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THE SUNDAY OREGONIAX, PORTLAND, MARCH 17, 190T. 9 FUND FOR SALARIES Government Grants Corvallis College $50,000 a Year. PAY OF INSTRUCTORS ONLY Money Can Re Used for So Other Purpose Careful Accounting of Fund Is Required by Com missioner of Education. COEVAUJS. Or.. March 16. Spe cial. The terms of the new .endow ment from the Federal Government for the State Agricultural College are dis closed In a copy of the act of Congress ied at the special meeting of the Hoard of Regents held here yesterday afternoon. The Increase Is $23,000, which, added to 'he $25,000 already provided for by the Merrill act, makes the aggregate $50,0.10. Another source of revenue provided for by Congress Is the interest irfm the proceeds of Agricultural College lands sold under the act of Congress, ap proved in July. 1862. which this year has exceeded $12,000, but Is usually about $10,000, miking the total reve nue from the Federal Government about 0.000 for the maintalnance of the col lege. Of the new endowment, $5000 will be available for the year beginning July 1 next, and ending with the fiscal year In June 1908. Each year thereafter there will be an increase of $r000 un til the total Federal endowment under the amended Merrill act will be $50 ion, nt which It trill stand. The conditions under whl-h it can be used are that it shall be applied solely for salaries. No part can be used for buildings or repair of them, or for equipment or appliances. It must go for Instruction in the various branches of agriculture, mechanical engineering, electrical engineering, mining engineer ing, civil engineering and other branches of applied science as related to the mechanical arts, the English lan guage and the various "branches of mathematical, physical, natural and economic science with special refer ece to their application- to the Indus tries of life and Instruction therein." At yesterday's meeting a committee, of which Regent Cotton Is the head, wag appointed to examine into the va rious sources of revenue from both col lege and station, to Investigate the true manner in which they are now applied, the purpose bein to maintain strict adherence to the regulations of the law of Congress creating the endowment. T'nder the Merrill act. now increased to $50,000 a year, an annual report is made by the treasurer to the Commis sioner of Fducatlon at Washington, who has direction of the expenditure of the money, and if any expenditure is made that is not in strict compli ance with the law, 11 Is promptly disallowed. unanimously adopted to set apart a day in the latter part of March for a general j cleaning up. The idea met with so much favor thRt it has been decided to have one day in which every town on thetbay will turn out en masse and ciean up. SALOON MAX IS CONVICTED Jury of Newspaper Men Return Ver dict of Guilty at Seattle. SEATTLK. "Wash.. March IS. (Special.) After a deliberation of but a few min utes, a Jury of six local newspaper men. in Police Judge Gordon's court, rendered the first verdict in a violation of the Sun day closing law by a saloonkeeper, find ing Steve Reggio guilty. A fine of in and costs was promptly imposed on the convicted man. The evidence showed that Reggio had kept his saloon open ' but three minutes after midnight Sunday morning, but this was sufficient to convict. The jury was selected by the Clerk of the Court, at the instigation of Judge Gordon, on the as sumption of their fairness, although the general trend of newspaper comments has been a light treatment of Mayor Moore's closing order. HINTS GAMBLING HOQIIAM . Citizen Addresses Council and Charges Police Collusion. HOQUIAM. Wash.. March 16. (Social.) During a meeting of the City Council. John YVarnkin addressed the body regard ing the running of gambling games in this city and offered to furnish evidence for the conviction of the guilty parties. Hoqulam has been for the past year a closed town and if any gambling is being done. It is carried on behind closed doors. YVarnkin claimed the resorts, wherein frames were carried on. were under police protection. but this was emphatically denied by officials. UB OF FIVE SHOWS NERVE PAT.ILLV CRUSHED, Hfc OB JECTS .TO ANAESTHETICS. SALOON MEN TO RETALIATE Sce-nrc Arrest of Seattle Theatrical Manager for Opening Sunday.. SKATTLE. Wash.-. March 16. (Special.) I'omplainto have been issued by the prosecuting attorney -at the retiuest of th King County Llquor-Dcalerf' Asso ciation for the arrest of seven theatrical managers accused of violating the Sun day closing law by keeping open places of amusement. Warrants will be served on the ttieatrieal meil Monday. The men aerceed are John fort, of the Grand: W. YV. Ruseell. of the Seattle, and the following vaudeville managers: Alex Pantnges. John Ilennalan. It. T. Shannon. Nat Relss and Tom Connldlne. It is specified in each of the complaints that the men violated the law in keep ing open tiielr places of business Febru ary IT. This Is the first reialiatory move the saloon men have marie for the closing order directed against their places or burtness. If- they are successful in this step they will proceed against cigar deal ers and others. A similar prorecution was made in Pierce County, but the theatrical men won. So Madly Injured Skin reels Off With Underclothing Was Rid ing on Heavy Track. SEATTLE. Wash.. March 16. (Special.) Although so badly crushed by a heavy truck that when taken to the Providence Hospital his skin peeled off with his un derclothing. Willis Baer. S years old. re fused an anaesthetic and begged the sur. geon? to cut away all the parts which were hurting him. It was impossible to administer the ether, and his broken collar bone and fractured ribs, with other injuries, were attended to while he was conscious. In ternal injuries exist and it is not thought he can live. The boy was riding on a truck, when he was jolted off and fell beneath the wheels. LEWISTON KEELS BOYCOTT Interior Towns Take Revenge lor Defeat of County Division. I,EV15TOX. Idaho.. March 16. (Special.) The Clearwater and Xez Perces prairie sections of the county, which sought to be created into counties by themselves, have declared a most decided boycott against .ewiston since the Legislature refused to subdivide the county. Some people have gone so far as to refuse to take the lewiston papers, canceling their subscriptions, even though some of them had been paid In advance. The two sec tions declare that they will, hereafter, if possible, do all their wholesale trading at Spokane. Wash., and Portland. Or. While the Lewlston houses laugh at the boycott threats, there is no denying the fact that more than one of them have already felt the effects. MANY TEACHERS WILL ATTEND Extensive Preparations for Meeting Inland Association at Lewiston. LEWISTON". Jdaho. March 16. (Spe cial.) One of the forms of entertainment nf the pedagogues in attendance upon the annual session of the Inland Empire Teachers' Association, which convenes in this city next month, will be an ex cursion up the Snake River, to be given at the expense of the Commercial Club. It Is now estimated that the attendance will be more than 5"0 teachers and others identified in the educational world of Idaho. Oregon and Washington. The presidents of all the state normal schools in the three slates have written that they are coniins. besides the state superin tendents of public instruction, county superintendents of almost every county in the states, and heads of high schools and professors by the score from all the Urge Institutions of learning In Idaho, Oregon and Washington. Through the efforts of the Commercial I'lub the hotels and boarding-houses have agreed to give the teachers a reduced rate during their sojourn in Lewiston. Rail rnads will also grant reduced rates. MEAD'S I'lRST USE OF VETO Kills Rill Compelling Donation of Land for Parks. OIjYMPI A. Wash.. March 16. (Special.) Governor Mead today vetoed his first bill. House bill 3. by Beebo. of King, by the terms of which act, before an owner is permitted to uee his property by platting it, he is compelled to donate one-tenth for public purposes. The Governor takes the position that the act is unconstitu tional, it giving the state the same right to take one-half of the property-owner's land as one-tenth. He further contends that the Legislature has confused the exercise of the police power with that of eminent domain. Mead Refuses Requisition. OIA'MPIA. Wash.. March 1. (Special.) Governor Mead this afternoon declined to grant the requisition of the Governor of Idaho for the rendition of James Brown and B. W. Masters, charged in Kootenai County. Idaho, with grand larceny and now held under arrest at Ritiville. this stale. The men were represented in the hearing before the Governor today by H. N. Martin, of Davenport. Evidence was presented showing that civil suits are now pending in the courts of Kootenai County and Adams County, Washington, affecting a team of horses and that the requisition was or the purpose of attempting to en force the collection of a private debt. EXTRAVAGANCE MADE FAILURE Kx-Presldcnt Livestock Association Gives Ills Opinion. SPOKANE. Waeh.. March 16. (Special.) inSC llir I til llll h rtIH"l lion was guilty of extravagance and may have suffered from Incompetent management wis charged by J. H. Sehlvely. Deputy Insurance Commissioner of Washington, who spent several houfs in Spokane to day. Ho said he bad not familiarised him self with conditions in the company etnee Its recent failure and could not therefore spe,ik authoritatively, but that he was convinced in his own mind that the as sets will come near eq'jalizlng the lia bilities. He said: 1 was' for a short time lat Summer president of the asportation. The trttst C'k requested me to take" that position at a salary of $000 a month." Rescued Front Burning Home. STLVKRTON. Or.. March l.-(Speeial.) The farmhouse of 1. L Bower, two miles west of this city, was burned yester day morning, together with all of Its con tents. The fire originated from a defec tive stovepipe going through the second floor and the building, was all on fire when discovered. Mr. Bower's grandson was sick in bed when the fire started and it was with great fifflcnltv that he was 1 113 rAVOURITC FOR THE HANDS AND COMPLEXION q) rescued. The building coat 11500 and was insured for $tKO. Falconer as Next Governor. HOQUIAM. Wash.. March 16. (Special.) Speaker J. A. Falconer, of Snohomish, who was a guest of the young mm in this city, and attended the banquet given Senator Poison last niRht. was toasted on his entrance to the dining-room as the next Governor of the State of Washing ton. Mr. Falconer's address to the guests was the best heard here for some time. HEAP INSULT ON DIN SOCIALISTS INTERRUPT SPEECH AT GRANGE MEETING. Page of Clackamas Even Threatened With Bad Eggs His Assailants Are Strongly Hissed. ORE30X CITY, Or., March IS. (pe dal.) During an address given by ' W S. Uren at the opening of the new Grange Hall at Mllwaukie today, the speaker was interrupted by J. D. Steven and Mrs. S. M. Towelling, who ha-e Social ist Inclinations, and was subjected to In suiting remarks and threatened with rot ten eggs. Mr. Uren was speaking on the subject of the farmer in the Legislature, and had been asked to make a few remarks on the compulsory pass law, which the grange of the state are going to put to the referendum. ' ' Some things he said were displeasing to Mrs. Lewelling. and she commenced to make sneering remarks at him. He paid no attention, but continued his address in a calm and dignified manner. Then Stevens, who is noted chiefly for the Socialist speeches he makes on the streets of Portland, cut in. and Mr. Uren si lenced him with some well-chosen sar casm. After the session was over Stevens is said to have followed Uren otttside and to have continued his abuse. Mrs. Lew elling was hissed by the audience when she interrupted. The Milwaukie Grange Is one of the most flourishing in the county. It was founded with four charter members, all of whom were present today at the open ing, and has steadily grown tilt now there is a membership of about 140. The new hall was put up by the members them selves, and was constructed In about six weeks. " ft : HI k ! 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In the meantime the burden of responsibility for a possible labor war. placed on the Building Trades Assembly by the Master Builders' Association in an ultimatum issued yesterday, is denied by tabor and the builders are declared to be responsible for any trouble that might ensue. The executive committee of the assembly, composed of a representa tive from each of the 24 unions, will take the question of recalling their de mand for Increased wages at a meet ing; Wednesday evening;- In the first flush of excitement they declare- they wlll stand pat. There Is a feeling that ' the con tractors have decided to lock horns in a struggle, if labor will fight, so as to Jll'.i aii difficniiifs cleared away IF yOU WANT TO KNOW WHAT THE SMARTLY DRESSED MEN WILL WEAR THIS SEASON ASK BEN SELLING The Acme of Per f ection Our Models for 1907 Now Ready. 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