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TITE MORNING OREGON! AN, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 7, 1908.
PLEADS GUILTY TO
HORSE STEALING
J. F. Hawkes Is Sentenced to
Serve One to Ten Years
in State's Prison.
MUST PAY COSTS TO STATE
First Denies Charge, but Changes
Plea After Kleven Jurors Have
Hecn Chosen Said to Be
Worth $60,000.
J. F. Hawkes pleaded guilty in Judse
Gantcnbein's department of the Circuit
Court yesterday afternoon to horse-stealing
and was sentenced to an Indetermin
ate period in the State Penitentiary
of from one to ten years. He was
also adjudged to pay the costs of
t lie suit to the state. Hawkes did not
plead guilty until he was in the midst of
the trial, 11 jurors having been sworn in.
Then he announced through his attorney
that he would plead guilty and throw
himself on the mercy of the court.
As Attorney Waldemar Seton pleaded
with the court that mercy be shown the
defendant, the weazened and gray-headed
little man of 65, who had sat apart all
the morning watching the court proceed
ings, broke down and wept like a child.
Groat surprise was manifested when
Deputy District Attorney Haney said the
man was possessed of a comfortable $60,
(100, for his appearance did not indicate
It. Mr. Haney said that, notwithstanding
the age of the thief, he should be sen
tenced to a term which would, in part at
lcaft. pay for the damage he had done.
Although Hawkes has been implicated
in at least a dozen horse thefts, the spe
cific charge upon which he was being
tried was that of stealing an 11-year. tf'd
bay horse from A. F. Johnson, a Gnesh
ain farmer, on September 8 last. Deputy
Sheriff Leonard recently located the ani
mal near Holbrook, where Hawkes was
using It in getting out wood.
STILL FIGHTING VO RBCILDIXG
P. A. Marquam 'Pries to Prove Trus
tee Violated Its Trust.
An effort on the part of P. A. Mar
quam to prove by officials of the defunct
Title Guarantee & Trust Company that it
violated its trust relation when it tiled
suit against him to foreclose the mort
gage on the Marquam building has re
sulted in the attorney for J. Thorburn
Ross obtaining from Judge Cleland, of
the Circuit Court, a temporary injunction
restraining Marquam's attorneys from
taking the depositions of Ross, William
M. Ladd. George H. Hill, T. T. Burk
hart, IS. B. Seabrook, W. A. Munly. W.
M. Gregory and E. C. Mears until next
week.
Marquam's attorneys are now. working
on the belief that the defunct bank
should have guarded Marquam's interest
if possible. It Is contended, however,
that Instead of doing so, it urged the
United States Mortgage & Trust Com
pany, the holder of the mortgage, to
foreclose. That the attorneys' fees were
paid by the Title bank and not by the
mortgage company is the belief of Mar
quam's attorneys, but attorneys for the
bank have asked that the Injunction pre
venting the taking of depositions be made
permanent. It is said that as Ross, Ladd
and Hill testified when the case was on
trial, nothing more can be gained by
questioning them, that the information,
of Attorneys Seabrook. Munly and Greg
ory Is privileged, so they should not be
questioned, and that all the parties live
in Portland and can be subpenaed to ap
pear before the Circuit Court at any time.
The petition for injunction also recites
that as the suit has been tried, the only
question that can now arise is one in
regard to errors of law.
BAIi GRIEVANCE COMMITTEE
Charges Against Lawyers Soon to Be
Considered.
A meeting of the grievance committee
of the Oregon State Bar Association is
to be called within the next two weeks,
at which time the charges of unprofes
sional conduct on the part of Attorney
J. H. Hitchings, beginning four years
ago, and including his alleged attempt to
bribe Captain of Police Patrick Bruin,
will be investigated.
There are several other cases in which
attorneys are alleged to have been guilty
of unprofessional conduct. It Is probable
that these will also come up for investi
gation. The members of the grievance
committee are L. A. MeNary, A. F.
Flegel, Frank S. Grant, Martin E. Pogue"
of Salem, and J. B. Beach.
The cases of disbarment against John
P. 'Watts and Marlon R. Biggs have been
on appeal to the State Supreme Court
for some time, but a date has not yet
been set for hearing.
Norma Rowlee Given Her Baby.
Norma Rowlee was given permanent
custody of 3-year-old William Dudley
Tomlin by Judge Gantenbein of the Ju
venile court yesterday, as it appeared to
Him from the reports of responsible par
ties that the child has received good care
during the last two months. The tem
porary custody of the child, over whose
parentage so much legal fed tape was un
bound about six months ago. was given
temporarily to Mrs. Rowlee In December
after it had been In charge of the Boys'
and Girls' Aid Society for several months
fr.orma Rowlee. with Essie Watkins and
Dorothy Darlington, served a term in the
county jail after pleading guilty to con
tributing to the delinquency of a 17-ycar-old
girl.
Mrs. Sheen Sues for Divorce.
Mary A. Sheen has filed a suit for di
vorce In the Circuit Court against John
H. Sheen. She alleges cruelty caused by
drunkenness. She says' that he left her
without .money or food last April, and
returned in July, promising to do better
but that he soon returned to his old
habits. He is alleged to be earning a sal
ary of $100 a month, and as the January
household .bills amounting to $41 have not
yet been paid. Mrs. Sheen asks $50 a
month until the suit is decided $35 a
month alimony thereafter; and $100 suit
money. She says his treatment has ren
dered her feeble and unable to do heavy
work.
Holmau Files Amended Complaint.
Guy K. Holman has filed an amended
complaint in the Circuit Court against the
Oregon Railroad & Navigation Company,
the Chicago & Northwestern Railway
Company and the Lake Shore & Michigan
Southern Railway Company, in which he
seeks to recover $1152.tw damages on ac
count of the loss of an automobile belong
ing to Rudolph Becker, Jr. The gas cart
In question was shipped to Detroit. Mich.,
during fair time In 1905, for repairs. It is
alleged in the amended complaint that
Becker Intended to use the machine in
hauling passengers at that time, but after
repeated attempts to have the railroad
companies deliver it at Detroit Becker
finally asked them to reimburse him for
the maclnne, which they refused to do.
Court Notes'.
Nels Miller has been lodged in the
County Jail, and his sanity will be in
quired into today. The complaining wit
ness against him is Peter Bue, who lives
at o4o .Hood street.
Letters of administration on the estate
of her husband, Jasper R. Miller, are
being sought by Laura E. Miller, who
has filed her petition with the County
court. 'the property consists of $S91,
deposited with a .Portland bank.
Because It Is alleged that the firm of
i oungferdorf & Son failed to pay T. C.
Thronson for the tinning and galvanized
iron worn on the new St. John City Hall
lnronson has brought suit against his
employers In the Circuit Court to recover
$915.
Roy Sommers will be tried February 17
on a charge of larceny. He pleaded not
gumy before Judge Cleland yesterday,
J. P. Sivener also pleaded not guilty,
and the case will be tried March 12. He
is accused of having obtained money un-
aer laise pretenses.
The, Portland Machinery Company
nas inea suit against the American Tool
Works to recover alleged to be owing
J. F. Hawkes, Who Headed Guilty
to Horsestealing.
on a steam hammer delivered in Novem
ber last. It is said the defendants agreed
to make full payment in the amount of
$1265 within SO clays, but that they have
tailed to do so.
Objections to the claim of A. L. Byler
against the assignee of the Golden Eagle
store for $044 will be heard today. Byler
was employed at the store and asks to
receive $100 of the $644 salary as a pre
ferred claim, and the balance of the
amount in common with the other cred
itors of the bankrupt store.
Dan Malarkey and John F. Logan,
counsel for S. E. Evans, have petitioned
the Circuit Court .that a writ of de lu
natico inquirendo be Issued by the court,
ordering a jury of six or more, or two
responsible physicians, to inquire into his
sanity. Evans is said to have insane re
ligious delusions, and to be actuated by
fake spiritualistic mediums.
The Title Guarantee & Trust Company
has been made a party to the suit of E.
L. Woodard against Kate E. Burney, to
recover $1DOO, and 8 per cent Interest from
January, 1907, and $200 attorneys' fees, by
forecloslug a mortgage for this amount.
The mortgage was made In Woodard's
favor. It Is alleged, January 16, 1906, but
has not been paid. The property in ques
tion is lot 9, block 1, Fulton Park. It is
said ' that the defunct bank has an in
terest in it by reason of a second mort
gage, dated in April, 1906.
TWO OF GANG THAT HELD UP
HILLSDALE POSTMASTER.
Third of Party and Alleged Leader
Said to Be at AVoodburn The
Story of the Crime.
Earl Hanke and Merle West, who have
confessed to Sheriff Stevens that they
were members of a gang of robbers who
held up W. Merser, storekeeper and post
master at Hillsdale, last Monday night,
and made away with between $90 and
$100, have been lodged in the County Jail.
The leader of the gang of three is said
to be Dal Haywood. He was said yester
day to be at Woodburn, and Deputy
United States Marshal Terry is hot on
his trail. Both Hanke and West are less
than 21 years. Each member of the trio
has been in trouble before, Haywood hav
ing served a term at Kelly Butte and
Hanke and West having formerly been
inmates of the State Reform School.
Sheriff Stevens and Deputy Harry Bul
ger caught Hanke at his home in Laurel
wood Wednesday night, but having
nothing on which to base their theory
that he was one of the robbers, they sat
up with him far three hours, until he
finally confessed and gave a description
of West. Then the Sheriff and his deputy
went into the pouring rain and caught
West at First and Madison streets early
yesterday morning, just as he was pre
paring to leave Portland.
Earl Hanke, the prisoner who was
first caught, went into the Hillsdale
store and bought some tobacco. Post
master Merser was waiting on the cus
tomer, when Haywood and West entered
and ordered the two to throw up their
hands. Speaking of the experience. Mr.
Merser said he brushed West's rusty re
volver away as he held it in his face,
and told him to take it away.
"You talk as If you knew me," "West
said, to which Merser replied, 'as he
jerked off the robber's mask, "Yes. I
know you, and I'll know you the next
time I see you, too."
The weapon was borrowed from a
neighbor, who said it was so rusty It
wouldn't shoot. West is said to have
told him it was good enough for his pur
pose, that ,he only wanted it for about a
week.
While West was standing guard with
his borrowed weapon. Haywood went
through Merser's pockets and the grocery
till. Then he started for the postofflce
and wanted to know If he had better
steal any stamps. West thought he had
better leave them alone, and he failed to
notice the till of the postofflce money,
which was pushed far under the counter.
Hanke followed soon after the robbers
left the store, and appeared very nervous.
He overtook them a mile from Hillsdale,
but when the spoils were divided he only
received $20, while West obtained $23 and
Haywood kept the balance.
Fifteen dollars of the spoils were recov
ered from Hanke, who said he had spent
$5. West only had $4, saying he had spent
the other $25 in a two-nights' debauchery
in the North End. . '
When Hanke arrived home at Laurel
wood, he told his parents that he had
just been held up by two masked men and
robbed of $8 and his hat and that the
same fellows held him up at Hillsdale.
Suspicion -was aroused when the Sheriff
found his hat hidden in the brush near
his home. The Federal authorities will
doubtless take action against the men,
now that their confession has been secured.
fIG IN FORGE
Trainload of Sacramento, Cai.,
Boosters Will Be Here.
TO ATTEND ROSE FESTIVAL
Local Committee Issues Call for All
Residents to Donate AH the Rose
Bushes They Can Spare
for Planting Day.
That the exploitation work of the
Portland delegates to the recent con
vention of the Pacific Coast Admen
held at Oakland, Cal., has borne fruit
is indicated by the fact that the for
mer president of the organization, R.
M. Hall, of this city, and Present Sec
retary Bury L Dasent, who is also sec
retary of the Portland Rose Festival
Association, have received information
to the effect that the Sacramento Val
ley Developmetn Association, one of
the greatest boosting organizations of
the Southern State, Intends to come
here by special train 150 strong.
It was the fine speech of Secretary
Dasent that carried the day down at
Oakland, about two weeks ago, and
landed the next convention for Port
land during the June Festival, and
the widespread distribution of Festi
val literature among the Californlans
did the rest.
Touching upon the plans of the Cal
ifornlans to come here in force during
the Festival, the following commun
action, which has been received by
Messrs. Hall and Dasent, explains it
self. The letter Is -written by Mose
Cohn, head of the Sacramento Valley
Development Association and reads as
follows: .
Will Run Excursion.
Blnce fretting back to Sacramento from Oak
land, I have taken up the matter of having a
respectable sized delegation go from this city
to Portland during the rose carnival. The
matter was brought up at the last meeting of
the bacr&mento Ad Club and we were in
formed that the Sacramento Valley Develop
ment Association would like to co-operate
with us In running- an excursion train direct
from Sacramento to Portland. In order to get
thia matter properly before the rig-htl parties.
I wish you would kindly send me any litera
ture that you may have bearing on the Rose
Carnival.
We would like to take at least 150 people to
Portland and I am going to try my best to
do so.
Thanking you In advance for anything
that you may send In the way of boosting
this proposition, I am very truly yours.
MOSE COHN.
Advertising Manager.
Call for Rose Bushes.
Chairman Dr. Emmet Drake, of
the special committee which has
charge of the "rose-planting" feature
of the Festival plans, yesterday issued
a call for all residents of the city to
donate as many rose bushes as they
uouia spare ior use on that occasion,
and to notify him as to the number
of bushes, the variety and where
they could be obtained on the morn
ing of Washington's birthday, the day
the roses are to be set out in the three
Plaza blocks designated for that pur
pose by the Board of Park Commis
sioners. A majority of the 5000 sets
needed have already been promised,
but more than 1000 more will be re
quired in order to fill out the space
in the allotted blocks.
That the occasion may be made one
of general observance throughout the
city, the School Board is to be ap
pealed to for the purpose of interest
ing the pupils in the public schools,
that they may assist in gathering the
rose bushes and take some part in
the exercises of the day. Dr. Drake's
special committee will work jointly
with the Park Board and with the
executive committee of the Festival
Association in making "rose-planting
day" one of the most conspicuous
events in the history of Portland, par
ticularly as showing the incompara
ble climatic conditions here which en
able this city to hold a rose planting
day in midwinter.
Manager John Hartog, of the Eu
gene Commercial Club, held a confer
ence yesterday with the Festival man
agement with reference to the electric
float the University town is to enter
in the chief parade of the week.
Outlines of the architectural compe
tition for the erection of the colon
nade on Sixth street from the postof
flce to Burnside street have been dis
tributed among local architects and
awards for the general treatment, spe
cial features and motifs will be made
before the month Is over.
NEW POLICEMEN TOO FRAIL
Two Get Drunk While on Duty and
Lose Their Stars.
At a meeting of the police commis
sioners, held last night at police head
quarters, A. F. Gordon and G. A. Koogle,
two patrolmen recently appointed, were
haled before the commissioners charged
with being drunk while on duty. Both
men were asked to hand in their stars
and dismissed from the department. Gor
don, who was appointed to the force on
January 14, was charged with being so in
toxicated while in charge of a prisoner,
a few days ago, that he could not con
duct himself In a becoming manner, and
was so unsteady in his walk that he trod
on the toes of his prisoner on the way
to police station.
Koogle, who went on the force one day
after Gordon, was charged with being
absent from his beat, which is on the
East Side, on the night of February 4.
He was found on the West Side of the
river looking much the worse for wear,
with his clothes bespattered with mud
and without his helmet. I
FRIDAY SPECIALS.
Men's 33.50 all-wool coat sweaters at
J2.39; 50c to 1 fancy silks, 25c; all dress
goods remnants at half price; 25c India
linon, 19c; women's 25c white foot hos
iery, 16c; $1.75 black heatherbloom petti
coats. $1.19; J25 to $35 silk raincoats, at
$18. Many other bargains In all depart
ments. 'McAUen & McDonnell, Third
and Morrison.
Meeting at Oak Grove.
At the regular meeting of the Oak
Grove Improvement Association last night
addresses were made by Tom Richardson
and V. I Crissey, of the Portland Com
mercial Club. President J. F. Risley pre
sided and announced that the Railroad
Commission had rendered a decision
granting: a reduced fare between Oak
Grove . and Portland. Solos were ren
dered by Mrs. J. P. Risley and Miss Rose
Pfennlnger; recitations were given by
Misses Grace and Lillian Townsend and
Miss Margaret Warren.
Tomorrow and Monday will positively
be the last days for discount on "West Side
gas bills. PorUand Gas Co.
Eye glasses $1.00 at Metzger's.
COM
hildren's
Values up to $5.00. Clean
up Sale price
Spring Suits, the latest conceptions of the most renowned designers of the country, are here and you can
make your selection for your new Tailor Suit with every assurance of the style being right.
WHOLESALE
AND RETAIL
DnJ.WhitcombBroughertMmister of Church Militant
Remarkable Success of Preacher, Fourth Anniversary of Whose
Pastorate Will Be Celebrated at the White Temple Tonight
BY ARTHUR A. GREENE.
IT fell to my lot just four years ago
to write the first Interview with
Dr. J. Whitcomb Brougher- that was
ever printed In this town. Tonight
the congregation of the White Temple
will celebrate the fourth anniversary
of his pastorate in a fitting manner,
yesterday I visited this remarkable
young preacher of a sunshiny gospel
In his study, and we went over, con
versationally, the history of the years
that have intervened since he came
here to take up the heavy burden
which has been his during that mo
mentous time.
Dr. Brougher is still a young man.
Ite Is 38 and In the 14th year of his
ministry, the most useful of which
have been passed in Portland. He has
been accused of sensationalism and
In the earlier months of his work here
was subjected to much criticism be
cause he offended many estimable peo
ple by his aggressiveness. He was
called everything but a faithful expo
nent of the better things and had a
hard course of sprouts to go through.
That he has "made good" and
wrought well and turned adverse crit
icism to commendation, or at least
passive, acceptance of his manner of
accomplishing results is the very best
indorsement that the people of Port
land could give him.
As Dr. Brougher puts It, he is a con
servative In theology and a radical
in methods. He sprung a surprise on
local religions that offended their pre
conceived notions. He was at the .be
ginning anathematized by clergy and
luity alike. He "got fresh" and an
tagonized certain interests and condi
tions that existed at the time of his
arrival. He played municipal politics
in the pulpit and a lot of us thought
he wandered from the groove made
and prepared for pulpiteers. Now four
years later we are ready to admit tnat
he has been one of our most valuable
citizens, and In the cause of public de
cency has wrought very well indeed.
When he came the congregation of
the First Baptist Church was in a tur
moil. There was dissension in the
ranks and the. brethren's hands were
turned against each other. To recon
cile the discordant elements was his
first task, and he set about it in the
most practical- way. He succeeded in
uniting the membership In a common
interest and soon had a working body
that was combined for a common
cause. One of his first departures
was to commence a crusade against
public gambling, which flourished al
most unrestrained here at the time,
and while all the credit does not be
long to him, at least a good share of
the success in suppressing this evil
was due to his crusade. The fight was
won, greatly to the benefit of this
community, and the reforms that .en
sued in municipal affairs came to stay.
As an advocate of practical Chris
tianity he has left a deep impress on
the people of this city and state. Dur
ing his pastorate he has added Some
thing like 900 to the membership of
the First Baptist Church. He has ad
vanced always the idea that the teach
ings' of the Nazarene were applicable
to every day affairs. He may be sen
sational, but he doesn't don a cleri
cal garb on Sunday and prate of vir
tues and holiness one day of the week,
forgetting the other six. Thy have
called him sensational, but his partic
ular procedure has accomplished more
in four years than the cut and dried
methods could have made possible.
Dr. Brougher's idea of a church is
that "it should do and have an Interest
in everything that affects human be
ings. The congregation under his lead
ership -has co-operated with every
charitable organization and even with
the commercial organizations of the
city. There has been established an
employment bureau which has not re
quired of the applicants for work that
they be members of the White Temple
or any church. One of the startling
tnlngs he has done during his pas
torate has been to announce from his
J. M. Acheson Co.'s special clean-up sale of their entire stock
of Coats and Suits nothing reserved, every garment must
be sold. Come, if you can, and. buy for your present and
future needs.
SEE WINDOWS
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Values up to $10.00.
Clean-Up Sale price
Coats Values up to
$7.50
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Short Caracul and Crushed Velvet Coats
Values up to $27.50. Clean-Up Sale Price
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pulpit, on Sunday nights the fact that
certain deserving men or women
sought employment in whatever line,
and that the congregation owed It as
a duty to exert itself to find work for
these willing applicants. As an ad
junct to the church work. Dr. Brougher
instituted a plan for keeping a direc
tory of respectable boarding and
rooming places for the benefit of stran
gers who sought a place to live.
Recently a woman in South Portland
believed that she was being charged
an exorbitant price for the construc
tion of a cistern. She was satisfied
she was being victimized and she
called up Dr. Brougher and told him
her troubles. The preacher admitted
that he was not an authority on cis
terns, but he summoned a member of
his flock who was a contractor and
asked him to investigate. The con
tractor inspected the work, and saved
the widow who was paying for it a
considerable sum. You can't beat that
kind of organized Christianity.
A young woman, a convalescent
from a long and expensive Illness,
recently came under Dr. Brougher's
notice. She was poor and needed
many things which she could not af
ford to buy. Principal among her
needs was a wheel chair that she
might be able to get out into God's
sunlight. The following Sunday the
White Temple congregation supplied
the chair and the young woman's .rapid
recovery was due in no small measure
to this practical application of the "do
unto others'' code.
This business of making people bet
ter and happier is a matter that should
be conducted along practical lines ac
cording to the Brougher system. And
he is making the plan win. There are
1400 members of the church over
which he presides, whereas there -were
but 500 when he came here four years
ago.
I walked up the street with him a
few days ago. At one corner was a
laundry wagon and the preacher knew
the driver. "How are you, John," said
he, "how are the folks?" The driver
nearly fell oft his seat to answer the
question, and his face was illumined
by a smile that kept his heart warm
all through that day. The preacher
knew every other man we met. It
seemed, and had a word for them all.
It isn't a pose with him. He likes
people and wants to know about their
affairs, no matter how trivial they
may be. He may not be a great pulpit
orator, but he Is a helpful minister,
and that's what he would choose to be.
In his office in the big white church
he sees more people every day than
any doctor in town. He does as much
public speaking as any lawyer in the
city and he does as much writing and
dictating as any business man or
newspaper writer that I know of. And !
Values up to $17.50.
Clean-Up Sale price
.b4 95
Coats Values up
$27.50. Clean-up
price
$7.75
as for the politicians, he's one of the
best ever but that's another story.
He is a glutton for work, and in
the 14 years of his ministry has prob
ably not had 14 days to himself. He
has missed not a single Sunday's ser
mon by reason of ill-health and only
one for any other reason, and that was
recently on a transatlantic steamer
en route to London. He is In demand
all over the country and has refused
calls to Brooklyn. Chicago, Seattle,
Oklahoma City and a number of other
points since coming here, all at an
advanced salary, which disproves the
rule that a raise in the matter of
clergymen's salaries Is equivalent to
a call.
Whitcomb Brougher is one of our
most useful citizens and one of the
strong men in the cause of Christian
ity in this entire country. He has
secured results largely because he
has dared to apply modern methods to
his work. The church, militant must
be fed and clothed. The commissary
and quartermaster is quite as impor
tant to the army that is marching to
Zlon as to an army that might ven
ture towards Tokio. A loaf sometimes
is more potent to save than a prayer,
and a word of encouragement than a
doctrinal sermon.
Dr. Brougher knows these things
and is intelligent enough and devoted
enough to combine temporal and spir
itual miniiitrations. That's why he
preaches to the biggest congregations
on the Pacific Coast. An average of
2030 people in a church every Sunday
night is "going some" and that is the
record of this remarkable young ec
clesiastical swashbuckler who. has
made of the White Temple the splendid
power it is today. He has overcome
the prejudice that existed against him
when he came and departed from the
stereotyped ways. His detractors are
silent or have come into his lines.
His Is a happy lot on this fourth an
niversary, for he has seen his efforts
crowned with success and has the re
spect and confidence of the city.
EXPENSE ACCOUNT LARGER
Harrlman Iines Compelled to lie
store Trackage Destroyed.
NEW YORK. Feb. 6. The Union Pa
cific and Southern Pacific statements
for December and the last six months
show marked increase in operating
expenses. The Southern Pacific ex
penses In December were $o02,728
greater than in December of 1906, and
in the last six months of 1907 greater
by $10,245,788 than in 1906.
The Southern Pacific gross receipts
for last December were $11,073,402, as I
compared with $10.99a,o71 In 1906. The
net receipts for December were $3,450,
000, as against $4,043,676 in 1906. The
gross receipts for the last six months
were $69,104,236 as compared with
$62,129,314 in 1906.
The net figures for the half year are
$20,084,265, as against $24,355,110 in
1906.
The Union Pacific's statement shows
an increase of $414,227 in expenses for
December, and a total Increase of
$5,382,876 for the six months. The net
receipts in December have dropped
from $2,894,196 to $2,634,984. The gross
receipts for the six months amounted
to $42,919,295, as compared with $39.
363.650 in 1906. making the net $17.
645.458 for tne last six months, as com
pared with $19,072,689 for the previous
year.
Officials of the Harrlman system said
that the increased expense was ac
counted for partly by the reconstruc
tion of the roadbed In a number of
Western states, where there were un
usually heavy floods early in 1907.
Troubled With Too Many Cars.
CHICAGO. Feb. 6. The American Rail
way Association Is holding a special
meeting to consider the advisability of
suspending the per diem charge for the
use of foreign cars during the present
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business depression. The roads have
339.063 idle cars, as compared with a
shortage of 1W.7C6 a year ago. In order
to escape the per diem charge of 50 cents
a day per car. the roads are sending
foreign cars home at great expense to
themselves and the owners. The latter
would rather allow the free use of car
than incur this expense.
COMPETE "WITH WELLS-FARGO
California Express Business May Be
Divid'ed Hereafter.
SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 6. The Bul
letin says that negotiations which may
result In another National express com
pany entering the Western field, are now
being conducted with the Western Pacific
Railroad Company. The United States
Express Company is mentioned as the
possible competitor of the Wells-Fargo
Company, which has enjoyed a monopoly
of the business of the West for 33 years.
At the officeB of the Western Pacific
it was stated today that nothing definite
had been decided as to which company
would come here through that company,
but It was admitted that the names of
several companies which now do business
in the East had been mentioned.
CZAR COURTING THE POPE
Sends Squadron to Naples and Ad
miral to Vatican.
ROME, Feb. 6. A Russian squadron
under command of Admiral Stouff will
arrive at Naples, February 22. and the
commander In chief will come at once to
Rome to pay his respects to King Victor
Emmanuel in the name of Emperor
Nicholas.
The visit of the Russian ships and the
coming of Admiral Stouff to Rome is
regarded as another step looking to a
future visit of the Russian Emperor to
the Italian capital.
Xitze Quits Amherst College.
AMHERST. Feb. 6. President George
Harris, of Amherst College, tonight re
ceived from Rome the cabled resignation
of Professor William A. Nltze, head of
the department of Romanic language at
Amherst, who has accepted the same
position at the University of California.
Perfect fitting glasses $1 at M:'zer's.
GOT MAD
When Told That Coffee Hurt Him.
One of the evidences that coffee is
injurious to the nervous system, is the
fact that many persons who are ad
dicted to its use grow wrathy when the
suggestion is made that coffee causes
them to "flare up" so easily.
A doctor writes:
"Coffee three times a day I thought
I could not get along without it. I
was never well, prone to get excited
and often trembled, but any suggestion
that coffee was not good for mo made
me furious.
"I noticed the tendency to become
excited was growing on me. My hands
and feet were cold, fingers looked
shriveled, liver Inactive, constipated,
coated tongue, bad breath and general
lower vitality. (A perfect picture of
caffeine poisoning.)
"A friend strongly advised me to give
up coffee and use Postum, so I tried
the change a few weeks and found a
marked improvement in temper, nerves
and general condition. I felt so firm
that i thought I could go back to cof
fee. Three times I tried it, but always
had to quit coffee and return to Pos
tum. "Being a physician with a large prac
tice and plenty of experience, it was
hard for me to believe that coffee could
have such a profound effect on my sys
tem. Perhaps my fondness for the bev
erage made me loath to admit it's ill
effects.
"For several years now I have or
dered hundreds of patients to quit cof
fee and and have prescribed Postum
instead with good results to the pa
tients and more prompt response to my,
medicines." "There's a Reason." Name
given by Postum Co., Battle Creek,
Mich. Read "The Road to Wellville"
in pkgs.
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