Voting Device NEWS NOTES OF Electrical Is Proposed for House CURRENT WEEK Resume of World’s Important Events Told in Brief. President Wilson has signed Portland-Vancouver bridge bill. the Twenty persona applied for loans at Portland's Remedial Man office the first day. Washington, D. C.—The alow pro­ cess of rt>llcall in the houte of repre­ sentatives may be done away with in the near future in favor of an elec­ trical appliance for registering the votes Of the 435 members almost in­ stantaneously. A sub-committee of the rules committee has outlined a feasible plan which has the approval of Speaker Clark and Majority Loader Underwood. The proposal for a voting machine was made by Representative Walsh, of New Jersey, an expert in electrical appliances. Rollcall in the house now requires 45 minutes, and is tesorted to when a filibuster is declared by the minority. The new scheme would eliminate this from legislative procedure. The sub­ committee's plan would provide a locked device at each member’s seat with buttons representing his vote, aye, nay or present. These would cor­ respond with spaces beside the mem­ ber's name on the indicator boards placed about the room, showing the detail of the vote in colored lights and also at the clerk's desk, where a card wouM be punched and tabulated me­ chanically, serving as a full record of the vote in every case. Will Serve Loganberries On S. P. Dining Cars Salem—A. B. Simon, head of the commissary department of the South­ ern Pacific company, has notified the Salem Commercial club that he will serve loganberries in the dining cars of the company the coming season. He said that he had frequently heard the berries praised and had thought for some time of giving them a trial. The announcement, the dub officials believe, solves the problem of obtaining an adequate market for the fruit A much larger acreage than ever before has been planted to berries in this county this year, and there was fear that the growers would suffsr for lack of demand. Mr. Simon said he would give the dried as well an the fresh berries a trial on the dining cars. Fred 8. By non, secretary of the Commercial club, sent him a 25-pound box of the i dried berries for trial. Fashions Play Havoc With Health of Giris San Francisco —• Mrs. William E. Magee, head of the women’s depart­ ment of physical education at the Uni­ versity of California, was emphatic In saying that the physical training of women is neglected to an appalling de­ gree, and that the dictates of fashion are destroying the old ideal of wo­ manly grace. Other Instructors of the department concur in thia opinion. “Five out of every six women en­ tering the university,*' said Mrs. Ma­ gee, “when examined thia year were found to be allllcted with flat feet or broken arches. This Is due directly to the high-heel shoes which fashion do- erees. « “Last year we had an epidemic of deranged internal organa, cauaed by tight lacing. “Curvature of the apiñe la common, and, while it could be easily prevented by exercise and aenaible dressing, it takes a year to correct even a minor case. “Girls coming to the university to­ day show a decided increase in such deformities as crooked necks, crooked spines, round shoulders and flat cheats. AU of these are imputed at once to the slouchy pose which is fashionable. The new way in which women have to stand to tie fashionable is dangerous to their health." BRAZILIAN ORES CONTAIN RADIUM Stanford, Cal., Professor Makes Important Discovery. Radium-Bearing Carnotite Found While Testing Ore Samples From South America. Stanford University, Cal. — While testing specimens which had been sent to him from South America, Professor John Caspar Brenner, head of the geol­ ogy and mining department of Stan­ The Federal investigators of the ford, has discovered radium-bearing strike situation in Colorado are having ore of extreme value. The specimens some stormy sessions. over which Professor llrannrr was The Sumpter Dredge company work­ working in his laboratory are from the Salem—Improvement in the meth-' improvements made. Eighteen fires ing near Baker, Or., reports the find­ state of Ceara, in Brazil. Radium ods of the fire-fighting system of the occurred during the year without any ing of a nugget worth $1500. was not known to have existed there. Danger of fire was state forestry department is revealed loss to timber. The ore which led to the discovery was Co-eds at the University of Califor­ further eliminated through the burn­ by the report of State Forester Elliott ing of about 1200 acres of slashings. a pinch of greenish yellow earth, less nia have ruled out the tango, maxixe, than a thimbleful of carnotite, one of for 1913. There were 770 fires which one-step and hesitation waltz. “Practically all owners of timber in the two known sources of radium. the two counties are contributing to burned over 11,306 acres, of which Burg.'ars'spent two hours blowing The Stanford geologist was testing and supporting the association, *' said 6,072 acres was land formerly devas ­ up the safe*of the Northern Pacific at ffir other minerals when his attention tated by fire. In 1911 the acreage Forester Elliott, “and with the assist- Olympia, and obtained 18 coppers for was drawn to the carnotite. The car­ ' ance of the state and Federal govern- burned over by each fire was 137, their trouble. notite was subjected to the tests em­ while last year the fires averaged 30 , ments protection costa are reasonable. ployed to determine whether an ore All the 107 employes of the Savory acres to a fire. More than 1000 miles The installation of telephones will be contains radium and responded. hotel, in Seattle are to work on the of old trail was opened last year, 175 the next large improvement under­ News of the discovery has been sent profit-sharing plan, divisions to be miles of new trail built, seven lookout taken, as the district is in bad condi­ to Brazil. The exact location of the made monthly. points equipped with cabins, 57 miles tion from lack of such communication. region from whence the samples came of telephone lines built and 208 miles In case of a fire it would take some The president of the Mercantile , has been kept secret, as has the name wardens many hou/s to reach a point of line repaired. Bank of Memphis, Tenn., is in jail, Toul, France—A man giving the of the sender of the ore specimen». The timber of Marion county is ' from which help could be summoned.” Pittsburg — Warning against blind charged with the embezzlement of Only two carnotite deposits are name of Theodore Burgard, whom the guarded by the Clackamas-Marion Fire At least one supervising warden was faith in the cure of cancer by radium about $1,000,000. known to exist In the United States. police believe to be one of the clever­ Patrol association. This association maintained for each county. Marlon Silas Christofferson, a Pacific Coast employed nine district patrolmen, one county has three wardens employed by was voiced by D. Edward Reynolds, of Both are In the West, one In Colorado aviator, broke the American long dis­ est German spies in France, was ar­ speeder patrolman and a head warden timber land owners, three under the Boston, at a public educational meet­ and the other In Utah. Australia has tance record by flying from San Fran­ rested while photographing the forti­ last year. Approximately a district provisions of the Federal law, two by ing of the American Society for the the largest carnotite deposits. From cisco to Lerdo, Cal., a distance of 306 fications at thia place. carnotite ore Is obtained uranium The police as­ comprising 460,000 acres was patrolled. the State Forest service, while 64 are Control of Cancer. Dr. Reynolds, who oxide, and radium comes from this lat­ miles. sert Burgard has been supplying in­ There are 139 companies or individ­ serving voluntarily without pay, mak­ is vice president of the New England ter substance. According io geolo­ Colonel Goethals has removed the formation to the German military au­ uals in the organization, an increase ing a total of 72. The state at large of 12 members and 36,210 acres over employee 759 wardens, the fire-fight­ Medical Society, asserted there is no gists, only 2 per cent of the carnotite head of commissary department of the thorities for the last 15 years. that of 191. Thirty-five miles of new ing, patrol and improvement work for evidence that radium had cured one Is uranium oxide, and only one part in canal zone for alleged acceptance of He ostensibly engaged in farming trail has been built in the district at a the past year costing $94,988.83; pri­ advanced case of cancer. According 3,000,000 of this oxide is uranium. gratuities from those who furnished in a small way near Nancy. cost of about $20 a mile, 874 miles of vate owners spent $71,025.47, state to his view, the radium treatment of This advances the price of radium to supplies. A search of the man's house brought old trail rebuilt and opened at a coat $16,548.36 and the Federal govern­ cancer is, up to the present time, an about $90,000 a gram. Milton H. Lee, 73 years old, has con­ to light 50 staff maps and plans of Dr. Branner is well acquainted with of 13.05 a mile and numerous minor ment $8685. experiment and successful results have the geology of Brazil, as he has spent fessed that he is the "gentleman ban­ forts on the northeastern frontier, been obtained chiefly in the treatment considerable time there on govern­ dit” who has operated in Montana, Correspondence of an alleged com pro­ of external cancers, particularly of ment work and has written a text Washington, Oregon and California mising nature, written in Germ an. the skin. for the past twenty years. was also found. book on Brazilian geology. The first principle in the treatment Professor Branner received the Hay­ The rifle belonging to Outlaw Lo­ Oregon Agricultural College, Cor­ Oregon Agricultural College, Cor­ of cancer. Dr. Reynolds said, la the den medal in 1911 for distinguished pez, and which be took with him into vallis—Should certain of the cold stor­ vallis—“1 want the high school to ad­ extreme danger of delay, and thus far i contributions to geology and is recog­ the Apex mine when driven to bay by age bills now before congress become dress itself to the literature, or possi­ a thoroughly qualified operation seems nized as one of the world’s foremost officers, has been found beneath a tres­ laws, they would hit the fruit busi­ bly better the printed matter, that is to hold out the only hope for cure. geologists. tle near the mine, which fact is taken Port Au Prince, Haiti — Orestes ness, especially the apple business, a read in the home—the village paper, Frederick H. Hoffman, statistician as evidence that the outaw made good Zamor was elected president of Haiti hard blow, according to Professor the city paper, periodicals, farm jour­ for a leading life insurance company, his escape. at a meeting of congress Monday by a Lewis, whose views on horticultural nals—in short, to the printed matter gave statistical evidence to support Mexican rebels have captured Maz- vote of 93 out of 105 ballots cast. It matter are given great weight. And that is now affecting, molding public the warning to seek early operative atlan, which gives them their first sea­ was announced that after the election the blow would fall with especial force opinion. All this, in order that the treatment. He cited figures to show the detachments from the foreign war­ upon the growers of the Pacific North­ student may get into the current of that the records of hospitals tend to port. ships would return to their ships, as prove the assertion that the earliest contemporary thought.” Munich, Germany—Ingold, an avi­ President Wilson gives unqualified conditions were tranquil. The revolu­ west. possible operation seems to offer the ator, Sunday broke the world's record “ A number of the bills that are These are the words of George B. approval for the building of two new tionary troops under Zamor occupy all before the house at this time deal Aiton, state inspector of high schools only hope for cure. for an endurance flight. He remained battleships. the military stations. There were no with cold storage questions”, said Pro­ in Minnesota, in a letter to Edwin T. In the air 16 hours and 20 minutes, disorders on the arrival of the revolu­ fessor Lewis. “They are H. R. 9266, Reed, of the Oregon Agricultural col­ and covered a distance estimated nt Spokane, Wash., celebrated “Apple tionises from Gonaives. ' 1050 miles without landing. Ingold H. R. 9530, H. R. 3376 and H. R. lege, chairman of the committee on Day” with the thermometer at zero. Orestes Zamor formerly was gover­ 5695. Fruitgrowers should write to the high school course for the Oregon started at Mulhausen, Alsace, and flew Representative Bremner died from nor of the Northern department, and their representatives for copies of Council of Teachers of English. The Washington, D. C. — Asiatic exclu­ to the north. He then proceeded cancer in spite of several weeks’ treat­ held the portfolio of the war minis­ these bills. letter was written in response to a re­ sion agitation was quieted, temporar­ southward to Munich, landing in a sub­ try in 1911. He beaded the revolution ment with radium. “According to the provisions of the quest for suggestions that the Minne­ ily at least, in the bouse after a heat- j urb. in the city of Gonaives last January ed dobate that brought both Republi­ The previous record of 14 hours, 7 Instructors in the “tango” were ap and his forces a few days later won a first of these bills it will be impossi­ sota high schools might offer for the can and Democratic leaders to the minutes, was made by Brunolanger at plauded at Baker, Or., but could not victory over the revolutionists under ble to store apples for more than 90 work of the English committee in the days, and this would work a great interest of Oregon high schools. It is floor with pleas for calmness and de­ Johannisthal, February 3. get enough pupils to pay. Senor Davilmar Theodore, who had hardship on the apple and pear pro­ i one of the most stimulating of the liberation. By overwhelming votes Gold in paying quantities has been proclaimed himself commander-in-chief ducer, since quite a large part of our many letters that have been received the house stripped from the Immigra­ Theodore returned to crop is held more than 90 days. The from high school authorities through­ tion found on a side bill within the city of aJ) rebels. bill under consideration all j Cape Haitien, where be has set up a bill should be amended to exclude ap­ out the country. limits of Aberdeen, Wash. amendments that would have placed a provisional government. ples. “I do not believe for a moment,” bar against Asiatic immigration. Washington, D. C.—Notable Im­ Biting cold grips the Middle West, The action was taken after Repub­ provement in the relations between “Of course the provisions of the bill continues Inspector Aiton, “that we Sioux City, Iowa, reporting zero and can apply to interstate shipments only, ought to forget or pass by such im­ lican Mader Mann, Representative the United States and Japan is be­ Cheyenne, Wyo., 18 below. but this is practically the only means perishable things as Lincoln’s Gettys­ Sherley, of Kentucky, and other lead­ lieved to have resulted from the of disposing of stored apples and pears burg Address, Gray’s Elegy, The Cot­ ers made a vigorous fight to overcome events In the house of representatives If it was the ter’s Saturday Night, one or two of the sentiment which expressed itself last week connected with the passage PORTLAND MARKETS Washington, D. C. — “The Moro at profitable prices. would make short work of local Fili­ purpose of the author of the bill to ex­ Shakespeare's plays, Silas Marner, by a vote of 111 to 90 In favor of the of the Burnett Immigration bill. Re­ Wheat—Track prices: Club, 88(3, pino government,” says Brigadier clude apples and pears it could be very etc.; but why put in four years on perfection of an amendment to exclude ports from Tokio are to the effect that 88Je; bluestem, 97Jii(98c; forty-fold, General Pershing, in his latest report easily accomplished by making that literature which the teachers are not Mongolians, Malays and negroes. The a profound impression was caused in 89c; red Russian, 87c; valley, 89c. as governor of Mindanao, to Secretary provision before the measures come to reading, which the community is not speakers insisted there should be no the Japanese capital, not only by the final vote.” Oats—No. 1 white, milling, $24(325 Garrieon. reading, which, in the future, the stu­ hasty action that might embarrass the refusal of the house to include In the dents will not read, and which has no State department in its relations with bill the proposed prohibition against ton. “The actual relations between them Corn—Whole, $35; cracked, $36 ton. are such that any attempt at Filipino message for the day and the mor­ Japan. the entry of Japanese into the United row. Barley — Feed, $22.50(323 ton; government would lead only to rebel­ States, but even more by the non­ Federal Employes Warned. brewing, $24; rolled, $25. “If we can teach a boy to go partisan appeal of Representative lion and disaster. Peace in the Moro Hay —No. 1 Eastern Oregon timT province can be maintained only by a Washington, D. C.—Classified Fed­ Mann. Salem — Bids for remodeling the through a farm journal,” concludes othy, $16.50; mixed timothy, $14; al­ continuance of American control. If state bouse will be opened by the Mr. Aiton, “and to glean the good eral employes affiliated with suffrage The demonstration of the fact that falfa, $14; clover, $95.75; stags, $6(357. Chicago—Seven striking waitresses company, will resume operations in a been causing much trouble in the American charge d’affaires his pass­ phone. This condition came about Hogs—Light, $7.50 (3) 8.60; heavy, who continued picketing a down-town few days. This mill is one of the Luckiamute river lately. Many men ports; nor will it affect his attitude when two physicians who had small­ $6 50(37.60;. restaurant were arrested Monday, largest in Lane county, and will give are employed in the logging work in towards the United States or toward pox patients refused to continue treat­ Sheep — Wethers, $5 (3, 6; ewes, They were charged with “lounging employment to n any men. This mill the country adjacent to Airlie this Americans in Mexico. Thia assurance ing them because they could not carry $3.50(34.75; lambs, $5(36.75. and loafing.” was given by General Huerta. on other practice. winter. has been closed since last fall. Marconi has succeedeed in lighting an electric lamp at a distance of six miles by wireless. Better Fire Fighting Plans Are Being Made FRENCH OFFICERS ARREST ALLEGED GERMAN SPY Early Operation Is Only Hope for Cancer Patients Cold Storage Bills Will Newspaper Literature Injure Fruit Growers for High School Students Haitiens Elect President; Foreign Troops Withdraw’ AVIATOR REMAINS IN AIR 16 CONSECUTIVE HOURS All Asiatic Exclusion Amendments Are Killed Japan Much Pleased By Action of Congress Freedom for Philippines Would Bring Disaster State Will Open Bids for Remodeling Capitol