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Potta A Roedert Pine Beach, Va. W. A. Cosgroro. PORTLAND, THTJRSDAT. JUNK 7, 1807. EAST AND WEST. It la interesting to learn that the yellow man as well as the white man has a 'burden." Mr. Harold Bolce communicates this Important fact to the world through an article In Apple ton's Magazine for July. The Japan ese, small as he Is .physically, labors under the weight of a mission to the world, says Mr. Bolce. He has heard a call to go forth and convert the white races from the error of their ways. If he succeeds, the change which we shall experience will be considerable, for he maintains that our religion, our eco nomics and political institutions all need reforming. The Japanese, it appears, does not deny that he has borrowed hia rail roads, telephones and science from Western nations; but he reminds us that his use of them Is a great deal better than ours. Our progress Is hin dered by conventionality and tradition. Japan has discarded both. As we go forward we "drag at each remove a lengthening chain" which links us to the superstitions and customs of the past. Japan has cut loose from the past. The little brown men of the island empire have attained to com plete ' Intellectual freedom. They rev erence nothing but truth; they fear nothing but error. One of their emi nent philosophers compares religion to a cup of tea. It has a social value, he says; It stimulates conversation; but In other respects it Is worthless. One religion differs from another only as black tea from green. Choice among them is a matter of 'taste only. The mission of the Japanese, as they see It, Is to bestow the blessings of Intel lectual freedom upon the rest of the world. Since they already enjoy this blessing and we do not, therefore, in their own estimation, they are our su periors. Divine Providence has ap pointed them to be our teachers and possibly to use their army and navy as Instruments of instruction, just as we fortify our pedagogy In the Phil ippines with military force. As to our religion, the Japanese smiles at our Bible stories much as we smile at the myths of the Greeks and -Romans. He thinks It Is a sign of mental weakness in us to revere them. What we call "inspiration" Is to him an absurdity. "If the Bible is true," he says, "Inspiration makes It no truer. If It Is false, inspiration cannot save It." (He finds some good In all relig ions and some bad. The good he ac cepts; the bad he rejects. The stories about the progress of Christianity in Japan Involve much, error, Mr. Bolce believes. Its ethics' and some of its economlo teachings find acceptance there, but as an ecclesiastical eystem It Is contemned. The Japanese is an Sgnostlc He places Jesus and Herbert Spencer on the same level, taking something from each but yielding di vine honor to neither. He lumps all our beliefs about heaven, hell, the res urrection, and so on, together as super stition, which, he declares. Is valueless compared with science. Our ecoomlcs Is no better than our religion. It Is still enslaved to tradi tion. We permit the proceeds of In dustry to go to the biggest hog; Japan distributes them throughout the na tion. Our publlo utilities are made to exploit the people; Japan makes hers contribute to the general welfare by state ownership. She has. In fact, without noise or turmoil instituted a state socialism which Is pretty nearly perfect and which makes her in all probability the most efficient commer cial factor in the world. , That her state socialism has not destroyed pri vate Initiative is too patent to need as sertion. All this the Japanese claim for them selves; while they say of us that our economics still wander blindly in hy pocrisy and error. In this as In relig ion, we are dominated by superstitions and frightened by shadows. Japan alone has the courage to take the bull by the horns and deal with realistic. This, they claim, Is the second ground of their superiority to the "pure Cau casian breed." The third is their centralized form of government, which combines the maximum of executive force and celer ity with the maximum of Individual liberty. They do not believe that our dual system, with its centrifugal tend encies, enhances either personal lib erty or governmental efficiency. As an example for the world to follow they deem it a failure. Is the Japanese claim of superiority to the Western nations wholly un founded? In the competition between the east and the west which has just begun and which will , continue until one or the other has won a decisive victory, will our bondage to religious and economic tradition help or hinder us? If it hinders, have we the force of character to emancipate ourselves be fore it is too late? THE CASE OF MR. CONOYEB. So far as one can discern, the charge against Mr. Conover amounts to the fact that Mr. Wittenberg disliked him. That he is a competent, even a su perior, teacher is not denied, but he has had -the misfortune to displease Mr. Wittenberg and he must go. He offended this autocrat of the public schools, it seems, by Insisting that his pupils must have pure air to breathe. This, in Mr. Wittenberg's estimation, was a heinous crime. It Justified the Board of Directors in depriving Mr. Conover of his means of livelihood and turning him out with an Injured repu tation to seek new employment. Mr. Rlgler's part In the affair Is more or less excusable. Of course he had to do as he was told. When Mr. Wittenberg ordered him to find some plausible ground for Conover"s dis charge, he had to do his best to obey. Undoubtedly he sought faithfully, but his success was not brilliant. He must have been ashamed to recommend the dismissal of a worthy colleague on the flimsy pretexts which he enumerated. If he was, we commend him. If he was not ashamed, we admire his hard!-. hood. This Is not the way to conduct the public schools. . It Is not what the peo ple pay taxes for. Mr. Wittenberg ought to find better use for his office than to employ its power to gratify petty spite. MEN AND HORSES. In excessively warm weather, such as we now enjoy or execrate, accord ing to our several dispositions, the lot of the workhorse upon the streets is singularly hard. The places where his driver may drink are frequent, 'but water for a horse is almost as difficult to obtain In Portland as In Sahara. One of the most efficient of all temper ance measures in this city would be the erection of drinking fountains for man and beast at numerous places. Persons with an eye open to what hap pens on the street notice that the most cruel drivers are young boys. Men" are usually considerate of the nature and strength of their horses; boys are ut terly heedless. They use the Jash without reason, they handle the reins In such & way as to make them in struments of torture. When a boy has control of a horse his first thought is to 'show off." He becomes a menace to pedestrians and shocks the sensibilities of every decent spectator. Down in the wholesale region there are drivers who, at noon, pour the bar ley for their horses' dinner in a heap in the mud. The starved beasts man age to gather up part of it; the rest Is wasted. The owners are not to blame. They furnish abundant feed, but the drivers are too lazy to use It properly. Some of our commission men whose teams are a scandal and who wonder at the mystery of their naked ribs might find out all about it if they would watch the drivers feed them. WHEAT CROP CRISIS. What promises to be a record-wheat crop In the Pacific Northwest is now approaching harvest, and quite natur ally the weather for the next fortnight will be the subject of considerable anx iety, not only on the part of the farm ers, but In all lines of trade and in dustry in the Pacific Northwest. At some of the early-maturing fields south of Snake River cutting will begin within a fortnight, and the danger for Winter wheat will be over in a few days. In the later districts and In the Spring wheat fields there is still plenty of time for enormous damage to be wrought by hot winds. There have been few seasons In the past when June rains were so general through out the three states as they have been this year, and for that reason the plant is In a condition to stand considerable hot weather, providing there is not enough wind to fan the heat around the stalks and shrivel and wither the heads. In some respects a bumper wheat crop, which is now almost assured, means more to the Pacific Northwest than it ever meant before. There have been years in the past when the finan cial condition of the farmers was much worse than it is now. and a big crop was for that reason most welcome. But unfortunately, in the past most of our big crops have appeared in low-price years, some of them in years when the price hardly justified the expense of harvesting and marketing. This year It seems a certainty that the entire crop will be needed at a higher range of prices than we have known since the year of trie iieiter Doom, as a re sult the crop will distribute in this ter ritory more millions than have ever be fore been produced by a single crop. and It will mostly go into the hands of men who will not need it for paying off mortgages. More of it will fall into the coffers of new arrivals who have been pouring into the country In larger numbers than ever before, and the in fluence of a big crop and high prices on their opinion of this new country will be highly benoflclal, not only for themselves, but for their old neighbors back East, who are watching their progress in the Pacific Northwest. Labor and grain bags, the two prin cipal items of expense, are higher than usual, and also scarce, but much of this increased cost will Joe offset by low ocean freights to the markets of the Old World. The coal shortage has at tracted to the Pacific Coast the larg est amount of grain tonnage that has ever been listed so early in the season, and from the present outlook this steam tonnage will tie available for wheat at rates much lower than the minimum fixed by the International Union for sail tonnage. A short time ago it was feared that the Eastern wheat crop was damaged to such an extent that importations from the Pa cific Coast would be necessary. Re cently there has been an improvement, and there Is not much probability of wheat going East by rail, but as the East will not have the usual amount tor export, the European shortage must be made up elsewhere, and a continua tion of present prices and possibly a heavy advance is reasonably certain. Another fortnight of good weather in Oregon, Washington and Idaho and the premier cereal will tils year add $35, 000,000 to the wealth of the three states. WHERE ARE THE POLICE The Chicago Tribune reports that during the year 1908 there were 209 per sons killed and 850 more or less se verely Injured in so-called "automo bile accidents" in " the United States. So far this year 104 have been killed and 404 injured, and, as the larger part of the automobile season is yet to come, it is likely that the fatality and injury record for 1907 will be even greater than that for 1908. It is declared that these casualties were In only a few in stances caused by structural weakness of the machine or by unavoidable emergency, but that they were due for the most part to the recklessness or carelessness or Incompetence of the driver. ' The automobile is all right. So Is the shotgun, If it is properly and dis creetly handled. But the automobile, like the shotgun, in the hands of a reckless or heedless operator, may easily be made an engine of death. It is proper enough to own and run an automobile if you have money and sense. It Is a crime to own and run it if you have neither. There Is an ordi nance In the City of Portland that lim its the speed of automobiles to eight miles an hour. How many automobll ists remember and observe the ordi nance? How many forget it and drive their machines regularly at excessive speed? There Is something about an auto mobile that generates a dangerous kind of speed madness. There are 'entirely too many Portland chauffeurs, profes sional and amateur, who are more fit for examination by a lunacy commis sion than for the care and control of an expensive and .powerful vehicle that may easily inflict death or permanent Injury on any person unfortunate enough to get in Its way. No street In Portland is safe from the crazy auto mobillst. They . drive along through the crowded portions of the town with appalling speed and they turn corners with criminal recklessness, knowing nothing and apparently caring nothing about what may be in front of them. Who has not seen the spectacle of a frightened mother, grabbing her child and flying across the street to the safety of the sidewalk, barely escap ing an onrushlng automobjie? WTio has not seen a feeble old man running for life to get out of the way of the fly ing monster? Who has not seen every day In this town a hairbreadth escape by somebody, averted by the caution and timidity of the wayfarer and rare ly by the discretion or prudence or thoughtfulness of the automobillst? Who owns the streets of Portland, the automobiles or the citizen? Who has the right of way? Upon whom rests the first duty to avoid accident or col lision? Where are the police? FRICTION AND VELOCITY. The Oregonian has received this from Major Alfred F. Sears, C. K.: Will The Oregonlea permit 'the writer to say, that the author of the very interesting article In the Sunday Issue on Gyroscopic Cars, needs to correct hla science when he ventures Into technical fields. It is in no degree true that "The elimination of the double-rail track will aave some 50 per cent of the energy wasted In friction," or "that It will save half the expenses of steel rails," etc. Theo retically, the amount of friction being the product of weight and velocity will be the same in both cases, but as steel is not abso lutely incompressible. It may be doubted If the sum of friction resistance will not be actually increased. -I think It will. As to using only one rail, that one will necessarily be a much heavier rail than If the weight were divided between two rails. - Roadbed width la not proportioned to the gauge of tracks, but to the width necessary to the safe passage of trains, and therefore to the width of cars. In the article to which Major Sears refers. The Oregonian used the word "friction" in a somewhat loose literary sense. It was addressed to the public and not to technical experts. Mr. Grandon Nevlns' own words in the American Magazine are: Out of every 100 horsepower of the present day locomotive 88 horsepower are lost in fric tion, rocking of the train, etc.' . . . Mr. Brcnnan claims he can save 50 per cent of this waete. If Major Sears wishes to quarrel with this statement, we very respectfully refer him to its author. But where does the Major find his extraordinary rule for computing friction? If fric tion were "the product of weight and velocity," as he says, then doubling the speed of a train would double the resistance. The fact is that friction diminishes with the Velocity, though not very rapidly. The Encyclopedia Brltannlca says truly that "friction at high velocity Is much less than at common velocities." Major Sears would make it much greater. Coulomb's rule for computing rolling friction Is to divide the weight by the radius of the wheel. This quo tient multiplied into a constant gives the friction. The velocity does not en ter into the computation.' At all ordi nary train velocities friction Is sensi bly constant, being about eight or ten pounds for each ton weight of the train. Ganot says that friction is inde pendent of the velocity. Carhart and Chute say that when the speed exceeds 100 feet per minute the friction begins to increase in proportion to the square root of the speed. OPEBATXXO EXPENSES INCREASE. Railroad stocks, for the first time In several days, showed a decided rally in the New York market yesterday, but trading Is light and the country seems somewhat distrustful of the future of railroad properties. Naturally much of this feeling of distrust is due to the avalanche of antl-rallroad legislation that has swept down on the roads within the past year or two. But it Is not alone antl-rallroad legislation that is causing the Investing and speculative public to hold aloof from railroad and traction stocks. For years there has been a steady increase in the cost of all branches of the operating and mainte nance department of the railroads and traction enterprises of the countryv. The demand tor labor, both skilled and unskilled, has been so great that, in order to keep good men In their em ploy continued advances in salaries have been necessary on most of the roads, and, where advances have not been made, and a poorer class of labor has been used, the damage through un skilled handling of the work has more than offset the saving. Steel rails, cars, engines, ties and all other necessary equipment and con struction material have advanced In price without an ycorresponding ad vance tn rates by the roads which are buying them. To this fact le undoubt edly due the reluctance of the public to invest in railroad securities. To a considerable extent these high prices for labor and material fall harder on the new roads than on the old. One of the roads now heading for the Pa cific Coast recently called for bids for a long and expensive tunnel, and the best figure obtainable was exactly 75 per cent higher than the cost of a tunnel of similar size built by a com peting road twenty years before. All the rest of the new construction work of this road 4s in keeping with that of the tunnel, and there is no possible method by which the new line can ever get Its fixed charges in this respect on even terms with the lines built under more favorable circumstances. . There have, of course, been many economies effected In construction and operation; otherwise it would be impos sible for the roads to meet the demands for lower freight and passenger rates and at the same time return dividends to the stockholders. This uncertainty regarding the future of railroad In vestments will not easily be removed so long as present conditinos in the labor and material market prevail. There will be much water squeezed out of some of the stocks, and a readjust ment effected on a safer basis, but, even with stocks already dry, the best that can bo looked for in the immedi ate future is a dragging market with out permanent gains of great import ance. They have had a big pot latch among the Indians at Alert Bay, and Indian girls were sold freely there at prices ranging from $2000 down. We may now expect the effete East to throw up Its hands in holy horror over this twentieth-century slavery, and" per haps they have a throw coming. It Bhould not be forgotten, however, that any number of girls fathered and mothered by the "Indians" along Fifth avenue and other select neighborhoods In the East are sold to European de generates for a title which an Alert Bay Indian would regard with scorn. Aside from the fact that in the case of the Alert Bay Indians the buyer pays cash for the girl instead of purchasing her with a moth-eaten title, there is not very much difference In this traffic in flesh and blood whether the potlatch is held In a marble palace on Fifth avenue or In a wigwam in Alaska. The girl seems to get the worst of it in both cases. "Billy" Avers, who was Killed at Se attle Monday, was a gambler, and was never accused of being otherwise than a "square" gambler. He ran games of all kinds at race meetings, and, like all of his fraternity, sought to take from the public something for nothing. He was kind to his friends and chari table to all, distributing his gains with strict Impartiality among all who sought assistance from him. But "Bil ly" Ayers was a gambler and a "sport," and made no false pretensions to being anything else. (Hence, if he could read the statements of some of his racetrack friends that he knelt in prayer each night, he would hardly indorse the tes timonial. It Is well to always bear In mind the admonition "De mortuls nil nisi bonum," but it Is never really necessary to indulge in nonsense re garding the departed Water transportation between Port land and Puget Sound Is to have an other trial, and, with the congested condition of the railroads, it would seem that there was an opportunity for a fair degree of success to attend the enterprise. Tears , ago, when the traffic between Portland and Puget Sound was not more than one-tenth as great as it now is, the steamers ply ing between the two ports handled large quantities of freight. The rail roads now have more business than they can handle, and would hardly make much of an effort to eliminate competition. Even should they make the attempt. It Is hardly probable that they would succeed. C. J. Mlllis, who has been appointed general manager of the Harriman In terests on Coos Bay, Is one of the most earnest, hardworking men in Industrial lines in the railroad service in the Pacific Northwest. His appointment is a well-deserved promotion, and in his new position he can be .of value both to Mr. Harriman and to Oregon. Even in so favored a spot as Western Oregon these heart outbursts from an anonymous psalmist will strike a re sponsive chord: O, for a lodge In a garden of cucumbers, O, for an lceburg or two at Control, O, for some vale which at noontide the dew cumbers, O, for a pleasure trip up to the pole. Judge Loving, of Virginia, was con tinuously drunk for years, yet he killed the man that got his daughter drunk. The Judge was a fine old Virginia gen tleman with chlvalric notions about correct conduct in others. Oregon cherrygrowers are furnish ing the cherries to make 16,000,000 cock tails. Now if each of those cherries could wear an "Oregon" 'brand, would n't we get wide advertising? If the fruitgrowers don't like the al leged cannery t combine they might make another effort at organizing a mutual cannery and guard against its being acquired by the trust. It would be interesting to learn what proportion of the United States Ex press Company's $21,000,000 assets is due to Santa Claus. Portland's garbage cart combination boosting' prices 50 per cent is another illustration that trusts move in only one direction. . Why hasn't General Killfeather been asked to answer the conundrum "What is a Democrat?" Also George H. Thomas. According to a leading Paris modiste, paper dresses will soon be in vogue. They would toe popular in Portland this week. Presumably the 1500 Londoners had their vest buttons adjusted before they sat down to listen to Mark Twain's stories. . . There have been 14 deaths from heat in Pittsburg since' Sunday. That al ways was a warm sort of town. In San Francisco: Mayor's office. City Jail; office hours, when tha jailer is in a good humor. When you start on your Summer va cation, leave all your grouches at home. .Mark Twain is one contemporary writer who doesn't need a press agent. Don't complain of the heat; this Is haying weather. FORCE GOVERNME2TT IXQCIRT Small Says Operators Will Continue Straggle to That Point. OAKLAND, June 26. At Sunset Hall headquarters of the telegraphers. Presi dent Samuel Small said this morning: "I am hopeful the present strike will not be prolonged. We are anxious to avoid any kind of trouble, but, when forced to It, we will of course fight That Is only natural. Should the tele graph companies refuse to meet their operators in order to adjust the differ ences now existing, there is no doubt In the world that the struggle will con tinue until we can force a Government Investigation. We are willing and anx ious to do anything In reason to adjust the present trouble. The union need not appear in the adjustment at all, and, as has often been stated before, if the em ployers of the telegraphers will deal honestly and honorably with their opera tors, they will never hear of the union. "We claim the sliding scale, blacklist and the employment of women at less than will pay their living expenses Is dishonest, and In a way criminal. That is what both the Western Unipn and Postar Telegraph Companies are doing all over the country." It is said that Mr. Small has threat ened to call out the Chicago telegra phers. LOCAL MEN ARE ENCOURAGED Think Strike In San Francisco Is Making Progress. "News from San Francisco regarding the telegraphers' - strike continues satis factory," said' a prominent ( local opera tor last night. "We are encouraged by the fact that the strikebreakers now at work In San Francisco are exhausted Men working the wires with them say the strikebreakers can hardly form the Morse characters, and show plainly the effects of their long hours and the strain under which .they are laboring. This hardly Indicates a rush of strikers to get back. "The Western Union has eight men at work in Oakland Instead of 65, as the press reports of yesterday had It. ."At a big meeting of the Order of Rail road Telegraphers In Chicago last night, steps were taken through the Health De partment to compel the Western Union to remove 1000 cots placed in the com pany's building In anticipation of trouble. "The Western Union at Seattle Is turn ing over Eastbound business to the Postal, whose Eastern route via the Canadian Pacific is swamped with busi ness. , "Both companies are having wire trouble between New York and Chicago, over 27 wlre!S having been lost this after noon. Chicago Is over 1000 messages be hind to New York." TO IMPROVE TRAIN SERVICE Pendleton to Have Connections With North Bank Road. PENDLETON, Or., June 28. (Special.) That Pendleton is to have better train service over the Washington & Columbia Railroad, the line which is to become a branch of the Northern Pacific after July 1, was announced yesterday afternoon by a member of President Howard Elli ott's party, which was here on a tour of Inspection. It was also definitely an nounced that all the present officials and employes of the road would be con tinued In the service and that J. E. Cut ler, who Is now the general superinten dent of the Washington & Columbia Railroad, will hereafter be known as the assistant, superintendent of the Northern Pacific with jurisdiction over this branch, making his duties practically the same as at present. In speaking of "the need of better train Bervice on this line, it was said that as soon as the North Bank road Is opened to traffic this city would be given first class connections with that road. They said the only reason that a better train service was not put on at the present time was because It Is now impossible to secure the additional equipment. RUN FIRST TRAIN OVER ROAD Pacific and Eastern Crater Lake Line Opened. MEDFORD, Or., Juno 26. (Special.) Service was inaugurated on the Pa cific & Eastern Crater Lake route to day. Manager Estes and 75 friends made the trip to Eagle Point, where they "were royally received by the peo ple of that long-Isolated village. A barbecue will be served by the citi zens of Eagle Point upon the arrival of the first regular train tomorrow. The road;has been placed in first-class condition and its extension to the lum ber region, near Butte Falls will be Immediately. MORNING FIRE AT CAZADERO Workman on Salmon Hatchery Has Narrow Escape. OREGON CITY. Or., June 26. (Spe cial.) Fire early this morning destroyed the quarters at Cazadero of W. W. Smith, Henry Huerth and Edward Hlm ler, who have been at work erecting the troughs for the establishment of a state salmon hatchery on the Upper Clacka mas River. Smith and Huerth were sleeping In a tent, when they were aroused by the cries of Hlmler, who was In the house, and who had a narrow escape. . The men were compelled to bor row " clothes in order to reach their homes at Parkplace. ( BIG LOSS IN . SAWMILL FIRE Tenlno Plant Burns Without Cent of Insurance. CHEHALIS, Wash., June 28. The saw mill of T. F. and C. A Mentzer, near Tenlno, burned yesterday, with 1000,000 feet of lumber. It is supposed the flames originated in hot boxes under the edger. The loss Is $75,000 and there is no in surance, as the plant had no water pro tection. The owners will rebuild at once. The mill was on the Northern Pacific main line and the fire was so hot that travel had to be diverted to the Olympia branch. CARDS LEAD UP TO SHOOTING Roslyn Miner Wounds Bartender and Kills Himself . NORTH YAKIMA, Wash., June 28- (Special.) Following a dispute over a game of cards a miner named Sam Blno yesterday shot and probably fatally wounded John Crofton, bartender of Ferandl & Bernado's saloon at Roslyn. and Immediately after turned the re volver on himself and fell dead with a bullet In his brain. Crofton Is in a very critical condition in the Coal Company's hospital. The crime was witnessed by a number of bystanders. BULLET WOUND PROVES FATAL Sidney Dnndas Dies One Week After Shooting. TACOMA. June 26. Sidney rmndas died at noon today. He was proprietor of the Dundas saloon and hotel and was shot last Wednesday night by the man Jones, in an instane frenzy, followed by Jones shooting himself. The bullet lodged In Zrundaa' brain. He leaves a widow and infant child - J HARRIMAN FEARS CRITICISM Lends Alton Money to Enable It to Pay Dividends. CHICAGO, June' 26. A dispatch to the Tribune from Washington says: E. H. Harriman has adopted a new attitude toward the Chicago Sc Alton Railroad dif ferent from, the predatory policy which members of the Interstate Commerce Commission alleged be observed toward that property. ' Authoritative information has reached here to the effect that In order to prevent the passing of a dividend recently on Chicago & Alton, Mr. Harriman made a loan of (1,000,000 to that line, to be used for improvements. ' At the last meeting of the parties to the agreement In New York. It was an nounced by representatives of the Rock Island that the surplus for the year ag gregated tl, 400,000, but as the road needs Improvements. It would waive the divi dend and use the money for additional equipment, repairs, etc Mr. Harriman In stantly objected, insisting that the divi dend should be Issued. To practical finan ciers, who listened to him. It was evident it was against the interests of the presi dent of the Union Pacific to permit the passage-of the dividend because of the criticism that would follow. Then Mr. Harriman proposed to make a personal loan of $1,000,000 at 6 per cent, to be paid In 1015, If the board would declare dividends. The proposition was accepted. EXTENDING LINE TO COAST Right of Way Being Purchased on Gray's Harbor Line. TACOMA June 26. Purchases of right of way for a railroad to extend from Kelso to Ilwaco are being made by rep resentatives of the Washington & Gray's Harbor Railroad. ThlB fine is believed to be a Northern Pacific extension and It is said that as soon as the North-hank road ii completed, grading crews now em ployed In that work will be put on the construction of the Kelso-Ilwaco line. Will Argue Spokane Case Today. , WASHINGTON, June 26. Argument of the Spokane rate case before the In terstate Commerce Commission, set for today, has been postponed until tomor row. Attorneys present to argue the case are C. W. Bunn and Charles Don nelly, representing the Northern Pa cific Railway; L. C. Oilman, the. Great Northern; W. W. Cotton, the Union Pa cific and O. R. & N.; Brooks Adams and H. M. Stephens for the City of Spokane. It is expected two or three days will be given up to argument. ALBERT SOUGHT NO WAR Winegrowers' Leader Declares Sole Object Is to Save Industry. MONTPELIER, June 28. During the first Interrogatory by the examining magistrate, Marcelln Albert, who has surrendered to the government, said he had never sought to war on laws or men. His sole object, he said, was to save the wine culture, especially of the smaller growers. The court hearing was postponed until tomorrow, when consideration will be given to the pleas for the temporary relasa of M. Ferroul and other prison ers. M. Albert tonight received a telegram from Premier Clemenceau thanking him for his loyal fulfillment of his promise. ARMY GROWS MORE MUTINOUS Antl - Military Propaganda Causes Resort to Stern Measures. PARIS, June 26. The government is now apparently quite as much concerned about the insubordination 'manifested among troops as about the attitude of the winegrowers, for. In spite of the ef forts to minimize them, new inci dents, showing the lack of discipline in Vie army, are occurring dally. The gov ernment seems to have awakened to the necessity of dealing sternly with the demoralization engendered by the Social istic and the military propaganda and the press comment on the decision of the government to ex ile the mutineers of the Seventeenth In fantry and pospone indefinitely the law providing for the abolition of the courts martial in time of peace. The position of the Cabinet is increas ingly difficult and M. Clemenceau's sole object seems to be to weather the storm until the Summer vacation of Parliament affords a breathing spell. Will Issue New Manifesto. ARX3ELLIERS, France, June 26. The wine-growers' committee has called upon the delegates of all local committees to meet on Friday and draw up a manifesto setting forth their demands. Test Case on Recount Bill. ' NEW YORK. June 26. Corporation Counsel Ellison obtained today from Justice Almet F. Jenks, of the appel late division of the Supreme Court in Brooklyn, a writ of prohibition for bidding Justices of the Supreme Court from acting under the new recount bill. The order is returnable Friday afternoon, at which time argument de signed to test the constitutionality of the law will begin. Clarence J. Shearn, representing W. R. Hearst, made an application Monday to Justice Maddox, in Brooklyn, for the appointment of commissioners to begin the recount of the last mayoralty vote In New York city. THE ANNUAL COMMENCEMENT TRAGEDY jS CLASS MiTTOv Ptnd who 1 Best on the that hia memovx failed. DEGREE GIVEN MARK TWAIN Oxford Students Give Humorist Ova- tion and Chaff Him. OXFORD, England. June 26. With SO men distinguished In politics, art and science or letters. Including Premier Campbell-Bannerman. Lord Chancellor Loreburn, and the Speaker of the House of Commons, Mr. Lowther, and General Booth, Mark Twain received an Oxford degree today. The visitors Included Am bassador W'hitelaw Reld and numerous other Americans. Lord Curzon of Kedleston, Chancellor of the University, presided. Mr. Reld was cheered upon entering the theater, but a great ovation was re served for Mark Twain, the Hon of the occasion. Every one rose when he escorted up the aisle, and he was ap plauded for a quarter of an hour. When the American humorist was presented, the students started a fire of chaffing about his books and their heroes, mixed with frequent questions, such as, ."Where Is your white suit?" Mr. Reid received the degree of doctor of civil laws, as did General Booth, tha warmth of whose reception was only ex ceeded by that accorded to Mark Twaln." The crowd waited eutside the building to cheer Mark Twain as, wearing the scar let robes of doctor of letters, he marched in procession to the Chancellor's res idence, where those honored by degrees were entertained. PUT S TRAITJACKET ON LORDS Commons Vote to Curtail Power of Upper House. LONDON, June 26. The three days' debate In the House of Commons ended at midnight when Premier Campbeli-Ban-nerman's resolution In favor of curtailing the power of the House of Lords to veto bills passed by the Commons, was car ried by 432 to 147 amid loud ministerial cheers. The amendment introduced by A. H. Anderson (Laborlte from Durham) for the abolition of the House of Lords was previously rejected by 315 to 100, the minority being composed of Laborltes, Nationalists and a few Radicals. The Unionists abstained from voting. Herbert H. Asquith, chancellor of the exchequer, in winding up the debate, re marked that the opinion of the country was against a single chamber. The Premier on leaving the house was given a great ovation. Empress of China's Menagerie. VICTORIA, B. C, June 26. Advices from Japan state that the German steamer Ferd Laelsz arrived at Tien Tsln on June 6 from Hamburg with a menagerie of animals and birds on board for the Empress of China. The menagerie for Pekln Includes Hons, elephants, tiger, panther, puma, wild boar, monkeys and American bison. A year was occupied in getting the col lection together, and the cost was over $200,000. Will Build Biggest Steamer. HAMBURG. June 26. The officials of the Hamburg-American Steamship Com pany confirm the report that they are about to order a steamer which will ex ceed In size the Cunard's new turbine vessels. The liner will be commissioned In 1910. Try Karl Hau July 11. KARLSRHUE, Germany, Junr. 28. The trial of Karl Hau, professor cf Roman law at George Washington University, Washington, D. C, charged with the murder of his mother-in-law, will begin here July 1L King and Premier in Accord. LISBON, June 26. It Is officially an nounced that King Charles and Premier Franco are in accord, and that there is no prospect of a ministerial crisis. SMALL APPEALS TO MACKAY Replies to Postal President's Denun ciation of Strike. SAN FRANCISCO, June 26. President S. J. Small, of the Commercial Telegraph ers' Union appealed yesterday directly to Clarence Mackay, head of the Postal Tel egraph Company. Mr. Small wrote a letter 'directed to offset the one written by Mr. Mackay to the officials of the Postal Company in which Mr. Mackay commended the operators who refused to go out and condemned the men. who struck. A possible step toward a settlement was made yesterday when the striking opera tosr appointed a conference committee of seven members. Including President Small, wjth a view to opening negotiations with the Western Union and Postal Telegraph Companies. Although the powers of the committee were not announced, following its appointment, it Is thought the commit tee will be clothed with authority to ar range a basis for the settlement of the strike. One of the Instructions of the board will be to place the demands of th strikers before the heads of the compa nies. Knox Smith to Investigate. OYSTER BAY, N. Y., June 26. The telegram asking President Roosevelt to Investigate alleged violations of the anti-trust law by the telegraph com panies, received yesterday from the Washington Central Labor Union, was today transmitted to Herbert Knox Smith, Chief of the Bureau of Corpora tions of the Department of Commerce and Labor. No instructions were given Mr. Smith. This telegram Is the only one the President has received on the subject- From tha Chicago Inter-Ocean. progi - asn and who Ium oddculy discovered