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, ,-.v . iff VOL. XLIIL SO. 13,102. PORTLAND, OREGON, TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 17, 1903. PRICE FIVE CENTS. BITBBEB BELTING, PACKING AND HOSE KUDDElX GOODS OF EVERT DESCRIPTION CRACK-PROOF AND SNAG-PROOF BOOTS Goodyear Rubber Company II. II. PEASE, President. PQBERTI Is unexcelled for face and complexion. Keeps the skin in healthy condition, dispels wrinkles and blemishes and pre serves to the face that velvety softness that is the pride and enhancing charm of womanhood. All druggists sell it. BLUMAUER-FRANK DRUG COMPANY Wholesale, Importing and Manufacturing Druggists. IS HAW'S PURE BLUMAUER & HOCH 108 and 110 Fourth Street Sole Distributers lor Oregon ana Washington. 3. F. DAVIES. St. Charles Hotel CO. -GKCOItPO FRONT AND MORRISON STREETS PORTLAND, OREGON European Plan Rooms 50c to $1.50 First-Class Restaurant In Connection HOTEL PERKINS Fifth and Washington Streets. EUROPEAN PLAN Flrst-CImM Ckeek Restaurant Connected With Botel. SHAFTING CUT TO LENGTH, KEYSEATED AND STRAIGHTENED FURNISHED IN CONNECTION WITH "OUR- Power Transmission Specialties WILLAMETTE IRON & STEEL WORKS PORTLAND, OREGON. U. S. A. Portland Safe & Lock Co. Sole Agents BARNES PATENT SAFES HERRING-HALL-MARVIN SAFE CO. Successors HALL, SAFE &. LOCK CO. . 76 First Street, corner Oak PORTLAND SEED COMPANY Wholesale and Retail Dealers In Seeds, Poultry and Bee Supplies Roses, Trees, Sprays and Spray Pumps Now Located 180-182-184-186 Large 1903 Seed Annual Free. ' BANK AND OFFICE RAILINGS BARBED WIRE, WIRE AHD LAWH FEJICIHG. Portland Wire & Iron Works MANUFACTURERS. 147 FRONT ST Ilnrrintan's Secretory Conilnir. PENDLETON. Or.. Feb. 16. A private car containing W. V. S. Thorn, chiel as sistant of President E. H. Harrlman. of the Southern Pacific lines; Superintend- j cnt J. P. O'Brien, ol the La. Grande di- ' vision, and W. H. Kennedjr. chief engi neer, passed through Pendleton yester day afternoon, en route for the Washing ton divisions. Mr. Thorn came directly from the New Tork office. He said: ' "We shall go from here to Spokane, and thence to Portland. The trip takes in only the main portions of the Harrlman lfnps. find is deslcned to clve an onnnr. j tunlty to get more Intimate acquaintance' ivith the details or tne system. I am not out on any special mission.'' Nothing was learned" concerning plans for the Snake River Valley line from Lew iston to Rlparla. Mr. Thorn Is a man somewhat above medium size, with sandy complexion and reddish mustache. Jrrnrs Getty, of Baltimore, Dead. BALTIMORE, Feb. 16. James Getty, aged 92, vice-president of the National Howard Bank, died today. 73-7S First St., Porllnnil, Or. N America's ORIGINAL MALT WHISKY Without a Rival Today MALT J. W. BLAIX. Sec. and Treaa. RATED). PORTLAND, OREGON Itouiu Cingis .. Room IXjublt Booms FamUr ......TOo ts ft. 93 per day ...... .11.00 to (2.00 per d&f ftl.U to M.00 sr ter THE ESMOND HOTEL OSCAR AUDERSCM, Hunger. Front and Morrison Streets, PORTLAND - OREGON FREE 'BUS TO AND FROM ALT. TRAINS. Rates European plan. SOc, 75c, JLOO. JL50, 12.00 per day. Sample rooms In connection. Front Street, corner Yamhill Large 1903 Seed Annual Free Poultry Netting WHOLESALE . RETAIL . WIRE AND IRON FENCING rowcll Hnrrles Snnto Domingo, SANTO DOMINGO. Feb. 16. The MIn ister for Foreign Affairs todav made nub ile a dispatch received from Secretary of State Hay announcing that the Dominican envoy, who Is to represent Santo Domln go's case at Washington, will be received and heard, but pointing out that Minister i-oweil was entrusted with the task ol conducting and concluding the neirntla. tlons In regard to the claims of American citizens against Santo Domingo. Scire tary-General Sanchez Informed Mr. Pnnr. ell that the "pendlntr cases will not be fur. tner considered until after the return of the Dominican Commissioner from the United "States, to which the American Minister replied that the cases referred to will not admit of any further delay In weir seiuemeni. Knrly Settler in L'nlnh Counts-. UNION.. Or.. Feb. 16.-Speclal.) Will lam H. Huffman, who died February 14. 1903, at his home south of 'this city, was burled this afternoon under the auspices of the Masonic order. Mr. Huffman was1 w years or age, and was one of earliest settlers of Union County. the E Three-Fourths of Con tinent Is White. SEVEREST COLD OF WINTER Even the Sunny South Suf fers From Storm. BLIZZARD REACHES NEW YORK From Lakes to Gulf anil From - vada to Atlantic Coast Fierce Snow-Laden Wind Sweeps, and. Worse Is Predicted. A bliszard of unprecedented severity is sweeping over the country, the same story of snow and extreme cold corn ins from nil directions. Dispatches show the limits of the storm to be Nevada In the West, the Atlantic ocean in the East, the Great Lakes In the North, Texas and Georgia In the South. The only section free from Its In fluence Is west of the Cascade Moun tains. CHICAGO, Feb. 16. The whole country from the Atlantic Coast to the western slope of the Rocky Mountains Is suffering from the coldest weather known In Feb ruary for years. The snow storm which swept over the Rocky Mountain States has traveled, cast and south until It cov ers the whole region as far as New York on the east and the Gulf States on the south. Beginning in Wyoming and Utah, where extreme cold and deep snow have caused great loss of livestock on the range, the torm extended gradually until Kansas Is under a foot of snow and -has tempera ture below lero. Oklahorq3..has had snow to take the place of rain, and Texas has snow a foot deep. In the far Northwest. near the boundary of North Dakota and Canada, Wllllston Is the coldest place In the. United States, with the temperature 42 deg. below zero, and the thermometer registers from 20 to 30 below all through the Middle West. The snow reached New York last night, when- four Inches had fallen, following close upon a sleet storm which had almost stopped traffic The Weather Bureau pre- diets gales, snow and extreme cold for the whole Atlantic Coast. The same con ditions prevail all along the lakes. The South Is Just escaping from floods due to heavy rain, which extend from Louisville southeast to Georgia, only to fall Into the grip of the bitterest storm of the Winter. Trains and telegraph lines are demoralized all through the West, and in many cities street-cars run only with great difficulty. SXOW AXD FLOODS IX SOUTH. Storms Sweep the Lnnil From Ohio to the Gulf. LOUISVILLE, Ky.. Feb. 16. Rain, snow and sleet, combined in many places with high winds, are the prevailing conditions throughout the South tonight. Railroad traffic is delayed, white in a number of cltlei the street railways are almost at a standstill. Reports from Tennessee, Ar kansas, Northern Texas, Alabama, Georgia, and all parts of Kentucky tell of damage done by the blizzard, of swollen streams and suffering of man and beast. of traffic of all kinds being delayed, and In some Instances loss of life Is reported. In Louisville the snowfall has been four inches, and a strong wind has plied the .snow In drifts. The street railway com. pany has, with the greatest difficulty kept its cars in motion at irregular inter vals during the day. Several of the trol ley lines were entirely abandoned tonight. snowplows proving powerless to clear the tracks. In Memphis the snow and sleet storm which prevailed today was one of the worst in years, and interfered to some ex tent with the operations of the trolley cars and the telegraph and telephone wires. At Fort Worth nnd Dallas, Tex., the snowfall was the heaviest in years, and a general blizzard prevailed throughout the Southwest. Reports from Chattanoo ga. Nashville and Knoxvllle. Tenn., state that the worst weather prevails, sleet, snow and wind crippling the trolley wires and electric light plants. In Atlanta a heavy rain fell all day. and high winds prevailed. The same condi tlons are reported from portions of Georgia, and the Chattahoochee River is rising rapidly. The rise in the Alabama River also continues, anl considerable . 1 1 i ... . aamuge is unucipaieu, wnue ine streams In the Southern part of Kentucky are out of their banks. The Tennessee and Cum berland Rivers also are rising. Severe wind storms, attended, by loss of life, were reported today frpm South Carolina and Georgia. Tonight there was a general drop in the temperature throughout the South and Southwest, and intensely cold weather Is feared. DOWX TO ZEItO AT CHICAGO. People Freeze, Trains D'elayed and. Wires Down. CHICAGO. Feb. 16. Seven Inches of snow on the level, accompanied by a gale reaching a velocity of more than 40 miles an hour, ushered In a cold "wave which sent the mercury close to the zero mark this morning. The traction and steam railway service, telegraph, and telephone wires are suffering from the neavy fall of snow. Loss of life was less than antlci- ALL UNO pated. but one person, so far as known, having succumbed. An unidentified man was frozen in a snowdrift down town. The cold wave, which at midnight regis- tered 12 degrees above, gradually Increased In intensity until 4 above was reached early In the day. Trains due from the West and South west were more or less delayed. Train service between Chicago and Omaha has been most seriously affected. The over land limited on the Chicago & North western, due yesterday morning at 9 o'clock, will not arrive until late this aft ernoon. The one due this morning Is now scheduled to arrive tomorrow morn ing. Trains on the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul are from one to three hours late, while those from the Northwest are more or less delayed. The Burlington train from the Southwest, duo at 6:20 A. M.. will not arrive until S o'clock tonight. The Chicago & Alton trains, from St. Louis, are over two hours late. THOUSANDS OF SHEEP PEIUMI. Extreme Cold on Wyomlnn; Ilange Miners Snowed In. RAWLINS, Wyo.. Feb. 16. The los-of sheep on the Red Desert, where-. 500.000 graze, will be heavy as the result of the Intense cold. The weather is now mod erating, but the continuation of the storm for six or seven days has weakened the eheep until they are dropping off like files. The weather Is the coldest which has been experienced for many years. At Medicine Bow, In the center of the vast sheepgrazlng country, the temperature registered from 24 to 32 deg. below zero for four nights. In the encampment country it has fallen to 40 below, and all mining operations have ceased. The fall of snow in the mountains averages from 20 to 60 feet, and many small mining camps will be snowbound for weeks. In spite of the storm, the Union Pacific, by extraordinary efforts, has kept its line clear, although all passenger trains are running behind time. A score of snow plows are working day and night from Cheyenne to Ogden. STOCK STARVES OX BAXCE. Too Weak to Paw Through Deep Snow for Grass. CHEYENNE. Wyo.. Feb. 16. Reports from nearly every section In Wyoming are to the effect that the weather throughout the state Is Intensely cold. It has ceased snowing. Stock on the ranges especially that which started the Winter In rather poor condition. Is suffering se verely, and heavy losses are predicted. The open country Is covered with oaow to an unusual depth, and cattle ana sheep are slowly famishing, being too weak to paw through the snow. In the southern half of the state, as a whole, this has been one of the hardest winters on stock in the history of the Industry. One severe storm has followed another, and stock of all kinds Is now In poor condition. In some localities there is an abundance of hay and the losses will amount to practically nothing, but in other sections where hay is scarce and the flocks and herds depend upon the open range, which Is covered with snow, tne losses win oe consiaeraoie, unless, of course, a long spelljof warm weather negins soon. . I STOIIM LAYS A TOWX LOW. Demolishes Houses and Kills Several People In Georgia. ATLANTA, Feb. 16. A special to the Constitution from Royston. Ga., a station on the Southern Railroad, states that a furious wind storm passed over the town of Bowman, In Elbert County, this after noon, demolishing several houses and -kill-, lng and injuring a number of people. The wlrM are down and further particulars cannot be obtained. COAL FAMINE IX KANSAS. Shortnsrc of Fnel Aggravates Batter ing From Blizxurd. TOPEKA. Kas.. Feb. 16. The severe cold weather of the past two days has made the coal famine much more serious. The efforts put forth by the Legislature have not resulted In any relief, and some of the western counties have not coal enough tonight to last 24 hours. In a few cases the supply Is even less and there (Concluded on Second Page.) CONTENTS OF TODAY'S PAPER. National Affairs. Attorney-Genersl Knox hurries trust suits, tak ing advantage of new laws. Page 1. Senate committee puts more teeth In Little field bill. Page 2. Senator Morgan answers attack -of Minister Iteyee. Page 2. Cortelyou confirmed as Secretary of Commerce; James II. Garfield appointed Commissioner of Corporations. Page 3. House parses oar-coupler bill. Page 2. Queen Wllhelmlna to choose umpire on United States claims against Venezuela. Page II. Domestic. Furious snow storm sweeps over Middle' West, East and South. Page 1. Prosecution of turf frauds continues in three cities. Pace 3. Labor leader contrasts rtoosevelt's and Cleve land's policy toward labor. Page 11. Addlcks irsues ultimatum to his enemies In Delaware. Page 2. Foreign. Great Britain - publishes correspondence about Venezuela. Page 11. ConrrrM of powers may be called to settle Macedonian question. Page 11. Pacific Coast. Oregon timber shark gets the better of wealthy New Yorkers. Page 12. Supreme Court affirms two decisions of the lower court. Page 12. Xorthwest Legislatures. Senatorial fight at Salem Is still a lottery. Page 1. Galloway's sailor boarding-house bill passes the House. Page 4. Bill to make gambling a felony panes the House at Olympla. Page 5. Governor Chamberlain vetoes two bills. Page 4, McBrlde bill Is expected to make Its final ap pearance today. Page 3. Sports. Portland Kennel Club decides to stay by pa cific Coast League. Page 8. Baseball players arrive. Page 8. Commercial and Marine. Oregon apples command high prjees at London. rage is. Coverlnr by shorts helps wheat In the last hour at Chicago. Page 13. Movement In Industrials the feature of the day In the stock, market, rage 13. Crew of a helpless British vessel rescued at m. Page 8. March wind and weather In the North Pacific Page 8. Portland and Vicinity. Peter Benson drops dead at Occidental Hotel fire. Page 10. L. L. Hawkins. M. W. Gorman and-T. Brooke White return from successful trip to Mount Hood, Ir 14. Court decides that Frederick Wald destroyed his will In order to glre children his prop erty. Page 14. Widow of Silas Bennett will be allowed 12000 by city. Page 14. L N. Flelschner returns from Europe, and talks of the Lewis and Clark Fair. Page 14- USESNEWPOWER Knox Will Hurry De cisions on Trusts. r MERGER GASE GOMES FIRST Under. New Law He Will Push It Through Courts. WILL RUSH BEEF TRUST CASE Attorncy-Genc-nl Loses Xo Time In Securing Test Decisions for Guidance of President In Aslc Ine Further Legislation. Attorney-General Knox will lose no time In availing himself of the new law giving anti-trust suits precedence in the Federal courts. lie will first ark to have the suit against the Northern Securities Com pany advanced, to that the Supreme Court mar pass on constitutional ques tions Involved at the October term. Such decisions will form the basis for the President's recommendations to the next Congress. Despite adverse criticism, it Is not expected that the Senate will act on , the Llttlefleld bill at this session. The bill for the purchase of the Klamath Indian lands has met a new obstacle In the opposition of Senator Stewart, chairman of the Indian com mittee. Senator Spooner will try to carry through Moody's bill for relief of set tlers on the overlap of the Northern Pacific and Dalles Military Wagon Road grants. , OREGONIAN NEWS BUREAU. Wash ington. Feb. 16. Attorney-General Knox proposes to take immediate advantage of the, first ot the anti-trust laws enacted this session and will during thexnext few days make application to have the suit against the Northern Securities Company advanced for early hearing, a 'provided for in the Hoar bill to expedite cases filed under the Sherman anti-trust law, The suit to dissolve the Northern Pacific merger Is now pending in the United States Circuit Court of Minnesota. The examination or witnesses has been com pleted and the attorneys are preparing their briefs. These will be ready shortly, and the court will then be In a position to assign a date for argument. Attorney- General Knox proposes to ask that the case be advanced beyond others on the docket. In order that an opinion may be handed down without delay. But for the enactment of the Hoar bill the case would not be reached until far In the future. The Attorney-General will file a certifi cate with the clerk of the court, stating that, in his opinion, the case against the Northern Securities Company is of general public Importance, and should be given PROMINENT AMONG DEMOCRATIC CANDIDATES FOR CONGRESS. A. E. REAMES, OF JACKSONVILLE. SALEM, Or.. Feb. 10. (Special.) A. E. Reames. Prosecuting Attorney for the First Judicial District. Is at the CapltoL It Is generally believed that Mr. Reames will be "the Democratic nominee for Congress to succeed the late Representative Tongue. He Is a son-in-law of Mr. Tongue, and lives at Jacksonville, and Is one of the most popular men In Southern Oregon. precedence over others now pending. This will Insure Its being heard by not less than three of the Circuit Judges of that I district, and, in the event of a disagree ment, the case will be certified direct to .the United States Supreme Court, skip ping the Circuit Court of Appeals. It would then be advanced on the docket of the Supreme Court and expedited in every way possible. The Attorney-General will also take steps to have the suit against the beef trust expedited in the same manner. He will not afk to have It advanced before the Chicago courts, as the argument has been made and a decision is now awaited. but If there are to be further proceedings ! after the rendering of this decision he will J take advantage of the new law and have the case sent direct to the Supreme Court Will Decide Points of Law. But the first proceedings under the Hoar law will be In connection with the North ern Securities case. It Is quite certain that there will be a comparatively early determination of the question whether railroads can form Independent companies for the purpose .of controlling a number of lines. This Is the general proposition that Is Involved in the suit to dissolve the Korthern Pacific merger. Attorney-Gen eral Knox hopes to have the question of the constitutionality of various portions of the Sherman anti-trust act. under which he Is prosecuting the Northern Se curities Company, determined by the de cisions in the Supreme Court. He thinks that before the convening of this court at the October term several suits In the, lower courts will have been settled and sent to the highest tribunal for final de cree. They will be expedited In every possible way there, so that decisions mai reasonably be looked for during that term of the court If this should be the case. the President will have final facts before him In regard to some of the doubtful questions of Corstltutlonal law. which will enable him to make recommendations to Congress for laws to meet the situation then presented. Xo 31 ore Trust Laws This Session. The New York Herald In an editorial this morning declares that If the anti trust record lsfto be completed with the Elklns bill and the Nelson amendment "neltherthe Administration nor the ma jority in Congress can hope to escape criticism." Some other papers are tak ing the same general ground regarding trust legislation, but. whatever may be said. It is evident "from the Interview of Attorney-General Knox, published this morning, that there Is to be no other trust legislation at this session. It Is claimed that any attempt to pass the Llttlefleld bill in the Senate with the amendments sug gested by the Judiciary committee would lead to endless debate, and that It Is ab. surd to press- the matter now. At all. events, the Attorney-General's interview is regarded among Senators and Representa tlves as practically settling any further trust legislation. FOR RELIEF OF SETTLERS. Spooner Will Try to Push Moody's .Dill Through Senate. 'OREGONIAN NEWS BUREAU. Wash ington, Feb. 16. Senator Spooner assures Representative Moody that tomorrow he will call up and endeavor to pass through the Senate Moody's bill for the relief of settlers upon overlap of the Northern Pa cific and Dalles Military Wagon Road grants In Oregon. The bill provides that all settlers on these lands who had settled upon and Improved any of these odd sec tions and were prevented from complet ing title by reason of the decision of the Supreme Court, shall. In making final proof upon homestead entries made for other lands, be given credit for the period of their bona fide residence upon and the amount of their Improvements made on the lands from which they were ousted. (Concluded on Third Page.) LOTTERY Grand Drawing for Sen ator This Week, COOD CHANGE FOR GUESSING Glorious Uncertainty Makes Any Guess Good. HERMANN HOVERS ON HORiZOH Fnltou Cancui to St mill Toncther to the End, unci Hermann Docs Xot Know Whether It's Ills Game Multnomah for Wllllnms. THE VOTE AT SALEM. Fulton '. 32 Geer -15 Wood 14 Williams IT Scattering 3 Absent and paired 9 Total 00 SALEM. Or., Feb. 16. (Staff correspond ence.) The grand drawing in the Sen atorial lottery Is set for this week. Be your own prophet- Write a lot of names on separate slips of paper, put them in. your hat. and then carefully set them to one side. You are altogether likely to be wrong If you try to pick the prize-winner before the Inevitable happens at Salem, and you cannot be wrong If you wait until the thing Is all disposed of here-by the en lightened minds of 00 Legislators, who. in their own enlightened fashion, want to name a Senator, and don't know Just how to get at it There are several ways In which to elect a United States Senator. The first Is to get enough votes for him. It doesn't matter about the others. There are also several ways to ydefeat a candidate for United States Senator, all. of which have been successfully tried In Oregon In the unforgotten past. But. win or lose, some thing must happen ' this week. It will, happen Friday or Saturday, not later; perhaps sooner. AH this Is not very il luminative, but it will have to do. The little word "If" is both the center and circumference of the entire Senatorial merry-go-round. If Fulton holds his strength to the last, he stands a very fine chance to win. If Jhe opposition holds Its strength to the last. It stands a very fine chance to defeat Mr. Fulton. If both these things occur there Is a-very fine chance for a deadlock. If the first hap pens, and the second does not, Fulton Is sure of success. If the second happens, and the first does not. Fulton Is sure of defeat. The third cannot be brought about If either the first or second Is not. All this Is pretty much the same thing as saying Fulton will win If he wins, or Fulton will lose If he loses; or nobody will win If everybody loses. But that's about the size of It all. L'p the I1I1I and Down Again. To get down to business. For 21 days 34 loyal Fulton men. more or less, have marched up the Joint convention hill and have then cheerfully marched down again. The commander-in-chief has remained courageously in the rear, and from a commanding vantage point in the Capitol lobby has developed his forces, pointing this way to ultimate victory or that way to temporary though not inglorious re treat. At timjis the general's headquar ters have been transferred from the well worn spot In the lobby corridor to an up holstered chair In the Secretary of State's office, and there faithful emissaries have brought a constant stream of messages from the firing line, and the plan of cam paign has been directed or revised, or abandoned, as the case might be. It all depended on what the enemy was doing and what the progress of the collision be tween the opposing forces developed. Some days It seemed as if. the Astoria Wellington was about to achieve a blood less but a magnificent Waterloo against the opposing Napoleons from Portland and Salem and various other localities. Other times it was evident that he waa not. Some days It looked as if Napoleon Geer was going to effect a splendid coup "coup" has been a word so frequently em ployed In this campaign that now nearly everybody knows what It means. Other days It was simply observed through the tobacco smoke of battle that the Geer flag was still there a little bedraggled, but still there. Some days there was high hope that there would be a grand union of all the Multnomah warriors under the leadership of one favorite captain, then again it was found with unvarying con stancy that many men may be of many minds, for they simply got together un der a kaleidoscopic variety of captains. But all the same they got together. Slultnomah Is Solid. So far nobody outside of Multnomah: County has received a Multnomah vote. Even Senator Sweek (Dem.) has strictly observed the fashion, and votes always for C. E. S. W"ood. of Portland. The Senator's devotion Is something marvel ous. In view of the well-known fact that his candidate thinks he ought to vote for Governor Geer. the people's choice In June, but not the Legislature's choice In February. Today 1" out of the 13 Repub licans from the county at the mouth ot the beautiful Willamette rallied to the standard of Judge Williams. As evidence that some things can be done as well as others. It was very Instructive, not to say Impressive. If Dr. Smith had been on hand, there would probably have been IS, (Concluded on Fourth Page.)