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MORNING OREGONIAN, MONDAY, FEBRUARY 24, 1908. 3 WILL CELEBRATE TUNNEL OPENING Completion of Tube Under the Hudson to Be Fittingly Ob served in New York. PRESIDENT GIVES SIGNAL iVill Press Button at Desk in Exec utive Office Result of Engineer's Skill Has Been Dream of Cen tury Seals Ferries' Doom. raw YORK. Feb. 23. The Century-old tank, of overcoming the, water barriers that have separated Manhattan Island from, the country of which it is the me tropolis, has at last been accomplished. The first tunnel for passenger traffic mder the North, or ' Hudson River, will he thrown open to tho public at noon on Tuesday. The event which spells the eventual doom of the Hudson ferries and marks the completion of another stage of the vast projected system of underground and under-water transportation In the greater city will be celebrated officially by the builders and by the highest offi cials of the state and Nation and unoffi cially by tens of thousands of com muters. President Roosevelt at his desk at the Executive mansion In Washington will press a hutlon to signal the opening of the tube and the Governors of New York and New Jersey will participate at the ceremonies at the tunnel mouth. Result of Tennessee Pluck. The first of the tunnels to be opened is a part of the so-called McAdoo system, thus named in honor of William Gr. Mo Adoo, president of the Hudson & Man hattan Railway Company, a young Ttn nessoean, whose pluck and energy secured the hacking and made the tunnels an ac complished fact. The bore of this first completed means of under-river trans portation to the west leads from Morton street on tho lower west side of New York to Hoboken, N. J. The tunnel con sists of two tubes, In which shuttle trains of eight cars each, propelled by elec tricity, will be operated. Two more tubes of the McAdoo system are nearing com pletion. Their Manhattan terminus will be at Cortlandt street, now an important ferry center, and the New Jersey end will be in Jersey' City. Both at Hoboken and at Jersey City the tunnels have con nections with several of the most im portant railroads leading Into the city. The North River tunnel service is to be still further augmented later on by the opening of the Pennsylvania Railroad tubes to connect their lines with the magnificent new station now under con struction at Thlrtytiecond street and Seventh avenue. The first of these bores was connected on Friday last. Depots Monster Structures. The McAdoo tunnel system includes subway hranches under New York City leading from the downtown stations to the heart of the shopping district. The tunnels also will connect with the main subway routes of the city and with the Pennsylvania tunnels. A feature of the system is the Cortlandt terminal. Two buildings, occupying a frontage of two blocks and rising 22 stories above the sidewalk, have been constructed. The train stations are in tho sub-basement and the offices will house some 10,000 people. DOWN ON ADMINISTRATION Xo Longer Controlling Patronage, Delegate Cale Is Disgruntled. OREGONIAN NEWS BUREAU, Wash ington, Feb. 23. Tom Cale, delegate from Alaska. Is developing Into quite a fighter. Cale concurs in the language attributed to Secretary Cortclyou at the time his Presi dential boom was punctured he believes lie has had a "rough deal at the White House." While Cale is at liberty to speak in the House of Representatives, he has no vote, but otherwise he has the privileges of a Congressman, among them the right to name Postmasters. Cale entered upon the distribution of patronage with considerable zeal, and his men were appointed right along, until Governor Hoggatt ceme to Washington, and then Cale's calorie career was inter rupted. Hoggatt got the President's ear; defeated some of Calc's appointments, and since then Cale has been able to see little of good In the Roosevelt adminis tration. When he was particularly out of sorta the. other dny Cale said that Alaska, a few months ago, was enthusiastically sup porting Roosevelt and would have sent an Instructed Roosevelt delegation to the National convention. Since then, how ever, Alaska's apportionment of delegates has been cut from six to two, and Cale suvs the two men selected will neither support Roosevelt nor any man Indorsed by him. Cale has soured on the admin istration. BLOODY FIGHT IN SALOON Murder and Robbery Plot Foiled and Attempted Suicide Follows. SEATTLE. Wash.. Feb. 23. (Spe cial.) A story of a bloody fight In a room at the Miners' Hotel, Western avenue and Pike street, was told in broken English by Jan Chelkasoff to the police today. A slung shot and a raxor figured prominently in the fren zied activity. The other party to the affair has not yet been able to talk. KaHing In an attempt to murder and rob him In the room, according to t'tielkasoff, Robert Muller, a sailor, cut Ills own throat and Is now In a pre carious condition at Wayside Emer gency Hospital, and his intended vic tim, badly cul and beaten but 'still alive, occupies a cot in an adjoining ward. Failing to accomplish his purpose of murder with the first blow, and believ ing that other lodgers in the house were coming to tho assistance of his victim, he tried suicide, but In that, as in the murder and robbery scheme, he failed. He severed his windpipe with his razor, and cut two gashes In the left side of his throat. MANY CONVERTS ARE MADE Rev. Allen AVIlson Holds Successful Revival Services. Seven converts- joined the First Chris tian Church yesterday, two being baptized at the night service, a direct result of the preaching of Rev. Allen Wilson, evangel 1st. Mr. Wilson preached yesterdav morn lug on the question, "What think ye of Christ?" in the evening his text was Luke ii:7. "No room for them In the inn." air. Wilson will hold services each night this week, and -will preach on the following subjects: Monday, "The Bible; What It Is and' How to Use. It:" Tuesday. "The Death and Burial of Jesus;" Wednesday, "If Christ Came to Portland;". Thursday, "The Resurrection of Jesus;" Friday, "The Forgiveness of Sins." Ijist night the church was well filled. Mr. Wilson said in part: If the world has no place for JeauB of Nazareth, it is becaUHe the world needs re ligion, and because the religion of Jeu 1 the only thins that will sattefy that need. That the world needs Christianity Is evident. Missionaries and explorers have gone to eve-' nation, every tribe, and everywhere have found religion. Revolting, shocking, vicious it some times Is. but it is the beet they know, and proves the universal need of the human race. Man iieeda a standard of morals from which there cau be no possible appeal. Man will always appeal from man-made standards. We are imitators, and we need a model in which there Is no flaw, that we may. with such a copy, work out a reasonably good life. Man knows that he is a sinner, and he wants to know what to do to get rid of sin. It Is evident that man loves religion. He has worshiped almost every kind of a god. Does the religion of Chrlz satlpfy these needs? Man wants to know the origin of things. The Bible gives him his only answer. He wants to know God. Science and phil osophy are dumb. He want to know himself. The religion of Jesus rhrlst reveals,eelf to self afl nothing else can. Man wants to know what to do to be happy. In order to be perfectly happy man needs something to believe, some thing to do, something to hope for, someone to love him, and someone to love. The-religion of Chrlet satisfies all these demands. Then since man needs religion, and since the religion of Jesus Christ alone satisfies all his demands, there is need for Jeenis. LEOPOLD TAKESTHE MONEY GOES BACK OX PROMISE MADE REGARDING THE COXGO. Asks for Funds to Be Placed Under Personal Control and $50, 000,000 Additional. BRUSSELS. Feb. 23. The situation in the matter of annexation to Belgium of the Congo Free State is again assuming a disquieting aspect. It is said that King Leopold has taken back all his fair promises and now demands that the special fund which was to re place the crown domain be placed under his control, and not under that of Parliament, as It was originally agreed. In addition, he asks that $60,- 000,000 be placed at his disposal to carry out various projects. It Is understood the government Is firmly resisting these demands and is determined. If It become necessary, to resign, which, as King Leopold could not under such circumstances, find any one to form a new ministry, it is pointed out, would mean elections that would be bound to result in the re turn of a majority most hostile to the king. The Petit Bleu, while admitting that there have been exchanges in the last few days between King- Leopold and Premier Schollaert on the question of annexation, says they have not result ed in settlement of the matter, owing to inability to agree on special works to be executed out of the revenue from the special fund and denies that a ministerial crisis Is imminent. WHEN JAIL DOESN'T CURE Curb Our Lawless Youths by Send ing Them to 'Western Farms. Washington. D. C, Star. A New York .father caught his 19-year- old son in a forgery and haled him to the station-house in the absence of an offi cer. He declared that he proposed to prosecute the youth and have him pun ished, "so that, having learned his lesson, he will lead an honest life in future." It appears that the young man has been going with a fast crowd, and, lacking funds for his pleasure, drew and indorsed a check for $50 in his father's name. .Here avlses one of the most important questions with which this country is con fronted today. How far will punishment through Imprisonment effect the reforma tion of this lad? Our present processes of correction are far from assuring in general any lasting cure of evil tenden cies. Gradually, but so slowly af to dis courage many workers in this field, bet terments In the penal institutions are being wrought alone: the line of helping the subject rather than merely punishing htm. A few advanced criminologists have been for some time preaching the doctrine that the disposition to break laws is curable, and should be treated rather as an ailment than as an offense. Their hope is to overcome the ancient belief that the offender against the stat utes deserves to suffer in atonement. Perhaps this New York father Is un consciously trying to work out the same problem in the case of his erring son. Limited in his conceptions of the means available, he selects the obvious, familiar process of turning the boy over to the police. He might possibly do better him self. Suppose, instead of sending him to court and thence to prison, he were to ship the young man out to work on the Western farm, where he would break away from his vicious surroundings of the city and perhaps acquire a new con ception of life and its significance. It might do him much more sTood than two or three years in a prison .reformatory. If the graduate of a penal instituiton could step forth Into the free air again without taint of any kind, his confine ment might be of value to him. There ts, unfortunately, however, a disposition on the rart of lawmakers still to sur round prison life with conditions that maJie such an emergency next to Impossi ble. The man knows that he is on record at police headquarters. His photograph and every minute detail of his person are there filed away. He has been almost "dared" to break another law. If he should meet the slightest sign of recogni tion as an ex-convict, he almost invaria bly resents his treatment, and unhappily his resentment often takes the form of accepting that challenge. We are very far yet from ideal condi tions in this regard. Many Influences are at work to reach a solution of the prob lem. Many able minds are bent upon the task of finding a better way to treat our criminals. Still there remains to be over come the obstinate prejudice against trusting the man who has once fallen. We are yet of little faith. THE DAY'S DEATH RECORD Brigadier-General Saxon. WASHINGTON. Feb. 13. Brigadier General Rufus Saxon, U. S. A., retired, dropped dead here today of heart disease, aged S4 years. He entered the Army from Massachusetts in 1856 as a First Lieutenant of the Third Artillery, re ceived a Congressional medal for bravery in the defense of Harper's Ferry, and wsa retired April 23, 1904. YATES OUT FOR GOVERNOR Illinois' Ex-Kxecutive Wants the , ' Job Again. SPRIN-QFIBI-n. 111., Feb. 23. Ex-Governor Richard Yates, tonight announced his candidacy for Governor. ACTON RESULT OP OLD QUARREL Faculty Fight at Bottom of Students' Action Regard ing President Coleman. LARGE GIFT MAY BE LOST Rumored A. E. Eaton Will Take Back Donation of $50,000 Af fair Resembles Tempest in Tea pot Coleman Is Silent. SALEM, Or., Feb. 23. (Special.) Dis sension among members of the board of trustees and members of the faculty of Willamette University seems to have caused the action of the student body last Friday in adopting a blank report presented by a committee appointed to draft resolutions expressing appreciation of the work of President John H. Cole man. On February 18 it was announced that President Coleman's resignation had been accepted. It now develops that this action was the result of a long controversy and that President Coleman was "let out," although he intended; to remain till the end of the school year. The institution Is now without a president, the faculty is hopelessly divided, and the students are more or less lined up In the con troversy. So far as the outsider can learn there has been very little foundation for so large a quarrel. It seems that Presi dent Coleman has been at outs with President M. B. Rankin, of the board of trustees, for some time. What caused the differences no one here seems to know, but it was apparently a sort of incompatibility. An anti-Coleman faction sprang up In the board of trustees and the friction grew up on its own grindlngs. Finally Coleman tendered his resignation, and at a special meeting called in Decem ber the board refused to accept it. When the report of this action was made-public members of the board who were not present at the meeting, got their heads together and concluded that the special meeting had been "packed" In Coleman's favor so they looked into the records and found that it had not been called in accordance with the rules of the bord. Another meeting was called for February 18 and at that time the resignation was accepted. Students Cheer Either Way. When the announcement was made in chapel last December that the board had refused to accept the resignation of the president, the students went wild with enthusiasm, and gave their college yells with vigor. Apparently In a similar frame of mind they manifested the same attitude towards the president when it was announced that his resignation had been accepted. A meeting of the student body was called; it voted to give the president a farewell reception and a com mittee was appointed, composed of Messrs. Shanks and Field and Miss Gussie Booth, to draft resolutions .of apprecia tion. The committee was of the opinion that In view of the controversy existing no resolutions should bo adopted, and consequently- a blank report was made, which report was unanimously adopted without debate. Following that, recon sideration was had upon the question of giving a reception, and after a heated discussion the question was laid upon the table, thus rescinding the order that a reception be given. In this discussion It was .asserted that President Coleman was trying to use the students as a means of retaining his position as president. It is also learned that after the committee had been appointed and prior to the sec ond meeting of the student body, some of the members of the faculty had been talking to the students against Presi dent Coleman, one of the professors, Mr. Bach, having devoted a considerable por tion of a recitation period to an open criticism and denunciation of Coleman. University May Lose Gift. Members of the committee say that the blank report was not Intended as a slap at the president but was merely an at tempt to keep the student body out of the controversy, which had divided the board of trustees, and tho faculty es pecially, since the students knew little about the merits of the quarrel. Many of the students, however, regard the action taken as a slap at President Coleman. President Coleman has long made it an Invariable rule not to be interviewed re garding his own controversies or those of other people, and he declines In this Instance to say anything about either the action taken by the student body or the trouble between himself and the board of trustees. Professor Boyer, dean of the college, who has been, generally reported to be Coleman's chief opponent, said today that he knows nothing of the students action except what he has heard second or third-hand. He admits that there was a disagreement between himself and Presi dent Coleman, but says an understanding was reached and .relations now existing are pleasant. So far as he knows, he says, pleasant relations exist among members of the faculty. C. B. Moores, a member of the board of trustees, vigorously condemns the action of the students and expresses the opinion that they were influenced by out siders to take the action they did. Mem bers of the board who favored letting Coleman go did so upon the ground that his usefulness had ended because of bis disagreement with the president of the board of trustees and with the members of the faculty. It was rumored today in university cir cles that A. B. -Eaton, of Union, who recently donated 150.000 for the erection of a new building on the campus, would withdraw the donation because of the re tirement of Coleman, but there is no con firmation of the rumor. DEAD. OF THE NORTHWEST Asa Jones, Pioneer Veteran. ALBANY, Or., Feb. 23. (Special.) Asa Jones, Bald to be the oldest member of the Grand Army of the Republic in Oregon, died this morning at the home of his daughter, Mrs. -M. McCauley, two miles east of Albany. He was a native of New York, S3 years of age. He served in the Civil War in Company H. Sixteenth Wis consin Infantry. Mr. Jones came to Oregon 20 years ago and resided at Hub bard until eight years ago. when he came to Linn County. He leaves three chil dren, Mrs. Carrie Montgomery, of Wa pato. Wash.; Mrs. M. McCauley. of Al bany, and S. G. Jones, of Glendale. Or. The remains will be taken to Hubbard to morrow for burial beside the body of his wife. The deceased is the third person oVer 85 years of age to die at Albany jn the past three days. Anna Buseli. OREGON CITY. Or., Feb. 23.-Special.) Anna Busch. eldest - daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Julius Busch, of Logan, died at the age of 14 years of tuberculosis of the bone. She recently underwent an opera tion in wmcn one of her feet was ampu tated. Since that time she has gradually failed. Looking Over Tieton Project. "NORTH YAKIMA. Wash., Feb. 23. (Special.) A. P. Davis, chief engineer of the Reclamation Bureau Service, ar rived this morning, and immediately pro ceeded, in company with District Engineer Swfgert, located here, to the Ticton Dis trict to Investigate the situation there. Only one day will be taken to make the investigation. The work Is proceeding on the canal wholly under the direction of Federal officials of the Reclamation Bureau. Brings Railroad to Knees. GARFIELD, Wash.. Feb. 22. (Spe cial.) J. W. Reudenbush, a local at torney, has made settlement with the O. R. & N. Railroad for 50 for dama ges sustained by reason of the rail road carrying him almost one-half mile beyond the station here last November, as he was returning from Southern Idaho, and required him to get off at the junction in the dark, landing him on a heap of scrap Iron. Verdict for $3000. ABERDEEN , Wash., Feb. 23. (Spe cial.) The Jury In the case of Alexander Gustafson vs. The A. J. West Lumber Company, returned a verdict for $2000 damages to the plaintiff. The defense moved to non-suit the case and when that motion was denied produced a number of witnesses to prove that plaintiff was neg ligent himself. Some of the jurors were In favor of allowing the entire $7000 eued for but compromised on 52000. AUTOS TOWED Bf HORSES SNOWDRIFTS PROVE TOO MUCH FOR THEIR OWN POWER. American Car Reaches Michigan City Still in Lead Paris Still Some 20,000 Miles Away. MICHIGAN CITY, Ind., Feb. 23. The American car reached here at 10 o'clock tonight. C. A. Coey, of Chicago, met the machine at New Carlisle and will accompany It to Chicago. LA PORTE, Tad., Feb. 23. The American car in the New York to Paris automobile endurance contest left Rolling Prairie, Ind., at 3:45 P. M. today, drawn by three teams of horses, with shovelers ahead. On account of the snowdrifts, the car which left New Carlisle, Ind., at 9:45 A. M. had to be towed by horses prac tically the entire distance. The party hoped to spend the night either in La Porte or Michigan City. La Porte is 59 miles from Chicago, with Paris about 20,000 miles away to the West. SOUTH BEND, Ind., Feb. 23. The Italian car reached South Bend at S o'clock tonight. It was towed into Goshen by horses, owing to the snow drifts. The American entries pilot car, which reached South Bend this morning, will be shipped to Detroit, the chauffeur, John Sherry, being 111. HOTLY RESENTS CHARGES (Continued From First Page.) for immunity. I deny this most emphat ically, because the Government has not got any case against me, and never did have, and the testimony that I did give in the Hail trial was supported by Mitchell's letter and was not of sufficient importance to call for immunity. I do not see why I should need immunity when the Government itself concedes and acknowledges that the field notes, which were investigated by the grand Jury and upon which investigation I was indicted, had never been signed by me or ac knowledged by me as a notary public. If such is the fact, and the Government admits that, then the testimony on which I was Indicted was not and could not be material. Had Mitchell's Consent. "There Is one other reflection which Senator Fulton makes, and which I deny, and thift is that I turned over his corre spondence or Mitchell's correspondence to the Government. As I testified in the Hall trial, Mitchell gave me permission to submit our correspondence to Mr. Burns -which I did with Mitchell's full consent, and I desire further to say that the Gov ernment had full knowledge of the Mitchell-Fulton letter, word for word, long be fore I was indicted, and did not obtain it either directly or indirectly, through me. "Fulton says in his statement that he pities me. The facts are that Fulton al ways did have a great deal of pity for me and it has existed ever since the night he was elected to the United States Sen ate. In fact, all of the Mitchell "push' have been in the habit of sending me bou quets of pity. But I am out of politics and am practicing law and last year made three times in cash money what the office of United States District Attorney is worth, so I don't need any pity just at this time. Then Why This Change? "Fulton also says' that I am foolish. He considered me a very bright man in 1S95 when I made a speech nominating him for the United States Senate. He also spoke highly of my intelligence at another time, when I presented his name In the caucus for President df the Senate. He also did not seem to think that I was foolish when on the last night of the session of the State Senate of 1903 he wrote with his own hand and introduced In the Senate with his own articular or gans a resolution thanking me as Presi dent of the Senate for the able, fair and impartial way in which I had presided over the Senate and moved Its adoption by a rising vote. "I only refer to this for the purpose of showing that In the estimation of some men a man may be a bright and capable man at one period in the history of Ore gon politics and a fool at another." OLD BALL PLAYER DIES James H. Mullee, Known on Coast, Succumbs to Pneumonia. SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 23. James H. Mullee. an oldtime ballplayer, who was a pitcher for teams in Los Angeles, San Francisco, Portland and Seattle In former days, died here today of pneu monia. Mullee's greatest fame came when he pitched a game in which the old pioneers defeated a team of all stars from the big Eastern leagues. Alleged Bunco Artist Caught. SALEM, Or., Feb. 23. (Special.) News has been received here of the arrest of A. L. Moser, at Boise. Idaho, on a charge of obtaining about $50 from Salem mer- I chants on worthless bank checks. BLOODLESS WAR WITH JAPANESE Fowler, of Exclusion-League Fame, in Debate That Be comes Exciting. AUDIENCE MISSES POINT Hears Speaker Say, "In Case or War America Would Lose " and Starts to Throw Him Out. He Meant 'Oriental Trade, Though. SEATTLE, Wash.. Feb. 23. (Special.) A bloodless warfare between America and Japan was waged this afternoon In Egan's Hall, Arcade building, on Orien tal exclusion. The two opponents were Jihei Hashiguchl, editor of the Japan Current, student at the State University, and full of patriotism and long words, and A. E. Fowler, erstwhile secretary of the Japanese-Corean Exclusion- League In this city, but now avoiding the lime light as far as possible. Hashiguchl and Fowler met In spirited debate, nominally, on- the subject of ex clusion as applied to Japanese by the United States, but really a series of rambling excursions into the past, pres ent and future of sociology, economics, ethnology, anthropology, history and re ligion. During the debate everything from socialism to Samurai was brought up and disposed of. The close of the meeting was enlivened by an incipient uprising among some vio lently patriotic and demonstrative white men, who started to resent remarks which they misinterpreted. This hap pened when a Japanese CYamaka), who was not on the original bill, requested and received permission to speak, five minutes on points that he thought ought to be made clear. t Objects- to, America's Losing. Yamaka said that the commercial side of the question had been lost sight of in the debate, and he wanted to rise and remark that if America and Japan should quarrel over exclusion America would lose a valuable Oriental trade. "This trade is worth more to you Americans that you could possibly lose by the presence of the Japanese," he said, "and If America and Japan should fight. America would lose" Just at this point cries of "Rotten!" ."That's not so!" "Throw him out!" came from all parts of the house, and three or four men Jumped to their , feet, ap parently anxious to cvry out the spirit of the last remark. T. E. Latimer, a student at the State University and chairman of th meeting, advanced and soothed the angry men and Yamaka continued. "As I said when you interrupted me, America would lose this valuable Orien tal trade." Finally he was allowed to proceed peacefully. ' Fowler based his arguments for Jap anese exclusion mainly on an assertion that the Japanese are able to drive out white labor, because they can live more cheaply than the white man. Humane Sentiments Applauded. Hashiguchl replied that Fowler's argu ments could be easily reduced to one that the Japanese Is different from the white man and should therefore be ex cluded. Moreover, he said that Japanese would assimilate- with Americans if naturalized and given the chance to make permanent homes here. He asserted with some vigor that the Japanese here will never be a menace to America, because they will always be outnumbered by the Americans ten to one. After the Yamaka Incident Fowler said: "Yamaka talks about the devotion of Japanese-Americans to their adopted country, but I'd like to ask this ques tion: How many of you Japanese, in case of war with Japan, would go to the front and fight for America?" This almost preciplated another uproar, but it was quickly changed to cheers when Yamaka rushed back to the plat form and shouted: "If war should break out with Japan, many of my countrymen would do as I would do enlist in the Red Cross service and help to care for the sick and wound ed on the battle field and in camp." EXPECT BUT SHORT TIE-UP Marine-Strike Shows Xo Change in San Francisco. SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 23. The lum ber arrivals today amounted to 1.700. 000 feet. The vessels which came Into port were the Sea Foam, the Wasp, the South Coast, Washington, and the Sau sallto. The Sea Foam and the Wasp, which belong to members of the Ship owners' Association, will discharge their crews and be laid up, on account of the marine engineers' strike. The steam schooner situation Is un changed, according to the statements of the parties Involved. Both sides are still holding out, and the opinion expressed by many is that the tie-up will be a long one. Owing to the particularly low rates on lumber, the lumber-schooner own ers are not over-anxious to run their vessels in any event, and hence the strike does not come so hard on them. There was no attempt today to unload the lumber brought to port. The schooner William Nottingham, which came Into port a few days ago In a sinking condition and long over due, left today for Seattle, In tow of the tug Dauntless. 1 MAIN WATER PIPE BURSTS Part ol Paris Flooded and Much ' Damage Done. PARIS. Feb. 23. The main water pipe of Paris, under Tuillerles street, burst this evening and converted the street into a torrent. The water flood ed cellars In various side streets, ex tinguishing fires and stopping the dy namos in at least one large hotel, put ting the building In darkness. The Fire Department was ifngaged for hours in pumplng'out the water. A KBW D3PART1IRE. The cost of Interments has been greatly reduced by the Holman Undertaking Company. Heretofore It has been the custom of funeral directors to make charges for all Incidentals connected with a funeral. The Edward Holman Undertaking Company, the leading funeral directors of Portland, have departed from that custom. When casket is furnished by us we make no extra charges for embalming, hearse to cemetery, outside box or any services that may be required of us, except clothing, cemetery and carriages, thus effecting a saving of $25 to $75 on each funeral. THE EDWARD HOLMAN UNDERTAK ING CO., 230 Third at., cor. Salmon. Etablihod 1850 Fifty-Seven Years in Buine Opman,gJolfe$o Quality Considered Our Prices Are Always the Lowest r Monday Women's Sample Hosiery, all sizes and colors, 35c, $1.25 values. $3.50 black Heatherbloom petticoats, $2.79 Smart new Spring 1908 Swiss and nainsook edges and insertions, ICa 1 to 16 inches wide, values to 50c at . . $1.75 one-clasp cape gloves, Dent style, $1.19 75c latest improved incandescent gas lights, 39c $1.00 Lindsay burner gas lights, 59c $1.25 Ramsdell inverted gas lights, $1.25 20c, 25c, 35c incandescent gas mantles, 10c 25c globes for gas lights, 15c Other gas light supplies on sale Sale of Lace Curtains, Rugs, Neckwear, Books, Stationery, Waists, Jewelry, Muslin Underwear Lipman, Wolfe & Co. Quality Considered Our Prices Are Always the Lowest The Fashion Show of the Season appears in Butterick Fashions, Spring 1908 the new publication issued by the great Butterick fashion house. The price is 20 cents, including a certif icate good for One Butterick Pattern Free This book is jointed on high-grade paper and contains styles from Paris, London, Berlin and New York, illustrated by some thou sands of illustrations by foremost fashion ai'tists. 10 OWNS NORTH COAST? SPECULATION' AS TO INTERESTS BEHIND ROAD. Reasons for Thinking One of Four Roads Slay Be Owner Work to Begin March 1. NORTH YAKIMA. Wash., Feb. 23. (Special. Sub-contractors on the North Coast Railroad are completing arrangements to begin at an early date the promised actii'e construction work all along the line of the route. Activities will be begun in this county by March 1, according to latest re ports. The people of this part of the state have been watching the progress of the North Coast with more than ordinary Interest, on account of the pressing need for better transportation facilities here, the Northern Pacific having been unable to handle the in creased output of the orchards and fields of this district. They are not worrying about the "identity" of the line. All they want is the service. However, much specu lation is yet rife as to what Interests are behind the North Coast. It was observed that when Harriman was desperately endeavoring to get into Seattle, the' North Coast waa making a similar effort. When Harriman Anal ly succeeded, the North Coast people withdrew their propositions in that city. The Harriman interests are well provided for in Spokane, apparently leaving the North Coast to complete it.s work of obtaining rights of way, which It did. Thus the credulous fig ure the sympathy of Interests be tween the North Coast and the Har riman lines. On the other hand, the Chicago, Mil waukee & St. Paul road, which is mak ing an unparalleled record of speed in Its construction work, has made no ap parent effort to get into Spokane, al though it is building directly toward that city from two directions and can not, of course, afford to pass around It. The North Coast has abundant trackage in thai city. This suggests an alliance between the North Coast and the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul, In the railroad geography .of some people. Interested people in this district would rather take stock In the sugges tion that the Canadian Pacific is be hind the North Coast; but, although there are some indications of allied interests, it is difficult to build the speculation on apparently tenable ground. In view of opposing conditions. Others who speak with some knowl edge of the situation declare that the North Coast is practically owned by a combination of four big lines the Union Pacific, the Canadian Pacific, the Northwestern and the Chicago, Mil waukee & St. Paul. It traverses a field In which all of these big lines are deeply Interested, unless It be well to except the Canadian Pacific, and It may be easily seen why that trans continental line should desire to come into this rich district. The North Coast, as outlined by Its mostly "Onyx" brand, 50c, 75c, $1, nQp model Tailored Suits, $35 surveys, on part of which much con struction work has been done, trav erses the hesj-t of the richest field in the entire Northwest. It will furnish an outlet either to the south, the north or the east for one of the most exten sive and productive regions in the West: but the secret of its relation ship to other lines has been kept abso lutely from the public. PUBLIC MEETINGS STOPPED Philadelphia Police Fearful of Dem onstrations Much 111 Feeling. PHILADELPHIA, Feb. 23.-The action of the police in preventing the meeting of a number of societies and organiza tions in the, foreign settlement In the southern section of ttie city has aroused much ill-feeling among the foreigners. The action followed an order .by Director of Public Safety Clay, in which the police were directed to .top the anarchists from holding any meetings. The order wia given in consequence of the riot that fol lowed the parades of the unemployed foreigners here on Thursday. The meeting of a Jewish beneficial so ciety was stopped, as was also one that was to have been addressed by a well known lawyer, who was to have talked against anarchism. Despite, the police vigilance, the professed anarchists did hold a meeting In a hall, at which time they decided to retain a lawyer and pre pare to advertise and hold a big meeting, so that they can test the law and see whether they have the right of "free 6-peech." The Central Labor Union today placed itself on record as opposed to parades of the "unemployed'' by refusing to attend a labor meeting In tho northern section of the city unless given assurances that there would be no parades. "We want to keep out of such demon strations. They won't get any one work and they lead to trouble," is the way one of the delegates expressed it. Nebraska Kxperlment Station has kept a eareful record for ten years of milk cows, and they report a net profit of $40 from each row a year. AND WEDDING INVITATIONS W. G. SMITH & CO. Washington Bull din. COFFEE Let it be good or let it alone; poor coffee is poor consolation. Tour arocer returns your money If you don't like Schilling-' Best; we pay him.