THE 3IORNIXG OREGOXIAN, 3IONDAT, JUNE 24, 1907. The Rug Sale Oriental Rugs of rare rich ness an3 beauty, on sale and display this week. A beauti ful collection of all the best weaves. Fanciers of rich floor coverings should, inves tigate. Costs nothing to ad mire, you know. . AGENTS FOR LADIES' HOME JOURNAL PA TTERNS LIDS " HIM, FIFTH STREET . WASHINGTON STREET SIXTH STREET Khaki Suiting Sold at the Lin e n Counter Mail Orders Promptly and carefully filled. Out-of-town customers invit ed to share in all the savings, and orders will have special attention. Any article on special sale sent at sale price, even tho' ordered at regular price. rnme& msx? Men's and Women's Shoes in a Whirlwind Sale TODAY, TUESDAY AND WEDNESDAY A seasonable sale, for the shoes offered are Summer styles. A sale that will ap peal to the men- and women who look well to the comfort and looks- of their feet. A sale full of tremendous values and it lasts THREE DAYS ONLY. BE HERE THE FIRST DAY. MEN'S SHOES Lot No. 1, from well known makers, lines- that we are discon tinuing and close out for much less than the regular value. Represented are styles from Slater & Morrill, McDonald & Kiley, J. E. Tibbetts, and Florsheim & Co. Shoes in many styles, oxfords and high shoes; come in patent leather or dull finish, and worth to $6.00 the pair; t Q QQ special -. MEN'S, MAILMEN'S AND POLICE MEN'S SHOES Seven -styles, shoes worth $5.00 at regular times ; O O Q special for this sale pJ.O7 MEN'S SHOES Lot No. 2, and in this lot -we put all of our regular $3.50 and $4.00 shoes. Select any shoe or oxford in our men's stock that sell regularly for $3.50 or $4.0,0, and 'twill cost you O J Q but pJ.l& This includes tan, patent leather and black leathers, and all sizes and lasts. MEN'S SHOES Lot 3, takes in all styles of high or low-cut shoes, patent or dull finish leathers, values that bring $3.00 to $3.50 regularly. Very spe- " O CQ cial for three days pi.JiJ MEN'S SHOES Lot 4 includes any man's shoe in the store that sells regularly for $2.50 ; take your pick of any 1 QJ2 of the regular $2.50 shoes for. V & WOMEN'S SHOE SPECIAL One thou sand pairs of white canvas oxfords, in tv;o different styles; one is in a plain toe, with medium heel and light soles; the other is a Blucher cut, with tip. Any and all sizes, and very popular G 1 9Q shoes, worth $1.75 pair, for. -7 WOMEN'S SHOES Lot 1 is divided into two parts one part the patent leathers and the other the dull leathers and suede finish shoes. The patent leathers we sell are making a reputation for us; seldom has a pair come back or a complaint. The dull leathers include gunmetal calf, royal kid, vici kid and demi-patents, as well as suede leathers in many colors. All the good styles of lasts, light or heavy soles, high t.r low heels, ..and anything wanted in shoes to be found in this lot; values to $5.00 the pair; $3 89 WOMEN'S SHOES Lot 2, Women's Pop ular Price Oxfords, in all leathers and styles, regular $3.50 and $4.00 grades. Patent leathers, gunmetal calf, demi-pat-ent and kid leathers. Come in button and lace styles ; with light or heavy-weight soles. Garden ties and pumps are also to be found in this lot. There are some pif.tly colored leather shoes here, too brown, tan, pink, blue, green and red. There are also canvas shoes of sea island cotton, values to. $5.00 the pair; choice WOMEN'S SHOES Lot 3 gives you choice of any taa or brown high shoe in the store for $3.19. Fine assortment; button or lace ; come in brown, tan, champagne, etc. ; light or heavy soles; regularly worth $3.50 to $5.00 ; special $,5 J G, WOMEN'S SHOES Lot 4, Women's regu lar $3.00 Shoes, with several lines of regn- $3.19 lar $3.50 shoes added. Wide choice as to stj'les and leathers; light or heavy soles; patent or black leather, also tan leather or white canvas. Oxfords that sell from $3.00 to $3.50; JQ special p.JZ WOMEN'S SHOES Lot 6, White Canvas Oxfords A lot that runs in value to $3.50. Come with light or heavy soles, high or medium heels, and in Gibson, Grecian or Blucher cut. WOMEN'S SHOES Lot 6, low Shoes, in patent and kid leathers, button or 'lace styles; four-button or with large eye lets for ribbon ties; many styles, all pat ent, all dull leather; patent leather with dull top. As good $3.00 shoes as you can find. Choice, the pair, $1 98 GARDEN TIES AND PUMPS; ALSO CAN.VAS SHOES, in colors, such as brown, tan, reseda, green and gray. Have covered or leather heels, and hef.vy or light, soles. Anything right in canvas shoes, worth up to $3.50, at this special sale price $1.98 NOW A SALE That OUTSHINES ALL OTHERS A On sale today and tomorrow. New models, every one of them. A splendid assortment, picked up by our Miss Bernard in New York while on her way to Europe. Suits that, were they bought at the regular prices, we should have to ask as high as $48.50 for. Some are sample suits that the traveling salesmen have used during the season (the garments that have the greatest care in making) ; some are surplus garments and some are cancellations, or goods that were ordered by other merchants and orders were cancelled. . We took an immense number of them. A large manufacturer had them on his hands and we got them at our own price. Made an offer for the entire lot, and when we told the maker that the offer was CASH, he let us make the price. That's why we took so many at this time of the year got them for so little that we knew we could sell all we could get. And now, beginning this morning and continuing till tomorrow night at 6 (if the suits last that long at this remarkably low price), we'll sell these splendid suits for the lowest price such good suits have ever brought. All good styles; Eton, Prince Chap and Jacket models. All new garments. O Q none on approval, none iaia asiae on part payment, and $10 none sent out on phone orders. First comers have large assortment to choose from .98 SPOKANE'S SIDE OF RATE FIGHT Wants Economic Advantages to Offset Natural Dis advantages. 1 BROOKS ADAMS' ARGUMENT Maintains That Hill Broke Promise and Railroads Now Hare East ern Washington Metropolis at Their Mercy. BPOKANEX Wash.. Juno 23. (Special.) "'Had James J. Hill In the Northwest ro- ! malned the agent of .the Government, en trusted with the administration of a great public work, be would have been a bene- factor to bli country and his age; as a sovereign he has proved a greedy des- j pot." i Brooks Adams, of Boston, counsel for ! the complainants in the Spokane rates case against the Hill and Harrlman lines, cnarging rate discrimination, emphasizes the foregoing words In closing his brief, submitted to the Interstate Commerce Commission, for final argument at Wash ington June 26. , The suit, the first instituted under the law enacted by the last Con gT ess and which applies to every inland city In the United States under the present system of rate-making, is In the name of the city of Spokane, the Spokane Charamer of Commerce, the Spokane Jobbers' Associ ation and the county of Spokane, peti tioners and compainants, against the Northern Pacific, the Great Northern, the Union Pacific, the Oregon Railroad & Navigation and the Spokane Falls & Northern Railway Companies. "Long List of Defendants. Other defendants by order of the Com - mission are: The Canadian Pacific, Chi cago, Burlington & Qulncy, Chicago & Northwestern, Lake Shore & Michigan Southern, New York Central & Hudson River, Pittsburg, Fort Wayne & Chicago, Pennsylvania, New York, New Haven & Hartford, and the Boston & Maine Rail way Companies. The Pacific Coast Job bers & Manufacturers' Association, Port land Chamber of Commerce, Merchants Protective Association of Seattle and the Tacoma Traffic Association are interven ers. The specific charge is that upon prac tically all the interstate and transconti nental traffic transported from points east of the State of Washington to the the city of Spokane the rates are equal to those made to Seattle, Tacoma and Portland, with difference in haulage of from 353 to 663 miles added plus an arbi trary rate back to Spokane. This means, according to figures from the railway companies' published tariffs, that the peo ple of Spokane are forced to pay about $2,000,000 a year more for their freight transportation than could be charged If the rates were equalized with those of the coast terminals. Railroads Linked to Sovereignty. Mr. Adams contends that when, in 1906, Congress empowered the Commission to fix reasonable railway rates, thereby reversing the construction which the Su preme Court of the United States had given to the statute of 1S87, regulating commerce, it was generally conceded that the United States bad entered upon a new era, adding: Th act of 106 about cl be construed In th light of the force that ma da It, and to comprehend the era we have entered we must seek the causes which produced the movement of which this act is the effect. Reduced to Us last analysis, I apprehend that the struggle, whose first phase ter minated with the enactment, approved June 20, 1006, touches the possession of the National sovereignty, for I take it to be demonstrable that he who controls a na tion's highways is that nation's sovereign. I suppose It will hardly be disputed that prior to 1006 the American people. In their corporate capacity, did not control their railways, and that the control of these highways rested with, a somewhat narrow class of capitalists. Following a lengthy exposition that sovereignty is Identical with the control of the National highways, Mr. Adams shows that by an almost unbroken line of decisions, by the foremost Jurists of America, beginning with that of Judge Shaw in 1842 in the case of the inhabitants of Worcester against the Western Rall Toad, has established that the railway corporation In the United States is an agent employed by the Government to construct and operate a public work In the nature of a railway. Great Northern Opening Wedge. Beglnlng with the entrance the Great Northern into the Northwest In 1892, when Mr. Hill, president of the company, prom ised the people of Spokane that If they would donate a right of way designated by him, his company would In turn give freight rates equal to or better than those to Puget Sound. Mr. Adams goes Into the purchase of the Northern Pacific and the Burlington systems, which, he de clares, followed in the wake of a long line of conspiracies to monopolize the trans portation system of the Northwest, which has since riveted the attention of the en tire United States. He then shows that, beginning with an original Issue of $20, 000.000 capital stock in 1890, this has been increased until at the present time there is $160,000,000 authorized capital stock, of which $149,546,050 is Issued. Of the total, 4S.NX).000 Is In property or treasury and $101,M,000 in other stocks. The brief adds; The Great Northern has, through stock privileges, actually divided approximately 30 i-er cent annually during the . last 13 years, and therefore It follows not only that the Judgment of W-all street Is Justified, but that something approaching J'JO.OOO.OOO of annual surplus Is proved. The Northern Pa cific shows an apparent surplus of $11.T3S,0S, or 7 57 per cent on a capital stock of $15,000.000. In addition to 7 per cent dividends, amounting to $10,$50,Ooo, for the year ended June 80, IPOS. To this surplus must be added S3, 801. 648, over charge from income to maintenance. The Burlington's surplus is given at $10,261,000, or $M. 637.000 for the three systems. Financial Reports Inconsistent. Mr. Adams says he fc convinced the fi nancial reports of the railroads have been drawn up with the purpose of con cealing profits, and that his estimate of j $04,000,000 probably falls below the real I figures. However, it serves to suggest ! what the exercise of the power of arbl- , trary taxation means In the hands of Ir responsible individuals. This country i -pays annually upward of $34,000,000 of tribute more than it lawfully should, to those who have reduced it to servitude. He-adds: The Income which the Great Northern claims a right to collect was reckoned upon a valuation, made by the official, so crude ly Inflated that the figures of Its quantities did not square with the official report sent to Uie Government. The valuation probably was 40 per cent too high. To manufacture their deficit they took $5,400,000 of the pubUo money lying In tnelr hands as a trustee and converted this to their own use by Investing It la their plant after due al lowance for depreciation bad been satisfied, j Mr. Adams continues the argument by , saying that to appreciate the significance of the conflict between the people of Spokane and the railway companies, which has now lasted more than 20 years, the geographical conditions that have caused it, must be kept before the mind. Spokane has been the focus of a struggle for sovereignty since it became a town, 1 because it Is the key to the highway sys tem of the Northwest. A generation ago the eastern railway system ended at the Missouri River, St. Paul being its nor thern point of convergence. Between St. Paul and the Pacific Ocean stretched a region of 2000 miles in length by 400 broad, then mostly a wilderness, but which, when peopled, might be supplied either from the Middle States by overland car riers or by ships touching at the Coast. The brief continues: Spokane Key to Interior. Therefore, as the railroads were built westward, the problem presented to the railroad manager was to narrow the area trading by sea and broaden the area trad ing overland, since the inhabitants of the latter region would be tributary to hlra. They would even be under servitude to him could he cut them off altogether from the ocean and consolidate a monopoly of high ways on land. To defend as large a region as possible against Inroads from the sea was therefore the first object, and this could be done if a point could be found where the movement east from the coast could be checked. Spo kane was that point of convergence. They seised upon Spokane, they reduced Spokane to servitude, and with Spokane all the vast territory as far east as St. Paul. They hold It under servitude still. Nevertheless, Spo kane, has never ceased to rebel. She is ask ing for the sights of American cltlsenship now. Situated 400 miles from the coast, on th western slope of the Rocky Mountains, Spo kane la the converging point of all the highways which traverse the region between the Rocky and the Cascade ranges. Ac cordingly, tt la the natural capital of this territory, and should be a great distributing and industrial center. Whoever holds Spo kane, holds, as Mr. Hill pointed out, the gateway to the Northwest. From the out set the railway managers understood the strategic Importance of Spokane, and en trenched themselves there, making Spokane, as It were, the apex of a sort of mountain ; of railway rates. The brief closes with these words: Mr. Hill la a man of genius, as his whole life has shown; but even genius has limitations, and Mr. Hill's limitation Is an inability to comprehend that the American cltlaen has any rights which he Is bound to respect. We have yet to see whether, Mr. H1U has erred In his estimate of his power to maintain his sovereignty. I apprehend that the solution of this question , lies In carrying out logically to Its end the plan which Mr. Hill conceived and promleed to Bpokane Jn 1892.' When making these promises, Mr. Hill spoke not j as the sovereign, but as the agent of the nation. And Mr. HlU's relations toward Spokane are typical of the relations of i the whole powerful class, which he repre sents, toward the whole American people. WAR TALK ALL POLITICS MERELY ATTACK. OX MINISTRY BY THE OPPOSITION. Actual Hostilities With the United States Not Even Dreamed of by the People of Japan. TOKIO, June 23. Public excitement over the American question has almost passed away, but agitation is still go ing; on. It is mostly the work of the politicians of the opposition, who are employing the question as a weapon of attack upon the Ministry. The Progressives and a coterie of politicians called the "Ealdo Club," will likely join hands In a combined attack on the Ministry over the American question, their principal aim being to strengthen their respective positions in the coming election of local assemblies and also in the general election next year. Their principal watchword is the diplomatic Impotency of the Salonji Cabinet, which has resulted, they say, in suffering to compatriots In America and in Inability to receive treatment worthy of the subjects of a first-class power. It is difficult to foretell how far they can succeed In stirring up the public, but whatever attempts are made in the way of agitation, actual hostili ties with the United States are not even dreamed of. The war talk in some of the American press Is totally ignored here. GtTXS BOOM ROYAIi SALUTE Prince Fushlml Is Being Entertained by the People of Victoria. VICTORIA. B. C, June 23. While a battery of field guns roared a royal sa lute of 21 guns. Prince Fushlmi, who ranks next to the Emperor at the Jap anese court, arrived here at :30 P. M. on board the steamer Prinoess Victoria, He was met by Lieutenant-Governor Dunsmutr and members of the civic and provincial government, and a guard of honor "from the local militia saluted the visitor and his suite. The city is profusely decorated and public buildings will be illuminated In honor of the Japanese Prince. He Is the guest of Lieutenant-Governor Dunsmulr, and will be entertained to morrow at an official dinner and ball at the Government House, and on Tuesday will start for Japan on board the British cruiser Monmouth. It was originally Intended that the Prince and his suite should sail from Seattle by the steamer Minnesota, but King Edward, through the admiralty, ordered the cruiser Monmouth de tached from the China squadron and sent to Victoria to take the Prince home. On landing from the steamer Princess Victoria the Prince was presented with a bouquet by a little Japanese girl. Miss Togo, daughter of a Seattle merchant. WILL ASK THAT. RIOTS CEASE Japanese Commercial Bodies See a Menace to Commercial Relatione. TOKIO. June 23. An informal meet ing was held this afternoon by the delegates from the Chambers of Com merce of Tokio, Osku, Koh Kyoto and Yokohama. A resolution was drafted indicating the grave danger facing the commercial relations of the United States and Japan, owing to the anti Japauese sentiment on the Pacific Coast. The necessity of resorting to speedy measures to remove this ob stacle to the development of trade re lationship was pointed out At the next meeting to be held within a few days, the resolution will be given offi cial form and then wired to the prin cipal Chambers of Commerce in the United States asking their co-operation. Financial Outlook Favorable.. TOKIO, June 23. Toshiro SakatanL Minister of Finance, addressed the Eco nomic Society today, describing the budgetary financial outlook as most fa vorable. - A fair. sirMt satin skin secure titina 6atln akin cream and face powder. 25c B KILLED; 43 HURT Fast Passenger Crashes Into Rear of Work Train. ONE OF INJURED MAY DIE Workman Rescued From Perilous Position Beneath Wreck After an Hour and a Half Three Ver sions as to. Cause of Disaster. HARTFORD. Conn., June 23. Six workmen were killed and 40 were in jured when a passenger train on the Highland division of the New Tork, New Haven & Hartford Railroad crashed into the rear of a work train that was backing into the city from New Britain tonight, at the Sigourney street crossing.. Of the injured, two probably will die. In one Instance, It took an hour and a half to rescue a workman, who was pinned beneath the trucks. His head was hanging down backward and he suffered severely, but the rescuers encouraged him while doctors reached between the framework- which held him a prisoner and treated the wounds on his face and head. There are three unofficial veralona of the cause of the wreck. One la that the passenger train from New Britain went out on a wrong track. The sec ond is that the work train had the right of way until 7 o'clock and should have had a clear track, that the pas senger train was ahead of time at the time. The third is that the work train opened a switch and failed to close it. SALEM HAIL WAS HEAVY Banks of Ice Found Along the Road . Next Day After the Storm. - SALEM. Or., June 23. (Special.) From all that can be learned today of the effects of yesterday's heavy rain storm in this vicinity, no damage to crops has been suffered. This cannot be definitely known for several weeks, however, when the prunes will show whether they were in jured by the pelting- they received from the hail. Today the weather is clear and warm and It is not likely that cherries will be injured by the rain enough to amount to an appreciable loss. That the fall of hall yesterday was very heavy is indicated by the fact that today, 24 hours after the storm, there are banks of Ice alongside the road two miles south of Salem. In some places the hail Is still 18 Inches deep. Seattle Student Drowns. SEATTLE, Wash., June 23. The body of Gus Schoentng. a student at the Wash ington University, who left Seattle for California June 6. was found floating In the bay today. Schoenig was taking a course in mechanical engineering. It is said that he was a sufferer from paresis. The young man was born In Germany. Now .That the Cat Has Gone. Kansas City Star. Now that General Kurokl has gone, Secretary Taft makes no secret of the fact that the United States Army is weak and ought to be enlarged Uu ner cent. DEFIES THE POLICE FORCE VANCOUVER MAN FINDS DRY TOWN NO OBSTACLE. Celebrates Just the Same and Re quires Preachers' and Citizens' Services to Get Him Back to Jail. VANCOUVER, Wash., June 23. Spe clal ) One man who secured drink from unknown sources raised a disturbance here today that caused a big furore, anu which narrowly escaped ending in blood shed. He was I b. Seal, a well-known resident of this city, who was arrested and later escaped from the city Jail. He immediately went to his home, secured two revolvers and a shotgun, and then for nearly two hours defied the au thorities to again place him under arrest. It was only at the earnest solicitation of some of his friends that he finally sur rendered. Seal, when first taken into custody, was confined in the woman's cell of the jail, and easily made his escape. The police followed him to his home, a block dis tant. Seal appeared under the front porch of his house, with the revolvers and shotgun all loaded, and dared the four officers who were present to enter the gate. The affair soon attracted a crowd of hundreds of people, who were attending a band concert in the city park, which is only 100 feet , from the Seal residence. The police, from behind trees and fences, urged Seal to give himself up, but without effect. The spectators, most of them at a safe distance, divided their time between making sport of the of ficers and cheering on the half-crazed man. who for hours watched every en trance to his house, and successfully evaded capture.' Finally, several friends of Seal, with the pastors of two local churches, prevailed- upon him to surrender, and he was led back to Jail.' He was later re leased on bond. Seal is an ex-soldier, and is credited with being an expert shot, so that in all probability the peaceful attltuTe of the officers was all that prevented blood shed. . Later, Seal appeared at the residence of Justice J. E. Harris and created a disturbance that resulted In his being confined for the night in the jail. R. A. BAIiLlNGER VISITS BOISE Inspecting Western Land Offices on His Way to Home In Seattle. BOISE, Idaho, June 23. (Special.) R. A, Balllnger, Commissioner of the General Land Office, arrived in Boise today for a short visit. He will leave tomorrow afternoon for Spokane. He is accompanied by his private secretary, D. to. Carr. . Mr. Balllnger said this evening: "I am making a flying trip through the West for the purpose of making a sort of general Inspection of the Gov ernment Land Offices and the offices of our Surveyor-Generals, but my princi pal object Is to get back to Seattle to see my family. I took my office in Washington in March, and went there sometime before my term began. I have not seen my family since Febru ary, and I will confess I am just a bit homesick. "No. my visit In the West officially is not significant in any way. The policy of the General Land Office now Is to simplify the methods as much as pos sible in all departments. My Inspec tion is for the purpose of finding out the needs and requirements of the vari ous offices, and to learn of any changes that can be Installed to simplify the work, and to cut out here and there some of the old-fashioned. Impracticable red-tape rules. , We are determined as fast as possible to open lands for settlement, and to that end we want to install method that will make things easier and simpler for the homeseekers the bona fide settlers. I ai a West ern man, ar.d am much interested in the work of the department in the West." RULES ARE NOW MADE PUBLIC Committee on Regulations for Salem Cherry Fair Announces Plans. SALEM, Or., June 23. (Special.) The committee on rules for the Salem Cherry Fair has announced the follow ing rules governing entries and exhibits at the fair, to be held here July 10, 11 and 12: 1. A plate of cherries or berries should contain one pound. Stems must be left on the cherries Intact. 2. Carton exhibits must be entered and Judged separate from the regular ten-pound box., 3. All fruit entered for prlzel must be correctly labeled must be In the bands of the exhibiting committee before 1 o'clock of the opening day. 4. In collections duplication of varieties will not be permitted. 5. Exhibitors must file with the secretary, on or before the first day of the fair, trie name of exhibitor with complete list of va rieties entered by him. S. Entry cards furnished by the secretary must be placed with all exhibits for the guidance of the Judges. 7. All exhibits must be free from any name or address or anything that would Indicate where the fruit was grown or packed, until after the awards are made. 8. All articles placed upon the tables for exhibition must remain in charge of the ex hibit committee, and cannot be removed before the close of the fair without the ex press permission of 'the committee. . Three Judges shall be appointed whe shall Judge all exhibits and In all cases the'r awards shall be final. No Judge shall be allowed to enter fruit In competition. 10. In plate exhibits Judges shall consider size, shape, color, freedom from blemishes, care In arrangement. 11. In commercial exhibits Judges shall take into consideration size, color, freedom from blemishes, and neatness of pack. 12. Each box of fruit receiving a pre mium must be given to the donor of the cup. Hood's Sarsapartlla brings back health and gives strength after serious illness.