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DAILY EAST OREGONIAN, PENDLETON, OREGON, TUESDAY, JANUARY 2. 1917.
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Jen-Mi It. H'jiinuin, Furmer Employe of
I Ik- Eawt Orctfonian, I Mule IX--ftiiriuut
in .Suit by F. C. Hartey.
Jc-sse R. Hinman, an AKtoria new,
paperman, who about six year ago
worked for a few weeks on the TM
Oregnnlan, Id being sued for J 1 0,000
by Mayor-elect F. C. Harley of Asto
ria, who is abo well known here The
folowlng dispatch tela of the filing of
the suit:
ASTOrtIA, Dec. 30. The first of
what promises to develop Into a serial
of libel suit as an aftermath of the
recent municipal campaign was filed
in the circuit court today, It Is un
derstood that when the circuit court
grand jury meets, In February, sever
al cases of alleged violations of the
state corrupt-practices act by partici
pants In the campaign will be la'd
before that body.
The action filed today was brought
by Mayor-elect F. C. Harley, against
J. R, Hinman. publisher of the Lower
Columbia, and asks for $10,000 dam
ages for alleged defamation of ehaf
aeter. One of the main charges on which
the libel action is based is the publi
cation on November 30 of a letter
signed by George W Mover, in which
Harley was aceu-'ed of being "coarse,
vulgar, obscene and profane to a su
perlative degree, not a gentleman and
not capable of Imitating one for five
minutes" The communication further
anserted that the writer believed Har
ley merely wanted the nfflee of mayor
merely for the prestige It would give
him and to bolster up his wildcat lot
Helling srtTeine, selling lots more thnn
five miles from the Astoria postofflcc
for 20 times thicr value to eastern vie.
i Urns
The complaint further recites that
the defendant published false and li
belous editorials during the campaign
in which the plaintiff was heralded
as the "open-town" candidate for the
position of mayor, and averred that,
if elected, Harley would appoint an
"open-town" chief of police and Asto
ria would become the stamping
ground of white slavers
This damage suit follows on the
heels of the moit bitter campaign ev
er waged in Artorla.
Enslaving men of Belgium look(
like another black eye on tne coume
nance of civilization.
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Margarita Fiscktr in "The Pearl of Paradise."
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(From the Bradstreet's Revkw of the !
Business Tear.)
Nineteen hundred and sixteen was
a wonderful year, but that character.
Usatlon does only partial Justice to tlvs
latest and greatest twelve months In
the country's history. It was said of
1915 that adjectives were lacking fit
ly to portray that year's progress. So
it may be said of 1916, in turn, that
comparatives fail to describe the re
peated examples of high records set
up in nearly all lines of trade and in
dustry, only to be displaced In turn
and relegated to the rear by new and
hitherto unheard-of totals of indus
trial production and trade volume, of
bunk clearings and building erpendi.
ture, fij transportation earnings on
land and on water, of export and im
port trade in merchandise, in gold
and in silver, of mineral output and
ship construction, of prices of all
commodities, and of high levels of
wages paid in most industries and of
dividends paid by enterprises of all
kinds, n would be far easier, in fact
to single out the lines that did not
break records than to attempt to
enumerate the multitude of directions
in which trade expanded, industry set
up new milestones of progress, and fi
nance sought widi-r fields of exploita
tion. A Yeditor Nation.
In 191S the bogy of troublesome li
quidation uf our own slocks and bonds
held abroad was finally laid, and war
began to ofter a market here for for
eign ecur.ties;
In 1916 we definitely secured title
to our position as a creditor nation,
loaned freely to the world, and, do-
ipite hitherto unequaled purchases by
us of belligerent securities, became
possessed of of gold imports in a vol
ume sue has waa never before seen.
To the spur of foreign war demand,
represented by unheard-of quantities
of food, munitions and general mer
chandise sold abroad, was added a
new and record-breaking volume of
imports, largely of raw materials to
feed our industrial machinery, while
at the same time purely domestic
trade grew beyond the most sanguine
dreams of our merchants and manu
facturer A quieting down in mid
year, with attendant free predictions
of the termination of war demand,
merely acted as a breathing spell be
fore new and still larger demands
were again met In the autumn and
early winter. "Not enough cars, labor
or goods" was a common description
of trade and industry throughout
many months. Even toward the close
of the year, hen nearly all lines were
hooked for nine months ahead, and
some iron and steel lines were sold
well Into 1918. when prices of commo
dities, after rising to new heights,
had broken badly, due largely to
peace talk being injected into the sit
nation, there were but few signs of a
let-up in active buying, or Indications
that the conservatism so long preach
ed was really acting as a brake upon
extraordinary purchasing. How much
of this late quieting down was due to
the unusual year-end seasonal dull-
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neas it would be hard to say. gomo
of it, as, for instance, the quiet and
easing in some cotton goods, was un
doubtedy due to a 4-cenf break in raw
cotton.
Presidential Year.
AH thia activity had occurred, too,
despite the fact that it was a presi
dential year, one also of disturbed
foreign relations and a period of dis
appointing crop outturn, which was
made more manifest by large foreign
buying of obtainable supplies, and ev.
idences of speculation having taken
advantage of national conditions to
push prices of food to record heights.
This latter resulted i a popular out
burst against high living costs and the
URual frenzied efforts of public men,
legislators' and others to find evidence
of monopolistic combinations affect
ing prices of the "people's food." i
Some FmaiM-ial Praturea
Exports of merchandise totaled 45,- 1
460,000,000 in value, excelling those
for the previous calendar year by 55
per cent, and those for the year 1914
by 157 per cent Imports aggregated
(2.360,000.000, exceeding 1915 and
1914 by 32 per cent. Gold imports to
taled (630.000.000, surpassing exports
by (500.000,000. Our gross imports
of gold during the war have aggre
gated (1,100,000,000, and the net im
ports (838.000.000, while our sales of
merchandise for the like period were
considerably over double our purchas
es Hence the estimates that we
bought back (2,000,000.000 of Amer'.
can securities, and, in addition, be
came creditors for an additional 12.-
I 000.000,000 of foreign bonds or notes.
As our export trade has grown since
' the war began, its character has grad
ually changed, and the early large
shipments of foodstuffs have become
dwarfed, partly beciuse of crop short
ages, by later enormous exports of
manufactured good? not all of these.
bv the way munitions though It
must be said that our shipments to
entente countries have far exceeded
thne to the rest of the world. Our
gains In trade with' the part of the
world at peace have hardly expanded
as much as might have been hoped
though it is hard to see how our fac
tory productions, strained as It was to
the breaking point, could have bee;i
further increased. Credits based en
the new and vast supplies of securi
ties and gold have expanded, and the
country's banking position has be
come one of unparalleled deposits an
resources. Bank clearings for 191
testified to the enormous volume of
the banking movement In a total of
Jifin. 000.000 000, a sum never before
equaled, and a gain of 40 per cent
over the 1915 high record and of 69
per cent over 1914. If the normal ex
cess of bank clearings at leading cit
ies. 2 1-2 to 1, be regarded as a
guide, the country's total banking
business in 1916 was easily (650.000.
000 000. Slock speculation was more
active than for a decade, total sales
at the New York Bxchange aggegat
ing 232,000.000 shaers, a gain of St
per cent on 1915. fire times what It
was in the "cose" year 1914. and on'y
18 per cent less than in the recoru
high year 1906. Rond sales aggre
gated (1,160.000.000. a total showing
a gain of 23 per cent over lOlB, and
second only to 1909, compared wl'h
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PHONE 40
wh.ch year transactions fell off 12 per
cent. Government bond sales, reflect
ing large foreign flotation? wore
eighteen times as active as in 1315.
Money was easy until toward the
close of the year and collections were
good, with many old accounts liqui
dated, especially in the south. Fail
ures for the year, reflecting the final
closing out of old, crippled concerns
and of new ventures insufficiently
provided with experience, capitAl or
other requisites, were large in num
ber, second only in fact to 1915, frcra
which they decreased 12 per emir
but the rarity of important fuspen
sirns is shown in the volume of lia
bilities being the smallest "lih one ex"
ceptlon since 1909, 38 per cmt below
1915, and less than half those of 1D14.
price Movements.
As pointed out elsewhere, the crop
outturn was not In keeping with th
er developments, and to this cause as
much as to active foreign demands
were due the new and dizzy heights
reached by many commodities includ
ed in Bradstreefs Index Number,
which latter rose steadily early in the
year, faltered in the late spring an I
summer, and then took a new flight
to still higher ground as crop short
ages became certainties, active indus
try swelled pay rolls, and a snow
storm of wage advances ia the latter
months by a process of an endless
chain character still further advanc
ed all price quotations. This process
resulting in a reduction of the dol
lar's buying ability of 23 per cent a
compared with the year's cpenlnfr.
was ultimately responsible for a sort
of popular revolt against high food)
prices, petitions for embargoes aalnal
fond shipments, and wtdesDread Mi-
tional, state and municipal John Do
hunts for the causes of advanclac
prices. That some of the price ad
vances were bred of speculation, mad
possible by cheap and abundant mo
ey. seems certain; that some wr
what may be called psycholofffcal or
auto-suggestive may be conceded, bu
that short yields ana unexampled de
mand were the main causes hardly r.
quires prof. The fact that Brad
streefs Index Number for the entir
year 1916 was 20 Jer cent above 1913
33 per cent above 1914, 2 per cert
above 1910 the last year" of food
price revolts and meat boycotts and
Just double that of the low water yea
of 1896, is a visible staisical exampfl
flcatlon of what have been called the
"penalties of prosperity.'
Mrs. jUysG Metis!
PHYSICAL CULTURE
AND ELOCUTION.
Hotel Pendleton.
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Virginia Hardy, one of the most
prominent of present day ingenues,
who has been connected with a num
ber of the most Important dramatic
organizations of the country, will be
seen as Barbara Worth in Mark
Swan's dramatization of Harold Bell
Wright's Western classic, "The Win
ning of Barbara Worth,' which will
be at the Oregon theater next Friday
evening. There are other noted
members of the dramatic world In
cluded In this company. Aside from
a powerful cast, L. c. Yeomans has
given the play a beautiful scenic pro
duction. It Is one of the distinctive
dramatic successes of the past two
seasons.
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there are rare Special Pages for each one.
Family Page, exceptional Editorial Page.
Boys' Page, Girls' Page, Children's Page,
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Everything from everywhere for every
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ance agents. 815 Main street. Fhone
AICTIOXEKHS.
COL. W. F. YPHNKA, AUCTION-
eer. makes a spcialty of farmers
stock and machinery sales. "The
man that gets you the money." Leave
orders at East Oregonlan office.
S1XOND HAND DEALERS.
V. STROBLE, DEALER IN NEW
and second hand goods. Cash
paid for all second-hand goods
bought. Cheapest place In Tendleton
to buy household goods. Come and
get our prices, til B. Cort street
Phone 17 1W.
ARCHITECT,
RAYMOND W. HATCH, ARCHl
tect. Detain Building. Phone
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DOCTOns.
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lted to the eye. ear. nose and throit.
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ATTORNEYS.
JOHN W. HUFF. ATTORNS Y-AT-
Law. Room i, Americas Nation
al Bank bslldin.
ftALKT A RALEY. ATTORENYS AT
law. Office in American National
Bank Building.
GEOBGS W. COCTTa ATTORN BY
at law. Bstatos settled, wills.
deeds, morticajre and eowtsnrts
drawn. Collections made. Room 17,
Schmidt block.
FEE A FEE, ATTORBNTS AT LAW.
Offiee In Deapam building.
CARTER ft SMYTH B, ATTORNEYS
at law. Offiee Is rear of American
National Bank betiding.
JAMES B. PERRY. ATTORKBW AT
law. Offiee over Taylor Hardware
cosipaay.
PETERSON at BISHOP. ATTOR
neys at law; reoms I aad i, Smith
Crawford baUdlng.
DOUOLA8 W. BAILEY. ATTORNEY
at law. Will practice rn all state
and federal court Rooms, 7, I anJ
8, Despaia beUdln.
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FREDERICK STEIWER. ATTOIV-
nev at law. Office in Smith-Craw
ford building.
& A. LOWELL, ATTORNEY AND
counsellor at law. Office la D
spaln building.
FINERAL DIUFCTOHS.
J. T. BROWN'S FURNITURE STORB
Funeral director and licensed sra
balmer. Most modern funeral par
lor, morgue and funeral cara Calls
responded to day or nlnht. Corner
Main and Water streets. Telephone
S.
JOHN S. BAKER. FUNERAL Di
rector and licensed emlielmer. Op
peelte postofflce. Funsral pafloe.
two funeral ears. Calls responded te
day or night Phone 76.
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