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Newspaper Page Text5 ' THE MORNING OREGOXIAy, TUESDAY, AUGUST 4, 1903. PLAIN "BILL" GOOD ENOUGH FOR TAFT Republican Standard - Bearer Tells How He Ceased to Be "Willie." STORY OF COLLEGE DAYS Correspondents at Hot Springs See Humorous Side of Candidate's Character Good News Re ceived From Wisconsin. HOT SPRINGS. Va.. Aug. 3. "Just call me Mr. Taft and If you drop Into collo quallsm call me Bill." Thte was Judge Taffs laughing reply when granting an audience to a number of newspaper men, who had severally ad dressed him as "Mr. Secretary." "Gov ernor." Judge" and "Mr. Taft." "I first got the name "Bill' at coilege," continued Mr. Taft replying to a ques tion. "Before I went, to college I had been called 'Willie' In my home and among the Cincinnati boyhood friends. But when I got through school 1 was called "Will- at home. My younger brother Harry, however, never called me "Willie after a happening one day at eol- 'We roomed together on the top floor of Farnam Hall. Our room was Just over the middle entrance. Harry was a fresh man; I a Junior. He had gone out and forgotten to take with him a book he wanted. How He Los-t "Willie." "He came back to the entrance and looking up on the outside yelled, 'Oh, Willie.' Well, in a second there was head out of every one of the 400 win dows and it seemed to me as thougS every one yelle at once. At any raw there was one long chorus of -Oh. Willie.' That cured Harry. He has called mi Bill ever since." "How about the students?" "Oh. they called me Bill Just the earn Tou see I weighed 2u0 even then." Mr. and Mrs. Taft attended cervices at Et. Luke's Church today and listened to a sermon by Rev. John J. Scott. "Arise and eat. because the Journey is too great for thee." was the text taken from the Second Kings, from which Dr. Scott drew the lesson of the Christian life. Strong In Wisconsin. Bart McCIeary. Second Assistant Postmaster-General and candidate for Con gress, who has Just returned from a re View of the situation In Minnesota and Wisconsin, spent Sunday here. Mr. Mc CIeary assurred Mr. Taft that in his opinion the Republican situation in Min nesota Is in excellent shape. It is his belief that Governor Johnson will not be a candidate for re-election. In Wisconsin, he says, he can see the good effect of the speech of acceptance already. The handling by Judge Taft of the railroad question, he says. has pleased the LaFollette wing of the party In that state. MAKES BERTH FOR OtXAHAX Newspaper Man Will Io literary Work for Hitchcock. XETW YORK. Aug. 3. Richard V. Oulahan. for many years Washington cor respondent of the New York Sun. will have general charge of all the itinerary work of the Republican National Com mittee. This appointment was announced today by T. H. Hitchcock, the National chairman. Mr. Oulahan arrived in New York tonight. Mr. Oulahan is a native of the District of Columbia. He was an intimate friend . of President Harrison and has held the confidence of the present Administration. REVENUES ARE DECREASED Government Report Shows Ieficit of $24,868,000 for July. ' WASHR1NGTON. Aug. 3. The monthly statement of Government receipts and : expenditures shows that for July. 1908. the total receipts were Sn2.170.000. and ' the expenditures S7T.038.OoO. leaving a deficit for the month of SiM.8SS.000. as against a deficit for July. 1907. of S10. 801.&24. This month's deflct would have . been over S31.000.000 but for the pay ment of discharges of the Central Pacific Railroad's indebtedness to the Govern ment, which during July amounted to about J5.500.000. During July. 1908, the receipts from customs aggregated over SS. 000. 000 less than for July. 1907. and internal revenues about 11.000.000 less. A to expenditures, those on account of civil and miscellaneous Items were S-0.-,000. or over Sfl.0mi.0lO greater than for July. 1907. On account of war. the payments aggregated SIS. 074. 000. or near ly 14. 000.000 in excess of July last year. The Navy payments were about the came as for July. 190T. being about 9, 173.000. Public works showed a fall ing off of something over S 1.000.000. SEEKS MOUNTAIN WATER Tendleton City Officials Employ Engineer to Investigate. PENDLETON. Or.. Aug. S. (Special. ) With the authorization of Chairman Brown to employ an engineer to locate the most feasible source of mountain water supply for the City of Pendle ton, the City Board of Water Com missioners has taken -the first definite step in the move to secure a gravity water system for the City of Pendle ton. Tne engineer will be expected to report upon the amount of water avail able and also as to the expense of bringing It to the city. Two possible sources have been tinder consideration by the Board of Water Commissioners. One Is the Uma tilla River, a few miles above Wenaha Springs, and the other Is McKay Creek. In either instance It would be neces sary to pipe the water across the Uma tilla reservation and to secure permis sion for this will require an act of Congress. It will therefore be several months yet before the actual work can be started. BRUTALIZED BY ALCOHOL Athena Woman Snes for Divorce After 28 Years. PENDLETON, Or.. Aug. 2. (Special.) After being a good wife to J. Frank SlcPherrln for 28 years, and after bearing him 10 children, Mrs. Rebecca McPherrin, of Athena, has filed a suit for divorce. -0"he case is one of the moat sensational suits filed in the courts of this county for many months, as -unprintable brutalities on the part of the busband are alleged In the com plaint. It Is alieged that the appetite for liquor has transformed a once faithful husband Into a brute. The parties to the suit were married In Iowa in 1SS0. The complaint recites that at that time McPherrin was a sober and Industrious man. He later contracted the liquor habit, however, and his appetite for drink has caused him to become degraded in otner respects. Among other things It Is charged that at one time McPherrin cursed and drove his wife's aged father from their home. It is also alleged that he fre quently cursed and abused his wife in the presence of other persons, much to her humiliation. 'A Portland divorce suit was filed in the Circuit Court for Umatilla County yesterday by Attorney Clyde Richard son, of thit city. Mrs. Maude Kimber ling is the complainant. She alleges that her busband.. Emmett KImberling. has failed to provide for her and has also acted toward another woman In a manner very humiliating to his wife. The parties to the suit were married in Canyon City. March 2. 1906. PUTS BLAME Oil BAD ROAD MARRIOTT EXPLAINS AUTOMO BILE TRAGEDY. San Francisco Publisher Narrowly Escaped Death With Wire and Chauffeur. SAN FRANCISCO. Aug. 3. The three survivors of the automobile accident in the Santa Cruz Mountains, yesterday, in which Mrs.' Frederick Marriott and Jesse Gilbert, who was acting as chauffeur met death have arrived here. Miss Dorothy WASHINGTON. Aug. 3. The monthly ting along well, and unless blood poison ing develops will recover. Miss Deslree Marriott, 6 years old, IwkJ her nose badly injured and was otherwise cut and bruised. Frederick Marriott, proprietor of the News Letter, was badly bruised and is suffering from the shock of his wife's tragic death. Marriott attributes the accident to a narrow and poorly constructed road on the summit of the Santa Cruz Mountains. The car was going at a good speed down the grade about ten miles from Los Gatos. Suddenly the soft earth on the side of the road gave way and the heavy machine plunged down an embankment, turning over twice before it -struck against a tree. Mrs. Marriott was caught under the tonneau and killed Instantly, her neck be' broken. Gilbert lived but three minutes, being suffocated under the car. Held in Death Grip. When Miss Partridge who was on the front seat by Gilbert, realized that the car was going over the embankment,' she tried to Jump, but Gilbert seized her wrist and held her. She too was caught under the automobile and remained there for an hour and a half, suffering great agony as burning gasoline and hot water dripped over her from the machine. When the unfortunate woman was finally released Gilbert's hand still held her wrist in the grasp of death. Desiree Marriott was pinned under the car but was quickly rescued by her father who had been thrown free from the wreck. Marriott picked up a Jack as he struck the road and immediately set to work to raise the car end release the others. He was horrified to find his wife and Gilbert dead. Though badly bruised himself he worked rapidly to save his daughter' and Miss Partridge. After re leasing his daughter and doing what he could to-alleviate the sufferings of Miss Partridge. Marriott walked to a neigh boring farm house and telephoned for medical aid. Queer Freak of Fate. Only five minutes before the accident occurred Mrs. Marriott had exchanged seats with Miss Partridge entering the tonneau with her husband and daughter and allowing their guest to take the front seat. As the car went down the embank ment Miss Partridge fell to the bottom of the car and to this she probably owes her life. The remains or Mrs. Marriott and Gil bert will be brought here and will probah Iv be cremated. Gilbert was a close friend of the Marriott family and had traveled extensively with Frederick Mar riott. Jr., who was In Los Angeles with his wife when the tragedy occurred. LITTLE WORK FOR POLICE. Crime Decreases in Pendleton Under Prohibition Regime. PENDLETON. Or., Aug. 2. Special.) During the month of July, the first month that prohibition has been In effect In Umatilla County. 32 persons were com pelled to pay fines in the Police Court, and of this number seven were "drunks." During July. 1907, there were 171 fines Imposed by Police Judge Fitz Gerald and by far the greater percentage of this number were up for drunkenness. During the month of June, this year, 30 monthly fines were collected from denizens of bawdy houses, while during July there were only IT women to pay fines. These figures, taken from the monthly report of Police Judge Fltz Gerald, shows that not only has the number of petty crimes been divided by six. but half the Inhabitants of the restricted district been driven out by prohibition. FARMAN MAKES FLIGHT. Aeroplane Travels One-Third of a Mile In Thirty Seconds. NEW YORK, Aug. 3. Henri Firman, who came from Paris to give a series of aeroplane exhibitions under the management of an American syndicate, made his first public - flight in this country at the Brighton Beach .race track last evening. The exhibition was a success to the extent that It demon strated the Inventor's ability to fly under favorable atmospheric conditions and entertained some two thousand en thusiastic spectators. " Farman traveled nearly a third of a mile in about thirty seconds and did not appear to be hurrying. CRUSHED UNDER WHEELS Ed Fltiperald, Portland Boilermak er, Badly Injured in Wyoming. LARAMIA, Wyo.. Aug. 3. Ed Fitz gerald the boilermaker from Port land ' Or., "who "as badly injured Saturday while stealing a ride on a fast mail train, had his right leg ampu tated Just above the knee yesterday and would have lost the other foot If the surgeons had believed he could stand the shock of a double operation. Fitzgerald and a man named Dunn were riding on the trucks of a passen ger coach when Fitzgerald got both feet on the track under the wheels. He is not expected to recover. He has a brother at Great Falls. Mont-, and a brother and sister at Portland. SON DISGRACES SENATOR RAYNER Voung Man's Alcoholic Ex cesses Bring Him to In sane Asylum. ABSINTHE AND WOMAN Last Escapade Desertion of Wile and Children and Elopement With Baltimore Man's Spouse) Cou ple Squandered Thousands. BALTIMORE, July 26. William B. Rayner. son or United States Senator Isidor Rayner. has been placed in an asvlum by his father as the result of a consultation yesterday afternoon with several prominent alienists, who advised the Senator that, owing to the mental condition of his son, it would be unwise to permit him to remain at liberty. The physicians who examined young Rayner were Drs. Hill. Bevan. Herring and Requardt. savs the Baltimore American. Young Rayner. it is said, has become a physical and mental wreck as the re sult of alcoholic excesses, and since his absence from home him name has been associated with that of Mrs. William Fisher whose husband recently sued her for divorce. In fact, it Is claimed that Mrs. Fisher has been more or less the companion of young Rayner since he left the city last March, and when he was brought home from Norfolk by his father on Wednesday night. Mrs. Fisher, who was aboard the vessel, created consid erable excitement, and at one time, it is said, attempted to throw herself from the steamer Into the bay. A report from a reliable source has reached this city that young Rayner at tempted to Jump from an express train between Washington and Alexandria one day last week. A young man who is well acquainted with Rayner was a pas senger on the same train. Tn telling of the experience he said he noticed Rayner go out on the platform and followed him. As Rayner reached the last step on the platform he grabbed his arm. It was shortly after this Incident that Rayner returned to Baltimore. He .was seen in the vicinity of the St. James Hotel, from where he Is said to have telephoned to the members of his family. At that time he was accompanied by Mrs. Fisher. Yonug Man's Extravagance. Many reports of the extravagance of young Rayner on Tils trips about the country- are being discussed in various circles. The bill at the Hotel Fairfax. In Norfolk, was but a few cents less than 3300. Mrs. Fisher is said to have been buvlng perfumes in quantities that would make a year's sale of an ordinary per fume shop look small. One purchase of the aromatic liquid footed up more than 3100. Bills showing the purchase of wo men's silk hosiery and lingerie have also been purchased by his traveling com panion and paid for by him. During the past two years this extravagance of the Senator's son is said to have amounted to a small fortune. Many of his friends who know him say that he has spent at least 350.000 in his rambles. The experience that befell Senator Ray ner on the Norfolk steamer bound for Baltimore on Wednesday night was un doubtedly one of the most distressing of his life. Ever Btnce the disappearance of his son Senator Rayner has spared nei ther pains nor expense to bring him back to the fold of his family. Detectives have been employed to trace him from place to place, and the search has extended, from the Atlantic to the Pacific. A few days ago young Rayner, tn company with Mrs. Fisher, was located In a farmhouse near Suffolk. Va., and on last Sunday he and his companion made their appear ance at the Fairfax Hotel, In Norfolk. Information from that city la to the ef fect "that the couple registered as man and wife at the hostelry, and despite the fact that the day was Sunday, when no liquors are sold at the place, young Ray ner was seen to have a bottle of absinthe and was soon under Its Influence. He be came violent as the day wore on and his conduct created so much consternation about the place that an appeal was made to Mayor Rlddick. of Norfolk. It is rfald that Rayner resented the interference of officers that were placed In the hotel to guard him. It was then that Senator Rayner was notified and requested to come after his son and bring physicians and nurses with him. Excitement on Steamer. The officers who were in charge of young Rayner experienced no little diffi culty in handling him before he was. flnally landed on the boat. The physi cians and ndrses In charge of the case believed that Mrs. Fisher exerted such an Influence over the young man that they deemed it advisable to have her precede him to the boat. Once the party was on the vessel their quarters were separated. During the trip It was learned that notes were passed from the woman to young Rayner. Everything was mov ing along well when one of the nurses In charge of young Rayner noticed a woman looking Into the stateroom window. The woman, who proved to be Mrs. Fisher, had walked Inside the rail which runs on the side of the stateroom. It was thought she was about to make an effort to throw herself overboard and a nurse Mr. Todd reached her side and pulled her back Into her room, where she became hys terical. This occurred after midnight and caused a great deal of excitement., Phy sicians and nurses adminlrtered to Mrs. Fisher until she regained her composure and began to rest more comfortably. In company with a gentleman Mrs. Fisher was seen to go from the boat to Camden Station, where she took a train for the North. At a number of sanita riums it has been reported that a woman has been telephoning from New York and places in that vicinity, asking If W. B. Rayner was a patient there. After Mrs. Fisher was safely out of the way the nurses and physicians placed young Rayner In a carriage and he was driven to a sanitarium some distance from the city. It had been rumored that he had been taken to his father's home In Sudbrook Park, and yesterday morning the residents of that quiet little place were much interested. Many of them gathered in groups near the house of the Senator and spoke of the unfortunate condition of the young man. Mrs. Fisher before her marriage was a Miss niigely. and was prominent in society. She is the mother of three chil dren. Young Rayner is about 33 years of age. His wife was Miss Coulter, daughter of the late Archibald Coulter, who for a long time was a member of the firm of Roche & Coulter, bankers. The couple have three children. Evidences of Unsound Mind. That young Rayner's mind had been failing for some time prior to his depart ure from the city last March was a patent fact among his acquaintances. He Indulged in fanciful theories and talked In a manner that greatly distressed his family sad his friends. Several months ago. while visiting Atlantic City, he met a number of New Yorkers. He invited the ntiom.n tn t v him a. visit should they ever come to Baltimore, and he Is also said to have told them to bring their guns with them, as he had a game pre serve. One day the New Yorkers visited him at Sudbrook and were greatly dis appointed in not finding a hunting ground, for they came to the city pre pared for the hunt. On one occasion when young Rayner wandered from the city he telephoned to his family. They asked him where he was and he answered that he did not know. The party on this end of the line heard him ask a stranger: "In what state am I?" During his recent disappearance it is said 'that he called his family by tele phone and requested that he be Informed of the condition of one of the children of Mrs. Fisher, who was believed to be sick, and when asked where he was he refused to tell. Naturally the information was not supplied. DENVER MAN'S LONG FAST j Sixty-Two Days Without Food and Still Starving Himself. Denver Post. Do you suppost you would be hungry if you' hadn't had anything to eat for 62 days? W. R. TrachseJ, a pioneer druggist, who for years conducted the drug store at Eighteenth and Arapahoe streets, is not, and it is 62 days today since he touched food. He really thought he ought to eat a piece of toast this morning, but it did not taste good, so after consuming a slice about the size of a dollar, he told his wife he guessed he would go to the drug store and walked over to the Lawrence street car. His fast Is well authenticated and was not done for the purpose of notriety. For years he has been a chronic sufferer from stomach trouble. His health failed so rapidly that several months ago he was obliged to sell his drug store and re tire from business. Sixty-two days ago he started in to try fasting for a cure. The first week he took nothing but water. The second, third, and fourth weeks he occasionally at night took a teaspoonful of olive oil and the Juice of half a lemon, but nothing more than this. This continued until the forty-sixth day, with frequent intervals of three days, in which even the taste of oil and lemon was cut out. Each day he rode downtown and spent an hour or two at the drug store. During this time he says his health constantly Improved, although he gradually lost weight. He did not keep a daily or week ly record of this, but on the forty-sixth day he had lost about 20 or 25 pounds. Since then he has been picking up, and now considers that he Is a far better man physically than when he started in. The forty-sixth day he tried to eat a slice of an onion with the lemon Juice spread on It, but it did not taste good. Since that time he has occasionally tried to break the fast by drinking water from boiled beef, but has never craved either this nourisment or solid food. He Is not hungry today, and sees no reason why he cannot continue to live with olive oil and lemon Juice in teaspoonful meals for some time to come. FLEET PASSES, TUTUILIA Natives Gaze on Battleships at Close Range. . SUVIA. Fiji Islands, Aug 3. The United States Atlantic fleet at 8 P. M. Saturday was in latitude 16:43 south, longitude 172:4 west, being distant from Auckland 1503 miles. At 6:30 o'clock In the morning the fleet changed Its formation from line of squadron to single column, and at 7 o'clock passed the eastern end of Tutullla Island, Samoa, and steamed close In along the coast, giving the people of the island an excellent view of the ships. The station ship Annapolis passed close to the fleet off Pago Pago. The usual honors were rendered. At 9 o'clock he fleet resumed Its course for Auckland In line of squad ron formation. It had reduced its speed to nine knots. The weather Is fine, though hot. The collier AJax arrived at Suvia yesterday. HOLD FOR EIGHTY CENTS Vmatllla Wheat Raisers Satisfied With Crop Prospects. PENDLETON. .Or., Aug. 3. With wheat selling on a basis of TS cents and the price aparently steady there is little complaint among the farmers of Umatilla County because of the some what shorter yield and the prevalence of smut. Many large crops have already passed into the hands of the buyers, but In most Instances the growers are hold ing for 80 cents. If that price is reached it Is generally believed that the bulk of the crop In this county will be sold or contracted for within a very few days. From reports received up to date, it Is evident that the average yield for the county will be in the neighborhood of 30 bushels an acre. This Is about ten bush els short of last year's crop. MANIAC KILLS HIS FATHER Also Murders -Village Preacher When Refused Shelter. BERLIN. Aug. 3. News of a ter rible tragedy comes from Chemnitz In Saxony. A young weaver, Ferdi nand Oeser, was recently released from an insane asylm as cured or at least harmless and was living with his par ents. The other day he met with an accident, and when a physician would bandage his wound he threatened him with a revolver. His father rushed to the assistance of the doctor and tried to take the revolver from his son, but was killed by a shot through the heart. Oeser ran into the woods and the next evening he Invaded the house of the minister of Pienbusch. When the minister tried to make him leave he pulled his revolver and killed . him, whereupon he gave himself up to the police. CARLYLE AND HIS PIPES His Wife Often Had First Whiff, for Consecration. David Masson, in Blackwood's. Thomas Carlyle was in his 49th year when I first knew him. His usual work ing hours then were over for the day between 2 and 3 o'clock: and he was not disinclined to see friends that might call then, for a few minutes' talk with him, Just' before he set out for his after noon walk. A preferable time, however, was the evening. If you dropped in about, or a little after, 7 o'clock, you found Carlyle and Mrs. Carlyle at tea In the drawing-room, and were welcome to a cup yourself, with a slice of bread and butter, or biscuit Jam generally on the table besides. If you were later, you missed the tea, but had talk as long as you chose to stay, and might see Carlyle fill hi pipe and smoke it once or twice in the course of an eve ning, and even, if you were in his good graces and capable of communion with PIANOS GOING VERY FAST AND NO WONDER, WHEN YOU CONSIDER SPLENDID BRAND NEW $350 AND $375 STYLES GOING AT THIS SALE ONLY $194.00 AND $218.00. . Terms of One Dollar a Week, by Pay ing Five Dollars When You Make a Selection Piano Is Sent Home at Once Don't Wait. xid you read our announcement In Sundays papers? We imagine you didn't, otherwise you'd have been here yesterday selecting the piano. rne hundred will soon be sold. Its only a question as to who will get them whose homo will be gladdened by music. 'cost not considered, Could not now be, by the thoughtful husband or father whose family so far have been deprived of the benefits of music by not having a piano in the home, because One Dollar a Week only a portion of one's cigar or carfare money will pay for it. And now the prices are reduced lower than ever be fore on many cases to a half plain style cases that sell at $230 and up wards are now only 3128 and $147, and you can pay a dollar a week if you like. ONE HUNDRED PIANOS, A hundred must surely be sold this week If prices and terms will do It, and from the way they were taken yes terday, we can safely say a few days, possiblv four or five will accomplish the task and until then you can come here and select our finest $350 piano and pav only $194. or our $3T5 models will cost you an even $218, and, remem ber, we have pianos for all to suit most any pocket-book few are too small, and the terms A DOLLAR A WEEK,, with a first payment of five dollars, re moves every excuse even the "hot weather" one that we have heard so much of. So buy now they are here for you. while they last. New models from four leading manufacturers they are as fine as can be obtained. The saving is far beyond what we could offer at any other time, and the terms will probably never be given again In Portland. July was a hot month sales were not up to the average. August must make up for It at least one hundred extra pianos must be sold we'd rather have them in your homes than in our warehouse so come and get them but don't wait. We'll have a bigger crowd than ever today, so come in the fore noon if posribie. Do not hesitate, but cone and investigate this, the greatest fiano-buving opportunity ever offered n the Northwest. Bring five dollars for first cash payment balance at a dollar a week. Eilers Piano House. 353 Washington sfr. him in that particular, be invited to Join him. His pipes, then and always, were long clays, of Glasgow make, with green glazed tips for the mouth; his tobacco, if the same then as it was afterward, was of a strong Free-smoking York River.' The pipe he was using and I think he took a new pipe every day, or perhaps pftener, from the stock he kept some where In a box usually stood In the corner of the fireplace, within the fender, ready for his further service; and a half pound tin canister of his tobacco, re plenished from his larger supply, which also was out of sight somewhere, stood usually on the mantelpiece, but some times on the table. He was very me thodical and practical in all such mat ters, disliking untidiness of any sort, and carrying his love of order even Into his smoking 'arrangements. Indeed, If there were more than one guest present, or If the guest were a stranger, he would go out for his smoke into the back garden, and return when it was over: and In Summer evenings the back garden was the established smoking-place, and he would take his guest or guests thlthor with him, providing them with seats, or walking with tltem up and down the grass-plat. I forget whether, when the smoking was wlthin-doors, he had at this time the habit which he certainly acquired after wardof reclining on the hearth-rug while he smoked, so that the puffs should ascend the chimney rather than come into the room. But Mrs. Carlyle, while as orderly as himself, and keeping every thing tidy there, was tolerant to the utmost of whatever might be his whim in this matter: and it was pretty to see him sometimes, when he was in a pleased hurrfor and there was no one there to cause ceremony, present the pipe gallant lv to her own lips, for the honor of a con secrating whiff. This he called "ten dering her the calumet of peace." I must have seen him do it more than once with in the first few months of our acquaint ance for my footing et Cheyne row had gradually become such as to Justify pretty frequent visits of an evening perhaps about once in three weeks on an average and I was always received with a con tinuation of the original kindliness. MILLION IN - MANEUVERS German Army Will Be Greatly In creased for Exercises. BERLIN, Tuesday, July 21. The' publi cation of the orders for the Army maneu vers in the Fall of this year, in which nearly a million will be engaged In various parts of the country, has aroused the most extraordinary interest In civil, as well as In military circles. The strength of the Army Is to be increased for the time being by no fewer than 269.742 men from the reserves, who, with the standing Pacific army of 626,846 men, will bring the total under arms at the end of August up to 966.5S8, who will fight tactically against each other. Cavalry, artillery. Infantry, engineers. . i.t. kiinnnisia. field telegraphy and l muiuuoiai l-" - - - f telephonists, cyclists and all the branches of the service wnicn i ancr sukw transport, intelligence and communica tions are to undergo searching tests. -. : -hifh attract moat Stten- i xne r n n " " rtlon are naturally the Imperial maneurers In Alsace-Lorraine, as nus first time since the war of 1870 that ma neuvers on such an extensive scale will have taken place so near the frontier. The Fifteenth and Sixteenth Army Corps will there oppose each other In mimic war and undergo severe tactical and strategic Instructions under the immediate eye of the Emperor. Some extensive siege operations, with attacks by heavy artil lery and field fortifications such as hap pened during the Russo-Japanese war are to be executed by the Guards' Corps, the First Saxony Corps, and the Third Bava- Tne'garrison and coast artillery are to undertake lengthy periods of defense ex ercise along the coasts in conjunction with the navy at Swinmunde, Neufahrwaeser and Pillau. Each battery will have 350 shells Issued for shooting practice. Mosquitoes Spread Fever. WASHINGTON, Aug. 3. Army medi cal experts in the Philippines have re ported that Dengue fever, which was prevalent some months ago at Fort McKlnley, 1b not in their opinion con tagious, but is carried by mosquitoes. It is recommended that the usual well known and thoroughly tested antl mosquito measures be tried at Fort William McKlnley. and wherever In the Philippines there is any danger of a visitation of the disease. For Indigestion Take Horsford's Acid Phosphat. Especially recommended for the relief of obstinate in digeeUon and narvou dyspepsia. i - . . i Fan Season Is Keep Cool FANS OF ALL KINDS ALL STYLES G Hot weather comfort can be secured with an ELECTRIC FAN at a cost for current of LESS THAN ONE CENT AN HOUR. G Your wife needs an ELECTRIC FAN in the household quite as much as do you at the office. Do Not Delay 9 A nice, cool, well-ventilated room insured by the use of an ELECTRIC FAN. 9 Call at our Supply Department, 145-147 Seventh street, and see our display. B Telephone Main 6638 or A 5517. PORTLAND RAILWAY, LIGHT AND POWER CO. FIRST AND ALDER STS. GLORY IN Remorseless Brutality of Paris Murderers. TELL THE STORY IN COURT Octogenarian Couple Ruthlessly Beaten to Death by Men AVho Calmly Explain Necessity of Murder to Judge. PARIS, July 1?. (Special.) Never has the fact that respect for the courts of law Is declining In France been demonstrated more clearly than the other day when a Judge at St. Omer had to listen to the coldblooded recital of their atrocious crimes delivered by the brothers Abel and. Augusts" Pollet and Canut Vromant lead ers of a notorious gang of criminals comprising 27 persons, 14 men and 13 wo men, now undergoing trial on charges of no fewer than- 118 crimes, many accom panied by violence and murder. The Pollets and Vromant told the Judge l. boastful language how they murdered an old couple named Lecoq, 80 and 79 years old respectively, and their daughter, aged 56, who were living together in the center of the village of Violaines. The self-confessed murderers seemed to vie with each other in glorying In their remorseless brutality. They described how they broke into the house towards midnight. Abel, the chief of the gang, armed with a poker, and Vromant with a heavy stove-lid. Lecoq's daughter gave the alarm, but as she was getting out of bed she was felled with the poker by Abel, and at the same moment the candle carried by the robbers was extinguished by accident. Mme. Lecoq, aroused by the noise, made a rush for the window and a scene of con fusion followed in the darkness. The murderers slipped In the blood of their first victim, but succeeded in stopping the unfortunate woman before she reached the window, Vromant felling her with a blow of the stove-lid. Relighting the candle, Vromant dealt the prostrate old woman several more blows and then went Into the adjoining room. Here he found Auguste Pollet standing over the half-murdered octogenarian, who had fallen on his knees and elbows. "Strike," cried Auguste. "he has got about enough, but we might as well finish him ofT." "And." Vromant added, "I gave him a tremendous blow with the stove-lid." Abel, answering the Judge's questions, seemed only anxious to magnify his share In the crime. He vaunted his ruthlessness as the leader of the gang and described how he spurred on the flagging courage of his confederates. Addressing the Judge, he added: "When you break Into a house to steal. Monsieur le President, you must see the thing through. So I struck and we all struck. As we had been recognized, we could not hesitate or show any pity. If you had been In our place, Monsieur le President, you would have done the same thing." 3o callous were the prisoners that the Judge ordered them to be silent, saying they were a disgrace to humanity. It appears that before Anally killing the old man, they forced him to tell them where his savings were hidden. In the place Indicated they found 8000 francs in bills and gold, several valuable antique coina and a Quantity of Jewelry. Abel, GRIMES H ere FANS FOR STORES AND the leader, gave 3"X0 francs to his ac complices and kept the balance. 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