THE SUNDAY' OREGOXIAN,
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PORTLAND, DECEMBER 22, 1907.
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.WHIP ILL STREET
John Wesley Gaines Would
Punish Financiers.
SAYS THEY STARTED PANIC
Thinks Congress Should Remain in
Session Till Punishment Is Meted'
Out to Those Guilty of Caus
ing the Recent Flurry.
WASHINGTON. Dec. 21. "We- should
have gone to Wall 'Street anl throttled
the thieves and returned to the honest
poople their hard earnings."
So John Wesley Gaines proclaimed In
the House of Representatives today y
way of protest against the adjournment
of the House for the holidays.
Mr. Payne, of New Tork, laughingly
Inquired what subject was before the
House.
"Oh, replied Mr. Gaines, "I expect
more than the gentleman from New Tork
will laugh in Wall Street at what I say.
but that does not deter me from con-
flemning their Imposition and outrage
upon the plain people of this country,
who are not responsible for this highway
set of imposing an unnecessary panic
upon the defenseless people. I say that
we should stay here through the holidays
ind rivet down these vultures who have
forced this condition."
It was the duty of every member, he
aid, to stay here and attend to business.
"Not as Democrats, not as Republicans,
but as Americans, representing the
American people."
After being In session 20 minutes the
House adjourned until January 6.
NEW BILLS IX THE SENATE
Owen Proposes Guarantee of Depos
its Burkett's Grazing Bill.
WASHINGTON. Dec. 21. A bill provid
ing security to depositors of, banks and
tor the prevention ot hoarding of cur
rency, was introduced today by Senator
Owen, of Oklahoma. It fixes a tax upon
ill deposits and from the fun thus
created provides for the payment in full
of all depositors when a bank is de
clared insolvent. The Secretary of the
Treasury is directed to maintain a fund
Of $100,000,000 in Treasury notes, which
may be loaned on bonds to 90 per cent
of their value. The bill provides that
dvances from it shall be cnargea for at
the rate of 6 per cent for the first four
months and thereafter at the rate of 8
per cent.
Senator Burkett reintroduced his grac
ing bill of last session. It provides for
the leasing of the public domain to cat
tle owners for the maintenance of their
itock. giving, however, settlers the right
to enter and to locate upon land at - any
lime.
WOULD HAVE A VICE-ADMIRAL
Senator Warner Introduces Bill Es
tablishing That Rank.
WASHINGTON, D,ec. 21. - Senator
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R arner, of Missouri, today introduced
kill creating the rank of Vice-Admiral in
lie Navy.
Should it become a law it will permit
he promotion of Rear-Admiral Evans to
the proposed rank, but the measure is not
Intended to accomplish that alone. Its
purpose being to provide for a rank, that
when the Navy is represented abroad
does not render it necessary for the com
mander to allow officers of other coun
tries whose navies, are of less importance
vu lane precedence over mm.
BRIEF BUT LIVELY SESSION
Gaines' Outburst Preceded byHep
burn's Protest Against Shirking.
WASHINGTON, Dec, 21 After being
m session aDout zu minutes, the House
of Representatives today adjourned until
January . ine proceedings were en
livened 4iv A ir-l iif .Hii
House for Its Inaction and for taking
sucn a long recess at a time "when we
should have gone to Wall Street and
throttled the thieves and turned back to
ine nonesi people tneir nard earnings."
Gaines was preceded by Hepburn of
Iowa, who protested against what he said
Was the Indiscriminate wav In arkt,h
committees were given authority to sit
aunng tne session or tne House, thereby
laiuiiigtiiiciiiucia ig -uc immune 1 1 u ill ar
rest in case it became necessary to secure
a auorum.
Both Williams and De Armond were
upon tne noor, but took no notice of each
uuier.
GRANTS RELIEF TO MIXERS
Senate Passes Suspension of Assess,
ment Work on Clalm
Washington, Dec. 21. The Senate today
passed a bill suspending during the year
1907 the requirement that mlpers shall
do at least J100 of work annually during
we penuu in wnicn rneir claims are be
lng perfected.
Cullom introduced a joint resolution
proposing an amendment to the const!
tution, limiting the terms of the Presi
dent and Vice President to six years and
prohibiting re-election for a second term.
A number of other bills and resolutions
were introduced. After being In session
45 minutes, the Senate today adjourned
until January t.
FIVE JURORS ASKED QASH
Doney Named Others Who .Would
Sell Their Verdict.
BUTTE, Mont.. Dec. 21.-Flve members
or tne jury panel in Judge Lynch's de
partment of the District Court are Imnli.
cated in an attempted bribery, according
iu miiuaviis cnarging juror Amos Doney
with bribery, which were read to th
court yesterday. Detectives Larkin and
Morrissey with James V. Collins, presi
dent of the Olympia Brewing Company.
u" wnvy stated while seeking
a bribe of Collins to clve him a. vrrii,i i
a damage suit pending, that Jurors Hugh
Wright, J. Doyle. Harry Richards and
George Tippet were ones who could be
fixed with him. The officers were secreted
in Collins' office when Doney was trapped
into repeating his offer to arranrn l
diet. The affidavits also stated that
Doney declared that Maury and Hogevoll
a well-known firm of lawyer.-, had a list
of those jurors of the panel with whom
verdicts could be arranged, Doney advis
ing Collins of their ability to secure ver
dicts for their clients, "as th.w h.j .
cinch." The affidavits have caused a
sensation.
Schooner Puts Back for Shelter.
SAN FRANCISCft rw . l
schooner Metha Nelson, which sailed
December 18 for Everett, returned to
port yesterday seeking: shelter from
the gale outside and tn ni...
sails which were blown away off Point
iwcauu wsi i nursaay,
SCENIC FHOTOS FOR CHRISTMAS.
Kiser'a make fine presents. 248 Alder.
ACTIVITY OF. THE .SERVICE
RECLAMATION WORK CARRIED
OX OX LARGE SCALE.
Summation Shows Equipment Is
Valued at $1,000,000 and 16,
8 68 Men Have Been Engaged.
ORBGONIAN NEWS BUREAU. Wash
lngton, Dec. 20. A summation of the
work of the-Reclamation Service for
1907 shows that it haa dug 1816 miles
of canals, or nearly the distance from
Washington to Idaho. - Some of these
canals carry whole rivers, like the
Truckee River 4n Nevada and the North
Platte in Wyoming. The tunnels exca
vated are 56 In number, and have an
aggregate length of ten and three
fourths miles. The Service has erected
214 large structures, including the great
dams In Nevada and the Minidoka dam
in Idaho, SO feet high and 650 feet long,
It has . completed 670 headworks. flumes,
etc. It has built 611 miles of wagon road
in mountainous country and into hereto
fore Inaccessible regions. - It has erected
and has in operation 830 miles of tele
phones. Its own cement mill has manu
factured 80,000 barrels of cement, and
the purchased amount is 403,000 barrels.
Its own sawmills have cut 3,036,000 feet
B.. M. of lumber,, and 23.6SS,0O0 feet have
been purchased. The surveying parties
oi tne service have completed topo
graphic surveys covering 10,970 square
miles, an area greater than the com
blned areas of Massachusetts and Rhode
Island. The transit lines had a length
of 18.900 linear miles, while the level
lines run amount to 24,218 miles, or nearly
sufficient to go around the earth.
The diamond drillings for dam sites
and canals amount to 66,749 feet, or more
than 12 miles. Today the Service owns
and has at work 1500 horses and mules.
It operates nine locomotives, 611 cars and
23 miles of railroad, 84 gasoline engines
and 70 steam engines. It has constructed
and Is operating five electric light plants.
There have been excavated 33,419,222
cubic yards of earth and 4,745,000 cubic
yards of rock. The equipment now on
erated by the Service on force account
work represents an investment of J1.000,
000.
This work has been carried on with the
following force: Classified and registered
service, including Washington office, 1126;
laborers employed directly by the Gov
ernment. 4448: laborers employed by con
tractors. 10, 9. or a total of all forces
of 16,363. The expenditures now total
nearly $1,000,009 per month. As a result
of the operations of the Reclamation
Service eight new 'towns have been es
tablished, 100 miles of branch railroads
have been constructed, and 14,000 peo
ple have taken- up their residence in the
desert.
MEXICANS, TO FACE COURT
Charge of Instigating'. Revolution
Contrary to Neutrality Laws.
LOS ANGELES. Dec. 21. The three
Mexican revolutionists. Ricardo Flores
Magon, Antonio Villareal and Llbrado
Rivera, who have been in jail here
since August 23, were today held by
United States Commissioner Van Dyke
to answer to the Territorial Court, at
Tombstone, Ariz., on the charge of in
stigating a military movement against
the Government or Mexico, in violation
of the neutrality laws of the United
States. Each was held in bail of 5000,
which was not furnished, and they
were remanded to jail.
The attorneys announced that they
will resist their removal to Arizona in
every possible way, and that if -unsuc
cessful here, the fight will be con
tinued in the Arizona courts. They
profess to fear a plot to spirit the men
across the border into Mexico and
shoot them for their alleged olfenses.
VOLCANO ON THREE SHIFTS
Savail's Eruption May Destroy Whole
Samoan Island.
SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 21. Advices
from Tutuila, Samoa, state that the vol
cano in the Island Savall, In German
Samoa, Is working with greater activity
than it has done since the first outbreak,
and that the eruptions are submarine.
Lava Is flowing into the sea at the rate of
7000 tons a minute. Dr. Frledlander,
German professor of geology, says other
portions of the island may be destroyed.
He has traveled through American Samoa
and declares that district will be free
from anv volcanic action.
The rainfall for the present year will
exceed all records since the American
flag was raised, as It now amounts to al
most 200 inches.
Gathering of Cupid's Victims.
CHICAGO. Dec. 21. Judge Carpenter
yesterday granted legal separation to
Mrs. Antonio Uhlir from Joseph Uhlir
on the ground of cruelty, but made her
sign a waiver to all claims for alimony
and relinquish her dower rights In his
property. Uhlir is 64 years old and the
woman 62.
It was the third matrimonial venture for
both, and the woman's second husband.
John Cerveny, was one of the principal
witnesses against her. She was Cerveny's
second wife, and, while he was disgusted
with that match, he, according to a state
ment- made to Mrs. Uhlir's attorney, pro
posed marriage to one of the witnesses
who herself is a "grass widow." This
woman, whose first husband Is dead
asked the lawyer what he thought about
It, and he advised both to sit down and
not again go out to dinner together.
Nearly every witness called had been
married two or three times.
Strangely enough, Mrs. Uhlir sought
and secured the right to take the name of
her first husband, Albert Sotek, the only
one or tne trio she burled.
Giannone May Get New Trial.
NEW YORK, Dec. 21. When Pletro
Giannone was called in the Supreme
court tor sentence on a conviction of at
tempted murder yesterday his attorney's
request lor a stay or judgment was al
lowed. The court will Investigate the al
leged confession of Bruno Cordea, that
he committed perjury when he told on the
stand that Giannone employed him to kill
L.ulgl Favatti. Cordea has been ordered
before the court from Sing Sing, where-
he Is serving a five -year sentence for an
assault upon Favatti, and If he tells the
same story that he tells In the affidavit
now In the possession of Giannone's law
yer, Giannone will doubtless be granted a
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Black Hand Blows Up Tenement.
NEW TORK, Dec. 21. A five-story tene
ment house on First avenue was shaken
from basement to roof early today by
the explosion of a dynamite bomb, meant,
the police believe, for Angelo Traflcanti,
DarDer wno lives with his wife and
four children on the first floor. Every
window in the building was blown out
and the doors on the first floor were
torn from their hinges, but no one wa3
hurt. The authorities think the explosion
the work of the Black Hand, but Trafi
canti, who is a Sicilian, says he has re
ceived no warnings of any sort and does
not believe he has incurred the enmity
of any organization.
Five Tons of Bullion..
LONDON. Dec. 21 Prli.
bullion welff-hlncr fivo tnna anil ..
sen tins f500.000, were dispatched this
morning to Liverpool for shipment to
New Tork on the Campania, which sails
luuay.
SHOPPING SHOULD BE DONE AT OUR STORE
where you avoid the rush and crush of the department
stores. Competent and courteous salesmen will give
you proper attention and all the time required
In our stock you will find only HIGH CLASS
furnishings at no higher prices than the ordinary
sorts elsewhere. If your purchase bears our label
it will be a guarantee to the recipient that it is
correct Our stock includes EXCLUSIVE STYLES in
NECKWEAR HANDKERCHIEFS MUFFLERS
SUSPENDERS HOUSE COATS LOUNGING ROBES
GLOVES AUTOMOBILE RUGS FANCY VESTS
UMBRELLAS SUITCASES TRAVELING SETS
in fact everything for gentleman's wear
Our JUVENILE DEPARTMENT is overflowing
with good things for the little fellow. '
HAT, GLOVE and Merchandise orders at the hat departmer t
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TDM ATKINS MUST BATHE
CARBOLIC BATH AND DISGRACE
FOR THE UNWASHED.
Regulations Require Cold Plunge
Once a Week AH the Year.
Soldiers Are Objecting.
LONDON, Dec. 14. Mingled amuse
ment and Indignation has been caused
among the men of the First South Staf
fordshire regiment at some extraordinary
instructions In regard to baths which re
cently appeared in the battalion orders.
The instructions state:
"Every man in the battalion is to have
a bath at least -once a week. The quar
termaster will allot one bathroom for
the use of each company. When a man
has a bath he will be given a ticket by
the man in charge of the bathroom,
which he will hand to the color sergeant
of his company the same day.
"In each company a roll is to fce kept
showing the days on which men have
baths. Any man who is not recorded on
his company roll as having had a bath
Overloaded lift Stock
For Christmas and for New Year's of the Best, Neatest and Cleanest
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MADE IN AMERICA
116 Carloads Unloaded This Year
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More Furniture than three-fourths of the furniture houses of this city imported. We
will force the entire stock. Guarantee price and quality of parlor, dining-room, bed
room, den and office furniture, carpets and draperies.
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' HOME OF GOOD FURNITURE.
Portland's Largest Furniture Store Cor, Second and Morrison
on or before Thursday in each week will
be paraded on Friday or Saturday after
noon and washed by a fatigue party un
der the superintendence of the color ser
geant and his section commander. Men
w.ho have to be paraded for washing will
not be granted furloughs or passes."
The punishment prescribed for the re
fractory soldier who has conscientious
objections at this time of the year to the
cold baths generously provided for by the
regimental authorities Is not the most
drastic provided for m the instructions.
"Any man found in a dirty condition will
be at once washed in a carbolic bath,
made a prisoner, and severtly punished."
He will be charged 12 cents for the car
bolic bath.
The men ungratefully describe the
course prescribed as "workhouse treat
ment." They point out that there are
only eight baths for the use of the whole
regiment, and that in none of these can
hot water be obtained. If a man wants
a warm bath he either has to purchase
hot water from the regimental cook or
go some distance to the Church of Eng
land Soldiers' Home, where he has to pay
8 cents for the luxury. '
CARD OF THANKS.
te desire to extend our sincere thanks
to the many friends who extended their
sympathy atid kindness during our recent
bereavement. We are especially grateful
for the many beautiful floral pieces.
MRS. "KUERTEN AND FAMILY.
LEADING
CLOTHIER
JURY DP EXPERTS DECIDES
SIX WOMEN FROXOrXCE WOM
AX'S SUIT LOVELY1 FIT.
First Female Jury In World's His
tory Reaches Verdict la Fa
vor of Tailor.
DENVER, Colo., Dec. 21. (Special.) It
took six good women and true just ten
minutes in Justice Carlon's court to find
for plaintiff In the now celebrated case
of Victor Porel against Mrs. James W.
Wallwork. Besides -being the first case
ever tried 'before a woman Jury, first In
all the history of the world, the action
had other highly Interesting features.
The case was a suit case. Victor Porel,
"tailor to gentlewomen," as his sign
says, made a 60 suit for Mrs. Wallwork,
which, she alleged, did not fit and refused
to pay for. He, sued for his money and
when the suit was fitted in court, the
women Jurors pronounced it a "lovely
fit."
Endless variety of leather roods at
Glll-s.
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