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THE OREGON; DAILY JOURNAL, PORTLAND, WEDNESDAY, MAY
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AYCOMMISSi
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PROMISE
REFUSES TO
HELP FOR NEXT YEAR
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Vheeler -County People Told
Flans for State Aid Must
i Walt for Six Months;
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LEWIS REPORTS ON WORK
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PIONEER SERVED IN.
VOLUNTEER GUARD
iptltmtt Has Been Busy Superrls-
tag XmyroYements and Turnlsning'
,' riass la AU Fsrts of SUte.
Salem. Or. May 10. The state Mgh-
wy commission decided at lta session
fTuesday afternoon that It would make
fi promises in regard .o the aopor-
llOUBeBt'Of highway funds of 1917 for
.several month. This decision came
"when Wheeler county asked for state
aid. State Treasurer Kay suggested
Jthat tt would be well to wait, for about
5eix months before making promises.
i A delegation from Sheridan was
promise! that If Wasco county failed
to bond aad this year's apportionment
of 4I,IM reverted to the state. $5000
would b set aside for use In Yamhill
county. It Is proposed to hard sur-
;aco nil and a half of road near
.Sheridan. -
t TnM&m Insufficient, Says Oorenior.
; "Tie (reat trouble is tliat we have
net fundi enough," eaid Qoyerndr
JWlthyeoJnbe. "If we had a mill levy.
'which would- yield a million dollars.
we touid accompiiBn someining.
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Wireless Last to Go,
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By Edmund Conter.
Headquarters of the Tigris Army
(Via London), May 10. (L N. B.) I
am able to supply the following; first
hand details of the (surrender of Msjor.
Oeneral Charles F. Townshend and Jbis
garrison at Kut-EliAmara:
The last wireless communications
sent out by General Townshend were
dispatched on the morning of April tt.
Two messages were received here. The
.first one read:
"I have destroyed the guns, most of
the ammunition Is being- destroyed and
officers have gone to Khalil (the Turk
ish general) at Madug to say that we
are ready to surrender. We must have
food-VVe cannot" bold t any longer.
Khalil -waa told today our. predica
ment, and officers have oae with
launch to bring food from the J ulnar.'
Th Julner waa the blp oent on. the
night of April . to earry supplies
to the garrison at Rut '
The next wira begln :
"Hav hoisted the white flag at Kat
over the fort and town. The guards
will be taken over by the Turkish regi
ment now approaching. I shall sJ.ort
ly destroy the wlreleaa. Th troopg
wil go Into camp near Shamran."
Kenyon to Attempt
Talking Marathon
Washington, May 10. (V. P.)- if
Senator Kenyon is physically able, he
will apeak continuously until Saturday
on the rtvera and harbors bill. By de
claring a recess Instead of an adjourn
ment last night, friends of the bill
compelled him to take the floor at
noon today. He expects to hold it.
Canadians Get New Chief.
Ottawa, Out-, May 10. (I. N. S.)
It Is ' officially announced that Gen
eral Blr Jullen Byng haa been appoint
ed to the command of the Canadian
forces at the front and that General
Alderson has returned to England.
General $yng has had a distinguished
military career.
BRANDING
MAKE CANDIDATES
FOR OFFICE SiPM
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Aspirants Will Be .Publicly
Roped, Thrown, Seared at
PressXIub Breakfast.
aent to. all! eandidatea demanding their ; Tha girt aivea w addreaa a the New
presence ast tho'lnfarno and mephUto- jj0tei Washington. Bhe la ald to be
phellan inojaUltten- aa tf tte rWM. tB. daughter of an attorney,
gard th i command the "Myetartous i T
T.M "ICu.f W will .trfa. llflAMl AlWa
played for their benefit. - JEvea though Chicavgo'a Pace Briag Nephrltla.
R0ASTMASTERS PREPARED
on-trp Corral Win Be la OMgaa
notei drts and Solags WU1 Be
staid Vozt Bunday Xoon.
Pitchforks and branding Irona will
go Into tha fire early Saturday night
to be heated to a white' heat for the
torturing of the candidates at tha
"Candidates' Breakfast" to be riven by
the Portland Preej club Sunday noon
in the Oregon Grill.
Offlcal looking subpenas are being
soma of the candidate do sot receive I
notices of tha breakfast they are ex-,
peetad to be present. t
John "U Travis wtll preside and will
be assisted by two roastmasters.
Uhosa who expect to be present at
the breakfast and are desirous of see
ing their deadly rival squirm under
the lzzUlng pitchforks and branding
irona are ordered to notify the secre
tary of the Portland Press club. In the
El Its building, at once that they will
be present Bunday noon. . .
Actions of Japanese Suspicious.
Los Anigeles. May le. (P. N. S.) i
Police Officer B. Gamaah reported
toihe department today that he had
seen a Japanese constructing what
took to be a war aeroplane in a vacant
building ( here. Officer Gamaah said ,
the Japanese had taken every precau
iinn tn VnintRln secrecv as to hla ac
tions and that he saw the machine!
through a narrow oracle.
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Wooers Make life Irksome.
Los Angeles, Cal., May 10. Signing
herself "R. M. Teal." a Seattle girl
has written to friends in Los Angeles
asking that some family adopt her tn
order that she may escape ardent
wooers who are making life lrksoma
Chicago. Ill, May 10. (L N. S.) impossible.
Tha fast and furious basins Mai ef
Chicago is on of the causes of BephrV
Us, Dr. Oifford Mitchell told th ZUW
nols Homeopathic association . at its
convention. Once the d leas gets s
xootnoia, n said. cur is almost
Voliiey Leonard j
Volney Leonard, who died In this
city on May 3. was a pioneer of Ore
gon, crossing the plains with his par
parents in 1852, and settling near SU
verton. He waa born In Missouri 78
years ago. Mr. J.eonara was a meuiuer
aimtM. vn.in. i .wi. ..nnritii tha I of the First Oregon Volunteer Infan
try ana in later years epuiii um,
his time In California, but always con
sidered Sllverton his home.
He Is survived by a daughter, Mrs.
Agness h. Orr, a brother, H. Wade
Leonard of Portland, and a sister, Mrs.
Ellen S. Geer. of Riddle, Or. Dr. A. L.
commission that conKlderable pro
igrea had -been made during the past
;month In road matters. A survey has
,"been completed for the reconstruction
of It miles of road south of Bend and
Jth location has been approved by the
.county court. H was expected that
ork would commence In the nfar fut-. Leonard of Sllverton. who died sev
Jure out Airricuity had been encountered
,?n arranging for right of way with one
of the owners.
Progress of Work Detailed.
Winter slides are being removed
(from, th Siskiyou mountain highway
tin Jackson county and plans are being
; mad for rocking the road in the near
, xuture. Right of way had been se
1 cured 111 Douglas county and construc
tion work near Glendale will commence
I soon. Work In Lane county has been
halted to await a decision of tne su-
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eral years ago, was a brother.
Saloon Wins Rent
Trom Brewery Co.
Seattle Judge Holds That Brewery
leases on Saloons Automatically
Terminated. When Dry Xiaw Passed.
Seattle, Wash., May 10. (TT. P.)
A judgment of $1675 against the Seat
tle Brewing & Malting Co., In favor
of the .Stratford, a former saloon, was
granted yesterday- by Superior Judge
Vonnoih Mackintosh. The court ruled
rschen- that Drewery leases on saloons auto
matically terminated when th dry law
became operative. The saloon sued
the brewing company for recovery of
rent paid in advance.
preme court. Bids have been called
;. for In 'connection with the Sourgrass
' cutoff.
.Arrangements have been made with
the Polk bounty court for paving work
near . Independence and H. Hfn
berg . of Independence, has agreed to
: advance tha second half of the state's
appropriation, whch would otherwise
' not ba available until December.
1 j v Clatsop Work Being Adjusted.
i I 11 win oe several weens Derore ill I ni a f TP i
lb:jv? "'v: Shoots Over Infant
I aop county can be worked out, aj-
l (though considerable time was devoted
to It
A review of the Rainier IIU1 work In
.Olumbla county, reclassified and re-
teasured by the contractor, has been
tade on the ground by the department.
Plana and specifications were fur-
ilahed for a 160 foot bridge near Rose
urg, a 160 foot reinforced concrete
liaduet near Tolo and a steel bridge
it Salem.
Oantlae Sent to Wheeler.
On motion of Governor Withycombe
It waa ordered that E. I. Cantlne, chief
leputy state engineer, should go to
Wheeler county to consult with the
bounty court In regard to the survey
of the Columbia river-Ontario highway
In that section.
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Monte A key son Pardoned.
At Her Stepfather
Salem. Or., May 10 Monte Akeyson. wVJt.wiA?;
Mas Was Choking Mother, Polloe Bay,
aad Waa Btmca by One of Fonr
Shots, Arm Being Broken.
Los Angeles; May 10. (P. N. S.)
Firing over the head of her Infant
daughter Dorothy, Mrs. Viola Choaa, a
young woman,, today shot and serious
ly wounded her atep-father. Bolivar
Weaver, 4 2, while he was choking her
mother, according to the police.
The shooting took plac at the
Weaver home.
Four bullets, fired from a revolver
of emaU calibre, sped within a few
Inches 9t the infant's' head. The
fourth missile struck Weaver in th
upper left arm, breaking the bone and
knocking him down. The other three
Veterans of 6. A. R.
Portland arsonist, who pleaded guilty
to the crime of burning to Injure the
insurer, and who was committed to
th penitentiary November 1, 1915,
with a three to seven year sentence,
was conditionally pardoned Tuesday
afternoon by Governor Withycombe.
Circuit Judge Gantenbeln. who un.
f xawva iiim, jjiBirici Attorney wvans I ( tj T .
I and Fire Marshal Stevena recommend- ' H ftlfl KTlfQTnrkTnQnf
i Jd clemency, in his letter to the "UAW JJIAWWAAIJJAXOAJ. U
!., governor, . Judge Gantenbein said he i
f felt Akeyson Bhould be punished to Bakersfleld, CaL, Entertaining Dele-
f some extent, but was convinced that i ' . x
' 7 . . . . . ... rates Trom Two BtatA tn Vortr.
in view or nis recora Derore commit- "
Ing the crime, his record since that Vinth Annual Encampment,
time and the assistance given the dis- Bak.M. CaI.. mw io ctt v
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. """-"i reoumng m Two thousand delegates nH vt.ltnr.
Mrs. Choaa chot only after Melvln
Abbott, 14 yeara old, an adopted son
or Mrs. weaver, had hit Weaver with
a rolling pin, the blows, however, ap-
parently having no effect. !
trie
peeurlng important evidence against
(other suspects, that six months' Im
prisonment Was ample in his case
were on hand today when the forty-
ninth annual encampment of the Grand
Army of the Republic and affiliated
organizations of tha departments of
California and Nevada opened In Bak-
PhotOTille Circuit Incorporated.
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uwif vr., jxiay io, n raclrlC I i.it:iu. 4.
Photovllle circuit filed articles with Ab the grizzled veterans assembled
Corporation Commissioner Schulder- they marched to the martial strains of
man Tuesday, wltn capital stock J10,- ine Ulrl I Left Behind Me," played
(00r Portland the prinoipal place of by the Los Angeles veteran fife and
ualness and S. Morton Cohn. David drum corps, wbioh Includes Phllo Case.
jTrsedman and ITred Langerman incor- tn "Drummerboy of Shlloh," whose
porators. The Golden Chariot Mining lon? roll on the drum aroused the
(it Milling company, organised under Union troops on the day of that bloody
h laws of Kentucky, filed notice of combat. Another member of the corps
an Increase In capital stock from JiOOO was Robert Bain, who beat a drum
I 100,000. captured irom tfto Hessian soldiers-
under Burgoyno on October 17, 1777.
Biff Lumberman nf "
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Belllngham, Wash., May 10. OT. P.)
; f Edmund L. Gaudette, millionaire
', lumberman. Is dead here today of apo
1 plexy. . .
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Released by British
Edgar Blooh Ksd Been Held la Deten
tion Camp Two Months Is American
Oitisea of airman Parentage. '
Vancouver, B. C, May 10. (P. N. S.)
-Arter being held prisoner in a deten-
Lumber InterMtj Sold
r White Salmon. Wash.. May 10. The
property of the Swan-Heaman Lumber tion camp at Vernon for more than two
company or vvnite baimon haa been I month. Eritrnr Rlnch husir... m.n
old at public sale and wtll be known of San Francisco, today was released
n tne xuiure as tne MUsap-Dickey by the- military authorities. Bloch
owes his release to the Influence of
powerful friends In the United States,
When Bloeh first came to Vancou
ver he told the authorities he waa of
Swiss ancestry. This did not conform
to information concerning him which
the authorities possessed. Taking no
chances in doubtful cases. Bloch was
company,
mi
(iced the Warning
It If You Have a Coueh !
. 1 The daen-seateA onrh that .Wa sent o the detention camp. Later It
yield to ordinary treatment may lead WR.8 learned -that he was an American
to f distressing pulmonary troubles. oltizn' although of German parentage
Or It may bring on a chronio bron- in Lorraine.
Chlal affection. Many persons now in- Bloeh s-friends appealed to the gov-
capacltated might have avoided such roJ??dtr aa investigation by
disastrous results by timely car and Qeneral sl William Otter, his release
W UOl Vft
efficient medical treatment.
Among the latter Eckman's Altera
tive baa an enviable record. It is a
lima bearing preparation whloh is
xslly assimilated In most instance.
"vhr used ln-connection with nour
ltshlng food and proper living, it has
given widespread relief. '
Its ' freedom from poisonous of
tablt-formlng drugs of any nature
whatsoever renders it safe to try.
And Its content of calcium gives it
tonl -value. , .
Sold by Tha Owl Drug Co. and lead
ing druggists. ,, .
. Zckmaa laboratory, rhijadslpals,
Farmer Found Not Guilty.
J. C Thompson, a farmer on the
Bandy road, was found not guilty of
tho larceny of a quantity of Mult
nomah county tools when he was
Jlven a hearing before District Judge
ones yesterday afternoon. Th coun
ty road camp was on Thompson's
place and Thompson testified that the
tools were scattered more or reea over
his place and he had used- some 'of
tnem at aurerent . times but he' had
no thought of taking any of tbsm.,
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Woolen Mill Building
Morrison at Third St.
Forroerly Cambridge Block
Now Home of Brownsville
Clothing for men and boys.
Top floor occupied by, our
electric tailor shop. Balance,
retail department.
Get This Building
Clearly in Eye
Absorb it into your mind
and remember it's the
Milf-to-Man Cl,o thing
Store the economy cen
ter for Portland clothing
buyers. :m
We've Surely Struck a Lively Gait With This
Trade
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If you'd come and see you'd say that business is good at the Browns
ville Woolen Mills. - And it ought to be, for it is just what we were
after with this popular sale. We wanted more people to learn the
path to our door and they are coming in rapid file after these
Portland-made Suits at the trade-building pnee or
There's nothing as good on this coast for the price. Noth
ing better for 20 to $25. They're tailored from fabric of
Oregon wool, woven in OrSgon mills.- They're fashionably
cut in our own modern shop and hand-tailored throughout.
They fit they wear they look mighty good. The real
proof is in the wearing itself; but you can tell much by
seeing and trying one on. We'll gladly show you.
Tailored to Measure Special
Here's another big adveirtising special To
bring our well organized -Custom-Tailoring De
partment to your attention we are for a limited
time, .making suits to order from a. large range
of suitings for the unusually low price of $20.
It's a wonderful bargain, we know, and we can take orders at this price
only AS LONG AS THERE'S ROOM IN THE SHOP. The crowd
is fast blocking our way and you'll have to hurry if you want to, get
unider this busy tailor's tape while the special price prevails.
Brownsville
Woolen Mills
J. L. Bowman, Pres.'
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PtAHUI SCHOONER
wrr txnm
Prom the "Trail of the Pathfinder"
to the "Trail of the Olympian" mark
splendid chapters in the advance of
transportation. With the electrifica- ,
tion of 440 miles of main line this year
"MILWAUKEE'S" '
&U-8teel transcontinental trains the 'Qjrm
pl&n" and the "Columbian" are hauled
swiftly over the mountain barriers strictly
maintaining schedules and leaving the
beautiful mountain views unsullied by
smoke, soot and cinders.
fror aoenery and comfort yrra can hanfh
do batter than take tb "ViwaaaW
on your next trip East.
E. H GARRISON
District Freight and Pueenger Agent
Corner Third and Stark
Phonae Main 8413, A-2601
Qiicago. Milwaukee & St Paul
Railway
Kkmu locoMonvt
t!"ii innnnT
'Am
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Mill-to-Man
Clothiers
Morrison at Third St
ECURSION RATES
COMMENCING JUNE 1ST
The Great Northern Railway
Will havm on alm
Summer Excursion Tickets
TO
ST. PAUL. MINNEAPOLIS, DULUTH, SIOUX CITY,
OMAHA, KANSAS CITY, ST. JOE, ST. LOUIS.
CHICAGO, BUFFALO, PITTSBURG, CINCINNATI,
NEW YORK, BOSTON, PHILADELPHIA, WASH
INGTON, D. C, and many other points at greatly
reduced rates.
Call or Write for Full Information
CITY TICKET OFFICE, 348 Washington Street,
H. Dickson,
C P. & T. A.
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Phones
Marshall 3071
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ROUTE OF THE ORIENTAL LIMITED
Tenth Annual Rose Festival, Portland,
June 7th, 8th and 9th
Northern Pacific Ry.
The Yellowstone Park Line
THROUGH TRAINS EAST
NONE BETTER
Get the Benefit COURTEOUS TREATMENT
SUPERIOR DINING SERVICE
Eastbound Summer Excursions
Daily From June 1
Westhpund Round Trip Summer .Excursions now in effect.
Tell your Eastern friends. Or, let us give
them full information.
X Round Trip Homeseekers' Rates TO MONTANA
and return. Low, attractive. Let us explain them. J
TO CALIFORNIA, have your ticket read via the
"Great Northern Pacific S. S. Co."
from Portland on the fast palatial steamships, making train
time (but 6 hours at sea). -Low fares, with berth and meals
induoed on boats.
Tickets and full information: i
235 Morrison St.
Phones Main 244 A-1244
A. D. Charlton, A. G. jk A., j
.Portland, Oregon 's
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