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THE MORNING OREGONIAN, MONDAY, JANUARY 27, 1903. BRIGHT PAGE If! WORLD'S HISTORY President Roosevelt Thus Des ignates America's Policy Toward Philippines. TAFT MAKES HIS REPORT McKlnley's Wish Has Been Followed in Preparing Filipinos for Pop . ular Self-Government Time for Home Role Not Ripe. WASHINGTON, Jan. 26. Nine years after the battle of Manila Bay, Sec retary Taft records the results of the American occupation of the archipel ago and forecasts the future of the Filipinos In an exhaustive report transmitted to Congress by the Presi dent, with a letter written by the Chief Executive, commending in the highest terms the Secretary's conclu sions. The President declares that ruin would have followed the adoption of any other policy toward the Philip pines than that outlined by William McKinley and carried forward through these nine years, and asserts trlumph- antly that there is no brighter page in history than that dealing with the re lations between the strong and the weak in these islands. He adds that the Filipinos "have yet a long way to travel before 'they will e fit for com plete self-government." The report says: Prepare for Home Rule. Shortly stated, the National 'policy la to govern the Philippine lalancs for the beneBt and welfare and uplifting of the people of the Inlands and gradually to extend to them, as ther shall show themselves fit to exer cise it, a greater and greater measure of popular self-government. One of the corol laries to this proposition Is that the United States tn Its government of the islands will use every' effort to Increase the capacity of the Filipinos to exercise political power, both by general education of the densely Ignorant masses and by actual practice,. In partial solf-government, of those whose po litical capacity is such that practice can benefit It without too great Injury to the efficiency of government. What should be emphasised in the statement of our National jollcy Is that we wish to prepare the Fili pinos for popular self-government. This Is plain from Mr. McKinley s letter of ln itructlons and all of his utterances. It was sot at all within bis purpose or that of he Congress which made his letter part f the law of the land that we were merely :o await the organization ef a Philippine jligarchy or aristocracy competent to ad minister government and then turn the inlands over to it. On the contrary, it is plain, from all of Mr. McKlnley's utterances and your own. In Interpretation of our Na tional purpose, that we are the trustees and guardians of the whole Filipino people, and peculiarly of the Ignorant masses, and that our trust Is not discharged until those masses are given- education sufficient to know their civil rights and maintain them against a more powerful class and safely . to exercise the political franchise. This is Important. In view of the claim, to which I shall hereafter refer, made by certain Fili pino advocates of immediate Independence under the auspices of the Boston antl iinperialists, that a satisfactory Independent Philippine government could be established under a governing class of 10 per cent and a serving and obedient class of 90 per oent. Independence When Prepared. Another logical deduction from the main proposition Is that when the Filipino people as a whole show themselves reasonably fit to conduct a popular self-government, main taining law and order and offering equal protection of the laws and civil rights to rich and poor, and- desire complete Inde pendence of the United States, they shall ba given It. The standard set, of course. Is not that of perfection or such a govern mental capacity as that of an Anglo-Saxon people, but it certainly ought to be one of such popular political capacity that complete Independence in its exercise will result In progress rather than retrogression to chaos or tyranny. It should be noted, too, that the tribunal to decide whether the proper political capacity exists to Justify inde pendence Is Congress and not the Philippine electorate. Aspiration for Independence may well be one of the elements In the make-up of a people to show their capacity for it. but there are other qualifications quite as Indispensable. The Judgment of a people as to their own political capacity Is not an unerring guide. The national Philippine policy contem plates1 a gradual extension of popular con trol, 1. e., by steps. This was the -plan Indicated In Mr. McKlnley's Instructions. This was the method indicated in your recom mendation that a popular assembly be made part of the Legislature. This was evidently the view of Congress In adopting your rec ommendation, tor the title of the act Is "For the temporary government of the Philippine Islands." and Is significant of a purpose or policy that the government then being established was not In permanent form, but that changes In it from time to time would be necessary." Encourage Sugar Industry. There are two features of the report of Secretary Taft, on his observations while recently In the Philippines, which are of unusual interest to the Paclllc Coast, and two recommenda tions which are very Important to that part of the United States, especially to the larger ports. In concluding his report, the Secretary makes these recommendations: Tbat legislation bs adopted by Congress admitting the products of the Philippine Islands to the markets of the united States, with such reasonable limitations as may remove fear of interference with the tobacco and sugar interests In the United states. The the coastwise laws of the rnlted States be made permanently Inap plicable to the trade between the ports of the Islands snd the ports oh the United Slates. . In discussing the desirability of re ducing the tariff on Philippine sugar and tobacco, tho Secretary says: There is a rood deal of land available for sugar In the Philippines, but there is very little of It as good as that in Cuba, and the smount of cspltal Involved la de veloping It la so great that I think the pos sibility of the extension of the sugar pro duction is quite remote. The moment It expands, the price of labor, which has al ready Increased 50 to 75 per cent, will have another Increase. All that can really be expected Is that the sugar industry and this is also true of the tobaeco Industry shall be restored to their former prosperity In the earlier Sranish times when the high est export of sugar reached Z65.O0O tons to all the world. The tobacco industry needs a careful culti vation which, under present conditions, it Is very difficult' to secure. The carelessness with which the plant is grown snd the de tective character of the leaves Is such as to 4nake the 'manufacturers of cigars and tobaeco tn Manila despair of using the phU Ipplne product without the addition of the wrappers either from Sumatra or the United States. All that a friend of the Philippines can hope for is tbat the sugar and tobacco Industries shall regain their former reason ably prosperous condition. The development of the islands must be In another direction. The question of labor and capital both must always seriously hamper the growth of sugar production. Nor would I regard It as a beneficial result for the Philippine Islanda to have the fields of those islands turned exclusively to the growth of sugar. The social conditions that this would bring about would not promise well for the polit ical and Industrial development of the peo ple, because the cane-sugar Industry makes a society in which there are wealthy land owners holding very large estates with most valuable and expensive plants and a large pop ulation of unskilled labor, with no small farm ing or middle class tending to build up a conservative, self-respecting community from bottom to top. But, while I have this view In respect to the matter. I am still strongly of the opinion that Justice requires that the Unit ed States should open her sugar and tobacco markets to the Philippines. I am very con fident that such a oounse would not Injure, by way of competition, either the sugar or the tobacco Industries of the United States, but that it would merely substitute Philippine sugar and tobacco for a comparatively small part of the sugar and tobacco that now comes In after paying duty. Their free admlaslun Into this country would not affect the prloes of sugar and tobacco tn the United States as long as any substantial amount of those com modities must be imported with the full duty paid In order to supply the markets of the United States. Will Not Injure Industry. Eo confident am I that the development, which the sugar and tobacco Interests of the United States fear in the Philippines from sn admission of those products free to the United States, will not ensue to the Injury of those interests' that I would not object to a limitation on the amount of sugar and to bacco In Its various forms, manufactured- and unmanufactured, which may be admitted to the United States from the Philippines, the limitation being such a reasonable amount as would admittedly not affect the price of either commodity In the United States or lead to a great exploitation of the sugar and to bacco Interests in the Islands. The free ad mission of sugar and tobacco up to the smount of the proposed limitation, for the purpose of restoring the former prosperity In these two products to the Islands, is very Important. There are two or three province notably Occidental Negros and ths Island of Hollo, the prosperity of which is bound up in good mar kets for sugar, and this s true also of some parts of Laruna. Cavlte. Bulacan and Pam panga. where sugar was raised In the old days with success and profit. In respect to tobaeco. the need Is not so pressing because the territory In which marketable tobacco culture prevails Is by no mean so great. Still It 'does affect three provinces, Cagayan. Isabels, and La Union. Taking up ths proposed extension of ths, coastwise laws to the Philippines, and restricting the trade between .this country and the Islands to purely American vesselB. the Secretary says: I think this a very short-sighted policy. Today the trade between the United States and the Islands, export and import. Is about 17 per cent of the total. The proportion of the total export trade from the Philippines to the United States Is growing and Is cer tain to grow more rapidly in the future, especially if proper legislation Is adopted In respect to sugar and tobacco. Now a coast wise trading law will exclude altogether the use of foreign bottoms between the ports of the United States and the ports of the Philippine Islands, and will confine that commerce to United states vessels. There Is very grave doubt whether there are enough United States vessels to carry on this trade as It Is, and even If there were they could not carry on the trade without a" very great Increase in freight rates over what they now are. The minute that these rates are advanced, while the rates to other countries remain the same, the trade be tween the islands and the United States will cease to be. There will be no trade for the vessels of the United States to carry, no one will have been benefited in the United States, and the onjy person who will reap advantage is the foreign exporter, to whom the Philippine business house will naturally turn for exchange of products. The only method possible by which the United States vessels can be given the Philippine trade is by voting a reasonablo subsidy for United States vessels engaged in that trade. Any other prohibitive or exclusive provision of law will bs merely cutting off the nose to spite the face of the Interest whloh attempts It. I feel certain that when the queslon of applying the coastwise trading laws to the business between the United States and the islands is fully Investigated, even those representing the shipping Interests that need and ought to have much encourage ment will conclude that the coastwise trad ing laws applied to the American Philippine trade would merely destroy the trade with out benefiting the shipping Interests. In the criticisms upon the Government's Philippine policy to be found in the col umns of the newspapers that favor Immedi ate separation. It has been frequently said that the coastwise trading laws of the United States apply as between Islands of ths Fhlllpplnese. The truth Is that the re strictions upon shipping between ports In the Philippine Islands are what the Legislature of the islands Imposes, and Congress has made no provision of limitation In respect to them. The coastwise regulations in force within the archipelago are as liberal as possible. CASES COME TO TRIAL FirVt ot Pennsylvania Capitol Graft Suits to Be Heard. HARRI3BURG, Pa., Jan. 26. The first of the 37 criminal suits against ex-state officers, contractors and others connect ed with the building and furnishing of the new Capitol of Pennsylvania, will be brought to trial in the Iauphln County Court tomorrow before Jundge Kunkel. The defendants in the suits listed for trial are Joseph Huston and Contractor John Sanderson, Philadelphia; ex-Auditor-General Wlljlam P. Snyder, Spring City; ex-State Treasurer 'William L. Mat thews, of Media, and James M. Schu macher, Johnstown, ex-Superintendent of Public Grounds and Buildings. The defendants are charged with con spiracy to cheat and defraud the stats out of $136,000 by falsifying the weight and measurements of certain furnish ings supplied by Sanderson under his "per foot" and "per pound" contract with the Board of Grounds and Build ings. The prosecution has selected five cases against these defendants to be trk-d first. The prosecution will be conducted by Attorney-General Todd, who will be as sisted by James Scarlett, chief counsel for the legislative committee which in vestigated the charges of fraud; Assist ant Deputy Attorney-General Cunning ham. State Senator John E. Fox, of Har risburg, and District Attorney Weiss. The defense will be directed by leading members of the Philauelphla bar, includ ing A. S. L. Shield. Samuel M. Clements, Jr., ex-District Attorneys Graham, Bell and Rothermel and Charles H. Bergner and Lyman D. Gilbert, of Harrlsburg, and W. H. Hensel, of Lancaster. Committed to the Asylum. ALBANY, Or., Jan. 26. (Special.) Mary Keniston, a Halsey girl who drank carbolic acid with suicidal in tent in Portland a few weeks ago, was committed to the State Insane Asylum from Linn County yesterday. She imagines she is constantly being pur sued and while working as a domestic tn Portland she conceived the idea that the Portland police were shadowing her. so she decided to kill herself. Heney's Lecture. Francis J. Honey will speak on "Graft Versus Good Government" at the First Congregational Church Tuesday night at 8 o'clock. GLEAN UP TOWN TO GREET FLEEt San Francisco Is Making Big Preparations for Lavish Entertainment. WAR ON RATS GOING ON Determined Extermination of Ro dents Art Institute Honored by Paris Scholarship Stanford University Loaning Money. BY P. A. SINSHEIMBR. SAN FRANCISCO. Jan. 28. CSpecial.) San Francisco will make extraordinary preparations during the next three months to "tidy up" before the arrival of the fleet. "Work on the downtown streets will be pressed In order that the gateway of the city may take on the ap pearance of freshness rather than dilapi dation. While the supervisors are busily engaged on this problem, the special committee, of which James D. Phelan is chairman, intrusted with arrangements for the entertainment of the visitors, has already organized and mapped out its plans in a general way: The first dona tion to the f nnd of 100,000 which is to be raised was made by a local Chinese merchant, who accompanied his check for 100 with a note expressing appreci ation of the protection afforded by the Stars and Stripes. A unique feature of the celebration will be a floral parade, the first San Francisco has undertaken. The parade will be under the auspices of the Native Sons and Native Daughters. It will re semble in general scheme the pageants made famous by Los Angeles and Pasa dena. San Francisco has lost the rural atmosphere which the cities in' the southern part of the state have re tained, .and a floral parade will entail an amount of preparation that has seldom been attempted here before. Special attention Is being paid the en tertainment of the enlisted men. A club house is to be erected where the blue Jackets can make their headquarters while on shore. A large pavilion will be provided for drills,, concerts, and ex hibitions. - The military and navai parades will make a spectacular display, but will en tail little difficulty in the way of preparation. The naval officers at the port are co-operating with the general committee and nothing is being planned that will any way conflict with the strict rules of the fleet. The fleet will divide upon reaching San Francisco and will occupy different por tions of the harbor. One squadron will anchor off Sausalito on the north shore, another will take up its place Just south of the Ferry building, a third detach ment will rest off Hunter's Point in the southern part of the bay, and a fourth section of the fleet will be sent to the Oakland front. This at least is the ar- rangement which has been laid before the harbor commissioners in ' order to enable the board to arrange landing floats. Reports by the plague experts show that the disease has been almost en tirely eliminated from the city, but the 'battle against the rats is to be pressed with new vigor. There have been no new cases for more than two weeks. Only two cases are now under treatment. Despite these encouraging ' features, the force of men in the employ of the health board is to be increased and the dis tribution of' poison to be continued on a larger scale. ' All this is to be done as a precaution ary measure. The theory held by Dr. Rupert Blue, the Federal expert In charge of the situation, is that the con tagion is carried from the rat to the human being by the flea. In the Winter months the fleas vanish, to rearjpear with the Spring and Summer. An ex amination of the rodents last September showed that one-half of one per cent were infected. The examination at the present time shows that one one-half per cent are Infected. Dr. Blue believes that vigorous measures should be adopted at the present time In order to exterminate the rats before Spring comes. Already. 600.000 rodents have been killed, a force of 360 men having been maintained for this purpose. The work is being carried on at a monthly cost of 145.000. In order to Impress upon the house holders of the city the necessity of con tinued action, a mass meeting has been called for next Tuesday at which the Federal, state and city physicians as sociated In the work will urge the adop tion of the most complete sanitary meas ure In every home In the' city. Stanford University and the University of California have opened with a larger attendance than ever before in their his tory. At Stanford are 1700 students and 8000 at the State UnU-ersity. An Innova tion at Berkeley consists of a series of lectures on current history. The first lecture of the course was delivered by Professor Bernard Moses, formerly a member of the Philippine Commission, on "The Philippine Assembly." All topics of National and International significance will be touched on by the lecturers. The young women at the State Uni versity have defeated decisively the at tempt of the men students to dis franchise them. In fact 92 of the young men voted with the co-eds, while only two co-eds were disloyal to their sex. The sum of $1,000,000 has been loaned by the trustees of Stanford University on buildings in San Francisco. These loans have been put out at 7 per cent. Sev eral more millions will be similarly in vested by the trustees. The money al ready placed has gone to the Alaska Commercial Company and to the Boyd estate. The Alaska company is erecting an artistic 11-story building on California' and Sansome streets. The Boyd estate is soon to erect a large structure. NEW YORK BANK FAILS - (Continued From'ptrst Page.) have shrunk still, further, and today amount to about 2,500.000. The bank, which had been known as the biggest of the Morse string of financial Institutions, underwent a re organization in October. Alfred H. Curtis was succeeded by W. F. Have meyer as president, the former becom ing vice-president. In place of C. W. Morse, who retired from the Institution. On January 14 there was a further re organization. Mr. Curtis being dropped from the vice-presidency and from the board of directors. MONEY POURS INTO RESERVES Clearing-Honse Certificates Being Rapidly Redeemed. NEW YORK, Jart. 26. The feature of the financial situation last week waa the continued rush of funds back into the reserve deposit of the banks. This was perceptible In the foreign money centers as well as here, and was effec tive In forcing down the official dis count rates of the Bank of England, the Bank of France and the Imperial Bank of Germany, and the open mar ket rates In all markets. The remaining issue of New York clearing-house loan certificates has been going into rapid retirement. The rapid easing of the money market has not been affected by the notice of withdrawal of 10.000,000 of Govern ment deposits from the New York banks, partly because of the large cur rent deficit in the Government reve nues, hut also by reason of the accu mulation of funds being more rapid than the demand to take them up. The Inferences are plain that the heavy imports of 100,000,000 of foreign gold and the rapid Issue of over 30,000,000 National bank notes which followed the runs on the banks last Fall, to say nothing of the various emergency Is sues of clearing-house certificates are now proving redundant tn the coun try's circulation. Advices from the Iron and steel trade show a condition of practical paralysis to have ensued upon the financial cri sis, although some moderate resump tion Is reported to have occurred since. The report to be published on Tuesday of this week of the earnings of the United States Steel Corporation for the quarter ending December SI, Is awaited nevertheless with, some solicitation. Notwithstanding ths actual existence of conditions indicating this heavy contraction of prosperous activities, there is not lacking evidence of hope In early improvement. The increasing abundance of money resources is looked to as an effective help to this revival. The doubtful element on the side of the money situation Is sug gested by the disposition of large cor porations to finance their requirements with short-time obligations, on which also the interest rats is kept high, notwithstanding the material reduction of. rates on ordinary loans. TO W OVER FOR TIME TEMPORARY TRTJCE SIGNED BY LEADERS OP SOCIETIES. Orders From Embassy Threaten Drastic Measures if Fight ing Is Not Stopped. SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 28. (Special.) Leaders of the fighting tongs which have been terrorising Chinatown for the last two weeks must settle their differ ences quickly or be punished by the Chinese government. Such was the edict received today by the local Consul-General- from the Chinese Embassy at Wash ington. The Cossul-General has' notified the leaders of the warring tongs, the Hop Sings and the Bing Kungs. The ulti matum from Washington is to the effect that unless peace is made, the leaders of the tongs will be handed over to the police or driven from ths country, and If this falls, punishment will be meted out to their families and relatives in China. At a conference held this afternoon be tween representatives of the two tongs and the Chinese Six Companies a partial truce affecting the entire Pacific Coast was brought about, to go Into effect at noon today and to last until February 16, after the Chinese holidays. There is serious doubt In the minds of the Six Companies' powers as to whether the tong leaders will live up to an agree ment which has been broken several times lately. The Six Company men are angry and threaten to turn over all of the tong leaders to the police anyhow unless they consent to make peace within the next few days. ' Business has suffered In the Chinese quarter since the recent war was declared and the merchants have taken it upon themselves to settle the strike. The Hop Sing tongmen demand Im munity from the Blng Kungs before they will agree to peace. They are en deavoring to make their enemies sign a -document granting immunity to all the men now under arrest on suspicion of having killed Bing Kung men. They also demand that several grievances now existing between the two tongs be de cided in their favor. Vhe Bing Kung leaders have refused to entertain any such proposition. Fong Poy, the Blng Kung man shot in this city last night toy one of the high binders, died today. During the last three weeks there have been five cases of murder and attempted murder by highbinders in California cities, all due to the present outbreak. DOES RECKLESS SHOOTING Ed Zlmmer Fires at Cat and Breaks Drug Store Window. Ed Zlmmer, who lives near Sixth and Harrison streets, has violent antipathy to cats, as he himself admits, and as a result of his effort to stop a feline con cert with a double-barreled shotgun, he is facing a charge of discharging fire arms within the city limits.. About 9 o'clock last night a neighbor's cat com menced a serenade near the Zlmmer home, and Zlmmer decided that a charge of buckehot would be a sover eign remedy. He promptly sallied forth and, as he thought, killed the sere nades Several of the shot Intended tor the cat glanced from the cement pave ment and went through a drugstore window near by, frightening a young woman who was using the telephone into hysterics. Detective Sergeant Baty, who answered a call sent into head quarters by the angry druggist and Pa trolman Murphy, who was summoned by the frightened young lady, arrived on the scene simultaneously, and im mediately proceeded to Impress upon Mr. Zlmmer the folly of his act. Zlmmer gave bail for his appearance in Police Court this morning. ITALIAN KING INTERESTED Talks With Baron Takahlra About Japan and America. ROMB, Jan. 26. King Victor Emman uel today again received Baron Taka hlra. the Japanese Ambassador, who leaves here February 1 for the United States. The King displayed great inter est in the Japanese-American relations and the Ambassador went quite fully into the questions that have arisen be tween the two governments, particularly with regard to emigration of the Jap anese to America. Takahlra explained that Japan did not wish to send emi grants to that country and for years had refused passports. Japanese emi grants, however, managed eventually to reach the United States through Ha waii, the authorities of which country have frequently requested that laborers be sent there to work on the plantations. Now Japan even refuses passports for Hawaii, but the emigrants may still en ter the United States through Mexico and Canada. He declared that the only way to stop them from so doing was for Congress to promulgate a law whereby not only the Japanese, but all emigrants, could be debarred from entering the United States if the Government ob jected to them. Special Prices J?? ''Slm. sn mmi i FT ... iiMe: in r.very e Depart- fU ment earance Specials on A chance for housewives to lay in a goodly supply of the best grades of bedding to be had, at prices- decidedly lesa than regular. Ready-made Sheets and Pillow Cases, Sheeting by the yard and one of the best-known Muslins on the market included in this special sale. Fruit of the Loom Muslin, full yard wide. housekeeper knows what this brand is. 10, 000 Yards on Sale 5pe cial Price Monday, Yard HEMSTITCHED SHEETS $1.10 Best quality Hemstitched Sheets, in three sizes, priced as follows: Sixe 81x99 inches, regularly worth to f 1 1 f $125 each, today pllU , Size 90x99 inches, regularly worth $1.40 d J 7fl each, today's price p ItKJ Size 90x108 ins., regularly worth $L50 f O) each, today's-price rp I. ,JJ ALL SHEETINGS AT SPECIAL PEICES An extraordinary announcement, for it means that for today our entire stock of bleached or unbleached sheetings are on 6ale at Clearance prices. PROVIDES FOR HIS BURIAL JAPANESE OOOKT THEN CUTS HIS THROAT AXD DIES. 51. Suniada, of Seattle, Gives $100 to Preacher to "Send Him Home." SEATTLE. -Wash., Jan. 28. (Special.) After making- arrangements for the shipping: of his body to his native land. M. Sumada, a Japanese cook, cut his throat at his room, 414 Main street, at 9:30 o'clock this morning. He died a short time later. Friends of the dead man say he had been mentally unbal anced for several days. A few minutes after he breathed his last, a friend, who had heard of his mental condition but did not know of the tragedy, called at the hotel to see him and to ascertain If It would be necessary to hare film placed In a hospital. Saturday afternoon Sumada crave Rev. Fukum&tsu Okazakl, of the Japa nese Baptist Church, $100, saying that he wished that sum to be used to send him back to Japan. He did not say that be was about to kill himself, and at the time the minister believed Su mada wished to return home alive. DEMOCRATS ARE UNDECIDED Clackamas May Have No Convention to Elect Delegates. OREGON CITT, Or.. Jan. 26. (Special.) Members of the Clackamas County Democracy have not yet decided whether they will call a convention to elect dele gates to the state convention, or whether they will vest appointive power in the hands of the county, central committee. The matter was discussed yesterday at a meeting of the county central body, but no decision was reached and an adjourn ment was taken until Saturday, February 8. t 10 o'clock. Members of the committee are about evenly divided as to which method to pursue. The biennial banquet of the party wilf be held In this city about the last of February, and it is possible' that the delegates to the state convention will be chosen at that time. MARION FRUITGROWERS ELECT Meetings of Instruction of Various Phases to Be Held. SALEM. Or.. Jan. 26. -Special.) The Marion County Horticultural Society held Its annual meeting yesterday and elected the following officers for the ensuing year: President, L. M. Gilbert; first vice president, J. R. Shepard: second vice president, A. M. Lafollette; third vice president, D. W. Matthews; secretary, E. C. Armstrong. A number of Interest ing addresses were delivered by local fruitgrowers, among them J. R. Shep 'rya-sSj-sa-Li laVam ' i 'a'aSasSsfaSBBMfcSrsarMtTlBrfiaSsBSrfnrTy m ryrTH m t&m Home m'Il aS r m mimSK mv& Journal It ' zlk ST --tn E " .n-t r-- . . ;v .v.o-f-vr, J s Sheets and Every m Size 81x99 ins., worth $120 each; spe cial today Tailored Suits Eveni'g Gowns A sale in out Suit Department of such unusual propor tions, such exceptional values, that no smart or care ful dresser in Portland can afford to miss it. Suits, of high class, late models and real distinctiveness.- They come in fancy or strictly tailored styles, in which are cleverly combined beauty, richness and unquestioned utility: Values from $40.00 to $135.00 each. Today only. Our entire stock of Evening Gowns that range in price from $75.00 and up are on special sale today. "Various styles, materials and trimmings, but every one is exquisitely lovely and sure to please some taste. Choice of all these better Gowns w r jg w- for today only at ". ard. A. M. Lafollette, L. T. Reynolds and Mr. Armstrong. The principal address of the meeting was by Fruit Inspector G. R. Castner, of Wasco County. He said that apple, pear and cherry trees should be planted not less than 30 feet apart and he thought it quite likely that the experience of the next 10 or 16 years will show that 40 feet is none too much. Fruit Inspector Armstrong Is planning a series of meetings of fruitgrowers at which Illustrated talks on practical prob lems of fruitgrowing will be given. He Intends to discuss grafting and will bring to the meeting branches of trees and demonstrate before the audience Just how the grafting is done. Other phases of the care of fruit trees, such as heading and pruning, will be taken up In the same manner. , Growers are deeply in terested in the plan of instructive meet ings and a large attendance is assured. The meetings will be held Saturday afternoons. M. O. Lownsdale will address the fruit growers on Tuesday afternoon, January 28, instead of Wednesday, as heretofore announced. His scheme for the reno vation - ot old orchards by cutting the trees off near the ground and grafting new stock upon the shoots that come up has aroused widespread interest, for it is believed that this will go farther than anything else to. get rid of the old. neg lected and diseased orchards. , INFXiTJENCES BOY TO STEAL Hillsboro Man Escapes With Money Stolen for Him by Lad. HILLSBORO, Or.. Jan. 26. (Special.) Sheriff Connell is after Charles Doughty, aged 28 years, charged with robbery. The complaining witness Is Bruce Donelson, a 13-year-old lad, who now occupies a cell In the County Jail, as one of the principals In the affair.' Toung Donelson, who resides with his grandparents, yes terday morning entered the hired girl's room and robbed her of over $30 and a gold watch. The boy was taken into custody shortly after, and says that Doughty Influenced him to rob the domestic, and that after the commission of the felony he gave Doughty the J30 and the watch. Doughty at once started eastward, and it Is thought that he intends going to San Francisco for enlistment in the regular army. He Is an ex-soldier and served in the Philippines. His parents reside in East Hillsboro. Doughty wears a stubby mustache, but no beard. When last seen he wore a pair of blue army pants, a black overcoat, and a black felt hat. He Is about 6 feet 9 inches in height, and has blue eyes. , MAY OWN ITS WATER PLANT Grants Pass Contemplating Buying Rogue River Company. .. GRANTS PASS, Or., Jan. 26. (Spe cial.) A mass meeting of citizens, pre sided over by Mayor Smith, was held at the Courthouse for purpose of learn ing the sentiments of the taxpayers re garding the purchase of the Rogue River Water'Company's plant. City Attorney C H. Clements made the Ladies' to is 10c, 15c H LASTS SIX ll& DAYS MORE Pillowcases BEST HEMMED SHEETS 80c Hemmed Sheets of splendid quality muslin, size 63xP0 inches, regular price 85j each; to- Ol day, each , OlC Size 72x90 inches, worth 95c each, special Qf today ZfUC Size 81x90 inches, worth $1.10 each ; special Q C today. ...&C $1.00 Size 90x99 inches,-worth $130 each;.f f special today p 1 ALf Just Half nair rrice opening speech, presenting the propo sitions as outlined by the company In its offer to sell to the city. At the close of the meeting a popular vote was taken, In which the public expressed a desire that the Council proceed and investigate the figure submitted and to probe into the company's earnings. The water company's offer is $110,100 In 20-year bonds, bearing 5 per cent in terest as a negotiating price, and they state that the gross income is (18,600. Deducted from this is an annual outlay for running expenses of $4260. Hawley Coming to Register. SALEM, Or., Jan. 26. (Special.) News has -been received here that Congressman W. C. Hawley will return to Oregon about February 12 for the purpose of register ing, as required by the registration law. He will be here only two or threo days and will return at once to Washinirton. Sleep Sleep is nature's re building period, when the energy used by the brain, muscles and organs is re newed. If you lose sleep, your system is robbed of the strength sleep should give. Continued loss of sleep multiplies this loss until you become a phys ical wreck. Dr. Miles' Nervine quiets the irri tated nerves and brings refreshing, invigorating sleep. Nervine contains no opiates, and therefor leaves no bad after-effects. "For over two years I suffered un told agonies; my friends thought I' was going crazy. I could not sleep nor rest at all. I tried different doo tors. but failed to find relief. My head would ache all the time; I was like one drunk; could not concentrate my mind, and was so restless and worried that sleep was out of the question. After taking one bottle of Dr. Miles' Nervine I felt wonderfully . changed. I am now on my third bot tle and am gaining all the time. I can lie down and sleep like a child, and am able to do my work. MRS. MAT SCOTT, English, In A. Your druggist sells Dr. Mills' Nerv ine, and we authorize him to return prloe of first bottle (only) If It falls to benefit you. Miles Medical Co.. Elkhart, Ind