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THE OREGON SUNDAY JOURNAL. PORTLAN D, SUNDAY MORNING, SEPTEMBER 14. 1919. IMMENSE TRACT 0. & t GRANT IS NOW OPENED UP Portion of Land May Be Home steaded to Soldiers Under Bill Now Being Nursed in Congress VETERANS TO IMPROVE LAND Allowed Time Served in Army as Credit on Homestead, Provided One Year's Work Is Perfected Four hundred and fifty thousand of the 2,000.000 acres of land In the O. & C. land grant made available to settlers by the outcome of the long- fought forfeiture litigation have been opened up for settlers, , and more' Is constantly, being opened up. Clay Tallman. commissioner of the general land office, department of the interior, Washington, D. C, Is in Port - land to see about It. He arrived -Wednesday and his headquarters will he the United States land office, Post office building, until Monday night, when he boards a train for the capital city. EXTENDS ACROSS STATE "These 2,000,000 acres of Oregon . California grant lands, stretching from the Washington to the California lines, have meant a terrific amount of work to the department." he said, "and they will mean much more. "First the land had to be examined and classified as to agricultural and timber character. Agricultural land will be used for grants under the homestead act, timber land will be held by the government until the timber is sold. "More than 760.000 acres of the grant Is agricultural land. Of this, 450,000 acres have been opened up. Some of this will make excellent homestead land. Some is ' not so fertile. PLENTY OF TIMBER "The timber will be a big job. We estimate that the United States will have 30 billion feet of timber to sell out of this 'grant In the next 40 years." Tallman is enthusiastic about a bill row being nursed through congress by Franklin E. Lane, secretary of the in terior, to provide community settle ments for former soldiers. "It will cost $500,000,000," explained Tallman, "and It aims to set whole colonies of former fighters with farms. But the soldiers Improve the land with their own work. They make first pay ment in work, and it is a stiff pay ment. In 40 years, they would have paid back to the government everything It spent on them and provided a lot of fine new American country colonies, fits well ' CREDIT SYSTEM Under the present system, a soldier may apply the length of term he served In the army to credit oh a homestead, providing he spend at least a year working the homestead. In other words, as Tallman explained It, a soldier, in $1.00 Down $1.00 a Week Heater Season ' Is Here and we have them for every home, both wood and combination wood or coal, with 1 $9.50 Cash vt " ii the army two years may apply those two years, hut no more, on a three year homestead. ;- Tallman la enthusiastic about the land movement In America. "If we could only get more .folk back on farms," he aid, "it would help a lot of our diffi culties. There are too many tenants on farms. Not enough of our farmers own their own land." Land office commissioner since 1913, Tallman was defeated in 1912. when he ran for congress on the Democratic ticket in his native state of Nevada. He lost the election by only 69 votes. He was for several years a member of the Nevada state legislature. Tallman is staying at the Multnomah hotel. FOR PRINTING TRUTH, JOURNAL IS BARRED FROM LIVESLEY YARD Report of Strike of Hop Pickers for Better Wages and Con ditions Is Distasteful. Because The Journal carried the news of a strike of hop pickers at the T. A. Llvesley & Co. yards, Livesley, Or., Wed nesday, hundreds of hop pickers were prevented from obtaining news of the world through this paper, it being banned by the management, according to a statement made Saturday by S. Caplan. 406 Tark street, a hop picker and agent for The Journal at Livesley. "Last Wednesday." says Caplan, "hop pickers at Llvesley, which Is about 4 miles south of Salem, walked away from their work, demanding 10 cents more per box for picking and the provision of more baskets and sacks In the fields." Feeling that this was a good news story, Caplan says he communicated i with the Salem correspondent of The Journal, and gave out a story telling of the strike. This story was printed in issues of Wednesday and Thursday. "Before I received my regular num ber of copies Thursday," says Caplan, "the management informed me that sale of the papers must be suppressed. Copies had been ordered already, so Thursday's copies were sold. Friday orders were cancelled, as the manage ment of Livesley & Co., would not per mit me to bring the papers on the field." Enraged Bull Butts -Streetcar Off Track; One Passenger Hurt Beaver Falls, Pa.. Sept. 13. (I. N. S.) How a bull knocked an interurban street car off the tracks is told by witnesses here. The animal stood in the center of the track as the car approached and re fused ao budge. Efforts to get the animal to one side only enraged it until finally in a mad rush of fury it dove into the car and derailed it There were six passengers aboard, one of whom was slightly hurt. .BJIrTp-. Hoar has resigned as receiver of the United States land offiee at Lew Iston. He will be succeeded by E L Parker, former lieutenant governor of the state. Get a "Roll -Me" Mattress If you want the best. The price is far lower than other high grade mattresses. Only the best pure imported silk floss is used in their construction, with standard A. C. A. ticking. We reno js"1 duplex grates. Double wall con struction and cast iron fire pots. All sold on most lib eral terms. We Take Your Old Stove As Part Pay Down and $8 a Month BILL WOULD MEAN , SAYS STONE Chief of Brotherhood of Loco motive Engineers Asserts Meas ure Would Bring Revolution. WOULD KILL TRADE UNIONS Provision Denying Strike Weap on and Giving Share in Man agement Economic Servitude. Washington, Sept. 13. (U. P.) Enactment of the Cummins railroad bill will "spell the birth of revolu tion in America," Warren Stone, chief of the Brotherhood of Loco motive Engineers, said tonight in a formal statement. President W. G. Lee of the Brother hood of Railway Trainmen and presi dents of 12 other railway unions. Joined with Stone in signing the statement, which was issued through the Plumb Plan league. The Cummins bill, Introduced to solve the problem of returning the railroads ! to private ownership in January, would j deny to raijway unions the use of the strike weapon, in return for a share in management. Attacking the Cummins bill strike clause, the Stone statement declares It "would spell the end of labor organ ization in America. by removing from labor the right to strike. "Economic servitude and compulsory arbitration thus would be forced upon railway labor," the statement said. "The right to . strike as the last re sort is ingrained in the nature of the American working man," the statement says. "If he failed to cherish his eco nomic freedom, he would no longer be a true American. To attempt to put such a prohibitive proposition into law would be madness. "Does congress, at the behest of the alarmed business system, propose to break up the organizations of labor throughout the country? Is it decided that the time has come to make this final fight? "These are questions which demand an answer. Every working man is ask ing them as he reads his newspaper. In his heart he knows that to enact this law would spell more than the death of trade unionism. This is not a threat, but merely a statement of fact. The real threat comes from the other side against labor." "French Eva" Found Dead Eva Filinger, alias "French Eva," well known in past years in police cir cles, was found dead in her room at 223 Market street Saturday by the Japanese landlady. Death was natural, apparently caused by heart failure, the coroner said. Deputy Coroner Calkins took charge of the body. An autopsy will be held to determine the cause of death. vate your feather beds and make them into a Roll-Me mattress at small cost. Phone us and our feather man will call and exDlain the meriU of Feather Roll- me mattresses. RON JSSSi rf Sh6me IfurnisHER$ wl 100. 12. 8. Buys Ivory Enamel CHAMBER . SUITE Consisting of bed, dresser, triple mirror, dressing table uid dressing table bench, all n Adams design. Portland Band Gets Contract to Play At Pendleton Show There is going to be music at the Pendleton Roundup, fine music and lota of it. Campbell's American band of Port land has been engaged for the season of three days, September 18, 19 and 20, and It will be an all-star ensemble of performers that Director Percy Camp bell will take with him to the Eastern Oregon city. . The Roundup management decided to get the best and spare no expense. The band will consist of 35 men, including several soloists who will be featured on the programs. Campbell's band is known throughout the Pacific Northwest, having played the state fair at Salem two successive seasons with great success, the Multno mah county fair at Gresrlam, and many other county fairs in the state. , For three seasons this band furnished music in the municipal parks of Port land and pleased thousands, and it also filled engagements on extraordinary oc casions at The Oaks. Director Campbell tjoes prepared to not only give popular and classic num bers, but will Include on his' programs several descriptive pieces that will be especially appropriate for the occasion. Among these will be a famous com position depicting Indian life. With the large number of Indians taking part in the Roundup, it will be possible to augment this number with an abund ance of local color. This will be the largest band ever engaged for the big event, and the committee in charge believes it will add much to the success of the event as a whole. The band will travel in a special Pullman, leaving here Wednesday night and reaching Pendleton early Thursday morning. TAKEN BY POLICE Walter E. Baer and Harlow W. Brackett Confessed Passing Worthless Checks for $370. The gay life of two young men, who thought they could get rich quick by passing spurious checks on local merchants, ended abruptly Saturday afternoon after a three days' duration. Walter E. Baer, alias Sutherland, 21, and Harlow V. Brackett, 23. are said to have con fessed Saturday afternoon to passing at least 17 checks on local mer chants, totaling about J370. The police have recovered $296. Both men were working- in the Colum bia River Shipbuilding plant, the officers say. Obtaining a pad of First National bank checks and a protectograph they proceeded to ply their trade, it is said. Following is the alleged confession of the men as given by the police : Leslie Wilkinson Tire Sales company, 118.11 ; Golden West creamery. 122.41 ; two gro cery stores on Alberta street, 21 and $28 ; store on southwest corner Albina and Killingsworth avenues, J21 ; garage at East Twenty-first street and Haw thorne avenue, $20 : grocery store at Lents Junction, $19 ; garage at Lents Junction, J35 ; garage in Lents, $37; strange man on street in Oregon City, $19 ; bakery on East Burnslde street, near Grand avenue, $26 ; cigar store, northwest corner Grand avenue and Mor rison street, $21 ; Haverllck's grocery in Clackamas, $21 ; three grocery stores near the end of the Woodstock carline, 18 to $21 ; drug store at Union avenue and Alberta street, bought pen for $3.50 and put out $26 check. Saturday afternoon Motorcycle In spectors Van Deusen and Russell learned that a worthless check for $65 was offered to the Fashion Garage and that it had been refused. With In spectors Goltz, Howell, Ackerman and Stram the officers hurried to the gar age, where they found Baer. He was placed under arrest and the check seized. A few minutes later the mo torcycle men found Brackett at Park and Jefferson streets waiting for Baer to appear in the machine he was to rent at the garage. While the officers are not certain, they. suspect Baer as one of the trio who attempted to hold up the cashier of the Montavilla Savings bank about 10 days ago. This is said to be Brackett's first trouble, while Baer is said to have a previous record. Offi cials from the bank will be asked to look at the prisoners and see If they can identify them. 46th Annual Report Of Public Schools Makes Appearance The forty-sixth annual report of the public schools of Portland for the yar ending June 30, 1919. has made its appearance. Besides photographs of the school di rectors and superintendents and clerk, the publication contains pictures of some of the schools and various ac tivities on playground and elsewhere and reports by Superintendent D. A. Grout and his assistants, high school principals, supervisors, and other per sons connected with the schools. There Is a report from the school librarian, the docent at the art mu seum, principal of the Mills Open Air school, the dean of girls at Lincoln high. The course on American ideals and patriotism, the citizenship school, foreign languages in the elementary schools, kindergarten work, statistical reports, list of Portland teachers and the report of Clerk R. H. Thomas com plete the contents of the report Fire Fighters Fold Up Their Hose 'and Noisily Siren Away Visiting firefighters have left Port land. After a long final Bession at the Multnomah, the International associa tion folded the hose In its hose carts and noisily slrened away. "We had a royal welcome In Port- Jand," said B. M. Noland-of tbfi Kansas City delegation, "and when John W. Baer. the newly elected president, and I leave for our native city, we will carry pleasant recollections back with us. That goes for all the boys all over the Union." After a hot contest St Louis has been selected for next year's convention. W. A. Smith was reelected secretary and treasurer. A vote of congratulation to the Portland fire department concluded WALL NG FORDS PHONE COMPANY US EARNINGS NOT FAIR RETURN Deficit of $225,000 Would Re sult if Forced to Levy Pre-War Rate Throughout Entire Year. BURLESON RATE IS LEGAL Was in Effect and Existing When Act of Congress Returned Wire Systems to Private Control. The Pacific Telephone & Telegraph company is not earning fair return on its investment in Oregon, even un der the Burleson Schedule, attorneys of the company relate In a brief to have been filed with the public serv ice commission of Oregon Friday. Even if the Burleson rate had been in effect during the entire year, it would earn a net revenue of only $385,000, or 2.59 per cent on $14, 840,000, the sum the company claims is its investment in this state. They agree, as offered in the recent hearing in Portland, to allow the rates established by the commission to date back to August 1, although by law, it is maintained, they should go into effect at the close of the hearing. If the Bur leson rates are found unreasonable, it will be from the company's viewpoint, the brief prophesies. 3fO POWER TO SUSPEND RATES Although the utility maintains that the commission has no power to suspend rates pending the hearing because the body has power to suspend only those rates filed by the company, whereas the Burleson rates were not filed, the company prays that the commission re frain from suspension. It would result in "disaster" the brief declares. Activi ties would necessarily be curtailed, serv ice demoralized, the company could not pay wages, operate, nor provide effi cient service. Return to pre-war rates or those fixed by the commission on May 1 would be confiscatory of property, and in viola tion of the constitution of the United States. Furthermore, the wage is fair and the company needs the money, they say. DEFICIT OF I2!5,e A deficit of $225,000 would result for the company if they were forced to levy the pre-war rates throughout the year, $79,000 if the pre-war schedule were in effect until May and the commission rates for the balance of the year, and a revenue of $28,000 would be provided If the commission rates were collected for 12 months, company figures show. If pre-war rates were charged until May, commission rates until July 29, and the Burleson rates for the balance of the year, the company would gain a net revenue of $76,000 or .51 of 1 per cent on the investment. WOULD LOSE 1119,000 On an alleged investment of $9,285,000 in Portland, the utility would lose $119,-' 000 if pre-war rates were in effect throughout the year, the company claims, and $11,200 with pre-war rates to May and commission rates until De cember 31. On commission rates throughout the year, the corporation would realize a net profit of $63,700, a revenue of $115,000 would be provided by pre-war rates to May, commission tolls to July 29, and Burleson schedule for the remainder of the year. A net of $355,000 would be collected if the Burleson rates were ef fective in Portland throughout the year, or an earning of 3.82 per cent on the investment, the brief claims. The company maintains that the Bur leson rate Is the legal rate now, because it was In effect and existing when the act of congress returning the systems to private control was enacted. The suspension five days after institution of the rates In November, was only tem porary, it is asserted. Italian Chamber to Ratify Peace Treaty By Majority of 50 Rome. SeDU 12. (Delayed TT t i The Italian chamber of deputies, it was believed today, will ratify the peace treaty by a majority of 50. The treaty is scheduled for debate in the chamber Monday, when Foreign Mininter Tit. ton! is expected to answer the inter polations or tne deputies. The report of Deputy LuzzaM chair man of the treatv committu nhkrt. trying the ex-kaiser, on the grounds that every crime committed by members of the central powers should be speci- riea. It is also pointed out that no nmri. sion has been made for extradition of the former emperor from Holland. The Messagero stated today that after completion of his peace mission. For eign Minister Tittoni will resign and represent Italy in the League of Na tions. Collision of Autos Exposes Moonshine; 2 Men Are Arrested Collision of two automobiles on the Terwilliger boulevard Saturday resulted in the arrest of Frank Olson and John Golse, occupants of one of the ma chines, by J. C. Glover, deputy revenue agent, who happened along shortly after the accident and discovered two suit cases containing five gallons of "moon shine" in the wrecked vehicle. Olson was taken to the county Jail and Golse to the emergency hospital. The latter received numerous cuts about the head from flying glass at the time of the collision. Olson said at the time of his arrest that he had picked up Golse at Tigard on his way to Portland and that he knew nothing of the contents of the two suitcases. Business Slow, Sheriff Quits Meadville, Pa.. Sept. 13. (I. N. g.) "For Rent Cells and Corridors. Apply to Sheriff at County Jail." Thafs the sign that Sheriff Palmer hopes to bring some business to the local lockup. Since the county went dry a few years ago arrests have been at a minimum. But when the neighboring counties also went dry on July 1 the Jail was without Inmates. Major Hotchkiss Is Assigned to Camp Lewis for Service Major Clarence R. Hotchkiss, formerly commander of Company E, 1624 in fantry, Forty-first division, and . Hater commanding officer of a provlsSonal regiment of students attending the A. E. F.j university at Beaune. France; was in Portland Saturday night on his way to Camp Lewis. Wash. When Hotchkiss left Beaune with 300 officers for an embarkation port in France, he was detained and detailed to the inspector general s department at St. Nazaire and Brest, . embarkation camps. He arrived in the United States August 3. bi a recent war department order held all officers under 40 years of age who were not duration of the war men. Accordingly, he chose Camp Lewis when asked what camp he wished assignment In civil life Hotchkiss is a lawyer and lives at 834 East Harrison street. Pershing, Reports Work Accomplished Washington, Sept. 13. (U. P.) Gen eral Pershing today reported to Secre tary of War Baker that his mission to help save the world from autocracy had been accomplished. Then he went to the baseball game. It was Tershing's fifty-ninth birthday. The conference in Baker's office was largely personal. X-ry view showing where the Cheney Orchestral Chambers are located Chemey PHONOGRAPH mm-. William Mary ROAD ENGINEERS OF . E WITH THEIR GOVERNOR County Officials From Neighbor ing State Make Remarks About Executive. The opinion of Ooveror Hart of Wash ington that Oregon is Indulging in an orgy of cheap road construction is not indorsed by the county commissioners and engineers of that state, who were the guests yesterday of the Oregon Slate Association of County Judges and Com missioners in a trip over Multnomah county roads and the Columbia river highway. We do not pay mu-h attention to what our governor says," said one of them. "He is Just a plain nut," said another. From the expression of others it Is indicated that there will prohably be some changes in the Washington method of road building. The trip was an eye-opener to those who had never been over the highway. One result will be the stimulation of a movement to build a similar highway on the Washington shore of the river. The party, which left Portland at 10 a. m., consisted of 70 automobile loads. Making a detour by way of Lenta Rn(i the Foster road It proceeded to Gregham WASHINGTON DISAGRE The Cheney Orchestral Chambers A Distinct Contribution To Music The ftindamcntal acoustic principles of the pipe organ have been adapted to the phonograph in the Cheney Orchestral Chambers. Those chambers in the organ pipes which have made the pipe organ so rich and full add their mellow sweet' ness to tones as the Cheney repro duces records. It is a wonderful advance in the art of reproducing music. Connoisseurs assure us that the series of exclusive inventions embodied in the Cheney constitute the greatest ;mpf ovement since phonographs were invented. Surely they have placed the Cheney in a class apart with tones of un rivalled clarity and pureness. Cheney Period Cabinets in regular and art models are masterpieces, the pride of the most talented furniture craftsmen in the country. Cheney Talking Machine Comrvy rtprtttnted by G. F. Johnson Piano 7a 147.149 Sixth, Bet. Alder and Morrison V HILL BROS and thence to the Columbia river high way junction at the Automobile club house.' From here the course was l& Eagle Creek park, where a hot luncheon was served to 300 persons by the Oregon association. After luncheon the party dissolved In to units who took their own time to re turn to Portland. High Profits Are Made by Dealers uT Goverriment Goods Chicago, Sept. 13. (U. P.) - Profits up to 30 per cent were made by Chicago wholesale Jobbers mid grocers on gov ernment canned food, i: wn.; disclosed in n Investigation by the citizens' commit tee today. "s.e canned goods were h. Id in ware houses until tho shoiUurc greater unci labels imnso I for tln.s,. of higher priced brnnds, it was chergi-d. Collins Just Can't Keep Out of Jail Columbus, Sept. 13. .1. W. Collins, lt year-old Columbus boy, holds the record In this city for short time or reft s. He was arrested for speeding on his motor cycle, released on bond and rearrested by tile motor cop who li;nl nnulo thfi first arrest in le..s tlvin lit minnten for back ing into tb.j ol fic. i 's motoivv do. The second charge ;u.i malicious destruc tion of property. gCn - ... , the program. , A