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Fourth, Near Morrison Portland, Oregon PARK AND WASHINGTON STREETS tL P. -Armstrong, LL. B., Principal. J. A. Wesco. Penman and Secretary. Known at home and abroad as a first-class school, It has educated hundreds of young people for .succsssfui careers. With full faith in its-ability to meet the expect fitions of its,patrons, the school invites the most critical examination into its merits. ' PRIVATE OR CLASS INSTRUCTION In Spelling", Grammar, Writing, Arithmetic, Correspondence, Commercial Lw, Bookkeeping, Business Forms, Banking, Corporation Accounts, Business Jactice, Shorthand, .Typewriting, Manifolding, Office AVorlj. JDpjp&n or eh3for,c&logUe. PHIL METSCHAN. Proa. SEVENTH AND HASHINGrON CHANGE OF European Plan: SPECIAL SALE OF SOAP Greatly reduced prices this week on every good and -well-known brand of soap. io old or inferior stock to work off. This Is an opportunity for careful and discriminating people. WOODLARK'S CIDER PRESERVATIVE Will keep elder sweet and palatable. Is absolutely jmre and harmless. One package sufficient for one barrel of cider sent to any address, prepaid, for 20 cents. Stamps accepted. Canadian money received at par from our cus- tomeav Cut-Rote Druggists Fourth and Washington Sts. IHOPSCOTTACADESIY "Pounded 1870. J. W. Hill, M. D., Principal. Christmas Term Open Sept. 18, 1800. A Boardinc and Day School. Under present management since 1S78 Primary. Preparatory and Academic Depart ments; College Preparation, Military Discip line, Manual Training. Bojs of all aces re ceived. For catalogues or Information address the 3rlnclpaU J. W, HH.L. M. D., -P. O. drawer 17. .Portland. Or. HE PORTLAND PORTLAND. ORBGON tt ujerican nm ? COST ONE MILLION DOLLARS HEADQUARTERS FOR TOURISTS AND COMMERCIAL TRAVELERS Specie! rates rn.mS.rn tm families aat a slas-Ie sreatteme. Th nasate t will fc pleccc at all ttsaea tm shew rsasti aimd'slre prices. A mWU ra Tarldalt baib eitabliakascat 1m Cb fcatcl. E. O. BOWXKS. VaMasuv Library Association oF Portland 24,000 volumes and over 200 periodicals S5.00 a yeaf or 5150 a quarter Two books allowed on all subscriptions HOURS From tKK) A. M to tQ P. ft 4tilv. execot Sundays and hoda. That's What He Said..... "The longer I live with the Pianola the morertdmife and use it" So saici one of our customers. The Pianola makes you able immediately to play the Piano. It" islnost wonderful. Come and see" It ' ' Ml B. WELLS, Northwest Ajcnt for'thAeiIUn Ctmpinv T 353-355 Washlnfton Strwt; cor. Park, rortland.tOr. Mellowness AGENT FOR. suppyes..... Eastman Kodaks and Films EXCLUSIVE - CARPET HOUSE. J. G. Mack & Co. 88 Ttikd St hKc aaoter itiCwuwrct C. W. KNOWLES, Mgr. STREETS, PORTLAND, OREGOT, MANAGEMENT $1.00, $1.50, $2.00 per Day Woodard, Clarke & Co, n $3.00 PER DAY AriUprvl S? SUtt STREET lehrcM Seveadi WHY CASH IS SHORT Republican Schism Said to Be at Bottom of It. EFFECT 0P POLICE DEPARTMENT Economical Administration Wot Suf ficient to Cariry It TlironBh Figrnrea of Former Years. It Is beginning1 to dawn on, some of the people who have observed the course of affairs that the financial straits of the City of Portland take origin in the schism In the Republican party in Mult nomah County. That Is, that the polit ical patronage of the city being m the hands of the regular Republican ma chine, the opposing faction has taken de light In reducing available revenue hy cutting the assessment valuations. No official" Is willing to be quoted as making the direct charge that the assessment was deliberately slashed In order to em barrass the party that Is dominant In tho politics of the city, but many make this significant summary of local political his tory, leading up to the present distress ing situation; There was- a mighty struggle between the regular Republicans on one side and Mitchell Republicans, and, later, anti Simon Republicans, on the other, for the mastery. -The anti-Simon Republicans received more or less aid from the forces of the Pennoyer city administration. The Pennoyer administration lacked a great deal of being self-supporting. After the regular Republicans had 'won they put a new city charter through the legislature In which was defined hard-and-fast limits to expenditures of the various depart ments of the city government, the figures being' based on assessed valuations as they then, stood. All this was success for the regular Republicans, who con trolled the machinery of the city govern ment, and lfc was not exactly to the lik ing of the Mitchell or anti-Simon Repub licans, to which faction the County As sessor belonged. After the charter had been, adopted placing economical limits on the expenditures of the city govern ment the valuation of taxable property Was cut down more than 25 per cent, which, of course, reduced the city's in come proportionately. Hence all ' this trouble over funds to run the city gov ernment. The full significance of the reduct'on In assessed valuation may be appreciated when, It Is pointed out that the limit on city expenditures is a percentage limit, and is i'not to exceed 8 mills upon the dollar upon all property, both real and personal, which is taxable by law for city and county purposes." This limit js further emphasized) by a. .provision, as follows: , fffjirgx T, AjaroGountaahVotto toto or to create any debt irf" excess of the amount limited and authorized by law, ami any lliblf itleB'souEht to bo Incurred or debt created in excess of the amount limited and authorized by law. shall be taken and held by any court of this state as a joint and several liability and obligation of the members of the Common Council voting Xor the same, and not the debt, liability .or obligation of the city; and tlje vot-' ins for or creatine jsuch liability, obligation or debt shall be conclusive evidence of mal feasance' in offlce, and for which such mem bers of the Council may be removed from 6f flce. , Now, 8 mills on the dollar on a taxable valuation of ?4O,O00C0OO would produce $320,000 for city . purposes. Dropping the taxable 'valuation to about 528,000,000 cuts off $96,000" of tax revenue. This, after plans had been laid and all calculations based on the larger taxable value, "was not a little disconcerting to those who had to deal with It. There are others, It is said, who do not feel so unhappy over it It Is not doubted that Assessor Green leaf was largely actuated by selfish mo tives when he -dropped the assessment or the city so surprisingly, but it is also not ed by critics that his personal ambition was precisely In line with the purposes of the political faction with 'which he was allied. While he may have taken this means of making himself "solid" for re election, It is pointed out that tie had been In the same political need before and had not employed that expedient to Increase his strength; that he employed It only whenlt should come with heavi est weight against the adversaries of the faction with which he was identified. Effect on Police Department. The first official notice taken of serious lack of money was by the Board, of Po lice Commissioners, which, Monday night, declared that "the board feels that It Is due the members .of the department to inform them that there will be no funds to pay for their services for the balance of the year 1900, after the end of this month, and that there will be no money, available to pay for their services during the months of January, February, March, April and May of 1901 until about the end of May or beginning of June of that year. The board has no authority to contract further debts In the running of the department or of the Police Court." "This," said Chairman D. Soils Cohen, of the board, "we did not send out in order to escape legal liability for the pay of the- men. Up to this time, they had-no official information of the situa tion, and we deemed it Tmt fair that we, who had the means of knowing, should give them decent warning. Some of the policemen, doubtless, have other situa tions open to them that they might pre fer to takewhen they know their posi tions in this department are uncertain. This notice gives them opportunity to govern themselves with an intelligent idea of what may come. "Neither Is It our purpose to scare thei public or to produce unnecessary alarm. "We are doing and shall continue to do all that Is possible to maintain our branch of the public service. But we pan,-; not do more than Is possible. Our state ment Is meant fo convey information of our position and to prepare the pubHc and the men for what may come. "Wo shall do the best we can with the means at our command. It may be that the way will open up and we shall be able to get through without discontinuing the department If It shall not we wIJI have to discharge the men and close the de partment, for-we cannot permit a serv ice to continue for which there is no au thority to pay. "We have no power to employ -men when, we 'have no money to pay them. "There Is no friction between the Coun cil and the Police Commissioners over this matter. True, our department Is turning into the city treasury J5C0O to J6000 a month more than It takes to sup port the department. But we recognize tho fact that the Council does not have unquestioned right to divert that money to our uses, and until the question shall' be cleared up we can. find Tip fault be cause we do not get the money. So of Ithe.new licenses; Until it shall be found ;that the Council has the right to turn "such moriey to our ubo we cannot com plain that we do not get it If we can get sufficient money from such" sources we shall go ahead. ' J"The Portland Police Department 1s on a very ecoribmical basis. "With but 40 patrolmen to be divided into three shifts ior 40 square miles of city, 1t Is evident tha the service cannot,be allrthat some people expect. On one? shift 3iow there are but eight men, and 'yet people are coming to us and complaining hecausa 'the policemen do not clean up the leaves that fall In the streets. The City of 'Providence, R. I.) which hash the model -police -department, has a population only about 60,000 greater than Portland, but it has 11 stations, each with three Cap tains, Lieutenants and Sergeants and about 250 patrolmen. One patrolman to each 1000 inhabitants is deemea the prop er ratio '.for efficient police service .gen erally in large cities." An Economical Department. "I don't know what we shall do for police service," said Chief McLauchlan, who is ex-offlclo member of the Board of Police Commissioners. "We have cei talnly been running the department eco nomically. "Why, we had more men and spent more money on the police depart pent before consolidation than we do .now. The few men we have are woiklng overtlhie, patrolmen two hours and cap tains four hours. "We have fewer men in proportion to population than Seattle, Tacoirfa or Spolcane, and we 'pay ech man less. And ree what San Francisco does.. It is authorized by law to em ploy one policeman for each 500 inhabit ants and It actually does employ 600 pa "trolmen. It pays patrolmen 5102 each, per month; we, pay $70. San 'Francisco pays captains $200 per month while wo pay $S0, and so on it goes down the list "Wo cannot see Into the future further than other people can, but we can't Tun the service- without money; the law will not permit us to do so." , The records of the police department show that the payroll for Dqccmber, 1SD1, compares with the present monthly pay roll, as iohows: 1891. No. Tav. Chief 1 $230 190O- No. Pay. 1 $2O0 SO lft) 80 70 Captains 6 - 125 2 2 6 40 Clerks 2 Detectives . 4 Patrolmen 57 Specials 9 Drivers ... 2 Linemen 1 JElactriclan 1 Electrician ...'. License collector Assistant collector . Sergonnt Jailers Matron ' Stenographer B. -ard G. AJd officer.. . 125 100 SO 1 1 70 iq 2 23 50 4 -TJ 1 t 'X 1 SO In 123 70 75 70 50 55 70 1891 The total pay-roll for December, was S7SS0. and for last month $4789 80. The police pay-roll fpr September in each of several years, taken at random, was a,s fqllows: 1893 $8906 5511897 $3,331 CO 1S94 ..: 7,275 161900 789 80" In 1893 there were 85 patrolmen, at $S5 each." The city has beenrowing alt the time, but now only 40 regular patrolmen are employed, and they receive but $70 'each,, - ''.'' , Jjixnt Month's Fflr-Roll. Following is'the payroft ois4i?tenbej4tt 1900; .. i , i " '. IK 31. McLauchlan. Chief otpoliee.... $200 Doui3 Rau. clerk of, Commission 100 Jos. Roberts, clerk of Chief of Police.. 100 M. A. -McEachern. license collector.-.. 125 F. Rogoway, .assistant license collector 70 Robert Holman, captain 80 T. J. Hdare, captain 80 John Moore, sergeant 7,"; J. F. Johnson, jailer 70 John Quinton, jailer 70 Frank Bulger, driver . ; 70 Ed Chaffee, arlver .. 70 H. H. Hawley. Boys' and Girls Aid.... 70 A.- F Leonard, stenographer 55 D. J. "Walker, electrician 30 Gus Brill, electrician ..v 15 Mrs. J. "Woods, matron 50 Detectives at $80 each ' Joseph Day, John Cordaho, James Barry, Jolm Kerrigan, H. P. Ford, Frank J. Snow, Patrolmen at $70 each Ed "Wilkinson. M. J. Sloan, O. F. Isakson, C. H. King, 0. Nelson, M. J. Pangburn, E. A. Slover, J. D Duckworth, ,H. S Hewitt Griff Roberts, 1. E Isaacs, R. Barter. J. Reisch. M. J. Ervin, "W. A. Shane, H.-T. Gibson, G. H. Bailey, H- A. Banks, R. Smith, Ed Crate. J. L, "Wheeler, Xj. G. Carpenter, J. A. Jamison, R. EGowland, J. "Hoseley, D. Conners, C. Clinkenbaird, N. Kitzmlller, G. Franklin, L. Warner, M. "W. Carr, Charles DuBois, J. M. Harkleroad. .B. Branch, J. v. scott Frank Patten, Fred Mallett, C. W. Cole, E. B. Parker, H, C. Ewing, Five special policemen for the Carnival cost $107 50. Eight merchants' watchmen are paidv$l per month each and made special officers In v order that they may have authority to make arrests. Another stenographer worked a few days last month hut usually there Is only one. The suit now pending before Judge Cleland, wherein "William Gadsby and others attack the validity of the vehicle license, also involves the question of the power of the City Council to transfer money from the general fund to any of tho special funds for which provision is made In the city chapter. In this case it is whether the vehicle license can bo turned Intq the street repair fund for which a levy of, one-fourth of a mill on the taxable valuation Is authorized by the charter. 3f it shall be decided that the Council does have the power to make such transfer It Is deemed practicable to get relief for the police department by transfer -from the. general fund ot money derived from fines turned In by the department or from other available sources. MICHIGAN LEGISLATURE. "Will Meet Today to Pass Tax Reform Legislation. DETROIT, Oct 9. The special session of the State Legislature, called last Fri day by Governor Plngree, -will meet In Lansing tomorrow at noon. The session Is called for the purpose of considering a joint resolution authorizing submission to the people of a constitutional amend ment permitting the 'taxing of . railroad's and other corporations on the actual cash value of their property, Instead of on their earnings, as at present,, and to consider the repealing of the special charters held by the Michigan Central, Lake Shore and Grand Trunk Railroads In Michigan. That the special charters 'will be repealed Is almost a certainty, as the Michigan Central agreed today, after a conference with a special com "mlttee appointed by the last Legislature, for the purpose, to submit to the, repeal of its charter under certain conditions. The other two roads have already lnti mat'ed that they will do aa the Michigan Central does. By the agreementreached today, the roads will he allowed sx months to reorganize under' the general railroad law of the state afterjthe re peal of their charters, and the Legis lature wlll,passa law fixing some court of competent jurisdiction as the arbiter of the 'damages to be awarded them. Inasmuch as the state platforms of both parties pledge them to tax-reform legis lation, It Is expected that the joint reso lution will be passed and theLeglslatur$ adjourn in a very short time. SILVER THE ISSUE Democrats Unsuccessful in Concealing It ROOSEYELTS SPEECH IN ST. LOUIS The Immense Coliseum Baildinsr Was Crdvded to Hear the. Republican. Candidate for "Vice-President. ST. LOUIS, Oct 9. St. Louls vast .Ex position Coliseum was crowded tonight In honor of "Governor Roosevelt, who. spoke a little more than an hour. The Gover nor was tired, having ridden In the pa rade this afternoon. Afterward he was JAMES H. Hon. Jame.sH.Eckels .plSISlSv EX-CONTItOfcliER OF CURRENCY FO It CT-EVEIiAND SUPPORTS 31'KINLEY. "Baineaili "Eckels., Democrat, who hag just contributed a notable article to the North. AmerlcatiMleUew On "The Duty "of flold Demoitats urj;lhg.-th ft-vqotf 'foq 'SicKinlejf. on laat'Frlaiy nl&h made Jon addresa'in similar vein Jefore"iyi audience, of :3C0Q persons, at fbe Coliseum, Chicago" f The keynote to Mr. Eckels' address was found-In the sentence: i'l as sert that any party which by weddlns Itself to unsound and destructive doctrines has elim inated all employers of labor from its' councils, and made imposilble their support, of Its candidates, is'riol to.be trusted with powder to legislate for either labor-or capital." Mr. Eckels audience was composed largely of laboring-jnen, whobeard this sentiment with evi dent approval. i - " t the guest of honor at a luncheon given by the St. 'Louis Club. At 12:30 o'clock the Governor was es corted to the Merchants' Exchange, wnere he responded to a hearty reception with a short speech. He said: "Here the hum of industry never ceases, and also I, will have to talk against It. I am usually talking for It. (Applause.) One feature that Is peculiarly pleasant ,to me Is In coming to a city like St. Louis, which has among Its citizens so many ot the men whxo wore the blue and so many of those who wore the. gray, and of their sons. I think that if- the bpaolsh "War had done nothing else it would have been from' our standpoint Tvell worth while, because of the realizing sense that it gave us of the fact that all .the nations are thinking of the past and that we stand before the rest of the. world as Americans and nothing else. (Applause.) "I served under General Joe Wheeler, ijignung joc wneeier ana mere was one very amusing incident whiqh occurred While we were at Kettle Hill. General Joe got very much Interested In the light, and addressed a group ot us, of whom 1 suppose four-fifths were Northerners. Me said: '"Wade into them; -ade Into the Yankees; wade Into them.' "We said: 'All right, General, we will wade into them.' "It -was Indeed a lesson for all of the younger men to ppefrfoldlprs like General Butler, of South Carolina; General "Wheel er, of Alabama, and General FJtzhugh Lee, of Virginia, again in the blue uni form and fighting under the old hag. 1 think if there is one thing which we need to keep perpetually before us, and espe cially, gentlemen, when there Is a politi cal contest on. It is the essential unity of our people and the essential solidarity or our people. If prosperity comes to us. It honor comes to us, it will come to all. If adversity comes, all of us will suffer more or less on account of It In this audience, you, the men of business, will not gat up If tho wagewftrker and the farmer go down. If they go down, you will go down, and when they are going up, it means that business will be pros perous, too. Fundamentally, our Inter ests ore the same. Gentlemen. I shall not try to make a speech to you. I have been making several speeches lately (ap plause) and I thank you greatly for the courtesy you have extended me, which I assure you I deeply appreciate." The Collsenni Speech. . Governor Roosevelt was escorted from the . Planters' Hotel In tne evening by Mayor Zlegenheim, National Committee man Kerens and other prominent Republi cans of Missouri, a mounted regiment of Rough' Riders, and several thousand citi zens In carriages and on foot The route of. the night parade was Illuminated with flambeaux and colored fire. Arriving at the .Coliseum, the Governor was greeted with great applause. He was introduced by the Mayor of the city and was cheered enthusiatically throughout his speech, at the conclusion of which he was escorted to the Union station, where he took his special train for Chicago, whence, to morrow rooming, he will start on his In-, dlana tour. The Governor's address fol lows: ''If any of you are fortunate enough to .know whether Mr. Bryan, If elected, will pay the obligations of the Nation In gold or In silver,- L wish you would divulge ,thl3 knowledge, for Mr. Bryan won't. ..There Is no doubt about where we stand. We are for the gold standard, and we are for it'on the Atlantic seaboard and in the Rocky Mountains alike. "We stand for It everywhere, for we are fortunate enough to have issues which do not wear thin In any part of the country. "Now, gentlemen, some people say that the silver Issue Is dead. Silver cannot be dead when the people are uncertain as to how a candidate of qne of the two great parties would pay the obligations of the Government. No issue Is dead when you cannot tell whether a creditor or a pen- sloner, whoever he may be; Is to get 4S cents or 100" cents on the dollar. It la dead to the extent that nobody ventures to argue In Its behalf. But if they paid: our debts in4S-cent dollars; we wouht care little as to the precise arguments by which they reached the conclusion tnat -warranted that conduct "Ail I want you to do from a material standpoint Is to exhume Mr. Bryan' prophecies with their signal nonfuinll EXnt." Governor Roosevelt then enumerated some of the predictions which he de clared,had been made four years ago Dy Mr. Bryan, which the facts today proved erroneous. He continued: "Mr. Bryan said mortgages would go up, and they were the only things that went down. Mortgages have diminished In amount by nearly 40 per cent When these things were pointed out to Mr. Bryan the other day,, and it was shown to him that we were proseprous, he an swered that It was not the Republican party but Providence that made us so. Now, I am perfectly willing to admit that there has been a fusion between Providence and the Republican party, 'ihe Democracy has fused -with about every- ECKELS. thing else,- bu$ somehow orother it has never managed to connect with Provi dence. "Jow, gentlemen, I do .not wonderthat in the hardv times, when things were looking pretty black, men turned to (strapge gods. It has always been so since the day that Moses broke the- deca logue. I do not wonder when a man feels sick and does not know what Is the matter with him and he cannot find., out, that he should try a quack medicine once, but if .he tries It again, 1 must question his Intelligence. ' "If the people.of this country want to go back lijto theSTbugh of despond, out o which-we have so painfully emerged, if they 'want .to do that, why, under' the Constitution it is their inalienable right But when thay get back there do not let them advance. the 'I did not know it was loaded" excuse." - PETTIGREW'S CHALLENGE. "Wants Hnnna to Meet Him in Debate Republican Leader Declines. SIOUX FALLS, S. D Oct 9.-Senator Pettlgrew today Issued the following pub lic challenge to Senator Hanna: "Hon. M. A. Hanna, Republican Na tional CgramUtee, Chicago Dear Sir: I am adxised By the newspapers that you are coming to South Dakota for the purpose, as Expressed by you, of pre venting my re-election to the United States Senate. I presume that you de sire my defeat for personal reasons. If. howeyer, I am In error on that point you must he prompted to your course because of my attacks upon the trusts, my criticisms of the methods of the armop plate contractors advocated by you, and ray opposition to your policy (therefore the Administration's policy) of dealing with the people of Porto Rico, Cuba and the Philippines. On these questions apd the other Issues of the campaign I shall be glad to meet you In joint debaje In the Siate of South Dakota or elsewhere. By that means misstatements may be corrected and the public publicly informed as to the facts and my constituents will be able to ccme to a Just conclusion. You should not object to a Joint discussion If you are coming here to tell the truth, since more people will hear you in that than any other way. I challenge you to a Joint discussion or to a series of Joint dis cussions at such times and places as may be agreed on by the state committees of the Republican, Populist and Demo cratic parties." CHICAGO, Oct 9.-Senator Hanna, when shown a copy of Senator Pettl grew's challenge to a joint debate In South Dakota," said that he would pay no attention whatever to tho matter. The Prohibition Special. CHICAGO, Oct 3. The Prohibition spe cial left Indianapolis early this morning over the Pennsylvania road and made its first stop at Kokomo. A committee of local Prohibitionists escorted the speak ers to the courthouse yard, where the meeting was held. Volney B. Cushlng. John Q. Woolley and Oliver W. Stewart spoke 20 minutes each to a crowd of 1000 persons. At Logansport, Mr. Wool ley made a 15 minute speech to a large crowd. Stops were made this afternoon at Watseka, Chenoa and Gardner, In Il linois, Chicago being reached at 6:40 o'clock for the night meeting. The spe cial left Chicago at 11:30 tonight for an extended tour through the East Ex-Fresident Harrison's Position. NEW YORK, Oct 9 Ex-President Har rison said tonight that he would prob ably Issue a statement of his position In the campaign tomorrow. He said It would be prepared If he could get time to do the worlr S YOUTSEY INSANE? Remarkable Scene in a. Ken tucky Courtroom. PRISONER'S HYSTERICAL OUTBREAK Caused hy Arthur Goehel's State ment Judge Compelled to Post pone the Trial. GEORGETOWN. Ky.. Oct 9.-Ona ot the most remarkable scenes ever enacted in a Kentucky court-occurred tonight In the Youtsey trial, the defendant himself beipg the chief participant The court room was crowded at the time, and the excitement was Intense. D. E. Armn strong, the Louisville detectLve, had JU3t told of his talks with Youtsey before and after his arrest Then Arthur Goebel was put on tho stand, and Judge Ben Williams, who, for the first time, ap peared for the prosecution, did the ques tioning. Arthur Goebel said: "I had talked with Youtiey the day ho was arrested late In the afternoon In tho Jail In Frankfort In reference to the murder of my brother." Just at this point Youtsey arose behind his attorneys, and in a loud voice said: "It is untruer it Is a Her I never spoke a word to that man In my life, nor ho to me." Colonel Crawford told him to be quiet and sit down, and others took hold of him. "I will not sit down. I never said a word to that man: It Is untrue." Ho was shouting, by this time, and every ona was on the tiptoe of expectation. Yout sey's wife sprang to his side,, and while endeavoring to make him sit down, could be heard saying: "Now you have killed imr husband, I suppose you are satis fled." Then Youtsey hysterically shouted again: "I am Innocent: there Is no blood on my hands; these men are swearing my life away." Two or three deputies went over and grabbed him. He struggled wildly and said: "Let me alone. I will not sit down." '3S H Arthur Goebel meanwhile sat sphynx Uke In the witness chair and never turned his heacL Finally, after Youtsey was forced Into a seat, he shouted again: "Goebel is not dead I All the demons in hell could not kill hlml" "Mr, Sheriff, If the defendant does not behave himself, put handcuffs on him," said Judge Cantrlll. Meanwhile, the audi ence could not be forced to keep their seats until the Judge threatened to fine those who stood up. Youtsey settled back in hl3 chair, closed his eyes and seemed In a state of collapse. He waved his handkerchief above hl3 head In an aimless way and groaned and cried hys terically. Finally quiet was restored, and Judge Williams asked Arthur Goebel another question, whqn Colonel Crawford asked a postponement of the trial until tomor row on account of the defendant's condl tlon Judge Cantrill said he could see no cause or reason for the defendant's out break, but In justice to the attorneys, he would postpone the case until tomor row. Mr. Franklin said the common wealth had not the slightest objpctlon to adjourning until tomorrow, and the court so ordered. Youtsey still occupied his chair with his eyes closed, apparently in a haliS fainting condition. After the crowd passed out Jailor Reed and deputies car ried Youtsey to tho jail, as he was un able to walk. Various reasons are as, signed for his unseemly outbreak, tho first being that his long confinement and the strain of the trial caused him to become hysterical and lose control of himself. Another Is that he 13 really de mented, as shown by his remark that Goebel was not dead. Youtsey Is being attended by physicians and relatives at (Concluded on Third Paffo ) SUMMARY OF IMPORTANT NEWS. Political. Roosevelt poke to an Immense audience in St Louis. Paget Pettlgrew challenged Hanna to a Joint debate. The latter declined. Pago 1. Bryan concluded his tour of Illinois. Page 3. China. Conger has prepared a list of Chlneso officials that should be punished. Page 2. The Cabinet at Washington considered the French note Pago 2. A special envoy may bo sent to Invite the court to return to Pekln. Pago 2. The Empress Dowager Is said to be III. Pago 2. The American Bible Society furnishes a Hat ot missionaries killed by Boxers, Fogs 2. Foreiprn. Chamberlain's speeches are severely criticised. Page 3. Roberts will name his awn successor. Page 8. Kruger relics sold at auction In London. Pago 8. Cecil Rhodes will re-enter politics. Page 3. Federal Government. General Brooke urges reorganization of the Army on modern lines. Pago 3. Tho torpedo-boat Somers makes a sea trip. Page 3. Motions were mado in several important cases in the United States Supremo Court. Page 3. Domestic. Youtsey created a sceno in his trial at George town, Ky. Page 1. Anthracite operators say thay will make no further concessions. Page 3. The second will of Millionaire Rico has beon found. Page 5. Detective Smiley confessed the details of tho Chicago Insurance swindle. Page 5. Pacific Coast. Canada will sell crown mining claims In Klon dike. Page 4. First day of The Dalles Harvest Carnival and Street Fair. Page 4. Colvllle Indian Reservation opened for settle ment. Page 4. Grand Lodge of Oregon Knights of Pythias and Bathbone Sisters convened. Page 4. Idaho Soldiers' Homo destroyed. One inmate suffocated. Page 4. Salem organizes a strong" athletic club. Page 4. Commercial and Marine. New Portland line & free lance in Oriental traffic. Page 5. Two of the May grain fleet arrive out. Page 5. Big liner Oceanic has a narrow escape. Page 5. Two hundred Grand Banks fishermen missing. Page 5. "Wall-street speculation hampered by financial uncertainty. Pago It Local. Politics related to city's financial straits and threatened abolition of Police Department. Page 1. "W. W. Gordon nearly loses his life as a result ot a basing In a. lodge initiation. Pago 12. Portland Presbytery declares In faior ot revis ing the confession of faith. Page 8. Class ot fourlaurses from St Vincent's Hos pital. Page 10. New ran.road"rates to Portland. Page 8. iGyi 107.2