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THE MORNING OREGONIAN. THURSDAY. MARCH 12, 1DOS. CHINA HOLDS HER OWN WITH JAPAN Firm in Contention That Nip pon Must Stop Exporta tion of Arms. MAINTAINS HER POSITION Confiscation of Tntu Maru Is Jus tified, but Chinese Admit They Were Wrong in lowering Japanese Flag. PEKIX, March 11. The- negotiations between China and Japan regarding the Tatsu Maru. the Japanese steamer that wbb sefaed by China February 7, on the ground that she was conveytn s arms and ammunition to Chinese revolutionists, are proceeding on the basis of China's offer to compromise on condition that Japan puts a stop to the importation of arms and ammunition from Japan to en ter Chinese territory. China, seems to be holding her own in Utf proceedings, for her claim to the right to consider the Portuguese side of th question separately from the contro versy with Japan has been accepted by Japan, at least provisionally, and she has been able to sustain her contention Df justification ill making the seizure on the ground that the Tatsu Maru dis charged hfr cargo in Chinese waters. China also has sustained her conten tion that the cargo of the Japanese ves sel was liable to confiscation. She ad mits In substance that (me ma wrong in hauling down the Japanese flag on the vessel, and for this haa apologized, but she has not receded from her argument that she had the right to confiscate the ship and its cargo, nor from the point of adequate adjustment of the difficulty on which she has all along Insisted. K is understood in Hong Kong that the consignees of th cargo of the Tatsu Maru have repudiated their obligations on the ground that the vessel digressed from the course she was cnartered to follow. KCSSIA A YD J A PAY FRIEYDS Muscovite Foreign Minister Advo cate Alliance With Enemy. ST. PETERSBURG. March U. During a debate in the Douma today, on a bill raising the Russian legation at Tokio to an embassy, which eventually was passed, M. Iswolsky, the Foreign Minis ter, delivered a speech In which he said that, however, distressing the sacrifices made by the Portsmouth treaty, it must be acknowledged that Russia lost noth ing of her historical inheritance, but only what either previously belonged to Japan or geographically and economically grav itated toward Japan. Accordingly, he declared, there was nothing to prevent Russia from stretch ing out her hand to her late opponent. Hta personal acquaintance with leading Japanese statesmen-, he continued, con vinced him of a reciprocal desire on the part of Japan to arrive at a good under standing with Russia. He pointed to the network of inter national treaties. Including those between Jajtan and France, and between Great Hrttain and Russia, assisting, with Rus sia's alliance with France, the guarantee for the preservation of peace in the Far Fast. Germany and the United States with both of whom Russia maintained sincerely friendly relations, he continued, were striving for the same goal, namely, l firm equilibrium and peace in the Pa cific Ocean. Yew Appointment for Chen. PEK1N, March 11. Chen Hsuan Huai, who was recently appointed vice-president of the department of posts and com munliatlons. has also been made treaty commissioner at Shanghai. Reception for Minister Wu. WASHINGTON. March 11. President Roosevelt today officially received Wu Ting Tang, the newly appointed Chinese Minister. Speeches were made by the President and by Minister Wu. NO CHARGE BY CORONER General Conditions Blamed for Col , llnwood School Fire. I'I.EVEMND, O.. March 11. Coroner Burke rendered hts decision in the Col llnwood School Are today. Conditions existing are blamed, i but no fault Is rharired to any one. The Coroner found that the fire started in a closet under the front stairway and was caused by overheated pipes. The death of the chil dren, he says, was due to faulty con struction. The Coroner recommended that the l-rntslature pass a law making: all school buildings fireproof and that automatic devices be puf in the buildings to fur ther safeguard the lives of the children. Tilcago Closes School Firetraps. CHICAGO. March 11. Because of vio lations of the fire ordinances the two up per floors of the St. Aimes School were closed summarily yeeterday by the Building Commissioner. The other build ins. were declared to be In a condition which menaced the safety of their occu pants. Xo PnpUs on Third Floors. ROCHESTER, X. Y., March lL-Mayor Kdserton has ordered that all of the third stories of the Rochester public schools be abandoned. TROOPS KILL 400 RAIDERS Italian Wreak Vengeance on Hostile Tribesmen. ROME. March 11. News has been re ceived here from Italian Svm alii and to the effect that a local tribe, helped by the soldiers of the Mullah, attacked an other tribe under the protection of Italy and killed So of their opponents. They then drove off a number of cattle. Italian troops sent to punish -the raid ers in one engagement killed 400 of the tribesmen and ft of the Mullah's soldiers. The Italians had one man killed and two wounded, all natives. REBATES GIVEN TRUST (Continued From Tint P&ire.) shippers when the conditions were Identical. Whenever a new. Industry waa established along Its line, he said. its officials made a point of placing themselves In touch with It and seeing that it received the same freight rates as its neighbors. "Then why have you not published these lower rates Instead of keeping them secret?" - ' "Because we have not wanted our competitors to know what reductions we have made. We endeavor to meet the - competition within the state wherever we find it." Just before adjournment until to morrow morning Mr. Webber' asked a number of questions regarding rates charged different shippers in the neighborhood- of Presno. He wanted to know whether any of the packers at Fresno, except the California Fruit Canners' Association, had received the 60 per cent cut. The witness said he would look up the records in the case. , Blow at Oregon Boxmakers. At the morning session Mr. Webb proved by Mr. Luce's testimony that the California Pine Box Lumber Company was granted a rate 'of 10 cents off that regularly charged on box shooks shipped to the Citrus Fruit Union, thereby securing the business of the box company, which had previ ously gone to the boxmakers of Ore gon and Washington, who shipped by sea. The fact that the. same cut was not made in the rate of shipments to other fruit packers In Southern Cali fornia, Mr. Luce considered a matter for the box company to settle with its own conscience, and would .only go so far as to admit that the rate was given to meet competition by sea. The re sult was the decrease In sea ship ments. Xew lne In California. LOS ANGELBS, Cal.. March 11. Articles of Incorporation of the Los Angeles & San Francisco Short Line Railroad Com pany, with a capital stock of $2,000,000, of which about 20 per cent is secured, were filed 'Jiere yesterday. The purpose of the company is to build a line to San Fran cisco, cutting off almost 100 miles from the distance covered by any of the roads now- constructed between here and the Northern city. The line has already been surveyed. : It is eald that 3astern capi talists are behind the proposition. The incorporators deny all connection with the Western Pacific. OFFER YACHTS FOR SALE MILliIOXAIRES IV ANT TO SELL ' COSTLY TOYS. Fifty Private Boats, Representing Investment of $4,000,000' Are Known to Be on Market. NEW YORK. March 11. (Special.)- Fifty of the largest yachts in this country are on the market. ,.- These, with other less costly boats that are seeking . buyers, represent an invest ment of $4,000,000. Many well-known millionaires are among the owners who are trying to exchange their expensive playthings for hard cash. Among the yachts on which prices have been named are George Gould's Atalanta. formerly Amzi.L.; Barbour's Brltieh-bullt Lorena, and Frank J. Gould's Helentta, which he named after his wife. Three -Vanderbilt" yachts ae In the market. They are: - Frederick W. Van derhlt's 174-ton Conqueror, Cornelius Vanderbllt's 70-foot sloop Rainbow, and W. K. Vanderbllt's 70-footer Virginia. Cornelius Vanderbilt, as commodore of the New York Yacht Club, will keep, his white steamer North Star for his flag ship. Many owners make no effort to conceal the fact that they will spend the Summer In Wall street, unless business takes a sudden change for the better. HE GOES HOME UNSCATHED Alfonso Thank Catalonians for Welcome. BARCELONA, March 11. After two days' visit to this city. King Alfonso left for Madrid shortly before 8 o'clock this evening. Great crowds gathered on the streets and at the station to bid him farewell, and the royal train moved away to the cheering of the multitude. Before his departure the. King expressed his gratitude for the splendid reception which was given him and for the mani festation of loyalty the Catalonians showed during his entire visit. No untoward incident marked the King's stay in Barcelona, but early this morning the police had something of a scare owing to the explosion of a small bomb which had been placed In a water pipe at Atarazanas quay, a very lonely spot. The pipe was shattered and the sidewalk damaged, but no one was injured so far as known. ANNA GOULD. ON ADRIATIC Takes Fassage for Xew York From Cherbourg. CHERBOURG, March 11. Madame Anna Gould, accompanied by her three children, sailed today on the White Star liner Adriatic from this port for New York. She had originally booked passage on the North German Lloyd steamer Kronprlnx Wllhelm. but can celled her engagements, expecting to put off her departure for a few days. At the last moment staterooms were engaged for her on the Adriatic. She came to Cherbourg by automobile. It is reported here that Prince Helle de Sagan Also sailed today for the United States, but confirmation of this is lacking. It is known, however, that he took out a passport for America last Monday, which is not an unusual pro ceeding here, because a passport is one of the b'est evidences of identity for purposes of legal documents. Northwestern People in Xew York. XEW YORK. March 11. (Special.) Northwest people in New York: From Portland W. H. Hillls, at the Hoffman. From Spokane W. C. Klpp. at the Ho tel Astor: G. H. Walters, at the Hoffman. From Seattle F. Waterhouse, at the Collingwood. Japanese Uses Knife. - VICTORIA. B. C. March ' ll.-The steamer Camosun. from Prince Rupert, brought news of a tragedy at Swanson Bay. where a Japanesa slashed open a fellow-countryman's stomach. The as sailant stole a boat and fled and has not been seen since. The victim will probably die. Bavaria Expels Mormons. MUNICH. March 11. The Bavarian government has ordered the immediate expulsion of a number of American Mor mon missionaries, whose presence here is regarded as being dangerous to nubile order. OF Hidden Behind Objections to Land-Grant Resolution. USING A STALKING-HORSE Innocent Purchaser a Mere Excuse for Opposing Action by the Friends of Corporation s ' In Lower House. OREGONIAN NEWS BUREAU, Wash ington. March 11. There is suspicion In Government circles that the Southern Pa cific road is bringing influence to bear in Congress to becloud the issue lying be hind the Fulton land-grant resolution. It is furthermore suspected that the railroad company is at least partially responsible for the clamor that has gone up alleging that the resolution, if passed as drawn by the Attorney-General, would injure Innocent purchasers. When those who object most strongly to the resolution In Its present form are confronted by friends of the measifre with the proposed amendment which will accomplish exactly what they profess to favor, they wave it aside and find new objections. To the officials Interested It begins to look as though the "innocent purchaser" was being thrust forward as a blind, and that in reality the railroad company Is undertaking to kill the reso lution and prevent the accomplishment of the main purpose of the Government, namely, to open up the remainder of the grant, which the company now declines to sell on any terms. The resolution will be further consid ered In committee tomorrow. ORECOX TjAOTV CASE TAKES VP Witnesses Summoned to Washington for Benson-Hyde Trial. OREGONIAN NEWS BUREAU, Wash ington, March 11. Subpenas were issued yesterday summoning witnesses for the trial of John - A. Benson, Frederick A. Myde, Joost H. Schneider and Henry P. IMmond, Jointly charged with conspiracy to defraud the" United States out of timber lands in Western states. The trial Is set for April 13, and it is believed it will occupy three months. The case has been on the dockets for the last four years. i The cases were first called for trial here several, months ago but owing to a lack of time, postponement was taken un til the Fall term of court. This action of the court cost- the Government $25,000 in witness fees and transportation allow ances. At the Fall term of court a lack of money in the appropriation for the federal courts caused a further post ponement. , i Witnesses - will be ' summoned from Washington, Oregon, California and other Western states. The Initial cost to the Government In bringing this case before the court will be 25,000 in witness fees alone. ' IRRIGATE MORE IDAHO LA XI French Wants State' to Have 2,000, 000 More Acres. OREGONIAN NEWS BUREAU, Wash ington, March 11. Representative French today secured a favorable .report from the public lands committee on a resolu tion authorizing Idaho to select an addi tional 2.000,000 acres of arid land to be reclaimed under the Carey act. Mr. French today Introduced a bill similar to that agreed upon by the Idaho Senators, providing that all funds de rived from sales of lots In townsites of Government irrigation projects shall be expended in the erection of schoolhouses, construction of sewer and water systems and other civic improvements In towns where the money Is collected. GETS ROOSEVELT FORGES TAFT St" RE OF SOLID NEBRAS KA delegation:- .; Delegates to State Convention In structed for Roosevelt Take Him at His Word. OMAHA. Neb.. March 11. Several hundred delegates to tomorrow's state Republican convention gathered during the day and tonight All the hotel lobbies. A feature of the day's developments was the decision of the Lancaster and Lincoln delegates to support a Taft ticket. Lancaster County was the only large county to send a delegation in structed for any other candidate. The county held its eonentlon before Presi dent Roosevelt made his final declaration that he would not be a candidate, and in structed the delegation of 54 members for the President. Four .other counties did likewise, with the result that 95 dele gates go into the convention instructed for Mr. Roosevelt. Several counties sent delegate without Instructions, leaving about 750 of the 925 delegates Instructed for Mr. Taft. Today a Lancaster party leader stated that his delegation would vote solidly for the Taft delegates and this leaves the minority of such slight proportions that it will hardly attempt to cause a division as far as Taft delegates are concerned. A feature of the ante-convention senti- HMD HARR MAN . mt3 merit is an almost unanimous acceptance of Mr. Taft, and all agree that the War Secretary will have a solid delegation from Nebraska. YOTE AGAIXST HUGHES BILL Committee Will Not Report Primary Xomlnating Measure., ALBANY. N. Y..-March 11. The bill providing for the permissive system of direct nominating primaries, in accord ance with the message of Governor Hughes, was practically killed last night when the Assembly Judiciary committee in executive session voted ten to two not to report it. The permissive direct nominations bill embodied one of the recommenda tions upon which Governor Hughes has been most insistent. He recommended It last year, and the Senate passed it, but it failed of passage in the Assem bly. The Governor this year renewed his recommendation. . , The action has revived the talk of an extra session, the general impres sion being that Governor Hughes re gards the proposition of sufficient im portance to press its enactment by every constitutional means within his power. INSTRUCTED TO BACK TAFT Oklahoma Republicans Crush Unit ed Opposition to Him. OKLAHOMA CITY, Okla., March 11. Instructing them to "vote for any propo sition favorable to the candidacy of' Wil liam H. Taft tor the Presidency," the Republican state convention here today elected four' delegates' at large to 'the Chicago convention. . The resolutions Indorse President Roosevelt's administration, condemn the Democratic state administration, recom mend reduction of the representation in Congress and the electoral college of states which disfranchise negroes and con demn the state Legislature for ' its ex travagance. A resolution by State Senator H. B. P-. Stanford pledging the party to an early re-submission of the prohibition question was overwhelmingly defeated. All favoring any other Presidential can didate than Mr. Taft Joined in a, vain en deavor to prevent an Instructed dele gation. STATE SWEPT BY INSURGENTS Klttredge Forces Overwhelmed in South Dakota. HURON, S.' D., March. 11. Late reports from yesterday's primaries to elect dele gates to the state convention, which will select delegates to the Republican Na tional Convention, show that. the Coe Crawford supporters, known as the in surgents, have swept the state over the stalwart forces of Senator Klttredge. The stalwarts, however, are still em phatic in their claims that Klttredge will carry the June primaries and be his own successor. . Ask Candidates to Withdraw. NEW ORLEANS, March 1L After con sidering the charge that about 9000 fraud ulent votes were cast in the recent Demo cratic primary for Lieutenant-Governor, the Democratic State Central Committee today appointed a committee to request both the successful and defeated candi dates to withdraw and allow the com mittee to appoint a nominee for Lieutenant-Governor. The charges of fraud were filed by J. J. Bailey, the defeated candi date, who was opposed by Paul Lambre mont. Shaw Speaks for Merchant Marine. NEW YORK. March 11. Before an audience of 3000 people attending a meeting of the People's'. Institute in Cooper Union last night, ex-Secretary of the Treasury Shaw argued strongly for strengthening the merchant marine as a means of developing Increased interna tional trade for American -products. " Taylor Snubs the Leaguers. SAN FRANCISCO, March 11. In answer to the request of: the Independence League that Mayor Taylor remove Elec tion Commissioner C. N. King and C. L. Apperson and appoint league representa tives In their places, the Mayor directed his secretary today to Indict a refusal. THE DAY'S DEATH RECORD John Teagle,; Oil Refiner. CLEVELAND, O., March liJotirt Teagle, formerly one of the best known Independent oil refiners in this coun try, died at his home here last evening, aged 60 years. - Ex-Congressman Durborrow. CHICAGO. March 11. Ex-Congressman Allen C. Durborrow died last midnight. Mr. Durborrow was best known as the man who introduced the bill in Con gress which resulted In the appropriation for the Chicago postofflce, and - for the political battle he waged with William Lorimer In 1903 for a seat in the National House of Representatives. D. W. Hitchcock, Railroadman. SAX FRANCISCO, March 1L D. W. Hitchcock, who was for 25 years general agent of the passenger department of the Union Pacific Railway in this city and at one time general passenger agent of th Chicago, Burlington & Qulncy Railway, died tonight at his residence In Oakland. He was 77 years of age and retired three years ago. Propose Lottery in Porto -Rico. SAX JUAN. P. R-, March ' 11. The House of Delegates today passed a bill authorizing the insular government to operate a lottery. Chicago Dr.- J. L. Pennington told a Council committee Tuesday that chains on . automobile wheels spread consumption by stirring uo the dust and germs In the streets. 1 'I' . pruts ibfurt Jtobelttes Countless little touches of fashion mark the new separate skirts as unusually artistic examples joi high grade tailoring;. Numbers of our models are in tke new gored, paneled, circular and tunic effects. Beautiful novelty clotks in woven bor der designs, stripes : and checks, in all tke Spring shadesa great variety of. plain colors. Prices $750 to $18 artfjotometo Co. KILL BUCKET SHOPS Roosevelt Orders Inquiry Into Possible Laws. STOP GAMBLING IN STOCKS General Demand for Legislation ' Prompts Instructions to Straus and Smith to Study Laws ( of Other Nations. . WASHINGTON, March 11. President Roosevelt has directed Herbert Knox Smith, of the Bureau of Corporations, to investigate the methods of stock trading, with a view to furnishing the basis of possible . future legislation regulating such practices. The diffi culty is recognized of attempting Fed eral regulations for the transfer of stocks which will - opera t to curtail purely gambling contracts, and at the same time work no hindrance to legit imate transfers, and is announced to be for the purpose of proceeding on sound principles that the Investigation Is being made. President Roosevelt has declared himself to be decidedly In favor of eliminating stock gambling. - For several months the President has been in receipt of communications from various .interested persons, urging him to. lend his Influence to secure the enactment of National legislation pro moting ine use ot telegraph or tele phone wires and the United States mails for the transmission of quotations of stocks and . food commodities for. "bucket shops." One correspondent submitted to him a bill drawn in tentative form to pre vent bucket-shop transactions. The President informally discussed' with Mr. . Smith these communications and subsequently submitted some of them to Secretary Straus, of the Department of Commerce and Labor, with a re quest that the Commissioner make a general inquiry into the practicability of attempting to have such legislation enacted. In a memorandum transmit ting; the matter to Mr. Smith, Mr. Straus directed him to Investigate the subject with special reference to the enact ment of such laws in .other- countries, particularly Germany, and to make a report which could be submitted to the President for his Information. It is 'not the purpose of Mr. Straus or Mr. Smith to make any general in vestigation of stock- transactions. The Inquiry will be confined substantially to the feasibility of enacting such pro posed laws to control the operations of bucket shops."- GATES ADDS TO HOLDINGS s Now Controls Biggest Mines in the Goldfleld District. RENO, Nev., March 11. Al Meyers and L. D. Murphy, acting, it is be lieved, for John Vf. Gates, of New York, today secured control of the Combination Fraction Mining Com pany of Goldfield, securing 501,000 shares of stock at SI. 15 a share. . It is said on the best authority that the purchase Is made for Mr. Gates for the purpose of turning the Combina tion Fraction over to the Goldfleld Con solidated, giving that company control of practically all the biggest mines in the Goldfield district- Mrs. Metcalf Sent to Asylum. INDIANAPOLIS, March 11. Mrs. Beatrice Thomas Metcalf, who attempted to shoot Attorney S. R. Hamill during the trial of John R. Walsh, at Chicago, was today committed to the General Hospital for the Insane, by a commission. Mrs. -Metcalf has jnade two .attempts to com mit suicide. New Attack on Aldrich Rill. NEW YORK, March 11. The New York Board of Trade A Transportation today unanimously adopted a report opposing the Aldrich currency bill. Blow to Drys In Mississippi. JACKSON, Miss., March 11. Consti tutional prohibition was defeated in the 8enato today, 21 to 9. Pure Medicine Always pure, safe and beneficial, no changes have been necessary in Hood's Sarsaparilla, or its advertis ing:, to comply with the Pure Food and Drugs Law, or public sentiment. Its Cures of scrofula, eczema, psoriasis, blood-poisoning, catarrh, rheumatism, and : of all other troubles or diseases arising from im pure blood or low state of the sys tem, have been truly marvellous. If You Are In Need of a good med icine to sharpen your appetite, or for your blood, thousands of cured people will recommend you to take Hood's Sarsaparilla Sold in the usual liquid form or in the new form of chocolate-coated tablets, railed SarsaUbs. C L HOOD CO., Lowell, Mass. 'Tke House of Tone 392 "Washington St. April Butterick Patterns 10c and 15c EtablUhd in 1850 Fifty-Saraa ' Year ia Business Cipmsn, OJoif c & Go Quality Considered, Our Price Are Always the Lowest Famous Wild West Remington Pictures Formerly $1, Sale Today.. . When you see .these Remington pictures ideal personal delineations of Western life you will wonder how theycould be sold for. 25c. Always $1 regularly. Some stores back East have thought it wonderful to sell them for 50c. Our price 25c. Subjects: Caught ta the Circle. The End ef the Day. . ' V Monte Game in a Souther ITte Airency. A Poatofflce In tie Cow Country. Trllin(t Texas Cattle. ' Tie Bent Mare. A ReconnolMance. The Bmlxmnti. Lipman, Wolf e 6c Co. Quality Considered Our AIL THIS WEEK. An Exhibit of Early Spring Millinery, tBTm -AX n Millinery which will set the season's fash ions is receiving first introduction in all the divisions of our Millinery Salesrooms The exhibit in the moderately-priced Trimmed Millinery Section at $4.95, $7.95 and $10.00 should receive especial attention. Each of these Hats has an individual style from our. own designers. They show' the season's liking in diversity, not only in charming color combinations but in shapes. Innovations are shown in the small Suit Hats and t in varying designs' to the very large sloping brim . Sailor Hats. Blues are favorites they are com bined in, Hats for every occasion at each, price, $4.95, $7.95 and $10.00. JF it makes a difference to you what sort of shoes you put your feet into, it makes a lotofdifferencewhereyou goto get them and who makes them. If you don't know what, a difference Selz Royal Blue shoes will make in your foot comfort, in the service and style you get and in the money you save, come in here some day and get a pair of these fine shoes. They're different. Selz Royal Blue Shoes $3.50, $4 and $5 CALL AND SEE THE NEW SPRING STYLES But oak sole leather used in our ahoea CORNER SEVENTH and WASHINGTON STREETS (Formerly 149 Third Street) rnl The FlKht at the Water Hole. The Ptoaeer. KIIUdk a Cattle Thief. Pony Track. In the Buffalo- Trnllii. ' HI. Flrat I.e.nou. , An Early Start for Market. ; An Ararumcnt With the Towa Anr.hnl. Price. Are AIw.tr. the liwnl i Hi.