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T VOL. XLIL-rSrO. 13,098. PORTLAND, OKEUOX, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 4, 1902. PRICE FIVE CENTS. ANY SIZE. LATEST STYLES. RAIN COATS, MACKINTOSHES RUBBER BOOTS AND SHOES Rubber and Oiled Clothing GOODYEAR RUBBER COMPANY R. H. Pease, President. 73 and 75 FIRST STREET. PORTLAND. OREGON. A FINE CHRISTMAS PRESENT THE POCKET POCO A Pocket Camera for Dry Plates With extra rapid rectilinear lens and pneumatic shutter. MAKES 7 OA AS GOOD PICTURES AS A LARGE CAMERA. Price.. 4 We have the largest assortment of Cameras and Kodaks in ihe city. BLUMAUER-FRANK DRUG GO., Wholesale and Importing Druggists SHAW'S PURE BLUMAUER & HOCH 108 and 1 10 Fourth Street Sole Distributers for Oregon and "Washington. J. F. DAVIES. Pres. St. Charles Hotel CO. (INCORPORATED). FRONT AND MORRISON STREETS PORTLAND, OREGON American and European Plan. 87-89 PIrst Street, WHOLESALE SHOES ! Heavy wet-weathef footwear, men's logging shoes, holi day slippers and feit goods. A general and com plete line. HOTEL PERKINS Fifth and Washington Streets PORTLAND, OREGON EUROPEAN PJLAN . First-Class Oteclc Restaurant Rooms Single ....78a to tl.BO per -3ay v..nn.ri wifh HnteL Rootns Double S1.00 to 12.00 per day Coasccted Wlta Hotel. Rooms-Family .11.00 to Ef.OO ber txy GOOD PRICES Paid for Heavy Cast Iron Scrap WILLAMETTE IRON & STEEL WORKS Portland, Oregon. NEW YORK DENTAL PARLORS 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 THE AEOLIAN tOMPANY-New York Manufacturers of Aeolian Grchestreffes THE PIANOLA . B. WELLS Oregon Washington Idaho Sole Grand Duke Dismissed From Army. BERLIN, Dec 3. The Russian Grand Duke Paul Alexandrovltch. an uncle of the Czar, has been dismissed by Emperor "William from the honorary colonelcy of a Hussar Regiment, stationed at Branden burg, because of his recent marriage to the Baroness Plstolkoff, who obtained a divorce from her husband In order to marry the Grand Duke. For his marriage to the Baroness, the Grand Duke wa3 dis missed from the Russian army. ANY QUANTITY. America's ORIGINAL MALT WHISKY Without a Rival Today MALT J. W. BLAIN, Soc. and- Trcas. American Plan European Plan ...... $1.25. $1.60, $1.75 COc, .' 75c. $1.00 Portland, Or. n Portland Safe & Lock Co. GENERAL AGENTS Barnes' Patent Fire anj . Burglar-Proof Safes We have three fine Second-Hand Safes. 205 Second Street, Near Taylor. Fourth and Morrison Sts. Portland, Or. Full Set Teeth $5.00 Gold Crowns 5.00 Gold Fill: 1.00 Silver Fill 50 Fourth and Morrison Streets Aeolian Pipe Organs Agent Headquarters 353-355 Washington st, cor. Park. Merging English Steel Works. NEW YORK. ..Dec. 3. Work of consoli dating and amalgamating the various firms engaged in the Iron and steel in dustry in this country is proceeding stead ily, cables the London correspondent of the Tribune. It Is officially announced that Lloyd & Lloyd, of Birmingham, have been absorbed by Stewart & Menzies, of Glasgow, which company possesses the largest :ron and steel tube works m Great Britain. UPTO UNCLES! 1905 Fair Will Ask for $2,000,000. APPEAL 'TO ROOSEVELT Representative Will Now Visit Western States. ' GOVERNORS TO BE ASKED TO ACT Let Their Legislatures Slake Appro priations for Great Oregon Pro ject Co-operation of Oriental Countries Solicited. The legislative cdmmltiee of the Lewis and Clark Board yesterday re solved To ask President Roosevelt to recom mend in a special message to Congress a National appropriation ot $2,000,000 lor the 1005 Exposition. To eend J. F. Knapp to Interview Governors of Western Legislatures to ward prevailing upon them to recom mend appropriations-of their respective Legislatures. To addres. letters to these Governors for the same purpose. To follow out the plan of H. B. Mil ler for enlisting the co-operation of Ori ental countries "Come tho Lewis and Clark Fair of 1905," says the board of directors. This message will be borne to every state west of the Mississippi River. Yesterday the legislation committee of the board made a contract with J. F. Knapp according to which he is to visit the Governors of. Western States, and to request that they recommend to their Legislatures appro priations for the Lewis and Clark Fair. The committee resolved also to send let- tins action., congress is to be asked for ?2,0GC,00b, and President Roosevelt Is lb be requested to recommend this sum In a special message to Congress. "Richt now is the time to go' to othsr states,'? said the committee. Mr. Knapp will start on his mission tomorrow. Today he wfll call upon Governor Geer, at Sa lem. The committee decided that to have the Exposition mentioned In Govern Jrs' messages to Legislatures would be Hie quickest way of bringing the Fair to the attention of those bodies. "There's no time to lose," said tho gentlemen, "and If we wait until the Oregon Legislature has acted we shall be too late." In Nineteen States. The Legislatures of 19 states west of the Mississippi will meet next January. Even If the Oregon Legislature should ap propriate $500,000 in the first week of its session', this would be too late to obtain the co-operation of other states. Inas much as their Legislatures will not mtet again until 1903, the necessity of the work Just Initiated Is apparent. Moreover, the service which one man can perform now would, require several men after the Leg islatures have convened, because the ground can now be covered speedily. The next sessions of Legislatures west of the Mississippi will begin as follows: Arizona Jan. 19 Arkansas Jan. 12 .California Jan. 2 Colorado Jan. l Hawaii : Feb. IS Idaho Jan. 5 Iowa -(1904) .... i '. Jan. .. Kansas Jan. 13 Louisiana May 12 Oregon Jan. .12 South Dakota (1904) Jan. .. Texas Jan. 13 Utah Jan. 5 Washington Jan. 12 Wyoming Jan. 13 Minnesota Jan. 6 Missouri - Jan. .7 Montana Jan. -5 Nebraska Jan. 6 Nevada i Jan. 19 New Mexico .. Jan. 19 North Dakota -. Jan. G Oklahoma Jan. .. Mr. ICnapp's Record. Mr. Knapp has served In various ca pacities In other expositions, and brings good recommendations. Ho va3 a com missioner at the Midwinter Fair at San Francisco for county exhibits. . At the Omaha Exposition he was employed in the stock subscription Hst3. At the ex positions at Buffalo : and Charleston he performed Important duties. The Lewis and Clark directors will en deavor to have Western Legislatures set aside for tho 1903 Fair a certain part of their appropriations for the St. Louis Im position. Adjoining states, however, will appropriate directly to the Lewis anJl Clark Exposition. v "I shall go at once to Sacramento," said Mr.. Knapp yesterday, "to interview Gov ernor Gage. At San Francisco I shall call upon Governor-elfct Pardee. Thence I -shall jro to the capitals of Nnv.i-Ja, Utah, Wyoming, 'Colorado, Nebraska, Kansas, Wisconsin, Missouri, Iowa. Min nesota, Nortr. Dakota, South Dakota, Montana, Idaho and Washington. South ern States I shall visit at another time. x"Will I be successful? Yes, Indepd I will. There is no doubt whatever about It. "After the Lewis and Clark Fa'lr has bctn carried to the attention of the West ern States, states east of- the Mississippi should be approached and then European countries The proposal to devote, say 25 or SO per cent of their appropriations for St. Louis to Portland will win every time." . Plan to Go Ahead. W. D. Fenton submitted a succinct plan of procedure, and It was unanimously adopted. A -subcommltte. consisting of W. D. Fenton. P. L. Willis and Rufus Mallory, was appointed to carry it out. This subcommittee will draw up: First A bill for an act to appoint an Oregon Lewis and Clark commission of nine members, and to appropriate $500,000 for the Lewis and Clark Centennial of 1005. Second A cfrcular address to be Issued by the board of directors, signed by the president and secretary, succinctly outlining the plan, purpose and general scope of the Fair, and the estimated cost of tho same. Third An official letter to be likewise au thorised and signed, and sent to the Governors of the States of Washington, Idaho, Montana, Wyomine and Utah, asklr.ir them to recommend to their Legislatures appropriations to assist Oregon in holding the Centennial. Fourth A like letter to be sent to the Gov ernors of the Statts of California and Nevada, Inviting them to recommend participation by .their states In the Pacific Coast enterprise, and asking each state to make appropriations for ctate exhibits. the Governor of the State of Missouri, urging I Upcn each of them co-operation, and Inviting them to ask the co-operation of their state?, and the transfer of their "exhibits from St. Louis,. In 1904, to the Lewis and Clark Cen tennial. . Sixth A formal communication to the Pres ident of the United States, asking him to send a special message to Congress, recommending Congressional aid, and the transfer of the ex hibits from the Philippines and other territo rial possessions, gathered for the St. Louis ex position, and a direct appropriation of $2,000, C00. to be expended by United States commis sioners, of which f250,000'shall be used for the r-rectlcn by the United States of a Lewis and Clark memorial building, to contain therein statues of Thomas Jefferson, Thomas H. Ben ton, Lewis F. Linn, James K. Polk, George M. Dallas, the great explorers, Lewis and Clark, Albert Gallatin, and perhaps two or three other such buildings, to be located upon a site donated to the. City of Portland and to be maintained as the home of the Oregon His torical Society, and other public bodies, 'and to be devoted to useful knowledge and the arts forever. Seventh A plan by which each state and the general Government may be efficiently ap proached, with a view to their active- co-operation, and the employment of some suitable man or committee of persons, to take active charge of this matter at once. Consul Miller's Plan. Mr. Miller's plan, as submitted October 25.- was as follows: "First An act of Congress providing for a detail of officers In Army, Navy. State and other departments to assist In secur ing and establishing exhibits. Second Appointment of a commissioner to secure the exhibits of Russia. Japan, China. Korea, India and the Islands of the Pacific at the St. Louis Exposition. Third The same coramtcploner should be sent to those countries to secure their Interest in making special exhibits. Fourth This commissioner should per sonally supervise the collection of these exhibits and be authorized to arrange for tne establishment of various Oriental man ufacturlng at the Exposition. There should be a Russian village. The Russian government should be asked to participate and aid In making this village. The cities of vladlvostock, Dalny and Port Arthur should be Invited to join in making- Russia on the Pacific known to the people of the United States. There should be a Japanese village. Korean village, a Chinese village, an In dian village, a Philippine village and others. These villages should be -constructed true to. their type, and filled with the Industrial people of each. race. . The actual daily social and Industrial life of these people snouid be faithfully displnved. These, people need not ind should not be.i.r;ie-;bu8hould. bfl 'nged iff proSuc- tlon.and manufacturing, according to their own native way. thlnjrs that could he sold largely to visitors and merchants vlsltlne the Exposition, thereby aiding- In defray ing tnelr expenses. AH of these people have a peculiar and Interesting boat life that should be shown In connection with their vlllasres. The buildings used by all these people are primitive anu cneapiy constructed. anp their cost need- not be great. Many manufacturers and merchants could be Induced to bring over their artisans for the advertising of their busi ness, and the sale of goods produced while here. As almost all the manufacturing of these countries i3 by hand methods, very little machinery is required, and as most of the work 13 usually done In the houses In which they live, no extra buildings will be required. To secure this Oriental display, an act of Congress should be passed this W'lnter that would lay the foundation for Its sue cessful execution. in addition to the above, an Oriental Congress might be held covering the po litical, religious, industrial, art, educa tional and other features, and the nations interested could no doubt be Induced to send representative men in all of. these lines at their own expense. During the Summer season most of the missionaries In these countries take two months' vacation, and by having a great missionary congress, they could all oe arawn to the Exposition, and their In terest could be made valuable in securing exnious ana representative Industrial people. Carries the Fair Project. The Legislative committee Is burdened with the full load of the Fair. It will have to give the enterprise the momentum that . will carry It on to success This committee contains the legal talent ot tne board. It Is composed of: A. L. Mills, J. C. Alnsworth, A. Bush. J, M. cnurch, A. H. Devers, W. D. Fenton L.co Frlcde. Rufus Mallory. R B. Miller, J. i. Kaley. George W. Riddle. H. W Scott, Paul Wesslnger, P. L. Willis, J. "C, cooper. GIVE AWAY HALF A MILLION President of Transport Company to Rtmexulicr Old Employes. .BALTIMORE; Dec. 3. As a result of faithful service. Bernard N. Baker, ex president cf the Atlantic Transport Com pany, now a part of ' the International Mercantile Marine Company, will dlstrlb itte nearly 5300.CCO among his former em ployes. To each perron who was in the mx. mv: uauspuri company one year or more, and who will remain after January 1 In the employ of the Interna tiona! Company, he will give $1000 of the stocx ot tno-new company: to those cm ploycs of the Atlantic Company who will loae their positions on that date he will give $2C0O of the stock. To a very few old employes of the company, euc'h aa heads of dcpnrtmentz local agents, etc., he will give $2C0) of the stock of the new company and a certain sum of money. CATHOLICSENTER PROTEST Claim ChurcH Was Ignored in Ap pointment of Commission. WASHINGTON, Dec. 3. Senator Cul lom, of Illinois, today- presented to the Senate a protest from the Order of For esters of St. Paul's Catholic Church, of Chicago, against this country's treatment of the religious orders. The protest de clares It an Insult to the 12,000.000 American-Catholics In the United States that not a single Catholic has been named on the Philippine Commission, when the ap pointment of thlsbody was .made for the sole purpose of acting In the inter est of the exclusive Catholic population of the Philippine Islands. A special pro test Is made against the placing of tho Philippine schools In the hands of, non Cathollco and making them "Godless schools," iTOPLRNDFRA Radical Action Proposed in Both Houses. TO EXPOSE LAX METHODS Repeal Timber, Desert and Commutation Laws, IRRIGATION IS IN DANGER Proposed Action "Would Cut Off Much of Fund for Reclamation Admin istration of Land Office At tacked by Authors of Bill. A bill to repeal the timber and stone; desert land and commutation land acts was introduced In Congress. Their authors allege wholesale fraud under cover of these laws, and lax management of the land ofllce. The bill Is approved by the 'Senate committee, but opposed by the House committee, which says Its passage would cut off the Irrigation- fund. Its advocates cay that Western land offices have been mismanaged and al low land to be acquired by speculators. OREGONIAN NEWS BUREAU. Wash ington. Dec. 3. The fir3t stop In the di rection of Congressional action Intended to stop land frauds was taken this af ternoon, when Senator Quarles. of Wis consin, and Representative Powers, of Massachusetts, simultaneously Introduced! Identical bills to repeal the timber and stone act, the desert land law and the commutation clause of the homestead act. the three stntutes under which large areas of public. land are now being taken up by speculators and corporations. The bill provides that any entries Initiated, under these laws prior to the passage of the act. shall pas to patent if found .to-. com ply Tvitn existing law. The House public lands committee Is un alterably opposed to this bill. A canvass of Its members today shows' that most of them are hostile to the proposed legis lation. On the other hand, the Senate committee will probably make a favor able report In a short time. The hostil ity of the House committee will prob ably .defeat action at this session. Secretary Hitchcock 'expects In a few days to submit to the Senate committee a letter pointing out the urgent necessity for repealing the timber and stone act, and he will probably include reasons for repealing the commutation clause of the homestead act. There is some doubt If he will recommend tho repeal of the des ert land law, although Its provisions are being flagrantly and openly violated. Cut Off Irrigation Fund. The main argument raised by the House committee against this new bill Is that it is unnecessary, and that Its enactment would practically cut off the funds with which to carry on Government reclama tion under the law of last session, aa the three acta attacked are the ones from which most public land funds are derived. The committee believes that, while these laws are loosely drawn, yet that If they were adequately and Intelligently en forced by the local and General Land Of fice fraud's could be reduced to a mini mum, If not altogether stopped. The Land Office, they claim, Is conducted ac cording to precedent, rather than on good judgment. Local land officers are dally EX-SPEAKER OF HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES SERIOUSLY ILL THOMAS B. REED, OF MAINE. accepting testimony and affidavits from perjured entrymen and witnesses without making any attempt to ascertain whether or ript fraud is- being attempted or hav ing any personal knowledge of facts. They are generally negligent and careless. Remedy tho administrative office, says this committee, and there wIU be no ne cessity for repealing these; lawa . Fraud in Land Office. On the other hand Senator Quarles and Representative Powers assert that the timber and stone act Is . unjust to the Government, regardless of frauds com mitted in its: name, In that It gives away for $415' a whole quarter section of "land worth from $1000 to $3000 and more. They insist-that hereafter public timber shall be sold at a stumpage value, so that the Government may realize something like the true value on its property. If need be, they would go to the extent and re serve the remaining valuable Government timber lands, so that only the mature timber can be procured at appraised value. The funds from the sale of such timber, they Insist, will be very large, and In connection with moneys returned to" the reclamation fund from purchases of water rights, will be sufficient to reclaim the entire arid Went. Under the desert land act. by fake testimony, large areas of agricultural land have passed Into- the hands ,of fraudulent entrymen, mostly stockowners or speculators, while -under the commutation clause of the homestead act moneyed Interests, by supplying $1 25 an acre to their henchmen, have obtained title to large sections of the West after 14 months' residence on the land. Bent on Exposure. The authors of these bills feel that theso measures are but just and they Intend to pi ess them to consideration. If possible. Even If they fall, they Intend to bring to light the lax and Inexcusable condition of the local land offices in Western States, their inefficient methods of doing busi ness, sb well as the methods employed In the General Land Office, which are held to be equally censurable. The ref erence made by the President In his mes sage to frauds being perpetrated under the three laws In question will be used as an argument for the passage of the new bill. INVESTIGATE AT ALBANY. Appeal of Linn County Men, "Whose Land Entries Are Questioned. OREGONIAN NEWS BUREAU, Wash ington. Dec. 3. Representative Tongue Intends to lay before the Interior De partment a rrquest of a number of citizens of Linn County, who have made timber entries In the Lakevlew land district, ask ing that Investigation into the character and regularity of these entries, which is to be held by direction of Secretary Hitch cock, may take place at Albany, so that they may not be required to crops thft mountains in the Winter. Mr. Tonsue says iie knows of many such arsons whose, entries are perfectly honest, and. in aceovdance with law. -but doubts not that many fraudUlPrtt' entries' have -been at iempted; The Linn , County entrymen wel coihe an inspection of thflr entries. TWO BILLS riY MITCHELL. One to Amend Sllets Reservation Law, Other to Relieve Sick Soldiers. OREGONIAN NEWS BUREAU. Wash ington. Dec. 3. Senator Mitchell toray Introduced a bill amending the law open ing the Slletz Indian reservation to entry jk as to allow homesteaders credit for military service, the same as Is accrylited homesteaders elsewhere. The department holds that no such credit can be given for military service on entries op this reser vation. He also Introduced a bill to credit Fitst Sergeant Avery A. Long, Tntv-sixth Battery, Field Artillery, at Vancouver Barracks', with continuous servic sine? his enlistment -to date, as a result of wounds recelvpd in service. He was !n the hospital 15 months, and und?r the law must re-enllst as a private. The bill re tains him at his old rank, giving credit for all time In the hospital. NEW LAWS FOR ALASKA. Cusliman Proposes a Delegate Re form in Alaska Land Lnvrs. OREGONIAN NEWS BUREAU. Wash incton. Dec. 3. Representative Cushman. with the message of President Roosevelt behind him. Intends to press his Alaska delegate bill at the present session, and hopes that the measure may be passed, uot only by the House but the Senate this Winter". Mr. Cushman Insists that Alaska needs (Concluded on Third Page.) Senate Bill Admits Okla homa Alone. TAKES IN INDIAN TERRITORY New Mexico and Arizona Not Yet Ready. PARTY LIKIS ARE DRAWN Quay Alone of Republicans Favor Three New Stntes Provisions of Bill and Restrictions on the Constitution. A bill was reported to. the Senate, ad mitting Oklahoma and Indian Territory to statehood under the nrfme of Okla homa. The bill admitting New Mexico and Arizona was rejected by the com mittee. The House passed the bill appropri ating 50.000 to pay the expenses of the coal strike commission. A bill was introduced In the Senate establishing the gold standard In the Philippine Islands. WASHINGTON, Dec. 3. The Senate committee on territories today agreed to report a substitute for the House omnibus statehood bill. The substitute provides for the admission of one new state to comprise the territory now included In Oklahoma and Indian Territory, the new state to take the name of Oklahoma. Tho bill as reported makes no reference what ever to New Mexico or Arizona. The de cision of tho full committee Is in accord with the conclusion reached by the Re publican members, except Senator Quay. The status of the Indians residing- In tha two territories Is defined in a provision Inrerted In the first section of the bill. The section authorizes the Inhabitants oi the two territories to adopt a state consti tution, and then says: "Nothing contained In the said consti tution shall be construed to limit or im pair the rights of person or property per taining to the Indians of said territories so long as such right shall remain unex tinguished, or to limit or affect the au thority of the Government of the United Stntes to make any law or regulation re specting such Indians, their lands, prop erty, or other rights which It has been competent to make It this action had never passed." As Is usual In the admission of states, all male citizens are authorized to vote for delegates to the Constitutional con vention, and a provision is added extend ing this privilege to Indians who are members of any of the tribes located In Indian Territory. These Indians are also made eligible to become delegates to the convention. The total number of such delegates Is limited to 120, 60 each from Oklahoma and Indian Territory. In Okla homa the delegates ere to 'be apportioned to the various counties by the territorial officers, and in Indian Territory to the districts by the Judges of the United (Concluded on Fifth Page.) CONTENTS OF TODAY'S PAPER Congress. Bill to admit Oklahoma introduced In the Sen ate. Indian Territory to be Included. Page 1. Move to repeal timber and other land laws and expose frauds in land office. Page 1- Appropriation for coal strike commlsslpn passes the House. Page 1. Bill to give the Philippines the gold standard. Page 1. Domestic. The coal strike commission renews its ses sions. Page y. Secretary of the Treasury reports Increase In the surplus. Page 12. Report of the Secretary ot Agriculture. Pago ii Nlcolaus. the .millionaire St. Louis brewer, ac quitted ot bribery. Page 5. Ex-Speaker Thomas B. Reed seriously ill. Page 3. Johnstone, the actor-murderer, at the point of death. Pae 5. Explosion of oil at San Francisco wrecks a steamer and kills many men. Page 5. , Foreign. England' and Germany Ignore Castro's 'appeals and revolution will be renewed. Page 3. Education bill uasses Brlti3h House of Com mons. Page 5. Colombian Congress summoned to act on Pan ama canal. Page 3. Pnclllc Const. Preston believes he will 'be elected United States Senator. Page 4. King County holds the balance of power In the Washlngion Senatorial fight. Page 2. Salem Statesman comc3 out strongly In support of Geer- Page -1. Commercial and Marine. Good outlook .for big December trade. Page 13. Chicago wheat closes lower. Page 13. Trading In stocks at New York entirely pro fessional. Page 13. London wants more prunes. Paso 13. Ship Bldston Hill strikes submerged rock near Pillar Rock. Pase 11. Port ot Portland Commission to have & flag. Page 11 Portland and Vicinity. Lewis and Clark Fair will ask United States for $2,000,000 appropriation. Page 1. J. F. Knapp goe3 to Western States In interest of Lewis and Clark Fair. Page 1. Common Council sustains Mayor's veto ot oil district ordinance. Page 14. Faction In Board of Trade Is after Secretary Mooro's scalp. Pace 8. Seattle and San Francisco at war over Army transport business. Page 10. Immigration bureau committee has raised $10.- 430 toward project. Page 8. Police arrest two bunco-steerers. Page 14. City & Suburban Company Is willing to accept blanket franchise. Page 10.