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$mtm 4 VOL. XLV-JStO. 13,946. PORTLfAITD, OREGON, SATURDAY, AUGUST 19, 1905. PRICE FIVE CENTS. Ml ROOSEVELT AGAIN . MING It HAND iis Mediation the Only Hope for Peace. WITTE WILL NOT YIELD Conference-May Break Up on -Tuesday, a Failure. PRESIDENT CALLS ROSEN After Hurried Interview "With Ka neko, He Asks Russian Minister to Visit Him Envoys Give Up Attempt to Agree. OYSTER BA. Aug. 19. (2 A. M.)-(Spe-ulal.) Presidont Roosevelt has Interested himself In the peace negotiations botween Japan and Russia now In progress at Portsmouth, X. H. He wishes to confer at once with Baron Rosen, the Junior plenipotentiary of. the Czar, who is also the Russian Ambassador at Washington," and with whom the President has a warm personal acquaintance. What the information is he wished to convey Is not known, but that it is of the greatest Importance cannot be questioned, for it Is recognized that he -would not in terfere with negotiations of such a deli cate nature were he not convinced that an emergency has arisen which demanded it. A confidential message was sent by his direction late last night to Assistant Secretary of State Pelrce at Portsmouth, instructing the Secretary to immediately confer with Baron Rosen and to request the aron to come at once to Oyster ay or send some one whom he could implicit ly trust, so that the President could de liver ot him a message of a most confi dential character. PRESIDENT SUMMONS ROSEN Makes Last Effort to Prevent "Rup turc of Negotiations. riedly called to the Hotel Wentworth, where a message was awaiting him from the President. He immediately wrote a lengthy reply. Later he was called to the telegraph instrument, and for half an hour carried on a conversation by tele graph with the President, who was at the other end of the wire at Oyster Bay. At 12:50 A. MJ, the telegraphic conver sation with the Presidont ceased, and Mr. Pelrce left the hotel in his automobile. He said he was going home, but beyond that declined to make any statement. "I can tell you nothing," he said to all the anxious inquiries of the newspaper men. The Associated Press has reason to be lieve that the purpose of the President's conversation with Mr. Pelrce was to ar range for one of the Russians to go to Oyster Bay. The President is understood to be already In communication with the Japanese through "Baron Kaneko. Pres ident Roosevelt is undoubtedly prepared to make a last effort to induce the war ring countries to compromise. KANEKO VISITS ROOSEVELT Japanese Agent Has Hurried Con ference With President. OYSTER BAY, Aug. IS. President Roosevelt's onlj- visitor today was Baron Kaneko, who studously conceals hs pre-! else mission, but is known to be a con fidential representative in this country of the Japanese government. This was his fourth visit to the President In a few weeks and the second within a week. Reasons developed today for the state ment that Baron Kaneko's call had rela tion to the proceedings of the peace con ference at Portsmouth, although It ap pears likewise reasonably certain that he did not come as the representative of the envoys. He is known to be In direct communication with the Tokio govern ment. Whether he was the bearer of a message from Japan to the Preslden Is not known, but he came on his own Initiative, the President not being aware of his coming until his arrival. Baron Kaneko arrived on an afternoon train from New York and accompanied Secretary Barnes to Sagamore Hill at 4:30 P. M. President Roosevelt and the mem bers of his iamlly, who were absent from home during the greater part of the day, had not returned when the Baron arrived and did not return for some time after wards. - The President and Baron Kaneko Jiad an extended conference, but nothing 'was disclosed concerning it neither of the par ticipants caring to make any statement about it. Baron Kaneko left for New York at 8 P. M. DECISION RESTS WITH JAPAN Envoys Have Recommended Con cessions to Save Russia's Honor. PORTSMOUTH, N. H., Aug. 18. (Spe cial.) It can be stated on high authority that right after the adjournment of the conference this afternoon the Japanese envoys cabled to their government at To kio, "recommending that concessions should be made to satisfy the Russians. These concessions will not affect the principles embodied in the demands, nor wilL they be such as to occasion dissatisfaction In Japan. This information comes directly from the inside of the Japanese headquar ters here, an1 augurs for the successful negotiation of a treaty of peace. The fact developed Joday that. If nego tiations were not to be broken off. Japan would have to modify her demands. The Russians stood strongly against conceding any claim that would in any way affect the honor of their country. The Japanese envoys have done what these dispatches have consistently maintained they would do, and that is, taken action to moalfy some of their extreme contentions, so that they could be accepted by Russia without . humiliation. The conclusion of peace or the continuation' of the war now rests with the Toklo government. The representatives of both the Czar and Mikado are showing indications of the severe strain under which they have been laboring for the past ten days. The Japa nese say nothing. Mr. Witte did not hes itate to declare tonight that he was. tired out. There will be' no rest for the secre-' tarles. The exchanges between the en voys and their government and .the prep aration of the protocols of a number of the sessions will occupy their time from now until the time for the next meeting. FINAL SESSION ON TUESDAY Envoys Give Up Hope of Agreement on Vital Points. PORTSMOUTH, N. H., Aug. 18. Black Pessimism reigns at Portsmouth tonight. The prevailing view is that the fate of the peace conference is already settled; that It has. ended in failure and that all that now remains is for the plenipoten tiaries to meet on Tuesday, to which day they adjourned this afternoon upon com pleting the consideration of the Japan ese terms, sign the final protocol, go through the conventions and bid each other farewell. In other words, that the meeting Tuesday will be what diplomacy calls the "seance d'adieu." But there is still room for hope of a compromise. Neither President Roosevelt nor the powers will see the chance of peace shipwrecked without a final effort and that pressure Is being exerted, espe cially at Toklo, to Induce Japan to mod erate her terms, is beyond question. Just what Is being done or Is to be done has not transpired. King Edward Is under stood to be now 'lending' a helping hand and the financiers of the world are known to be exerting all their energies. At Tokio and St. Petersburg the final issue will be decided. The Japanese have been Implacable throughout the six days' sittings. They have listened and explained, but they have yielded not an iota of the substance of their original demands. Mr. Witte ac cepted outright seven of the twelve Jap anese conditions, one In principle, and four. Including the main issues. Indemnity and Sakhalin, he rejected. The other two, limitation of naval power and the sur render of interned warships, might have been arranged had there been any pros pect of agreement on the two points upon which th divergence seemed Irreconcil able. Timo for Showdown Come. In the oral discussion of the terms, M. Witte yielded upon two articles, but substantially the result of the 13 sittings of the plenipotentiaries has only been to emphasize the position taken by M. Witto in the written reply he presented last Saturday to the Japanese terms. And now both sides turn to homefor the last word before the cards are thrown face upward upon the table next Tuesday, for the impasse reached today by the pleni potentiaries is recognized to be only a diplomatic fiction. If, In the Interim fresh instructions are received by either side, compromise is yet possible. But the chances are recognized to be slight. So far as the Russian pleni potentiaries are concerned there never was a chance of their yielding both in demnity and Sakhalin. The cession of Sakhalin without indemnity was, accord ing to the best inside Information, the extreme limit to which Mr. Witte -would ever consent to go, and the Emperor has not yet given the word to even concede that. Effort of Czar's Manifesto. Tonight suddenly a new factor has been introduced which, in the opinion of those most competent to Judge, lessens mater ially the chances that he might do so, namely, the issuance of his manifesto granting a popular representative body to his subjects. The bearings upon the issue of this "historical document," as" Mr. Witte described it a few days ago, are easily comprehensible. It Is bound to ameliorate the internal situation in Rus sia. It is the entering ,wodge for the realization of the century-old dream of the Russian people. "It will create enthusiasm at home," said one of the most prominent members of the Russian mission, "because all thinking men realize that It means event ually a great change in the composition of the Russian state. It will be followed by a true parliament, a premier and Rus sia will become a constitutional mon archy." v It Is pointed out that the manifesto Is timed like what the French call a coup de foudre. and that its significance Is too plain to be questioned. It was to have been Issued last Saturday when the Russian reply was presented, but it was held over until the conclusion of the oral consideration of the Japanese terms. Meantime the terms had been published everywhere throughout Russia. The press, .even the Liberal press, had replied that Russia could not pay money for the priv ilege of getting out of Manchuria. The Emperor had publicly proclaimed to his subjects on July 2S in reply to a telegram of the Orenburg clergy; "The Russian people can rely upon me. I will never conclude a peace humiliating qr unworthy of great Russia." The manifesto is Emperor Nicholas' an swer to the Japanese demand for the pay ment of a war tribute. The grant of this broad reform is regarded as -virtually an appeal to the Russian people for support to resist It Japan May Moderate Terms. At Toklo it Is Impossible to tell what view will be taken. Peace probably can be even now secured by the sacrifice of the indemnity. Vague Intimations tonight come from the Japanese side that "the (Conduced on Face BJ LIEUT LAND HAS HEAV1 EST WHEAT Two Border Counties Harvest Grain of Fine Quality and Fair Yield. HOLD f OR BETTER PRICES Walla Walla 3fny Show Increased Wheat Production Over Last Year, With Slight Decrease In Umatilla. WALLA WALLA, Wash., Aug. IS. (Staff Correspondence.) Walla Walla and Umatilla counties, favored by Nature with an abundance of other resources In addition to the production of wheat, quite naturally offer an ex cellent Illustration of the truth ot the old maxim: "Thom what has gits." There will probably be a slight decrease In the wheat output of Umatilla County compared with that of a year ago, but the percentage of the decrease wltl be much less than In the river counties lying far ther west. . This seems to haveboen what Is known as a "light land year." in Umatilla County, and although these formorly ill favored lands have not responded with the same yields that were noticeable last year, they are doing much better in pro portion to their value, tlian the heavier lands whore crop failures are seldom ex perienced. Ia both Umatilla and Walla Walla counties, wheatgrowlng has reached a much more settled basis than In some of .the newer districts. Each year '"nnds about the same amount In crop, and the same amount In Summer fallow, and much of the same degree of regluarly maintained In regard to acre age Is noticeable in the yields. Slight Decrcaso In Umatilla. Umatilla, approached her record yield last year, but owing to unfavorable cli matic conditions, will not show quite so large an output this year. Her wheat acreage has also been cut down slightly by an Increased amount of barley. There Is practically no new acreage in the county in the sense In which we speak of sew acreage in other districts, but this year some heavy yields have been secured from land that was not very high ly regarded until within the past fow years. Some of these light lands, notably in the vicinity of Pilot Rook, -this year happened to lie in the track of numer ous passing showers, which missed other parts of the county. These yields, to gether with a fairly good crop In tho other light-land portions of the county, will bring the total output up so close to that of last year that but small complaint over the shortage Is heard. There Is, of course, the usual growl from a man who is only getting 40 bushels to the acre where ho expected 50, but the situation under such circumstances is far from distressing. -Some complaint is made of sout, and a few fields havo suffered slightly from rust, but aside from these, the crop is of an unusually good quality, the hot weath er, for some reason, falling to produce the usual amount of shriveled wheat. Wheat Tests Heavy. Sixty-pound wheat is common, and soms fields arc turning off good, clean borries which test as high as 62 and St pounds to the bushel. One of the dealers In Pendle ton showed me a sample of "Turkey" red wheat that weighed 64 pounds to the bush el, while In another office I saw samples of Walla Walla and bluestem weighing 62 and 63 pounds to the bushel. Pondlcton enjoys one distinction this season that is not shared by any other wheat point In the three states. More wheat has been sold from the 1&0S crop in the Umatilla metropolis than at any other point In the Northwest. The sales to date, since the season opened, .are approximately 1.000.030 bushels, the greater part of which was secured by the millers, and by Portland buyers pur chasing for San Francisco account There are two pretty extensive milling institu tions in this county, the Byers mill, at Pendleton, and the plant of the Preston Parton Milling Company, at Athena. These two concerns are credited with pur chases aggregating 250,000 bushels. The prices paid by the millers, as well as for San Francisco shipment, are -considerably In excess of export values, and for this reason little or notlfing from the crop al ready sold will find, its way to the Euro pean market. Although practically one-fourth of the crop of Umatilla County has been sold,' most of the amount came from small farmers, and the big fellows are not let ting go very freely. Unless there should be a rally in prices It Is probable that the greater part of the wheat now remaining unsold will remain In first hands until late in the season. Walla Walla Has Good Crop. Walla Walla seems to be the only coun ty where the farmers after beginning to thresh are coming back for more bags, They are not making any of these re turn trips from the 60-bushcl land of the foothills, but they are coming back from the discredited light lands which roll away toward the Snake River. One of these light land farmers, who tills some thing over a thousand acres over near the river, and who three weeks ago pur chased what he supposed would be all the sicks he -would need, came in tiro days ago and bought 7,000 more. Among the different dealers here I heard ot a dozen cases where the light land farmers had. after purchasing what they supposed would be a full supply, returned for from 500 to 4000 bags each. It is this highly satisfactory output from the light lands that has overcome the shortage in the foothill country. It Is a popular tradi tion that the crops never fall In the foot hill lands. Foothill Yields Disappointing. The out-turn which they- are making this year Is far from reflecting anything like a crop failure, but the stand was so satisfactory and the straw so abundant with well-formed heads, that growers confidently expected 50 or 60 bushels to the acre. These expectations were not borne out by the returns and as a result the yield throughout tho foothill country Is much less than that of last year. Eu reka Flat, another region which enjoys a pretty good record for continued good crops, failed to make good last year, the crop being the poorest that has come out of that region In more than 10 years. Eureka Flat Is Good. This year the "Flat" is turning off one of Its dd-tlrac crops, the fields run ning from 23 to 35 and as high as 40 bush els to the acre. With such yields on the Flat and the light lands turning oft well. It will not be surprising to find the total output for the county from 230,000 bushels to 500,000 bushels .greater than that of last year. Walla Walla has never paid much at tention to anything In the grain line ex cept wheat, seldom. If ever, producing enough barley and oats for home con sumption. The farmess- ibis year seem to have made a slight departure from this system, and the county contains a num ber of good-sized patches of barley. It was damaged somewhat by the hot wea ther, but will command a good figure for feed In the home market. Walla Walla like Umatilla. Is well past the point where there will be much expansion In acreage. Nearly everything that Is well adapted to wheat Is now In use, and the Increased crop which now seems certain will be secured from an acreage no greater than that of last year. Light Sales at AVnlla Walla. While the7 opening sales of wheat for the season 'were made at Walla Walla, there has been but a comparatively small amount of -the cereal sold at this point. It is probable that 360.000 bushels would cover all that has been sold this season, and practically all of this amount Thanged hands early, before the price slumped. Several years of good crops at high prices have placed the Walla Walla farmers In a very independent position and thy arc prepared to hold their crops indefinitely If the price does not advance to a figure In keeping with their ideas. Columbia Has Increased Yield. Columbia County, which for several years has been the great barley strong hold of the Northwest, will this year show quite a decrease In her favorite cereal. The decrjeas In barley, however, will be offset by, an Increase In the out put of wheat, as iome of the acreage that was in barley last year Is this year turning off a good crop of wheat. Cli matic conditions In Columbia County were much the same as In Walla Walla, although wbatare sometimes known as the heavy laftdW'are doing better In pro- portion to was expected of them. than the of lands In the foot- hill dlstrfc Walla Walla County 'lamage caused by ti There waj$' piotracted I of Intenaclyfchot1 wcatherr but the los from this eau will in the aggregate be far from serious. -. . E. W. W. CONTENTS TODAY'S PAPER 4, The Weather. TESTERDA"ufc Maximum temperature. SB deg.; minimum. 3S. TODAY'S Fair and continued warm. North erly winds. Peace Conference. Peace conference adjourns to Tuefdar with out hope of agreement. Pace 1. Keosevelt sends for Baroa Roen to prevent rupture of negotiations. Page 1. Kaneko ha hurried Interview with Roose velt. Pag 1. Envoys for both nations send for Instruc tions. Faze 1. Russia's plea for retaining Sakhalin. Page 1. Foreltn. Czar issues manifesto tuhynonlng national assembly. Page 1. German port refuses to entertain British fleet In Baltic Sea. Pace 3. National. - - Government reserves Umatilla land for Irri gation. Page xTomeatlc Aotlnr Mayor Forne of Nw Tork sued for divorce. Page 3. Arizona Judge accused of grafting. Page 1. Bombs sent to two New Tork bankers. PEe j. Webb Jaty almost killed in automobile race. Page 3. Recovering " bodies from Virginia train wreok. Page -L Sad tragedy of yellow ferer epidemic Page 1. . , Great ' Northern operators vote to" exd strike. Page 3. T Apaches go on raid In New Mexico. Page 4. Sport. Pacific Coast League games: San Francisco 3. Portland 0;. I Angeles 4. Seattle 0; Taeema 3, Oakland 0. Page 7. W. A. doss, of Portland, will play In Ta eema tennla finals- Page 7. Native sons want Brltt-Nelien matchyio-ba held In San Francisco. .Page f-y ' " "'"Paelflc Coatl Fire destroys wheat in fields at Pendleton. Page C. Irrigation dam blown up at Lake Clealum by employes of rival company. Page O. Half-breeds and natives Jump overboard from steamer on Kuskakum and are drowned. Page fl. State saves by new system of transporting insane to Salem. Page 6. Receiver Is appofnied at Vancouver for auto matic ball-bearing company. Page S. Commercial and Marine. Strong position of rogarmarket. Page 15. Good crops Improve general business. Page 15. Advance in stocks checked. Page 15. Chicago wheat closes weak and lower. Page 15. Wrecked in the North. Page 14. Merchants Exchange wants better service. Pag 14. Lewis and Clark Exposition. Admissions. 1S.355. Page 11. Plans for .New York State day. Page 11. Portland and Ylclnlty. By new line and ferry Portland Consolidated will reduce time to Vancouver to hair an hour. Page 12. Problems which the Trans-Mlsslsslppi Con gress has to consider. Pag, 10. Government of municipalities theme of Civ ics Conference. Page 11. Sheriff Word thinks Anderson was slain by his companion! Page 1C. Queer forgery case in which depositor In bank la held under ball. Page P. Southern Pacific and O. R. & X. offices combined In management. Page 14. City detectives are unable to unravel the mystery ot the murder of Mrs. Van Dran. Pge 1. 1 25 TRAGIC EPISODE IN NEW ORLEANS Starving Daughter of Yellow Fever Victim Attempts Suicide. GUARDS BODY THREE DAYS French Music Teacher Dies or tho Disease In Abject Poverty and Daughter Caught In Time i to Prevent Drowning. YELLOW FEVER CASES TO DATE. NEW ORLEANS. Aug. IS. Official report on yellow fever to 6 P. M.: New cases..... G2 Total cases to date 1,28.1 Deaths 8 Total deaths to date 1SS New foci IB Total foci to date 27S Number of cases under treatment 418 NEW ORLEANS, La., Aug. IS. (Spe cial.) A. story tragic in its sadness, and one that has touched with infinite sorrow the heart of Ne.w Orleans, was brought to light today In connection with the death of Professor Pierre Aldal, late leader of the French opera of this city. It -was announced this morning that Professor Aldal was one of the victims of yellow fever, and that he had died In poverty, and was burled by the city. Professor Aldal not only died in poverty but In absolute want, and his only child, a beautiful girl of 20, who nursed him, stood at the bedside of her dying father for three days and nights without a morsel of food passing her Hps, literally starving. Tne daughter, an hour after her father had been carried from the house, was caught as she was about to throw herself Into the river, and resented It when she was stopped, saying: Nothing, to Do but Die. "I have not a soul on earth and I have not a cent, and I am In a strango city. I cannot beg and I must die. I have no hope. I must vacate where I live, my father owes rent, and all I have loft Is his violin. I would not sell that and I must die." She was taken to a convent for safe keeping, and. as soon as the fund which the people of New Orleans are ralsjrag'f of her Is completed, she will be sent back to her "homo in France. Ffnce the close of the French opera, Aldal had been making a good living In giving violin lessons. So prosperous was he that lie decided to bring his daughter from the convent In France In which she hnd been reared to keep house for him. He furnished a pretty cottage In a French part of the city and the girl arrived. Brought to Poverty by Fever. Then came the yellow fever and Professor Aldal's pupils began to de sert him. They became poorer and poorer as tho weeks went by, But the father and daughter kept up their oourage and hoped for better times. A weok ago the father was stricken with yellow fever. Just at the time they had run out ot money. The daughter knew no one and was too proud to tell the doctor of their condition. He visited the father dally and, since the cottage was well furnished, he had no Idea that the daughter was hungry. Last night the neighbors across the street looked through the window and saw her lying across the bed of her father. They did not know that he was dead and that she had fainted from grief, and hunger. They found out the truth this morning, when the health department officers came and hur rleldy threw the body of her father into the dead wagon. The girl disappeared, but was followed by a' woman, who oaught her at the river bank. MORE CASES OUTSIDE CITY Yellow Fever Continues to Spread Through Parishes of Louislann. NEW ORLEANS. Aug. IS. Eleven of the 16 foci are above Canal street. Two more cases have appeared In the French Asylum. In St. Ann and Derblgny streets, making Ave in alL News from outside the city continues unfavorable. One case has been found In Hanson City, two cases in Shrewsbury and one In McDonoghsville. Pecan Grove plantation. In St. Charles Parish, has five case. aPtterson reports six cases and no deaths. At Alexandria, one patient. G. J. Hayden. died today. There were no new cases in Mississippi City. An analysis of the report of the pre ceding 24 hours shows that 32 of the 74 new cases of yellow fever appeared in part of the originally Infected quarters. The explanation given by the Inspectors Is that, after their own houses are disin fected and the mosquitoes killed, some, of the Italians go around and pay visits to sick friends, become Infected themselves and carry the fever home with them. The situation abovo Canal street con tinues to Improve. In that section obedi ence to the. Federal regulations Is more general, and the results are plain. "While the report showed five new cases, only three new squares are Infected. The unexpected decline In the death rate Is giving such feeling of satisfaction here that people are beginning to believe the possibilities of the visitation have been overdrawn. The doctors, however, say that the low death rate Is due to the fact that practi cally the whole community has been ed ucated up to th. necessity of calling a doctor the moment high temperature de velops. The Louisiana State Board of Health was advised today by one of the physicians who has been on duty among the sick on the Riverside plantation. St. Mary Parish, that there has been a total of 4S cases of yellow fever and three deaths there. Among the new squares that have been infected is that In which the Supreme and Civil courts and the St. Louis Cathedral are located. Heretofore the fever has fringed it without invading It, but a num ber of Italians are now down with the fever m a row of ancient buildings stand ing next to the Civil District Court build ing. Extraordinary precautions are being taken to prevent any further Infection on the square. All the steamship lines to Mexico. Ha vana, Vera Cruz, Great Britain and Eu rope are now in operation, and assurance Is given that they will continue their service absolutely without any interrup tion. Advices from the Mississippi coast do not at present indicate any Intention on the part of the towns to raise the quar antine against New Orleans nor modify it. Discord Mars u Celebration. VIENNA, Aug. IS. The 75th blrthday of Emperor Francis Joseph was cele brated today, great preparations having been made for the event. The usual serv ices and social functions took place throughout Austria-Hungary and there was everj demonstration of loyalty. 'The political differences in Hungary, how ever, will be emphasized by the absence of the prominent members of the oppo sition at the gala dinner, which will be given by Premier Fejervary. President Justh. of the Lower House of the Hun garian Diet, for the first time In 40 years, has refused to accept the Invitation of the Premier. Has Typhoid, Not Yellow, Fever. NEW YORK. Aug. IS. Physicians at the Norwegian hospital In Brooklyn deny that John G. Murphy, a laborer taken to the institution "Wednesday from a Firat-avenue tenement, is suf fering from yellow fever, as stated yeaterdny. His case has been diag nosed as typhoid. ACCUSED OF GRAFTING OX PEO PLE OF ARIZONA. Globe Citizens Say Justice Tucker Demanded House as Condition of Living There. WASHINGTON. Aug. 18. Charges have been filed in the Department of Justice by citizens of Globe. Ariz., against Asso ciate Justice Tucker, of the Territorial Court, which, it Is said. Involve his Judi cial and personal conduct. It Is alleged th .tawhen Justice Tucker went to Arizona somf months ago to as sume his official duties, helet It be known to tho citizens of Globe that. If he made that city his home, a residence would havo to be provided for him, and Inti mated that, in case of failure on the part of the people to make this provision for him, he would be compelled to take up his residence in another part of his district. It Is charged that the residence was actu ally provided as requested. ' Other charges are made of more or lass Import, all of which are under Investiga tion 'by the Department of. Justice. A re port is exaectedjylatgr on. j COUNCIL TURNS AT LAST "Will Investigate Weaver's Action In Driving Out Grafters. PHILADELPHIA. Aug. 18. The select branch of City Councils passed a resolu tion yesterday calling for the appointment of a committee of seven with full power to Investigate the removal of alt officers and all employes of the city during the last three months. The resolution gives the committee full power to summon wit nesses and employ counsel and such as sistance as may be deemed necessary. The resolution was Introduced by M. C. Work, who explained that two directors of departments, several bureau chiefs and several hundred other employes have been dismissed from the service of the city without the Mayor's offering any reason to the Councils, as required by the laws governing the city. RESCUER ALSO DROWNED Woman Perishes While Trying Vain ly to Save Man in Missouri. ST. LOUIS. Aug. IS. While trying to rescue Frederick Churchill, who had waded beyond his depth when bathing with a party of friends. Miss Stella Mc Mullen, of Festus, Mo., lost her life, and Churchill also was drowned .before as sistance could reach them. 'The bodies have not been recovered. Illncs Answers Burr's Attack. LOUISVILLE. Ky.. Aug. 18. Replying to the charges made by Railroad Commis sioner Burr at the Dcadwood convention. Second Vice-President Walker D. Hines, of the Louisville & Nashville road, said: "Mr. Burr's statement is simply a de liberate misrepresentation. No one con tends that It Is proper to assess for tax ation a very unremuneratlve property at what it would cost to reproduce It. We did claim, and the bill so stated for the purpose of testing the Railroad Commis sion's rate, thecost of reproduction was the proper value. Tho two values were necessarily on very "different bases, and there was no inconsistency between them." Denver Bank: Charged With Fraud. DENVER. Aug IS. Attorney Edwin H. Park, for William Corbett and others, filed a suit In the District Court today, asking for the appoint ment of a receiver for the Denver Savings Bank. Fraud, connivance, dis regard of the Colorado laws "regarding savings banks and illegal preference for certain depositors on the part of bank's officers, are the allegations in the complaint. It is charged that Leonard B. Imboden and associates obtained from the bank on question able security loans aggregating $656, 000. In consequence of the suit, a second run on the bank was started to day. Ogden Choir Starts for Portland. OGDEN Utah. Atlg. 13. The Ogden Tabernacle choir, which will sing the "Ir rigation Ode" at the Lewis and Clark Ex position, left for Portland this morning. The train, consisting of four Pullmans, besides a diner and baggage-cars, will be In charge of A. B. Mosely, traveling pas senger agent of the Oregon Short Line. n P MRfinil n uuiviiv uiiD PEOPLE TO HELP Issues Call for National Douma. POWER TO PREPARE LAWS First Beginnings of Democracy in Russia. ALL CLASSES TO TAKE PART Long-Expectcd Decree Calls Assent- bly "Special Consultative Body." First Meeting to Be Held Middle of January. ST. PETERSBURG. Aug. M.-Russla a national representative assembly, the fruit of decades of stress and striving for re form, which endows the Russian peor'.a with the right of being consulted throug i their chosen representatives in the sug gestion, preparation and repeal of legisla tion, today takes Its place among the fundamental Institutions of the empire. In a solemn manifesto. Emperor Nich olas announces this mornong to his sub jects the fruition of his plans summoning the representatives of the people as out lined by him in a rescript ireued on March 3 last, and fixes the date for tha first convocation as mid-January, anl In a ukase addressed to the Senate. formay orders that body to register as the imper ial will a law project, formulating the nature, powers and procedure of the new governmental organization. Proclaimed at Xoon Today. The manifesto, ukase and project are published this morning in special editions of the Official Messenger in St. Peters burg and Moscow. They will be given out for publication nt noon to the news papers throughout the empire, many ot which are preparing to Issue extra edi tions to signalize a momentous historical event, overshadowing In Importance the liberation of the serfs In 1S81. The date of the occasion has been hax plly chosen with due repard to the poetical symbolism so dear to the Russian heart, for on this day Is celebrated the great re ligious feast of the transfiguration of Christ, with the bringing to the church of the first fruits of the new harvest. Emperor Remains Autocrat. The National Assembly will be a consul tative organization In connection with the Council of tho Empire, and not a legislative body. The powers of the Em peror theoretically remain absolute. As the Emperor Is the supreme lawglven anJ autocrat, the decisions of the Douma have only a recommendatory and not a bind ing force, though the- rejection of any legislative measure by a two-thirds ma jority of both1 houses 13 sufficient to pre vent that measure from becoming law. The representatives of the people will have not only the right to be heard on any legislation proposed by the government, but also can voice their desires on new laws, and will have the right to exert a certain supervision over budgetary ex penditures. The suffrage, though wide. Is not uni versal. It is based on property qualifica tions, the peasantry having a vote through membership in communal organ ization. A considerable portion of tha residents of the cities, possessing no lands, together with women, soldiers, civil func tionaries, etc., are without suffrage. TEXT OF CZAR'S MANTFESTO Summons Consultation Assembly With Limited Legislative Power. ST. PETERSBURG. Aug. 19. Emperor Nicholas has today announced the grant to the people of Russia of a National Consultative Assembly, to be formed of elected representatives from the whole of. Russia. The .Imperial manifesto, which, is published simultaneously Here and at Moscow, and which will bo read in all the churches of the empire. Is dated att Peterhof today, and is as follows: "The empire of Russia is formed and strengthened by tho indestructible sol idarity of the Emperor with the people, and of the people with the Emperor. This concord of Emperor and people Is tfce great moral force which has1 created Russia In the course of centuries by protecting her from all misfortunes and all attacks, and has constituted, up to the present time, a pledge ot unity, in dependence. Integrity, material well-being and intellectual development. "In our manlfsto of February 24, 1203. we calle dto a close understanding all the faithful sons of the Fatherland In order to protect the organization of the state by establishing on a firm basis tho domestic life of the empire, and then wo devoted ourselves to the task of co-ordinating elective public Institutions with governmental authorities, and of remov ing the disagreements existing between them, which had reacted so disastrously on the normal course of our national Ufa. People's Representatives Called. "The autocratic Emperors, our ances tors, constantly had that object In view, and the time has come to follow out their good Intentions and to summon elected representatives from the whole oC Russia to take constant and active part m, the elaboration of the lawB thereby Concluded, on Pass 6.) V