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THE OREGON SUNDAY JOURNAL, PORTLAND. SUNDAY MORNING, MARCH 21, 1520.
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JOHNS
RIVER
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.Commissioner Holman Is Firm in
v Opposing Letting Job to Private
: ' Account; Claim Is Answered.
The pending contract between
ftfultnomah county and the Star
'Band company for the macadamiz
ing of the St. Johns river road for
a flgurexof $46,293.10, continues to
be a source of bitter controversy be
twen the county commissioners.
- CommlSHloner A. A. Muck espouses
the Contract, declaring that according
Mo hit figure the job will be done oy
"the Star Sand company at a saving of
129,000 to the taxpayers.
Commissioner Rufus C. Holman de
; 'dares that If the county signs the can-
tract the work will cost the taxpayers
; between $7500 and $8000 more than Jt
'should.
. Commissioner Ralph W. Hoyt agrees
'tilth Muck.
, HOLMAN OPPOSES PROPOSAL
".' Despite the fact , that the majority of
'the county commissioners, Hoyt and
SMuek. havfe awarded the contract for
'macadamizing the road to the Star
Sand company; and have given the com
pany their assurance that they will
I plgn the contracts as soon as the pa
ipera are ready. Commissioner Holman
1 continues his protest against the bid of
. J the concern.
It Is possible that Holman will re-
topcn the matter at the meeting of the
board Monday, In an attempt to have
J the contract set aside and readvertise
for bids.
J - Muck avows that the county has
already awarded the contract, and that
Jit will be signed Immediately and the
I Btar Sand company authorized to be
Jrln the work.
i The controversey has been gathering
strength for over a week. The crisis
i came last Wednesday when Commls
Jsloner Holman declared in council meet
ling that Muc was working? in the in
Jterests of the contractors, whereat Muck
charged Holman with uttering a false-
jhood.
J "I think that a grave mistake has been
ttna.de," Holman declared Saturday.
''Several concerns took out specifications
for this road, and but one submitted a
'bid.
jpAUTIOS 18 URGED
J Now if I was going to spend $50,000
(ln my own business, I should want to
J (CO over the matter very carefully. I
would want to build that road as cheaply
as I could, and since I am a servant
of the public. I want to construct the
St. Johns river road as cheaply for the
taxpapeis as possible.
"To go into details the retail price
fr crushed rock, is between $1.75 and $2
ft cubic yard. Let us consider It at 1
Its highest retail -price, to be perfectly
air, so we shall take $2 a yard.
"Now the various rock concerns have
the city divided into zones, for the pur
pose of estimating on the price of haul
ing, rock. The St. Johns river roaa" is
In the tone in which the Star Sand com
pany is located, and the reta.ll
J lor hauling rock in that zone,ts 65
l cents a' yard. Let us take the highest
i figure submitted by Headmaster Kachel
lor laying the rock, and we have 70
cents a cubic yard.
"The total estimation on these three
Items, ts $3.35 a cubic yard. Compare
that, with! the $4.10 demanded by the
Star Sand company.
f "It la a saving of 75 cents a yard on
Jthe ontract price, or a total saving of
between $7500 and $8000.
WOCLD PATRONIZE HOME QUARRY
"It seems to me that everything nos-
jaible is beingr done to hinder the open
Jlng of Kelly Butte quarry. One-tenth
jof the road budget for the entire year
Jls to be expended on the St. Johns river
roaa. Why not save money where we
van ;
. "Who asked Roadinaster Eatchel for
that second set of figures which he sub
mitted? Who was behind all those men
Who espoused the Star company's cause
at- the council meeting? The only thing
for me to. do is to protest against the
action of the other two commissioner
,-They say that they are going to sijrn th
icon tracts, so I suppose they will."
Muck does not at all agree that the
ork could be done cheaper than the
Jpresent bid indiactes. He stated Sat-
I urday :
"Before the work was advertised. I,
,with Roadmaster Eatchel and Purchas-
Jli'eT Agent Fleming, visited a number of
I the companies about Portland. Pour
concerns took out specifications and only
(one bid was submitted. That "bid was
f referred to the roadmaster and purchas-
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WELL KNOWN, CHURCH
1 SINGER PASSES AWAY
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Una Vida Dixon
Miss Una, Vida Dixon, head woman
of the drapery sewing room at Olds.
Wortman & King's, died Friday at her
home in Portland at the age of 37 years.
Miss Dixon was born at Philomath, Or.
After completing her high school and
business education at Philomath, she
removed to Portland with her parents In
1902, becoming an employe of the store
shortly after.
Miss Dixon was a member of the
I'nlted Brethren church, which she
joined when but a girl. For several
years she sang in the First United
Brethren church, and up to the time
of her death was singing in the Rose
City Park Methodist church, of which
her brother-in-law, D. Lester Fields, Is
pastor. She had a rare contralto voice
and often participated in musical con
certs In Portland.
She is survived by her mother, Mrs.
E. L. Dixon, two sisters, Mrs. tester
Fields of Portland and Mrs. Aids Gray
of CorvalHs. and a brother, Nathaniel
Dixon of Portland.
Funeral services will be held at 3 p.
rn., today, from Flnley's chapel. Inter
ment will be In the Newton cemetery
near CorvalHs.
Post Ball Ts Success
Woodland, Wash., March 20. Frank
Caddis post. Loyal Legion, of Wood
land, gave its first entertainment, a
large ball, last night. Many, came from
Kalama. Kelso, LaCenter and points up
Lewis river.
ing agent for recommendations, and they
reported favorably on it.
CONTRACT IS AWARDED
"When the report came back, the
three commissioners were in a board
meeting. At that time Holman asked
the roadmaster what the department's
estimates were, and Eatchel replied
that they were for $4.50 a yard. Holman
remarked 'fine,' and the company was
awarded the contract.
"Since this controversy arose I have
visited the city hall in an endeavor to
ascertain what price the city pays for
like work. I found that the last bid
for macadamizing which they let, was
awarded to Cochran Brothers for some
work on the east side. Their bid was
for $7 a cubic yard for laying water-
bound macadam, whereas the bid of the !
Star Sand company, is only S4.ip a yard.
"The county is not in a position to
do this work at the present time. If
we take over the St. Johns river road
it will be necessary for the county to
hire a number of extra truks. We are
already hiring four trucks, and paying
$28 a day for each of them. As I have
said before, it i impossible for us to
do the work at the present time.
PRICES ARE SOARING
"If we postpone action on this work,
the co6t will mount much higher. Labor
will be higher within 60 days than t is
now. Prices of material are going: up.
The Peninsula district is going to be
the big industrial center of Portland,
and that road is needed badly. The
contract spates that the road must be
finished within 100 days, and we are
going to eign contracts as soon as pos
sible and start on that work.
"I want my position on Kelly Butte
understood. 1 am heartily in favor of
opening up the rock pile there with
prison labor, at once."
Muck also exhibited a letter from
Otto Kettenbech of the Portland Flour
ing Mills, .commending him for his
stand in the controversy, and stating
that the company had lost over $15,000
through inability to operate trucks over
the road.
. Chairman Hoyt is rather noncom
mittal about the matter, but he does
state that he thinks the bid of the com
pany at $4.10 a yard, for a total of $46,
293.10, is a good proposition. He has
said he would sign the contract
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AGED YAKIMA IS
MAKING LASTHGHT
FORFISHING RIGHT
Sam Williams Asks the Supreme
r Court to Reconsider, Decision
Ruling His Trap Off River.
Sam Williams, aged Yakima In
dian, Is making last last fight to hold
fishing rights In the Columbia river
near The Dalles. He has asked the
state supreme court for a rehearing
In the Sam - Williams vs. Seufert
Brothers company case, wherein the
supreme court March 2 held that
he had abandoned his rights by al
leged failure to apply for a fishing
license in 1915 and 1916.
"I am getting old," Sam told Assist
ant United States Attorney Hall S.
Lusk, to whom he appealed for help In
retaining his fish trap. "All I want is
a living.
"My grandson, Joe he Is helping me
operate now, and I want to have the
eour let me keep my trap. Then Joe
can jrun it for me by and by when I
go back to Yakima to live on my land."
Sam Is in a peculiar fix. He seeks
assistance of the government in prose
cuting his suits for recovery of his fish
ing rights, but Federal Judge Wolver
ton by a decision rendered several years
ago ruled that Sam is not a tribal In
dian any more, having taken up a
homestead and left the reservation.
"But I haven't left the reservation,"
the Indian said on his last visit to Fort
land. I still own 40 acres on the Yaki
ma reservation which I lease. But It
takes all my money from the lease
barely to live, and that's why I want my
fish trap."
CLAIMS HE MADE APPLICATION
In his petition for rehearing, now before
the state supreme court, Williams al
leges that on several different occasions
he made application for fishing licenses
In 1915 and 1916, but that his applica
tions were either refused or returned to
him by the state fish and game com
mission. His attorney charges in the petition
that the fish and game commission waa
not properly conducted or else Sam
would have got his license.
"The record in this case discloses that
R. E. Clanton prior to his employment
by the fish and game commission was
an employe of the Seufert Brothers
company and he seems to have been
diligent after his employment by the
state fish and game commission in his
former employer's effort to run Sam
Williams off the river," the petition
reads.
ATTITUDE IS CRITICIZED
"The attitude of the fish and game
commission, as shown by this correspon
dence (referring to Williams' applica
tions fdif licenses and Clanton's replies)
certainly gives credence to the charges
which have been made by the sports
men of this state for some time against
this commission, towlt: that it is run in
the interest of a few commercial fisher
ment, and it is such administration of
the affairs of the commission which
has antagonised the entire body of
HYATT TALKING MACHINE COMPANY 350 ALDER STREET
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A Demand Typical of the Holiday
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Busiest March in Our Entire Histpry
As yet we are prepared to supply any machine of .the
original offer, but it is doubtful that we shall be able to
do so for many days more. If you wish to avail your
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The ALL-RECORD BRUNSWICK
HYATT
"Headquarters
sportsmen of this state and which gars
rise to the ahakenp la the fish and game
commission last fall.- fc- v
"Sam .Williams' rights, however, could
not be protected by the United States
because - he - waa no longer m ward of
the government "and he waa
compelled to fight his own battles
against this strong corporation whose
president went on the witness stand and
testified that he would fight the Indians
"until hell froze over.' It wa; sot that
Seuferts Brothers company wanted these
Tailing grounds for themselves, for they
testified that the fishing- waa very poor
and yielded practically no fish at all,
but since 1913 that corporation has pur
sued a constant, policy of running all
of these Indiana off the river."
Sam was born in Cowlitz county. His
mother was a Cowlitz Indian, tyit his
father a Yakima. Sam .has been up near
The Dalles for more than 20 years.
30 in Portland to
Give $10 Each for
Unknown's Belief
Thirty persons, members of the Port
land branch, of the Ukrainian national
committee of the United States, this
week will contribute $10 each to aid in
relieving suffering among the 40,000.000
Ukrainians in East Galicia. The na
tional committee seeks to raise $1,000,-
ooo. -
M. Kopczak is chairman of the Port
land branch. S. Bohaczek is secretary
and tT. Pellech committeeman. Their
headquarters are at 987 Maryland ave
nue. Last December the local members
sent $125 to Ukrainia for relief purposes.
Women Who Fled
Cedars Are Caught
Marjorie Radcliff and Hilda Tomberg,
who escaped from the Cedars, Friday
evening, had a short time at liberty.
They were found and arrested Saturday
night at West Park and Yamhill streets
by Mrs. Moorad and Mrs. Turner of the
women's protective bureau. Lee Hing,
a Chinese prisoner, who was taken to
the Cedars Friday to help construct a
fence, also escaped. He had not been
found late Saturday. Joe Fong, the
fourth prisoner to escape, was found
Friday night in Chinatown.
Troop- A Perfects
Social Organization
Assuring perpetuation of Troop" A,
Oregon cavalry, 40 members of the or
ganization met Saturday evening in the
Tyrolean room of the Benson hotel and
formed a permanent social organization
of which Colonel G. A. White was
elected president and Albert Stone, sec
retary. The 40 men present had seen
service both in the world war and on the
Mexican border and 16 had won com
missions. The committee which ar
ranged the meeting Saturday night was
composed of Wilbur Henderson, Charles
('.jested. Albert Stone and James Kavan
augh. Wine Found in Basement
Patrolmen Burdick and Taylor of the
purity squad found 20 gallons of grape
wine in Sam Peretti's basement at 405
K. Market street. Saturday night, and
brought Perettl and a gallon of his
liquor to police headquarters. PeretU
was released on $100 bail and will ap
pear before Municipal Judge Rossman
on Monday, to answer a charge of vio
lating tlie prohibition law.
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DARTMOUTH HEAD
DISCUSSES SOCIAL
Dr. Hopkins Declares the Deadly
Monotony That Makes Machines
of Men Needs Great Change.
Discussion of the economic condi
tions responsible for the social un
rest prevalent in this country, from
the standpoint of the workman, as
seen by a college president. Dr. Ern
est Martin Hopkins, president of
Dartmouth college, was the offering
made to the Oregon Civic league
at its weekly luncheon held Satur
day In the crystal room of the Hotel
Benson.
The audience was one of the largest
of the season, including a - number of
college presidents, principals of high
schools, school superintendents and
teachers. Bishop Walter Taylor Sumner
presented the speakers.
BrSIXESS MAX COLLEGE HEAD
Dr. Hopkins s the eleventh president
of Dartmouth and he has the distinction
of being the first business man ever
holding the position. Although sched
uled to speak on "Education and De
mocracy," Dr. Hopkins dwelt chiefly on
the causes of the present labor disturb
ances. He declared that history shows
that the reaction following all wars is
based in the same thing that caused the
war, and substantiated his claim by a
brief review of the world's greatest con
flict coming down to the recent world
struggle, saying in part: "The war was
waged on economic principles and the
trouble that confronts us today is the
challenge of absolutism of economic
power. Our population Is permeated
with foreigners who have been ruled by
tyranny so long that they have come
to hate that rule, and they transfer the
same hatred to our government and our
institutions. What we need Is education
-education in our schools. In our
churches, in all our institutions.
"An opportunity for self expression
is the crying: need of the man and
woman in industry today. The Introduc
tion of machinery is making machines
of the men and women, everything is
dene mechanically and at the highest
possible rate of speed with no knowl
edge of how or why. the result is a lack
of interest in the work and the conse
quent demand for more money and
shorter hours. The desire for self ex
pression is natural and if it is not ob
ta'nable through the daily work, then
hours of leisure will be demanded in
which self can be expressed. In a ma
jority of cases this self expression is
of a tawdry sort. We will not solve
cur problem until we devise some way
of getting away from the deadly monot
ony that makes machines of men ; this
will be the beginning of the power from
the few to the many, which in the final
analysis is the thing that will solve our
problem."
COOPEBATIOX STRESSED
Lewis Parkhurst, a Dartmouth alum
nus, who accompanies Dr. Hopkins, spoke
briefly on the value of cooperation and
understanding between employe and em
ployer. A. C. Newlll. president of the
UNREST OF TODAY
(DOT
THE
league, announced that the program next
Saturday would be a debate on the divi
sion of the session ot the legislature,
David Morrison speaking for the affirm
ative and D. C Lewie for the negative.
Monday, March 19, the league will give
a lecture luncheon, Mrs. Florence Kcl
ky, . national- secretary of the Consum
ers' league, being the speaker.
Runaway Boys "See"
Police Station, But
Journey Ends There
With $5 each, which they are said to
have stolen from their parents, Elmer
Stearns and John -McOusky, each 14
years of age, left their homes in Eu
gene Friday to explore the wonders of
a great city'. After spending most" of
their money and giving a part of Port
land "the once over," the lads made their
way back to the Union station.
Patrolman Frank Cameron is ever on
the watch for runaway and lost children,
so when' he spied EUmer and John minus
a guardian he began questioning them
as to their business about the station.
Ho soon lea.rned the story. Cameron
asked the boys if they had seen the in
side of the police station yet, to which
he received a negative answer, so he
escorted them to the station and took
them before Captain John T. Moore.
Captain . Moore sent the boys to the
juvenile ward at the county Jail.
Sunday Schools to
Hold Conventions;
Dates Announced
Dates for county Sunday school con
ventions in nine counties of the state
were announced Saturday ,y Harold F.
Humbert, general secretary of the State
Sunday School association.
The Linn county convention will be
held at Lebanon, March 24; Clackamas
county convention at Gladstone on
March 31 ; Marion county convention at
Salem on April 9 and 10; Gilliam and
Wheeler county conventions at Condon
on April 10 and 11 ; Benton county con
vention at Corvallis on April 10 and 11;
Malheur county convention at Ontario
on April 13 and 14 ; Baker county con
vention at Richland on April 15 and 16 ;
and Jefferson county convention at
Madras on April 17.
Humbert expects to be present during
most of the sessions of each convention.
His assistant, Miss Georgia Parker, will
also visit a few and give lectures to
superintendents of children's depart
ments. Funeral Services
For Roger Sinnott
Largely Attended
Funeral services for Roger Sinnott
were held at St. Mary's cathedral at
10:30 a. m.. Saturday, the Rev. E. V.
O Hara officiating. Members of the
Kr.ights of Columbus, the Chamber of
Commerce and the Bar association at
tended in a body. Pallbearers were Dr.
Ben L. Norden, Frank J. Lonergan, P.
J. Hanley, Edward Duffy, Coe McKen-
na and Dm Coman.
The body will be forwarded to The
Dalles Monday morning at 7:30 a. m..
for Interment In the family plot. Con
gressman N. J. Sinnott will arrive in
Fortland tonight and accompany the
family with the body In the private oar
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of J J P. -O'Brien to The Dalles, where
final service will be held.
The Dalles. March SO. Funeral serv
ices for Roger Sinnolt, Portland attor
ney, will be held here Monday. Con
gressman X. J. Slnnctt, Ms brother, Is
expected to reach Tie Dalles Sunday
evening. Rev. p. X O'Rourke will have
charge of the funeral;
Chemical Engine Repaired
After being out of service for four
weeks undergoing repairs. Chemical No.
1 of the fire department was put back
in service Saturday night at the station
house at Second and Oak streets.
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Scott
Fifth
Write" Us for Proposition
Thm mhr mefitt Atmtfh
tiu clotht to mAgurtS
moomvifoartiiMi
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Director Quilley's-;
Condition Is Better
Reports from Good Samaritan hospital
Saturday night Indicated that A. M,
Cirllley, athletic director ef the T.
C. A., has shown some Improvement dttr- ,
ing the last three days, and that he had
spent a good day. Grilley ?U suffering
from an acute internal disorder which
has assumed grave "characteristics.
Three of the big Yakima valley Irri
gation canals will be provided with the
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