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IF YOU WANT TO KNOW WHAT SMARTLY DRESSED MEN SOARS LIKE BIRD MUSICIANS TO STAY full growth, it Is believed he will be recognizKi as one of a band of robbers who are beiieved to have a clearing house for piur.der taken from Summer homes in Long Island. The prisoner Is John H. Hamilton. Disguised as a tramp. Detective Wil liams, of the Long Island Railroad staff, made the acquaintance of Ham ilton the other day. While partly In toxicated Hamilton told his new friend that he had sold his revolver to get something to eat. Williams showed him his revolver, and Hamilton is said to ha,ve made arrangements with Wil liams to make a haul In Southampton, L. I. By pre-arrangement. the detec tive had himself and Hamilton arrest ed at Pati'hogue. The detective was discharged and Hamilton, upon the recommendation of Assistant District Attorney Blue, was sent away for two months as a vr.grant. It was Blue who suggested that Hamilton be com pelled to grow a moustache in order that William Hohenberry. who has turned stats" evidence, may recognize him as one of the gang. WILL WEAR THIS SEASON, ASK BEN SELLiiNO Wright Aeroplane Makes Per fect Flight at Lemans. Dispute With Theater Man agers Over Wages Settled. BIG TRIUMPH IN AVIATION ORCHESTRA AT ORPHEUM American Inventor Shows Consum mate Skill In Evolutions Ma chine Reaches Height of 7 5 Feet Lands Safely. Ten-Piece Band Begins Service. Details or Settlement Are Kept Secret by Both Sides. Patron of Portland's 'playhrijsi are not to b denied the enjoyment of orchestral music. At a conference Friday be tween representatives of the musicians and the theatrical managers all differences were adjusted and the demand of the musicians for an Increased wage sched ule for players at the Orpheum was com promised on a basis satisfactory to both sides. As a result of the settlement. Man ager C. X. Sutton, of the Orpheum. im mediately contracted the services of a 10-piece orchestra, which made its ini tial appearance at last night's perform ance. Neither George I- Baker, president of the Theatrical Managers" Association, nor the officers of the Musicians' Union, would discuss the result of the meeting or the schedule of prices that was agreed on for players In the Orpheum orchestra. "The differences have been adjusted to the satisfaction of the musicians and the theatrical managers." was all Mr. Bker had to say. while the representatives of the musicians were even more reticent. The conference had nothing to do with the wages paid orchestras at the other vaudeville houses in the city, where the prevailing; schedule of J27 for individual members and $35 a week for leaders will continue. At the Orpheum the musicians demanded 135 for Individual players and $45 for leaders. Just what schedule was agreed- on for the Orpheum could not be learned, but the indisposition of either side to the ' controversy to discuss the subject leaves the Inference that conces sions were made both by the musicians and the theatrical managers. It was reported last night that In settling with the managers the musicians scored a victory and gained practically all they asked. It wa rumored the players at the Orpheum will receive on an average $7 a week more than Is paid at the other theaters. George E. Jeffrey, of San Francisco, who came to Portland with the Or pheum management, will be the direc tor of the 10-piece orchestra which was organized yesterday afternoon and played for the first time last night. Director Jeffrey. formerly was with the old TlToli orchestra In San Francisco and more recently conducted the Jdora Park Opera Company at Oakland, Cal. The other nine members of the Or pheum orchestra and the instruments .they play are: Flute. Wilbur; clarinet. Rice; cornet, Livingston; trombone, Tait: drums. Purocher; organ, Rose brook; piano. Wall; bass, Maurer; vio lin, Thlelhorn. WAR ON TICKET SCALPERS 1 ,05 Angeles Brokers Are Enjoined . by Railroad. LOS ANGELES. Aug. 22. Practically all the local ticket brokers are made defendants In a suit brought In the Vnited States Circuit Court by the San Pedro. Los Angeles and Salt Lake Rail road to restrain them from purchasing or selling unused portions of special or excursion tickets. This action Is similar to that brought by the Southern Pacific Company against the same defendants. The rail road was granted a temporary Injunc tion from Judge Wellborn pending a preliminary hearing set for the 31 Inst. The suit is an attempt to secure a permanent injunction that will pre vent scalpers from buying or selling tickets and the court is asked to fix a monetary damage in addition to the granting of an injunction. THRESHING AT STANDSTILL Storm In La Grande Valley Also m Damages Fruit. LA GRANDE, Or., Aug. 22. One of the worst electrical and wind storms to visit this valley in many years passed over the city and surrounding country Thursday night. Threshing is at a standstill as a result. There are many apple trees that suffered a slight loss of truit. and many others were knocked down by lightning. The Union and Cove vicinities were specially unfor tunate in fruit losses. Telephone wires are down in that section of the valley. The valley was thoroughly soaked, and the beet crop Is flourishing as a result of the heavy rain. PLEDGE FUND FOR BRYAN Democratic Traveling Men Propose to Raise $100,000. ST. LOUIS, Aug. 22. Plans were made for raising more than $100,000 among traveling men for the Democratic cam paign fund and officers were elected by the Democratic National Traveling Men's Club, an organization of 3JO0 members, which met here tonight in quadrennial convention. The club, which was originally organ ized in 1S9. is actively supporting W. J. Bryan for the Presidency. MONTANA LOSES SPEED w Battleship Fails to Reach First Mark Set. ROCKLAND. Me.. Aug. 22. The new battleship Montana had a screw standardi zation trial on the Rockland course to day and made two top speed rilns at 21 knots. Her average of five high-speed runs during her builders' acceptance trial list April was 22.03. Today's failure to reach those figures Is ascribed in part to a new screw. MOUSTACHE TO BE CLEW Pollc Force Robbery Snsp Set to Grow Lip Adornment. ; NEW TORK Aug. 22. The Suffolk County authorities have taken a novel way to establish the fact of a prlson sr's connection with a band of robbers. They have sent him to Jail for two months us a vagrant, and ordered that his moustache be allowed to grow. When his moustache has attained its IZZET PASHA IN LDHDDN SILTAX'S FUGITIVE SECRETARY TELLS PLAUSIBLE STORY. Says His Royal Master Advised Him to Leave Turkey Explains Re cent Revolution. LONDON. Aug. 22. The Dally Mail s,ays this morning that , it has discovered that Izzet asha, ex-secretary of the Sultan of Turkey and father of Meh md All Bey, ex-Turkish Minister at Washington, Is in London. At the be ginning of the recent reform movement Izzet Pasha fled from Constantinople and took refuge aboard the steamer Maria which, despite the protest of the Young Turk party to the British Ambas sador. saileA for the Mediterranean with the Sultm's former secretary as a passenger. In an interview printed in the Daily Mall. Izzet Tasha give the palace view of the revolution in Turkey. He claims that the commission sent to Salonikl to Investigate the mutiny of the Third army corps was composed of unrellrble men. whose confirmation of the disaffection In the corps he distrusted, but the situation was such that delay was dangerous and therefore the council of ministers ad vised the Sultan to grant a constitution in preference to risking civil war by sending troops to suppress the alleged mutiny. The Sultan willingly agreed, as he al ways had. as likewise had Izzet Pasha, been In favor of parliamentary govern ment. Izzet Pasha added that he had long wished to retire, but had waited for the completion of his favorite project the Mecca Railway. The Immediate reason for his departure from Constantinople, according to the interview, was that the 8ultan himself counseled him to go to Europe. He shipped aboard a British vessel, he declared, in order to assure his protection against the Young Turks. Arriving at Genoa. Izzet sent his fam ily to a place of safety and himself went to Paris and thence to London. He Intends to make England his home. WOODEN LEG HIS SPOON Crippled Tramp Stirs Lemonade and Is Arrested. NEW YORK, Aug. 22. That a wood en leg "is not a fit and proper Instru ment with which to stir a bowl of lemonade Is the opinion of Nathan Wagner, a restaurant-keeper of 215 Park row. Wagner was dozing in his restaurant on Tuesday night, when a breathless ragamuffin rushed In from the street. ."Say, mister," he cried, "dere's a guy outside wat's put his leg in yer lem onade!" Now. In front of Wagner's place Is a Ftand on which he had placed a large glass bowl of lemonade, to be sold at the rate of a cent a glass. Mr. Wsgner thfrefore was quick to get to. the sidewalk. To his astonishment he saw a one-legged man leaning against the bench and slowly stirring the lem onade with a wooden leg, which he had unstrapped from its stump. "Stop that:" yelled Wagner. . The man looked surprised, lifted the leg from the bowl and then deliberate ly struck the glass a whack that shiv ered it. "Help!" cried Wagner just as Police man Williams, of the Oak street sta tion, came along, and the policeman placed under arrest the man who had swung the leg. When the man was arraigned In the Tombs Police Court he was minus his leg. He gave his name as James Harmon and said that he had 110 home. "Why did you break the bowl?" In quired Magistrate Kernochan. "I didn't, your Honor." Harmon re plied, "lou can sec for yourself that I couldn't have done it. I have no wooden ieg." ' "Indeed," said AVagner, wrathfully, "and why? Because I grabbed that leg out of your hand and threw it Into the street and a dago picked It up and put It in a bag and ran down a side street." . "Well." said the magistrate, "while the police are looking ror your leg, you can rest safely on the Island. Six months." TEST ACADEMY ORGAN Directors Hear Frothlngham Me morial in Brooklyn. NEW YORK. Aug. 22. The James town Exposition organ in the concert hall of the new Academy of Music, on Lafayette avenue. Brooklyn, was sub jected to its first official test yes terday afternoon. The result was highly satisfactory. There were few present, as the trial was only for the benefit of the directors of the institu tion. On September 16 the stockholders will have an opportunity to inspect the building and hear the organ from 3 In the afternoon until 10 at night. Tho instrument was presented to the Academy by Miss Elizabeth and John W. Frothlngham In memory of their father, Benjamin T. Frothlngham. At the Jamestown. Exposition it won the gold medal. It took three months with seven workmen busy all the time to Instal the oigan In the concert hall. Features of the organ are its French chimes and a thity-two foot pedal-stop. FOUND DEAD IN RIVER German Mysteriously Murdered and Robbed in California. MARYSVILLE. Cal.. Aug. 22. With his hands tied behind him, blood oozing from the mouth, with a gash in the head, the body of a German known as "Russian Pete" was found in the Feather River here today. He evidently had been mur dered, robbed and thrown Into the stream. LEMANS. France. Aug. 22. Wilbur Wrisht. the American aproplanist. made 1,. first aDocarance yesterday since ni enforced cessation of experiments as the rnir nf the recent accident to his machine. The demonstration this evening was at Auvours. No attempt was maae 10 ac complish anything in the nature of a long flight, but the evolutions were made with the accustomed consummate skilT The machine soared to a height of to feet and landed without a mishap. Mr. Wright') expectations that the dis tance to Auvours would deter spectators from going there to witness his trials of the aeroplane were not realized, but sol diers were posted to keep, the crowds from interfering. One woman enthusiast eluded the vigilance of the soldiers, got behind the shed and borpd a peep-noie with a gimlet, in order to view the aero plane and the quarters of the acroplanist. MOXEY TO MARE FLIGHT Four Will Try for Distance Record ; Trophy In Balloon. NEW YORK, Aug. 22. Four women will make a start in a balloon from the shores of Huntington Bay. Long Island. August 29. The ascension will be made under the auspices of the Philadelphia Aeronautical Society and the balloon to X- win ha the SO.OiiO cubic foot pas senger Philadelphia. Accompanying the women will be Dr. Thomas E. Eldrldge and Dr. George II. Zimmerman, of Phil adelphia. The trip will be made for the Eldridge Zimmerman Ladies' Aeronautical chal lenge cup, offered to women of the I'nited State for the best-record for the distance traveled in one ascension in any air craft. If all goes well. It is hoped that the party will reach Maine or Can ada before the end of the flight. KAISER'S SOX IX AIRSHIP Crown Prince Makes Short Flight In Military Dirigible. BERLIN. Aug. 22. Crown Prince Frederick William made his first balloon ascension last evening and maneuvered for a short time in a military dirigible machine of the semi-rigid system. On landing the crown prince said that he had thoroughly enjoyed the trip and told Major Parseval that he would try that Inventor's flexible on another occa sion, when he would remain longer in the air. VERMDNTTQBEBARQMETER STATE ELECTION REGARDED AS IMPORTANT 1SDEX. Fight Is Made on Xational Issues and Republicans Expect In creased Majority. OREGONIAN NEWS BUREAU, Wash ington. Aug. 19. Special effort is be ing put forth by the managers of the republican campaign to roll up a tre mendous majority In the Vermont el ection, which will be held on the 1st of September. There Is no doubt that Vermont will go Republican; It always does; but the Taft managers believe that an unusually heavy republican vote In Vermont tiiis Fall will be the best sort of an opening gun for the National campaign, and moreover serve as an Indication of the trend of public sentiment. If Vermont's Republican majority Is larger than usual, it will be reasonable to conclude that Repub lican policies are growing in popu larity, for the state campaign in the Green Mountain State will be fought largely on National issues this year. Ordinarily the Republican leaders In a presidential year look to Oregon to fire the opening gun of the campaign, because Oregon's election Is held In June. But Oregon's politics has taken a decidedly freakish turn, due to the enactment of a primary law peculiar to itself and its framers, and for that reason Oregon's recent vote has been discarded as absolutely valueless. The results were too Conflicting and the Issues were purely local. As a matter of fact National Republican leaders are heartily sick of the political muss in Oregon, and do not care to even have It mentioned. A strong list of campaigners will vis It Vermont between now and election day. including Governor Hughes of New York, and two members of Pres ident RoosevHt's cabinet,. Secretaries Wilson and Straus. Other National figures will also take the stump, and dtecuss solely the Issues underlying the National campaign. This will add sig nificance to the result. What is being done in Vermont will be repeated in Maine, where the state election follows closely upon that In the mountain state adjoining. Chairman Hitchcock was instrumental in secur ing aid for the Vermont campaign managers, and he expects a large Re publican majority as a result - of the effective work done. BANK CASHIER DISAPPEARS Reported to Be Short in Accounts ,to Amount of Over $20,000. . CHATTANOOGA. Tenn.. Aug. 22. Cashier N. A. Alston, of the Bank of Stevenson .(Ala.), has mysteriously dis appeaied and it Is alleged that he is short in his accounts to the amount of from $20,000 to J24.000. Alston left his home in Stevenson last Wednesday. Frogs in Australian History. "London Echo. Frogs of Western Australia made that part of the empire British and not French. About 1800 a party of prospective French colonists landed on the west coast of Australia, but on the first morning they were alarmed by the load croaking of the frogs, which they took for demons, and retired with all speed to their ships. Western Australia might .have preferred the frog to the swan as her emblem, just as Rome might have preferred. Instead of the eagle, the goose that saved the capltoL ADVANCE STYLES COLLEGE CLOTHES on display a complete line of COLLEGE STYLE CLOTHES for young men very different from those heretofore shown. Take advantage of early choosing. On exhibition SECOND FLOOR take elevator Price $15 to $35 AVOID ARMALUEHT. TALK REPRESENTATIVES OF ENG LAND AND GERMANY CONFER. Only Old Age Pensions Discussed at Berlin, Says British States-man. BERLIN. Aug. 22. The meeting yester day between David Lloyd George. Chan cellor of the British exchequer, and Dr. Bethmann-Hollweg, imperial minister of the interior, as far as Is known, passed off without reference being made to the question of naval armaments. The" two ministers, however, conferred privately for an hour and a half and nothing has been made public concerning what was discussed. A well Informed personage told the Associated Pre?s this evening that the conference between Mr. George and Mr. Bethmann-Hollweg was confined entirely to old age pensions. " - SAYS VISIT IS NOT OFFICIAL Chancellor George Tells Correspon dent Pensions "Were Discussed. LONDON. Aug. 22. The ' Daily Mail this morning declares that no agreement has been arrived at between Great Brit ain and Germany on the question of naval armaments. David Lloyd George, Chancellor of the British exchequer. In a communication addressed to the Daily Chronicle's Berlin correspondent and transmitted by the correspondent to his paper here, says that his visit Is ex clusively concerned with pensions, and Is not official in any sense. MEETS DEATH IN DITCH Ignoble End of One of Dewey's Brave Gunners. Omaha (Neb.) Examiner. Down at Kansas City a few days since James O'Ccnnell was shocked to death by electricity while lying on his back under a manhole In a subway, a death such as fate would mete out to a hobo without hope or ambition. Tet the James O'Connell who died thus miserably in a burrow was chief gunner on the proud Olympla, Admiral Dewey's glorious flagship, when It rode into Manila Bay that memorable Mny day and led in the demolition of the Spanish fleet without the loss of a single member of Its own crews. F A .L L "ORNATtTS ET BONlTAS" REG. U.S.PAT.OFFICE HAT STYLES approved by fashion and worn by men who de mand quality and exclusiveness WILL BE ISSUED T HURSDAY, AUG. 27 289 and 291 Washington St. Perkins Hotel I STYLES J(f Leading JnVJ" Clothier Possibly It was this same man who. when the gallant Admiral's quiet re mark. "You may fire, Grldley, when you're ready," was uttered, fired the first shot that signalled the humilia tion of a nation of almost world-old pride and power. How much kinder it would have been of fate if it had allowed James O'Con nell to die fighting on that day of glory for his ship, his navy and his country. How Ms name and memory would have been treasured in the hearts of Ameri can youth if he had been summoned as at least one victim of that fierce fray. How his example would be thrilled V American youth, the emulation that ai.ibltlous, patriotic men so crave. How seemingly cruel that, courting glory at the mouth of the cannon, this unidentified hero should have been spared to die in a ditch. Perhaps he doesn't care, but those who live after him must feel the rllght that fate bestowed. It would be comforting to know that one who has dared death when It was garbed in glory, through patriotism and valor, may not in the end be stricken own by meeting it in the habiliment In which it goes forth to hunt the con demned criminal and vagrant dog, and in a ditch at that. YEARN FOR WEST VIRGINIA DEMOCRATS ARK LAYING PLANS TO RECAPTURE STATE. In the month of May. 190S. 26.(IR,VfJ3 In gold was exported from thin country and f:t.069.402 whs imported, making- a net port of 123.486.SM. Take Advantage or Factional Differ ences In Republican Party. Would Disenfranchise Negroes. OREGONIAN NEWS BUREAU, Wash ington, Aug. 17. Unless Republican fac tional differences In West Virginian are adjusted before election, serious conse quences may result. Not only is the state likely to cast Its vote for Bryan, but the Democrats, once they regain control, may be able to control the Congressional dele gation, and eliminate Senator Elklna and Scott. Trouble has been brewing among West Virginia Republicans for a number of years, and the two Senators have managed to keep their faction in control. But their selfishness, and their disregard of the wishes of the other faction, have been adding fuel to the flames until a scrap of large proportions has been d- veloped, and much bitterness has been engendered. While the Republicans are fighting It out among themselves, and imploring the aid of the National Republican organisa tion, the Democrats are saying nothing, but it has long been known that the Democratic leaders, once they gain con trol of the state. Intend to disfranchise the negroes, who constitute a large per centage of the Republican voters, and once this Is done It will take a miracle to restore the Republicans to power. It has been charged openly that this Is the purpose of the Democrats, but of course the charge has been denied, and will be until after election. It Is reasonably certain that If west Virginia goes Democratic in November, and the Democrats control the Legisla ture, the state will rejoin the Solid South, and In 1911 and 1913. respectively. Senators Scott and Elkins will be turned out of office. A negro disfranchisement law In West Virginia would make the state as solidly Democratic as Alabama or Georgia. Because of this one fact, the National leaders may take a hand In trying to bring about harmony., but even with their aid the outcome is uncertain. Tha Chilean government hss paid to date 2 818.480, Vnited states otd. for property appropriated for public una in the recon struction of th City of Valparaiso. Tiila ! done to widen eome of the streMt. alraltht en ethers and to modernise that portion or the city that was en nearly a 1111 r-n. 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