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SALEM, OREGON, 8ATUBDAY, MAT 17, 1913.
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MING 10 PERFECT
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4 Enthusiastic Meeting Last
Night Planned for One
' Big Club, if Possible
! TO ORGANIZE, ANYWAY,
,
i ' 3ut Will First Make an Effort to
I Beach Some Understanding With
. the Illihee Clab.
There was a goodly assemblage last
night at the Board of Trade rooms, the
occasion being the meeting pursuant to
adjournment of those interested in or
gauizirg a commercial club and who
met for this purpose a week ago. The
meeting was called to order by Chair
mau B. J. Miles and the minutes of the
first meeting were read and approved.
The chairman then briefly stated the
objects of the meeting for the benefit
of those not attending last week, and
ailed for a general discussion, and ex
pression of ideas upon the subject.
Since the meeting last week the ar
rangements for conibiuing the Illihee
dub and old Board of Trade have been
completed, which cleared the situation
somewhat.
It was suggested by one, that the
name Illihee, meant nothing to the
"world at largo, that to got results for
Salem, in advertising matter that the
name Salem should be used. The Board
of Trade as a name was objected to be
cause to most people of the east it
meant the Chicago Board of Trade, the
' rdggest gambling outfit in America.
. Col. Hofer spoke forcefully and elo
quently on the necessity of having a
-wide awake, active commercial club
that would act promptly and vigorously
in all matters pertaining to the better
ilNinent of the eity, and pointed out some
of the mistakes we have made. His
septlments-wero hoartily app'auded.
However, before this argument or
discussion rtarted) a resolution was of
fered for the purpose of getting the
matter In shape for consideration, in ef
fect that "this meeting proceed to form
a commercial club."
Mr. Lowe and other objected to form
ing a commercial club just now, Bug
(testing that "wo wait until we 'see
"what the Illihee club arrangement ac
complishes." Mr. Taber suggested that a committee
lie appointed to confer with the Illihee
club to see if some plan could not be
agreed upon by which all could unite
with tho Illihee club in oue great solid
organization on a broad basis.
Others made many suggestions, some
of them very good, but they pertained
1o the courao of the club once formed,
lather than to its organization.
The general consensus of opinion,
liowover, was that if any arrangement
could be made with the Illihee club
that would pormit tho forming of one
big, broad organization, it would be
the better plan.
A motion was made that a committee
of five be appointed by the chair to
confer with the Illihee club, talk the
whole matter over with its officials and
if possible arrange a plait for combin
ing with them. This motion was am
ended authorizing the committee to act
as a ways und means committee, and to
embody in its report, if arrangements
could not bo made with the Illiheo club
a plan of organization with as much
information as posRiblo as to raising
the necessary funds for putting the
club on its feet. The amendment and
motion as amonded passed. Tho chair
man to name the committee later, and
the meeting adjourned subject to the
call of tho chairman.
There was much enthuisnsm and tho
determination to see that Salem had
a wide awake active commercial club,
alive at all times to Salem's best Inter
ests, was iiiurh in evidence.
Moose Members Boosters.
Although organized but two yenrs
ngo, the Moose lodge of Snlcm has out
stripped even the Salem Board of Trade
when it comes to assisting commercial
intorpt in the city. This order i" com
posed of men who do things; men who
don't impend their t'"i'e holding meetings
for the purpose of "ascertaining the
feasibility of a movement to do good to
the community. " They go right nWd
and do things whether or not some pes
finiiit tries to diicolirnge them. They
make their plans and carry them out
according to schedule and look forward
to micress not failure.
The Grants Pass commercial club
has Indorsed tho rnad building cam
paign proponed by the Josephine coun
ty court, club sentiment being largely
In faver of hard surface highways.
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Discounts California Law.
Plioenix( Ariz., May 17. An
anti-alien land ownership bill far
more lrastic than the bill recent
ly passed by the California leg
islature hail been signed today by
Governor Hunt, following its pas
sage by both houses of the state
legislature. The new law makes
it impossible for aliens of any
color to hold land unless they
have declared their intention of
becoming citizens. Mining claims
or property necessary to the
working of mines alone is exempted.
Deputy Warden Strikes Hand -Cuffed
Prisoner Because He Called'
Him Names.
Breaking the parole extended to him
but b!x weeks, Jim Davis, who was sen
tenced to the penitentiary from Jack
son county for larceny from a dwell. ng,
Has taken into custody again last night
und iciuincd to the prison to ssive cut
a ieast two more years. Night Off: or
Woolery arrested Davis after a lively
scramble through back yards, over fenc
es and through barns in the vicinity of
the feed shed on the corner of Center
and Front streets.
Davis, who has been working on a
ranch west of here, came to town yes'
torday and proceeded to fill up with
liquor. The prison authorities learned
of the fact and immediately asked the
police hero to round up the man. Offi
cer Woolery located Davis in the feed
shed and together with Guard George
Hirons, made an attempt to take him
in custody. Davis discovered he. was
being watched, however, and ran down
a ladder from the barn loft and jumped
a rear fon:e. Both Woolery and Hirers
gave chase and finally corralled him in
another barn.
An act which is not generally i
keoping with the dignity of an officer
was committed by Deputy Warden
Snodgrass after Davis had been brought
to the corner of Commercial and Center
streets in hand cuffs. Although stag
gering drunk and t.iKing incoherent!;',
and with his hands luo'.cd together with
cuffs, the deputy waidon deliberately
slapped Davis in the face with his upon
hund,bringing tho blood gushing from
the ; isnicr's nose, anil again dealt hiui
a blow cii the side ct the head for the
reason, claims Snodgrass, the prisoner noction with the operations of thee
ci!i' l 1 ini names. The sight was hard J Shea gang of burglars. Judgo Tra
ly crw to mouse sympathy for the oris- bueeo postponed sontence for two
on c'l'cial to say the leant, weeks, pending a motion for probation.
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AUSTRALIA IS THE
E MAN'S
First Cargo Reaches San Fran
cisco and Hits Beef Trust
in the Solar Plexus.
PRICES DROP 25 PER CENT
Shipments Will Be Received Each
Week and May Sometime Be Sent
to Portland.
San Francisco May 17. A nation
wide fight on the beef trust through
the importation of Australian beef,
which has lowered the price of meats
here from 20 to 25 per cent, is believed
a certainty today. The first big ship
ment from the South Seas, 200 tons,
arrived here yesterday and immediate
ly found its way into nearly 200
butcher shops. The foreign beef has
met the requirements of the United
States inspection laws, and is in great
demand by San Francisco housewives.
A comparison of meat costs follow:
Trust. Australian
Porterhouse steak 25c 20c
Tenderloin Bteak 22c 20c
Bound steak .13c 15c
Prime roasts 22c 18c
Pot roasts ' 18c 15c
Corned beef ........12c 10c
Boiling beef : 12c 10c
Soup meat 8c 5o
Shipments of the Australian beef
will be received here each week.
They Cleaned George.
San Francisco, May 17. George Van
Star, a clothing salesman of Kansas
City, Mo., who says he is a son of a.
wealthy clothing merchant, is poorer
by $2500 today because he went to the
water front with two men who told him
"a thousand or more United States sol
diers were going to embark for Mex
ico." Tho stranger's lured Van Star
to a dock and took away his wallet
Gave School a Flag.
Eugene, Or., May 17. A beautiful
American flag is flying from the staff
.of the central school here today, hav
ing been presented to the scholars by
the ocal post of the G. A. K. The
speech of presentation was maije by
Attorney B. J. Hawthorne, a member
of the staff of Gonoral Robert E. Leo
during the war of the rebellion.
The Girl Burglar.
TJNITKD PRESS UBASED WIBK.
San Francisco, ay 17. A new trial
was denied here today to pretty Jes
sie Clifton, the art student, recently
convicted of being a burglar in con-
Freak of a Bullet
Los Angeles, Cal., May 17.
With his silver watch driven
through his body against his
backbone by a bullet fired from
a revolver by P, H. Lennert, a
Burlu'nk rancher, George Hepp,
a blacksmith was brought to the
hospital here in a dying condi
tion. Lennert, according to his
sory to the sheriff, kaa aroused
shortly before daylight by noises
a this door. Believing a burglar
was trying to get into the house,
demanded to know who was out
side, and when he received no re
sponse, fired at random.
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Professor Pictet Claims Many Cases
Have Been Cured in Hawaii Gov
ernment Is Investigating.
DSITID PUSS LEASED WIB1.1
Geneva, May 17. Intense cold is a
cure- for leprosy, according to Profes
sor Raoul Pictet, of Goenva, inventor
of a method of producing liquified air.
Rocont experiments along this line by
American doctors in Ilamail, Professor
Pitctet says, have been entirely suc
cessful. '
Liquified oxygen of carbonate at a
temperature of 110 degrees zoro
Professor Pictet states destroys the
microbes of leprosy, and causes dis
eased flesh to gradually regain its
original health and color. Ho declares
many cases have been cured in Hawaii
and the American government is 1"-1
vestigating the cure.
Sues for Divorce.
Alleging in a complaint filed ia the
circuit court lost night that his wife
caused him to be greatly humiliated by I
nniv.r nn .trH MrtnrjA
ing "unusual dancing stunts," Lovell
I. Will today commenced action for
divorce against his wife, Ifolene E.
Wills.
The complaint alleges that the de
fendant told the plaintiff that she
no longer loved him, and that ho was
not her ideal of a man. The plaintiff
also alloges that defendant was ca-
pricious, and often abused him.
All propertv rights have been set-
tied, according to tho complaint.
according to tho complaint.
Weather Forecast.
Oregon Occasional rain to-
night and Sunday. Easterly
winds.
WOULD GO TO PRISON
Write Governor: "Both You
and I Deserve to Be and
Ought to Be in Hell."
WOULD DON THE STRIPES
Prison Commissioner Offers to Wear
Prison Garb and Work While Reuf
Visits His Sick Fatter.
tomu ruas immo wiai
San Francisco, May 17. After re
minding Governor Hiram W. Johnsoa
that "both you and I deserve to be,
and ought to be, in hell," Charlos
Montgomery, president of the Califor
nia prison commission, today is on rec
ord in a letter to Johnson with an offer
to take Abe Buef 's place in prison for
three months to allow the prisoner to
go the bedside of his sick and aged
father.
Montgomery points out that Ruef's
father is bogging to see his son and in
sists that tho governor has the power
to grant Ruef a conditional or uncon
ditional pardon.
"You, my dear governor," Mont
gomery wrote, "hold the key to Ruef's
cell. If you will not pardon him I wish
to go to the penitentiary as his substi
tutegranting him three months liber
ty to be with his sick, dying father and
his broken-hearted mother. I will wear
the stripes, obey every prison rule,
work my utmost and remain in prison
without a complaint until Ruef comes
back to relieve me."
Montgomery's letter was dated May
10 and he sueaested that the Wisla-
ture, then in session, nass a law lomliz-
ing the exchange.
STRIKERS STOP ALL
STREET CAE TRAFFIC
pOTiPMlV This
Afternoon Abandoned
All Attempts to Operate Cars on
Any of Its Lines.
Cincinnati, May 17.-Attornoy-Gonernl
Hogan ruled today that Mavor Hunt
could call out the militia here without
the sanction of the governor. Hunt
' doclared he would not do so as the lo -
'al troops would bo sufficient to ban-
"e the situation and might only cause
the rioting to grow worse.
Rioters this afternoon paralyzed all
traffic in the city and tho street cor.wll"'n 8"' 1110 30h-
company abandoned its attempts to
operate.
1 Mayor Hunt, following this, issuod
an announcement that a rcceivenhip
1 suit would be filed against the com-
'pany and that, if appointed, the re -
ceivor would oporate tho cars with the
1 old employes sow on strike.
Six New Indictments.
San Francisco, May 17. Six
new Indictments, charging grand
larceny, are returned hero today
against six of the eight San Fran
cisco yolice dotectives, accused
of sharing in the illicit earnings
of an Italian bunco ring.. The in
dictments voted were against J.
H. Sullivan, Charles Josephs,
Frank Esola, James MeOowan,
W. H. Waugh and J. L. Drolette.
Arthur MacPhee and Charles
Taylor, the other two officers
named by the bunco men, wore
not indicted.
BY
Recommended That Council Let Paving
Contract on Fairmount Avenue
to Arens Company.
Proporty owners of Fairmount ave
nue last evening voted at a meeting to
recommend that the city council award
the contract for two blocks of paving
to the Arenz Construction company, al
though tha Oregon Paving & Quarry
company had the lowest bid. Following
were the bids under consideration, all
being on six-inch gravel concrete: Ore- j
gon Paving & Quarry eompany, $3,
318.32; Arenz Construction company,
3300.40; W. D. Pugh, 3815.20; August
Kehrbergir, 3856.30.
Mrs. Mary V. Watson wautod the
coutract let to the Arenz Construction
company because she believed tho elder
Arenz would do good work. They know
that he had paved other streets in a
satisfactory manner and bad confidence
in him. .The difference between his
bid and that of the lowest bidder was
slight.
The relation of the Oregon Paving &
Quarry company to the Arens Construc
tion company was discussed at some
length. Some of tho property owners
insisted they were protty much tho
8amo company, the head of the Aronz
""Pny emg the father or young
' Mml ot the m company. Some
istod that the same outfit would 'oe
' l,8cd bv yull Ar0Ilf wno ' associated
wltb E- IIo,or ia tho Plvi,'K bino.
48 tIl0t U"01 hi Mer' 11 wa' "
& l outcome as to quality of
work woul11 bo tl10 Bam8 no mattor
It wiut pointed out by Councilman
Gideon Stolz that tlicro was a question
whethor tho council could do otherwise
'hnn lot the contract to tho lowest bld-
At ni" ""KKestion a resolution
" P"od that in case the contract
(Continued on page 5.)
10
C. A. Bullis, Son of a New
York Steel Operator Has
the Franchise.
TO BEGIN WORK AT ONCE
Surveying Starts Tuesday and Actual
Construction Work Will Begin by
June First-
Iukitss raise tsuaso wiu
Medford, Or., May 17. "We will
have a crew in the field establishing
levels for the first unit of Medford 's
street railway by next Tuesday. W
will have actual construction work un
der, way before June 1. We mean busi
ness. There is no real estate deal mix
od up in this. Our proposition is fi
nanced and we are ready to begin."
Such was the unqualified statement
of C. A. Bullis, a son of S. S. Bullis, s.
streot railway builder alid operator of
New York today followin ga num
ber of changes in the trolley line fran
chise granted originally to the M, T.
Minnoy company, of Oakland, Cal, and
later transferred by them to P. ' B.
Waite and associates which has now
come into tho hands of Mr. Bullis, by
tho city council on Friday evening.:
"We realize," continued Mr. bullis. .
"that all the talking in the world
would not convince some people that we
are sincere. Only actual construction
will do this, and so we intend to be
long on work and short on words.
"We will put a crew at work by
Tuesday next, starting from the eeuter
of the city and running east through,
Siskiyou Heights and establishing lev
els, and the course of road will be defi-
nitoly determined upon when this data
is compiled. We will have dirt moving
before tho present month ends. We axe
reserving nothing and inteud to Uk
the publie into our confidence. We
will build's road."
The city council on Friday evening
rescinded the franchise grantod M. T.
Minnoy and granted a new one to Mr.
Bullis, this being the easiest way to
make the changes in the franchise
asked. Those changes related chiofls
to the clauses in the franchise relating
to construction work In the countr."'
districts.
Mr. Bullis has been investigating Il
eal conditions during the past three or
four ltiintU until his faith in the val
ley an I its future is shown by hi ac-
tii n in cin.i.iM tion with tho road. Ho is
an experienced railroad builder, hav
ing bcei. in the work for thirty yn's.
WOULD BE WITH US
IN CASE OF JAP WAS
(DNITID ralHS TJDAHKD WIS!.
London, May 17. Declaring that it
would bo a great mlstnlio to uudorosti
mato the i-hancns of a conflict between
tho United States and Japan as a con
soqnenco of the California land law,
the Pall Mull Gazette editorially
throws a light today on where the Brit
ish would tlnnd If a clash should come.
"Should wnr break out," says the
Ouzotto, 'the sympathies of Australia,
New Zealand Slid of Western Canada
would be violently on the side of the
United States.
The pnpercontinuos:
"The opinion that the Japauoso will
novur go io war to enforce their treaty
rights in Citliforuia is one of those
dimgoroiis generalities which load na
tions blindfold to the brink of the
pit."
The l'all Mull Gazette believes It 1
possible that Japan might be desirous
of forcing the lssuo now because of the
impending completion of the Panama
canal.
Boston a Winner.
UNITKD l'US 1JIASSD WIS1.)
Boston, May 17. ,lame for Hostou
scattered tha six little hiti of the Iteds
here today so fur thut they vie. led on
ly two runs while the Braves cantered
home with six. Hroro:
It. II. K.
I'inciiimiti 2 8 1
Boston 6 8 t
llatturien Brown, Hurler Bud t'lurk;
.fumes and Whaling. I'mpires: Klein
and drill.
White Sox Won.
The White Sox won the big game
today before a crowd of il,Hi)0 funs.
Scon-:
New Vork 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 13
Chicago 0 0 0 0 3 2 1 --
Butteries Keating and Rweonoy;
ItusMill ami Hihulk. I'mpires: O'Luugh
lin and Ferguson.