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THE SUNDAY OREGOXIAX, " FORTLA'D, AUGUST 23. 1908. PLEDGES SOUGHT . ON OPTION BILL Candidates for Governor in Washington Asked to Go on Record. ANTI-SALOON LEAGUE ACTS Republican Aspirants Believed to Oppose Certain Features of Pro posed Measure as It Has Been Framed for Passage. OLTMPIA. Aug. 22. (Special) Every candidate for the Republican nomination as Governor has received from the Antl-aloon League of Wash ington a request for an expression as to whether or not. In case of election, he will support and sign a local option bill. The request Is not for an expression upon local option as a general issue but upon the essential features of a law desired by the league as agreed upon at recent conferences In Spokane and Seattle. The proposed local option law, as outlined by the Anti-Saloon League, Is apparently designed to give the local optionlsts the advantages of either a county, city or country precinct unit system depending upon the state of the public mind. How Vote Is Initiated. A' county, as a whole, or a city as a whole, or a country precinct, under the proposed act. may bring about a sep arate local option vote therein by se curing the signatures of 29 per cent of the voters thereof to a petition to that effect. " But if the election applies to the county as a whole and the county goes dry, every city and country precinct within the county goes dry too. On the other hand, if the county ae a whole votes wet any country precinct or Incorporated city or town may se cure a separate vote and may exclude the saloons from such precinct or town or city. The proposed act Is to provide for taking the local option vote at special elections so that the issue may be de cided entirely apart from all partisan issues.. The bill Is to forbid the sale of liquor In any form but not to in-. elude the manufacture within the operations of the law. The candidates, who so far have simply Indorsed the local option plank In the Republican platform In general terms, will now have an opportunity for expressing their views upon a definitely described measure. The local option isue has been brought prominently to the front in the" latter days of the . primary campaign largely through the efforts of Gov ernor Mead, who is taking pains to let It be known that his personal and confidential friends 'n Whatcom county drafted the plank in the platform. Will Call for Support. The Governor has said that he will wait until the Legislature passes upon ths general nature of the bill to be enacted, defining the extent of the ! territory to be affected by the vote, and that he will then enlist the co operation and support to the measure of his frlende to see that the details are such that the law will be efficient. MeBride. Ctasgrove and Atkinson have all indorsed the local option plank In gen eral terms, but It Is apparent that the declarations of neither the Governor nor those of the other candidates meet the requirement of the Anti-Saloon League. The apparent attempt of the Mead sup porters has been to assume the position of being more sincere than MeBride on the question and an attempt to make the most of McBridee veto of the 1903 bill is shown. L'p to the present campaign Mead's rec ord on local option has been one of pas siveness. while some of hls personal and confidential friends are showing a marked change of views on the subject. There were local option bills before the house In the two sessions of the Legisla ture, held during Mead's administration, and In 197 the bill lacked but five votes of passing. In Governor Mead's messages to the two Legislatures mentioned no ref erence can be found to what is now the main iesue of a political campaign. Object to Certain Features. It is expected that most, if not all. of the Republican candidates, in expressing their views upon the Anti-Saloon League bill, will object to the feature of the pro posed bill which makes the whole county the controlling unit In the event the county goes dry. but not the controlling unit If it goes wet. It la understood that the aaloon and brewery interests would prefer the precinct unit plan, but would not aerlously oppose a measure that would place an entire county outside of incorporated cjties In one unit and let the incorporated cities and towns decide by precinct whether to be wet or dry. While these Interests, of course, do not want any local option law. it is understood they are expecting one to pass and will try to secure a measure as favorable to them as possible. It is an interesting fact In connection with the local option history of the 1907 Legislature, where the bill failed to pass by onty five votes, that the brewery In terests favored the bill then enacted, which increased the state liquor license to $25 per annum. This bill was given the support of George W. H. Davis, of Tacoma. lobbyist for the breweries, it is said, with the idea that by making drug stores subject to the tax and increasing it on all liquor dealers a showing of revenues for the state could be made that perhaps would diecourage local option legislation In the 1909 Legislature. Credit for the passage of this act is also claimed for the Mead administration. Storm Sweeps Mayville Flat, De stroying Much Grain. CONDON, Or.. Aug. 22. The south ern section of Gilliam County was vis ited by electrical storms and a down pour of rain and hall Thursday and Thursday night, which put a stop to all harvesting operations. The storm raged fiercely Wednesday evening in the Mayville country, south of this city, causing much damage where the lightning struck on large stacks of wheat. While unharnessing the 2 horas cot of tha Harvest hands was struck by lightning and knocked to the ground. Emma, the 14-year-old daughter of Mr. Heln. who was aiding In getting- the horses Into the barn, was also knocked senseless for a short time, and suffered from the shock during- the night. From different places come reports of other persons suffer ing shocks, but no fatalities resulted. During the electrical storm, torrents of rain and hail in the shape of a cloudburst fell over the Mayville Flat, sweeping everything in its path through the draws that lead on to Thirty-Mile Canyon. On reaching Thirty-Mile, the rushing torrents reached a depth of nearly 20 feet, where the Mac Smith place Is located, and there carried away Mr. Smith's barn. The damage caused on the Smith ranch is large, as practically only the farm house remains standing, and that In a crippled condition. The county road through the canyon from here to Fossil Is thoroughly washed out. and It will take several weeks to make It passable. Shocked While Repairing Wires. SALEM. Or., Aufg 22. (Special.) While trying to repair the electric light wiring in one of the buildings of the Salem Brewing Association, this evening, Leo Schmidt received a severe shock and was hurled to the cement sidewalk. 15 feet below. He will be crippled "for a long time. LAWYERS FRAME A TICKET TEST VOTE INDICATES POLIT ICAL FEELING AT SPOKANE. Nearly 300 Attorneys Make Known Their Preference as to Candidates. SPOKANE, Wash., Aug. 22. Were it left to the attorneys of Spokane to de cide the nominees for the three' Supreme Judgeships In this state to be filled at the election in November, they would be S. J. Chadwick. Herman D. Crow and Milo A. Root, and the nominees for the Su perior bench in Spokane County would be K. H. Sullivan, William A. Huneke, A. M. Craven and Henry L. Kennan. This is the result of a test vote taken by the Spokesman-Review, compilation of which, so far as returned, was com pleted tonight. In taking this vote an effort was made to procure a complete list of all attorneys residing in Spokane. In all-, the names of 290 attorneys were procured. Of the 290 cards sent out. 213 were returned to the office. The vote was: For Supreme Judges S. J. Chadwick, Colfax. 181: Herman D. Crow, Spokane, HI: Milo A. Root. Seattle. 9S: Lucius B. Nash. Spokane. 92: Oliver V.' Lynn. Olym pia. 42: John E. Humphreys, Seattle. 31: Emmett N. Parker, Tacoma, 29; E. M. Carr, Seattle, 7. For Superior Judges E. H. Sullivan, 191; William A. Huneke, 136; E. M. Cra ven. 116: Henry L. Kennan, 108; John A. Peacock, 86; George W. Belt, 5S; A. El Barnes. 86: John D. Hinkle, 40; P. F. Quinn. 17; L. H. Prather, 16; E. M. Hey burn, 12 ' i ( Photo by Coe, Astoria. I BIG FIR TREE NEAR SVEX- SEX, IX CLATSOP COl'STV. ASTORIA, Or., Aug. 17. (Spe T cial.) In a recent Issue of The J Sunday Oregonlan there appeared I a picture of a fir tree located i near Olney, In Clatsop County, -area .aiH tn htf t ll O tnllesit t of its species in this section, and f I probably In the entire county. 1 nai wus a mistane, us Lucre bib several In this vicinity that can beat It. The accompanying photograph, which was taken by E. A. Coe. of this city, is of a tree that stands on G. L. Hills' ranch, near Svensen, and about two miles from the railroad track. It Is 12 feet In diameter eight feet from tha base, and is 140 feet in height to the first limb, where tha diameter Is seven feet. The tree is a yellow fir, straight as an arrow and without a blemish, having neither a knot or twig to mar Its beauty. With in a short distance of this mon ster are fully a dozen others nearly as large, but none of them Is so perfect as this one. K-f- - f l i Hi, wfei l - FARMERS SPEED GATION PLANS Union County Land-Owners Subscribe at Lively Meeting. SCEPTICS SOON CONVINCED Six Thousand Acres Offered for the Gigantic Project, Which Will Cost Four Million Dollars. LA GRANDE. Or., Aug. 22. (Special.) Union1 County is water mad. From a smoldering enthusiasm the irrigation fever has broken out and is spreading rapidly, with the ' result that nearly 6000 acres out of a required 20.000 to insure substantial aid from David Eccles. the sugar king, have been subscribed. The enthusiasm, which heretofore had been confined to the promoters princi pally, broke in all its fury at a mass meeting here tonight, attended by 200 farmers. They heard the details of an Irrigation scheme to cost J4.000.000 and to cover 20.000 acres of valley land, discussed by men who have studied It for years. They came skeptoical. but before the eloquence of ex-Senator Walter M. Pierce had gained its highest pitch, someone asked for a subscription blank and the ball was rolling. There were about 200 farmers in attendance, but they had 4000 acres subscribed In less than 20 minutes, and nearly 6000 In the course of half an hour. The subscrip tions vary from 2 to BOO acres each. The purpose of the mass meeting tonight was not to gain subscriptions, but to discuss the proposition from every standpoint The subscription of more than one-fourth of the demanded acres of water amazed the most san guine promoter. PRISONER'S LAST CHANCE v James Breen, of Walla Walla, Must Meet Parole-Conditions. WALLA WALLA. Wash., Aug. 22. (Special. ) James Breen. who was re committed to the penitentiary yesterday because he had failed to meet the con ditions of his parole and return Cecil Brlttan to his parents, will be given a last chance to gain his freedom this morning. Handcuffed to a pr.itentiary official, Breen will be taken 7 moun tains, near Tollgate, anil : stories are true he will deliver t. child to his mother. The officers do not believe that Breen will make good his promises, but are giving him this last chance to satisfy Mrs. Brittan, who still believes her son is alive and will yet be restored to her. At no time will the prisoner be permitted the least opportunity to make his escape. The. trip will be made In an automobile, and It is the opinion here tonight that Breen will be returned to the state prison. t- . SAYS HUSBAND THREATENED Oregon City Wife Brings Suit for Divorce and Alimony. OREGON, CITY, Or., Aug. 22 (Spe cial.) Mrs. Jessie L Anders, who says her husband. J. L. Anders, threatened to kill her. brought suit here today in the Circuit Court for a decree of divorce, and asked for S20 per month alimony for the support of herself and their minor child. Leota, aged 6 years. They were married in Medford. Or.. November 20. 1900. Mrs. Anders says her husband used intoxicants to excess and was so abusi-e that ehe was forced to leave him October 20. 190". She secured from County Judge Dlmick this afternoon an order .restraining An ders from Interfering with her or their daughter during the pendency of the suit. RATES ON APPLES RAISED Charges From Walla Walla to East ern Points Go l'p 5 Cents Box. WALLA WALLA. Wash.. Aug. 22. (Special.) In accordance with an an nouncement made here today, applegrow ers will be compelled to pay an advance of from 15 cents to 20 cents a box on freight rates to Eastern points. The In creased rate comes through an agree ment between the Northern Pacific and O. R. & N. Railway officials and will go into effect September 13. which will be In time to catch the majority of this season's shipments. Ttcgatta Queen Selects Court. ASTORIA. Or.. Aug. 22. (Special.) Queen Hattle. of the Astoria Regatta, Miss Hattie Wise, announced the mem bers of court this evening as follows: Maids of Honor Misses Birdie and Louise Wise. Maids Madge 'Fulton, Jennie Jeffers, Myrtle Sklbbe, Maybelle Larsen, Agnes Karlnen. Gayle Robert, Maud Ross, Mary Eakin, Edith Lorntsen. Christine Wade. Pages John Trulllnger, Senford Schlus eel, Arthur Johnson. Richard Hobson. Crownbearer Doris Hoefler. The members of . the ladles" committee are Mrs. H. F. Prael. Mrs. I. Bergman, Mrs. J. H. Whyte. Mrs. Albert Dunbar and Miss Alice Wood. Seven Secure Certificates. CONDON. Or.. Aug. 22. (Special.) County Superintendent J. C. Sturglll an nounced today the result of the recent teachers' examinations held In this city. The following secured certificates: First grade Mrs. J. A. Randall, of Con don. Second grade Miss Cora Wilkes, of FoksII; Miss Ida V. Gillette, of Lents. Or. Third grade Miss Julian Thomas, of Mayville; Miss Emma Anderson, of Con don: Miss Georgia Phillippl. of Early. There was but one applicant for state papers. H. J. Simmons, of Fossil, school superintendent of Wheeler county. . Child Injured by Blast in Quarry. EUGENEi. Or., Aug. 22. Special.) The superintendent of the Warren Construc tion Company and the city authorities are searching for. a new stone quarry, the one on Skinners Butte having become too dangerous from blasting to continue loiwter. Yesterday several stones were hurled through the roofs of houses in the neighborhood and the little daughter of Robert Poole was struck on the heel by a flying stone, which bruised her so that she could qot walk. The stone weighed about 75 pounds. The construction com pany has not enough stone out to com plete, their paving contract, IF W Sole Agents Knox Hats BUFFUM & PENDLET 311 MORRISON STREET, OPPOSITE POSTOFFICE BLIND PIG RAIDED Conducted Under Guise of Commission House. STOCK OF LIQUOR SEIZED Proprietors Are Arrested and Police Assert Men Have Been Shipping Liquor to Albany in Butter-Boxes. ALBANY, Or., Aug. 22. (Special. 1 Raiding the commission-house of Ken nedy & Co.. at Second and Montgomery streets, at i o'clock this afternoon. Sheriff Smith. Chief of Police Ries and Offcer Catlin caught six men In the act of drinking liquor and found two barrels of whisky. 12 cases of beer, one case of port wine, scores of empty bottles and a supply of saloon glasses. They arrested J. D. Kennedy and Frank Albrecht and took them before City Re corder Redfleld. where they were charged with maintaining a nuisance under the terms of a city ordinance embodying the provisions of the state local-option ' law, and also permitting the confiscation of seized liquor. Thy gave bonds of 200 each to appear next Monday morning. The six men found in the place were also ordered to appear at that time as witnesses. Kennedy and Albrecht have been con ducting a produce house, buying chick ens and eggs, and officers assert that thev have had liquor shipped to Al bany in butter boxes. Officers have suspected them of conducting a blind pig, and carefully planned a raid to day. Selecting a time when a number of men were In the place, each officer stationed "himself at a separate door and at n signs! all swooped In on the surprised drinkers. Buys Famous Warm Springs. STEVBX30N. Wash.. Aug. '22. (Spe--i.,! itHa -Rock Mineral Springs, the curative waters for many years known an Moffatfs Springs, nave oeen wusm br j P Porter, of Vancouver. The opening of the North Bank road has made possible the development of the springs on a commercial scale, and Mr. Porter Is already installing a bottling works at the springs. As the traditional treasure spof of the Columbia Indians, where they resorted for seemingly mirac ulous cures, the Table Rock SpringB were known to the earliest settlers of the Oregon country. Lewis and Clark camped by them over 100 years ago, and at the old block house, a. short distance away voung Phil" Sheridan made his first brilliant tand against the Klickitat Indians. Eugene Will Welcome Shrlners. EUGENE. Or.. Aug. 22. (Special.) The local members of the Mystic Shrine are making elaborate preparations to entertain the officers and members of Al-Kader Temple of the Mysttc Shrine of Portland, when they make the pil grimage to Eugene, Saturday. Septem ber 6, to hold a ceremonial session and confer the order of the shrine on a large number of candidates. The main streets and business houses are to be decorated and illuminated, and the vis iting Shrlners are to be given a true Arab greeting. The parade in the af ternoon will be most gorgeous. Former Kural Carrier Arrested. MILTON, Or., Aug. 22. (Special.) James Jenson, formerly a rural mailcar rler out of Spokane, was arrested In Freewater this afternoon on an Informa tion of a postoffice inspector. It-Is al leged that Jenson, while working for the Government, received from the patrons of the route money with which to pur chase money orders, but that he failed to buy the orders, and converted the money to his own use. R. B. Vunk, of Albany. ALBANY, Or., Aug. 22. (Special.) R. B. Vunk. a veteran of the Civil War. and resident of Albany for many years, died today at his home east of this city. He was a native of New York, 63 years old. At the age of 18 he en listed In the Union Army, .and served throughout the war. He came to Al IT COMES FROM US IT'S CORRECT ell-Dressed DEMAND and K nox World-Renowned Hats Fall and Winter Styles Now on Display bany In 1885, and had lived here ever since. Mr. Vunk leaves a wife and one son, Claud Vunk, of Salem. He was a member of the United Presbyterian Church, the G. A. R., and the Albany lodge of Workmen. YEGGMEN CAUGHT IN ACT Safe-Crackers Caught After Being Trailed Through Three Cities. NEW YORK, Aug. 22. After following three men from'New York through Prov idence, R. I.. Boston and Philadelphia and then back to this city, seven detec tives from police headquartersearly to day arrested the men as they were about to blow open a safe in Newark. N. J. Weeks were spent in trailing the men, who. the detectives assert, they had every reason to believe were responsible for a series of daring safe robberies in New York City in the last Tew weeks. The detectives learned that the men had headquarters in Brooklyn and HoJ boken. In the house in Brooklyn was found an extensive counterfeiting plant. In charge of the house was a woman who gave the name of Lizzie Jacobson. HOP YIELD WILL BE SMALL Scores or Yards in Washington County Have Been' Plowed Under. HILLSBORO. Or.. Aug. 22. (Special.) There will be considerable diversity in prices for hop-picking this- year in Wash ington - County unless hopgrowers get together. Some yards will pay a cent a pound, some 90 cents a hundred and some but 80 cents. Last year all yards paid $1 a hundred. The crop this year will not reach last year's yield- by 75 per cent, as there are many uncultivated yards, while scores of yards have been plowed under. Picking will commence about September 1. SHAfiP FROST IN DAKOTAS Flax Crop Uninjured and Wheat Is Out of Danger. ST. PAUL. Aug. 22. Specials from Minnesota, North Dakota and Northern Wisconsin tell of a heavy frost last night. A large part of the flax crop Is reported injured. Half of the wheat is in shock and the rest is thought to be out of danger. CARD OF THANKS. The undersigned desire to express their heartfelt thanks to their friends and neighbors for the many acts of kindness and sympathy bestowed upon them during recent illness and death of their beloved husband and father, Rich ard H. Holmes. MRS. R. H. HOLMES AND FAMILY. Autumn Millinery Modes PRELIMINARY SHOWING INSPECTION INVITED Our Millinery Department has been closed the past three weeks for re modeling, installing new fixtures, etc. NONPAREIL 334 Washington Street 124 Seventh St. Men enjamin s Correct Clothes BLOW MAT- END HIS LIFE TILIAMOOK RESIDENT SERIOUS LY INJURED IX FIGHT. Accused Man Taken to Jail and Re fuses to Tell of Affair. TILLAMOOK. Aug. 22. (Special.) J. Fenny, a molder, is lying unconscious and in a dangerous-condition tonight as the result of being struck by John Day, of this place. Day Is in Jail awaiting the outcome of Fenny's injuries. The men had a quarrel this morning. Day went to Fenny's shop and Invited him down the road. The next known of the case was when Sheriff Crenshaw and Dr. I. M. Smith were called to find Fenny lying unconscious, wUh Day and Mrs. Day trying to restore him to con sciousness. An examination showed that Fenny was suffering from concussion of the brain. Day has made no statement. SHOT'IN DUEL; OTHER DYING Prominent Men of Cumberland Fill Each Other With Lead. CUMBERLAND. Tenn., Aug. 22'. George Britton and Frank Davis, prom inent men of this vicinity, engaged In a pistol duel at the railway station at Shawnee, two miles east of here, today. Britton was shot five 'times, the fifth bullet penetrating the heart and kill ing him instantly. Davis received wounds in the abdomen, breast and shoulders, and Is not expected to live. The shooting was the result of an old feud- MAY INVITE ATHLETES Proposal to Ask Oregon Winners of Olympic Games to State Fair. v SALEM. Or., Aug. 22. (Special.) Secre tary Frank Welch, of the State Fair, has taken up the plan of inviting the Oregon winners of the Olympic games to attend the Slate Fair on Portland day, Septem ber U, and preparing a fine reception In their honor. Samuel MeCary. CASCADE LOCKS. Or., Aug. 22. (Specdal.) Samuel MeCray, one of the oldest residents or Cascade Locks, died here Thursday. He had been In the employ of the Wind River Lumber A. ; i o .J Sole Agents Alfred Benjamin Co's Clothes Company for the past 15 years. Ha leaves a wife and two children. Xew Mill Xearing Completion. CASCADE LOCKS, Or.; Aug. 22. (Special.) The new sawmill and plan ing plant of the Wind River Lumber Company will 'probably be In active operation by November 1. The plant will he much larger than the one de stroyed by fire a year ago. Mchmed All Bey hails for Liverpool. MONTREAL. Aug. 22: Under the name of M. H. Perah. Mchmed All Bey. former Turkish minister at Washington, sailed today on the steamer Ottawa. He was accompanied by his family and sev eral servants. RHEUMATISM Statistics show that one-half of the human family. Including young and old. male and female,, have Rheumatism and its 'cousin." Neuralgia. The cause of Rheumatism is a toxin, a poison gen erated In the system, which, gets Into the blood and from there it gets into the fibro-cellular tissues of the system. Every bone. Joint, muscle and organ In the body Is encapsulated with this kind of tissue. Hence, you see, that we can have Rheumatism, or It can locate Itself In most any part of the body. If there is a field for Its recep tion. This poison Is generated In tha system and Is known as lactic or uric arid with a few other elements In com bination. In the metamorphosis of our foodstuff, after its Ingestion, there goes on a cheml'O-phyplologkal change from which these acids are produced. In their first formation they are liquid and carried along with the blood and deposited into this fibro-caitllage like tissue, and soon the watery elements are taken up and this toxin Is left In this sheath which takes up an irrita tien, then congestion, beat, BwelHng and pain, and we call It Rheumatism. If this acid crystalizes (which it docs with the calcium sodas and potashes of the system), and gravitates Into the Joints, then we have Gout. Pressure on the nerve produces pain. As the prim ary cause Is a nutritional one, and Hs arrest and elimination depends upon the same. It behooves us to know how to prevent as well as cure it. This poison is one of' the products of uremia of the system. This uremia la the burnt-up and worn-out elements of he system. We call them the ashes or waste product of the system. As you see, these products are made and generated by a lack of proper diges tion and assimilation of our Ingested organs and the emunctorles. Taking cold, exposure and excesses are exclt inar causes, but not the primary cause. The system was already poisoned, and these secondary causes allowed it to assert Itself. We would nave no dis eases If the ceils, tissues and organs of " the body were supplied with their proper and wanted nutrition. Poison could not get a fast hold or be re tained in the system if all its parts were normal. Nothing can keep the system normal or eliminate its enemy except its physiological nutrition. We prevent Rheumatism and all other diseases by supplying the sys tem with its wanted elements to per fect digestion. We cure this, as well as all other abnormal conditions, by supplying physiological nutrition to keep every tissue and organ up to Its normal, healthy standard. We feed the nerve its wanted physiological nerve food and the pati -nt gets well. REMEMBER We test the blood; make chemlcul and microscopical analysis of the urine free' of charge; diagnose your case free of charge. Then. If you take our treatment, you pay for what you get. If not convenient to call at our of fice, write us and we will send you our Illustrated Blue Boor and Ques tion Blank to fill out and return, when we will write you how you may find HEALTH. VAN VLECK GLAND EXTRACT CO. 708-0 Deknm Hldit., Iirlnnil, Or. To whom It may concern: I Rlaily testify that -1 have taken Mrs. Ir. S. JC. Chan's Chinese remedies for my fe male troubles. 1 suffered for three months, having tried many different men doctor., hut none pave me any benellr. Then I took her modklne. which a'l"k'V Kave me relief and at the end of four weeks I whs completely eurrd by h-r womlerful remedies (hrrbf aii'l Mrs. Dr. w Vliiiii. rooiFK I am now in perfect health. I will heartily recom mend her to all suffering ladles You wl.l find hr.r at the Chinese Medicine to. at '"rtH Morrison street, between First ami Second streets, Portland. Or M MRS. E. B. DOXY. Albany, Or. fit