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TITE 3I0KM5G OKEGOXIAN, "WEDNESDAY, NOVE3IBER -18, 1908. HEARST VISITOR AT WHITE ROUSE Says Foraker's Defense on Standard Oil Charges Disingenuous. - ONLY ANSWERS LETTERS After Sorial fall on President, Ed itor Points Out lie Only Read Letters Passing Between Senator and Arclibold. WASHINGTON. Nov. 17. W. R. Hnrst was a caller at the White House yesterday. After his visit, which was about half an hour In duration, he raid that he had not talked politics with the Fresident. having merely paia him a stcial call. Discussing Senator Foraker's letter, published this morning. In which the Ohio statesman defends his connection with the Standard Oil Company. Mr. Hearst authorized the Associated Press to make the following statement: "I have no desire to discuss the mat ter of Senator Foraker's connection with the Stardard Oil Company. Mr. Foraker. however, begins his defense with a statement which Is disingenuous, to sav the least. He speaks of Mr. Hearst's charges as if the matter at issue were merely a question of my assertion. Now I distinctly refrained from making any charges and even re frained almost entirely from comment. "I produced the letters and laid them down before the public, confident that the citizenship of the country could draw correct conclusions. Mr. Foraker now makes a defense, not to my charges, for I have not made any. but to the letters and certificates of deposit. HELP FOB SENATOR FULTON IOJBEKMEX TAKE tP CRUSADE FOR, AMENDMENT. Think Interstate Commerce Commis sion Should Fa-s on Rates Before Put Into Effect. Mrmbern cf the Oregon & Washington Lumber Manufacturers" Association have resumed their campaign for the enact ment by Conpreaa thia Winter of the Ful ton amendment to the interstate com merce act. This proposed amendment empowers the Interstate Commerce Com-mis-ston to suspend tariffs and investigate advances In freight rates as to their rea sonableness before they shall become trTective. The amendment was submit ted at the last nesssion of Congress and referred to the committee on interstate commrrce, where it ts still sleeping. Before leaving for Washington Sunday. Senator Fulton assured the members of the association that he would renew his efforts to gain for his amendment favor able consideration at the coming session of Con Kress. Resolutions indorsing the amendment have been adopted by com mercial biMlirs all over the country, re cent indorsement having been made by the Trans-Mlsslsslppi Congress. In ses sion at San Franeisco; the National In dustrial Traffic League, at Chicago, and the National Railroad Commissioners Association, at Washington. D. C. A. H. Westell, secretary of the Oregon At Washington Lumber Manufacturers' AssH-ialion, yesterday tesued to mem bers of the association a circular letter uring them to co-operate In every possi ble way and urge the adoption of the Kill ton amendment by Congress this Winter. In part the circular was as fol lows: We are very much plei to advise our mr tuber hip th-t Senator Charles W. Fulton, who U f t Atori on th 14th intt. for Vahmxlrn to attend the coming- aeaion of (' iiKif-n, h'i Klve-n auram- that among other nwttt-ni of importance to he State. f Oregon he will take up at the cnmhig Pt-Mln l;t proiosea amendment to the tnu-ratate commerce act. known as Fulton amendment S. B. No. 4-3. Y"U will recollevt that the Initiative In ronnectlon tth this amendment waa taken hy the Orea-on and Washington I.umbeq Maruif ArlurtrV Aswclaiion In adopting the 11.-51 resolution Tutoring thts needed amend ment. A we have atated maty timet. If thin amendment had been tn force Novem ber t. Ho7. the uncertainty that arose In connect t'n with the unwarranted advance In lumler rute would not have ocurred. a inrs:lpttnn and heartnr would have taken plare tef ore the ad ranee became elective. thu otvlatlns any neeesslty for an Injunction and resultant con f union. The amendment Is too long1 to reproduce here, but the glut of the matter 1 con tained in the following: "We urn that t'o nitre enact an amend ment to the Interstate commerce act where bv the Intern ate Oommerca Commission niT. at ita discretion, upon proper com plaint, suspend tanfT- and Investigate ad-am-r in freight rate as to their reason ableness, before they become effective." our membership lu particular, and all shlprlnc interet in general, should now support Senator Kulton in his efforts to pr the amendment out of the hands of ths interstate Commerce Committee, to whom it was referred, and who should re port at this wwion. To thts end we sug gest that our members make Judlrtoua us t t the inserts han.ie.I you herewith by in closing in your mall when writing to cus tomers who might he Influential in helping" In this matter and also in writing your Itepresentatlves In Ctongresa to co-operate with ienatr FuIton In every way possible. Aln to members of Interstate Co mine res Committee. I wuld a!o be very apt to write a ltler to Senator Fulton encouraging htm to make further effort. We will be glad tt fun-ish additional Irserta promptly on re relpt of request from anyone who Is willing to undertake this campaign and require more ammunition LOSE ONLY TWO MEMBERS iCrturnn Show Sweeping Victory for Liberals tn Cuban Kleeclon. HAVANA. Nov. 17 Returns from alt save a store of outlying precincts show that the Cuban Senate is Uoeral with the exception of two members. The Con servatives carried only U out of S3 muni ripaittiv. electing out of S3 representa t.ves. BITTER PILL FOR SWEETS 1 iicli', Sam llg- Intu American Sugar Kcfinlnic Ceiupanjr. NEW YORK. Nov. IT. The United PTatt-s Government ha brought nix nits atralnst the American Susrar Re fining Company to recover forfeitures and customs receipts amounting to $3.- 4. 1 r 1 on urar delivered by the Have-n-.eyer and KUler refineries In Brooklyn d-irlnR the last six years. The Jov crr.mert alleges fraud In weighing shipments. The first of the suits was for $1,500,- 000 and was filed -with the courts on October 1, and the others were filed October 28. The filing of the action was kept from public knowledge until after the election, but was made known here today. The American Sugar Refining Company has filed a' denial of the charges. STILL WORRY OIL OCTOPCS Famous rase Likely to Reach Su preme Court. CHICAGO. Nov. IT. District Attorney Sims today served notice on counsel for the Standard Oil Company of Indiana that on November 30 the Government will apply to the Supreme Court for a writ of certiorari, bringing- the record of the famous rebating- caae before that tri bunal. This is the case in which the Court of Appeala reversed Judjre Landls, who had recorded a fine of 3.400,000 against the corporation. The notice to the standard CHI attorneys was signed by Solicitor-General Hoyt and was brought to Chicago today by Mr. Sims, who re turned from a conference with Attorney General Bonaparte at Washington. OIIj TRIST DIVIDES PROFITS Quarterly Dividend of $10 Per Share, Total $40, Declared. NEW YORK. Nov. IT. Directors of the Standard Oil Company of New Jersey, which Is the parent or holding company of the oil combine, today declared a quarterly dividend of J10 per share. This was unchanged from the dividend paid in the corresponding quarter of last year and makes a totl of $40 in dividends to be paid this year. This has been the rate since 1904. JAPAM SEEKS AGREEMENT OPENS XEGOTIATIOXS WITH ROOT ABOUT CHINA. Will Restate Attitude and Reaffirm Pledges Regarding Emigra tion and Passports". WASHINGTON. Nov. K.Tapan. It de veloped yesterday, took the initiative and made to the State Department a proposi tion now under consideration, some ref erence to an Incident of which led to official statements denying that there was any friction between the two countries. From guarded statements made in re sponsible quarters today the question Is believed to be broader than at first thought. One feature, it is understood. contemplates a re-statement by both the I'nlted States and Japan regarding their attitude toward China, not Manchuria alone. Then there are Japanese emigration and passport questions, and the proposition made by Japan, it is thought, possibly may include a reaffirmation by her of her good Intentions honestly to carry out her promises in these matters. It is said at the State Department that the working out of these regulations shows Japan's desire to live up to her agreements. PRAYER HOUR FOR SEATTLE Cars to Stop, Business to Cease and Heads to Bend in Devotion. SEATTLE, Wash., Nov. 17. (Spe cial.) Streetcars, to come to a full Bton and all machinery of the city to cease motion for two minutes at the blowing of the noon whistles, heads of devout Christians, at union meet ings comprising every denomination in the city, bowed in silent prayer, and preachers and priests delivering dis courses from strange pulpits. This Is the plan which the Minis terial Federation of the city will en deavor to carry out for prayer week, which will be arranged for the week preceding Christmas, or the first week in January. Although no action was taken at to day's meeting of the federation, owing to the absence of Dr. M. A. Matthews, chairman of the prayer week committee, representatives of all the churches in the federation were present and discussed the proposed plan for the. second time. An ad journed meeting will be held on Thursday, when details will, be ar ranged and measures for the general observation f the week of prayer taken. QUICK TRIP TO CINCINNATI Taft Says It's on Private Business. Xot Politics. CINCINNATI, Nov. 17. "My visit to Cincinnati Is a matter of personal and family business. It has no relation to politics." This statement tonight was the sub stance of what could be obtained from V. H- Taft. President-elect of the United States, who suddenly changed his plans at the White House yesterday and came to Cincinnati instead of going to Hot Springs. In denying that hts visit had any poli tical significance, which, he said. In cluded the senatorial aspirations of his brother. Charles P. Taft, the President elect declared that there could be no pos- rible public Interest In his personal busi ness affairs. This positive statement reduces In value the political speculation on his sudden trip to this city. It was conjectured that he had come either to induce his broth er. C P. Taft. to withdraw from .the senatorial race by offering htm a diplo matic position, or to strengthen"his broth er's candidacy by offering certain in formation. PATRICK LOSES HIS FIGHT Petition to Bo Released From Prison Turned Down. WASHINGTON. Nov. 17. The petition of Albert T. Patrick, the New York law yer who is serving a life sentence In the State Prison at Sing Sing on the change of having murdered millionaire William M. Rice, for a writ of habeas corpus. was decided by the Supreme Court of the I'nlted States today adversely to the petitioner. Patrick charged that the case against him was a conspiracy, and urged that in commuting the sentence of death that the court imposed upon him to one of life imprisonment Governor Higgins had resorted to a more cruel method of pun fchment. He asked to be released from prison upon the theory that the whole proceeding had been unconstitutional and invalid. The decision of the court was announced by Chief Justice Fuller. MILLIONS LOST IN FLOOD Lives Also Snuffed Out in South, . African Disaster. PORT KL.IZABF3TH. Cape Colony, Nov. IT A terrific rainstorm swept this part of Cape Colony and caused a heavy over flow of the Baakens River. Several lives were lost and the damage amounts to more than a million dollars. SIX OIE IH SHAFT Engineers and Miners Crushed in Accident. DROP 225 FEET TO DEATH Riding on Cage When Timber Catches, Dumping Them Out. Pitched Headlong Down to RocVy Bottom. PITTSBURG, Nov. 17. Six men were killed, another was dangerously Injured and three had narrow escapes in a mine cage accident late today at Ellsworth mine. No. 1, located In Washington County. The mine Is owned by the Ells worth Coal Company, of this city. The dead: M. J. Walsh, aged 23, Philllpsburg;, Pa., mining; engineer. Eugene G. Smith, aged 25, Alliance, O., mining engineer. J. B. Newcomer, aged 36, Dawson, Pa., chief mining engineer in charge of the four Ellsworth mines. Osep B. Dnschek, 20 years old, loader. James Kelly, aged 29, loader. Tony Dovewsky, aged 26, loader. Soon to Be Married. Both . Newcomer and Smith were to have been married on Thanksgiving day. The three engineers injured, who had been employed by the company several years, had Just completed a survey of the mine, preparatory to starting new entries, the six foreigners having as sisted them. A heavy wooden beam was lowered into the cage and its ends pro jected beyond the sides, the men riding on the timber. All went well until they were within 75 feet of the top of the shaft, when the projecting beam struck one of the planks of the shaft's crib bing, displaced by expansion due to the cold, and most of the men were dumped out of the cage. Six fell to the bottom, a distance of 225 feet, the heavy timbers on top of them, and were crushed almost beyond recognition. Clings to Chain. Randolph, although almost unconscious from blows on his' head, caught a chain at the side of the cage and clung to It until rescued at the surface. Three of the foreigners were thrown with great impact to the floor of the cage and reached the surface stunned and slightly bruised, but little the worse for the experience. RACERS GO DUN IN HEAP HORSES AND RIDERS PILE IP AT EMERYVILLE. Jockeys Thrown In Accident, and Three Sustain Injuries When Favorite Fails on Track. OAKLAND, Nov. 17. The first accident of the Emeryville season occurred in the second race today, when three horses fell, causing injury to their riders. When about three-eighths of a mile from the finlsn. Captain Kennedy, the favorite, stumbled and fell, throwing C. Ross with much force. Vandusen, on St. Avon, and W. P. Holmes, on Fancy, were di rectly behind and they were unable to pull up in time to avoid falling. Ross sustained- a slight concussion of the brain and a fracture of the collarbone. Vandusen was severely cut on the leg and Holmes escaped with several lacerations. Astronomer, well handled by TTnton, scored a clever victory over Cadlchon and Deutschland in the feature race. Results: Five and a half furlongs xovrnroa won. Aunt Kit second, MIh Highland intra; time. l:OS Six furlongs Billy Myer won. Priceless Jewel second. Uncle Sam third; time, 1:13 2-5. lllle and 70 yards Colonel Bronston won. Merrill second. My Pal third; time, 1:46 2-3. Mile and a sixteenth Astronomer won, Cadlchon second. Deutschland third; time, 1:4.'. 4-J. Five and a half furlongs Semproni won, Mozart second. Flgent third; time 1:07 3-5. Mile and 70 yards Billy Pullman won, Charles Green second. Mike Jordan third; time, 1:43 2-. COUNTESS IN ELOPEMENT Marie Louise Flees Buda Pest When Father Says No. VIENNA. Nov. 17. According to re ports received here from Budapest, Countess Marie Louise, the beautiful 20-year-old daughter of Count Hamon court. has departed from that city with a Hungarian, who is believed to be County Slgray. Count Sigray, who is a close friend of Count Szechcnyi, at whose wedding he was present two years ago, sought marriage with Countess Marie, but was refused by the girl's father. Shortly afterward he sought a duel with the girl's brother. Count Felix Harnoncourt, in which neither was in jured. LADS CONFESS TO ROBBERY Juclce Snell Then Severely Lectures Parents in Courtroom. TACOMA. Wash.. Nov. 1". Seven boys from 11 to 15 years of age. filed before Judge Snell today and each pleaded guilty to burglary. They have been terri fying Puyallup. They were an Innocent looking lot, and they all frankly con fessed. First the whole seven stood before the bench and pleaded gui'ty. , Then they were told to go into the jury box where they sat while one at a time was called before Judge Snell. The parents were in court and they were ordered to take seats all together inside the railing. When Judge Snell finished lecturing the boys he turned a scathing tire upon the parents. CENSURE ZANGWILL'S PLAN Intermarriage of Jews and Chris tians Meets With Opposition. NEW YORK, Nov. 17. Israel Zang wlll's advocacy of ' intermarriage of Jews and Christians has been answered in New York by Rabbi Dr. Samuel Schulman. who denounced the custom during his sermon at Temple Bethel yesterday. Zangwill's plan, he assert ed, would, if carried out, efTace Judiasm and destroy the Jewish minority in the United States in three generations. The result would be the annihilation of the purity and integrity of the Jewish re ligion and the unity of the home, he continued. Along similar lines Father McClos key, of San Francisco Xavier's Roman Catholic Church, scored mixed mar riages for Catholics He said in part: "We are confronted by the danger of preversion on the part of Catholics who give themselves to such a union. And it means spiritual ruin for the children of mixed parents. That fact must be taken into consideration with the figures of the !st census, which gave the number as 75.000.000 people in this country. Of this number the statistics show that 50.000.000 when asked by the census-takers pro fessed no form of religion- They may be reckoned as infidels "Statistics show that 60 per cent of men who marry non-Catholics give up their religion. The home life of a Cath olic who marries a non-Catholio lacks that spiritual strength necessary to faith." HIRSCH PLAN" RACE SUICIDE Rabbi Koch, of Seattle, Comments on Intermarriage of Jews. SEATTU5, Wash.. Nov. 17. "Intermar riage between the Jew and members of other denominations is race suicide," was the statement of Rabbi Samuel Koch, of Temple de Hirsch tonight,, when asked his opinion of the posttlon taken by Rev. Emil G. Hirsch, of Chicago, Sunday, that intermarriage was not objectionable. "There is no logic in the argument that two people of different faiths are as har monious as those reared In the same re liglous atmosphere, and the offsprings of such marriages do not come into their rightful heritage. With the Jew to inter marry is race suicide, and means the ex tinction of the race, and I am not ready to admit that the existence of the Jew is ended." Tl GU ME ROBBED MASKED MEN BOARD BROOK LYN CAR AT END OF LIXE. Motorman Leaves Post for Moment and Thugs Seize Opportunity. Suspect Is Captured. While awaiting the schedule time of departure from the end of the line at the Southern Pacific carshlps, in Sell- wood, about 9:30 Monday night. Brooklyn car No. 43 was held up by two masked men and the conductor, F. Roseweil, was relieved of 12 in cash. The robbery occurred at the end of the line, which Is a dark place, and the holdup men found the conductor alone, for the motorman, F. Claypole, had left the car for a moment. Both men are described as be ing about 6 feet 7 inches tall and each wore a blue polka dot handkerchief over his face, with holes cut for the eyes. One man carried a nickel-plated revolver, and with this weapon held up the con ductor, who handed over the money in his possession. On relieving their victim of hts money, both highwaymen fled In a southerly direction. Aside from the meager description fur nished the police hours after the affair happened, the officers have nothing to work upon. A man giving his name as Pat O'Brien was arrested, at Fourth and Stark streets shortly before 1 o'clock this morning, and when searched by the officer, had a nickel-plated revolver in his hip pocket. Detective Tennant asserts that the man attempted to hold up a restaurant on lower Fourth street and that he had a partner, but the two separated when the officer commenced following them. It is possible that this man may have been Implicated in the Sellwood affair. The car crew will be asked to identify him today. MACK WILL FOOT BILLS Democratic Campaign Fund Fell Some Short of Expenses. NEW YORK. Nov. 17. The contribu tions to the Democratic National Com mittee were not sufficient to meet the expenses of the recent campaign, accord ing to Norman E. Mack, chairman, iir. Mack said yesterday that he would make the deficiency good out of his own pocket, and that he would regard it as a per sonal obligation to see that every bill was paid. A statement of the receipts and expenditures or the committee will be filed with the Secretary of State, at Albany November 24. To a reporter who asked Mr. Mack who was going to pay for maintenance of permanent Democratic headquarters which are to be opened soon either in New York or Washington, Mr. Mack said: "The Democratic party of the United States is going to pay for it. I have had offers from every state in the Union to contribute to a fund for the purpose." DEFAULTER CUTS THROAT Cashier Flnkham, of Tacoma Mill, Dead in I,ouisvlIle. TACOMA, Wash.. Nov. 17. A special to the Ledger from Ixjulsvme. Ky., Drougm news of the suicide of Frank D. Pinkham, the defaulting cashier of the Tacoma Mill Company, who disappeared from this city last August. His employers upon investi gation found his shortage to be between 20.000 and J.TO.O0O. He left the city with a woman with whom he had become in fatuated, anil the report from Ixulsvllle BECOfERE LEMON'S UMBRELLA HOSPITAL Opposite Postoffice 309 Morrison Street DON'T LOOK OLD At the Same Time Assist Your Eyes r AH E man who invented I KRYPTOK "INVISIBLE" BIFOCAL GLASSES came very near discovering an equiv alent to the fountain of youth, flit is the EYES that make a healthy person feel old before he is old; nothing else. 9If you wear distance glasses and lower the eyes to read, the no.;0 hlnrred. If vou wear reading glasses and raise the eyes to look abroad, tne worm ai large is blurred. flYou try BIFOCALS distance glasses, with reading segments ce mented on. You are better off, but not much. When you gaze afar you feel as if you were standing on tiptoe to look over a fence; when you read, j-ou have to peer under he fence. It wears on the nerves; aggravates the very trouble that bifocals ought to cure. " fl You are conscious, too, that Dthers observe this fence; some with exasperating curiosity, oth ers with a kindly sympathy that you have no use for. 51 Yoir meet a friend whose days have been as many as yours, and who ought by rights to be as sore ly afflicted. You ask him how he has contrived to avoid the double trouble of two pairs of glasses in one. fl He tells you he is wearing bi focal glasses at that moment; re marks your incredulity, takes off his glasses, stands shoulder to shoulder with you, and holds them to the light at a nicely cal culated angle until you are able to discern the faint indication of reading lenses cunningly hidden within the large crystals. He re places -the glasses and again you observe only the plain leuses ; but he he Teads your astonishment through the reading part, and rec ognizes his ear five blocks distant throuerh the distant part with equal facility. y He is wearing the AJbW bilo Fals WITHOUT LINES. fIThey renew youth. Through them the man or woman of fifty jees again with the eyes of thirty. Columbian Optical Co., 133 Sixth, Oregoni&n Bldg. said this woman had recently left him and gone to California. Pinkham cut his throat and then turned on the gas. He had been living under the name of J. F. Hamilton, but a letter addressed to Mrs. Ella M. Cook, his sister-in-law, in Taco ma, disclosed his identity. LOUISVILLE. Nov. 17. A man who has lived In Louisville for some time under the name of F. J. Hamilton was found dead In bed late last night. The following tiote was pinned to. his pil low: "To the Coroner, Louisville, Ky. Please notify the Tacoma Milling Corn pasty, Tacoma, Wash., of the death of their former cashier, known here as F. J. Hamilton. They will notify my family there. Assumed name, F. J. Hamilton. "The initials of my ring-will identi fy me." Montana Coal Miners Strike. LEWISTON. Mont., Nov. 17. All miners employed at- Spring Creek and Roundup coal mines, near here, went out on strike this morning. The men are dissatisfied with the recent settlement of the wage questlon,"glving them 1.28 a ton instead of a day wage scale. Tgmorrow and Friday positively the last days for discount on East Side gas bills. Don't forget to ad Gas Tips. D MAIL ORDERS PROMPTLY FILLED LARGEST AND LEADING FURRIERS FURS OF STYLE AND QUALITY MERIT MADE THEM FAMOUS From Trapper to Wearer Di rect. Owing to the backward ness of the season, radical reduc tions prevail throughout our Fur Department on all this season's styles in FUR Garments. All FURS manufactured in our own factory. You will save the mid dleman's profit by buying your FURS here. REMEMBER, please, that PRICES MAY BE IMITAT ED by others, but the QUALITY IS NEVER APPROACHED. ONLY THE PRICE, NOT QUAL ITY, is sacrificed at our estab lishment. Exceptional bargains on high-class merchandise. WE CARRY NO TRASHY OR SHODDY MERCHANDISE. Everything this season. QUAL ITY ALWAYS THE BEST. JUST FOR TODAY EXTRA SPECIALS OUT OF THE ORDINARY IN OUR CLOAK AND SUIT DEPARTM'T The following specials in brief, to be appreciated should be seen. We invite comparison of values. Considering quality, our prices always the lowest. NOTE THESE VALUES. $4.50 Embroidered Tailored Waista ...... . 3.49 $6.00 Net Evening Waists .;. $2.49 $25.00 Moire Raincoats ....... $17. 50 $60.00 Messaline Evening Dresses .,....537.50 $6.00 Coat Sweaters $3.85 $8.00 Fancy Dresden Petticoats $5.75 Jewelry Dept. Specials $1.25 and $1.50 ELASTIC AND PERSIAN BELTS .SO? $1.25 BELT BUCKLES 50c 75c SHIRTWAIST SETS AND CUFF LINKS .49? Umbrellas $1.50 LADIES' UMBRELLAS LEO SELLING 270 Morrison Street, Between 3d and 4th PORTLAND, OREGON IC N AB E P IAN 0 S FAMOUS THE WILEY B. ALLEN CO. Phoenix BIdg Corner Fifth Entrance 304 Oak . ..n.Hm.ntln a. Scotch flrSi has "brought out an essence of tea which I l.d the aroma and cheering of tne ureparea Cor. 4th and Morrison Sts. m if Grand Millinery v Special $15.00 LADIES' DRESS AND STREET HATS $4.95 9S SINCE 1837 Italians of the poorer rlssn B'erally enjoy Rood h-alth. This 1 t.artly anrlhmed to the fact that the working Hiwl Italy el I meat than tnose 01 omcr r.wuF.u uauvua.