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10 THE MOBNING OREQOHIAy, THURSDAY, JANUABY 17, 1901. BIG FAIR IN 1905 Date Fixed by City Attorney Long's Committee. CORPORATION TO BE FORMED Capital Vill Be $300,000, With An thority to Issue Bonds State and City Expected to Make Liberal Appropriations. ' v Portland's big fair to celebrate the first centennial of the Lewis and Clark expe dition will be held in 1S05. So the Joint committee of the Portland Board of Trade and the Manufacturers Association voted yesterday afternoon. A company will be Incorporated at once for $300,000, with au thority to issue bonds in addition to the stock. Agents will be sent to Washing ton, Montana, Idaho and Wyoming to lay the matter before legislatures and ask co-operation and appropriations. The City of Portland and the State of Oregon will be asked for financial help. The name by which the fair shall be known will be settled by a meeting to be held next Wednesday night. Members of the Oregon Historical Society, of the Port land commercial organizations, and lead ing manufacturers and Jobbers will bo invited to attend. The Joint committee met in room 600. Chamber of Commerce. Members dropped in leisurely, giving as an excuse for their tardiness that business was rushing. Dan McAIIen said he ran away from a whole store full of people who were falling over each other to buy calico for blank, yards for the dollar. Having called the meeting to order. President J. M. Long said a canvass had developed that Portland peo ple are in favor of a fair in 1905. The fair should be promoted by a corporation having seven or nine directors, as a large body would be unwieldy. It had been suggested that a director-general should be engaged in the East, but there need not; be hurry on this account. Mr. Long said, he had conferred with H. W. Scott, president of the Oregon Historical Soci ety, and L. B. Cox, and they Indorsed the corporation idea with $300,0& capital. When one-half the Btock had been sub scribed, organization could be perfected. Mr. Long suggested that there bo no de lay in asking the Legislature to appoint a fair commission. Agents should be ap pointed to visit the other "Oregon states" and ask their Legislatures to co-operate. The State of Oregon, Mr. Long said, should appropriate J1G0.000 for the fair, and the City of Portland $50,000. Dan McAIIen moved that the date for the fair be 1905. This motion prevailed without opposition. On motion of O. E. Helntz, President Long was directed to draw articles incor porating a company for $300,000, with power to Issue bonds. Stock is to be $10 per share. This instrument is to be sub mitted to the meeting Wednesday night for approval. The proposal to give the fair a name was discussed, but it was thought best not to take action until the Oregon His torical Society and other interested organ izations have a hearing. President Con nell, of tho Board of Trade, objected to the name "Lewis and Clark." He thought it is too local. The name to bo adopted, ho suggested, should Bhow the general scope of the fair and its special importance to Oregon and Portland. In the discussions of the Joint commu te, the point was brought out that Sena tor Brownell's Joint resolution Indorsing the fair and authorizing the Governor to appoint a commission did not originate with the .committee. When the company has been incorporated, the committee will go before the Legislature and ask a com mission, and something more substantial than resolutions. Wednesday night's general meeting will be held in room C00, Chamber of Com merce building. 1005. Industrial Exposition to Celebrate the Expedition. PORTLAND, Jan. 15. (To the Editor.) At a recent banquet of the Travelers' Protective Association of America, held L- ait the Hotel Portland, the celebratioa of tho centenary of the Lewis and Clark ex pedition rroposed by the Oregon Histor ical Society was emphatically Indorsed by a rising vote, Tho fittest manner In which this can find expression seems to be an in ternatlon Industrial exposition, to be held in 1906. The membership of the T. P. A. will do -their 6hare to take Jhls matter up with tholr customers all over the Northwest, and in this manner contribute to tho success of the celebration. Every person in Oregon, Washington, Idaho and Montana, should be proud of the attrac tion this section of the United States will have to offer to the rest of the world. This latent feeling needs only to be roused. Who are more able to throw en thusiasm Into it than the traveling men? W. H. O. TOO LATE FOR RELIEF. Decision for City in Street Assess ment Cone. Judge Bollinger yesterday decided ad versely the suit of J. Thorburn Ross, trustee, against the City of Portland et &L, wherein the plaintiff applies for an order to restrain the city from selling certain lots on which the Marquam Thea ter is situated on an assessment for the improvement of Sixth street. This was asked on the ground that the city char ter. In requiring the cost of such im provements to be assessed upon abutting lots without referenco to the benefits. Is oppressive and arbitrary, and, there fore, in violation of the 14th amendment to the United States Constitution pro hibiting any state from taking property without due process of law. The improvement was made and assessment levied in 1S93, and the prop erty was advertised for sale. The plain tiff then brought suit In tho State Court to restrain the proposed sale upon var ious grounds of objection to the valldi lty of the proceedings, but not including the objections made In this suit. Upon final hearing In the State Supreme Court, the plaintiff attempted, for tho first time, to raise the question in this suit, but as it was not assigned in error in the appeal, and did not otherwise appear In the record, tho court refused to con sider it. After discussing briefly decisions of other courts in point. Judge Bellinger says: "In all cases whore the claim or de mand is the same, the party is extopped. -without reference to the identity of the point or question brought forward in tho tfeo two cases in support of such claim. In this case tho former suit was to prevent the Identical injury now complained of, and the ultimate question the validity of tho assessment was then, as now, attacked. The new point in the case does not affect the finality of the former ad judication. It is not open to a party to prosecute as many suits for the same demand as he may have points to urge in Its support. The rule of res Judicata ought to be applied with strictness, es pecially in cases like this, where the two suits are brought In different Jurisdic tions. "I am, furthermore, of the opinion that, where the alleged Illegal assessment has been levied for a period of seven yars, it is too lite to question its validity in caulty.ttls said as to this that the threat ened sale is a new sale. But the new sale is under a process made necessary by the restraint, at the suit of complainant's grantor, of the sale attempted more than seven years ago, and & a mere contin uation of what was then begun. The application for a preliminary re straining order is denied." NO VIRTUE IN THE COMPLAINT. Decisions In Case of Allen fc Levrla vs. the Snort Line and O. R. & N. In the case of Allen & Lewis -vs. the Oregon Short Line and O. R. & N. Companies, a general demurrer to the complaint was sustained in an opinion rendered by Judge Bellinger yesterday. This suit was instituted April 6, 1899, and the object was to require the two defendant railroads to cease discrimina tion against Portland merchants in the matter of freight rates to Idaho points; in other words, to give lower rates be tween Portland and Idaho points than be tween San Francisco and the same points, based on the shorter mileage from Port land. A demurrer -was sustained No vember 20, 1899, upon the ground that the two lines that from Portland and that from San Francisco are competing lines, and that the relation which the rate over one of these lines bears to that over the other is not subject to control by the courts, and that the lower rate to Ogden can be a matter of complaint only to the places discriminated against, Portland be ing in no way unfavorably affected there by." This disposed of the allegation that the rate to Ogden was the same from Port land or San Francisco, and, the rates from Portland to points on the Oregon Short Line this side of Ogden being less, San Francisco should not be permitted to have the same rates, thereby getting a longer haul for a less charge. Then the complainant, upon leave, amended the bill by alleging that the charge made under the Joint tariff by the Oregon Short Line and O. R. & N. Companies was unreasonable and exces sive, and that th,e proportion of such Joint tariff received by each company was un reasonable and excessive. The allegation as to the proportion so received was to the effect that of such Joint tariff the O. R. & N. Co. receives the amount of its local rate to Huntington, the point of Junotion of the two roads, and the Oregon Short Line Company the res idue; that the Short Line and the South ern Pacific established a Joint through tariff between San Francisco and those same points In Idaho, under which the rates charged are the same as those charged under the Joint tariff between Portland and those points; that, of the charges so made under the Joint tariff of the Southern Pacific and the Oregon Short Line, the former company receives the amount of its usual charges to Og den, and the Short Line receives the res idue; that the amount so received by the Short Line on San Francisco freight hauled by It from Ogden Is less than that charged and received by it on freight hauled from Huntington to the same points, that all this Is a discrimination against Portland and Its merchants. After reaffirming the opinion that the railroad rates to such competitive terri tory were not within the control of the courts on such a complaint as was pre sented in this case. Judge Bellinger said: "If the Portland tariff was enough lower or the San Francisco tariff enough higher to overcome the advantage which the latter city has, then Portland could com pete. Here is the grievance complained of. The Portland rate, no matter how reduced, would continue unreasonable and excessive as long as the San Fran cisco rate was maintained at a corre sponding figure. The causes, in other words, which are particularized in the complaint as operating to produce the Injury complained of will continue to operate, no matter how low the Portland rate is, so long as the San Francisco rate is equally low." The complaint alleged that for several years after 1883 Allen & Lewis had a large and lucrative business in the Idaho territory, from which it Is now virtually excluded by the discriminating rates. Judge Bellinger says It is not averred in the complaint, and Is not to be assumed that the rates from Portland to points in that territory are higher now than they were In 1S83. This, it Is inferred. would give the matter quite another as pect, though It could not operate to com pel a lower rate from Portland than from San Francisco. DAILY CITY STATISTICS. Marriage Licenses. Milton H. Cole, 38, Pierce County, Wash ington, Clara A. Summy, 28. William A. Gray, 2L Emellne A. Peter son, 20. Building: Permits. Mrs. William Dalton, two two-story cot tages, East Eighth street, between East Pino and East Oak; $2400. S. W. Rethleson, two two-story dwell ings. Fifteenth street, between Everett and Flanders; $2000. Thomas Mann, 1-story cottage. East Burnside, between East Seventh and East Eighth; $1200. Birth Returns. December 29 Boy, to the wife of David Thoman, E69 Jefferson street. January 14 Girl, to the wife of Bern hard Kopper, 404 Fremont street January 12 Girl, to the wife of Gustav Grippel, 52 Union avenue. January 8 Girl, to the wife of D. Gard ner, 230 San Rafael street Death Returns. January 14 Henry Rock, 67 years, St. Vincent's Hospital; cancer. January U Lyle Brown, 13 days, Good Samaritan Hospital; Inanition. January 14 George W. Fearnside, 73 years, St. Vincent's Hospital; ulceration of stomach. January 13 Julia Anderson, 65 years, Astoria; brought here for ourlal. January 13 George W. Carpenter, 23 years, Ilwaco; passed through to San Francisco. January 12-Charles C. Reuter, 21 years, 678 Pettygrove street; typhoid fever. January 12 Mabel E. Walkley, 19 years. Smith's Sanitarium; septic peritonitis. Contnglous Diseases. Mrs. C. Colpell and three children, 5S5 Kearney street: diphtheria. Harold Summers, 505 Bonhwlck; scarlet fever. Silas Howard, corner Front and Yam hill; diphtheria. Child of Mrs. Portlow, 104 East Twelfth; diphtheria. Ida Rogers, 9G2 East Sixth street. North, scarlet fever. Louise Ganty, 249 Tillamook street; diph theria. Glenna Kleth, 94 East Eighth, North, diphtheria. Real Estate Transfers. Joseph MacWn and wife to J. W Keller, lot 3, block 13, Alblna Home stead, January 16 250 William Baldwin and wife to M. aI M. Ashley, lots 13 and 14, block 1. White Tract, January 12 i Frank M. Lacey and wife to H. F. Rittman. west half of lots 1 and 2 block 52, Alblna, January 6 Koo Sheriff, for J. C Havely and wife, to Portland Trust Co., large number of lots, Woodstock, January 15 5500 James Manary and wife to Peter Wilhelm, NE. of NW. Y. section S, T. 1 S.. R. 4 E., January 12 650 James Manary and wife to Laurence Wilhelm, SE. & of NW. i, section S, T. 1 S., R. 3 ., January 12 650 Ottllle Jacks and husband to Jacob and Margaret Emmert lot 6, block 26, Alblna Homestead, January 16. 225 Nellie Olsen and wife to Oliver Ben son, west half lot 4, block 319. Balch Addition. March 31. 1 7m A. F. Flegel et ux. to Sarah L. Swan son, lots 13 and 14, block 27, Alblna Homestead, December 3 450 George A. Weed to E. P. and George McCroskey, N. UoIB, of SW. section 19. T. 1 N., R. l W., Janu ary 15 J Coquille has voted against a 5-mlll tax. It was proposed to increase the school year to nine months. ROGERS INAUGURATED FOR SECOND TIME BECOMES GOV ERNOR OF WASHINGTON. Ceremony Toole Place In the State Capitol, and "Was Witnessed hy a Large Crovrd. OLYMPIA, Wash., Jan. 16. For a sec ond time John R. Rogers was today in augurated as Governor of Washington. The inauguration took place in the hall of the House of Representatives, in the presence of the Joint session of the Leg islature. Seated on the platform were President pro tem. Megler, of the Sen ate; Speaker Albertson, of the House, and ex-GoVernor Andrew H. Burke, of North Dakota. The lobby was crowded with politicians, residents of Olympla and many ladles. The Governor was escorted to the plat form by a committee consisting of Sena tor Crowe of Spokane and Representa tives Easterday of Pierce and Conway of King. The oath of offl.ee was adminis tered by Chief Justice Reavls, and then the Governor proceeded to deliver his in augural address and message. After the Inauguration of Governor .ubi.o, uicuicuaui-uvvciuur luuoiiuu t-s- ouutcu ma ucw uuues as presiding ouicer of the Senate. He appointed his commit tees immediately. The four principal chairmanships were distributed as fore casted in today's Oregonlan. Prestin, who introduced a railway commission bill, Is chairman of the railroad committee, and Tolman, Democrat, who also Is the author of a somewhat different commission bill, is a member of the committee. A resolution is likely to be Introduced any day to submit to the voters the ques tion of the removal of the state capital from Olympla. Sentiment in favor of such a move Is being worked up In this city by Representatives of Tacoma and Everett, both of which are anxious to be designated as the capital city of the state. The railroad committee of the Senate went In the office of Chairman Preston tonight and for nearly four hours con sidered railroad legislation as proposed by the Preston and Tolman bills. Senator Preston's bill was gone through section by section, and very carefully weighed. There 'seems to be no doubt that this bill will be reported on favorably by the com mittee at an early date. IN THE SENATE. Bill to Give ?50,000 for Pan-American Fair Exhibit Other Measures. OLYMPIA, Wash., Jan. 16. In the Sen ate today Andrews of King introduced a bill providing for an appropriation of $60. 000 for a state exhibit at the Pan-American Exposition at Buffalo. The bill names a commission of eight, as follows: Gov ernor Rogers, Secretary of State Nichols, Patrick Clark, Dr. N. G. Blalock, C. F. White, S. M. Jackson, E. C. Neufelder and B. A. Seaborg. Under the terms of the bill this commission is empowered to name an executive commissioner et a salary not to exceed $250 per month. The bill was leferred. A bill Introduced by Senator Moultray of New Wlhatcom developed the fact that there Is $4150 in the appropriation made for the Whatcom Normal School at the last session. Tolman of Spokane Introduced a bill providing for a beet-sugar bounty. IN THE HOUSE. Effort to Limit the Session Canvass of Vote Completed. OLYMPIA, Jan. 16. In the House two efforts to limit the present session were made. One failed and the other went to a committee. Brown of Whatcom intro duced a resolution that the House adjourn sine die March 1. It was defeated. Thompson of Kitsap offered a resolution that no bills be Introduced after March 1. It was referred. Resolutions referring to the death of Senator Carper and Repre sentative Byron Daniels were concurred in. Tho House and Senate met in Joint ses sion this morning and concluded the canvass of the vote on state officers. Gov ernor Rogers official majority over Mr. Frlnk, the Republican nominee, Is 2188. DUBOIS IS A DEMOCRAT. Idaho Senator So Declared Himself in a Speech. BOISE, Idaho, Jan. 16. The Legislature met at noon today in Joint session, and canvassed the vote cast yesterday for United States Senator. Fred T. Dubois was declared elected. Mr. Dubois was called before the session, and made an important speech, in which he declared himself a Democrat, announcing ho would go into the Democratic caucus. Mr. Dubois said in part: "It pleased the people of Idaho when Governor Hunt, at the very start of his administration, revoked that pernicious, outrageous, un-American permit system in the Coeur d'Alenes, and it will please the people of the state still more when he removes martial law. It Is not good in any community to have soldiers sta tioned there as guards, nor to have con tinued martial law, as the Governor says, tersely, In his message. Shoshone County is as peaceful and quiet as any county of the state. Where there is con tinued martial law the citizens became sullen and resentful against the officers, and if the state cannot preserve the law without the continued presence of the 6oldlers, we had better quit being a state. It le my Judgment that there will be con tinued quiet In the Ceuer d'Alenes, and I believe the feeling all over the state will be better than it has been for many years. "I am very glad to say now that so far as I am concerned, there is no better Democrat In the state than I am. I in tend to go Into the Democratic caucus, and I think I violate no confidence when I say that Senator Henry Heltfeld Is go ing' there, too. At tho Serenade to him this evening he came out boldly for can didacy six years from now as follows: 'And In six years from this time I shall ask you again to pass a verdict upon the principles which I shall advocate. " Mr. Dubois' speeches today have caused a furore among politicians, and the Dem ocrats are especially bitter against him. The Statesman will, in the morning, print a number of letters from him to different people wherein he states he was in favor of all the measures Insti tuted by Governor Steunenberg, Intimat ing his wish for their further continuance. The matter of slicing off a portion of Idaho and adding it to Washington is being pushed by the people of that state. Representative Henry, of Shoshone Coun ty, today received a letter from a mem ber of the Washington Legislature ask ing that a committee of five be appointed from this body to meet a similar commit tee from Washington to confer on this subject. He also read a telegram from a member. of the labor congress at Olym pla, asking the sentiments here in this regard. There is no sentiment in favor of this in this Legislature. Henry says, however, there Is a feeling favorable to the making of a new state from five Idaho and five Washington counties, with Spokane the Oapitol. He believes the time is close at hand when this will be done, and says there are many who hold the same views. WORK OF COMMISSIONERS. . f Their Disposition of a Number of Claris County Matters. VANCOUVER, Wash., Jan. 16. The County Commissioners' Court adjourned today until the regular meeting next April. The board today approved the bonds of Justices of the Peace and other precinct officers la tho county. O. F. Johnson, who has occupied the position dt Janitor of the Courthouse since the present building was erected, was re appointed at a salary of $40 per month. Gus Hendricksen was reappointed Coun ty Fruit Inspector. The County Auditor and County Treas urer reported that the deputies employed in those offices, C W. Knowles, in the Auditor's office, and Will Tenny, in the Treasurer's office, have been reappointed. The liquor license bonds of M. Webber and Grant Short, at Washougal, and George H. Eckart, at Riverside, were ap proved and licenses to sell liquors during the coming year granted. The proposition submitted by the North ern Pacific Railway Company for a 75 per cent reduction of the taxes assessed against the lands of the company In this county was considered by the board for some time this afternoon, and rejeoted on the ground that the commission has no authority to make the proposed reduc tion. Ex-Official Kindly Remembered. Ex-County Auditor A. J. Cook was this morning presented with a handsome gold handled silk umbrella by the county of ficers and a number of friends. County Clerk Galther made the presentation in a- few well-chosen words, stating that the gift was presented on behalf of the coun ty officers and other? of the "Courthouse gang," as a token of the high esteem in which Mr. Cook is held by them, and as a slight recognition of his eight years' faithful service for the county in the ca pacity of County Treasurer and County Auditor. TO PROTECT WALRUS. Indians' Food Supply Endangered by Wanton Destrnctlon. PORT TOWNSEND, Jan. 16.-Reports of the wanton destruction of walrus In Alaskan waters have reached the Treas ury Department at Washington. Walrus come from the Arctic on the Ice flow dur ing the early portion of the open season to points between St. Michael and Cape Nome, and thousands of passengers on early steamers plying between those places shoot Into bands, killing and wounding many. Captains of whalers have reported that thousands of carcasses are seen floating in Behring Sea and the Arctic Ocean. Walrus flesh Is the main subsistence of Alaska coastwise Indians, and their wanton destruction threatens starvation to them. The law relating to the protection of fur-bearing animals does not apply to walrus, but Assistant Secre tary of the Treasury Spauldlng has issued Instructions to Collector of Customs Heus tls, at this port, to urge masters of ves sels visiting Alaska waters to prevent the killing of walrus by persons on board of their vessels. These Instructions are Is sued with a view of protecting the food supply of the Indians, many of whom are said to be almost In a starving condition. ASHLAND A "DRY" TOWN. Saloon Licenses Expire, and Council Will Not Renew Them. ASHLAND, Or., Jan. 16. The City Coun cil of Ashland, at a special meeting last night, refused to consider or receive sev eral petitions for renewal of liquor licenses for the ensuing year, and after ward passed an ordinance to prevent the sale, disposal or giving away of Intox- luttung uquors witnm tne city by any per son or persons, firm or corporation or club, and providing a penalty of a fine of from $10 to $50 for violation of the ordi nance. The licenses of the six saloons of the city expired last night, and Ashland Is today a "dry" town, and no liquors are being sold at the saloons. Tho action is the result of an advisory vote on the question taken at the city election last month, when the no-llcense proposition carried by a small majority. Local opin ion Is greatly divided as to the real wis dom from a temperance or other stand point of the course which the majority of the voters decided upon at the polls, and which tho Council has now undertaken to carry out, as to Its ultimate success. Charged With Assault. DALLAS, Or., Jan. 16. Ncs Dale was to day arrested and brought before 'justice, of the Peace Holman, charged with as sault on Allletha Darling, the 13-year-old daughter of Charles P. Darling, of Falls City. His trjal was set for tomorrow at 1 o'clock, and bond fixed at $500. He failed to furnish ball, and was committed to Jail. AT THE HOTELS. THE PORTLAND. Rnd M Koss, Mllwauk Thos McQlll. Billings "W H Coates, Saginaw E A Stuart, Seattle W T Solomon, N Y J C Speight 8 F W H Remington, Ta coma R M Boyd, Seattlo D Wilson, Omaha B F Ham, Spokane Karl Harbaugh Chas Phillips, Cbso D Allen, San Fran R B Rothschild, S P V Peyton. Los Angls J W Westlake, Denvor C E Taylor, Omaha H R Burke. 8 F F "W Hansen. Seattle J S Phlnnov. fhlrnr-n OHP LaFarge.Seattla u a uyon, Minneapolis R F Volght. San Fran R C Stevens. Sen mo John Dant. Phlla w v luaenour. Detroit Mrs L S Mayer, Seattle oiiss nortense .Levy, Salem Alex D Grant, Jr. N Y A D Spencer, Chicago u a- uanieis, unicago THE PERKINS. Chas Terranco, Colfaxl S H Mitchell. Mlnnpls Mrs St Pierre, do Chas Johnson, Welser Mrs Johnson, Welsor Dan N Gllmore, W W Alex Poison &. fmy, Hoqulam, Wash Mrs G H Giles, Butte Val Wdrkman, Wasco Wm J Mariner, Bla lock F W Tobey, Arlington Chester Avery, Corval- 11s, Or Price Swearlngen. Hamilton, Mont J M Spursel, St Paul D E Welsh, Roseburg P D Gilbert, Albany J W Hobbs, McMInnvl J Ennas. Hlllsboro Joe Stlner, city J P Tamlesle, Hlllsboro Franklin T Griffith, Or egon City A A NIcol, So Bend D P Stitt. Tckoa D Graham. Seattle Z M Brown, Prlnevllle C L Clark, city Mrs Clark, city W Maxwell. N Yakima y vr Estle. Colfax R H Weber. Dalle3 C B "Walker, city J C Wolf. SUverton Mrs Jardtne. Alameda "W J Ogelsby, Junction B F Millard, Chippewa fails, wasn Mrs Millard, do J Franzen, Ashland Mrs Franzen, Ashland G L Rudstrom, do L F Hall, San Fran Mrs B Isaacs. Seattle A A Nlool. So Bend C W Henderson. S F O H Thayer, Kalama Mrs J C Marrell, Su perior, Wis Miss Marrell, do Miss Louise Randolph, San Francisco H S Allen & wf. S F C O Warren, Seattle Chas Judsoa Johnson, Seattle Mrs C J Johnson, do Miss Johnson, do Mrs Alice Doty, Cen- tralia Capt Trumbull, Seattle Geo A Douglass, Mil waukee, Wis Mrs J E Hall. Clats kanie Mrs L A Thompson, Ray, Wash Mrs L Ford, Astoria J Klein Pendleton Geo Gully, Rossland Geo H Staples, Van W A Williams, Castle KOC1C M S Hooper, Seattle Mrs Hooper. Seattle S J Beck. Ostrander J W Beck, Ostrander S J Davis. St PI. Minn B Rohrbeck. So Bend John A Shaw. Mill City miss j d wiicox,Gras3 Valley E E Porter, do F W Bailey. Chicago couver, ash H Conton, do B W Dennis, San Fr W C St Pierre. River side, Cal Geo Conser, Hcppner THE IMPERIAL. C W. Knowles, Manager. Dr L D McClalre. S F L G Surnett, city Mrs I I Frank. Snokn Maud Looney, Bakr C Ljdla Crawford, do E N Carter, Oregon C Mrs D Illsby, San Fr E T Van Hookcen, Green Bay L Verhey. Centerville D Plamerons, San Fr Martin Erlenbach. S F Mrs R B Porter. Ashlnd C Bartsch. Hood River Mrs Bartsch, do Geo L Ross, Salem Mrs Rose,, Salem E Brockmann, Val paraiso D W Stuart. San Fran H H Wlnslow. Oaklnd Mrs Wlnslow & 3 c. do J F Eggert. San Fr Geo Patterson. Or Robt A Miller. Ores C S B Ross, Colo Sprogs Master Ross, do L Mansur, Knappton Mrs Mansur. do Mrs Setturo, do A M Smith. Astoria Mrs Smith, Astoria F C Reed, Astoria F J Back, Vancouver M A Cole, Tacoma Mrs Cole, Tacoma L A Conn, Hammond Mrs Frank Settlemior, Woodburn Mrs G W Jones, Salem Mrs A L Cornwall. Woodburn i W H BenUey. W W Mrs Bentley, W W A W Go wan. Burns J W Barry. Pendleton J Molera, San Fran A B Leckenby. Or M S Waterman, Port Townsend Mrs Waterman. do Miss Waterman, do J R McBrlde, Spokane f j uari. Minn V Starkt St Louis Mrs Starkt, St Louis Hotel Brunswick:. Seattle. European; first-class. Rates. 75c and up. One block from depot. Restaurant next door. Tacoma Hotel. Tacoma. American plan. Rates. $3 and up, Donnelly Hotel. Tacoma. European plan. Rates. oCc and up. DESTROYED BY LANDSLIDE SAT? HILL NEAR CLATSKANIE COM PLETELY DEMOLISHED. Accident Was Due to Recent Ralni Machinery Moved Sixty Feet and Buried. ST. HELENS, Or., Jan. 16. Word was received here yesterday that a landslide m mountain back of Tichnor's alii, about two miles above Clatskanie, completely demolished the plant. The boiler and machinery were moved a distance of 60 feet and buried in the wreck in the gorge below where the mill stood. The slide was caused by recent rains. WDLLAMETTE FALLING AT SALEM. Still Too High forTrafflc on River Little Damage. SALEM, Or., Jan. 6.-The Willamette River at this place has fallen about 16 :nc toda' but it is still too high for traffic on the river. With the exception of washing away the O. R. & N. Co.'s dock, the damage done by the water is slight The T'Polnt" and about an acre of land opposite here on the Polk County side is being cut off by the water. The high water caught the steamer Al tona on this side of the steel bridge that spans the Willamette, where she has had to remain, making occasional trips up the river as far as Independence, Minto's and Brown's Islands, where she went to save livestock. The Grey Eagle, one of the O. C. & T. Ce.'s small boats, has rendered much" as sistance to thosa in need of help, and last night made a trip down the river about six miles and took livestock off of the Hoist Bros.' ranch. The O. C. & T. Co.'s wharf Is. floating, but as It is se curely anchored there Is no danger of it going out. . The Capital City Lumbering Company, whose saw mill Is situated on the river bank, and the D. S. Bentley Company, who have wood piled along the bank of the river have had their men engaged all day in moving the lumber pud wood out of the reach of the water. The back water up the sloughs and creeks In this vicinity lacks about seven or eight feet of being as high as It was in the big flood of 1S90, while the river lacks about Ave feot. Grave fears were entertained for the safety of the big bridge, as there seemed to be a very swift current around a pier, and several rafts of logs and trees and other floating driftwood struck It, but no damage has resulted. The bridge has been closed, as the approach to the west end, In Polk County, Is under about six feet of water. WATER RISING SLOWLY. Report From Oregon City Many Loers Adrift Factories Closed. OREGON CITY, Jan. 16. Two booms of logs, belonging to the Willamette Paper & Pulp Company, broke loose from their moorings, above Canemah, this morning, and were carried down stream and lost. The estimated loss Is EO0.OCO feet. The mills- and factories here have all closed down on account of the high wa ter. A wash-out between Gladstone and Oregon City prevents the Southern Pacific from running trains between here and Portland. The Albany local came down this morning and returned with passen gers, who came up from Portland on the electric cars. The river Is still rising Blowly. Back water Is causing the Aber nethy to spread deeper over the low land between Oregon City and Park Place. The East Side Railway Company's bridge across the Clackamas River is in a somewhat dangerous condition, and pas sengers are transferred from one car to another at this point. Several Feet Lower at Albany. ALBANY, Or., Jan. 16. The Willamette fell several feet today, buf-lt is still 25 feet above low water. The. high water damaged the north approach to the Al bany bridge so that if cannot be used for travel until repaired. Out in the county the Sanderson bridge, approach to the new McDowell Creek bridge and a small Calapooia bridge were Injured. Less Water at Independence. INDEPENDENCE. Jan. 17. The Wil lamette River Is falling here, having come to a standstill last evening at 6 o'clock. During the night it went down about two feet and today It has fallen several feet more. The steamer Altona landed last night near Main street, and left this morning for Salem. FOR STREET-CAR FRANCHISE. Representatives and Projectors of System Reach Agreement, ASTORIA, Or., Jan. 16. A conference was held today between the members of the city street committee, the City Attor ney and representatives of the street rail way company, relative to the granting of a street-car franchise, and an agree ment reached that Is said to be satisfac tory to all concerned, and one which, it is thought the Countil will approve. The new ordinance, In the main, Is in accordance with the recommendations made before by the ways and means com mittee. It gTants a 75-year franchise for street railway purposes only, over all streets or portions of streets on which a car line shall be constructed, and oper ated within five years from the date of the passage and approval of the ordinance, provided the new company shall within six months purchase the present line and extend It at least one-half mile both east and west from the present terminals. The company Is to pay to the city, as a license, the sum of $20 per year on each car operated. In the matter of street Im provements, the company Is obliged to Improve and keep in repair the covering of the streets to the width of the car track, and one foot outslGe the rails. The section of the former ordinance which re quired the company to improve the sub structure of streets is omitted, as Is the provision that all members of the City Council and city officials shall be fur nished free transportation over the lines. Bis Price for Fish Likely. Present Indications are that an excep tionally high price for raw fish will pre vail the coming season. One cannery has already announced that It will pay cold-storage prices for all classes of sal mon, Including steelheads and bluebacks. To Amend Charter of Wnrrcnton. At a mass meeting of the citizens held at Warrenton last evening it was de cided to have several amendments made to the city charter. The principal amend ments are relative to the manner of mak ing street improvements. Tho original charter was patterned after one for a much larger town, and the object of sev eral amendments Is to make It less cum bersome. Necnnlcum Bridge Bill Paid. The County Court today ordered the bill of $1593 for the construction of the new bridge across the Necanicum paid, with the exception of $50, which was retained for painting the bridge.- This bill does not Include the cost of building the ap proaches. JUDGE M'GUIRE DEAD. Ex-Offlcial of Clatsop County Re sided There Thirty Years. ASTORIA, Or., Jan. 16. Judge Charles A. McGulre, of Seaside, died at his home there this morning after an illness of sev eral years. He was about 70 years of age, and had resided In Clatsop County about 30 years. When he first came to Clatsop County he engaged In the fishing business at Westport. Later he came to J Astoria and x:onducted a butoher and ho tel business for a number of years. Later he moved'" to Clatsop Plains, and finally purchased the hotel at Seaside, which bore his name, and where ho died. He had a large acquaintance throughout the county. He served one term as Coun ty Judge of Clatsop County. He left a widow and three children. Jacob Coe, of Svensen. ASTORIA. Or.. Jan. ia.-Tacob Coe. son of A. E. Coo, of Svensen, died this morn ing, after an illness of three days. The young man was 19 years of age, and fa vorably known in this vicinity. His fu neral will be held from the family resi dence, and the interment will be at Knappo. Founder of the Foresters. SYRACUSE, N. Y., Jan. 16. A. B. Cald well, founder of the Independent Order of Foresters, died here today. OREGON TO TAKE ALASKA INSANE. Governor Brady Was at Capital Yes terday and Signed Jontract. SALEM, Or., Jan. 16. Governor Brady, of Alaska, was a visitor at tho capital today, when he came to sign a contract with the Board of Asylum Trustees for the taking care of the insane patients from Alaska. The agreement provides for their keeping at the rate of $20 a month per capita. Seven patients will bo sent to Salem at onco from Washington, where they have been taken care of up to this time. Some time ago Governor Brady wrote the Oregon officials asking whether Alaska patients would be cared for at the Oregon Institution, and if so, at what price. The board decided that since the new wing has been built there Is room for the Alaska patients, and thei cost of maintenance per capita will not be affect ed by the addition of a few outside pa tients. The cost per capita 13 about $10 per month, so it appears that the state will make a small profit on the boarders it has taken. Governor Asked to Spealr. In Chicago. Governor T. T. Geer today received an invitation from the Marquette Club, of Chicago, to deliver an address before the members of that organization on the oc casion of Its annual banquet on Abraham Lincoln's birthday, February 12. Owing to the duties of his office, tho Governor will be unable to accept it and has noti fied the club to that effect DISCUSSED BOX BUSINESS. Meeting of Pacific Northwest Asso ciation Members Banqueted. HOQUIAM, Wash., Jan. 16. A meeting of the Pacific Northwest Box Association was held here yesterday. The meeting was called for the purpose of exchang ing ideas and hearing the report of Its secretary, wao recently returned from an extended trip East In the Interest of tho box business. In the evening a banquet was given; by tho Hoqulam box manufacturers, at the Hotel Hoqulam. Covers were laid for 23. The souvenirs consisted of wood confec tionery boxes, the lids of which contained the menu and were traced by many burnt designs, and included the name of tho guest to occupy each seat The associa tion expects to extend its Influence during the coming season, throughout Oregon and to the Canadian boundary Quotations of Mining Stocks. SPOKANE, Jan. 16. The closing quotations for mining stocks today were: Bid. Ask. I Bid. Ask. Blacktall ....10 llJ,Qu!lp 23& 20 Butte & Bos.. 2 2iRamb. Car.. ...28 29 Crystal 4U 4Republlc 40 CO D. T. Con.... 2& 24Reservatlon .. B 5 Eenlng Star. 0 7HlRoss. Giant... 4H uuiu ueugo... n .7s,euuivan .....12 2 1. X. L 18 Tom Thumb 14U Iron Mask ...35 Waterloo .... 2 Amer. Boy.... OV L. P. Sun... 7 Mtn. Lion ....32 Morn. Glory.. T Morrison .... 0: Conjecture ...31 Dewey 2y Miller Creek.. 2 Prln. Maud... 2 SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 10. The official clos ing quotations for mining stocks today were: Alpha Con $0 03 Andes 8 Belcher 13 Best & Belcher... 23 Bullion 2 Caledonia ....... 74 Challenge Con ... IS Chollar 11 Confidence 63 Con. Cal & Va... 1 63 Crown Point .... 15 Gould & Curry... 43 Hale & Norcross. 17 Justice 8 Kentuck Con ...i.to 02 Mexican 32 Occidental Con ... 4 Ophlr 03 Overman 14 PotosI 11 Savage 10 Seg. Belcher 2 Sierra Nevada ... 22 Silver H1U 43 Standard 4 20 Union Con 23 Utah Con 6 Yellow Jacket .... 14 NEW YORK. Jan. 10. Mining stocks today closed as follows: Adams Con $0 20 Llttlo Chief ...,..$010 Alico 45 Ontario ....6 25 Breece 2 00 Ophlr ...., CO Brunswick Con... 26 Phoenix 10 Comstock Tunnel. 5 PotosI 10 Con. Cal. & Va... 1 GO Savago 18 Peadwood Terra.. 54 Sierra Nevada ... 23 Horn Silver ,... 1 10 Small Hopes 65 Iron Sliver 05 Standard 4 10 Leadvllle Con ... 6 BOSTON, Jan. 16.r-ClosIng quotations Adventure $ 9 75 BIng. Mln. Co.. 10 75 Amal. Copper.. 80 501 Atlantic 28 00 Humboldt $ BO 00 Osceola 82 00 Parrott 40 25 Qulncy 170 00 Boston & M.... 320 00 Santa Fo Cop. Tamarack; .... Utah Mining .. 6 02 328 00 33 00 Butte & Boston 78 50 Cal. & Hecla... 850 00 Centennial 22 50 Franklin ...'.... 10 00 Winona 5 00 Wolverines 48 50 Bid. Stockmen Count on Good Year. VALE, Or., Jan. 13. The farmers and stockmen of Malheur County feel 'confi dent that the coming season will be a prosperous one for them. While the Win ter has thus far been an open one com pared with those generally experienced here, the indications are that there will be plenty of water for Irrigation during the coming Summer, and that the feed on the rango will be good. Little snow has fallen In the low valleys, but rains have been frequent, and as the ground has not been frozen the water has soaked Into the ground Instead of going off In floods, as Is often the case. The grass has been good in the hills all Winter, and but llttlo hay has yet been fed by stockmen. Shortage of Food at Circle City. SEATTLE, Wash., Jan. 16. Edmund N. Carpenter, the last man out from the Tanana district, says there Is a great shortage of food at Circle City, and that the Government officials at Eagle City are sending provisions in as rapidly as pos sible. On his way out he met many teams laden with supplies for the famine threatened district Lack of provisions is also retarding mlsing operations In the Tanana district University of Oregon Jiotcn. EUGENE, Or., Jan. 16. The seminary, of history and political science met In VII lard Hall this evening and held one of the most profitable meetings of the year. Pro fessor Joseph Schafer read a paper on "The Authorship of the Kentucky and Virginia Resolutions," and Mr. A. F. Hemenway presented a thesis on "Trusts." The seminary will sooh com mence the study of Oregon history. Drl W. T. Williamson, of Salem, ad dressed the University of Oregon students at the regular assembly this morning. Headless Body Found In River. ST. HELENS, Or., Jan. 16. Joseph Hay burn, lighthouse keeper at .Warrior Rock, found a headless body floating in a pile of drift coming out of-Lewis River. The body had been In the water for a long time, there being no clothes or other means of identification. Capsized and Nearly Drowned. SALEM, Jan. 16. This afternoon George Sears and Willie Crawford, two boys, while boatridlng were capsized In the Willamette opposite town and nearly drowned. Anally getting In trees, from which they were rescued. Oregon Notes. Myrtle Point has 25 telephones. Two carloads of horses were shipped from the Huntington stockyards to Kan sas "Sunday. t F. M. Westfall'has been elecfed Street Superintendent 6f Albany. The Elk Creek road. In Clatsop County, will be reopened for travel in a day or two. New colors for the Fourth Regiment. O. N. G., have been received at Eugene by Colonel George O. Yoran. Burglars made an attempt upon the sa loon of Paul Schmidt at Albany, Mon day morning, but were driven off by John Schlosser. The ministers of Coquille City havo passed resolutions condemning feotball. They denounce the game as an unmiti gated evil and a relic of barbarism. The Farmers' & Traders' Bank, of Union, is having a cage made for tho interior of its vault The cage will con sist of railroad steel. A petition requesting the Clatsop County Court to make a levy of 2 mills for building the proposed road to Neha lem Is in circulation. Ed Parker, of Astoria, had a tussle with a footpad the other night, and threw him off the street into the water 12 feet below. The thug succeeded In making a landing. A petition is being circulated at Al bany to be presented to the Legislature, asking that the charter of the city bo amended so that tolls may be collected on the steel bridge across the Willamette. IF You would know The Whole Truth, Read between the liner "Figprune Cereal is the most Nutritious and Economical of any of the Cereal Coffees." That's the verdict rendered hy those who use Cereal Coffee. Clearance Sale All shoes reduced In price except contract goods BARGAINS Child's and misses school shoes, $1.50 and $2 values, at 75c. Women's button and lace, rnljted lot', values to $3.50, at 95c. Women's button shoes, sizes 2 to 4, at 50c Women's storm calf and kid lace, $3 values, at $1.95. E. C. GODDARD & CO. OREGOXIAN BUILDING. 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