MORNING OREGONIAN, MONDAY, FEBRUARY 24, 1908.
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WILL CELEBRATE
TUNNEL OPENING
Completion of Tube Under the
Hudson to Be Fittingly Ob
served in New York.
PRESIDENT GIVES SIGNAL
iVill Press Button at Desk in Exec
utive Office Result of Engineer's
Skill Has Been Dream of Cen
tury Seals Ferries' Doom.
raw YORK. Feb. 23. The Century-old
tank, of overcoming the, water barriers
that have separated Manhattan Island
from, the country of which it is the me
tropolis, has at last been accomplished.
The first tunnel for passenger traffic
mder the North, or ' Hudson River, will
he thrown open to tho public at noon on
Tuesday. The event which spells the
eventual doom of the Hudson ferries and
marks the completion of another stage of
the vast projected system of underground
and under-water transportation In the
greater city will be celebrated officially
by the builders and by the highest offi
cials of the state and Nation and unoffi
cially by tens of thousands of com
muters. President Roosevelt at his desk at the
Executive mansion In Washington will
press a hutlon to signal the opening of
the tube and the Governors of New York
and New Jersey will participate at the
ceremonies at the tunnel mouth.
Result of Tennessee Pluck.
The first of the tunnels to be opened
is a part of the so-called McAdoo system,
thus named in honor of William Gr. Mo
Adoo, president of the Hudson & Man
hattan Railway Company, a young Ttn
nessoean, whose pluck and energy secured
the hacking and made the tunnels an ac
complished fact. The bore of this first
completed means of under-river trans
portation to the west leads from Morton
street on tho lower west side of New
York to Hoboken, N. J. The tunnel con
sists of two tubes, In which shuttle trains
of eight cars each, propelled by elec
tricity, will be operated. Two more tubes
of the McAdoo system are nearing com
pletion. Their Manhattan terminus will
be at Cortlandt street, now an important
ferry center, and the New Jersey end
will be in Jersey' City. Both at Hoboken
and at Jersey City the tunnels have con
nections with several of the most im
portant railroads leading Into the city.
The North River tunnel service is to be
still further augmented later on by the
opening of the Pennsylvania Railroad
tubes to connect their lines with the
magnificent new station now under con
struction at Thlrtytiecond street and
Seventh avenue. The first of these bores
was connected on Friday last.
Depots Monster Structures.
The McAdoo tunnel system includes
subway hranches under New York City
leading from the downtown stations to
the heart of the shopping district. The
tunnels also will connect with the main
subway routes of the city and with the
Pennsylvania tunnels. A feature of the
system is the Cortlandt terminal. Two
buildings, occupying a frontage of two
blocks and rising 22 stories above the
sidewalk, have been constructed. The
train stations are in tho sub-basement
and the offices will house some 10,000
people.
DOWN ON ADMINISTRATION
Xo Longer Controlling Patronage,
Delegate Cale Is Disgruntled.
OREGONIAN NEWS BUREAU, Wash
ington, Feb. 23. Tom Cale, delegate from
Alaska. Is developing Into quite a fighter.
Cale concurs in the language attributed to
Secretary Cortclyou at the time his Presi
dential boom was punctured he believes
lie has had a "rough deal at the White
House." While Cale is at liberty to
speak in the House of Representatives,
he has no vote, but otherwise he has the
privileges of a Congressman, among them
the right to name Postmasters.
Cale entered upon the distribution of
patronage with considerable zeal, and his
men were appointed right along, until
Governor Hoggatt ceme to Washington,
and then Cale's calorie career was inter
rupted. Hoggatt got the President's ear;
defeated some of Calc's appointments,
and since then Cale has been able to see
little of good In the Roosevelt adminis
tration. When he was particularly out of sorta
the. other dny Cale said that Alaska, a
few months ago, was enthusiastically sup
porting Roosevelt and would have sent
an Instructed Roosevelt delegation to the
National convention. Since then, how
ever, Alaska's apportionment of delegates
has been cut from six to two, and Cale
suvs the two men selected will neither
support Roosevelt nor any man Indorsed
by him. Cale has soured on the admin
istration. BLOODY FIGHT IN SALOON
Murder and Robbery Plot Foiled and
Attempted Suicide Follows.
SEATTLE. Wash.. Feb. 23. (Spe
cial.) A story of a bloody fight In a
room at the Miners' Hotel, Western
avenue and Pike street, was told in
broken English by Jan Chelkasoff to
the police today. A slung shot and a
raxor figured prominently in the fren
zied activity. The other party to the
affair has not yet been able to talk.
KaHing In an attempt to murder and
rob him In the room, according to
t'tielkasoff, Robert Muller, a sailor, cut
Ills own throat and Is now In a pre
carious condition at Wayside Emer
gency Hospital, and his intended vic
tim, badly cul and beaten but 'still
alive, occupies a cot in an adjoining
ward.
Failing to accomplish his purpose of
murder with the first blow, and believ
ing that other lodgers in the house
were coming to tho assistance of his
victim, he tried suicide, but In that,
as in the murder and robbery scheme,
he failed. He severed his windpipe
with his razor, and cut two gashes In
the left side of his throat.
MANY CONVERTS ARE MADE
Rev. Allen AVIlson Holds Successful
Revival Services.
Seven converts- joined the First Chris
tian Church yesterday, two being baptized
at the night service, a direct result of the
preaching of Rev. Allen Wilson, evangel
1st. Mr. Wilson preached yesterdav morn
lug on the question, "What think ye of
Christ?" in the evening his text was Luke
ii:7. "No room for them In the inn." air.
Wilson will hold services each night this
week, and -will preach on the following
subjects: Monday, "The Bible; What It
Is and' How to Use. It:" Tuesday. "The
Death and Burial of Jesus;" Wednesday,
"If Christ Came to Portland;". Thursday,
"The Resurrection of Jesus;" Friday,
"The Forgiveness of Sins." Ijist night
the church was well filled. Mr. Wilson
said in part:
If the world has no place for JeauB of
Nazareth, it is becaUHe the world needs re
ligion, and because the religion of Jeu 1
the only thins that will sattefy that need.
That the world needs Christianity Is evident.
Missionaries and explorers have gone to eve-'
nation, every tribe, and everywhere have found
religion. Revolting, shocking, vicious it some
times Is. but it is the beet they know, and
proves the universal need of the human race.
Man iieeda a standard of morals from which
there cau be no possible appeal.
Man will always appeal from man-made
standards. We are imitators, and we need a
model in which there Is no flaw, that we may.
with such a copy, work out a reasonably good
life. Man knows that he is a sinner, and he
wants to know what to do to get rid of sin. It
Is evident that man loves religion. He has
worshiped almost every kind of a god.
Does the religion of Chrlz satlpfy these
needs? Man wants to know the origin of
things. The Bible gives him his only answer.
He wants to know God. Science and phil
osophy are dumb. He want to know himself.
The religion of Jesus rhrlst reveals,eelf to self
afl nothing else can. Man wants to know what
to do to be happy. In order to be perfectly
happy man needs something to believe, some
thing to do, something to hope for, someone
to love him, and someone to love. The-religion
of Chrlet satisfies all these demands. Then
since man needs religion, and since the religion
of Jesus Christ alone satisfies all his demands,
there is need for Jeenis.
LEOPOLD TAKESTHE MONEY
GOES BACK OX PROMISE MADE
REGARDING THE COXGO.
Asks for Funds to Be Placed Under
Personal Control and $50,
000,000 Additional.
BRUSSELS. Feb. 23. The situation in
the matter of annexation to Belgium
of the Congo Free State is again
assuming a disquieting aspect. It is
said that King Leopold has taken back
all his fair promises and now demands
that the special fund which was to re
place the crown domain be placed
under his control, and not under that
of Parliament, as It was originally
agreed. In addition, he asks that $60,-
000,000 be placed at his disposal to
carry out various projects.
It Is understood the government Is
firmly resisting these demands and is
determined. If It become necessary, to
resign, which, as King Leopold could
not under such circumstances, find any
one to form a new ministry, it is
pointed out, would mean elections that
would be bound to result in the re
turn of a majority most hostile to the
king.
The Petit Bleu, while admitting that
there have been exchanges in the last
few days between King- Leopold and
Premier Schollaert on the question of
annexation, says they have not result
ed in settlement of the matter, owing
to inability to agree on special works
to be executed out of the revenue from
the special fund and denies that a
ministerial crisis Is imminent.
WHEN JAIL DOESN'T CURE
Curb Our Lawless Youths by Send
ing Them to 'Western Farms.
Washington. D. C, Star.
A New York .father caught his 19-year-
old son in a forgery and haled him to the
station-house in the absence of an offi
cer. He declared that he proposed to
prosecute the youth and have him pun
ished, "so that, having learned his lesson,
he will lead an honest life in future."
It appears that the young man has been
going with a fast crowd, and, lacking
funds for his pleasure, drew and indorsed
a check for $50 in his father's name.
.Here avlses one of the most important
questions with which this country is con
fronted today. How far will punishment
through Imprisonment effect the reforma
tion of this lad? Our present processes
of correction are far from assuring in
general any lasting cure of evil tenden
cies. Gradually, but so slowly af to dis
courage many workers in this field, bet
terments In the penal institutions are
being wrought alone: the line of helping
the subject rather than merely punishing
htm. A few advanced criminologists
have been for some time preaching the
doctrine that the disposition to break
laws is curable, and should be treated
rather as an ailment than as an offense.
Their hope is to overcome the ancient
belief that the offender against the stat
utes deserves to suffer in atonement.
Perhaps this New York father Is un
consciously trying to work out the same
problem in the case of his erring son.
Limited in his conceptions of the means
available, he selects the obvious, familiar
process of turning the boy over to the
police. He might possibly do better him
self. Suppose, instead of sending him to
court and thence to prison, he were to
ship the young man out to work on the
Western farm, where he would break
away from his vicious surroundings of
the city and perhaps acquire a new con
ception of life and its significance. It
might do him much more sTood than two
or three years in a prison .reformatory.
If the graduate of a penal instituiton
could step forth Into the free air again
without taint of any kind, his confine
ment might be of value to him. There
ts, unfortunately, however, a disposition
on the rart of lawmakers still to sur
round prison life with conditions that
maJie such an emergency next to Impossi
ble. The man knows that he is on record
at police headquarters. His photograph
and every minute detail of his person are
there filed away. He has been almost
"dared" to break another law. If he
should meet the slightest sign of recogni
tion as an ex-convict, he almost invaria
bly resents his treatment, and unhappily
his resentment often takes the form of
accepting that challenge.
We are very far yet from ideal condi
tions in this regard. Many Influences are
at work to reach a solution of the prob
lem. Many able minds are bent upon the
task of finding a better way to treat our
criminals. Still there remains to be over
come the obstinate prejudice against
trusting the man who has once fallen.
We are yet of little faith.
THE DAY'S DEATH RECORD
Brigadier-General Saxon.
WASHINGTON. Feb. 13. Brigadier
General Rufus Saxon, U. S. A., retired,
dropped dead here today of heart disease,
aged S4 years. He entered the Army
from Massachusetts in 1856 as a First
Lieutenant of the Third Artillery, re
ceived a Congressional medal for bravery
in the defense of Harper's Ferry, and wsa
retired April 23, 1904.
YATES OUT FOR GOVERNOR
Illinois' Ex-Kxecutive Wants the
, ' Job Again.
SPRIN-QFIBI-n. 111., Feb. 23. Ex-Governor
Richard Yates, tonight announced
his candidacy for Governor.
ACTON
RESULT
OP OLD QUARREL
Faculty Fight at Bottom of
Students' Action Regard
ing President Coleman.
LARGE GIFT MAY BE LOST
Rumored A. E. Eaton Will Take
Back Donation of $50,000 Af
fair Resembles Tempest in Tea
pot Coleman Is Silent.
SALEM, Or., Feb. 23. (Special.) Dis
sension among members of the board
of trustees and members of the faculty
of Willamette University seems to have
caused the action of the student body
last Friday in adopting a blank report
presented by a committee appointed to
draft resolutions expressing appreciation
of the work of President John H. Cole
man. On February 18 it was announced that
President Coleman's resignation had been
accepted. It now develops that this action
was the result of a long controversy and
that President Coleman was "let out,"
although he intended; to remain till the
end of the school year. The institution
Is now without a president, the faculty
is hopelessly divided, and the students
are more or less lined up In the con
troversy. So far as the outsider can learn there
has been very little foundation for so
large a quarrel. It seems that Presi
dent Coleman has been at outs with
President M. B. Rankin, of the board of
trustees, for some time. What caused
the differences no one here seems to
know, but it was apparently a sort of
incompatibility. An anti-Coleman faction
sprang up In the board of trustees and
the friction grew up on its own grindlngs.
Finally Coleman tendered his resignation,
and at a special meeting called in Decem
ber the board refused to accept it. When
the report of this action was made-public
members of the board who were not
present at the meeting, got their heads
together and concluded that the special
meeting had been "packed" In Coleman's
favor so they looked into the records
and found that it had not been called
in accordance with the rules of the bord.
Another meeting was called for February
18 and at that time the resignation was
accepted.
Students Cheer Either Way.
When the announcement was made in
chapel last December that the board had
refused to accept the resignation of the
president, the students went wild with
enthusiasm, and gave their college yells
with vigor. Apparently In a similar
frame of mind they manifested the same
attitude towards the president when it
was announced that his resignation had
been accepted. A meeting of the student
body was called; it voted to give the
president a farewell reception and a com
mittee was appointed, composed of
Messrs. Shanks and Field and Miss Gussie
Booth, to draft resolutions .of apprecia
tion. The committee was of the opinion
that In view of the controversy existing
no resolutions should bo adopted, and
consequently- a blank report was made,
which report was unanimously adopted
without debate. Following that, recon
sideration was had upon the question of
giving a reception, and after a heated
discussion the question was laid upon the
table, thus rescinding the order that a
reception be given. In this discussion
It was .asserted that President Coleman
was trying to use the students as a means
of retaining his position as president. It
is also learned that after the committee
had been appointed and prior to the sec
ond meeting of the student body, some
of the members of the faculty had been
talking to the students against Presi
dent Coleman, one of the professors, Mr.
Bach, having devoted a considerable por
tion of a recitation period to an open
criticism and denunciation of Coleman.
University May Lose Gift.
Members of the committee say that the
blank report was not Intended as a slap
at the president but was merely an at
tempt to keep the student body out of
the controversy, which had divided the
board of trustees, and tho faculty es
pecially, since the students knew little
about the merits of the quarrel. Many of
the students, however, regard the action
taken as a slap at President Coleman.
President Coleman has long made it an
Invariable rule not to be interviewed re
garding his own controversies or those
of other people, and he declines In this
Instance to say anything about either the
action taken by the student body or the
trouble between himself and the board of
trustees.
Professor Boyer, dean of the college,
who has been, generally reported to be
Coleman's chief opponent, said today that
he knows nothing of the students action
except what he has heard second or
third-hand. He admits that there was a
disagreement between himself and Presi
dent Coleman, but says an understanding
was reached and .relations now existing
are pleasant. So far as he knows, he
says, pleasant relations exist among
members of the faculty.
C. B. Moores, a member of the board
of trustees, vigorously condemns the
action of the students and expresses the
opinion that they were influenced by out
siders to take the action they did. Mem
bers of the board who favored letting
Coleman go did so upon the ground that
his usefulness had ended because of bis
disagreement with the president of the
board of trustees and with the members
of the faculty.
It was rumored today in university cir
cles that A. B. -Eaton, of Union, who
recently donated 150.000 for the erection
of a new building on the campus, would
withdraw the donation because of the re
tirement of Coleman, but there is no con
firmation of the rumor.
DEAD. OF THE NORTHWEST
Asa Jones, Pioneer Veteran.
ALBANY, Or., Feb. 23. (Special.) Asa
Jones, Bald to be the oldest member of the
Grand Army of the Republic in Oregon,
died this morning at the home of his
daughter, Mrs. -M. McCauley, two miles
east of Albany. He was a native of New
York, S3 years of age. He served in the
Civil War in Company H. Sixteenth Wis
consin Infantry. Mr. Jones came to
Oregon 20 years ago and resided at Hub
bard until eight years ago. when he came
to Linn County. He leaves three chil
dren, Mrs. Carrie Montgomery, of Wa
pato. Wash.; Mrs. M. McCauley. of Al
bany, and S. G. Jones, of Glendale. Or.
The remains will be taken to Hubbard to
morrow for burial beside the body of his
wife. The deceased is the third person
oVer 85 years of age to die at Albany jn
the past three days.
Anna Buseli.
OREGON CITY. Or., Feb. 23.-Special.)
Anna Busch. eldest - daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. Julius Busch, of Logan, died at
the age of 14 years of tuberculosis of the
bone. She recently underwent an opera
tion in wmcn one of her feet was ampu
tated. Since that time she has gradually
failed.
Looking Over Tieton Project.
"NORTH YAKIMA. Wash., Feb. 23.
(Special.) A. P. Davis, chief engineer
of the Reclamation Bureau Service, ar
rived this morning, and immediately pro
ceeded, in company with District Engineer
Swfgert, located here, to the Ticton Dis
trict to Investigate the situation there.
Only one day will be taken to make the
investigation. The work Is proceeding
on the canal wholly under the direction
of Federal officials of the Reclamation
Bureau.
Brings Railroad to Knees.
GARFIELD, Wash.. Feb. 22. (Spe
cial.) J. W. Reudenbush, a local at
torney, has made settlement with the
O. R. & N. Railroad for 50 for dama
ges sustained by reason of the rail
road carrying him almost one-half mile
beyond the station here last November,
as he was returning from Southern
Idaho, and required him to get off at
the junction in the dark, landing him
on a heap of scrap Iron.
Verdict for $3000.
ABERDEEN , Wash., Feb. 23. (Spe
cial.) The Jury In the case of Alexander
Gustafson vs. The A. J. West Lumber
Company, returned a verdict for $2000
damages to the plaintiff. The defense
moved to non-suit the case and when that
motion was denied produced a number of
witnesses to prove that plaintiff was neg
ligent himself. Some of the jurors were
In favor of allowing the entire $7000 eued
for but compromised on 52000.
AUTOS TOWED Bf HORSES
SNOWDRIFTS PROVE TOO MUCH
FOR THEIR OWN POWER.
American Car Reaches Michigan
City Still in Lead Paris Still
Some 20,000 Miles Away.
MICHIGAN CITY, Ind., Feb. 23. The
American car reached here at 10 o'clock
tonight. C. A. Coey, of Chicago, met
the machine at New Carlisle and will
accompany It to Chicago.
LA PORTE, Tad., Feb. 23. The
American car in the New York to
Paris automobile endurance contest
left Rolling Prairie, Ind., at 3:45 P. M.
today, drawn by three teams of horses,
with shovelers ahead.
On account of the snowdrifts, the car
which left New Carlisle, Ind., at 9:45
A. M. had to be towed by horses prac
tically the entire distance. The party
hoped to spend the night either in La
Porte or Michigan City. La Porte is 59
miles from Chicago, with Paris about
20,000 miles away to the West.
SOUTH BEND, Ind., Feb. 23. The
Italian car reached South Bend at S
o'clock tonight. It was towed into
Goshen by horses, owing to the snow
drifts. The American entries pilot car, which
reached South Bend this morning, will
be shipped to Detroit, the chauffeur,
John Sherry, being 111.
HOTLY RESENTS CHARGES
(Continued From First Page.)
for immunity. I deny this most emphat
ically, because the Government has not
got any case against me, and never did
have, and the testimony that I did give
in the Hail trial was supported by
Mitchell's letter and was not of sufficient
importance to call for immunity. I do
not see why I should need immunity
when the Government itself concedes and
acknowledges that the field notes, which
were investigated by the grand Jury and
upon which investigation I was indicted,
had never been signed by me or ac
knowledged by me as a notary public.
If such is the fact, and the Government
admits that, then the testimony on which
I was Indicted was not and could not be
material.
Had Mitchell's Consent.
"There Is one other reflection which
Senator Fulton makes, and which I deny,
and thift is that I turned over his corre
spondence or Mitchell's correspondence to
the Government. As I testified in the
Hall trial, Mitchell gave me permission to
submit our correspondence to Mr. Burns
-which I did with Mitchell's full consent,
and I desire further to say that the Gov
ernment had full knowledge of the Mitchell-Fulton
letter, word for word, long be
fore I was indicted, and did not obtain it
either directly or indirectly, through me.
"Fulton says in his statement that he
pities me. The facts are that Fulton al
ways did have a great deal of pity for
me and it has existed ever since the night
he was elected to the United States Sen
ate. In fact, all of the Mitchell "push'
have been in the habit of sending me bou
quets of pity. But I am out of politics
and am practicing law and last year made
three times in cash money what the office
of United States District Attorney is
worth, so I don't need any pity just at
this time.
Then Why This Change?
"Fulton also says' that I am foolish.
He considered me a very bright man in
1S95 when I made a speech nominating
him for the United States Senate. He
also spoke highly of my intelligence at
another time, when I presented his name
In the caucus for President df the Senate.
He also did not seem to think that I was
foolish when on the last night of the
session of the State Senate of 1903 he
wrote with his own hand and introduced
In the Senate with his own articular or
gans a resolution thanking me as Presi
dent of the Senate for the able, fair and
impartial way in which I had presided
over the Senate and moved Its adoption
by a rising vote.
"I only refer to this for the purpose of
showing that In the estimation of some
men a man may be a bright and capable
man at one period in the history of Ore
gon politics and a fool at another."
OLD BALL PLAYER DIES
James H. Mullee, Known on Coast,
Succumbs to Pneumonia.
SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 23. James H.
Mullee. an oldtime ballplayer, who was
a pitcher for teams in Los Angeles, San
Francisco, Portland and Seattle In
former days, died here today of pneu
monia. Mullee's greatest fame came
when he pitched a game in which the
old pioneers defeated a team of all
stars from the big Eastern leagues.
Alleged Bunco Artist Caught.
SALEM, Or., Feb. 23. (Special.) News
has been received here of the arrest of
A. L. Moser, at Boise. Idaho, on a charge
of obtaining about $50 from Salem mer-
I chants on worthless bank checks.
BLOODLESS WAR
WITH JAPANESE
Fowler, of Exclusion-League
Fame, in Debate That Be
comes Exciting.
AUDIENCE MISSES POINT
Hears Speaker Say, "In Case or War
America Would Lose " and Starts
to Throw Him Out. He Meant
'Oriental Trade, Though.
SEATTLE, Wash.. Feb. 23. (Special.)
A bloodless warfare between America
and Japan was waged this afternoon In
Egan's Hall, Arcade building, on Orien
tal exclusion. The two opponents were
Jihei Hashiguchl, editor of the Japan
Current, student at the State University,
and full of patriotism and long words,
and A. E. Fowler, erstwhile secretary of
the Japanese-Corean Exclusion- League
In this city, but now avoiding the lime
light as far as possible.
Hashiguchl and Fowler met In spirited
debate, nominally, on- the subject of ex
clusion as applied to Japanese by the
United States, but really a series of
rambling excursions into the past, pres
ent and future of sociology, economics,
ethnology, anthropology, history and re
ligion. During the debate everything
from socialism to Samurai was brought
up and disposed of.
The close of the meeting was enlivened
by an incipient uprising among some vio
lently patriotic and demonstrative white
men, who started to resent remarks
which they misinterpreted. This hap
pened when a Japanese CYamaka), who
was not on the original bill, requested
and received permission to speak, five
minutes on points that he thought ought
to be made clear.
t
Objects- to, America's Losing.
Yamaka said that the commercial side
of the question had been lost sight of in
the debate, and he wanted to rise and
remark that if America and Japan should
quarrel over exclusion America would
lose a valuable Oriental trade.
"This trade is worth more to you
Americans that you could possibly lose
by the presence of the Japanese," he
said, "and If America and Japan should
fight. America would lose"
Just at this point cries of "Rotten!"
."That's not so!" "Throw him out!" came
from all parts of the house, and three
or four men Jumped to their , feet, ap
parently anxious to cvry out the spirit
of the last remark.
T. E. Latimer, a student at the State
University and chairman of th meeting,
advanced and soothed the angry men
and Yamaka continued.
"As I said when you interrupted me,
America would lose this valuable Orien
tal trade."
Finally he was allowed to proceed
peacefully. '
Fowler based his arguments for Jap
anese exclusion mainly on an assertion
that the Japanese are able to drive out
white labor, because they can live more
cheaply than the white man.
Humane Sentiments Applauded.
Hashiguchl replied that Fowler's argu
ments could be easily reduced to one
that the Japanese Is different from the
white man and should therefore be ex
cluded. Moreover, he said that Japanese
would assimilate- with Americans if
naturalized and given the chance to make
permanent homes here. He asserted with
some vigor that the Japanese here will
never be a menace to America, because
they will always be outnumbered by the
Americans ten to one.
After the Yamaka Incident Fowler
said: "Yamaka talks about the devotion
of Japanese-Americans to their adopted
country, but I'd like to ask this ques
tion: How many of you Japanese, in
case of war with Japan, would go to
the front and fight for America?"
This almost preciplated another uproar,
but it was quickly changed to cheers
when Yamaka rushed back to the plat
form and shouted:
"If war should break out with Japan,
many of my countrymen would do as I
would do enlist in the Red Cross service
and help to care for the sick and wound
ed on the battle field and in camp."
EXPECT BUT SHORT TIE-UP
Marine-Strike Shows Xo Change in
San Francisco.
SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 23. The lum
ber arrivals today amounted to 1.700.
000 feet. The vessels which came Into
port were the Sea Foam, the Wasp, the
South Coast, Washington, and the Sau
sallto. The Sea Foam and the Wasp,
which belong to members of the Ship
owners' Association, will discharge
their crews and be laid up, on account
of the marine engineers' strike.
The steam schooner situation Is un
changed, according to the statements
of the parties Involved. Both sides
are still holding out, and the opinion
expressed by many is that the tie-up
will be a long one.
Owing to the particularly low rates
on lumber, the lumber-schooner own
ers are not over-anxious to run their
vessels in any event, and hence the
strike does not come so hard on them.
There was no attempt today to unload
the lumber brought to port.
The schooner William Nottingham,
which came Into port a few days ago
In a sinking condition and long over
due, left today for Seattle, In tow of
the tug Dauntless. 1
MAIN WATER PIPE BURSTS
Part ol Paris Flooded and Much
' Damage Done.
PARIS. Feb. 23. The main water
pipe of Paris, under Tuillerles street,
burst this evening and converted the
street into a torrent. The water flood
ed cellars In various side streets, ex
tinguishing fires and stopping the dy
namos in at least one large hotel, put
ting the building In darkness. The Fire
Department was ifngaged for hours in
pumplng'out the water.
A KBW D3PART1IRE.
The cost of Interments has been greatly
reduced by the Holman Undertaking
Company.
Heretofore It has been the custom of
funeral directors to make charges for all
Incidentals connected with a funeral. The
Edward Holman Undertaking Company,
the leading funeral directors of Portland,
have departed from that custom. When
casket is furnished by us we make no
extra charges for embalming, hearse to
cemetery, outside box or any services that
may be required of us, except clothing,
cemetery and carriages, thus effecting a
saving of $25 to $75 on each funeral.
THE EDWARD HOLMAN UNDERTAK
ING CO., 230 Third at., cor. Salmon.
Etablihod 1850 Fifty-Seven Years in Buine
Opman,gJolfe$o
Quality Considered Our Prices Are Always the Lowest
r
Monday
Women's Sample Hosiery,
all sizes and colors, 35c,
$1.25 values.
$3.50 black Heatherbloom petticoats, $2.79
Smart new Spring 1908
Swiss and nainsook edges and insertions, ICa
1 to 16 inches wide, values to 50c at . .
$1.75 one-clasp cape gloves, Dent style, $1.19
75c latest improved incandescent gas lights, 39c
$1.00 Lindsay burner gas lights, 59c
$1.25 Ramsdell inverted gas lights, $1.25
20c, 25c, 35c incandescent gas mantles, 10c
25c globes for gas lights, 15c
Other gas light supplies on sale
Sale of Lace Curtains, Rugs, Neckwear, Books,
Stationery, Waists, Jewelry, Muslin Underwear
Lipman, Wolfe & Co.
Quality Considered Our Prices Are Always the Lowest
The Fashion Show
of the Season appears in
Butterick Fashions, Spring 1908
the new publication issued by the
great Butterick fashion house. The
price is 20 cents, including a certif
icate good for
One Butterick Pattern Free
This book is jointed on high-grade
paper and contains styles from
Paris, London, Berlin and New
York, illustrated by some thou
sands of illustrations by foremost
fashion ai'tists.
10 OWNS NORTH COAST?
SPECULATION' AS TO INTERESTS
BEHIND ROAD.
Reasons for Thinking One of Four
Roads Slay Be Owner Work
to Begin March 1.
NORTH YAKIMA. Wash., Feb. 23.
(Special. Sub-contractors on the
North Coast Railroad are completing
arrangements to begin at an early
date the promised actii'e construction
work all along the line of the route.
Activities will be begun in this county
by March 1, according to latest re
ports. The people of this part of the
state have been watching the progress
of the North Coast with more than
ordinary Interest, on account of the
pressing need for better transportation
facilities here, the Northern Pacific
having been unable to handle the in
creased output of the orchards and
fields of this district.
They are not worrying about the
"identity" of the line. All they want
is the service. However, much specu
lation is yet rife as to what Interests
are behind the North Coast. It was
observed that when Harriman was
desperately endeavoring to get into
Seattle, the' North Coast waa making
a similar effort. When Harriman Anal
ly succeeded, the North Coast people
withdrew their propositions in that
city. The Harriman interests are well
provided for in Spokane, apparently
leaving the North Coast to complete
it.s work of obtaining rights of way,
which It did. Thus the credulous fig
ure the sympathy of Interests be
tween the North Coast and the Har
riman lines.
On the other hand, the Chicago, Mil
waukee & St. Paul road, which is mak
ing an unparalleled record of speed in
Its construction work, has made no ap
parent effort to get into Spokane, al
though it is building directly toward
that city from two directions and can
not, of course, afford to pass around
It. The North Coast has abundant
trackage in thai city. This suggests
an alliance between the North Coast
and the Chicago, Milwaukee & St.
Paul, In the railroad geography .of
some people.
Interested people in this district
would rather take stock In the sugges
tion that the Canadian Pacific is be
hind the North Coast; but, although
there are some indications of allied
interests, it is difficult to build the
speculation on apparently tenable
ground. In view of opposing conditions.
Others who speak with some knowl
edge of the situation declare that the
North Coast is practically owned by a
combination of four big lines the
Union Pacific, the Canadian Pacific, the
Northwestern and the Chicago, Mil
waukee & St. Paul. It traverses a
field In which all of these big lines
are deeply Interested, unless It be well
to except the Canadian Pacific, and It
may be easily seen why that trans
continental line should desire to come
into this rich district.
The North Coast, as outlined by Its
mostly "Onyx" brand,
50c, 75c, $1, nQp
model Tailored Suits, $35
surveys, on part of which much con
struction work has been done, trav
erses the hesj-t of the richest field in
the entire Northwest. It will furnish
an outlet either to the south, the north
or the east for one of the most exten
sive and productive regions in the
West: but the secret of its relation
ship to other lines has been kept abso
lutely from the public.
PUBLIC MEETINGS STOPPED
Philadelphia Police Fearful of Dem
onstrations Much 111 Feeling.
PHILADELPHIA, Feb. 23.-The action
of the police in preventing the meeting
of a number of societies and organiza
tions in the, foreign settlement In the
southern section of ttie city has aroused
much ill-feeling among the foreigners.
The action followed an order .by Director
of Public Safety Clay, in which the police
were directed to .top the anarchists from
holding any meetings. The order wia
given in consequence of the riot that fol
lowed the parades of the unemployed
foreigners here on Thursday.
The meeting of a Jewish beneficial so
ciety was stopped, as was also one that
was to have been addressed by a well
known lawyer, who was to have talked
against anarchism. Despite, the police
vigilance, the professed anarchists did
hold a meeting In a hall, at which time
they decided to retain a lawyer and pre
pare to advertise and hold a big meeting,
so that they can test the law and see
whether they have the right of "free
6-peech."
The Central Labor Union today placed
itself on record as opposed to parades of
the "unemployed'' by refusing to attend
a labor meeting In tho northern section
of the city unless given assurances that
there would be no parades.
"We want to keep out of such demon
strations. They won't get any one work
and they lead to trouble," is the way one
of the delegates expressed it.
Nebraska Kxperlment Station has kept a
eareful record for ten years of milk cows,
and they report a net profit of $40 from
each row a year.
AND WEDDING
INVITATIONS
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