The Seattle Star Newspaper, September 27, 1920, Page 12

Washington Discussed Spending Half Million a Year on Similar Scheme Bx MAX STERN Mondel bill, providing for ization after the manner ‘of the “Mead plan” here, individual states are turning toward California to show them the way. Washington has talked of spending $500,000 a year for 10 years on land tion modeled after the Calt- fornia plan. The state engineer of is in consultation with Dr. Mead, “father of the Call- | fornia plan,” with similar intent, and the nor of Kansas will try to f@mend*the constitution so that his Btate can issue bonds for the same California is elated at her first ‘experiment at Durham, south of Recently the Durham settlers their first fair and exhibited harvests from their fecund So successful has this ven- ao proven that the state is rapidly completing its second colony at Delhi dm Merced county, and this month ‘will throw open for settlement some Sq new furm sites there. thermore, the Land Settlement will go before the next state tu and ask for another $1,- ‘to start @ third colony, California projects operate to the New Zealand method, as the “Mead plan.” Briefly, consists in loaning to a settler y from state funds for 36 years per cent, leveling his land, and him by scientific advice a to leave whatever land set- we are to have up to the resign because he wa with “changes being made in the per. sonnel of the shipping board’ in. the Northwest. Ship News Tides in Seattle ola hn rane Tu Lacan erin my ie ot ft Oe mee a COSGROVE QUIS SHIPPING BOARD Declares Sales Are Being Mismanaged With the bolt 4 announcement that sales of emergency Meet material and equipment are being misman- aged, Howard Cosgrove, of this elty, tendered his resignation as district counsel for the shipping board, Coagrove says he was moved to dissatisfied otaft He had warned officials at V ington, he said, that men were being discharged who were honest, faithful and capable, Unies the fleet corporation mends ‘ite ways,” he said, “the gov ernment will find itwelf loser on ap count of the present gross misman agement of salen” Two New Ships Off With Maiden Cargoes Two’ new vessels left during the week-end with their maiden cargoes from Seattle, The first vessel, the steamship Waterbury, of the Wil Hams, Diamond European service, will stop at Columbia river ports for additional cargo, while the Luck~ enbach liner, Archer, will stop at Everett for lumber before sailing for the Atlantic coast, eee Pacific S. S. Co. Man Off on Inspection A. F. Haines, vice president and general manager of the Pacific Steamship Co., leaves Monday for an inspection tour of the company's holdings in Portland, San Francisco .jand Los Angeles. The ‘brisk and the roiling stock scarce, {t is sald, and this has, in a great de- Bree, been responsible for the high ‘Price of lumber. SEES BIG TIMES AHEAD FOR CITY "Prosperity Era Due, Railroad a Man Declares sivatipiie Beattie is on the eve of an enor- ‘Mous prosperity era, according to R M. Calkins, vice-president of the Chicago, Milwatkee & St. Paul rail- road. ‘The nation is five years behind in its construction program and when construction resumes the lumber trade of the Northwest will see great- er Ss blag than ever before, Calkins Public Markets | Markets | sawrrany. +, Stall 45, Carnation and Borden's milk, Ie can:'1 tb. Maximum or. ‘Keliai eoftes, 4c; 1 Th. Hershey's biitk coc $e: 2 cans Madrona tomatoes, Stalls R-1 to 7, fresh pean: The. he: apple butter, 180 Mm, 2 Th Bhe, Stalls 26-22, Delicia nat margarine Bie M., 2 Tha. $1.00; Good Luck margar. ry dito m., sas Tha, S60; Tree tea, 450 th; cream cheese, 30c Tb.; Rogers’ peanut * butter, ise mm. % 4 PIKE PLACE Stall 17, 2 Ms fine cane suenr, 226. tall can Carnation milk, 130. 19, pure fresh milk, 120 qt. Stall M1, 3 Me, rolled oats, 250; 3 Ihe. navy Deans, 260: 1 ths. Bayou beans. beann, the. Stalin ‘9, 2 The. lard, 48e; ham- and sausage, Ihc Th.; lamb hy fleece rment. fined ‘chines and drawet CORNER Stall 102, 4 ths. pure American sugar, 45e can Syro, 31¢; Premier baked ; full cream cheese 2 4 tall cans Co-oper a Pucks wane ite aes es stew, 2 Tha. 260; 2 The, the; Kastern sugar cured for whole, 32% 1b; good hee, i) Yeml roasts, 15¢ ™.; pot roasts, ioe . ECONOMY Stalls 47-24, 45¢ can Royal baking pow- Ey be phe, Olymple pan: can M. J. B. coffe cans Chinook salmon, 43c; Cleanser, 25c; 60c ean Imported sardines in pure olive ofl, 260; b0e can cherries, 26c. WEATLAKE * | Malls 16-17, 2 106 cans pepper, 15c; © rolls toilet paper, 250; 3 bare Palm~ ie soap, be; Searchlight matches, be Stall 105, Flake White shortening, ™.; 2 cans Co-operative mitk, 260; extra good coffer, 20¢ Th. Stall 192, bulk 1b.; bulk cocoa, be M.; Up, 200; malt h 196 Hi, 6 tb TATOOBH ISLAND, down. ge 8 AL ye Gheseys wing tee jeamer eit south, 90 mation 68 bear, .| Pacific Coast coal bunk From Weather Bureau Sam 6 P. M—Kaining See at 20 me: Cethana, at 10 40 from Prince Rupert, B. C., vie porta at 6 po Balled September 27—Str Admiral Evans for Southeastern Alaskan ports at at's a mi US & Bothwell for Francisco at 9:15 a. m. it 2p. m.; tr Gedney for Keteh at 10:30 a m.; str Admiral Schiey | for Tacoma at 11:10 p. m.; Rupert for Prince Rupert, B. C., via ports meda, northbound, at 2:39 p. Valder—Batled eptember 26: Str Alas- ka, southbound, at 6 a m. Potersburg—Galled September 26: Str Jefferson, northbound, at 12:20 « m, Ketchikan-—Salled Beptember City of Seat! a. . eee Vessels in Other Ports Honolutu—Arrived September 25: Str Hollywood from Beattie. Ban Pedro—Arrived September 26: Str Nome City from Seattle via Tacoma. Ban Francisco—-Halled September 26 Btr Everett for Beattie at 6 p.m. Ar- rived Keptember 24: Str H. B. Lovejoy from Seattle via Port Angeles. Arrived at 11 p. m.; str Siskiyou from Bellingham Antoria—Arrived September 25: Str Steel Worker from Seattle via Vancou- September 25; Str Queen from Hea! Reptemper 26—Str Banta Ana abeam m.; str ‘off Green Island Light, north- noon; str Redondo thru Bey- Cape Lazo, northbound, at 11 rows, northbound, at 6 p. m. U. &. Naval Comm: jone Beptember 26--Str West Ivan, Seattle sweat of Cape 362 mil for Yokohal Fiattery at for Oleur, 7 p. m.; str Vieto isles wept of Cape Plattery at 8 eee tr Arayi, Beattl Vessels in Port at Seattle Smith Cove terminal—Str Kdmore, atr Elkton, str City of Spokane, etr Wheatiand Mont. |Great Northern dock—Str Kashima Maru. Pier 6—-Str Africa Maru. Pler 4—Str F. 8. Loop. Pier 2—Str Northwestern Bell st. terminal—str Fulton. Sword. Pacific Const Engineering works—str Mastern Lender. Stacy st. terminal. @. ©, Burnalde, Hanford Guy ©. Gown Spokane Derbiay Duthie yarde—Str Grifta: Todd drydocks—Btr W Thomson, str Maquan, Ames Lake Str Roosevelt. thon, Hayden, Rertrand, Bin Biscayne, Biack Wolf, win, Cobacen, Charus, CI Cinyras, Ci Eliana, Bloc rison, Fort Fort Union, Imufka, Leoti, Vincennes. | Heffernan drydock—Schr Biaatind, mo- tor schr Cethana, str Bro No man ever solves the problem of how to become rich. He wanta a few dollars more than he ever gets, Sept. 27.—Wires two-masted shipping board Passed September we or" Dervt 4 from = Francisco via Tecome at 7:10 0 J. Te Pete from Dusdae to tow et tug A. B Carpent “MEepiomber 26--Otr Africa Maru orm atr southbound, at 4 p.m; str Admiral Goodrich, southbound, at 4 p. m.; atr Alameda, northbound, at 2:20 Stocks Are Lowered by Heavy Pressure During N.Y.Trading NEW YORK, Sept the third hour of trading. Moexte ly bigh, Studebaker w ituation In Boston flew about the floor, ‘The tock market opened generally higher this morning, Pric United States Stee! 8%, off \; Leather 46, up %: Crucible 192, up 1%; Sinclair 334, unchang win 111%, up %; Canadian Pacific New Haven 36%, up %; Southern 19%, off %; Corn Products 85%, up M4: ing —Hammered down by a strong bear attack, prices on the New York Stock exchange hit new lows for the day during | | Petroleum at 190 was off 7 from the | heavily sold, Wild rumors about the bank- wel United Retail Stores 70%, off %; Central | | Bald. “| 120%, up 4; Studebaker 69%, up 4 ifie 96%, up %; General Mot an-American 4, up M4; St Louls & Southwentern 38%, off 4; Southern Rallway 82, up 4; Mexican Petro- loum 19, up 1%; Rgck Istand 39%, Tnchanged. The market turned ry sure on American Woole’ t year to within \ of ary during the forenoon, with heavy pres- , motor and tire stocks, Woolen sank . Goodrich sold bel 60, Studebaker made @ new low for 1920 at 57%, and General Motors touched last week's low of 19%. Se thin, became decidedly sharp breaks in prices occur ve during the second hour and some Baldwin sold off 3 to 108; Mexican Petroleum at 191 was off ¢ from the high of the first hour; Crucible reacted 6 points; United Steel at 87% was off nv Closing prices were: ean Petroleum 187%, off 5%: Reading 92%, off 1%); New Haven 35%. Rubber 14%, off T%; Rock I au rly 2 points, and other # Steel 86%, off 2 Pan-Ameri jand 39, off %; Bethlehem ‘ka In proportion. Naldwin 107%, off 3%; Mex! n Petroleum 91%, off 24: off %; Kelly-Springfield 53, off 2%; Studebaker 66%, off 4; Republic Steel Té, off 4%; American Woolen 72, off 4%; Crucible 126\, off 3% Baldwin and most of the stecls made new lows for the day in the last half hour, Steel common sold down to 87, At Th, United Staten Rubber was off nearly T points on the day and showed absolutely no ral- lying powe Mex! of this recovery: Toba n Petroleum rallied about 3 points, but subsequently lost half stocks and low priced rails acted wel jeht up to the close, United Retall Stores led the group with sales above 71. St. Louts & Southw tern made a new bij The market closed irregular. for the year at 40, NEW YORE. Sept. 27.—The New York Sun financial review this after- sentiment exerted a marked influence In the securities mar- ket at the beginning of the new week and selling by shorts proceeded at & relatively rapid pace after the first 15 minutes or #0, The immediate | cause for the broad reaction In the industrial let and the staying of « Promising advance in the raile wi har the setback which motor and kindred suffered on receipt of Boston advices to the effect that repre- sentatives of motor companies were to confer today in Detroit on the jon of whether it would be advisable to cut prices now following the lead of the Ford and Franklin companies of wait until later, the turn of the year, trading went far to suggest that such would be the case #! railroads alone withstood the heavy pr 4ity around the Saturday levels, after receding from the top prices of the morning.” GRAIN MARKET IS GOING UP Provisions Are Ir Irregular and Downward they held fairly at Me more Yeo at the opening. Sic, Sep- tember cate showed an additional gain of Se at tho close: Dec oats, up Se at the opening, 8c, ad-| vanced an additional ie. CHICAGO, $2. orn: No. 2 No. 3 bard, $2 he a Chicago Board of Trade BS ena Open High soreee OR19M 05.98 220 a% 19.73 10.60 “ 324 ™ 40; —Ste Eastern t. terminal—#tr St. Paul, bk t. terminal—Schr Salvator, etr ward Ho, etr " nion—Hulls Abilla, Abnoba, Ab- ydon, Addison, Allenhurst, Ahmik, An- N. Y. Coffee and Su Sugar NEW YORK, Sept. Spot No. 7, fe per Ib; No. 4 Manton, 13@13%0 per Ib Bu Raw, 10.7 ula MGiIMe NEW YORK, Sept Jing opened at $2.48%. up 1Me; centimen. NEW YORK, Sept ix mont! paper, # siiver—London, BAN FRANCIBCO, 660 per Ib; undernix per Ib; firnt PORTLAND, Sept 46 dium to good cown 118. Hoge—Receipts, ateady and unc #30 per Ib per Ib, sonic ‘Temple by ‘ng } amet Anaconda .. es | Baltimore & Onio | Baldwin Locomotive 1 Beth. tee) “Wr Canadian Pacific... Centra! ward again today om th hoard of trade, following & Cuba Cane #ugar. Corn Products * |General Motors... | Geoarich ‘ 1¢ ? +|Missourl Paettic New Maven... .. Northern Pacific... close; 1 ning at M%c, up 4G closed up pay pte —No. red, | strombers . |Tesae Pacitic Tobacco Products. Union Ol of Del | Union Pacific | United Metall Stores |. & Rubber | U. & Meet Utah Copper Vanadium Wabash West Willys 122 138 4% OT a % = CXominal) — | Firet 9%" | First ae Hecond First 4% Becond Us Third 44's Fifth 6M '* Furnished by L. DB. Manning & Ca, 19 Second Avense Rects, Cont. Kata. Lt Yr. “ Chicago Live Stock CHICAGO, Hept. 27.—Hoge—Receipta, et slow*to 10° and ite Hulk of sales, $16@17. $14@1740; packing. pigs, $15.25@17 1,000 head; 12.25; buteher steers, 10.786 per tb; eri Ib, $249%, up Ke 4.70, up 3 continen: changed; marks, 1:58¢, up 5 eentimes. Demand sterling toward the close sold francs, 6.666, centime; ire, demand 4.20c, up 4 cen- times, cables 4.21c; marks, Money on Call “Money on eatl, § per cent; mer cont Status of Frisco Market prime firsts, 61%e 160 per dos: extra pulle’ pullets, ile per dow. Cheene-—California fints, 266 per Ib Portland Market Report coipts, 1,603 head; market atendy. $9@10; fair to Rood steers, $6.25¢ common to fair nteors, $5.75@6.26; choice cows and heifers, $6.76@7.50; me 45.76; canners, $2.76@ head; market ts pts, 2,1 $ y and unchanged. 3@ The per dor @ 00 per Ib; brotlers, 30@320 Cheeno—Triplets, 340 per I DANCE FOR THE of the Jewish war sufferers will be given Tuesday night the Jewish Leo: J>le's Relief committee, If the market waa not oversold already, rtly, The ihre to bear in the sense that Company. rveriand 2% Total sales, 1,081,600 sharee. Reriee — Fourth 44's Fifth 3%" Total sales, 116, EMPLOYES SNAP UP NOTE OFFER /Electric Co.’s ’s Issue Taken in Record Time An interesting example of the modern tendency toward cooper ative ownership of large corpora tions is shown fm the subscription Mat for the $1,000,000 note issue of the Puget Sound Power & Light company, just closed, company of, ficlals pointed out today. The company offered $1,000,000 |face value of five year 8 per cent coupon notes, and the entire issue was oversold in less than 11 work ing days. Thru the efforts of the organization itself and without any junderwriting by bond houses whose .| business i# to do this gort of thing, the issue was distributed all over the territory served, from the Canadian | |boundary to Olympia, in small sizes and in many hundreds of subscrip: tions. Over 1,000 employes of the com- pany (more than one-half of the | Se total number of persons employed) | became interested in the company's | securities in this short time and the | purchase by employew alone absorb: more than 40 per cent of the total inne, |result in a benefit to all concerned, say company officials, thru keeping | the Income from the securities in the | Puget Sound district, and in broad. | ening the interest and understand ing of the company’s operations and -|problems in the 147 communities served, Four L. Oppose Present Rail Rates At their district meeting Saturday | the Loyal Legion of Loggers andj Lumbermen went on record as op- posed to the present rail rates in the Northwest, which, they declare, dis- criminate against the mills of this territory, Women talk about their clothes being uncomfortable, but there are lots of men who envy them every time they see a thin georgette blouse, d_\LADY-FINGER GRAPES HERE Market Otherwise Shows No New Features Anide from the arrival of a car of vady Winger grapes | $9.50 @ crate, the local fruit market | was unfeatured Monday, Prices were | uniformly on a par with those of that sold at were reported somewhat scarce and Biberta peaches will be imponnible to secure were plentiful enough to satiety the brink demand. | nearcer, | with the quality none too good, and brokers are taking whatever they can got for them, Potatoes remain at 2% cents a pound. The butter and egg market regis tered no change over the week end. Local Markets Prices Pe\d Whoieante Dealers for Vegetables and Wruit 10%, Off | Cabbag Yakima. per box Wash, per cane. Tommlee—tosck eutacer : » Local, per sack Marrow Gravensteins, EB Wash. Bonaqee— Per ® DAIRY ‘PRopucTs Pikes Freeh ranch « « 4008 600 + 1.00@ 16.00 +10. 25@11.60 ‘ @ £00 spring lambe . ° 1 ‘ . @ 650 HAY, GRAIN AND FEED Wholesale Price Per Tom. City Puce Ground Bone ui ‘The participation by the public | H&E, reducer | | served’ and the employes in the own Jership of the property is bound to Soya Bean Meal Do I understand you once held public employ the state as a geologist? Prisoner—Yes; I made a study of rocks for 90 days.—Detroit News, 1 JUST BETCHA THe AMERICAN LEAGUE TRAM LL WIN THe WORLD Senies ! STATE LIQUOR | LAW ATTACKED, Defendants “Ask Dismissal of Federal Charges { After several months of comparn-| | tive quiet, the attack of the wets| against the state liquor law bobbed | up in federal court Monday when) Attorney John F, Dore entered pleas in bar for nine defendants charged with violation of the national prohi-| bition law, In each case, Dore contends, the offense for which the federal authort- ties seek conviction is one for which the penalty was paid before under the state law. PLEAS TO BE ARGUED WEDNESDAY Action in the cane of each defend. | ant was postponed until 10 a. m. Wednesday, when the pleas will be} argued before District Judge Jere- miah Neterer, Thin question of double conviction was first brought up in the federal) court here before District Judge Krank H. Rudkin last summer.) Judge Rudkin held in favor of the| defendant, thus establishing a prece- dent for the western district of Washington, Attorney Dore announced at that | time that he had beeq retained by Nquor interests to wage @ fight! against the state liquor law. The defendants in the pleas in bar) entered in the federal court Monday | have been selected no that they cover! every kind of the liquor convictions, | DISMISSAL OF FEDERAL CHARGES ASKED Disminsal of the federal charges, on the grounds of previous convic- Uon for the same offense, was asked In the following cases: Edward E. Robinson, fined $100) in Judge John B. Gordon's court for operation of a still and posses. sion of liquor. Herman E. Aldin, fined $100 In the munictpal court, June 15, for pomseswion of mash and stilix. Peter Bradiey and Robert Sten- ning, $100 fine each in Otis W. Brinker's court for operating a still and possession of moonshine. A conviction In the state superior court is that of Vito Lanza, Dick Barto, Premo Marzoncini and Eugen! Mazzoncini, who were fined $250 tach by Superior Judge Wm H. Pemberton at Bellingham. GRAPE JUICE CASE INCLUDED Another test case is that of Ed THE THIRD PARTY TAKES NO PARTY IM ‘THE LEAGUE OSPuUTE THERE’LL BE BIG EXODUS FROM THIS COLLEGE, YOU BET OXFORD, 0., Sept. 27.—Preai dent Hughes of Miami Univer sity says his school hasn't room for any student out of sympathy with Miami's ideals. At the end of the first semester he'll drop Untrustworthy, Frivolous. Students cannot have autos. Students who cut physical edu cation classes will also be sum- marily dismissed. |Ohio Coal Miners Starting Strike BRIDGEPORT, Ohio, Sept. 27— Indications today pointed to the ma. terialization of the strike threat of 15,000 coal miners in the eastern Obio field. Mine officials reported that an tn- significant proportion of their work ern reported for duty when the mines opened today. Engineer, Fireman Killed in Runaway SYDNEY, N. 8. W., Sept. 27—An accident of an unprecedented charac: ter occurred Saturday on a country railway in New South Wales. ‘The drawbar connecting the loco- motive and tender broke, The engine driver and fireman were thrown with special purpose for use ax test | backward, and, falling on the rails,| fave you a little goldfish in - home? were killed, WORLD SERIES. DATE OCTOBER 5, 1920 Struggle Schedule Is Announced CHICAGO, Sept. 27— The first game of the world series will be™ | Played on October 6, in the city win: [ning the American league pennant— | Chicago or Cleveland—the nationat \haseball commission, meeting here | today, decided. Three games will be played in the American league city. ‘The series will then be transferred to the National league city, where eight games will be played, unless one club wins the series. If an eighth game is necessary, the | clube will then go to the American |ieague city, and if a ninth im re quired it will be played im the Nae tional league city | ‘The decision as to where the first games of the series would be played was made by tossing @ coin, Ban Johnson, president of the [American league, called “heads and won. He selected the Ameri- can league city for the first three camen It was decided that if the White” Sox and Cleveland finished @ tie for the American league pennant, & port-season series of three games | would be played by the “two the firet in Cleveland, the in Chicago, and, if a third is neces- nary, on neutral soil. q The following tentative schedule | of games was decided upon: October 5, 6 and 7 at the — ican League city. October 6, both teams travel to the National league city. October 9, 10, 11 and 12, at the National league city. October 1%, both teams travel to |the American league city. October 14, at the American | league city. October 15, both teams travel to. the National league city. October 16, at the National league city. In even of a tie in the American league race, the post season series between Cleveland and Chicago — would interfere with the arrange ments for the world series. would necessitate the calling off of the present schedule and a furtl meeting of the national o to make new arrangements. Business Show Is to Be Permanent Aff. Seattle's first business which closed at the Arena day, proved such a marked that the affair will be made perma- nent, it was said today. It will be held annually, Attendance during” the week of the first show was more than 21,000, Have Youa Little —. } Goldfish or T: load The cars gradually came to a Hive you two or tires hentia _ standstill, while the locomotive bolt- ed for many miles, entirely uncon- trolled, and stopped only when the| Mayor Caldwell Monday to put steam ran down, New Freight Cars Are Insufficient} “" Beattie railroad officials declare that only 21,000 railroad cars have been built during the first seven months of the year, which number is insufficient to handle the need of the country, man’s favor. District Attorney Saunders thereupon drew up an in- formation against Thurman for the } same offense. Attorney Dore con-| | palan tends that since a federal’ grand naa jury acquitted Thurman, the grand Es jury alone, may bring further| | palances charges against him for the same | 5¢ transaction. The outcome of the arguments Thurman, charged with the sale of grape juiee containing an § per cent kick, The last grand jury returned a no true bill in Thur- Wednesday is expected to establish & precedent that will have an im- portant bearing on liquor convic tions in the state. We Offer, Subject to Prior (Alberta, wed valuation w TEES Yate iegaiaet ea nits Net debenture debt poration)... Net local impr: TACOMA _eehy LEAVE rey y DOCK OO SINGLE — FARE Dated September 1, 1920 urities as follows 00 due Bept. 1, 1923; Ay ee $126,000 aaa. ‘Sept. 1, 1923; price 92.26. sits, 200 due Sept. 1, 1924; price 90.11 $443,700 General Obligation 6% Gold Notes CITY OF EDMONTON Yielding 9% Exempt From Dominion Government Taxation FINANCIAL STATEMENT municipal property (not inc eluding public from public utilities icéors coat of Sale and Change in Price, Canada) Principal and semi-annual interest (March 1 and September 1) payable in Gold coin of the United States in New York and at the offices of Morris Brothers, Inc. 4, Ore, Established over » ids. Capital Over Million "Merchants National Tank Dldg., Ban Francisco, Cal. Charles H. O'Rourke, 3440 Colle um st, New Orleans, ed in touch with tive sndet reubanl a fish dealer in Seattle.” O'Rourke says he is in the market for several hundred fancy-tailed gold PUGET SOUND STEAMERS ALL LOCAL RO s STREAMERS LEAVE FROM COLMAN DOCK, FOOT OF MARION 8T! pm levery two hours, €0e| 2: een ieese trip, $1 round es arked ** are boat landings for these points and for other boat landing points must make thelr own arrangements for landing. and assume all risk and HMability in making such landing, — Steamer's Passenger rate does not tnclui landing charges, exceed $100 150 pounds allowed, free Steamers and echedul change without notice. Freight wee office. Open from midnight, FUGET SOUND NAVIGATION co.