The Oregon daily journal. (Portland, Or.) 1902-1972, May 30, 1907, Image 1

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Newspaper Page TextHROVQI a journal Exchange Journal Circulation Ad you may trade that pfcee o! furniture Rate I cent n word. Yesterday !0:C(CV A" The Weather Fair . tonight and Friday; 'northerly winds.' . PORTLAND, OREGON, THURSDAY, ;,E;yENINO,f MAY 30 1907. TWENTY PAGES. PRICE-TWO, CENTS. OH TRAMS A MO TW lAaP, IIV CJU n nm a ptt E0 m jili J ' VOL.. VI. NO. 73. -Hi S .... . ' . HHGEi BY i 1 u CUs AUDITOR S ADVERTf AS Et Carelessness in Not Publishing ' Notice Although Attention Was Called to It Jeopardizes- Securities to Be Voted Upon and Forces SpecialJE lection, Even if fionds -Are Carried, at Heavy Cost Portland City Charter: - Section 26. The auditor, shall give 10 days' notice by publication in the city official newspaper oi eacn general cuy ciccuon, me . . t i t ana tne piace or piaccs in caut wara ucsignaicu iw uuiumg uic cici.' tion therein. '.,: ' , ' ; a : Owing to groia carelssnM on . the part of Cltr Auditor Tbomaa C Devlin ' In taUln to ' eauee publication of the city election notice., although the. at tentlon of h!a office waa called to. the . matter over two weeks eao, the validity of $5,000,000 worth of municipal bonda to be voted upon next Monday baa been Jeopardised. The only remedial course - open Is to caM a epeclal election after - next Monday at an expenae to the tax payera of 15,000. . Both Democrat and Republicans, la cUdlng- City . Attorney MfNary, . con' cede that the oversight, although pot effecting the election of city officials. - Is Of serious consequence to the, pro- , posed bond - laaUe ror various municipal .' Improvementa. ' City'-Attorney McNary reluctantly admits -that - he- believes It ' will be necessary. If the, voter view the proposed bond Issues favorably, to throw, the city -into the heavy expense of. a special election In order to rectify tha defect, emanating; from the city auditor's office. U WU1 Vot Affeo Officials. Election of city officials will not be affected because the date of their eleo tlon la fixed by general law, while on the other hand a bond Issue la In the nature of a special election which muat ' conform to all the special charter lawa governing It. ( i v Section It 1 at the city charter pro vldea that the city auditor, undna the direction of the council, shall give 10 days' notice by publication of impend ing elections. . To him la given the Ini tiative to act In the matter, and here tofore, the council has relied upon the oity auditor to perform the work v re quired by law. Although the 'attention of t'the audi tor' office waa called to the matter over two week ago, no notloe for publlca-1 CAUSE OF UiJCLEAH STREETS TlnnT1Tfliinfl RfnfTriTif'n'nTnT40TAT Ktr rWiinit1 In A n ' propriauonsjjepanmeni uinccrs.AU itepubli ; - cans, Appointed by IVilliaras'Also Majority. . ; Portland, May 29. To the'Edltor: of The Journal: Aa there haa -been con , slderable adverse-criticism of the street cleaning department of the city by one of the prominent, candidates for mayor, the undersigned, the-committee 00 street cleaning and sprinkling, of the executive board," trust that we-Way 7 be permitted to say a few words in It , defense. r ' The so-called . sanitary . method of cleaning atreets by flushing them waa - referred by this committee, to Alex Donalson. the superintendent of this ' department, some months ago, andhe . reported the same Impractical, for the louowing reasons: ' First It would require the construe"' - tlon of three times the preseajt number . or t catch basins ap.d a very material . cnange 01 mose now in use. i Second In ft majority of the streets the v sewers are' not of sufficient ca ' pacity to carry off the water and mud I ' thatjseuld flow Into them if this moaafod was adopted, and- they would leWave to be rebuilt on a .larger scale, A3,, It is estimated that the expense of . making these changes would be over a j quarter of mUllo dollars, and as no appropriation had been - made to cover tfti expense, the executive, board 1 did not feel disposed to make these v changes out of their private funds.. Be sides this, the street cleaning depart , ment takes from- the "streets an aver age of 150 loads of dirt per. day, and .It la very doubtful ; about' our being permitted to wash that amount of dirt into the river, as It would probably be : detrimental to our harbor... ... . - : The f ordinance 1 appropriating' money ': for thla department for 1908 specified the amount that was to be expended for each specific Hem, and we were obliged " at the end of the year to cover back . Into the city treasury " 115.101.26, ! be cause it could not be used, for the items tor which it was appropriated, but which was sorely ..needed for other purposes. ... . FMTO ED BY LAW . ; under the, direction of the council, oiuccis iu uc cjcucu i vuc douw j ; i r i l j: L. .1.. tlon waa printed until this morning, four daya befor election, when tha first notice appeared In the Portland Daily Abstract, signed by - the city auditor, but dated back 'to May 20. 1 Another Expensive Xlectloa STeoessarj. In view of the fact that City Auditor Devlin, through hie carelessness,, has virtually Invalidated 15,000,000 worth of . bonds, attorneys da not . hesitate to aaaert that In the - event of a favorable vot on the issue taxpayer will ... be called upon to foot up the additional expense -of approximately 15,000 In or der that another special election be held to remedy the serious defect. v City Attorney MoNary this morning atated that the failure to-publish the notice waa a matter ' of -considerable gravity. It waa . he who yesterday rushed to the auditor's of floe, notified the auditor that the notice had not sp peared, and then hurried it to th of fice of the Abstract," so . It would ap pear in this morning's issue. In discussing the dilemma In which Mr. Devlin had - thrown the propoaed bond Issue, he said whenever a ques tion exlated concerning the regularity or proceedings leading: up to a. bond la sue. It would immediately affect the sellingprlce. Attorneys for purchasers of large Issues, he atated, alwaya re quired a transcript and details of pro ceedings. 1 and failure on the part of the city auditor to publish the notice required by law would be deemed, he believed, a serious defect ;. Fatal Defect, Bay Greene. When asked what action would be necessary In the event the voters fav ored the boqd issue at the coming elec tion, he replied that the only remedial course open was a' special ' election .in case .prospective buyers of the . bonds (Continued on' Page Three.) The great- need of the department was norses, yet only 11,200 was appro prlated for their purchase; and it spec! ilea mat it should be used to - pur chase only .six horse. . As a conse quence of this, we were obliged to re turn to the oity treasury. Hl,0t0.46 of tne runaa appropriated to pay laborers. for : If wo had used that money for that purpose it -would: have been to pile up dirt in the street which we could not cart toff for want of sufficient horses. ' -; 'V 'u ? This Is but a sample of the way the hands of the executive board were tied by this extraordinary way of making appropriations. It ' ha been charged that th appropriation : waa made that way -for the purpose of embarrassing tne executive board in the performance of Its dutiea. If such waa its purpose. u certainly accomplished Its object. -. During the past two years not a sin' gle man had been employed or removed on account of any political pull, but on the contrary, every appointment baa Been made from the civil service list and the person so employed ' has beon retained so long as he ' gave- the lty a dollar's worth of work for the dol lar paid, and as a result we have now by far the most effective force of lab orer the city ever had. , Cost Decreased Materially. , There la not a street but what 1 celves as much, or more cleaning' and sprinkling , tnan it did under : the . for mer administration, yet the cost of this work, under the present administration, has decreased over c 13 .per cent, and this notwithstanding-the fact that-the price of labor has Increased, over 20 per cent. . . 'v- . ; in conclusion, we desire to say that aU the officers of the street cleaning department are Republicans, appointed by Mayor Williams, and a majority f this committee are also Republicana. C A. COGSWELL, . , R." L. SABIN, . ' -D. M. DONAUOH, 1 . Committee xn Street Cleaning. . , I ' ' - -'-': ? v-!;vf .f- ''L J r-r '" ' ' ' ''''''' ' ''" '' -' ' ' 'Wimpy 1 . I f ' t a. -r -, t f " r v l i tl.lt . -k X. 11.. ''.! ! . I lilt ' f 4 : ' v. j- -s . ' v liv-. .... t I 'Jff-f.1 i , 4 i r - 4. y if wj - , 1 1 t CRIPPLED SISTER Tires of Carrying Child , Shoots Her and Then ; '' Commits Suicide. . t. ' - : - ,". .i',- ?ooraal Spedil Serriee.)' ' Springfield, 111., Mayi ' S0-43rowlhg tired or caring for her 7-year-old sister. Carrie, who wa a helpless cripple, Cora Leaderbrand, ' aged ' 17. . shot and killed the child and then" committed suicide Wednesday. ' It , waa believed at first that the girls were killed by. tramps. but the discovery of a smalt revolver in the bottom of the creek, where the bodies were found, disclosed the real cause of the double tragedy. 4 ; t ; When the bodies were first discov ered it was supposed . that the , elder girl had lost her life -trying to av the other from drowning. When the bodies .were examined, It wa discov ered that both girls had been ' - ahot throughy the base of - the s ' brain, the weapon being held olose - enough to burn the skin in each Instance. . ? -Sheriff Charles Warner Immediately threw the heavily armed posse around the denae wood where the girl ' were last seen and began running down sus pects. Vicious characters,, driven from - iConUflutd-oo-Paga Thraa V . , j r . it-ffri.ltt 'V! ' ' I STOCKS NOT TOO MUCH In Speech J)edicatin LawtonMonument, Eoosevelt Says There Has Been TooJIuch Wild Talk About Over-' ' , CapitaUzationAH Worth the Market Value. ' - There' ha been much wild talk a to the extent of over-capital- 4 ;lsation of our rallroada. - ,. N . " - , I - - "The total value of railroad stock and bonds ta greater than their e 'face value. notwlthsUndlng the "water" Injected.' 1 4" " "A sufficient force Of experts should be omployojdl to determine the . e Physical valuation of each and any railroad, but the physical valuation e'l no panacea; It can never be considered as, more- than one of many element to be, considered' President Roosevelt In Indianapolis speech. ' a ""i, ; " . 1 . : . ..' J . Uoatoa Seeclal grrtce. ; Indianapolis; Ind., ' May 80. Indiana paid tribute to the memory of one of her' moat famous, sons , today, when' a atatue of . General Henry . W.l Lawton, who met a soldier's death In battle at San Mateo, -Philippine islands,- Septem ber 19, 18 ,. was unveiled in the prea- oX tha preelaent M .tba , (United WATERED SAYS TEDDY State and many Other prominent gueats. The atatue Is placed in the grounds of the court house, 5 where a Vast crowd of people congregated this afternoon to witness the unveiling ceremony and to hear the address of the president. ' President Roosevelt' reached the city T REIGN OF VICE III CMAL ZOIIE Regular, Slae .Traffic in oung American Girls ' Graft and Corruptioniti 1 : . fioarntl Speeht Service.) i,'": iNew. Tork, May 10. Plana re rap- Idly being ' perfected 1 to bring before President Roosevelt. , and later, before congress, the fearful condition of mor ality on the Isthmus ox Panama. Rev. William P. E. Ferguson,' editor of- the Defender, the prohibition organ, la at the head oi .the movement. - He Is - at present in' the west telling what ha saw In an exhaustive Investigation of oondt ttona in Colon, and Panama and along tho canal one.;:':--v V: '......i:,,, Mr.. Ferguson makes the direct charge that there 1 a regular slave trade of young American girl from the United States, and' give one Instance when he law two young girls, not more than 17 year old, who had been . brought ' in shortly before, one of them from Jones boro, .ArkrinsMM. ami the other fmra Memphis. Thrp -weeks hit , 1 ... ! n.l in ' he saw t! wrecks. ." "I hi v., VETERAHS' GRAVES IE DECORATED k . .' ,1 . - '' " Cemeteries in- All Parts of the City Arc Strom With' ; Flowers Every Grave Re ceives Some Floral Token None Are Forgotten. George H.' Williams and . Father, E. T. Sherman Speak at Lone ; Fir Ceme tery in Honor of Nation's Dead Heroes. Lone Fir cemetery today 'I a field of flowers. Some of the graves are buried under floral token of love and Honor, but not a grave lie bare. The last bed of the forgotten stranger, tne patneuo little mound over some sleeping baby, each and every grave has Us tribute to the deed. : . ... . Sumner cost of the G. A,. R. witn the Ladles Relief corps met at Grand avenue and East Pine streets this morn ing and marched in a body to the Sol diers" Monument In; Lone Fir cemetery. Here a platform had been erected from which old soldiers (addressed their com- -radea and those younger one to whom the civil war 1 now history.. Too prln. v clpal address-was ty Hon. oeorgo 11. William . on "Abraham Lincoln." Father E. T. Sherman spoke "In Mem- , ory of the Dead.?' r ';-:.:'..' Vo Grave Af Torgotton.' 'i.--:y But the volcei now grown weak with age could not reach far, ao thousands eat In the ahade beside the gravea of their dead, mostly In silence.; -When the strain of the orchestra : reached them from time to time the men bared their head Children roamed here and there, dropping a rose on ' this . grave about which, no one gathered, laying m wreath on that already covered with blossom and green leaves. Never in any age nor among any people wa ' there a more tender and simply impres sive scene than this Memorial day In Lone Fir cemetery. . S. But the grave In other burying grounds were not neglected.'' Although no formal exercise were held - In the West Side cemetery the dead there re ceived their covering of flower from . the young and old. . ' . At Mount Bcott ' tne people met at Gray' Crossing and marched to Mult nomah cemetery, where services were held. Mllwaukle veterans, . Ladle of the Relief-Corps and the school chil dren gathered in the.' cemetery, aang the old war songs and laid their of fering beside the grave stones of their dear one. . ... I . Each On Ha a Wreath. -Over alt the graves. Jew and Gentile, Cathollo and Protestant, blue and gray, loved and unknown, the flower of a grateful people lie heaped. .Tonight not a grave in Portland will he without It wreath. -' . : (Continued on Pag Three.) DEdMIID CIJAflGE III POLICE FORGE Commercial Interests of San; Francisco Ask Schmitz to Remove Commissioners. (Journal Special ftmrlee.V ' - San Francisco, May 30.--CommerclaI Interests, of San Francisco have form ally demanded the removal of the po lice commission. A demand made upon Mayor Schmits yesterday also involve the-appointment of new. police com mission from a list of names selected by. that body of citlaena,. . which. la.jorw tleally ai rejuSehated and enlarged com mittee of Stt originally appointed by the mayor himself. -. "v .;--. v Accompanying the" formal demand for the removal of the police commlaslon waa list of ame from which the mayor 1 expected ' to elct -the new board, -; -. v " . - - ."v x - ' The commute expect to receive the mayor' decision today. If Sohmlti ac cedea to the committee' demand fur the removal Of the police commissioner be 1 expected to act at once, and it is freerr admitted that the first official act of the new commission wilt be tho decapitation of Chief Dinah, . The nar of Adiutant-uencrai jonepn 11. imw iaperaistently connected with T'". berth in the event that trt imyor cj-- - late to the law enl or 1 r . tlon. From the lnc-j 1 1 . i i tlon for the removal ; nm l"i bp' of the 1. 4 J Continued on Pa TenJ, . - ; v.;