Show I OREGON IMPROVEMENT c Annual Meeting of Stockholders Held at Portland Yesterday Portland June 17The annual meeting of the stockholders of the Oregon Improvement company was held in this city this afternoon The meeting was called to order by President Presi-dent W H Starbuck and Secretary Posten acted as secretary of the meeting meet-ing There were present C H Prescott Pres-cott C B Tedcastle C I Smith C A Dolph W M Ladd E S Hooley trr I j Paul F Mohr Elijah Smith andl f S H Starbuck Mr Starbuck had asf t his attorneys W H BurleIgh of Seattle Se-attle and James McNaught of Now York Mr Smith was represented by j Vert H Holman Senator Dolph and R imams of this city jhe annual report of the president was received but not read and balloting ballot-Ing for directors was Immediately commenced There were two tickets in the field the one representing the Elijah Smith faction was as follows Henry Failing 3 ing C H Lewis C A Dolph W M Ladd J Bourne jr of Portland t Elijah Smith Empire City Ore E win S Hooley W I Hoffman J ONeil Charles McQuaid Char OXei Car Schultz New York 4 Shulz Those offered for directors byt faction that is now in control that Is the ticket of President portanr as follows Henry Failing C H Lewis W M Ladd C A Dolph Joseph Simon Si-mon Portland Wm E Robertson George Taylor New York C J Smith Seattle C B Tedcastle F H Prince W H Starbuck New York Before the counting of votes was completed a recess was taken until 10 a m tomorrow I cannot be ascertained as-certained how much of the stock has been voted until the count is completed com-pleted The Smith faction claim that they voted 42000 shares which is a majority |