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THE OREGON - DAILY JOURNAL. PORTLAND.' FRIDAY. KKBKUAKY 13. 1920.
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To look op and not down.
.To look forward and not back.
To look out arid not In. and
To land a band.
Edward Ererett llalt.
IN SESSION
hmHE Council of the League of Na-
I tlons Is holding sessions in Lon
I don. Fop the first time in history
great international questions are
In the process of settlement by or
ganized discussion and conciliation.
For the first time on the earth de
liberation and adjudication In world
affairs around a permanent council
table have" been substituted for the
word.
It is the same step that people took
many years ago In finding a way to ;
etlie personal disputes. iuai was : on an average of one about every
.when civil courts were organized and Ppht days. That long season of reck
put into operation. That process was lessness and fatal accidents has been
one of the first Inaugurated for the followed by 82 days In which no life
upbuilding of civilization. Criminal ; wa8 sacrificed.
and civil courts are very much to a
nation what the League of Nations
Is expected to be to the world. It la ;
ipected
the orderly way instead of the dis
orderly way. . It is the civilized way
Instead of the uncivilized way.
America is not In the league council.
About 15 American senators Insisted
lhat America should not be a party
to the league.. To use his own
language, Mr. Lodge Insisted that such ;
changes be made in the covenant as
-would send it back to conference. ;
For eight months these men and their ,
"aTl v,,winu, .'""v,,
mnllt VinjMA n n4 tnlKhlatt An1 YnAnr aft I
Wllfc nan c nun i ii iLnj aim wtuiYiigu
America and Europe.
Meanwhile the league is an accom
plished fact. With certain nations,
the treaty is ln effect, and they are
at peace. .Through the covenant thpy
have contracted .to settle their disputes
through the League Council Just as
. earlier men agreed that personal dis
putes should be settled in civil courts.
While the politicians quibble at Wash
ington, Europe moves forward. Poli
tics 1b the first consideration at the
American capital ; the peace and good
order of the world is the paramount
Issue in Europe.
While Lodge struts and Borah fumes
and Reed harangues, the peace treaty
Is a contract that has already gone
Into effect. The League covenant Is
compact that is already ln force.
The covenant provides the only terms
by which it can be changed, yet the
Lodge group are haggling over it as
If they were accomplishing something
Instead of keeping the country in tur
moil, postponing peace and neglect
ing vital legislation that ought to be
passed.
No wonder so many people are sick
ened wlh congress and looking
bout for some means of relief.
Facing the incongruous fact that
While the Canadian dollar is dis
counted aa much as 15 per cent in
exchange with the United States,
the silver in the coin is worth more
than its face value, Canadian- busi
ness Interests have inaugurated ' a
"buy at home" campaign. Such a
campaign is the natural result of
the abnormal exchange situation,
and Its background is a realization
that Increased production in all
countries adversely affected by
foreign exchange is the only way oHit
Of the dilemma created by their de
preciated money
gettig ships
D
.INKERS, parades and an exhibition
of ship models will be used to
feature National Marine week in
New York, April 12-17. If Port
land observes the week why not get
a little closer to the subject?
The purpose Is to stir American
Interest in a national merchant marine
'and In foreign trade. A review of
foreign trade opportunities, a state
ment of foreign demand for our staple
products, the availability of ships, the
conditions of exchange would these
not bo closer to the point? But if the
program suggests the bizarre, the
statement of , the National Marine
league, urging; the observance of the
week, is important as the following
'paragraph will-show:
- The time has com for the nation to
realise the pressing economic importance
Of national maritime Independence.
American cargoes, mails and passengers
must be carried lariyly In ships built,
owned and operated by Americana in
chips equipped and repaired by Ameri
can Industry and classified and InSnred
by . American companies. It is a mat
tar ot ' tha .greatest Importance to tha
Inland M well as to the seaboard state
that our .merchant marine be jut upon
a permanent basis of healthy develop
ment .
Americana must become Interested in
maritime' legislation. They must invest
money In shipping: enterprises as tha
people of all other maritime powers have
done. The American , boy -must come
down to the sea. The country itself
must be brought "to think tn terms of
ships." Until these things come to pass
It cannot be said ruly that we have
a healthy merchant marine.
Why not employ National Marine
week locally to put over measures of
ship operation and business getting
that will crowd the- ports of the Co
lumbia with commerce?
It has been known for some time
that with Bolshevists, Reds, .strikes
and lockouts, Seattle Is some wild
and woolly metropolis, but it has re
mained for the present to reveal
that wild animals are pressing , in
upon the wild men of Puget sound's
hilly city. A deputy game warden
of King county says that some trap
pers are earning as much aa $40 a
day catching muskrats, skanks, coy
otes and wildcats around the north
ern shores of Lake Washington al
most within the city limits.
IN EIGHTY-TWO DAYS
FROM November 21, 1919, to Febru
ary 11, 1920,1 there was not a
death in Portland from an auto
mobile accident.
It was 82 days without a killing.
It was 'nearly three times as long
without a death as any period of
which the police have account.
In the three years since the keeping
of records of accidents was begun at
the olice station, there have been
but two periods of a month each in
which there were no deaths. Thus,
the accident prevention campaign has,
with respect to lives saved, borne fruit
beyond expectation. It is doubtful
If anybody expected that so much
could be done to cut accidents. The
showing Is proof of what can be
done. But a short time before the
late period without a death began,
four persons were killed in automo
bile smash-ups within four consecu
tive days. Fatal accidents had reached.
f0od tide
A victim was being taken
The effort to reduce accidents has
bn proven f(J we "
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i n.iimifs.-i uuu jvuir on si nil' usual
rate ;n the 82 days 20 to 25 persons
would have been killed.
It Is possible for this comparative
safety on the streets to be still fur
ther Increased. It can be done If all
the people will continue to snnnnrt
the trafflc pocef th safptv councl
8nd al, othprs enRaged in 'the cam.
paiKn A 8lnmg pubc 8entirnnt to
bark up off icer9 ln enforcing rPR.
uIation8t a univerBa, ,n8jstence that
drivers learn and strictlv observe
traffic rules, obedience jy pedestrians
to the requirements of the law, and
a general purpose to make Portland
the safest city In the country will
bring about the desired results. When
that Is done, it will be advertising for
Portland of the very highest value.
Best of all. Portland children and
others may venture across a street
without risking their lives; Portland
owners of automobiles may drive
about the city without fear; non-owners
of machines can buy new cars
without distrust, and with them find
lhat delightful diversion, that Infinite
source of pleasure, that privilege of
journeying out for a restful period
amid the works of nature, which
comes from ownership of a car.
The automobile has added enorm
ously to human privileges and human
possibilities for both pleasure and
business. It is a boundless source of
healthy diversion and vacation. It
broadens the lives of families by
bringing the country to the door of
the city.
In Portland its U9e Is being freed
from the former dangers. The effort
to make the city safer should go on
until the comforts and pleasures of
motoring can be enjoyed by all
through ownership -"of a car by every
family that can afford one.
Sheriff Stringer of Seattle is well
named. His latest proposition was
to spend part of the public fund
for two fiddles, a banjo and pos
sibly a. mandolin with which to fur
nish musical entertainment for his
prisoners. His idea may have been
that music hath charms to soothe
the savage breast, but the unkind,
disbursing officials declined to rec
ognize such instruments as proper
Implements for Jail administration.
THE COMMISSION'S DAY
T
HE interstate commerce commis
sion is to be felicitated that its
membership is composed of men
who possess poise and indenen.
dence of mind.
Otherwise the advice flung at it by
the exceptants to the findings pro
posed for the Columbia basin rate
case by Chief Examiner Thurtell
would plunge the body into chaos
and confusion.
The chief examiner, it will be re
membered, recommended that be
tween Portland-Vancouver and a zone
south of the Snake ' river the r.i.
should be not more than 90 per cent
of the rate between this zone and
Puget sound or Astoria. Now appears
the attorney for the railroad admin
istration in his uocument of excep
tions, solemnly assuring the com
merce commission that since no rea
son was found for lowering the rate
in the rone north or the Snake the
commission has 'no right to 'give
the area to the south the benefit of
its 'geographic position.
. wi sympathy, as bedewed -with
crocodile tears as It Is gratuitous, the
Washington public service' commis
sion and the cities of Puget sound
predict that the sadly imposed upon
grain grower of the zone south of
the Snake would be the chief sufferer
instead of a beneficiary should an
order be Issued for a differential In
the rates applying to this territory.
The peculiar course of reasoning fol
lowed is that the commission could
only increase the rate from this zone
to Puget sound and Astoria and that
the only effect would be to deny the
shippers the benefit of privilege of
shipping to competitive markets.
With the same set of facts as fur
nish a basis for the direful predic
tions of the railroads and Puget
sound, former Governor West for the
Inland Empire Shippers' league points
out more' cogently that the earnings
of the lines serving the territory af
fected by the tentative report of the
examiner warrant a new deal in rate
making, not only In the zone south
of the Snake but throughout the area
where d stance and water grade favor
Portland and Vancouver.
And Portland and Vancouver's argu
ments, following the same bent, stress
the point that if . conditions south
of the Snake river warrant a reduc
tion in rates to and from Portland
and Vancouver, the same conditions
warrant similar reductions north of
the Snake.
But after all the arguments and
advice are placed on. file, it must be
realized that it is the province of the
Interstate commerce commission to be
governed by the facts. That the facts
are contained in the records of the
hearings held by the commission.
That the commission knows perfectly
well that rate reductions benefit com
munities and territories affected In
proportion to the amount of the re
duction. That distance, cost of trans
portation, operating conditions and
water grade all naturally favor at least
a large portion of the Inland Empire
in its relation to the ports of the
Columbia. That justice Is all that is
sought in the forthcoming decision
and that the commission is perfectly
qualified to determine of what justice
shall consist.
Keep the twinkle in the eye. The
advice proceeds from president
Hough of Northwestern university.
As the industrial groups of America
discuss their differences the argu
ment that forsakes good nature and
fires anger merely closes the minds
of those whom it la desired to con
vince. Almost any disputants can
get together; and reach an agree
ment on a basis of fairness.
READY TOR REVOLT
OREGON retailers and packers are
being scored by livestock grow
ers. The growers say the same
prices arc taken for meat over
the block that were in effect when
cattle were 14 and 14 against the
present prices of 11 and 11. They
insist that the middlemen are taking
an undue profit, that either too much
Is being taken from the consumer or
too little is paid the grower. A meet
ing of stockmen at Prineville the
other day was the beginning of a
movement that is expected to be wide
spread in which livestock growers
will demand a show down.
The growers point to the fact that
they are feeding hay that Is worth
25 to $30 a ton, that it takes three
tons of hay to carry a steer through
the winter for bloek purposes in the
late winter or early spring, that a
$100 steer sent Into the feed yards
must bring at least $160 at the end
of the winter before the stockman can
come out even, and that at the pres
ent prices of feed and beef, stockmen
are losing money and some of Ihem
are actually threatened with bank
ruptcy. The stockmen further urged that
they are bringing in the finest of full
bloods in order to improve their herds,
that they are trying to build up the
industry along lines that will greatly
advance the region, that they are
spending their money and giving their
time in adding to the strength and
wealth of the state, and that they
are not gating the returns to which
their ipdustry, Iheir business courage
and intelligence are entitled.
The stage 6eems set for a life sized
revolt by the stockmen against an
arrangement which they freely char
acterize as very unjust.
Portland's emergency fund is re
ported by Commisioner Pier to be
ellghtly more than $41,000. The
fund itself constitutes almost an
emergency in city government but it
is the kind of an emergency that will
no be aided Tsy spending the money.
ONE NUISANCE
PHILADELPHIA, Seattle and some
of the other American cities that
have been unsuccessful In com
bating the bill board nuisance
must go to the Philippines Islands for
leadership.
Tlfe Philippine courts recentlylls
missed an injunction suit against an
ordinance which gives one of the gov
ernment officials power to remove the
billboards if offensive in appearance.
The decision was based first upon
the assertion that the regulation of
billboards is a regulation of streets,
and, second, that objects offensive to
the eye may be suppressed with as
great propriety ln congested districts
as raucous noises or evil smells.
In one respect Portland Is lastingly
Indebted to the bill board companies,
for by common consent they abstained
from placing even the "art boards"
along the Columbia River highway.
With the complaint that 200.000
people in IjOs Angeles don't know
they have a harbor and that the
harbor 1 prUjr body of water.
without ships, the traffic manager
of the Los Angeles harbor depart
ment has announced that he will
resign after eight years In office.
Maybe he ought to.
Letters From the People
'Communications sent to Tha Joornal for
publication in t hie department ahoold ba written
on dnbr ona aide of tba paper, ahonld not exeead
900 word tn length, and must ba aigned by tha
writer, wboaa mall addresa ln full moat acoont
pear tba contribution.
Values and Taxation
Vancouver. Wash.. Feb. I. To the
Editor of The Journal In a Portland
daily paper today there appeared an
article under the heading, "Tax Change
Is Sought. Resolution by Realtors Ap
plies to Washington." It says Governor
Hart of Washington will be asked to
call a special session of the legislature
to draw up a constitutional amendment
to be submitted to the people, providing
for a change in methods of taxation.
There is no doubt in my mind that taxa
tion could stand a change, but I don't
think it should be changed according to
the ideas of the realtors' associations.
The article read : "The single tax.
which it is expected will be before the
people at the next general election
through an initiative petition, was vigor
ously rapped, as was the new Oregon
Land and Labor league, which has a re
vision of state" taxation along single Uix
lines as one of Its planks."
Who oppose the single tax? - Mostly
the land hog and real estate profiteer.
If there is such a thingv as a profiteer
the realty men have got them all skinned.
What does the real estate broker pro
duce? High priced land. What does
high priced land produce? Kverything
high priced that is raised on that land.
The opponents of the single tax go to
the farmer and' tell htm that the single
tax is a tax on land and that he should
oppose it. This is absolutely untrue. The
single tax'ls the lightest tax the farmer
can pay, because the average farm has
very little land value. Very little of the
farm values of this state are land val
ues ; they are labor values. An irdinary
farm worth $10,000 In this state has nrt
more than $500 of land value. Deduct
the labor value represented by the house,
barn, outbuildings, fences, drains,
orchards, crops and conditions of cul
ture, and not more than $500 would re
main that could be said to be real land
values. If we were to assess 5 per cent
on the values of this state the sum total
raised from all agricultural lands uould
not exceed $20,000,000, while .the lots
through the state would raise many times
that amount No wonder the lani spec
ulators want to continue a system of
taxation that exempts so much of land
values in the cities and loads down with
taxes the labor values of the rural dis
tricts. I
Much more can be said. Taxatim la
payment for social service, A citizen
should pay for what he gets from so
ciety. The value of that service is not
what a man does for himself. If a farm
er builds a barn, is that a servlcJ ren
dered by society? If not, what moral
right has the state to send an increased
tax bill, having rendered no service nor
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increased its expenditure on behalf of
that farmer? The building of the barn
was a service rendered to the farmer
by himself. He gets nothing more from
the county after he built the ban than
he did before, and any tax collected
thereon la stealing by process of law.
G. W. LOUDEN.
Carfares and Streetcar Taxes
Portland. Feb. 11. To the Editor of
The eurnaj of course taxes on street
car lines are part of the expense. Of
course taxes on railroads are part of
the expense. These taxes are allowed
for and must be paid by the users, the
shippers, the passengers. A few years
ago it was alleged by every paper In
Oregon and California that such taxes
were not paid by the public but came
out or the dividends or the stocanoiaers.
Now we are paying 1 cent every time
we fide on a streetcar in Portland, so
we are told By the press and the eoc-
1 perta, to pay the taxes of the public
service corporation. And some people
don't like that extra cent, and don't like
i the thought of 2 cents more ln order
to pay 8 per cent interest on bonds is
sued when suckers were plentiful and
straphangers meek. Let the receiver
take possession and the public won't
have to walk, but some of the bond
holders who want 8 per cent may have
to take 2, and.be lucky at that.
There is a single tax measure up for.
consideration. Will its opponents have
the gall this time' to say it exempts
streetcar lines and railroad lines from
taxation? Haven't we been assured by
all the dailies in Portland that street
cars pay no taxes anyhow, but the peo
ple pay them in increased fares? Are
not railroads but a longer string of
the same warp? Buy a flivver your
self and let the bondholders walk the
streets or the floor. A gasoline bus
owned by the city and operated on every
other street free would not cost as much
as the streetcar combine has cost us
and will cost us.
CHRISTINA .MACK-
Curious Bits of Information
For the Curious
Gleaned From Curious Places
February is of principal historical in
terest to the United States because in
this month both George Washington and
Abraham Lincoln first saw the light of
day. Washington was born at Bridges
Creek, Westmoreland county, Virginia,
February 22, 1732. Lincoln was born on
Rocksprlng 'farm, three miles from
Hodgenville. in Hardin county, Ken
tucky, February 12, 1809.
February 4, 1861. a Joint convention
of the seven seceding states met at
Montgomery, Ala., and formed the
Southern Confederacy, adopting a pro
visional president
February 13. 1898, the battleship
Maine was blown up while lying in
Havana harbor. The destruction of this
battleship materially hastened the Spanish-American
war.
And Make It Quickly. Too
From the Albany Journal
Somebody could make a fortune by
going Into business to sell those moderate-priced
goods which dealers say peo
ple do not want.
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COMMENT AND
SMALL CHANGE j
The man who starts out to End trouble
hardly ever happens to get on the wrong
road.
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We won't worry so much about a
railroad tleup so long aa it's untied be
fore vacation time.
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When a woman discovers that she is
growing old she may be sure that her
friends have known it for a lonr time.
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Maryland has turned down the suf
frage amendment T-Vi at1. fin
to treat that girl ln the heart of Mary
land. It is reported that the Mexican am
bassador is BOinx to Ultra Wachinirlnn
for home in a few days. Wonder what's
up now.
London has replaced Paris as ihe seat
of deliberations to settle problems grow
ing out of the war. We hope the da
liberators will be able to find their
way out of the fog.
Holland has sent a representative to
Oregon to look over tha nntiiniuti nf I
placing foreign butter on local markets, i
and local manufacturers are now pre-
paring to beat the Dutch. I
MORE OR LESS PERSONAL
Random Observations About Town
A popular fiction writer Is yclept O.
A. C. Lunn, and for that very reason
Alfred G. Lunn, for years a poultry spe
cialist and InBtrnctor at the Orpe-on Ai-
' rlcultural college, has been accused of
pdoing- fiction on the side. While d-
mttUng that fiction does at times get
into the realm of "chickens." LuntiA-o-ciferously
denies that he and O. AT C
Lunn are even acquainted. A, , O.
only claims O. A. C. as Initials for
his name are a graduation diploma
from O. A. C. and his official connection
with the school. Lunn went east a
few years ago and made a big reputa
tion for himself after teaching for sev
eral years at the Oregon college. Re
cently he returned to accept a position
with the provincial government of Brit
ish Columbia, and only within the past
few months has been Induced to return
to O. A. C. his first love. Lunn Is a
guest at the Seward hotel.
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"Grandpa ! Mamma and me stayed
at the Multnorsjah hotel and had dinner
In tie big room. The man brought me
a dish of Water to wash my hands, but
he forgot the soap." Such conversation
was made by the S-year-old grandchild
of K. P. Ash. Stevenson. Wash., banker,
who Is a guest at the Multnomah. The
grandson is the delight of tha Ash
household and his stock went up a
point when the waiter forgot the soap
with the finger bowl.
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Elmer Matthews and P. S. Keyes of
Fossil are visiting In the city, stopping
meanwhile at the Ferklns. Matthews
Is a realty dealer and stockman, while
Keyes concentrates his attention on
sheep on the big Wheeler county ranges.
Fossil, county seat of Wheeler county.
Is an ambitious, little city 20 miles south
of Condon, according to the railroad
guide.
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Mrs. E. E. Hornshel of Kansas City,
Mo., joined her husband at the Multno
mah hotel on Wednesday to spend six
or eight weeks here while friend hus
band is transacting business. Kansas
is mighty interesting country sometimes,
but ln the winter or very early spring
Oregon takes the cake, authorities
agree.
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Walter Williams, Dallas banker and
close kin to Portland's own Ralph Wil
liams, member of the Republican na
tional committee from Oregon, is in the
city from the Polk county metropolis.
Williams recently locked up his pretty
Dallas bungalow and moved to Tilla
mook for a flyer ln banking, at which
he Is associated with Ralph. Walter
soon found the Dallas Ues irresistible
IMPRESSIONS AND OBSERVATIONS
OF THE JOURNAL MAN
By Fred
'The story of PertUni'i flrat bank ia hr
toM bv Mr. Lockley, who traeoa it from it Rrnall
bea-innirifi in 1889 down to tha present dr.
noting Its growth and Portland"! atom tha way. J
Martin E. Fitzgerald holds down the
information counter at the Ladd & Til
ton bank. He has been asked so many
questions about the founding of the
bank and about its early history that
he has recently compiled a book, entitled
Slxtv Milestones of Proeresp." in which
he sketches the history of the bank from
1859 to 1919.
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8ince William Sargent Ladd founded
the bank 60 years ago the city of less
than' 3000 people has grown to over
300,000; the 30,626 miles of railroad ln
the United States have increased to
262.218 ; the population of the United
States has trebled, its wealth has been
multiplied by 12, and 16 new stars have
been added to Old Glory. . During this
period the huge trays of double eagles
have given place to trays of currency.
The prospector and miner, with their
"pokes" of gold dust, have given place
to the promoter and capitalist.
William S. Ladd had been in Port
land three years when, in 1853, he built
Portland's first brick structure at 105
Front street It was a one story building-
and was opposite the ferry landing.
In 1857 he added a story, and two years
later, on June 1. 1859, in one room of
the second story, he and Charles E.
Tilton opened Portland's first bank. At
first the bank was known as the Ladd
&. Tilton bank, and later as the Bank
of Oregon. Still later the title. Ladd
Tilton, Bankers," became their offi
cial title. Mr. Ladd was local manager,
while Tilton lived at San Francisco, and
attended to the bank's Interests there.
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Seven months after the bank opened
Portland's census, taen In January,
I860, showed 116S men, 670 women. 515
boys and 526 glrla.. There .were 16 ne
groes and 27 Chinese here. Three years
later the population had grown to 4057.
"Steamer day" and the coming of the
stage were two events of prime Impor
tance to Portland people in those days.
Much of the freight from Portland went
to San Francisco and consisted of ap
ples,' beans, eggs, lard, hides, wool, flour
and gold dust For example, on June
25, 1862. the .Sierra Nevada sailed for
San Francisco with 100 choice furs. 696
pounds of valley wool and $228,000 In
gold dust. On September 25, the Brother
Jonathan left for San Francisco with
shipments of gold dust as follows:
Wells, Fargo & Co., $210,000;, Ladd 4
Tilton $17,200. as well aa shipments of
tion company. Knapp. Burrell ft Co., A.
dust rrom tne urion o"""1
Cohn 4c Co. and Conn, Lyon CO., as
Bunk
From tha Medford MaU Tfflroaa.
The bunk "owing to unsettled condi
tions" as a derrick to lift tb price of
something a tittle higher, is beeomlnr
slightly thin In the aeaC" If a wheat
raiser of Bulgaria happens to be late
with his spring plowing, tenpenny nails
Jump upwards In the Willamette valley.
fOwtng to the high price of cotton, wool
suits cost a lordly sum. Salvation Is
still free, but you 'better get it before
fait . . ,
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NEWS IN BRJiEF
SIDELIGHTS j
The Reporter makes note of February
4 as the anniversary of "the big fire at
OoM Beach, and that "within the year
two fine structures have supplanted
the ruins." ,
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Three hours after the community auc
tion sale had opened at Pilot Rock,
$ 20(H) worth of farm machinery was
old. Fifty head of horses, registered
sheep and bulls were auctioned ln the
afternoon. i
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The Canyon City Katje quotes H. K.
Warner of Pendleton, who has been run
ning stock in the Granite district for 20
years, as saying that in the Trout Creek
meadows and In thai Mclnlty In the
Granite district he believes there are at
least 250 elk. They at not molested
and are multiplying rapidly.
"Condon," sympathettically remarks
the Heppner flaaette Times, "la still
bucking up against the same problem
in the way of a watee supply which j
Heppner only a few months ago decided
to do away with. Tne condon city coun.
ell hai riAelrttrl tn drill more well I7n
fortunately our sister city on the west
does not have her mountain water supply
close at hand."
and returned. He finds Joy as com
plete as possible in Dallas. The only
improvement would be a revival of the
old Carnation club dances, at which
Carey Hater could fiddle as in the
happy days of youth. jWHUams Is In
Portland on hualnoaa
E. D. Cusick. member' f the banking
firm that bears the Cusick name at Al
bany, Is a guest at the Oregon hotel
white in the city transacting business.
Cusick is a redoubtable iilmrod and one
of the mainstays of the Albany Oun
club.
L. L. Paget, cashier of the First State
bank at Seaside and vastly Interested
in the new hotel, under construction
there, is at the Multnomah hotel. As
far as Paget Is concerned, there Isn't
another ocean resort ln Oregon but Sea
side. That favored community looks
forward to and builds: forward to a
hopeful season of tourtlt trade.
T. G. Bllgh. in whose name a great
many ventures hsve been christened at
Salem, is at the Oregpn hotel. For
years the Bligh theatre and the Bllgh
hotel have been prominent ln Salem.
Lakeview's one commercial and social
dioadvantage Is Its isolation. Under
present conditions there Is no railroad
into that thriving Lake county seat and
travelers must detour to Reno. Nev., in
order to make the entire trip to Port
land on the railroad. But during the
dry months (dry in the sense that rain
is absent) the state highway syatem la
sufficient to bring Lake view folk to
Portland ln the many "fine automobile
that are registered ln ithat city. Gil
bert, D. Brown of Lake view is a guest
at the Multnomah hotel.
Dr. and Mrs. F. E. Casey, accompa
nied by Miss Ruth Atherton, are stop
ping at the Multnomah while "doing
Portland from the shopper's angle. The
visitors are from Astoria.
W. W. Stables, one of Montana's well
known stockmen, is registered at the
Multnomah from Great : Falls.
Mr. and Mrs. Oeorge M. Miles never
get their mail mixed up with that In
tended officially for the mayor of Miles
City, Mont, where they Hve. In fact,,
some folk who have heard of the vast
western ranches have ben guilty of the
belief that Mr. and Mrs. Miles owned
the -town.
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T. f. Robinson, Sllvert.on lumber man.
Is transacting business in the city while
a guest at the Perkins hotel.
Lockley
well aa a cargo of apples, hides, butter,
eggs and sheepskins, and 40 horses,
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By the fall of 1864 there were four
banks ln Portland Latd A Tilton, the
First National, the Bank of British
Columbia and the Eaav, Portland Sav
ings ft Loan bank. The Ladd ft Tilton
bank then moved to a downstairs loca
tion on the corner of itark and Front
streets. Three years later Mr. Ladd de
cided to "move up town." and built a
two story bank building at First and
Htark streets. He donated the upper
floor of the new bank building for the
use of the Portland public library.
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In 1871 the federal government
aroused a storm of criticism by selecting-
a site for the postoffice "away out
in the country," at Fifth and Morrison
streets. The postofflca building was
finished in 1875 and the suggestion was
sarcastically made tljat the government
"establish a pony express from Fifth
and Morrison to the business section of
Portland," which was at that time con
fined to Front street and First street
"Black Friday." in 187S. hit Portland
hard. The panic had been preceded by
the "Great Fire," In August, 1873. which
destroyed the buildings on more than 20
blocks and caused a loss of over $1,000,
000. a a a
On January 1. 1860. the Ladd A Tilton
bank had deposits of $49.891. 82. In 1880
they had reached $1,000,000. In 1810
they exceeded $12,000,000, and
they are over $24,000,000.
today
In 180 Mr. Tilton and Mr. Mead re
tired and the bank passed into the
hands of W. S. Ladd and his son, Wil
liam Mead Ladd.
When the first transcontinental train
entered Portland, September 11, 1888.
Portland's commerce and population be
gan to climb steadily, and before long
three transcontinental systems, the
Northern Pacific, the Southern Pacific
and the Union Pacific, had mads Port
land their western terminals.
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No matter what activity for upbnlld
ng Portland is investigated, it will be
found that- William S. Ladd was either
the prime mover or one of the earnest
workers for its success. Railroads,
steamships, good roads, flouring mills,
public library. Bull Run' water, schools,
tha fire department, street lighting,
sewers, paving, banking all found in
him an earnest advocate and one who
was willing to back hie good Intentions
with his cash. The Portland of today
is due tn a large measure to the vision,
Lability, energy and genius "Tor organi-
satlon of W. & Ladd.
Hang On
Tvam tha Cran American. y
J. E. Pvfliunavtlle. who has been mak
ing a tour of Arisona and California,
was lns town yesterday on his- way to
his home at Bums. He states that land
values near Phoenix and In the Imperial
valley are out of reason, aa titg-h as
$1000 per acre being paid for irrigated
lands tor raising alfalfa. Mr. Rouns
vllle is sanguine that Harney county
lands when under irrigation will com
mand high prices. His alogan la, "Hang
on to your land."
The Oregon Country
Northwaat Bappenlnta tn Brtaf rm for
Buy Raadar.
OR BOON NOTES
A new 100 room hotel ia projected at
The Dalles If sufficient inducement ia.
assured by local capital.
Senator McNary has introduced a bill
in the senate to throw open the Klamath
Indian reservation to settlement.
Voters of Eugene will ballot In Mar
on a proposal to expend $22,000 for the
purchase of An aviation field aa a base
for the forest patrol.
Trustees of the Klamath Falls Presby
terian church have placed anordr for
a pipe organ to cost $4000 to be installed
Jn August.
The Veterans Lane County council has
been organised at Kugene. It will con
sist of representatives of all patriotic
bodies.
Scottish Rite Masons at Baker are pre
paring for a local reunion the laltar n:irt
of April, at which all degrees up to and
including the 32d mn be conferred
Soulrrela huvn
in the Clatkes section of Clackamas
county that the farmers have appointed
Albert Gassier to distribute poison grain.
Within leas than two weeks from the
time he brought the body of his mother
to Cottage Grove for burial, Dale M.
Lockwood was himself burled.
The J8600 deficit of former Sheriff
Oellatly of Benton county has been made
good to the county by two of his
brothers.
E. L. Smith of Hood River, an 82-year-old
pioneer, in the last survivor of the
Republican convention of 1B80. which
nominated Lincoln for president
Joseph Richardson, deputy state treas
urer has announced that he will be a
candidate for reflection to the legisla
ture from Multnomah county.
Ankeney grange of Jefferson has
adopted resolutions lauding Governor Ol
cott for Vetoing a large number of bills
passed at the extra session of the legis
lature. The student body at Oregon Agricul
tural college hns gone on record as op
posed to formal parties. It hits decided
that democracy and dress suits are not
consonant
Never ill a day in his llfentll he
contracted pneumonia a few days ago.
Robert Kelley, 75 years of age, and an
old time resident of The Dalles, la dead
at Spokane.
It has been decided at Salem to install
warning signals at the railroad crossing
at the Intersection of Capitol and Union
streets where several accidents have re
cently occurred.
WASHINGTON
A. L. White hsv been reelected for
his fourteenth year as president of the
Spokane park board.
Joseph Peter, a Mexican who escaped
from a Seattle hospital while a patient
has been arrested at Oosmopolts.
Great Northern officials have rescind
ed an order that Hlllyard shopmen
should work nine hours Instead of eight.
The cold weather Is said by the farm
ers of the Kettle Falls district to be
very injurious to fall sown whest
Dayton has gone on record aa opposed
to the granting of a $200 bonus to school
teachers by a vote of 228 to 88.
The Spokane ft Kastern Trust company
has purchased $00,000 of Grant county
bonds at a premium of $125 and ac
crued Interest.
The United States war department has
approved a hill to permit the construc
tion of a bridge across the Columbia
between Pasco and KennewicR.
Plans for the construction of the Kit
titas irrigation project have been filed
with the state reclamation hoard. The
total cost is estimated at $10,296,000.
Walla Walla farmers have started a
fight against the Gronna bill to repeal
the government guarantee on the price
of wheat.
At an auction sale of stock on Fords
prairie 15 grade Holsteln cows brought
an average of $186. The highest mark
was $255.
A new theatre will be built at Van- -couver
with a seating capacity of 1800
by County Commissioner Klgglns, who
already has threo moving picture houses.
Clalme against the Emergency Fleet
corporation for damages to the amount
of $8,000,000 have been filed at Seattle
by the Sloan Shipyards corporation of
Olympla. A breach of contract la al
leged. A diamond ring taken from Mrs. Jos
eph Ians by two holdup rrwn at Ht-attle
has been found in the mud In the xtreet
near the scene of the robbery. It is
valued at $15,000 and was one of the
famous collection of Senator Tabor of
Colorado.
IDAHO
Potatoes are retailing at Lewlston at
6 cents jr pound end seed potatoes
will probably reanh $6.50 per 100 pounds.
Iiewlston is enjoying spring weather.
The crocus and narclKsus are appearing
and gardeners are getting busy.
The Vendome hotel at Welser has been
sold to Frank Kurahischl, a Japanese,
formerly of Bakpr, Or.
A slump of Idaho livestock values Is
reported by the crop reporting service
Horses have dropped $12 a head, mules
$7, cattle $4.80, sheep $1.80, hogs $1.80.
Pocatello school teachers have been
granted a bonus of $10,756'. All wlU
share ln It except the superintendent
and high school principal.
' Good roads boosters of Ores-on, Wash
ington and Idaho have united ln an or
ganisation to promote the building of
a highway from Lewistdn Into Wal
lowa county, Oregon.
Tha grading gang employed on the
highway near Burley plowed up a hu
man skull last week. It Is thought It
was the remains of an emigrant who
died ln pioneer days on the Oregon
Trail.
The first potato banquet ever held In
Boise valley was given by the Parma
Association of Commerce. It wss at
tended by 110 farmers and business men
of Parma. The menu embraced pota
toes cooked in various ways.
Officials of the state department of
agriculture and agents of the extension
division of the University of Idaho have
sent to Idaho farmers warning of a pos
sible seed shortage. High prices Influ
enced farmers to sell their seed grain
last fall.
Farm bureau members of Nenewah
county hava been informed by the United
States forest service that 280,000.000 feet
of timber ia available in the area ap
praised for the association and that 81
per cent of this Is yellow pine of good
quality.
Olden Oregon
One of the Tragedies of the Oregon
Trail, the Vanorman MasHacre.
One of the tragedies of pioneer daya
was the massacre of the Vanorman Im
migrant train by Indians. .September 18,
1860, near the Big Bend of Hnake river.
Eleven of the party were killed and the
entire train of eight wagons looted and
burned. The battle lasted $6 hours.
The Indians appropriated 100 head of
stock and all the proviaiona of the com
pany. Thirty-four members of the par
ty, Including 18 children, escaped, and
after much suffering reached the Owy
hee liver and established a camp, where
they remained until October 17, when
they were rescued by troops from Fort
Walla Walla under command of Captain
Dent
Uncle Jeff Snow Says:
They've tuck Sam Taller ant to the
'sylum 'cause hie mind give way havln'
to invent a new set of cuss worde fer
hie auto when he bought it last fall, lie
uater hv a most forcible 11st to make
a. hose or a mule team move, but none
of m tactly worked out with the auto.
Sally Limpet has been wtddered the
third time with the Cu and each time
the life insurance was several hundred
ahead of the doctor and tha under
taker. ; M , '