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" " - THE OREGON DAILY JOURNAL; PORTLAND, FRIDAY,! MAY 14, 1815! : ' 3 COMMISSIONERS WILL ASCERTAIN IF SALMON Old Rsh and Game Commis sion Holds1 Last Regular Meeting. ' j FIN LEY SUBMITS REPORT tat Game Warden Says That 333 Ar rests Were Mad During K ;- " Tear! 1914.; Investigation of the condition of the fish ladder at the falls In the 'Wil lamette river at Oregon City will be made by a committee of the state fish and frame commission. Commissioners Duncan, Kelly and KJnney wre ap pointed to make the Investigation and report at a meeting to be held before the present commission is supplanted Tjy af new commission on May 22. when the new fish and frame commis sion law Koes into effect. : Commissioner t Kinney reported that jhe considered the fish ladder in poor condition and a detriment to the com mercial fishing interests of the state. : Stats Game Warden W. L. Finley submitted a report, showing the num ber of arrests and convictions secured for violations of the game laws. His figures indicated a great Increase In public sentiment in favor of seeing that' the game laws are enforced, j A few years ago it was Impossible to get a Jury to convict people in cer tain parts of "the state for violation of game laws, reported Mr. Finley. Thla is gradually changing. Farmers and other . landowners have become more interested In game- protection. They - have coins to understand that game is one of our most valuable re sources."; ""From the time the fish and game commission took office, on May 21, 3 911, to December 1, 1912632 arrests were made for the violation-xof game laws. Out of this number, 420 convic tions were secured, or 66 per cent of .the persons arrested were convicted, t "During the year of 1913 there were 312 arrests and '229 convictions, or 73 per centj of those arrested were con victed, i , "During the past year of 1914 there were 333 arrests and 307, or 92 per cent of those arrested were convicted." This 1b considered the highest per centage of convictions secured by any fish -and game commission in the country. , At the request of the Klamath Sportsmen association, the board opened Spencer creek to fishing from May 1 to January 1 of each year. The stream has been closed to enable the gathering of eggs for the fish hatch ery. : ," Game Warden: -Finley was delegated to attend the annual meeting of the Congress of American Ornithologists' union, which will be held next week In San Francisco. ; He will also consult With the California fish and game commissioners regarding game protec tion and propagation. ; 'The fish and game commission met r8terd&T kf tnrnonn hnMinc lt regular meeting before the new law will go into effect. ; ; Aged Man Walks Across Continent Edward Payson Weston, venerable pedestrian, has nothing on Fw E. Wett- berg, a former soldier In the United States army, now In Portland. - who says he walked from New York to San Francisco on a bet in 120 days. Wett berg, who Is past 65 years of age, left New fork January 15 with 4 cents in his pocket, carrying n army rifle and a pack weighing! 70 pounds. He earned the way tlie best he could on the way. no says jie nag letters rrom the gov ernors or states and mayors of cities he passed through. :' .?' . " i m " ' Monument Voted Dry. ' John Day. Ori May 14. Joe Seimas and Jack Eads, residents of Monument, in the extreme;- northern end of the eounty, are before the grand jury here on a -charge of" selling liquor in dry territory. On January 1, 1916, in ac cordance with the terms ' of a local election, Monument went dry. Since then repeated complaints have been made that liquor is being sold. : The matter was finally brought to the, at tention, of District Attorney Cozad, and he secured ; sufficient evidence to warrant presenting the case . to the grand jury. -William Veigas and Dewey Benson, two 17-year-old lads, who ran away from home early in April, have been returned to their homes. The 'boys got as far as Drewsey, 50 miles, where they worked on a ranch. The parents learned of their whereabouts through wcunen irora urewsey, and the boys were brought home. When You Set It In AN C MB LADDER A MOYER Suit at $15 a mighty low price to pay, for so great clothes-satisfaction. The Spring 1915 models are full of snap, style and service. See them! 10 K Second and Morrison Third and Oak PROGRESSIVES WIN V AT PACIFIC "U" If C'. A, . , -iSA .; all I J Edwin, O. Dibble. Pacific University, .Forest Grove, Or., May 13. At the annual student body election held here Wednesday morning, Edward, O. Dibble, '16, was elected president for the. coming year. Mr. Dibble was a candidate of the Pro gressive ticket, and all of his col leagues were chosen except for the position of secretary, which was cap tured by the Boosters by one vote. Mr. Dibble is a member of the Alpha Zeta society, having served one terra as its presiding officer. lie is a mono gram man in track, his events being the high jump and the low hurdles. This season he was chosen as the cap tain of the 1915 squad. Miss Norma Hope was elected vice president by the largest vote of the election Miss Elizabeth Briggs. '16, is tne new secretary, and Harold Reed, '18, the treasurer-elect. The new offi cers take charge at the beginning of the next year. Little interest was manifest in the election. The results were as follows: President, Kdward O. Dibble. 36; Jay Austin, 25; vice president. Norma Hope, 38; Ruth Haines, 22; secretary, Freda Acker, 30; Elizabeth Briggs, 31; treasurer, Harold Reed, 32; James Rasmusen, 29. Topographic Map Work Is Delayed Salem, Or.. ; May 14. Because the state's appropriation for the work was materially reduced by the recent legis lature, it will be impossible to complete the Willamette valley topographic map during this biennial period, as origi nally planned. According to Engineer Lewis, Charles LHartman Jr. has completed the organi zation of what is known in engineering circles as a double plane party and has established a camp at Liberty, from which point he will operate in making a topographic map of the Salem quadrangle and part of tho Dal las area. C. L. Sadler, who is in charge of a similar party near Linnton. expeets to complete the Hillsboro quadrangle of 210 square miles this year. At the close of this season only the McCoy. Mount Angel and Aumsvitle quadrangle sheets will remain to com plete the valley area from Eugene to Scappoose. Several large drainage projects are in contemplation In this unfinished area and the maps would have been of great assistance to the farmers In organizing these districts, according to Lewis. j All the work in progress is being carried on by the state engineer in co operation with the United States geo logical survey, span the dollar for dol lar basis. Marshfield's Want Said to Be Jetty i. : 3. S. Bayliss Says Qreat Thtrngn will Happen When' Railroad Is Com pleted. What Maxsh field must have is a Jetty. Then she will have a good 30 feet of water over the bar and Coos Bay will become a great port. This was the assertion of J. N. Bay liss of Marshfield, who was In Port land yesterday on business. He is a building material man and, though he finds active comtnirti dull just now. is among the optimists oi m-e coast country. "Great things will happen our way when the Willamette Pacific and the Roseburg & Kastem railroads are built into Coos Bay," he said. "The KoseDurg line win bring to tidewater the vast timber rwmnrrps nf rtmio-toa county. When our jetty is built, our port should become the most import ant lumber-shipping port on the coast." . Our Ad, It's SO I 1 W wi( M Mi ; . i-,yy-'v.-y Mil lJ iff FEATURE OF HARBOR PLAN AT S. F. IS THAT IT IS SELF-SUPPORTING h Huge Revenue for Terminal Construction on Low Rate Is Provided. ' OREGON! AISi ERROR SHOWN California, Commisslonars Issue Xtaport for 1914 Showing Main Ideas of Policy 7oUoweL By J. B. Ziegler. The San Francisco harbor commis sion In Its recently published report for 1914, has this to say; introductorily: "Under the law, the harbor has been self supporting since, its inception. All the cost of construction and mainte nance as well as operating expenses, are paid out of harbor 'receipts. The principal and interest of all bond issues must aJso 'bejpaid out of the same revenues. San Francisco har bor thus pays its own way, not a dol lar coming ouf of the public treasury or taxes, .if' "The advantage of public owner ship is shown by the provision of the law that harbor -charges must not exceed the amount necessary to meet operating, repair and construction ex penses and redeem bond issues. Aliens and citizens are treated on equal terras, it is estimated that if the present San Francisco harbor front and facilities were owned and operated, by private interests, they would : be capitalised at least for the sum of $250,000,000, and handsome returns oonld be easily made out of that figure. Poor Idles In Use. ' "The present waterfront line of San Francisco in active use is approxi mately four miles in length. ' On June 30, 1914, there were in existence on this line 14,210 feet of completed sea wall, 26 piers and 27 seawall lots of land, having a total area of 941.786 square feet, together with the tract of 25 acres leased for 50 years in the year 1900 to" the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railway, company. (Before the regime of the present board). The piers and bulkhead ; wharves offer about nine miles of berthing space at the present time, and the system can - be expanded, as the population and -commerce demand, until it will cover quite 50 miles. "By the progressive construction of a permanent seawall around the water front, on the line fixed by law, im portant land areas have been reclaimed and become the property of the state and have been devoted to harbor uses Some have been leased to railroads and warehouses and some have been reserved for the use of the state belt railroad." t Advantages Referred. On October IS (note the dates) last, while the public dock measures were pending. The Journal published a let ter, for me, in which I called atten tion to the San Francisco terminal and the advantages accruing from it the large port business it had helped to attract, and the better and cheaper facilities it furnished the amount of business- comparing to Portland "f or 1913, about 1250,000.000 to 157,000,000, (exact figures not available). An edi torial,, writer in the Qregonian, appar ently holding! the letter to be an of fense against its monopoly to furnish the public information on such mat ters, on November 1 preceding the election on the third, replied in this style: Sefnting Waterfront Busybody. An unscrupulous busybody who Is supporting the waterfront amendment, naa recently secured the publication T article which carries the im plication that the receipts of the pub licly owned San Francisco waterfront amounting in 50 years to about 330, 000.000, were a net return to that state, rhe last biennial report of the board or harbor commissioners (for 1911-12) discloses that there has been no net return. The receipts were gross and were all expended in operation or bet terments. Likewise the same advocate of the local amendment has produced figures purporting to show that the net re turns in the two year period ending July l 1912, aggregated $2,629,721. As a matter of fact, it cost to operate the property $2,543.di6. leaving an operat ing profit of but $86,6 75. The expenditures take, no account ot 4 per cent interest on a $89,000,000 ltypoeraDhica.1 ,rrnr to nnn nnn bond issue. This interest in the two years amounted to $720,000 actually leaving a large deficit in the conduct cuierpnse. . Oregonlan Taken to Task. Now that we have the 1914 report of the San Francisco board to hand, it shows, as stated above, not only that all expenditures are provided for out of the receipts, but that the law creating the board and under which it operates, prompts it from incurring any expenses not tanen care of by the harbor revenues. The Oregonlan man although fo uppity in his assumptions that I meant prom instead or receipts, and in forming the voters with sucb cock soreness of my misstatements, will find by referring again to the tables on pages 8-70 of the San Francisco harbor; report. 19 2. that the totals are as follows: f For th biennial period ending June 30, 1912: . . Improvement fond, total re- v eeipts , !. ... . ,$2,629,721 Total disbursements ........ 2,202.343 Balance $ 42778 Disbursed for seawall i ac count, charge to seawall bonds . . , $ 340,703 Net balance f 86,675 Total disbursements. im- , provement fund and sea- 1 wall, account ......... .$2,543,046 Out ol? the $2,202,343 disbursements out of the revenue for the year, for current use. about tl.60O.000 was for dredging, construction and repairs. In 1909 a bond issue of $9,000,000 Was authorized, f rr pnntnioHnn n seawall, bearing 4 per cent, and sold v uiis-uiui or one per cent premium. The item on seawall account of $340, 743 is chargeable against the bond account, which must, eventually be paid by the harbor revenues. Of these uuiiub aoout 92,voo,oo had "been sold (page 29). Prior to 1909. $1,000,000 of similar bonds had been Isold. On page 84 of the report, we fjnd the interest account for the year to be $221,111 Instead 'of $720,000 as ! the Oregonlan man alleged, and that is how. the Ore gonlan refuted me. Immediately on appearance of this editorial I gave the Oregonlan a statement trying to get them to correct their figures on this point, but I failed. The upshot, nowever, is that the San Francisco terminal; is not permit ted to spend any but its own revenues, nor is it permitted to collect revenues, not necessitated by the port expendi tures. True, it has hypothecated us income to carry $10,000,000 of bonds to be expended for immediate better ments, xne seawall, the completion of which to China basin. Is Just an nounced, and proposes to issue a like amount again, but it appears that the outlay is warranted by the business secured. Nothing of value can be hed without paying the cost except in Portland, where the public foots every body's bills and that's what's the matter with Portland. The public is tired and is vacating. Unless the city uses Its advantage as a port and increases its port busi ness, as Judge Burke says, "the city is too big already." Portland must nublicize its nuhlln aat. n4 ness opportunities. V When writing or calling on adver tisers, you will confer r. favor by men tioning The Journal. (Adv.) Another $1.50 Corduroy Pants, 98c Stoat, well-made pants for boys of 6 to 18 years. Buy them to morrow without limit, only 98c BEN C O Important Train Exposition Special On account of storm conditions in California, the new train scheduled for Sunday at 8:30 A. M. from Portland to San-Francisco has been temporarily an nulled. Due announcement of the inauguration of this service will be made later. No. 17 Roseburg Passenger Will leave Portland 8:50 A. M. instead of 8:30, Oregon' City 9:lO, Woodbarn 10:35, Salem :20, Albany 12:50 P. M., Eugene 3:23 P. M. i Ar rive at Roseburg 5:50 P. M. . i No. 120 will leave Reedville at 6:10 A. M. instead of Beaverton. A. JVL No. 110 will leave Whiteson at 5:15 p. M. instead of McMinnville, and will connect . J f I I . ; ' train irum doeriuin. N. 302 will leave from A. M. No. 141 will leave Portlana arrive Portland 6:00 earner ana leaving later. j Loop Excursion Trains Beginning Saturday, Way 15, and Sunday, May 16, and continuing every Saturday and Sunday during the Summer, Special Loop" train, Portland to McMinnville and return, -will leave Union Depot at I P. M., Fourth and Yamhill l :09 P. M. via the "West Side'' and Forest Grove, returning via the "East Side" and Newberg, allowing three hours at McMinn ville and a most delightful ride through the Willamette Valley, arriving Portland 8:10 P. M. Fare 11.60 round trip. . i i ' ; I".- I -1 r ' j? ; i . ; h Saturday Night Special to Forest Grove 1 Special train to Forest Grove and return will leave Portland at 9:30 P. M. every Sat urday and will stop at all intermediate points. Returning, train will leave Forest Grove at 11:00 P. M., arrive Portland 12:10 A. M. n I Other minor changes will be explained by any agent of the - i ! FIRST TROUT ABSORBS UNDIVIDED INTEREST OF STEEL TRUST, HEAD James A. Farrell Forgets In dustrial Activities and Dis cusses. Sport. Such humdrum things as the effect of war upon the steel Industry and the possibilities of developing new mar kets and new distributing centers on the Pacific coast had little interest for James A. Farrell, president of the United States Steel corporation, yes terday. Kven when he boarded the private car of E. O. McCormick, Vice president of the Southern Pacific, he couldn't help talking about the first fish he caught the day before in the Deschutes river. The three days the steel magnate spent in Oregon . were full of events. Business was the least eventful of all. The greatest feature was the fish he almost caught. The next In Im portance was the first one he did catch. The president's party left about 8 o'clock last night for San Francisco. He had intended to leave on the Shasta Limited, but when Mr. McCor mick offered the use of his car. he decided to Wait , a few ' hours and ac cept his hospitality. The car, accord ingly, was I hooked on to the second section of No. 13 and hurried south ward. Mrs. Farrell and Miss Farrell appre ciated their visit in Oregon hugely and joined the magnate in expres s!ons of pleasure to the farewell com mittee that waved them adieu at the Union depot. Session Isw Ready. Salem, Or., May 14. The session laws for 1916 are being' distributed by Secretary of State Oloott now and the cost Is $1.35, -Including postage. Th. laws wer. compiled, printed and ready : for distribution earlier this year than i any year. sine. J905. - ! Crowded Saturday! $6.00 Norfolk Suits with extra knickers These are feal tailored suits. The coats are all Norfolk style, with alpaca or serge linings;? both pairs of knickers are lined, and the seams are taped. They are absolutely the best suits you can buy at the price. Tomorrow $4.95. Straw Hat Special For Saturday we have grouped a great lot of children's and boys' regular $1, $1.50 and $2.00 Straw Hats in one lot. Take your choice at l. . . . ,50t Second Floor TP T T T TT Ji Jb Li 1 1M MORRISQN AT FOURTH . ' SUNDAY; MAY Train Changes ; . - : i Cook at 5:55 AJVl. instead of Oswego, Tillamook Seashore Trains at 7:45 A. JVL instead of 8:55, as at present, and Train 142 will P. M. instead of 3:10, as at present, reaching beach points Sootlberini Pacific JOHN M. SCOTT, General Passenger Agent, Portland, Or. There Is Causa. For Rejoicing in Town of John Day . John Day.'OrJ May 14. City 4t folk and most country people, too, who can go to the movies and see five reels for a Jitney. f might find : It i hard to realise that th. film fans of John ray have ben paying $5 for th. 4r same sort of entertainment. , Bat not now. I .. . -v.- t P. A. Snyder : and Archie Tlmms have put a first class , motion picture I machine in the local tneatre. and promise satis- factory shows at 25 cents a per- : son. j i Heretofore, when the love- , jfc lorn swain has entertained his fair one at the j movies it has really meant something to him and to her. i It has been: an event. Involving as it did the hiring of an automobile ior transportation to Canyon City, the nearest "show town," th. trip, including i admission, set- ting the young! Locninvar mw at least $5. Now for 60 cents' the show is on. J I What matters! th. high cost I of living? It's! th. price; ot loving that counts. ; ' . -l : 'Missouri Objects - To Quarantine i , I Salem. Or., May 1 4. Following th. I receipt of a declaration rrom Acttng ttovernor William It. Painter of Mis souri, that a quarantine wottldb. de clared against Oregon livestocn. a mr ni was unt hv Statn Veteri narian Lytle late 1 yesterday stating that at Governor Withy combe's request th. state livestock ooara was casing up the matter of lifting the embargo against Missouri livestock, with other J western, states belonging to tne loaera tion formed at San Francisco. - "If the majority vote to lift th. em bargo against Missouri, we will gladly An an " T.vtln wired.! "Measures origi nally taken wholly as a precaution so as to enable holding or livestock snow at San Francisco. Missouri Win be H LE ADING VJ CLOTHIER es 16 Arrive Portland 6:55 with and arrive Portland 6:35 $4S i Uhaiig much benefited in .keeping foot and mouth disease out ' western states. Your proximity to centers of infection mad. th. order necessary." ' Missouri's acting governor Intimated that if a quarantine against Missouri was a good thing, one against Oregon should b. all right, too. Pacific "IT Gives Play. Pacific University. Forest Grave, Or- May 14, The drama' class, of Pacific university Wednesday evening ; pre sented Wimanv Vaughn Mood.y's "The Great Divide" to a large 'and apprecia tive audienc. in university chapel. Joseph McCoy, as Stephen Ghent, and Alice Smith, as Ruth Jordan, sur passed their previous successes in the leading roles. Others who have starred before local audiences carried import ant parts in the performance of last evening, among whom were Ivan Don aldson. Alva Patten, Kdwy Dibble and Jenness Miller, Those of . lesser ex perienoe. but. with truly great talent, are Allan Harris, Arthur Ireland. Watt Long, Herbert Duell, Klbert Taylor and Men's Walk-Oven , SXOO OradM 984 S3.SO Oradss ...i.... ...Sl.48 S4.oo DtMn J. ..........jf. S tSM Oradss ...j..... .-. .02.48 j WRIGHTS Corner! Fourth and Alder Lake Louise in th Canadian Rockies Melted amethyst in a ring of mountains loreliert lake in all the world. You see it from the veranda of ft wonderful mountain hotel the Chateau Lake Louise a palace amid wild nature. - ErtrytiMg CssasSsa Pacific Stswisr Usee Better You take your; borne with you on your vacation trip if you vuit the Canadian Pacific hotels at . Revelitoke Balfoor dader Field Lake Louise Banff Reached by the Canadian Padfic, Nature' Exposition Route to the Canadian Rockies. For TurtW particulars of these cool summer places, call or write for Booklet No," H48 3. . Vi KPHT. C. a. . T Plmdnn Vmat Ratlws ii Third St.. FttrUaad, On(M 1 . " .. - ' .' . ".- - i- SmlMfi;' if J)))M WE ear, Smoko intelli- A ! f(0 genljr,wwitliout any dia- i (fplA l ' respect. To choose the right j Ir' j" '. ' ' cigar for tho right occasion i fry 4 not, easy.' - fM$r VV For times when a lieavy ! : fffiy Jl-HaTana cigar proVea too fuM"',' '?$ ' "heayy, you will enjoy the ftlfM : tew&te& . ! WikA WM s ekillful blending produces " ' ! 1 11 W GcnlArttur- MWO ' '"po&ion hoihe" in the ' WmMAm AM. A. Cunst& Conine . ;; , If ' Geri1 v N '-r J ri Also a 3 far a quarter tize , ' j A. i ;liJv ' fllfy Ll . Funeral of Popular Sportsman Is Held Th funeral of Harry EMridira, fO" formerly city salesman for F. Zimmer man & Company, was held yesterrMT afternoon from the Finley Undertak ing parlors and th. body was cremated at the Portland Crematorium. Mr. Kid ridge died Monday at the Good Samaritan .hispltal. following a surgical operation. He was 48 years of age.' H. was well known and popu lar among th. sportsmen . fcnd was Identified with work for better sports manship, particularly as concerned fishing end hunting. The pallbearers were: L..A. Wheeler, Will Peasiee. Ollie Johnson. Frank Sealy. L. D. T."hitehurst and Carl Liebe. ;. Esther Chalmers. The play was under the personal di rection of Prefessor W. G. Harrington of th. dramatics department. American Greatest Cigarette HOTEL CORNELIUS I ! ? i. tkx hovbi or -vrsxAom e Park and Alder Streets Portland, Or. , In the theatre and shopping district, oos block from inr carllne. Rates 1 1 Per day : and up. With bath, $1.60 per i day and up. Take our Brown Auto Bus. f t c. w. oomHXijru. r? Oregon Humane Society; - 674 Belmont St. rnonss Zast 1433, B-SS1S. 'i OPSX SAT AJT9 JTZOXT. Report all eases of cruelty to tli! office. Lethal chamber for small nU main. Morse ambulance for sick od disabled animals at a moment's notice r y -