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V ? ' . Oregon ' nrxtw.v mvm gpttm VOL. XLL 20. 12,590. .PORTLAND, OREGON, FKIDAJ, APRIL 19, 1901. PRICE FIVE CENTS. i ktSS fr kfjL. yrf T'&Jm Wm P mmim It HUNTER I BALTIMORE YE The Celebrated OVERHOLT A WHISKEY W Glover's Dog Remedies AT POPULAR PRICES 50c articles, 43c freei srSiarL Woodard, Clarke & Co. treatment of DogS. TT U JL JL TRF-' See the new poller contract of the' Equitable Lilf e Assurance Society before signing an application for life Insurance In any other company. '-It will take only a. few minutes to investigate, and It may save you months or years of regret. Ii. Samuel, manager, 305 Oregonlan building, Portland, Or. PHIIi UfETSCHAX, Free SEVENTH AHD WASHINQTQR CHANGE OF European Plan: CRESENTBICYCtES 101 Models Are Beauties In Construction and Finish. These are the best values that have ever been offered by any manufacturer in America. HONEYMAN, DeHART & CO. FOURTH AND ALDER STREETS THE PORTLAND POHTLKND. OREGON AMERICAN PLAN a COST ONE MILLION DOLLARS HEADQUARTERS FOR TOURISTS AND COMMERCIAL TRAVELERS Special rates made to families and single gentlemen. The manage ment Trill be pleased at all times to shovr rooms and give prices. A mod era Turkish, bath establishment In the hotel. H. C. BOWERS, Blnnager. Library Association of Portland ? Hours Frem 9 A. M. to 9 P. M.f 29,000 2LA7UES $5.00 7C YEHR SPECIAL RATES TO STUDENTS. ' Sauer and the Pianola I can freely say the Pianola gives me more pleasure than I have had from thou sands of so-called treats of pianistlc effort. EMIL SATJER, Concert Pianist M. B. WELLS, Northwest Agent for Aeolian Verdict for the Bake. LONDON. April IS. The suit of San gulnettl against the Duke of Manchester, which was postponed February 27 last, ow ing to the Duke's absence In America, oc cupied the Court of Xing's Bench today. The plaintiff seeks to recover 500 com mission for procuring the Duke a loan of 10,000. After the evidence that the (Manchester estates in England and Ire land showed a yeariy deficit, and that the Income did not suffice to meet the mort gages, charges and Jointures of the Dow- i ager Duchess, judgment was given in fa vor of the defendant, on the ground that Sanguinettl had never found any one able or willing to provide the loan on which he claimed commission, on the actual se curity available. THfc 2 AMERICAN GENTLEMAN'S WHISKY ROTHCHILD BROS. 2 Agts. Oregon, "Washington, Idaho, 9 20-26 XOBTH FIRST ST. BOTTLED IN BOND MEDICINALLY PURE BLUMAUER-FRANK DRUG CO. Wholesale Distributers PORTLAND OREGON SPRATT'S PATENT DOG BISCUITS 8c POUND Cor Fourth and Washington nr M N I'll O. TV. KNOWIES, Mgr. STREETS, - PORTLAND, ®0N. MAJ.AGE3IEST. $1.00, $1.50, $2.00 per Day These wheels continue to be the favorite with riders this season. Ladles' and Gent's Wheels $25.00 (Equal to other makes selling at $35.) Ladles' and Gent's Wheels 33.00 Equal to other makes selling at $50.) Ladles' and Gent's Cushion Frame Wheel 50.00 Gent's Racing Model 50.00 Boys' and Girls Wheels 22.50 $3.00 PER DAY and upward. W SEVENTH AND STARK STREETS except Sundays and holidays, 250 PERIODICKLS $1.50 75 QUHRTBH 91.00 A YEAR the Aeolian Company Hall. 353-355 Washington Street cor. Park The Pnblic Consistory. ROME, April 18. At the public con sistory today the ceremony of imposing the red hats on the new cardinals oc curred in the Sala-Delle Benedlzlonl, in the presence of all the cardinals, bishops, prelates, diplomats, functionaries of the Vatican, Roman nobility and numerous invited guests. The pope, who was In ex cellent health, was warmly cheered. The pontiff, seated on the throne and sur rounded by his court, performed the cere mony of Imposing the hats and pro nounced the pontifical benediction. There was no allocution. Subsequently the pope received the new cardinals In his private apartments. No appointment was made today In the case of the vacant bishopric of Portland, Me MAKES LIGHT OF IT MacActhur Says Scandal Re ports Were Exaggerated. BUT OFFICERS ARE ON TRIAL Thirty - third and Thirty - fourth Volunteers Mustered Out at San Francisco Protest Against Cock-Fighting at Manila. WASHINGTON, April 18. The .following cablegram was made public today: "Manila. Adjutant-General, Washing ton: With reference to your telegram of the 16th, press reports are grossly ex aggerated and misleading. The matters therein touched upon regarding officers of the subsistence department have been investigated. The proceedings were mall, ed by the transport Sheridan. Regarding the theft of commissary stores the amount of which was grossly exagger ated by the press reports, immediate and most drastic measures have already been applied. Three officers and a number of enlisted men are .being tried by court marshal and a number of citizens by a military commission. "MACARTHUR." No etatenient was made that the re port of MacArthur was satisfactory, al though it all along has been the theory of the War Department that the reports from Manila were exaggerated. At the same time, there is cause for regret in the department that even under the best con struction that can be placed upon the dispatch, three officers and a number of enlisted men and a number of civilians have conducted themselves In such a manner as to necessitate a court-martial or a trial by a military commission In the case of civilians. It is said, how ever, that even if these persona were be ing tried, there might be exaggeration In regard to the offenses with which they were charged. f Commlflsary-General Weston has re ceived a cablegram from Colonel Wood ruff, chief commissary at Manila, In which he says: "Do not permit scandalous reports to worry you. Affairs subsistence depart ment of the Army administered honestly and to satisfaction of officers and troops." Evans Denies the Reports. CHICAGO, April 18. Thomas E. Evans, of the firm of Evans & Co., Importers and financial brokers at Manila, who arrived In Chicago today, en route to Washing ton, denied the reports from Manila that his firm was concerned In the commis sary department frauds. Mr. Evans said that it seemedalmo.st impossible to hint that" anjTsuch frauds as are reported could be perpetrated under the strlot Army regulations - in vogue. Mr. Evans will leave for Washington tomorrow. " DISPATCHBEARER CAPTURED. Manila Clergymen Protest Against the Opening of Cockpits. MANILA, April 18. Fifty Insurgent riflemen attacked the town of Bay, on Bay Lake, in Laguna Province, south east of Manila. The Insurgents were quickly routed. Lieutenant William S. Nlpes, of the Thirty-second Infantry, has captured a bearer of dispatches from the Insurgent General Norlel to General Malvar. Norlel directed Malvar not to surrender, saying he would eend him 2000 recruits, money and ammunition, when Agulnaldo is re leased. Norlel succeeded Trias in South ern Luzon. At a meeting of clergymen held In Ma nila, at which Bishop Warren presided, strong protests were made against the opening of cockpits In Manila. The busi ness men of the city have also objected on the same lines. The trial of Lieutenant Frederick Boy er, charged with the embezzlement of commissary stores, will be continued next Monday. The trial of the civilian named Fletcher, accused of the unlawful conversion of commissary stores, which was held before the Provost Court today, exposed a plot to obtain commissary supplies and to sell them to the hotels and merchants of Manila. Brigadier-Generals James F. Wade and William Ludlow .have arrived here. Gen eral Wade will succeed Brigadier-General John C. Bates In command of the De partment of Southern Luzon. Brigadier Generals Bates, Robert H. Hall and Frederick D. Grant will return to the United States. MUSTERED OUT. Volunteers in Trro Regiments Get Their Discharge. SAN FRANCISCO, April 18. The Thirty-third and Thirty-fourth Volunteers Regiments, recently returned from Ma nila have been'mustered out. The Twenty eighth and Thirty-fifth Infantry, now In camp at the Presidio, expect to be mus tered out of the service April 30. Al though there are very few troops here now under orders for the Philippines, transports will be rushed there as fast as possible, to be In Manila in time to bring home all the volunteers to be mus tered out by July 1. In accordance with this programme, the Thomas will sail from here Saturday and the Warren on the 25th. The assignments to the Thomas so far consist of 127 recruits and 20 casuals under the command of Lieutenant W. A. Liebler. The Twenty-fourth In fantry and 150 marines have been as signed to the Warren The transport Rosecrans, which arrived from Manila last night, was released from quarantine today. The Rosecrans brought 218 men of the Thirty-seventh Infantry and 260 casuals. The transport Lawton, on which there were three cases of smallpox, has also been released from quarantine after having been thoroughly fumigated. Seventeen days had elapsed since the last case appeared and It was perfectly safe to land the passengers. DEPORTED FROM LUZON. Son of General Maceo, the Cuban, Brought Back From Manila. SAN FRANCISCO, April 18. The trans port Rosecrans brought from Manila five men who had been deported by the mili tary authorities. Among them was San tiago Maceo, a son of the late Cuban leader. Toung Maceo came Into promi nence on the Pacific Coast two years ago, while traveling with Katherine Tingley, the theosophlcal leader. He fell out with Mrs. Tingley, claiming that he was treat ed as a servant While in the Philip pines Maceo became a First Sergeant of the Macabebe scouts. He was accused of giving information to the Filipino troons. and was dismissed from the Army, and because of the supposed menace of his presence in the islands. General MacAr thur ordered his deportation. I CAUGHT BYAN AVALANCHE Engines Hurled From the Track on a Colorado Mountain Road. BOULDER, Colo., April lS.-On the" Colorado & Northwestern Railroad two big engines attached to a passenger train coming from Ward to Boulder, and due here at 4:10 this afternoon, were struck by a huge snowslide and hurled into the chasm below. Four trainmen were killed Engineers Hannon and Fitzgerald, Fire man Miller and Conductor Balr. The sec ond fireman has not yet been accounted for, and it is believed he, too, is burled under his engine. None of the bodies has been recovered. The passenger train RsCtWard for Boul der drawn by two engines. When the train reached Boomerville the engines were uncoupled and starlet up the hill to buck the snow, which was deep upon the tracks. There is a sharp curve near the apex of the mountain, and just as the en gines started to plow through a huge snow drift a vast avalanche of snow and earth was loosened from above. It came down with terrific force and gained momentum every second.? It Is said that the train, which was quite heavily loaded with pas sengers, was not touched by the slide. ACCIDENT IN A. DRYDOCK. Blocks Slipped Front Under a Trans port While Being Floated. SAN FRANCISCO, April 18. While the transport Warren was being taken out to the Hunter Point drydock today an ac .cldent occurred in which two men were badly injured, several received slight wounds and the 700 workmen aboard got a scare they will not forget in a hurry. The big transport was ready to be taken out of the drydock, and t'e water to float her was being Jet In. The bow rose before the stern, and the blocks slipping from under the latter, the ship gave a lurch and the next Instant went ocer to star board. ShB partially recovered herself and then went over again to an angle of 45 degrees and remained In that position for half an hour. When the Warren gave her first plunge a connecting rod broke loose and pinned Aaron Astlll, an elec trician, to the side of the ship, breaking? his ankle. The main binder also broke loose and struck Ben Hall, a bollermaker, crushing his hip. Several men were knocked off the cylinder-head and received scalp wounds. After the second lurch It did not take five minutes to clear the ship, and some of the bollermakers and machin ists did not stop running until they were safe among the hills. Over 400 of them refused to make the trip down the bay on the vessel and walked In from Hun ter's Point. The Warren was not dam aged. Misunderstanding of Orders. CLEVELAND. April 18. As the result of a head-on collision between freight and construction trains on the Wheeling & Lake Erie Boad, in the Cleveland yards early today, Williain Thels, a brakeman, was killed, Engineer Velsenbrech was fa tally injured and Fireman Hammond and Sylvester Bruggenere biul;: hurt. The acclde'rft, is supposed to have been.caused bjr' a misunderstanding of orders!: ' ' ' i- itilled by a Cave-In. , TELLURIDE, Colo., April 18. E. J. Oakland, contractor for the Smuggler Union Mines, was Instantly killed today by a cave-In of loose ground. He was about 40 years of age. IT WILL FIGHT TAMMANY. The Greater New York Democracy Organlzed Last Night. NEW YORK, April 18. A mass meeting was held in Carnegie Hall tonight to form a new political party to be called "The Greater New York Democracy." The new party Is formed to fight Tammany Hall. John C. Sheehan. E. Ellery Anderson, Pe ter B. Olney and Joseph P. Daley were among the many persons who signed the call for the meeting. About 2000 persons were present. An address was Issued by the meeting which scores the present city government and declares that Tammany has run up the annual expenses from 570, 000,000 to 598,000,000 and has given the city a tax rate three times as large as that of Chicago. Then the address declares that In an effort to "befog tSls unpleasant fact," Tammany has Increased the real estate valuation by $743,000,000. Tammany Is declared to be controlled by one man, "who essays to dominate courts and co erce Judges, and whose guiding purpose Is the exaction of tribute through the vio lation and nullification of law.' Tried to Bribe a Legislator. NASHVILLE, April 18. Senator W. B. Eldrldge, of Memphis, In open session of the Senate today, accused ex-Controller James A. Harris of an attempt to bribe. He charged that Mr. Harris came to him at his seat In the Senate chamber this morning and offered him $500 and promised to have withdrawn a suit pending against him If he would vote for the terminal bill which will come up on a motion to re consider. The terminal bill, which pro vides an amendment to the charter of the Louisville & Nashville Terminal Com pany, forcing It to allow the use of the terminal facilities by any railroad which may demand, them, and which was advo cated as a means to let the Tennesse Cen tral Into the terminal station here, was defeated in the Senate Tuesday, but a mo tion to reconsider was pending. In ac cordance with the Senator's request, a committee of three was appointed to In vestigate the alleged bribery. Mr. Har ris declined to make a statement further than to declare Senator Eldrldge's charges untrue. ITS SECOND BANQUET. Automobile Club of America Gives a Dinner in New York. NEW YORK. April 18. The Automo bile Club of America held Its second an nual dinner tonight at the Waldorf-Astoria. The diners numbered about 200. The toasts and speakers were: "The Club," President Albert Shattuck; "National Highway Commission," Gen eral Miles; "Present Necessities for State Aid in Highway Improvements," State Engineer Bond; "Ideal Automobiles," M. J. Verdery; "The Press and the Auto," M. H. De Young, of the San Francisco Chronicle; "The Pan-American Exposi tion," Congressman J. S. Sherman; "Fed eral Paving," General Roy Stone; "Our Friend, the Horse," Dr. Kane. . Eight Bankruptcy Petitions. SAN FRANCISCO, April 18. The rec ,ord for filing bankruptcy petitions 'In the United States District Court was broken today. Eight petitions were filed. Bernard Weyl, formerly of St. Louis, filed a schedule of nearly $49,000 with no assets. These debts were con tracted while in business at St. Louis. Ell D. Bannister, a mining, man of Los Gatos, Cal., has creditors for nearly $65, 000 In Butte and Helena, Mont., and this state. IN A BIG MUDDLE Street Assessment Method Is Unconstitutional. DECISION BY JUDGE BELLINGER Benefits Must Be Considered in Or dering Improvements Other-wise Property Is Taken Without Due Process of Law. Judge Bellinger decided yesterday In the United States Court that the method of COLONEL CHARLES A. WOODRUFF ,. f THE CHIEF COMMISSARY AT MANILA WHOSE NAME HAS BEEN MEN TIONED IN CONNECTION WITH THE ARMY SCANDALS. assessment for street improvements In Portland Is unconstitutional. He followed the Federal Supreme Court In the case of Norwood vs. Baker, which, holds- thai the assessment for an Improvement wlth- 'out considering the question of specified benefits, Is taking his property without duo process of law, which is in violation of the 14th amendment to the Constitu tion. The method of making the assess ment is held to be unconstitutional. A decision rendered by Judge Bellinger In the United States Court yesterday will have the effect of clouding street-Improvement work and procedure until the Su preme Court of the United States passes upon the constitutionality of Portland's charter. The court overruled the de murrer of the City of Portland to the complaint filed by J. . Thorburn Ross to restrain the Chief of Police from selling the Marquam building to collect an assess ment for the Improvement of Sixth street with asphalt. Judge Bellinger's ruling Is in line with the decision of the "United States Supreme Court and of the Fed eral courts on the question at Issue, and contrary to the decision of the Supreme Court of Oregon In the Shannon .case against the City of Portland. It holds In' effect that a law which makes an as sessment for a public Improvement that is In excess of the specified benefits Is" In contravention of the fourteenth amend ment of the Constitution of" the United States. The Shannon case Involves the constitu tionality of the Portland method of mak ing assessments for street Improvements. It was appealed to the Supreme Court of the United States two months ago. City Attorney Long said last evening that he should at once take steps to have the question advanced on the calendar of the Supreme Court so that the question of the constitutionality of the charter may be decided with the least possible delay. The Case in a Nutshell. Mr. Ross, as trustee, brought suit In the United States Court to restrain the Chief of Police from selling the Marquam Grand Theater and adjacent property to pay an assessment for the Improvement of Sixth street, on the ground that the as sessment was void under the rule laid down by the Supreme Court of the United States in the Norwood case. City Attor ney Long demurred to the complaint on the ground that It did not state facts suffi cient to constitute a cause of action. The demurrer was to have been argued yesterday. The case did not come up formally, but the court permitted Mr. Long, for the city, and E. B. Seabrook, for complainant, to explain their positions. Mr. Long said the complaint did not show that complainant was assessed In excess of benefits, and he had to show some actual damage before he could have a standing In court. Judge Bellinger said he would over rule the demurrer on the ground that the rule of assessment provided by the char ter was absolutely vicious and any as sessment under it was void. He said he would hear argument on other points In the case hereafter. In overruling the de murrer, the Court followed, all the Fed eral courts In their Interpretation of the Norwood case, and acted in direct oppo sition to the Supreme Court of Oregon. The facts In the Norwood case, however, were In "Connection with the right of emi nent domain, but all the lower Federal courts have made it apply to street as sessments as well. A number of cases decided on .this line have been appealed to the United States Supreme Court, and It is likely that the rulings of the lower courts may be reversed. Injustl.ee Pointed Out. The city has had full notice of the al leged defect In the charter rule for mak ing assessments, which Judge Bellinger has characterized as "absolutely vicious," and a provision curing it was contained In the charter bill passed by the late Legis lature and vetoed by Governor X3eer, and the new Charter Commission Is fully ad vised In the matter. The alleged vicious rule In the charter consists In the man ner provided for assessing the cost of Improving a street, or rather In apportion ing the cost among the property-owners tntfrp.qtpfl For Instance, If ji street Is nearly level and can be Improved at small I cost for half or more Its length, and within the other half there Is a big hill necessitating a deep cut, and a deep gulch requiring a big fill, the owners of property on the level part of the street can, by petition, force the owners on the other part of the street to make an Im provement. The law provides that each property-owner shall be assessed the cost of the Improvement In front of his own particular piece of property. It Is held by many that the Improvement of the whole street benefits all the property upon It in about the same proportion, but, ac cording to the present method of assess ing the cost of the Improvement, the property on the level escapes with a small assessment, while the property In front of which the big cut or big fill Is made Is virtually confiscated. In this city the views of property-owners In such cases are governed entirely by the situa tion of their property. Some officials who have had much to do with street assess ments have for several years past been urging the adoption of a new rule In re gard to proportioning the cost of Im provements. In the matter of constructing sewers. the rule Is different. In front of one piece of property a sewer may be 20 feet under ground, and In front of anotn er only 10 feet, but the cost Is appor tioned equally among the property-own- ers In proportion to the number or front feet they own, as all are equally bene fited. j. "City Attorney Long' Views. " -'' Discussing Judge- Bellinger's decision, City Attorney Long said: "The Ross case Is a suit brought to en Join the collection of an assessment against the Marquam building for the Improvement of, Sixth street with asphalt several years ago. The charter of 1S91 provided that each lot within the limits of a proposed street Improvement should be liable for the full cost of the Improve- .ment for one-half the distance across the, street; that Is, the cost was placed upon the adjacent property. The charter of 1S93, under which the Sixth-street Improve ment was made, contained this same provision. The same provision, though In more positive terms, Is contained In the charter of 1S9S. y "The plaintiff alleges in substance that a law which selects a.dlstrict and makes It liable for a given Improvement wlth out -taking Into "consideration" the ques .tion of benefits. Is void as being In con travehtloa with the fourteenth amendment .to the Constitution of the United States, which provides that no state 'shall de prive any person of life, liberty, or prop erty, without due process of law.' , "This question, so far as street Im provements are concerned, has been con sidered by ,the Supreme Court of the United States in the cases of Mattlngly vs. the District of Columbia (97 U. 3. G32), Bauman vs. Ross (167 U. S. 54S), and Walt son vs. Nevln (12S,U. S. 5S2). The right of the Legislature to select a district and authorize an assessment to be made against It for a given Improvement was sustained In all these cases, and was not questioned until" the 'case of Norwood vs. Baker (172 U. S. 269). which was decided In December, isas. In this case. Justice Harlan, In delivering the opinion of the court, held that the exaction from the owner of property of the cost of a public Improvement In substantial excess of the specified benefits Is the taking of pri vate property for public use without com pensation, and that an assessment which rested upon a basis which excluded conl slderatlon of benefits was illegal and void. From this decision three of the Justices dissented. "Cases Involving this same point of as sessment and this Norwood decision have been before several of our Federal and state courts. The Federal courts have quite uniformly held that all laws for street Improvement which created dis tricts and provided that costs should be assessed against the districts, without a saving clause that the assessment should be In proportion to the benefits and not In excess of them, were void as violating the fourteenth amendment. They based their authority solely on the decision In the case of Norwood vs. Baker. The state courts, with equal uniformity, except In the case of Texas, have distinguished such assessment laws from the Norwood decision and sustained them on the au thority of the Supreme Court rulings in the Mattingly, Waltson and Bauman cases. The Supreme Court of Oregon sus tained this method of assessment in the case of Shannon et al. vs. the City of Portland (62 Pacific Reports 50), holding that It did not appear upon the face of the proceeding or other competent show ing that there was substantial variation between the amount assessed as benefits for the same Improvement and the amount that could be assessed. It Is th duty of the courts, under the rules and authorities, to uphold assessments made under charters similar to ours. "Judge Bellinger followed the rule of the Federal courts In construing the case of Norwood against Baker, rather than the rule adopted by the state courts, and practically held the provisions" of the char ter under which the Sixth-street assess ment was made to be unconstitutional. "The effect of Judge Bellinger's de cision will be that street Improvements may be enjoined by any person who ob jects to them. This will practically sus pend all new street work until the Su preme Court of the United States shall pass upon the constitutionality of our charter. Just what effect the decision will have upon Improvements which are under way but uncompleted I am not prepared to say. I shall have to look carefully Into the matter before making a statement of the city's power to proceed with street improvements." 1 PLACE FOR BARRETT Appointed a Member of Pan American Commission. DECLINED BY PROF. NORTHROP The ex-Minister to Slam is AmbitiouH to Succeed Conger, but That Position Is Beyond His Reach WASHINGTON, April 18. The Washing ton Times says: "John Barrett ex-United States Min ister to Slam, was at the White House this morning; in company with Senator Hanna, and had a conference with the President. He would not state the pur pose of his visit, but Intimated that there would soon be an announcement made at the State Department, with which his name would be connected. It Is known that Mr. Barrett has for some time been seeking an appointment under the Administration, and it Is said that a foreign mission would be most agree able to him. In this connection It Ik re ported that Mr. Barrett would be pleased If he were made Minister to China to succeed Mr. Conger, and that. In fact, ho Is seeking that appointment. He believes that his experience In Slam and his know ledge of the Far East especially fit him for dealing with the weighty problems which are troubling the diplomats In Chi na. Mr. Barrett will not discuss this matter. When It was suggested to him to day that he might be made a Consul General at some foreign port, he spurned the suggestion and said: 'Why, sir, do you not know I have been United States Minister to Slam? "The Star says Barrett will accept the place on the Pan-American commission declined by Professor Northrop. When seen tonight, Mr. Barrett said he would accept the place, which, he continued was offered without solicitation on his part. He admitted that he- aspired to Conger's place In China, but seems to recognize that that position Is beyond his reach." "It has been my privilege to have trav eled extensively In Central and South America and fortunately I have a knowl edge of Spanish acquired In the Phllll plnes," said Mr. Barrett. Another point that has weighed with me In accepting thl3 responsibility Is the fact that up to the time of my appointment the Pacific Coast had no representative In this dele gation. Our Pacific States have perhaps greater interests In the development of closer commercial and political relations with the Central and South American countries than any portions of the. XfaV'4 States." RAIDS IN NEW YORE. The Committee of Fifteen Captured ati. Aldermun. NEW YORK, April IS. The committee of 15 made another move tonight In Its campaign against the alleged disorderly places of this city. A few minute be fore midnight, agents of the committee, sent out under orders of Superintendent John McCullogh, appeared at various po lice stations with bundles of warrants for the arrest of a large number of per sons. The captains at once detailed squads to accompany tho 'committeemen and In a short time 10 places had bem raided. The proprietor In most cases or his manager, a bartender or two and In some Instances a doorkeeper were ar rested. Every place visited was thronged with men and women. The biggest catch, perhaps, was Alder man Frederick F. Flechk, whose place, the Manhattan Music Hall,, on the Bow ery, was raided. The charge against the Alderman was maintaining a disorderly house. SUMMARY OF IMPORTANT NEWS. Philippines. MacArthur reports on the Army soandal at Manila. Page 1. The Thirty-third and Thirty-fourth Velunteera were mustered out at Ban Frdnalsao. Base 1. Manila clergymen protest against oooknghtlng. Page 1. General Bates. Halt and Grant will return to the United States. Pane 1. China. Tho burning of the- Pekln palace may prevent the return, of the court- Pajra 2- The body of General Schwartzenkop was re covered. Page 2. Foreign. The budset statement was read In tho House of Commons. Pago 2. It provides new taxes of 11,000,000. Page 2. Tho Chancellor asks to borrow 00,000,000. Page 2. The budget statement was fairly well reeelved In England. Page 2. Domestic. John Barrett accepts a place on the Pan-American Commission. Paga 1. There will be no strike at the sheet-steel plants. Page 3. The sale of the Burlington la officially an nounced. Page 3. Captain Carter's lawyer wants tho SoIIaKor Qeneral's brief stricken from the, Supreme Court flies. Page 3. Pacific Const. Post Falls. Idaho, saloon was wrecked and an. ex-saloon man treated to bad eggs. Page 4. Local company Is being formed to bare fer oil In heart of Salem. Page 4. Case of man mjsterloualy murdered at Gem, Idaho. Is In hands of Jury. Page 4. The beginning of Oregon was dtsaused at the Clatsop County Teachers' Institute. Page 10. North Pacific Board of Missions will hoW Its next annual meeting In Portland. Page 3. Commercial. New York stock market transactions. Page 11. Domestic and foreign commercial quotations. Page 11. Portland market quotations. Page 11. Marine. Steamship Saint Bede clears for the far Bast with big lumber cargo. Page 5. Portland has cleared an average of one for eign cargo per day since April 1. Remarkable speed of the British ship Talus. Page 5. Mystery of Clatsop Beach salmen explained. Page 5. ' Portland and Vicinity. Decision In United States Court whleh may hold up all street improvements. Page 1. Big rush to pay 6Id taxes. Page 12. Gilbert Dalglelsh dead. Page 7. Port of Portland Invites suggestions far a dry dock. Page 12. Spring meeting of golf club opens at Waverly . links. Page 8. Striking saddlers make a statement. Page 12. I