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Newspaper Page Text8 THE MOK515U UK KliUJN IAIV. FRIDAY, JtTXE 21, 1907. i: tran SUBSCRIPTION RATES. INVARIABLY IN ADVANCE. (Br Mall.) Xally, Sunday Included, on year. . . .. .$8.00 Illy, Sunday Included, six months. . . . 4.25 Dally. Sunday Included, three month.. 2.'iS X'atly, Sunday Included, one month 75 T'ally, without Sunday, one year 6.00 Daily, mlthout Sunday. ix months. . .. 3.-3 Xally, without Sunday, thiee- months.. 1.75 Xally. without buuday. one month...- Funday, one year - 2.50 W eekly, one year (Issued Thursday)...! 100 Sunday and Weekly, one year........ BY CARRIES. Xaily. Sunday Included, one year 0.00 2ally, Eunday included, one month 75 MOW TO REMIT Send postofflce money order, express order or personal check on your local bank. Stamps, coin or currency re at the sender's risk. Give postofflce ad dress In full. Including county and state. POSTAGE RATES. Entered at Portland. Oregon. 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Potts & Ro'der, Pine Beach, Vs. W. A. Cosgrove. I "RUTLAND, FRIDAY-, JUNE 21, !" I ) HOMICIDE AS A REMEDY'. j! "He was the despoiler or my home, i! and I have killed him." It has become ' a frequent remark. But it never Is spoken by a man who has a sense of ' his own dignity, and .probably never j by one who has been to his wife what ': a husband ought to be. J It is conceivable that there may have I been faithless wives, in cases where j the husbands were without fault; but j every person of Just and fair mind I knows that such cases are extremely j rare. Nor are the thoughts of such i husbands apt to turn to homicide as a j remedy, for It Is no remedy at all. Besides, this species of homicide ts j nften the consequence of a jealous sus- j plcion. as unreasoning as unfounded, ! and the "home" which such a man j ays has been "despoiled" must have i been anything but a paradise, i Of the man who actually enters the l 1 home of another to debauch It, It must : be said that he deserves any fate. But blind Jealousy, acting on mere suspl- cion. Is most unfit to pass Judgiment i and to act upon It. Moreover, no man ! ever became the despoiler of the home '-.tf another unless the woman were as Muclv to be blamed as he possibly fTTrpuld be,' and even more. If, then, the husband, to set himself right. Is to take . the life of one of them, why does he ! rot make his Justification complete ; by taking the life of the other also? The husband has a right to expect ) fidelity In the conjugal relation, and so 1 has the wife. Yet the husband Is much I more often the sinner. But fidelity in ! the conjugal relation is not to be en forced w iht Implements of death, nor Is vengeance so to be taken for breach of it. "What kind of husband, a man 1 has been to his wife may be judged , with approach to infallible certainty ; by the alacrity he discovers In taking 1 the life of the man whom he suspects ; of improper intimacy with her. Even I If his suspicions are well-founded, it is i not the remedy to which the manly i man ever will resort. For it is no t remedy: the injury. Indeed, is remedi : less, and insane vengeance only recoils i on him who executes it. Concerning the Unwritten Law which has coma to play so Important a part in American life, it is .proper to ask three Questions: What is it? Who makes it? And to whom does it ap ply? rlrst, then, the Unwritten Law Is a rule of conduct which is being cre ated to supplement the deficiencies of the written law. to improve its defects and cure its injustice. The Coroner's Jury who acknowledged the unwrit ten law in Bowlsby's case at Astoria said definitely In their verdict that he was "Justified in shooting Jennings on account of the lack of statutes cover ing crimes'" such as Jennings had committed. In this instance the crime was the reduction of Bowlsby's wife. Not long go a young man In East Portland, toy permission of the unwritten law, hot1 the betrayer of his sister with much applause from the public and the explicit approbation of the pulpit. In that case also there was a lack of statutes to cover the offense of the man who was killed. Should Reynolds, who has just shot Herbert for calling tipon his wife, be brought to trial, he also will, of course, invoke the protec tion of the unwritten law and he can plead with truth that there are no Iratutcs to cover Herbert's alleged of nse. It is nowhere forbidden In the criminal code of Oregon to call upon a isniui.it her home. ' All those offenses against morals ind good taste which are not made punishable by statute fall within the purview of the inwritten law. The Indiscriminate penalty for all of- them teems to be death, and the executioner !s the offended party. The application if this very inclusive code Is thus ad tnirably expeditious., nor is it cum bered toy useless formalities. Like a Judge enforcing an injunction, the of fended individual under the unwritten taw is accuser, jury, court and execu tioner all in' 'one. He makes the law I t suit himself and applies It unham pered by idle ceremonies. The oppor tunities and advantages of .the. un written law, like those of injunctions, are only beginning to be understood. For example, there is no statute for bidding a book agent to pester one as much as he pleases. Therefore, ac cording to the widely accepted rule which the Astoria jury approves, any man may -shoot a book agent on sight. The same blessed privilege seems to be available against the assaults of life Insuraivce men and peddlers. The un written law permits one to slay them, since the Legislature has neglected to penalize their annoying importunity. Everything-which is not a crime un der the . statute is a crime under the unwritten law, and. punishable by death. If Mrs. Jones scorches the bis cuit, Mr. Jones has a perfect right -to shoot her under this beneficent code. If Algernon, charmed by the bewitch ing Angeline. inflates the family "gas bill by staying too late, ipapa' may brain him with an ax. Further illus trations of the applicability' of the un written law will occur to every reader. Why should we permit the bore, the mother-in-law, the young woman who plays the piano, longer to cumber the earth? There is no statute against them, hence they may be slain by anybody who feels Jike doing it. Who makes . the . Unwritten Law? Any.body that has 'a suspicion, a grudge or an object " to gain by an other's death. Judges make unwritten law .when they "interpret',1 the stat utes or the Constitution, forbid lawful acts by injunction,.-or broaden old pre cedents to cover new ' ground. Juries make it when they acquit prisoners contrary to the evidence, and lawyers when they bewray the courts Into by and forbidden paths. Every canting catch phrase which can work upon the sloppy sentimentality of Imbecile jury men and hysterical preachers may be used to widen the -unwritten code. Observe how Reynolds rings the changes upon "standing by his home" and the "'danger from a despoiler." "'showing the white feather" and all the rest of the catalogue' of cant. His home was in no apparent danger: if there was a despoiler he did not know it, since by his own account he had never seen Herbert , before. 'He was suspicious, he lost his temper and that was enough. The Instant' a man loses his temper, either he Is Insane or he Is allowed to add a section to the un written law. In both cases he may wreak his passion without fear of consequences. Mobs make unwritten law when they burn negroes at the stake and street railway corporations when they slaughter human .beings to save the price of lenders. The spe cious and seductive phrase "unwritten law" is but another name for anarchy, and wjien- it prevails In everything as it already does In many' things,, we shall have no further 'use for courts. Those of us who are not killed our selves will be a;ble to kill ajl who ven ture to annoy us. We see, therefore, that the Unwrit ten Law applies to everybody. No one can tell at what unlucky moment he may transgress some of Its shaaowy commands. An angry brother, a Jeal ous husband, an excited mob, a hys terical Jury, all having authority to make law and execute It, may con demn any man to death at any mo ment. To abide by tbe written code and amend It when the need arises would not be so thrillingly end slop pily exciting as life seems likely to be come under the Unwritten Law, but would It not upon the whole be more sensible? THE ROSE FESTIVAL. There is no reason in the world why Portland should not hold a rose festi val every year. Our weather in June, the month of roses,: is always beauti ful. The mountains are clad in their tenderest green. The fields,, and -orchards -are at 'the. height of their charm. In mid-June rural labor pauses for a few days. Planting is over, harvest has not begun. The farmer with his famiry may well take a holiday in the city before the heat of Summer sets the streets ablaze, and 'withers the petal of rose and lily. The school year is almost ended. Study, is over, vacation at hand. Why should not the children march by thousands through the 6treets every year, as they have this year, beautiful in their joy and hope, lovely as the rose wreaths they bear ? All our other holidays are weighted with solemn thought or sorrowful memories. They commemorate our National heroes and history, or they are sacred to grief for the dead or they are dedicated to reverent thankfulness to the Almighty. The Rose Festival alone is a season of pure Joy, a day or two captured ' from business and thought and worry to bask in sun shine and breathe the fragrance of flowers. Everybody will be happier and bet ter all the rest of the year for the fes tival of roses. Old men. will be younger, young men wiser; for there Is nothing that contributes so much to wisdom as innocent joy. The happiest people in the world are the wisest. Let us therefore be happy, at least for a day or two every year. Let us banish care and worry and bask in the odor of roses. Let the bands play and the children march and the crowds shout with the clear sky over all and the sun bestowing his abundant blessing upon earth and man. And- with every recur ring June may the flowers be sweeter, the sky softer and the children lovelier until we shall forget how to begin the Summer without our Festival of Roses. THE Ft Kt. SHORTAGE. With cordwood selling around JS per cord, slabwood t3 to ti per load, and coal $10 per ton. and up. the threat ened fuel shortage has become an ac tuality. No one is suffering from cold and for a few months longer we can cook with-gas; out- the .prices quoted prove quite conclusively that a fuel shortage is" no longer threatened, but actually exists. There are stlrl count less millions of cords of wood, within a few miles of Portland and the mines of the Northwest contain deposits of coal which, cannot be exhausted for decades and possibly' centuries. Nor have the oil wells been pumped dry. On every hand, in fact, there is plenty of evidence of an -abundance of fuel, but it is not available for Immediate use. The. situation is interesting as an Indication of '.he enormous industrial expansion of the country. " A few years ago there was an' abun dance of fir wood obtainable for all purposes at from $2 to 2.50 per cord, with slabwood selling at Jl per load. Discovery of oil in California and the low prices at which, it was sold failed to have any weakening effect on the market ' for either cordwood, slabwood or coal, and' since July 1, 1906. there have been received at Portland by water 1,550.000 barrels of oil and 40.000 tons of coal, all of which has been con sumed about as fast as it arrived. The new industries that have been started in this city and state have been so numerous that they have increased the demand for fuel and at the same time have drawn on the labor supply so heavily that there is an insufficient number of men to cut wood and mine coal. There is nothing unwarranted in the warning which the railroads are send ing out to the people advising them to lay in their fuel supplies early. The view of -the situation taken by the largest coal-producing company on the Pacific Coast is reflected in the fact that this same company now has under charter tonnage with a capacity of 100.000 tons to bring coal to Oregon, Washington and California ports from Australia. All this, with their own mines working well up to their capa city with as many men as can be pressed into service. The days of cheap fuel are not yet over, but it is very doubtful whether there will be much of a recession In prices or an accumu'atlon of stocks until there Is a slackening in the unparalleled move ment of trade and transportation of all kinds. When railroad companies oper ating mines right along their own lines buy by the shipload Australian coal in no way superior to their own product and pay the freight on a voyage nearly half-way round the world, the strained nature of the situation can be understood. As to the cordwood ques tion, a few thousand men could make big wages by going Into the woods and beginning to get out a supply for next year. THE PEOPLE AND THE FORESTS. ' Control and disposition of the public lands is one of the most Important problems now before the American Government, for we have reached a period in our development when con trol of natural products vitally affects the personal and bustness interests of all the people. That the .public land should be given free to the people has long been one of our most cherished principles. This principle was based upon the theory that free land meant cheap homes and consequently many homebuilders. To the extent that free land, or even cheap land, increases the number of home-owners who get their living from the laud they have thus acquired, the policy of giving away the public domain is a wise one and has never been seriously questioned or at tacked. But there are different kinds of public land and different purposes for which ownership is desired. The public land -policy was framed at a time when the Great West meant the prairie region east of the Rocky Mountains, where the settler could build his cabin-, plow the sod, sow the grain and raise a crop the second sea son, if not the first, after settlement. The expression "public land" conveyed a mental picture of land that could be tilled or that was suitable for home building. While it was then known in a general way that much of the public domain was tirrtbe.-ed or contained de posits of coal, the ultimate value of these natural products was not appre ciated. Heavily ' timbered land was scarcely considered in forming the pol icy which contemplated the giving away of the public domain to home builders. In recent years, however, we have come to realize tbe value of timber and coal lands, and understand that pur chasers of either do not seek the land .with a view to building homes thereon. .We now .perceive that the public land policy, as it applies to tillable land, should be different from the policy that determines the disposition of tim ber and coal lands. The man who ac quires tillable landi usually expects to go upon It and make It productive. The man who acquires timber land hopes to sell it to some large corporation. .The corporation, founded by men who foresee a scarcity of timber, expects to bold the timber land until it has great ly enhanced in value. The wait may be ten, twenty-five or fifty years, but .the certainty of advancing value .makes the purohase a safe speculative investment. Much of the timber land goes into the possession of corpora tions that do not desire It for milling purposes, but expect to make a profit by . reason of the future conditions of supply and demand. Tillable land goes to the people timber land to the capitalistic few who expect to levy tribute upon the .people who eventually must buy the timber in the form of lumber. - Out of this difference in the charac ter and the purposes for which It is acquired has grown the forest re serve .policy, which contemplates the reservation of lands not suited to homebuilding but which are either valuable for present growth of timber or may become valuable when trees now young reach maturity. To pre vent Wanton destruction of timber, young and old, andi to retain owner ship in the Government, is the end to be accomplished by the forest reserve policy. At no time has the reserve policy contemplated the withholding of lands suited to settlement or the with holding of timber needed for the man ufacture of lumber. The forest reserve policy therefore includes neither the retarding of settlement nor the ham pering of the lumber industry. Inci dentally, the forest reserve policy ex tends .to the regulation of grazing on a reservation, the building of roads, cutting of timber, etc. It would be easy to foresee that the forest reserve idea would meet strong opposition from those persons who wish to acquire timber land and those who wish to graze their cattle upon the public domain unrestricted. The capitalist with money to invest can see no good in a forest reserve.' The cattle owner who feels confident of getting his share of the range, if left to his own devices entirely, has no word' of commendation for a system of regulation which guarantees to a weaker cattleman a just share of the public range. One would expect, too, that the great majority of the people, who have no interest except that pos sessed by every citizen, would favor the forest reserve system, for It pro poses to retain for them the vast wealth that is theirs. That there has been strong opposi tion to the forest reserve idea is due in part to the abuses which were per mitted to grow up In It. chief among them the scripplng evil, which enabled large corporations to exchange their worthless lands for good and still re tiiri their good lands within a reserve. In a few instances some lands may have been included In a forest reserve which should have been omitted. This, with some inconvenience in securing grazing permits, may have caused some opposition to the reserves. But. In the main, the flgfct now being, waged' in the public lands convention at Den ver against the " policy of conserving the public lands has its origin In the selfish desires of men who want free Umber or free range. - -The forest-sys tem undoubtedly bas its faults, but its defects are not serious enough to jus tify throwing down the lines of the reservations and permitting all who wish to rush upon the last of the tim ber lands, seizing them in sections and townships to hold until the needs of the people and the concentration of control shall enable the holders to dic tate the price of lumber. There are some indications of an effort on the part of the timber interests'to control the convention and determine its ex pressions upon public land questions. If sucb a movement has been under taken and should succeed, the opin ions voiced by the convention would have but little weight with the people. On the contrary, It would tend to make them more than ever supporters of the policy which is designed to retain for the people the land that belongs to them. The argument offered that the crea tion of a forest reserve withholds land from taxation is a shallow one. If a timber syndicate can afford to buy a township of timber and pay taxes on It for ten years in order to make a profit on the advance in value, cannot the people afford to retain that same land and go without the taxes in order to realize the .profit on the advance in value?' Wherein are the people gain ers If they lose the large profit repre sented by growing value, and gain the small amount of money paid in the form of taxes? And more wherein have the people profited if they sell the standing timber to a speculator today and buy it back from him ten or -twenty years nence at many times the price he paid? If a sawmill pro prietor aneeds logs for his mill, let him buy from the people's supply of tim ber at prices that prevail today; but let him not buy the timber in large tracts at present prices to hold until he can exact from the people a much larger price because he controls the supply. The pioneer, reunion just ended was one of the most enjoyable of a long series of events of its kind. The at tendance was large, larger perhaps than ever before. Many new-old faces were seen in the hall and at the ban quet board in the Armory. The weak treble of women's voices, combined with the quavering bass of the voices of men, spoke of the Autumn of life that had come to those who made up this eager, expectant multitude, while the laugh that mingled with the pleas ant murmurs on every hand' told of keen appreciation of the occasion. The ranks of the pioneers thin slowly. They were sturdy folk In the begin ning, else they wouldi not have been pioneers. They worked hard, but they lived the simple life and it has brought them to old age in serenity and contentment, and with a measure of prosperity adequate to their modest needs. It does them good to come to gether; it does the younger genera tion good to see them together, and It is a pleasure to the community to ex tend to them the hospitality which they so greatly enjoy. It doesn't pay to borrow trouble and, having borrowed, to "knock." Not a few Portland' pessimists declared that too late a date was fixed for the rose show; then under the storms of last week they wailed that the blooms were ruined. Let the exhibit 'at the Forestry building be a lesson to the know-it-alls who publish their advance opinions. However, the big popular show is on for today. Portland can discuss tomorrow the value of roses in pageantry. ' The parade promises to be the finest spectacle ever undertaken here. A very large part of the Oregon im migration of 1853 journeyed north from the Grand Rondo Valley, crossed the Cascades over the Natches pass and settled In what is now Western Washington. In his annual address at the pioneers' reunion, this week, George H. iHImes, who was In the party, recounted all the mam. facts of that noted immigration. The address will be .published in the next issue of The Sunday Oregonian. A Mississippi man is endeavoring to collect a fifty-year-old claim against the Czar for personal property seized and for banishment from the empire. The amount is approximately $1,000,000. The Czar Is still banishing people and seizing their property, but has not yet adopted a system for remunerating any of his victims. The Mississippi man. should be so thankful that he got away from Russia so long ago that he would be willing to forfeit tbe million. Mrs. Elizabeth Norris, a great-grand-daughter of Daniel Boone, a na tive of Missouri, died in Coos County June 4, at the age of 82 years. She, came to Oregon in 1846; first settled in Clackamas County, then moved to Benton County, and from there to Coos County. . Her descendants are very numerous, and include , many great-grand-children. Coastwise lumber business is dull on account of the San Francisco labor embargo, but our exporters are still loading cargoes for Mexico, Australia, Central and -South' America and the Orient. This business, with a few record-breaking flour cargoes going out this month, makes possible a fine showing for the close of the fiscal year. Fifty residences are under construc tion at Medford, Or., and the demand for business quarters far exceeds the supply. This is only an average sam ple of existing conditions, not only in prosperous Southern Oregon, but all over the state and Northwest. If all the "actual settlers" on South ern Pacific lands vote in their new homes next election, it will be worth while for the candidates to do some canvassing in the mountain districts. Time must hang heavily on the Na tional Eclectic Medical Association when it devotes an hour trying to de nounce Dr. Osier. Now for some sunshine andi Oregon farmers will harvest a good hay crop, not as large as that of last year, but an average crop. There should have been a few Afro American boys and girls in the parade, just to give it a touch of color. And not the least enjoyable feature of this week's festivities . is the ab sence of deafening sounds. It will not be surprising if a perma nent Oregon Rose day shall be a se quel of the carnival. Get 25,000 women interested In v celebration and It must succeed. Today the Rose is Queen. THE WAR OX USD-GRABBERS. Mighty Importance of tbe Conserva tion of Our Forvata. ' New York Sun. In resisting the limitless greed of the land-grabbers and squatters, in working powerfully to prevent the spoliation .of the property of the United States, in safeguarding as far as possible for future use the timber lands and fuel lands still owned by the Government, President Roosevelt is doing only his duty, the first and most obvious duty of his office as Na tional custodian. The President's perception of the magnitude of this question, surpassing In importance every other enterprise that has engaged his attention, was clearly declared in one of his two speeches at Jamestown on Monday. He marshalled in orderly array the kindred problems, the reclamation of the arid lands, the preservation of the waters which head in the Rocky Mountains so as to make them of most U3e to . the people as a whole, the utilization of the inland waterways as channels of traffic and the protection of the natural resources of the public lands from fraud, waste and encroach ment; and then. In this striking fashion, he went on to present them thus correlated as a single problem: They are connected together Into one great fundamental problem that of the conserva tion of all our natural resources. Upon the wise solution of this much of our future ob viously depends. Even such questions as the regulation of railway rates and the control of corporations are tn reality subsidiary to the primal problem of the preservation In the Interests of the whole people of the resources that 'nature has given us. If we fall to solve thla problem no skill In solving- the others wiU la the end avail ua vfsf greatly. No truer generalization was ever drawn, nor was any great task ever described that is worthier of the en ergies of a statesman. The position of the President is unassailable. The people are with him and will be with him to the end in the execution of his policy of defending and utilizing to the best advantage that which is the Na tion's own. OUR GIRLS IN THB EAST. With Solemn aod Learned Comment on Their Observations-. New York Evening Post. A party of young women from one of the Pacific Coast States now doing a grand tour of the country has been praised unstintedly by a leading news paper of their state because of their "loyalty to their state and its cus toms." To one resident on our west ernmost .meridian everything -elBe is, of course, East, and the members of the pnrty in question buried Chicago and New York together under strong ly expressed disapproval. The particu lar sights and Institutions which occa sioned this disapproval. It may be added, are Just those to which the well-bred residents of these cities also take exception. So there is no occa sion for dispute or difference of opinion. But the reason for character izing loyalty to the home state as "refreshing and admirable to a de gree," is harder to see. The enthusi astic citizens of the Far West declare, and with more than a little truth, that the Jaded New Yorker or Chicagoan begins to breathe new life when he sets foot in that favored region; that, in effect, he can never be quite con tented again in old effete common wealths. Why, then, is It not accepted as axiomatic that the Westerner will withstand Eastern' allurements and re main loyal to his own country as he would remain honest if offered a bribe? It would be unfair to say that these Western spokesmen protest too much. But the "wild and woolly' tra dition about tho West ought, as it dis appears, to take with, it the "tinselled and hollow" tradition about the East, especially since any given locality is Eastern or Western, simply according to the point where one stands to ex amine it. Orchard's Statement. Brooklyn Eagle. It has become almost certain that this man has told '"the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth." Corroborative evidence has confirmed what he said, wherever it has been ob tained, and more such evidence will, in orderly time, further confirm it. The man has done without adjectives or adverbs. He has talked straight on, with a memory, a calmness, a sim plicity and a composure that have not once been jarred. NO CHANGE IN OUR ATTITUDE General Porter's Reservation Fully Explained Officially. THE HAGUE. June 20. It is official ly stated that General Horace Porter's reservation yesterday covering the right of the United States to present the question of the limitation of arma ments does not mean 'that the Wash ington Government has definitely de cided to raise the subject. On the con trary, it is stated that it involves no change in the American attitude. The various delegations to the peace conference met today and selected members to be assigned to the four general committees created yesterday. The real work of the conference will be done in the committees. A month is expected to elapse before the next plenary sitting, as the plan is to have the committee work well advanced be fore another full conference. This was the procedure in 1899, when there was a period of 28 days between the ap pointment of the committees and the presentation of the first report. As in many instances, especially in the case of the smaller delegations, the same members will be assigned to two or more committees, it will be neces sary for the committees to assemble on different days. BRINGS SUIT FOR ACCOUNTING Member of Kanawha Syndicate Dis satisfied W ith Returns of Sale. ST. LOUIS. Mo., June 20. Suit was filed in the Circuit Court today by coun sel representing John S. Jones, petition ing the appointment of a receiver for the Little Kanawha syndicate. The petition asks for an accounting of the funds of the syndicate, an injunc tion to prevent George J. Gould. Joseph Ramsay, Jr., and William E. Guy, its or ganizers, from exercising any control In Its affairs. Mr. Jones, who is a member of the syn dicate, alleges Gould, Ramsey and Guy sold the assets for $3,500,000 and paid $5,500,000 to the subscribers. TRAIN BREAKS DOWN IN TUNNEL B. & O. Engine Disabled and Coaches Pile Up, Injuring Passengers. MITCHELL, rhd., June 20. East bound passenger train No. 12 on the Balltimore & Ohio Railroad was wrecked in a tunnel one-fourth of a mile east of here this morning. The drawbar of the engine broke and the coaches piled up on the tender. All left the track except the sleeper. A number of . passengers were injured more or less, but no one was killed. The injured were taken to Cincinnati. I WILL LEAD THE WHOLE WORLD Uncle Sam to Have Two Largest Battleships. WASHINGTON. June 20. The New port News Shipbuilding Company, with one bid at J3.9S7.000, and the Fore River Shipbuilding Company. of Quincy. Mass., with a bid at $4,377,000. were the successful bidders today for building two 20.000-ton battleships of the "Dreadnaught" type for the United States Navy. The design selected Insures the fact that the ship will carry as heavy armor and as powerful armament as any known vessel of this class; will have a epeed believed to be the highest practicable for a vessel of this type and class, and have the highest prac ticable readiness of action, with & Vtqtal coal bunker capacity of about 2300 tons; a speed trial of 21 knots: a length on the load waterline of about 510 feet, and an extreme breadth of about 85 feet. 2 Inches. The armament Is to be as follows: Main battery, 10 12-lnch breech-loading rifles. Secondary battery. 1 S-ineh rapid fire guns; four 3-pound saluting Buns; four 1-pounder semi-automatic guns; two 3-lnch field pieces: two machine guns, caliber 30; two submerged tor pedo tubes. The hulls of the vessels are to be protected by a waterline belt of armor eight feet in width, whose maximum thickness Is 11 Inches and whose crc-ss section is uniform throughout the length of the belt. This belt armor gives effective protection to the boilers, machinery and magazine spaces. The arrangement of the main bat tery is to. be suck as to permit a broadside fire 25 per cent greater than that of the broadside fire of any bat tleship built. The average elevation of the axis of these guns is expected to be greater than that of any known battleship, thus affording a distinct advantage in long-range firing under all conditions of weather. The arrangement of the Interior will be such as to give the maximum degree of protection to all vital por tions of the . ship by means of un usually effective compartmental sub divisions. The actual total weight of hull and armor in the proposed designs for the ships (k approximately 3000 tons greater than the largest battleship so far built. The design contemplates an arrangement for their installation of reciprocal or turbine machinery. The bidding brought together the largest company of shipbuilders and others Interested in naval construction that has been seen in the Navy De partment for many months. The bid ding was necessarily complex, the builders availing themselveB of the de partment's permission to submit all sorts of combinations and alternative plans. These Include straight bids upon the standard type with recip rocating engines, original bidders' de signs and combinations of the de partment's "hull plans with turbine en gine, some with and some without cruising turbines. The Newport News Company alone submitted no less than seven plans and they were generally the lowest at all points and with all combinations. Bids were also opened for supplying the armor needed for the two big bat tleships. For the armor, which is di vided into four classes, upon the basts of the difficulty of the shapes required, the Midvale Steel Company appeared to be the lowest bidder for the largest class, namely 7956 tons of class A at $410 per ton. For 962 tons of armor in class B, the Carnegie and Bethlehem companies each bid $400 per ton, while the Midvale bid was $410 For 392 tons of class C, the Carnegie and Beth lehem companies each bid $400 and the Midvale $410. For 1706 tons of class D armor, Bethlehem bid $400, Midvale $410 and Carnegie submitted no bid. FACES ALMOST CERTAIN ARREST Social Democrat Returns to Russia at Call of Party. ST. PETERSBURG, June 20. J. A. Alexlnsky, one of the Social Democratic leaders in the late lower house of Par liament, who attended the Londen con ference, has arrived here from Switzer land by way of Finland, in response to the call of his party, voluntarily facing almost certain arrest and long imprison ment. He crossed the frontier unnoticed and thus far has escaped the attention of the police. M. Alexlnsky plans to visit the factory districts, addressing secret meetings, and arousing the enthusiasm of the workmen, with whom he is Immensely popular, for a continuance .of the struggle with the government. He said that he fully ex pected to be arrested, but if he could keep out of the hands of the police even for a week, he would consider the sacrifice well repaid. Alexlnsky is an exponent of extreme measures, and his return has greatly strengthened the movement for a general strike, upon which the Social Democrats are still undecided. He holds that the government by arresting Social Demo cratic representatives has declared war upon the working classes and that it Is necessary to reply by any means at the disposal of the proletariat. DISQUALIFY ACCUSED SIGNERS Trials Put Off and Candidates May Not Be Voted For. ST. PETERSBURG. June 20. The trials of the signers of the Vlborg manifesto probably will not be finished before tho end of the Summer recess, the court thereby disqualifying the accused as can didates for election to the third Parlia ment, but aside from this their punish ment is not expected to be severe. It is reported that amnesty will be granted in most cases in the event of conviction. THE CHESTY SUMMER CAPITAL, In the Magazine Section of t he Sun day Oregonian MR. DOOLEY ON THEODORE ROOSEVELT, Taking as his topic the pro posal to make Roosevelt presir dent of Harvard University, the Irish philosopher makes some comparisons that set the coun try to laughing. HOMER DAVENPORT PLEADS FOR ANIMALS Second of the new series of cartoons lampooning the in eradicable desire of men to kill dumb creatures. ONLY SON OF THE CZAR OF RUSSIA Full page of illustrations in colors of the heir to the great throne. PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT'S FAVORITE EXERCISE Striking photographs of the President on horseback, and one especially attractive show-, ing him teaching Theodore, Jn., how to hurdle. BRIDES THE WHOLE WORLD OVER A beautiful illustrated page showing queer customs in for eign lands in contrast with our own. THE GENTLE GRAFTER, BY 0. HENRY In this sketch the great hu morist shows a phase of human nature we all know but oan't describe so charmingly. ONE DAY AT THE TOKIO EXPOSITION Annie Laura Miller tells how the Japanese make interesting exhibits of the every-day things of life. WHERE THE WOMEN WEAR TROUSERS Prank G. Carpenter writes of the strange apparel of girls in North Africa, some of whom wear golden nether garments. DR. FURNIVALL. PHYSICIAN-DETECTIVE A fascinating story of the strange sickness of Whitaker Ransom, with an unexpected de nouement. IN THE CHILDREN'S SUPPLEMENT Buster Brown and Tige, and Brownie Clown of Brownie Town, undoubtedly the best two pages of comic matter published in the United States. ORDER FROM YOUR NEWS DEALER TODAY The Minister of War has dispatched Lieutenant-General Palytsln, chief of the general staff to Kiev, with instruc tions to investigate the recent mutiny of sappers there. KENT TO JAIL AND FINED. Land Operators Sentenced for Fraud and Subornation, of Perjury. OMAHA, June 20. Thomas M. Hunt ington and Ami B Todd were sentenced today by Judge Munger In the United States District Court to pay a fine of $1000 each and to be Imprisoned In the Douglas County Jail for three months. Fred Hoyt was sentenced to pay a One of $1000 and to stand committed to the Douglas County Jail until the fine is paid. The sentences are the result of the conviction of the three men on an In dictment charging conspiracy to de fraud the United States out of posses sion and title to large tracts of land in Sheridan and Cherry Counties, this state, by means of false, fraudulent and fictitious entries and for subornation of perjury. . This constitutes the second or last group of defendants In the Richard and Comstoclc case. Boston Boxer Badly Hurt. NEW YORK ', June 20. Following a boxing bout in which he participated at the Longacre Club tonight. Gustave Len ny, of Boston, was removed to Bellevue Hospital, where it was said later that his condition was serious and that he may die. Edward Smith, his opponent, the referee, and the seconds were arrested. Northern Pacific Official Named. ST. PAUL, June 20. Announcement of the appointment of J. C. Roth as assistant superintendent of transporta tion was made at Northern Pacific headquarters here today. Mr. Roth's headquarters will be in Tacoma. From the Wtshtaffton 6tmr.