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4 STRIKE ORDER IS STILL II FORCE Telegraph Operators in Chi cago to Confer With Federal Agent. WILL BALLOT ON SUNDAY Vote to Be Taken on Issue of Chicago Operator Being Reinstated in Order to Avert a Walk-Out In the Windy City. . CHICAGO, July 6. (Special.) Charles P. Nell!, Government envoy of mediation In the threatened universal telegraphers' strike, today prepared for a series of con ferences with officials of the Western Union and Postal Telegraph companies and leaders of the operators' labor organ ization, with a view of averting a disas trous business and Industrial crisis, which. It Is believed, would follow a walkout of the employes. The situation, It was explained by representatives of both sides, is still In an acute stage. Will Confer Today. The union executive board will convene tomorrow for a preliminary hearing on the recent strike order Issued by Presi dent Small, which may now, it ls be lieved, affect Chicago. Two members of the board arrived In the city today. Others will arrive tomorrow. It was an nounced. Secretary Russell denied a report that the strike order sent out by Mr. Small a few days ago from San Francisco was rescinded temporarily. He said that the order was still in force, and would be discussed by the National committee when it convened. The union leader re fused to say If Chicago was the point selected to call the next strike. The arrival of the union executive board, however, Is believed to point to Impor tant developments If Mr. Neill Is unable to effect a reconciliation In the mean time. , Mass Meeting Sunday. The mass meeting of the telegraph company employes will take place Sunday and the men will vote on the question of striking in support of their demand that' one of their number discharged last week by the Western Union Company be reinstated. Notwithstanding the present strike in San Francisco, which both op erators and company officials profess to have won, it Is admitted that the present crisis In Chicago Is to be the paramount Issue. COPPER MINERS AGITATED Arizona Operatives May Bring on. Serious Trouble. DOUGLAS, Ariz., July 6. As a result of the presence of organizers of the Western Federation of Miners and local agitation friendly to that organisation, an attempt Is being made to enroll the smeltermen employed by the Copper ' Queen and Calumet & Arizona smelters as members of the Federation. The refusal of the companies to recog nize the union, which is certain, will probably result in a strike, x - Bvery business and professional man In Douglas with seven exceptions, has signed a set of resolutions declaring his unalterable opposition to the federation. ? ' f AUTO JUMPS OVER BANK Occupants Burled Beneath It and , One Badly Injured. OGDEN, Utah, July 6 Hrnest Fisher, of Salt Lake, was seriously Injured and five others were slightly Injured by the overturning of an automobile that was on the way to Brigham City this afternoon. The automobile was speeding along the Harrisville turnpike ten miles north of this city, when Ralph Grange, the chauf feur, in trying to avoid a rut in -the road, sent the car over an embankment. The automobile turned completely over, burying its occupants beneath it. All es caped serious injury except Mr. Fisher, who . was pinned to the ground by the heavy car. The automobile, which be longed to Albert Scrowcroft, of this city, was-completely demolished. Those slight ly injured were EX McNichols, of Ely. Nev. ; Brigham Robinson, of Bingham, and Walter Bratz, a newspaper man of Ogden. SEES SINISTER MOTIVES But Transfer of Fleet Causes Iiittle Commotion. TOKIO, July 5. A report from New York that President Roosevelt had of ficially confirmed the dispatch of 16 battleships to the Pacific produced but little commotion here. Some are ln , clined to read between the lines either a sinister motive on the part of a cer tain section of Americans, affected with anti-Japanese mania, or the machina tion of a tool of a third power which is trying to benefit by the Quarrels of others. CARRIERS ARE ENJOINED Express Companies Must- Reduce Rates In Nebraska. " ' LINCOLN, Neb.. July 5. Attorney-General Thompson this evening In the Su preme Court enjoined the five express companies doing business in the state from seeking to evade the provisions of the law reducing express rates 25 per cent. The new law went into effect today. Thus far, all of the companies have ig nored It. SCHMITZ' LIBERTY LIMITED " Judge Dunne Forbids Visit to Home and Ignores Roars. SAN FRANCISCO, July 6. Judge Dunne this morning put a stop to the liberty al lowed Mayor Schmitz, when his attorney, Frank Drew, applied for the customary 'order permitting the convicted Mayor to ' leave the County Jail to visit his attor- neys and go to his home for luncheon. , Judge Dunne issued the order, but pre scribed, that Schmitz might leave the jail to go to the office of his attorneys, that he should not be allowed to go to his home, and that his absence, from the Jail ; shoulfi be limited to three hours. Drew becsme very angry- when Judge Dunne made the order in these terms and de manded, to- kOAW iWb.y Abe .ftueX- As. a!-. lowed to roam about at will In the com panionship of Elinor Biggy and live on the fat of the land. Judge Dunne declined to change his order. Idalio Wlfebeater Jailed. PAYETTE, Idaho, July 5. Newt Ma' comfc, a six-footer, who beat his wife and knocked his 13-year-old daughter down, was placed in the city jail, but not before the two marshals had to use a club on him quite freely. Some two months ago at Ontario he created so much trouble that his children, a boy of 10 and a girl of 13 years, had to leave home and It was only a few days ago that his daughter returned. A mob was talked of to take Macomb out, tie him to a post and give him he Oregon law for wife-beaters. Boodlers Await Decision. SAN FRANCISCO. -Tiiltr K. Rnnr1nr Judge Lawlor's decision upon the Joint motions to set aside rnost of the In dictments against Louis Glass. Patrick uainoun, Thornwell Mullally, Tlrey L. Ford, William Abbott, Abraham Ruef. Mayor Schmitz, Frank Brum. Eugene de Babla and John Martin, will not be rendered until next Thursday, July 11. This announcement was made by the court today. The motions to set aside do not go to the first nine Indictments returned against Glass, on one of which he is to be placed on trial next Mon day. .: jke ma demmd IXSIST ON RIGHT OF LICENSE IX SAN FRANCISCO. Tederal Attorney Backs T7p Claim and Police Commissioners May Have 3Lav6ult. SAN FRANCISCO, July 6. An at torney called on Tax Collector Nich ols today in behalf of. five Japanese who were recently refused licenses to conduct employment agencies by the police commissioners. The lawyer made a formal demand for the licenses and tendered the required fees. The tax collector referred the attorney to the police commissioners, who have Jurisdiction In the matter of Issuing such licenses. Chairman Magerty of the police com missioners today received a letter from United States District Attorney Devlin, but declined to reveal Its, con tents on the ground "that It might in flame public sentiment." CANADIANS GROWING ALARMED Rigid Immigration Law Will Check Flood of Japanese. VANCOUVER, ' B. C, July 6. Labor men are up in arms over the threatened Invasion of thousands of Japanese from Honolulu. The labor market Is now al most overstocked and will not stand for the coming of such numbers. Immigration Department records show that 1500 have arrived in British Columbia since the first of the year, 700 from Japan and 800 from Honolulu. These were admitted without much question by the Immigration De partment as help was much needed In many industries, but now Dr. Alex S. Monro, Dominion Immigration Inspector, announces that the law will be rigidly enforced and all who cannot qualify will be refused admittance. The chief requisite qualification Is pos session of at least $25 cash and Mr. Mon ro says this is to be rigidly enforced. Past experience with the Japanese from Honolulu shows that not one in ten has this amount. This means they will have to return, as they will not be allowed to land, either here or In Victoria, The French steamer Admiral Jauriberry is due here Saturday morning with 225 Japanese from Honolulu. These must qualify or go back. One thousand more have already left Honolulu. Acute complications are almost certain, as the local Japanese Consulate is quite aware they are coming. Kurokl Feasts Luke Wright. TOKIO, July 5. General Baron Kurokl, the Japanese Imperial envoy to the Jamestown Exposition, gave a luncheon today in honor of Luke E. Wright, the American ambassa dor. Field Marshal Oyama, representing the army, expressed himself in the most appreciative terms of the magnificent and enthusiastic reception accorded General Kurokl and his party everywhere in the United States. His phraseology was one long chain of superlatives of gratifying appreciation in which the Japanese lan guage Is peculiarly rich. Ambassador Wright made an appropriate reply and the most cordial feelings prevailed. The anti-Japanese, or what is here known as the American question, was -completely Ignored. Predicts War With Japan. SEATTLE. Wash.; July 5. Rear-Ad miral W. J. Thompson, who served 44 years in the United States Navy, now on the retired list, believes that war with Japan is inevitable. The last por tion of his service was m the Philip pines. He says the clash will come within the next five years, that Japan will have the advantage at the outset, that the Philippines will be easily tak en, but that in the long run ah will have no show against the resources and armament of the United States. Admiral Thompson Is satisfied that In the event of war with Japan, Great Britain will decline all support to the Japanese, but that France will furnish the sinews of war in the shape of money. ' Big Purchase of Coal Land. CENTRALIA, Wash., July 5. (Spe cial.) The North Yakima Fuel & Supply Co. has closed Its deal with Feron Bros whereby the company secures 720 acres of coal and timber lands In the vicinity of ' Centralis. The total outlay Incident to the deal will be In the neighborhood of $200,000. There Is at present a crew of men at work preparing to open up the mines. The necessary machinery has been purchased, and when It arrives many men will be employed, probably between 300 and 400 within few months. The Feron Bros.' mill, which is included In the purchase, will be used to furnish material for the mines and to cut the standing "timber. A short spur will be built from the Gray s HarBor m-ancn or the Northern Pacific. The new com pany is capitalized at $2,500,000. Electricity Replaces Steam. HOOD RIVER. Or., July 5. Special.) The Stanley Smith Lumber Company, which has been operating two planers owned by them near Hood River with steam, has decided to substitute electric power and has given the Hood River Electric Light. Power 4: Water Company a contract to furnish 100 horsepower. By using electricity the company expects to Increase Its output and secure a better grade . of lumber. The light company is also extending its wires out Into the val ley a distance of five miles to furnish light for ranchers. 1 . New Bank President. CHICAGO, July 5.-George E." Roberts, director of the United States mint, was elected today president of the Commercial National Bank, 11 FRAUD HELD Declares J. P. Morgan Is Her Associate. GIVEN BIG SUM TO INVEST Remanded In London Police Court for Fleecing Female Friend Out of Large Amount of Money. Other .' Charges Made. LONDON, July 5. A strange story of alleged fraud Involving large sums was related In the West London Police Court today. Mrs. Josephine Leslie, whose friends were said to be worth millions, was arrested yesterday at Newmarket, where she had been stay ing at the best hotel. Mrs. Leslie was taken Into custody while out driving ,in a motor car, charged with defraud ing members of well-known families by false pretenses, and was arraigned ihin afternoon at the court mentioned, and remanded. Miss Annie Blount, the plaintiff. Is a member of an Influential Dublin family. Her counsel said that Miss Blount met Mrs. Leslie at a friend's house. Mrs. Leslie, Miss Blount added, represented that she was a friend of J. Plerpont Morgan, and produced a letter purport ing to have been written by Mr. Morgan, advising her to invest in one of his syndicates, and promising fabu lous profits. Miss P.lount later was a guest of Mrs. Leslie at a leading Lon don hotel, and ultimately entrusted the latter with $42,500 to invest in the alleged Morgan syndicate. Mrs. Leslie In return fcave- Miss Blount post-dated checks for $125,000 and $100,000, which were supposed to represent the profits that would accrue to Miss Blount. When the first check was presented, it was marked "account closed" and re turned. Counsel added that other similar charges were pending against the de fendant. NEW YORK, July 5. Members of the firm of J. P. Morgan & CoT were unable to Identify Josephine Leslie today. A representative of the firm, after Inves tigation, said she was unknown to the firm, and that her story bore Its own refutation on its face, as Mr. Morgan was not In the habit of taking the pub lic into his confidential operations. NEW SECURITIES OF 1907 Amount Unparalleled Despite Wall Street's Waitings. NEW YORK, July 6. The amount of new securities In the United States for the first half of 1907 has never been par alleled. The grand total authorized Is $1,278,728,500; already $799,442,100 has been Issued since January 1, leaving $-179,286,-400 of this year's output to be sold, In addition to a large carry-over from the previous year. The railroads have ap plied in six months for $979,446,600, ex clusive of 252.000.000 announced by the Hill roads and St. Paul last December. In dustrial needs have been less pressing, yet not so light as the total of $299,781, 900 would indicate. The most prominent feature of 1907 financing to date has been the unpre cedented heavy offerings of short notes, paying very generous returns to Inves tors from 5 to 8 per cent., and, in ex ceptional cases, even more. Altogether $503,651,000 of this form of securities has been put out. COAL WILL BE SCARCER i Government Lawsuit Forces Mines to Close. ' ROCK SPRINGS, Wyo., July 5. As a result of the suits filed by the Govern ment .. against the Union Pacific Coal Company, forcing that company to aban don coal property alleged to have been illegally secured from the Government three of the big coal mines situated on the disputed property have been closed down. The mines belong to the Superior Coal Company, which is owned by the Union Pacific. The effect will be a further shortage of coal In the West. Big Prune Crop Promised. GARFIELD, Wash., July 5. (Spe cial.) The big fruit dryer five miles west of Garfield is being overhauled and put In shape for the season's run. The manager, George Gage, said: "There Is an abundance of fruit In the Faloiise country this year and we ex pect to do the blgest business since the dryer was established here, some ten years ago. We expect to dry this season 50 carloads of Italian prunes alone. We will dry 2400 bushels of prunes every 30 hours. We employ from 40 to 50 people at the plant dur ing the season and run the- big dryer day and night until the season is over. The dried fruit finds a ready market in New York, Pittsburg and Boston at goods prices, and Palouse dried fruit Is always In demand at a little above the market price. Last year we dried 32 carloads of Italian prunes. The farmers get $8 to $10 a ton for the fruit delivered at the dryer and from $3000 to $4000 is paid out for picking and hauling the fruit. We pay out dur ing the season's run for hplp about $4000. This money all goes to the people In the towns and surrounding country and evenially finds Its way to the dry goods, grocery and hardware 6tores." Street Paving for Chehalis. CHEHALIS, Wash., July 6. (Spe cial.) Chehalis citizens will spend be tween $50,000 and $60,0C0 on their streets, building n:w crushed rock drive-ways, grading other streets and otherwise Improving the thoroughfares of the city within the next year or so. If the plans approved at the Citizens' Club meeting last week are carried out as it Is Intended they shall be. The special commute of the club, composed of George' R. Sibley, N. B. Coffman and Dan W. Bush submitted a compre hensive scheme for the ' general im provement of the streets in all parts of the city, the cost of the work for the most part to be assessed against the ebuttlng property. The council and' club will hold a joint meeting to go into details of the matter July 8, at which time It is hoped to reach an agreement a? to just how much of the work -it will be wise to take up and push at this time. - Pittsburg's Fourth of July Deaths. PITTSBURG, July 5. All records of fatalities following the celebration of Independence day at Pittsburg were broken this year. Up to 10 o'clock IS violent deaths were reported to the Coroner's office, while the number of injured was three more. This list of the dead, .which, was compiled from cases reported at the Coroner's office and morgues from Wednesday night until this morning, including two al leged murders and one suicide, besides numerous accidental deaths. It is said that many of the injured will die. MEXICAN ROADS TO. MERGE Capitalization $460,000,000 With Government a Stockholder. MEXICO CITY, July 5. Arrangements effecting a merger of the Mexican. Cen tral and the National' Railroad lines of Mexico will be published tomorrow in the Diaro Officlale. A Mexican limited liabili ties stock company Is to be organized with the Mexican government and the shareholders of the Mexican Central and the National lines as incorporators, to be known as the Natinoal Railroads of Mex ico. The object is to absorb and operate the railroad lines. The original Issue of capital is to be $160,000,000, Mexican. The government holds a majority of the stock. Jamestown Fair Borrows Again. NORFOLK, Va., July 6. The board of directors of the Jamestown Exposition to day adopted the report of the conference committee, formally electing James M. Barr director-general. The stockholders tonight authorized the board of directors to place a second mortgage on the com pany's property, to cover the second loan, understood to be for $350,000. The origi nal loan was $450,000. for which a first mortgage will be given. The two loans will cover all of the outstanding obliga tions and put the company on its feet. Grafter Must Go to Prison. COLUMBUS, O., July 6. Judge Rog ers, in the Criminal Court today, over ruled the motion for a new trial and ar rest of Judgment in the case of William B. Moore, the local agent of the West ern Lumber & Pole Company, of Den ver, who was indicted In Connecticut with William Cox, . ex-superlntendent of the municipal lighting plant and. convicted on the charge of selling fictitious poles to the city and collect ing money for poles never delivered. Moore was sentenced to four years In the penitentiary. Girl Operators Given Advance. - . POCATELLO, Idaho, July 6. (Special.) The Bell Telephone Company today granted its girl operators here a sub stantial raise in wages, thus averting a repetition of last week's strike.' The girls were receiving from $20 to $30 per month; they are. now on a sliding scale, receiving from 18 to 20 cants per hour, equalling a monthly wage Of from $25 to $45 per month. Columnar Contract Awarded. ' OREGONIAN NEWS BUREAU, Wash ington, July 5. The Secretary of the Interior has approved a contract with A G. Moolhe, Spokane, by which , the latter agrees to construct the Columnar tunnel and approaches from there to the main canal of the Tiston Irrigation project, Washington. The amount of the contract is $18,217. "American Boy" at Jamestown. NORFOLK, Va., July 5 "American Boy" day was a unique attraction at the Jamestown Exposition today, with elab orate exercises at the Auditorium, con sisting of orations, declamations and mu sic by boy 'talent from all parts of the country. Largey Loses His Money. TRENTON, N. J., July 5. Application was filed In the United States Circuit Court to have the Will B. Block Amuse ment Company declared bankrupt. The petitioner Is Morris S. Largey, of Butte, Mont., whose claim Is for $299,000 for money loaned. New York Central Fined. ROCHESTER, N. Y., July 6. The New York Central Company was fined $15,000 in the Federal Court this afternoon for failure to file rates on a shipment of oil for the Standard Oil Company. A motion for a new trial was denied. Win Phonograph Suit. NEW YORK. July B. Supreme Justice r Semi A cut and slash in prices never before equaled by any Portland house. Every item in this splendid new store business done here since we have opened this new store confirms the wisdom of our methods TO SELL JUST the people always frank, broad and offered by any local store, but during this sale we will even surpass all former events, and we will demonstrate more forcibly than ever the leadership we have attained as Portland's sensational bargain-givers. Neither cost nor values will be considered. Every item in our store, and, mind you, "IT'S ALL NEW," will be included, of which the following are but a few: Saturday's Extra Specials Silk Suits Values up to $40.00, $7.75 ON DISPLAY IN OUR WINDOWS. Waists Regular $1.75. and $2.00 values, 98c White Panama and Serge Skirts Slightly soiled; values up to $22.50, $4.75 Watch For Fancy Linen Dusters, aqi regular $6.50 values, pOAD Store Open 8:30 A.M. At The Gives unqualified satisfaction. Health-giving, nutritious, thoroughly aged, made from germless Bull Run water, perfect malt and produced with a care for cleanliness that would delight the most particular housewife, "Weinhard's Beer" is the ideal mild tonic to refresh and strengthen the system during warm weather. If you drink beer, drink the best. Good beer never disagreed with anybody. Bad water has caused more sickness than bad beer, though beer to be thoroughly healthful must be properly brewed and have the requisite age. Age can only be secured at breweries with ample storage capacity. We have the storage capacity and every thing else that insures perfect beer. SEND IN YOUR ORDER TODAY MAIN 72 Keogh, of Westchester County, rendered a decision today barring all dealers in this state from selling or handling the Edison records or supplies, without the permis sion of the New York Phonograph Com pany. The dealers throughout the state, of whom there are some 940, are ordered to give an accounting of all records sold for the last ten years. Bomb Kills Police Official. ST. PETERSBURG. July E The little town of Klzlar, in the Terek territory, Caucasia, waa the scene of a bomb-throwing today. Several bombs were hurled at two high local police officials, and one of - Annu&l Clearance open. We have in the past offered At W ''- Vc? ' . f iff n ;WS, the Greatest Shirtwaist Sale in the History EVERY ARTICLE REDUCED J. M. Acheson Go. Picnic Or In The Home PHONES the men was killed. The assailants es caped. 4i City Built on Rabies. Technical World. Looking at the quaint, picturesque town of Mogok, Burmah "cradled in wooded hills dotted with temples and bungalows, who would dream that its life has been a life of dread mys teries and awful crimes? Yet the Ruby City has seen things not to be re counted, because of its treasures, from King Solomon's day to that of King Thebaw. Indeed, were it not for the red glowing stones a king would now you some startling bargains; yes, we have i. " H ii Jl Kimonos, regular 75c value. ..... 1.1. a "ut"'... HOME AU72 be reigning at Mandalay. In Mogok they see everything in a ruby light, men. women and children. Every visi tor must want to buy, they think. How ever hungry or thirsty the traveler may be on arrival, the first thing he hears spoken Is of rubles. All Mogok seems to be fishing with bamboo hols ters. And they are fishing for rubles, in the precious "byon" that rivals in richness the famous "blue ground,' of Kimberly. A hoard of nine goM bracelets, found tn a pit-dwelling of the seventh or eighth cen tury B. C, In a field near Bexley Heath, have Jut been placed in the Gold Room at the British Museum. BEGINS TODAY! drastically reduced. The tremendous AS WE ADVERTISE. To deal with given you the biggest values ever J Sale Saturday's Extra Specials About 25 Suits Some of them exclusive models; values up to $75 $12.50 ON DISPLAY IN OUR WINDOWS. Waists Regular $2.75 values, 1.4 Skirts All styles and sizes; values up to $5.00, $1.00 of Portland 29c Fifth and Alder Streets