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TTIE MORNING OREGONIAN, WEDNESDAY. FEBRUARY 22, 1911 BQ5SCQXACCUSE0 OF SHARING GRAFT Ex-Official's Testimony Mads Basis of Charge of Perjury Against Him. POLITICAL MOVE, HE SAYS tlx-Connty TrnrfT Sjrs Rrpubll- can Lradrr Took Half Mnnrj lie ( HiwUfJ as Interest Iom Depository Ilanka. CINCINNATI. Feb. H. George B. Co, for jresrs hd ot the Republ!-an onrsn lztin In Cincinnati, a leading factor in ta: and National politics, present rf the Clnrtnna'l Truat Company and known wl.lrly in theatrioml clrrlos be raue of bis tnters(s In that field. u Irrllrted by the Hamilton County (rand Jury lata to-lay on a charge of perjury. The basis of tha charge 1 that Cox le-ttfled falnely before a (rand Jury on lrch n. If. In dVnylng ha had re calved any of tha Interest money whlrb fvrrl backs, acrordmr. to dl loe-jres before tha !rake Inv-stliratlng commit tee, paid to County Treasurer a rerom pr.e for the deposit of the county funds. .lhon Case Bal. The specific case ujwn which tha Jury -ted took plar In tha administration of Jihn If. Olheon. who served two term-) as County Treasurer, from to IP-i. Gibson testified yesterday that Cox had recetre.1 Wv4 of the r7.C4 which the banks Lad siren to Gibson as ratu!t:es'" Atzt.dk the latters service. This was tha amount which Gibson paid tnto the county treasury In li. follow ing an Inveitlcatlon by the (rand Jury of tha Drake disclosures. Less) than an hour after the Jury re port was made Cox appeared at tha courthouse. Rail la Furnished. rrosecntlr.g Attorney Hunt had recom mended that ball be fluted at ll,rt. This sis does and tho required bond was given by Cox. with Abraham Kurst. a lead-r In Democratic circles, as suraty. No data for Cox appearance In court was set and tha sinlr of tha bond ended tha court proceedings for today. Mr. Cox. speaking of tha Indictment, said: "I do nat consider this an Indictment In tha true sense of such action. It was purely a political mora and waa brought about by political condit'ona. "Tha Jury which brought ths Indict ment was selected by a Democratic Judx". who drew the names of th errand Jurors from bis InstJe pocket Instead of from tho Jury wheel, as tha law re quires "I win !eva my eldo of trils affair to tho facts aa brought out In tho trial. In tha meanUmo I ask tha public to sus pend Juiicment." Later Mr. Cox Issued a formal state ment. In which ho said: "My supposed Indictment was broucht because of testimony that I cava to tho Jury In 1J". Tha statement I made be fore tha rrand Jury at that time waa ab solutely correct. "I hara prided myself all my I'fo on being truthful. It hurts me to hare my word questioned by a Democratic Judge, a Democratic prosecutor and a grand Jury selected a I state.! bfire." PRESS CLUB SEES FILMS -pper Men Are Guests of Mr. Wlnstork at Star. The Portland Press Club waa enter tained with a special programme at the Star Theater at II o'clock last night, by the People's Amusement Cmtany. Dickens" "Tale of Two Cities" In three acta, seen for the flrt time la motion plcturea In Portland, waa the feature of the entertainment. Acting In the plcturea Is Ufa like and well staged and tha scenes are realis tic. After the pictures- refreshments were served and then a comedy. "The New Stenorrapher. was thrown on the canvas. The programme concluded with a special pipeorgaa recital by Clirf Carney. Tha entertainment was such a suc cess that Manager Wlnstock notified members of the club that ha would have them aa hia guests at a similar entertainment once a month aa a part of tha club's regular programme of relaxation and amusement. STORM OF PROTEST HEARD Flma Mass Meeting Sentiment Again. County Division. ELMA. Wash . Ken. II. Special) A mass roeetln. largely attended by representative cltlsens of Chehalla County, met here tonight to protest axalnst tho bill now pending In tho Legislature for tho division of tho c.unty. The sentiment showed that the people as a whole aro opposed to division. Division would result In forcing ths smaller county to pay off !li.00 In debtedness for a courthouse far too large for tho needs of a small count y. At tho last election tha voters were given to understand that county divi sion was dead and to spring It now has raised a storm of protest never before beard of In this county. MANILA SEES MARS FLY First Airship Flight In Orient Marks Annual Carnival. MANTUA. Feb. II. Manila's annual carnival opened today. Thousands cams In from tho provinces and. as usual, there wero many visitors from China and Japan. The most novel feature was the first flight in .a Orient made by J. C Mars, tha New York aviator, who sailed aloft In a Paid win biplane. Tho ex hibition excited the keenest Interest. Tho spectacular military ana civle pageant has never been surpassed hero. The usual exhibits are creditable to tho promoters and the Illuminations to night wero on a largo scale and pleas ing. YANKEE TARS SCRUB TOWN 4S Honduran Prisoner Are Freed by Naval Officer. PUERTO CORTEZ. Hon.. Feb. (V'a New Orleans. Feb. II. Datalls of tha house-cleaning given to San Pedro by Lieutenant Roper and tho bluejackets from tho United States gunboat Tsconu wero received hero today. It la tho custom when any public work la to bo dono in Central America to make an official announcement." Tho announcement la made by an of ficial announcer, who uses tho military band to draw a crowd. Lieutenant lioper wanted to mako a proclamation, but discovered the town band had deserted. A bass drum and a cornet had been left behind, mn ha sent his bluejackets around to drum up a crowd and proclaim tho news. Three days later San Pedro began to change. Tha Jail was the dirtiest of alL Tha hundred prisoners wero cooped In three cells almost ankle deep In filth. Koper put them to work every morning cleaning up. His guard were posted about .the Jail and ho turned out the prisoners for an airing. General Carleas. Governor of the De partment, when he evacuated the town, left no records and there was no means of telling; what the prisoners were Jailed for or how long. Koper ex plained the situation to General Rosa les. who obtained authority from Presi dent Davlla to release all political prisoners. With the aid of tho city official and rltlsena representing both sides, the naval officer at tho end of two HM.I.'iROHO REMDEXT. DAVGH TKR OK LATE JOIIV COR. .MILIIS, PASSES AWAY. Mr-, Ilaaaab A. Freesaaa. II I L L 8 B K O. Or- Feb. 19. (Special.) Tho funeral of tho late Mrs. Hannah Ann Freeman took place Friday, and bursal was In tho West Union Ceme tery. Mrs. Freeman waa tho daughter of tha lata John Cor nelius, who camo to Oregon In 1S4S. and was In tha unfortu nate Meek'a cut-off party. Sho was born In Monroo County. Missouri, la 1I3. and settled In Washington County In tho Fall of 1.45. Sho waa a sister of tho lata Colonel T. It. Cornelius, tho Republican candldato for Gov ernor in 1J'; and a brother. John IL Cornelius, of Cornelius, and a sister. Mrs. Kmma Ilium, of Pan Franclaco, survive of her Immediate family. Mrs. Freeman was married to Robert Freeman at tho Cornelius donation, north of this city. May 11. 18S4. the husband dying In 1K9J. Of a family of ten chil dren but two daughters survive Mrs Ella Fraxee. of Colorado, and Mrs. Elisabeth Conk II n, ot Portland. weeks, had weeded out 41 prisoners, who wero liberated. Few appeared to know why they had been arrested. WHITE WIFE DESERTED MOTJIFJl AXD BAIIE ARE LEFT ALONE IV CHICAGO. San Francisco Police, Are Asked to Search for Missing; Charlie) Hong In Tliat City. SAN FRAN CI SCO. Feb. "1. (Special.) Deserted by her Chinese husband, Charlie Hong, who formerly kept a large curio store In Chicago. Mrs. Charles Hong, a fair Caucasion wife, left alone with her I-year-old daughter, has enlisted the aid of tho San Francisco police In locating tho missing husband and father. Mrs. Hong suspects that her husband la In tho local Chines quarter. Chief of Police Seymour thts morning received a lengthy letter from the Chi cago woman, giving a full account of tha desertion and appealing to tho local au thorities to do their share In locating tho missing man. He has been gone for about six werks, according to tha let tar. Mrs. Hong, who formerly lived with her parents at North Bond, went to work for tha Chlneso curio storekeeper as a aaleawoman several years ago and soon a friendship aprang up between them. This resulted In ino marrlaxe of the couple three years ago. according to tho communication received today. On tho moaning of January 16. Hong kissed his wire and baby daughter good bye In their Chicago home and bs not been een sine. Tho Chicago Chinese colony. It Is suld. Is greatly Incensed over the husband's action, for wife desertion. It Is said. Is an of fens unpardonable by the Chines. HOUSE AGAINST STATE AID Legislator Told Farmers Will light Them for Oj jxwtlng Iload Law. OLYMTIA. Wash. Feb. II. (Special.) After taking up the entire afternoon In discussing the bill repealing the state-aid law. the House yesterday passed tha measure by SO to 10. Al though several amendments were of fered not one was accepted and the bill went through as framed by the commit tee on roads and bridges. The strongest fight waa over tha amendment offered by Garrecht of Wal la Walla, who made a plea In behalf of the farmers of Eastern Washington to take road construction work entirely out of the hands of the State HUhway Commissioner. Garrecht Insisted that County Commissioners should be given full charge of tho work after proposed Improvements are pasaed upon by the county surveyor. Garrecht accused authors of the bill of playing politics and warned the members of the House that the farmers would remember thts subject at the next election by "throwing many of th present legislators Into tho sea of polit ical oblivion." Nearly all of the representatives of farming districts In Eastern Washing ton voted against tho bill while th West Side members stood for It solidly. Among th batch of bills Introduced In the House was on by Moody, ot Clark, providing for th division of th Stat School for th Deaf and Blind at Vancouver Into two separate Institu tions. Ward, of Kitsap. Introduced a bill ap propriating $40,000 for a naval militia. it':":'-' 1L1-J! i '' HOUSE VOTES FOR 10 BATTLESHIPS Battery of Dreadnoughts to Be Heaviest Ever Put on Board Ship. H0BS0N PLANS REJECTED War Alarmist Tries to Get Three Battleships Pacific Const Coal Wlna Victory Several Blows Aimed at Steel Trust. wasimn-OTON. Feb. II. Th Hous i.t. nvi.. oomniated tha naval appro priation bill and will -pas It tomorrow morning. As agreed to wnen reao it amendment today. It provides for two new battleships, two fleet colliers, eight torpedoboat-destroysrs and four submarine torpedoboats. The two battleships ar io i" largest over constructed In this coun- . J w- . nthrtrl.ntinn flxeS th irj. KUU MIW - displacement at 17.000 tons, but thero Is a likelihood they may go to ton. They will hav It 14-lnch rifles, the heaviest battery ever placed on a ship. These guns will b arranged in rotie turrets, three guns in each. This arrangement Is entirely new. Two Battleships Voted. ... i. .t..i.in. in va e two hettle 1 iiv urvin.fu iu "i - - - ehlpa came on a test vote on a mo tion to cut tho number down to one. This was defeated. 1J to 114. A mo tion by Hobson of AlaDama 10 in crease th number or battleships to three was defeated. 11 to . Hobson sought to add a battleship cruiser of 21 knots speed to th building pro gramme, but was again defeated. Humphrey - of Washington failed to have the number of submarine In creased to six. Numerous amendments wero tacked on . I . V. . 1 A 1 1 waa fwaitlB COH- (IIC UKUUIB . -' I sidered for amendment, most of them being agalnex. th points of order mad by meinoens or navai sukus ..u.- .!.. i .. k- i.taPArf jwonomv. When the reading of th bMl waa completed. Dmn r ose ot Illinois. cnirjiiu( m.im gett of Tenneanee, ranking Democrat of the committee, briefly announced that by th changes made between tS.000.UO J MiJUVt.m l.nl K n mAAaA In th. COSt a IIU (j.wwv " - of construction of the vessels author ised in this tiu or nereioior aumvi imto. Eight-Hour Pay Adopted. Th eight-hour day provision was made to apply In tha caaa of the four aub- marlnea. Th provision lor tnese amau boats was the onlv on actually carrying a specific appropriation and It was th only on to which tn limitation couia antily. A point of order raised against th amendment was sustained by tn chair. Currie of New Hampshire being th presiding officer. An appeal as taken and th chair waa overrules, iu to so. The amendment then wan sriopted. It provides that no part of the money set apart for th submarines shall be enended with any firm or corporation which had not at the time of beginning work on th boats established an eight hour day for all employes who wer to be employed on tho boats. Pacific Coal to Be Bought. 'Th closest corporation In this Gov ernment Ws the combination between th Pocahontaa Coal Company and the Navy Department." aaid Underwood. "What control these particular peopl have over the Navy Department. I don't know; but It Is th only coal field In tn country Uiat can sell to tho Government. During the Spanish War, Alabama offered aa good steaming coal at IU a ton. but the Navy Department shipped Pocahontas coal to Tampa at a cost of a ton." Foas replied that th coal used by the Navy was chosen becauae of Its high efficiency. An amendment offered by Humphrey to prevent th Navy Department from transporting Atlantic Coast coal to the Pacific Coast wm adopted. This amend ment Is designed to compel the depart ment to purchase on th Pacific Coast all coal used for the fleet while In Pa cific waters. Blows Aimed at Steel Trust. An amendment by Ralney of Illinois was adopted striking out th limiting words "of domestic manufacture from the appropriation of p30.u3t for armor and armament, so as to leave th (jov- rnment free to buy now armor any where In th world. Stanley of Kentucky secured th adop tion of several amendments. On pro vided that no part of the appropriation Is to be spent with any firm or corpora tion which. It should reasonably appear, had entered Into a combine to restrict competition and In no case should th Government pay In excess of 100 per cent above tho cost of production. Another was that th Govern men t should buy no structural steel, shlpplatea. etc.. from ny plant In combination to violate the laws in restraint of trade, etc.. and limiting the amount to bo paid, so that th contractors should not make more than a reasonable profit. POST'S ANNUAL BALL HERE Washington's Birthday to Be Cele brated at Vancouver Barracks. VANCOUVER BARRACKS. Wash, Feb. 21. (Special.) George Washing ton's birthday tn this post will be cel ebrated with an annual ball la th post gymnasium, which has been elab orately decorated for the event with evergreens and Immense United States flugs. Thousands of feet of evergreen ropa has been made and - artistically swung in tl hall, cozy corners have been mad and th floor polished to glittering brightness and smoothness. Many from Portland have been In vited and th affair promises to bo on of the most brilliant of the sesson. It will also be made more memorable. as It will be a farewell ball In honor of Batteries A and B, of th Second Field Artillery, which sail for ilanll Philippine Islands. March S. from San Francisco. It win also commemorate the advent of Mrs. Waring;, wlf of Lieutenant Roy F. Waring, Into the Army, sh having married the Lieu tenant last Wednesday in Vancouver. COURT-MARTIAL IS CALLED General Mans Issnes Order to Use Care In Packing- VANCOUVER BARRACKS. Wash.. Feb. H. (Special.) A court-martial has been called to meet at this post ss soon s Is practicable. The detail: . Lieutenant Colonel James 9. Rogers. First Infantry; Lieutenant-Colonel George w. Van Deu. sen. Second Field Artillery; Captain Charles ii Tayman, Captain Grosvenor L. Townsend. Lieutenant Frank F. Jewett, First Infantry; Lieutenant Arthur R. Elirnbeck, and Edmund Is Daley, of th Corps of Engineers); Lieutenant Man ton C Mitchell, First Infantry, and Au gustus H. Bishop, First Infantry, uag advocate. CuDtaJn John El Hunt. Twenty-Firm in fantry, of Fort George Wright, has been granted a leave of absence of two months, beginning March . General Marlon P. Maus. commander or the Department of th Columbia, has is sued an order requiring post commanders to Instruct whipping officers to personally superintend the packing of fired shells; which ar shipped back to tha ordnance department. He says that frequent re ports hav Been mad tnat Dan cart ridges and In some cases even matches, are found In shipments of fired shells, due to carelessness In packing them. In the future th greatest car will be taken that this does not occur. . CANADIAN OPPOSITION DIES Lumbermen and Fishermen Now In dorse Reciprocity Deal. OTTAWA. Ont, Feb. 21. Members of th Dominion government today ex pressed the opinion that th antl-recl-proclty sentiment, which was most pro nounced In British Columbia when the agreement was made public, Is dying out. When the terms were first announced that province declared It had been sac rificed for tha benefit of tha rest ot Canada. Th Paclflo Coast lumbermen passed a resolution condemning fre lumber and the fruit Interest declared that Its market, which Is chiefly In Western pralris towns, would be In vaded and taken away by the fruit pro ducers of Washington and Oregon. The lumbermen' have rescinded their resolution of condemnation and hav replaced it with another Indorsing reci procity. Th fishing Interests of the Pacific, It is now announced, approve of th enlarged market which they he ller fre flali to the United States will civs them. ZELAYANS HATCHED PLOT Explosion of Managna Arsenal Due to Their Schemes, v WASHINGTON". Feb. 21. Ths fact that the Investigation ot the arsenal explosion at Managua. Nicaragua, on February 13, showed that the fir was a plot of the Zelaya Liberals was re ported to tha Stat Department today In a telegram from American Consul Moffatt at Managua. The Nlcaraguan Assembly has ratified the declaration of martial law owing to the Incident and some CO of those concerned In It have beon arrested. The treatment of the situation by President Estrada. Mr. Moffatt de clared, had completely restored con fidence. As an evidence of this he reported that the rata ot exchange was lower than before the fire. COUNTY DIVISION SOUGHT White Salmon Folk to .Lobby for Bill at Olympla. WHITE SALMON. Wash.', Feb. 21. (Special.) A crowd of White Salmon County boosters to the number of 25, left last night for Olympta to work for the passage through the Senate of the bill which provides for the division of Klickitat County. Since the circulation of the petitions for a, new county, remonstrance pe titions have been passed along the cast boundary of th proposed new county and a number of peopl bow find them selves In th situation of having signed for and against the new county. Minneapolis. St. Paul and Portland propel ty owners of the west end are sending telegrams to th Senate for di vision ROOSEVELT IS KEPT BUSY Colonel In Demand at Washington's Birthday Functions. CHICAGO. III., Feb. 21. Washing ton's birthday will be no holiday for Colonel Theodore Roosevelt. Th pro gramme he will face tomorrow aa the guest of the Union League Club per mits scarcely an Idle moment from the opening speech In the morning to th addressing of a celebration at the club at night. Colonel Roossvelt was given a warm welcome when he reached here this afternoon. He was then hurried to the Union League Club. He spent only a short while within doors and went for a long automobile ride. He was th guest of honor tonight at the S4th an nual banquet of the Harvard Club. 50 ARE KILLED IN ARABIA Tribesmen Capture Convoy and Then Repulse Governor. JEPDAH, Arabia. Feb. 21. Tribes men who are allies of Seyd Idrlsee, the leader of the outbreak of Yemen against the Turkish authority, recently captured at Zupra a convoy of 80 camels with provisions and ammuni tion destined for the garrison at ElhuJJeh. The Deputy Governor of Lohela at tempted to recapture the supplies, but was defeated. The casualties num bered 60 killed. BANK PRESIDENT IN JAIL Run Close Institution and Deposi tors Find Sliortage. DES MOINES. Feb. 21. E. J. Pen field, president of a private bank at Kelley, la., was apprehended today at Watertown, S. D. Penfteld'a bank closed yesterday, after a run. Depositors estimated the shortage at 162.000 Man Falls From Third Story. Charles Anderson, a laborer, fell out of the third story window of the Burn side Hotel, Second and Burnslde streets, at 1:30 o'clock this morning, landing on a pile of rubbish. He was Intoxicated at the time. The man was picked up and sent to St. Vincent's Hospital, where bis Injuries were found to be of a nature which will In all probability prove fatal. Oregon Pensions Granted. WASHINGTON, Feb. 21. The Pen sion Bureau has notified Representa tive Hawley of the increase in the pen sion of John M. Alley, of Nehalem, to 120. Also, the grating of a pension to George H. Riley, of Central Point, of fit a month, with $650 back pay. Man, Wanted In Seattle, Caught, H. L. Williams, wanted In Seattle to answer a charge of grand larceny, pre ferred by th Horn Sewing Machine Company, was arrested last night. It is charged against Williams that on Feb ruary 14 he sold a sewing machine and appropriated the proceeds. Three hundred years ago the first home of wood was erected en Manhattan Island. is extended at the Eastern, not as an inducement, but as mere courtesy, an accommodation to our customers. Our stronger features are meritorious merchandise,- competent service and fair prices, if you please. This triority of business methods has built up our colossal trade, and these methods retain it. DRESSES COATS WAISTS SKIRTS chiffon satin; ci d i . r equaled value THE BIG MODERN CREDIT STORE WASHINGTON ST. AT TENTH TJPOS BOOST FAIR Last Congress Members Set Echoes Ringing. CHORUS. LAUDS BAY CITY Employers to Be Entertained by San Franciscans While Discussing Craft Problems Uniform Cost on Coast Is Object Sought. 6he has rlnss on her fins-era. Bella on her to l The city by the Ooiden Gate. Ban KTaacl.co So come to our city in 1015. Be sure and come and have Some fun In IMS. The foregoing Is a stanza, suited to the rythra of "I Have Rings On My Fingers" by an ingenious syllabic process known only to the San Fran cisco deleg-atlon to the First Paclflo Coast Cost Congress of Employing Printers,- which will meet In the Com mercial Club convention hall at 10 o'clock this morning. The delegation Is composed of 30 employing printers of San Francisco, representing an Invest ment of $10,000,000, and they were ap parently ss much Interested In "boost ing" for the Panama-Pacific Exposition in the Golden Gate City in 1915 as in their own craft, for they kept the air vibrating from the time. they arrived in ths afternoon till late at night with their song. All the hotel lobbies wers visited last night by tho delegation and patrons were roused from meditation in their chairs and perusal of newspa pers by the live San Francisco boost era They had not been in the Imperial Hotel an hour till they had the flag of California flying from the flagpole. The San FVanclsco crowd did not stop with Impromptu visits to the hotels, but engaged a band to go to the Union station to meet the Seattle and Ta coma delegations to tho Congress. Then it was learned thst the delegations from the North would not arrive until this morning and word was passed out for all to be on hand bright and early to welcome the printers from the cities farther north. The San Francisco delegation is headed by "Thomas Colonel" T. P. Rob inson, formerly manager of the Oak land baseball team but now engaged In the printing business in the Golden Gate City. He. George F. Neal and Grattan D. Phillips objected to sending ths secretary of ths Franklin Printing Trades Association as sole delegate, and chartered a car, paying the price for 18 passengers. But when noses were counted, they had 28. The dele gation, besides being representatives of the printing trades, Is the first official Let Uncle Sam guide to a pure whiskey. He is an expert in judging pure whiskey, for he has spent years supervising the mak in er of CTootl old Bottled In Bond He places hts little green stamp over the cork of every bottle. That is his way of guiding you to a pure whiskey. Look for it. You will find it on every bottle of J ''UIIIIMH"' , The Standard Rye Whiskey Sucn a whiskey Is the kind to have 'rOTHCHILD BROS. DISTRIBUTERS, PORI-i, D, OREGOS. FOR THE NEWEST VISIT THE EASTERN SPRING SUITS Strictly tailored, in plain and chalk-stripe serges, cassi meres, velours and fancy worsteds, beautiful patterns and colorings, decidedly mannish in character, per fectly curved collar, well propped shoulders, hand- Aiilnrl fATir fiat IJnPfl with either messaline or skirts in tube or gored effect; 5.$25 fnr treneral wear: un - u at. In sizes to fit regular build women, little women and --p . misses. You can remit in weekly or monthly payments U JMJJJi.lt WJliAiX to suit your convenience. OUTFIT "booster" contingent for the fair In 1915 that has left San Francisco. The delegation promises to do all sorts of things while In Fortland. Be sides extending the glad hand to other delegates to tho cost congress, they will take them in tow and furnish an abundance of entertainment in addition to that already provided by the em ploying printers of Portland. The purpose of the Congress Is to' establish a uniform cost system of printing on the Pacific Coast. Dele gates will be present from Vancouver B. C; Seattle, Tacoma, Spokane, Salt Lake City, San Francisco, Los Angeles and smaller cities in all, about 200, and the session will last three days. Tho Intricacies of the printing trade will bo discussed and an attempt made to arrive at a uniform system whereby printers may know exactly what each piece of printing costs an hour and use that as a basis for establishing prices. There Is a difference among the dele gates about this system, but It is said that both sides will eventually arrive at tho same basis, although their calcula . o nnt VtA niono- the same lines. Tho San Francisco printers favor a system of including conferences with tho allied printing trades with a view to establishing a basic cost of print ing, while tho employing printers of Portland and other places are not en tirely in accord with this plan. Oppo nents of the San Francisco plan say that the allied printing trades has nothing to do with the congress and that the cost of printing will be based on respective wage scales paid in dif ferent cities. When all these details are threshed out. It Is the purpose to establish a uniform cost basis along the entire Pacific Coast. The meeting was called by the Port land Printers- Board of Trade, and was suggested by the National Congress held in Chicago. C. A. Whltemore of the Irwln-Hodson Printing Co. and R. E. Morrell of tho Kllham Printing Stationery Company, of this city, are respectively the presi dent and secretary of the organization. TWO FACE THREE CHARGES One Accnsed of Attacking Chinaman Bears Hidden Pistol. Charges of being drunk, resisting an officer and assault and battery will be preferred against Ed Boellhoff, alias Ed Scrodder, In the Municipal Court this morning. Claud Fink, his partner, will be charged with carrying concealed weapons and assault and battery. The men aro alleged to have assaulted a Chinaman at Sixth and Davis streets last night, severely injuring him. They were arrested by Patrolman R. C. Nel son, who found a loaded revolver con cealed under Fink's sweater. Fink took Nelson to tho Saranac rooming-house, at 47 H North Sixth street, where Boell hoff was seized after a fierce fight with the policeman. Northwest Invited to Join, WASHINGTON, Feb. 21. Washing ton, Idaho, Colorado and Oklahoma, the only states not now represented by memorial tablets in tho Washington Monument, aro to be Invited to Join their sister states In thus honoring tho you st home. of America fcttl il PETTICOATS MILLINERY CORSETS memory of George Washington at a meeting of the Washington National Monument Society tomorrow. Arizona and New Mexico probably will be In vited to participate. It has been estimated that we of tha rnlt-a States consume 700,000.000.000 matches annually and that ours is a larger match bill than any other nation's. Hair Health If You Have Scalp or Hair Trouble, Take Advantage of This Offer Wo could not afford to so strongly endorse Rexall "98" Hair Tonic and continue to sell it as we do, if wo were not certain that it would do all we claim It will. 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