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THE OREGON DAILY JOURNAL, PORTLAND WEDNESDAY EVENING, MARCH 10, 1915 If CHIEF HOLDEN CALLS OLD BUDDING TOTAL VOLUME OF TAX COLLECTIONS UP TO PRESENT SMALL Amount for First' Five Weeks Is Over $310,000 Less Than Period for 1914. A, limited supply of plants for s win dow boxes will also be donated, a little later, by local seed houses and mem bers of Parent-Teacher associations. The committee also :: wishes to be advised if . further supplies of the printed folder, designated as, 'bulletin No. 1 are required. The pledge cards are temporarily exhausted and some requests are being held awaiting the printing of an additional supply. There are still on band a few of the button badges, and those who failed to plant a rose heretofore should still do so and secure one of these em blems. ; i ,j ued his trees at $4 00. Sam Blalsh yesterday- brought suit against the Oregon Taxlcab company, for $5000 damage, alleging that while a paSBenger in one of the company's taxis late last Christmas night he was attacked- without cause by Wallace, Bartle, driver of the machin, who, he nald. was intoxicated.- He alleges that Bartle usod a pair of pliers as a weapon, and that the result has been a permanent injiu-y to his head. NEW SUITS FILfeD FIREMEN SAVE OLD! WOODEN BUILDING FRO M DESTRUCTION Treble damages, amounting to $1100, are asked by R, S. Greenleaf in a suit filed yesterday" against W. S. Hunter. He charges him with cutting down one plum, one fir and nine walnut trees on the Greenleaf country home behind King's Heights. Hunter was cutting clover, It Is alleged, and ' did not take proper precaution to prevent t cuttlns the trees as well. Mr. Greenleaf val VERITABLE FIRETRAP Flames Sweep Under Pekin Horseshoers in Nome, Alaska, earn $10 a day. Orill but Are Quenched in "ime,- CHINESE LIVE IN SHACKS BIG SUM TURNED OVER 25c-35c Prompt Sspoiib on Part of Fireman Taxpayers Urged to Obtain State ments of Taxes at Once in Order to Save Time. Savss Structure t Sixth and Stark 'Kerchiefs rrom Going- Up In Smokt. 14 , Jy" , fJ 1 tivii 'Si, rT - J-- v 5 4 v, - tin J- fe? " ill ill ' IT"! . litmiHei I faSl . Had last night's fire at Sixth and fetarkl streets been a little harder to subdije, the lives of a number of Chi nese Who Jive in a. veritable firetrap in the. rjfar of the buildings that were burndd. would have been sacrificed, in the opinion of Battalion Chief .Holden, who made a. thorough Investigation to day The1 fire originated in. and was con fined to the Black and White Toggery, 85 Sixth street, owned by J. Weinstein and p. Bower. The Pekin grill is upstairs. Ail the structures occupying the -Quarter block are of wood and highly inflammable. The) Chinese live in shacks back of . these stores. They are employed in the Pekin grill and reach their apart ments in ttfe rear by a bridge. The l brick wall of the Wells-r'argo building i, rises 12 stories on one Fide, and the Elks' building-on the other. . The Chinese escaped last night through the grill, and because of -the small extent of the firo their llvss " were not. endangered. Chief Holden said today, however, that the place Is one of the worst fire menaces in Port land, and steps will be taken at once by the department to have it cleaned up. . Losses in last "night's fire will ag- - gregate about J3500, according to the estimate of owners. The Toggery shop, where the blaze started, sustains the heaviest loss, approximately $3000. G. Rusch's tailor shop at 323 Stark street was damaged by water to the extent of $400, while the building was slightly damaged, the floor under the grill being badiy charred In one place. :; Chielf Holden said that - the -blaze started in a small closet under a stairway in the Toggery, from - some fags carelessly piled there. The 'fire quickly spread to the balcony and swept through the merchandise there. Whtin the firemen arrived they saw the blaze raging within and proceeded to srnash the plate glass windows. Thousands of spectators had gathered. As the windows crashed' to pieces there was a wave of smoke and flaming gas that drove the fire fighters back half way across the street. . The heat had sprung the main pipe, . causing the gas to leak. After the ac . cumulated gas had ignited the fire was quickly subdued. . Thel building is owned by H. Wolf of 148 North Eighteenth street and M. Wolf 4f San Francisco. A number of . guestsl who were in the restaurant when the fire started made their es cape quickly. Bureau Merger To Be Explained A. Ih Mills Will Be Principal Speaker at Citizens' Get-Together Sinner at Commercial Club. Final plans for the consolidation of the Commerciar-club, Chamber of Com merce and other civio bodies will be presented at a citizens' get-together dinner at the Commercial club, Friday, March i 19, at 6:30 p. m. No financial support will be asked nor membership campaign launched at the dinner. Following the plan re cently followed by the,Y. M. C, A., workers have been pledged to a mem bership campaign fdr March 23, 24, 25 and 261 on which days memberships for the New Portland Chamber of Com merce jwill be tsolicrted throughout the city from 9:46 a. m. to 12:15 p. m. A. JU Mills will be the principal speaker at the dinner. President C. C. Colt, of the Commercial club, will pre- side. Another speaker wll present the final plans for the consolidation, sup plementing .in detail the plan already outlined by H. V. Chase, who is In charge! of the consolidation work. A large number 'of invitations have' 7 been sent out. and an attendance of at least 400 is expected. The invitations specify business dress, and ask that those, fwho Intend to be present make known! their intention to the consolida tion committee, room 411 Commercial Club building, by M&roh 11. i -... : . C. EJ. Leonard, Centralis, Wash.? has a Bible printed 273 years ago in Lon Flashlight picture :aken by The J ournal staff photographer at 10 o'clock last night at Sixth and Stark. Special Salmon Menus Planned Treading- Hotels and Railroads Will Selp in Observing the Say XText rriday. Special salmon menus will be served by leading hotels and! railroads March 12, salmon day. By reason of the designation of this gastronomic festival, the salmon has been exploited as a food from end to end of the country. All railroads with lines in the Pa cific northwest will give the salmon premier place on their dinner cards on all their lines Friday. Portland chefs have been, lying awake nights to think of new ways in which to serve the kingly food. The Northern Pacific has issued a special salmon menu card, showing the dinner that will te served in all its dining cars and restaurants, and the Milwaukee has Issued a. neat little salmon cook book,- which, besides many "appetizing recipes, contains several pages of Information as to the salmon industry. A government bulletin Is printed, showing canned salmon at the head of a list of foods in protein value. The list includes sirloin steak, sugar-cured ham, eggs, spring chicken and baked beans. Football Interferes With War Progress fi Since receiving a copy of a 3fc cable from Berlin members of j the Portland Recreation league have commenced to hope that it football and othert games which jjf- they believe are wholesome for 3fr the public may also aid in end- t ing the war. The cable, reads as follows: j$ "The German army authori- 3 j ties have issued a general or- 4 der prohibiting In future troops $ In the field from fraternizing with forces of the enemy as 4fc they did at several points in '-afc jjj- the western theatre of the war at Christmas. "To such an extent was this fraternizing carried, out that at 3fc jjt one place, where the Germans and British played football -jfc 4 unnstmas day, they agreed to suspend . hostilities for two days more." LIS MARTIN WHO SHOT GAME WARD ACQUITTED EN, BY JURY Slayer Is Given Freedom on First Ballot and Returns to Homestead, Special to Tbs Journal.) Medford, Or., March 10. After de liberating over -the evidence for four hours, the Jury in the' Loris Martin case acquitted the defendant on a charge of murdering Deputy Game Warden A. S. Hubbard last December by unanimous vote on the first ballot. According to members of the jury, the testimony of Sheriff Singler in favor of the defendant, and Martin's own statement, admitted by the de fense, that he asked from the witness of the tragedy. Constable Irwin of Ash land, only the truth, were the main factors in the decision. Martin was. much moved at the ver dict and was unable to reply to the congratulations showered upon him. With his mother and sister he left im mediately after the trial for the family homestead in the Trail district. The verdict is regarded locally as a great legal victory for A. E. Reames, Martin's attorney. Neither Mrs. Hub bard nor Prosecuting Attorney Kelly were present when the verdict was an nounced. Deny Mrs, Lord's Claim. White Plains, N. T-, March 10. The declarations of Mrs. Eugene Lord that she married Thomas A. Lord, million aire, in San Francisco in 1888 and Is therefore entitled to his estate, was denied by affidavits filed in court Christina Goetz is dead in Brooklyn, N. .. in her 100th year. County Commission Lets Oil Contracts Standard and Union Oil Companies OlTlde Almost Evenly Business Amounting to About $36,000. On recommendation of Purchasing Agent Nelson, the county commission ers yesterday awarded the furnishing pt fuel oil to two companies, the TJnion Oil company of California and the Standard Oil company. The Union Oil company offered to deliver oil at the Multnomah farm for 98 cents a barrel, while the Standard asked one cent more. Thecentract amounted to $3569.85 last year. With the one exception, the com panies' bids were Identical: Eighty cents at Willbrldgo dock, 9J cents at the courthouse, the hospital, Kelly Butte and the three ferries. . These items were about evenly divided be tween the companies, the Standard re ceiving $18,828.16 wortn of orders based on 1914 figures, and the Union company $17,042.04. The Clark & Wilson Lumber Co. of fered green slabwood at $2.10 a cord for the St. Johns ferry, and Superin tendent of Ferries Welch will make a special report and recommendation April 1, the bid meanwhile being held In abeyance. Tax collections for the' first five weeks are over $310,000 less than foe the same period of 1914, according to turnover figures prepared by County Auditor Martin. For the first five weeks of 1915, but $631,298.03 was paid in, compared with $941,696.09 for the same period of 1914. Last week's turnover amounted to $176,910.66. But 18 full days of actual tax col lection remain, as all taxes, or at least half payments, must be made by March 31, to escape penalty. Where first half payments are made by March 31, second naif payments may be made up to September 30 without Infliction of interest, provided such half pay ments are invade after May 2, when the new tax law doing away with in terest on unpaid half payments be comes effective. To save time, tax payers should get statements of tneir taxes at once. Flower Seeds to Be Provided Children City Beautiful Committee Asks That Xt Be Supplied Information Regard ing1 Gardens and Preferences. The City Beautiful committee of the Rose Festival association, through the efforts of Mrs. J. K. Locke, chairman of the supply section, has arranged for a quantity of flower seeds for dis tribution among the schools and de sires information, which should be' ad dressed to Mrs. B. T. Voorhorst, sec retary City Beautiful committee care Rose Festival headquarters, as to size and shape of space available for flowers, preference as to prevailing color and whether shaded or sunny location. With this information available, a selection will be made or varieties that will Insure a succession of blooms. 1S07 . ' . COUNTY COURT NEWS A petition by P. K. Knebo that he be allowed $26U, Instead of $150 damages to his property, as the result of open ing of a county road petitioned for by Clara 3. Larsson and others, was re ferred to Roadmaster Teon by the county: commissioners, to whom It had been submitted. On presentation of a bill for $112.37 by the Western Union Telegraph com pany for damages to property as the result of blasting on the Columbia river highway, the board entered an order disclaiming any liability for re pairs listed by the company and noti fied District Attorney Evans and Road master Teon of its action. LEARN TO PLAY PIANO OR ORGAN IN A fEW HOURS IN YOUR OWN HOME Detroit musician has invented a wonderful new system which enables any person or little child to learn to play the piano or organ in one even ing. Kven though you know abso lutely nothing about music or have never touched a piano or organ, you can now learn to play in an hour or two. People who do not know one note from another are able to play their favorite music with this meth od without any assistance whatever from any one. This new system is called the Numeral Method, Write today for our Free Booklet, which will be sent postpaid at "our expense and which will explain our special offer and tell you all about tjiis successful method that has already brought pleasure and happiness to thousands of homes in all parts of the United States and Canada. Simply write us a postal card or letter, saying: "Please send me your Free Booklet." This will cost you nothing and put you under no obligation to us whatever. Ad dress Numeral Method Music Co., 191 C Trussed Concrete Bldg., De troit, Mich. (Adv.) Enjoy It Now Your VICTRQIA Pay Later in Easy Payments You can afford a Victrola. Perhaps not the $200 tyie, out ine genuine Victrola comes in styles at 75, $40, $25 arid even $15. We are very liberal in our terms, spreading easy payments over a number of months, so that paying for your Vic trola is forgqtten in the pleasure you and your family derive. Why be deprived longer? Come in and select it and have it delivered at once. Sherman, VICTOR TALKING MACHINES PIANOLA. PIANOS STEINWAT. WKBER AND OTHER PIAJHOS I Morrison at "Sixth, Portland, Opp. Postoffice EN, young and old, who are looking around for Spring wear -- who want to clothe them selves better than before at less money should look at our Moyer Suits at In quality of fabric and thoroughness of tailoring they're not equaled at the price. Buy Moyer Suits you pay less and get more! When You See It in Our Ad, It's SO! THE- QjUALlTf STORE OP PpRTLAND IWv5bdi.1orrloTyAbUr9ta. : I 17 c is .. Hi -3 oOi c . . SO T ' r For women. All .are made of linen Itul shamrock lawn. Em broidered corners in 25 differ ent styles. White and colored. Six -for 75c -each 17cJ I First Floor, Blxth-St. Bldg". Come Early Tomorrow! We've Just Received Today Famnoo WiirafoinnioE0 99 Waists for All new models, extremely pretty ana careruiiy ana aepenaaDiy maae. If you arehe of the women who have never seen these "Wirthmor" models, come tomorrow and-see what surprisingly good Waists they are. ' - - . : - nrth Floor Blth St. Bldg. as 2 2 Ready! Our Women's "SilkMaidHose" At $1.00 New colors of putty, sea sand, Belgian blue, salmon, light and dark champagne, beige, mole skin, new blue, Copenhagen, battleship gray and all the staples black and white. The best hose on t"he mar ket and always priced $1. First Floor. Sixtb-St. TSlUf. 2o$ oO a w m ' T3 CD Women's Mercerized Silk Sweaters $5.50 Regulation tyle. Half-beltd models $8. Silk and wool Sweaters, cash and cap to match, $12.75. Fifth Floor, etb St. Bldr. 200 Pieces 19cto35c Ribbons At 15c Messalines, moire, plain taf feta, fancy Dresdens, combina tions and plain colors. Broken lines for hairbows, etc. First Floor. Slxth-St. Bull din. Special Purchase M N en s mew it mc Spring Union Suits 79c Choice of All Sizes 1200 Union Suits in this purchase and all to be sold at 79 garment. Egyptian cotton, cream color; long lee?ve, ankle length; short lceve, three-quarter or ankle length; have closed crotch. Buying your season's supply NOW means a very big saving. ! . :;. I ' I I TmporT Annsx,Flrst Floor lust 144 of These I $1.00 "Wilson" Com- en ; r Ibination Gas Ovens Famous ''Wilson" M a ke 39 One of the greatest gas-savers known is the Com-, bination Oven. . . It broils, toasts, roasts and bakes in a perfect manner, using the minimum quantity of gat. Hundreds of Women Use Them. They'll create a furore of selling tomorrow at 39. No phone orders 1 Ttmpowr aaati 3d Floor These New All-Over Scrima Tomorrow, Yard ' 12c 1 Ideal for all curtains new, dainty color effects, j ; i, Also 30c to 50c Curtain Lace Nets, yard 1 7c i ; j i Temporary Ann 9th Floor These Fine $5.50 Gray Blankets j. ; Pair $4.45 ttdT fancy Dark Kray Nmottli borders .full isizr. $2.50 C,ore I-ea lier, Bed Pillows. $2.05. i i I. Buy Tomorrow! "Yeloban" Milk Doz. 80c I1 rr- The lowest price in years. I! i arOD A strictly hiirh-crrade Orcjro product. , I - It (t Case of 4 dozen cans S3. 15 i Orocry Butmiit Sixth St. Sldf. " c ca sr 0 lis n n 3 -M n M . O V) In n P 3 o an 1 3 VST 00 ? 3 o o a 53 sir 5o "5 2 M u, - "L 2 3' .rr.2 3 9' 0 n.o 3 2 54" 523 "I fi-ftO 0 1 1 3 7S ("--) o e 3S ft r$ O BO n 1 3 S. ti in 2 T' U 3 VJ a 3 1 it m II 1- Second and Morrison Third and Oak m iherStorlfdr'-Eveibbdy. iyj:y Li r2