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VOL. XLVI. XO. 14,225. PRICE FIVE CENTS. PORTLAND, OREfcON, THURSDAY, JULY 12, 1906. LIFE QUICKENS IN THE BAY CITY Business Very Brisk Amid the Ruins. SHOWN BY BANK CLEARINGS Record of Corresponding Week A Year Ago Is Exceeded. BUILDING BOOM BEGINS When the Insurance Companies Pay Up What They Owe, the Recon struction of Metropolis Will Be Carried Along With a Rush. RISING FROM ASHES. BANK CLEARINGS Last wk the clearings were $33, 000,000. as com pared with $30,400,000 in the cor responding week a year ago. The fig ures are authentic. BUILDING PERMITS With th building laws In a state of chaos dur ing the month of June permits were Issued to the value of $1,600,000. Plans are being drawn for a dozen tall buildings to be erected In the heart of the burned district. INSURANCE Only $13,000,000 has teen paid out on Insurance claims. "When the companies settle the city will ae an enormous building boom. RAILWAYS Business of the South ern Pacific Is assuming greater pro portlms day by day. Millions are to be spent In bridging the bay from the Oakland shore 20 miles below San I'ranclsco. Freight trains can thus he brought directly Into the city; the Ocean Shore Railroad Is rushing a short line to Santa Crux. Larger crews have been put at work on the Western Pacific. TRADE Oakland and Berkeley un able to hold the wholesale and retail business temporarily diverted. One of the largnst department stores rtt San Francisco Is now doing business at the rate of $1,750,000 a year. BT P. A. SINSHEIMER. SAN FRANCISCO. July 9. (Special Correspondence.) Ten weeks ago, if anyone had ventured the prediction that the week of July i would see San Francisco doing as great a volume of business as ever, he would have been ridiculed, but nevertheless the fact has come to pass. Ban Francisco, amidst her ruins dur ing the past week, has eclipsed her rec ord ot last year for the same time. The bank clearings in the like week a year ago amounted to $30,400,000, while this year they amounted to $33,909,000. So unexpected was this achievement that several of the commercial agencies re fused to record it, alleging that a mis take must have been made. An inquiry Into the official ligures, however, shows that there is no error. Of course, a portion of this amount Is accounted for by the insurance pay ments, but 93 per cent of the total rep resents the regular course of business. The clearings have shown a large in crease each week, but no one was quite prepared for the sudden spurt of last week. The expansion of business was, coin cident with the adoption of a building ordinance. Naturally capital was kept more or less In reserve until the ad justment of the building problem. Building Is Very Active. Although the city's building laws were in a chaotic state during the month of June, building permits were Issued to the value of fl.COO.OOO, and In this sum are not included those one story temporary structures which may be erected for a time without special permit. Now that the building law has been promulgated, reconstruction will take Its real start. It is hampered sole ly by the slowness of the insurance companies. Up to the present time but $15,003,000 has been paid out in Insurance. Were the various companies to loosen their purse strings as the situation demands, San Francisco would at once enter upon a building boom such as has never been known before. As it is. plans at this transitory stage are being drawn for a dngen tall buildings to be erected In the heart of the burned district. One of the best indications of the re turning prosperity is reflected in the figures ot the Southern Pacific Com pany. The company reports that the travel, which after the disaster fell off to practically nil, has been resumed and is dally assuming larger propor tions. Travel back and forth across the , bay to Oakland and Berkeley Is greater than ever before In the history of the city. GreM Ru.-h at Ferries. Last Sunday 100.000 persons crossed the bay on the Southern Pacific ferry boats. The Southern Puclflc is only one of a half a dogen companies operating trans-bay boats. There was no unusual occasion for travel, and the figures how only the slle of the Summer credos. Of course a large part of the travel across the bay Is due to the fact that many Snn Franciscans who were '.lurned out are now residing in Oakland and Berkeley. This has made boom '.tanM for these cities. There has been some little apprehension lest Oakland cap ture a great portion of San Francisco's business, but fears on this score are gradually being dispelled. Unable to find accommodations on this side, many of the wholesalers moved their establishments to Oakland, but during the last month almost all of them have returned. Something of an effort was made by Oakland to hold the retail trade which crossed the bay on tne days immediately following the fire, but in this Oakland has failed. The writer was enabled to observe a good instance of this during the last few days. Oakland Merchant Frightened. An Oakland department store, ob serving that it was unable. to meet its augmented trade by the small order system, determined to place an order for a trainload of goods in the East. A few days before the goods arrived the proprietor of the Oakland store be came alarmed, fearing he had placed an order beyond his capacity to handle. He telephoned to a large department store in San Francisco asking to be re lieved of half of the consignment. The San Francisco firm consented. When the goods arrived, the San Franciscan disposed of them before he had fairly placed the goods on the shelves, telephoned to his Oakland friend, purchased the rest of the con signment and disposed of it with the same alacrity as he had the first part. This simply Illustrates that San Fran cisco is not to be displaced as the main trade center. . . The activity continues in all retail lines here. It must be remembered that scores of the smaller stores have not yet resumed business and the trade of the city is concentrated in those large establishments which had the surplus funds to rebuild and resume without waiting for their insurance money. The incident described above will be better understood in this light. One of the largest department stores in San Fran cisco is doing business today at the rate of $1,750,000 a year. Of course this is not equal to its business before the fire, but "it is certainly going some" for a town which is supposed to be down and out. Trains Running Into the City. Regular passenger trains, which for some weeks have been switched to the Oakland shore, are once again running into San Francisco. The lack of adequate hotel accommodations, while still a check on travel, is gradually being remedied. New hotels are being built and those which escaped the fire are being enlarged. The hotel district is now on Van Ness avenue and Sutter street. The fire has disrupted the usual city arrangements for the jail is in the same district. The railroads will encourage travel to the city as soon as conditions warrant. They have already offered inducements to people of the state by reducing all of the passenger rates In California 10 per cent or more. In addition Sunday excur sions are run every Sunday to San Fran cisco from points not far distant. Sev eral thousand people take advantage of the low rate every week. The city on such days takes on as much of a holiday appearance as is possible with its tattered garb. People with cam eras slung over their shoulders leisurely tour the burned section, snapping the In teresting ruins and stopping to spread luncheon wherever they may happen to be at noon hour. The bunko man has not been slow to realize his opportunity. He sets up his little game in some corner of the devas tated district and parts the countryman from his gold. A thorough policing of the area is impossible on Sunday, when the greater part of the tforce Is required at the park, beach and other localities where the crowds gather. So it often happens that a bunko man may go the day through unmolested. Harvest for Bunco Man. The crudest games in the business are used. One wily individual picked up sev eral hundred dollars last Sunday with the old "fish pond." Whenever the dealer loses the pot is doubled, but when the dealer wins he pockets the pot. A small bunch of "cappers" always helps along, it Is the nearest to the old country fair that San Francisco has come. The amount of work, independent of ac tual reconstruction, planned In the vicin ity of San Francisco is greater than the city has known before, in the first place the Southern Pacific Company is to spend millions to bridge the bay from the Oak land shore some 20 miles below San Fran cisco. This is made necessary by the congestion of transcontinental freight. This freight is all landed at Oakland and then brought across the bay to San Fran cisco by boat. The cars are ferried across, but the system is too slow and cumber some, and the freight continues to pile up on the other shore. Bridging of the Bay. The bridging of the bay, which was a pet scheme of some of the earlier railroad magnates, Is now to be put through. Pres ident Harrlman has ordered that work begin immediately. By this Improvement freight will not be brought across by boat from Oakland, but all freight trains can be deflected south around the loop and brought direct into San Francisco. In connection with this work the railroad is also building a cut-off Into San Fran cisco for its Coast trains. The Ocean Shore railroad Is now work ing a fvw miles outside of San Francisco rushing to completion a new line to con nect this city with Santa Cruz by a rapid route along the ocean. The Western Pa cific has increased its force and is heading with all speed for this city. The Guggen- helms have begun work on their gigantic smelters. A big London corporation Is negotiating for ypace to handle the pro duct of Its oil refinery which is now being erected on the southern coast. All of these are indicative of the large industrial operations in this vicinity. AH of these enterprises find the lack of labor the chief obstacle to their progress. Cleveland Has Recovered. NEW YORK, July 11. Grover Cleve land passed through this city yester day on the way to his Summer home at Tamwortr.. N. H. Mr. Cleveland was accompanied by Dr. J. DC Bryant, his personal frU-nd and physician. It was said that Mr. Cleveland had quite re 'ovrod his health and that Dr. Bryant was with him only as a guest. Mr. Cleveland expects to be at Tamworth the rest of the Summer, and is count ing on some good fishing. JOINT GRAIN RATE WITHIN TEN DAIS Railroads Will Offer No Objection. LOOK FOR BOOMERANG EFFECT Results Will Be Disappointing . to the Growers. COMMISSION WILL SUFFER Natural Movement of Business, It Is Believed, Will Disclose the Fal lacy of the Position Taken by the Board. BY E. W. WRIGHT. SEATTLE), July 11. (Staff correspond encesThe Washington Railroad Com mission will order in the Joint rate on wheat some time within the next ten days, and unless there is a change in the situation in the meantime the order of the commission will be obeyed with be coming meekness by the railroads. This, it will be noted, is a radical de parture from the threatened programme of a few weeks, or even a few days ago. The law was so clearly unconstitutional that the railroads made no attempt to de fend it in the Legislature, and at neither of the Colfax hearings nor at Walla Walla was any evidence introduced by the rail roads to combat the Munchausen-llke tes timony of some of the witnesses put on by the commission. The reason given for this attitude of in difference was that the matter would be taken into the courts and the testimony would then be Introduced where it would count for something. Brick Was Only Glided. But the Colfax meeting and the Walla Walla meeting revealed a changing senti ment on the part of the farmers regard ing the commission. The men who were largely responsible for the passage of the Railroad Commission bill have at last dis covered that they secured a gold brick, and they have lost confidence in the com mission. It is with a view of still further dis crediting the commission that the rail roads have at last decided to make no fight against the joint-rate order. The railroad contention Is that the victory which they would gain in the courts would only serve to make martyrs of the com mission and enable it to go before the Legislature next Winter .and ask the en actment of a law that would "hold wa ter." By obeying the joint-rate order at this time the railroads expect. In the nat ural movement of business, to expose the fallacy of the claims and the general worthlessness of the commission. All Competition Removed. The granting of a joint rate, as has pre viously been stated, will result In the elim ination of all competition. The farmer In noncompetitive Great Northern territory who in the past has at times enjoyed high er prices for his wheat than the Palouse farmer was receiving will no longer enjoy the advantage which his close proximity to the Puget Sound markets gives him. Prices will be the same throughout the Pacific Northwest, and there will, accord ingly, be unsurpassed opportunities for buyers' combines at both Portland and Puget Sound, all of which will be laid at the door of the commission by the disap pointed farmers. Aside from the biased and misleading testimony of some of the Railroad Com mission's witnesses at the Colfax hearing, there is no evidence to support the claim that wheat is higher on Puget Sound than at Portland. There Is. however, abun dant evidence that whatever variation there may be, it is as often in Portland's favor as it is in favor of Puget Sound. Lower Price for Basis. There will, of course, be no variation in prices when the Joint rate goes in and eliminates competition, but unless both Portland and Puget Sound dealers change their angelic nature and sprout a new set of wings, it will be the lower and not the higher price that will form the base from which buying will be done. When the deluded farmer awakens to this full real ization of the effect of the $75,000 com mission, it Is believed that he will speed ily Join hands with his former enemy the railroad and substitute the present law, which legalizes the confiscation of prop erty, with a more reasonable but less ex pensive one. It is understood that the O. R. & N. Co., on which the Railroad Commission bat teries were directly trained, will, in case it now consents to the experiment with Joint rates, reserve the right to test the constitutionality of the law, should it desire to do so a few months later. If the joint rate was to work out in accord ance with the theory and desires of the Commission, it would work considerable harm on Portland, for the O. R. & N., be ing an interstate line, could not demand the right to make the Northern Pacific and the Great Northern feeders for its line, as it must now become, if it obeys the Commission order, a feeder to the other lines. Hill Lines Act on Principle. In view of the fact that it was clearly the intention of the Commission to di vert everything possible from Portland to Puget Sound, the attitude of the Hill lines in Joining the O. R. & N. in fighting the joint rate has caused some comment. This, it is explained, was not due to the fear of any loss on Immediate business through the proposed radical change, but because the basic principle was wrong and unjust, and the precedent established one that in the future might cause no end of trouble. Grainmen In this city and in Tacoma, of course, expect the equalization, when any equalization is necessary, will be brought about by a lowering Instead of an ad vancing of prices. Many of them freely admit that the order of the Commission will have an effect contrary to that which is expected. The O. R. N. Co. has better ware houses and more of them than the Hill lines, all through Eastern Washington, and in spite of the hue and cry raised in an effort to divert wheat from the lines, It has always secured the lion's share, even at competitive points, where both lines met on even terms. If there has been any wheat diverted from O. R. & N. lines by means of this long-drawn out howl about higher prices on Puget Sound, the diversion will now be checked and more wheat than ever stored in the O. R. & N. houses, from which under the joint rate it could be moved with equal advantage to either Portland or Puget Sound. It Is said to be a very rare occurrence for wheat In a warehouse on one line to be routed out over a competing line, and It is generally believed that very little of the wheat stored In O. R. & N. (Concluded on Page 2.) UNEASY LIES THE HEAD-" BOOM FOR GANNON READY TO LAUNCH Held in Reserve Till Campaign Opens. FIRST GUN IN HIS DISTRICT Will Be Declared the Choice of Illinois for President. ALL NORTH MAY BE FOR HIM Convention Which Renominates the Speaker for Congress Will Boom Him for President State Con vention Will Follow. CHICAGO, July 11 (Special.) Republi can politics fairly sizzled today with the arrival In the city of "Uncle Joe" Can non's Presidential boom and the two Sen atorial candidates, Richard Yates and Senator Cullom. The Cannon boom was brought to town by State Treasurer Len Small and State Senator E. C. Curtis, but they did not launch it today, because it is planned to have the first shot fired in "Uncle Joe's" own district. Speaker Cannon's candidacy for the Presidential nomination will be released officially at a roundup of Republican leaders of the Eighteenth Congressional District to be held In the near future. August 12 the district convention will re nominate Mr. Cannon for Congress and resolutions will be adopted at that time naming him as "Illinois' choice" for first place on the National ticket of 1908. Nine days later August 21 the Republican state convention will be held in Spring field, and "Uncle Joe" will be Indorsed there, according to present plans. It also is intimated that Mr. Cannon will make a public address In Chicago within the next two weeks. Boom Ready to Launch. With these plane rapidly forming. It Is declared the Cannon boom will get a good start. All it needs is to have somebody touch a match to the fuse, it is said, and there will be an explosion of Cannon enthusiasm which will be heard all over the country. For courtesy's sake, how ever, the Cannon district will be given the privilege of igniting the red fire. "The Cannon boom is nearly ready for the launching," said Mr. Small. "His district Is with him to a man. Demo crats and Republicans alike, and I think there is no doubt about the state con vention declaring for him. Mr. Cannon is at Danville now, but has said nothing definite about being a candidate. His friends will attend to all that." Claims All Northern States. "Illinois, of course, will be for Speaker Cannon," said Senator Curtis. "What Is more, every Northern State, with the possible exception of Iowa, will be for Mr. Cannon. It Is my belief that 'Uncle Joe' will loom up as the leading Republi can candidate within the next few months. The trouble now is to hold his friends in check until the right moment arrives to spring his candidacy." The Federal faction in Illinois is for Mr. Cannon and it is considered unlikely that Governor Deneen will throw any obstacles in the way. The Yates camp is the only uncertain factor in the party In this state. FIGHT AMONG THE FACTIONS Evans Will Probably Be Tennessee's Republican Nominee for Governor. NASHVILLE, Tenn.. July 11. The Re publican State Convention, which meets here tomorrow, has been looked for ward to as a turbulent affair. The struggle for control between tactions adhering respectively to the leadership of H'. Clay Evans and Walter P. Brown low, Congressman from the First Dis trict, has been an Interesting one and until today there has been every indi cation of a stubborn fight in the con vention. Harmony, however, now seems to prevail, as results of today's confer ence among the leaders. The programme, as it appears tonight, is for the nomination of Evans for Gov ernor, while Brownlow, who is now chairman of the state committee, will retain that position. Congressman Na than W. Hale, of the Second District, will be permanent chairman of the con vention if present plans are carried out. The fight over the chairmanship also means a fight in the credentials com mittee, where probably a dozen contests are to be considered and a nomination will hardly come before Saturday. Late tonight it was announced that Brownlow will himself be a candidate for the permanent chairmanship of the convention. This materially changes the aspect of affairs. The Evans men will support Hale's candidacy and a warm campaign will result, the outcome be ing in doubt tonight. Clark's Prediction on Candidates. SANTA BARBARA. Cal.. July 11. United States Senator Clark, of Montana, In an interview here tonight, predicted that the next Presidential campaign will find Bryan the candidate of the Demo cratic party and Roosevelt of the Repub lican. Although President Roosevelt la not seeking the nomination, the Senator believed that it would be forced upon him. Senator Clark is returning from Gold field, where he inspected the railway now being constructed for him from Las Vegas to Tonopah. Cut Off Woodbury's Head. NEW YORK. July 11. The Board of Al dermen yesterday adopted the report of two members of the committee supporting Counsel William M. Ivins' recommenda tion that the Commissioner of Street Cleaning John M. Woodbury be dismissed. ALASKA GOLD IS STOLEN Shipment of $100,000 Missing From Yukon Steamer. SEATTLE, July 12. Over $100,000 con signed to the Alaska Pacific Express Company here has been stolen from aboard the steamer Ida May and no clew has been obtained to the robbers. The shipment was sent from Fralr banks and was transferred at Nenana. The Ida May was to transfer It to the 6arah at Fort Gibbon and it was there ithat the loss was discovered. CONTENTS TODAY'S PAPER The Weather. YESTERDAY'S Maximum temperature, 88 deg. ; minimum. 66. TODAY'S Fair and continued warm. Northwest winds. Foreign. Naval policy splits British Cabinet. Page 4. American grain exporters denounced by Ger man buyers. Page 2. Empress Eugenie's parting visit to Francis Joseph. Page 3. Native revolt In Transvaal expected. Page 5. Decision in Dreyfus case today. Page S. National. Payment of Colville Indian money to But ler enjoined. Page 4. Guatemala and Salvador ask United States to mediate between them. Page S. Army brigade to be stationed at American Lake. Page 4. Politics. Cannon's boom for President to be started in Illinois. Page 1. Republican factions quarrel in Tennessee. Page 1. Patterson leads Democratic bolt in Colo rado. Page 3. Parker criticises Taft's speech on trust prosecutions. Page 1. La Follette will expose Senate on lecture platform. Page 3. Domestic. Thaw reiterates rejection of Insanity plea. Page 3. Iceman of Kansas City tells how he got rich. Page 3. Standard Oil witness comes from hiding Page i. Curtis Jett tells new story of Marcum mur der. Page 2. Denver corporations try to block grand Jury Inquiry. Page 3. Harriman and Northwestern officials confer on new rate law. Page 14. More revelations about raw material of potted ham. Page 4. Fairbanks runs down man with automobile. Page 3. Portland Sunday school men arrested while slumming in Denver. Page 6. Steamer wrecked and burned on Mississippi River. Page 2. Russia.. Admiral Chouknln mortally wounded by vengeful sailor. Page 2. Plans for suppression of revolt published by revolutionists. Page 2. Tambov mutineers surrender. Page 2. Sport. Great golfing at Englewood tournament. Page 7. Mopsa wins yacht race. Page 7. Pacific Coast. San Francisco is doing a remarkable amount of business amid its ruins. Page 1. Joint rate on grain ordered by the Wash ington Railroad Commission is soon to go into effect. Page 1 Masked men rob travelers on Montana freight train. Page 6. Esther Mitchell sticks to Mrs. Creffleld and wlli have nothing to do with father. Page 6. Chautauqua assembly opens at Ashland. - Page 6. Portland and Vicinity. Contractors on high service main blamed for East Side water shortage. Page 7. Hot fight on between Hodson and Malarkey for Senate leadership. Page 10. Judge Hunt sets 21 "land-fraud cases for trial. Page 10. Colonel J. F. Huston, formerly of Van couver, causes superiors in Philippines much worry. Page 14. Chamber of Commerce holds semi-annual meeting at The Oaks. Page 9. Portland naturalists succeed fn photograph ing California condors In their cave. Page 10. Bigamist Dane shams insanity to gain free dom. Page 11 . Beavers defeat S!wanhes In ball game en livened by two fights. Page 7. Chinese bunco Krebs Bros, in hop deal. Page 10. Portland Railway Company's construction laborers go cn strike. Page 11. Mazam&g start for Mt. Baker July 20 Page i ii HOLD YOU SO" Rebate Convictions Not Under New Law. ASKS WHY LONG DELAY? Says Plenty of Law for Prose cuting Trusts. HE JOINS ISSUE WITH TAFT Defeated Candidate Emerges From Snowslide Long Enough to Ask Why Roosevelt Did Not Prosecute Trusts Sooner. NEW YORK, July 11. Ex-Judge Alton B. Parker, hi a statement given out to day, took issue with some of the utter ances of Secretary of "War Taft In the speech delivered at Greensboro, N. C, by Mr. Taft last Monday. Judge Parker de clares that the Secretary In his speech sought to have the public draw the in ference that the recent prosecutions of alleged illegal combinations are due to new statutes. To this Judge Parker takes exception, and to support his contention he quotes from his letter of acceptance and a speech subsequently delivered dur ing the last Presidential campaign. In both the speech and the letter Judge Par ker Is quoted as saying that the laws then on the statute books were entirely adequate If enforced. Judge Parker In his statement says: Could Have Done It Before. The inference that Secretary Taft would have the public draw from his utterance is that these things are due to new statutes; that the vindication which the law Is now receiving Is due to Congressional action since 1904. But that Is not so. Not one of the successful prosecutions for which the exist ing Administration Is now entitled to credit is based on any new statute. Every single one of them down to this date rests solely UDon the law as It stood in 1904, and it should not be ost sight of by a discriminat ing public ttiat the law could have been en forced in 1904, and In 1903. and In 1902. just as well as today. Had It been, the wrongs from which the people have suffered would not have so multiplied. Secretary Taft's speech at Greensboro, N. C, was Interesting throughout, but It cannot be said that It was accurate throughout. I shall only refer to the statement in which he alluded to the position taken by me In the campaign of 1904, in substance and effect that we have law enough to stop every cor porate abuse; that all that Is lacking Is an administration disposed to enforce the law. 'I Told You So" Quotations. I said in the "letter of acceptance," under the title of "Trust Remedies': "I pointed out in my earlier response the remedy which in my Judgment can effectually be applied against monopolies and the assurance was given that. If existing laws. Including both statute and common law, proved Inadequate, contrary to my expectations, I favor such further legislation with constitutional limita tions as will beat promote and, safeguard the interests of all the people." I emphazlsed the same thought on other occasions In public speeches. I reiterated it in a speech on Jeffer son day, 1909, in which I said: "The plain truth is that there has been no time during the past eight years, since the abuses alleged became flagrant, when they could not have been eliminated. Nothing has been so much needed as a rigid, honest, un yielding enforcement of the law, both civil and criminal. But instead of going on with the enforcement of the law against rebates by puttmg the railroad officials responsible for them behind prison bare, precisely as we do other malefactors, the misconduct Is made an excuse for further concentration of power In the Federal Government. It is expected by the administration and the railroad officials who openly consent to the movement, as well as by those who are ostensibly opposed to it, that the people in their just Indignation at the wrongs done io the many for the benefit of the few will lose sight of the danger of so vast a centraliza tion of power until it Is too late to check It. But we should never forget that the safety of our Institutions is Involved in every such meanure, and instead of submitting to it should Insist that when a trust or a railroad has violated the criminal law the place for the guilty official Is In Jail or the penitentiary, not in the Cabinet or In the .board rooms of great corporations. We do not defend or ex cuse any wrong, but we must insist upon the truth of the maxim that 'two wrongs do not make a right." Only After Parker Told How. Until after this last utterance no visible action had been taken by an administration that had been in power about four years to check corporate and trust abuses by an ap peal to the criminal courts. After that steps were taken, and I submit that the result proves the truthfulness of the assertions often made by me, that we have an abundance of law to put an end to all offenses against the public by the officers of the trusts and great corporations of the country. The administration has now discovered not only that there Is enforclble law against the giving of rebates and law adequate to check Illegal combinations, but that the persons en gaged in Us violation can be punished for it. The recent decisions of the courts, the large fines imposed in many cases of conviction, the threatened proceedings In every section of the country, all demonstrate that the law Is and long has been adequate to stop offenses against the public. The decisions of the United States courts, both civil and criminal, during the past year are appealed to as decisive of the question as to whether Secretary Taft or myself is right. Northwest Postal Affairs. OREGONIAN NEWS BUREAU, Wash ington, July 11. Marion A. Sample has been appointed regular and Edward C. Hlller substitute, rural carriers, route 2, at Walla Walla. Wash. Braton L. Mc Kee has been appointed Postmaster at Anlauf, Or., vice Sallie A. Hill, re signed. Peasants to Die for Killing Turks. SAIjOKICA, July 11. The trial of 35 peasants implicated in the murder of 2tf Turks a year ago ended today. Of the accused 21 were sentenced to death and 14 were acquitted. SHOUTS PARKER