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THE MORNING OREGONIAN, SATURDAY, APRIL. 20, 1907. T FREE IN as a member of the Venezuelan Claims Commission in 1903. and Professors Horsehy and Lfttane. "Forcible Intervention for the collec tion of debts" was the subject of the paper read by Mr. Penfield, who declared that a Government should never Invoke force in order to secure Justice to its citizens abroadwhich would lead to utter injustice and chaos at home. "The Drago doctrine," he said, "has now been made use of as a convenient substitute for the threadbare Monroe doctrine, which has ceased to serve the purposes of those who would pervert and use it as a shield for wrongdoing." Millinery Today There are some mighty good bargains in the Mil linery Section, and toe want you all to partici pate. Save about a third on Tailored Hats. STORE CLOSES SATURDAY NIGHT AT 6 O'CLOCK Notion Bargains PEABL TRIMMING BUTTONS Larjre size, half-dozen on Qf card; 15c card for BONE HAIRPINS, shell or amber color; worth 25c dozen, 1 for liJL. LEAD PENCILS, trith rubber tip, worth 20c the dozen; 10 special Jasper Mason Released After 31 Years in Iowa Pen itentiary. AGENTS FOR LADIES' HOME JOURNAL PATTERNS 2 NIC STRANGE 1 FINDS LAND TRANSFORMED Killed Companion in Quarrel Over Uayes-Tildcn Contest Will Be Given. Shelter by Former Fellow Prisoner. DES MOINES. Ia.. April 19. (Special.) Jasper Mason. 67 years old. walked out of Anamosa Penitentiary a free man to night, after 31 years' imprisonment, to begin life anew in a new world. All his relatives are dead and the friends of his youth are scattered, so that he will have to depend on the charity of a former fellow convict for a home until he can make a place for himself. The Iowa thAt Mason knew before he was sent to prison was a state of track less prairies. The Iowa he will now get acquainted with is a state of well-tilled farms and thriving cities of whirring trolley cars and speeding railroad trains. Telephones, electric lights, and, in fact, almost all modern necessities, have come into use since the old convict began his sentence. In 1S76 Mason and a friend. J. R. Woods, were traveling through Iowa and camped south of Desoto, Dallas County, for a night. There they got Into a quarrel over. tne Hayes-Tilden political controversy, then at its height, and Woods assailed Mason, who shot his companion. Woods died In, a few days and Mason was given a -life sentence for murder. Under the Iowa law as it then stood, he was not able to go on the stand In bis own de fense, and there were no eye witnesses to the murder. He served for 25 years in the prison at Fort Madison and was transferred to Anamosa. Mason will go to Kimball, a D., where lie will make his home temporarily with tils convict friend. Some years ago this friend, who was an Inmate of Anamosa Prison, told Mason that whenever, if ever, he was released, a home with him would be provided. REAL JAPANESE QUESTION (Continued from First Page.) Imaginative. There was never even friction between the two jrovernmenls. The question wau: What ntate of feeling would be creat ed between the great body of the people of the United States and the great body of the people of Japan as a result of the treat ment given to the Japanese In this country? What was to bo the . effect upon that proud, sensitive, highly clvillxed people arroES the PaetUc, of the discourtesy, ln nult. Imputations of Inferiority and abuse aimed at them In the columns of American nwKpapera and from the platforms of American public meetings? What would be the effect upon our own people of the responses that natural resentment for such' treatment would elicit from the Japanese? Under a treaty, which bore the signa ture of Matthew Calbralth Perry, we in troduced Japan to the world of western civilization. We had always been proud of her wonderful development proud of the genius of the race that In a single genera tion adapted an ancient feudal system of the Far Enst to the most advanced stand ards of modern Europe and America. The friendship between the two nations bad been peculiar and close. Was the declara tion of that treaty to be set aside ? At Kurlhama, In Japan, stands a monument to Commodore Perry, raised by the Japanese tn grateful appreciation, upon the- site where he landed and opened negotiations for the treaty. Was that monument hence forth to represent dislike and resentment ? "Were the two peoples to face each other across the Pacific in future years with an gry and resentful feelings? All this waa Inevitable If the process which seemed to have begun was to continue, and the Gov ernment of the United States looked with the greatest solicitude upon the possibility that the process might continue. People iov Make AYars. It la hard for democracy to learn the re sponsibilities of its power; but the people now, not governments, make friendship or dislike, sympathy or discord, peace or war, between nations. In this modern day, through the columns of the myriad press and messages flashing over countless wires, multltudo calls to multitude across bound aries and oceans in courtesy or Insult, in amity or In dellance. Foreign offices and ambassadors and ministers no longer keep . or break the peace, but the conduct of each people toward every other. The people who permit themselves to treat the people of other countries with discourtesy and tnsuit arc surely sowing the wind to reap the w hirlw iud, for a world of sullen and re vengeful hatred can never be a world of pen-e. Against such a feeling treaties are wast paper and diplomacy the empty rou tine of Idle form. The great question which overshadowed nil discussion of the treaty of 1SU4 w as the question: Are the peopie of the United States about to break friend ship wiih the people of Japan? That ques tion, I believe, has been happily answered In the negative. Might Blockade England. Kear-Admiral Stockton, of the United States Navy, resented what he termed a 'charge of piracy," made by Everett P. wheeler of New York, who, in an ad dress, criticized the conduct of American naval officers In capturing a shipload of noncombatants In the siege of Santiago during the Spanish-American War. The Admiral made a strong defense " of his brother officers. Papers were read by Admiral Stockton, Charles C. Hyde, professor of interna tional law in Northwestern University Chiuygo, and Everett P. Wheeler, on the question, "Would immunity from capture during war of nonoffending private prop erty on the hish seas in the Interest of civilization? In the general discus sion which followed. Samuel J. Barrows, of Boston, and other speakers, took the position that some agreement on this question should be reached at the next conference at The Hague. Might Blockade England. "Is Contraband of War Unneutral and Should It Be Prohibited by International and Municipal Law?" was the subject of a paper read by Kear-Admiral George B. Davis, Judge advocate-General of the United States Army, which was followed by a general discussion, in which number of delegates participated. General . Davis said that "England, owing to her Insular situation, was the one state which might be really effec tively blockaded. The beneficent opera tion of the declaration of Parle has done much to mitigate the rigor of the rights of maritime search and capture, and the practice of belligerents In refraining from exercising their right in localities dis tant from the theater of the belligerents activity has done still more to bring Into being such Immunity from capture and annovar.ee as is now enjoyed by neutral commerce In time of war. It Is In this direction that we must seek for the Im munity of neutral commerce from the belligerent interference in time of war.1 forcible Collection of Debts. The speakers at the afternoon session at which ex-Secretary of State John W. Foster presided, included William I. Penfield, Solicitor-General of the United Slates; Crammond Kennedy, who served EATING BARK AND ROOTS Chinese Die by Hundreds and Relief Is Inadequate. SHANGHAI. April 19. Following are ex tracts from the reports Just received ot the conditions In lour of the famine cen ters: Taowan The famine is growing worse. Children in great numbers are dying. Suchlen Almost out of supplies. Need large amounts immediately to continue the relief commenced. Sing Kiang Fu Many dying. Must de crease relief work unless larger shipments of supplies are received. Lukiawets The whole country Is In the deepest distress. Refugees who went south, hoping to 'find relief, are returning empty-handed. There are processions of people with wheelbarrows, transporting their doors, tables, beds and cupboards to market, to be sold for almost nothing. Hundreds of men and ' women are seen In the fields, scratching out roots and scanty blades of grass. Hundreds of trees have been stripped of their barks from the roots to the tips of the highest branches, for use as food. The majority of the population are living on wild roots, which is causing disease. ANOTHER $55,000 IS SENT Red Cross Receives Contributions From Christian Herald. WASHINGTON, April 19. A contribu tion of 150,000 was received today from the Christian Herald of New York by the American National Red Cross to be applied to the relief of the famine suffer ers In China. The amount, together with $5000 received by the Red Cross from con tributors throughout the country, was cabled today to China. This remittance makes $320,000 In money that has been forwarded from this country for Chinese famine relief. TO IMPROVEOREGON ROAD Wooden Bridges to Be Replaced With Steel Structures. SAN FRANCISCO, April 19. II H. Har- riman. with Julius Kruttschnitt and his other associates, has decided-to construct this Summer 21 steel bridges In Oregon for the Southern Pacific and Its asso ciated lines, the Oregon Railway & Navi gation Company and Oregon Short Line, it is said. The new Southern Pacific bridges will be along the line of the Mount Shasta route between Portland and the Northern California state line. By this means the roadbed will be great ly Improved, so as to permit of faster time between San Francisco and Port land. The aggregate cost of the new bridges will be $3,000,000. 'The Sari Francisco dispatch seems to have the facts slightly confused," said P. O'Brien, general manager of the Harriman lines in the Northwest, last night. . "It seems to be based on the an nouncement made at the company's Port land offices some two weeks ago, when It was said $1,000,000 would be spent In bridge construction in Oregon this Sum. mer. In all there will be built about 19 bridges, most of which will be constructed on the O. R. & N. line. No other ex penditure for bridges Is contemplated for Oregon this year." PLOT TO KILL PRESIDENT Exposure of Plan Made by Member of Band to Get Revenge- NEW YORK, April 19. An alleged plot on the part of Pennsylvania anarchists. who are said to have headquarters at Hazelton, to assassinate President Roose velt is being Investigated by the United States Secret Service. Information which led to the investi gation was given to the officers by Chief of Police Adams a tew days ago. Just be fore he shot and killed himself. The Chief told the Secret Service officials that he obtained his information from Jan Bartula, who recently came here from Audenried, Pa., and who claims to be a member of the band. He said they had gone back on him, and It was with a de sire to be revenged on them that he ex posed the plot. He gave Adams the names of several persons who he said were implicated in the plot, and further said that Clgosz, who assassinated President McKlnley, had been a member of the band. Chief Flynn, of the New York district of the United States Secret Service, has had several men at work upon the case ever since the information was given him by Chief Adams. They have Interviewed Bartula, and he told them practically the same story. CANNOT BREAK DEADLOCK Rhode Island Must Go Wlthont Sen ator Next Session. PROVIDENCE, R. I., April 19. The Rhode Island Legislature will adjourn Tuesday next and It appears probable that a United States Senator will not be elected at this session. Fifty-eight ballots have failed to result in a choice and it Is understood .that only one more will be aken before final adjournment. The vote today stood: Goodard (Dem.), 41: Colt (Rep.), 3S; Wetmore (Rep.). 31. Seven Fall Under Bingham's Ax. NEW YORK. April 19. Police Com missioner Bingham today reduced sev en Inspectors of police' to be precinct captains. Among them are William W. McLaughlin, who was in command of the detective bureau. TELLING OF POLICE GRAFT Investigation of Extortion Charges Is Continued in Chicago. CHICAGO, April 19. The investigation of the Civil Service Commission into the charges that the police department was used as an agency of extortion while John M. -Collins was at the head of the department, was carried on behind closed doors today. Eight members of the force were examined Commissioner Powell said all the witnesses today substantiated the testimony given by previous wit ness. The Investigation has not been completed. Radwmy's Rady Rrlief Instantly relieves colds, mrt throat, bronchitis and all inflammation. Two Astonishing SuitroomOffers Women's Waists Vorth to $4.50 for 98c; $1 Short Kimonos for 69c Lingerie Waists of fine sheer white lawn, trimmed in most ex quisite fashion with lace and embroidery. Splendid examples of rich bodice loveliness. A clean up of a lot of about 600 Waists. We want to sell every one of them TODAY, in fact there mast not be one of this entire lot left when the six o'clock bell rings. They come with long or short sleeves, some are in daintily trimmed effects and some in quite plain tailored mod els. The materials are fine, sheer Lawns and dotted Swisses. Some of them have solid fronts of eyelet or English embroidery, some have lace yokes and some have yokesof dainty small tucks. Now the regular prices of the beautiful bodices run from $1. 75 to to $4,50 each; all in one lot, choice, only NONE SOLD ON PHONE ORDERS AND NOT MORE THAN THREE WAISTS TO ANY ONE CUSTOMER. PLEASE COME AS EARLY AS POSSIBLE AND MAKE YOUR CHOICE WOMEN'S KIMONOS - of extraordinarily pretty figured Lawns, trimmed with plain white goods of the same material. Have full sleeves and are god styles, neat and comfortable, an ideal house garment for Summer wear. Buy now and save, for these regular dollar values go TODAY for b Saturday, Children's 7a. Shoes MISSES' AND CHILDREN'S SHOES and oxfords, in plain or patent leather, in button styles; regular or Blucher lace. Come with light "or heavy soles, and priced like this: Big Misses' Shoes, sizes 2 to 7, $3.00 value Children's Shoes, sizes 8 to 11, $2.25 value $2.29 $1.69 $1.49 Misses and Children's Shoes and Oxfords, in Blucher or regular lace or button ; come' in patent- or plain kid leathers, and with light or heavy soles : $2.50 values, 2y2 to 7, for ....$1.89 $2.00 values, liy2 to 2, pair I159 8y2 to 11, $1.75 values f139 $1.50 values, 5 to 8, pair . $1.19 Misses' Shoes, sizes 11 to JJQ 2, $2.50 values, pair pi.Oi7 Children's Shoes sizes 5 to 8, worth $2 pair, for. ...... Infants' Shoes, in a large assortment of styles, lace or button; some come with colored tops; CQ sizes 1 to 6, worth $1.25 the pair, for..... "C Boys' and Youths' Shoes, kid, calf or tan leathers, lace or button styles; size 22 'to 54 for $1.89; 1 to 2 for $1.59, and 9 to 13y2, worth - Oft $1.75, for ,...Vl.Oi7 Men's Negligee Shirts $1.45 Made of a fine mercerized material in a very attract ive tan shade; look like silk and wear much bet ter, as well as to wash better. They're as good a $2.00 Shirt as you were ever of- 1 AC Special V- - . Men's' Hose Fancy patterns, in a large range of designs and col orings; the regular value is 35c the pair; 1 Qf they can't be equaled at that, either; sp'I. Dozens of New Styles in the Famous Pingree Gloria Shoes wwn $3-S0 Seeds for Garden or Lawn Beautify your garden or lawn by planting or sowing seeds that will grow. Have a flower or vegetable garden, watch something grow and get some good, healthy exercise watching it develop (and helping it along by taking care of it). VEGETABLE SEEDS, or flower seeds, good, hardy, Northern- ' grown stock; very spe- Cf cial, two packages for. . . . -' LAWN GRASS SEEDS, in good large packages, 25 C Have a new lawn by using these. 'BONOEA," for making all plant life grow. Try it on your lawns and in your garden and achieve better success than your CZfif neighbors. 'Tis very inexpensive the package, only JJC GOAL SUPPLY STOPS Crow's Nest Mines Have Strike Which Is No Strike. freight will be handled In Kootenai until the situation Is relieved. The Winnipeg Board of Trade today passed a resolution advocating the bring ing In of cheap Chinese labor to take the place ot the men who have left. About 5000 men have thrown down their tools. HURRIES TO DEATH MINERS GET AROUND LAW New Canadian Labor Law Produces Queer Results Canadian Pacif ic Coal Supply Is Low and Many Trains Stop. VANCOUVER, B. C. April 19.-Practi-eally all the coal mines In Eastern Brit ish Columbia and Alberta are closed. It was rumored this morning that Presi dent Mitchell, of the United Mineworkers, had Instructed Vice-President Sherman to order the men to resume work, but Mr. Sherman denied this. Then G. G. S. Lind say, manager of the Crow's Nest Coal Company, gave out a copy of a dispatch he had received from Mr. Mitchell, who said definitely that he had ordered Mr. Sherman to get the men back to work. The men have Quit work, but not defl nltely gone on a strike, so that they may not be prosecuted under a new Dominion government law. Evade New Labor Law. Mr. Sherman and Mr. Patterson, his assistant, both state that tne men are pressing them to issue a strike order, no doubt on account of the ambiguous posi tion they occupy in thus quitting work without any definite arrangements. There Is much doubt about the action in quit ting work without calling it a strike, se cretly ordered, and all falling into line, being a strategic move to evade viola tion ot the clauses of the act. Mr. Sher man says he will not pay strike allow ance wage, because he can get around tha by paying a working allowance. It looks as though the operators had broken the law in posting notices of a reduction pending tne dispute. Coal Supply Very Low. The Canadian Pacific Railway Company t TVrnle has only lsu tons ot coai on hand, and that was brought In from Frank, which worked yesterday. Mr. Sherman flatly contradicts the state ment that be is trying to form an lnde- Sendent Canadian Miners' Union not un er the control of the American associa tion. He says the trend of miners' opin ion Is that' way, but no definite action has been taken. The supply of slack for coke ovens will not likely last longer than today, and the supply for the smelters will drop off, even if the Canadian Pacific Railway has enough coal to warrant the moving of It. which Is douotiui. The Canadian Pacific Railway has Is sued notices that none but perishable URGES MEN TO GO TO WORK Miners' President Will Confer With Fernie Operators. OTTAWA, Ont., April 19. The Labor Department has received word that Presi dent Mitchell and Vice-President Lewis, of the United Mineworkers, have tele graphed the men at Fernie, B. C, and the other Western mines, urging them to return to work. Vice-President Lewis has started from Indianapolis to the scene, and an Interview has been ar ranged between him and the operators on Tuesday next. The new act requires 30 days' no tice to be posted of any cnange in conditions. One or two mines, in com pliance therewith, posted a notice of a reduction. The miners did not under stand that this was in accordance with the provisions of the act and declared they would work elsewhere. WILL NOT OBEY MITCHELL Fernie Miners Continue Strike Coal Famine Threatens. WINNIPEG, Man., April 19. Reports from the coal districts of Alberta show that with a few exceptions every miner is out and the remaining few will likely come out this afternoon. John Mitchell, president of theJUnited Mineworkers, has wired President Sherman, of the British Columbia and Alberta unions, ordering them back to work, but It is- stated the men will refuse to act on these instruc tions, -v The situation throughout the West is most critical and already the Canadian Pacific Railway has confiscated a number of cars of coal along Its system to keep the locomotives running. Many Freight Trains Laid Off. VANCOUVER, B. C, April 19. An awful condition of affairs exists on the C. P. R. on account of the coal strike. Orders were given this morning that noth ing but passenger trains and perishable freight should run over the lines or on steamers. The coal on hand cannot last more than two or three days. Japanese Says Wife Has Eloped. C. Hori, a Japanese restaurant keeper, reported to the police last night that he believes his wife, Kume Hori, has eloped with a fellow-countryman named Ben Tanaka. who has been showing the wom an attentions of late. Hori explained that the woman had been missing since early in the afternoon and that he be lieved the couple would take a river steamer for Kalama or Goble and there board a train for Seattle. Tbey did not leave on the late train last night, as the police watched the depot on that account. Captain Bailey will have men on hand at the various docks for the purpose of stop ping them in the event that they attempt to secure passage down the river. Spring humors, -pimples and boils are cured Dy riooa a barsapanua, tne great blood purifier. Leader in Christian Science Leaps From Window. WAS VICTIM OF HYSTERIA Miss Mary Tomlinson, Second Read er of Concord Church, Dashed to Death on Sidewalk She Was Mrs. Eddy's Confidante. BOSTON, April . (Special.) Miss Mary H. Tomlinson, sister of Rev. Irving C. Tomlinson. first reader In the Christian Science Church in Concord, N. H., and one of Mrs. Mary Baker G. Eddy's closest advisers, committed suicide today by jumping from the fourth floor of the Parker House to the sidewalk. She lived two hours. Miss Tomlinson was suffering from hysteria and had been under observation by her . family for some time. Testerday she eluded her relatives In Concord, took a train for Boston and went to the hotel after calling on some friends, saying she would return home at once. Her former home was In Hudson, Mich., and the body will be sent to that city for burial. Miss Tomlinson up to a year ago .was second reader in the Concord Church, and since then has been a healer. Her brother Is one of the defendants in the suit for an accounting of the property of Mrs. Eddy. Haywood, and . Pettibone undesirable cit izens and requesting him to retract the statement. HELD AS MARVIN ABDUCTOR Alex H. Allen Is Under Surveillance in New Tork State. GLOVERSVJXLE, N. T., April IS. Alex H. Allen, who gives his occupation as a traveling vendor of gas mantles, is being held by the police of this city as the suspected abductor of Horace Marvin, Jr., 4-year-old son of Dr. Hor ace Marvin, of Dover, Del. Allen came here two weeks ago, accompanied by a woman several years his Junior and a small boy. They took furnished rooms immediately. A photograph of the boy was secured and forwarded yesterdaj to Dr. Marvin. In reply he wired Chie. Smith that he would send his nephew Miles Standlsh, or New York, to iden tify the boy. Allen waa taken lntt custody pending the arrival of Mi. All Metal Trades Slay Strike. CHICAGO, April 19. A plan by which the metal trades ot the United States may act as a unit and if need be call sympa thetic strikes extending over the whole country, is suggested by President Gom pers, of the American Federation of La bor, who yesterday issued a call to John Fltzpatrlck, president of the Chicago Fed eration of Labor, who in turn called conference of the officials of the metal workers' unions of Chicago. The object of the plan is to have all the contracts made with the employers begin and ter minate at the same time all over the country, so that In making new agree ments the' unions in this branch of in dustry can have the full power of their entire national strength to enforce their demands. Members of the local bodies favor the Idea and will give It hearty support. Call on Roosevelt to Retract. NEW TORK, April 19. The executive committee of the Central Federated union, acting under authority conferred by the members of the organization, sent a lengthy letter to President Roosevelt last night expressing indignation at his recent action in declaring Messrs. Mover, Standlsh. The man and the child are being kept under close surveillance. NEW TORK, April 19. (Special.) Northwestern people at New tork hotels: From Seattle Miss Dameyer, at the Broadway Central. .jiSiai! amolek -asay ill i i 3 E 1 etNT uch : a fob mm omtttm igj ''lliiiffi Arrow clbpecs mint toura im Collar WBluenatneHms It means the hottest and cleanest flame produced by anv stove. This is the flame the New Perfection Oil Stove gives the instant a Eghted match is ap pned no delay, no trouble, no soot, no dirt. For cooking, the mction Wick BlueTIame Oil Cook-Stove is unequaled. It gives quick results because its heat iscighly concentrated. Cuts fuel-expense in two. Made in three sizes. 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