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nTn (1 inwl It VOL. XXI. SALEM, OREGON, MONDAV, FEHRIAUY 20, 19H. NO. 4:1. lift M I II MANY IDNfffflT MEASURES WILL COME BEFORE THE COUNCIL TONIGHT! PURCHASE OF WATER PLANT FRANCHISE FOR RAILROAD AND PAVING SIX STREETS The Report of the Water Committee, Which Has Been De layed, Will Probably Be Made Tonight, and the Franchise of the Salem, Falls City & Western Railroad Will Be Act ed Upon as Will the Matter of Paving Six Streets Besides This There Are Several Other Important Matters. AVih three Important subjects to come up for consideration the re port of the special committee ap pointed to confer with the Salem Wa ter company relative to purchase of its plant; the report of the ordinance committee on an ordinance having 'for its object the granting of a fran chise to the Salem, Falls City & West ern Railroad company, and the re port of the street committee relative to petitions asking for the pavement of six streets in the city, the meeting of the city council this evening prom ises to become one of the most Inter esting held by that body for some time. The special committee appointed to confer with the water company con sists of Alderman Durbin, Pennebak er and Waring, was appointed some time ago and its purpose was to pre vail upon the company to reduce the purchase price. Delays In reporting are due to the inability to see Mr. Parks, who has been ill, but It is un derstood that a conference has now been held and that the result of It MEXICANS WHIPPED OY REBELS GKXKIIAL AVAItI!0'S FORCES ItAX IXto AX AMIUSCADE AXI AI!E FIRED OX !V REBELS, AS SISTED 15V AMERICANS. , VN"!fEn rnnss leased wiiie. El Paso, Tex., Feb. 20. Using ma chine guns and rifles at a distance of 100 yards, a party of Americans and Insurrectos are reported here today to have badly beaten a force of Gen eral Navarro's Mexican troops near San Ignacio. Goat herders who fled from the mountains across the Rio Grande to San Eliza rio brought the Bews of the battle. The fugitives declare that the fed erals marched into an ambuscade a camp of American who were with the insurrectos opened on the column with machine guns and rifles t point blank range. The federals, l;,:7 say. fled in disorder. Military headquarters at Juarez deny the goat herders' story. The officials say that only a few shots ere exchanged by Navarro's troops w'th the insurrectos, and that there no casuallties on either side. As no couriers have as yet arrived from jhe scene of the alleged battle, It Is sieved that hope, rather than raowledge. Inspired the official ex planation of the story. Hevy snowfall is reported In the mountains south of Guadaloupe, wtere Navarro's troops are cam paigning and suffering Is said to be feat among the barefooted women follow his camp. ! .The Insurrectos fired upon a pro ton train, taking supplies to Na: giro's troops, yesterday, fatally winding the fireman. They failed j Mop the train and retreated before ,olle' from the trainmen. As a quence the Mexican northwest- Jalnmen today refused take out than 250 Yaqul Indians, well tta. are reported here today to v joined the insurrectos at Gux msa. i ' .-,... , -,,. .. . ; t - - ;. -lVleilC0, CaU Feb' 20--GtaerlnS viia ina.irrmiJso-lmQre will be made public thi3 evening. The street committee has had un der consideration a number of peti tions for the improvements of the streets for many weeks and with the view of securing better prices, has held several conferences with repre sentatives of . paving companies. A meeting was held the past week and the committee, it is understood, is now In a position to submit a report on this subject. Many people are in terested in this work and will be eager to learn the nature of the re port. An ordinance having for its object the granting of a franchise to the Sa lem, Falls City City & Western rail road company has been in the hands of the ordinance committee for sev eral weeks and it is now ready to re port and action will l taken with regard to it tonight by the council. This is a subjeel of much Importance to the people of the city as the com pany has signified Its intention of building a $100,000 bridge across the Willamette river and erection of a depot in the city. fully equip several recruits who slipped across the line under cover of darkness, General Simon Berthold, second in command of the rebel forces In Lower California, prepared today to march to Ensenada. General Berthold announced he will take advantage of the disorgani zation of the federal garrison of Low er California at the risk of returning to Mexican and finding it In the pos session of Mexican troops reported to be marching to the city across Ari zona and California. Scouts sent out as close to the boundary line as pos sible, so as not to infringe on the neutrality agreement, report that no trace of the band could be had as far as Yuma. In spite of a request by Captain Babcock, in charge of the U. S. troops patrolling the Lower Califor nia border, that he withdraw to a point two miles from the international line. General Berthold will, leave a small garrison in Mexicali when he marches toward Ensenada. o ARRESTED FOR AX' OLD DIAMOND ROJIBERY rBNITKD press LIA8ID WIRK.l Winnipeg, Man., Feb. 20. Aaron Rafelt and Violet Sinclair have been arrested here on suspicion of having been connected with a big diamond robbery In San Francisco a year ago. The amount, of booty secured was valued at $10,000. They took in the prize fight at Reno July 4, then visited South America, New York, Montreal and other points of interest. Word of their capture was sent to San Fran cisco and orders to detain them was received. It is expected that an offi cer and papers f,or their extradition will be sent but the prisoners said to day they would not go back without a fight in the court3 here. Will Fortify Canal. UNITED NIESS LEASED WIRE.) Washington. Feb. 20. The sundry civil bill will carry a provision for the fortification of the Panama canal. according to an announcement made today by Representative Fitzgerald. of New York, a member of the house committee on appropriations, c Bailey Will Not F.rupt. fflNirVD PKk-ax LMAllin) WfRK.I Washington, Feb. 20. Following a conference with President Taft to day. Senator Bailey, of Texas, an nounced that be tad' pledged himseir not to filibuster igainst the rehlprocl- ty njeasure In tie tenafte. Clad in Her Innocence. New York, Feb. 20. There Is speculation here today as to the limit of "diaphanous dancing costumes," following Isadora Duncan's latest performance. Clad In the lightest, scantiest and most translucent silk, Miss Dunmn danced at Carnegie hall. Her audience gasped. One news- 4. paper critic declared that "all Miss Duncan's refined art could not absorb the attention of a crowd which beheld a woman, who, except for her soft, trans- parent drapery, that veiled but did not hide, was In a state of sublime nudity. '' THE NATIVES KILLED AM) PERHAPS ATE HIM fl'XITKD l'RKSS LEA SKI) WHIR. Brisbane, Australia, Feb. 20. News of the massacre of Stanifortli Smith, the British administrator of Papua, a division of the island of New Guinea, was received here today. Smith, with two white officers and a party of natives.' ,.ere killed by In habitants of the interior while on an exploration trip. o Maine ('ontii-cssiimii Demi. Washington, Feb. 20. Congress man Amos L. Allen, of Maine, died here today of pneumonia, following a short illness. Allen was born In Waterloo, Me., in 1 837. lie was elected to the 56th congress to fill the vacancy caused by thu resignnt'on of Thomr.a B. Reed, and has been re-elected four succes sive times. HE SPENT" $200,000 IN BRIBES FRANK GAKDNEIt ADMITS HE I'All) OIT AT LEAST THIS SOI IX GETTIXG THE NEW YORK L1XJISLATI HE IN SHAPE. rXITKD 1'IIKSS I.KASKI" WIIIK.1 New York, Feb. 20. Former Stale Senator Frank Gardner, on trial for bribery, 'n connection with the legis lative fight to defeat the Hughes auti race track bills two years ago, ad mitted that he spent more than 200, 000 to kill the measures, according to the testimony today, of George Hall, of Wllkesbarre, Pa. Hall swore that Gardner told him he had attempted to prevent the pas. sage of the bills, and that, he hnxl taken $200,000 to Albany while the measures were before the legislature. Hall declared that Gardner in formed him, shortly before the final vote on the matter, that Congressman Foelker, then state senator, had agreed to vote against the bills for $10,000. Foelker has charged that Gardner offered him $25,000 to op pose the measures. Under cross-examination Hall ad mitted that he had demandeJ $50 a week from the prosecution for his testimony. o Secretary of War May Help Shippers UNITED PRESS I.KASKD WIFE San Francisco, Feb. 20. Local shippers today are looking to Secre tary of War Dickinson for action that will end the Panama freight rate war Instituted by the Pacific Mall and American-Hawaiian Steamship company out of competition in the Isthmian freight carrying business. Because of a contract between the Pacific Mail and the Panama railroad, which is federal property, the gov ernment is a party to the attempt to throttle competition. Efforts will be made to have the government, through Dickinson, cancel its con tract with the Pacific Mall. II'h Mnjor-Oneral Sow. Washington, Feb. 20. Pres'dent Taft today nominated Brigadier-Gen eral Murray, chief of the coast artll. rtry, to bw a major-gMrl. Heady for Number Sjv. San Framiseo, Feb. 2( Paving the way to another mat- rimonlal venture, Edith May Folsom-Sunderhaus-Coffy-Silver- stone-Dunphy-Pagnuelo today is suing for divorce from her fifth husband. Attorney Ernest Pag- nuelo. Mrs. Pagnuelo began her re- markable caireer when she was 16 years old. She Is 33 today. When Mrs. Pagnuelo sued James 4 Dunphy, a wealthy Nevada cat- tie rancher for divorce, her pres- ent husband was her attorney. She asked for $6000 alimony. Dunphy won and then Pagnuelo offered himself to his client as a compensation. TURNING Nineteen of the Leading Banks and Merchants of Toronto Protest Against Ratification of the Agreement. IT WOULD DISTURB TRADE I' I icy Kay, mid Also Point Out, That It AVciuld Weaken the Ties Rind iiig Canada U,lie Empire Unre stricted Reciprocity, -They Claim, Would Eventiiully Follow, and This Would Vltinmtcly Lead to Cauailu's Annexation. nXITKD 1'IIKSS LEASED WIHK. Toronto, Ont., Feb. 20. Protesting against the ratification of the recip rocity agreement with the United States, 19 leading bankers and mer- j chants of Toronto who were former j supporter's of Sir Wilfrid Laurierare' out here today in opposition to the , administration. In a statement they , declare that reciprocity with the ' United States would check trade be tween the provinces of Canada and between the colonies of the Iliitlsh empire. Their protest also says: "After some years of reciprocity, the channels of Canada's trade would become so changed that a termina tion of the agreement would cause an unparalleled disturbance of trade. To avoid such a disruption Canada would be forced to extend the scope of the agreement to include manu factures and other articles. "The reciprocity agreement would weaken the ties binding Canada to the empire. Unrestricted reciprocity, which would be the natural outcome of the present agreement, would still further weaken those ties and make it still more difficult to avert a political union with the United States." THE SON MADE ASSAILANTS TAKE TO FLIGHT ' i'nitrii me ns i.kakkd wiiie J Sacramento, Calif., Feb. 20. That the Rev. Frank Kline Baker, of the First Methodist church last midnight was not pummeled to a Jelly or at least painfully beaten by three mys terious strangers was only prevented by the menacing rifle of his son Jo seph Baker, aged 22. The attack fol lowed vigorous utterances by the pastor against gambling, the white slave traffic and other evils of the community. The three assailants masked their motives behind the as sertion that they thought the Itev. Baker was another man who, they said, had Insulted the wife of one of them. After a struggle on the porch, the pastor and his son beat off the asasll ants. Spring's work will soon be here; are the teams being put Into shape for tbelr season'! workT CAUDA IS AGAINST IT CHIEF CLERK OR AT LEAST SITS DOWN Oil SENATE To Tax Jewish Bachelors. Chicago, Feb. 20. To raise a fund to send Jewish Immigrants from unhealthy tenement dls- trlcts to farms, the Young Men's Assaclated Jewish Charl- ties of Chicago ioday proposed a graduated "tax" on bachelors, 30 years or older. The plan, as outlined by George W. Alschut- er, has met favor among Chica- go Jews. According to present plan, the tax Is to be Increased $5 for every five years the bnch- elors are older than 30 the limit. Accordingly, a bachelor CO years old would pay $20 a year tnK. , NEW YORK STILL HAS A DEADLOCK , UNITED riKSS LEASED WIRE. Albany, N. Y., Feb. 20. The dead lock In the voting for a United Slates senator remained unchanged today, with Sheehan still leading. Charles ,F. Murphy, Tammany leader, an nounced this afternoon that he would not come to Albany this week, as there seemed little likelihood of an immediate change in the balloting. RELIEF STEAMED , IX SEATTLE THIS WEEK rSlTKD 1'IIESS LEASED WIIIE. Seattle, Wash., Feb. 20. The IT. S. transport Buford, which is expect ed to arrive from San Francisco, en route to China with supplies for fam ine sufferers, will In all probability reach Seattle by the latter part of the week at the latest. EUGENE BOY KILLED BY ANOTHER I j i (LARKXtK TRUTH, AKD 17. TlllXKIfi HE WAS SROOTIMJ AT A DEER, KILLS HARVEY SI T1IE1ILAM), A HOY AUDIT HIS (IWX AGE. fl XriKI) I'ltKSS I.KASKI) WIIIK.1 Eugene, Ore., Feb. 20. Under the Impression that he was shooting at a deer, Clarence Philips, 17, shot and killed Harvey Sutherland of the same age. In the hills near Coburg, ac cording to word reaching here today. Neither knew of the other's presence In the thick underbrush. The ball passed through Sutherland's head. o WILLAMETTE DOWNED THE AGRICS A(JAIX Once again th basketball team from the Oregon Agricultural Col lege went down to defeat before the fa-st bunch from Willamette on the local university floor to the wore of 22 to 18 Saturday night. The game w:,s one of the most hard fought ever seen upon the university floor, and the scores close throughout the entire game. There, was a large amount of time taken out on account of decisions on fouls between Ref eree May, of O. A. ('., and Umpire Zimmerman, of Willamette, making the game rather slow for the specta. tors. Willamette showed morv strength and pers'stency In following and keeping with the bull, but. the Ag rics displayed more skill in dribbling and passing. Schramm and Mr-Rap, for Willamette .played the stellar parts, while Paul Homan gliowvd some class In shooting fouls. Reed, for the Agrlcs, made the most points. Th's mado the second time Wil lamette Ins administered a drubbing to O. A. C. in basketball this season, whn the local team defeated them to the tune of 23 to 18 on their own floor. Willamette has a f.wt team, and It is doubtful whether there Is a team In the Northwest that can defeat tkem. . . . FLAGG USES BRINGS SUIT Tfl PREVENT COMMITTEE DOING WORK OF REVISING THE JOURNAL Judge Galloway Issues Temporary Injunction Flagg Holds' the Law Provides That It Shall. Be the Duty of the Chief Clerk to Revise the Journal, and That the Senate Cannot by Resolution Set Aside a Clear Provision of the Law Work of Daily Revision Ordered by Senate Cost $400 and Accom plished Nothing. Alleging that, under tho terms of the state law, he Is the legal custodian of the senate journal, and that upon him devolves the duty of revising It, after adjournment, and further alleg ing that the senate, by resolution, prior to adjourning appointed a committee to revise it, and which ac tion, it Is alleged, is contrary to law, Chief Clerk Flagg this afternoon, through the law firm of McNary & McNary, filed In tho circuit court of Judge Galloway a suit asking that am injunction Ys issued restraining the committee from in any manner Interfering with the revision work. Upon Flagg furnishing a bond for the sum of $500, Judge Galloway Is sued a temporary injunction, and, In event that the committee sees fit to contest it, tlfe case will be arguod at some subsequent date. Illegal Says I'TngK. The resolution referred to in tho complain of Flagg is senate resolu tion No. 45. It was passed on tho last night of the session by the sen ate ,and provides for the appointment of Calendar Clerk Rltner, W. G. D. Mercer and John P. Hunt as a com. niltteo to revise the sejiiuto journal. Section 2G06 or the state law b's thut, upon tho adjournment of the senate It shall he the duty of the chief clerk and tho calendar clerk to do this work, and they are given 13 days in which to complete it. Tho resolu tion provided that the committee have the work done In 10 days. Flagg contends that tho senate can not, by resolution, override tho state law, and Is Insistent thalt the com mittee shall have nothing to do with the revision. Rltner Is not mado a party to the suit, as ho is calendar clerk, and the law provides that he shall assist the chief clerk. $100 A I irmly Expeluleil. During the Besslon a Rpnciial com mittee was appointed to revise the journal daily. This action waH taken by the senate, as it was desired to have the Journal complete when the time for adjournment came, and it was believed that In this manner It could be accomplished. While, ac cording to Flagg, $400 of tho people's mony was paid over to this commit tee for its labors, failed to accomplish the work, and, In view of IhlB, the Salem Woolen Mill Store HIS VETO senate, by resolution, just bofore ad. journlng, appointed another commit tee to complete it. It is estimated by the chiof clerk that this will mean the expenditure of another $200, and, as It Is contrary to law, he proposes to put a stop to It. The resolution provides thnjt the committee of three shall be paid at the rate of 6 a any, and alHO empow ered it to hire an expert stenogra pher at $5 a day. KX-.1USTI0E LORD'S FUNERAL TTESDAr The funeral of the lajte Wm. P. Lord will be held from the first Con 1 gregational church Tuesday at 2 I o'clock, services conducted by Rev. 'P. S. Knight of this city. There will bo a largo attendance of prominent citizens from all over the state. Judge E. R. Brady, who was terri , torlal governor of Alaska, and is now conducting a bank at Montesnno, Washington, accompanied by his wife, are here to attend the funeral. . portlId man tired of living II. II. HOWDE.V, AN KX-HALOO.V MAX, SLASHED HIS THROAT TWICE WITH A RAZOR, HIT IS OVERPOWERED. IlISITKl) 1'IIKSS I.KAHK1I WMIB Portland , Or., Feb. 20. Deter mined to end his life, 11. II. Uowdeii, an ex-saloon man, was preevnted from doing so at his homo early today by Patrolman La.ello a,nd Dr. Gullet te, who chloroformed Itowden, although the man fought hard to prevent it. Itowden was taken to 8t, Vln eent's hospital, where It Is believed he will recover from two deep self Inflicted razor cuts on his throat. He was slashing his throat when Liuel broko Into the house. When the Demands of economy are insistent, many an old suit of clothes can be made to look almost like new by piecing out the coat and vest with a pair of Dutchess Trousers. We have them in worsteds and cassimeres in all the new patterns and weaves. There's a sic to fit and a pattern to suit at a price to save you money. $2.50 to $5.00