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THE MORNING -OBEGOKIAN,' TA2UABY 23, 1905r TO STOPGUMQ Railroad o m m i ss i o n Will Be Passed. IT GOMES UP THIS WEEK Washington Houses Will Vote for It to Bring Peace. CAUSE OF TURMOIL IN PARTY Big Common Carriers Will Be Given a Hearing Before Committees on How They Will Take Their Medicine. OLTMPIA, Wash.; Jan. 22. (Staff Cor respondence.) The Tailroad commission bill, which for many years has been the skeleton at all political feasts in the State of Washington," has at last stalked bofdly Into the open and during the com ing week will rattle its bones and creak its Joints before both the House and Sen- ate committees. A large number of the voters of the State of Washington have succeeded in convincing themselves that a railroad commission is the one great panacea for all ills financial and political, and after years, of waiting they are at last in a fair way to supplant theory with practice. A few of the leaders in (he Senate and the House were inclined to sidetrack the commission bill until after the Senatorial fight was out of the way. Their idea was that Instead of having star performances in two rings at the same time the circus would be less productive of ennui If the stellar attractions were divided up and exhibited one at a time. The commission forces, however, last session discovered n affinity existing between votes lor a Senator and votes for the commission bill, and they expect to make use of the dis covery this session. Asset for Senator-Makers. The market value of this stock as an asset in a Senatorial fight is an unknown quantity just at present, for the simple reason that every Senatorial possibility who has got far enough into the fight to become a target for whatever the oppo sition may throw his -way has already de clared himself In favor of a railroad com mission The "dyed-ln-the-wool" commis sion men who place this legislation above everything else that is to come before the present session have for this reason been unable to build up a very formidable or ganisation. As a matter of fact, if the passage of the commission bill depended -on the sup port of those only who are firm believers in the necessity or wisdom" of such legis lation, it would not pass this session. The Bill Will Pass. But the bill will pass In some shape or other and it will be passed by men who have no faith in its merits and who will vote for It in orderfo stop this everlast ing, clamor and bickering that has kept the Republican party of the state In a turmoil for a number of years. Under such circumstances the placing of the "rock-ribbed, simon-pure" commission vote on the auction block, to be knocked down to the Senatorial candidate who has the greatest number of votes to ex change, may not be an unqualified suc cess as a "settler" of the Senatorial fight. Of all the candidates now In the field Charles Sweeny Is the one man who stood on his party platform and declared him self in favor of a railroad commission more than two years ago. Not only is his record good on this matter, but the bulk of his following are men who arc pretty thoroughly Infatuated with the commission idea. It would be manifestly unfair to Sweeny for the commission men to abandon him for some eleventh-hour convert to the cause simply because the other man might have a few more votes to offer. There will be plenty of votes to pass the bill without the necessity of resorting to such methods, and if .they are attempted it is not unlikely that a serious rupture may take place in the commission forces Railroads Will Have a Hearing. But the commission bill is coming into the limelight this week. The respective chairmen of the railroad committees have notified the railroad men to come down early and stale whether thoy prefer to be boiled in oil or fried in lard. There Is wide difference, of opinion among the members of the committee as to the par ticular style of commission bill which can do the least damage or the mosfgood. and it will require a long time properly to thresh the matter out in committee and get It In shape to present to the two houses for ratification, rejection amendment. With such a difference of opinion as to the kind of a bill that should be passed and with- railroad cdmmlsslon men in the camps of all four of the leading Sena torial candidates, it is not exactly plain where much Senatorial capital cau be made out of the Issue at this time. But Little Opposition Expected. Much of the interest that was awakened in the bill two years ago was due to the hard fight which the railroads made against it, and also to its alignment with the Ankeny-Preston Senatorial fight. This year the railroads are not expected to make much of a fight against It so long as they are not too badly handled, and if it is dragged into the Senatorial- fight its sponsors will quickly realize tho lack of necessity for its being there and with draw It. E. W. W PLENTY OF BOLD TALK. Washington Senatorial Contest Shows Little Change. OLTMPIA, Wash.. Jan. 22. (Special.) There is an intangible feeling in the Olympla atmosphere tonight that impor tant changes and developments In the Senatorial fight will be forthcoming dur ing the present week. In the nbsence of a great number of the members the origin of this Impression- is difficult to analyze. Tonlght"straln from Tacoma and Seat tle brought to Olympla' only a few of the many members who went to the larg er cities or to their homes to spend Sun day. S. H. Piles returned to his head ouarters, and Senators Van Devanter. Tnctor and . - few others of the Sins ; County" latent -are kln-ln .tJhe : capital. THhsoa. wh3 wrat to Seaitfe Friday, has not xemrned. J Then; is no dearth, "however, at coafl- i dent claims on the part of the supporters of the several candidates. Bach confi dently asserts that the week, will witness a callingr-in C cola-storage votes." and each dates to iavo tbsn- The Piles xnenJ. - are claiming one bonch of Are voles which j they sax they "rffl land early In the week- : The "Wilson men assert that John Ts strength Trill early go to 3) or 2i The . Foster men "make indefinite- claims.'' and 4 an the Sweeny supporters are supremely j sanguine. The claims of all the, candidates do not j Include the mentioning of nan rn, and ! brought down to an actual basis of fact there is little Indication tonight of a transfer of support on tomorrow's ballot, j There will probably be a small amount of i flirtation. Griffin and Keyes. of Whatcom. , are uncertainties snce their recent trade of Senatorial sweethearts, and it is said j they are preparing for other mysterious ( "moves. Several of -the Democrats are i likely to throw bouquets, and the Jones j men are getting restive, but if -other j changes are on the tapis they are being kept severely quiet. In spite of the feeling that something I will happen in the next few ballots, the logic of the situation is still opposed to J J ZZZZ .71. C prcel ""cor- The hopes of both Sweeny and Wilson, wu.i.vflh. will! ou L u. UI lUUi wno at present arc the favorites in the race, are based on a long campaign, and particularly Is this true of Wilson. A lit tle or Wilsons tangible strength may still be scattered among the other candi dates, but his main hopes consist In what nc expects to draw from Piles and Fos ter. In this connection the true Inwardn MI Of the attempt of the Tacoma narjers o mak a bugabqo. of Sweeney. gold is revealed. vrnson expects the owner of tho two lad ing 1300118. S. A. Perkins, to hand over 10 mm an. or at least the greater part, of the Pierce County delegation, and Perkins is said to be willing, when Fos ter's forces break. Any man who goes to Sweeny will get a roast similar to that accorded Stansell. of Stevens. If one de sires to go to Piles or Furth he will en danger an attack upon him for betraying Tacoma's interests to Seattle. Wilson's Seattle home will -ha looked, and the members who may aid in we election oi wiison. t it reaches that point. Vill be applauded for their patriot ism in preventing, after the hnmim.c. of Foster's fight had become certain, the success of the ''man with the barrel." and for aiding to elect-a "man whos. intjnt. are state-wide." Obviously the sucresa nT til nloJ ...m be aided by the augmenting to a certain degree of the Sweeny vote and by the hanging together of tli Tinr- r ... delegation in Foster's Interests for the wiue uemg. it is stili a little early to ex pect a very great Uslnterratlnn nf strength of either PIIm or vt .. less some unlooked-for combination is suddenly perfected, another week of slow auu;iB is to De JooKcd for. STATE TO BUILD ROADS. UDject of Bill Introduced in the Washington House. OLTMPIA. Wash.. .Tn ci..i n A. bill creating a permanent road fund rL boen PrcPad by Representative George McCoy, of Lewis County, and win oc advanced sis a soimiin nf v. ing state road questions that crop up with iV V i "ons OI morc or Ics magnitude attached at every session of the Leglsla- Mr. McCoy's bill nrovlHrs for- th ing by the state, in much the same man ner as is now levied a tax for mim,-- purposes. ,4-mIll on the total equalized valuation of property In the state. The proceeds of this tax levy are to consti tute a fund from which tho Legislature iu nereaiicr maKe appropriations for trunk lines In various narts of tin. The bill provides for the levying of the m. jcanj, ana. upon the present equal ized Valuation of property, would provide $150,000 per annum for road-bulldlug. a companion- Dill nas alreadv been In troduced in the house. This bill provides fcr the creation of a permanent road commission, to be appointed by the Gov ernor, one of the members of which shall be a civil engineer and surveyor. weuner of the bills provides for the completion or improvement of specific roads. It is the plan to pave the way by their passage for future road legislation. The Legislature will decide what amount ot money shall be expended on cortain roads, such amounts to be paid out of the road fund firoxided by the tax levy, tho building and Improvement of them to be in charge of the state road commis sion. Mr. McCoy Is chairman pf the House appropriations committee, and Is an earn est advocate of state wagon road build ing. Referring to his new bill yesterday, he said that It would not provide funds for road building. If passed, until 1906. but that this legislature could pass bills that woum appropriate money from tho fund at that time. In the meantime moderate appropriations only from the general fund would be required for the road work that Is Imperatively needed at once. The McCoy bill will be presented carlv next week. C R. Case, who is in Olympla as the representative of the State Federation of Labor, refuses to indorse resolutions that have been adopted by two trades unions on Gray's Harbor and forwarded to each member of the Legislature. The resolutions emphatically call for the enactment of a law that will bar the employment of married women as teach ere in the public schools. The queer thing about them Is. that one of the organlza tions adopting the resolution is a car pentcrs' union and the other a carpen ters and Joiners' union. Mr. Case has notified the union that such a bill would be unconstitutional There is an individual in Olympla who wants legislation enacted prohibiting the custom of treating In saloons. He sug gests in a letter to C It. Case, represent ative of labor, that the Federation would do mankind a service by favoring the passage of a law that would prescribe a penalty of 55 in every Instapce where a man is found guilty of treating another to a drink in a saloon. Ed Benn Is author of one of the cutest and meanest things yet said about the Senatorial' light- When the bill was in troduced In the house providing tor the appointment of guardians for spend thrifts, Benn. .with flashing eyo.sald: "Itgan outrageous bllL It shews on its face that it's Intended to hamper Foster's campalgrrfor election to the United States Senate." CHILD-BEATER IS FINED. - Louis Toedtemeier Twice Convicted of Two Punishments of Daughter. OREGON CITY, Or.. Jan. tt (Special.) A jury in the Circuit Court late last night returned a verdict finding Louis Toedtemeier, a German farmer residing at Stafford, guilty of assault and battery, the specific charge being the cruel beat ing of his 11-year-old daughter. Ruby. The testimony at the trial clearly estab lished the fact of the excessive punish ing of the child, who persisted in running away from home, and was otherwise ob stinate. The case was heard on an ap peal from the Oregon City Justice Court. where Toedtemeier had been found guuty and was fined S3 and costs amounting to about The jury was out three hours. Boy Sells Stolen Whisky. LA GRANDE. Or.. Jan. 22. (Special.) Elmer Henson. a minor, was put under 5150 bonds in the Justice Court, he hav ing S3ld whisky to several other minors and getting them drunk. The whisky was' stolen by tbe boy. GKA. V 1Jl1 1 u X2VKLIDS. Murine Eye Remedy cures this and other By 3 troubles, makes weak eyes stronc p r r- f. t rr- fprCIirir lXH K K T T T H T 3l! t T LJlUL. Ul S1LI LllUilUL PlanESiiggste'd dor .Preptra- tioK6f.SessionLiw " ' SHQWH IH 'VARSITY BULLETIN Error Now Made With Clumsy Sys tem In Use Would in Large Meas ure Be Avoided by the Change. 1 -Aprim- portant change in "the method of -prepar-lcsr and nublishlnc the session laws of the Legislature. ,wlth a view to making thcm morc convenient for reference, is proposed by Secretary of State Dunbar, who has been studying the subject- for sometime. In the course of his investiga tions, Mrl Dunbar found a bulletin of the University of New York, issued by the AN EARIT riOJSTEEB OF OREGON DEAD. L E. Saline. I. E. Sailer, who died at ha home In Weston Or., January 12, was one ot Oregon's early pioneers. Bom in Mon roe County. Missouri. October 19. 1S30. Mr. Saline crosred the plains with an ox team In 1S52, and located In Tamhill County. The following year he went Into the Hoeue River mining country and endured for a Winter all the priva tions of early csunp Mfc. Returning to Tamhill County, he was married In ISM to Miss Mallnda Morton. In 1S53. Mr. and Mrs. Sating fettled on a farm near Walla TValla, but re turned to Oregon In and took up their home at Weston, where they have resided continuously rinee. Since hli adoption of Weston as a home be had always been identified with the interests of the town, and was for many ytar a member of the firm of Sallng & Iteese. one "Weston's mobt :eueoefuI buslnrss . institutions. -t'pen retiring from ctlvr dxiirarreial life. Mr. Sallng devoted his attention solely lb caring for his extensive ana varied property interests. Mr. Sallng was a man of strong char acter and the utmost Integrity, and was beloved not only by those of his family, but by his business associates and friends. Mr. Sallng is survived by his wife and eight children Mrs. C. T. Bull finch; of Weston; Mrs. P. A. Worth Ington and' Mrs. F. H. Coffin, of Port land; Mrs. L. M. Funk, of Spokane; County Clerk Frank Sallng. of Pendle ton; Edwin J.. Herman M. and Ralph G. Sallng. of Weston. Sociology Librarian, bearing directly upon mis matter and showing what other states have done to improve the system in use. Some of the suggestions made by the bulletin are so obviously practical that It seems strange that Oregon Legislators have not thought of them before this and adopted ahem in compiling and publishing session laws. The first recommendation of -the New York sociologist Is one that will find favor with every Legislator and lawyer who has had occasion to refer to an act published in the session laws. It is that "public acts should be numbered consecutively, and citations should Iv number and section, rather than page, title or date. Clumsy System at Present. Under the present system in Oregon the acta of the Legislature are known by their titles and the date of their approval by the Governor, and it Is by reforence to them in this manner that they are amend cd. Thus, in amending an act of the Leg lsiaturc oi ukb. a bin is prepared with title which reads: "A bill for an act to amend section 5 of an act entitled, "an act to provide for the licensing of domes tic corporations.' -etc.. eta. filed in the of fice of the Secretary of State. February 16. 1933. The title of a bill of this kind often ex tends to several hundred words and some times Involves numerous quotations of titles of previous acts, until It is almost Impossible to straighten out the maze ot Involved quotations. This reference previous acts by quoting their titles often leads to errors, and it has happened sev era! times that the validity of very Im porta t acts was in doubt because the titles had not been quoted correctly. In the illustration given above only a few words of the title are quoted, and much more would be necessary In drafting bill. Under the plan proposed by the Socio! ogy Librarian of the University of New York, which plan Is Indorsed by Secre tary of State Dusbar. each act passed by the Legislature would be given a number In the order it appears in the published session laws, and then an amendatory act would be entitled. "A bill for an act to amend section 5 of act 27 of the Law of Oregon. IMS." That is the form now used in amending sections of the code, when it is stated in the title that the pur pose of a bill is "to amend section 2201 of the Bellinger and Cotton's Annotated Laws of Oregon." Prominent lawyers who have had experience- in the Legisla ture say there is no reason why the ses sion laws should not be compiled and given legal authority so that they could be amended in the same manner. The Bellinger and Cotton compilation was published in accordance with an act , of th. legislature, and if the act direct ing the Secretary of State to publish the session laws were to contain a provision that he shall number the acts In the or der they nre filed" and place, the numbers at the head of the published acts, the ses sion laws could be amended in the same manner as the code. All but seven states of the Union place a number at the beginning of each act. The seven states which do not are Ala bama. Georgia. Illinois. Missouri. Mon tana. Ohio and Oregon. It will, therefore, -be seen that Oregon has good company In helng'slow to adopt the moft approved methods, though her cb panlaEsaro few. A Bill Exasklnw-- Another rwnamfniiatinii of the Sociol ogy Librsxkta. Is that "all bills should be firaftea -cr revised as to form by a ""per manent, specially trained official" Com menting on this recmamendarlon. the bul- letlnsays: "Somt.sJaxle official should be Trrao responsible for the form, phrase-" olosy, .annotation, indexing and .publica tion of" SIT acts passed.. The acts at'presr ect are cumbered with, useless verbiage, and are'-so lnaccuratetr expressed that it Impossible to be certain as to their meaning. Constant litigation Is the re sult-" Oregon had mrrh trouble with laws that are uncertain In, their meaning or are defective In form, and in the last few sessions much trouble has been- caused by the passage of two or more acts upon the same subject, which acts were incon sistent in themselves, and It' was doubt ful which should, prevail- This was the case with some of the road laws of the session of 1903. . The act of 3W1. which created the office of Master Fish Warden Jld not expressly repeal the previous law cruiixlg the office of Fish Commissioner, and it required a decision of the Supreme Court, to deter mine whether both offices existed at the same time. Numerous other instances could be cited showing the evil effects of passing laws which arc not dennite in their Intention or consistent witn otner laws. Chance for Errors to Pass. Bills that pass the scrutiny of the Judi ciary committees are generally in proper form, but there are many bills' that go to the committees on agriculture, puouc roads, commerce and numerous other subiects. where no lawTcr gives them his special attention, and defects In form ore not noticed. Ordinary clerks Knowwuue, If anything, of law. and some of them are poor masters of the English language, as poor grammar, spelling and punctuation attest. The Idea advanced In the bulletin is that the acts, before finally leaving the Legislature's hands and going to the Gov ernor, should be examined by some one man of recognized ability and stancing ums whom would rest the responsioiiuy of seeing that the proposed laws are in vnn,t- form anMiratP in lanzuacc ajifi consistent with, existing laws. As to the policy of the acts, he would not concern Mmir hut would merely determine trhPther the Legislature had accomplished what It sought to do In the passage or. the act. . Th work would not be of a clerical na- n and rmiid not be delegated to clerks, A great majority of the acts, being short and simple In their provisions, couia oo Tv Med unon verv OUlCKly. DUl long ana complicated ones, sucn as rou fishery laws, game laws, etc, would take mere time. QUARANTINES ON THE COAST Government Will Move When State . Abandons Service. SALEM. Or.. Jan. 22. (Special.) United States quarantine officers have given as 6tirar.ee that the United States will es tablish quarantine service at Yaquina, Gardiner and Coos Bay wnenevcr uie state abandons its service at these points. This assurance the Senate demanded be fore It would pass Senator Miller's bill. Senate bill 4. discontinuing the state quar antine offices at these points and at As toria. , Without doubt the hill will now De passed, for by the repeal of the law creating the state quarantine omces. mo state will not only save J230O a year, but will be given a Federal service much bet ter than that of the state could pos sibly be. When Senator Miller b bill came up tor final consideration by the Senate last Thursday. It was supported by the Judi ciary committee, which has investigated the subject and was satisfied that the Government would take up the quaran tine work. President Kuykendall was not satisned. and remarked that tho Gov eminent might serve the state in this matter as it had Jn the Celilo Canal work. The bill was therefore re-referred for fur ther Investigation. Governor Chamberlain at once tele graphed to Baylls II. Earlc. assistant sur geon In the United States Marine Hospi tal Service, at Astoria.. Inquiring what assurance the Government will give as to the establishment of quarantine sta tions. This dispatch was forwarded by wire to ashlngton and the touowing reply at once received from the Hospital Service Bureau: Replying to your telegram to Dr. Earle, of Astoria, forwarded to this bureau, desiring as surances that the United States will take charge of maritime quarantine and establish service at points now maintained by the state. such assurance Is hereby giver, and has been apprqvea by the Secretary of the Treasury. GEXNAN, Acting Surgeon-General. Several advantages are to be gained by the state besides the saving of expense. The Government officials have much more power than stutc quarantine offi cers and can enforce more strictry quar antine regulations. Each United States quaVantlnc station receives each week a report showing health conditions at every other port in the United States. In addition to that, the Government keeps Its officers informed by telegraph and cable of the health conditions at for eign ports, and warns them of any dan ger of contagion on shins leaving for the United States. Such service as thia the state cannot give and cannot secure' except by abandoning its quarantine sta tions and thus inducing the United States to take up the work. At Astoria the Government already has a quarantine station and the state health officer at that place U therefore entirely useless. At Gardiner, Marsh field and Yaquina the Government has no officers and will not employ them so long as the state maintains its quarantine serv ice at those points. Assistant Surgeon Earle. in charge of the United States Maritime Hospital Service at the mouth of the Columbia, Is Jn Salem and will remain here several days, ready to give the legislative com mittees any Information they may desire regarding the work of the department in which he is engaged. THOUGHT BOY WAS A COUGAR Huntsr Shot Fourteen-Year-Old Ar thur Ferguson in Idaho Mountains. HOPE. Idaho. Jan. 22. (Special.) Arthur Ferguson, a 14-year-old boy. while out hunting about three- miles from East Hope, was mistaken for a cougar by Mlnnes Miller ahd instantly killed with si rifle ball. The boy was alone, as was Mr. Miller, who lives at East Hope. Miller was looking for a i eougar. and when ho saw young Fer guson moving among the bushes, the lad's appearance was like that of on animal. Miller fired and tbe boy fell dead. . When Miller saw his mistake he was nearly distracted. Mexican Line Gets Bigger Subsidy. (SpeclaU-Word reached' this "city today from Ottawa that the hitch regarding the proposed Mexican line of steamship serv ice had been accounted for by sir William Mullock. He states that last December c Mexican government sent word to the Canadian government that the amount of monev demanded for the Pacific service was disappointing to them and suggested that the contract stand over for a month until they could consult an eminent cngi- j necr. who was at that time absent from i the country. They proposed a" second sub sidy at J30.000 more than the first offer, raising the amount to C3O.C00L The At lantic service will at once be started, while the Pacific service will be operated as soon as ships can be placed In com mission. Headaches and Neuralgia Front Colds laxative Promo Qulaln. world-wide Cold and Grip rmJF. removes tJe came. Call for fnll name and look for signature E W. Grove. 25c WANTS FAIR: PLAY Senate; Objects to Way .House . Iakes;yplime, BILLS 60 a GFtWEYARD Higher-Body In Legislature Complains That Lower Favors Its Own Meas ures Will Take Up Commit tee -Work to Kill Time. SALEM, Or., Jan. 22. (SpccIsL) Reci procity relations must be established be tween the Oregon State Senate and the House of Representatives or there is like ly to be a suspension of legislation in the upper branch. This is indicated very strongly by tho remarks of a Senate leader who doesn't like the way the House holds up Senate bills. He explains that the Senate works more rapidly tfcan the House and disposes of more business. It has already passed H Senate bills and. seven House bills. The House has passed 13 House bills and two Senate bills. At the last session and at many previous sessions a large number of bills were buried under the mass of measures accu mulated in the- House and received no final action. As the House is anxious to get its own bills through. It neglects the Senate bills, and they are left In the graveyard when the time for adjourn ment arrives. "I don't think we'll get caught that way this time," remarked a Senator today. "We will guard against It. The House, however, should treat us with the cour tesy that is due from one branch of the Legislature to the other. Wo don't ask anything more than what is fair, but we shall expect the House to give as much attention to Senate bills as we do to House bills, according to the number in troduced. "The Senators have a great deal to do on Joint committee work, and I think that if the House doesn't loosen up on some of our Senate bills, we shall hold short sessions and spend our time in commit tees." The practice in the House has been to proceed through the regular business un til reaching" the order, "first reading of senate Dins, when the . rules are sus pended and the House returns to the first order of business and proceeds again to consider House measures. In this way Senate bills are entirely neglected. The Senators have been talking the situation over quietly, and If there Is not a change of methods in tho lower house, something will happen to remind the Representatives that the Senators want some considera tion for matters In which they arc in tcrested. COLVILLE MAN DIES FOR LOVE Shoots Himself Five Times, the Last Bullet Taking Effect. COLVILLE. Wash.. Jan. 22. (Spe clal.) Suicide was the cause of the deuth of R. L Hardin, the Big Basin farmer, whose body was found in his cabin five miles southwest of Orlne, yesterday. Disappointment in love im pelled the act. Prone upon the floor in the. middle of the room was the dead form of the man. In the rignt hand. clutched as if endeavoring to dis charge the weapon, was a rifle, and scattered" upon, the floor were five shells, four of which had been dis charged and one that had missed fire, the sixth .'he'll was still In the gun. In the. floor were three bullet holes within the radius of six inches. Over the left eye was the furrow of a rifle ball that had failed of its deadly mis slon and left a trace of It3 flight through the hair. On the right, side of the head whs a ghastly wound opened to the brain made by the last I bullet fired, the one which ended his J nfe. i From all indications the man had writhed In the agonies of death for some time before the vital spark had lied. Hardin told one of his most intimate friends that If the young woman with wnom ne was in love should marry anj other man, there would be nothing to live for. On tnc day of the wedding Hardin was last seen alive. On the table at one side of the room, written on two sheets of paper in a, small writing tablet he left note telling why "he killed himself. HAS CORNER IN LOGS. British Columbia Man Bought Up Rafts and Demands High Prices. NEW WESTMINSTER. B. C. Jan. 22. (special.) A search for logs has been In stltutcd by all the sawmills in Southern British Columbia, and, as a consequence. a small boom of logs can command almost any price. When the bottom went out of the market last year, a local dealer, J. S. Emerson, cornered all he could get at rock-bottom prices, and! now, since the trade has brushed up, Mr. Emerson has some splendid offers at hand for his logs. Hardly an accessible boom can be located at present, and any of any value are being towed across the line to Puget Sound mlUr, where exorbitant prices are being paid for British Columbia logs. The wet weather has been most unfa vorable for logging, and In many districts the condition of the roads renders traffic Impossible. The boom In the log business as well as many other lines Is ascribed to the sense of security felt In both the United States and Canada since the late Federal elec tion. ENGINEER HUNTER IS SHOT. Dan Burns Receives Wound in Leg in Mysterious Fashion. ST. HELENS. Or., Jan. 22 (SpeciaL- Dan Burns, engineer on the Columbia City & Nehalem Logging Company's road was wounded In a rather mysterious manner this morning. Burns and a com panlon had crossed the Columbia and were hunting on the Caples place. In Washington. They were chasing a crip pled goose, when a report rang out and a charge of shot paised through the calf of Burns leg. inflicting quite a serious wound. Burns was taken to St- Helens to have the wound dressed and sent to St. Vin cent's Hospital. In Portland, this even ing. He has no idea as to who fired the shot- J FJRE'DESTROYS BROOM FACTORY ! Enterprise Had Just Been Started at Roscburg. ROSE BURG. Or. Jan. 22. (Special.) The Roseburg broom factory was burned last night- The cause of fire is unknown. i The loss is O30. with $2500 insurance. i " It OA Por Infants and Children. Tiis Kind You Have Always Bought Sears the .SlU&tS78 Of I You walk with her, you rock hor, you give her sugar, you try all kinds of things! But she coughs all through the long night, just the same ! No nee&spending another night this way. Just a dose or two of Ayer's Cherry Pectoral will -soothe the throat, quiet the cough, insure a good night's rest. Ask your doctor about the wisdom of your keeping this remedy in night coughs of the children. Doctors have the formula. They know all about this medicine. a 1 3Cas by th jr. C. wusuninn or vits CTenarnr 4fcjl fc4r ATXX'S 8A2SAPASJXUL-ror t0 Mxxi. initCTafiBBnTwaisaOTirOTR's was recently completed and doing good business. It may be rebuilt, STANFORD CREW IS TRAINING Now at Work on Rowing Machines Portland Men Candidates. STANFORD UNIVERSITY. Cal.. Jan. 22. Preliminary training in boating lines began with work on the rowing machines in the gymnasium. Prospects are bright for a winning crew this year, although no freshman material has yet developed. A. strong coach has been secured in Pro fessor w. F. Durand, late of Cornell, who was a successful oarsman there. A good course near by in the bay has been se cured nhere practice with ar shell can be had every day. AH of last year s material is back again with the exception of one man. Two men who we expected, to make a bard try for places on the varsity crew are F. Zim merman and A. Rosenfeld, both of Port land. Zimmerman captained last year's freshman crew, and Rosenfeld was cox swain. Another three-cornered meet will be held this Spring. Stanford, California and Washington competing. 'NORTHWEST DEAD. Mrs, Douglas Telford. OREGON CITY. Or.. Jan. 22--(Special.) Mrs. Douglas Telford, a native of Den- holm, Scotland, and fir 30 years a resident of Oregon City, died this morning at the home of her son. Maxwell Telford, at Canemah. She was aged S3 years, 6 months and 9 days. Public Schools In Forto Rico. WASHINGTON. Jan. 22. The annual report of the Commissioner of Education for Porto Rico, Samuel McCune Lindsay, made public today by the Interior De partment, says that at the beginning of the present school year there were ap proximately 1200- public schools in opera tion in Porto Rico, involving an annual outlay of SiOO.CQO. This, the report says. i3 A "HAm-aAVTTR." that grows In popularity. G-OlN&l GOINGS GONE.!!! innCHEWIU SITE IT sancisEwiLLunrr HE NEEDS A GUARDIAN The business man who is too busy to loolc after his health and personal comfort needs a guardian- To notice dandruff and falling hair is beneath his idea ot business. Later when Incurable baldness comes ha will waste money trying to SrK tlKts, HM. Sn 1&C, sttsp, tl HE3PICIDE CO., EL H. IMratt, WcL, tK l Suptt NEWB.RO'S HERPICIDE The ORIGINAL remedy that "kills the Dandruff Germ." 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Xasa. the maximum amount that the finance, of the Insular Department will permit. Tho report suggests that increase of taxation is inadvisable; that the receipts from the present taxes will Increase some what with the growth in value of taxable property, and will permit of some slight, increase in the school fund. The report says, however, that the 1200 schools furnished accommodation foronly one-fifth of the population of school-age. BLISS WAS DISTURBED. Johnson Is Charged With Being in -Wrong Room. Yesterday afternoon Detective Vaughn arrested Oscar Bliss at Sixth and Couch streets on a warrant charging him with assault and .battery on the person ot Ed ward Johnson. The warrant was Issued In December, but officers were unable to serve It until today, when it was given Detective Vaughn, with the result that the man was soon apprehended. On December 14, last, Bliss isx alleged to have returned to his apartments In a rooming-house on Stark street in an in toxicated condition. He had been gone for several days, and during his absence his room had been changed and his for mer apartments given Johnson. When Bliss entered what he "supposed was his room he met Johnson and there was a discussion as to who was tho proper oc cupant of the room, during which discus sion Bliss is alleged to have attempted to beat Johnson into a jelly and to have succeeded to such an extent that the war rant was issued. Judge Hogue will deal with the case this morning. PERSONAL MEHUOH.- NEW YORK, Jan. 22.-(Special.)-North-western people registered at New York hotels today as follows: From Tacoma Ar W. Kithlcsen and wife, at the Breslin. From Seattle C. S. Follett, at the York: C. M. Austin, at the Murray Hill. 189 UTZ F01 Sl&KIK ovepcorns tha result of his own neglioC Soma one at horns should look after mtw. At first sight of dandruff rbicn la a contagious disease Newbro's Herpioido should be used. It cures dandruff and stops Xallinr hair by destroying the dan druff g-erm. 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