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SALEM, OREGON, THURSDAY MARCH , JD08.
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CHINA
JAPAN
CLASH
tl fit CM: WAR IS POSSIBLE
108 feUKltS OF THE, WAR CLOUR 18 SWIFTLY OATH.
KHING THAT MAY END PEACE
FUL RKIiATIONS IN TIIK OKI.
EXT -ENGLAND WOULD TLAY
I'AItT AS POSSIBLE ALLY OF
TIIK MIKADO IN TIME OF
TROUBLE.
(United Presa Leased Wire.)
London, March C. Striking oventH
In tlio GhInese-Jnpanoso controversy
ww recalled to -tlio which havo occurcd within tho last
hhi four,) (Continued from pace four.)
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CAGO STORE
JOPLES BARGAIN HOUSE -
Right Goods
At the Right Prices
'MlkCS businPCC. Wo c Units a xtjnjnAarttd cfvrtr
! Goods, New Silks, New MiBJnery, Ladies'
'awns, uomestics, Hosiery, Laces, Embrotd
w aid Fanev TnnHc vv l ih ujj-tu nt
jtfore we can alford to seN our goods at
m our competitors. Read en:
Beautiful New Wool Suit
ings In every shade and
material Special Prke-r-
49c, 65c, 69c yd
fc?u
500 yards of genuine En
glish Poplin Silks In ail
colors; 85c quality,!
59c
now yard
We show a wonderful stock
of White Wool Dre$4
Goods and Evening Shade
Silks at low prices.
3000 yards of Beautiful
Embroidery; 8'c
quality now. ..
..TV(
Bast 7fcc Light Colored
Outing Flannels,
now yard
4c
9c Satin Finished Per-
cales, now yard .... C
Ladies' Suits
If you war,t the best bar
gains In LADIES SUITS in
this part of the world,
como to the Chicago Storo.
GOOD VALUES 4 A w
for 115 aovJ I lTU
GOOD VALUES 4r A
for $18 now I C3"U
GOOD VALUES A A "
for 122 now I ifU
.?ttAT SAVES YOU HONEY
Orders Dunbar to Produce Books
SCHOOL
FIREHAS
AFTERMATH
AN AWFUL LESSON
NOT SINCE TUB IltOQUOIS TIlEA
TKIt CALAMITY IN CHICAGO
HAVE THE NEEDS OF FIKR KS
CAPES REEN SO IMPRESSED
UPON TH WHOLE COUNTRY
MAY LKAI) TO BETTER PRO
TECTION IX SALKM SCHOOLS.
(United Press Leased Wire.)
Cleveland, O., March G. Gaunt
horror and hcnrt-rondlng mlaory
mado tho llttlo town of Colllnwoo.l
their home last njght. No one slept,
ftnlf-ho grim and pitifully baro build-
'lEf used as a railroad shop by tho.
Lake Shore railroad, lay tho 162
burnt and ManRlvd bodies that a fe,w
.hours before- held ,the,. hope and
'lFl(l& of nearly as many Collin?'6od
homes. In ovcry homo for a. radlui
of many blocks wcro heard tho fitful,
fevored cries of tho injured. Doctor
hurried from house to house, while,
gathered In tha streets and In front
of tho temporary morgue was a great
orowd of almost fronzicd puronts and
I relatives, awaiting tho moment when
the pollco would allow thorn to enter
l tho building and Attempt o Identify
their dead.
One hundred and sixty-two bodleB
:iMMiMrtimi
T H E .0 N C
ELKS' MINSTRELS
Reserved Scat Sate ojchs at Grand Opera Bouse Saturday
frofli 9 a. n. to I p, m. and ad day Monday and Tuesday. A
partial change of program Tuesday
Grand Parade Monday at Noon I
imiairWaiiaaiisiiaaaaWHHm
havo been retovered. This accounts
for nil tho mlBsing declares City En
gineer Gould, who is in charge of the
iwork. Of this number 110 have
been positively Identified. Thirty
nro so badly burned that Coroner
JBurko declares that thero Is no hope
of Identification.
The Colllnwood Chamber of Com
merce has given 5000 and the CJtv
Council has devoted another $G00Q
to pay for the ftmornls of tho vic
tims. It was a pitiful scone when the
parents were first allowed to enter
the morgue. Tho bodies wcro laid
out In rows and tho mothers and fath
era of missing children were led past
the sllont little forms by attend
ants. Many of the women fainted.
Some, is is feared by the doctor,
will never regalu their reason.
Mra n.rtha Robinson is one of
thoso whoso mind tottered, and final -
jly failed her in tho hour of her dls -
frAB Rhe hed lost two uauemers in
... . ...
the dlsastor. When told that their
bodies had been found this mornjng
she attempted suicide, and Is now
held In restraint by the authorities
Id In restraint, uy iu buuwuwi.
It Is probable that Friday will ba
i aside as the date for the funeral!
set
of the victims.
Cleveland, O., March 6
-The Col
lmwood board of education Is inves- the schooner yacht Amerlca'ho made (oration over tho remains of the losg
. . .Kr ThA r.mAQi raid on Confederate prJ-.eince-dead - and -should-bare-beeH-
..atin- tha cause of the fire Thero
Is no proor that U waa of Incendiary
origin, but the architects do not bj
WAR
CHICAGO
NEW YORK
ELECTRIC
INTOIfcSOETROUBLE
1 .
MUCH ADVERTISER. A1U LINE
COMPANY IS IN THE COURTS
ON AJ SUIT IIHOUGHT I1Y SOME
OF ITS STOCKHOLDERS TOOK
TWO MILLIONS FROM THE
PUHLIC.
4
(United Press Leased Wire.)
ChlciffcO, March G. Tho flnanclul
troubles of tho Chlcago-Now York
Electrlo'Company, which was organ
ized two yearn ago to build nn elec
tric road betwoen Chicago and Now
York, has como to n head, David
Kabackur and sovon other stockhold
ers, a&'Ied to tho circuit court nt
La Forte, Ind., for tho nppolntracntj
,of .a riicQlycr for tho company and!
lor thef co-operativo uonatrucnon
Company, thoWoitern Securtle Com
pany, the Goshen, South Rend & Chi
cago Railway Company, the Gary
Jntorurban Company, and thu Han
cock Company,
It Ih understood that othor stock
holders, owning a quarter of a mil
lion dollars worth of tho stock nro
represented In tho action. Judge
Rlchtor, after hearing the application
appointed Gcorgo F, Mull, an Ind!
nnapolls attorney, b tomporary re-
HMIMI-HlMIIHHIg
T
BEST BET
i
ft
iMt
ceiver lie tmmeuiaioiy iueu a uona
or 50 000. and took possession of out-of-the-way place, and It Is dlffl
the property in Indiana, this being es-'cult to run electric cars and hocks to
tlraattd to bo worth nearly $500,000., trains that come1 along in tho most
Tho complaint contains 10,000 impossible hours fpr anyone to seo
words and reveals tho Innor workings the'eity, much leas stop off. Rut
of a .spectacular schemo started by a when tho O. & C. railroad was built
number of promoters, and many facta into Salem, It was first projootod Uit
hitherto unknown are mude public.
The Air Line Company started out
with a capital of ?1, 000,000. This
was Increased finally to $200,000,000
The officers are accused of using the
United States malls to defraud.
tie was donft in tho way of aotual con
struct Jn, the aotlvltles of the com-
pany being confined to a 12-mllo
trio fntorurban road running oJt of
La Porte.
The petition allegts that tho com
pany never Intended to construot a
line between Ohloago and Now York,
and though more than 11.000,000
was taken from tho public, the mot
Jof it was converted to the use of the
-m . h. .Awtnrinv
omauro u i wi(;
Retirement of Captain Hero.
Washington, March 5. Captain
Henry B. Mansfield, twice mentioned
"; ,.-.. ... , . .
for meritorious conduct, retired from club will give him a public funeral.
the navy today by operation of tho'jt might bo a good plan, unyway, Li
age limit. In the Civil War he por -
formed a noteworthy feat, when In
a famous raM on Confederate prl -
vateers. After ino war oe bmibicu
la the capture and desruetloB of
tha pirate ship Forward la TeeHpaal
rU53lDLL
RINGING
UP THE
BOOSTER
JOSHING AN EDITOR
KNOCKER GETS A WARM REOEP.
TION FOR CALLING AN EDITOR
OFT OF RED AT FOUR IN THE
MORNING TO MUET A NEW
COMER WHO MUST HAVE COME
IN THE 'FORTIES.
It pays any man to bo a booster,
oven If ho Is called out of bed nt un
earthly hours, and Joshed over tho
telephono about It. After attending
a horoo show, a church meeting and
witnessing three acta of "Tho Vir
ginian," getting to bed nftor mid
night, tho Boosti Editor of Tho
Capital Journal was roused out of
ooind sleep nt A n. jn. by ropoatcd
alarm cans on mo loiomipmi, wnon
tolonhond.
tho following cbnvorfrrtlTJrv took"
.-.
place: . if '
Tlng--llng-tlng-
-18 tlijB Xhq Joirr-
fc.nnl ofllco?
Sleepy noo8tor-Ytoflnye8, what is
wanted.
Tolophono You.aro wanted at tho
S. P. depot. Lot of Ea'stern people
arrlvod. Nobody ' horo to recolvo
them. No street cars; no hacks; no
nothing.
Sleepy Boostor (Well, what do you
waut?
Telophone I dm a newcomer, and
want somebody to meet me.
Bang, up went the telephone, and
tho clook struck four, and that was
0110 on tho nowspapcr man, who had
talked boost for n generation.
Knock f UK tile Rooster.
If calling nn editor up at nn un
earthly hour was a Josh, all right, li
was a slam on the movement to
boost this town Into prominence, tho
gontleman who fools that way better
loavo this community for Bomo place
whero thcro Is no effort to awnkon
tlin nlnLnnra ttw i fVfl r$ ihn rtVl-
7; 1" .,
Southern Pacific, It was undosrved,
because tho passenger depot Js an
J Front stroot. pait the present freight
depot, up Trndo stroot, out past
whero tho Blind School now stands
and on south ucross the Bush lands,
an,i the track was actually graded
Llt-'aorosB thoso lands. But tho klakora
'prevailed and drove tho S. P. out In
o tho suburbs, and It has boon nn oy
elec-'eriaBtlng detriment to the upbuilding
0r th0 0jty. The 8. P. loses buslnoss
every day by not having a passenger
dopot down town.
Bury tho Kicker.
But the time has como to bury tha
kickers. If the party who callod the
! editor up this morning will kindly
make himself known, and baa any
objections to boosting the city, bo
will bo obeerfully accommodated free
gratis with a first-class obituary by
tho horso editor, tho wbolo communi
ty will way amen, and tho Boosters'
.imvo the funeral, get tne nearse am,
hot Mayor Rodgera pronounce the
.tjace - dead
burled specimen of humanity whoa
chronic kicking la so great that H
(CosHstutt on fonrt .)
COUNTY
POLITICS
SWIMMERS
HE WANTS DEBATE
WOULD LIKE TO DIVIDE TIME AT
SALEM WITH THE STRONGEST
OPPONENT OF STATEMENT NO.
ONEINVITATION TO CANDI
DATE CAKE TO ATTEND AND
JOIN IN THE PURI.IO DIKOUftU
SION.
Tho visit of Honry J. Mlllor,, atnl
his declaration that ho will enter tka
ruco for tho loglslaturo at. k State
ment No, 1 cnndlJato was a auri'rU
to tho Salem polltlclano. Tho eontl
iu out of tho nntl-Statumunt No. t Ho
publicans has been quite rtrogt
among thu older RopHbllCRRs, and It
waaiot, supirosed thut -any pthF-
yZunr, Ttopublcan but Hal D. Pattqj
m
would havo (ho norvo to ,qhva outw'
a candtdato In doflnnco of tho ox
pressed determination of tho load
ers to wood nil tho Statement No, 1
men out of the political garden As
n champion or tho Direct Primary
law, an it stands, Mr. Mlllor declared'
openly ho would Htand or fall, ana?
put It up to tha.pooplod)rcct whether
they want tho candidates for repro
sontutlvo to tako tho written plcdgo to
-.upport the cholco of tho people for
Bonator. Ho halls from one of the .
solid Republican sections of tho
county uud sayo hit. people feel as ho
does.
U'Hcn Still Running
Efforts to tako Cako or U'Ron gut
of the field and allow all tho State
ment No. 1 votes to bo concentrated
on one candldato nro being motto by
the friends of both gentlemen. In
tho moan tlmo Mr. U'Uon Is push
Ing his campaign.' He Is nicotinic
with no encouragement urnoug the
leaders In his offorts td got Into dr
cusslond boforo the people. It la
vory doubtful If any of the old lints
Rwoubllcans want him to como to Sa
lem at all, as this city (ifTtho original
center of tho fight on, Mr. U'Ron'a
Ideas. Tho Portland politicians
and tho La no county politicians
havo jumped In and1 claim ti bo
leading tho fight on Statement No. 1.
and the Direct Primary, hut an a mat
tor of fact tho propaganda launched
at Salem anto-dnto tho Portland and.
Eugene effort by several weeks.
U'Ron Want to Mttt Cake,
Mr. U'Ren writes to u friend !u
this city of hlB desire to have a mpct"
ing here:
"I should llko vory much to havo
u mooting In your city boforo Jong,
say somo night noxt week, and I
should like very much also to huve
Mr. Cake present, and to Invite all
thoso Republican,? who opposo
Statement No. 1 to appear and ask
questions, or if they think they oar
agree to agree on some Republican
to present their uldo of tho name, to
divide tho evening with him In Joint
discission on tho Issue,"
Tho ohauoe of a meeting at Srftom
will not be given him by tho h&ad-
ers.
I'r-4uVt HoW War Cmmcev
( United JPreas Lewd Wke.)
Washington, March 5--nPrWBfc
Roosevelt Is today holdiRS otr
auce -with Secretarlex Tart ami Met-
eatf a4 Admirals PUt-imry
CowHn aud CepUls WJwfow.
(Continued oa page ve.)
river, Mexico.