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-H VOL. XLIIL XO. 13,530. PORTLAND, OBEGON, THURSDAY, APRIL 21, 1904. PRICE FIVE CENTS. rfptttati. ivVlwWI sBEm House Committee Will Block Land Reforms, MAXWELL TOLO TOO MUCH Railroads Believed to Be Play ing for Great Gain. WANT MARKET FOR HOLDINGS l-acey, Mondell and Other Men of In fluence Are Now Willing to Let the Timber Act Stand for a Time. PUBLIC LANDS COMMITTEE. John F. Laeey. Iowa. Frank W. Mondell, Wyoming. James M. Miller, Kansas. James C Needham, California. Eben W. Martin, South Dakota. Joseph W. Fordney, Michigan. Andrew J. Volstead, Minnesota. Joseph M. Dixon, Montana. Philip Knopf, Illinois. George Shiras IU, Pennsylvania. J. J. McCarthy, Nebraska. Francis M. Griffith, Indiana. John I. Burnett, Alabama. George P. Foster, Illinois. William "W. Bucker, Missouri. Cartor Glass, Virginia. Bernard S. Rodey, New Mexico. OREGONIAN NEWS BUREAU, "Wash ington, D. C, April 20. The House com mittee on public lands is to hold an ex ecutive session Friday to take action on the Senate bill repealing the timber and stone act and authorizing the sale of pub lic timber to the best bidders. It has been apparent during the course of hear ings that has been given on this bill that the House committee is overwhelmingly opp jsed to repealing the timber and stone act, and an adverse report Is looked for which will mean no remedial land legis lation this session. A month ago there was a possibility that the House committee might report this bill, although a deal had. been made between the Senate committee and the leading monibers of the House committee to quash the measure and prevent it get ting before the House. At that time, it is said a majority of the membors of the House committee favored the bill and stood ready to report it, if given an op portunity. There has been great reversal of sontl ment, however, due to the admissions made by George H. Maxwell, presidont of the National Irrigation Association. During the hearing on the bill he told the committee that transcontinental rail roads and large holders of scrip had been contributing $60,000 annually to main tain his association, and that these con tributors looked to the organization to exert itself to secure the repeal of the timber and stone, desert land and home stead commutation laws. This admission has been generally taken by membors of the House to mean that these scrlpholdors have been making sjstematlc attempts to secure legislation which would compel persons seoklng tim ber lands and large holdings of others to buy from the railroads or purchase blocks of scrip. In other words, members gen erally believe that the agitation for land r form is instigated entirely by the rail rjads and scripholdors with a view to in creasing the value of their lands and rrovlding a ready market for them. So strong lias become this belief that all chance of passing the Senate bill through the House, even If It could be reported, has been destroyed. Chairman Lacey, Representative Mon dell and other prominent and influential members of the House committee are de WRITE US FOR SAMPLES AND PRICES OF mv Mluv ftmfl LIIvl mn nhi v 1 nmi im i tf i to a HEADQUARTERS FOR ALL KINDS OF RUBBER GOODS GOODYEAR RUBBER COMPANY R. H. TEASE, President. 7S AND 75 FIItST STREET. o o o e o o o o e o e e o o o o e o o o o 1 The Petite Century Is the perfection of Pocket Cameras. Uses both plates and films. 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During the coming Summer, final sur veys will bo made for canals and other works, and It Is expected that contracts for the construction can bo prepared and Jot by the end of the season. The board of consulting engineers will consist of H. N. Savage, J. H. Quinton and "W. H. Sanders which will soon ex amine the Umatilla and Malheur Irriga tion projects in Eastern Oregon to de termine which of the two is the better adapted for Government construction. The report of this board Is likely to load to the formal adoption of one or the othor of those projects. Work on Postoffice Delayed. OREGONIAN NEWS BUREAU. Wash ington, April 20. Because of a desire to change the plans, work on the Portland Postoffice has been further delayed. A department agent at Seattle has been or dered to Portland to find out what alter ations are desired, and report to the de partment. Rural Mail for Waltsburg. OREGONIAN NEWS BUREAU, "Wash ington, April 20. Rural free dollvory service was today ordered established, May 16, at Waltsburg, "Wash., with one carrier. CuUET TIES HANDS OP HLLL. Plan for Dissolving the Merger Is Temporarily Restrained. TRENTON, N. J., April 20. Suit was begun in the United States Circuit Court for the Now Jersey district against the Northern Securities Company, by E. H. Harriman, W. S. Pierce, the Oregon Short Line Railroad Company and the Equitable Trust Company of New York, trustee un der the Oregon Short X.ine participating mortgage, to restrain the Northern Securi ties Company from carrying out the plan adopted by its directors for the distribu tion of the stocks of the Great Northern and Northern Pacific stocks hold in the treasury of the defendant company. The facts In the case as recited by the bill of complaint cover substantially the same ground upon which was based the inter vention suits in the United States In the District of Minnesota, which was decided on Tuesday adversely to the Harriman in terests. Judge Andrew Kirkpatrick today issued a temporary order restraining the carry ing out of the plan of distribution. The court has fixed next Monday, April 25, at 11 A, M., in Trenton, for the hearing of the motion to make the Injunction perma nent. It is said that this injunction will operate to prevent the proposed mooting of stockholders of the Northern Securities Company called for tomorrow at Hobokon to vote upon the Northern Securities direc tors' plan of distribution af the treasury stock. Counsel for Harriman Confer. NEW YORK, April 20. A report was circulated today in this city to the effect that a new suit had been started against the Northern Securities Company, and that an order in the suit, signed by Jus tice Geigorlsch, of the Supreme Court, had been issued returnable tomorrow, but Justice Geigerisch said he had not signed any such order. This new suit was said to have been Instituted by C. H. Venner, of Boston, who was interested in the suit brought by the Continental Securities Company, whose application for an injunction against tomorrow's moot ing of the Northern Securities Company and against the announced method for distributing the holdings of railroad stocks was denied by Vice-Chancellor Bergen, In Jersey City, on Monday. It was later reported that copies of an order directing E. H. Harriman and the Union Pacific Railway to show" cauee why they should not refuse to accept the stock to bo distributed to them under the Hill plan were served upon the coun sel for Harriman and upon the officers of the Northern Securities Company, who must also appear in the action. A conference of counsel on the Harri man side was held late in the afternoon at the office of Kuhn, Ixeb & Co. It was said afterward that no announcement was ready as to the plan of action to be taken. tu PORTLAND, OREGON. o o o c o e e o e o o o e o o 6 o o o o'o o e e America's ORIGINAL MALT WHISKY Without a Rival Today MALT J (09 IU a UUL WILL LOSE STATE Murphy Sure Parker Can't Carry New-York. SAME IS TRUE OF HEARST Boom for McCIellan Is Making Great Headway, HIS SUCCESS MEANS TROUBLE Fornes Would Become Mayor and Tammany Could Not Control Him Feeling of Sadness at the Hearst Headquarters. NEW YORK, April 20. (Special.) The Hearst boom is beginning to bag at the knees. That's the way the situation looks to a man on the ground in the East. New York is on record for Parker and reports that reach here from other sections indi cate that delegates Hearst has been rely ing on are preparing to drop into the Judge's political game bag. Boss Murphy, of Tammany, continues to think the State Convention did wrong in declaring for Parker. Coming up from Atlantic City, in company with a number of newspaper men, he outlined the situa tion from his viewpoint with great appar ent frankness. "The facts in the case are just those," he said. "Thoro is a possibility that the Democrats may win, but it can only be accomplished by taking advantage of everything that arises. At the present time there are only two candidates for the nomination. One is "William Randolph Hearst and the other is Judge Parker. Neither of them could be elected, in my opinion, and I am absolutely certain that neither of them could carry New York. "Democrats from other localities ex press a willingness to support any man who we present as the strongest man and the man who can carry New York State. If we nominate Parker, we must take the responsibility if he is defeated. The result would be that our reputation would be ruined, and the next time we presonted a New Yorker we would navo to combat prejudice and ridicule." Denies He Made Deal Wfth Hill. Mr. Murphy declares absolutely that he has made no agreement with Hill con cerning the Governorship, but it seems to bo protty clearly understood that Tam many -will be asked to furnish tho man Whatever chance Parker might have to carry the state would be entirely lost un less Tammany gives him tho heartiest kind of support, and a straight Hill tlckot from, start to finish would mean a fanat ical scalp-dance in little old New York. Hill realizes It. Parker realizes it, and Murphy understands 1L This explains why the boom for Mayor McCIellan is making great headway. Even the most bigoted Republicans admit he has givon tne city an admirable adminis tration, and up to date the Tammany Tiger seems to have had his teeth drawn and his claws trimmed down. He has avoided tho mistakes of tho Low admin istration, but has prevented tho wide-open town which gamblers and sports goncrally expected him to introduce. Tammany men declare, however, that McCIellan cannot take the nomination, for it would mean the elevation to the Mayor alty of tho president of the Board of Al dermen, who succeeds, under the charter, in case of a vacancy. Now President J. V. Fornos is not a Tammany man. Ho was a reformer two years -ago, did some grand and lofty tum bling last year and landed In office again, but, as "Big Tim" Sullivan said the other day, "God knows what he is politically." Tho Tammany crowd realize that they could not control him, and they don't know who would. They are afraid he would give them a lively year, mix every thing up and cause defeat in 1903. Murphy, however, is a strong supporter of Mayor McCIellan and Is seomingly will ing that the organization should take a chance, if it will redound to the advantage of nls friend. Hero Is Murphy's "dream": The Murphy Dream. November, 1904 Mayor McCIellan nominat ed and elected Governor. November. 1900 Governor McCIellan re elected. Nov ember. 190S Governor McCIellan elected President. Murphy's friends, however, are telling him that Hill will never help him to carry out these schemes. Murpny does not trust Hill and he does not like him. In fact his language when he talks of the ex-United States Senator is more emphatic than po lite. But he believes that Hill will have to "tote fair" if he wants to help along his friend Parker. National Committeeman Norman E. Marck declares that the National Conven tion will get over its work In a hurry. "Judge barker's nomination is as certain as Roosovelts," he declared. "It Is as certain as anything In the future can be that he will be the nomlneo of the Demo cratic party. I wouldn't be surprised to see all opposition to him melt away. With New York in line the other states are get ting in shape with gratifying promptness. The Hearst boom, which once looked for midable. Is getting weaker every day." Hearst Boomers Mostly Reporters. "Up at the Hoffman House, where the Hearst men hang out, there is a feeling of sadness. Still It has been one of the funniest campaigns that has ever been heard of. Tho men in charge of it are not practical politicians. In fact the greater proportion of them are men who have been drafted from the Hearst news papers. For example, a former city .editor of the New York American, Max Ihmsen, Is in charge of the whole affair. His last ad dress was Texas. Managing Editor Mooney Is busy In Tennessee. Managing Editor Lawrence, of Chicago, has Charge of tho Indiana situation, and Publisher Nathan Cohen, of Das Morgen Journal, Hearst's New York German dally, as sisted by James Farrelly, an extremely bright reporter, run the Hoffman House headquartera. Their associates In the different states are largely reporters and discredited labor agitators. For example, in New Jersey an individual named Dooln was in charge, and the net result of his work was "nothing Dooln" principally, It Is said, because of his personal unpopularity with men throughout the state. There is an absolute lack of what poli ticians regard as necessary organization, and In almost every state the Hearst men have endeavored to form organizations and machines of their very own. This, of course, has made tho machine men fight them whether they are opposed to Hearst or not. and It has caused him to lose a groat many delegates which ho might otherwise have counted on for himself. Hearst clubs have been organized all over the country, but In this section of the United States their work has been absolutely without result. Hearst couldn't got a delegate from New York with an ax, and he knows it. New York Papers Pound Boom. All the New York newspapers have be gun to pound the Hearst boom, and the Hearst papers respond with journalistic broadsides. Tho Tlme3 has been charac terized as Belmont's paper, 'controlled by his tamo Ochs. a play on the publisher's nnme. Oswald Vlllard, of the Post, has been called "tho son of a financial pirate who did what his father would never do, robbed his defenseless sister," and even the staid Brooklyn Eagle has come in for some choice remarks. The Eagle responded by declaring that tho man who really runs the Journal and has the brains is Arthur Brisbane, tho editor, and gravely declaring that he, not Hearst, should be the candidate if the radicals are to control the convention. This mock boom has been taken up joy ously by other publications, and the re sult Is that Brisbane has been given a great deal of advertising that ho does not care for. The Hearst men still Insist that they will be able to control the National Con vention and nominate their man, although they admit that New York has given them .a very bad black eye. Every morning tho Hearst papers print a long list of "glorious victories," many of which they have to take back the next day. All In all. It is the most joyful kind of a campaign, but the Hearst boomers are beginning to fear that they will be out of work soon, perhaps even before the National Convention meets. TEALNR0BBEES GET $50,000. Four Men Hold Up Mail Car Trans-Caucasian Line. on T1FLIS, ipril 20. A train on the Trans Caucasian Railway was held up between Novosenakal and Abasha by four armed men, who entered the mail car and, after binding tho officials, escaped with regis tered letters and valuables worth $50,000. iATEDOWN Mr. Stubbs Yields Point to Lumbermen.. INDUSTRY WILL REVIVE Southern Pacific Restores Rate of $3.10 a Ton. REJOICING UP THE VALLEY Rail Shipments to California Coast Points Can Be Resumed-Booth- Kelly Company Prepares-to Operate Full Capacity. The most important result of the recent visit of Traffic Director J.C. Stubbs, of the Southern Pacific Company, is the re duction of the rate on lumber from points in Oregon to coast points in California to the former figure of $3.10 per 100 pounds. In consequence of the raising of the rate some months ago to $5 to all points which could be reached by water, there was a great reduction in the number of men employed both in the woods and the mills of a number of companies operating up the valley. When Mr. Stubbs was here a delegation of lumbermen waited on him and obtained from him a promise to restore the former rate. The good ef fect of this announcement is seen In the following dispatch from Eugene: "Eugene, Or., April 20. (Special.) Noth ing has occurred for 'a long time which Is so gratifying to the business interests of Lane County as the act of the South ern Pacific Company In restoring the rate of $3.10 per ton on lumber from Willamette Valley points to San Francisco. Since the rate was raised last Fall to $3 per ton, the vast lumbering intorests of this county have been unable to operate the mills to anything like their full capacity, and as a result nearly every business has felt some depression. "The Booth-Kelly Company, which a year ago was running a force of 1000 men in four large mills, has only been doing about one-third of its full business. Now this company announces that It will at once Increase Its output and put on its old force of operatives. The mills that are running now part time will run full time, and other mills will start as soon as HE WOULD LIKE TO KNOW. logs can be had. Logging crew3 are to be pu,t In the woods at once." "Nothing could be of greater benefit to Lane County than this restoration of former rates by the railroad." BLIZZABD RAGES IN ST. LOTUS. Storm Begins With Sleet and the Temperature Drops Rapidly. ST. LOUIS, April 20. A severe storm raged here today, at times assuming the proportions of a blizzard. The storm be gan with a sleet storm, followed by a fall of 20 degrees of temperature. Fol lowing there was a snowfall of Ave Inches. Street traffic was Impeded and trains were late. The snow prevented the games between St. Louis and Chicago National League teams, and St. Louis and Cleveland Amer ican League teams, scheduled for today. Five to seven inches of snow fell within a radius of 150 miles of St. -uouls. Snow in Kentucky. LOUISVILLE, Ky., April 30. Dis patches received report a heavy snow fall and damage to fruit in Western Ken tucky. A snowfall at this time of the year in these localities Is unprecedented. Light Show at Kansas City. KANSAS CITY. April 20. A light snow, accompanied by a fall In the temperature, fell In Northwestern Missouri today. Throughout Kansas there was a heavy rain, an Inch of water falling. Zero Weather in Vermont. MONTPELIER. XL, April 20. Central and Northern Vermont are snow covered as the result of a snow storm which be gan last night and still prevailed today. The mercury stands at zero. Furious Snow Storm in New York. OSWEGO, N. Y., April 20. A furious snow storm with high winds and low tem perature was raging In this section today. Blizzard conditions prevail throughout Northern New York. Coldest April in Ten Years. HAGERSTOWN, Md.. April 20. The coldest weather in April for ten years prevails in this section. Small streams were frozen over and wagons crosced on the Ice. Heaviest Snow in Thirty Years. EVANSVILLE. Ind., April 20. The heaviest snowfall In 30 years has delayed traffic today and all trains are late. At Rockport the fall of snow was four inches. North Carolina Traffic Impeded. CHARLOTTE, N. C, April 20. A snow storm today Impeded street-cars and steam railroad traffic. WILL LAY GREAT PIPE-HUE. Standard Oil Company Will Build From Texas to New York. CHICAGO, April 20. The morning pa pers will announce that the Standard Oil Company has planned to lay a pipe, line from Texas to New York, with branoh lines radiating to tho various oil fields. In this way the entire oil Droduution of the United States Is to be hand'ed. As an adjunct to this enterprise refiner ies will bo erected at convenient Inter vals. The cost of pumping oil Is said to be about one-tenth of that of shipping It by rail. M T HEIR F I Japanese Ready to Ad vance on Russians. SECOND ARMY SHOWS UP Potsina Is the Point Where It ill Disembark. ENEMY CAN CAUSE NO WORRY Troops Will Be in a Good Position to Move on MukdenFeng Hang Chen Will Be th'o Scene of a Great Battle. SPECIAL CABLE TO THE LONDON TIMES AND PORTLAND OREGONIAN. ST. PETERSBURG, April 21. The sub joined telegram from General Kouropat kin received by the Czar yesterday has been made public. General Kashtalinsky reports as follows on April 19: "AH is quiet on the Yalu. The Japan ese are throwing up lntrenchments oppo site Golutzky and further to the north. "The numbers of Japanese troops are increasing. They are concentrating at Wiju and spreading north along the Yalu. "Cossack sentinels have observed the lights of Japanese transports near Ching Tal Tse, opposite the village of Potinsa, 23 versts west of Tatungkau. The vessels were anchored at a distance of 50 versts from the shore. "According to dispatches from General MIstenchenko, Japanese ships were also .seen near Sou Chou." The appearance of Japanese troops off Potinsa Is believed here to be the begin ning of the oft-rumored attempt on the part of the enemy to inaugurate a flank ing movement. If the troops are landed under the guns of warships, their landing cannot be prevented, and they will be in a position to threaten Mukden, where the Russian army headquarters are now lo cated. Military experts here have long regarded the vicinity of Potinsa as the probable point of disembarkation of the second Japanese expedition. It is not far away from Taku Shan, 12 miles to the cast, and .connects by road with Port Arthur. 150 miles to the southwest, and Feng Huan Cheng, 50 miles to the northwest, where the Russians will make their first ob stinate resistance. Though the Japanese are building in trenchments on the Yalu, It Is believed they will advance soon. The arrange- I (Concluded on Second Page.) CONTENTS OP TODAY'S PAPER Itnsso-JapancMo War. Second Japanese army will land at Potsina, and nankins movement la expected to begin at once. Page 1. Kouropatkln reports all quiet on the Yalu. Page 1. Japanese continue to throw up fortifications on the Yalu. Page 1. Domestic. Toronto flre put over 200 firms out of business, 10.000 men out of employment, and loss will reach $12,000,000. Page 2. New Jersey Judge issues temporary order blocking Hill's plan of distributing the merger stocks. Page 1. v Political. Murphy is confident neither Parker nor Hearst can carry New York. Page 1. Olney men make concessions to Hearst dele gate In Massachusetts. Page 12. "West Virginia Democratic Convention nearly has several fist fights; delegates arc for Gorman first, Parker second. Page 3. Congress. House commltteo will prevent passage of bill te amend land lawn. Page 2. DollKer addresses the Senate on trusts and defends Republican policies. Page 12. House passes one of Senate amendments to naval bill, then senda It back to conference. Page 12. Sports. Dog show opens and first awards of prizes are made. Page S. Wet weather causes ball game to be postponed. Page 5. Coast League may abandon Fresno a3 a base ball town. Page 3. Commercial and Marine. Review of local produce and Jobbing markets. Page 13. Condition of San Francisco potato trade. Page 13. Stock market unsettled by North Pacific con test. Page 13. Wheat weak at Chicago on better crop pros pects. Page 13. Bids for lumber and building materials opened at Vancouver, Seattle and San Francisco. Page 12. Steamer Ching Wo ordered to quarantine. Page 12. Pacific Coast League scores: Tacoma 1. Oak land 0; Los Angeles 2, San Francisco 5. Page 5. Pacific Coast. Tacoma is to be a wide-open town, under pro tection of the Major and police. Page 4. Conference of Piles. Wilson and Furth is with out result. Page -I. Ten thousand horses wanted for Japanese War and domestic purposes. Page 4. .Portland and Vicinity. Counterfeiter and his outfit captured; the pris oner makes full confession. Page 0. State plumbing law found to forbid the trade altogether. Pace 0. Southern Pacific again reduces rates on lumber to California, and the trade will revive in the Willamette Valley. Page 1. Shadowy foundation for charges against High School boys. Page 8. Anna Eva Fay tells Tho Oregonlan of her wonderful powers. Page 7. Henry Watterson lectures on Lincoln, but re fuses to talk politics. Page S. Portland Fresbjtery hears whys preachers are growing ecarce. and elects delegates to the General Assembly. Page 8. L. H. Mooser calls a delegate to Democratic convention a liar, and narrowly escapes a blow. Pace 14. Sweek defeated In contest for chairmanship of Democratic County Committee. .Page 14. Council receives protest from saavengers against garbage ordinance. Page 14. Council votes against annexation of Montavilla. and Mount Tabor. Page 14. - ' ii t