TP I OOFTHE LARGEST CREAMERIES IN THIS tr:y:iiED Portland Pure Milk & Cream ; Co, and Damascus Cream J ery Join in Big Concern. IfJEW PLANT TO BE BUILT lExtension Lectures !f AQTCPfJ TfDlfJAI Q ouueuuieu jiur wee Country eceiYia; Stations Bs Vlseed la Oregoa, Washington ud ; Idaho, If Em Been AanonncL I The two largest creameries In the fetate, which control more than 60per - pent of all the milk, cream, butter and fchetse business of Portland, were nerged yesterday Into one , concern. . Tfcey; were the Portland Pure Milk & tream company and the Damascus 1 fcreamery company. The new concern 5s called the Portland-Damascus Mil Company, and Its capital stock is fixed t 1225.000. Robert Ireland, ' vice president and . general manager of the Portland Pure .Mil A Cream company, becomes presi dent of the new concern. The ether in corporators are: Andreas Vetsch, pres ident Of the Damascus Creamery com pany, and E. E. Merge, capitalist, through whose efforts the consolida tion was brought about. J : Big New Plant Planned. , a The new firm plans to build a big w plant In Portland, the capacity of rfwhlch will be limited only by the aoll Jty; of northwest dairymen to produce tthe: raw" material. The site for the - Jereamery has not yet been selected thought It is the .Intent of the company Jo be In Its new horn within a year. Details of building have not been com pleted, but among other features will Jaa aallerles from which visitors, and (embers of -Faculty, of TTnlvarstty of Oregon Win Slake Tour During Cnr- wa tj Vdteaes TeaeliSXS. Eugene, Or., March 1 6. During;" the I current week the members of the fac ulty of the University of Oregon will o out from the university campus to lecture In response - tj requests that have come In to the extension division- Edgar E. DeCou. professor of math ematics, will deliver a! lecture on "Ul timata World Peace and the World Wat" at Harrisburg Friday evening. He will also speak to the high school stu dents In the afternoon! Albert H. sweetser. professor of botany, will give an illustrated address at Salem Friday evenign. Henry D. Sheldon, dean of the school of education, will speak to the teach ers of Klamath county Saturday. Earl Kllpatrick. assistant dean of the extension division will attend a Linn county local institute to be held at Harrisburg Saturday. He will speak on "Professional Reading for Teach ers." SENATE AT GRABS PUBLIC FUNDS OVER LISTER'S VETO j V j Houses of Washington Legis lature ?Keep Faith With Each Other ana1 Pass Bills, -REPORT THE FREIGHT CONDITIONS BELTER Movement of Freight Greatly Facilitated Through Work of Committee in Pittsburg, IS RELIEVING CONGESTION Peanaylranla Uaec- Xopo to Xemove Restrictions on Domestio Prelght; Exports Embargo to Continue. particularly "school children, will be j markets was the second Sible to watch all the processes. i when the senate stoppexl. J Thenew Incorporation will have its 1 house bills on the house calendar could Olympia, Wash., Marih 6. The house and senate kept faith jwith each other Monday and promptly at noon each ceased consideration of its own meas ures ana took up those that had been favorably acted upon; by the other body. i The worst wall came from Iverson, whose bill creating a director of farm to be reached More than 20 jown country receiving stations at all Important milk producing points in Washington, Oregon and Idaho, where nllk and cream, received from the farmers will be scientifically tested and cooled before being shipped to Portland. ? . Business $3,000,000 a Tear. j The volume of business of the com panies runs now to nearly 1 150.000 a Snontb, and it Is expected this year to treach the $2,000,000 a year mark. In not be reached and of eourse there are scores which died In committee in each house. j J. no senate louna uu Dujyticiu votes so called up the; governor veto of extra legislative expenses and passed it over the veto. Among senate bills! passed by the senate Monday wasj one proposed by thevpubllo service 'commission for better protection of grade crossings and a measure providing for a two pia- ant general freight agent, chairman; 1 3. E. WeUer, general western freight agent, Chicago, -. 111.; , John Callahan, representing superintendent freight transportation, lines west.' and O. H. Burtls, representing superintendent ireight transportation lines east. Domestlo Freight need. ' - Such nrogress has recently been made in clearing up the freight con gestion that the management or tne Pennsylvania lines west hopes, within a few days, to be able to remove the greater part of the restrictions on the movement of domestic freight, in either direction, throughout that terri tory. Comparatively few restrictions on domestic freight in Pennsylvania railroad territory east of Pittsburg and Buffalo obtain at the present time. It is planned to continue in effect, indefinitely, the general embargoes against export freight at the seaports of New York. Philadelphia and Balti more. Such freight, as heretofore, will be accepted only where the shippers present satisfactory evidence that ade quate vessel space has been engaged and that the cars will be promptly unloaded upon arrival. it APPEALS COURT SAYS? GERNERT IS GUILTY IN F CASHIER RAUD A E Commission Dealers Juggle Food Prices San Francisco. March . (P. N. S.) Supervisor Edward I Nolan, car rying on his own independent Inves tigation of food supplies in San Fran cisco, declared today that he had re ceived reliable Information that "a handful of commission men" corner the market each year, manipulate prices to the highest point possible and destroy all produce not disposed of at these figures. Acting on this information. Super visor Nolan resumed his tour of the waterfront and commission house dis trict, visiting especially one ware house which he declared he had been advised was loaded with unsold prod uce. . " High School Boys And Girls Seek Work Great Improvement In freight con gestion conditions at eastern termi nals has been noted during the last few days, according ' to advices re ceived by 3. L. Campbell, general agent of the Pennsylvania lines here, chiefly because of the work jot a spe cial joint embargo committee com posed of officials of the Pennsylvania system. " Material progress in expediting th movement of freight between the mid dle west and eastern points Is being effected through the work of the com mittee, which has Its headquarters at Pittsburg. Special Committee Created. This committee was created at the direction of the executive officers to devise means for more satisfactorily handling freight affected by ertiDar goes between the lines east and west. Its'nurDose is to make, as promptly as possible, modification of embargoes where transportation conditions and th ability of consignees to remove freight from cars promptly permit such exceptions. This makes more effective the object sought In hand ling freight under embargoes, which is to nrevent terminal congestion by I Mr. Emolover. have yon a Job for a senaratinc freight that will be held lnlbov or alrl attending- high school? If cars at destination from that which lyou have, the Chamber of Commerce will be taken off the railiWTs bands I of the Washington high school would Salesman Contends He Was Fooled by. Superiors, But Letter Proves Knowledge. San Francisco. March . P. N. S.) The United States circuit court of appeals yesterday affirmed the decision of the United States aistrict court of Oregon, which found O. E. Gernjrt guilty of conspiring to use the malls to defraud. ' Gernert was a salesman for the United States Cashier com pany, of which Frank Menefee was president. It was claimed that the company owned numerous patents and stock was sold in the corporation, the buyer . b Ing promised 'enormous" dividends days after the purchase. The patents, however, were mythical, and Menefee, with, others, waa arrested by the fed eral authorities and later convicted. Oenert appealed separately, claim ing -that be was merely a. salesman and was the victim of his luperiors. But Judge Ersklne M. Ross, who wrote the decision filed today, quo'.ed letters written by Gernert ; to F. M. LeMonn, sales manager, and the answer In which Gernert told of se curing customers at Stockton, Cel., and asking LeMonn to write him a cer tain letter so he could show it to pros pective victims. These letters, toe court held, were sufficient to convict Gernest. Melbourne to Hold Election. Melbourne. March 6. (U. P.) The government has decided on an Immedi ate general election. It was announced today, following the dissoluWon of the present parliament. t ' Hula-Hula in Divorce Trial. San Bernardino, Cel., March . (P. N. 8.) -Filing secret divorce proceed ings here, against George A. Doyle. Mrs. Ethel Doyle, member of the San Diego smart set has alleged that her husband attended a small party at ltaA of tmnortaintr dairv nroducts as Uoon fire system in the larger cities Was the case a few years ago, Oregonjr.i House bills pa-rsed the house Monday now exports butter, Cheese and con-1"frovide for licensing; attorneys and densed milk in quantities that are in-i dogs, separate measures. The funds creasing every year and will increase derived from the first are to be used to still more rapidly as the result of the support a county law; library and the new Incorporation. It is the purpose of the company to Investigate the most important city creameries in the east, including those of Sheffield Farms-Slawson packer, company of New York, and of the "great Wlllis-Jones-McEwen plant of Phila delphia, which was built to handle 100, 000 quarts a day. i Vlant to Be Firs Class. ' The services of an architect will be fees from the other are to be used to pay for damage done livestock by ca nines Other successful house meas ures provide for an industrial survey of the state, increase! powers of port districts and to extend time for suits on contractors' bonds, j Senate measures wnt through the house with little debate. Among them were these: I Providing for thejaeceptance of fed engaged who has made a special study! eral aid for highways., reappropriating of.creameries, to the end that Portland nearly $1,000,000 from the permanent hall have a nlant second to non on ! highway fund and i reappropriating the Pacific coast and the equal to any J about 11,000.000 from .the public high in the east in point of sanitation if not In else For the present, the main office of the company will be at Third and Hoyt streets from which plant milk and cream will be supplied, while butter, cheese and other products will be han dled at the .Damascus plant on Hawthorne-avenue at Kast Seventh street. The board of directors of the new corporation are: President. Mr. Ireland; vice president, M. L. Jones of the La bish Meadows, Marion county; secre tary. Mr. Merges; general manager. A, M. Work; an,d Mr. Vetsch. Aeroplanes Drop Bombs. Ijon&on, March 6. (U. P.) Naval aeroplanes on Saturday dropped nu merous heavy bombs over the .German blast furnaces at Brebach, an official statement declared today. way fund eacn to complete existing contracts. j Hegulatinr leasing of harbor areaa Pftrmrttintr street car comnanies to combine with consent of a majority of ! stockholders and approval of the pub lic service commission. By agreement the I senate has for special order today consideration of a Jitney-bus measure, to meet objec tions raised by the attornem general and harmonize the various bills that have been acted upon! this session in either house. without delay. Embargoed rr eight Moved. As a result of the committee's ef forts, there have been moved in the last week, through tho Pittsburg and Buffalo gateways, more than 8100 car loads of embargoed freight of all kinds, which could not have been handled with equal promptness, if at all, except by this special arrange ment Of this freight, approximately 2000 cars were eastbound and 1100 cars westbound. At the close of thj week, arrangements were pending for the movement of 4 1C0 additional cars Durlne- the period In question, the committee has had presented to it for consideration nearly 1500 separate ap plications for individual shipments under special modifications of the em bareoes. It has been possible thus far to grant about half of these applica tions. All shippers seextng special permits have been placed upon an equal footing. Is Clearing House. ""The committee virtually constitutes a clearing house for handling all re quests for the special movement of freight affected by embargoes. From systematizing the work, the average length of time require to arrange a special modification of an embargo has been more than cut in hair. The active work of the committee Is in charge of: . John M. Gross, asiet like to have their employment bureau know about it. The youthful mem bers of th reorganized chamber ot commerce believe that cooperation Is reeded to get Jobs and seekers after jobs connected - up, and also to enable bovs and girls lo obtain employment before and after school, neai to their homes. Employers should notify Principal H. H. Herdman or the student officers cf the body, If they can provide em ployment. the Best Start that parents can give their children is to teach them thrift. First, a good constitution, then good habits. Cultivate saving habits, pay a definite amount for certain work, allow pending money, hut develop tho restraining instinct by requiring them Kf render account of what they do with it, and having a bank account and doing their own banking. Encourage them by opening a savings account in a good bank One DOLLAR will start one here. Ladd & Tilton Bank Washington and Third 1 I - o too -r- dPARXLlNQ Everybody- likes APPLESTAFF. -.Generously good, with the sweet frajrance of new-picked apples JTo avoid substitution, be sure to ;i ay APPLESTAFF by full name, it soda fountains, cafes, hotels, I'clubJ, etc. ,. Order a case- for the Home. Y.f:"v- A. H. Greenberg & Co. Distributor for Oregon. "$'N'0,hone': Broadway- 474 : 135 N. 3d St., Corner Hoyt Multorpors Pledge Support to Wilson - r i Multorpor -Republican Club Is in Unan imous Accord With the Position of ths President in the Present Crisis, The Multorpor Republican club went on record at Its annual meeting Mon day night, as being in unanimous ac cord with the position of President Wilson In the present Crisis. It adopted the following resoltuioins by unanimous vote, and directed that they be tele graphed to the president toiay: "We are Republicans. Every man of us did all in his power to elect an other distinguished citizen to the ex alted position which you now occuuy "But above all questions of party or creed we are Americans. Wc sincerely regret the action of aismall number of United States senators who prevented tne passage or a giving you ths necessary power to protect American lives and property. We wish to assure you that in every action which vju may take in upholding the rights of American citizenship and the honor of cur country we will sapport you to the very best of our ability." The annual election resulted in the election ox the following officers and uireciors: i uus u. xaoser, president; A. S. Dresn er, urst vice president; Dr. A.. W. f flAt.nn.1 ..In. t J a. n. . . vi cajuen i; xnco- dore O. Gladding, secretary; John GUI, Board of directors:; John Gill, Dr. a. vy aipore. a. s. juresser, C, M. Idle nelius, Robert Treat I Piatt, Theodote v. ui&uaing ana uus V Moser. ? oenerai Charles PJ Beebe1 military vviuiuuiuMll, j Kailroad Promoter r Discusses Project j. . xranora Tens About Bale of Bonds in Klamath Palls to Plnanos Hew ilat . San Francisco, Jm. stranorn of Portland, who is behind a scheme to build about 600 miles of railroad, at a cost ofabout 1 ftftn An A. i .i . v.u ..ww,vv, " vumm uregon, passeC through the city yesterday from ma matn aiis. Or., en route to join his CARUSO TKIS HARDMAN P1AK The HA1TOMAN Five-Foot Grand "Its Tone h Wonder-, tful" write Caruso Occupies'" no more room th&a" Uptight EaryTefms if Desired $725 which San Diego telephone rirl danced the hula-hula in negligee. The case was continued. " -. " - - ur-rrt. xSv Evtn. ths words bUnd I ) IP. O. B.' New-York Makes the Whole World JGn! No clitmte affects it for the package pro tects It SO WRIGLEVS fioes to all parts of the world: hlfih. low bote cold: In all seasons, to alt classes Morrison Street at .Broadway o : r.r, r Qamath Palls to Plnanos ; , . and Other Developments. Don t DO OlSCOUTaiTed seo. March . (P. K 8.) - m xvesinoi ooap will clear yowskiii And the happy owner near or far who opens the savory flavorv packet finds the contents fresh clean wholesome and delicious always. Itatds appetite and digestion, allays thirst elves comfort and best of all . The Flavor Lasts. Three of a kind I Minv and man a nrt 3 Stranorn said h. wa. mi1 . I V.avmi..: j i . ivu in Donas its people authorized I nut omyis oengni i. v7 " r"ro proposition he is me town or JBurn sirA.v. V0.tld i88" '126-P in bonds.- he said. "The cities of I Bend and Lake- uavo uso votea nonds. . 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