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i HOPES HOT FULFILLED Results of Extra Session Far Short of Programme Out lined at Outset. TARIFF PLANS BLOCKEO (tmpilfo Publicity, Direct Election of Senator and Canadian Reciprocity Aoonf Im portant Results. WASHINGTON'. An. Congress will adjourn before Tuesday nlrht possibly timon-ow nd the most strenuous ses sion of recent years will pass Into hls tory. The net results) of the extra session. In comparison with the ambitious pro gramma adopted at the outset, wera not larsje. anadlan reciprocity wa brought aa nrar reality aa the executive and learls latlve departments could advance it: statehood was assured for New MxlcO and Ariaona: campaign publicity legis lation was passed In a form satisfactory to Its most ardent admirers, and pro vision was made for an enlarged Houm of Representatlvea. based on the 191 .enau. A Democratic House, the first since IS attempted to make Into laws the views of Democrats on tariff revision, but eiecutlve disapproval rendered futile II their efforts. Speaker Divested of Power. When the special aesslon convened on April 4 the House waa organised by the Democratic ware and means committee ind thla body made the committee as ugnmenta. The new ayatam eliminated hat was known for many yaara aa the -urdom of the Speaker. The committee also directed the deliberations of tba Democratic caucus and framed the lg latlve programme of the aesslon. The proa-ramme adopted and put through In Ita essentials by the House included action on Canadian reciprocity, a farmer- free lis: bill reduction of du ties on the wool and cotton schedules. n Increase In the membership of the House from tl to X a constitutional intendment looking to the election of I'ntted Siatea Senators by direct vote of the peop;e. a revision of the campaign publicity law and statehood for New Mexico and Artiona. Tariff Bills Vetoed. Two tariff bills, one materially reduc ing the duties on wool and woolen goods of ail classes, and the other placing on he free list articles of machinery and .oola ud by farmers ano amended to .nclude many other Hems, were vetoed y President Taft. A cotton revision bill which carries aa an amendment an Iron and steel schedule, awalta a similar fate. It will be concurred In by the House tomor row, however. The House, tinder the leadership of Representative Under wood, of Alabama, chairman of the waya and means committee, and Speak er Clark, endeavored to pass tha woolen and free list bills over the veto, but the necessary two-thirds vote could not be mustered. Failure of these attempts was a strong- factor In determining leaders to close the ses sion. Trust Investigations almost without number were Instituted In the course of the session, and some, notably those bearing on monopolies In steel and lugar. were prosecuted wltb vigor. Con structive leglalation to bear on Fed eral regulation of corporations Is re garded as certain to come from these Inquiries and plans already have been Instituted to revise the anti-trust laws. Treaties Raise) Issue. General arbitration treaties with Great Britain and France were Bent to the Senate by President Taft. but they rece'ved a frigid welcome because tha I'pper House contended that one pro vision of tha treaties usurps tbe Sen ate's constitutional perogatives. Presentation of the treaties strained hitherto cordial relations between the foreign relatione committee and the state department, and President Taft made It plain that an issue had been raised which he will carry to the coun try. Friction In tha department of agri culture over the enforcement of tha pure food laws was revealed by an In vestigation and the National Issue was raised over whether the activities of Dr. Harvey W. WHey. the Government's pure food expert, had been mad In effective. The resolution relating to popular election of fenatqrs waa amended by the Senate and was aent to conference from which it cannot emerge this ses sion. ELECTION COSTS FEARED .ackson County Official See Bar den In Three In One Year. MEDFORD. Or.. ti(. 19. (Special.) Afraid that under the new law Jack son County will have to hold three elec tions. Instead of two. In. 112. at sn addd cost of several thousand dol lars. County Clerk TV. R. Coleman has asked an opinion of the Attorney Gen eral. According- to the new law. tha pri maries for Preeidentlal elections must be held 4 days before June 1. Than tha first primary held n thla county would tak place on or about April IS. Tha state and county primary follows thla close ly and the regular election cornea In November, making three elections hold In I 1 J at the expense of the county. MYSTERY INBURNS CASE van Joee Jail Hold Man Wanted by Orezon Authorities. SAN JOSE. CaL. Aug. Mystery surrounds the rasa of Orala A. Prough, of Burns. Or. who haa been In Jail for the last three weeks at the request of the District Attorney of. Burnt. The Sheriff of Burns arrived for him a week ago but ha waa not armed with the proper authority and Prough re fined to accompany htm. Th Sheriff finally left. Prough Is supposed to hare been wanted In Burns upon a charge of mali ciously shooting cattle. COREY TO SUCCEED GATES? Rrturnln; Steel Man May Be Head of New Merger. riTTPBt'TlO. Pa.. Aug. S. (Fpeelal.) t;ieel men ber declare, that William CONGRESS SECRETARY OF AGRICULTURE, WHOSE RETIREMENT MAY RESULT FROM STRIFE IN DEPARTMENT. xX ;? x JAMR Ellis Corey, ex-head of the United States Steel Corporation, will be the successor of the late John W. Gates as president of the Republic Iron Steel Company. It Is pointed out this move on the part of the Republic Steel Interests marks tha beginning f the mucb-talked-of merger of the Republic, Bethlehem and Lackawanna Com panies. Strength Is added to the report by the recent announcement of Corey that he would return actively to the steel business. Under a recent Interpretation by th Supreme Court of the Sherman law, at torneys declar that such a merger would not be Illegal, but would be within the bounds of the anti-trust measure and would create out of three united Independent companies a power ful rival to the Steel Corporation. EAGLES' FOUNDER THERE FOUR OP GROUP THAT ORGAN IZED LODGE. AT GRAND AERIE. John Cort, Consldln Brothers and Harry lelu Among; 100.000 Gathered In San Francisco. FAN FRANCISCO. Aug. SO. Five men sitting on a lumber pile on a Seattle wharf and talking- aboat good fellow ship established. 1J yeara ago. what be. came the Fraternal Order of Eagles, whose grand aerie, representing- 100.000 members In all parts of the Union, will open tomorrow. Four of the founders, who at first called themselves the Order of Good Things, are here. They are John Cort. John W. Consldlne and his brother. Thomas, and Henry I trfevltt. The fifth. U C- Brown, of Seattle. Is ex pected to be present. Nearly every through train arriving today brought scores of delegate Eagles, and several special, bearing hundreds of members of the order, swelled the gathering-. Features of the convention are the membership badges, which reproduce the famous octagonal $50 gold slug of California of the early days; the "Roar ing Camp." a presentation under can vas of an early mining. settlement, and a street parade. In which a large de tachment of United States troops will participate. Bsllotlng- for the "msrshal" of Roar ing Camp Is being carried on. GO-ED FAST SI1 NTXLIE SCTIMIDT CROSSES GOL D EX 'GATE IX 43 MINUTES. Two Girl Who Will Take Entrance) Examinations This Week Also . Swim Across Channel. SAN FRANCISCO. Aug. 29. Th feat of Miss Haiel Laugenour. who swam the Golden pats yesterday In on hour and J minutes, was surpasaed today br Miss Nellie Schmidt, a University of California student, who swam the same course In 41 minutes. Miss Lib Schef fleld and Miss Nlta- Scheffleld. sisters, also swam the channel, the former in 41 minutes and the latter In 4? mtnutea. The two girls, whose home Is In Los Angeles, will take the entrance e lam inations for the University of Califor nia this week. Mrs. Terle Desch. who once before made an unsuccessful attempt to swim the channel, was taken from the water exhausted within 100 yards of the fin ish. The yours; women swam one mile, from Port Point to Lime Point. The shore wa crowded oa both side with spectators. 24 INJURED IN TORNADO Heavy Property Los Reported in North Dakota Town. MINOT. X. D.. Aug. V Twenty-four persons are reported to fcav been In jured In a tornado at Antler. N. D.. to night. The property loss Is said to be large. Telegraphic communication between Ml not and Antler was destroyed by th storm.' All th physicians of West Hop and neighboring towns haw gone to Antler. WILSOV. JOB IS TOO 010 Department Dissension Is Due to Wilson's Weakness. SUBORDINATE IS JEALOUS Dunlap Wants Place at Head of Bureau of Chemistry Solicitor McCabe Would Appropriate Power to Himself. (Continued From First Pae. facta, In the case been made public, and tbua upset the programme. A man big- enough to be head of the Department of Agriculture would not have tolerated such a row among- his subordinates.- He would not have per mitted the solicitor, a law officer, to assume charge of th enforcement of the pur food law, which had been en trusted by Congress to the Bureau of Chemistry; he would not have allowed the associate chemist to seek the undoing- of the chief chemist, solely. that he himself might become chief chemist. But Secretary Wilson did these very things, and by so doing, laid himself open to criticism. Department Feud Not. First One. There have been Instances where subordinate Government officials have played the same frame that Solicitor McCabe tried and have won, but there have been more failures than successes. During- the Spanish-American War, Adjutant-General Corbln of the Army made his office the most important in the War Department, and in time the Adjutant-General became a bigger officer than the Secretary of War. But Corbln wa a pretty bis; man: a much btga-er man in military circles than McCab Is In legal circles. He was followed, however, by another Adjutant-General who tried the same game, and waa upset in the attempt, for the Adjutant-Generar of the Army Is pure ly a clerical official, not a directing official, and that office haa been re stored to the status Congress Intended it should occupy. The Navy Department has been split by elmllar feuda among- bureau chiefs, and there have been aeveral times In recent years when the Secre tary of tbe Navy was a murh less Im portant official than the chief of the Bureau of Navigation, or the chief of aom other bureau. Gilford Plnchot. as head of the Forest Service, was a blg er man than Secretary Wilson when it came to questions In which he was Interested nd never did Plnchot have trouble In trampling: under foot the same Secretary who has recently been walked over by Solicitor McCabe. And other departmenta have, at different times, disclosed similar instances. Inquiry Shows Facts. president Taft pursued a sensible course In th Wiley ess when he de clined to act on the recommendation of th offlciala of th Department of Agriculture, but deferred action until the House committee eould complete Its Investigation and determine Just what the facts were. The committee, unlike moat of th committee ap pointed by the Democratic House, did a good Job. and uncovered a great deal of Inalde Information with refer ence to the worklnga of the Depart ment of Agriculture o far as they re lated to Dr. Wiley and his pure food work. As a result, th President has not only the findings of the committee, but the official records, and with all thts information is In a position to dispose of the Wiley case In accord ance with th facts and th merits. Whatever may be' done with Dr. Wiley (and his offense has been ahown to be a trivial and technical one by which the Government lost nothing). It la a reasonably safe pre diction that In the future the solicitor for th Department of Agriculture -will perform only-those duties which Con gress Intended b should perform; the associate chemist, whoever be msy be, will b assistant to th chief chemist and hi snbordlnata in fact as well as In name, and It la moreover probabl that at th next regular session Con gress will see to It thst the duties of these respective officials are clearly denned, and that no doubt remains ho the pur food law Is to be enforced. The conspirators In this case made a grievous mistake when they tackled such a bis;, fearless and honest man as Dr. Wiley. By Miracle Mother and Little Ones Escape In Idaho Explosion. MAN'S ENEMIES BLAMED Bitterness Among Creditors Believed to Have Prompted Laying of Deadly Charge Near Store. Building Is Shattered. CATALDO. Idaho. Aug-. 20. fSpe clal.) In what was spparently a delib erate attempt at wholesale murder, dynamiters wrecked the home of J. B. Van Keuren. a .ocal merchant, . last night Thoug-h the entire back end of the building, which was used both as a residence and a place of business, was demolished, the six occupants escaped without serloua Injury. Enmity toward Mr. Van Keuren Is generally accepted here as the motive for the attack. The Sheriff of Kootenai County la working on the case, but nas made no arrests. The explosion occurred about 8:30 in the evening. A. K. Rogers, of Spokane, a representative of the Spokane Mer chants' Association, was the only per son on the store side at the time. In the sitting-room, situated near the back end of the building, were Mrs. Van Keu ren. her two children, Howard Craw ford, her brother, and a young nephew. All six were thrown to the floor and badly bruised. The most remarkable escape was that of Mr. Rodger, who had locked the door aaralnst which the charge was ap parently placed but a second or so be fore. He was walking toward the front of the store, and was less than 20 feet away when he waa thrown to the floor and covered with falling cans and boxes. Mr. Vsn Keuren was away from home at the time. It Is the belief of his household that Mr. Crawford prob ably was taken by the would-be mur derers for him. Recently Mr. Van Keuren. when pressed by debts, turned his business over to the Spokane Merchants' Asso ciation. He left numerous creditors, some of whom were very bitter. Mr, Van Keuren also Is said to have other enemies. . Mr. Rogers. In speaking of the trou ble today, said: "I don't think there Is any doubt but that they were trying to get Mr. Van Keuren. He has enemies. The man who planned the assault undoubtedly thought that he was In the room with his family, and apparently was willing to sacrifice the rest in order to get him. The charge was very heavy. That It was not more serious Is attri buted to the fact that the dynamite was apparently placed against the building, and not under It." FIRE IS MENACING PARK BLAZE AT YELLOWSTONE BOR DER SPREADS RAPIDLY. Hundreds of Acres of Pine De stroyed' Cleveland Reserve Again Threatened. LIVINGSTON. Mont., Aug. 20. A for est fire near Jardlne, at the edge of Yellowstone Park, was reported here today. The fire Is spreading rapidly and hundreds of acres of pine have been destroyed. Forest Supervisor Bedford with a large force of fire fighters, left here this afternoon. A small fire In Yellowstone Park also was reported. Soldiers from Fort Yellowstone are fighting the flames and are reported to have It nearly un der control. The fire In the park Is In an untraveled region and will not In terfere with park tours. BANNING, CaL. Aug. 20. The forest fires In the Cleveland reserve, suppos edly extinguished several days sgo, sprang up agaln'today In Snow Creek Canyon southeast of Banning. Fire fighters have gone to the scene In au tomobiles. It is believed the blaze will be subdued without great damage, but the rangers are handicapped by unfa vorable winds. CANOE OVERTURNS; 1 DEAD Lad of 15 Drowns; aFther Driven to Distraction. Bert Berg. IS yeara old. was drowned Just below the first breakwater In the Willamette slough yesterday, when a canoe. In which he and two other boys were being towed by a launch, cap sized. The other boys were rescued but Berg did not come to the surface after he sank. When J. Berg .father of the lad. living at Seventy-first and Division streets, heard that his son was drowned he became almost Insane and tried to commit suicide. Motorcycle Patrol man Evans was sent to the Berg resi dence and the distracted father was placed under surveillance during the night to prevent him harming himself and until he became quiet. GONZALES WINS ELECTION Chihuahua's Provisional Governor Successful at Polls. JUAREZ. Aug. 20. An election was held throughout the state of Chihua hua today for the state ticket, and while but little Information Is avail able tonight. It Is evident that Abra ham Gonzales, the present Provisional Governor, is elected, with all his ticket. The fact that the election was held under the federal laws, compelling the sending of election returns to the City of Chihuahua to be canvassed, it will be several days before th official an nouncement can be made. NEW SCHOOL IS ORDERED Wheeler Enjoys Rapid Growth Sinew Small Tracts Are Opened. WHEELER, Or., Aug. JO. (EpeclaL) Wheeler Is to have a new modern four-room schoolhous to cost $4000. This was decided upon at a meeting of the taxpayers naay. Owing to th rapid settlement of this part of Washington County Judge Stevenson and the other members of ( v. - pnnntv riT rt nMitiv ordered a i division of the Reedville district form- I Ing a new school district, witn vt neeier j Station as the center. At the meeting : v.m .ni,..inn Tt A. Cades was chosen first director and chairman of the board. Upon his declination, j. r. York was selected. B. F. Sproat and John Carlson were, eleoted unanimous ly to serve as directors and Charles B. Thompson was named as Clerk of the board. Temporary quarters will be provided for the accommodation of tbe children of the district until the new building Is completed. The Shaw-Fear Company donated an acre of land and a substantial amount of cash. Within the past year several large farms have been cut up into small tracts and already upwards of 100 families have built homes within a radius of a mile of the station. Streets have been graded and many other Im provements have been made. RECIPROCITY IS ISSUE OPPOSITION GRILLXXG IT, .IX CANADIAN CAMPAIGN. Contest Has Full Headway In On tario With Visits of Premier Laurler and B. ti Borden. TORONTO, Ont.. Aug. 20. The elec tion compalgn has gained full headway throughout Ontario, the great indus trial province of Canada, by the visit of Sir Wilfrid Laurler, the Premier. Bnd R. L. Borden, the opposition leader. On all sides it is reoognibed, that recoprocity is the issue. Even Mr. Borden has declined to make his campaign an attack on the 15 year' record of the government. In stead of muckraking, he will win or lose on the reciprocity issue alone. Although the election has been sprung suddenly, more than 100 con ventions were held last week and rival candidates were named in nearly every constlttiencv. William Patterson. Minister of Cus toms, one of the commissioners who negotiated the reciprocity agreement with Waehlngton. has been renominat ed In Brant. Although he has held the seat for 40 years, a special effort will be made by the Conservatives to de feat him. Judge Fisher, member of the Ontario Legislature, has resigned and will run against the Minister of Customs. H els accounted to be a strong man. and the result will be in doubt. The annexation speechea In the American Congress are being empha sized by the Conservative party, and hundreds of thousands of pamphlets containing extracts therefrom have been distributed In sections of the province settled by United Empire Loyalists and recent-comers from Eng land. The loyalists also are making a point of displaying the British flag to stimulate patriotism. Liberal speakers declare that talk of annexation will have no effect on influencing voters. SPRINGFIELD HAS PLAN City Engineer' Scheme Would Pre vent Settling of Car Tracks. SPRINGFIELD, Or., Aug. 30. (Spe cial.) In the plans and specifications of the City Engineer for the paving of Main street with hard-surface pave ment, presented at the City Council meeting tonight, a novel plan was In cluded for preventing the settling of the streetcar tracks and the separation of the rails from the pavement with the usual warping and disfiguring of the surface. The Engineer proposed to dig a two-foot trench which will be lined with a concrete box. In this the tracks and ties will lie. A drain In the bottom will carry away the water. In this way the rails can be kept in permanent contact with the pavement. It is the invention of the City Engineer. He has also prepared the specifica tions of the macadamizing of Main street from the end of the hard-surfaced pavement to the city limits, a distance of a mile, as well as the ma cadamizing of Mill street also for a distance of a mile. i CIVIC PRIDE HELPS TOWN Hillsboro Citizens Voluntarily' Build Cement Sidewalks. HILLSBORO." Or.. Aug. 1. (Spe cial.) Hillsboro has undertaken to build cement sidewalks on what is probably a more extensive scale than any city In the state outside of Port land. A novel feature of the movement is that it is entirely voluntary, and not the result of condemnation of old walks. The work has been In progress little more than a month, and much new walk has been laid and a considerable area staked out or under construction. The contractors have one stretch of 400 feet to lay for E. B. Tongue, which will be taken up when the work now on hand Is completed. MARINE STANDARD RAISED Recruiting Officers Xo Longer to Pass on Physique. WASHINGTON, Aug. 20. A system providing a more stringent examina tion of recruits has been adopted by the United States Marine Corps. Ap plicants no longer will be enlisted by recruiting officers but will be accepted provisionally and sent to the recruit ing stations for physical examination. The recruiting stations have been established at Philadelphia, Bremer ton. Wash., Port Royal, S. C, and Mare Island. CaL Husum Orchard Tracts Sold. HUSUM, Wash., Aug. 20. (Special.) Two valuable orchard tracts were sold Saturday by J. R- and P. B. Hc Craken. near town. H. C. Wright, of Marshfield, Or., purchased ten acres and J. Hughes, of Woodard, la, 15 acres. Both newcomers will erect residences at once and prepare the tracts for fruit tree planting. Olyrnpia eGts Xew Secretary. OLTMPIA. Wash., Aug. 20. (Special.) A. H. Hause, formerly of Hoqulam, but now of this city, has been chosen by the board of directors of the Olympla Y. M. C. A. as the new secretary. He will take up hla duties on Septembet 1 and an ac tive campaign Is planned to increase th membership of the local organization. Portland Printing House Co. 1. 1. Wrlsbt. Pres. and Geo. at atoofc. Catalogue m4 Comments PRINTING Binuiorx and Bluk Book M-wlrlafci koti.t Mai 6201, A till. lBtk and Taylor guiaww portiao- Ifi1 a5 LET THE CHILDREN EAT ALL THE WEATHERLY ice c; THEY WANT You mothers of Portland need have no fear of giving- the children all the ice cream they will eat. WEATHERLY IS PURE ICE CREAM It is made of rich, sweet cream and milk bought from farmers whoee dairy herds have passed inspection. The sugar used for sweetening is pure cane sugar, and the fruit flavors are as pure and clean as those you can yourselves. Your children crave a frozen sweet these hot days. Even the babies will be better off if you give them WEATHERLY As pure and cold as the frozen north. Your nearest dealer Trill take an order by phone. Made by Crystal Ice & Storage Co. HOW SAVINGS GROW In order to illustrate the rapid growth of savings with 4 per rent compound interest added, we have compiled tbe following tablet Weekly r. -t in,,,.t. f'or Fur For F"or Savings 1 "te eI lnt"FBX- 5 y ra. 10 Vra. 20 Vra. 40 Yrs. $ .25 $ 73.!$ 162. $ 403. $1,294. .50' FOUR Per Ce-t per 146.! 324. 806. 2,588. lXJOrrVetrS."- 293. 650.1,614. 5,177. 2.001 ft -d July i.t. 585.l,301. 3,228. 10,355. 5.00! 1482.I3,252.!8,070.I25,888. 1 STARTS Hibernia Savings Bank Conservative Custodian Open TIP LEADS TO CELL Bank Investigates Books of Clerk Who Feed Barber. $18,000 SHORTAGE FOUND Sagacity of Fellow-Customer of $50-a-Month Employe Leads to Hi Imprisonment After Chase and Arrest of Father. CINCINNATI, Aug. 20. (Special.) A lS-cent tip to a barber is the real cause of much trouble in the family of John C. Byland of Boone County, Ken tucky. His son has been sent to the Kentucky penitentiary for five years and he is a prisoner charged with the embezzlement of $18,000 from a Rich wood, Kentucky, deposit bank. More than a year ago his son, Ray mond Byland, went Into a barber shop near where they lived and grot shaved. He did not notice that there was an other customer in the shop. When he had been shaved young Byand gave the barber 25 cents and told him to keep the change. Both Bylands were work ing? in a bank, the soq petting $50 a month. The other customer in the shop was on of the directors of the bank. The director called a meeting- of the board the next morning and an investi gation was begun. All agreed no man i( u LET YOUR KODAK TELL THE STORY Kodaks, $5 to $100 Brownie Cameras, $1 to $12 Let U Do Your Developing and Printing Columbian Optical Co. 145 Sixth St Bet Alder R EAM AN ACCOUNT Second and Washington Sts. Saturday Evenings, Six to Eight. working for $50 a month should tip a barber 15 cents for a shave. Before the Investigation closed John C. Byland and his son fled from Kentucky. Later the directors announced that 118,000 was gone. Raybond Byland was arrested eight months after their disappearance in SacramentO; CaL, where he was work ing under an assumed name. He was brought back to Kentucky and sent to the ponitentiary. He saw his little child for the first time when he returned. His father was arrested in Detroit yesterday and today was taken to Ken tucky, where he will be tried this week. The father says he is glad the chase is over and asserts that he intended to return to Kentucky and surrender. SHERIFF FRUSTRATES MOB Hypnotic Dentist Removed Secretly From California Jail. SAN BERNARDINO, Cal., Aug. 20. That a, carefully laid plot for the re moval of Dr. A. W. McDavlt from the county Jail by a mob waa frustrated by his removal to another jail, was the statement of Sheriff Ralphs tonight. Ralphs declined to reveal the pres ent whereabouts of the dentist, accused of having Immured Miss Jessie Mc Donald in a narrow room adjoining his office for 15 months. It is believed, however, that McDavit was taken to the State Hospital at Highlands. McDavit's trial Is set for August Si. Toledo Merchants Active. CENTR-VLIA, Wash., Aug. 20. (Spe cial.) Enthusiasm and Interest are still at a high pitch in Toledo over the com ing Southwestern Washington Fair to be held in Centralia the second week in September. The merchants of Toledo are offering prizes for the best stock and produce exhibits, their offers be ing separate from the fair awards and are made to create interest In the event and to secure high-class exhibits. as and Morrison Selling Bldg. 9 IVAU. "V f