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BILL FOR OPEN RIVER IS PASSED Washington Senate Makes Ap propriation of $125,000 for Columbia and Snake. VOTE STANDS AT 33 TO 7 Measure Is Recalled From Commit tee and Carried After Lengthy Discussion Snake Gets $100,. 000, Columbia Remainder. OLYMPlA. Wash., March 13. (Special.) -.The Senate today passed the bill which had already passed the House, appro priates H25.0CO for the improvement of the Columbia River above Celilo and of the Snake River below Riparia. The ap propriation ls made out of the general fund and the bill distinctly provides the money is placed at the disposal of, and the same shall be used and expended by snd under the direction of the Secretari al' War of the United States. The only restriction the state places is that JKJ.Ot-O of the amount is to be used for the Co lumbia and the balance for the Snake. This morning the open-river' bill was called up, but reference, to the Senate records showed that it was still with the appropriations committee. Presby moved to recall it from the committee and Chair man Veness of Lewis County said it had been kept there by mutual consent. The motion to recall carried, but the secretary of the Senate was unable to find the com mittee clerk who had possession of the measure. The clerk, like most members of the Legislature, had attended the Legislative dance which lasted till day break this morning. The clerk and the bill were both found by afternoon, and the Senate, with Ander oon In the chair, went into committee of the whole to consider it. Veness said that while the measure was reputed to be a Joint-committee bill, ft did not go to any joint-committee that he attended. J'aulhamus, in a long address, said there "has been many and different understand ings and agreements regarding this bill, and other river bills. He said he had always felt this bill had merit, but that he had believed the Legislature should alo care for the valleys between Seattle and Tacoma. He admitted that the House members thought differently. He an nounced that he would not occupy .a dog-in-the-manger attitude and released all Senators from any promises made to him to oppose the bill. Klffhts for Stuck Bill. Ruth of Thurston said there was more merit in the Stuck River bill than in the open river, and announced he would vote against the bill unless the House could set right on the Stuck bill. Nichols of King said that "two wrongs would not make a right." and that he would vote for the bill and hoped that the House would vote favorably on the Stuck bill. Stevenson spoke at length on the merits of the bill, saying that it would solve the transportation problem. Presby, speaking along the same lines, brought out the importance of the open river to the whole slate and showed benefits accomplished by the portage : road. Ootterlll of King said the Stuck t project was one in which the Government . could not help like It can do in the open river and that King and Pierce Counties paying half the taxes in the state should bave the right to ask for something. "This stirred up Rands of Vancouver, who said : "King pays half the taxes! That's an ild familiar cry. Why shouldn't she? She gets nine-tenths of the benefits of legislation. To the King County legis lator all legislation should lead to Seattle. The sun rises and sets there, and stays there all night in the Seattle mind! Se attle is bounded on the north by Edmunds. . ast by the summtt of the Cascades, and south by Puget Sound, a half a mile out. Seattle doesn't know that across the sum ; mlt of the mountains is an empire vast ; In extent and richness that is contribut ing to Seattle's greatness, and that that empire is richer and bigger than Seattle." He closed with a ringing demand for support to the measure. Booth, of King, , thereupon quoted the familiar passage: , "How sweet to hear the watchdog's faith- ful- bark, bay deep-mouthed welcome as we draw near home." The committee rose with the recommen dation that the bill do pass, and the final v vote carried. 33 to seven. It will now go i to the Governor for approval. Pure-Food Law Carries. The Senate, also passed the House bill ' that incoporaU? the National pure food law, but cut .out a House amendment, which tacked on a provision absolutely ' prohibiting the sale of opiates in this state except on prescription of a physician. ; The deficiency appropriation bill and a 'number of special relief bills which had previously passed the House were like wise approved. It killed by a vote of 13 to 20 a House bill which was a copy of the recent t'ederal act generally known as the rail road fellow-servant bill, and defeated House bills requiring the Land Office to deposit dally receipts in a bank which will pay interest to the state, and pro vided that Tax Commissioners should ex amine tlie books and systems of all state officers. The House passed 22 Senate bills in the morning and afternoon session, one in cluded an appropriation of $2500 for carry ing on the boundary suit against Oregon. There were defeated four Senate bills, one of which provided for a state road in Cowlita and Skamania Counties. ' A resolution was unanimously passed by the House that Colonel M. E. Lindsey, chairman of the legislative committee, authorized by the last Ix-gislature to pur fhase a silver service for the cruiser Washington, should act as a committee of one to present the gift on behalf of the state. M'KS P.MiE.NTS OC COASTERS Neaille Woman. Smirk by bled, Wants Damages. SBATTLB. Wash.. March 13. ,iecia!. Declaring that the youthful scions of four prominent and wealthy residents of Hast Madison street caused her great bodily suffering and permanent incapacity for work by running over her prostrate rorm while they were engaged tn coast ing on the sidewalk several weeks ago, Mrs. Mabel Schwarts began suit In the Superior Court today to recover JStWO damages "from the parents of the children. Snow, which is a rarity in this city, broke all records this Winter, and coast ing was enjoyed by both young and old. Mrs. Schwarta declares that she was climbing the hill with a child In her arms hen a sled loaded with four chl lren knocked hor down and inflicted per manent injuries. Tho parents named as co-deferidsnts are: Lee Biliott. F. M. Jyle, W. H. Plelow and John McMullen. K IS ICR PHOTO CO. Scenic Photos Lobby Imperial Hotel. 1 3 It -.in Makes the finest, light est,best flavored biscuit, hot-breads, cake and pastry Renders the food more digestible and wholesome AB501UTES.Y PURE ROYAL BAKING POWDER CO., NEW YORK. POSITIVE 1 Orator Trill Declares Plagiar ism Charge False. MAKES FORMAL STATEMENT Willamette University Student, Who Was Debarred From State Con test, Asserts That He Xcver Saw Beveridge's Speech. SALEM. Or.. March 13. (Special. ) Wallace S. Trill, who was debarred from the recent state oratorical contest because of plagiarism, tonight gave out the following statement: I feel that It is my duty, in behalf of my parents, my college, my friends and myjwlf, that 1 make this one and final statement to the public. The charge of plagiarism which was preferred against me by the State Oratorical Association at McMlnnville, Friday, March 8, and which debarred me from participating in the same, ls strong and sweeping. It is evidence suf ficient to convict any man. . and when I say that I did not copy and that I never had read Senator Beveridge's speech on the Philippines, who can I expect will believe me? I wish to make the same statement to the public that I made to the executive com mittee of the association, that upon my word as a man I did not copy one word and that I had never seen Senator Bever idge's speech. There was no one more surprised than myself when I was shown the paper in which the parallel sentences of my ora tion and those of Beveridge's speech were identical. I asked the committee to submit Beveridge's speech and my oration as a whole to' any three or five men in McMlnn ville. and whatever their decision was, I would cheerfully abide by the same. This the committee would not, and they could not do. I want It understood that I am not cen suring the . committee for their action in the matter, for I believe they acted on their best judgment and that they did all and the only thing that th-y could do. and I wish to thank them for the kindness shown me. But I swear by all that ls sacred within me as a man that I did not copy one word of Beveridge's speech, and further, that I myself wrote every sentence In the oration with the exception of a few words which were suggested by my pro fessor. How it came that I used Beveridge's words is what I am unable to explain. If I could give, any logical reason for this, I could vindicate myself, but I cannot. I realize that 1 am. in the eyes of the public, and always will be, branded as a plagiarist; tut, before God, I am an innocent man. WALLACE O. TRILL. HOP MARKET IS LOOKING VP Activity Follows Announcement That Kmbargo Will Be Raised. v TACOMA, Wash., March 13. (Special.) Inactivity has characterized the local hop market for two months, but. now that the Northern Pacific ls about to raise the embargo on Slops, the market is showing signs of improvement. Inquiries are be ing received by the dealers and the indi cations are that considerable business will be done after the embargo is raised. The situation has not looked brighter for the growers since last Fa.ll. During the last few days some sales have been made bore, being the first in two months. Thomas Le adman 'has bought 126 bales of medium from Thomas Dargan at 7i cents, and 117 bales of me dium to prime from Paul Horst at Si cents. CONTRACT IS KEFT7SE1) BURKE Changes Necessary Before Officials Will Sign Reclamation Pact. SALEM. Or.. March 13. (Special.) At the regular meeting of the State Land Board today, W. K. Burke ap peared before the members with an ir rigation contract, which he wanted signed by the board, which seeks to install pumping stations, and reclaim about 9.000 acres of arid land in Har ney County, for the use of settlers. Governor Chamberlain strenuously objected to the contract on the ground that the lien of $25 per acre is too high and the date of reclamation Is fixed in the contract as January 1. 1S12. Also that Burke and his company reserve the right to make contracts and collect THE MORMXG bREGOA' I A?f , THURSDAY, money, but should agree not to receive money on work of reclamation until done. The Governor and State Treas urer Steel were willing to sign the con tract with Burke for the Land Brard, in case the time fixed for the accom plishment of at least part of the work, was changed - to January 1, 1901), at which time the next Legislature will meet, and could cancel the contract provided Burke should fall to do as agreed. It was finally agreed to commission the Attorney General to draw up a new form of contract and stipulate in the same that Mr. Burke will receive no money before the work is done. JIRY HAXGS ON" liIQUOR CASE Little Progress in Detecting Viola tions of Option Law. ALBA NT, Or., March 13. (Special.) Af ter being out all night, the jury which tried Charles Kroschel, proprietor of the Franklin House, in this city, on a charge of violating the local option law, disa greed and was . discharged this morning. Kroschel was tried this forenoon on the second information pending against him on a similar charge and the case given to the jury. The grand jury adjourned this noon without returning an indictment for vio lation of the local option law. A great many prohibitionists were examined, as well as a number of men who were sup posed to know where liquor could be pur chased. The session of the grand jury was productive of considerable excite ment, but that was all. SUES FOR. IMMEXSE AMOUNT R. P. Smith Asks Damages From City of Marshfield. MARSHFIELD, Or.. March 13. (Spe cial.) As balm to his feelings for alleged indignities, R. P. Smith, known as the first white child born on Coos Bay, has instituted suit against the city of Marsh field for $1,775,000.75. Smith is of a mechanical turn of mind and patented a saw tooth manipulator which he claimed would revolutionize the saw industry. He declares that while trying to sell the patent the city authori ties arrested him for not having a license and threw bim in the City Jail. Smith says he will prosecute the suit to the bitter end. When asked regarding the 75 cents that is added to the even figure he stated that it is for pens and ink. FALLING TREE KILLS LOGGER Head Marker in Booth-Kelly Camp the Victim. COTTAGE GROVE, Or., March 13. (Special.) Albert Poland, bead mark er in the Booth-Kelly logging camp at the Saginaw mill, was accidentally killed today by a tree. Some choppers were on the opposite side of a small hill and felled a tree which toppled over and killed the man Instantly. His death was not discovered for three hours. Poland's father and mother are run ning the boarding-house for the com pany. The body was brought here today and will be shipped to Newberg for interment- Decision Establishes Precedent. PALOtSB. Wash.. March 13. (Special.) The decision of the Supreme Court of the United States rendered Monday in favor of the plaintiffs in the case of Jacob Slaght and Margaret Slaght vs. the Northern Pacific Railway Company. In volving the possession of a 200-foot right-of-way strip now occupied by the rail road company in this city,' marks the be ginning of the end of one of the longest-drawn-out legal contests in the history of the Northwest. It is of almost National interest because of the precedent in volved. The litigation has extended over a period of 30 years. W est Land Is Found Guilty. ABERDEEN, Wash., March 13. (Special.) Axel Weatland, who held up, robbed and assaulted Melville Baughman three months ago, was found guilty by A jury in the Superior Court today. Sentence will be made later. Child's Life Saved by Chamberlain's Cough Remedy. Mrs. John Engleliardt. of Gera, Mich., tells of the anxious moments spent over her little 2-year-old daughter who had taken a hard cold resulting in croup. She says: "I am satisfied that rf it had not been for Chamberlain's Cough " Remedy she would have choked to death. I gave this medicine every ten minutes and she soon began to throw up the phlegm. I can recommend it In the highest terms as I have another child 'that was cured in the same way." ST f 4 K ' ' $ -. Kl w - J ' tJ 111 ' 1 t ;fll! p -i ' i ' ji ' if i I I v Sk t. !J ' JtWS".'. r w. c. 10TM i LOOT BURIED IN GROUND JEWELRY AXD WEAPONS FOUND BY SHERIFF. Discovery Near Camp of Burke and Murphy Indicate Their Guilt of Kendriek Robbery. MOSCOW, Idaho, March 13. (Special.) Knives, revolvers, razors, rings and other jewelry were found by Sheriff Keane and party a short distance from the camp where Thomas Burke and Torit Murphy were arrested Saturday night on the charge of burglarizing several stores at Kendriek. The discovery of these articles, which have all been Identified by mer chants at Kendriek as goods stolen from their stores early Saturday morning, proves beyond a doubt that Harry Draper's man hunters were not mistaken, and that Sheriff Keane was correct in his conviction of Burke's and Murphy's guilt on the day of their capture. Sheriff - Keane, who arrived on "the northern train from Kendriek today, while speaking of the cache and its dis covery, said : "The robbers evidently have been warned in some way of our approach, and had cached the stolen goods before we arrived. Most of the loot was buried about a foot under ground. The jewelry was found in a bundle by itself, but the money and revolvers were together. Sev eral of the packages were wrapped in a newsDaner dated March 7. "I am more than positive that we have caught the guilty parties. In the first place, two men answering their descrip tion were seen in Kendriek on the night of the robbery, and in the second place, their actions when arrested, after the hounds had followed their trail success fully, were such as, to lead up to -belief that they were the guilty men." DENIES THAT SUE ELOPED Mrs. Mellien Declares She Va Not With Sievers. OREGON CITY, Or.. March 13. (Spe cial.) Mrs. Bertha Mellien, whose unex pected return home Monday night after an absence of 12 days marked a new chap ter in the much-talked-of elopement case, today made a statement to The Oregonian correspondent, denying that she had run away with Frank Sievers, the 16-year-old boy with whom she was supposed to have eloped. She says she has not seen Sievers since the day she left the woolen mills, where they were both employed. Mrs. Mellien says she has been working in a respectable place since her disap pearance, but declines to tell where she has been. She vehemently denies that she went with Sievers to San Francisco or that she has been there at alt. She says she knows nothing of the where abouts of the boy, whose father declares he is working in a logging camp. Domestic troubles continuing over a MARCH 14, 190T. period of two years were the cause of her leaving home suddenly, says Mrs. Mellien, who blames her husband's father, whom she characterizes as a tyrant, unwilling to live peaceably with his children and trying to separate herself and her hus band. Mrs. Mellien refuses to say anything relative to her .prospective relations with her husband, who went to San Francisco in pursuit of his wife and Sievers: He did not find them and is still in that city, but has been notified of his wife's return. WIFE MAY CONVICT HUSBAND Testimony Is Admissable to Support Criminal Charge. S BATTLE!, Wash., March 13. (Special.) A wife's testimony may be used to con vict a hu&band of a criminal charge in an instance - where she is directly involved, even though the crme with which the hushand is charged is not a physical crime against his wife. Such is the ef fect of the ruling of the Supreme Court today in the case of Bert Frye, con victed by his wife's testimony and sen tenced to five years in the state peniten tiary. Frye had pawned his wife's solitaire ring and later altered a note she gave I JLt i 1 Tut9. tut I says the ' 1 Uneeda TJ rl Biscuit F lgg5 ' NATIONAL 1 " . BISCUIT - 7" COMPANY 1 lliiiMiraniiiniram IF YOU WANT TO KNOW WHAT THE SMARTLY DRESSED MEN WILL WEAR THIS SEASON ASK BEN SELLING Th eAcmeof Our Models for 1907 Many New Arrivals Last Week. Your Early Inspec tion Invited 1907 Ladies' and Misses' Man Tailored Coats and Dresses Now Ready BEN LEADING him to redeem it by changing its text, securing $100 additional on tho stone. She brought suit and her testimony convicted. He appealed on the grounds that his wife's testimony was not admissible. ASK FOR INCREASED WAGES Smelter Workers Make Request That May Become Demand. TACOMA, Wash.. March 13. (Special.) Between 500 and 600 men employed in the lead and copper plants at the Tacoma smelter have asked the management for an advance in wages of 60 cents per day. The men are now drawing wages of from $2.75 to $4 per day. The request for the raise is in accordance with a promise made by the management some time ago, when the eight-hour rule went Into effect. While the application of the employes was not made in the form of a demand, it is understood that they feel inclined to insist if the management does not con cede. Workmen are scarce at present, and the smelter Is often short of men. Steel for Hoquiam Bridge. HOQUIAM, Wash., March 13. (Spe cial.) The first consignment of steel for the new bridge to be built by the Perfection CLOTHIER Northern Pacific Railway " Company across the Hoquiam River arrived here today and will be unloaded immediate 1y. The old wooden bridge across the river is not any too good and for tho past year the railway company has been preparing1 to replace it with a. modern steel structure. The present bridge is said to be one of the longest swinging wooden structures in the United States. There ought to be a tea and coffee class for gtrls in every school. Schilling's Best. NEW YORK DENTAL PARLORS Everything modern and elaborately arranged for the comfort of our pat rons. W'e have concentrated our entire force of World-Renowned Specialists at this Main Office, where the General Manager will hereafter devote bis whole time looking after the welfar of the patients of this office at Fourth and Morrison streets, Portland, Oregon. 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