THE MORNING OREGOMAN. THURSDAY, APRIL Ifi. 1903.
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EFFECT OF FLOOD
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All of our Finest Imported Millinery, personally
selected in Paris and London by Mile. Myers, at
these sensationally reduced prices for Easter
week. The best opportunity of the season.
$ 18.00 Hats for $13.50
$ 20.00 Hats for SjSlS.OO
$ 22.00 Hats for .$16.50
$ 25.00 Hats for ....$18.75
$ 28.00 Hats for $21.00
$ 30.00 Hats for $22.50
$ 35.00 Hats for 5j?2.2."V
$ 38.00 Hats for $28.oO
$ 40.00 Hats for $30.00
$ 45.00 Hats for $33.75
$ 50.00 Hats for $37.50
$100.00 Hats for $75.00
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Great Easter Sales Today in Every Section
Today is a splendid opportunity to buy the apparel you need for Easter. The
store is not so crowded as it is on the last two days of the week. The salespeople can
devote more time to you and you will not be bothered by jostling crowds. Special
Easter week sales will be found in every department. Among the greatest values
will be found
Corsets for Easter Gowns Expert Fitting
-Special Easter Sales of Suits and Waists
Special Sales Neckwear, Veils, Veiling
Special Easter Sale of Gloves, All Kinds
Easter Sales of Ribbons, Handkerchiefs
Easter Sales Muslin Underwear, Etc.
A Great Easter Glove Sale
lot 1
One-Clasp Kid
Walk'g Gloves
One- clasp Walking
Gloves, Dent style, in tan
and brown, all sizes.
Two - clasp, extra quality
Kid Gloves in black, tan,
brown, white, mode, ox
blood, navy, green, pearl,
cream. All sizes.
Values to $1.50 at
5c--
LOT 2
2 and 3-Clasp
Kid Gloves
All sizes in black, white,
tan, brown, mode, oxblood,
navy, green, pearl, cream.
Two and 3 - clasp Over
seam French Kid Gloves
a-clasp Pique Kid Glov
3-clasp Suede Gloves,
Values to $2.00
1.39
LOT 3
Trefousse
Reynier, Fownes
'All sizes and all colors,
superb qualities.
Three- clasp Over scam
Trefousse Kid Gloves 3
claap Pique Kid Trefousse
Gloves 3-clasp Fownes
quality Suede 3-clasp Rey
nier and Trefousse Suede.
Values to $2.75
LOT 4
16-Butt6n
Trefousse
Sixteen - button - 1 e n gth
genuine Trefousse Kid
Gloves, first quality, in all
colors and sizes.
Values to $4.50
$3.49
LOT 5
Long Suede
and Kid Gloves
Sixteen - button - length Kid
Gloves in tan, brown and
black; 16- button Suede or
Undress Kid, all colors and
sizes,
Regular $3.50 ,
$2.69
LOT 6
16-Button
Cape Gloves
Sixteen-bu tton Cape
Gloves, Dent style. Elbow
length Fluffy Ruffles, Mili
tary Gloves,
$4.50 Values
$3.39
rRt orthrrn I Ann From Hclona
to Great Fall In Ruins Smeller
a t irea t Fa lis In Oh n go p.
Farming Country Flooded.
HKLRNA, Mont., Airil IB. --Willi several
tmilx do troy rd In t ho little fnwn of
Tntir. -W mile north of Hlenn. hundreds
of head of cut. tie and livestock drowned
mid 1 1-m (Jrea t Northern Knilroud trit'-ks
wrtjdmd nwjiy for mllrH, th loss from the
fld Hiisod hy thfl hrfttkltiff of tlm (trMt
7o-rnt dHiii t HiniMfi- Ijiko yrH torday. H
1h einnrvttvoly ontinjt-d toiiiKhi. will
hp. approxttnn loly ll.Otttt.imo, which InoludcM
t hrt dHitinso t th riant. Jn vh?w, hiw
rvr, of the contraot htweon the Helena
Power TranmlKfllon t'ompany. owners of
th dnm. ho dtlie Wlnronsin Rrldc Iron
Company, of Milwaukee, it 1 ' jwis.iblo
thni the iHtror enmptmy will he HnNe for
all dfimnRea reati1t4nK' from the flood.
A ftep tnnk Ing a rare in I rxamlnu tlon of
the da in site today lne the water ha a
receded. M. H. (Jerry. Jr., (renernl niwn
aaer. Ik of the opinion that the wrecked
atmetiirft ran ho re-htitlt at a rot of p
Plbly (sn than $B.(Wil. That the rimn will
he rebuilt at onee and the ennstruetlon of
the third dam at Wolf Oeok. whloh was
approved by jSrcretary of War Taft yna
tenlay, will not be delayed ia assured by
a telegram reeelved (n lelena today from
ex-Governor Samuel T. Hunger, president
of tho Helena Power TranamlwHlon Com
pany, who n In New York. Mr. IIauaera
teleKTB.ni reada;
Th dnrn'M en I Ire rest represent only
Mlvnt lO p-r rent of the entire nmotint of
tunnrv tnmifd by tha two rompnnlrn, linee
Hipw In nn far luit t hut t lio lH?t will frn
nnllt. Th third dam will rIho h hlt.
mm w have the mony and th Oovprnmrnl
hnn approved the plan ; henlrlr?" our cmn
patty'H ru?itomerfi iivo every year morn than
th coat of the, dam.
. rieorjr R. Reedrr, formerly f'lty KiirI
neer of Helena, tonight returned from
ralir and hrinya the, flrat authentic atory
of tha (Ihiuhra to that town. To tho A
aoetated Preaa Mr. Reeder aald:
'rnlr h entirely cut on from the outtM
world mn far aa tl"irrtpb nnd trlephotn
eomrminlratlon la eonernd. but the Mori"
thnt appenr In the pit)" r(carrtiiK the
(Inmairf are (rratly exurf ffratrd. w a mm
rr ef f-t. only about half a .ton brtuKefi
wer wpt awny. The rtroat Northern
trackd have b1!! areatly damaiter hrtweon
lnm mouth of Wolf refk and one mile north
nf rralw, a dfwtanee of mix miles, and It
probably will be t hre week a bf-r train
rlr can be rnmH. The diinrnto to
( rain- all told la not more than $ UUhWV
SnwIter May Bo Wrecked.
A apeelal from threat Falls aays that
at oVloek tonight the Witter la slowly
rlalnit and that if it RoeM three feet
higher the chance, of aavinir the Boston Jfc
Montana amelter will be dubfoua. A re
lief train aent out over the Great North
ern from Great Fall thin morning wa
forced to return, afler poinff only a abort
Kfltanee. A similar exiydltion waa aent
from Helena thin morn in, but went only
a ahort distance beyond Wolf Creek. 'J3
mlle-j dlatiint, where a. la rice trnaa brldRo
bad been waahed out. Although It ia Im
possible at t hla lime to estimate the
amount of trackage d-st roved, railroad
officials say that train connection at
Great. Falls will be impossible during the
next t w oweeks.
A later report from Crntu snya the
water there is reaching- its normal stage.
The people who spent last night In the
hills have ret timed to the valley.
MUCH WHIPPING WAS DONE
doode Family on Trial In slem for
Disturbing; Heltjrlotia Meet I ng.
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SAl.KM. i n. April 15. (Special.
The trial of Miss T.on Goode, Mrs.
Nettle Rhodes and Jack Goode, on a
charge of disturbing a religious meet
ing about ten days ago. when the
members of the Goode family attacked
Presiding Klder Coffey, of the Free
Met hod 1st church, was begun In J us
tlee Webster a court this afternoon.
The evidence so far as prod uced dis
closed a story of t he assault substnn
t tally as already published, except
that H was shown in addition that
llev. Cook, of Woodhurn, a man of t? 7
years, was struck in the faet by one
of the attacking party and knocked off
the porch and that M rs. Roper, wife
of the pastor of the church in Salem,
was struck In the face. At the close
of the evidence for tho prosecution the
defense moved for dismissal upon the
ground thHt It had been shown that
the religious meeting adjourned bo
fere the disturbance took place, but
Judge Webster overruled the motion.
BOX RXE'S MYSTERY SOLVED
ISuns Third-Term Utorary Bureau
in Obscure Place.
ORMUON1AN NKWS Ft'RBAl. Wash
ington, April 16. For the past month
Senator Hourne has been myaferiously
disappearing every day aoon after the
Senate, convened. He would not be in
his commtttee-room nor at his apart
ment. It waa discovered today that he
h:u1 opened press-bureau headquarters at
No. $ Grant Place, an obscure neighbor
hood consisting mostly of cheap boarding
houses, and from there he is composing
and mailing vast quantities of aix'ond-cleetive-term
literature, having several
olearks and stenographers employed.
He has been busy there several weks
and his location was so out of the way
that no one would have known where
he was spondinc hla time had not neigh
bors beetime inquisitive reiranling wagon
loads of printed matter that went from
this house daily.
When Senators heard what Mr. Rourne
was doing, they accused him of running
a literary blmg pig.
Mci'usker IKkx Not Seek Office.
ORFXiOXIAS NKWS Bt'RKAl", Wash
ngton. April l.V Thomas McOueker, who
has been here as a witness in the land
fraud trials, declared today that he was
not a candidate for the postmastershiy
at Portland; that he ooes not want the
.ifflee. and would not consider the ten
der, should it be made to him. He omit
:ed to .state whether or not Senator
Hourne had made him an offer.
Borah to Speak on Brownsville.
Washington April 15. Senator Borah
rave notice today that he would speak on
ihe Brownsville question on Monday.
It i difficult In Knsland to arouse an
lr.tr.--t m the preservation of forests be-
sose of the universal substitution of coal
tVr wood as fuel.
AGAINST BIG NAVY
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$titi,641.471 lose than Knglnnd with an army
of 204,300 men and a navy of lUfl.ooo men;
that the Vnited States Is expending for
this purpose in excess of the amount ex
pended by Franco with her army of 550,
uoo men and her navy of 56.285 men, Ki.tiWt,
3: Should Kcly on Patriotism.
Maintaining that navies are btillt for
National defense, Tawney said that it
was not Intended and could not be Justi
fied upon the ground that they are neces
sary to satisfy an ambition to compete
with other nations in time of peace in
isize or number of fighting machines. He
argued that in the I'nlted States the pres
tige of power of the Nation did not de
pend upon the "size of tho Army and
Navy. The country had eighty millions
patriotic people "and it is in those that
the strength of our Nation exists and not
In our standing army or our permanent
naval establishment.
He contended that our strength lay
not In the size of our army but In the
patriotism of the people, who should not
he tatwrht to rely on a standing army and
navy Jarge enough to compete with those
of the world. If thore was any reason
to apprehend war. It had been withheld
from Congress. The geographic isolation
of the United States was a more valuable
means of defense than all the navies we
could build.
Need of Auxiliary Xavy.
He then condemned the lack of an
auxiliary navy, saying a more disgusting
spectacle was never witnessed than the
fact that the voyage of the fleet to the
Pacific was only made possible by 38 for
eign vessels. He concluded:
It may be that this great mistake is
due to the fact that a collier, which 1
as essential to the efficiency of the
Navy as a battleship, is not so at
tractive, does not involve the expendi
ture of so much money and does not
afford the opportunity for the same
pyrotechnic display upon the ocean or
nt the Summer resorts along the Coast
and for that reason we have made the
mistake of building a navy that to
day, in order to make its voyage from
one ocean to another, is obliged to rely
upon vessels belonging to other na
tions. Humphrey Tells True Motive.
Humphrey of Washington read a brief
note addressed to him by the President,
dated April 1.1. expressing surprise that
any one should oppose four more battle
ships, and Humphrey, waving his hand
toward both sides of the house, said that
everybody knew at the bottom of the
opposition to battleships was a design
to create campaign material.
Hayes of California said that he voiced
the desire of the people of his state In
speaking for four battleships. He de
clared that there "is a race question on
the Pacific Coast, an acute race question,
and we of the Coast shall insist upon our
right not to be submerged by the hordes
of the Orient who are streaming across
the Western sea. coolies and la nor era, to
take possession of America west of tho
Rocky Mountains."
Parker of New Jer.ey held up the ter
ritorial isolation of Alaska as one argu- 1
ment for a greater Navy.
Threat Met AVlth Threat.
Willett of New York asserted that a
few days ago "the President said to a
committee from this House who called
on him at the White House said it in
the presence of other people, with his
customary vehemence and facial distor
tions, 'that unless you give me four bat-
tleships I will veto your public building
bills. That's the trouble with this situ
ation. Mr. Chairman. The President at
tempts "
Willett s was interrupted by Tfobson.
who. speaking with much feeling, said:
In justice to the President I wish to In
firm the gentleman from N'ew York that I
saw him a minute aftr he said that. He
told me that he was forced to ray It be
cause knowledge hart roachd him of a
threat circulated In the Houae that, unless
the naval prorramm was cut to two ships,
the leader in tha House would to it
that there was no public buildings bill at
all.
Vote Against Big Navy.
The voting on the amendments on a
regular division disclosed 79 ayes and 190
noes on Hobson's proposition to have four
battleships. Hobson then demanded
tellers, and the cotint prevailed by 79
ayes and 17s noes. Tawney then offered
his amendment, reducing the number of
battleships to one, but it was defeated
by 26 noes to 65 ayes.
Insisting upon some concession, Hobson
devised an amendment providing for three
battleships, which was voted down, 20R
to 4, a larger majority than any de
veloped on any other vote taken.
Goldfolgle (?. Y.) moved to amend the
bill by making mandatory the building of
one battleship in a navy-yard, giving the
Secretary of the Navy the discretion In
the building of the others, either in a
navy-yard or by contract. The sugges
tion was adopted.
Build Ships in Navy-Yards.
An amendment by Toud (Mieh. provid
ing for two fleet colliers of 16 knots
speed and 12.500 tons capacity, costing
Jl.JW.OOft each, with an additional amend
ment by Maynard Ova.) stipulating that
one of them shall be built In such navy
yard as the Secretary of the Navy shall
direct, was adopted. For this purpose
$1,500,000 is appropriated to begin con
struction. The provision requiring the
construction of one of these vessels in a
navy-yard was inserted in face of a state
ment by Foss that the cost would be in
creased about 10 per cent over the cost
in case of construction by contract.
The bill was then reported fe the House
and a vote mill be taken tomorrow at 11
o'clock. The bill as it stands authorizes
expenditures of $127,000,000.
KOOSEYELT'S POLICY WISEST
Paris Paper Says America Must
Maintain Large Navy.
PARIS. April 15. The Temps today
expressed enthusiastic approval of
President Roosevelt's reasoning in
favor of providing additional ships for
the American navy, especial I y the af
firmation that the TTnJted States would
Jose rank as a great power, not only .if
she was feeble, but if she had the rep
utation of Weing feeble. "France
should meditate on this," the paper
says.
Continuing, the Temps points out
that, whether the United States likes it
or not, the great change In American
politics of teh last ten years, as well
as the inevitable march of events forc
ing her into the active politics of the
whole world, in which she must play
her full part.
Tf America wishes to avoid war with
Japan, she must have a fleet perma
nently In the Pacific. The American
people are at present con fused as to
the proper course to pursue, but Presi
dent Roosevelt's policy suggests a lu
minous and wise path whieh the coun
try sooner or later will follow.
DRY HOMESTEAD KILL PASSED
Senate Cuts Out Idaho, but House
Will Restore It.
ORKGONJAN NHWS BURFIAU.WASH
INGTON. April IB. The Senate this even
ing passed Smoot's 320-acre dry farm
homestead bill, omitting Idaho from tne
benerits of its provisions. Heyburn does
not want dry farms Jn Idaho, contending
that they would interfere with irrigation
under Government and the Cary act pro
jects. Representative French will have
Idaho restored when the bill reaches the
House, and he, with other Western mem
bers, has the promise of the Speaker
that opportunity will soon be given to
bring the bn. to a vote in the House.
As amended the bill applies omy to
Colorado, Montana, Nevada, Norm Da
kota, Oregon, Utah. Washington, Wyom
ing, Arizona and Nef Mexico.
Liner Loses On Propeller.
NEW YORK. April 15. A wireless mes
sage from the. steamer Kron pr inzessin
Cecelie, conveying the information that
the steamer dropped her propeller off
Nantucket lightship, was received at the
office of the North German Llody line
here today. The steamer left New York
for Plymouth yesterday. She probably
will arrive at Plymouth about one day
later than her schedule.
T ft-
Accused of Persistent Stealing.
CARLISLE. Pa.. April 35. John V.
Harris, teller of the Merchants National
Bank, was arrested today on a warrant
charging defalcations. The refalcation,
is is alleged, amounts to $35,000 andcovers
many years, during which time Harris
engaged in many enterprises. Harris
confessed.
Oakland Plans Welcome.
OAKLAND, CaL, April 15. Oak
land's welcome to the fleet on May 9
will be the largest demonstration ever
held in the city. The committee in
charge today announced that 2$ city
blocks would be decorated with bunt
ing and 20,000 Incandescent lights wiil
be used in the illumination. The pro
gramme now arranged embrace a pub
reception to Secretary Me tea If on
May 2.
SUTHERLAND DILL POSTPONED
Wi 1 1 Not Be V r ged Pending Salt
Grab Ejectment Suit.
WASHINGTON, April 15. On the re
quest of Senator Sutherland, the Ren
ate committee on public lands today
decided to postpone action on the Sen
ator's bill turning over io the State of
Utah all the saline lands In that state
until after the determination of an
ejectment suit briught by the state
against locators on these lands. The
bill is intended to Mottle a controversy
over lando supposed to be worth many
millions of dollars.
The state bases a claim to all the
salt lands within Ha borders upon the
terms of the enabling act admitting
TTtah to statehood. The contention is
made on the other hand that the grant
was intended to be limited to 110,030
acres.
Seven Jurors Secured.
NEW YORK. April 15. Seven jurors
were in the box tod ay when the case
of the People vs. Mayor George B.
M'Olellan and William Randolph Hearst,
in quo warranto proceedings, for a re
count of the Mayoralty, was postponed
for the day. So great was the crowd that
it was found necessary to bar everybody
but the jurors, witnesses and legitimate
newspapermen from the room.
Fierce Campaign In Japan.
TOKTO, April 15. Interest Is increasing
throughout Japan In anticipation of a
close struggle at the general election,
which wiil take place on May 13. The
Liberal party is confident of securing a
large majority, while the opposition is
appealing to the anti-military sentiment
urging a revision of the budget and unan
cial methods.
Chance for Eorest Rangers.
WASHINGTON. April 15. Examinations
for the position of forest rangers will be
hld in Oregon on April 23 and 34 at the
following places:
Eugene, Grants Pass, Heppner, John
Day, Lakeview, Medford, Portland, Prine
ville, Roseburg, Sumpter and Wallowa.
Corean Revolt Is Spreading.
TOKIO, April 15. A dispatch from
Seoul says that the revolutionists are act
ive south of that city and that two of the
Cabinet Ministers have resigned. The
anti-Japan movement is increasing and
the military forces will be reinforced.
King Returns to London.
BIARRITZ. April 15. King Edward,
who has been sojourning here for the
past few weeks, left today for London.
Grand Trunk Plans Feeders.
WINNIPEG. Man.. April 15. The
Grand Trunk Pacific Railroad an
nounces that four branch lines are to
be built to the United Statese boundary
from Winnipeg to a point 2r miles
west of the Rod River, from Brandon
to the Turtle Mountains, from Rcgine
to North portal and from Calgary to
Couit, Alberta.
WILL MAKE FILL REPARATION
Ja panesfl Mini wter Disc u sses the
Straight Afrair at Mukden.
FEKIN, April 15. With Tegard to
the assault committed recently by a
Japanese postma n and other Japanese
upon other native servants of the
American Consul-Genera! at Mukden,
Willard D. Straight, Baron Hayashl,
the Japanese Minister to China, has
given assurances that If any Japanese
official has offended full reparation for
his discourtesy will be made.
HEADS BROKE IN LABOR TtlOT
Foreigners Object to Preference
Shown American Worklngmen.
EAST ST. LOCIS. April 15. Three
hundred workmen fought at the Ameri
can Aluminum Wrorks today, when
Armenian, Greek and Turkish laborers
became angry because the company, in
taking back its employes, gave prefer
ence to Americans and negroes. The
timekeeper's shanty at the main gate
of the works was demolished and many;
heads were battered with sticks and
stones.
DAIRYMEN SUE RAILROADS
Enjoin 1 00 Per Cent Increase in
Freight Rates on Products.
CHICAGO, April 15. A temporary in
junction restraining the Eastern rail
roads from putting into effect an ad
vance of 100 per cent in milk and but
ter freight rates was granted by Judge
Kohlsaat in the United States Circuit
Court yesterday.
Mrs. U. Z. De Arnvan Exonerated.
MONROVIA. Cal.. April 15. At the
conclusion last night of the hearing of
Mrs. U. Z. De Arman, on the charge of
killing Mrs. Helen Griffin, the defendant
was discharged from custody. Mrs. De
Arman accused Mrs. Griffin of stealing
the affections of her husband, who was
a racing man.
Idaho Sails for South.
PHILADELPHIA. April 15. The new
battleship Idaho sailed from League
Island Navy-yard today for Hampton
Roads, from which point the warship
will proceed to Panama.
Clever Chinese Gun-Play.
Boston Herald.
One peculiar fact developed in the
course of the trial in the Superior Court
of nine Chlnamencharged with the mur
der of one of their countrymen, and that
is no Chinaman when using a revolver
levels it straight at a person or at an
object, but rests the muzzle of the "gun'
on hia left forearm and, with the right
hand holding the butt, discharges tha
weapon.
Counsel wanted an explanation, but
could not obtain It. and later a member
of one of the tongs in the corridor was
asked for a reason.
"Don't know why a gun Is used ' in
that manner," was the response, "unless
It insures more secrecy than the Ameri
can way. For instance a Chinaman
may wrap the gun In the folds of his
sleeve, leaving only the barrel hole free.
Then a shot may be fired, when It would
appear as though the one who discharged
the weapon had his arms folded. There
would be no glint of steel and nothing
but a curl of smoke to tell who dis
charged the weapon."
Tr. H Campbell Thompson, nf Rngland,
hs bn making tiae nf the el n mater raph
Jn nervous dffla4e, taking j-Vtur at tlio
T-ste of m to th seond, chewing the move-
mr'ty -if b a nttoTw
Spring medicine
In thousands and thousands of
homes in cities, towns and villages
three doses a day of Hood's Sar
saparilla are now being taken by
every member of the family.
Why such wide and general usef
Because Hood's Sarsaparilla has
proved itself the Best Spring Medi
cine, by its wonderful effects in
cleansing the system of all humors,
overcoming that tired feeling, re
storing the appetite, clearing the
complexion, giving strength and an
imation. Over forty thousand testimonial"
received in two years by actual
count. Insist on having
Hood's Sarsaparilla
In usual liquid form or in chocolated
tablets called Sarsatabs. 100 doses $ L
TEA
Two Ways to deal: (1) let
the buyer look-out for her
self; (2) look-out for her.
There is no middle way.
Tour irrorer return your money if you
don't like Schlllinra Best; ire pay him.
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