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About Morning Oregonian. (Portland, Or.) 1861-1937 | View Entire Issue (Aug. 23, 1907)
WE Mir AT -LI In order to raise ABSOLUT Doors Open at 8 A. M. This Morning TEN HOURS OF FURIOUS SELLING Every line included, every counter, every shelf, every table, every case, bin and department is embraced in the wholesale, merciless slaughter. Men's and Women's Suits and Garments, Dress Goods, Silks and Linings, Laces, Embroideries, Ribbonsr Notions, Toilet and Drug Sundries, Men's Furnishings, Underwear, Hosiery, and Women's Furnishings. Crockery and Glassware, Shoes and Millinery-in short, EVERYTHING, EVERYWHERE in the store, one solid city block of new o A TT TT "irmwirS and standard merchandise for today, FRIDAY ONLY at ........ . . . ... . . . . . Jhi.JLih - IPKllClK GLOOMY VISION SEEN BY ATOLL Awful Consequences of Stand ard Oil Fine. Predicted by Congressman. POPULISM IS RAMPANT riutocratlc. Statesman Terrified at Prospect of Centralized Govern ment He Gives lloosevelt a Few Adjectives Indirectly. MARSHK1ELD, Mass., Aug. 22. So called extension of the executive au thority was strongly deprecated in an address delivered by Congressman Samuel McCall this afternoon at the Marshfleld Fair Grounds. Referring to recent Governmental prosecutions, he said the tine of the Standard Oil Com pany for the offense of accepting dis criminating; rate was probably not greatly exceeded by all other fines im posed by the Federal Courts since the establishment of the Government. Mr. McCall asked why old laws were enforced rather than new ones de manded, and pointed out that at the time when Congress was asked to con fer upon an executive department pow er to flx a rate, there then reposed upon the statute bookB the very act against rebates and discriminations whereunder this $30,000,000 fine was imposed. lie Fears Central Power. "The practice in the Government," said Mr. McCall, "of expending the maximum amount of noise and disturb ance to secure the "minimum of good may be diverting, but it is costly. I believe the Populistic agitation started by the rate bill, far more than the legislation which resulted therefrom, has financially and industrially injured the country. If a similar public senti ment had been created 6S years ago, many of our great commonwealth would today be unsettled areas. "The effect of the rate bill will be to augment the executive power be yond all rational limits. The tendency of the times appears to be to central ize all power at Washington, and then have It all exercised by one man. I say let the people keep all governmental powers not necessary to the preserva tion of the unity and safety. Vision of Possible Terror. Tou are liable some day to have a President who is egotistic, impulsive, of immature judgment a limelight glutton for momentary applause. If he is autocratic, such for the time will your country be. Instead of a truly mighty Nation, you may have a strut ting, confiscating, shrieking, meddling America. Adhere then to the repre sentative government of the fathers, the only kind which, from the founda tion of the' world, cherished human freedom." Thomas TV. Laweon, president of the THE OREGON TRUST 5 a large .amount at Divide the marked price on any article in the house square in two, pay us HALF and take the goods Fair Association, and General Bartlett, Democratic candidate for Governor, also spoke. IXSAXE MAX SCARES CITIZEXS Resists Arrest Strenuously Found to Be Drug Fiend. VANCOUVER, Wash., Aug. 22. (Spe cial.) Citizens of Fourth Plain, a few miles east of here, were given a sensation last evening by a man who appeared to be either drunk or violently insane. The man was hardly able to talk but he would stop at a house make threatening gestures and emit unintelligible sounds in a hoarse gutteral voice and after creating consider able of a scare, would leave only to ap pear a little later at another house in the neighborhood and go through the same performance. About 8 o'clock the man disappeared. No one knows where he spent the night but this morning he came again. Upon his reappearance Mr. Stonehou.se, whom he had favored with a visit the night before, telephoned to the Sheriff . and Deputy Sheriff George Johnson was sent for him. He refused to go with the deputy and it was only after consider able struggle that he was finally put into the rig. Then he had to be strapped to the seat while being brought to the Jail here. After an investigation the Sheriff finds that the man is William Bailey, formerly of Portland, that he is addicted to the drug habit and it is probably the drugs or the lack of them that caused his In sanity. Two years ago he was captured in this county in one of these spells of insanity. After spending six months in the County Jail he appeared to be rational and was discharged. ALL EXPKCTED TO TURX OUT AIl-Benton School Fair Begins Xext Week. CORVALLIS. Or., Aug. 22. (Special.) It is estimated that nine-tenths of the people of Benton County will visit Cor vallis the last three days of next week. The occasion is the All-Benton School Fair, and another estimate is that nine tenths of the school pupils of the county will be in the parade for review by Gov ernor Chamberlain." It is also expected that Senator Fulton will occupy a place on the reviewing aand. Both are to make addresses during the fair, as will also Superintendent J. H. Ackerman, Presi dent Kerr and others.. The exhibits of agricultural products, sewing, cooking, canned fruits. vege tables, drawing and other school work will be at the County Courthouse. One hundred American flags, 6 by 10 feet, are among the decorations. An electric light illumination, with red. white and blue effects, extending along Main street and to and including the Courthouse and park, will be another feature. A balloon ascension, with parachute jump, takes place on the first two of the three days of the fair, which begins August 29. A city of tents, with Corvams mountain water and fuel free to the farmers camped there, is one of the features. Cholera Outbreak In China. BERLIN, Aug. 22. A. Shanghai special says that there is a cholera outbreak in China, and several Europeans have succumbed thereto. Preventive measures have been adopted in the foreign quarter. Several Chinese and Japanese towns are affected but a spread through ocean steamers is regarded as improbable. Prepare for Federation Meet. NORFOLK. Aug. 22. The executive council of the American Federation of Labor .has arrived and is completing ar rangements for the annual session of the Federation, in November 1J. THE MOK XING OREGONIAN, FRIDAY, AUGUST 23, 1907. HAVE once in twenty-four hours we shall sacrifice our-entire: and offer today and TODAY ONLY ELY EVERYTHING IN THE HOUSE THIRD AND YAMHILL STREETS THE ENTIRE BLOCK ON YAMHILL, THIRD STREET THRU TO SECOND THIRD AND YAMHILL STREETS IN THE CAMP New York Leaders Fight Over Hughes and Taft. MOVE TO INDORSE OHIOAN Woodruff and Parsons Lead In Sup porting Big Secretary, but Page Will Revive Resolution In Favor of Governor. NEW YORK, Aug. IS. The Times to day says: Trouble is already brewing in the Re publican State Committee over the re ported promise of Chairman Woodruff and County Chairman Herbert Parsons to deliver a Taft delegation from this state at the National Convention. There are indications that the meeting of the committee on September 26 will be even stormier than was the last meeting, at which Governor Odell introduced his fa mous Hughes resolution. The outcome Is regarded as very uncertain. It was ascertained yesterday that State Senator Page is at war with the two leaders who have pledged their support to the President's candidate, and that he is already busy striving with some of the members of the committee. He proposes at the meeting in question that a motion shall be made to take the Odell resolu tion indorsing Governor Hughes off the table. He hopes, between now and the date of the meeting, to win over a suf ficient number of the committeemen to insure a fight on the resolution, and, with the aid of the Odell contingent, to pass it. despite the opposition of Woodruff, Parsons and their adherents. Hughes and Roosevelt at War. In some quarters the activity of Sena tor Page is taken as a hint that there is to be war between Mr. Hughes and President Roosevelt over the New York machine. The Governor's friends assert that it is not that he is seeking the Presidential nomination himself, but that he would prefer to see the delegation from this state to the convention repre sent the wishes of the people of the state rather than the dictates of a boss. Mr. Woodruff is in for a lot of trouble at the committee meeting, no matter whether Mr. Page succeeds in his en deavor or not. The Odell resolution in favor of Mr. Hughes is certain to oe an issue, and the activities of the Senator, who represented, the Governor at the State Convention last year, even if un successful in the main, are sure to result in the resolution receiving stronger sup port than it obtained at the last meeting. It is practically certain, therefore, that Mr. Woodruff and probably Mr. Parsons as well will be put in a position in which they will have to declare themselves either pro-Hughes or anti-Hughes, which Is precisely what neither wants to do. Odell Overjoyed at Fight. The Odell faction is Jubilant over the outlook. Messrs. Woodruff and Parsons have already been sufficiently embar rassed bv thA lnplr nf nnlrnnaffa fr ma- Chine men that has marked the Hughes administration, and tne popularity of Mr. Woodruff, at least. Is said to have greatly diminished. It is with arrest difficulty I in AND SAVINGS BANK CLOSED MAN yis11 g, - that the state chairman is holding the little power that is left to him. The Odell men hope at the committee meet ing to deprive him of pretty much all of tnat power and then go anead and recon struct the machine, with Odell or an Odell man running things. Mr. Woodruff, at Nantucket, has spent a week with William Barnes. Jr., leader of Albany County, following the confer ence which both men had with the Presi dent last Monday. They have been dis cussing the non-partisan ticket plan for the Court of Appeals Judgeship nominees this Fall, and the preliminary work of obtaining a Taft delegation from this state. It is said that Mr.. Barnes is to see to It that Albany and Erie Counties are in line. Mr. Woodruff will deliver Kings and Queens, Mr. Parsons is to be held responsible for Manhattan. Nas sau, the President's own county, will look after itself.- With these counties safe, the President, Woodruff and Barnes expect to enforce the unit rule and make the state dele gation solid. Knowing tnis, both Senator Page and the Odell men will proceed to attack the Woodruff -Parsons-Barnes forces in the sections referred to. JOURNEY WITHOUT RESULT R. Ij. St'CORMICK'S VISIT TO HILI; IS FRUITLESS. Great Northern Magnate Says It Is Useless to Argue Against Any Increase of Rates. TACOMA. Wash., Aug. 22. (Specials Information has been received from St. Paul that R. L. McCormlck. of Tacoma, of the Weyerhaeuser Timber Company, Is there for the purpose of placing before the railroads his views and those of other Coast lumbermen on the new rate sched ule. " Mr. McCormlck has had an Interview with James J. Hill and conflicts with the Great Northern magnate on the proposition. Mr. McCormlck made a de cidedly vigorous statement outlining the side of the controversy opposed to the proposition of the railroads with refer ence to the Tates on lumber. It is said that Mr. Hill gave Mr. Mc Cormlck to understand that it was use less to argue the proposition, that the railroads had determined upon their line of action and would not swerve from it. THE DAY'S DEATH RECORD Daughter of Senator Xevclands. BERLIN, Aug. 22. Frances von Bredow, a daughter of Senator Newlands. of Ne vada and wife of Lieutenant Leopold von Bredow, of the Cuirassiers Guard, former ly an attache of the German Embassy at Washington, died yesterday after a short illness. The funeral will be at Von Bre dow's Berlin residence tomorrow and bur ial will take' place Saturday at Von Bre dow's family seat. - Peace Delegates Assemble. MYSTIC, Aug.. 22. Delegates from 23 states, and one each from England, Cuba, Japan and Mexico were present at the opening pf the 41st annual conference of the Universal Peace Association. Th Government Bureau of Plant Imlus- try finds that ground gran ltf makes exc.l- lent zeruuzer. STRAUS IN A HOLE Secretary Must Pay or Remit pine on Steamer. MAKES SKIPPERS LAUGH Induced Steamer Captain to Violate Law to Save Time In Coming From Honolulu Collector Stratton Smiles. SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 22. (Special.) Customs Collector Stratton fined the steamer Asia $1000 yesterday, for violat ing the coastwise passenger traffic law, and his action has raised the curtain on a humorous official pantomime- In which Os car Straus. President Roosevelt's aid, and head of the department which rules, the ways of ships, is seen in the role of a Cabinet officer who has broken the law earnestly cogitating the dilemma whether to remit the fine or 'assume the punish ment and pay it. He will have to do one or the other, for he caused the vessel to break the law. but the wily captain de manded and obtained a cash deposit, and if the Secretary does not remit the fine J1000 on the Straus expense account will find its way to Uncle Sam's Treasury via the San Francisco Custom-House. Mf. Stratton fined the Asia for bringing the Straus family from Honolulu here. One of the marine statutes prohibits a foreign vessel carrying passengers from one American port to another. Mr. Strat ton smiled broadly when he assessed the fine, which is J300 each fr the Secretary, Mrs. Straus, their son. Private Secretary Wood and a traveling companion. He pointed out the section which provides that the fine may be remitted by the Sec retary of Commerce and Labor, if he thinks the offense unintentional. "It's up to Straus," said the Collector when the ship's agents asked about miti gating circumstances. "Yes, it's up to Straus." remarked the Asia's captain. "We've got his thousand. If he does not remit it. why, we will pay with his money." And a foehorn nur reverberated through the Custom-House corridors. Mr. Straus was anxious to s-et hrm The Asia was the earliest boat over and ne iook n. despite the law which his own department administers. He rjut nn ih $10110 to Indemnify the ship's company. hiiu usiom-nouse omciais are wonder ing whether he will indemnify himself by remitting the fine. MOORS' RECKLESS DARING Charge Right to French Camp, Where Shrapnel Withers Them. CAR A BLANCA, Aug. 22. Twelve Frenchmen were wounded during the fighting of yesterday morning. They include Captain Detulles, of the For eign Legion. A battery of 75 millimeter-guns was disembarked from a transport and used shrapnel with tre mendous effect upon the enemy. The Arabs again showed reckless courage. They would ride close up to to the French camp, dismount and fire persistently until dispersed by the shell fire from the cruiser Gloire. The cruiser Gueydon has bombarded MMFMATnI Y stock of merchandise for one-day, if .V . Hsu the port of Fidallah, to the north of Caea Blanco. The smugglers of arms had their headquarters at Fidallah. Will Send Drude More Troops PARIS, Aug. 22. It is officially an nounced that General Drude will shortly have 5000 men to insure the protection of Casa Blanca, with further reinforcements ready to embark for Morocco. The government reiterates its firmness of carrying out its proposed plan, which is not one of conquest. French Shells Slaughter Moors. PARIS, Aug. 22. Admiral Philbert. com manding the French squadron at Casa Blanca, reports disturbance ashore and afloat and that he shelled the advancing Moors yesterday with deadly effect. The situation olsewhere Is unchanged. The re port that the Sultan's brother has been proclaimed Sultan Is still unconfirmed of ficially. INSISTS OX CIIAXGE ROOMS Wlngrield, . Biggest Goldflcld Oper ator, Wars n Federation. SAN FRANCISCO. Aug. 22. If the threat that has Just been made by George Wingfield, one of the big operators in the Goldfield - Tonopah mining district, is made good, the Western Federation of Miners will have all the fight it desires in the new Nevada mining fields. Wingfield declares that unless the mem bers of the Western Federation keep to their agreement recently made and per mit the installation of "change rooms" on the Consolidated and Rep Top proper ties, he will build a stockade around the workings, import non-union miners to work his claims and fight the Moyer Haywood organization to a finish. Pespite the agreement signed at the conclusion of the recent strike in the Nevada ' fields, that "change rooms" would be permitted, the miners struck again yesterday when the new regulation, which requires the men to strip off their mining clothes and walk in their under wear through a guard line to another For Friday and Saturday at Lennon's Great Glove Bargains Just received, another large shipment of those Long Kid Gloves which were snapped up so eagerly by I ortland ladies. Elbow length, real kid, with. clasps; reg. $3.50 quality, pair. 26-button length, real kid, with clasps, reg. $4 quality, pair. . . . These gloves are undoubtedly the greatest glove value ever offered in Portland. 16-button length, silk-finished Milau- QC est lisle, reg. $2 value, pair 7uC Elbow length, black silk Glove Extensions. ,to be worn with short silk gloves, $1.23 value; to close out at, pair... Umbrellas Repaired and Re-covered Opposite Postoffice 3 100-100 Extra Salespeople WRAPPERS, CASHIERS AND DELIVERY BOYS Wanted Apply Early to the Superintendent room, where they don their street clothes, was put into effect. The present strike involves only about 200 men, but It promises to spread, and the situation is considered critical. The purpose of the establishment of change rooms is. of course, to make it Impossible for miners to carry gold secretly from the workings. Preventing this has al ways been one of the serious problems for mine-owners in the great gold districts. APPEALS FOR PROTECTION Western Union Superintendent Says' Operators Forced to Quit. JACKSON, Miss., Aug. 22. The superin tendent of the Western Union this after noon appealed to Governor Vardaman to protect the telegraph offices at Holly Springs, Grenada and Greenwood, stating that the operators were forced to quit and that the manager at Greenwood was threatened with indignities. The Governor directed the superintendent to appeal to the courts and If they were unable to enforce the law, he would take special measures of protection. Is Your Need in This List? Men's and women's garments, dress goods and silks, corsets, em broideries, laces, gloves and rib bons, notions, stationery, toilet and drug snndres, jewelry and leather goods, millinery, men's! furnishings, underwear and ho siery, undermuslins, domestics, ; women's furnishings, carpets, ; rugs, curtains and draperies, '. crockery and glassware, shoes and a thousand other needs for the i home and personal wear. Every thing in the house today for one half price at the Golden Eagle, ; Third and Yamhill streets. $2.30 .$2.85 48c 309 MORRISON ST. r