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The senior class of the law school of the University of Oregon, located In Portland, will finish the two years course of study with the lec The second row is composed NEED IRE ROAD Harriman Asked to Build to Central and South Oregon. SHANIKG TO BEND, THE CRY Bast and West Ijine With Feeders Running Into the Klamath Coun try Are Essential to Port land's Prosperity. The next thing in order is the extension of the Columbia Southern from Shanlko to Bend and the constructon of an east and west line through Interior Oregon with feeders running into the Klamath country. On Saturday, June 3. the Portage Road will be an officially accomplished fact and a reality instead of the dream of the past, and those men who have labored so faithfully under the name of the Open River Association to bring about Its com pletion will, like Alexander the Great, have to turn to other worlds to conquer. , Saturday next will ' mark, to a certain extent, the passing of the Open River Association, its work will have been practically completed, but the movement it has started will live, and is now pro gressing, under other titles, though with the same energy and backed by the same men with, augmented power. Work for New Lines. For some months now practically the same men who have been forcing the completion of the Portage Road, have been working under the name of the transportation .committee of the Portland Chamber of Commerce for the construc tion of transportation lines into Central and Southeastern Oregon. The work has been done silently and from day to day added power is being brought together for the ultimate attack upon the present position of the Harriman people, which is adverse to the construction of the lines sought. During the past month the subject of the extension of the Columbia Southern from Shanlko to Bend has been brought repeatedly to the attention of President E, E. Lytle, of the Columbia Southern, by .the transportation committee, but up to this time the official has done nothing more than to acknowledge the receipt of the communications and. petitions. A few days ago, therefore, the members of the committee deciding that the way to get clear water was to go to the fountain, took the matter up directly with E. 21. Harriman, the man who apparently holds the destiny of, Oregon in his hands. Called to Harrlman's Attention. It was called to Mr. Harrlman's atten tion that "be had promised more than a year ago to construct the extension to the Columbia Southern, but that after the work bad been started the men had been called off and nothing had been done since. It was shown to him and will be further demonstrated that the extended 'ine would tap a very rich country and would do jnuch toward bringing the con tiguous territory into communication with Portland and the outside world, to the great advantage and increased prosperity of both. The extension asked for is ap proximately 100 miles in length and it Is estimated that It will cost $1,250,000. At the same time the construction of an east and west line was taken up with the New York railway magnate, and it was shown to him that the .construction of such a line of about OW miles, with feeders into the Klamath Lake district, was essential to the complete develop ment of tfee state. Accorsttag" to the state ments made, it was shewn, that ssch a line could be built frm Caxadera to the ture tonight, and will go before the Supreme Court for admittance to the bar, June 12. The school exam ination will be conducted In Port of the members of the faculty, with the Warm Spring agency, then past Bend and on Ho Ontario. In addition to this route is the one now surveyed from the end of the Corvallis & Eastern across the moun tains and by practically the same route as the other one past Bend and to On tario. Either of these lines would cost between 53.000.000 and 56.000.000 and both routes are perfectly feasible. ' Immediate Action Necessary. It is deemed necessary by the transpor tation committee that immediate action be taken, in view of the fact that all of the 5100.000 guarantee asked -by the road now being built from Northern California into the Klamath Lake country, with the exception of 55000 has already been pro vided for, while even that will be raised within a week. It is considered" that onco the California road Is built into Oregon from the south it will be extended into the interior and will draw the trade away from Portland to San Francisco. It is practically certain that It is the intention of the California road to build Into Klamath County, and this fact Ifl shown by real estate transfers that have been made In that district in the past week or two which show plainly that the i railroad people are purchasing grounds for terminals and other properties. The transportation committee is there fore prepared to make a strong effort to force the construction of one or both of the interior roads at an early a date as possible in order to head off the encroach ment of the southern route. A dally in creasing power from this city is backing the project and the interests of the in terior part of the state are being enlisted. The members of the committee having the active prosecution of the project, re port that the prospects for success look brighter now than they ever did and that there is strong probability that some ar rangement can be made by which the lines asked for can be built at an early date. FORM EXPOSITION CLUBS Unique Method or Some Peop7c Com ing to the Fair. News has reached Portland recently of the formation of Lewis and Clark clubs in several of the Eastern states, principal ly Ohio. Parties of men and women who are determined to see the Portland Fan have gotten together and formed an or ganization, to which they contribute a stipulated sum of money every week. "When a large enough sum has accumulated to meet the expenses entailed on the long trip to Portland, the members of the club will come direct to the Exposi tion, to stay here until the funds of the organization have been exhausted. The Idea originated with a party of five young men In a small town in Ohio. The young men were i ery anxious to at tend the Exposition, but did not think that they woo'- be financially able to. One of them suggested that they appoint a treasurer and pay him a certain amount each week. The club was formed In Jan uary and by August the young men hope to have enough to set out on the trip. The Idea spread until it had passed over the dividing line Into the adjoin ing states, until now the Lewis and Clark clubs are quite a craze. Men and their families who have been counting on com ing to Portland with a party have been putting aside a certain sum at recular intervals. In this way lots ot people will be able to attend the Fair, whereas before the Lewis and Clark clubs were suggested they did not lay any money aside for the trip. In San Francisco parties are arranging to attend the Exposition in boats. Steam ers and yachts are In a great demand ana are being chartered for the voyage as fast as they are obtained. Those com ing in chartered steamers to the Exposi tion expect to anchor In the Willamette River across from the Government ct hlbit. They will live on the boat instead oi securing apartments in Hotels. BUSINESS ITEMS. ; IX Kar Is Cstttec Tertfc. 8 iuk lac se tint etc ari well-tried rese4y. lira. "Wlalew'e Sooihl&c Syru-ja. fr efclMrc all pala. cure wlmt eelic aafi d4urcft. The wild white swan is located, on the Trail. SENIOR CLASS OF THE ii jj'' ii iL 'hl 'i land Jurte fi, 7 and S. The class banquet will be held In the Cham bor of Commerce on the evening of June JO. exception of Messrs. Stivers. Pruitt and EOPLE TO BLAME They Are Responsible for All Saloon Conditions. SO SAYS OLIVER STEWART Noted Prohibitionist Lectures at the First " Christian Church Says People Give Officials Power to Grant Licenses. Olver W. Stewart, of Chicago, spoke at the First Christian Church last night on "Some Peculiar Phases of the Saloon Problem." Mr. Stewart said: "The problem of the saloon is dis cussed frequently. Let us, if we can. avoid the beaten track this evening by considering peculiar phases which generally are overlooked. "The saloon does not deserve to be considered as a legitimate business. In effect It is more akin to crime than business. However, before the law it is not criminal, but legal. In a strik ing and vital way it differs from real business. In the success of his cus tomers, the merchant or business man finds his prosperity. The saloon, un like merchant or tradesman, thrives on the ruin of its own customers. The saloon is the one institution which takers no pride In its own product. It will exhibit samples of the stuff it sells, but none of its results. "When it Is remembered that the customers of one line of business are the customers of other lines, it be comes apparent that the saloon cannot ruin its own without injuring the cus tomers of others. "Largely business depends upon market. Market rests upon demand. Demand grows out of needs and wants or desires. As wants or desires are greater than needs, so the demand cre ated by them is greater than that cre ated by needs, though needs are in sistent and require prompt attention. By so much as, In a civilized state, we live above the line of actual needs, in the realm of our wants and desires, do these wants affect business more than needs. The saloon comes in Just here. "It gets such a grip on its vic tims, the greater part of -whom are pot drinKers, but dependent upon drink ers, that it deprives them of. things actually needed, to say nothing of things wanted or desired. In this way the saloon cripples all honest business interests." Mr. -Stewart next turned his atten tion to the drinker as a peculiar eco nomic problem forced upon society by the saloon. On this phase he said: The drinker as a consumer Is pe culiar. The saloon is not governed by tne ordinary laws or business or trade. The drinker Js an exception to the laws which control consumers. The rule is that an individual will con sume on account of needs plus cer tain wants or desjres. Here he is held in check by good judgment, a lean pocketbook or by other desires. All this operates to make him consume in reason and to his advantage which is after all to the advantage of those whom be patronizes. Not so with the drinker. His desire for drink grows not out of any actual need. 'but is the result of forces beyond his control. It is rightly i called an appetite. "This at once gives the saloon an advantage over the real business in terests of a community. Its customers are not governed bs any law of need r preper desire. It Is for thl verr rn that a ati -will sell household r eiotlig jn order te get the means wiia watca to uy drink. It is LAW SCHOOL OF THE UNIVERSITY OF OREGON Reading from left to right First row: Ben Irwin, M. Mosessohn. W. H. Evans. Joseph T. . Ellis, L. L. Hartley, Albert E. Johnson, S. F. Stringer. time we recognized the drinker for what he is a victim who has lost con trol of himself and not a free moral agent. The drinker knows and often proclaims himself as such. Why should we not treat him for what he is? "Thus two things aro determined that the saloon should be made an outlaw as the deadly enemy of busi ness and the drinker considered a vic tim, not a free agent. "That leaves for consideration the question of responsibility for the fact that tho saloon Is a legal Institution, protected by law and by tho state. Someone must be responsible. Who is? The license Is the visible evidence of the right of the saloon to bo protect ed. The license comes from tho license-granting official. His right comes from the law, which comes from the Legislature, which in turn gets all its power from the people. And there we are. 'Conditions are Intolerable, but are made such by the peoplo working through their agents. Political par ties and leaders serve tho saloon, be cause it appears the people desire them so to do. "The call of the hour is for men who will go to the ballot-bor and be counted against the whole iniquitous thing. Along that lino is victory over the saloon." CHUKCHyirCTEXSIOX PLANNED Four Congregational Chnrchcs Are to Be Built in the Suburbs. The Portland Congregationallsts are spreading out their work to take In the suburbs. At SL Johns a society has been formed which has secured a quarter block for a church and manse. Rev. Mr. Upshow, of the East, has arrived and taken charge ot that field. With his wife he has moved into a small cottage, which was furnished very largely by the Con gregational churches of Portland, and al ready a move has been made in the raising of a building fund. Congrega tionallsts think St. Johns a promising field. At University Park ground 100 feet square has been secured, and a church building will be erected In a short time. Rev. D. B. Gray, city missionary. Is in charge of this field. At Arleta, under .the charge "ot Rev. Mr. McPherson, work has been organized. Here also grounds have been secured. A large tent has been se cured, which will be pitched, and In which public worship will be conducted until such time as a building can be erected. At Estacada there is a mission organiza tion, under Rev. Mr. McPherson, which Is expected to grow into a flourishing- church In time. These suburbs are growing rap idly, and the Congregationallsts hope to see four churches erected In them be fore the year expires. The -Sunny-side Congregational pastor and official board are planning to erect In the near future a more modern ichurch to take the place of the present building on the corner of East Thirty-fourth and Taylor streets. A building fund Is being accumulated for this purpose. It will be some time before the new building will be put up, but the church is moving in that direction. When ready to build a building costing between 515,000 and 523,000 will be built. Preaches On "Real Keliglon;" At the St James Lutheran Church, Rev. J. A. Leas preached a practical and unusually interesting sermon on real religion. In which he said: "Religion has been mistaken for dogmatism. Overstrlctness often ruins a cnild by making nim believe that re ltglon is nothing but stern forms with out the throbbing elements of life. The old idea of religion was that of Inac tion. Those were days of dead ortho doxy. Theology without religion. That was a theology that tortured self and ailed monaatrles. "As a system of didactics religion has maue little- progress: as a tech nlcallty If befogs rather than radiates. as a. dogmatism it is a failure; but a fact it is a- refinement, a tranefigu ra tion tae wirhUeiK. , thing ever Je scended from Teaven or touched the Fouts, Frank B. Rutherford. Sec ond row: W. H. Stivers. Judge Al fred F. Sears, Jr.. C. U. Ganten beln, dean; Judge H. H. Northup, earth. Exemplify religion in tho life of a godly man or woman and you can't help liking It. Realizing this fact, for a time, religion swung from Bead orthodox)- to the opposite extreme and there was a season of much pray ing, much singing, and meetings were marked by a great stir and excitement. This sort of activity also has proved a failure. The real religion Is at once discerned from the spurious as a good painting may bo recognized as over against the daubing of an amateur. Pure religion Is 'doctrine at work in a wholesome way. It Is "visiting the widows, and the orphans, it consists in. building hospitals, founding insti tutions or mercy. Among tno. ranKs or the Christians we may mention Phoebe. Lydla and Dorcas and the host of women and also their stronger coun terparts consecrated to God." Delegates Arc Returning;. Rev. H. C. Shaffer, of the First United Brethren Church, East Fifteenth and Mor rison streets, arrived last evening from Topeka, Kan., where he was a delegate from Oregon to the General 'Conference of the World of the United Brethren Church. The other delegates from this state, Mrs. J. A. Hlnkle, Rev. W. O. ZIgler, Rev. F. H. Neff and Rev. George McDonald, have arrived, except Mr. Hln kle. Rev. J. R. Parker, business man ager of Philomath College, and Rev. George McDonald, of Eugene, attended the conference, the former in the Inter est of the Philomath College. "It was a wonderful gathering of our church," said Mr. Shaffer, "from all poiv tions of the world, wherever our work has been extended. In all there were 275 delegates, who came from the United States, Canada, Japan, Africa. Germany, China and other countries. A great for ward movement was planned at the Gen eral Conference. For the Pacific Coast "for the furtherance ot this general move ment a bishop's district was formed of Oregon. Washington and California. Em phasis was placed on the work in the Northwest in the formation of this dis trict. "Bishop William Bell, elected bishop at the conference, has been assigned to this new district. He is a man In every way fitted for this work, full of the mis sionary spirit. It Is not yet decided where he will fix his residence, but we of the Northwest are anxious that his resi dence shall be In Portland or Eugene." Church and "Workingman. "The Church, the Worklngmen and Human Brotherhood," was the text of the sermon delivered at the First Uni- versalist Church yseterday by Rev. W, F. Small who dealt mainly with the relations existing between working men and religious institutions, and the causes that keep so many people away from regular worship. Dr. Small discussed the attitude of the workingman, and named among tne reasons for nonattendance at church, that the worker often felt ill at ease in congregations of wealthy persons, and believed themselves un welcome. FAIRBANKS IS IN DAKOTA Vice-President Makes Brief Speech at Grand Porks. GRAND FORKS, N. D., May 2S.-Five thousand people greeted Vice-President Fairbanks at the station tonight as he passed through on the way to Portland. From the rear platform of his train he bowed his acknowledgments and made a brief speech. Arrested Xor Theft. - A man giving his name as William. T. Harris was arrested last night by Deec-. tlves Carpenter and Resing on a charge of larceny preferred by Miss A. T. Goalby. The complainant alleges that she was with Harris on Saturday night la a Sixth- street bouse, and afterwards missed wateh, a diamond from, her rig aod,$K in money, flte will appear -against Karris la the Municipal Court this morning. Judge M. B. Gilbert, F. D. Cham berlain. W. C. E. Pruitt. Arthur R. Stringer. Third row: J. Albert Beckwith, George J. Kelly. Clyde E CLOSED None May Visit Exposition Now Until the Opening. WORKMEN RUSHING THINGS From Now Until Noon Thursday Thousands of Men Will Labor Night and Day to Finish the Fair. Last night at 6 o'clock the gates of the Lewis and Clark Exposition grounds were closed to the public, and until Thursday, when the Fair will be formally declared open to the world, no one, with the exception of the workmen and the employes, will be allowed entrance. Tonight the work of installing the exhibits ceases and tomorrow a large force of men will be gin cleaning up the grounds in prep aration for the thousands of visitors who win flock to the Exposition on the opening day. There was not an unusually large at tendance at the Fair yesterday, there being several days previously during which more people visited the grounds. Most of those who entered the grounds yesterday were outsiders, the Portland until they can visit the Exposition In a fully completed condition, which will be the case on June 1. Yesterday was undoubtedly the busi est day since the work of building the Exposition commenced. Trucks, wagons and vehicles of every descrip tion thronged the streets leading to the grounds, loaded with exhibits and material. When they arrived at their destination willing hand3 took up the task of unloading and the exhibits were hurried into the buildings and installed in their respective positions with a rapidity, that was astonishing. The change In the interior of the exhibit buildings, which have not yet been fully completed, was really re markable. When evening came it looked as though more progress in the installation of the exhibits had been made in one day than all of last week. With the exception of the Trail, the Exposition Is practically ready at the present date. By tonight, when the work of Installing stops until after Thursday, nearly all of the buildings will be prepared to receive visitors. The Trail Is a little behind the rest of the Fair, as there still remains con siderable work to be done, but by Thursday nearly all of the concessions will be prepared for the onrush of business, which will surely come. Without an exception, all of the larger attractions could open their doors to morrow. The smaller concessions, mostly illusion shows, are the ones that are behind. Lieutenant-Governor's Party. SEATTLE, Wash., May 2S. (Speclal.)-Lieutenant-Governor C. E. Coon has noti fied, members of the Senate Committee that they will have headquarters' at the Oregon Hotel during the dedicatory cere monies at the Lewis and Clark Exposi tion. The last Legislature provided for a joint committee to attend with the pre siding officers of both houses, at the opening of the Lewis and Clark Exposi tion. All the members of the Senate Com mittee and the members of the House Committee, so far as reported, will be . present. Lieutenant-Governor Coon's B&rtc- will Include: .' Senators W. H. Moor, of King; J. R. . O'DonneU, of. Chehalw; John T. welch, of .Pacific and Wahkiakum; C. T. Hu'tsoa. GATES Richardson, H. F. Latourette, John TV. Graham, John T. Cahalin, Adolph Abbey. - of Adams, Franklin, and Walla Walla; George A. Kennedy, of Lincoln; C F. Clapp, of Jefferson and Clallam, and S. M. Rands, of Clark. HOLDS A DOUBLE FUNERAL Father and Son Aro Buried in Same Grave in Milwaukie Cemetery. "Ashes to ashes; dust to dust," said the preacher over the grave of father and son at the solemn double funeral .which took place yesterday afternoon in Mil waukie Cemetery Christian Albert Zan ders and his 12-year-old son. who died within a few minutes of each other at their home in Milwaukie Heights. It was one of the most touching funerals that had been held in the pioneer town. The Evangelical Church, on Main street. Milwaukie, was crowded to Its utmost capacity, nearly the entire population of the town and surroundings having in sympathy for the stricken family turned out. Rev. F. M. Fisher, pastor, was In charge. He was assisted by Rev. Mr. Smith and Rev. A. Bltner. The former conducted the services In English, when the latter assisted. The mother and sur viving children ot the family, except the boy at home who is also at death's door, were present. After the services in the church the children of Milwaukie School marched ahead of the hearse, each bear ing a bouquet of roses as an escort of their dead schoolmate, to Milwaukie-Cemetery, where the caskets of father and son were placed in the same grave. Here after the services the mound was cov ered with floral tributes from the pupils of the school. The mother and several children remain. There is one boy in the family who Is very low and not expected to recover. Mr. Zanders wa3 taken sick three weeks ago, and the boy who died was sick only about five days. Dr. W. C. Belt, who attended the family, says that he is not sure that they died from typhoid fever, and is not sure about the source of the sickness in the family. Water is obtained from the well, and the State Board o Health has some of the water, investigat ing It to ascertain If It contains impuri ties likely to produce sickness. The fam ily are old residents, having lived many years in the community, and the double death and double funeral have arrested the attention and sympathy of the sur rounding country. The Great Baltimore Fire, Baltimore In flames, the fire-fighters, etc., on the Trail. 231 WASHINGTON ST: PORTLAND " MAKER . OF ' WENS -CLOTHES : V v