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THE M0RXIXC5- OREGONIAN, TUESDAY, DECE3IBEK lO, ivvo. T3. DISCUSS TRADE National Civic Federation Takes Up Problem at Annual Meeting. TO AMEND SHERMAN ACT fcoth Low Favors Substantial Altera tions In Anti-Trust Law -Mrs. Taft Proposes Reform for Work of Women's Department. TTFTW YORK, Ier. 14. With a session of ihe woman's department, at which Mrs. -Tnft. wife of the President-elect, presented a report of the committee on welfare work for Government errtployes. of which she Is chairman, the National t'lvlc Federation opened Its annual meet ing here today. Mrs. Taft proposed many additional reforms for the women's de partment, providing for Investigation of Kederal Department buildings. navy yards and the like, as well as stats and municipal hospitals and police, stations, with a view to discovering the need in them for welfare work or for improve ments. The sessions were devoted to the dis cussion of the general topic of this an nual gathering the promotion of friend ly relations between employers and em ployes. Both Mrs. Taft and her hus hand are on the list of speakers, the President-elect being scheduled to speak tomorrow night. Disrnss Trade Agreements. The afternoon meeting was devoted to a discussion of trade agreements, ad dresses on the subject being delivered by John Mitchell. Hermann Kidder. Samuel nompers. James M. Lynch and James O'Connell. August Belmont commended the agree ment plan, but said that laws would have to be passed giving it the force of a contract before public service trans portation corporations could adopt it. Samuel Gompers said: "I wns amused when I heard gentle man after gentleman making statements from the platform which can be made the subject of prosecution under the Sherman anti-trust law. Indeed, the .existence of the trade agreement. to which we all point with pride, is In it self all the evidence that is necessary. 'Surely it does not lie with me to even criticise such men as the Justices of our Supreme Court if their interpre tation of the Sherman anti-trust law is correct. That law. made at the demand of the people to protect them from greed and discrimination of trusts, 'now applies to every association of working people, and to the men themselves, not dealers in anything, not organized for profit, but trying only to protect the only thing of value to them their power to labor." Declares for Amendments. Hon. Seth Low, as president of the Federation, discussed the Increasing de 'mand for important amendments to the Sherman anti-trust law. the efforts of the committee to secure the passage of amendments by Congress and the conflict of interests exhibited In the search for a consensus as to the amendments neces sary. John Mitchell, former president of the t'nited Mineworkers of America, opened his remarks with a review of the new relations between employer and employe, that had come through the growth and development of the Nation's industries, saying that the laborer, as an Individual, had become merged In the labor organi zations Just as the individual employer had been absorbed by the great corpora tions. Rlildcr Tells of Difficulties. Herman Rldder paid a high compli ment to the intelligence of American laborers, and said that "We have relied imon that superior intelligence to solve difficult labor problems." He said that Inasmuch as that type of labor has Fhared In the country's prosperity, he felt it right to assume that it would reciprocate in periods of depression. Mr. Kidder referred to the newspaper In dustry and to the retrenchments that had to be made in the panic. He said that when such an effort was made, and the labor unions appealed to, he met with a stone wall. TRIAL OF NIGHT RIDERS J-:ipht Alleged Murderers of Captain Rankin Haled Before Jury. t'NION CITT. Tenn.. Pec. 14. The trial ' of eight alleged Night Itlders on a charge of murdering- Cap tain Quentin Kankin began this after noon. Immediately after the men were brought Into court the prosecution re quested that the court. Instead of the Sheriff, as is usual, select the jury venire. The defense Insisted that the indictments returned at the October term of court, charging an offense of a less perlous nature, be first disposed of and that the Sheriff be permitted to select the panel. Judge Jones decided adversely to both requests. Then the defense an nounced it was ready for trial, but. be cause of the ruling of the court, under protest. Judge Jones announced that he would summon 300 veniremen to be present Monday morning, when the work of selecting the Jury will begin. DELAYED BLAST KILLS JAP .oes to See What Is Wrong, When Dynamite Explodes. HOOD RIVER, Or., Dec. 1-L (Special.) The body of T. Yukimote. a well-known Japanese resident of Hood River Valley, iviio was instantly killed Saturday whllj blasting stumps, was brought to this city today from Willow Flat. Yukimote met his death by walking up ! a stump in which he had placed a thurge of powder, which failed to ex plode, with three other ehots. which he had placed. Just as he reached the stump the delayed charge went off. fragments of the wood striking him over the heart and caueln; death. Funeral services were held over the tlead man here today by Rev. S. Wakaba yaskl, and the body will be taken to Portland tomorrow for cremation. LOWER COURT REVERSED Men Acquitted In Timber Case Will " Be Tried Again. WASHINGTON. Dec. 14. The Su preme Court of the I'nlted States to ilay In the main reversed the verdict of Ine United Stales District Court of Colo- Mrs. James Patton, Bought Rare Books Like Those Alleged Sold to J. Wesley Ladd. CHICAGO, Dec. 14. The names of J. Wesley Ladd. a banker or Portland, Or., and of Mr. Emerson, a manufacturer of Baltimore, were used by Assistant 1 . , ... . YnnKBm tnHav In hla omic s aiiuiucj . j opening statement in the case wherein Mrs. James A. Patton, wire of a mil lionaire of Chicago, charges that Samuel T. Warfleld and William N. Cooper defrauded her out of $22,700 in a rare book swindle. Mr. Pophara declared that Warfleld and Cooper duped John McFarland, a legiti mate dealer in rare editions, into going Into the conspiracy. Out of kindness to Mr. McFarland. who had been sent to her. the attorney declared, by Mr. War field, Mrs. Patton signed a contract to take certain books which she was told were to be sold to Ladd and Emerson. rado. discharging from custody a number of persons who were arrested on the charge of conspiring to defraud the Gov ernment by entering timber and coal lands in Colorado. There were four rases, F. W. Keitel, Robert Forrester, Charles E. Herr and George C. Frank lin being the, defendants, and three coal land cases in which Charles H. Freeman, Edgar M. Biggs and Alex ander T. Sullenberger were defendants. These men. with a number of others, were Indicted on the charges of false swearing and conspiring to procure for corporations more of the public lands than is allowed by law to one indi vidual or one company. Todav's opinion was announced by Jus tice White, and sustained the conspiracy indictments, thus reversing the District Court on that point. That court, how ever, was sustained In ffcidlng that sec tion 4746. covering false" swearing, does not apply to other than pension cases. The Interior Department contended that as amended this statute applies to false swearing in any matter arising In the In terior Department. Justice White's principal decision of the series was In the case of P. W. Keitel and others. In which he discussed the right to employ an agent to purchase coal lands for a disqualified principal. He i.. that an evnress provision ex cluding the right to do a particular act is both in form and substance a pro hibition against the doing of such act and characterized as inconceivable any hypothesis that the act of a duly authorized agent was r.ot the act of the principal. NAME USED ONLY AS BAIT LEADING PORTLAXDER. RE FERRED TO Br AGENTS. "I know absolutely nothing about this suit," said Mr. Ladd last night. "I do not have the acquaintance of either of the parties and at no time did I ever have any business relations with them. Some time ago the Portland papers printed a story associating my name with these parties, but it was without foundation of fact." It Is the contention of Mr. Ladd and his friends that McFarland. who was the tool of Warfleld and Cooper, Induced Mrs. Patton to enter into a contract agreeing to take a supply of books on the representation that many prominent men throughout the country would gladly pur chase them. It was In this connection only, it is alleged, that the names of Mr. Ladd and others were used for ref erence purposes In the development of the conspiracy of which Mrs. Patton was the victim. TELLS OP MOTHER'S DEATH TOUXG VARELA NARRATES BUTCHERY OF HIS PARENT. Jury nears Bloody Details of How Machuca, Mexican Giant, Wield ed Knife in Murder. LOS ANGELES. Dec, 14. With blood curdling detail, John Varela. an 18-year-old lad. recited. In Judge Jami son's court today, the story of the kill ing of his mother, Refugia Yorba, by Fabronia Machuca, a giant Mexican, on the night of August 18, last, and the hand-to-hand light In which he and his brother William engaged with the al leged murderer, resulting finally In Ma chuca being shot and knocked sense less by the boya, and held until the Marshal arrived to place him under ar rest. Machuca is being tried for mur der. Varela told how, at 2 o'clock in the morning, he was aroused by the screams of his mother, and, making his way to the front of the house, found her bleeding from Innumerable knife wounds, while Machuca was bending over her. He attacked Machuca, struck him with his flst and finally shot him, but not seriously. In a fierce hand-to-hand fight that followed. Varela was stabbed several times and although his mother came to his rescue and received her death wound from Machuca, he was almost overpowered when his brother William appeared and also shot Machuca. This time the latter fell and was finally captured and bound by the Varelas, but not until he had got to his feet and made an effort to get away. EVANS DEFENDS WARSHIPS (Continued From First Pag. ment "that a wound on the turret may disable the turret's guns" is abso lutely inadequate unless by "wound" penetration is meant. "Of all the inaccurate and mislead ing statements in this wonderful Reu terdahl criticism." he continues, "the most incorrect Is that the battleships of the United States are exactly the same as were the Russian ships before the Russo-Japanese fight In the Sea of Japan. I assert that the battle fleet of the United States never was and never will be, never can be In the con dition of that Russian fleet when it went into action for the last time." The leading features in battleship designs. Admiral Evans concludes, are the battery, the armor protection and the motive -power. Any one of these unduly sacrificed in favor of the other means weakening of the fighting machine. CEYLON ENTERTAINS FLEET Admirals Guests of Governor. Bluejackets Go to Kandy. ' COLOMBO. Ceylon, Dec. 14. Rear Admiral Sperry this morning paid an official visit, to Sir Henry McCallum, the Governor of Ceylon. A big crowd cheered him. Later in the day the Gov ernor returned the call on board the Connecticut. During the stay of the 15 battleships at Colombo Admiral Sperry will be the guest ofthe Governor, while Rear Admiral Seaton Schrorder will be en tertained bv. General Lawrenc The Sheathbocker The newest thing in muslin Undergarments is a comti na tion of the famous De Be voise Brassiere and Knicker bocker in one garment. Elim inate all unnecessary cloth ing, under the close-fitting Directoire skirts. Comfort able, stylish, sightlv. $3.00 to $10.00 77 77 ' TT TT V ids. wartman z Ams - s Only 9 Shopping Days Then Xmas Make Haste With Your Gift Buying-Escape the Terrific Crowds of the Last Days Shop While All Assortments Phoenix Mufflers The newest thing in knit Mufflers the hit of the sea son. We have them in all shades enough to supply all who come. See the display of exclusive novelties in Pa risian jewelry at our jewelry department. Selected in Paris by our own skilled buyer, especially for Tort land trade. Are Complete-In All Departments We Are Ready for You-Glove Certificates for Men or Women-Also Merchandise Certificates for Any Amount-Goods Will Be Stored and De liveries Made At Any Time You Wish-Shop in the Morning Before the Rush Commences 4 Lovely Lingerie lh Only rich and delightfully dainty garments fea tured, but the prices are indeed low. A fortu- nate purchase from one-of the best producers of high-grade muslin wear. An immense assort ment. Nothing could be more suitable for Christ mas gifts, and the fastidious woman will be de lighted with the richness and beauty of these garments. Gowns, Chemise, Corset Uovers, Drawers, long or short Petticoats and combina Hons in styles without ZJ If PinO number. On sale at 11 Li IB 1 S ItC s O IF Stop and think of the hundreds of pretty things for JxJYICLS iDtlH.S Christmas gifts that may be made tip from good qualitv suits, men come in ana see now nine guuu silks costs here. They can be used for opera bags, slipper bags, plain or fancy waists, opera scarfs and in dozens and dozens of ways. Buy the silk and make Christmas presents for your friends. They will cost you less ' and please your friends more. Not1 Give Gloves? No woman can have too many gloves. They are one of the most popular articles for presents in our entire stock. If you do not know the size, buy a glove order and we will fit the gloves at any time you desire. Monarch, 2-clasp, pique kid, the pair $2.00 Derby, 2-clasp, pique kid, the pair. . .$1.50 Eskay, 2-clasp, overseam, the pair.. $1.50 Dent's Tan Cape Gloves, at only... $2.00 Prix-seam Tan Cape Gloves, the pair $1.75 Monarch Suede 2-clasp Gloves for only $2.00 NECKWEAR FOR GIFTS: See the new jabots in real Irish lace and embroidery and daintv lace effects ; 35 to $3.50 IRISH LACE STOCK COLLARS and embroidered linen collars; ostrich feath er boas, Persian belts and hand-painted opera throws, etc. "Women's 12, 16 and 20-button lengths Kid Gloves, for street or evening wear. We have the most complete stock of gloves in Portland, with expert and courteous fitters always in attendance. We guarantee all gloves sold to be per fect and make good any fault of gloves. Slipp For Men--Samples at BTS About Half Regular Seems like this slipper sale of ours has taken the town by storm, and our Shoe Department was crowded yesterday with thrifty, well-pleased buyers. We captured the entire sample line of a famous slipper house, and we are offering them at less than factory cost. As some sizes were missing in these sample lines, we have added hundreds of pairs from our regular stock, and we offer the entire assortment at only a little more than one half the regidar price. They are in tan, black and patent leathers Operas, Everetts, Romeos, Cavaliers and Columbia styles. If you choose the wrong size, you are welcome to ex change them for the correct size and width after Christmas. It is the" greatest assortment of styles and the greatest oppor tunity for savings ever shown on these seasonable goods, just at the time when slippers are .most in demand. All styles going at the great reduction of. . Toylan 7 Shows a Wealth of 2 Interesting Toys MECHANICAL TRAINS Consisting of heavy steel engine, with brake, one baggage-car, two coaches, 12 feet of 0 track and one cross-over. Regular $5.50 val.. special 0 TiJu MECHANICAL TRAINS Same as above, but with larger coaches and with 16 feet of track and two switches. P7 U Today at low price ot.v3l ivJO About V2. Regular Price This is a regular $10.00 value Tin Kitchen Sets Regularly worth 6c. Special, each..4 Iron Phaeton AVith one horse and two passengers, hand somely painted, entire length 14 in.; 85c value, only.. 63 Savings Bank With combin ation lock, regular 65c value. Take advantage of this very low special sale price of 48 Dressed Jointed Dolls, with sleeping eyes, real hair, hand somely dressed in pink, blue or red costumes. Good size; worth $1.75, special ..$1.25 Kid Body Dolls 12 in. long; worth 25c each, special. ,18 Doll Trunks For the neat lit tle miss to keep her dollies' wardrobe in; size 4x(!xl0 in.; worth 35c each. Special 25 Sweaters $2. 69 -Silk Petticoats $5.98 You Will Also Find Six Other Larse Bargains in the Style Salons Yesterdav was a busv dav in Portland's largest and best style store, and crowds are sure to come today, while these phenomenal bargains are in force. Some of the best things in the department tor Christmas gifts are bargainized for these two days' selling, and Portland shoppers have shown their appreciation of the bargains offered. SILK PETTICOATS of unusually fine taffeta silk, in a complete assortment of colors; also in fancy plaids or striped effects. Values in the ec QQ lot up. to $15. Your choice for today, ... .Wj" All costumes and house dresses without reserve, choice of our enormous stock, reg ularly $20 to $250, on J V sale for Christmas at 4 KNITTED SWEATERS FOR WOMEN Only 100 in the lot; the colors are navy, brown, red or white. They are nicely finished and trimmed with large pearl buttons. All sizes; $-i.oU values, at the special low price of only. All fancy waists in our entire stock, $2.69 that sell regularly at $12.50 and up V4 Less we are offering during this Christmas sale at WOMEN'S FANCY TAILORED SUITS A lot containing about 250 very beautiful and stylish gar ments, in finest broadcloths and fancy wool goods; regularly $38.50 to $185.00. Choice i'fess of the entire lot at the exceptionally low terms of '. ' All Bath Robes and Kimonos at Very Special Prices. Big Sale of Men's Bath Robes $3.85 Here's a good special that will help many of the thrifty in the selection of gifts for their men friends. Bath robes in handsome patterns and splendid quality, at a great deal less than the regular price. They are our regular $5.00 and PQ fjF $6 qualities, specially priced for today's selling at low price of only, epch.OOiOj MEN'S SWEATER COATS Make the finest, sort of gifts for fellows who indulge in athletics or out-of-door sports. We have them in all colors and sizes; they are priced for this sale at from $1.75 to Chinaware 5c Upsfabisl - For those who have many gifts to buy and not much to buy them with, these special tables of chinaware furnish a welcome solution to' the difficulty. There is an end less assortment of useful and ornamental pieces, priced at 5, 10, 15, 25, 35 and 50. Each price grouped at a separate table, so that choosing is easy indeed. Look these over while buying small gifts. $5,00 I JUflEE SCORES ATTORNEYS LAWYERS IX KATE CASE CIUTT- CISED FOR LONG DELAY. Missouri AKorncy Forces Officials to Make Admissions About Two Cent Passenger Kate. KANSAS CITT, llo., Dec. 14. Calling up the Missouri passenger and freight hearing after a four weeks' recess to day. Judge Smith. McPherson, of Red Oak, la., severely scored the attorneys In the case for their tardiness, and de clared that he would not tolerate any further delay. The case has been on the docket for three years. Part of the etate's issue is to prove whether or not the railways operating in Missouri can afford to carry passengers In Missouri .for 2 cents a mile on trunk lines. The law does not apply to short lines. Two witnesses, W. H. Whitenton, su perintendent of the Rock- Island linee in Arkansas, and R. E. Kim bell, auditor of the Cotton Belt Railroad, testified to day. In depositions given previously the railroads had set up that It cost more to carry Intrastate than it did Intorstate passengers. Attorney Lehman. lor the state, made both witnesses admit that through trains carried both state and Interstate passengers; that sometimes state passengers rode as far on their respective trains as interstate passengers did; that the same train hauled both and that It cost no more for the state than it did for the interstate passengers. Xo Hope for Poison Victim. VALLEJO, Cal.. Dec. 14. Mrs. August Rose, one of the victims of ptomaine poisoning resulting from partaking of the meat served after the launching of the collier Prometheus, is in a very criti cal condition. She is sinking and little hope of her recovery Is entertained. No The Mission Of those corpuscles In your blood that have been called "Little Soldiers," Is to fight for you against the disease germs that constantly endanger your health. These corpuscles are made healthy and strong by the use of Hood's Sarsaparilla. This medicine ia a combination of more than 20 different remedial agents in proportions and by a process known only to ourselves and it has for thirty years been constantly proving its worth. No substitute, none "just-ae-good." new cases of poisoning have developed during the last two days. EXCEEDED EVEN SATURDAY Monday's Piano Sales Greater Than Previous Big Record The statement made in Sunday's Ore gronian of the large number of pianos sold by Kllers Piano House Saturday, among which were seven instruments, each one costing over $750, seems to have caused considerable comment. In struments of such high cost are not articles of general sale, nevertheless, eadh one of the Instruments enumerat ed was purchased by a buyer of Port land Saturday. To further Illustrate Oregon's won derfully prosperous condition, while not so many of the very highest-priced instrumtnts were .sold yesterday, alto gether Monday's sales exceeded Satur day's. Numerous Instruments are set aside to be specially delivered on Christmas eve or Christmas aay, but. nevertheless, the shipping clerk last night had slated no less than 15 fine new pianos for to day's delivery. Where Is a more definite proof of the development and growth of musical education In Portland than this record at Eilero Piano House? Incidentally, too. it shows that the many broad claims of others notwithstanding. only place in Portland where the besrM and the most tor the money la lo ua obtained. G. P. Rummelin & Sons 126 Second St., Between Wash ington and Alder i.Ti-. mmm Mm i4 &j FXnbllshed 1S70. GIFTS For Christmas FURS Misses' Furs, Neckwear and Muffs, in while fox, sable fox, heaver, otter, etc. Ladies' Fur Neckwear and Muffs, in mink, black lynx, sable, ermine, ot ter, etc. Children's Furs, in ermine, squirrel, krimnier, white Thibet, etc. FUR COATS Fur Riis and Rubes. Store Open Evenings. r