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t-'ntpj-.- -f-T -r?S?5: Sr?!TDS t 3& VOL. XLII. NO. 13,059. PORTLAND, OBBGON, OCTOBER M, 1902. PRICE FIVE CENTS. BAR FIXTURES Several carloads of new fixtures just received. Handsome and novel designs. Inspection solicited. BILLIARD TABLES AND SUPPLIES ROTHCHILD BROS. SEVEN BARGAINS SEVEN CENTURY CAMERAS, 1002 MODELS, TAKEN IN TRADE-PRACTICALLY NEW AND GUARANTEED PERFECT. Size. Regular price. Will sell for 2 only. Century Cameras, Model 12 4x5 $18.00 $12.00 2 only. Century Grand Cameras 4x5 32.00 22.50 1 only. Century Grand Camera 5x7 41.00 27.50 2 only, Century J-iong Focus, front and back ex tension i 5x7 50.00 S3.o0 This Is all there Is of them. They won't last. Every camera advertised last Week has been sold. BLUMAUER-FRANK DRUG COMPANY Wholesale and Importing; Druggists. Tl A I.I JJ Assets $331, 039,720.34 "STRONGEST IN THE WORLD." I. Samuel, Manager, 306 Oregonlan Building, Portland, Oregon DR. FOWLER'S MEAT and MALT AKES XT JLUSCLE "There's Life and Strength In Every Drop" A BEVERAGE OR A MEDICINE For Sale by All DniKglsts. BLUMAUER & HOCH, Sole Distributers, Wholesale Liquor and" Cigar Dealers fHUi MET S CHAN, Free tflTEXTH AND WASHlKSTOll STREETS, PORTLAND. OBE001 CHANGE OF MANAGEMENT. European Plan: .... $1.00, $1.50, $2.00 per Day We have convinced some of the most intelligent, shrewd buyers in the whole country that quality rules price. When you are ready we will, with great cheerfulness, try to convince you. w. a Mcpherson, Heating; and Ventilating; Engineer. NEW YORK DENTAL PARLORS FourtV"XnSts- Old-established and reliable dentists, where all work is guaranteed absolutely painless. Our offices are not managed by ethical dentists, but by Eastern graduate specialists. NEW YORK DENTISTS Pourths0t?brr"on THE PORTLAND PORTLAND, American Plan COST ONE MILLION DOLLARS. HEADQUARTERS FOB TOURISTS AND COMMERCIAL TRAYELERS Special rates made to families and single gentlemen. The manage Bent will be pleased at all times to show rooms and give prices. A mod erm Tarklsh bath establishment In tha hotel. H. C. BOWERS, Mgr. Reserve Troops Demand Par. LONDON, Oct 19. There was a demon stration In Hyde Park today by several thousand reservists from South Africa, who demanded prompt payment of their arrears la pay and assistance to obtain work. 20-26 North First Street Portland, Oregon T JJJJ LI ijj Surplus $71,129, 042.06 O. W. KNOWLES, Mssw 47 FIRST ST., liet. Ash and Pine. ORIENTAL SPL1 Xa colorlngrs and designs will b found In oar nevr and beautifal display ot Flavor Coverings exclusive: carpet housb 86 and 88 Third St. Opposite Chamber ot Commerce. Full Set Teeth $5.00 Gold Crowns 5.00 Gold Fill 1.00 Silver Fill 50 OREGON $3.00 Per Day and upward. Brldjre Over Golden Horn Collapsed. CONSTANTINOPLE, Oct 19. Fifteen persons were immersed and Ave of them died as the result of a collapse yesterday of a bridge over the Golden Horn, con necting Constantinople with the suburb 1-of Galata. J.Q. Mack&Co NO MONEY BARGAIN Settlement of Coal Strike Free of TainU HELPS REPUBLICAN PROSPECTS Reasonable Certainty That thecoa trol of Congress Will Xot Be Ckanged-Bryan in Fight of His Life. OREGONIAN NEWS BUREAU. Wash ington, Oct. 19. It appears that some ru mors have been afloat to the effect that a corrupt bargain was made with Mor ganthat Shaw agreed to buy bonds and relieve the money stringency if Morgan would call oft the strike. No one who knows President Roosevelt will entertain for a moment the suspicion that he would be a party to any such transaction. Every Secretary of the Treasury has bought bonds when there has been a large and constantly accumulating surplus, and under precisely the same circumstances as the recent purchases. The rumors ofJ the alleged corrupt deal with Morgan have been given no credence where Roosevelt is known, or where the finan cial transactions are understood. While President Roosevelt is entitled to all possible credit for settling the ccal strike, there should be due credit given to the astute manner in which one of his Cabinet officers handled the situa tion when it was entrusted to him. The President could not go to Morgan, nor could he ask the operators to consider further propositions after the insolent manner in which they received his first suggestion. It was at that time that Sec retary Root took upon himself the re sponsibility of bringing the capitalists to hterms. Probably more was done to settle the coal strike during the conference a week ago on board Mr. Morgan's yacht between this great financier and Presi dent Roosevelt's War Secretary than all other negotiations that had gone before. Root was armed with some definite ideas that he had learned from the President, among them being that the people should not freeze this Winter. He might not have conveyed to Morgan in definite .terms the fact that the President would have the coal mined, so that the people could bo supplied, but Morgan evidently became aware that President did not ex haust his last resources when he bid tlie operators and miners get together, al though stating that he bad no legal means of intervention. It was Root that pointed out the way for the operators to come down from the high and Jot ty posi tion which they assumed, and they took from him, through Morgan, the advice that the sooner they came to an agree ment the better it would be for them and the Interests they represented. LookH Good to Republicans. The Republicans are sure of victory now. There has been a hearty com mendation of the action of President Roosevelt In his interference and settle ment of the coal strike. Praise is given him by all the press in every section o the country, save a few mugwumpish pa pers and a few whose Bourbon Democ racy prevented them from commending anything that a Republican President could do, and the New York Sun, which stands firmly for ..capitalistic combination- ahead of everything else. From every where congratulations have been pouring in, and the one thing that made Re publican success impossible seems to have been removed. It is an important thing in many ways that the Republicans should carry tho next House of Representatives. If they do, the President will no doubt call an extra session of Congress immediately after the 4th of March, and the tariff will be revised. If the Democrats should carry the House there can be no tar iff revision at once, and the present tar iff would last until the Democracy gain control of the Senate, House and Presi dency. That would mean for tho highly protected interests a long period of ex traordinary profits. It may be that the the Republicans will not be successful, but the probabilities are that the next "House will have a small but safe work ing Republican majority. Chairman Babcock and Representative Sherman, of the campaign committee, have been going over the situation carefully, and, whilo some "bad spots" are reported, they are not so numerous as a week ago, and tha managers have increased confidence as the time for election approaches. As usual in off years, the apathy of voters is a source of solicitude, but even this feature is expected to be changed dur ing the next two weeks. Shaw May Be Called OCT. Some Republicans think President Roosevelt should call off Shaw and bottle him up until after the campaign is over. His championship of the ship subsidy on the heels of other acts, Just when the trusts are looming up so large as an issue, has caused wonder. Shaw is one of the greatest mistakes of the Roosevelt Ad ministration and other members of the Cabinet would like to see him retired. Mason Flirting With Democrats. Billy Mason is to go through th'e form of reading himself out of the. Republican party and has advertised the event for the coming week. The Republican or ganization long ago put Mason outside the lines. Mason hopes to be re-elected to the Senate with Democratic votes. Proctor Can Stand the Tariff. Senator Proctor, of Vermont, says that possibly there should be some changes in the tariff in the distant future but not for a long time. Proctor is the owner of highly protected marble quarries -and wants to "keep on letting well enough alone." BRI'AX IN THE FIGHT. Wants His Ideas to Prevail in Demo cratic Platform. OREGONIAN NEWS BUREAU, Wash Jngton, Oct. 19. Word comes from Lincoln that Bryan has determined to attend the next Democratic National convention as a delegate, to go on the resolutions commit tee and make a "last ditch' stand to pre vent the platforms of 1896 and 1900 from being repudiated. One of Bryan's close friends says: "Bryan is organizing for the fight of bis life. Those who believe that he will be a candidate for the Presidency know nothing whatever about his intentions. He believes that unless -an organization is effected before the convention and a de termined stand made, all the work ac complished in 1896 and 1900 will go for naught. "He counts upon the support of Missis sippi, Texas, Arkansas, Alabama, Louis iana, Tennessee , and South Carolina, to gether with the states west of the Mis souri. With these delegations solidly at his back, and a strong candidate for the Presidency Identified with the movement, he believes the Ideas of 1836 and 1900 will prevail in. 1904." Gold Standard 'In Philippines. Governor Taft has said in speeches that the gold standard must be established in the Philippines. The National House of Representatives at the last session was willing to establish such a standard, but the unknown influence for unsound money and for silver bullion was so potent in the United States Senate that the whole matter had to be dropped out of the Philippine bill. Disaster has followed in tho footsteps of that unwise failure to place the Philippine currency on an equality with that of the United States. If there be no legislation at the coming session of Congress to make the Philip pine currency what it ought to, be, it is more than likely that Secretary Root and Governor Taft will devise a scheme by which the Philippine Commission will es tablish a currency on a gold basis that will relieve' the serious condition thai has existed in the Islands for a number of yeara x POPE WANTS AN ENVOY. Hopes to Establish Diplomatic Rela tions With United States. LONDON, Oct. 19. In a dispatch from Rome the correspondent of the Dally Tel egraph says that the Vatican hopes that the negotiations In Manila between Gov ernor Taft and Archbishop Guidl will lead to the establishment of diplomatic rela tions between the United States and the Vatican. If this falls, the correspondent says, the pope is believed to entertain the hope that when the Guidl negotiations are concluded the United States will send an envoy extraordinary to Rome to ratify the arrangements. Talked With the President. WASHINGTON, Oct. 19. Carroll D. Wright, who Is the recorder of the arbi tration commission appointed by the Pres ident to consider' the differences between the mine operators and the miners. spent a half hour at the White House tonight. He discussed in a general way with Pres ident Roosevelt the work of the commis sion and the existing condition of affairs as reflected in newspaperreports. MANILA, Oct. 19. The Civil Commission vill probably Increase the Philippine ap propriation for tho St. Louis Exposition exhibit by $100,000, making the total $350, 000. Fair Commissioner Barrett had ad dressed a meeting of Filipinos, which was arranged by Governor Taft, on the sub ject, and the sentiment of the meeting was in favor of the Increase. Europeans Expelled From Fez. MADRID, Oct. 19. A dispatch to the El Liberal, from Tangier, Morocco, de clares that all Europeans have been ex pelled from Fez. CONTENTS OP TODAY'S PAPER. Political. Settlement of the coal strike leaves Republican chances for success, bright. Page 1. Bryan will make the fight of his life to keep his doctrines in the Democratic platform. Page 1. Governor Geer addresses another rebuke to his reputed calumniators. Page 10. Governor McBrlde, of Washington, says Re publicans cannot go back on their platform. Page 3. , Foreign. British forces suffer reverses in Somallland and are in a desperate situation. Page 1. Pope hopes Philippine negotiations may lead to diplomatic relations between the Vatican and the United States. Page 1. Bulgarians cheer Macedonian revolutionary movement. Page 2. The Czar and Czarina will visit Italy -in De . cember. Page 1. , Domestic. James Younger, formerly of the notorious Jesse James gang, committed suicide In St: Paul. Page 2. Delegates gathering fpr the vote on ending coal strike express no doubt of favorable ac tion. Page 4. Lady Somerset, In a speech at Portland, Me., arraigned Bishop Potter for certain utter ances on drunkenness. .Page 2. Settlement of coal miners' strike involved no corrupt bargain with Morgan. Page l." Pacific Coast. Status ot irrigation contracts passed and pend ing before the State Land Board. Page 3. State School Superintendent Ackerman receives suggestions for bettering common school conditions. Page 3. , Fire at Aberdeen, "Wash., does damage In large plant. Page 3. Commercial and Marine. Exports for September are the largest ever reported for that month, with one exception. Page 2. English and German stock markets take diver gent views of American strike settlement. Page 2. , Over 25,000 ton's of European', merchandise la due at Portland within 30 days. Page 10. Steamship Lime Branch will discharge her rec v ord cargo at Naples, Italy. Page 10. New San Francisco liner Melville Dollar was a Lake freighter. Page 10. Clipper chips G. W. Wolff and Muskoka mak ing slow passages. Page 10. Increasing number of pirate craft off China coast. . Page 10. Tug Escort No. 2 running opposition on Puget Sound. Page 10. Portland and Vicinity. Attorney Lord answers Dr. Hill and Mayor Williams. Page 12. Dedication services at Mizpah Presbyterian Church. Page 8. Rev. G. A. Taggarl leaves hlspulplt to become a street-car conductor. Page 8. Portland school girls learning tojcook. Page 12. New developments In Montana political fight. Page 8. Large sales In realty-market. Page 12.' James M. Lynch- guest at Typographical Union smoker. Page 12. Index to Departments. Amusements. Page 7. Classified advertisements. Page 0. City news In brief: Page 7. ; , . . Editorial. Page 0. Markets. Page 11. ' ; . A GRUEL ISOLATION Its Effects Upon the Klamath Country.' SOME RAILROAD POSSIBILITIES Probability That the Country Will Be Bound Permanently to Califor nia Trvo Lines of Railroad "Looking" Toward Klamath. By a Staff Writer Fifth Letter. KLAMATH FALLS, Or., Oct. 16. The isolation of this country is some thing so out of line with the conditions of the world .in .general as to be scarcely comprehensible ex cept under direct personal observation. Klamath Falls (formerly Llnkvllle), the seat of Klamath County, Is some 350 miles south from Portland and 71 miles east from Ashland as the roads go, with a high mountain range intervening. By the easiest route over the easiest road it is 57 miles from the railroad, the nearest railroad point being Ager's Station, four miles south of the Klamath River crossing In California. Lakevlew, the seat of Lake County, and, all things considered, rather the most important town In the country. Is 110 miles still further to . the east, as the roads go ISO miles distant from the nearest railroad point In Oregon.. Lakevlew has a nearer railroad con nection, however, in the Nevada, Cali fornia & Oregon road, which runs from Medicine, in Lassen County, Cal., to Reno, Nev., connecting at the. last-named point with the Central Pacific main line. Madeline Is 100 miles south of Lakevlew, and there Is dally connection between the two points by stage, and the greater part of the general traffic between Lakevlew and the outside world goes by the Madeline-Reno route. I thought when visiting Tillamook a month back that the very climax of Isola tion had been reached there, but the Kla math, region can give Tillamook cards and spades and still carry the palm upon comparison of conditions. Tillamook has the open highway of the sea, and while it Is not always available, and while the ocean connection is neither as frequent nor as regular as might be wished, still It serves fairly well. On the other, hand, every pound of merchandise whlph comes In or goes out here must be hauled pain fully over mountain. . xoads practically twice the distance between Tillamook and Portland by the overland route. .Freight ing from the railroad to Klamath Falls costs from three-quarters of a cent to one and a half cents per pound, according to the season and the condition of the roads; and there are considerable additions to this price to points like Bly and Bonanza, stWl further Inland. Theommon charge for freight between. th'e. railroad .terminus at Madeline and Lakevlew is one cent per pound, with occasional and seasonal" vari ations both slightly, above and slightly be low this figure. It follows naturally that everything in the way of "store goods" Is high in this whole region, -for In addition to the high freight charge there is a score to pay on losses from time and, deteriora tion in transit under such adverse condi tions of transport. Broadly, speaking, there Is, I think, an average addition" of 25 per cent here to general prices quotable In the markets of Western Oregon. Fur niture and such-like bulky goods stand, of course, at a high premium In the local stores at fully 50 per cent advance upon ordinary prices. All this naturally puts a serious tax upon living here. Money does not go so far as In regions where the mar kets are supplied by the ordinary methods and subject to the ordinary competitions. Of course, under these conditions there Is no such thing as marketing anything of home production alone save wool which has not the capacity of carrying Itself out to market, for .there is-fto product possible to a country like this that can afford to pay the charges of transportation. What tho country might do under other condi tions cannot practically be determined, for there is no incentive to general and di versified productive effort. It is a tribute to the native resources ot the country, and to the energy as well as the hardihood of the local population, tha? under such desperate conditions of sepa ration from the world the country is what It ?s. And its present material status is by no means contemptible. The population of Klamath County, as reported by the last National census, was 3970, exclusive of some 1200 reservation Indians, and of Lake County 284". There are two considerable towns, Klamath Falls and Lakevlew, the former having probably 500 population and the latter about 800 or 900. And there are numerous neighborhood trading places like Merrill, Bonanza and Bly, where a very considerable business is done. The merchantable productions of the country are wholly in the form of livestock and wool, but.1 have not found It possible to get figures which mean anything. The an nual "turn-off" "of beef steers from the two counties is very large probably 20.000 head but drives of local stock are so complicated with operations In stock not properly belonging In the county that It 1 5 not possible to get accurate figures. But the general business of tho country Is large for Its population. Klamath, County alone freights in over the wretched moun tain roads upward of 15,000,000 pounds of merchandise annually. Its outgoing traf fic, being In the form of livestock, goes out on Its own legs, and no record I3 kept of its volume. Lakevlow, and through Lakevlew the whole of Lake County, get? Its supplies, and sends out its shipments of livestock by way of the California-Nevada route, whose northern terminus L at Madeline, in Lassen County, California. There is not, I believe, in the whole of the United States, a parallel instance of an equal area and of similar resources combined with such positive isolation from modern means of transportation. Here 1b a country; larger than the State of Iowa, and with an established business as great as was that of the Willamette Valley when the East Side road was built a country of many resources and of almost unlimited capacity for expan sionwhich has not a single pound of railroad iron in it. Railroad enterprise, upon which Its development depends, has fallen short and failed It at every avenue of approach. It would have seemed a natural, indeed, an inevitable thing, that the Oregon Short Line road would have penetrated this region in its advance to ward Portland nearly 20 years ago, but, through some chance. It took the north ern route, which connected It with the O. R. & N. road at the state line at Huntington. Again, there was promise of a railroad turning south-from the Cor vallls & Eastern line; and this would have come Inevitably if the Hogg enterprise had not failed. Then there was the old Pengra route, which came to nothing, and the Portland, Dalles & Salt Lake scheme, which died before it was born. The effect of each of these abortive projects in its relation to the Klamath country was to rivet the chains of isola tion upon it by keeping out other enter prises which might have given it relief. As matters stand today, the country is scarcely more connected with the great commercial world than it was when Lind say Applegate found his way through its pathless wastes by the guidance of the neighboring mountain peaks. There are passable wagon roads through the coun try itself, and there is access to the dis tant railway lines over mountain sum mits, but the conditions af.e all but pro hibitory In truth, they are prohibitory as related to the general give-and-take of active commercial life. The country belongs politically to Ore gon, and It cherishes a sentlmerttally friendly feeling toward Oregon, but Its business relations are almost exclusively with California. Its nearest and easiest points are Madeline, 100 miles south from Lakevlew, and Ager, 57 miles southwest from Klamath Falls. Both points are in California, and in closer relations with San Francisco than with Portland. Ali things being equal, the merchants, espe cially those of Klamath County, which Is traditional Oregonlan country, would pre fer to maintain trade relations with Ore gon, but the conditions do not permit it. There is quicker connection with San Francisco, and a distinct advantage In freight rates, and these conditions, of course, absolutely control the business connection. "I have been in business here for 20 years," said a merchant to me yes terday, "and I have never met a single Portland wholesale merchant. Naturally, I would rather do business with my home state, but I don't care enough about It to make a business sacrifice to do it." But, while the trade of this country now goes to California, there is no rea son why it should always do so. In miles, the distance ls'no greater in truth, it is a little less to Portland than to San Francisco. A railroad north and south through Central Oregon, through the re gion -of" the Upper Deschutes and through Crook County, connecting with the Co lumbia River line at or near The Dalles, or a road connecting with the Corvallls & Eastern line at its terminus near the summit of the Cascade Mountains, in the Santiam region, would bind this country of Southeastern Oregon to Portland for all time. By either route, the construc tion would be simple and relatively cheap, for there are neither mountains nor str.eams In' the way no engineering diffi culties of any kind and everywhere the .line would pass through virgin but high ly potential country. I cannot speak as one of special knowledge In such matters, but, viewed unprofesslonally, t would ap pear a certain thing that a railroad through these great regions would pay, and pay handsomely. But, most Important of all ficm the Portland point of view, a railroad would re-establish trade lines in conformity with political lines. It would make Port land the natural and inevitable market of the Southeastern Oregon country. Tho chance to gain this - country for Portland Is not one likely to remain open Indefinitely. There arc others whose eyes are turning this way. The Nevada, Cali fornia & Oregon road, dominated by Cali fornia capital and, of course, related closely to the Central Pacific Railroad In terest, 13 In a position to come north into Southeastern Oregon at relatively small cost. Within a year Its lines, now at. Madeline, could be at Lakevlew, and in two years it could spread branches In a way as to command the whole of this country. Nobody doubts that this -will be done in time; that Is, unless before the Nevada company Is ready to move some other road shall gain possession of the country. There is, too, another railroad move ment which appears to me even more of a menace to Portland's interest than the Nevada line. At the-point where the Southern Pacific crosses the Klamath River a timber company, which owns many thousands of acres of pine lands on the eastern slope of the Cascade Moun tains In Klamath County, is operating in the lumber business in a large way. Up to this time it has used the Klamath River as a driveway for Its timber sup ply, but as logging operations move, back into the forests this has been found inex pedient, and with a view to more exten sive operations the company is now put ting In a railroad, following In a general way the upward course of the Klamath River. As the guest of Mr. Hervey Llnd sey, manager of this lumbering company, I went a few days back over the line of the new railroad to Its present terminus some 12 miles from where it leaves the Southern Pacific line, two miles south from -Klamathon. It Is no mere logging road. Its construction is in every way equal to that of the Southern Pacific. Only 12 miles have been completed, but working crews are busy ahead of the finished track and there Is plied up at the point of. junction materials of every kind timbers, rails, bolts, ties, etc for the first 30 miles, which it is planned to finish some time during the coming Winter. There can be no question as to the pur pose of this road. It Is striking for the interior for the Klamath country' and its course lies by an easy route between that country and a connection with the Southern Pacific line south of. the Sis kiyou Mountains. This railroad, when It shall get Into the Klamath region and (Concluded , on. Second. Page.2. MAD MULLAH FIGHT Hot After British Force in Somaliland. NATIVE TROOPS MUCH SHAKEN Must Retreat 150 or More Miles Acrosa Trackles Desert or Perish 15,00b Assailants, 3000 De fenders Fanatics Excited. LONDON, Oct. 19. An undated dispatch, from Colonel Cobb, commanding one of the columns of British forces operating1 against the Mad Mullah In Somallland, has been received by the government, having been forwarded through the Brit ish Vice-Consul at Berboa. Somallland. The British forces engaged were com posed of native troops and levies. Colonel Cobb says: "My force reached Erego this morning. When about one day's march north of Mudug It was attacked In the thick bush. Two advances were made, and the enemy was beaten back In the morning. Their losses were heavy, and we captured 1C0 rifles. Our forces then proceeded to col lect animals for transportation purposes and to join the detachment at the. stock ade camp. In the afternoon a recon noisance was made, and after sharp fighting the enemy was again driven off. "I deeply regret to report the follow ing Casualties: "Colonel Phillips and Captain Angua and 0 men killed, and about 100 men wounded. The latter include Captain Howard and Lieutenant Everett, but both are doing well. There were severe losses nmonfr the transport and riding camels. The force will reach the stockade camp tomorrow and will advance to attack tha enemy."" The Vice-Consul also sends the sub stance ofa later dispatch from Colonel Swayne, who, says that as a result of tho fighting at Erego "October 6, which was very severe, the Somali levies are con siderably shaken. The Mullah, who I3 said to be in communication with Kali and Inger in the direction of the Webbe River, Is bringing up reinforcements from all sides. Colonel Swayno is much ham pered, owing to the necessity for tha .transporting of the wounded. He Is re tiring on Bohottle. He asks that 600 fur ther reliable troops be dispatched from Bernora forthwith. - The severe reverses in Somallland placo the small British force there, of about 3000 men of doubtful reliability, in an. exceedingly perilous situation. Since the beginning of Colonel Swayne'3 second campaign against the Mullah last May, little has been heard of the expedi tion The present dispatches seem to show that he was retreating from the Italian frontier northward, when the Mul Jah attacked him at Erego. Last Decem ber the Mullah was reported to have about 12,000 men, mostly mounted, a largo percentage of whom were armed with rifles. It Is possible that he now com 'mands about "15,000 men. With this largo force harassing him, Colonel Swayne has to retreat to Bohottle, 150 miles, and prob ably still 100 miles farther to Buroa, tho ft principal British frontier post. This march must be made under a scorching sun and over an arid and roadless desert, even If the retreat Is successful. Tha gravest anxiety will be felt until further news Is received. The entire expedition will have to be repeated on a much larger scale. Colonel Swayne Is accompanied by over. 20 white officers, and has with him somo Maxim guns and some seven-pounders. The Mullah's success will set the whole Ogaden and Dolbahanta country aflame. Trade returns at Berbera and Bulhar have shown an enormous decrease since the operations of the Mullah cut off ac cess to the rich markets of Ogaden and Dolbahanta. It was announced by Lord Lansdowne, Foreign Secretary, In Parliament last Summer, that the Italians were co-operating with Colonel Swayne, but as the dis patch made public today does not men tion Italian help. It Is supposed that some "local difficulty was found In arranging for the co-operation. Newspapers Call for Vigorous Action LONDON, Oct. 20. The Times and oth er newspapers this morning publish edi torial articles on the Somallland situa tion, and warn the government against any further half-heartedness or half measures, which they say have already cost so dear, In either breaking the back of the present rising or the future paci fication of tho country- Another Case of Outlnnder. LONDON, Oct. 19. The Dally Mall re cently sent a correspondent to Roumanla to investigate the Jewish question there, and this morning the paper publishes a letter from Its representative, in which, he says that In Roumanla the laws are fair, but there is crying injustice in their application, or, rather, their nonappllca tlon, to the Jews. These Jews, he writes, are persecuted, not on account of their religion, but because if they were natural ized and treated justly they would own half of the land, and, in short, "run" the country. The correspondent declares that a large number of Roumanian Deputies derive large portions of their Incomes from heavy bribes, on the condition that they will help Jews to obtain naturalization papers. Austrian Temperance Measure. VIENNA. Oct. 19. The bill for the pur pose of combatting drunkenness, which is being prepared by the Austrian gov ernment, is the first measure of its kind In tho history of Austria. It Is an out come of the strong pressure of public opinion ahd the efforts of the temperance party. It provides for the imprisonment of persons found intoxicated in a public place over a certain number of times within six months, and restricts the sale of bottled 'spirits, which, it is declared, leads to home drinking, to holders of special licenses.. Only one such license Is to be granted for every 500 Inhabitants. More Russian. Schools. ODESSA, Russia, Oct. 19. A newspaper published at Kronstadt says that tho Emperor has Issued an edict permitting the establishing of schools where the Russian language will be taught in the provinces contiguous to Asiatic Russia. Czar to Visit Italy. ROME, Oct. 19. The Giornale Italia an nounces that the Emperor and Empre33 of Russia will come to Italy next De cember, escorted by a Russian squadron. Chappelle Reaches Genoa. GENOA, Oct. 19. Archbishop Chappelle reached here today from the United Slates .and .proceeded for Rome. r