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r.J.r?-JVi VitHlf" - '"v!W!r'---f','W-j- -' f P f J VOL. XLL 3sT0. 12,698. PORTLAND, OREGON, FRIDAY, AUOUST 23, 1901. PRICE FIVE CENTS. Hi 1 LI I a 1LL1 LJLi' pSPEi If II I I 1 1 1 1 1 LI cL & L 1 V A RARE BREW..., TRY A CASE Possesses a flavor so peculiarly good that it has gained a most enviable reputation. Judges of beer quality have declared Weiner Blatz an unequaled American brew. ROTHCHILD BROS, Agents, 20-26 IN. First St. OUR REGULAR Always lmrung DBBtou BIu mauer-Fraok Dreg Co. TAKE THE ELEVATOR. TO PHOTO DEPT. ( 'STRONGEST IN Assets $o4f 598,063.49 Surplus $66,137,170.01 L. Samuel. Manager. S06 Oregonlan Bnlld ing. Portland. Or. JRHIL MBTSCHA.. resJ -SEVEnTH AND WASftlUGTM CHARGE OF Furopean Plan: Is applied to over one million buildings throughout the United States. Made in forty different factories. It is no experiment. Investigate. For information address THE Phone North 209!. Si YY7'- -t jiJ3rrnT Honeyrnan Hardware Company, 4th and Alder Sts. POHTLHND, W AMERICAN PLAN HEADQUARTERS FOR TOURISTS AND COMMERCIAL TRAVELERS ' Special rates madt So families and single gentlemen. Tho manage ment will be pleased at all times to cIiott rooms and slve prices. A mod icrtt TurUls.li bath establishment in the hotel. H C. BOVVERS. Mnnnser. MAY BE OVERCOME. Despite Chile's Objections, Pan American Congrress May Be Held. WASHINGTON, Aug. 22. The dispatch from Santiago, Chile, announcing that the committee on foreign affairs of the Chamber of Deputies has refused to grant the funds necessary for the repre sentation of Chile at the Congress of American Republics, has attracted much attention here, and is looked upon as the result of canvasses which have been going on among South and Central Ameri can countries concerning the programme of the congress, and the extent to which arbitration would be discussed. A sharp line of difference has arisen between Chile and most of the other southern re publics, the latter being favorable to ar bitration without -any limitation. On the othor hand, Chile has wished to have the discussion of arbitration limited to fu ture Questions. Although the question has been involved in numerous compli cations, yet there is expectation that they will be overcome and the congress held. Cambria Steel Consolidation. HARRISBURG, Pa.. Aug. 22. Papers were iHed at the State Department today relating to the consolidation and merger of the Cambria Steel and the Conemaugh Steel Companies, under the name of the Cambria Steel Company. The capital is S50OM008 an Increase of $5,000,000 over tue Toj'nt capital of the two companies. The state received a bonus of 51S.O00 on the -additional capital. TV. F. Robinson is secretary and treasurer of the new com-sany. BRAND OF BEER PRICES 4x5 Plate Camera $2.50 3Vix4ifc Magazine (12 plates). . . .$2.50 4x5 Foldlngr Cycle Camera. . . .$3.50 5x7 Poco Cycle $3.80 4x5 Pony Premo No. 6 $17.50 Panorama Cameras $8.00 THE WORLD" p. C. W; KKOWXjES; Jllsr. STREETS, PORTLAND, 0REG91 MANAGEMENT. 51.00, $1.50, $2.00 per bay The Perfection of Wall Plaster ADAMANT CO. . Footqf 14th Street, PORTLAND, OR. i m STOVES AND RANGES Are the product of 05 yenrs' experience. The ALUMINUM FINISH STEEL RANGE Is a combination of every known Improvement which, places It In the highest grade of per fection. WE ARE SOLE AGENTS OREGON BURKED ITSELF OUT. Atlantic Refining: Company's Loss by Fire Is Half a Million. PHILADELPHIA, Aug. 22. The fire which started at the works of the At lantic Refining Company, at Point Breeze, burned Itself out today. Vice-President Lloyd, of the company, estimates the loss at about $500,030. Fourteen tanks contain ing about 200,000 barrels of oil were de stroyed. One pumping station and thou sands of feet of pipe were rendered use less, but the most Important machinery Is intact. The two employes of the com pany said to have lost their lives in the explosion early Tuesday morning are safe. This reduces the death list to three fire men. - Motorman Roughly Handled. NEW YORK. Aug. 22. A determined, ef fort was made by a mob last night to lynch Julius Seibel, a motorman, because his car had killed Julia Emory, 9 years old. on Madison avenue. The car was coming down a .steep grade when the child tried to cross, became frightened and hesitated, standing in the middle of the track. The motorman threw on the brakes, but too late. The little girl was thrown under the wheels and her head was crushed. People Immediately swarmed to the place, women and children shrieking. The cry -"lynch him" was raised by the men, and a concerted attack was made on the motorman. He was bruised and badly beaten before a squad of police rescued him. beating the crowd back with their clubs. Seibel .was arrested. PORTLAND EISs 3,o per day COST ONE MILLION DOLLARS ABUSED THE COURT Congressman Littlefleld on the Insular Cases. y SPOKE TO BAR ASSOCIATION Tie Maine Man Was Taken to Task ly a Chicago Lawyer for His At tack on the Members of the Supreme Court. DENVER, Aug. 22. Something of a sensation was occasioned at today's ss sion of the American Bar Association by the address of Congressman Charles E. Lit tlefleld, of Maine, on the "Insular Cases." Mr. Littlefleld's address drew forth loud and long continued applause and a mo tion was made to tender him a vote of thanks for It, but this was declared out of order by the President on the ground that the speaker is a member of the As sociation. The view of the mover was not, however, universal with the mem bers, for just before recess was taken, Hon. Adolph Moses, of Chicago, made a vigorous protest against what he char acterized as "an unwarranted attack on the-Supreme Court of the United States." His remarks were cut short by a point of order, but his words were greeted with applause in which a considerable minority of the convention joined. The general .council of the Association has decided that women are not eligible for membership In the association under the present constitution. This decision was reached In the case of Mrs. Jane B. Ott, of Dyersvllle, la., who had applied for membership. The council was almost evenly divided on the question. It was finally decided to let the matter go over a year and then take up the question of appointing a committee to draft an amendment to the constitution which will make women eligible. The Insular Decisions. "When the morning session opened the annual address was delivered by Con gressman Littlefleld. The insular cases, he said, considered in the manner In which the results were reached, the incongruity of the results and the variety of inconsistent views expressed by the different members of the court, "are with out a parallel In our judicial history." Mr. Littlefleld's conclusion as to Porto Rico's status Is, briefly: "So far as the operation of the Consti tution was concerned, this territory was to all legal Intents and purposes a part of the United Svates. 'it matters not how the Constitution reached the territory so far as this case was concerned, so long a? it was there." Mr. Littlefleld next discussed the 13th amendment, t$ the Constitution, as it hap been construed by the,:Suprme;eduri-ln-Porto Rico and" the Philippines. He quoted thTame;idment and gave, a history of the case. Then he said, referring to slavery a9 It existed in the United States: "The negro cannot be driven out Of the South. He is vastly the superior of the Filipino physically," and until the Phil ippines produce a Fred Douglas or a Booker T. Washington he has nothing to fear in an intellectual comparison." Reports- of the following standing com mittees were submitted, without being read: Jurisprudence and law reform, le gal education and admission to the bar, commercial law, international law, obit uary and law reporting, and digesting. jew Bankrupt Law "Vecded. The commercial law committee, In its report, expresses dissatisfaction with the new bankrupt law, and declares that it has made strong efforts to secure amend ments, but In vain. It closes as fol lows: "Your committee Is still of the opinion, as expressed In Its former reports: "1. That a bankrupt law is wise and beneficial legislation. "2. That the Ideal bankrupt law Is one that (a) allows every honest deblor to procure a speedy discharge from his ob ligations upon the surrender of all his property; (b) gives every creditor a com plete remedy against actual or contem plated fraud on the part of the debtor; (c) punishes all fraud on the part of the debtor or creditor with relentless severity. , "3. That our present bankrupt law, to fulfill these conditions, needs careful and trenchant amendment on the lines that this association has approved. "4. That the association should, through its committee on commercial law for the ensuing year, continue its line of work' looking to the perfecting of the bank ruptcy law." The report of the committee on obitu aries showed 30 deaths among the mem bers during the year. Littlefleld Called Down. ' At this point Adolph Moses, of Chicago, created a sensation by making a strong protest against the charges In Mr. Little fleld's address. Said he: "I wish to record my note of dissent to the general applause which followed the presentation of the Insular cases by Mr. Littlefleld. When the matter came to my attention I looked with a great deal of pleasure that he had chosen this difficult subject for the Information of this asso ciation. I regret to have listened not to a piece of information, but rather to what I consider an unwarranted attack on the Supreme Court of the United States, and as a member of this association, I wish to raise my voice in protest against the use of this platform for a purpose of this kind. I remember to have read that when the celebrated cases of Cohen vs. Vir ginia was decided by Chief Justice Mar shall he was burned in effigy in the City of Baltimore. He was denounced in every courthouse In Virginia, and yet we look upon that great decision as one of the vindications of Ihe Government. And that is not the only Instance where denuncia tion has followed the action of the Su preme Court of the United States. Those who believe with the majority have full confidence In the sober second thought of the people of the United States as to the correctness of this great declslpn. It has a political aspect, and It is but natural that all of us free Americans should take divergent views, but I protest against the use of this platform on the part of any man, however capable " Here Hon. Thomas Patterson, of Penn sylvania, interposed a point of order, which was sustained by the president, and a recess was taken until S o'clock to night. An Estimate of Hamilton. When the evening session was called to order, Henry D. Estabrook, of Chicago, was Introduced and spoke on "Alexander Hamilton as a Lawyer." He said: "Next to the fact that George Wash ington was what he was, this country and the world is perhaps most Indebted to the fact that Alexander Hamilton was a lawyer. He wasthe head of the Amer ican bar. Hamilton wasa lawyer. Ham ilton was a greatscientlst in" the domain J -of civil law. His mind was acute, logical f and altogether objective. Hamilton was an old noy at 18. There is no evidence that he ever had any boyhood. At the age of 23, In the midst of war, Hamilton had felt the necessity for a national con stitution, and had anticipated many of the provisions of the Instrument finally adopted. Hamilton was nobly ambitious, bnt wisely cautious; sometimes most tentative when he was really irtost as sured. Of tributes to his legal abilities there is no end. John Marshall ranked him next to Washington, the greatest character in history." The concluding paragraphs were quota tions from Hamilton's contemporaries, pralplng him as a man, a lawyer and a statesman. Mr. Estabrook was followed by Piatt Rogers, of Denver, who spoke on "The Law of New Conditions, Illustrated by the Law of Irrigation-" Mr. Rogers traced the evolution of laws regarding water In. the West from the ancient common law of riparian rights to the present laws controlling irrigation rights. Congress of Lawyers. The committee on memorial from the St. Louis Exposition reported the following resolutions, which were adopted: "Resolved, That a committee composed of one member from each state and terri tory of the Union be appointed by the president of this association to co-operate with the authorities of the Louisiana Purchase Exposition Company and the United States Commission having in charge the celebration of the centennial of the purchase by the United States from France of the Louisiana Territory, In bringing about the holding of a uni versal congress of lawyers and jurists at St. Louis, Mo.. In 1903, on the lines pro posed In the memorial of the Louisiana Purchase Exposition Company, presented at this meeting to this association. "Resolved, further, That the president and the executive committee of this as sociation be required to take all necessary steps to promote and carry out the plan of holding such universal congress of lawyers and jurists. "Resolved, further, That a copy of these resolutions and the accompanying report be transmitted by the president and secre tary to the Louisiana Purchase Exposition Company and to the said United States Commission." The secretary was instructed to send a cablegram of congratulation and greet ing to the International Law Association, now meeting in Glasgow. ' The report of the John Marshall day committee was called for, but William A. Ketcham, of Indianapolis, objected to Its being read because he, as a member of the committee, had not seen It. Consider able feeling was shown by several mem bers regarding the matter, and the report was postponed until tomorrow. The meet ing then took a recess until 10 o'clock A. M. Woman and the Bar. The section of legal education of the American Bar Association met this after noon at the1 Tabor Grand Opera-House. The chairman, Harry B. Hutchinson, of Ann Arbor, Mich., was absent, and Sena tor Hiram F. Stevens, of Minnesota, was called to the chair. In the ..absence of Secretary George M. Sharp, of Baltlinpre, Professor J. P. Hall, of California, acted as secretary. "Credit for Office Study in Law Schools" was the subject of a paper by Harry S. Richards, of theJtowa State Uni versity. Its .discussion was Jd-by Po-Te3sor-rlIufeJcurorTpcTnel!r Tnepihlon expressed by .the paper, and. in. the dis cussion waA that'Iotfice study for tHe first year's course should not be encouraged. Professor William P. Rogers, of Indiana State University read a paper entitled, "Is Law a Field for Women's Work?" Professor Rogers took the position, that women should be encouraged in the study of law, although he said her fitness for the practice of the profession is yet, to a large extent, an unsolved problem. The discussion of this paper was opened by Miss Mary F. Lathrop, of Denver, and was taken part In by a number of gentle men. All took about the same view as that taken by Professor Rogers. After the appointment of a nominating committee, the section took a recess until tomorrow afternoon. The general council met tonight and agreed upon the following nominations, which will be presented to the convention tomorrow: President, U. M. Rose, Little Rock, Ark.; secretary, John Hinkley. Bal timore; treasurer, Francis Rawle, Phila delphia. Pauper Litigation. GLASGOW. Aug. 22. Cephu3 Bralnerd, of New York, presided today at the ses sion of the International Law Association. A motion was adopted urging that the United States and Great Britain, who are not parties to The Hague Convention, dealing with -reciprocal rights regarding pauper litigants, should accede thereto, and urging tho formation of a bureau where the poor could obtain counsel free of charge. It was contended that such a bureau would put a stop to Improper liti gation. NEWSDEALERS MEET. They Want the Prices of Penny Pa pers Doubled. NEW YORK, Aug. 22. The establish ment of a publishers' clearing house was discussed at today's session of the con vention of the National Association of Newsdealers, Booksellers and Stationers. A resolution was adopted reciting that the book publishers had greatly benefited the trade by adopting and maintaining stand ard prices for books, and requesting the association to establish in this city a publishers' clearing house for the con venience of both local and country deal ers. The convention urged the increase of the price of the penny morning newspa pers, on the ground that It was Impossi ble for the dealers to make a living out of morning newspapers which they have to buy at 60 cents a hundred and sell at 1 cent each. The publishers of the New "tork City papers were asked by resolu tion introduced by Mr. May, of Paw tucket, R. I., to increase their retail price to 2 cents and to furnish the papers to the dealers at $1 10 a hundred. The publishers of the evening newspapers were urged to omit publication on the Fourth of July, Thanksgiving day," Christmas and New Year's day. " It was also decided to re quest that penny newspapers be made non-returnable and that they be. sold at 50 cents per hundred. Royal Scottish Clans. PITTSBURG, Aug. 22. At the 25th bi ennial convention of the Royal Scottish Clans today the following officers were elected: Royal chief, W. H. Steen, Brain wood, 111.; royal tanlst, Charles Mc Knlght, Boston; counselor, Mayor George Taylor, Jr., of London, Canada; royal treasurer, Peter Kerr, Boston. St. Louis and Cleveland are candidates for the next convention, with the odds favoring St. Louis. The Gift of Chile. NEW YORK, Aug. 22. The Chilean training-ship General Bagedulno, with a numher of cadets recently graduated from the Naval Academy at Valparaiso, Is ex pected to .arrive In New York within a few days. The cadet9 will visit Annapolis. They are bringing with them a bronze tablet, the gift of Chile, "to be placed In the Washington monument. HELD MOB AT BAY Alabama Sheriff Saved a Negro From Lynching. GOULD NOT WAIT LEGAL HANGING The Result of the Clash Was That One of the Leaders of the Mob Was Killed and Another Was Fatally Wounded. ASHEVILLE. Ala.. Aug. 22. One man was killed and another probably fatally wounded in a battle here today to save the negro Jim Brown from the vengeance --- ATTACKED -THE CONGRESSMAN CHARLES E. LITLEFIELD, OF MAINE, ONE OF THE f SPEjIKERS AT THE BAR ASSOCIATION' "CONVENTION .YESTEH- f n'iv' " ' ' " " T ?: DAY. c- -- of a mob, after he had been tried, and sentenced to be hanged September 20 for rape. Walter Blankenship was killed and Arthur Blankenship was fatally and a small boy, the son of James Hanlev, was slightly wounded. The Blanken9hips were brothers and are said to have been . in town since Monday trying - to stir up trouble. Walter died within two hours after being shot, and Arthur is In a pre carious condition. " The attempt of the mob to gain posses sion of the negro followed one of the swiftest and fastest trials ever witnessed. The Judge and court officials were on the defensive to suppress the rising anger of the crowd, as detail after detail of the crime was told by witnesses for the state. There was no evidence for the defense. As Brown said afterwards In his confes sion, there was nothing the witnesses he had summoned could say In his behalf. The clash with the Sheriff came half an hour after Judge Pe'lham hadpronouncel the sentence. By a ruse the courtroom was cleared of half of its angry occu pants. The' remaining half was surly and bent on mischief. At the request of Judge Pelham, J. L. Garrett, the father of the girl outraged by the negro, spoke, coun seling peace. In conclusion he said: "If you have any respect for my feel ings. If I can have any weight In your hearts, let me urge you, as good citizens, to go home and obey the law, and I will never cease to thank you from the bot tom of my heart." After some difficulty the courtroom was cleared. Sheriff North thought it unwise to attempt to take Brown to the jail, a few blocks away, for the crowd was rap idly increasing around the front of the courthouse. Twenty-eight deputies, armed with nlstnls and shotcuns. were stationed in the front hall and at the windows of the courtroom. The first sign or tne out break came when one man from the out side, with a pistol In his hapd, started to mount the stairway. He was followed by two or three others. Several shots were exchanged and the mob leaders retreated to the outside, when two members began firing- Into the windows. Arthur Blanken ship was hit first and his brother was shot while emptying ms revolver in me direction of the windows above. A hard rain began falling. The bodle3 of the wounded were removed and tho crowd scattered about in front of the stores across the street. The officers took advantage of this lull and spirited the negro away in charge of two special deputies. He was put safely aboard a freight train for Birmingham. The crime for which Brown will hang was committed May. 7, near Springfield, within a quarter of a mile of the hau9e of the Garrett's. Brown left the vicinity at once, first going to Birmingham, then to Annlston and Atlanta, and finally to Charleston, S. C. where he was captured. To Prevent Chinese Smuggling. WASHINGTON, Aug. 22. The deter mination of the Treasury Department to take advantage of the authority given by the Chinese exclusion act to regulate tho transit through the United States of Chinese emigrants bound for other coun tries was today officially brought to the attention of the Chinese Legation. The occasion presented itself when an at tache of the Legation called upon Assist ant Secretary Taylor to lay before him a message received from the Chinese Con sul at San Francisco, conveying the In formation that Chinese destined for Mex ico had been refused the privilege of land ing at that port. Mr. Taylor told the attache that the department had become convinced that most of the Chinese who had gone Into Mexico In the past two or three years had smuggled themselves back across the border into the United States. He therefore announced that hereafter the department would refuse landing permis sion to Chinese bound for Mexico unless it could be absolutely satisfied of their good faith. FREE BALLOT DEMANDED. Platform Adopted by Republicans of Virginia. ROANOKE, Va Aug. 22.When the Re publican state convent'on reassembled this morning ex-Congressman Thorpe, chairman of the resolutions committee, presented the platform, which was adopt ed by acclamation without debate. The platform Indorses and announces adhesion to the principles of the National Repub lican party and Admlnlstrat.on. It de nounces all attempts to discriminate In favor of or against citizens of Virginia on account of race or color. It protests against the proposition to confer the right of suffrage on unworthy persons on ac count of the merits or the achievements of their ancestors, as tending to create a privileged class and discrimination against others equally worthy. It favors the right of suffrage being left as fixed by the present Constitution of Virginia, with such laws and guarantees as will secure to every qualfled voter a free bal lot and fair count. It arraigns the Demo- t -- o SUPREME COURT. cratic party of , Virginia for the "wilful, deliberate, debased "and fraudulent elec. tlons that have been held in this state for years past." It opposes illegal-combination of capital and arraigns the Democratic party of Virginia whenvit had control of the state government for 15 years for Its failure to enact any laws or take any steps to control, prevent or punish such il legal combinations. It protests against the scheme to promulgate the new con stitution without submitting It to the people. After the platform had been dis posed of the convention adjourned sine die. Virginia Constitutional Convention. RICHMOND, Va., Aug. 22. The Virginia constitutional convention reassembled to day, after Its recess of two weeks. HUGE COPPER COMBINE. World-Wide Consolidation Reported From Denver. DENVER, Aug. 22. The News today says: "Mining men of the city accept as Jtrue the reports that a world-wide copper com bine has been formed, and competition In buying copper will no longer be known. The combine is said to have been effected between the Amalgamated. Calumet & (Hecla, Senator Clark and the Roths childs. Papers have been signed covering a long term of years. The consolidation of Interests Is said to be financed by the National City Bank, of New York, which is to be made the depository of the con solidated concerns." BOSTON, Aug. 22. The officials of the Calumet & Hecla Company here declined to make a statement today regarding the reported formation of a huge copper com bine. The annual meeting of the company was held yesterday, but nothing Indicat ing a transfer of business to a combine developed. There have been numerous re ports on tho street here of a further amal gamation in copper interests, but nothing official Is available. NEW YORK, Aug. 22. Financial men named in connection with the formation of a world-wide copper combination to day denied all knowledge of such a com bination. They say It would be Impossi ble to harmonize and organize all the con flicting Interests In copper and that no body was trying to do so. There were reports of a large combination In copper. i but no definite Information as to the com- panles that are to be included could be obtained. MRS. BECKHAM IS BETTER Her Physicians Believe the Crisis Is Past. FRANKFORT, Ky., Aug. 22. Physl- 1 clans attending Mrs. J. C. Beckham, wife of the Governor, pronounce her much Improved tonight. She was able to eat a light meal this afternoon, and slept Intermittently throughout the day. Mrs. Beckham's fever returned tonight, her temperature rising to 101. The phy sicians consider this reaction of little consequence, however, and think that the crisis has passed. Miners Fell Down a Shaft. LEADVELL.E, Colo., Aug. 22. George Kline, aged 30, and John Eckstrand, aged 27, miners at the Stevens shaft of the Iron-Silver "Mining Company, were In stantly killed by falling 50 feet to the bottom of the shaft." DEFICIT MADE GOO Juggling of Treasury Funds in Mississippi. DISCOVERED BY THE GOVERNOR First Accounting Showed a Shortage of Over One Hundred Thousand Dollars; Five Days Later tho Books Balanced. JACKSON, Miss., Aug. 22. Governor Longino has Issued a statement of the condition of the state treasury, showing that August 15 he found therein, by ac tual accounting. $677,848 when the books called for 5840.46S a shortage of $162,620. Treasurer Stowers was, however, allowed credit for bills, drafts, etc.. amounting to J55.C00, leaving the shortage $107,6".'O. The Governor then states: "I indulged the hope that the amount of said shortage would be replaced if op portunity and time were given before the result of said count was made public, and that the state might thus recover the money without further trouble, explana tion or loss. I. therefore, in the interest of the state, enjoined the secrecy of those present In the whole proceedings, and agreed with Mr, Stowers that I would make another count of the money Tues day, August 20. On the date fixed I made the said count. It was found that the cash and drafts on hand balanced with the books.' whlhc called fos $fi05.9W." The Governor closes the statement by envlncr "The examination of the funds in the treasury was made a3 required of me by section 137 of the constitution, and in my opinion shows a correct statement of the amounts which should have been in th treasury on the said 15th and 20th days oC August, 1901, respectively, and before do ing or saying anything further in th? premises I deem it just to Mr. Stowers (the Treasurer) that he be given lull op portunity to make such explanation of the matter as he may see fit." The publication of this report created great excitement. Mr. Stowers declined to make a statement. NEW GERMAN TARIFF. Most Important Advances Are on Food 31aterlals. WASHINGTON, Aug. 22. The State Department has received from Coniul General Mason, at Berlin, a long report aetting forth In detail the features of the proposed new German tariff which wm moat materially affect United States prod ucts By far the most -Important ot these is noted in the advance ot trvm 50 to 30Q per cent in the rate on food materials, meats and live animals The present treaty rate on wheat of 88 cen's would be Increased under the new biu to $154 per 100 kilograms. The t?r States sent 463,933 metric tons of this commodity to Germany last year. As to American manufactures, the most nota ble advances made by the new bill are m the rates on bicycles and shoes. An American bicycle, weighing about pounds. would pay $3 57 Import duty In stead of nbout $1 25. as at present. Shoes would pay about double their present rate. Mr. Mason states that public dis cussion of the tariff measure is confined to two points the alleged Inadequacy of the proposed- duties on manufactured products and the effect which the heavy advances In tho rates on food materials will have upon the nonagrlcultural popu lation of Germany. SUMMARY OF IMPORTANT NEWS. Domestic. Congressman Littlefleld. at the BarAs elation convention, attacked the United States Supreme Court. Page 1. An Alabama Sheriff held a mob at bay and saved a negro from lynchlng. Page 1. , . A shortage of $107,000. In the Mississippi Treasury was made good. faga i. nother Idle tlnplate mill at Pittsburg was started. Page 2. Sam Strong, the millionaire mineowner, was killed at Cripple Creek.-Page 3. Foreign. A French fleet Is coaling at Toulon for a descent on Turkey. Page 2. Venezuelans again invade Colombian ter ritory. Page 2. Martial law has been proclaimed in Sas soun. Page 2. Sport. Portland won from Spokane. 5-1. Page 3. Tacoma defeated Seattle, 15-4. Page 3. Shamrock was given a trial spin In New York Bay. Page 3. Cresceus. at Readvllle. mad" a new world's record for a final quarter. Page 3. . Pacific Coast. Judee Noyes comes out from Alaska to explain his connection with the famous McKenzIe case. Page 4. The San Francisco strike situation is practically unchanged. Page 4, A break Is probable In the big lockout at the Rossland, B. C. mines.-Page 4. Oregon has good coking coal, notably the Coos Bay article. Page 4. Eight Portland districts petition for free mail delivery. Page 4. Yakima Valley. Wash., Irrigation ditch is to be extended so as to reclaim many thousands of acres of land. Page 4. Commercial. New York stock market is dull, but un- aertone oi sirens yciow". ..o September wheat at Chicago is dull, but closes slightly higher. Page 11. Steel Trust Is losing heavily on the strike. Page 11. Marine. Pacific Export Lumber Company has fleet of Ave steamers chartered. Page o. Manchester Is becoming Important as an English seaport. Page 5. Steamship Nome City reports a four masted schooner stranded on Unlmak Island. Page 3. Portland and Vicinity. Main report of the committee on fran chises and utilities adopted by the Charter Commission. Page 12. United States Marshal Houser authorized to Incur expense, to demolish Jess 3 Carr's fences surrounding Government lands. Page 12. Project to organize a State Board of Trade to advertise Oregon's resources. Page 12. Senator Daly says It is not the Intent of the school law to fine teachers for not attending Institute. Page 12. First body Incinerated at the .Portland crematorium. Page 12. David Simon, father of United States Senator Simon, seriously IK. Page 7. State Chairman White favors a regular Democrat to secceed Senator Jones if there is a change In the chairmanship cf the Democratic national committee Page S.