THE MORNING OREGONIAN, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 15, 1908. TOWNS If EDIT BY WILD TORNADO the disease to human beings, the people fit back and wait for the boards of health to kill the animals. A quarantine against any section or against the whole state on account of the plague would be a serious master. It would mean many failures, would cripple business, not to say anything of the loss of life and enormous expenses In fighting th disease. I can see that more cases of plague will break out with the coming of Spring. Iead rats Infected with the disease are be ing found by the hundreds in - the bay cities, and still the people do not take the matter seriously and get in and help in the work. One infected rat will trans mit the disease to a colony of others and every flea that leaves a plague-infected rodent means one more case of plague. How great will be the extent of the infection among the people If the rats are not killed is Impossible to tell, but there is no pre caution too great, and to sweveat an epi demic the work must ,begin now. Now Is the time; one month from now may be too late. March Butterick Patterns 10c and 15c. Only Complete Assortment of Butterick Patterns The Pure Food law of the I'nlted Stale Government Guarantees the Purity of All Drugs Sold by the Owl Drugstore rawest Prices In Ore-son on Drags, Toilet Articles, Standard Remedies. Established 1850-FIFTY-SEVEN YEARS IN BUSINESS-Established 1850 THE VICTOR Talking Machine, $1 Down, $1 a Week" Come In and Hear the Nnr Records at Our Victor Hall. Three Mississippi Settlements Scattered Through the County. Good Merchandise Only Quality Considered, Our Prices Are Always the Lowest Another Sensational "Owl" Gut-Rate Sale SIX TO TEN PERSONS DEAD Drug Buildings Swept OfT Lots and Con tents Hung in Treejops Tornado Ravages Tyler, Tex., and Kills Four Persons. MERIDIAN, Miss., Feb. 14. Three small Mississippi towns were practically demol ished by a tornado today. Reports of the killed range from six to ten, with the smaller number probably correct. Mossville, Service and Sovo are the "towns destroyed. They are all in Jones County and all are very small, being merely a handful of scattered dwellings. The tornado struck them about noon and In most-instances is reported to have car ried the buildings in its path completely off the lots on which they Btood. Nearby fields were covered with wreck Bce and the branches of trees were lit tered with small household articles. Eight Known to Be Dead. Xj. N. Norrison. a resident of Mossville, who came here- after the storm, said that ho was outdoors during the blow and was compelled to grasp a wire fence to keep from being blown away. He said the dead at Mossville are Alex Windham and wife, neexoes. Near the town he said four white per sons had been killed, a man and wife and their two children, whose names he did not learn. Those seriously injured at Mossville are J. F. Robinson, manager of the Mossville Mercantile Company; Mr. and Mrs. 'William Campbell and Minnie Campbell. Flood Follows Storm. Near Service a child of Ike Hollaway is reported dead and also an unknown negro. No reports of fatalities have come from 6ovo. The tornado was accompanied by a ter rific rain, which caused a sudden rise In the creeks and washed away 'several bridges. All that is left of Mossville is the depot of the Mobile, Jackson & Kansas City Railroad. The noon northbound passen ger train got a few miles north of J,aurel, and could not proceed because of the wreckage, and returned to Laurel at 2 o'clock. FOUR KILLED AT TYLER, TEX. Three In One Family Tornado Tears Path Through Town. TYLKR, Tex., Feb. 14. A tornado swept over the principal residence portion of ffyer, at 4 o'clock this morning-, causing the death of four persons. The dead are: C. A. FRANCIS, aged 2S, his wife and 1-year-old child. M08K LESS, a negro, aged SO. Franrto was agent for the Dallas News. His dead body was found 100 yards from his wrecked home and the body of his child was found in the street. Mrs. Francis' body was in the wreckage of the building. Six persons were seriously injured. They are: Irwin Franklin, Mrs. Franklin, four Franklin children. One of the children Is expected to die. They were caught in the wreckage of their home. Twelve buildings were wrecked. The tornado came up from the southeast and tore a path through Tyler 100 feet wide. Tyler is the County Seat of Smith County and is on the International & Great Northern and St. Louis Southwest ern railroads. It has cotton-gins, cotton seed oil mills, railroad shops, box and crate factories, fruit and vegetable can neries. It is the seat of Tyler College and Texas College for colored" people. The population in !100 was S063. GOLDEN GATE MARINE NEWS Korea Brings $1,000,000 Cargo. Eva Sails With Army Stores. SAN FRANCISCO. Feb. 14. The Steamer Korea, arriving today from the Orient, brought a large number of pas sengers and 6319 tons of cargo. The freight included 674 cases of opium ami 6M bales of raw silk. Silk and opium together represent a value of about fl. 00.!HK. In the cargo also were 20,028 rolls of matting and ;iO.SS4 mats of rice. Among the passengers were William Martin, U. S. Consul-General at Hankow, China, and Paymaster M. B. Golds borough, of the Navy. Owing to the delay in discharging, due to the coal blockade at this port, the Veddo was unable to go to Puget Sound for the Sim tons of cargo waiting there, and leave here on schedule time. As the mail contract required the vessel to live vp to its schedule, the call at the Sound was omitted. The German steamer Eva sailed yester day for Manila via Nanaimo with a cargo which consisted largely of army freight. In addition to 3500 tons of hay the Bva Is carrying 37.441 pounds of gun cotton, to be used for purposes of military de fense, and a shipment of navy stores. The Eva's total cargo is valued at J6S.S66. The steamer St. Helens, which arrived today from Astoria, came into port with a heavy list to starboard, its deckload shifted and part of it gone. The St. Helens encountered heavy weather nearly all the way down the coast. WARNED AGAINST PLAGUE Will Come Again Unless California Exterminates Rats. SACRAMENTO, Feb. 1 4. Dr. N. K. Foster, secretary of the State Board of Health, unon his return today from Fan Francisco, where he attended the meeting of officials from several coun ties and helped organize the Central California Sanitary Commission, said: If the peopl do not get to work, there will be a fresh outbreak of plague thin Kpring that may result In a quarantine be inir placed on the state or section of the Atate. All indications xoint to an out break of more cases this Soring. Th planus is not at an end. There H one way only to end it clean up the filth, kill the rata There is grave danger of a plague epidemic and it Is well that the people should know It They have been warned time after time by the State Board of Health, but seem to be indifferent. r'our years ago the Rtate Board of Health warned the peor.le that rats were the true distributors of plague and advised that the rodent be exterminated. The people scoffed at the idea, some of the press made fun pf th a.'FTllons of the board, but now, when it is fully known hut not fully real ized that rats carry plague and dlairibute MAST MEETINGS OS PLAGUE All Classes to Unite on the Fight Against the Rats. SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 14. Meetings of various railroad officials and other business men were held today to con sider means for carrying on the cam paign for better sanitary conditions In this city. At 10:30 o'clock this morning the railroad officials met in the Mer chants Exchange building; at 11 o'clock the clergymen met in the offices of the Chamber of Commerce; at the same time the officials of the California and Geary street roads got together to discuss the plague, and at 2 P. M. the sub-committees of the Citizens' Health Committee, which includes the best known medical men in the West, reported at the Cham ber of Commerce offices. Some practical expedients were adopted and a vigorous campaign against rats begun. GREATLY 0VER-SUBSGB1BED JfEW YORK CITY'S BOND ISSUE POPULAR. Syndicate Headed by Morgan Bids for Entire Issue 103 May Get Bonds. . NEW YORK, Feb. 14. Exceeding the most optimistic predictions and indicating the strength of the Investment demand after the monetary crisis, the $50,000,000 issue of New York City 44 per cent bonds. the largest lot ever offered for public subscriptions by the city, was over-sub scribed six times today. No less than 1168 bids were made and Controller Metz said that he believed 103 would get the bonds, a higher price than for the last offering of J40.000.000 bonds, at 4V4 per cent, which, though over-subscribed four times, brought the. city about 102.063. The highest price offered today was 106 and a syndicate composed of J. P. Morgan & Company, Harvey Fisk & Son, The First National Bank and the Na tional City Bank bid 103.770 for J47.000.000 worth of 1937 stock and 100.377 for the $3,000,000 assessment bonds of 1917. The money obtained from the bonds will be used for various corporate pur poses. COTTON OUTLOOK NOT GOOD Manufacturers Have Difficulty In Getting Ready Money. BOSTON, Feb. 14. Information received here by interests prominently connected with the cotton-manufacturing Industries indicates that the depression In their line has not been dissipated and that ninny manufacturers still are having dif ficulty In securing ready money. In view of these conditions a general reduction in wrages of the operatives seems in evitable. Grand Jury to Probo Bank. CARSON, Nev. Feb. 14. At the re quest of District Attorney Roberts, of this county, today. Judge Langdon set February 20 for a meeting of the grand Jury to investigate the conduct of the State Bank & Trust Company. Messrs. Shaw, Piatt and Davis, who are repre senting the bank In reorganization, left tonight for Tonopah and Goldfield to meet Mr. Mackenzie and other heavy depositors in the hope of immediately commencing negotiations toward open ing the branches in both cities. Banker Surrenders Himself. CHICAGO, Feb. 14. A. C. Tisdelle. the banker for whose arrest a warrant was sworn out yesterday, surrendered himself today. The charge against him Is receiving deposits after he knew the bank was insolvent. Heinze Out of State Bank. BUTTE. Mont., Feb. 14. The State Savings Bank will resume business tomor row morning. A new set of officers for the bank haa been elected, the Heinze Interests being completely eliminated. UNITE TWO GREAT FORCES Association to Make Religion and Education Work Together. SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 14. At a meet ing today of the leaders in theological work in Christian, Hebrew and non sectarian fields the Pacific Coast division of the National Religious Educational As sociation was organized. Among the speakers were Dr. Benjamin Ide V heeler, president of the University of California, who was elected president and Rev. El Tj. Parsons, of St. Martins Church, Berkeley, secretary. The aim of the association, it was announced, was to inspire the educational forces of the Nation with the religious ideal: the religious forces with the educa tional ideal, and to keep before the public mind the ideal of education and its need and value. "The association does not stand for sec tarianism," said Dr. "Wheeler, "but we do stand for the right and duty of investi gation and criticism. And when we have gone as far as criticism can carry us, we confess ourselves in the presence of the inscrutable forces of actually." SHUTS OUT NEGRO VOTE Maryland Legislature Submits the Franchise Amendment to People. ANNAPOLIS. Md., Feb. 14. The con stitutional amendment designed to dis franchise the colored voters of the state was passed by the Senate today. The measure will be submitted to the peo ple for ratification at the general elec tion in November, 1909. The amend ment passed both houses by a strict party vote, the Democrats numbering more than the requisite three-fifths ma jority. It provides for an educational or property qualification. Ferguson's Body Shipped. WASHINGTON. Feb. 14. The bodv of Arthur W. Ferguson, late Executive Secretary of the Philippine Commission, was shipped on the transport Sherman, which sailed from Manila today for Pan Francisco, and will bo brought to Washington for Interment. Lipman-Wolfe's "Owl" Cut-Rate Drug Store always sells all Drugs, Remedies and Toilet Articles at a lower price than any. other store in Portland. , It has made the price of all Standard Drugs and Toilet Articles lower in Portland than in any other city in the United States. Such values as appear in this sale have never been seen before. Some prices are just half what the drug stores have to pay wholesale. The reason is that we buy in such large quantities, selling more drugs and at lower prices than any other store in Portland. Extra clerks and wrappers to wait on you. We reserve the privilege of limiting quantities. $1.00 Emerson's Bromo Seltzer, Owl cut $1.00 Henderson's Syrup of Hypophosphites, CQ Owl cut rate....... JC 50c Phillips' Milk of Mag nesia, Owl Qr cut rate J7C 50c Syrup of Tar. and Wild Cherry, oq Owl cut rate ... JC $1.00 Phillips' Emulsion of Cod Liver Oil, Owl CQ cut rate 4711 rate. 50c Cascarets, cut rate Owl 44c 25c Cascarets, Owl 22c cut rate. $1 Beef, Iron and CQ Wine, Owl cut rate5 C Peroxide of Hydrogen, 1 lb. size, Owl cut C A rate OtC $1.00 Glyco-Thymoline, 1-lb. size, Owl cut VQ rate ... ?C $ 1 Wine of Cardui, CtA Owl cut rate only OC 25a Melrose, Ingram's, Velv eolo, Satin Skin Powder and Owl Cammeline Powder, Owl cut rate 16c 2uc Spiro Perspiration Pow der, Owl cut "1 ? rate. Swansdown Face Pow der, Uwl cut rate q box , . . . . 2jc Roger & Gallet Rice Pow der, Owl cut Iff. rate 1 OC NEW Suits, Millinery, Belts, Neckwear, Waists, 6x8 Photograph Frames at Only 21c A special pur chase of 6x8 frames, com plete with mat and g 1 a s s for cabinet photos and pict u r e s, 1 VrV B irrnr-m-nw j go on s a ri a y. Moldings are finished in gilt. Not one frame in the lot is worth less than 50c. Spe cial today at only HACKED TO PIECES Captain of Trading Boat Is , Killed by Natives. CREW FREED UNHARMED Kecrniting laborers In Solomon Is lands When Attack Is Made. Storm Causes Big Bonanza Xcarly to Founder. - , VICTORIA. B. C, Feb. 14. The steamer Aorangt reached port today from Australia with 154 passengers, in cluding Dr. Self. Governor of the Sa moan Islands, bound to Berlin to discuss Germany's policy in the South Seas. News was brought by the Aorangi of the cutting out of the trading ketch Minota in the Solomon Islands, Captain McKenzie. the white trader on board, 'beins hacked to death with tomahawks while recruiting laborers at Tulagi. The ketch was surprised at anchor. Captain McKenzie being overpowered and bound, the native crew were tied with ropes, and after the vessel was looted, the cap tain was hacked to death In a brutal manner. The crew was freed without in jury. The steamer Queen Helena, which reached Sydney in ballast from Honolulu, reported having seen people, presumably castaways, on Sophia Island, a small wooded inhabited island in the South Pa cific. Captain Breaks sighted four men in the surf with his glasses, hove to and made signals. After waiting some time without an answering signal, the steamer proceeded. The American bark Bis Bonanza, which 25c Dr. Grave's Tooth Powder, Owl cut 1 y rate 14C 2Tc Sanitol and Tooth Powders, Owl cut rate Sozodont 16c 10c Sapolio, hand and scour ing,' Owl cut C rate JC White Rose Soap, Owl cut rate, cake 9c 2oc Woodbury's Facial Soap, Owl cut 1C- . 25c Pond's Extract Soap, Owl cut rate. , 14c 25c Packer's Tar Soap, Owl cut rate 14c Pears ' Soap, Owl cut rate, cake lie 25c Roger & Gallet Violet, Sandalwood and Heliotrope Soap, assorted 1 Q odors, Owl cut rate. . . C 50c Hinds' Honey and Almond Cream, 29c cut rate. 50c Wisdom's Liquid Rober tine, Owl cut OQ rate nWC $1.50 Oriental Cream, cut rate 92c 60c Ajax Toilet Paper, Owl cut rate, dozen OUC $1.20 Household H y g ie n i c Toilet Paper, good silk tis sue, 1000-sheet rolls, 7f doz., Owl cut rate. . . "C 25c Henderson's Corn Cure, prompt cure for "I A.r corns, Owl cut rate.."' 40c Sugar of Milk, 1-lb. package, Owl )A cut rate 3, $1 Swamproot, Owl cut rate , 75c 1 e to 21c sailed from Newcastle with coal for San Francisco. December 29, returned to Sid ney leaking, after having almost foun dered, Just before the Aorangi sailed. A heavy storm was encountered off New Caledonia,' seas breaking over the Big Bonanza, which became practically un manageable. The pounding caused the bark to leak at an alarming rate, and all hands were kept night and day at the. pumps to save their lives. After trying vainly to reach Noumea, the bark headed for Sydney. The Inrush of water was so great that the crew fought for nine days at the pumps, expecting the vessel to founder. She was being discharged to dock for repairs. News was brought of the total loss of the Australian island steamer Parua, which drove ashore on a reef during a hurricane. AH hands were saved. The Aorangi brought news of great distress In Queensland because of excessive heat, a number of deaths having occurred. After an absence of seven years there has been a recurrence of bubonic plague at Sydney. TALKS TO YOUNG OFFICERS Taft Tells West Point Graduates Their Duty as Soldiers. WEST POINT. N. T., Feb. 14. With plain words of advice as to their future duties and the advantages and hardships of an army career. Secretary of War Taft today presented diplomas to the 10S members of the graduating class of the United States Military Academy. The Secretary impressed upon the young men. who were commissioned as second lieu tenants In the various branches of the Army, that the military service must ever be subordinate to the civil government, and that it was their serious duty "to keep mouth shut and obey orders." In time of National danger, he declared, the soldier has his opportunity to achieve a great degree of fame, but In the every day life of Army routine there is much that seems tedious and Irksome. The affair waa entirely informal, and as the young graduates in their uniforms of gray stepped to the platform to re ceive their sheepskin scrolls, the Secre tary had a personal word and a hearty handshake for each. Mr. Taft upon his Arrival was met by Colonel Hugh L. Scott, superintendent of the academy. . A troop of colored cavalry r j mmmk 15,000 Chamois Skins In Great Sp'l Sale Coming as this sale does, right at the time when chamois skin is in greatest demand in the home, we need not dwell upon the importance f it. The mormons oaantitr. the quality of the Hkins and the sensationally low prices tell a convincing; story of practical economy. Every size, yellow and white. 5c, 10c, 15c, 25c, 50c, 75c, $1 50c Wyeth's .Effervesc ing Vichy Salts, HQ,, Owl cut rate -w 27 W. 40c Wyeth's Lithia Tablets, 3-grain, Owl cut OC rate SiOC Men's $1.50 imported English Squares 79c Extremely swell novelties in Men's Fine Imported Neckwear smart English Squares and Folded Ascot Four-in-Hands the newest designs, purchased at a special sacrifice by our New York establishment. In the very popular stripes, dots, figures and plain colors; all shades of brown, green, red, blue, gray and yQ purple. Regular $1.50 values, special C February Trade Sales Department Extraordinary reductions for Clearance of Suits. Coats, Waists, Petticoats, Rugs, Curtains, Blankets, Art Needle work, Leather Goods, Jewelry, Dress Goods, etc. served as an escort to Colonel Scott's quarters, where the luncheon was served. A salute of IT guns was fired In honor of the Secretary, who after the graduation exercises in Memorial Hall made thor ough inspection of the buildings and grounds. Mr. Taft remained over night as the guest of Colonel Scott. He will leave tomorrow for Hartford. Conn., where he will deliver two addresses. General J. Franklin Bell, chief of staff of the Army, was also a distinguished visitor today and was received with mili tary honors. Theater to Be lrt. CHICAGO.. Feb. 14. Officers of the Au ditorium Association, which owns and GRIP POISONS THE BLOOD The Recent National Rpldemlc Re. nponslble for Manx Preva lent Ailments. The grip poisons the blood, reduces the vitality, depresses the nervous ays-' tern, and leaves many troubles behind It. It is Infectious as well as con tagious and has prevailed so generally this winter that it is Responsible for many of the ailments from which thousands of people are suffering today. These ailments in clude weakness, that tired feeling, loss of appetite, general debility, and In creased susceptibility to disease, and demand the great Restorative Properties of Hood's Sarsaparilla, which purifies and re vitalizes the blood and restores normal conditions. If a cathartic Is needed, the best is Hoods Pills the tonic cathartic, strengthening, not weaken ing, the system. After the Grip "I waa all run down after the grip and felt so tired I could hardly get about the house. I tried Hood's Sarsaparilla and before I had taken one bottle, the tired, weak feel ing left me,' my appetite came back and I could do my housework.'" Mrs. Lucy Rogers, Parkersville, N. T. Hood's Sarsaparilla is sold every where. In the usual liquid, or in tab let form calied Sarsataba One hun dred doses one dollar. 35c Henderson's Famouss Kidney and Backache, Pills, Owl cut 14 C 25c Borodont Tooth Paste, Owl cut rate. . 16c Ingram's Zodenta, Owl cut rate 19c 25c Euthynol, Sozodont and Sanitol Tooth 1 r Paste, cut rate. IOC 25c Eastmau's Talcum Pow der, Owl cut I A rate lxi 25c Mennen's Talcum Powder, Owl cut in rate c 50c Egg Shampoo for the hair, 8-oz. bottles, 1 Q, Owl cut rate C 50c Palmer's Perfume,White Rose and Bose r Leaves, Owl cut rate. GJC $1.00 Manicure Scissors, best steel points, Owl CC cut rate -;...OOC 50c Dr. Parker Pray's Ongaline, Owl on cut rate 25c 4711 Nail Polish and Dr. Parker Pray ' s Rosaline, Owl cut I 7 rate i C 25c Dr. Parker Pray's Nail Polish, Owl -I 7 cut rate .... .... C 50c, 75c Rubber Gloves, for household, garden, OQ ctc, Owl cut rate. . . OZfC 50c Henderson's Kidney and Liver Cure, Owl cut OQ rate .6SC Embroidery, Dress Fabrics, Etc. Neck wear Folded Ascot Four-in-Hands Trade Sale v. leases the Auditorium building, declared I to be torn out of the building is un today that a story that the theater is unfounded. "Meat is to be classed with the very digestible foods." H. S. GRINDLY, D.Sc. University of Illinois Of Course, He Refers to U. S. Government Inspected Meat Many people "who formed their ideas from experience with unin spected meats, hold the old-fashioned idea that meat is not the proper food for children; this is the greatest error. A growing child needs nourishment, not mere bulk; and as Dr. Grindly has proved b.y scientific test, pure, wholesome meat is most easily assimilated. Best for the children and best for the grown-ups. Send for handsome booklet UNION MEAT CO Pioneer Packers of the Pacific 1 5c Medicated Porous Plasters, Owl cut 1 rate, TWO for. . IOC 15c Pepsin and Bismuth Tab lets, Owl cut 1 Q. rate lOC 15c Cocoanut Oil, Owl cut rate. . . . 8c 35c Laxative Fig Syrup, Owl cut rate. 25c Henderson's Bronchial Loz enges. Owl cut rate, of- THREE for... 50c Bradley's Violet Toilet Water, Owl cut rate Oi7C 40c Bradley's Woodland Vio let Sea Salt, 8-oz. O 7 bottle, Owl cut rate. . w C $1 Rosewood and Satin Back Hair OQ Brushes, cut rateJ?C 2 and 3-quart White Rubber Water Bottles, regular $1.00 and $1.25, Owl cut 75c Fountain Syringe, 2 qt., 3 hard-rubber fit. tings. Owl cut o C rate $1 Horlick's Malted 7Q0 Milk, Owl cut rate... 25c Carter's Little Liver ri!'.-0w'.cu'....i8c 15c package Epson c Salts, Owl cut rate 3C 25c pkg. R o c h elle 1 Q Salts, Owl cut rate. . . 20c pkg. Lavender Flow ers, Owl cut Q rate c Murine Eye Rem edy, Owl cut rate. . . 45c The most, stylish belt of the year, perfect fitting to the form, made of fine novelty belting, with pearl buckles ; in blue, brown, preen, tan, red, etc.; revivals., tZf)n introductory sale. Captain Jinks Belts "College Widow" Belts The new "Captain Jinks" Belts for Spring, 1908, fancy cold braid effect; very heavy gold-plated buckles: $2.25 val- C1 AfL tics, introductory sale pxU White fancy Wasjiablc Belts, strictly lailor made, pearl buckles, beautiful new OQ. designs; 75c values bargains in Rags, Purses, etc. PORTLAND, OR.