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1 THE JIORXOG OKEUO'IA3, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 10,-1907. B I PHOVIDED OR VOYAGE How Civic Federation Secured Report on Public Owft-ersnip. SECRET COMES TO LIGHT Divided Report on Workings of tlie fejfctcm In Kurope Suited Man Wlro Irrigated 'ew York Traction System. NEW YORK, Oct. 9. (Special.) An other of the manifold channels through which Thomas F. Ryan has stamped his impress on civic affairs and has permit ted the Metropolitan Securities Company to pay the bill was revealed when Will iam M. Ivjna" today resumed the Inter-borongh-Metropolitan Inquiry before the Public Service Commission. It will be recalled that about a year and a half aso the National Civic Fed eration undertook on a somewhat ambi tious scale to make a thorough investi gation of the utility of municipal owner ship in Its application especially to pub lic service corporations. For that pur pose the Civic Federation sent abroad at an expense of nearly ;o,Ow. a com mission of more or less eminent experts, who made a study In Europe of municipal ownership as exemplified in various civic centers and then collated the results of their observations. The members of the committee found it difficult to aaxee on a single report and two minority re ports were actually filed. None of them, however, came out In favor unreservedly of municipal owner ship, and the first conclusion registered. In the report of the majority read thus: l?ynn Vald tlte Cost. . "Public utilities, whether in public or private hands, are best conducted under a system of legalized and regulated mo nopnly.'' There wns much surprise today, and that surprise will doubtless be shared by nearly. If not all, of the eminent ex perts who are now abroad, when Mr. Ivins disclosed from documents that. In co-operation with Austust Belmont, who is president of the National Civic Fed eration. Thomas F. Ryan was largely responsible for that Investigation of the municipal ownership problem and per sonally guaranteed its expense to the amount of SlUOOO. As Mr. Belmont need ed the funds for the purpose of the Fed eration, he called for them in Install ments of J6000. and H. H. Vreeland. act ing for Mr. Ryan, sent to Mr. Belmont checks drawn to the order of the Fed eration on account of the Metropolitan Securities Company. Another Guaranteed Cost. There was one other guarantor. Who also pledged himself to the amount of JL'ft.flOO toward defraying the expenses of this Inquiry. The name of that particu lar capitalist has not yet been revealed In evidence, but there is good reason to believe he was and is closely associated with Mr. Ryan In the city's transporta tion systems. Tn addition to the MO.OOO jointly guaran teed by these two financiers, something like jio.AOO was raised by subscription from other sources toward sending the Civic Federation's commission on its way rejoicing. COMING TO THE" ROSE CITY Jones Quits Baseball In Chicago (or Ileal Estate. CHICAGO. Oct. 9. (Special.) Fielder Junes, ex-manager and center-Adder of the White Sox. bade a final farewell to the city tonight. He said before depart ing that he would never play baseball agiiln under any circumstances. Jones at tended the battle between the Cubs and Tlsers and was with Jennings a good t Itare of the time. The great player left .for ills old home at Bolivar, N. Y. When lie getn his business straightened up there lie Intends to leave for- Portland, Or. lie will engage In le real estate business. ELOCK ADVANCE IN RATES (Continued from First Tage.) rates without Interference from the Com mission Riid, by delaying proceedings, continue to collect excessive rates for long periods of time. Ho hopes, however, that public sentiment will be strong riiough to carry through the suggested amendment. Mr. Altchison is the only member of the Oreson Commission in attendance, but alt the members of the Washington Commission are here, namely: H. A. Kairchild. chairman; Jesse S. Jones. John C. Ijiwrencc and O. O. Caid;rhead, sec retory. ! ADDS MILLIONS TO SURPLUS Oregon Short Line Not Suffering From Anti-Railroad War. SALT LAKE, Oct. 9. Beyond the fact that the Oregon Short Line added t:,K9.Sit0.4s to its surplus during the ear ending June 30, 1907, the public la none the wlsir for the annual meet !ng of stockholders held here today. If other figures were read, they were not llvulged by any one of the few offi cials in attendance. W. TK Cornish pre sided and voted the :73,oio shares rep resented out of a total of 379.517. All of the 15 directors were re-elected and a resolution was adopted Indorsing the acts of tne directors during the past e;t r. The addition to the surplus. It was e xplained by Judge Cornish, represents the amount of the income remaining after the deduction of all expenditures for fixed and operating expenses, divi dends, appropriations for betterments, etc. The directors of the Short Line are: Oliver Ames. Gordon M. Buck, Samuel Carr, L. H. Cornell, William P. Cornish, George K. Downs, Maxwell Kvarts. K. H. Harriman. R. S. Lovett, W. S. McCornick. William Mahl, Oliver w. Mink. H. B. Taylor, w. V. S. Thorne and P. A. Valentine. TERMINAL COMPANY'S REPORT . Taxes and Other Expenses Leave No Net Income. SAT. KM, Or.. Oct. 9 (Special.! The Northern Pacific Terminal Company filed Its annual report today, showing that It has a capital stock of Si.oon.ftirt. held In trust by the Central Trust Com pany of New York, and bonds to the amount of 53.597,000. The total cost of constructing the com pany's lines (4.S0 miles) has been f-,136,470.8I. and equipment has cost $102.- U'2.40, making a total of J4.23S.593.21, or a total cost per mile of $83,040.25. The total earnings for the year were $496.- 097,52. and the total operating expenses S249.613.15. Interest on the bonded debt was paid to the amount of $218,750, taxes to the amount of J21.734.37. and other ex penses to the amount of $15,159.55, leaving no net Income. Much Business on the Willamette. SALEM. Or., Oct. 9. (Special.) Reports filed in the office of the Governor today by the Portland General Electric Com pany, show that during the 12 months ending June 30, 1907, Willamette River steamers made lAn trips through the canal and locks at Oregon City. This Is an average of four and two-thirds trips for each week day. The boats carried 16,516 passengers, or an average of nearly 63 a day. There were 1485 horses and cattle transported, and 20,915.040 feet of log.s. 518.000 feet of piling. 203.699 feet of lumber and 21.026.75 tons of freight. The report does not -show the amount of money collected by the company as tolls on this amount of business.. . LII5I1I BOES BETTER ALREADY BREAKS RECORD FOR ONE DAY'S RUN. Barring Accidents, Steamer Will Make Run in Four Days, 16 Hours and 30 Minutes. NEW YORK. Oct. 9. A wireless report places the Lusitania'B position 620 miles east of Sandy Hook Bar at 9 o'clock to- A VANDERBILT WHO MAKKV A COUNT. , i x MJt HMi..... V i ( aim Gladys Vanderbilt. Formal announcement was made recently of the engagement of Miss Gladys Vanderbilt to Count Ladislau Szechenyi of Budapest. Miss Van derbilt Is the daughter of the late Gemellus Vanderbilt and Inherited 10,000.000 of her father's estate. night. Should tonight's speed be main tained, the turblner will be off the bar at 10 o'clock tomorrow nifrht Tkta ...... .1.1 make her time four days, 16 hours, 30 minutes. At all events, she can hardly fail to beat all trans-Atlantic records. BEATS ALL RECORDS FOR DAY Lusltania Runs 617 Miles In 24 Hours'. ON BOARD THE LUSITANIA, Oct. g. (Via Crookhaven, Ireland, Oct. .) The steamship Lusltania, which passed Daunt's Rock near Queenstown, west ward bound, at 10 A. M., October 6, was in latitude 51.01 north and longitude S4.M west at noon today, having run 590 miles since 10 o'clock yesterday, making an average speed of 23.55 nautical miles for 24 hours. - ON BOARD THE LUSITAXIA, Oct. 9. (Via Cape Race. N. F-, Oct. 9.) At noon today, Wednesday, the Lusltania was in latitude 44.40 north and longitude 54.00 west,, having run 617 nautical miles since noon yesterday, averaging 24.76 knots an hour. For six hours during the run a fog prevailed with a fresh southwest wind. The run-ef 617 miles beats a world's rec ord of 608 miles, which the Lusltania had already made between noon on Monday and noon yesterday. BUTCH BANKERS OVERPLAY AMSTERDAM CONCERNS RE PORTED HEAVY LOSERS. New Y'ork and London Exchanges Liquidate Americans for Xctherland Accounts. - NEW YORK, Oct 9. There was a heavy selling on the Stock Exchange today on orders said to be from Hol land, the selling being accompanied by rumors that an important failure was' Imminent in Amsterdam. LONDON, Oct. 9. Heavy liquidation has been in progress on the Stock Ex change for the last few days from Amsterdam, owing to two or three firms there having been heavily hit by the recent decline in American securi ties. They were interested not only in railroads, but also in' cop per sliares generally, and had also been speculating largely in American Industrials and London Underground Electric Issues. The stocks which the Amsterdam firms speculated in were again the subject of liquidations from there today, but nothing definite could be ascertained regarding the amounts involved. ROOSEVELT WILL AGGEPT IF FORGED Governor Curry Talks Plainly of Trip Down the Mis sissippi. , ) WEST INSISTS ON ACTION Rough Rider Executive of New Mex. lco, While Unable to Obtain Di rect Statement, Believes Pres ident Will Finally Consent. . ALBUQUERQUE. N. M., Oct. 9. (Spe cial.) President Roosevelt will accept the Republican nomination for re-election next year if It is forced upon him by the convention. He will make no ef fort to seek this great honor, nar' will any of his friends be authorized In any way, shape or form to secure it for him. In a word. President Roosevelt is only a passively receptive candidate for the nomination. He prefers that it go to some other Republican, namely Taft, but if the convention Insists that he has no moral right to refuse to serve again his party and country, and nominates him against his wishes, he will accept and make the race. Your correspondent gleaned the above Information from Governor Curry, the popular cowboy rough rider executive of New Mexico, during a long talk with him last night. Governor Curry was one of the Western Governors who were In vited" to take the recent trip with Presi dent Roosevelt down the Mississippi River. He stands very close to Roose velt, for both are of the strenuous, straightforward type of men. Roosevelt admires Curry as much as Curry ad mires the- Nation's chief. They are friends in all the term implies. . During the long trip down the Father Of w aters, .President Roosevelt and Gov. emor Curry saw much, of each other and. naturally, Western politics was a subject that was not wholly eschewed by either. President Roosevelt always wants to know what is going on In dif ferent parts of the West a section dear to him and Governor Curry suplied the Information from a Curry standpoint. "I told President i Roosevelt that the West would Insist that he accept the 1908 nomination and make the race. I used plain language, too, and he understood." Governor Curry refused to be quoted as to what answer the President made, but the statement I made in the first para graph covers it fully. According to Gov ernor Curry, 17 other Governors who were the President's guests held a con ference on board the steamboat and de cided that President Roosevelt must be the standard-bearer of the Republican party next year. President Roosevelt was Informed of the action of the Governors. PUTS DELEGATE 111 AUTO CHICAGO UNION ELEVATES THE , WALKING DELEGATE. Masonic Trowel Reaches Idaho. POCATELLO, Idaho. Oct. 9. (Special.) An important Masonic event' will take place in Poatello on October 16, when the traveling Masonic silver trowel will be received by the Pocatello lodge from Watasch lodge No. 1 of Salt Lake City. Masons will be present from lodges throughout Idaho and many from Utah, Wyoming and Montana. Palmer Joins Commercial Club. Bl'GESE, Or.. Oct. 9. (Special.) Ilonore Palmer, who is making his home In Eugene at the present time, has been elected to membership in the Eugene Commercial Ciub. Their names we dare not telL Wait! Progressive Italians Set the Pace and Others of the Craft Are Jealous of Glory. CHICAGO. Oct. 9. (Special.) Auto mobiles for walking delegates is the latest idea evolved by Chicago labor unions. The Sewer and Tunnel Miners' Union has set the pace, and today Its walking delegate, Joseph D. Andrea, appeared in a resplendent auto fur nished him by the union. The member- ship of the union is made up largely of Italians who believe in American standards of living. The appearance of Mr. Andrea in his automobile caused no small amount of Jealousy among- other walking dele gates. Some of them declared that. If the tunnel miners could afford to fur nish their representative with an auto mobile, there was no good reason why other unions should not be preparing to make requisitions on their unions for autos to enable them to cover more territory. WANT CELL0 CHANNEL (Continued From Page 1.) tioned as present were W. H. Chapin J. W. Railey. M. D. Wisdom, J. D. Lee, 'w. A. Williams, George Lawrence. Jr., J. V. Sharkey, A. H. Devers of Portland, T. T. Geer, Lee Cohen, Bert Huffman and Lee Toutsch, of Pendleton, and James O'Keefe of Dayton. Resolutions thank ing the Executive Committee and J. N. Teal were adopted for their executive ability, untiring energy business fore sight and devotion to the duty assigned them. The Evening Session. The afternoon was devoted to business matters and election of officers. This evening the meeting for discussion was held at the Commercial Club. The visitors were welcomed by John Gavin, president of the club. President Smith presided. The report of the executive committee showed about $6000 on hand and J3700 yet due from subscriptions to Its fund. An expenditure of about $3000 will have to be made for terminus improvements of- the portage. The remaining money, about $6700. the committee recommended be added to the fund for extending the line. No plans were adopted for the exten sion, and that matter was left for future eonslderation. Mr. Menefee advised the $40,000 plan and said the city of The Dalles could probably be depended on to contribute $10,000. The city would spend $10,000 for wharfage facilities under au thority granted by the Legislature In 1905. Under this plan, traffic arrange ments could probably be entered into with the Great Southern Railroad for use of about three miles of its track. Ait inde pendent line would require an appropria tion Dy uie legislature. Fall of Great Confidence King. NEW YORK, Oct. 9. Peter Lake, bet ter known as Grand Central Pete, who had a reputation 20 years ago from New York to San Francisco as the king of confidence men, bas fallen upon evil days. The old master of smooth talk had the humiliation yesterday of being sent to tne workhouse as a common drunk afid disorderly person. Pete, who Is now 73 years old, felt the Indignity keenly. Seattle Man Dies at Sea. NEW YORK, Oct. 9. M. H. Nelson, of Seattle a cabin passenger on the steamer C. F. Tietjen, which arrived today from Copenhagen, died of diabetes at sea October 1. Their names we dare not tell. WaitI Send for the New Fall Shopping Guide . Catalog No. 40 is ready for distribu tion now. A big book filled from cover to cover with ne-s and illustra tions of goods that are needed in every home. Out-of-town friends should have this in their home and SHOP BY MAIL. "WW IRC QUALITY BOOKS' WrXRK FHKU ARK fAUt' Demonstration Universal Coffee Percolator, 3d Floor We Sell the i Ladies9 Home Jour nal Patterns The patterns that make the least wast in cutting, that are most easily understood and that are the best styles of any published in the land. Home dressmakers should avail them selves of their advantages. Price lOo and 15c keeper .Til 9 rf IIS Mm W VV and w( RE with your neighbors, who know how to save in s bargains that Thursday brings. We are going to y special attention to the homefitters on this day, are going to make Thursday one worth watching. roof of what we shall do is found in what we have i what we do here. Read this list.- There is many a goodly saving to be found and each economy mentioned here is on an article that is a daily need in any home. These Thursday sales will be a weekly feature. The various needs of the careful housewife will be catered to and. best of all, her sense of economv will be appealed to by the offerings we will make here. Watch these sales and supply all your wants in housekeep ing wares at the decided price advantages that only this splendid store can offer. ...7 m K.f-t-. Af i Soap and Many Small Things Which Housewives Need In the Notion Aisle, Main Floor. WOOL SOAP, a pure white floating soap, for the toilet and bath, and" is uncqualed for washing silks, laces, woolen and all delicate fabrics. Special price for today, per cake.... 4 Sunlight Laundry Soap, an incom . parable soap for washing, re quires very little rubbing, and is not injurious to the finest fab rics or daintiest colors. Special price for today, the cake....4 20-Mule Team Borax, put up in 1 1b. cans, special price for one day only, the can 11 Toilet Faper, good quality, square packages, regular 7c values, spe cial, the package 4 Scrub and Silk Brushes, solid back, regular 10c values, special price for today, each 5 Whisk Brooms, extra quality, large size, regular price 27c, special for today, each 19 Here's Interesting News O Unbleached Table Linen O&C In the Good Linen Shops. It's none too early to select your table linen for Thanksgiving that day when the dining table's-appearance is all important. "Ye have 10 patterns of fine unbleached damask, 70 inches wide, just the thing to set off the turkey and other delicacies to the best possible advantage. An all-linen, regular $1.10 gracro, special on QE, housekeepers' day, the yard Bedspreads, a. large-size fringed spread of snowy whiteness, with . cut corners, a $4.50 grade, spe cial for today, at, O Q i? each V'O.JO Persian Challies, just the thing for making comforters, curtains or draperies, 5000 yards, in all colors, special, the tZ vard HEAVY SATIN DAMASK TEA CLOTHS, BEAUTIFULLY HEM STITCHED, 45x45 INCHES, VALUE $3.50, SPECIAL 1 7Q $2.69; 36x36 INCHES, VALUE $2.50, SPECIAL. ...? ' & Perfectly Grand Specials on U'Hv si VrV U XT Koyal Jbriamel W are The famous Royal Steel Graniteware is bargainized in tempting fas hion -for today; Buy the best at a" great Sauce Pan, in 3-quart size, regular 25c values, special, each.. ?19 Coffee Pots, lVi-quart size, regular price 35c; special today, ea..28 Tea Kettles, 8-quart size, regularly worth 88c j special price for to day, each T2 Dish Pans, 14-quart size, regular 50e values, special, each... 48 Basting Spoons, 16-inch size, regular 12c values, special, each 9 Water Dipper, 2-quart size, regularly worth 20c, special, each 16 Pudding Pans, 1-quart size, -worth 14c, special, each 11 Muffin Pans, 9-hole size, reg. price 45c; special today, each 35 Chamber Pails, with cover, 10-qt. size, regular price 97c; special for to day, each 79 Soup Kettles, with cover, regular 75o values, special, each ..o9 Special demonstration of the Uni versal Coffee Percolator and German American Coffee. Ends of $25. 00 Curtains at 50 C Each : . ' Here's a phenomenal bargain that housekeepers with hall or kitchen windows to drape should be prompt in taking advantage of. Remember these are the ends or salesmen's " samples of the very highest grade Curtains. They are from 1 1-4 to 3 1-2 yards long. They are just right for sash curtains for curtaining hall or kitchen windows, for dresser drapes, in fact, the thrifty housewife will find dozens of uses for them. They are all in extremely handsome patterns of Irish Point, Brussels and Tambour designs. In full pairs; the Curtains like these" samples would sell for from $8.00 to $25.00. Understand, these ends are one piece only, 50 inches wide, and most of them are 1 3-4 yards long; "divided Cf)n WHITE LACE CURTAINS Full pairs; these in unusually pretty Brussels effects; M 54 inches wide and full 3 1-2 yards long, i As good a Curtain as anyone would ask to see I at $3.25 a pair; special for (O f today ...V- TAPESTRY COUCH COVERS Fringed all around; strikingly handsome designs; Oriental patterns and rich colorings of bright or subdued hues. These are regu lar $3.75 values. There are tO fE 48 snapping good bargains at. . P fiJ IS HIGH LIVING SAID TO HAVE BROKEN HEALTH. Suffering Wltn Heart Disease, the Noted Bankwrecker Is Now Xearlng Her ' End. COLUMBUS. O.. Oct. . Mrs. Cassie Chadwlclc today waa reported much worse at the women's hospital ward in the Ohio Penitentiary. Her pulse was very weak and she is partly delirious. Physicians are making all preparations to attempt to stay any sinking spells. They decline to say how long she will survive. Mrs. Chadwick Is serving a ' ten-year term In the Penitentiary for wrecking the First National Bank in Oberlin, O. For some days she has been unable to retain nourishment, and she is seeming ly Indifferent to her fate, and apparently resigned to the fact that her end is fast approaching. She has been in the Pen itentiary since January 12, 1906, and with good time to her credit, would have got ten out November 26, 1911, had the fatal disease not seized upon her. Mrs. Chadwick has been confined to her bed since the first severe attack about three weeks ago, when, while talk ing to her son, she collapsed and was unconscious for some time. When it was seen that her case was serious she was placed under the constant car of the prison physician. Her trouble is an attack of heart fail ure and weak stomach, the latter, ac cording to the physician, belnj; caused The Patek Philippe Watch WITHOUT A PEER By closest attention, since 1844, towards improving watch mechanism and the manner of workmanship in which each and every timepiece is subjected to before leaving the Geneva fac tory, is a guarantee of the security of your investment in one of these" splendid "Watches. They are inspected twice at the Swiss Observatory, following completion. SOLE AGENTS FOR OREGON Corner Third and Washington Streets Manufacturing; Jewelers Opticians Diamond Importers directly by Indulging In rich food. When she first came to the prison, Mrs. Chad wick sent to a fashionable restaurant in the city for her meals and ate the rich est viands. Finally the prison officials ordered that she be compelled to eat the regular prison fare, but she still com plained of her stomach and gradually be came worse. She made profession of the Roman Catholic faith yesterday, and the rite of baptism was administered to her by the Catholic chaplain of the prison as she lay upon her bed. Their names we dare not tell. Wait! WEDDING AND VISITING CARDS W.G.SMITH6C0. WASHINGTON BUILDING Fonrth and Washington Strasts G. P. RUMMELIN & SONS 1 26 Second Street Between Washington and Alder Streets Manufacturing Furriers Newest Styles In Alaska SeaJskin Coats Alaska Mink Coats 1 Persian Lamb Co&ts, Astrachan Coats, etc. Sable Neckwear and Muffs Ermine Neckwear end Muffs Black Lynx Neckwear and Muffs, Fur Rug's and Robes Send for Catalogue. , Established 1870