THE , OREGON DAILY JOURNAL PORTLAND, WEDNESDAY EVENING, JANUARY 24, 1912.
COW FILED
AGAINST HEAD OF
A
LABOR
AH
Charles R. Hansen Defendant
. - Work and Pay Offered Ap
1 plicants Misrepresented, I
. Is Declared; Suit Begun.
- Already complaint ar. being . made
1 regarding the method employed by lo
" cal employment agencies for separating
coin from the unsuspecting. The first
report this year . of such proceedings
came in the form of a complaint filed In
- the court, of Justice of the Peace Olson
yesterday against Charles R. Hansen
Jr proprietor . of. Hansen's Employment
. Agency, 26 North Second street, by John
Staniclch. . Staniclch alleges that on
' December 28, 1911, he paid Hansen
$66.26 deposit for jobs for 25 men. Han-
." sen told him that he had Jobs for the
crew on a railroad construction gang In
Lane . county. ' Staniclch also declares
that he paid to Hansen the sum of f 93.71
, to be used In paying the fare of the
25 men to their destination.
' The men went totee place where the
work- waa said-tox be waiting,, and on
- their arrival found the work and pay
, ' badly misrepresented. They returned to
Portland, and here found that Hansen
had used none of the money, according
to the complaint, for the railroad fares.
, V Accused of Defrauding. 4
' These, fares were i furnished, by the
.railroad company. It la said. - Attorney
, ? John A. Jeffrey, who, with 'Attorney H.
J. Parkinson, Is ! handling the case for
the complainants, declares that ho will
. push the case to the limit in order to
, put a stop' to - the misrepresentations
s made by the agencies. The complaint
accuses Hansen - of "cheattng and de
frauding."
"This is the first case of the kind this
year,' but they will suon begin to pour
Municipal Free employment bureau. "I
have 'tried to do something to stop the
graft that many of these agencies prac
tice on Ignorant, unsuspecting foreign
ers, : but find it ' almost Impossible as
the foreigners do not realise the neces
sity of making these men put down their
proposition In -writing. When it comes
10 taxing a case or mia sort into, tne
1 courts it is on man's word against an
other, and the employment men are the
shrewdest and stand by one another." ,
"In the three years that I have been
In the city attorney's office there have
neen many or tneae cases, yet it has
been almost impossible to obtain a con
viction," said Deputy City Attorney Sul
livan. "Even when an employment
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Bcni -Mm cunvioiea 11 uvea no ffooa, tor
they at once appeal to a higher court
and It is Impossible to keep the laborers
toarether until the new trial la h.M.
They cannot stay In town on expense,
as most of them have little or no money,
J and that class Is as a rule the kind that
works In the country,
X ininn cuinmsrciBi employment
agencies should be done' away with en
, tlrely, and that the work should be per
formed by the city or by the state.
These men cannot afford to lose even
the small amounts Involved. Mot all
are one or two which are continually
named In complaints by these laborers,
and in the buay season I often have as
many as a half a dozen a day."
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Vagrants Fined Heavily.
(8pHu to Tlie Journal.)
Tillamook. Or., Jan. 24. H..T. Hylton
and Lyle Ross were tried for vagrancy
before Mayor Harter Saturday. The
mayor fined Hylton $26 and Ross $50,
and ordered them to leave town before
t o'clock. Ross was recently fined $30
fur disorderly conduct.
Alexander Bevan. .
Alexander Bevan. who is at the Or-
pheura this week as the head of the Ro
many Opera company as well as on of
its singing, members,, is not only the
pioneer of all singers In operatlo Vaude
ville, 'but Is gypsy musician to whom
the roving, character of the singer he Is
most fond of impersonating is natural.
When Mr. Bevan organised the Romany
company he created a new standard in
vaudeville and made his "La Festa Di
Mess' Agosto" the most attractive fea
ture ox the Keith & Proctor, the Wil
liams ' and the Morris circuits of the
east, where the company played for four
years, and Whence it came to the Or
pheura. Miss Florence Quinn, the little
girl who -sings the doll, song from the
Tales of Hoffmann" with the Romany
Opera company, . played with the Bos-
tonians for a number of years. She
was in Portland with that organization
on the occasion of Its last visit
MOTHER'S DEATH BED
REQUEST, IS GRANTED
The dying request of Mrs. Martha
Marshall was followed yesterday In
awarding temporary custody of her 2-year-old
child to Mr. and Mrs.' Charles
E. Kitchlng. An aunt of the lad, Mrs.'
Jessie Miller, Dayton, Wash., had asked
for the custody of the child. Miss
Emma Oustafson, another aunt of the
child, wrote the Judge from Kansas City,
Mo., that )she wss willing the Kitchlng
family should . have the baby. The
mother - the "child "died- tn-Norembei?
Mrs. Kitchlng found tbe child in
foundling home when it waa three
months old. She kept It until It was
seven months old, , when the mother
claimed It. . Before her death, however,
the mother declared she wished Mra
Kltchlnf to have the babe,
DONWORTH WITHDRAWAL
GIVES PRESIDENT TIME
(tfnlted Press Leased Wire.)
Washington, Jan. 24. Attorney Gen
eral Wlckersham announced this after
noon that the withdrawal of the resigna
tion of United States Judge Donworth
at Seattle was only temporary, and was
Intended to glye President Taft time to
consider a successor. " - -
MEETING CALLED
Important Session to Be fteld
at Commercial Club To-,
r ' morrow-Night. "
Mimic Warfare About Bay City.
Washington, Jan. 24. Mimic war will
be waged about San Francisco by 25,
4000 regular -and state troops, the Pa
ctflc naval fleet and a squadron of aer
ial cruisers next August to test the
coast defenses. The srmy of invasion
will move against the land forces from
Half Moon bay.
The maneuvers will be the most com,
prehenslve ever undertaken lnthe Uni
ted States and will be far more exten
slve than those at Boston recently.
. With the program In charge of the
membership committee ' the . Greater
Portland Plans association has called
f or" o'clock, tomorrow night what Is
expected to be the largest and most Im
portant meeting sines Its organisation.
The session will be held In the conven
tion hall of the Commercial club,
' Yesterday the executive board of the
association authorised the printing of
10,000 buttons of red, white and blue.
They will be used by the membership
committee In enlisting 10,000 members
for the "better building of the bigger
city" on Greater Portland day, February
29. How the city Is to be districted and
all the work done In a few hours on
the day that comes but. once in four
years Is to be related by members of the
committee, of which V. Vincent Jones Is
chairman. .
The dissatisfaction 'of many cltlsens
with the proposed location of the public
library and their desire that It shall be
located in - accordance with the sugges
tion of the Bennett plan on, on of the
corners of, Park and Madison streets
will be presented before the club by
Joseph Jacobberger, : chairman of the
committee on public buildings. T
,.("'.,',''-",, Hew Vnloa Depot.
: The opportunity the people of Port
land now have of cooperating; with the
Hill and Harrlman lines In negotiations
for the locating and building of a new
union .depot, by indicating to the rail
road Interests where the depot can most
satisfactorily be built, will be brought
before the association by F. H. Ransom,
chairman of the committee on terminal
facilities.
The meeting of the executive board of
the association was held in the green
room of the Commercial dub yesterday
afternoon. Joseph Jacobberger presented
the matter of relocating the library, and
I. L. Rlgga asked authority for the
membership committee to have the
"Greater Portland day" Duttons printed.
Routine business of the association Was
transacted. There were present Presl
dent C. B. Merrick, Ellis F. Lawrence,
Charles F. Be eg, L. E. Latourette, Burt
C. Jones.
Flan 2s Explained.
At the Y. M. C A. last night the
Greater Portland plan was explained to
a large audience. The secretary of the
association and Landscape Architect
Howard Bvarts Weed were the speakers.
The fact that ' Portland has been built
on confidence, the confidence had by
Investors in the development of tribu-
tary. country and of Portland as a dis
tributing center, was emphasised. Col
ored slides reproducing the Bennett
drawings illustrated the plan for Intel
ligently directing the greater growth of
the city... Mr.. Weed spoke of the utility
of developing the "small essentials of
the city beautiful," namely the honje
and the lot It stands on, and by a
series of slides showed artistry and
plan might inexpensively succeed hodge
podge and offensive appearance.
PROSPERITY REIGNS
AT WALLA WALLA
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The only Baking Powder made,
from Royal Grape Cream of Tartar
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Well shod feet always pay
a".-, dividend of comfort.
? though the best shoe in the world
will not be easy to wear with the wrong
kind of hosiery -particularly mended
hosiery. The rough spots or darns sink
into your flesh, along the lines of least resistance. Everwear Hosiery mvir
nttds' Jarning and never causes a, moment of discomfort Buy a box
today and join the Anti-Darn Legion. ' '
The Box of Six Pair with Written Guarantee
Crops; Are Good and Prices
Are High; Local Improve-'
ments. '
Walla Walla haa made rapid develop
ment during tha last year, according to
Miles C Moore, president of the Baker
Boyer National bank and ex-governor of
Washington. Mr. Moore came down
from the wheat center yesterday en
route to California, where he will spend
a brief period of rest. Mr. Moore has
been in business in Walla Walla more
than 40 years.
"Our section haa had' good crops and
fair prices," said Mr. Moore, "and we
have nothing to complain of. Land
values are high and the owners are
making money hence we have not had
a large Immigration, but the develop-
ment or the country has been perma
nent and rapid. The city has laid large
areas of paving, cluster lights have been
Installed throughout the business dis
trict and the street car service has been
brought to a 'high standard.
"Crop prospects throughout the wheat
belt are good. With plenty of snow
covering the wheat - the severe- cold
weather did little if any damage, while
the additional moisture will Insure good
crops. While apprehension was felt for
a time, lest the fruit crop should be In
jured, the opinion of orchardlsts Is that
no damage to speak of has been done.
Early vegetables may be short and bit
late, but people on the outside will
not realise it.
"Walla Walla has always eaf 'laf?a
delegations to the Rose Festival. Im)
this year will be no exception, especial 1
If something really new can be added, to
the attractions." . . "f
ORDJNANC
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EmHi Cotton,
f In Caohmere, '
SusLUle,
rOR MEN
-srotlaa Cotton, ebes S to 714,
II IM
IU10perbo
$2.00 per box
'J.00per box
FOR CHILDREN
, , FOR WOMEN
ftryptfna Cotton, ,
SUkUtle,
12.00 per box
U.bti pes box
Jftift. uim K ttt 7 i-
Fue Cashmere, lues S to 7X,
Sl.SOperbex
12.00 per box
X.UU PtX Dox
Par Silk, Gtuurentaed 3 Months
Men's Pure Silk 51.50 box, 3 pairs
On Sale at the
Ben Selling: and Moyer Stores
The fight being made by Councilman
Watklns and Joy to secure the abolition
of the advance deposit' system used by
the public service corporations of the
city brought results yesterday, when the
special committee appointed by the may
or to draft regulative measures for such
corporations instructed ; City Attorney
Grant to draw an ordinance providing
that no deposits may be exacted by the
teiepnone companies rrom new patrons,
For the protection of the companies.
however, a clause will be inserted giv
ing them , tne right to collect three
months' rent in advance. Becetofore.
tne raoino, Teiepnone company has de
manded a deposit of $5 In cash from
each new subscriber as a guarantee that
the contract which the subscriber signs
for one year with the company shall be
carried out. The company collects each
month's rent in advance besides.
The proposed ordinance will be sub
mitted to the committee at Its next
meeting, February S, r, t . , ,
At that time the electric lighting,
gas and other corporations will be un
der consideration. Any complaints that
property owners have ; against r these
should be forwarded to the committee
In care of City Attorney , Grant. The
committee Is desirous of knowing just
what the people of the city think about
the service being accorded by the va
rious publio utilities. , v t . i
Seleot patronage with efficient se'rvJ
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Five big stores with a multiplied buying
and distributing power are selling men's
and boys' reliable, medium priced clothing
and; furnishings at telling reductions from the plainly
marked, regular prices. Whatever you need, youll save
money if you buy it now while eveiytliing is reduced.
This sale cannot run much longer nonsuch op
portunity will come again for months; YOU are the
one who is to be benefited by taking advantage.
Don't wait until regular prices are in effect; let us serve you NOW.
First and
-Morrison
First and
Yamhill
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Second and
Morrison
FIVE STORES
Third and Oalx
87 and 89
Third
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These Few Words Tell the Con
i ditions We Must Meet at Once
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THE WESTERN UNION TELEGRAPH COMPANY.
INCORPORATED . i. .
23,000 OFFICES IN AMERICA. CABLE SERVICE TO ALL THE WORLD v
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ROBERT C. CLOWRY. President end Ceneral Managw.
RECEIVED.!
National Sample Cloak & Suit Co.,
Swetland Building,
Portland. Ore.
Sta. 6f
New consignment shipped, dispose of
all oloaks, suits and pettiooats in your sample
.rooms,- ignore -all idea of usual prof it. You miist be, entirely
free of 'surplus merchandise when consignment arrives, this is
imperative make prices that will do the work in short order.
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Signed: R, H. PATTERSON, Mgr.
New York City v
The Above Telegram Compels This Sacrifice
Cloaks and Suits, Values to Cloaks and Suits, Values to Cloaks and Suits, Values to
$46.75, for $35.00, for $20.00, for
$15.75 1 $1 1.7Q $4.95
PETTICOATS fSgaSsSa- Vals. to $7.50, Your Choice$2.35
wi i f" i m l o n . rt
iiauonai sample uoaK a smi to. 1
THE RED BLDG., FIFTH AND WASHINGTON C..,a.l J D. ! JiJ.rfc-
Entrance on Fifth Street uwcuaiiu uuuuing
will
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