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1 TITE HOItNTXG OREGOXIAX. WEDNESDAY. APRIL 8, 190S. ML BAGS BURNED Fire in Mailcar on Portland Seattle Run. REGISTERED SACKS UNHURT Bin tip of Vnktiown Oripln Discov ered Engineer Makes Quick Run to Siding. Where Car Is De tached Starts on Platform. SEATTLK, April 7. Fire in the mail and express-car of thfe northbound Scat-:le-Portland pappTiBer train of the North ?rn Pacific Railroad two .or three miles -outh of the Tacoma yards thus morntn?, r ulted In ronsi durable danraice by water, to two truck loads of California and Ore 'n letter mail for Seattle. The regis I'Tfd mail was not damaged. The fire was started on the blind end nf the coach and burned to the inside hfforo It was discovered. The, engineer ran with all possible speed into the Taco ma railroad yards, where the Kire Le partmcnt put out the blaze. The car was badly damaged. The Postoffice Inspector reports that no reeiptored mail was destroyed and the preatnst damage to other mail was (lone by water. Officials of the company have not determined how the fire started. LEAVES OVER 100 DESCENDANTS James Webb, Pioneer of Gervais,, Dies at Age of 8 6. GERVAIS, Or.. April 7. (Special. V James Webb.- an old-time resident of this section, died here Saturday from an at tack of pneumonia at the ae of 86. Mr. "Webb was born in Linn County. Ohio. February 21, $22. He was married to MIm Christine Leach in 1840. In 1M7 they moved to Oregon by ox team across the plains, first locating- on Sauries Island, and then in Oreg-on City. Later they moved to this section, where he took up the donation land claim on which he died. His wife died some years- apo: Mr. Webb was a man of wonderfully vigorous mind and until the time of his death possessed a splendid memory of early days and many incidents that hap pened then. He leaves a targe family as follows: Mrs. Mary Oroshong, of Jefferson: Mrs. Jane Wade, of Gervais; Mrs. Tobiatha James Webb; Stevens, of Gervais, Mrs. Harriet Gro shonp. of WUhoit: Mrs. Annie B. Taylor, of Gervais: Mrs. Sarah Skeen, of Molalla; Mrs. Margie Becker, of Gervais; Mrs. l.ucinria Simmons, of Molalla: Frank Webb, of Silverton: Pan Webb, of Wood- ' burn and George Webb, of Gervais. In addition to the above he leaves over 100 descendants. f fcPECIAIj TRAINS FOR Ft LTON speaks at Dallas to Large Audience From Nearby Towns. DAIXAS. Or., April 7. (Special.) T nited State Senator Fulton epoke here tonight to a large audience enthusiastic in their applause of his addres. Like his . thcr speeches throughout the Valley, Mr. Fulton made this a dental of the charges brought against him by Francis J. Hcney. He touched upon the charges made by J. H. Smith, of Salem, and brought in sup port of bis denial of these an affidavit of Mr. Powell, of Albany. The (surrounding country was well rep resented at the address, special trains bing run from Independence and other plav cf. APPOINTMENTS A TIE GIVEN OUT United Evangelical Pastors Stationed by Committee. PALLAS, Or.. April 7.-(SpeciaU The Stationing committee of the I'nited Evan gel k al Church has announced its ap pointments for the coming jpar as fol lows: Tortland District. M. J. Baltantyne; Port land First. A. A. Winter; Portland Fecnnd. C C Poling; Ookley Green. J. Ron-mox: Pt. John, C. P. Gates; HUlsboro. S. J. MndBy; Daton and Lafayette, Witlla-m S. Plo man. Pallas District. II. L. Pratt; OallRR. N W Harer; Corvallls, E K. McVIcker; Inde pendence, S. Ed Launer; Sodav-llle. C. A. Funis; Bridgeport. M. B. Young; Kings Val ley. J. .L Burn: Maple ton. N. W. Phelps; Florence. C3. L. I,oelI; Salem. H. A. Deck; Brocks. O. J. Goettel. CAKE APPIiAUDED AT MILTON Principles Advocated Please Large Audience Gathered. MILTON", Or., April 7.Spocfal.V-Hon. H. M. Cake, the champion of Statement No. 1. addressed a large-elzed audience at Badger's Hall this evening In the in terest of his candidacy for the Republican nomination for United States Senator. He advocated conservation of our forests, opening of the navigable streams of the Mate, eulogized the Roosevelt policies and made a strong appeal for the selection of United States Senators by the people through the direct primary law and State ment No. 1. His talk on this subject re ceived hearty applause. ness, so he did not see how he could keep him away. Judge Burnett could not see that these facts lessened the of fense and he imposed a o0 fine. Sam Miller, Andrew Lundeen and David Kiel, all of Aurora, pleaded guilty to selling liquor to minors and, paid fines of $50 each. Saloon men Are lined. SALEM, Or.. April 7. (Special.) Joseph Mielke. a Stayton saloonkeeper, today pleaded guilty to permitting a minor to loiter about his place of business. He aid by way of explanation, that the boy who frequents his place U his son. &n3 own a tUIr4 latexes t la the fcugi-J Safety for Eurcne Boaters. EUGENE. Or., April 7. Special. 1 A mass meeting of townspeople and students vwas held at the Commercial Club rooms last night to discuss plans for ensuring- safety to those boating- on the mill race. A club, which is in tended to include all those who have boats on the race, will be organized at once and rlsrid rules made for the members. The organization will be known as the University of Oregon Canoe Club. A resolution was passed at this meet ing favoring . the establishment of a bathing house where girts and women can be taught how to swim. Bellingham to Entertain. BKI J,INGHAM April 7. Plans were completed this afternoon 'for the enter tainment of the officers and sailors of the cruiser squadron under Admiral Sebree, which will arrive tomorrow after noon for. a four days stay. The pro gramme includes a ball for the officers, another -for the seamen, theater parties, skating parties, dances, dinners, trolley and automobile rides. LANE COUNTY SOCIETY BE LIEVES IN APPROPRIATION. Passes Resolutions Reciting Good Accomplished Through Ore gon Institution. El'OENE. Or., April 7. (Special.) The German Relief Society of Lane County has passed the following resolutions rela tive to the State University: Whereas, the last Oregon Legislature ap propriated the mim of $13T.,ono to rre ex pended for the support and m-alritenarice of the University of Oregon, and Whereas, said appropriation has been re ferred to the vote of the people and will be voted upon by the peorl of this state at the coming election In June, and "Whereas, e German-born. citizens, believ ing in higher education and knowing fully the value of a thorough and efficient edu cational system, and believing the Uni versity of Oregon will. In the future, as it has in Its past, be a credit and a source of pride to the whole State of Oregon, and Whereas, the University of Oregon has taught many hundreds of students (fully 200 alone in 1907 and U0S the German lan-' ffuage and German literature, and Whereas, we consider the University of Oregon as ono of the centers of German cut ture, now, therefore, be it Reserved. That we hereby pledge our sup port to secure liberal appropriations for the maintenance and support of the University of Oregon, and that we urge a!! German born and German-speaking citizens of Lane County and of the whole State of Oregon, to vote for the full amount of the university appropriation at the coming general elec tion in June. EMIL KOFPB, President. J. A. 8CHERZ1NGBK, Secretary. Med ford Hears Prohibition. MEDFORD, Or., April 7. (Special.) The campaign for prohibition opened here tonight. Rev. William Foulkcs. of Port land, speaking in the cause. The Medford band furnished music. Uhe 'S. R. O." sign was early in evidence,. Pamphlets were passed among the audience, giving statistics, to which Mr. Foulkcs differed, producing instead others in favor of his part of the argument. Mr. Foulkes favors local option and hopes to see local option in every case develop into prohibit tion. Logger Killed in Camp. HOQUIAM, Wash., April 7. (Special.) A logger named James Barrett was in stantly killed today in the camp of the Briscoe Logging Camp. He was em ployed as rigging sllnger and had made fast to a log and given a go-ahead signal. As the engineer hauled the log from its resting place Barrett stepped back, but got in the path of another heavy log which was released by the first one and was crushed to death. Barrett was about ?0 years of age and was formerly from St. Cloud, Minn. Trust Gets Can Factory. ASTORIA, Or., April 7. (Special.) The formal transfer of the plant of the Ken dall Can Company, In this city. ' to the American Can Company was made last evening, but the details of the sale cannot be learned here. It is understood that F. P. Kendalli of Portland, who was man ager of the. local plant, becomes North west manager for the American Can Company. Master Surrenders Himself. SEATTLE, April 7. George Worley, master of the. United States' auxiliary vessel Abarenda, wanted In Porto Rico, where he Is charged with having beaton some sailors, surrendered voluntarily here today, and was released on bond. First Wool Clip Comes. ARLINGTON, Or., April 7. (Special.) MRS. MAXJSDA T VI FEB. t . Pioneer of Washington County. Who THed at HUlsboro Monday at the Are of "27. -"The first of this season's clip xf wool was brought to market from Smythe & Smith's shearing plant last week. No sales are reported. Enlisted Man Dies. ASTORIA, Or., April 7. (Special.-) Palmer Wynne, an enlisted man In the Coast Artillery, stationed at Fort Colum bia, died at the hospital there this morn ing of tonsilitis after a short illness. He was 3S years of age and a native of England. Tomorrow and Friday will positively be the last days for discount on West Side &&b bills, PjarU&ad Ga Compaziy, LESS RIGID Chinese Says Countrymen Are Leaving Coast. LABOR GREATLY NEEDED Therefore. Conn Dip Pays, the Bars Should He Let Down for Few Thousand ETcry Tear Proph esies a War Soon. SEATTLE. AVash.. April 7. (Special.) That the I'nited States should relax in some depree the Chinese immigration laws is the opinion of Goon Dip, a pio neer Chinese merchant of Portland, who has lived on the. Coast for 30 years. "There were 150,000 Chinese on the Coast 10 years ago," said Goon Dip, who speaks Knglish fluently, "and today there are not more than 60.000. In 10 years more, unless Congresr should change ex isting laws, there will be hut 10.000 or 15.000. The Pacific Coast Chinese are either dying off or returning to China. Many that visit their native land never return to this country because of the difficulty of entering. It seems to me the Government should treat the Chinese as liberally as it doc the Japanese or other alien races. ' A few thousand Chi nese should ba allowed to come to the Coast annually. They furnish a kind of labor which is much needed and for which the whites are unfitted. "Besides, China as a nation is advanc ing and. with America's Interest In the Orient, she should treat the Chi nese more fairly." Goon Dip has for years supplied all the Chiheso labor for the Northern canner ies. ' He predicts that the next war In the Orient will come as a result of the greed and rapacity of the Russians and Japanese and says that such a conflict is inevitable, in order that China's hold ings in aianchuria may not be despoiled. WIDOW OF PIONEER STOCK.M.VX Mrs. Ellen C. Johnson Dies tArtcr Several Months' Illness. THE DALLES. Or., April 7. (Spe cial.) Mrs. Ellen C. Johnson, widow of the late Joel Coleman Johnson, a pioneer of the earlv fifties, who died Mm. Ellen C. Johnson, at the home of her daughter, Mrs. M. D. K&rrlnprton, at "VVrentham, April 4, after an illness of several months, was buried here today. Kllen Sophia Crockett was born in Rockland, Me., August 3, 1S39, her parents being: James and Mary Crock ett, frhe was married to Joel Coleman Johnson, who hnd returned to his na tive home at Mt. .Desert Island, Maine, after a residence of 15 years in Idaho and Oregon, on February 13, 1S6S, and sailed with him shortly thereafter for San Francisco by the way of Panama, After a short stay in California, Mr. and Mrs. Johnson went to Salem, Or., where they resided for seven years, moving- thence to Wasco County, where they settled on the banks of the Des chutes River four miles east of the present postoffice of "Wrentham. Be ing one of tlie earliest settlements in that section of the country their home was made headquarters by stock men In their round-ups over the large ter ritory adjacent. Here Mr. Johnson died in 1903. Mrs. Johnson is sur vived by one son. James C. Johnson of The Dalles; two daughters, Mrs. M. D. Farrington and Mrs. Herbert Eggfcert of AVrrntham; three brothers. Charles and George Crorkett of Rockland. Me., and John Crorkett. living in Massachu setts, and one sister, Mrs. Ada Free man of Southwest Harbor, Maine. AliASKAX ENJOYED STEALING Youth 15 Years Old Mad Xo Effort to Hide His Misdeeds. SEATTLE, Wash.. April 7. (Special.) A cable to the Times from Sitka. Alaska, says that Speridon Chlrlie. an IS-year-old youth, recently discharged from the Rus sian Mission School for attempting to de spoil it of costly altar relics donated by the Czar.- finds himself in the toils of the a4f after successfully robbing three of the largest stores in Sitka. After petty sums had been missed from the Mission treasury. Chirlic fell under suspicion and was caught in the act of making off with several valuable pieces of plate. In rapid succession three important thefts startled the little Alaskan town, and they were rapidly traced to Chirlic, wbo made no effort to hide his loot. That part of it which was wearing apparel he put on to improve his appearance, and the money ohtained he spent with liberal ity. In all, it is believed that the boy obtained goods to the amount of several thousand dollars. HEARINGS OF COMMISSION Many Complaints to Be Heard by Washington Railroad Board. OL.YMPIA. Or.. April 7. (Special.) On May 7 at Olympia. the State Railroad Commission will begin a series of hear ings upon the mass of accumulated com plaints from all parts of the state re garding station facilities, the need of station agents and the reasonableness of the grain rate from Eastern Washington. The Commission will first hear evidence upon the reasonableness of station facili ties at Rochester and Outlook. Complaint from RUzville regarding station facilities and the reasonableness of the grain rate from Kantern Washington will then be heard, after wiUcb, th Commission. .wlH Merchants Savings G Trust Company 247 WASHINGTON STREET Capital$150,000 Pays interest on Savings Ac counts and Time Certificates. Receives deposits subject to check -without limitation as to amount. Effects collections in any part of the country on most reason able terms. Acts as Trustee in all legiti mate relations. Cares for properties., collects rents, etc. Interviews solicited with those contemplating any phase of our service. probably go to Ritzvilla to make a per sonal Inspection of the station and to take testimony on the rate complaint. Testimony will be taken May 11 as to the grain rate against the Great Northern and Northern Pacific. On May 13 the Commission will go to Spokane, where testimony will be taken upon complaints asking for additional station facilities from Bossburg, Espanola, Waukon, La mona, Krbe, Adrian, Wenatchee, Ma lagna, Winchester, Cashmire and Leaven worth. The Commission will probably adjourn from Spokatfe to enable it per sonally to visit and Inspect the station facilities at each place. ROSEB I'RG HAS UNEMPLOYED Army of 200 Calls on Mayor and food Is Provided. ROSEBURG, Or., April 7. (Special.) This city has been overrun lately, partly by regular tramps, partly by workingmen out of employment. The Southern, Pacific Company has added empty freight and passenger cars to Its regular freight trains In order to move these gentry where resumption of railroad work In the Northwest 1s taking place. Today some 200 of these men formed themselves tn regular order and marched to the residence of Mayor B. V. Hoover. There they requested that their wants he provided for. Mayor Hoover, after In specting them, readily granted their re quest and they were divided into squads and in charge of officers were taken to the different restaurants and fed. To night they will be sent north. TEACHERS' ASSOCIATION OPENS Expected That Attendance at Pull man Will Reach 1000. PULLMAN. Wash., April 7. (Special.) This afternoon the programme of the Inland Empire Teachers- Association, now convened In Pullman, was opened with an address of welcome by President E. A. Bryan, of the State College. The other speakers In the afternoon were Professor E. O. Slsson, of the University of Wash ington; Professor W. G. Beach, and Pro fessor C. Tlmblin, both of the State Col lege faculty. At present about 700 teach ers and visitors are in Pullman, repre senting. Eastern Washington and Bonner and Kootenai Counties of Idaho. The Idaho delegation will arrive tomorrow, which, with other delegates yet to come, will swell the attendance to about 1000. Build Larger Grandstand. SALEM, Or..- April 7. (Special.) The State Pair Board tonight ordered an addition to the grandstand at the fair grounds race track, increasing the seat ing capacity 60 per cent. The grand stand will be extended forward from the present front so that the front row of seats will be on the line of the race track. W. E. McElroy was chosen mu sical director for the fair of 1908. Snpreme Court Dcclsins. SALEM, Or., April 7. (Special.) Decisions were rendered by the Su preme Court today as follows: Phll-omine Smith, appellant, vs. .Tames The Stamp of Wholesomeness is on Every COLUMBIA HAM Put there by the U. S. Gov ernment. The same is true of our Bacon and Lard All Oregon Products. Have the best for your table. They cost no moire UNION MEAT CO. OF OREGON Pioneer Packers of the Pacific SHAKE INTO TOUR SHOES Allan's Foot-Ea, & powder. Relieves pain ful, smarting, nervous feet and ingrowing mails, and instantly takes the sting out of corns and bunLans. 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You will find them liberal; the kind that protects you to every reasonable extent that makes a m n 1 e promise and fulfills the promise. jm m FOR MEN W WOMEN 2.7 Q WASHINGTON STREET, A Mosgrove, et al., respondents, from Umatilla Supreme 'Court of Ordr of Foresters, hp- pollant. vs. Oscar Cole, t al., respondents. County, H. J. Bean. Judge; remanded; pellant, from MulUmmah. County, A. 1. from Marlon County. William Galloway, opinion by Chief Justice Bean. It is held in Frazer, Judge; reversed and. remanded; Judge; affirmed: opinion by Justice Eafcln. this oass that an Indian may 'have recourse opinion per curiam. Held that the motion Dillard & Clayton, respondents, vs. Olalla In the state courts against persons tres- for nonsuit should have been allowed and Mining Company, appellants, from Douglan passing upon lands held by him as allottee, the jury Instructed to tlnd for defendant. County. 1,. T. Harris Judge, affirmed; Marie Stewart "Whlgham. respondent, vs. TV. H. 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