TWO MILLION WILL
BE RAILROAD COST
Construction of Line Into Cen
tral Oregon Promised
in December.
ROUTES BEING CONSIDERED
Decision- Will Be Reached at a
Conference to Be Held by
Officials at Pelican
Bay.
million dollars tv-tll e spent
the Harrlman interests in building the
new line into Central Oregon if the
project just announced by Mr. riar
riman U carried to completion. The
road will be about 130 rmlea
long:. AddiUonal track will be added
during the following years, the track
Just decided upon to be a beginning
in tapping the great prairies of the
interior.
Work of construction on the new
line will be commenced about Decem
ber 1. according to those in a position
to know what preliminaries are neces
sary before actual grading will be
started. Before dirt will fly. existing
surveys must be gone over, verified and
brought up to date. If the Deschutes
route is followed by the new line, an en
tirely new survey must be run for a con
siderable distance, for tne Harrlman engi
neers have only mapped out the route for
a track about balf-way up the Deschutes
canyon as yet. If this route is adopted,
surveying gangs must go over the old sur
vey from the mouth of the river and then
make a new line south into the Agency
Plains country-
Kngineers Have Surveys.
Surveys south from Shaniko. the pres
ent terminus of the Shaniko branch, the
old Columbia Southern, are in the local
offices of the Harrlman engineers, and
the same is true of the extension of the
Oorvallis & Eastern Into Eastern Oregon.
If either route is decided upon, however,
the old surveys must be brought up to
date and considerably revised.
The cost of getting into the desired
Central Oregon territory will be the prime
factor In determining which route will be
used. The choice will be made, it is be
lieved, at a conference to be held this
week at Pelican Bay between Mr. Harrl
man. Julius Kruttschnltt. director of
maintenance and operation of the Harrl
man system. And William Hood, chief en
gineer of the Southern Pacific. Mr. Hood
is already at Pelican Bay. and Mr. Krutt
schnltt left Portland last nltfht In his pri
vate car for the Harrlman lodge.
Elaborate data of all the different routes
by which the bottled-up Central Oregon
territory can be reached will be taken
to Pelican Bay. and this week's confer
ence will decide which direction the pro
jected line will take. Immediately this is
settled, surveying outfits will be put in
the field and the preliminary surveying
work accomplished as rapidly as possible.
When the surveys are complete, construc
tion forces will be set to work, and the
construction hurried with all possible
speed. It Is said by railroad men that
December 1 is an approximate date at
which the building of the new line into
Central Oregon will begin.
" - Progress Will Be Rapid.
Once started, the work will be carried
forward with all the speed that big con
struction gangs and plenty of money can
acocmpllsh. There is nothing to hinder
the progress of the work during the Win
ter months, for the line will be built
thorugh a country where construction is
entirely feasible during that season, for
but little rain or snow falls on the pla
teaus of the interior.
The completion of the new Central Ore
gon line is a matter of perhaps a year.
The new track should be completed In
time for. the next crop season, and Mr.
Harrlman has Intimated that he will build
about 10 miles of new track a year in
future until all the north-and-south and
east-and-west lines mapped out In this
state are completed.
It is predicted by those best informed
as to routes that the new line Into the In
terior will follow the Deschutes Rivr
from its mouth, it being thought that this
offers the best means of reaching the ter
ritory sought to be tapped. However, it
may be deckled to extend the Shaniko
branch or other routes may be adopted
finally.
KNEW PHONOGRAPH'S VOICE
Took Property When It Sang "I'm
Afraid to Go Home In the Dark."
9T. LOUIS, Aug. 22. (Special.) Out of
a window at 414 North Lefnngwell street
floated the sweet strains, "I'm afraid to
go fiome in the dark."
That's it," said W. C. Arnold, of 818
Market street, to the policeman by his
side. "I would know that voice" any
where." Again came the sweet sounds in a
woman's voice. The man by the elde
of the policeman shuddered.
"That's her voice," he said. "I would
know it anywhere."
Once more the voice soared out and
filled the street with melody. Even the
policeman shook with emotion. The
words, some of them, thrilled him.
"Wha shall we do?" asked the .police
man. "Break into the house," exclaimed the
man by his side.
Into the palpitating night air came the
voice, singing:
Baby dear, listen here, I'm afraid to go
home in the dark.
Every day the paper ay "There's a rob
bery in the park."
So I alt alone In the Y. M. C. A., singing
Just like a lark.
There's no place, like home,"
But I'm afraid to go home in the. dark.
Til do it." said the policeman, hie
hand clutching his night stick and his
teeth clinched tightly.
Policeman and man went through the
dark halls of the house until they came
to the room from which the voice came.
They threw It open and saw a phono
graph on a table tolling forth the music
of the song that had held them spell
bound in the street.
The policeman arrested May Kava
naugh on the charge of stealing the pho
nograph from Mrs. Bettie Arnold, of X1S
Market street. Earlier in the day Miss
Kavanaugh had called at the Arnold
home. Shortly afterward the phono
graph was missed.
Arnold knew the voice of the instru
ment so well that when he heard It sing
ing on Lefflngwell avenue he recognized
It Immediately.
The phonograph has a record. Mrs.
Arnold was accused a yeargo of killing
James Reed, a boarder in her house. Her
husband had Insisted that he be sent
away and one afternoon while he was
sleeping on his bed the phonograph was
turned on and at the came time a shot
waa fired in Reed's room. There was a
woman visitor at the house, but she Was
listening to the song of the phonograph
and did not bear the shot.
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'2RWm ROUTES INTO CENTRAL OREGON ONE f
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'oukaiA VU BE FOLLOWED BY HARRIMAN J
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GALLS THEM FAKES
Professor Willett Ridicules
Bible Miracles.
STORIES ARE DISSECTED
Cherished Stories of Holy Writ Are
Called by Critic Work of Clever
Men or Impossible
Tales.
CHICAGO. Aug. 23. (Special.) "Xo man
ever lived who could perform a miracle
that is, who could cause a change of God's
laws of government of the universe. The
Old Testament miracles as narrated by
Old Testament writers are chiefly fanci
ful narratives based on fact or legend
and should not be taught children as lit
eral description of facts. You cannot
teach children in school of the unchange
able laws of nature and then teach them
in Sunday school that these laws are at
times broken by God or his prophets."
In this language Professor Herbert
Willett, of the University of Chicago Di
vinity School, today outlined to a reporter
for the Dally News his belief that the
Old Testament accounts of miraculous
feats by prophets of the children of Is
rael are largely Imaginative in their
make-up and that when reduced to basis
of fact the miracles will be found to have
been natural phenomena exaggerated by
writers who sought -further to glorify the
great men of whom they wrote. Professor
Willett enumerated a number of Old Tes
tament miracles and gave his opinion of
the truth concerning them. Hie talk fol
lowed a lecture last night in which he
told his classes of his theory.
Gives Basis for Faith.
"I hold this Interpretation to be of value
as giving a basis for believers of this
generation to cling to their faith," said
Professor Willett. "We must interpret
according to strict letter and loee the
value of the writings or we must inter
pret according to the personalities of the
men written about to arrive at the basis
of truth of the narratives. Any primi
tive people the ancient Hebrews as well
as others love marvels. Our own chil
dren, undeveloped Intellectually, have
their fairy tales. All ancient literature
is full of marvelous stories. Are we to
believe all bad except the Hebrew litera
ture: that all are good, or that there Is
falsehood and exaggeration In all. the Old
Testament Included?
"The laws of God are God's way of
working. He does not work by the break-'
lng of those laws. A real miracle is not
an interference with or a breaking of a
law of God's, but a working out of a
higher use or application of such a law.
I believe that there were great men in
the Old Testament days, as there have
been In all tlms, and that they did great
things r
"For instance, I bellee that there were
men who appeared to the people of their
marvel-loving time to control Nature or
natural forces. Men who could heal as
men of our own time have done, by com
vinclng him that he is well. Call .It hyp
notiem or what you will. I believe in the
inspiration of the Old Testament, but in
the Inspiration -of man, and not the mere
words of the text.
"I have divided the miracles of the
Old Testament into four groups. My first
group Includes miracle narratives appar
ently based on fact, but exaggerated. The
ten plagues of Egypt come under this
head. I believe that the ten plagues
formed a series of unusual natural dis
asters which visited Egypt.
Children of Israel Seize Chance.
"The children of Israel took advantage
of these," continued the speaker, "to
point out how God befriended them and
to free themselves of bondage. There Is
the miracle of the restoring to life of the
Shulamite's son. I do not question that
the great prophets did heal sick, as we
know of men today who have a magnetic
or other power to heal, but the son prob
ably was not yet dead except by reason
of the narrators' exaggeration.
"Of the crossing of the Red Sea by the
children of Israel during their escape from
Egypt we have two accounts. In the
prose aocount we are told in a matter
of fact way that they crossed at a time
when the wind had, driven back the wat
ers. Of the poetic account I shall speak
under another heading. The narratives of
the miracles of creation, to my mind, are
fanciful accounts of the successive steps
of evolution as we understand it today.
"The second set of tales of miraculous
happenings contains those based on fig
ures of speech which have no basis of
fact. Including the command of Joshua to
the sun and moon to stand still as told
in the poetical book of Joshua; also the
battle of Beth-Horon, in which God was
said to have hurled down stones on the
Canaanltes. This probably was 6ome kind
of storm. In the 15th chapter of Exodus
we have the poetical account of the cross
ing of the Red Sea. Here we are told
that the waters piled themselves up on
each side and congealed Into walls, leav
ing a dry path. The psalmist also in this
group tells about mountains bowing down
and little hills skipping like lambs. This
doesn't mislead any one into believing
that this occurred; then why should the
other?"
Some Classed as Legends.
"The third group is of miracle stories
with legendary basis," declared Professor
Willett, "such as that of the man raised
to life after being killed In battle, his
body being dropped into Elisha's tomb
and touching the prophet's bone mere
legend, given its Old Testament form to
glorify Elisha. As to the three children
of Israel in the fiery furnace, this story
should be used not to emphasize a leg
endary miracle, but to Illustrate the faith
fulness and courage of the three.
"My fourth group of Old Testament mir
acles includes those which violate not
only probability, but morals, and there
fore cannot be taken as authoritative
demonstration from God of the ethics of
his religion. The destruction of the chil
dren by bears at Bethel at Elisha's com
mand is one of these. The death of Uzza
as punishment for his efforts to sustain
the tottering ark te another, as Is the de
struction of the band of soldiers sent by
the King of Israel to arrest Elijah.
Real Miracles Growth of Ideas.
"The great miracles of the Old Testa
ment are not these marvel stories some of
which are fact and some of which are the
work of imagination, but the growth of
ethical ideas; the lives of great men who
made history prophets, heroes, sages and
martyrs of the faith: the use of law, in
stitutions, history and biography for the
development of character; the production
of the greatest literature of antiquity
the Old Testament and the creatioi and
fostering of the Messianic hope.".
Couldn't Swim the Atlantic.
Kansas City Journal.
For once the American had discov
ered something British that was better
than anything that could be produced
"across the pond." Hts discovery was
a fine collie dog. and he at once tried
to induce Its owner, an old shepherd,
to sell it.
"Wad ye be takin' him to America?"
Inquired the old Scot.
"Yes, I guess so," said the Yankee.
"I thocht as muckle," said the shep
herd. "I couldna part wl Jock."
But while they sat and chatted an Eng
lish tourist came up and to him the
shepherd sold the collie for much less
than the American had olTered.
"You told me you wouldn't sell him,"
said the Yankee when the purchaser had
departed.
"Na," replied the Scot, "I said I
couldna' part wf him. Jockll be back
In a day or so, but he couldna' swim
the Atlantic'
Th flame of an ordinary match has a
much higher temperature than to generally
known, and will melt ca0t iron or steel fil
ings. Try It by striking a match and sprin
kle th. fllina-s through the flame. Sputter
ing pp&rka like gunpowder will b th. reeult
of th. melting metal.
YOUR HOME will be healthier when you keep bottled
Schlitz. The barley is food the hops are a tonic. And
the drinking: of liquids flushes the system of waste.
Every doctor knows that most people drink too little.
On this account, their systems become clogged with waste.
There lies the main good of watering places. They
induce the drinking of water.
That is one reason why the drinking of beer is good
for you. It leads you to drink more liquid than you would
drink without it. And that liquid is both a food and a tonic.
The sturdiest peoples of the earth drink the most of it.
But be sure that the beer is aged, so it will not cause
biliousness. And be sure it is pure.
Schlitz beer is all healthfulness.
CAR STRIKES AUTO
Machine Demolished and Oc
cupants Hurled Out.
SIX PERSONS BADLY HURT
Mrs. Anne Hoff Still Unconscious.
Fteared Skull Is Fractured.
Streetcar Crowded With Pas
sengers From Venice.
LOS ANGELES, Aug. 23. Sljc persons
were injured, one probably fatally, late to
day, when an inbound Los Angeles Pacific
car struck an automobile at the inter
section of Sixteenth street and Western
avenue, practically destroying the ma
chine and hurling its six passengers in
every direction. The injured are:
Mr. and Mrs. R. C. McKibben. of 2130
West Twenty-seventh street.
Mr. and Mrs. Corry C- Hoff, of 769 Ceres
street.
Mrs. Anne Hoff. Pasadena.
Sarah Hoff. agea 14. Pasadena.
Mrs. Anne Hoff is believed to have been
the most seriously Injured. She had not
recovered consciousness several hours af
ter the accident, and It was feared her
skull was fractured.
Responsibility tor the collision has not
been placed, the motorman of the car and
Cory Hoff, who was drlvinjr.the automo
bile, both declaring they failed to sight
the approach of another vehicle.
The streetcar, which was crowded with
passengers returning from Venlcla, caught
the machine when it was partly across
the track. The tonneau, containing the
four women, received the full force of the
Impact and was torn from the body of
the vehicle, the women meanwhile being
flung many feet away.
Hoff and McKibben escaped with slight
Injuries, although both were flung to the
street. T,he car was Immediately stopped,
and after the four women, all uncon
scious, had been lifted aboard, af quick run
was made to the California Hospital,
where medical, aid was given the injured.
PHOTOGRAPHING WAVES
Plenty of Adventures to Be Derived
From the- Sport.
Chicago News.
There are plenty of adventures to be
found in photographing; the great
waves of the sea. F. J. Mortimer, an
Englishman, tells of some rough ex
perience in getting pictures of this
kind on the stormy coast of the Scilly
Islands. He says: "One can never
trust the sea for a moment. Once I
was standing with my back to a cliff,
on the top of which was a friend, whose
outstretched hands I could just reach.
After watching the sea for some time
breaking at a safe distance I turned my
back on it for one moment to reach up
to my friend for a fresh, dark slide.
Ask for
Common
To avoid
The BeerThat
Fatal moment as fatal as taking one's
eye from a crouching tiger for no
sooner had I turned my head than a
wave darted in and crashed with terri
fic force on to my back. I was abso
lutely flattened out against the rock,
all breath and feeling were knocked
from my body, while my camera was
smashed to smithereens. Bruised and
gasping, I could only totter home to
bed, and two days were passed before
I was fit to venture out again.
"Then there was another venture."
says Mr. Mortimer again, "caused by
a ropeman who was too careless. He
had lowered me down a narrow crevice,
a chimney', as it is called, and having
seen me safely come to ground at the
bottom he calmly threw the rope down
to me And went off. never thinking
that he might be required to haul me
up again. One glance at sea told me
that I was in a most dangerous posi
tion; the tide was coming in, and
would soon be welling up the chimney,
and only by way of the chimney could I
escape. All intentions of taking pho
tographs I threw to the wind. After
shouting till I was hoarse I began the
upward climb unaided elbow work of
the stiffest kind. The chimney was
100 feet high, and I spent the rest of
the day getting to the top.
"Another time the promptitude of a
friend in trying to save my life cost
me a valuable outfit. . I was photo
graphing from the base of a cliff, on
the top of which stood my friend, hold
ing the rope to which I was attached.
Along came a fine wave that would
have made a magnificent study. While
it was yet far distant a sudden distrust
of It entered my friend's soul, and
while I was stooping over my things
on the ground, without a word of warn
ing he gave a mighty Jerk to the rope
and hauled me into the air. Dangling
helplessly, unable to cry out, I was
forced to watch that fine wave roll
quietly tn, break with a great effect of
foam and as quickly go off with all my
apparatus. v
"I once had an awful fall when de
scending a steep bit of cliff on St. Ag
nes. I was clambering down, very
much encumbered by my camera, which
allowed me to cling on with one hand
only, supported by toes, knees and el
bows, when suddenly a rat leaped from
a hole In the rock, brushed against my
face and landed on my .hand. Now. I
didn't know that rats inhabited the
rock, and my surprise at this unex
pected discovery in natural history,
combined with the start I gave when
the rat touched my hand, caused me to
let go my hold and fall a distance of
30 feet. . I landed on my camera case,
breaking up my outfit as completely
as the sea itself could have desired."
FAILS TO FIND LOST BOY
Convict Leads Oficers on Fruitless
Trip to Cabin in Mountains.
WALLA WALLA. Wash., Aug. 23.
(Special.) Convict James Breen made
his last attempt at locating lost Cecil
Brittain today and will begin tle serving
of his five-year sentence In the peniten
tiary, at the close of which he will
probably be tried for selling one of Brit
tain's horses while engaged in one of his
wild goose chases, the penalty for which
will be from one to ten years in the
penitentiary.
Officers of the pentltentiary took Breen
today to the mountains, near the Toll
gate, where he said the lost boy could
be found. He directed the party to a
cabin three miles from Tollgate, but It
was unoccupied and showed no signs
of occupancy fo rseveral months.
Breen's excuse was that those having
the child had evidently moved camp to
the Brewery Bottling.
beer is sometimes substituted for Schlitz.
being imposed upon, see that the cork or
Phone "Main 277$
Sherwood & Sherwood
8 Front St., S. E. cor. Ankeny
Portland
Made Milwaukee Famous
a point lower down the river in order
to find better grass for their horses.
Warden Reed said that the trip today
closed the Incident, so far as Breen is
concerned. '
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above? If so. no need to wear a wobbly,
unusable partial platS or ill-fitting ordinary
bridge work. The Dr. Wise system of
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The result of 21 years' exjjerlece. the new
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In fact, in most cases one dose is I
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In the world's history no medicine
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IXSS THAN FOTR DAYS AT SEA.
Sailings Quebec-Liverpool.
To Europe, August 29.
From Europe August 26, September 4, 9
18. 23.
Rates First cabin, $90 up; second, cabin.
$48.75. One-class, $45; third-class, $28.75.
Ask any Ticket Agent for Particulars or
Wrlta
F. R. JOHNSON. Passenger Agent.
142 Third Street, f ortlaad. Or.
I DIARRHOEA I
croum is branded Schlitz.
St.
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CARS LEAVE.
Ticket Office and Waltlng-Room,
First and Alder Streets
1 FOK
Oregon City 4. 6:30 A. M . and every
80 minutes to and Including 9 P. M..
then 10. 11 P M. ; last car 12 midnight.
Greshani, Boring, Eagle Creek, Eata
cada, Caiadero. 1 airvlew and Trout
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6:15. 7:25 P. M.
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the Last Car Leaves at
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For Astoria and all beach points.
Tickets good to return by train or
0. R. & N. steamers.
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A. M. daily except Sunday.
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Steamer Chas. R. Spencer
Daily round trip, except Thursday.
Astoria and way landings, leaves foot
Washington st. 7 A. M.; leaves Astoria
2 P. M.
FARE. 1.0O EACH WAY MEALS, BOO
Sundav Excursions 8 A. M.
fl.OO ROt'NU TRIP.
Phone Main 8619.
COOS BAY LINE
The steamer BREAKWATER leaves Port
land every Wednesday at 8 F. M. from Oak
street dock, for North Bend. Marahfleld and
Cooa Bay polnta. Freight received till P.
M on day of sailing. Passenger fare, flrat
clasa. $10: acond-claa. $7, including berta
and meala. Inquire city ticket office. Third
and Washington streets, or Oak-streat dock.
North Pacific S. S. Co's. Steamship
koanoke and Geo. W. Elder
Sail for Eureka, San Francisco and
Los Anmles direct every Thursday
at 8 P. M. Ticket office 132 Third
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S. S. Rose City, sopt. 3, 19. etc.
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Main 2iW Alnsworth Dock.
M. J. KOt HE, Ticket Agent, 142 3d St.
Phone Main 402. A 1402,
REGULATOR LINE.
Fast Steamer ttutiey Gutzert.
Round Tups to The Dalle Week Days, Kx-
cept Friday. Leave 7 A. M.
Round Trips to Cascade Locks Sunday.
Leave 1 A. M.
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Maintain daily service to The Dalles, except
Sunday, calling at all way landings tot
freight and passengera. Leave 7 AM,
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