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THE MORNING OREGONIAN, MONDAY, OCTOBER 14, 1907. LY TO Idaho Senator Says Portland May Count on Him to Assist Project. HIS STATE INTERESTED Refuses to Discuss Land-Fraud Cases, but Talks National Poli tics Favors Roosevelt or Taft for President. W. E. Borah, United States Senator from Idaho, was In Portland yesterday on his way to San Francisco on legal business. Senator Borah refused to dis cuss the Idaho land-fraud cases at the Hotel Portland yesterday, but talked on politics and the affairs of his state, es pecially the agitation for the opening of the Columbia River, a project In which Idaho. Is deeply interested. Port land may count upon him for earnest support in the matter, he Hays. "How about politics in Idaho.' ' he was asked. "Well, we are naturally beginning to look around a bit to see whom the Pres idential lightning Is like to strike next ;.ear," he answered with a smile. "But then in this, Idaho is about like every other state. It is a little early yet .o even make a good guess who will be on the firing line when the battle of ballots begins. The Republican party is pecu liarly strong In Its available men for the Presidency Roosevelt, Taft, Hughes and others. I think there would be no doubt as to the nominee if It were not for the declaration of the President that he would not accept a third term. My opin ion Is he will not yield !n the position he has taken. "Some people seem to think the Presi dent says and docs things on impulse but my observation of the man leads me to believe that few men act with more deliberation and judgment. I do not look upon the declaration as to the third term matter as one made hurriedly and without due consideration, although I am one of those who wish he had never made it. Admires Secretary Taft. "I am a great admirer of Secretary Taft. I have no idea at this time what Idaho will do, but speaking for myself, I think Secretary Taft the most formid able candidate at this time. He is grow ing in favor very rapidly everywhere I have been. He has had a varied experi ence In administrative affairs. Is known to be In sympathy with the policies of the Administration, and has given proof of statecraft of the highest order. He . would make a great President. "The 'open river question,' he said, "Is one which Interests me more than almost any subject of concern to the Northwest. Every time I make the trip from BoIsa to Portland the subject freshens itself In my mind. We ought all to stand shoulder to shoulder on this and never rest day or night until the river Is an open highway to Lewlston at least. The bentlt to this whole North western Empire would simply be incal culable. "We will always stand with Portland on that matter. It is all right to talk about controlling railroad rates and to do what we can along lines pf adjusting tariffs, but to open this Vreat river to traffic Is to solve the transportation question in this part of the country, as It can be solved in no other possible way. what little I can do in Congress w1il be done, in season and out of season, to accomplish the opening of this river. Discusses Baker City Crime. "I am not sufficiently informed as to the facts of the awful affair at Baker to discuss it. I do not beliee any facts are at hand which would enable anyone to give an intelligent opinion as to the au thor or authors of the crime. It reems to me that it Is useless to say that the Western Federation of Miners did It until we have sufficient facts to show that we are Justified In making such a statement. It only aggravates a situ ation already strained and ugly enougb .to put this up to tn organization before there is any proof whatever as to who did It. I sincerely hope, however, that the mystery will be cleared up, and should It be found that the Western Fed eration of Miners had anything to do with It, It would present the most diffi cult problem society could be called on to deal with. It would indicate that re venge had been settled upon as a set-eu fpol Icy. "Oh no. there is no fear of any trouble in Idaho. Nobody's house is being watched that I know of. The Baker trouble ..as caused renewed discussion, and I presume more or less uneasiness that it might possibly mean trouble for others, but I don't think myself that there is any occasion for alarm in that direction. "I am simply passing through ..ortland to San Francisco to attend to some cases coming up In the United States Circuit Court of Appeals there." Senator Borah leaves for the Bay City tonight. TAKE FIGHT INTO COURTS Klsh to Adopt Extreme Measures to Get Control of Illinois Central. CHICAGO. Oct. 13 (Special.) Driven to despair by his Inability to arouse the stockholders of the Illinois Central Rail road to the danger which he says threat ens the property should Edward H. Har riman continue to dominate It. Stuyves ant Fish la preparing to make an ap peal to the courts. All of today he re mained closeted with his attorneys. P. L. Burnielster, of New York, and H. W. l.eman. of Chicago, preparing a petition, asking the courts to -enjoin any person or corporation from voting any stock in the coming annual meeting which may be showed to be owned or controlled by the Vnion Pacific Railroad. Cromwell Retained by Harrlman. In anticipation of this action William Nelson Cromwell, .formerly of the Pan ama Canal Commission and one of the most noted corporation lawyers In the country, is hastening, toward Chicago, where he will arrive tomorrow and where he will take charge of the Harrlman in terests. The preliminary papers are be ing drawn by the two attorneys now on the ground, but J. B. Dill, a no less noted corporation attorney than Mr. Cromwell, has been summoned from New York to take charge of the Fish Inter ests in the courts here. Unless there Is some change in the programme. It Is likely that court proceedings will be com menced Monday or Tuesday. w Show Evils of Harrlman Control. It Is understood to be Mr. Fish's pur pose to lay before the court all of the alleged evils which have come from Har rlman consolidation, or which may come. BOBAH FRIEND OPE REUER The action, it is said, will be brought under an Illinois statute which prohibits one corporation from owning stock in an other. The Harriman IawyerB declare that the Illinois Central, by reason of its special charter, would be exempt from the oper ation of this law. even If It were not a fact that railroad corporations are by im plication exempt from Its operation. It is understood that Mr. Fish hopes to ob tain a temporary injunction which will delay the annual meeting until the courts can pass upon the important questions involved. Fish to Fight to Finish. So far as the annual -meeting is con cerned. Mr. Fish's friends believe that he Is fighting a losing light. It is even stated that the court could enjoin the voting of the stock held by the Union Pacific, and even by Harrlman himself, and that even then the Harrlman inter ests would have a majority of the stock interest to vote in the meeting. When asked today if he was fighting his last tinht, Mr. Fish replied to a friehd that he would never fight his last light as long as there remained a vestige ofra hope to wrest the Illinois central from the Union Pacific and place it back in the hands of the people. JOKE MAY PROVE COSTLY INSPECTORS OX TRAIL OF CON GRESSMAN CtSHMAX. Gets Facetious "IVlien He Files on Timber Claim, Now Government . Wants the Facts. OREGONIAN NEWS BUREAU. Wash ington. Oct. IS. Congressman Cushman's tlmberland entry In Eastern Washington will probably be made the subject of in vestigation by a special agent of the General Land Office. This might not have been necessary save for the fact that the comical Congressman, in record ing his entry, inserted a few characteris tic phrases, and then announced that "while his entry was not speculative, he would sell the land if offered a good price for it." The one question that has given so much trouble with tlmberland entries in the past has been, whether or not the en tryman was making his entry for spec ulative purposes. And the General Land Office has had great trouble in defining a "speculative" entry. It is hard to draw the line between a speculative entry, which is prohibited by law. and an en try made legitimately for an Investment. Cushman has not yet acquired title to his quarter-section of timber, and be fore he gets title, the General Land Of fice wants to know whether he is pro ceeding according to law, or whether he has forfeited his right to title. The pre sumption is that Cushman knows the law and Is guided accordingly, but In spite of his "high-falutin' language, if he has an understanding with some In dividual that he will sell out at profit when he acquires title, his little invest ment may be knocked Into a cocked hat. Mr. Cushman has a perfect right to sell out after he acquires title, provided he does not make his bargain prior to the time title passes to him: but an agree ment to sell, either written or oral, if entered into prior to the time the land is patented, will defeat his entry. WAR DANGER BLOWS OVER Count Okuma Believes Immigration Question Will Be Settled. TOKIO, Oct. 13. Count Okuma, who in the first stages of Immigration troubles in America strongly disapproved of the government's pacific attitude, now prac tically admits that the radical utterances of both sides were largely prompted by politics. In an interview today Count Okuma said that Americans misunder stood the Japanese, who are astounded at the utterances of American news papers. Reports of the possibility of war, he said, have always emanated from the Tnited States and very naturally are copied by the newspapers of Japan. While lie believes that the Americans are over sensitive on the subject of Japanese Im migration, he holds the opinion that the whole discussion is largely due to the fact that the United States is to have a Presidential campaign next year. It is not likely that the immigration question will be Beriously discussed or even be come an issue in the coming session of the Diet. The Japanese government be lieves that the entire question will be solved by the present discouragement of immigration and the strict observance of the laws. Pegrees Conferred on Chinese. PEK1N, Oct. 13. The conferring of de grees by the Board of Education upon foreign-educated Chinese has just taken place, and again the graduates of Ameri can colleges have been awarded the honors In seven of the highest Chinese degrees granted. ' Of these, four went to the t'nivorsity of California and one to Leiand Stanford University. FIRE SWEEPS THE RANGES Eastern Montana Prairies Ablaze. 80 Square Miles Burned Over. ST. PAUL, Minn., Oct. 13. A special to the Pioneer Press from Great Falls. Mont., dated Saturday, says that a great prairie fire is sweeping the ."ranges in the eastern part of the state and that 80 square miles of choice grazing ground In the vicinity of Culbertson has already been burned over. THE DAY'S DEATH RECORD Calvin Slemp, Congressman. BIG STONE GAP, Va., Oct. 13. Calvin Slemp. member of Congress from the Ninth District of Virginia, died today of angina pectoris. He was the only Re publican member of the Virginia delega tion In Congress. Northwestern People In the East. CHICAGO. Oct. 13. (Special.) Portland people at Chicago hotels: H. Ingalls and wife, at the Palmer House: R. F. Cox and wife.- at the Audi torium Annex; L. Goodman, at the Great Northern. NEW YORxv. Oct. 13. (Special.) Northwestern people registered at New York hotels today as follows: rom Portland H. N. Hoslck. at the Manhattan: B. R. Smith, at the Nether land; I. W. Baird and wife, at the Ash land. From Seattle C. M. Maxwell, at the Imperial; H. H. r0ryell. G. K. Coryell, at the Grand. From Tacoma Mrs. G. Heller, at the Breslin. From Spokane R. Fray, at the Bel vedere.' Close Mexican Copper Mines. SALTILLO. Mexico. Oct. 13. The slump in copper has closed a large number of mines, not only in the southern portion of the Repuhlio but In this section as well. A number of large mines have re duced their output exactly one-half, while the smaller ones have closed down entirely. Mail Orders Promptly Attended to Satisfaction Guaranteed $2.50 Ladie$' Kimo nos at $1.19 Buy Dent's Gloves Monday Only, $1.39 The well-known Dent Gloves, single clasp excellent quality; unsurpassed for street and school wear. All sizes. Spe cial Monday $1.39 E Rev. W. G. Eliot, Jr., Tells of Unitarian Conference. HEARD NOTED SPEAKERS Minister of Ixical Church or Our Father ' Gives Interesting Ac count of Proceedings of Great Religious Convention. Rev. W. G. Eliot. Jr., minister of the Unitarian Church of Our Father, returned Saturday night from a four weeks' ab sence in the East, spending ten days in Boston, a day in New Haven, two days in New York, two days in Meadvllle, and two days in St. Ijouis. . In New York Mr. Eliot attended a meet ing of the Executive Committee of the Committee of One Hundred on National Health, and conferred with the secretary of the National Child Labor Committee upon some of the problems of Oregon. He also reports a delightful visit with Dr. Stephen S. Wise, who remembers all his Portland and Oregon friends with most cordial goodwill and interest." In Boston Mr. Eliot attended the meet ings of the National Conference of Uni tarian and other Christian churches and also the International Council cV Relig ious Liberals. In an interview last night regarding his trip EaBt, Mr. Eliot said: "Five or six thousand people crowded into the new Symphony Hall in Boston for the opening meeting of these con gresses Sunday night, September 52. Two thousand were unable to gain admittance for lack of room. The music was by the Handel-Haydn Society of Boston and was well adapted to the programme of ad dresses upon the themes 'Glory to God,' Peace on Earth,' 'Good Will to Men,' spoken on. respectively, by Rev. Thomas R. Dicer, Dr. Edward Everett Hale, and Dr. Booker T. Washington. "The meetings of the National Confer ence were held only on Monday and the programme - was arranged with particu lar reference to the interests and prob lems of the foreign delegates to the Inter national Council, all pertaining, therefore, to the development of religion under free institutions. These addresses were given by President Charles W. Eliot, of Har vard University, Rev. George A. Gordon, minister of the new Old South Congrega tional Church; Professor W. "W. Fenn, Professor F. A. Christie and M. P. Knowlton and by Rev. M. D. Shutter of the Universal Church. "The sessions of the International Council were held, as well as those of the National Conference, in Tremont Temple, except that one meeting of the former was held at Sanders' Theater, Harvard University, and one at the new Old South Congregational Church. The de partment meetings of the Council were held at various places King's Chapel. Old South Church, Pilgrjm Hall (Cpngre gational headquarters), new Old South Church and Second Unitarian Church. There were the departments of religious education, theological progress, new Americans, comity and fellowship, social and public service, women's work and press and publication. The meetings of the council proper were taken up with reports on the state of religion and in particular of liberal religion in the var ious nations represented. "Perhaps the most impressive utter ances of the entire week were those of Dr. Gordon on Monday, at the National Conference, and the address of l'Abbe Houston on Wednesday night. The latter Is one of the liberal Catholics now under papal Interdict. "A special train carried delegates to Plymouth, where special services and ad dresses were had in the Church of tne Pilgrim Fathers, whose organization is descended by unbroken lineage from the foundation in Scrooby, England. That afternoon the delegated stopped off an hour at Higham, where a meeting was held in the old ship church,' the oldest church in America that is at present used for church purposes. At A. M. every day of the conference and council, morn ing prayers were had in King's Chapel, the royal church of pre-revolutionary days, and communion service on Wed nesday, in which the address was deliver ed by Rev. Charles Gordon Ames, the service administered by Rev. Howard N. Brown, minister of King's Chapel, as sisted by the Governor of the state, by one of the Judges of the Supreme Court of the state and by others. On Tues day night Rev. John Hunter, of the Trinity Congregational Church, of Glas gow. Scotland, preached at Arlington street Church. "A general reception was held Monday night at Somerset Hotel and an over-flow reception at Unitarian headquarters. A banquet was hela at Hotel Somerset, pre sided over by Dr. Samuel McCord Croth ers, of Cambridge. "All these meetings, always crowded and most inspiring, mark a Btep for HUM 0 T0 SILVER! .Pine Ladies' Flannelette Kimonos, both full length, and three quarter length; lat est style; beautiful patterns and colors; nicely trimmed with satin bands to match. Regular values to $2.50. Monday only $1.19 safety and ward in bringing together those who are at once liberal and religious from all churches and all nations." CHILDREN AT WORK. Girls Reach Height of Their Power at 20 Tears. Susan M. Kingsbury in Charities and Cor rections. "Twenty-five thousand children between 14 and 16 years of age in the State of Massachusetts are not at school" was the statement In the caption of the charts made from the report of the commission for the industrial exhibit in Boston. To every one tfiat goes into an occupa tion which Is worth while more than four enter a cotton mill, or don a messeng-er suit, or wear a cash girl's uniform. They seldom receive over $5 before they are 17 and they reach the height of their power before they are 20, with an income possibly of $8 to $10. Were we to study for a few moments the wages of these Juvenile earners we should find that those who receive over $8 at 17 or 18 are very few in comparison with those who re ceive $5 to is. If such employments meant develop ment, and apprenticeship, no cause for consternation would exist, but the time Is past when one Is required to urge upon the public the evil effects of the Imma ture worker of mill life, or errand run ning, of messenger and the cash service. That the true apprenticeship in skilled In dustries for the child who has completed the grammar grades would not be better than the technical school training Is not so easily proved but that the low grade Industries are schools for vice and dis honesty rather than for virtue and honor, and for retrogression rather than for de velopment, needs no longer to argued. TEACHING YOUNG IDEAS Educator's Lot Shown to Be a Most Exhaustive One. Osslan H. Lang in the Forum. Teaching is exhaustive work. The comparison with the actor is apropos, only we have to think of an actor with a repertoire of about 200 plays, which plays are constantly being readjusted and improved. Thoughtful people and those who have tried their hand at amateur theatricals know full well that the stage appearance is not the sum total of the actor's work, though it is tho most trying ordeal of the day. The teacher has his daily prepa ration to make, he must take stock of each days results, he must by reflec tion and visits improve his understand ing of his individual pupils, he must rest to replenish his stores of vitality, and- must do many things besides to keep himself efficient, not to speak of chores imposed by the less exalted con siderations of keeping solid with the powers that control the Job. The lat ter point is- by no means a minor one. It places the teacher on a level with the average clergyman, whose labors for the kingdom of God must be cir cumscribed by thoughts of the good will of the trustees. He shares with the clergyman, too, the uncertainty of valuation which his critics, official and otherwise, may place upon his work. The opinions of the school principal, the superintendent, the trustees, of the parents, yes, and of the. children, form the usual standard of estimate. The only thing for the teacher to do under the circumstances is to be guided by the light of the best professional ex perience, and to cultivate tact in his dealings with everybody. This adds to the list of out-of-school duties, the reading of professional periodicals and books, as well as visits to other schools, conferences with other teachers, par ticipation in educational meetings. Demoralizing Old-Age Pensions. Municipal Gazette. Old-age pensions, granted indiscrim inately regardless of individual merit or individual responsibility would have a demoralizing effect. The country would thereby be loaded with an increased burden of taxation which could only end in disaster. What is it? In point of fact, it is the freedom from poisonous and spurious in--fjredients.the excellence in flavor, that gives to flavoring Extracts vanilla Lemon Orange Rose, it their wide popularity and increas ing sale. The retail grocers ara learning; that quality rather thaa price is necessary to retain the confidence of customers and make a successful business. Furs SILVERFIELD'S STYLES IN CORRECT FURS Are attracting so much notice that we are encouraged to believe them even more than usual in advance of most things now being shown. Our collection of DESIRABLE FURS in SCARFS and MUFFS is, without doubt, the finest to be found in the city, and at prices which prove anew that THE FACTORY IS THE PLACE TO BUY FURS Expert Repairing and Remodeling Out-of-town purchases can be made by our new catalogue with promptness. Mailed free for SEVEN INVOLUNTARY BATHS SEATTLE PEOPLE FALL IN SOUND; NO BAD RESULTS. One Man Unconscious After Being Tipped Out Four Boys Collide W ith W hale Man Breaks Rail. SEATTLE. Wash., Oct. 13. (Special.) Seven persons were thrown into the bay today by accidents, but only one was seriously affected by Lis experi ence. J. L. Frazer ras taken from the water unconscious after a rowboat turned -over In which he and F. A. Goodrich had been fishing. Four boys were trolling for salmon, when a whale that has been swim ming about this harbor several weeks suddenly arose near them and fright ened them so the boys tipped over their boat. They all got back into the boat safely. Two weeks ago the whale col lided with a launch and nearly cap sized the boat, and it has also inter fered with the West Seattle ferries. A man named Johnson fell from a launch today when a guardrail broke, and was pulled out of the water uninjure. BURNED TO CRISP; LIVES Colfax Man Receives Full Force of 6600 Volts From Trolley Wire. COLFAX, Wash., Oct 13. (Special.) Walter HI Shore, foreman of the Spo kane and Inland trolley construction crew, was burned to a crisp, at Blackwell sta tion at noon today. Shore and his men were engaged in stringing a trolley for the Blackwell switch and the loose cable came in contact with the charged main line trolley, and Shore, who was working on the trolley tower, handling the cable, got the full force of the 6600 volts which the trolley carries. He can not recover, his physician says. Causes Which Make Climate. Boston Herald. Professor Milne, the great British seismologist, has demonstrated that at least part of tho weather and changes in tne atmosphere's temperature seems to come from below instead of directly from the sun. He has been in the habit of leaving an Ingenious photo graphic arrangement in quarries at night. The photographic paper, when examined later, was found to be marked from time to time by dark bands, black spots and what are called singeiugs. Some of these markings oc curred at the time of earthquakes, but by no means all. Scientists say that most minerals become luminous at frequent intervals. The cliffs of Dover have been seen suddenly to gleam and hilltops become visible in the darkness. The conclusion is that the disturbing forces which go on even at the verv H. Largest and Best Selections in Portland of FURNITURE, CARPETS, RANGES, PRICES ALWAYS THE LOWEST FIELD' Exquisite Millinery Most critical dressers long ago decided that it is useless to pay $15 to $20 for hats which we offer at $7.50. OUR $7.50 MILLINERY represents the most popular and most desirable styles of the season, all the new effects in the extreme large shapes, medium and small hats. Nothing omitted in the way of new trimming. Convinc ingly worth $12 and $15. We offer them for Monday's sale ,$7.50 New Arrival of Ladies' and Misses' Sweaters We call attention to the popular Sweaters for ladies and misses just received. 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It is a different matter when the same overcrowding takes place in a city tenement where the mother stays all day long and whence the children go to an lll-ventllated schoolroom and the father to a dust-laden factory. Above all, overcrowding is objection able when it brings strangers into the close quarters of the little home. This Is the' chief evil of the custom of taking boarders Into the family. What over crowding sometimes means was once brought comically yet tragically to my understanding when I was looking for a boarding place In a Bohemian family In New York. I was shown by a slovenly woman into a typical dark bedroom, ut terly unventllated. In it was a dirty bed, still touselled and unmade in the late afternoon. "You won't mind sleeping with another lady, I suppose?" she said. I Imagine that I gasped a little. "Well, the bed is a great deal too big for one person." That seemed to me the most terrible standard of the fitness of things that I had ever met. A big bed necessarily too much room for one person to occupy in the world! Compared to that New York point of view, bare feet, meat only on holidays, no chimney, almost any priva tion, struck me -as a high grade of civili zation. Southland's Thirst Quenchers. Baltimore Dispatc... Today there are fewer salons in the 13 Southern States than in Greater New York, and only a few more than in the City of Chicago. In New York there are 30.000 places where liquor is sold, in Chicago 28.000, and in the entire South only 29.000. In New York State the estimated population in 1906 was 8.160.000, and the Government is sued in the state that year 34.080 "special-tax stamps" to persons desiring to engage in the manufacture and sale of liquor. The 13 Southern States, with 23,500,000 people, secured in 1906 less than 30,000 stamps. Invents a Straw Clock. London Telegraph. An extraordinary addition has been made to the exhibition of inventions now being held in Berlin. 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