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Newspaper Page TextTHE MORNING OREGOSTAX, SATURDAY, JUNE 8, 1907. 8 SCBSCRIPTIOX HATES. - INV'ARIAB'.Y IN ADVANCE. iTtv XI oil i Pally. Sunday Included, on year $9.00 lally, Sunday Included. six month!.... 4.25 Ialy. Sunday included, three montha. . 2.25 rall-, Sunday Included, one month.... -T5 rlly. without Bunday, one year 6.00 Pally, without Sunday, elx montha.... 325 Xiaily, without Sunday, three montha.. l.5 Pally, without Sunday, one month 0 Sunday, one year 2.60 Weekly, one year (Issued Thursday).... Sunday and Weekly, one year.... - S-60 BY CARRIER. ral!y, Sunday included, one year 900 Ial!y. Sunday Included, one month 75 HOW TO REMIT Send poatoMlce money order, express order or personal check on your local bank. Stamps, coin or currency are at the sender's risk. Give postotfice ad Oresa in full. Including- county and state. POSTAGE RATES. Entered at Portland, Oregon, Poatoffice as Second-Class Matter. 10 to 14 Facia ; 1 cnt J to 2S Pases : 2 cents BO to 4 Pages cents 46 to BO Pages 4 cents F-rlpn postage, double rates. IMl'ORT.VNT The postal lawa are strict. Newspapers on. which postage is not fully prepaid are not forwarded to destination. RASTERS Bl'SINESS OFFICE. The S. C. Beekwlth, Special Agency New York, rooms 48-50 Tribune building. Chi cago, rooms o0-M2 Tribune building. KF.IT OS BALE Chicago Auditorium Annex. Poatoffice News ---., ITS Dearborn at. St. Paul, Minn. N. St. Marie. Commercial Station. Denrer Hamilton Hendrlck, 906-918 Feventeenlli street; Pratt jnook Store, 1214 Fifteenth street; H. P. Hansen, 8. Rice. Kansaa City, Mo. Rlcksecker Cigar Co., Ninth and "Walnut; Sosland News Co. Minneapolis M. J. Cavanaugh. 80 South Third; Kagle News Co., corner Tenth and Eleventh: Yoma News Co. Cleveland, O. James Pushaw, 307 Su perior street. Washington, D. C. Ebbltt House, Penn eylvsnta avenue. Philadelphia, Pa. 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Norfolk, Va Jamestown Exposition News Stand; Potta ft Roeder; Schneider ft Kaiser. Pine Beach, Vs. W. A. Cong-rove. PORTXANT, SATIRDAV, JIKK, , 1907. THE HACit'E CONFERENCE. Germany has probably more to dread and less to hope from the coining in ternational conference at The Hague than any other Important nation. She has particularly disliked the idea of making the question of limiting arma ments a part of the programme. Rus sia was eager to discuss this subject at the conference of 1S99, but since that time excellent reasons for changing her views have developed and sho now wishes to avoid it. America, In har mony with Great Britain and Spain, has' reserved the right to raise the question. Our delegates were instruct ed in 1S39 to take the ground that it was- essentially a Kuropean problem and did not much concern us, because our forces were already at a minimum. Very likely our Government feels no very vital interest In it now, but the Bngllsh House of Commons has de clared that the subject of international disarmament is of the first import ance. There are many reasons why Ger many wishes to avoid all discussion of the limitation of her land and naval forces. Her position in Europe seems to be that of an armed champion beset with numerous actual or potential foes. Russia, on the east, has been an enemy quite as often as a friend to Germany. Her Polish population is discontented. The Austrian Empire is unsettled and may make trouble before long. France never has been friendly to Germany, and sine the great war of the last cen tury would have been glad of a chance to attack her at a disadvantage. Eng land of late years has shown more hos tility than amity to the Kaiser. More over. It must not be overlooked that King Edward, the most accomplished diplomat now alive, has succeeded In Isolating Germany by his skillful com binations. There is a definite agree ment concerning Eastern matters among the governments of England France. Russia and Japan, from which the Kaiser is omitted, if not excluded. Spain Is In close harmony with E1 ward and Italy Is mure friendly to him than to William. Germany has also a colonial empire and a rapidly increas ing merchant navy which she thinks It well to protect by a fleet equal to any in the world. For reasons like these the German government has not been willing to take part in a discussion of disarma ment at the coming conference. Will- lam has Instructed his delegates not to oppose the discussion if others wish to begin it. but they are to keep silent and merely take notes of lis course. The direct interest of America lies in a minor branch of this question which Is known as the Prago Doctrine, whose import Is that nations ought not to use frrce to collect public debts arising from contracts. This is iptimately connected with the Monroe Bostrine, because the South American States are particularly liable to such compulsion and the United States has reserved the right to bring the Drago Doctrine up for discussion if it sees fit. The official programme of the confer ence Includes, among other subjects, the status of private property at sea In time of war. Perhaps this is the most important question that will be seriously discussed, since the matter of disarmament is admitted to be purely academic at present. Private property In neutral vessels is now exempt from capture under the rules of international law unless it is contraband. But the definition of contraband needs more precision. Most nations distinguish be tween articles which are necessarily contraband, like gunpowder, and those which become contraband only when ilestined for use In war. such as coal. In the war with Japan, however. Rus sia issued a proclamation which Ig nored this distinction and seemed to forbid all neutral commerce with her enemy, but neither England nor the United States accepted her ruling upon the question. Here Is a cause of con tention which the next cohference ought to be able to settle without seri ous difficulty. " Uellig-erents have always been per- mitted in war to prey upon each other's commerce. Private vessels have no more been exempt from capture than those owned toy the governments; while on land the rule has been for many years to spare private property, except when military exigency required Its de struction. There will be an effort at the conference to extend this humane provision to ships at sea, with the goods they carry, but its success is doubtful. Of course such a rule would make war less destructive, but that Is not likely to be the decisive considera tion. For one thing, war Is meant to be destructive, and there is a limit be yond which the exemption of private property would defeat the very purpose for which wars are waged. It might come about, therefore, that the aban donment of the privilege of capturing private vessels would amount in fact to an agreement not to go to war. 'Abstractly, this -is -desirable, but not many nations are ready for. it yet. England has more merchant ships lia ble to capture than any other nation, but she hesitates over the question of exempting merchant ships from cap ture, on the ground that her navy is able to protect them while at the same time she might profit toy taking prizes rom the enemy. On the other hand. the destruction of her merchant marine would force Great Brtiain to sue for peace, since her food supplies are large ly imported. The United States desires the immu nity of private property at sea. though we have stood out for the privilege of privateering after other nations were willing to abandon It because our Gov ernment desired to convert merchant ships Jrjto a. naval force. in time of war. The growth of our Navy makes this privilege of less importance at pres ent. At the last Hague conference our delegates offered to abandon privateer ing If other nations would make all pri vate property Immune at sea. declar ing that this was "a policy adopted by the United States In the first days of Its existence and earnestly urged ever since." The subject was excluded from discussion at that time, but it forms a part of the official programme for the next conference and Is quite likely to be decided according to the wishes of this Government. SrVOAr CLOSING OF 6ALOONS. District Attorney Manning notifies the saloons of Portland that they must close, and remain closed, on Sundays. The state law is explicit In its require ment that no liquor shall be sold on Sundays, though there is no local or dinance to that effect under the Port land charter. The Oregonian thinks the District Attorney has abundant au thority for his action, and it thinks. too, that the saloon proprietors will make a grave error If they resist. In any conflict between them and the law, there can be only one result. The public is in no humor just now to have the plain provisions of law trifled with by the saloons or by any element of society. The liw for Sunday closing of sa loons has been on the statute-books many years, but it has never been en forced in Portland, chlsfly because the public was Indifferent and the author ities had their own reasons for non action. But there is now a movement all over the land for the strict regula tion and control of the saloon. It is part of the great moral uplift that Is going on everywhere, having its in spiration largely from Washington in the enlightened and righteous policies of President Roosevelt. Saloon licenses are being raised in many of the cities; and in practically all of them. East and West, the doors of every Buch es tablishment are shut on Sunday. Se attle and Tacoma allow no Sunday li quor-selling, nor does Los Angeles; nor will San Francisco, probably, when other grave problems there have been settled. Portland now joins the univer sal movement. The Oregonian is no prohibitionist. for it has no patience with the irra tional policies and equally irrational practices of that cult; but It thinks quite enough liquor can toe sold in six days to do for seven days. It approves unqualifiedly the purpose of the Dis- trlct Attorney to require the saloons to close on Sundays, and It cautions the saloon men that it will be well for them to majte no protest, for there is a pur pose here in Portland to require them to obey the law and to make their business as decent and orderly as it can be made anywhere. Furthermore, the public generally, working If need be through Its lawmaking powers, pur poses to prescribe the conditions, and. all of them, under which saloons may be conducted. DKFIANCK OF THE TARIFF AJAX. The annals of crime present a few cases where convicted criminals, es caping at first with only light sen tences, have appealed and received the death penalty. These illustrations of the wisdom of the old adage "Let well enough alone" have served as a warn ing in a good many cases where - the penalty was much less than death. . As a rule the people who receive so much better treatment than that to which they are entitled are satisfied to lie low for fear that they will be pre sented with something more in keeping with what they deserve. The Ameri can Protective Tariff League, the Tex tile Importers' Association and a num ber of other prominent -beneficiaries of the tariff have revolted against the new reciprocal trade agreement with Ger many and will -begin suit for the pur pose of preventing the agreement from becoming operative. When it is remembered that it was only under severe protest that Ger many consented to this temporary agreement, and that it was accepted only under the unqualified promise that a permanent treaty more favorable to Germany would toe negotiated, it would seem that this band of ultra-select standpatters are tempting fate by mak ing any demonstration whatever at this time. The colossal fortunes piled up by the protected interests through the workings of the existing tariff offer ample evidence of the enormous bene fits which it conferred on these inter ests. These profits were of such mam moth proportions. that it is quite clear that any change which would be made in the tariff must necessarily reduce the emoluments of the interests, and it is for this reason that they are fight ing even the slight concession made to the Germans. If they are successful in this fight which they have begun, we can expect nothing from Germany tout the sharp est kind of retaliation, and this will serve to hasten the general and whole sale revision in our tariff laws, a re form which is so long overdue that Its further postponement is practically im possible. The American Protective Tariff League, -which has Instituted this fight against the slight concessions granted Germany, has repeatedly stated that when the time came for tariff revision the. work would be done by the friends of the tariff. The league I may not know that the time has ar rived, but if it remains in ignorance much longer, the "friends" of the tariff will have no opportunity to participate in its revision. It would be well for them to let well enough alone and g'et what they can out of the present tem porary tariff agreement with Germany, and meanwhile live in hopes that the permanent agreement will not toe so drastic in its effect on American indus tries as our tariff law has been on Ger man industries. A TIP THAT ISN'T STRAIGHT. The Appeal to Reason, the organ of socialism and champion of Haywood et aL. has this interesting informa tion: We have a "tip" that the prosecution of Haywoood, Mover and Pettibone Is to be gradually relaxed and that there Is to be no final conviction. The Information comes from a source that gives it authenticity. Several times In the past we have bad im portant confidential advices from the same 'leak." and in each instance they were veri fied by subsequent fact. The money kings In the East fear the effect of a conviction. and socially on the eve of a Presidential year. They did not dream that labor would kick tn such a row all o-er the country. And thal'5 the reason for the change of programme. If that's the kind of ffub-dub that suits the people who want Haywood et al. acquitted, whether guilty or in nocent, why. that's the kind of flub dub they're getting. But it would ap pear from the way In which the trial starts off that there is something the matter with the Appeal's tip. If there is to be any let-up In the vigor of the prosecution, the state's attorneys have a strange way of starting off so that the defendants may eventually be ac quitted. Orchard's terrible story has all the semblance of truth. That he did not commit the crimes to which he confesses is incredible. This is not to say that Orchard may not have lied about his relations with Haywood, Pet tibone and Moyer. (Here, of course, is the vital point at issue; and Orchard's testimony must have strong and com plete corroboration if it is to be ac cepted either by the public or by the Boise jury. Meanwhile the "money kings in the East" must toe greatly surprised at the evident determination of the state to secure a conviction as well as pained by the obvious harmony and efficiency of counsel for the prosecution, which are in striking contrast to the apparent dissensions and Jealousies of Defendant Haywood's attorneys, thereby greatly weakening the strength of his defense. THTX-SKIXXED JAPAN. The Japanese press seems to be work ing up more of a sentiment of resent ment against the United States than is warranted by the facts in connection with the San Francisco outrage. There is too much of a tendency on the part of the Japanese to -attribute the dis turbances in the Bay City to racial prejudices, when, as a matter of fact. the outrages were committed by irre sponsible hoodlums who seldom play any favorites in their deviltry. Every decent American citizen regretj the occurrence of such outrages and is ready and willing to make proper rep aration for them. It must be remem bered, however, that the law-abiding element in San Francisco has for a long time been handicapped. An Amer ican citizen at home is as good as a Japanese we will not say .better and is entitled to protection against hood lums; but, unfortunately, the chaotic social and economic conditions in the Bay City at this time prevent even American citizens enjoying the full protection of the law. While a few hoodlums were smashing windows in the Japanese restaurant and frightening its owners, other hood lums in the same city were smashing streetcars and terrorizing American citizens, even going so far as to as sault them and in some cases murder them, for no other reason .than that they were attempting to exercise the God-given right to sell their labor at a price satisfactory to themselves. San Francisco is confronted toy an extra ordinary situation, and it will require patience and diplomacy to extricate her from her plight. Meanwhile, if Japan is the enlightened, modernized nation she would have us toelieve she Js, the practice of a little forbearance will not be out of place. Every few weeks some American citizens roaming around the world get mixed up in a dis turbance, and not infrequently with fatal results. We do not hold the Mexicans re sponsible when the Taquls kill Ameri cans who wander over the border, be cause we know that the Mexicans can no more control the actions of the Ta quis than we can at all times control the movements of the San Francisco hoodlums. There would be none of this talk about international complications if a few Americans were battered up in a row with Whltechapel toughs in London. The statement in a leading Japanese paper that "the San Fran cisco outrages are worse than the mur der of a missionary in China, which resulted In the occupation of Kiao Chou," Is sheer nonsense and displays a needless and reprehensible exagger ation presumably for the purpose of creating prejudice against this coun try. There is a possibility that the Japan ese have become over-Impressed with their own Importance. Before taking this matter too much to heart, they should bear in -mind that Americans are not Chinamen, or even Coreans and Russians. They should also remember that this country has a world-wide rep utation for fair dealings with all na tions, and that do violation of treaty rights will be permitted. Failing to do this, Japan,, as she continues her pa rade before the public with a chip on the shoulder, will have it rudely shaken quite frequently toy ' heedless acts of hoodlums whose indiscretions cannot easily be prevented. OREGON Vt'fT.n FLOWERS. Clackamas County is making a fine display today of three of its finest June products strawberries, roses and wild flowers. The beauty of the exhibit is greatly heightened by the latter. The sight of these flowers Breathing the smell of field and grove a is enough to transform, in the twinkling of an eye. the toilworn man into a boy, walking through the vistas of memory the fields and woods over which he was a care-free rover in years agone; or it is enough to bring the light of youth again to the dim eyes and its glow to the faded cheeks of tired .women, who see in these treasures of the wild wood visions of the time When they were young And life was fresh and sweet. It is a common saying that there is not as great a variety of wild flowers and.dainty wildwood growths in Ore gon as there is in New England and the states of the Middle West. Thi assumption is due partly to the fact that the flowers and plants of these last-named sections are things of mem ory to those who speak of them and belong to a time wherein the percep tions were quick and impressions were lasting; and it is due partly to the fact that our people have given little atten tion to the flora of Oregon. In plain terms, many of us are grossly ignor ant In this matter. Let any one, while waiting a few minutes for a car at one of our sylvan stations, beguile the time by counting the different varieties of plants and flowers within twenty feet of where he stands, and he will be con vinced of the bounty of Nature in the bestowal of beautiful growing things. A wild flower adjunct to a rose or fruit exhibit cannot fail to toe an edu cator in this respect. The idea as worked out at Oregon City is not a new one, but its exemplification Joses. noth ing in attractiveness because of this fact. The wild flower nook in the rose show that was held in this city severa years ago, during the time of the con vention of the National Press Associa tion, was One of the most attractive spots under the great white tent, that spread its ample wings over a scene that could scarcely be surpassed for color, fragrance and beauty anywhere In the wide worfa. The rose was queen of this tented carnival of beauty, but she did not by any means reign alone. While visitors generally paid the hom age of unstinted admiration at her shrine, there were some who lingered longest at the spot where Flora in her wild and variant ibeauty held modest court. This feature of floral fragrance and beauty will probably not be neglected by the managers of our coming rose fiesta. It certainly can be made an at tractive feature of a display in which color, fragrance and grace will com bine to present a scene of royal mag nificence at Nature's own court. Wild flowers are usually at their -best in early June. The lateness of the sea son has postponed their coming out somewhat. Without doubt a collection could be made within a radius of a few miles of this city that would astonish the oldest Inhabitant and introduce anew the Btudy of botany among ob servant young people, to hundreds of whom the beauty of our surprisingly beautiful woods is as a sealed book or an unknown quantity. The British steamship Hyndford, carrying 7251 tons of flour and drawing twenty-six feet of water, made the run through from Portland to Astoria in eight hours Thursday. The necessity for a greater depth of water at the river entrance was shown by the ves sel's toeing obliged to wait nine hours at Astoria before she could cross out to sea. The cost, including operating expenses and pilot charges, for mov ing these 7260 tons of cargo over the 100-mile stretch between Portland and Astoria was a fraction less than 4 cents per ton. This figure explains why ocean-going craft In all parts of the world always go as close as possible to the originating point of the cargo, instead of having the cargo 'brought any farther than actually necessary to reach a seaport. "One hundred millions of dollars on its way to the penitentiary will nat urally make a vast noise." The refer ence Is to the vindictive shrieks of the indicted millionaires in San Francisco. Sometimes the money makes so much noise that it tolunts the hearing of Jus tice, and, since she is blind by nature, the gilded rogues' manage to elude her.' But things seem likely to proceed differently in San Francisco. The spec tacle of a gang of criminal millionaires handled in court exactly like a gang of housebreakers is as edifying as it is rare. Many a year has drifted into the past since that immortal genius Darius Green is supposed to have made his famous flight; but neither Santos-Du-mont, Lincoln Beechey nor any of the rest of his successors has ever been able successfully to demonstrate any great degree of untruth in his famous statement that "Flyin's all right, but 'tain't such a thundering sight of fun when you come to light." For latest proof, note Lincoln Beechey's adven ture at Boston, Thursday. A man of 45 years, the father of five motherless little children, was recently killed in a drunken row at Raymond, Wash. The man's paternal obligations did not seem to sit very heavily upon him. The state, as In duty bound, will bring to trial, convict and hang his slayer and render such aid as is neces sary in bringing up the children. It has not, however, in all probability, lost much in the untimely death of this cit izen. "I am absolutely opposed to any in crease in salaries," says Mayor Wright, of Tacoma, adding: "Taxes are high enough now, and we must economize." "So say we, all of us," echo the peo ple of Multnomah County, or a substan tial majority thereof, at the polls. By successfully showing on cross examination that Orchard is a wife deserter, tolgamist and thief, the de fense at Boise will go far towards corroborating his story that he is also a murderer. When the Agricultural Department gets through building an Ideal good road near Forest'Grove, it may with profit move the plant to Portland and duplicate the work on some of the city streets. , At last there is one duly authenti cated candidate to succeed Roosevelt. If on the one side this may be said of Senator Knox, may not the same be inferred concerning Mr. Bryan? The lawyers on each side will earn the public's gratitude if they can in duce Mr. and Mrs. Howard Gould to settle their nasty differences out of court. Candidate Knox, of Pennsylvania, is likely to experience embarrassment when the country asks how he stands on tariff reform. If iHaywood's attorneys would hang together a little better, there would be less chance tnat Haywood will hang alone. With saloons olosed tight of Sun days, look for a big trade in bottled goods the last day of the week. There is renewed hope for San Fran cisco. A lightweight championship fight is scheduled for July 3. District Attorney Manning can't stop the drinking of Bull Run water on ftundii v. WEARY OF JAPAN'S PLAINTS Government Thinks She Magnifies Molehills Into Mountains. CHICAGO, June ".A dispatch to the Tribune from Washington, D. C. says: There is beginning to be manifested here a distinct feeling of Irritation against an apparent disposition on the part of certain people in Japan to magnify mole hills into mountains, and to persist in an endeavor to precipitate trouble between this country and Japan. For most the State Department has been extremely tender of the sus ceptibilities of the Japanese. Ever since the President went out of his way to settle the school question in San Fran cisco, which was. strictly speaking, en tirely beyond the province of the Federal Government, there has' been a manifest disposition on the part of certain public men in Japan to criticise the United States and complain about all sorts of little things. The Japanese Consul it San Francisco and the Ambassador in Washington are perfectly aware that con ditions exist in San Francisco which are wholly unusual and are beyond control of the state authorities, to say nothing of the Nation. In spite of this, reports continue to come from Japan like the cabled inter view with Count Okuma, in which ref erence is made in serious fashion to the anti-Japanees outrages in San Francisco. The government here is becoming an noyed at these repeated complaints about petty crimes and insults against the Jap anese. They have the same rights in San Francisco that Americans have. There is a growing belief that the Japanese at home and abroad have misconstrued tne attitude of the Federal Government. Courtesy and consideration for a friendly nation induced the President and Secre tary of State to go infinitely further than they would have gone had any European country been involved. Apparently the Japanese have interpreted this as weak ness or even fear on the part of the United States. All reports from San Francisco indicate that the latest alleged "outrages" there are extremely minor incidents of the gen eral riot which has come about as a re suit of the paralysis of the city govern ment. The wrecking of a bathhouse and restaurant during the time of the riot would not be considered an international incident by any of the great European powers. The pettiness of recent complaints on the part of the Japanese, coupled with the fact that immigrants from that coun ry are pouring over the United States borders in defiance of our laws. Is mak ing many of the Government officials ex tremely tired, ir complaints ana protests and denunciations of comer fights and barroom rows seem to be continued with the consent of the Japanese government. somebody here in Washington may take occasion to represent to the Japanese Am bassador or to the Tokio government that the American people are considerate and courteous to all nations, but that there is a limit to their patience, which seems to be nearly reached at the present time. FRANCE OFFERS GOOD OFFICES Willing to Aid America in Agree ment With Japan. PARIS. June 7. One of the imme dlate results of the Franco-Japanese entente, which is on the point of be ing signed, has been the tender by France of her good offices to the United States in case she can be of service in promoting a complete un derstandlng between the United States and Japan, covering their respective interests In the Far Bast. The Washington Government, while not availing Itself of France's serv ices, expressed in Its reply its deep sensibility and appreciation of the friendly offer. ASSISTANCE IS NOT NEEDED Only Negotiations With Japan Now Relates to Immigration. WASHINGTON, June 7. While the American Government admits receiv ing the French tender of good offices to promote a stable understanding be tween the United States and Japan, the practical use to which such tender can be put is not regarded as apparent at this time. The French representations, however, have been received in the same cordial spirit in which they were extended. The only negotiations between the United States and Japan which can be said to he pending, relate to a possible immigration treaty. r'rora a diplo matic viewpoint, the San Francisco in cident is closed. Objects to Labor Restrictions. TOKIO. June 7. A representative of the Japanese residents in America arrived here recently and called upon the For eign Minister. Viscount Hayashl. He has reported that the latter assured him that the proposals made by the American Government to enter into a mutual agree ment for the restriction of labor emigra tion would be rejected by Japan, and that every effort would be made to expunge the last clause of Article 11 or the pres ent treaty when it comes up for revision in 1909, but that it was not expected that America would yield easily on this point. A special commissioner will probably be despatched to America to investigate the actual conditions prevailing there. END OF IRONWORKERS' STRIKE San Francisco Employes Accept an Agreement for Eight-Hour Day. SAX FRANCISCO, June 7. The com mittee of the Iron Trades Council met last night and ratified an agreement en tered into by the employers and the men on May 31 last, on a basis of which the recent strike was declared off. Under the agreement the men return to work under the same conditions of hours and wages which prevailed when they struck. The agreement is to remain in effect for 18 months. The employers, however, conceded that commencing December 1. 1908, there shall be a reduction of 15 minutes in the work day every six monUis until an. eight-hour day is reached on June 1, 1910, which shall be in effect thereafter. The ratification of this agreement last night affects 20,000 men, who will now re turn to work at once. The machinists alone have not yet signed the ratification, out it is believed they will. KTjRRACHI WASTED. BY STORM Flourishing Hindoo Port Destroyed and Many Steamers Ashore. BOMBAY. June 7. A destructive cy clone swept over Kurrachl yesterday. Several steamers were driven ashore and hardly a building remains un wrecked. The casualties have not been renorted. Kurrachi, also spelled Kurrachee and Karachi, is one of the prin cipal seaports of British India cap ital of the Singh division of the Bom bay Presidency and of the district of Kurrachi. It Is situated upon the Ara bian Sea. 20 miles northwest of the westernmost outlet of the Indus. Kur rachi. when it passed into the hands of the British in 1842. waa but a strug gling village. It now presents the fea tures of a modern city, is noted for its manufactures of carpets and fine sil verware, and has a population of more than 120.000. NAVAL VESSELS WIN TROPHIES Fine Showing Made in Gunnery, Pa cific Squadron First. xc- a stTrvmwtf .Tuna 7 SDlendid orog- -Aoa n iWKn, with ttlA his? ETUIIS of the Navy is recorded in the general orcer promuigatea toaay dj owwj Metcalf giving the standing' of the re- BnAA,tP- a,b ,nnai4rAns divisions &nd .3 i . J 1.3, juawuu vessels for the annual record target prac tice or lyur. xne Atlantic neei. whh.u the winner, scored 69.36 per cent, against 59.241 for the Pacific fleet, a remarkably close contest. Last year the Pacific squadron (not the fleet) had the smallest final merit, while this year u is than all the other squadrons. The second squadron. Pacific fleet, commanded t Admiral Swinburne, which corresponds to the former Pacific squadron, has -t all Y.. I, nnnlH win- that Is. tllB CTUiser. gunboat and torpedo boat trophies, there being no snips or tne Dattieumi present In that squaaron. ah vobw nt th flpenna boukuiuu, Pacific fleet, are star ships except the destroyer Paul Jones. A star snip ia one whose final merits are at least 85 ner cent of that of the trophy winner of her class. The final merit of Ad miral Swinburne's squadron is m per cent higher than the next highest Tl.o v,gi, tif this aauad- ron were the Boston, Chicago. Charles ton, Yorktown, 1-Tinceton. r-reoie mm Paul Jones. The total score of this .ni.f,ienn wo 7 Sfit! and the Boston won the trophy with 79,997 per cent. Last year there were tnree star Hiiiia. while this year there are 10, and the .AnA-ai avra of final merit is higher. Last year the final merit of all ships was 6 per cent oi me msi"""' final merit ana tnis .year it i ahftwrlnr a notable increase In the 1-1 er!MAnrv of the ahnoting. The squadrons alter tne secona rao acmnii Atlantic Illinois. Kear- t.- ..1 alnhamn. Indiana. eargv, . v. ... . - -- Iowa, Ohio with 62.466 per cent and in or der came tne tirst r-acmc wim oo-ouu -,. .i. ,ki. Atlantic with the fourth Atlantlo with 65.3S3. the first Atlantic with 55.096 and the third Pacific with 40.650. In the torpedo boats the fourth flotilla, Dki. onH -pant .Tones won. scoring 72.017 per cent, with the third 60.0111 second (S7.03) and first 54.4OTl in mat oroer. ti,a Tiiinnta -won th hattlesnio tropny -.I.U - vnra nf TK 7R5 the Boston tllO cruiser trophy with 79.097, the Princeton the gunboat tropny wun 10.019; me .no ble the torpedo torpedo trophy, with Tr.i.-r.iiiritnr tnmednefl and counting only guns on noara. me nun ovnw. ...... with 76.634, and counting only torpedoes 1 . . v. TT..11 felchaet cnscnarged tne rrt-uia wiin haw, markable score. MURDEROgUS SOLDIER GUILTY Corporal of Twenty-fifth Infantry to Serve 15 Years. Advocate-General Porter has received the reuuiu in 1 1 1 -7 i-ews j....... Knowles, Company A. Twenty-fifth In- rantry, wno waa inwi " uvu. - miH sxanlt on Cantain Bdear A. Macklin Twentv-airth intaniry. witu micm 1-, commit robbery at Fort rteno, uma., sev Corporal Knowles was found guilty on both charges and sentenced to be dis honorably discharged: to forfeit all pay and allowances oue mm aim " Ali ened at hard labor for .10 years. WORDEN WINS RACE ON OCEAN Leads Destroyers From New York to Cape Henry. -rN-owT t.- tro luna 7 The toroedo boat destroyers Whipple, Truxton, Stu- . -n-nfAn anil Honklns. Which raced from New Tork to Cape Henry yesterday, arrived otr tne Virginia, taii last nignt ana passea in mo u.v. th tcwHmi wnn the race. The Hop kins, which had a, broken propeller strut passed in two iengi-ns 01 tne -tuivio. Junk-Dealer Buys Old Warship. PHILADELPHIA. June 7. After hav ing weathered storms for nearly three Quarters or a century, tne 01a sioop of-war St. Louis has been sold by the Government to a Junk dealer of this city for $4210. The ship was built at Washington in 1828, and was the vessel with which Captain Ingraham over awed an Austrian squadron in the har bor of Smyrna and secured the release of an American citizen who ws held a prisoner upon the Austrian flagship. Messenger for Weather Man, OREGONIAN NEWS BUREAU, Wash ington. June 7. H. R. Maloney. of Port land, was today appointed messenger of the Weather Bureau at Portland. County to Condemn Roadway. VANCOUVER. Wash.. June 7. (Special.) Two suits were started today by Clark County to conaemn a county road across the property or tne uoiumoi Contract Company and the Murhard es tate, both corporations of Oregon with headouarters at Portland. These suit are both necessitated on account of the fact that the Portland & Seattle Railroad Comnanv recently condemned a portion of the county road for the purpose of tracks. These cases have created con slderable Interest in the county, as tin land sought is just in front of the cliffs, of the Columbia Contract Company's stone quarries near Fishers, Wash., and Is held at a very high price because of its value as a camp site for the quarry camp, and for its tracks, etc., which are needed for the purpose of handling the product of the quarry. COLONEL BRYAN TELLS gl From the Chicago Inter Ocean. IV AX rVTRKVIFW WILLIAM 3. BR TAX DEC LABKD THAT CXDEB CER TAIN CONDITIONS UK WOULD BE A CANDIDATE FOR THE PRESI DENCY. NEWS ITEM. IN THE SUNDAY OREGONIAN TOMORROW if -V. , . .'2 12 ygjgjaaaaejiasBaahalaaWa , THE GENTLE GRAFTER By 0. Henry. FIRST OF A SERIES OF THE BEST HUMOROUS SKETCHES OF THE YEAR This Will Be a regular feature for several Sundays. AUTOMOBILING IN THE CITY PARK Full-pace illtisl ration in colors of a Portland scene. MR. DOOLEY ON THE JAP ANESE SCARE Philosophic discourse on our attitude toward foreigners. A TYPICAL CROWD ON THE BLEACHERS Full-page illustration of Port land baseball fans. CLIMBED TO THE TOP BY THE WIRE Some big men who began at the telegraph key. COLLEGE GIRLS IN PIC TURESQUE FROLICS Lighter side of commencement day at famed schools. WALKING THE WATER AT EIGHT MILES AN HOUR Novel boat shoes and a new hquatic sport invented. . LONGEST STEEL BRIDGE IN THE WORLD Colossal enterprise undertaken in New York City. DR. FURNIVALL'S UNRAV ELING OF CRIME ; "The Wetchell Job," a mysteri ous robbery with a surprise. IN THE RUINS OF CAR THAGE THE MIGHTY Frank (i. Carpenter writes of recent discoveries. ORDER FROM YOUR NEWS DEALER TODAY TWO ORPHANS TAKE LIVES Children Agree to Commit Suicide ' Because ' They Lose Mother. CLEVELAND. O.. Jone 7. As a re sult of taking rat poison with suicidal intent, 'Marguerite Cartis, aged 11, and her sister, Helen, aged JO years, are dead. Grief caused by the death of their mother a year ago was assigned by the children as the basis of a pact between them to end their own lives. Forest Grove Graduates. FOREST GROVE, Or., June 7. (Spe cial. ) The graduating exercises of the Forest Grove High School were held at the Congregational Church this even ing in the presence of a very large audience. The graduates were all girls and were Hazel Aldrlch, Winifred Brown, Tetta Fowler. Mae Peterson, Wanda Todd and Florence Webley. Rev. C. F. Clapp delivered the address to the class and President A. G. Hoff man of the school board presented the certificates. The Forest Grove pub lic school has been very successful the past year under the supervision of Principal J. B. Wllkerson and his ef ficient corps of assistants, and the people are pleased to have all who would stay retained for another year. US WHERE HE STANDS.