THE MORNING- OREGONIAN, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY" 12, 190S.
ESE BY
EDUCATIQNALTEST
British Columbia Demands
Knowledge of English or
European Languages.
NEW LAW NOW IN EFFECT
Expected .Mikado's Subjects Will at
Once Week Overthrow Regula
tion on Ground of Opposition
to the Imperial Interests.
VICTORIA, B. C. Feb. 11. The new
Immigration, law enacted by ,the Brit
ish Columbia Legislature recently, on
the lines of the Natal act, which ap
plies an educational test to immigrants
arriving in British Columbia, who must
be able to read and write in English
or a language of Kurope to be per
mitted to land, became a law today,
when Lieutenant-Governor James
Uiinsmulr assented to the bill.
Immediate provisions were made for
the enforcement of the new law, which
Is obviously aimed at the Japanese, and
officials have been instructed to carry
out Its effect on all immigrants arriv
ing after today. There are at the
quarantine station 268 Japanese, left
there by the steamer Kaga Mini, in
quarantine, 125 of whom are bound
here, and these will come under the
provisions of the new law.
It is generally considered that steps
will be taken by Japanese or others
interested to test the validity 'of the
new bill In the courts, and It Is con
sidered that falling in this, the federal
government will disallow the bill, as
opposed to the imperial interests.
JAPA.V AFTKR. LOAX IX PARIS
Mikado's Embassy Declines to Con
firm Ordering the Report.
PARIS. Feb. 11. The report is again
current In banking circles that the Japa
ncto government is trying to float a loan
in Paris through the Banque de Paris et
Xoi Pays Bas. The Japanese embassy
declines to confirm or deny the report,
but it was intimated that, a statement
relative to this matter might be given
out tomorrow.
OREGON ISSUE UNSETTLED
'o Official Announcement Yet as
to District Attorney.
' ORKUONTAN NEWS BUREAU, Wash
ington, Feb. 11. Attorney-General
Bonaparte, when asked today whether
his representatives at Portland had ad
versely reported on Thomas J. Cleeton
and recommended the temporary ap
pointment of B. D. Townsend as Dis
trict Attorney for Oregon, replied that
he "could not officially confirm the re
port." Inquiry at the White House brought
forth a statement that all Information
regarding this matter must be obtained
from the Attorney-General. Senator
Fulton has had no confirmation of the
report and Senator Bourne, as usual,
has "nothing to say for publication."
PROVISION FOR PVGET SOUXD
Bill Authorizes Large Expenditure
at Navy-Yard.
OREGON-IAN NEWS BUREAU, Wash
ington, Feb. 11. The Naval appropria
tion bill, as reported today, carries
$420,000 for enlarging and improving
the plant at the Puget Sound Navy
lard, and authorizes an Increase in the
cost of the new drydock from $1,125,000
to. $2,000,000, so as to enable its en
largement to accommodate the largest
ships on the Paclfis.
REFUSE TO GIVE BONDS
Indicted Theatrical Managers Nar
rowly Escape Imprisonment.
KANSAS CITT, Mo., Feb. 11. Be
cause tlicy refused to give bond in an
ewer to indictments for requiring or
permitting others to work on Sunday,
.Judge Wallace, in the Criminal Court
here today, ordered the following the
atrical managers sent to jail:
O. I). Woodward, of the Auditorium;
I. S. Brlgham. of the Gil lis; J. B. Don
agan, of tlie Century, and Martin Leh
man, of the Orpheum. The Chief Dep
uty Marshal permitted the managers to
leavo the courtroom. When the Mar
shal heard of this he conferred with
Judge Wallace and immediately depu
ties were sent to arrest and bring in
the managers, who it is stated will be
sent to Jail unless they furnish satis
factory bonds.
Later, before half the offenders could
be brought in. Judge McOune, in the
Circuit Court, issued writs of habeas
corpus, applied for by their attorneys.
The four managers have been indicted
71 times and their bonds aggregate
$1 1,200 each.
FALLS DEAD ON STEPS
Aged Man l-'lces From Snowballs
and Dies.
NEW YORK, Feb. 11. Over 60 years a
resident of old "Greenwich village,", once
an aristocratic section of the city,
Thomas Thomas, at one time wealthy and
a prominent resident of the district, died
yesterday while seated on the doorstep
of the house where he was born nearly
three-quarters -of a century ago.
Thomas was accustomed daily to
traverse the district, pausing occa
sionally to look at the older houses
where he had entertained in earlier
days of the village's . prosperity. Yes
terday he had Just reached the site of
his birthplace on Horation street, where
lie usually stopped last in his daily tour,
presumably exhausted by the quickening
of his steps to escape r group of snow
balling boys, he sank upon the porch,
where a policeman a few minutes later
found him dead.
ENGINE CRUSHES TWO MEN
Others Narrowly Escape When Lo
comotive Iicnvcs Track.
1-ULLFH.TOX. Cal.. Fob. 11. Two
ini'ii were instantly killed and 10 oth
ers narrowly escaped with their lives
today when an engine of the Sliarpe-
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Hauser Construction Company struck
a soft fill at Horseshoe Berid, on the
Santa Fe, and toppled into the ditch.
Steam Shovel Engineer James Bowes
and J. Shae, a powder man, were
caught beneath the locomotives as It
fell from the track and killed. There
were 12 men riding on the engine -at
the time. All the others jumped when
the danger was apparent, and succeed
ed in escaping.
Recent heavy rains weakened the
fill and last night a considerable por
tion of It caved away from the track.
Trolley Car Jumps Track.
PITTSBURG, Feb. 11. Three women
and four men, passengers on a West
Homestead streetcar, were seriously cut
and bruised today when the car Jumped
the track and plunged over a 15-foot em
bankment at Eighth avenue. Homestead,
a suburb of this city. The car was de
molished. Slippery rails caused the accident.
Killed by Freight Train.
BUTTE, Mont.. Feb. 11. A special to
the Miner from Billings states that Fred
erick . Miller was instantly killed, and
Daniel. Schmit was fatally injured by
being struck by a freight train. The
two men were walking into Billings on
the Northern Pacific track from a r.earby
ranch, and apparently were too intoxi
cated to beed the approach of the train.
PRINTERS SENT TO PRISON
PENALTY FOR VIOLATING IN
JUNCTION ORDER.
Members of New York "Big 6" Fined
and Sentenced to Jail by Su
preme Court Order.
NEW YORK. Feb. 11. President
Patrick McCormick, of the local Typo
graphical' Union, known as the "Big
6," and George W. Jackson and Vin
cent. J. Costello, union organizers, to
day were fined $250 each and sen
tenced to 20 days' imprisonment for
disobedience of an injunction obtained
by the Typothetae of New York- in
1906. Thomas Bennett and William S.
Anderson were fined $100 on the same
charge. Sentence was imposed by Jus
tice Bishoff in the Supreme Court.
This is the first time any such heavy
Ben fence in the case of a labor organ
ization for violation of injunction has
been imposed in these courts. The
troubles grew out of the strike of
Typographical Union No. 6, commonly
called "Big Six," ordered early In 1906
against the Association of Employers
known as the Typothetae of the City of
New York for a closed shop and an
eight-hour day. Soon after the going
out of the men, the officers pf the
Typothetae complained that the strik
ers were practicing intimidation
against their employes who remained
at work and those who took the places
of the strikers, and were resorting to
violence.
On these representations. Justice
Blanchard granted an injunction re
straining the officers and members of
the Union from continuing the prac
tices which had been charged. The
latter part of April, 1906, a representa
tive of the employers' association ap
peared in court and asked that the
members of the union be punished for
contempt in that they continued the
acts of violence. By order of Justice
Bishoff, a referee took testimony on
the charges. It was upon his report
and recommendations that the sen
tence of today was inflicted.
FREE TO. WORK FOR STRIKE
Judge Dissolves Injunction Kestrain
Ing Engineers' Union.
NORFOLK, Va., Feb. 11. Judge
McLemore has dissolved the injunction
obtained In his court sometime ago by
the Luckcnbach Towing Company, of
Brooklyn, N. Y., by which the Norfolk
Marine Engineers Union, its officers
and members, were restrained from in
terfering with the employes on the
Luckenbach tugs in an effort to bring
on an engineers' strike.
Judge McLemore ruled that no in
junction could lie until the evidence
against plaintiffs, or their property,
was attempted by the defendants and
that members of the Engineers' Union
were within their rights in endeavor
ing by argument or other fair means
to have employes of the plaintiffs quit
their employment.
Three Tragedies' in Fort Worth.
FORT WORTH, Tex., Feb. 11. When
J. M. Lusk, former superintendent of
the state epileptic colony at Abilene,
committed suicide by shooting last
night, It was the third tragedy of the
last 36 hours, all having occurred
within a radius of four blocks of
Main street, the principal thoroushfare
of the city. Despondency on, account
of 111 health is supposed to have been
the cause.
Darrovv Takes Up His Work.
LOS ANGELES. Cal., Feb. 11. Clarence
Darrow, the Chicago attorney, who has
been in the California Hospital hero for
some time, left yesterday for Chicago,
where he will conduct the defense of a
friend, which he was compelled to drop
at the time he came here.
Reducing Navy-Yard Forces.
WASHINGTON, ' Feb. 11. The House
today passed a resolution requesting the
Secretary of the Navy to furnish informa
tion, "as to what reduction has been made
in the skilled labor force employed in the
Washington and other Navy Yards."
GREAT EXCURSION " PARTY
Inland Empire Citizens Are Wel
comed at San Francisco.
SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 11. The In
land Empire excursionists made a visit
to Mount Tamalpais today. On their
return to the city they were formally
welcomed at the Ferry building by of
ficials of the California State Board of
Trade, the San Francisco Chamber of
Commerce and the State Harbor Com
mission. President Moore, of the Cham
ber of Commerce, and eight trustees
of that organization assisted in enter
taining the visitors with an informal
luncheon.
On behalf of the visitors, speeches
were made by President F. E. Goodall,
of the Spokane Chamber of Commerce,
Dr. N. G. Blalock, of Walla Walla, and
M. Brining, of Waitsburg.
REPORT FALSE, SAYS HADIK
Court Denies Engagement to Mrs.
Cornelius Vanderbilt.
LONDON, Feb. 12. A special dispatch
from Vienna to a news agency here says
that Count Alexander Hadik, through his
legal adviser, has issued an emphatic de
nial of his reported, engagement to Mrs.
Cornelius Vanderbilt, of New York.
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Mrs. WlneloW 8oothins 8yrup. tor children
teething. It soothes the child, softens the
sums, allays pain, collo and diarrhoea.
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1000 Pictures, repro
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the latest pleated and gored styles
mines. Sale price
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Has Been Just.
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Congress Has Adopted Froper. Rem
edies for Kvils and Not Been
Too Radical, Asserts Penn
sylvania Senator.
KALAMAZOO, Mich., Feb. 11. Hun
dreds were turned away from the Acad
emy of Music tonight, unable to gain ad
mission to tho annual banquet of the
Kalamazoo Lincoln Club, at which
United States Senator Philander C. Knox,
of Pittsburg, Pa., and Congressman J.
Adam Bcde, of Minnesota, were the
cuests of honor.- United States Senator
J. C. Burrows, of Michigan, also spoke.
After tracing the development of rail
roads in the United States down to the
present time, and the correction of abuses
that had sprung up, Mr. Knox said:
Fundamental Work Is Done.
"The fundamental work has been done.
It has been wrought out by those re
sponsible for it, on broad lines, in a spirit
of moderation and with a desire to do no
injustice. Tho work has proceeded as a
structure should, dealt with, as a unit,
not here and there a pillar with missing
roof between. It is not true that the
measures which have . reached the ma
tured form of National legislation In
clude attack, enmity or injury to sound
business interests, either corporate or
private. Extreme propositions may have
been made: but they have not largely pre
vailed in the completed enactments by
Congress. On the contrary these laws,
rightly seen, mean a . sounder, stronger
and more widely diffused prosperity for
the real corporate interests, namely, the
owners of the railroad shares and securi
ties. Securities Must Be Sold.
"High railroad authority has declared
necessity of spending $5,500,000,000 during
the next two years in extensions of the
railroad facilities, to meet the growing
demands of the country, coupled with a
grave doubt whether the securities to pay
for these expenditures can be floated.
Surely investors will buy bonds which
represent 100 per cent of their face in act
ual Increase of the value of the property
more readily than bonds which only en
hance the security 60, 70 or even SO per
cent of the increase in liabilities. Surely
stockholders will find more satisfaction
in their property, if it Is not burdened
with charges to pay Interest on 20 or 30
per cent of bogus indebtedness. Surely
the great body of industry will be less
provoked to enmity if their traffic is not
called upon to pay fixed charges on that
element of pure inflation.
Honest Returns Insured.
"It is as much to the interest of the
security holders that favoritism in rates
and the flat quality in capitalization shall
be prevented, as it is to the interest
of the public that railroad capital shall
earn a fair return on actual and un
inflated investment. Railroad revenues
cannot attain their broadest and most
stable dimensions when dwarfed and
diverted by these abuses; nor can the
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wide increase of transportation facilities
'needed by growing commerce be secured.
unless it offers to the Investment of
actual capital an adequate and reasonably
assured return.
"This I maintain to be the spirit and
character of the laws enacted by Con
gress, on this subject. Administered with
unswerving fidelity to the underlying
purpose, they furnish the full remedy for
the evils. .
"What I have said has been in the main
of what has been accomplished under the
National authority in. the past. Further
exercise of that authority should proceed
with just appreciation of real public needs
and dissociated from political clamor.
"The Interstate Commerce Commission
makes It evident that the best and ablest
railway managers now recognize the old
evils and abuses and the necessity for
uniform Federal regulation in the In
terest of the railroads.
"There is nothing In present conditions
requiring any strain upon our institutions
to supply a remedy for any mischiefs that
plague the public, and there are no mis
chiefs the correction of which may not
be attained without disturbing the pub
lie welfare. There is enough Federal
power, if not enough Federal legislation,
to meet all . Federal emergencies. There
is nothing affecting the external affairs
of the Nation- or such internal ones as
are committed to its charge that Congress
Cannot regulate? there is nothing that
affects them injuriously that Congress
should not regulate, and there is nothing
which does not belong to the Federal
jurisdiction that Congress should at
tempt to regulate."
WILL NOT MARRY DAVIS
Miss Ashford Breaks Engagement
With Ex-Senator.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 11. Miss Maud
Ashford, of this city, : today announced
that she was no longer 'engaged to former
United States Senator H. G. Davis, the
Democratic candidate for Vice-President
in the last National campaign. Miss Ash
ford stated that she broke the engage
ment last night. She said that she and
the former Senator had then discussed
the matter.
Miss Ashford referred to the public
ity which had been given the subject
and to the determined opposition of
some members of Mr. Davis' family to
the proposed marriage. She said that
she had no desire to estrange the Sen
ator, at his age, from his family. For
this reason she did not care to have
the engagement continued.
Mr. Davis declined to be interviewed.
NEED OF MORE VESSELS
Shaw Points to Foreign Cruisers
With Battleships.
MARSHALL Mich., Feb. 11. Every
available seat was taken tonight at the
annual banquet of the Calhoun County
Lincoln Club, at which ex-Secretary of
the Treasury Leslie M. Shaw and Sec
ond Assistant Postmaster General
McCleary were the principal speakers.
Mr. McCleary in speaking on "Pres
ent Day Problems" devoted considera
ble attention to the fact that the auxil
iary fleet, carry coal and supplies
for the battleship cruise to the Pacific,
sailed under many foreign flags, and
he urged the building up of the mer
chant marine.
Mrs. Goold Escapes Gallows.
MONTE CARLO. Feb. 11. The death
sentence against Mrs. Violet Goold. who
with her husband, Vere St. Leger Goold.
fwas convicted of the murder of Emma
Ievin here last Summer, has been com
muted to life imprisonment.
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C0NHIED STEPS OUT
Succeeded at Metropolitan by
. Gatti Casazza.
DIPPEL JOINT MANAGER
Xew York Opera Company Is to Be
Reorganized and Has Secured
Famous Director of
Milan, Italy.
KBW YORK, Feb. 11. The resignation
of Heinrich Conried as director of the
Metropolitan Opera-House Company was
accepted today at a meeting of the direc
tors of the. company held in the library
of J. P. Morgan, and the announcement
was made tonight that Mr. Conried would
be succeeded by Julio -Gatti Casazza,
director of La Scala, Milan, Italy, an'd
Andreas Dippel, a German tenor who has
sung at the Metropolitan for a number
of years. The two directors are to have
equal power, Gatti Casazza as general
manager and Dippel as administrative
manager.
Will Retire at Once.
The reason given by Mr. Conried for
his retirement from the active manage
ment of the affairs of the company Is ill
health. While his resignation does not
go Into effect until May. Conductor
Gustave Mahler, director of the Court
Opera-House in Vienna, who has been
conducting here this season will take
active musical direction of the company
until the end of the season. To as
sist him the directors of the Metropolitan
have engaged Signor Toscanlni, the con
ductor at La Soala, Milan. Mahler and
Toscanini will act as joint directors.
Mr, Conried also retires from the
presidency of "the opera company and
his holdings In the concern have been
purchased by William K. Vanderbilt.
The company, while retaining its cor
porate entity, has changed its title to
that of the Metropolitan Opera Com
pany, and has leased tbe Metropolitan
Opera House for a term of five years
beginning June 1, 1908.
Place Managers on Salaries.
The policy of having- the managers
share in the profits of the season will
at the end of this season be dropped
and they will be placed on salaries.
The benefit performance for the man
ager will be abolished. Another radical
change in the financial policy of the
company was decided on at the meet
ing today. After a small dividend has
been declared on the stock, the re
mainder of the profits will be devoted
to an endowment or pension fund or to
some similar purpose. At the end of
each season one or two benefit per
formances will be given to Increase this
fund.
To compensate Mr. Conried for the loss
entailed by his retirement from the opera
company the directors voted a . sum of
money which it is believed will equal the
amount of his salary and share of the
profits for the remaining three years of
his five-year contract.
Gatti Casazza stands high in the ranks
of operatic directors, as for 10 years he
has been general manager and stage di
rector of La Scala, the recognized home
of music in Italy. While manager of I .a
Scala, Gatti Casazza produced operas in
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French, German and Italian with great
success.
Andreas Dippel has had a wide experi
ence in operatic affairs. A tenor of
marked merit, he has sung at the Metro
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FIELDER JONES IN CITY
Captain of Chicago Americans Visits
Brother in Portland.
Fielder F. Jones, manager and cap
tain of the Chicago .American League
team, known to the fans of the country
as the "White Sox," who is a former
Portlander, is in the city paying a visit
to his brother. Portland takes great pride
In claiming Fieldr Jones, for. even
though he may not have resided here a
great length of itme, he spent his boy
hood days here and gained his early
knowledge of the great American game
on the sand lots of Portland.
Jones spent a good part of yesterday
at the Goodi Samaritan Hospital talking
over business deals in which he is in
terested with his brother, ,J. B. Jones,
who la ill Rt that institution.
DeWolff Hopper, the comedian, who
is playing at the Heilig The
ater, is an old-time friend and a great ad
mirer of the chief of the "White Sox,"
and they had a pleasant reunion yester
day. The actor has become as famous
as a fan as his friend has as a ball-tosser
through his reciting of "Casey at tho
Bat." and between the two many a good
yarn is revived.
Fielder Jones will remain in Portland
until February 28 when he will join the
Comisky outfit at Los Angeles for the
Spring training exercises.
TURKEY WITHDRAWS ARMY
Russia Will Not Send Troops to the
Caucasus.
ST. PETERSBURG, Feb. 11. Tho with
drawal of Turkish troops from the
Persian territory to the west of Tabriz,
as well as the more conciliatory spirit
shown at Constantinople is regarded here
as obviating the necessity for tho present
of taking further precautionary measures
on the. Turkish and Persian frontiers, and
it is probable that the dispatch of troops
from the interior of Russia to the Cau
casus will be abandoned pending further
developments.
Thus the alarming statements that Rus
sia was concentrating a force of 60.000
men for military demonstration against
Turkey can be dismissed, for today the
outlook is decidedly better and more
peaceful.
Germany Guards Against Plague.
BERLIN, Feb. 11. Owing to the out
break of the plague in West Africa,
Chancellor von Buelow has decreed
the strictest sanitary' Inspection of
vessels arriving at German ports from
that country.
BOUT BRINGS0N CENSURE
NaTy ' Department, However . Docs
Xot Oppose This Sport.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 11. A letter of
censure has been written by the Navy De
partment to Lieutenant Ioudcnbargor,
the commanding officer of the Cumber
land, on which occurred the boxing bout
resulting in the subsequent death of Sea
man Apprentice Hortnet at Newport. R. I.
The Department does not find fault with
the practice of boxing: its desire is rather
to encourage it as & means of exercise
among the men, but it discountenanced it
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of the usual naval pattern.
WALKER MAY GET DELAY
Will Ultimately Be Brought Back for
Embezzlement.
NEW BRITAIN. Conn.. Feb. 11. Treas
urer Et N. Stanley, of the Savings Bank
of New Britain, stated tonight that he
had received a report from Detective
Hoffman at Ensenada. Lower California,
that William F. Walker, the absconding
treasurer of the bank, is making an elab
orate defense against extradition.
According to Mr. Stanley, present indi
cations are that Walker will bo success
ful in .preventing his return until after
the rising or the March term of the Su
perior Court, but that so far as can be
seen he will ultimately be brought back.
BRIDGE- TRUST ESCAPES
Indictments Against Ohio Concern
Dissolved on Appeal.
COLUMBUS. O., Feb. 11. The Ohio
Supreme Court today affirmed the de
cision of the Krie County Circuit Court
invalidating the indictments against the
so-called bridge trust In Ohio. The indict
ments are held to be illegal on grounds
of duplicity and indeflniteness. In that
they simply charge, that the defendants
were engaged in a conspiracy In restraint
of trade from 1903 to lfiOB, without stating
definite times of violations.
WEDDING
INVITATIONS
VISITING CARDS,
A-ND MONOGRAM STATIONERY.
W. G. SMITH & CO.
Washington Bulldkur.
Fourth and Waahlnaton Streeta.
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