Service. 1 New York. Oct. II. The Journal say: Mrs. Hermann Oelrlclis, It wee stated positively by one of the lawyers In the caae. baa forced a compromise In her contest of the will of her late husband, and by bar determined fight against her husband's relatives haa won millions for her 18-y ear-old son. The will of Oelrlchs Is scheduled to come up in private In surrogate'a court nest week, but It waa said today that Mrs. Oel rlchs will not appear at that time to begin her threatened legal fight against Charlea M. Oelrlch and Mrs. William Jay, brother and elster of her husband. The ease, after being adjourned twice, cam up In surrogate's court agsln yes terday and waa adjourned for a third time. This I taken a corroborative of the statement of the lawyer aa to the com promise. The. exact terms of the com promise were not disclosed. BURGLAR'S SLAVE (Continued from Pag One.) VAROAMAN WILL CAMPAIGN TO NSFMKWSE KGNES Mississippi Governor Outlines Plans for Repeal of Fif teenth Amendment. (Joarssl Special Servtee.) Chicago. Oct II. Governor J. K. Var daman of Mlaaiaalppi, who I an aspirant for senatorial honors. In an interview In the Tribune this morning outlines a campaign for she repeal of the fif teenth amendment: "I favor unqualifiedly and without reserve the abrogation of the fifteenth amendment to the constitution." said the governor. "It la my hope thrdugh the United State aenate to demonstrate te the nation that then is only one practical way of settling this matter, and that Is by plainly showing the negro hi proper plaoa In our system of gov ernment. "The race question must be settled and that very soon. It cannot be dis posed of, however, until the nation as a whole haa been convinced that there I a distinction between the white rase and the black. "The abrogation of the fifteenth amendment will almply place the negro where he belong. The criminal Inatlnot which Is dally becoming more rampant ia an outcropping of the dealre to attain social equality fostered by the present legal equality .which the amendment compels. House Work sW I (rn i n nr Need Not Wear Her Out of the theft after Cordero was goner1 naked the court. "I was afraid. I never was myself after I met that man. He would threat en to put me out of the way If I opened my mouth and ha used to strike m In the face, and I had to tell my father I had bumped myself." ' According to the testimony, Cordero called on the misguided girl two weeks later and compelled her to search the cellar, where, after considerable digging, a crock' with coin enough to have de lighted Captain Kldd waa dlecovered. Cordero took 12,100. replaced the crock and continued his visits till the money was all gone. When the girl learned that her lover was married he began to lose hla hold on her and ehe finally confeaaed to her parents to savs her brother, who had been arrested for the thefts. WATERFRONT TROUBLE (Continued from Page One.) GRAY-HAIRED BUNKO MEN ARE ARRESTED (Jenrsal Special Service.) Fresno, Cat, Oct 11. Carrying la a grip over .aoo in gold and bills sav oured by e bunko game from Mike Du tra. e farmer at Hanford, two old gray men of about 10 years were captured by the officers while walking along the railroad Into Madera, yeeterday. The men induced Dutra to draw the money from the bank aa surety of good faith In selling a ranch. The money Was in a barley aack, and the bunko men substituted another sack filled with Iron wnshers. netting a long start be fore the deception waa discovered. Both men were well dressed. One gave the name of Williams and the other Johnson. Tbey are unknown here. 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Had there been no arbitration move on the part of Mayor Lane, the Water front Federation would have declared a general atrlke of its 1.100 member on last Tueaday. If arbitration 1 aban doned, the Waterfront Federation must resume It preparations for a general strike, or It must recede from its ag greaalve policy of the peat two weeks. If arbitration is abandoned, the Export err association will either urrender or It wUl endeavor to launch "a general lock-out extendtnr to a large a number of employes of union labor aa It eea Influence. The method of warfare of the union ist wtU be to cease working, to pre vent the exporters from employing other men In their places, to injure the busi ness of tha exporter by enforcing 4 caseation of activities In the ware houses, by tha boycott, and by tying up all other Interests contributory to the business of the exporters. The method of warfare on the part of -the exporters wll be to pat every union ma on the waterfront oat of a job, aa well aa to pot out of a Job every union man In tha city who supports the waterfront union men. to Import strike breakers to operate their plants and to do everything In their power to en force the open shop, not only alone the waterfront bat throughout the whole city. " Fight Wrm Spree. If the contest continues, aa la ex pected by both sides. It must extend In some degree to every union man In town as well aa to many employer of labor beeldee member ef the Export ers' association. Members of the Cltl sen's alliance, which te said to oom prlse a large proportion of the employ ers of anion labor, have frankly ad mitted that that organisation haa taken a hand and assured the exporter of It heartiest support. Proprietor of lum bar mill along the river are said to have promised to shut down their plants In accordance with a general lock-out order, If such Is Issued from the offi cers of the Cltiasn's alliance and the Exporter association Many meeUngs of union committees were held today and plan were being formulated in detail for quick action in caae the result of this afternoon' meet ing I adverae to a peaceable settle ment. But no action waa taken today of any kind. Ortaln owners of tled-up import cargoes, who have no direct connection with the Exporter' aaaocla tlons, celled on the executive board of the Longshoremen' union today and re quested that the cargoes be unloaded directly by the longshoremen, but they were told that the labor boycott on all deep-sea cargoes of all kind Would be continued -for the present. Expect General Lockout. The members of the waterfront fed eration were not surprised yesterday when they learned of the news, pub lished exclusively In The Journal, that tha exporter were planning a general lockout. "Let them come on." waa tha moat frequent comment. Secretary Hall j or tne lxjnga.no rem en a union said: "I haV no doubf that they Intend to try It. They could do It to some extent, possibly, hut let them try it." Instead of meeting with the exrrt- ere' committee In the city hall yester day afternoon, the gralnhandlers tele phoned at the laat moment that they wouia sena ineir legal representative, Russell A. Bewail, to the office of Bal four. Outhrle ft Co., where he would attempt to reach a basis of arbitration with the committee. This plan was ac cordingly followed, hot no agreement could be reached, aa Bewail Insisted on the striken going bark to work under precisely their former condition, while the exporter flatly refused to recognise the union, aa formerly, A second meet ing of two hour' length waa held thla morning," but the same difficulties were met with. Ship Fly Their Color. Alt th foreign veesel In the harbor are flying their colors every day, al though ordinarily they only make thla display on legal holidays. This la due to tha strike and It would be a serious matter for the strikers to board any of the vessels now In th harbor without permission from the officer In charge of the deck. The flag have been hoisted since the time a half dosen striking longshoremen boarded the Oerman ship Nerelde at the elevator dock and tried to persuade the sailors not to aaalat in loading the vessel. The longshoremen were ordered to leave the ahlp, but refused to do so until they eaw fit, ae the captain reported to As sistant United State District Attorney Jam Cole, and thla led the other skip pers hi th harbor to take precaution by sending their colors aloft.. Any on hoarding a vessel under thee condition without permission hence forth wm do so at Ms own peril, and International complications might easily rise should trouble of thla character occur The drudgery of house work seems never ending to tired-out, dispirited women who suffer from female complaints or lrreffularities. In flammation and ulceration cause fearful bearing-down pains which are aggravated by much standing on the feet and lifting necessary In house Work. But let no woman despair of relief from this torture. That famous tonic reconstructor of diseased or disordered female organism. has cured more than one million American Women, and it will curs you. 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Plnkham, and for twenty-five years under her direction and since her decease, she haa bees advising sick women free of charge. GREAT LOSS IN HAVANA (Continued from Page One.) as a result of the storm were quartered in the frame shack which ware torn to pieces. Aj acore or more foreigners are numbered among the dead already reported and aome of these ware Amer ican. Accurate reports from some of the poorer outlying sections, which were wept Ilk doll toy before th rale, have not been obtained, the only esti mate of tha dead ao far having been made In the city. Baaaage la interior. Communication with the Interior haa been cut off for two day, but th wild est rumor of the destruction wrought are afloat. In the province of Pinar del Rio. It I reported, there baa been a great loaa of Ufa and the towna hav literally been wiped from the face of the earth. Equally bad are the condi tion reported from other localities. WAR8HIP8 IN CUBA Vessels In Wavy Wow Off Wast Indies Many (Journal Special Berries. 1 Washington. Oct. It. Th warships In Cuban waters are the Kentucky, Ta coma, Cleveland, Denver. Dee Mot nee, Marietta, Indiana, Brooklyn. Minneapo lis. Texas, Denver and Prairie. Th Minneapolis. Texas. Denver. Prairie and eupply ship Celtic end the Collier Leonldan weathered the gala, hat war damaged, to what extent Is yet unknown. The Brooklyn la one of the few ar mored cruisers of th United State navy bearing the name of a elty, the other armored cruisers, aa a rule, hav ing th name of a stats. Th Brooklyn want Into commission In 1IM and played an Important part In th Spanish-American war, being th flagship of Admiral Schley during the memorable battle which brought victory to the American forces, when in commission the Brooklyn carried 4 office re and Sll men. Th contract price for build tag her waa cloae to 11,000.000 Her angina develop 1,000 horsepower and rive tha veeeel speed of nearly It knota an hoar, making her one of the fastest ar mored cruiser In the navy. She la one of the smallest armored boats owned by the United States, aa she has a dis placement of a little over t.ooo tone, while the other armored .cruisers hav a displacement of lt.oeo tope end upward. If you want to rant a house read the classified column under "Houses for Rent" Allen S Lewis' Best Brand- SEEDLESS PEARS RAISED Oil TREE AT MHO Whsn Cut in Half Fruit Shows Smooth Surf sos 'From Skin to Center. Bedding, ClU Ocf 1I.-C. H. Clllstt of Ashland haa a pear tree that fed three or four year ha born three og four boxes of seedless fruit each seat eon- A few of the very largest rears on th tree each year have seeds. The rest sre seedless, and when cut In half how a smooth surf see from the skin to th center where the seeds are uu ally found. The seedless pear are lightly smaller than th averag Bart lett. but they contain mora clean fruit substance, and in fast era superior to the Bartlett, having a .marked flavor resembling that of th little Bekel pear. Experimentation ha been be run to see If nureery stock of the seed lea variety cannot be propagated. Th tree that haa distinguished Itself by producing th slid! i pear almost exclusively I IS years old. PENNSYLVANIA ELKS LOSE THEIR NEW HOME 1 Bseetat Berries Alteon. Ph.. Oct. II Mlehler the, tr. the Bias' new home, and Oliver brother furniture' tore were destroyed by fire this morning Th los amount J to halt a million. - Great Piano Sale SPECIAL VALUES "The House of Quality" has th largest variety ef reliable pianee in the dtp. We only ask you SB visit our iter and see the greet display. Yon will find the ares Steinway gad Knebe piano, the eweet toned Everett, the old reliable A. B. Chase, the well-known Hardman, Piecher, Packard, Ludwig. Kings bury, Etey, Emerson and many other famous makes. . SPECIAL SALES Monday we had seventeen special sale Tuesday eight sal and Wednesday six, making thirty-one sales for the firit three days of this week. We are having what may be called s GREAT SPECIAL SALE, ris: Monday, seventeen apodal a; Tuesday, eight specials; Wednesday, six specials. We mean by that, that every customer is given SPE CIAL ATTENTION snd shown SPECIAL COURTESY and that every one is TREATED FAIRLY. Our prices sre right our value correct the quality of oar piano the highest snd that is why our business grows spec. We are soon to have a new Car Load of Knabe Angelas Player Pianos VICTOR. Talking Machines and Records "TH House of Quality" Sherman9 Clay Co. The House with. a Reputation The House with a Name The House that has the Ooods The Howes thst dives the Values. .