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Berber's reported 'belief that the President is making votes for the socialists probably flows more di rectly from his wishes than from his logical thought. Socialism has no more determined or effective enemy than Mr. Roosevelt. The doctrine which it con demns most bitterly is the heart of his economic creed, and the social system which it would destroy he labors to sup ply with new and enduring foundations. Mr. Berger Is correct enough in his re mark that Mr. Roosevelt has borrowed, or at any rate practices, some of the socialistic canons of criticism. He agrees with the followers of Marx in Ills hatred of injustice and in the thorough-going belief that wrong Is not made more excusable by the wealth or ipower of the delinquent. Ho perceives as clearly as thoy do that many things are out of Joint In our civilization, that the man who works with his hands does not in general receive a fair re turn for his effort, while many who do not work at all enjoy a monstrously disproportionate share of the world's advantages and comforts. No socialist can be more deeply impressed than Mr. Roosevelt with the hatefulness of par tial laws and a justice whose balance always inclines to the side of riches or can rebel more hotly against the "op pressor's wrong, the proud man's con tumely and the spurns that patient merit from the unworthy takes." But the socialists have no monopoly of the aversion to Iniquity and the love of righteousness. These sentiments are common to all men of sane minds and sound hearts. Kail Marx did not Invent them nor are his disciples the only men who cherish and practice them. No modern has expressed them more adequately than the Jewish prophet. Byron and Shelley made them tn theme of their song, though neither of these poets ever heard of socialism. Thomas Carlyle. an individ ualist of the Individualists, to whom democra-y was an abomination and parliamentary government the extrem ity of folly, nevertheless preached the gospel of equal law and economic Jus tice with it potency that no writer has ever surpassed and few have paral leled. No man ever saw more clearly than the great Scotch philosopher the evil of parasitic wealth or denounced it more fearlessly, while upon the .con spiracy of privilege to rob the poor he poured out vials of flaming wrath. There is no thoughtful man who has not pondered it and no Just man -who has not striven to solve the rroblem it presents. In his proposed solution Mr. Roose velt differs radically from the socialists. They believe that the problem must baffle us so long as the present eco nomic organization of society persists. To them the array of capital and labor Jn ranks which may oppose one an other necessarily engenders strife. They Jlold fhat the ownership by individuals of the implements wherewith the masses of men must earn their living makes the worker a slave and the owner a tyrant whether he will or not. Our present economic system is to the socialist concrete Injustice from which, as from an exhaust less source, flow all the woes of the world. Therefore he would destroy it. He believes In revo lution, the complete destruction of the old and the erection from Its ruins of a new and better world. On the other hand. Mr. Roosevelt does not believe that the system Itself is wrong. The ground of his criticism is that unessential evils have grafted themselves upon wfcat is in Itself wholesome. These evils, he thinks, can e lopped off as the orchardist prunes the wayward shoots from his tree, leaving the trunk with its desirable branches, to blossom and hear the fruits of the higher civilization. Between de struction and reformation there is no kinship. Mr. Roosevelt would correct our economic evils; socialism would lay the ax to the root of the system itself. Should the President accomplish what Ji" has undertaken he would make so cialism a fatuity. He would leave it hanging In the air without excuse for Icing. The very cause of its existence he is laboring to annihilate. Strangely perverted, therefore, is the mind which can believe that he is aiding it. The socialist wishes to abolish competitive industry. Mr. Roosevelt wishes to set it upon a foundation which shall en dure forever. The "beneficiaries of abuses shriek that his work is revolu tionary. So, doubtless, does the wolf when the shepherd drives him from the flock. But those who can seo clear ly and reason correctly know that Mr. Roosevelt is one of the most truly con servative men in the world. He applies the knife, but he applies it to heal, not to slay. His wounds to our economic organizalton are the faithful ones of Its best friend. The labors of the President are di rected to preserve competitive industry, because he believes in it. To his mind competition is the source of the most part of what is noble in our civiliza tion. He is convinced that it is, in the main, a wholesome process, good in its effects upon individual character and uplifting to the world in general. Mod ern life is built upon competition, and Mr. Roosevelt holds to the opinion that this is a stable foundation. Here .nd there it is somewhat decayed, but the weakness is not beyond resaedy. He wishes to make competition fair and manly. He wishes to restore commer cial honor and make business adjust itself to the laws of ethics. Socialism wishes to eradicate competition from the world because to the follower of Marx it is an unmingled evil and the direful spring of woes unnumbered. Is it not strange, therefore, that a sincere thinker like Mr. Victor L. Berger should see in the President a friend, though an unconscious one, to social ism? The truth is that the. triumph of Mr. Roosevelt's ideas will destroy the last hope of economic revolution. When there is nothing to complain of in the organization of society there will no longer be a motive for attacking It. TN LIEU OF A SPEECH. Although he declines to make a speech to the Illinois Manufacturers' Association, Mr. Roosevelt does not leave those excellent men altogether without consolation. He is like the preacher who, unable to be presejit at a sickbed in person, sends a tract. , Tho President, in fact, tempers his refusal to make a speech upon the railroad question by forwarding copious and ju diciously chosen extracts from his pre vious deliverances. In reading these rather extend ed fragments from Mr. Roosevelt's speeches and messages dealing with the railroad situation one Is, upon the whole, impressed with their exceeding moderation. He takes pains to reiter ate his wish to be perfectly fair both to the railroad and to the public. He insists upon a square deal for the mil lionaire as well as for the poor man. 'He asserts that he wouldi discharge a public official who discriminated against the railroads just as quickly as one who favored them improperly. The general tone of the extracts is one of cautious impartiality. But with all his fairness the Presi dent is uncompromising upon three points. He insists squarely that there ought to be legislation which will regu late the railroads and compel them to treat all their patrons alike; that the offlcers of the' Government shall have ample authority to enforce the law; and that the companies shall not be permitted to issue stock whose value is fictitious. This is the full extent of Mr. Roosevelt's great ''hostility" to the railroads. When the courts compel a man to obey the law or go to jail, do we say that they are hostile to him? The President has never shown the slightest enmity to the railroads. He has opposed nothing but the misdeeds of those who mismanaged them to the in Jury not only of the public, but of the companies themselves. The fact that they can no longer borrow money at favorable rates shows from what pos sible depths of rutn the President has saved them by calling a halt before it was too late. This cautious and entire ly friendly policy of, Mr. Roosevelt's Is what some of the plutocratic Eastern papers, In the frenzy of their hatred, call a "massacre of the railroads." Those same papers have as yet given no name to Mr. Harriman's railroad performances. OREGON .METHODS IN OTHER STATES. The demand for the initiative and ref erendum is springing up in widely-scattered fields. In the possibilities in volved in this method Is discerned a promise to make good the boast of "a government for and by -the people" which Is attractive to the masses. It Is, briefly, a movement to secure a sys tem of direct legislation in the interest of the people) rather than of the politi cians and office-holding contingent. Oregon has taken the lead among the states that have established the refer endum system without reserve. Fol lowing this state are South Dakota, Il linois. Texas, Montana and Nevada, in which this system has been established wholly or partly, while bills looking to this purpose are being considered In many of the Northern States and in Virginia and Tennessee. The Pittsburg Leader notes the fact that this system, as applied to cities and boroughs, is occupying the atten tion of those who are opposed to boss rule in Pennsylvania. That state is too old to inaugurate a sudden change in a political system. Its present lawmak ing methods, than which none are more corrupt, have grown with the growth and strengthened with the strength of the commonwealth, until they are a veritable part of its existence. A sweeping law covering the entire state, menacing its political intrigues and threatening to abolish its time honored official perquisites and extrav agances, could not be passed by a Pennsylvania legislative body. Hence it is proposed to apply the referendum to the boroughs and cities at first, in the belief that its practical workings In these restrk'ted ltes will soon con vince voters that It will be a good thing for the whole state and cause the principle of direct legislation to be in corporated Into Its fundamental law. Both parties in Maine are pledged to a constitutional amendment for the ini tiative and referendum, and already steps are being taken looking to that end. Taking a long stride westward, it is found that the constitution of Okla homa provides for it; that in Michigan the Patrons of Husbandry and the State Federation of Labor are working for the measure; that a referendum bill is pending both in Minnesota and: Wis consin, with even- prospect that it will become a law, while the Legislature of Ohio, which will meet next year. Is pledged to submit a constitutional amendment of like intent to the vote of the people. The movement may not In the end prove to be a wise one. but it is an earnest one. gathering momentum as it proceeds. Theoretically the power, in a republican form of government, rests with the people. It remains to be seen whether in reducing this theory to practice throughout the entire country the best interests of the people will be served. THE Mi:w RIND OF BOY AND GIRL. A young man Idle, with no Incentive to work because his father's official po sition and perquisites furnish means for a life of indolence and dissipation, will not, in the very nature of things, develop the sturdy qualities that en able young manhood to rise superior to any adverse vicissitude of ordinary life. His whole reliance is upon "gun play" when disappointment overtakes him, and, if this disappointment comes in the way of a so-called blighted af fection, at least one other besides him self is more than likely to be the target of his uncontrolled passion. The Philadelphia Record recently spoke of the characteristics of "The New Kind of Boy" the lad who whips out his gun when subjected to school discipline, hangs himself in the bam rather than suffer the humiliation of doing an errand for his father, or drinks carbolic acid in his bedroom when his mother scolds him for coming into the house without wiping the mud off his shoes. If the "new kind of boy" escapes these desperate straits through paren tal indulgence which old-fashioned folk called "humoring him," he comes up to a flabby young manhood. Incapable of standing the first strain that a com mon vicissitude of life places upon his weak fiber. It is no wonder that he does not value his life, since it is, as he has ordered it, or as it has been ordered for him, so utterly worthless. In his own words, there is "nothing in it," and the chief wonder is that, with his undeveloped sense of responsibility, he sees and acknowledges a fact so patent to everybody else. And when, accord ing to the law of natural selection, this flaccid young fellow becomes Infatu ated with a "new kind of a girl" 1. e., a girl without home duties and r.est less of parental restraint it is not sur prising that something out of the or derly run of modest courtship and hon orable marriage happens. The. flame between the two. blown by the hot breath of folly, may last until a cere mony called marriage is performed; but, while this suffices to delay the tragic termination of the association of two unstable creatures, it is by no means certain to forestall It. The "fellow" is one of those, unfortunately too com mon in the walks of an idle, aimless existence, whom a woman can neither live with nor get away from. Whether she attempts to escape from association with him before marriage or after, the result Is the same the pistol records it. An exhibit of this phase of life on both sides of the matrimonial line has been made within a few days, the one on the thither side in Oregon City, where the wrath of the "fellow" in cluded his father-in-law In its mur derous purpose and snuffed out three lives, including his own, and one on the near side, of more recent occur rence in this city, wherein a single mur der and suicide completed the list of results. As long as the "new kind of boy" is developed in the home, either through pampering or neglect, and the "new kind of girl" comes forward in ignorance and thoughtlessness, or in defiance of parental authority, to meet him, the community will be startled at intervals by the sharp report of pistol shots, as the sequel and the sad de tails of disordered lives will be re hearsed to Coroners' juries. The hope of the Nation is in the boy Who early learns to pay His cheerful, self-reliant way. and comes up into young manhood with a purpose to be and to do that no disappointment can daunt; and in the girl who, taking lesson in the simple industries of home life from her mother, comes up to young womanhood with the sincere desire and ability to man age as a true helpmeet a home of her own. The fact that this hops is rein forced toy tens of thousands of girls and boys coming up into young womanhood and young manhood and by other mul titudes who have reached these last es tates and are entering upon life duties well equipped to withstand its disap pointments and close with its oppor tunities, makes the gunplay which is the resort of the "new kind of boy" an incident In community life that startles for a time but is quickly forgotten. RAILROADS AND RIVERS. One of the greatest benefits that may be expected to result from the discon tinuance of freight rebates and dis criminations will be in the encourage ment of river traffic. Steamboats have been unable to compete with the rail roads in a great many places for the reason that, where a railroad parallels a river and a steamboat company un dertakes to compete, the road will cut rates until it drives the boat off the river and then the rates will be ad vanced again. In some instances the railroads have not reduced rates gen erally to compete with the boats, but have given special rates or rebates to those patrons whose business was likely to go to the boats unless a reduction was granted. Boats could not survive that sort of competition. , Under the new order of things the railroads must make the same rates for all, and must not change them when ever a boat goes on or ofT a river. Knowing this, a man or company de siring to engage in river transportation will know just what competition he will have to meet. The railroads will know that If they expect to keep boats off a river they must make rates low enough, and for all patrons, so that boats can not make a profit. Of course there are some classes of business that the rail roads will retain regardless of river competition, such as passenger traffic, express business and freight business where time is an element. It takes comparatively little capital to engage in river transportation. There is no roadbed to construct or maintain. With the rivers Improved, as they will be under the new policy of the Govern ment, and with railroad freight rates fixed for all on the same terms, there would be encouragement for establish ment of river competition. But such competition cannot be had where a railroad company owns the competing river transportation system, as is the case on the Willamette. For a railroad company to own a competing river system is contrary to public inter est and should be prohibited by law. On the Willamette River the Harriman lines control the river traffic. If an other boat should go on the river, rates would be cut until the competitor would be driven out of business, and then the rates would be advanced again. Gov ernment ownership of the locks at Ore gon City will open the river to all boats without payment of lockage charges, but it will not relieve the monopoly of river traffic maintained by a company strong enough to carry freight free. If necessary to bankrupt a rival. The power of the Railroad Commission over Taihoad rates, and the prohibitive provisions concerning rebates and dis criminations, should be extended so as to cover water transportation, and then ownership of a competing river system by a railroad company should be made unlawful. There can be no objection to a railroad owning a river system as an extension of its rail sys tem, but ownership of a competing line is a different matter. EAST" FOR THE BEER DRINKER. There is consternation in the ranks of dispensers of. poor liouors. At least there ought to be, so there probably is. They are about to be found out. Even the detective methods of a Heney and a Burns are surpassed In the scheme that has been devised by which any man may determine whether the liquor dealer who sells him booze is giving him a square deal. It is as simple as adding two and two. For the informa tion that enables them to detect im purities in beer, the drinking people of the country are indebted to Chief Wiley, of the Bureau of Chemistry, the Department of Agriculture, at Wash ington, who not only tells how the sim ple test may be made, but specifies the apparatus needed in making tho test In disseminating this information, the learned chief has shattered one of the strongest arguments against the con sumption of liquor. Without going into details as to methods of procedure, it is only necessary to set forth a list of the implements needed for the test, and when these have been procured, the beer drinker will readily perceive how they should be used: The chemical apparatus needed Is merely a round-bottomed distillation flask, a gram of precipitate calcium carbonate, a condenser, an accurately graduated stoppered flask, a two-holed rubber stopper, an adapter, a small funnel, a pound of glass beads, a copy of Squibb's alcohol table, a copy of Baumhauer's tables, one Zeiss Immer sion refractonemeter, a platinum dish, one water oven, one copy beer wort tables, one package neutral litmus pa per, a small quantity of phenolphtha lein, a bottle of hydrochloric acid, one polariscope, a beaker, a solution of so dium acetate, one burette, one centri fuge, one platinum crucible, a glass plate, a cake of camauba wax, a point ed piece of ivory and a sheet of pure rubber. The tendency of the pendulum repre senting public opinion to swing too far the other way when rudely jostled by events shocking to the mOral and finan cial sense is illustrated by the fact that nearly 300 bills dealing with Insurance have been or are still pending before tho Legislatures of thirty-two states. Ex-President Cleveland recently noted this phase of present-day tendencies and deplored the unreasonable condi tions that are embodied in many of the proposed measures. When the gathered rage of years bursts forth in an hour, mild measures of reform are not the immediate results. The pendu lum rights itself in time, however, and a moderate movement follows. This will be the case in the insurance busi ness after the storm of public wrath has expended itself. The same may be said of the railway legislation that has been provoked by a long era of graft and corporate greed. These things right themselves in due time. Helping the development of a city of which it is justly proud by getting out one of the cleanest and best papers in Oregon, the Gilstraps, of the Eugene Register, have Just added to the debt their city and county owe by present ing a 56-page industrial edition, the arrival of which (somewhat delayed) is hereby acknowledged. The annual is in book form, and tells of the glories and possibilities of the university town and Lane County. The many topics and subjects are well handled, and the illustrations are great. Nothing so fixes a thing as a picture, and in this respect the Register's efforts will bring results. A feature of the issue is a panoramic view of Eugene, show ing the classical town and its sur roundings. The advantages of dwell ing therein are so well set forth that a great influx of immigration need occasion no wonder. The public having donated a sum suf ficient to build a magnificent building for the Young Men's and Young Women's Christian Associations, now awaits with interest and with some speculation concerning men and mo tives the selection of a suitable site at a price governed by the spirit that per vaded the givers of the fund. Good, honest values, not speculative prices, should govern the amount asked and paid for the site of a building which represents much self-sacrifice and will be dedicated to the uses of humanity and Christian endeavor. Holders of available quarter blocks near the busi ness center of the city will doubtless take these things into consideration before announcing their -prices. So many strawberry plants have been shipped from Hood River this season that the Glacier is alarmed and calls a halt, saying those plants should be set out at home. Yet the Hood River berry grown anywhere in Oregon will taste Just as good that Is, almost. Hood River wants glory and all, and comes mighty near getting it. Salem, Eugene. Pendleton, Baker and other cities warming up on the paving question will do well to turn down the Good Intentions Company, which has a huge contract already. t Pierpont Morgan's dickering for a famous collection of Dutch relics, to cost $1,200,000, may be taken as good evidence that he has no fear of a manufactured panic. One turn more of the jaekscrew un der the price of slabwood will drive Portland to Importing coal. Let the greedy dealers take notice. No industrious citizen maintaining strict independence need be wholly without free cigars until the June elec tion is over. No extortion falls so heavily on the wage-earners of Portland as the out rageously high price now demanded for slabwood. Let us hope that April, unlike March, may fulfill the promise made yesterday of genuine Spring. If Chicago gives Hearst a solar plexus blow today, will he still keep in the game? Young James made It unnecessary to put up a plea of brain storm in his be half. The Republican elephant is big enough, thank goodness, to -carry Taft, PKOOF LAW IS VIOLATED Many Violations of 28-Honr Law for Stock. OREGONIAN NEWS BUREAU. Wash ington April 1. Solicitor McCabe of the DeDartment of Agriculture has been quietly gathering evidence against West ern railroads that have Ignored the law 1 of last Congress requiring them in trans- portation of livatock to unload the stock at least once every 2S hours for rest. food and water. Apparently the law has been generally disregarded, for Mr. McCabe today submitted to the Attorney- General evidence of eight violations by the Great Northern, ten by the North ern Pacific. 36 by the Bflrllngton and 58 bv the Rock Island road, in addition to others not enumerated. In most of these cases the evidence was cathered by agents of the Govern ment who actually traveled on stock trains and have personal knowledge of violations. The roads. If convicted, are liable to a fine of $500 for each offense. No particulars about cars are given. New Washington Postmasters. OREGONIAN NEW 8 BUREAU. Wash ington. ADril 1. Washington postmasters appointed: Kenno, August Schrag, vice J. R. Schrag, resigned; Seabeck, Albert L. Hotchkin, vice H. M. Prosch, resigned. BODY ALIVE WITH GERMS. Woman, Apparently Well, Has Been Spreading Disease for Years, NEW YORK, April 1 A puzzling case is under observation in the Reception Hos pital in this city. The patient is a wo man, a cook, apparently in perfect health, but who is detained because sie is suspect ed of communicating typhoid to about 25 persons within the past six years. Ac cording to Dr. Walter Benzel, the sani tary superintendent of Manhattan, the woman Is literally a living typhoid fac tory. She herself was stricken with the disease about six years ago. It ran the usual course, and she recovered. Now It is found that in all the time since she was declared cured of typhoid she has kept on nurturing and developing typhoid germs. Though herself immune, the germs which she has been developing have been a constant source of danger and contagion to all with whom she has come In contact. m 'The Lord only knows what we canBdo with the w-oman," said Dr. Benzel. "We will keep her under, observation and will certainly employ every means known to science to locate and destroy the culture group of germs which persist In lingering In her anatomy." plnsnieiOTl wns aitrntpt n thft xvnman fas typhoid invariably appeared in families where she was employed, and when she was taken to the hospital the suspicion was confirmed through culture tests. Voliva Issues Ultimatum. CHICAGO. April 1, Wilbur Glenn Vollva Issued an ultimatum in Zlon City yesterday. Unless the people submit to him by May 1 he will take radical action himself, he said. Vollva denounced everyone who has opposed him. He took as the occasion for his ultimatum the an niversary of his ejection of John Alex ander Dowie trom the church, having ex pelled the late leader one year ago yes terday. "I say to you, offlcers and people, that one month more I will give you," he said. "On May 1. if you do not make a radical move, I shall make one, and put a stop to this criticism of me." He then recited his own deeds, claim ing he had made Zlon what it was. He also said he would make the community the wonder of the age, and set it strongly on its feet financially. Of the 1500 per sons present 1200 said they would follow him. Found Hospital on Mount Olivet. JERUSALEM, April 1. The foundation stone of the new German Hospital upon the Mount -of Olives, was laid yesterday in the presence of the Governor of Jeru salem, the other local officials and many spectators, to tho accompaniment of cheers for Emperor "William and for the Sultan of Turkey, who gave the land and authorized the construction of the hos pital. Dr. Dryander, the court chaplain of Berlin, represented Emperor William, and Baron von Mirbach represented the Em press. Dr. Dryander. read a telegram from the Emperor greeting the Germans, the local authorities and the representa tives of other nations and faiths, who at tended the ceremony and Invoked the blessing of the Almighty upon the hos pital. Favrot Murder Charge Dropped. NEW ORLEANS, April 1. Inability on the part of a juror to read and write the English language has resulted In quashing the indictment against Congressman-elect George F. Favrot, charged with the murder of Dr. Aldrich in Baton Rousre last Autumn. In the District Court a demurrer to the indictment was sustained on the ground that one mem ber of the jury, an Italian, could neither read nor write English. The state ap pealed to the Supreme Court which af firmed the decision of the lower court. Labor Law Is Sustained. COVINGTON, Ky.. April 1. Judge Cochran of the Federal Court today up held the law prohibiting common carriers from discriminating against labor organi zations. The case in point Is that of William Adair, master mechanic of the Louisville & Nashville Railroad, who was indicted for discharging O. P. Coppage, a member of the Brotherhood or Locomo tive Firemen. A demurrer to the indict ment filed by Adair on the ground of un constitutionality was overruled by the court. Firemen's Fund Reorganized. SAN FRANCISCO. April 1. The final step in the rehabilitation and reorgani zation of the old Fireman's Fund In surance Company was taken today. The entire outstanding business of the Firemen's Insurance Fund Corporation has been reinsured and assumed by the old company, which starts again with a paid-up capital of $1,600,000 and gross assets of over $5,500,000. having set tled its San Francisco losses. Back Crushed by Boat. EUGENE, Or.. March 1. Omar Wis dom, a young man about 24 years of age, while stepping from the steamer Hazel to the wharf at Nellson's place, seven miles below Mapieton, on the Sluslaw River. Friday, slipped and fell and was crushed between the boat and the wharf. Hfs back was broken, and he is not expected to recover. Red Tape Blocks Kaiser's Charity. BERLIN? April 1. According to the Berliner Zeitung. the Kaiser has only just received an acknowledgment of a check he sent to aid the sufferers by the dynamite explosion at Witten four months ago. Investigation showed that during the four months the money had passed from one official to another and had only just reached the sufferers. Puts Subordinate In Command. LALLA MARIN I A, Algeria, April 1. In view of the satisfactory condition prevailing In the Oudja region. General Llautey. commander of the French col umn of occupation, has decided to turn over the command of Oudja to General Delanneau and return to his regular du ties at Oron. He will leave Oudja tomorrow. OX WARPATH Raid Servian Villages, Burning. Kill, ing and Maltreating Natives. BELGRADE, April 1. It is reported here that a band of Bulgarians has attacked the old Servian towns of Rudntu and Topolocha, burning 31 houses, killing seven men and maltreating a number of women and children. Increasing bitterness is being displayed here toward the Bulgarians, owing to the belief that, while the powers have called the attention of the governments of Servia and Greece to the atrocities per petrated by Servian and Greek bands, thev have made no protest to the Bul garian government against the actions of Bulgarian bands. RUSSIA REVISES PROGRAMME Still Negotiates Regarding Anna, incut Debate at The Hague. BERLIN, April 1. The Russian Gov ernment has submitted to the principal powers a revised program of subjects to be discussed at. the proposed peace con ference at The Hague. Correspondence in this connection between the Russian For eign Office and the Foreign Office of the powers continues, the object being to reach an agreement In advance of com municating with the minor Governments. Great Britain has not formulated a pre cise plan for the limitation of armaments and seems unwilling to do so. The precise position of Germany In this connection will not be disclosed until the program is finally decided upon, but the assertions made in London, that Germany will withdraw from the con ference rather than have the question of the limitation of armaments discussed are unfounded. The United States, It is understood, will reserve its decision regarding participa tion in a discussion of the armaments question, the general view at Washington being that as the United States is outside the European system, It is not in a posi tion to urge the continental powers to re duce their land armaments, while on the subject of naval armaments the authori ties at Washington appear to be Indis posed to cease their development. TOWN WRECKED BY QUAKES American Missionaries Suffer Ter ribly by Shock In Armenia. CONSTANTINOPLE. April 1. The re port that a severe earthquake, accompa nied by loss of life, has occurred at Blt 11s. Turkish Armenia, appears to be con firmed, but the number of deaths is un known. Beyond a brief message from the missionaries at Bitlls, reporting that the town is badly damaged, that they are homeless and that the people are encamped in the snow, which in places is 25 feet deep, no news of the disaster has reached this city. LONDON, April LT-The situation of Bitlis. which is built on a rocky slope with houses constructed of stone, having flat, earthen roofs, causes fear that a great amount of damage haB been done. According to advices received in New York from W. W. Peet, treasurer of the American mission at Constantinople, the Americans and their people in the missions at Bitlls have been rendered homeless, the snow In the vicinity be ing 26 feet deep. Assistance was urg ently requested. According to the records available, the Rev. Royal M. Cole. Lizzie Cole, Dr. H. L. Underwood, Charlotte Ely and Mary A. Cely of the Eastern Turkish Mission are at Bitlls and Miss Nellie A. Cole, who had not been appointed a missionary, was working in co-operation with the mis sionaries of the American Board. The station at Bitlis was established in 1859. GRISCOM'S HOME IS BURNED Ambassador to Rome Suffers In Fighting Flames. ROME, April 1. While Lloyd C. Gris com, the American Ambassador, and Mrs Griscom were returning from the Easter services at the American church yester day they saw smoke rising from the roof of their home, the Palazzo del Drago. Mr. Griscom hurriedly entered the building and round the servants were unaware that the palace was on fire. The Ambassador led the way to the attic. Flames burst forth as he opened the door and burned his hands and singed his eyebrows. When the firemen arrived the beams, which were put in place cen turies ago, were burning briskly. The roof over the attic collapsed, causing the center portion of the ceiling of the mag nificent ballroom to fall. The furniture and paintings were quick ly removed, but not before several of the latter, notably one of President Roosevelt, were damaged. After working two hours the firemen succeeded in cheeking the blaze. The loss is estimated at 110,000 and is covered by insurance. Woman Dead; Husband Gone. CHICAGO. April 1 Mrs. Sarah Graff, of 446 West Harrison street, was found dead In her bed today with a deep gash in her right temple. The floor and tho bed clothing were spattered with blood. The police are looking for the woman's hus band, who they believe killed her with an ax, which was found In the kitchen. According to the police, Graff returned home last night under the influence of liquor and, it is said, quarreled with his wife. The murder was discovered by an 18-year-old son. THE HAVEN Bl'LGARl ANS SAI.EM TO OWN WATER SYSTEM Council Takes t"p Matter at Request of Mr. Haas. SALEM. Or.. April 1. (Special.) At tonight's session of the Council the Initial step was taken for the city to build Its own waterworks. Alderman Haas Introduced a resolution requiring the Mayor to appoint a committee of three to investigate other sources than the Willamette Biver to supply water to the city, also the expense of building and equipping a city waterworks plant. The committee Ttamed consists of Haas. Low and Radcllff. Following the ordinance passed at the lust session to pave State street, the paving craze struck the board to night and a dozen resolutions to im prove and pave streets were Introduced and referred to the street committee. The Council had a strenuous debate on the subject of buying a roadgrader and finally passed the resolution, pro viding for the purahase of a suitable grader, not to cost more than $30.1. HAS HER HUSBAND ARRESTED Seattle Woman Then Leaves Town With Another Man. SEATTLE. Wash.. April 1. (Special. 1 Mrs. Demras Lakton today betrayed her husband to the police as a Russian bomb thrower, the "only one of nine who es caped after being sentenced to hang.'' Once he was within the power of the po lice, she made hum-led arrangements with a paramour to flee from Seattle. At the last moment she repented long enough to hurry to a priest and confess that her story was false, then she left town with the other man. Before the immigration officers, who had been given the case, could release Lakton, his wife had fled. The police had an official letter from Aberdeen, where the woman had spread a similar story to convince them that her fale was true. SAILORS GIVEN AX ADVANCE New Schedule on Puget Sound Went Into Effect Yesterday. SEATTLE, Wash.. April L (Special.) Sailors on the coastwise trade out of Pu get Sound were granted the following wage schedule, effective today: 8allors, CO per month; firemen, $55; coal passers, $45; carpenters, $55; donkeymen, $56; boat swains, $S5; messmen, $4- This is a uniform advance of $6 per month for each class of sailors and will affect all the steamship crews traveling either to California or Alaska points. A demand for this increase was made by the men four months ago. TH first vessel to sign a crew at the new wage schedule was the steamer Janie. on the Alaska trade, which took a crew this morning. NEWSPAPER MAX GOES BAD Gets 21 Months In Pen for Forging Check for $6 3. SPOKANE. Wash., 'April 1. (Spe cial.) Howard Mantell, alias John R. Graham, a newspaper man, who at va rious times has been employed on Se attle. Portland, San Francisco and Los Angeles newspapers, was sentenced to 21' months in the penitentiary today upon entering a plea of guilty to for gery. He forged the name of William Watson to a bogus check for $63. and passed it at the Hotel Victoria, during the hearing of the Spokane rate case before the Interstate Commerce Com mission two months ago. He reported that hearing for a Portland paper and was temporarily employed on a local paper. MURDERED FOR HIS MONEY. Brutal Crime Discovered on Mon tana Farm No Clew. BUTTE, Mont., April L A Miner spe cial from Billings says: The body of an unknown man, who had to all appearances been brutally mur dered, was found today on the ranch of John McConnell, seven miles west of this city. The body was badly cut and gashed by knife wounds and a heavy bloodstained club, which told Its mute story of the crime, lay nearby. The pock ets of the trousers were turned inside out and an empty money sack was found near the body, showing that the stranger had been murdered for his money. Mad Rush to Sell Land. SALEM. Or., April 1. (Special.) The special committee appointed by the State Land Board, consisting of Alder man Waldo and Railroad Commissioner Oswald West, for the purpose of select ing from numerous tracts offered for a suitable site for the proposed Institute for feeble-minded, have begun their examination of the mass of maps, plats and prices of the land offered, and to day announce that several owners now want to reduce the figures presented to the board.. The committee insists this must be done before April 10, bo they enn proceed in the matter of selection without again being held up. It is un derstood the propertyowners wislijng to reduce prices have learned of some low offers made by competitors. Asylum Board Buys Land. SALEM. Or., April 1. (Special,) The State Asylum Board this afternoon paid over $10,000 to Charles Riley and his wife and the deed was recorded covering 23 acreB and a fraction ad joining the asylum grounds, which was purchased by the members recently. OF REFUGE -From the Philadelphia Record. w