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-.-1 THE OREGON DAILY JOURNAL, PORTLAND, TUESDAY EVENING. JULY 7, 1914. 5 ! General Evans rin TITLES WRITTEN FOR I FOUR OF MEASURES i TO GO UPON BALLOT T IS rally meddlesome because of its wide spread interests. ;t The administration. Is inclined to atcept Evans report of his speech," said Secretary Qarrison, "but It fears it will be misunderstood by foreign nations t the matter Is allomed to Mas unnoticed." ' " county officers conferred, It upon them. Those . receiving- the rank were Earl Fisher, county assessor; Grant Fro man, county' recorder, and A. L. Geddes, county surveyor. County Clerk W. L. Marks conducted the knighting cere not know .when a decision - would b " rendered. on, the railroads' IppHcaUon for authority to imM a S "per cent in crease In. freiaht, ratesT,. V- J '-. ;l The commission, .usually adjourns June 1. This" year It Jid not do .'so. YOUNG WOMEN BEAR FRIEND TO LAST'REST VERB00RT PIONEER S " GOING TO OLD HOME tor a reprimand OarrlsOn Will Accept Bis Statement, .'But Will Bebuke Sim Anyway ; Ap . plication for Xave Xs Wot Oranted. Washington, July. 7. Secretary of War Garrison announced today that he would reprimand Brigadier General Evans despite ' the latter's assertion that he was misquoted in the published reports of a speech he recently made, mony ana ne was assisted oy w. L hovn-rr, butl still holding daily corir ferences in an effort to.' agree on enough essential questions to permit t least a partial .ruling on the spplica tlon. . . -- ..;-v:. Four of the commissioners were un derstood to favor authorising tho rail roads to make some advanca In iatt?a; three to oppose It. The majQrlty.- it was said, had ceased tr'ing to win llo minority over to the mjority View and was simply trying to persuade the dis senters to withdraw their objections to the announcement of a . 'spllt de cision. " ; ! V . j&CKROn. county Biuvifi nuycruiicuuuil, and W. W. Francis, county treaurer. The reprimand, it was stated, will go through the regular army channels and not privately.. . Evans recently applied for leave of absence for a" trip abroad. This leave was refused and he will resume his command of the second brigade, first border division. ' ' Interesting Pythian Service. Albany. Or.; -July 7. A unique cere mony was performed last sisht in the OF HEALTH DECISION ; -i - -. - - i.- . - -' Held That Suit Against . City of Silverton Did Not Es tablish' Fact of "Nuisance. I. C. C. Is Divided on Advance in Rates One Abolishing 'Death Pen-j ?ou of Commissioners Understood to Favor Anthorisliig Advance, Throe Aro Hopelessly Opposed to It. Washington, July '7. Members of the Jnterstste Commerce commission said today that they -themselves did ; alty, to Fix County ' Offi ! cers' Terms First on List.. in which,"arcording -to newspaper as counts. he criilclsed. the government as a roeoaiesomene, but wnich really, j hall of Laurel lodge. No. 7, Knights of according to his own version, merely 1 Pythias, when three county officers re referred to the United States as natu-I celved the final rank and three other INDICTMENTS DISMISSED Journal Want Ads brtng results.- A SUR TAX AMENDMENT IN GOUR 1 REVERSED BOARD ' A if s". Y; Purpose X to Place Extra Borden r of Taxation on Cartala Owner at Property. (SfifffliJ to TTii! Journal.) Halem. Or., j July 7. Attorney Gen eral Crawfordl haa written the follow Inn bHllot titles: "Conntltutlortal amendment Initiated uy I'aui Turner, 063 Fourth street, i'ortland, Or.j abolishing death pen alty, its purpose is to' abolish the death penalty for murder committed In the tttate of Oregon and fixing life Imprisonment as the maximum pun ishment for any crime. It repeals the provisions of the constitution and laws In conflict with the same." ' "Constitutional amendment initiated by K R. Kasniussen, Corbett building. J-ortland, Or.;! W. At. Davis, 138 Laur elhurst, Portland, Or., county officers term amendment. lis purpose Is to mend section 6 of article 6 of the constitution of the state of Oregon, so as to make the terms of county clerks, treasurers, sheriffs, coroners and surveyors four years each instead of two years, including those who may be elected at the regular November lection, 181 4.1" "Initiated y Ernest Kroner, Wor cester building, Portland, Or.; K. A. Ncwby, Balerh; George G. Patterson. Forest Orpve;! John A, Jeffery, Lafay ette bulldlngj Portland, and Douglas Lawson, McKay building, Portland Consolidation ; corporation and Insur ance departments. Its purpose is to consolidate tBe office of corporation commissioner ;wlth the office of Insur ance commissioner, the latter official to trunsnct the business of both de partments, and making the office Of Insurance commissioner elective; the first one to be elected at the btennlal election In 1916; insurance commis sioner also fiire warden of the state, Repeals all ats In conflict." 'Constitutional amendment initiated ' by H. D. Wignon, 603 Sixth street. Portland, Or.;IO. M. Orton, 82i Front street, Portland. Or.; H. A. Rice, 412 Third street, Portland, Or.; C. S. Gold- ber, 1026 East Ninth street, north Portland. Or. ;i F. E. Coulter, room S0O Labbe building, Portland, Or. Specific personal yrradsuated extra-ta amend nient of article IX, Oregon congtitu tion. purpose places extra tax on owners of realty, assessed value over jsa.ouo, 10 wit: on eacn ioo over $:f,000 and under $50,000, 50 cents; Over $50,000 jnnd below $75,000, $1; over $70,000 land below $100,000; 1; over $100.000,i$3, sahl personal tax not exempting the realty from regular taxes application of funds so raised to first, county's ahare state reve nues; second, county general school and llbrnry fjund: third, county road and bridge fund; fourth, other ex penses of the: county." i hi rn i District Attorney ?ong-no railed Bring- to Trial on Time. Mrs. Ruth Blanchard Doty. With six young women dressed. In pure white as pallbearers, and, 10 tit tle girls as flower bearers, Ruta Bdanchard Doty, only daughter of Mr. and Mrs. C. P. Blanchard. 6713 Powell Valley road, southeast, was laid to rest In Multnomah cemetery Sunday, June 28, following aji impressive cere mony at the Third United Presbyteri an church in South Mount Tabor. Mrs. Doty died Sunday, June 21, at L.os Angeles, where she had gone for her health. She was only 20 years old and had been married to 'Clyde Doty but six months. The services were conducted by the Rev. Asa Sleeth anS the Rev. J, B. Parsons, the funeral being. It Is said, the largest ever held in the South Mount Tabor district. The pallbearers were Esta Stickler, Elva Fitzlaph, Pearl Kepcha, Olive Douglas, Gladys fe'aulcer and Mabel Smith. The flower girls were- Susie Mooney, Emma Kepcha, Lucy Lyons, Gladys McDuffy, Grace Erickson, Opal Joy, Mildred Joy, Amy Niblin, "Neta Slater and Melissa Hall. Mrs. C. P. Blanchard, Mrs. Doty's mother, was for several years pastor of the Third United .Brethren church, being of the few women ministers in this part of the country. Phone Service to Astoria Increased Attempt to Pass Bad Checks Charge X. E. Brown j Held to Grard Jury by j Municipal Court This Uorning; Ar- rested on East Bide. '! On' a ehargie of attempting to pass worthless checks yesterday afternoov R. II. Brown j was held lb the grand Jury this morning in the . municipal court. He was arrested at Grand ave nue and Ankeny street by Patrolman Bales, after icreatlng trouble In the fruit store of D. C. Pitzer, 4 Grand avenue, wherfc he asked to borrow a fountHin pen. j One check was found In lirown's possession. It was made out by Mrs. Abbie Jackson of 21 Grand 'avenue, She mailed the check, but ft tell into the bands of Brown" in some manner not explained by him. This Check was fori $6.50. Two other checks ach for $151 were drawn with Mrs- Jackson's name signed. Pacific States Company Stretching Three XTew Toll "Unes at s Cost of About $30,000. At a cost of over $20,000 the Pacific Telephone & Telegraph company is stretching three new toll lines between Portland and Astoria In an effort to I f iej Improve its coast service. There are already three lines in operation. Other improvements being pushed by the company are the stringing of 13 VI I miles of duplex wire, 2000 feet of cable emu me muuviu ui ?uuv xcei ui wiu present line between Multnomah Falls and Oneonta at a. coat of $5160,-this work being made necessary by the con struction of the Columbia highway; re placing temporary cable on Terrace :-oad with permanent one, $1670; pole line and aerial cable on Raleigh street. Portland, to replace worn out poles. $1080Tpfet:ing of 51 new poles and 3 miles of wire in Gladstone, $960; stringing 1000 feet of cable and 2000 feet of aerial wire on Portland-Hood River toll road near Luscher, $1250: Improvements on North Front street, Portland, removal of poles on west side of street to compljy with city ordi nance. . $1980; poles and wire at Hepp ner, $1010. , (Salra Boreflu of fti Jnornnt.) Salem,vOr., July 7. Holding that the state board of healtn. which brought suit against the city, of Silverton to ' enjoin it from emptying Its sewer into Sliver creek, did not establish the fact I that a public nuisance had been cre ated, the supreme court today reversed the decision of the Marion county cir cuit court, granting the injunction, and ordered the suit dismissed. Because of - the failure of E. B. Tongue, who was district attorney for Clatsop county in 1913, to bring to trial the case against Charles C. C. Rosenberg, charged with practicing medicine without a licence, during the proper terms of court, the supreme court reversed the ruling of the Clat sop county circuit court and ordered the indictment against Rosenberg dis missed. A similar opinion was handed down by the supreme court today in the case of the State vs. August Hellala, who was indicted on the charge of contrib uting to the delinquency of a minor in Clatsop county. He was indicted Feb- 1 ruary 2, 1913, and was not brought to trial, with the result that the court ordered the indictment dismissed. Oth. er opinions were handed down as fol lows : William Horsfall vs. William Logan, appellant, appealed from Coos county; suit to recover money; judgment for professional services; affirmed. John Morandas. administrator of the estate of John Thalasinos, vs. L. R. Wattis & Co., appellant, appealed from Lane, action to recover damages for death of plaintiffs decendant, affirmed. W. F. Miller, appellant vs. George N. Beck, appealed from Marlon, suit In volving the opening of a street, re versed. First National Bank of North Bend, appellants, vs. W. W. Gage, sheriff, of Coos, suit to enjoin the sheriff from selling . certain property under execu tion, reversed. T. K. Anderson, administrator of the estate of H. A. Williamson, vs. Emma G. Robinson, appellant, appealed from Josephine, petition for reheating, de nied. Interior Decorating company vs Fred Newton, appellant, appealed from Clatsop; action to dismiss appeal . for failure to file the, undertaking within time required by law. Judgment modi if jaw "' t . v Albert Verboort. sketched by Hugh Sparks, Journal correspondent at Forest Grove. Forest Grove, Or July 7. Albert Verboort, one of the best known cit izens of Washington county, has left for his old home In Wisconsin to live with his son, John, at De Pere. The well known Verboort settlement, a colony of thrifty Hollanders two miles north of Forest Grove, was named for. Albert Verboort, who, with four other familiy heads, came from Wis consin In 1875. and bought a section of land from Andrew Black. At that time there was not a house on the section. Antone Krleger, one of thu original five men of the colony, died last week. ."I came across the At lantic ocean from Holland." said Mr. Verboort, "when; I was 6 years old. It took us 52 days to come to Amer ica from Holland. My brother, Will iam, was a priest and preached at Portland, McMinnvllle and other places. He and my father and moth er all died within three weeks of each other at Verboort." Mr. Verboort is 72 years old and has one son, William, at Verboort. Mr. Verboort took with him to Wis consin a piece of bread that he has had since 1860. Union carpenters in : Danville, 111. recently went on a strike for a 10 cent Increase in wages, from 40 to 50 cents an hour. Eilms Depicting Crime Confiscated Detectives Remove Pour Seals of "The Thumb Print" on Complaint of the Mayor's Secretary. t our reels of "The Thumb Print, a film depicting crime, were confiscated last evening . at the Majestic moving picture theatre, where It was to be exhibited. Chief of Police Clark today notified the theatre management that it could not be shown with his ap proval. The management appeared in municipal court and agreed to not ex hiblt the picture,, whereupon the films were returned. Detectives Hill. Craddock and Vaughn went to the Majestic and took charge of the films, removing them to the police station, where they are held under lock and key. Their confiscation was upon request of William Warren, secretary to Mayor Albee, iwho com plained that . the film had : not been passed by the board of censorship. 0FF or a for a voyage "hiking" trip? "Beat in" at this port and stock up with a nifty suit case or traveling bag. 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SThls, the second storm In three days, did still further dam age to crops, roads and bridges, but the railroad was not washed out as In Saturday's storm, and all trains have been running regularly since Sunday night. Tobacco Trust May Be Sued Once Mpre Attorney General McBeynolds Is Sis- j satisfied With Former Suit and Is Conducting' a Wew Investigation. Washington, July 7. Reports that the department of justice' contemplated another suit against the tobacco trust was denied by officials here today. It was stated that Attorney General McReynolds was dissatisfied with the supreme court's, decision against the American Tobacco company and had been investigating with a view to In stituting procedlngs before the court to have the decision strengthened. The lnvesticatlon. ' it was said, had not ' progressed sufficiently to warrant im mediate action. If jom love im be ! 6 th (BIT fflOffl Vidbr a lira jowc ii -'TO.. -SMU. 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