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Newspaper Page TextTHE 'OREGON DAILY JOURNAL. PORTLAND, FRIDAY, .AUGUST ,13, 1915.. FIRM WITHDRAWS ITS BID WHEN CONTRACT IS ABOUT TO BE LET Rushlight &Hastorfs Offer to Install Heating Plant : Made Void. CLERICAL ERROR ALLEGED Item Of $3325 Bald to Bt Ba Omitted Aftr Bide Submitted Have 1 Beea Bead and Compared. . Again the Portland school board la aeked to allow a low bidder on a school contract to withdraw his bid and his certified check after the bids have been opened and the award Is about to be made. This time It is the firm of Rushlight & Hastorf- which asks to withdraw its bids on the heating plant of the new Franklin high scnool. Reasons given tor wanting to withdraw the bid is that an error was ipade in the tabula tion of the-figures. D. C. Rushlight explained to School Clej-k Thomas that tb stenographer or bookkeeper. In adding up the figures for the bid.. omitted an item, of $2325. Ap parently the figures were never ;hectf3d over, until after all the bids were opened by the school board and it was fuotid that the bid of Rushlight 8c Hastorf was $1861 lower than the next lowest bid. Then the work of the incompetent clerk was discovered. Similar Case Before; - ... In April a similar circumstance arose when Martin Clancy was low bidder on the contract for the Kennedy school. His bid was $26,432 and tha next low bid was for $27,785. Clancy said he made an error in his figures and asked to withdraw his bid and his check. The school board permitted him to do It. . The question of allowing Rushlight & lla-storf to withdraw their bid will coin ft before t h hoard at ' mMtlnff Pthis afternoon. The matter, now ts In the hands of the building committee, the members of which are O. M. Plura mer and Dr. Alan Welch Smith. The bids on the Job were as follows: Rushlight & Hstorfj $21,867; J. F. Shea, $23,728; W. TCJ. McPherson Co., $24,302; Appling Griggs Co., $34,400; Alaska Plumbing-Co., $23,776; Kendall Heating Co., $25,275. ;;' Disapproval Has Beea Expressed. 4 Action of the school board in allow ing bidders to withdraw bids after the bids have been opened has caused considerable comment. While no charges of any nature have been made In these instances, disapproval has beon expressed against allowing a practice to grow which would open the way and Invite collusion on the part of bidders for public contracts. The principle of the practice is declared to he wrong. Woman Killed on ; Way to Be Married Mrs. Dslla Xdffar Meets Death and Fiance, John Liwli, Fatally Injured , When Auto Hits Boulder. Cripple Crek, Colo., Aug. 13. (I. frj. tS.): On their way to Fairplay to be married, Mrs. Delia Edsar was killed Jtoday and her fiance, John Lewis, of Cripple Creek, fatally injured, - when the automobile in which they were 'traveling hit a large boulder at the Toot or a steep hill and overturned. RETURNED TO THE PEOPLE Washington, Aug. 13. (I. N. S.) President Wilson today ordered 6,802,- 000 acres of the Chugash national for est in Alaska returned to the public domain. New Search for Murderer. ob Angeles, Ang. 13. (P. N. S.) A new search for Calvin Whittington, ln a charge of murdering Mrs. Prances Harrison, a wealthy money lender, for merly of San Francisco, several weeks ago, was- on here today. Information that Whittington was aboard a steam ship bound, for Mexican p"brts resulted In a fruitless search of the vessel. Mrs. Harrison was found strangled to death in her bungalow here. She and Whittington. known as Dick Allison, had been living together. Valuable jewelry belonging to Mrs. Harrison disappeared. Boy Loses Three Fingers. " Pendleton. Or., Aug. 13. Catching his left hand In the chain drive of his Metz auto Wednesday afternoon. Worth Watts, 14-year-old son of 'Dr. !F. D. WTatts of Weston, suffered the loss of three fingers. He was riding with James Read, another Weston boy. and reached over to ascertain whether the machine was getting hdt. OU TTTV 1 1 your money. (ff -4 f: PARTY MAKES BIG CATCH 1 - V 4: Pit 1 I 4 L- ft to right Rev. A. M. Williams, Haines, Baptist preacher and dry worker; Charles Hal vorson, Douglas county hunter and guide; Dr. Myers, Haines, insurance; It. P. Hutton, Portland, superintend ent Oregon Anti-Saloon league; "William Parker, Haines, pro fessional trap shooter and hunter for Remington Arms Co.; Dr. . W. Biswell, Haines. In car Mesdames Parker, Biswell, Mc. er. Sometimes the water wa.gon takes to the water. R. P, Hutton, chauffeur of the Oregon water wagon, arrived from eastern Oregon with a photo graph of the record catch for' Union county. The catch was made on Katherlne creek near the city of W, A, Anderson of Vancouver, B, C, Detained at Ellis Island Despite Protests, New York, Aug. 13. W. A. Anderson, on of the wealthiest citizens of Van couver, B. C, was held for Kills island on his arrival aboard the White Star liner Lapland. He will be taken to the Island for further examination. Mr. Anderson, who has been a resi dent of Vancouver for 18. years, where he was engaged in the real estate busi ness, left 16 months ago for England to have an operation performed on his foot. It was successful, but the damp climate of England produced rheuma tism which caused him to limp. .Seld Because of Limp. It was on account of this limp that Dr. Brooks, "of the Immigration serv ice, ordered him held. Mr. Anderson pleaded to be allowed to land, and showed his' through tickets to Vancou ver to prove his contention that he did not intend to stay in this country. An agent from the Canadian Pacific, who was sent specially to meet him, corroborated his statement, but failed to move the Immigration authorities, who declared they had no alternative under the law but to hold him. Offer of Bond Befased. Mr. Anderson then offered to put up a bond for any amount, or -pay an In spector's fare to the border as evidence of the good faith of -his intention to leave the country. When this offer was refused he became reconciled to his fate and went on the upper deck to cogitate upon his position. "I think it is an outrage," he said at first, but later added, "Oh, well, I'll get a terry ride at the government's expense." Further red tape tied up hia baggage for some time HERO OF ROMANCE KILLED London, Aug. 13. U. P.) -War has taken its toll from one of the highest circles in Germany, In the death of Baron von Bleichroeder, son of the noted banker, who was killed in Po land, August 1, according to dispatches received here. It was for love of Baron von Bleichroeder that Princess Sophia of Saxe-Weimer committed sui cide In 1913, when her father, Prince William, refused to permit their mar riage. The baron and princess were secretly engaged, but the latter was told the marriage would never.be per mitted unless - she renounced nil ber titles and rights of nobility. Husband Makes Charges. Salem, Or., Aug. 13. R. A. Wilson has brought suit against M. E. Wilson, his wife, alleging cruelty and unfaith fulness. They were married in Nor ton county, Kansas, August 26, 1899. don't have to buy MMIGRATION DOCTOR HOLDS UP RICH PACIFIC COAST MAN FOR LIP sale in order to get Moyer suits at $15 are the equal of most of the clothes at so-called sales. They are new. clean and up-to-date in qual ity and style. We want you to look at MOYER $15 Suits. JL1 Vlien You See It in Our Ad, It's SO! s Ail 1 t .-''- Union. . The party was made up at Haines. Or.,, and drove over In cars, ariving in tUne to-. begin operations about breakfast time. As a side issue to the Chinook catch, Mr. Hut ton brought with him a six pound rainbow trout. $475,000 Fund for Disaster Sufferers r Relatives of Victims of the Eastland . Sorror Will Get Every Ceat of Big Stun May Kalse Boat Today. Chicago. Aug. 13. (U. P.) Rela tives of the victims of the Eastland disaster will benefit directly from all of the $475,000 raised as a relief fund in Chicago, according to Red Cross of ficials today. This Is the first time in the history of relief enterprises ' that every penny collected is going to the beneficiaries. Business men of the city bore the expenses incident to raising the fund. ' In oyer 90 per cent of the cases a lump sum will be paid to dependents of the steamer victims. The remainder will be pensioned. Aside from $300,000. donated by the Western Electric com pany, the relief fund was raised almost entirely in Chicago. It is expected the Eastland will be raised in the Chicago river today from the muddy bottom where, It turned over with more than 2000 excursionists re cently. The water was almost ' all pumped out this morning, and cables have been wrapped about both ends of the big boat. Fruit Growers Make Protest Walla Walla, Wash.. Aug. 13. When several large fruitgrowers of the valley yesterday filed with, the county com missioners a protest against the work of District Fruit Inspector Charles W. Qilbreath they stirred the latter to a vigorous reply. The charges claim the Inspector has not cleaned up the valley as he should. The reply says those who are complaining are among the worst offenders In the district. The protest has been, forwarded to the state department of agriculture. ' Those signing the protest are among the largest orchard owners in the dis trict. They are: Baker-Langdon Or chard company, Johnson-Martin-Tau-slck Orcfeard Tract, Rader & Barker Orchard, Miles C. Moore & Son and C. E. Montgomery. Union High School Favored. . Roseburg, Or., Aug. 13. Jhe people living in school districts Nos. 68, 101 and 112, in the Anlauf vicinity, have voted In favor of establishing a union high school in these three districts August 28, three school districts near Glide will vote On the same question. Ditch Is Completed. Salem, Or., Aug-. 13. Contractor Lee W. Acheson of Salem has just com pleted the ditch for the George A. Mil ler drainage district, five miles west of Gervais. The ditch Is 5.3 miles long and will drain 296 acres of low land. Latter Day Saints. Centralia, Wash., Aug. 13. The Lat ter Day Saints of the Seattle and British Columbia district yesterday voted o return here for their 1916 reunion. The present reunion closes Monday. clothe at a the most for Second & Morrison Third and Oak ATTEMPT AT SUICIDE MAY LEAD TO WHITE SLAVERY PROSECUTION Young Woman Declares She Poisoned Herself to Escape From Man, JAMES M'CABE INVOLVED Woman Bays Member of Twenty-first Regiment Compelled Her to Live With Elm. Th aftftmnt of IVfinn Clarion A m- dale to end her life with poison in a rooming.-house at 4 28 Stark street, 'shortly before 10 o'clock last night, ! will probably result in the prosecution I of James McCabej a barber of the 1 Twenty-first regiment, stationed at Vancouver barracks, on a charge of violation of the Mann white slavery law. As physicians from the city emer gency hospital treated her last night. Miss Amsdale told them that she had attempted totake her life as the only way to escape the life she Is living with McCabe. ' She met him, she said, three years ago, fn Sunnyside, Mont., and they had lived together ever cince. Many times recently she. has tried to. get away from him, but she asserts ho retaliated with terrible ' beatings and other abuse. The" woman is now at St. Vincent's hospital, but the prompt work of Assistant City Physician Lawton is believed to have saved her life. Living much of the time as brother and sister, McCabe last time enlisted, she-declares, under her name, as James Amsdale. Until last week she was employed as a nurse in training in the government hospital at Vancouver. While there, she asserts, she took steps to get away from McCabe, who Satur day, brought her to Portland. McCabe was just about to have been declared a deserter from the army, shs says, when he decided ,to go back yes terday afternoon. The officers at Van couver have been notified, and Mc Cabe will probably be put in the guard house to await official investigation today. Miss Amsdale, who is 28 years old, is a city prisoner, booked on a charge of .disorderly conduct. She is being held as a witness for the govern ment In case McCabe is prosecuted under the Mann act. C. E, Walpole, proprietor of the rooming house, told the f'pollce last night that the couple was registered as man and wife. ANOTHER PISTOL TRAGEDY Los Angeles, Cal., Aug. 13. fU. P.) R. C. Cunningham, the. fireman who shot MrB. Flora Sanders while shffjj was working behind the counter in a cafeteria yesterday noon, died last evening, and his victim is expected to expire before night. Cunningham fired two bullets into Mrs. Sanders' breast, and. then turned the weapon on himself. He waa jealous. O. & C. Tax Assessment. Salem, Or., Aug. 13. Tax assessment against the Oregon & California rail road lands has been placed on the roll by Assessor West of Marion county, and the usual penalty of 1 per cent per month will be collected on sums de linquent. "Marion county never agreed to give the company any lower rate than provided in the law relating to. de'inquent taxea School Contract Let. Centralia, Wash., Aug. 13. The con tract for erecting a new school at Sil ver Lake has been awarded to Jenkins & Mauer, Kelso contractors. The new school will replace the only recently destroyed by -fire and : will be modern in every detail. It will cost about $10,000 and will contain a large audi torium and four class rooms. IHIHIIIllllillllll Checking Accounts There is no gainsaying the fact that a checking account in this bank is a great convenience, being a complete record of business transacted and money on hand. A check payable to order is a legal receipt. One payable to bearer is not. It is not necessary to. pay in money or handle it to trans act ordinary business. Get familiar with paying by check and you will always do so. Your account is invited. Ladd & Tilton Bank Oldest in' the Northwest f Washington and Don't Bake These When You Can Get in Log S Flavors Chocolate, Fruit j Gold Silver Nugget if , If II n jnioisom ai& Sign Falls From Alisky Building, Damaged by Fire -- Frank Hannan, agent for the structural steel workers, nar- rowly escaped death yesterday, when he was struck on the shoulder by an advertising sign that stood on top of the AUsky building, Third and Morrison streets. The Alisky building was damaged by fire early last week. The sign, weakened by 9 the fire, dropped suddenly from its place on the rope. Street car guy wires deflected Its fall, but ope corner struck Mr. Han- nan, knocking him down and brulsinjr his shoulder. Hannan's office is 162 hi Sectfnd street. , l ! j Grape Carnival to j Be Record Breaker, Kennewick; Wash.. Aug. 13. The second of a series of entertainments given by the executive committee for the purpose of raising funds for the fifth annual grape carnival was held here. It proved. to be one of the most successful social functions of the sea son. Several hundred people attended the dance at the open air pavilion. Music was furnished by the Commer cial; club orchestra. The carnival will be staged In Lead better park near the Columbia river. It is planned to fence the carnival grounds, prepare a race track and base ball' grounds, inaugurate a lighting . J lUn.v oafvlr. will VkA b;diciu, tt'Hi a - - - .. j in operation. .It la also planned to ; nnprii t a free' ferrv between Kenne- ; wick and Pasco. Motorboat races and aquatic sports will be held In the river. Expert fruit packers from the' state will compete - for cash prizes. Friends' Meeting Is Great Success : i tvi tont meetintr In progress at I East Thirty-fifth and Main streets, j under the auspices of the Friends j church, is provlirg a great success. . Rev. Mr. Cox and Rev. Mr. Wells are j the speakers, and the attendance la i increasing. ! The meetings will continue tnrougn out the coming week. Services are , held each afternoon and evening ex- cept Saturday. Everyone is invited j and assured of a cordial welcome. Work Is Begun. I Husum. Wash., Aug. 13. Road work has been commenced on the Gilmer cut off, a project long contemplated. The new road Is being constructed from the main stage line between White Salmon and Gjenwood, and starts from Gilmer, five miles north Of Husum, bearing in a westerly direction, connecting with the Trout Lake road near the William Campfield ranch. This will be a coun- . ty road. ' The road will be a 4 per cent grade from the river to Gilmer, and will prove a great benefit to the traveling public. j Cowlitz County Fair. ; Centralia, Wash., Aug.. 13.' Wednes-; day the premium lists were Issued for i the third annual Cowlits county fair to be held at Woodland September 23 to 25 ! A feature of the 1915 fair will be an exhibit of the manual training, domestic science and agricultural products of . the county schools. Socialists Protest Arrests. Lusanne, Switzerland, Aug. 13. (I- N s ) a mass meeting of German Socialists has passed resolutions pro testing to the government against nu merous arrests of Socialists upon charges of treason, according to Ber lin dispatches received here today. Tonight last chance "to see "A Fool There Was," with Theda Bara, the Vampire woman, a the Grand thea tre - Aa lllllllllHHiinillll IE TH Third Days :es Big, Sanitary Cartons 15c at All Dealers Cabin Baking Company - i r SUGGEST ONE SUNDAY EVERY YEAR BE SET ASIDE AS 'THRIFT DAY International Congress . of Thrift Wants President and Governors to Decide. San Francisco, Aug. 13. (P. N. S.) The governors of all the- states of the anion- and the president of the United Mail and Telephone Orders Filled by Expert Shoppers MeixHandise of J Merit Only McrcHandiso Pacific Phone Marshall The New Sports Shirts With convertible collars, in many handsome colorings, also plain white and in black and white combinations, can be found here, made of mercer ized cloth, madras and Oxfords. In all sizes from 14 to 16J. Long and i 00 short sleeves. At the very special price of .V ,uu $1.50 Shirts With soft bosoms and soft French turned cuffs, in fine madras, Oxfords M 1a and light flannels. In the most attractive stripes. Sale. .. ...'.. V O Sik and Mercerized Caps -In light weight for motoring, traveling and outing. In small and me- , dium black and white checks. Priced at $1 .00 and $1 .50 Each rirst Tloo $1.25 Regulation Middu Blouses Several popular styles, in all-white or with navy collars, trimmed with braid. Qgc Made with laced or plain fronts . wUl To $1.75 New Stvjle Middy Blouses Regulation middies' with laced fronts, some laced at sides, long or 6hort e og sleeves, some with emblem and braid trimming ...V New Tan Outing Middies A new coat shirt effect, with convertible collar, worn open or high at neck, 1 yg short sleeves, laced sides, tailored patch pockets '. .'. . V w MANY OTHER STYLES IN NEW MIDDIES, SPECIAL, $1.75 Tonrtn Tloar All Summer WASH DRESSES For Misses and Small Women HALF PRICE Fourth, rioor 75c Crepe Sleepers and Gowns for Children Gowns in slip-over style, in white, trimmed with embroidery. -Sleepers in plain blue and pink figured crepe, one-pic6e pa jama styles, drop CQ; seat, button back and front. Sizes 2 to 10 years . .0C fourth noot H5c Children's Long Cloth Knickerbocker style, ing and ribbon. Sizes 2 Women's Swimming Suits New Arrivals Just In All the newest and most wanted colors, in regulation tive styles. Trimmed $5.00 to $9.00. ALL OUR FINE SILK SUITS NOW HALF 85c Girls' Wash Dresses, Sizes 2 to 6 Years Dainty tub frocks, in ginghams, percales and chambray, in a great variety of CQ pretty colors and cunning styles. Just the thing for the little girl's vacation wear OuC. $1.50 Girls' Wash Dresses, Sizes 7 to 14. Years -Many pretty styles, 1 mnt SrtrrarTiv all the most (attractive 9 8c for Bous' Summer Wash Suits, Selling to $2.75 $1.59 for Boys' Summer Wash SuUs, ScUing to $5.00 , $2.49 for Bous' Summer WasK Suits, Selling to $10.00 Oliver, Meadowbrook, Middy, Sailor, Russian suits, in fact, all the most pop- Ular Summer styles, in pique, poplin, line n, galatea, gingham, kindergarten cloth and linene, in white and all the best Summer colors. For boys 2 to 9 years. 98c for Bous' Fine Straw Hats, Selling $5.00 49c for Bojs' Fine Straw Hats, Selling to $2.25 25c for Boys' Fine Straw Hats, Selling to, $1.50 For boys 2 to 14 Years. $ Bous Straw Hats, of the Finest Straws, H ALF PRICE Panamas, Milans, split straws, in large, small, raed i.u m shapes, rah - rah, round. square, diamond and Beautiful Fiber Silk Sweaters In all the most wanted colors, emerald green, watermelon, old rose, azure blue and two-tone effects. Made in a good-looking coat- sweater style, V neck, belted back, turn-back cuffs and two patch pockets. Very handsome sports sweaters . . $1 5.00 for a Real Victor The riirht size to take tor Records, as well as the large machines. No vacation is really complete C 1 C A A without a Victrola .... ... . . . ..... ,.. . . . ... . ...... . . . . ... New Selections in Little Wonder Records 10c , - Can be played on any machine. Among the popular selections are Dublin Bay Those Charlie Chaplin Feet ; Oh I Promise Me ; You Can't Get a Girl in the Sum mer Time v Down Among the Sheltering Palms ; '--.The Little House Upon the . Hill; In a Lonesome Melody; My Bird ot jfaraaise, and plechase and Horse Trot, each. States wfll have to decide whether or not they favor the official declaration of one Sunday a year to be signaled as "Thrift day." Messages were sent to them today on instructions from the International Congress of Thrift, which closed Its three days' deliberations In Festival hall, at the exposition, i Benjamin Ide Wheeler, David Starr Jordan, S. W. Straus, Durand W. Springer, of Ann Arbor. Mich., and oth er prominent educators and economists led In- the campaign for the Thrift day resolutions. " Those who oppose' It declare that we already have too many special days In America. Resolutions were passed, however, following the urgent request of President Straus, of the Thrift so ciety. - A committee previously appointed to devise means for Introducing thrift studies in the schools filed its report today with the request that the Na tional Educational association. In of Merit Only S000 Home Phone A -6 691 For the Men Every Summer COAT For Children, Girls, Misses HALF PRICE Tcrartli rioor Drawers finished with braid and embroidery, others with bead- qe to 12 years with braid or fancy knit stripes. BATHING PRICE of fine plaid ginghams, with plain trimmings, shown in QC rtw rrtlnrs. Marls wife nlaln or nleaterl skirts. . ? . 5cJC new colors. Made with plain or telescope straws, . Talking Machine canoein&r. camoiner. or out on the . . . session here next week, make a com plete investigation of thrift conditions in America, and outline a definite thrift curriculum. . ' G. E. Uyehara, representing the Jap anese government, caused surprise among the thrift workers when h said that his people needed thrift instruc tion more than Americans. . "The Japanese do not understand bow to save money," he said. "Coma to my country with this propaganda. We, need It." ' ... - , . The next thrift congress will be held In Detroit, in December. In 2"c"c.n with the midwinter meeting of the na tional Educational association. , Houseboat Robbed. Ridgefield. Wash.. Aug. T houseboat, standing on tb,.rifi! Lake river, near the Bj'"0,1; land shingle mllV nglng to Charges E. Trade, was robbed of clothing. Jewelry, etc. valued at 15". Colored Hosiery in all the most popular colors to match the col ored sports coats. In lisle, silk lisle, silk boot, fiber silk, all silk. Priced from 50c to SI. 60 Tlrsf Floor. Children's Fine WASH DRESSES Linens, Ginghams, Poplins, New Styles Greatly Reduced orowtb Tlx fccw jrourtb Tloo Jersey-knit suits, many atti attrac-. $4.48, Special, $1.89, $3.50, $4.48, Fourth Floor ALL CLOTH BATHING SUITS AT GREATLY REDUCED PRICES fourth, floor pleated skirts. Tonrth rioo roqi-th Ttoor $5.95 TWr4 Tloo lawn. Plavs Vic- two new tox trots, btee- ( . . . JM lsMmwn.