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SALEM, OKF.UOX, SVMKtY 31 OUMXU, FEBRUARY
102O.
LABOR WOULD
GIVE JOBS TO
NEEDY GIRLS
Employing of Married Wom
en Whose Husbands Work
For State , at Fat Salaries
May Be Protested
Influenza Ban Extends
To State Penitentiary
PRESENT
SYSTEM IS
HELD TO BE WRONG
Girls With Dependents Feel
They Are Entitled to
Consideration
The influenza ban has ex
tended to the penitentiary and
strict quarantine against visi
tors wai announced by the of
ficials of that institution last
night. No cases or the disease
have developed at the prison as
yet. although more than 50 pa
tients at the state hospital have
been stricken.
L. J. Comrton. warden pf
the prison, says the quarantine
will remain in effect until the
epidemic has passed and health
conditions have been restored
to normal.
JURY PLACED
UNDER CARE
OF DOCTORS
'Flu" Invades Courtroom and
trial ot eleven Keds on
Charles of Murder May Be
Delayed
Salem Gets Offer of
Third Large Hospital
Ousting fijora state position all
married women whose husbands are
physically able to provide for their
' support and he employment or girls
and women who are thrown upon
their own resources for an existence,
will be urged at a proposed confer
' ear of state officials and men prom
inent in labor circles of Oregon, ac-
, cording to information received at
the capital yesterday.
Although state officials have re
ceived no advices regarding the date
of. the proposed conference it is un
, derstood tfaaj U will be called with
in the next a wo weeks.
I Married Women Many
A representative of a prominent
STUDENTS JOIN
IN LIFE SAVING
CORPS IN SALEM
Boys and Girls of Willamette
and High School Sign
Up Members
TESTS TO BE OUTLINED
CASE IS CONTINUED
UNTIL NEXT TUESDAY
Unless Juror Now 111 Recov
ers by Monday Alternate
May Sit
(Continued on page 5)
Project Is Held Necessary Be
cause of Increasing Loss
of Life
Life saving corps are being form
ed in Salem among tin Willamette
university and high school students,
in response to an appeal recently
made in this city by Wllbert E.
MONTESANO. Wash., Feb. 21.
Influenza has invaded the jury room
in the case of ten alleged I.W.W. on
trial here for the murder of warren
O. Grimm. Centralia armistice day
parade victom. The illness of Ed
ward Parr. Hoquiam. which caused
postponement of the trial Friday was
today diaenosed as Influenza and
court was again adjourned .
Fear that other members of the
panel, even including the two alter
mate iurors. all of Whom have been
exposed, might become stricken Vas
exorensed today when it became
known that at least four others bad
been reported as not "feeling well."
The jury was removed from its
The Sitrs of St. Vincent,
in a letter received here yes
terday l.y Frederick Lamport,
have offered to erect a $200.
000 hospital in Salem in the
evert the city will donate half
of the money needed for the
purchase of the site and con
struction of the building.
The letter said their hospital
at Roseburjc recently was de
stroyed by fire, and that they
would not rebuild there in c.ise
the iHp!o of Salem thought
their proposal worth considering-
The new hospital, if erect
ed, would be of fireproof con
struction, and would hav a
capacity of mof than 200 pa
tients. Two other hospital are
under construction here at
the present rime, and there la
some speculation as to whether
the offer will he accepted. How
ever, a meetinR will be called
some time next week, accord-
inc to reports, when tome defi
! nite action may be taken.
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STEPS TAKEN
TO ENFORCE
HEALTHLAWS
Strict Isolation of Patients
and all Persons Living in
Same Quarters Emphasized
by Officials
t sv. fi , ti rAS T ft I
of Father's Misfortune
I would like to talk to
SALEM EDITOR
IS NAMED HEAD
AT CONVENTION
Carle Abrams Chosen Presi
dent of Oregon Editorial
Association
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NESS
SALE
After
.r-
RING FROM BUS
BEGINNING TUESDAY MORNING AT 9 O'CLOCK
28 years of tnccessfal bmine in Salem, we have decided to retire
Absolutely Everything in the Store Reduced Without a Single
v I Exception
FromtlOi jer cent to 20 per cent and ia many odd lots and broken lines even
more in order to dispose of our large stock quickly.
You may think that merchandise is high at present prices, but the advances
since January first have been alarming and the prices announced this week by
Eastern mills for Fall lines are absolutely staggering.
The following list of a few staple items will give you an idea of what is happening
Jn the wholesale market this season
Taffeta Silks cost before the war 70c per yard, now $3.00 yard
Skinners Satins cost before the war 90c per yard, now. o y
Dress GinghamsTtost before the war 8e per yard, now d' sj yartt
Calico cost before the war 3y2c per yard, now. 7 .S
' Outin Flannels cost before the war 9c per yard, now eTon t
Cotton Blankets cost before the war 70c per pair, now. JK5
Wansntta Nainsook cost before the war 12y2c per yard, now . 60c yam
' Pequoti Sheeting cost before the war 22c per yard, now J
Germantown Zephyr yarns have advanced $1.10 per pound in the Eastern mar
t ket dijiring the past two weeks. Corsets have advanced one third in price since
January first
Women's mercerized hose which formerly cost $2.30 per dozen have advanced
to $8 per dozen. The Dry Goods Economist states this week that Fall prices on
wool dress goods show an advance of 60 per cent over last Fall's prices.
Merchandise is scarce and continually advancing.
You know the standard quality of goods we have always carried.
If you knew the present condition of the market as merchants know it, you
would provide for your wants for the next two years.
Every purchase during this sale means a substantial saving over present prices
and wll protect you from the tremendous advances which have already become
effective in wholesale lines.
All Store Fixtures for Sale
to be delivered as soon as our stock has been reduced sufficiently to dispense with
them. . L,; ;
SALE OPENS TUESDAY AT 9 O'CLOCK
Trade forenoons ii possible and avoid the dinner hoiir from' 11:30 to 1:30.
3
m
boy.'
V.
was
son.
o speaker said his nam
Johr Yimby an-1 that bia
a brijrht youth of 16 sum-
FINE PROVIDED FOR
VIOLATION OF ORDER
mers. died recently In Portland.
"When my boy was sick I
had only a little money. I
could not Rive him the care he
needed. Maybe that Is why he
did not pet well."
The Krief-strirken father said
his wife was dead and. with
tear-diinnied eyes, continued:
"Do you think the Spiritual
ists could tell me how I can
talk to my loy? I want to ask
him to forKiYe me."
Comforting words failed to
console the sorrow!
With a heart filled
sruish n turned aside plain
tively. vhopeIesly raurrnurlnc:
"I would like to talk to him."
SALEM URGED
TO SIDESTEP
RIPE OLIVES
Poisoned Product Kills Peo
ple in all Sections of Coun
try and Housewives Are
Given Warning
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inp parent.
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THREE BRANDS 50UGHT
BY FEDERAL AGENTS
Local Physicians Vary Re
garding Necessity of Dras
tic Quarantine
OFFICIALS TO KNFORCK
QUARANTINE LAW
HIGH COSTS DEPLORED
Editors Hear Address by Ex
pert, Elect Officers and
Adjourn
EUGENE. Or., Feb. 21. The sec
ond annual Oregon newspaper on
ference hel l at the school of Journal
Ipra at the University of Oregon came
to a close this afternoon with the
adoption of resolutions placing the
conference on record as being pro
foundly dissatisfied with the market
conditions of news print paper and
as expressing distrust concerning
them.
, me resolutions runner can upon
the officers of the state editorial as
sociation to- make an Investigation
of the facts of the situation in which
metropolitan papers secure their
news print at three cents or less in
unlimited quantities, while country
dailies and weeklies are asked to
pay as high as nine and threvquarter
cents in carload lots, and to report
such fact3 to the membership wtth
recommendations for governmental
or such other action as may seem ex
pedient.
Officers elected for the conference
are: Carle Abrams. Statesman Pub
lishing company, Salem,' president
X. J. Vanskike. publisher of the Mil
ton Eajtle, vice president; George
Turabull. University of Oregon
school of journalism, secretary
treasurer: Eric W. Allen, dean of the
school of Journalism, chairman of
the program committee.
Strict isolation of patients
and all persons living In the
same quarters during quaran
tine perled.-
Compulsory reporting of all
influenza, cases . by physicians.
Fine of $S to $100 for vio
lation of (quarantine orders.
Thorough ' fumigation of
quarters before liftiag of quar
antine. Public asked to cooperate by
reporting all cases to the city
health officer in writing.
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CAR ORDER RAPS
SALEM PLANTS
SAYS BUCHTEL
Five Dozen Bottles -of' Sus
pected Fruit Distributed
In Illinois
Salemites should, i beware - of rip
olive bottled mader, MaUrU."
uleI and MRlchJieaTU2eli un
til such time as the federal authort-
tt tilt, uA an AnfAriniilfv tA In.
Empties tO Be Hauled From Ueatlgal,. Last Bight, federal and
California oNrth Through
Oregon, Is Report
TELEGRAf.nTSENT EAST
Carrier Situation Is Held to
Be Acute and Relief Is
Held Imperative
PORTOLIVE MAY
HAVE REAL KICK
Attorney General Asked Re
garding Legality of Sale
in This State
Attorney General Brown had on
his desk yesterday a bottle of Proud's
protclive wine oil tonic, with the re
quest that the official give a legal
opinion as to whether the produrt
could be P'it on the Oregon market
without violating , the prohibition
lawsiow in effect in this slate. The
jittornev eneral has held, according
to an oral opinion, that it would no
be leeal to sell the tonic in Oregon
unless the word wine was omitted
fr.-m the label, and in th event it
could be usrd as a beverage.
The tonic is manufactured In Los
! Aneeles. and in case of a favorablo
opinion, it was planned to open a
! distributing agency in Oregon, ac
cording to Mr. Drown. This Is on
!of manv so-calId tonics that have
been submitted to the attorney gen
eral for Investigation under he pro
hibition statutes during the past few
weeks.
CHEMAWA YOUTH
SECOND IN RACE
Indian Makes Good Showing
in Five-Mile Run at Ama
teur Track Meet
Salem Is to enter a period of Iso
lation! Xot from the world at large,
but each Salemlte who is afflicted
with the Influent or any of the per
fectly good Imitations that go by toe
name of influenza (in the absence of
the real thing) will become separate
and apart from the rest of the Salem-
ites.
Of course each indisposed person
may nave a companion in misery
who. according to the recent ruling
of the committee on health and po
lice of the city council, will also dis
appear from the social whirl of three
to six . weeks, depending upon the
staying power ot each particular case
of Influenza, or influenza in name
only. The committee is composed of
Councilmen Volk. Schrunke and
Craig, with the mayor an ex-officlo
member and Dr. R. L. Pomeroy as
secretary.
Itcports Are Xecwary
-v Dr. Pomeroy emphasized the fact
that cases must be reported either by
someone in thei house or family of
the party ill or by other parties. It
is not desired that the people of Sa
lem engage in a free-for-all festival
of informing against their neighbors.
but there will be cases that for some
reason will not be known to the au
thorltles unless responsible citizens
cooperate. All reports of cases not
attended by a physician should be
made in writing to Dr. Pomeroy. In
formation gained in this way will be
considered strictly confidential and.
while the communications must be
pinned, the names will not be dl
vulged.
Cases attended by physicians must
be reported within 2 4 hours. This is
In accordance with the law that Is
to be strictly enforced until the pres
ent threat of influenza (so called)
is entirely over.
Statement I Varied
Dr. .Pomeroy is responsible for the!
enforcement of the new regulation
and. though he has not observed a
danger serious enough, according to
his statement, to warrant a measure
which is so likely to hamper indus
try, he promise to see that the quar
entine Is strictly enforced. He has
already put into effect six new cases
reported yesterday and about 60 oth
ers previously reported and not sub
sequently reported recovered.
sentiment among others of the
profession seems to agree fajrly well
in thinking that the danger is not
sufficient to warrant such stringent
measures. Many of the .physicians
seem to think either the epidemic is
Influenza in a very light form or no
Influenza at all. Some doctors have
not reported a single case for the
winter and others but very few cases.
Fine I Penalty
It is thought that the strict quar-
entine will serve to regulate the
"fashionable disease" to the catagory
of the very undesirable and in this
way reduce the number of bad colds
and sore throats that have been pa
rading under the banner of influenza
While agreeing in the desirability
of enforcing the regulation, now that
it has been made, even to the extent
or imposing a fine of $3 to $100 that
HiarrarH it f fiiiaranlina nrrle a
j a penalty, many of the local physi- i 1
clans warn against the danger of ;
lanic which is always inexcusable ! T
That the recent order Issued br
R. H. Alshton. regional director or
th United States railroad adminis
tration with headquarters at Chicago.
in which Instructions were given to
move empty cars from California
through Oregon for allocation at the
northern terminals, will prove a body
blow to the lumber industry of the
Willamette valley to the benefit of
Seattle and other Puget Sound points
was the oninlon expressed In a tele-
rram sent yesterday to W. C. Ken
dalU manager of the car service bur
eau at Washington by Fred J. Buch-
tel. chairman of the Oregon public
Mrvlce commlaaion.- - -
Mr. nuchtel's telegram, which 1
self-explanatory of the condition ex
isting in Oregon and the immediate
need for relief, follows:
We have received Information
that Regional Director Alshton's of
fice bas lust Issued peremptory ord
ers to the Southern Pacific company
to forward all northbound empties
through to Portland for distribution
to northern lines. Such order Is di
rect contravention and abrogates
your recent order requiring the
Southern Pacific company to relieve
the shortage of cars throughout the
Willamette valley, and if not Imme
diately rescinded will cause Irrepar
able damage to our lumber industry.
"An order requiring empties to be
delivered from California through
Oregon to northern lines appears to
this commission as Indefensible and
unquestionably would result In an
unfair division of care. The Alshton
order apparently Is founded on mis
apprehension of facts Inasmuch as
our available car supply Is now 50
per cent short of needs.
"Unfortunately we have not se
cured the oromlsed relief nor "rtut
to which we reasonably feel entitled
to. consequently it appears to this
commission as Imperative that this
order in this Instance be withdrawn
at once."
Mr. Ituchtel yesterday conferred
with various shippers in the Wlllam
ette valley, and It was their almost
unanimous opinion that enforcement
of the Alfhton order would have the
effect of closing many of the mills
and logging camps and throw thous
ands of men out ot employment.
towns of eight states, were making
frantle efforts to. locate and coafls-
eate dozens of bottles of these olives
contain log the deadly bacillus botn
Hnua, as a result ot deterioration.
Several deaths vera reported from
different cities of the .country-and
housewives everywhere -.have . been
warned to rttarn nnopeired contain
ers holding suspected brands.
Tbt.ollTev packed In lilt by a
California company, jwere stold (to
the retail trade through Bprague.
Warner Co local wholesale gro
cery house. Major A. ,A Bprarae.
head of the firm, and .federal, war
price commissioner for Illinois.-has
famished a--record or all sales to
federal authorities aad has Instruct
ed his salesman, to call on every cus
tomer and .lake, up the olives.:, ,
Five dozen, bottles erf the poisoned
fruit have been distributed to dealers
In IT Illinois towns. It is not known
how many dozea are in stores In the
other slates. . . , . ' ; 1 '
Dranda involved are rtiaiavi.
Terndeir and "Illchllem. Only
ripe-ieitm, -stuffed ' wtOr pfraentes
and ftold In bottles, are affected. J.
L. McLaughlin. - , an pefiatenaent or
the Illinois division of food and
dairies, said "Investigation disclosed
that no blame Is attached to either
packer, wholesaler or retailer.
Labels on the bottles .show they
were distributed by the Chicago ftrra
but do not carry the packers name.
The bottles contain six ounce net
snd are of the Xo. 0 slxe accordln
to the labels, - - i - -
Towns In which olives are known
to. have been distributed and the
number ot bottles In each Include:
Montana Richlleu brand. Wllon.
24; Datavla brand Kalispeu. 11.
KlllTZ C'All DAMAtiKD.
W. E. Klrtz. 1105 Leslie street
drlvinc west on Liberty street, yes
terdar. collided with a machine drlv
en bv an unidentified man. - The
Klrtz machine was slightly .damaged
BROYN TO PASS
ON DRY MEASURE
Conflict b Enforcement of
Federal and State Acts
Up to Attorney
Whether or not the federal and
state prohibition laws are In conflict.
and if so. which act superseoes us
the enforcement of the dry regula
tions, are the questions that have
been submitted to Attorney General
Hrown for legal opinion. The re
quest for this opinion is said to have
come from district attorneys ot prac
tically every county: In Oregon. the
federal departments at Washington
snd Portland, druggists, wholesalers
snd manufacturers. ." -
Under the federal statutes physi
cians are authorized to prescribe oer
taln amounts of brandy for patients,
according to the attorney xsneral.
while under the state laws these pro
scriptions must be confined to alco
hol. . . -Ja -
MARION COUNTY TAX ROLLS SHOW
INCREASE OVER PREVIOUS YEARS
me
danger is at a minimum. They re- I J
peat that only two deaths have been !
caused by Influenza, according to the ,
official reports for the winter, snd : J
that there are but few cases that are i
indubitably influenza, and that even i
among these the lllne.s is usually)
light and of slight duration. i
Reports come from Mission not-!
torn that many case? of flu have de
veloped in that farming section. Xo
fatalities have yet occurred but Sa
lem physicians have made several
professional calls to that locality.
PORTLAXD. Feb. 21. M. Payne.
Multnomah Amateur Athletic club
distance runner and a former Uni
versity of Oregon track" man. won
n. cr.ss-city five mllo run today In
tho fast tinio or 2fi:02 minutes. He
won easily, finishing nearly a block
ahead of Albert Spearson of the Che
mawa Indian school, who was second.
Sme i.Iea of the growth and development of Marion
count v can ! pained when it i id that the tax rolls for the
v-ar l!20t an compiled ly Hen F. West, county assessor,
iarircr hjm ver before. The tax rolls will be turned oxer to
Sheriff Needhatn tomorrow and the task of making collections
will start Tuesday.
Although Mr. West is highly optimistic over the future of
Marion county he says this section will not attain" the beat
roiilts fro-,n the standpoint of production until cheaper pow
der is provided for the farmers. To bring this about, Mr. West
advocates the establishment of a state owned powder plant,
and the sale of the product at actual cost.
l uder present high cost conditions farmers are unable to
purchase pwder. and as a result much valuable land is being
allowed to remain uncleared. This, Mr. West says, not only
contributes to the increasing expense of the various house
holds but is retarding development.
The total taxes to be ctllected in Marion county this year,
according to the tax rolLs, is $1,340,000.