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u I AL, ' TELLS LIST STORY OF COURAGE OF WW Praiso Showered on Youthful V - Commander ; "Embarrasses Him; Den(es Using Pistol;; ' (1,'nllfil l're Leaned W"lr.) New Jork, Oct. 17. Captain Francis IntH ot the lobt ateamsMp Volturno i ! yj wormed ratlier embarrassed than gratl wwr j,y the praise showered on i htv' kJa' onJuct during: the burning . v. ""keel. ; -1 rtJ'iltr- Jili'i'1 concerning tha disaster, all ' 7 he" Could W'persuaded to do was to hug - h1a dog: : Jack, and anawer with tha 1 - baldest and most unvarnlahed narrative. Ilia eyea,-which suffered severely from . the heat and tha glare of tha fire,. War : still troubling him,' but his phvalclana n jsald they were confident his sight would ' ' .". not be Impaired permanently.' ! , s . Tha captain was completing his : re " port today to 'tha Uranium Steamship company, which operated tha Volturno. It will embody a compactly written account of tha ehlp'a lose, with tribute to the; courage of the crew, a word for the excellent behavior of the passenger and an expression or the highest grati ' ' tud to the distressed company's ree cuere. i , - 1 'wti-i-''&l ,. Captain -Inch denied absolutely,' the , atorlaa that there . was cowardiee. die ' ; played by his sailors; that the captain of the rescuing ships spared any risk .,, or effort to save . them from the Vol- turno, op that- the burned craft's life V saving equipment was In any way de fective, ' - t Among the Volturno's survivors who, V with Captain Iach, arrived here otf the Kroonland, s were three nameless, or "... phaned babies,' who will be adopted by : . rich New York, families unless 'relatives , claim them. VeV-'t-'si - hlrt Oliaikln iirrnrn inn .'. u onHiivd mccucu run OLD TIME FIRE HORSE? "Walla Walla, Wash,, Oct '.'17C -With : the fire auto stalled in the mud a dan gerous .blase In- the David Rhea home here came near causing the loss of the ' dwelling. and the death of Mrs. Rhea, who was carried on her sickbed to a neighbor's hdme. The chains' had not been DUt on th aufn trunk nt lha Kf o machine, slipped into a-mudhole in theJ . Biua vi ma rvaa ana stncK. iiowever, the horse -apparatus extinguished . the blase. Journal's Reference Books 'Are .for Exceptional; as ,Welh , as Everyday Use. Lu....V.iSSiOii WATSON . IS AFTER ST. f.1,"TlN ', - I, in f Steps Taken to-Have United Christian Conference In-. . corporation Dissolved.-1-. : NelumblunwHere U a word that cot one man in JO can give the meaning of and the chances are that not one in 20 would ever need to know anything about -Nevertheless, the word" and what it stands for- are thoroughly treated in Everybody's Cyclopedia for the simple reason that th cyclopedia was compiled for the purpose of meeting the need of not only 19 men but the. twentieth as well. And as a result; nelumblura is one of the-86,000 subjects diaoussed within the covers of the five fat volumes that make up the set -. V-'-1' Everybody's Cyclopedia can be secured at The Journal office at tbe unheard-of price of $1.98, provided of course' the money is accompanied by one cyclopedia coupon clipped from the paper. ... , ; pach volume la .about, inches long, inches wide and IM ' inches thick- Just the right size for, people who want an easily handled, ready reference li brary. The book are bound in . blue English cloth, the prlotlnr is clear, and clean, and beautiful illustratloni In mon otones and colors grace the pages, . : fiatn every flay, understandable Eng lish is employed lir the - treatment tf subjects. Verbosity has been, done away with ana everything has . been reduced to a point where the reader gets what he wantstha, vital, Jiving facta, . i No better book bargain has beeen of fered the readers of The Journal. None can make a mistake by purchasing a set. And anyone who after buying tha cvclo. pedlar desires his money back can have it because The Journal guarantees to refund the full amount to anyone who for any reason Is dissatlafled with this "greatest. bargain." y fi'fi'-.x CRAWFORD WILL DEFEND MINIMUM WAGE-LAW - . (Salem Bureae of tteJeqrnai.j'V'" Salem, Or., Oct. 17. Attorney Gener al Crawford has ' been requested to de fend the minimum wage commission in the Injunction, suit brought to restrain the commission from enforcing its or der regulating the wages of women em ployed in factories. He expects to gone Portland tomorrow to confer with the commission about the case, which will teat the constitutionality of tbe law cre ating the commission. , ' (Saltm Sureaa jti JwrnL ' 'Balem, Or, Oct 17. Acting upon In formation received from Deputy District Attorney J. Collier of Portland, Cor poration Commissioner R. A. Watson has taken ftfiv to have the attorney general -brlnga suit W cancel the ar ticles of - Incorporation of the United Christian conference of the Church of "riaU. : . "From the evidence I have no hesi tancy In saying the whole scheme la fake and fraud organised for the purpose of deceiving the people In the name and under the cloak of religion.", states Collier In his letter to Watson. Tha president of the corporation and chief operator' in the scheme is St. D Martin. Collier reported that ' Martin andjils wife and secretary a short time ago : were ; convicted of vagrancy and given a Jail sentence and fine but were paroled from the bench by Judge Mc Ginn. He said their principal -vocation was ordaining ministers of tbe most il literate type, charging 1.50, each. He said these fake preachers would take up collections once a month for the support of Martin and his wife. ,-'', Last June Martin and his wife were arrested while, conducting a "tag sale" on the streets' in Portland. Collier said they used three different pretenses for selling tags, one being that the money was -for the . benefit of vthe World's Chrlatlanshlp ? conference, another that it was for the Baby Home, and another that it was for an Old People's Home. He aald the "conference" which author ized the sale was composed ot five or six members of the hobo type, and was held in a small room over 26S Fifth street. - ;k ti sAtvy ? The matter of cancelling the organisa tion's articles of incorporation was first taken up with the corporation ! depart ment by George A. Thacker of Portland, who said that the -office of the "dio cese" Was in a cluttered basement on Fifth street-' .. , -' " WOMAN WHO GOSSIPED , PLEADS GUILTY; FINED Appleton. : Wis., Oct 17. Mrs. Rosa" Lehn, first person punished under the antl-goselplng law. pleaded guilty and paid 121.80 flno and costs. . . GGVE!.i:..ii.T .DjEPIS PORTS' OFFER OF COIN Half Million Will Be Used to Expedite Construction of '. ' North : Jetty, , w v - Acceptance of the offer to the gov ernment of (500,000 made by tbe Forts of Portland and ; Astoria, to aid the rapid extension of- the north Jetty at the. mouth pt the Columbia (river has been communicated to Major J, F.vMc- Indoe, corps of engineer, United States army, from .the- office of the chief of engineers. -Acceptance of the offer was recommended by Brigadier General W. Tv RosselL when he was a chief of englneeM, and has been approved by Secretary of War Oarrlaon. . . v Of the amount mentioned as an emer gency fund, ; $475,000 was voted by the Port of Portland and $25,000 was con tributed by the Port of Astoria. - There is now available from the federal appro priation for the north Jetty work about 1750.000 which would have been suffi cient to tun the work until July 1. 1914. had it not been for the desire of tbe Porta of the Columbia to have work rushed. ; The ' $500,000 is expected to keep the work going under high press ure until another appropriation by con gress is available. . Major , Mclndoe will formally notify the two commlaslons interested of the decision of the government and specify that the funds are to be deposited in the United States treasury. CENTRAL LABOR COUNCIL -.PROTESTS ONE CONTRACT V v ' ;" , ;( r v " (galrm Boreaa t The Jourail.l Salem, Or., Oct 17- The state print ing board has received a proteat from the Central Labor Council of Portland against the' state entering Into a eon tract with a printing firm outside of the state for any printing, saying that just as capable firms are in the atatfe as may be found at San Fraaclaco. . r The protest refers to tne contract made t with, . Pancrof t-Whltney company of Ban Francisco for publishing, the supreme court reports for the next five years. The printing board decided that such a contract one feature of .which is to be an exchange of new reports as issued for the accumulation of old re. porta the state now- ha on hand, would affect a material saving to the state and the contract has already been -signed. The: printing . company has put up a $10,000 bond to carry but its part of the agreement . - . a..-- v 4 -V scKiioss-eammoire uioiiiiie the . 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