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VOL. XL.VI. SO. 14.168. PORTLAND, OREGON, MONDAY, MAY 7, 1906. TRICE FIVE CENTS. F Back Burned and Leg Is Bruised. AID AND SENTRY ABE KILLED Terrorist Who Threw Death Engine Torn to Pieces. POOR AIM SAVES VICTIM Vtce-Adniirai Doubassoff About to .Alljrht From His Carriage Be lore the Palace When the Explosion Took Place. EKATERIXONl.AV fiOVERXOR UENRRAL PLAIN. AkaTERINOSLAV. May . Th . Governor-General of Ekaterlnoslav was executed Saturday evening by fix unknown peraona who tired vol- ' ly from revolvers at him and e caped. MOSCOW, May . A bomb was thrown U tho carriage of Vlce-Arlmlral Doubas- off, Governor-General of Moscow, as he was being driven to the palace today. He was wounded in the foot and his aid-decamp and a sentry were killed. The man who threw the bomb was killed. He wore n officer's uniform. Access to the palace is barred. Governor Doubassoff was returning in an open carriago from the Usncnski Ca thedral and the outrage took place outfridn the carriage entrance to his palace. Sev eral bystanders were injured. According to the route decided upon In advance, the Governor-General should have returned to the palace by the side entrance, but dur ing the drive he changed his route and thereby ran Into the peril he was socking to avoid. vic-A1mlral DoibHSFMff' lir was saved by the poor aim of his would-be assassin. The bomb exploded on the pavement, several paces to the rear of bis carriage, hurling the mutilated corpse of the terrlorlst several yards backward, and tearing off one arm and the face of an aid who was descending from the carriage. Governor-General Doubassoff was thrown from his carriage and under the horses' heels. His back whs burned and his leg bruised, but he was able to walk unassisted into the palace. The coachman's skull was fractured and he was taken to a hospital. It Is thought the assassin was the stu dent in whu.se rooms a bomb exploded Saturday, killing three accomplices; but T.ho at the time was watching the palace from a room In the hotel opposite. Vice-Admiral Ioubassoff was appointed (rovrrnnr-Uencral of Moscow In Decem ber last. He is also an aid of the Km jieror and a member of the Council of the Kmplre. Since his appointment as Governor-General several plots against lifm have been uncovered. Almost Im mediately after he had taken office he in curred the enmity of the Revolutionists, who entered Into a conspiracy to abduct him. but this failed, in January he was advised that an attempt would be, made t the celebration of tho ceremony of the blessing of the waters to assassinate him. As a result Prince Koslovska was ar Tested. charged with being an accessory to the conspiracy. In March a bolder attempt on Doubas fff life was frustrated by the arrest of a woman who had actually Invaded the palace. She gained admittance on the plea that she had come from a personal friend of the Governor-General. Her agi tation in the chancellory attracted the attention of an aid. He noted particularly the luxuriance of the woman's hair, which .was worn In a high coiffure, interroga tion alarmed her and she attempted to fief, but she was seized and searched and a small bomb was found concealed in Jier hair. CEKKMOVY AT T1IK OPENING. First National Parliament to Be Given Full ICccogii.t ton. ST. PETERSBURG. May fi.-Thp mpm )rs of th National Parliament and of tn Council of the Kmpir are arriving hr on every train. Quite a number of d!jt1nRuthrd foreign visitors and jour nalist p already have reached St. Peters burg to wttnoMs Thursday' great historic event-the inauguration of the Russian parliament. Tho fears that the government might attempt to dissolve the Parliament before It had the opportunity of doing anything are vanishing, and despite the bomb out rag1 at Moscow today and the continued Irreconcilable attitude of the extreme rev olutionists, thnre is a more hopeful fuel ing that Russia may enter smoothly into parliamentary life. This in due not only to trm moderate attitude of the Constitu tions Temocratic majority, whose lead ers, with admirable je If -restraint. are holding- the extremists among them In check, but to the manifest desire of the government to avoid a conflict. The new Cabinet has announced a pol icy of hands off. practically saying that the Parliament shall have carte blanche and Uint so long as It dors not attempt to middle with the fundamental laws of the empire the Parliament tv1!J b allowd to offer its own solution for the crying agrarian problem. With this attitude of the government, if H is sincerely carried out. the Constitu tional rvmorrat for the present are reti cent. They believe their final victory, when the Emperor will be forced to grant a constitution, is not far off a few months at most especially If in the meantime they are permitted to accom plish something tangible which will strengthen them with the country The. Associated Press today, talked with MOSCOW STRUCK Bid BO 1 M. N'abokoff, the leader of the Constitu tional Democrats, who said frankly that his party had no desire at present to have a Premier and Cabinet, even if it could Such responsibility would place It upon the, defensive, while, by remaining in op post i ion, with the country behind It. the chances of forcing a complete surrender w-ere increased instead of being dimin ished. The little group of Socialists of the ex- treme left has not yet shown its hand, but without the Constitutional Democrats. who have a clear working majority, it will be powerless to force a conflict. The Oc tobrists in the center are a negligible Quantity and with the present temper at Tsarskoe-Selo. the small group of reac tionaries in the Parliament Bings low. The programme of toe ceremonies at the Winter Palace, where the Bmperor will deliver the speecn from the throne. has been arranged with all the glitter and ponm of a solemn state function, the Idea, of an informal opening, in order to diminish the importance of the position of the Parliament, having been abandoned. The entire Imperial family, with the ladles and gentlemen of the court, the former In the national Russian costumes and the latter in court dress, imperial aides de camp, Ministers, Generals. Admirals and officers of the guard regiments, marshals of the nobility and such Governors-Gen eral and . military commanders of th armv corps as are in St. Petersburg: the Mayors and City. Councils of St. Peters burg and Moscow, and members of the Holy Synod, are commanded to attend. The chiefs of missions were Invited by an Imperial order which was issued today. The members of the Parliament will as semble in the beautiful Nicholas Hall, the Council of the Kmpire at the Hermitage Pavilion and the others at the Armorial. Marshals' and other balls, and march in state to the great Hall of St. George, a magnificent pillared chamber 50 yards long by 25 yards wide, where the Em peror from the throne will address the Parliament and the Council of the Em pire, which will return respectively to the Taurlc Palace and the Hall of Nobles where the formal openings of the Parlia ment will take place. CHEEK NEWS FHOM MOSCOW Constitutional Democrats Supposed Doubassoff Had Been Slain. ST. PETERSBURG, May 6. The Mod erates carried every feature of the pro gramme before the Constitutional Demo cratic Congress today by adopting the project of party organization, which places the control of the policy of the party and the tactics of the party in the hands of the Congress and its executive arm, the executive committee. This project was introduced Saturday and was bitterly fought by the extremist wing of the party. The deputies spent most of the day discussing their tactics for agitation in the country, and at the evening session tho agrarian programme. fixing the maximum size of farms, the redistribu tion through government agency of lands exceeding this maximum, etc., was intro- RCR81AN NATIONAL ASSEMBLY. The National Assembly ef Rusnla. to which so many hope for the fu ture ef that country are pinned, will be ?vnvnsd at the Tauric I'alace, In St. Petersburg. Thursday,. May 10. Never befnrs In the history of Russia ha there been an assem blage which, with the sanction and approval of the government, has represented the people. It would, therefore, appear to be an experi ment, upon the outcome of which will depend the future of Russia. The National Assembly, or Douma, was granted by the Emperor. Au gust 15. 1905. and according to the official announcement. In estab lished for the preliminary study and definition of legislative propositions, which, according to the fundamental laws, go up through the Council of the Empire to the supreme auto cratic authority. The composition of the Council of the Empire, the up per house, one-half appointed by the Emperor and one-half elected from the nobility and clergy, would seem sufficient probably to deadlock the Douma, should there be any op position to the crown. The manifesto issued March H, 1906, was an innocent-looking pro-, vision, plaring beyond the jurisdic tion of parliament and consigning for consideration to commissions of the Council of the Empire the re ports of the Minister of Finance, charges of malfeasance against of ficials ff the government, the estab lishment of stock companies with special privileges and Questions re lating to entailed estates, titles of nobility, etc. The government retains the power to promulgate "temporary laws during the recess of Parliament, and as the Parliament is subject to dis solution by imperial ukase, the gov ernment is in a position in time of strrss to rid itself of any obnoxious legislature arid proclaim such laws a$ It ricms necessary. Three hundred and vnty-one members liave been el-cted to the Assembly, of w hlch the Constitu tional T'emrterats have a clear work ing majority. The oath to betaken by the members !s: "W promise to perform our duties to the best of our knowledge and ability In all loy alty to Ills Majesty and mindful only of the welfare of Russia. " The first and all-Important matter to come up will be the agrarian problem, and recent dispatches from St. Petersburg seem to indicate "that the government a Ml work In accord with the AssemhTv in this matter by. proposing the formation of a par liamentary commission to elaborate plans for an agrarian project. This will practically mean the acceptance of the decision of the Constitutional Democrats. It was first announced that the Douma would be opened by the Fmperor. hut this plan has since bfn abandoned. duced. The radicals Immediately at tacked this, demanding the nationalisa tion and socialization of all lands. The feature of the session was the pic turesque scene when the news was re ceived of the attempt upon the life of Governor-General Doubassoff. at Moscow. Tt was then supposed that the attempt had been successful. The convention took a recess and t-heered the assassin and the d. for ten minutes. During the evening news also was re ceived of the assassination of the Gov ernor of FMzabethpol in revenge for his eavege repressions in the Caucasus. Wltte May Become Ambassador. LONDON, May ft. The Dally " Tele graph's St. Petersburg correspondent says it is reported that Count Wltte may be .appointed. Rutaian ambaaaador to Pari. MORTAR BYF1NGER STOUGH Fine New Buildings at Stan ford Shown to Have Been Poorly Constructed. TRIO UNDER SUSPICION C. K. Hodges, the Resident Architect; C. G. Lathrop, -Who Handled Funds, and-J. D. McGIIvray, Who Got AH Contracts. BY CI.Al'DE C. M'Crt.T.OCH. STANFORD tTXIVERSlTT, Cal., May 6. (Special Correspondence.) Many peo ple, and particularly a prominent paper of San Francisco, are maintaining and trying to prove that the university build mgs. which were overthrown by the earthquake were poorly constructed and that specifications had not been ad hered to in erecting them. There has always been a Jnystic haze of uncertainty hanging over the actions of the university business office man aged by Charles G. lathrop, brother of the late Jane L. Stanford, and It is not at all surprising that at this time critics should come forward with charges of graft. Much excitement has been caused by this attempt to create a scandal, and as the question grows, more and more people ar.e being drawn into the. discus slon. A recent issue of the San Francisco Examiner openly charged that' more money had been put Into certain buildings than they were worth, that certain build ings were very poorly and improperly con structed, and that specifications had been tampered with and cheaper material sub stituted by the contractors than their contracts called for. This charge at once incriminates Lathrop. who handles the university funds: Charles Edward Hodges, the resident architect, and John D. Mc GIIvray, the contractor who has erected most of the buildings on the campus. Evidences of a Conspiracy, if there has been any consipracv to defraud the university it must have been among these men. for they seem to be the only ones who have a thorough under standing of the building situation. Pres ident Jordan Is hopelessly Hinaco'iaJnted with the trend '.f things in the business department, or t-lse he win.fully gives that impression in conversation. So many family ties have always been bound up with the growth of the university that many people have cried "graft, graft," since the founding of the institution, and most of these charges have been directed against Lathrop. The brother of the founder, brought here at her special request, paid a sal ary the equal of the president's itself, has often been suspected of having "an easy inside thing. Hodges is not a brilliant light in his profession. Presi dent Jordan has but little respect for his. ability, -and among, the- architects of the country he has no great repu tation. The accusers of Lathrop then have coupled this fact to their suspicions and asked why Is this man retained as architect by the university, which is well able to afford the best, when his ability is but mediocre. McGIIvray Always Gets Contract. Then still another circumstance has always been material for much talk. Mc GIIvray has done all the building for Stanford for years. He is in no way con nected with the university. His business is in San Francisco, although his home is near the campus and he should have no more of a chance to be given a con tract for work than any other builder. The fact remains that McGIIvray is in variably awarded the contract. After all bids have been duly opened and ex amined McOilvray's has always been found to be the most satisfactory. So now the question arises, What is the significance of this situation? What pe culiar understanding does this- triumvirate Lathrop, Hodges and McGIIvray have REAL RII.ER OF FRANCE. M. lemenceau. Minister of interior. M. Clemenceau. Minister of the Interior of France, is said to be the real ruler of that nation. His J lack of force in dealing with riot- ern in Paris and In the mining dfs J trlcts has emboldened rioters and 4 created the situation which has al f most .threatened a revolution. AI- 1 though seldom In office, he has be5n the real power behind the President's -chair in every admin istration of the last 25 years. He Is now Minister of the Interior. I J ' ' - I EVENTS OF THE WEEK Winner to PUw the Champion. Jav Gould, of Lakewood, N. J., whose excellent piaylnu In the ama teur cotirt tennis championship of , Great Britain at the Queen's Club has attracted great attention In England, will meet V. Fennel!, last year's runner-up, this week, and the winner will play Eustace Miles, the holder of the championship. Invest Igatlon of Standard Oil. The Interstate Commerce Commis sion May 11 will begin one of the most thorough Inquiries that has ever been Instituted into the rela tions between the railroads and the Standard Oil Company. Special counsel have been engaged and hun dreds of subpenaes Issued. Inde pendent oil refiners have been sum moned, and the Commission will make as drastic an investigation as possible. Or. Crapsey to Heax Verdict. The ecrlesiatk-al court which tried Dr. Algernon S. Ciapsey, of Rochester, N. Y-. for heresy, will reassemble In executive session at the parish-house of St. James Church, Batavia, Mav I, to exam ine the evidence and decide on a verdict. The following day the court will transmit their findings to Bishop Walker, upon whom rests the responsibility of deciding what punishment. If any, shall be meted out. Illinois Democratic Convention. The Illinois Democratic state con vention will be held In Springfield. May II. Convention of Locomotive Kngineers. The National convention of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engi neers will meet at Memphis, May 9. among themselves? This Is the question the press of Sari Francisco, through the Examiner, is trying to solve. It must be admitted that it would be very easy for Hodges to design a building and look the other way while It was being built, for Lathrop to give McGIIvray tho job, irre spective of other bidders, and for Mc GIIvray to build the structure with most profit to all three. Of course, this Is but a probable situ ation. Xot an iota of proof can be brought to prove that there is and has been a deal between these men. Tills much alone can be said, that almost every man on the campus has some vague Im pression that things are not jus right. Contractors tell stories of rejected bids and preference over them for McGIIvray. Members of the fac'ulty, men of years and experience, arc convinced in their own minds that at least many buildings have been poorly constructed. Professor Attempts Expose. A prominent professor, one of the high est salaried men on the teaching staff, and a ;o.-ij . ko'j-vn the counrrv over, u1 a few days agJt-Juok one of iho student correspondent KSnto his confidence and enlisted his services to attempt disclos ure of the situation. This man said he thought the university had been managed badly and that now was the time to clear up certain misunderstandings. This is as far as any one can get. They may gather a little evidence which would seem to', indicate crooked work, but they can get no convincing proof that specifications have been tampered with or funds maladmlnistered. This much can be said: The mcfre one investi gates the ruins of th-e fallen buildings the more one becomes convinced that there has been vevy poor material and workmanship jimploye.l. All of-tntr university structures are faced with buff sandstone placed on brick. A few are solid stone. The shock threw the facing off of many of the arcades, and disclosed the interior of the wralls. Within one can see the filling which has been used broken rock and Concluded on Pag-e 4.) CONTENTS TODAY'S PAPER . Tho Weather. YESTERDAY'S Maximum temperature, 70 deg. ; minimum. 4." deg. TODAY'S Fair; northerly winds. . San Francisco. Insult offered Oregon""Iyslcian at meeting of San Francisco medical men. fare 1. Further examination of Stanford University wrecks proves the faulty construction. Page I. Huge dam caused by earthquake threatens towns in Capay valley. Fage 4. While dynamiting In dangerous ruin, potty ofrirer In charge of squad Is caught by falling wall. Page 4. Open-sir religious services are held in dif ferent parts of the city, page 4. Coroner Walsh put the list of earthquake victims at 3t. J'age 4. nomenl 1c. How Maxim Gorky's rosy dreams were shat tered. Page 2. Peaceful solution of miners' troubles seems to be assured. Page- Tennesseean and young daughter shot by attat'King mou. i age 4. Congress. Vote .on the railroad rate bill will probably be taKcn by tne senate mis week. Page .t. Beading fit the naval bill will occupy about three days In the House. 1'age J. Foreign. Attempt to kill Governor-Genera! Doubas- sorr. of Moscow, witn a oomo. rage l. Delegates to National Parliament and Coun cil of the Kniplro arming at tot. Peters burg. Page h - Elections in France passed off without any disturbance. Pago z. National. Waste of money bv Government officials in building th- Panama Canal. Page 1. Commission to Investigate second-class mail matter renomrreiiaed. liy Postmaster General. Pag B. Battleship Rhode Island Is pulled off shoal near Norfolk. a. Page 3. President Hoosevelt expresses satisfaction over status of railroad rate legislation. Paga 3. Pacific Coast. Brakeman Neelan Miller fatally shot in fight with tramps on fchort L,tne rrelgnt train. Pag 5. Loss of warehouses and fire at North Yakima will total 14.0OO. Page 4. Adams, the defaulting Seattle Assay cash ier, win right ror liberty. Page 5. .- Sport a. Portland wins from Oakland in hotly con. tta eleven-Inning ball game; score, 4 to 3. Page IS. Portland Automobile ciuh takes first coun try run of season. Page 13. Portland and Vicinity. New pastor preaches first sermon at Cai- varv prceyierwm t. nurcn. page a. Many friends attend funerai of lata Louis Blumauer. Page a. Both parties begin canvass of state; polit ical campaign in lull awing. fag s. Leonard Kelly kills himself by drinking carbolic acid; Jnsana from nervous strain. Faga 8. , WASTE OF MONEY L Contract System Only Efficient Way of Completing the Work. COSTLY WHIM OF SHONTS Many Instances ot Blundering Which Throw Money Away and Give Bad KesuUs Bed Tnpe Hampers Contractors. s BT WOODWORTH CUM. COLON. Panama, April 15. (Special Correspondence.) Last' Sunday was a great day In the history of Colon, for when the sun had scarcely begun its climb across the heavens, the good ship Finance steamed Into the harbor, bring ing as her guests Theodore P. Slionts, chairman of the Canal Commission: W. Leon Pepperman, also of the Canal Com mission, and Mr. Coolcy, of the Civil Serv ice Commission. For two long days the people had been watching for the vessel. Their chief con cern was the letters from home the Uni ted States mall, now two days overdue. Imagine, then, their feelings when they discovered that the delay of the mails was due to thc fact that Mr. Shonts pre ferred not to sail from New York, but had directed that the Finance steam into Key West, Fla., and call for him and his honorable party. Mr. Shonts admits that he is not a good sailor, and really he did not look in the best of spirits when he climbed down thc . gangway on Sunday morning. So rather than to ride the bil lows off Cape Hatteras, he ordered the Finance to Key West. Cost $2000 to Avoid Seasickness. That is all very well. You or I would do . the same thing with our private yacht, perhaps. But Mr. Shonts is draw ing down something like J30.000 per an num from the Government, and why shouldn't he have the Government ships lose two days and delay the mails, in or der that he may avoid a bit of seasick ness? Of course, we must forget that it costs $800 or $!00 a day to run the Fi nance, and that the Government paid a pilot $130 lo guMe th FinHiH-e. mj- Key V.'et '.Vim i sutlers u it-r.."ie s ;4 c.i lose 3000. Just so Mr. Slion's did nor liave to go around Cape Hatteras? 'Aoidit is too bad that, after all, he aid get sea sick coming down from Key West. All along the line, among the minor of ficial residents.and even among the la borers, I have discovered a distressing lack of confidence in Mr. Shonts. He has done many little things, one of which I have cited above, that have incurred ror him the ill will of the people. Another case in point, which I have from half a dozen steamship agents at Colon, occurred last August, when Mr. Shonts made one of his week-end trips to the Canal Zone. According to their testimony, Mr. Shonts desired to leave Colon two days before the scheduled sailing date. So he ordered the captain to stop taking on cargo and get up steam. There was some demurring, but a repetition of the order, coupled with a suggestion that "somebody would get fired." brought the ship's officials around, and the boat left according to Mr. Shonts' desire. But several cars of perishable friiit that had been shipped to Colon, to go via that steamer to Xew York, were left high and dry on the dock, and the shipper lost a season's profit. Also Mr. Shonts' statement to the Sen ate committee on interoceanlc canals that he would resign his princely Job If com pelled to takehls wife to the isthmus, has not tended to increase confidence In the healthful properties of the Canal Zone atmosphere, and It Is with poor grace that the carpenters and machinists and clerks and engineers are urged by the Commis sion to bring their families with them. Vaste Through Lack of Foresight. I made a second trip to the site for the Colon standpipe that was to have been completed April i, according to Secretary Taft's statement. I found a ragged hole in the ground, two feet deep and 15 feet t HARVARD INSTRUCTOR IS AC- I CX'SEU Ot" POISONING HIS WIFE. Professor Erich Maenther. Professor Erich Muenfher is a Harvard Instructor who is accused by the polI-e of Chicago of poison ing his wife. He has myteriousiy disappeared since her death. His sister, Mls Bertha Muenther, de clares that there is nothing to in dicate his guilt and maintains his innocence. PANAMA GANA - ' 'A I it jr -' T or more in diameter, filled with green slime. I was accompanied by the fore man that had been in charge of the dig ging, and from him I learned that the site had been condemned. "Why?" I asked. 'Because when they dug down 18 inches they encountered water and a shifting coral foundation," he replied. "Mr. Stevens personally condemned the site." Looking around me I observed barrel upon barrel of cement, 40 carloads of sand, a mass of pipe and various and sundry other material that was to have been used on this muchly-advertised standpipe, this grim April-fool joke of the canal administration. "But why did they bring: all the stuff here, if they condemned the site?" I asked my friend, the former foreman. "Oh, that was brought here before we even broke ground," was the as tounding reply. "It cost the Govern ment about 4000 to place those 300 barrels of cement and that other truck here, and it will cost the Government 13000 to cart it away." Here we seem to have a net loss to the Government of J7000, Just because some engineer did not think of testing the ground for a foundation before ordering all these supplies. Besides, it took 25 men six weeks to ascertain that the site should be condemned. And I was further informed that a contract had been let with a Chicago firm for the construction of a standpipe on that site for $21,000. Perhaps the Canal Commission at Washington will announce whether this particular J21, 000 must be forfeited by the Govern ment. And whether it is or not, the 400,000 gallons of water that were to have been stored in the standpipe have flowed on into the hungry sea. Changed His Mind at Public Expense Another instance: The municipal engineers in Colon decided to lay a six inch pipe along Bolivar street, one of the principal thoroughfares. The ditches were dug, and the six-inch pipe was distributed along the line. There it lay for a few days, when the engi neer determined to put down eight Inch pipe in Bolivar street. This ulti mately was done, but the six-inch pipe Is still lying on the surface, and the cost of its distribution and collection, with the consequent breakage, appears to be an unnecessary expense. A little more forethought, such as would have been exercised by a private contractor, would have saved the Government con siderable money. . Mr. J. N. Bailey, of Amesbury, Mass., a waterworks engineer, who was in charge of the laying of Panama's big outlet sewer pipe, is my authority for a start ling story, that I verified from other un official sources. Here is what Mr. Bailey had to say: "I was Instructed to dig a trench two miles long and 18 feet deep. In which to lay the outlet sewer pipe for Panama. The ground was of such a character that it wnp tirrr'S3ihle to go down 18 Xeet with ot.iy t Iwo-'oot width, unless timber shor 'ings was used. I requested this timber, which was at Ancon all the time, but I had so much trouble with red-tape meth ods that finally, after consultation with other engineers, I proceeded to dig at a broad angle, bringing the point of the angle at the required depth. This method necessitated the excavation of 87,000 cubic yards of earth that we would not have had to touch had the shoring been avail able. It cost the Government II a cubic yard to move the earth." This is a rather brief but interesting ac count of another misspent fortune. If Mr. Bailey is correct, then Uncle Sam is Just JS7.000 to the bad on this one item. Cement Ditch Which Leaks. Then there is a famous cement ditch In Colon a ditch that was built beneath -ii-fck- awning a quarter of a mile long. The admit ligation was criticised, for the awn ing, and Mr. Taft replied that the awning was used so as to protect the cement from the rains, so It might properly settle and harden. But now, when the ditch, which is supposed to drain a portion of the Colon swamp. Is scarcely three months old, it develops many cracks and holes. The sea comes rushing into the ditch, drains out into the surrounding earth, and makes the swamp even swampier, the grade is not maintained, and in one or two other places where foul water does aotually seep into the ditch It is there retained for the edification of the passers by. I talked with several engineers con cerning this, and they all declared that a plain ditch dug in the earth, without ce ment, would have been far better. More unnecessary expense. Over in Cristobal Mr. Tubby, whom I have mentioned already, desired a gov ernmental residence constructed" for him self. But the sites available were not the best, ao, Mr. Tubby had "Houh iSV. a" moved a distance of some 30 feet, until it should stand close up against "House No. V and make room for his house, which is now nearing completion. One of the foremen who worked on the job told me that it cost in the neighborhood of $20,000 to move House No. 2. Over in)., Panama one of the municipal engineers told me that after a certain kind of gutter bad been laid along one of the streets, the engineer in charge changed his mind and ordered- another style of gutter. He said this bit of men tal activity cost the government about J3000. Gallegos at $50 a Head. But tho most interesting case is that reported to me by several of ' tb steams-hip agents at Colon. It concerns a shipload of "Gallegos," Spanish work men, who had been employed at Havana in some municipal enterprise. It seems that the United States Government char tered a vessel at yO0O to bring about 800 of these "Gflll'-gos" to Colon for work on the canal. But when the ship was ready to receive her passengers, only ISO "Gal legos'' were on hand, and no more could be secur'edfc '''i'hus each "Gallego" cost the Government $30 for passage from Havana to Colon, and the first-class fare from New York to Colon is only $50. Private Contract Only Remedy. There are many more instances. "Like other of the "little things" that I have mentioned In previous letters, they do not mean much In themselves. But taken in the aggregate they constitute one of the two most convincing arguments in favor of the scheme of turning the entire pro ject, with the exception of the health department, over to private contractors. The other argument I have dwrelt upon at length already making the Canal Zone a .Concluded on Page !.) OREGON DOCTORS OFFERED INSULT Accused of TakingFood Needed by Hungry. ABUSED BY DR. KUGELEF Resolutions Asking Them lo Depart Are Offered. FINALLY LAID ON TABLE Sensation Sprang at Meeting of Phy slcians of San Francisco, Called for Other Purposes, Occa sions a Stormy Time. BT W. O. MAC It API OAKLAND, Cal.. May 5. (Stiff corre spondence.) The Portland physicians and nurses who hurried to the razed city across the bay did splendid work, but the thanks they received for their services, their sacrifice of time and money was one of the most shameless insults ever offered to a body of professional men and women. The . insult came from Dr. H. Kugeler, credited with being one of San, Francisco's physicians of note. A mass meeting of the Bay City doctors had been called for the purpose of dis cussing ways and means of helping those who had lost their practice, homes and office equipments. Schools were thrown aside. Regulars, homeopaths and the rest of the offshoots of the medical profession made up the 500 doctors who attended the meeting. Doctors Invited to Go Home. The meeting was about half over when the chairman recognized Dr. Kugeler. When he got to his feet he drew from his pocket and began to read a set of resolu tions, the purport of which was that thei meeting should pass the resolutions invit ing the Portlfind donors to go home. Dr. Kugeler contended that the Portland doc &rshad come uninvited, that they were. no"t wanted, and were taking the bread and butter from the San Francisco physi cians, and were eating food that should go to those who had to stand in the bread line. No one was prepared for the insulting resolution which Dr. Kugeler read, anrl he was well launched into a tirade of abuse of the visiting doctors when he was interrupted. The attempt to have the res olution passed created a stormy scene. A number of prominent physicians pro tested vigorously against passing the reso lution, but their protestation were met with Jeers and hisses. Resolutions Laid on Table. However, when one prominent doctor rose and said that if the resolution was passed he would leave the hall a broken hearted man, cooler heads got control ofi the meeting and the insulting paper was tabled. " News of the abuse and insult which had been offered the Portland doctors quickly spread. Dr. K. A. J. Mackenzie, who with a number of other Portland volun teer doctors was stationed at Harbor View Hospital, would, but for the fact that he was making preparations for turning over his hospital to the United States Hospital Service, have taken up the matter with the City and County Medical Association of San Francisco, of which Dr. Kuegler Is a member. Dr. Mackenzie felt the affront very keenly, for on his arrival here, when things were in such a mess and muddle, the very first thing which he did was to send a tele gram to the' American Medical Society, of which he is vice-president, asking for aid for the San Francisco physicians who had lost everything by the fire. The other visiting doctors, too, took the insult keen ly to heart. The work of locating relatives of Ore gon people was resumed today. Tho brother of P. J. Bolston, of Portland, was located in a little makeshift cabin near the head of Market street. Mr. Bolston and. his wife were stopping at the Man hattan Hotel the morning of the earth quake and a brother had tried every means of locating him without making the trip to San Francisco. He could not do so and decided to come and hunt for him in person. Mr. Bolt son carried a letter from Mayor Lane, and on his arrival here several days ago presented his letter to Mayor Mott, of Oakland. Even this did not help him : locate hfs brother, and it was not until he appealed to the Oregon bureau that the missing people were located. Mr. Bolston was frightfully burned about the face and hands, so much so -that he was unable to recognize the brother who had come all the way from Portland to find him. The meeting be tween the brothers was pathetic in the ex treme. He will be taken to Portland as soon as he is able to travel. Pendleton People Jxcated. After almost two weeks spent In search of Mr. and Mrs. Pettlngale, of Pendleton. they were located this afternoon at one of the camps. We found a Mr. Gallagher, who knew the Pettingales and knew them to be safe. A number of inquiries came from Pendleton for these people. Others located today were: Mrs. A. F. Davidson and daughter, of McMlnnville. Thomas Kelly and family are now lo cated at 3135 Twenty-sixth street. Mrs. Marie Grovenve.lt, Ada and Max. are now at 552 Shotwell-street, and Mr. and Mrs. J. Hagerty and son are at pres ent at 3554, Twenty-second street. A pathetic appeal for help today, came from W. J. Reed, who was born on the present site of the Portland Hotel. Mr. Reed lost everything by fire and says he is living in a tent made of pieces of car pet. He Is in need of assistance and tells a pitiful story of his struggles since tho fire to maintain his family of four chil dren, his wife and himself. I will look them up today.