Mil A vjr uiii,uu.i.t..'i j -. , - - STEP TO SIMPLIFY RAILROAD RATES Rock Island and Frisco Lines Make Them Comprehensi ble to Shippers. COMMISSION APPROVES IT Anthorizos Issue of Xew Inmber Tariff Which Gives Complete In formation Roads Invite Sug gestions and Criticisms. WASHINGTON. Dec. 24. By special permission of lhe Interstate Commerce Commission the Chicago & Eastern Illi nois Railroad Company, for Itself and for the Rock Island and Frisco Iins, will file nith the commission in a f-w days one of the most remarkable freight tariffa ever constructed by an In terstate carrier. The proposed tariff will be a compilation of local, joint and pro portional rates on lumber products in carloads from various points in the Mid dle TVest and South to other points In the Middle West and the East and Canada. For some tirrw the Interstate Com merce Commission has had Its experts njrasred in examining: proofs of the pro posed tariff, and the commission has di rected that the tariff shall contain the following note: Make Turlfr Simple. As an assistance in reaching more ilm plicity and clearness In tariff construction and contemplating eventual statements of rates In speirtc form, the Interstate Com merce Commission lias, bv its special au thority of December 17. 1308. No. 79K0. to the Chlcairo a Eastern Illinois KailroH'l Com pany, srrantorf temporarily and subject to relocation by toe. Commission permission to Issue this tariff and to Inolude this rule therein. . Contained In the tarlfT la another note by the Chicago & Eastern Illinois as fol lows : Clear, Complete Information. In the publication of this tariff. It fa the desire of theso companies to place In the hands of their shippers, and connections clear and complete Information an to the lumber rates, not only from the gateways from which thse companies operate, but in a special section to provide rates to par ticular gateways so that the persons using this Issue will have in one tariff complete information concerning rates from th point of origin of the lumber to the final des tination of the consignment. Co-operation with the shippers is in vited in the- following paragraph In an address 'by the carriers: Invite Shippers' Suggestions. "To Our Patrons: It has been the aim to show this information in as compre hensive a. manner as possible and In order to perfect it in all its details ajtd main tain this issue on a. correct basis, we wish to urtrs upon you freely to com municate with the undersigned (F. C Bellly. general freight agent), calling; at tention to any correction, omission or inconsistency -which may appeal to you. In other words, we Invite suggestions or criticisms which will tend toward mak ing this tariff a most perfect and com plete lstie, and one which will in every way fulfill your requirements." RATI7S LIKE FIFTEEN" PUZZLE Move to Simplicity May Abolish Ifighly Involved System. If the Chicago & Eastern Illinois Com pany has succeeded in issuing a clear and comprehensive tariff by which any lum ber shipper can find a rate without the aid of an expert. It has inaugurated a revolution. Railway freight rates are puch an involved mass of figures that a rate man at high salary is as necessary to a large business house as an actuary to an insurance company. The railroads have divltled all com modities into classes and all goods In each class originally paid a certain rate from a certain point to a certuln other point. Then ihey began to make ex ceptions. They created special rates on certain commodities from and to speci fied points. They created terminal rates, for example, from the Atlantic seaboard to Buffalo. Erie. Pittsburg. Cincinnati and other points on about the same north and south line; from Chicago to Pacific Coast terminals: from Pacific Coast ter minals to St. Paul, Minneapolis, Omaha and points on the same line. When a new industry was established at a point which had Just appeared on the map. It was given a special com modity rate to help It along. The long and short haul clause made many local points exceptions to the tariff rates and gave them terminal rates. There are also fllfTerent local tariffs on each of several parallel roads and In order to ascertain the lowest rate to a competing local point. It Is necessary to compare these tariffs. Even when the rate clerk has ascer tained the rate for a shipper, he has to refer to a proportional tnrlff to discover whRt share of that rate goes to his own road and whnt share goes to each of sev ftrnl competing lines. In course of time the number of excep tions has grown larger than the number it shipments which follow the rule, and a rate clerk must have at his fingers' finds a library ot tariffs1 calculated to five an average man brain fever. It was on Just such an exception as these that the Standard OH Company based its defense In the famous Alton febate case. The regular rate being IS tents, an obscure footnote on a tariff sve the Standard a rate of 8 cents. The shanfie tu simplicity will, therefore, be i lonsr tep toward establishing equality f rates, for under present conditions the thipper who can afford to hire the best rate clerk gets the lowest rates, merely ihrouph his knowledga of where to find Ihcm. BILL ESTIMATE TOO IIKAVT Mate Expert In Minnesota Cuts Figures $30,000,000. BT. PAUL, Deo. !. Dwlght C. Mor nui. an expert employed by the State io make a valuatlun of the physical prop irty of the railroads In Minnesota, estt natea the value of the Northern Pacific property In round figures at 39,OiJO.O0O less than the flgurea reported by the com pany's officers. Mr. Morgan also considers the CApita.ll lation of the company In Minnesota ex ceeds the present value of the property owns. The estimate of the cost of reconstruc lon of the road la submitted as $101, DO.000. The estimates presented by Mr, Horgan are entered as evidence In the tearing brought- by the stockholders of frie company to prevent the enforcement If the commodity Tate law, and the rates (rill use the figures to show that the rates . prescribed under the direction of the railroad and warehouse committee 1 allow equal compensation for the amount of money invested by the company. CONDENSED NEWS BY WIRE have mnnV , i Jti,.rmtrna hn a slcfltlnr rink aoo feet In the air and Ice skating at that. ,.u a . - . i.inat According neuevru i. w .... ... .nnn.,nc-l Thiirsdav such a rlnK K- nnennri On tot.' of th new Office at Broadway ar.d Thirty-third building streets. ,. . rHm.nf iO det ter- (W lUIl L-lll. J - " - . ... j i i i . . hnlm of mine inc ubtwji"' --- monkeys Is to be undertaken oy m -entlsts of George Washington University. There are 12 monk;ys now housed at the medical college, and they will be trained and their brains then examined.- Cleveland. A. I. Faulkner, president of the National Window Glaasworkers. said Thursday that the new wage scale of his organization has been signed by a total or 10 manufacturing concerns, representing SS0 men. Mr. Faulkner stated that his union was In a position to stand a long siege if necessary. Chicago. A number of Daughters of the Revolution have made peace with the onion. They have been persuaded to this course INITED STATES CO.VSl'L TO CIRACAO. K. H. Cheney. E. II. Cheney is our very effi cient Consul at Curacao, the Dutch ' possession which is the naval base of Holland in her attack on V e n e z u e 1 a. It is through Mr. Cheney that the Government of the United States gets most of its Information about the state of affairs in that part of the world just now. by Dr. Meyergen. who after sundry dem onstrations In cooking made the onlona Into a dish that could be eaten before a party. Chicago For 'the last week over 200 pounds of plum pudding have been ex amined br Chicago customs officers, not to speak of the vast amount of cake and other reminders to the foreigner of his particu lar fatherland. Each package has to be examined to make sure no diamonds or other dutiable articles have bean baked Into the heart of these things. Boston. Mrs. Evelyn Greenleaf Suther land, a well-known newspaper and maga zine writer and author ct several plays, died at her home In this city Thursday as the result of a burning acc.dent. Washington. President Roosevelt will make an effort. In his African hunting trip, to secure tw-j white rhinoceroses, about the scarcest animal In Africa. The National Museum In Washington Is especially anx ious for one of these, and If the President pets another specimen he will give It to the British Museum. Wltchita. Kan. Two charges of nitro glycerin exploded against the vault of the Lima, Kan., .State Ban, early Thursday morning aroused citizens who prevented robbery of the bank. White rialns. X. Y. Alfred F. Rhoades. formerly a member of Company F. of the Fourteenth Infantry, who was sentenced to 50 years' Imprisonment by a courtinartial for killing a native of the Philippines, but who was pardoned In l!l7 by President Roosevelt, has arrived here destitute and broken In health after making the .1000 miles Journey from San Francisco, where he had been in prison. Rhoades tramped 5no miles on his eastward Journey from the Coast and made the rest of the distance by beating bis way on freight trains. Trinidad. Colo. "I expect to spend Christmas In Froenlx. Arts., said E. M. Ryler, a passenger on a west-bound train on the Colorado Southern Railroad Just as the train was leaving Thatcher. 30 miles east of here early Thursday. As he said It. Ruvter suddenly arose from his seat, reeled and fell dead. He was a resident of Salt Lake City. Helena. Mont. Constable Fry late Thurs day night arreBted a man who tallies with the description of the diamond thief who entered the Jacquemine Jewelry store and made a getaway with several thousand dol lars' worth of diamonds. He was at the depot asking In regard to trains. Chicago. Another effort to centralise the remnants of John Alexander Dowie'a Zlon Citv colony has developed. It Is an nounced that a fund of tlu.OOO has been raised by Wilbur (Jlenn Vollva, Iowle"s suo oessor. for the repurchase of Zlon House. New York. William H. Kdwards. from 1S97 to lltol a member of the Princeton football team, was appointed street com missioner Wednesday. New York All employes of" the New York Park Department whose pay Is $3 or less per day. will receive a bright new $1 gold piece from Mrs. ItUBsel! Sage on Christmas day. l.os Angeles. Cal. Four members of one family, three sisters and a brother, ranging In ages from "Hi to 'J5 years, were arraigned before the commissioner yesterday charged with being mentally incompetent. The un fortunates are Pascall reron, aged 21; Margaret. 25; Barah. IS, and Vehina, 16. Pittsburg. Notices were posted at the Homestead Steel Works announcing a com plete two days' shutdown for v'hrimmas. About 3O00 men are affected. Other mills will do likewise. Los Angeles. Cal. If Postmaster Motley H. Flint, of this city, is successful in the work he has undertaken, no poor children In this city who make known their wunts will go unremeinbered by Santa Claus tills year. Mr. Flint is dally receiving letters asking for assistance, and Is having them Investigated and attended to as rapidly as possible. He is being hacked by the fra ternal orders In tnta city. Butte. Mont. -While a funeral was pass ing down North Main street Thursday morn ing, a horse driven by Alderman Jack Har rington ran away, and dashing on the side walk created a panic among Christmas shoppers. The scene of the runaway Is the hesrt of the business section. Two men were trampled. Foresters to Meet In Vancouver. VANCOUVER. Wash., Dec. 24. (Spe cial.) Word has just been received In Vancouver by George Hausch. Deputy Grand Chief Ranger, that the next annual meeting of the Grand Court of the For esters of America of the State of Wash ington will be held In Vancouver. There will be present SS7 delegates. It Is planned at that time to form a women's auxiliary. One hundred charter members are necessary for this and already a can vass for these members has begun. Two Bandon Pioneers Die. BANDON. Or., Dec. 24. (Special.) Two pioneers. Abraham Wilson and John Young, died here the same day. Both were prominent in the early his tory of this part of Oregon. Mr. Wilson was a blacksmith and machinist by trade, and owned the first blacksmith shop in Bandon. Mr. Young was also associated with the early Industries here, being a lumberman. Mr. Wilson was 7S years old and Mr. Young was 66. A pa' excellent table d'hote dinner served at the Perkins Grill Christmas, S to 8:30. Reserve your tables. Harris' Trunk Co. for leather goods. 1 t r -, i t p - 1 1 P - ' " i x t p 1 - Pv ' ' ; ; ?f 1 it 1 1 ' v;a 4m - 1 1 h ; : v i i I f ' ; i; i T MINTO HAS CHANGE Compromise Deal Suggested in Postmastership. BOURNE NOT ENTHUSIASTIC Junior Senator Prefers Appoint ment of Young for Political Rea sons, but May Consent to Have Minto Remain Until 1010. OREGOXIAN NEWS BUREAU, Wash ington, Dec. -24 How much longer John W. Minto will continue as post master at Portland has not yet been determined. Dr. Henry Waldo Coe. after several days" labor in behalf of .Minto. discovered that President Roose velt would not withdraw the nomina tion of John C. Young. Senator Bourne. on whose recommendation Younc was nominated, is standing pat. and Senator Fulton, who continues to receive daliy protests against Young, has not ye determined whether to op pose Young's nomination or withdraw his objection and consent to confirma tion. Dr. Coe said this evening he had twice talked with President Roosevelt In Minto's fcehalf, but that the Presi dent recognized the right of Bourne to name the new postmaster at Port land that being his home; and. Bourne having chosen Young, the President will not interfere with that selection unless it be shown that Young Is either incompetent or of bad reputation. As opponents of Young do not charge either of these things, but base their objection largely on his politics and the fact that lie is a non-resident, the President will not take a hand in the controversy. Compromise Is Offered. When Dr. Coe learned the attitude of the President, and became satisfied that the selection of Portland's post master rested entirely with Senator Bourne, he called on the Senator and presented to him an appeal in behalf of Postmaster Minto. Bourne did not warm up to the proposition. He seemed entirely satisfied with his selection and not at all impressed with the suggestion that he consent to the re- ppolntment of Minto. Then Dr. Coe submitted a compromise proposition to Bourne. He asked that Minto be al lowed to remain as postmaster for two years, at the end of which time he would voluntarily retire and not ask for continuance in office, Youne to succeed him in December, 1910. Dr. Coe said this evening that he be lieved Senator Bourne would have agreed to this plan, but for the fact that it would deprive him of the right he now has of twic naming the post master at Portland. If Young is con firmed this session his term as post master will expire two months before the end of Bourne s1 term In the Senate, and Bourne will again have exclusive right of filling the office. Should he allow Minto to continue two years longer he would have but one appoint ment to make: therefore he is not favorable to Dr. Coe's proposition. . Minto Made Mistake. Dr. Coe said Minto made his mistake in not having the business interests of Portland flood Senator Bourne with re quests for his reappointment. He be lieves that if 11 had been demonstrated that -opinion was unanimous in favor of Minto's reappointment. Bourne could not have ignoic-d public sentiment. As a matter of fact, Minto was looking to the entire delegation for reappoint ment, when none but Bourne had a voice in the selection, and Bourne acted without consulting his colleagues. Sen ator Bourne has not finally rejected Dr. Coe's compromise proposition, but the doctor nas practically no hope that Minto can be retained. However, he will make another appeal to Bourne in Minto's behalf before he leaves for home. STORM OF PROTESTS MADE CContlnued from First Page.) is to do nothing about it until after the holidays. To Make Strong Appeal. "We purpose," he added, "to exhaust every effort to sustain our right to a free press and free speech. I believe, and I am confident that the position taken by the Federation is right, and that the citi zens of this country will ratify the atti tude of the Federation in this matter. I believe that they will give to trades unionists the same rights and privileges that are being accorded to trades-unions in Great Britain, as provided for in the trades dispute act as adopted there two years ago. Mr. Gompera referred to the ast in his speech to the court yesterday. Under that act a union cannot be muclted in damages on account of a strike." It is not likely that arguments on the appeal will be heard in the Court of Ap peals of the District of Columbia until March, and perhaps not then. The de fendants have 40 days in which to present their appeal, and upon a proper showing the court In Its discretion may extend the time. It is mandatory, however, that the appeal bond must be filed within 20 days. In view of the great importance of the case and the widespread Interest it has prooked throughout the country, it is the general feeling here that the hearing be fore the Court of Appeals will be a lengthy one and will add an important chapter to the already famous case. Should the upper court sustain the ruling of Justice Wright' and a further appeal to the Supreme Court of the United. States te granted, the case necessarily would not come up for decision In the highest tribu nal in the land until the Fall term, which begins next October. Messages of Sympathy. r Nearly two score messages of sympathy and support were received. Perhaps one of the most unique among them is that from J. S. Parry, of Oklahoma City, who, after expressing regret over the decision, declares: "Stay with the baggage; right must prevail." W. D. Mahon, president of the Amal gamated Association of Street Railway employes, located at Detroit, expresses sincere regret at what he considers "An unjust and an un-American sentence." He says: , "You are clearly the victims of a Judge-made law, which Is wholly uncon stitutional. It should be carried to the highest court and contested to the bitter end, and we pledge you the united sup port of our association to that end." That history will place the names of Messrs. Gompers, Mitchell and Morrison on the roll of honor with those men who have made real eacrlflcea for human uplift is the declaration of John B. Len- non, treasurer of the American Federa-, Farmers Speak, Also. "Two hundred union farmers in Texas sympathise with the three labor leaders," declared D. J. Nelll, president of the Farmers' Educational and Co-operative I nlon or Texas, in a message irum run Worth. After wishing Messrs. Gompers, Mitchell and Morrison a merry Christmas and a happv New Year, Edwin R. Wright, president of the Illinois Federation of Labor,, declares them , to be the latest "victims of Judicial oppression." "Victory of greed is but temporary; Justice will yet prevail," is the way J. F. McNamee, editor of the Locomotive Firemen & Enginemen's Magazine, tele graphed. John R. Alpine, president of the United Plumbers, of Chicago, and President J. J. Sullivan, of the International Steamflt ters' Association, express sympathy and Indignation at the verdict. H. B. Perham, president of the Order of Railroad Teleg raphers, desires to know what he and his order can do is to aid in "re-establishing freedom of the press and speech." Mr. Franklin, president, William C. Gilthorpe, International secretary-treasurer, and A. Hinsman, of the Interna tional Brotherhood of Boilermakers at Kansas City, sent a message declaring that Judge Wright's sentence Is "un just." "The evidence proves that you obeyed Judge Gould s order," says the message, "but human Judges retain and reflect the environment In which they live. This Judgment throttles free speech and free press and tramples on the principles of the American freeman." On behalf of the entire membership of the Switchmen's Union, F. T. Kawley, president, extends "sympathy and sup port. Prnm a. committee of Union o. 1. Cement Workers International Utiion, at Pan Francisco, this message came: ue inti9 nntmtrpnii!! fourt order, we guar antee you financial and moral support, to tli end that the people may win ana mo Constitution live." JUDGE PARKER HEARD FROM Attorney for Federation Analyzes Results of Decision. xTtritxr ynRTf Tier 24. Commenting on a-nonna imposed vsterdav bv Jus tice Wright against the officers of the American Federation of Labor in the con tempt proceedings growing out of the suit or the Buck Stove & Range Company, ex-Judge Alton B. Parker, of counsel for the Federation officers, today declared that the decision would be subjected to review by a higher tribunal, and that he believed "that the speaking and writing which Justice Wright holds constitutes contempt of court, cannot be prevented either by statute or Judicial decree." "The constitution of every state," said Mr. Parker, "provides In effect that every citizen may freely speak, write and pub lish his sentiments on all subjects; being responsible for the abuse of that right, and that no law should be passed to re strain or abridge the liberty of speech or of the press." Analyzing the scope of the injunction against the publishing of the name of the Buck Stove & Range Company In "We don't patronize" or "unfair" list of the American Federationist, Mr. Parker avers that: If the order can be so construed as to pre vent respectful editorial comment upon toe scope of the decree, or to prevent a free discussion of It and an expression of opinion that If It does not seek to prevent such discussion, in such event It offends against the Constitution, them so much of it as at-, tempts to do so is void. It has been ursed that even If the court In violation of the Constitution does make an order prohibiting a man from making a speech on a certain subject or prohlbltlnK a newapaoer from publishing an editorial on the same subject, the party enjoined must nevertheless obey the decree: if he does not the court may punish him, al though it has no power to make the order But certainly that which the Constitution prohibits the court may not do, any more than the T-eslslature. The unconstitutional statute need not be obeyed, and so the courts have held time and again. It wouiil seem lo follow that a decree of a court offending against the Constitution need not he obeyed because it la wholly and com pletely void. .. . . , x It Beems to me that the judicial depart ment of the Government will not be guilty of the absurdity of holding that unconstitu tional enactment by the law-making depart ment of the Government may be defied by the humblest citizen with Impunity be cause absolutely void, but that, on the other hand a decren of the judicial depart ment equally offending against the Consti tution has such force and vitality as to support Imprisonment of him who, standing on his constitutional rights, dares to vio late it. VIEWS OF LABOR LEADERS See In Gompers Decision the Seeds ' of Future Trouble. PEORIA, 111., Doc 24.-W. S. Carter, grand master-elect of the Locomotive Firemen and Enginemen, speaking here today of Justice Wright's decision of yes terday in the Buck Stove & Range Com pany, said: "The animus of the court Is probably regretted in the intemperance of its language," he said. "If Mr. Gompers were in need of vindication for his po sition during the recent political cam paign, this Jail sentence of men guilty of no crime proves the Justification of his position. Nothing will popularize the theory of class conscious political action as much as these decisions. Of course, Congress will call a halt whenever the party In power desires to do so." Robert McKee, secretary-treasurer of the- Union of Stationary Engineers, said: "I think the decision is a travesty on Justice. These men are guilty of no crime whatever. They have been simply exercising the rights of free speech and a free press. In my Judgment the Issue wtir be fully contested. I know of no law that has been violated unless it be a Judge-mado law, which Is repugnant to every liberty-loving man. "While at the present time there is much controversy and unrest, still I think that the decision of this court will do much to awaken and arouse the best thought of the American people to the end that the pernicious system of some of our courts with which we have to contend will be obliterated." CANADIAN REGRETS TtESULT Believes Sentence of Gompers Will "Work Great Harm. MONTREAL. Doc. Stf. Alphonso Ver ville, M. P., president of the Dominion Trades and Labor Congress, says Cana dian labor is thoroughly disappointed at the outcome of the Buck conspiracy case In Washington. "The sentencing of Gompers and Ms as sociates to prison for carrying on a boy cott by publication could not have hap pened under the laws of Canada," said Mr. Vervllle, "not because our laws are less stringent than those of the United States, but because our Judiciary have a wider conception of equity due to our sense of British fair play. "American capital has decreed that Gompers and his associates shall suffer the ignominy of Imprisonment and will succeed sooner or later in placing them behind the bars, but when this happens it will make a new issue in America, which may threaten the peace of the Republic Itself. The conviction of Gom pers will create more friends for organ ized labor than anything else oould pos sibly have done. Americans in the bulk will not stand for persecution." Linn County Hog Weighs 980 lbs. ALBANY. Or., Dec 24. (Special.) One of the largest hogs ever marketed in Oregon, if not the largest, was sold yesterday at Shedds, Linn County, by A. D. Hudson, of Tangent. It weighed 9S0 pounds. It was purchased by John C. Davis, who ships to the Portland market. It brought the owner $49.50. The animal was docked 80 pounds for waste weight and then sold for 5Vi oents a pound. Olds, Wortman & King A MERRY CHRISTMAS CRY. OF PREJUDICE Raised by Ruef's Lawyers in Asking New Trial. QUOTES MANY SCORINGS Press, Pulpit and Judjre Accused of Exercising Influence on Jury. Heney's Visit and Johnson's Speech Affected Jury. SAN FRANCISCO. Dee. 24. The pass ing of the sentence on Abraham Ruef, convicted of bribing former Supervisor John J. Furey to vote in favor of grant ing an overhead trolley franchise to the United Railways, was today continued by Superior Judge Lawlor until next Tues day morning at 10 o'clock. The post ponement was granted In order that the prosecution might reply to the numer ous motions and affidavits for a new trial submitted by the defense. Today was the third continuance since December 10, when Ruef was pronounced guilty. Says Prejudice Widespread. One of the Ruef affidavits (Jpens with a sweeping description of wldesin-ead prejudice alleged to have operated against Ruef, the defendant charging that he had been pronounced guilty by various newspapers; that he had been ..1... Yin mvatiit frtmfnnl of the age by a Superior Judge; that he had been denounced from many pulpits; mat nis guilt or Innocence had been made an issue in the campaign of District Attor ney W. H. Langdon; that W. J. Burns and Rudolph Spreckels had been guilty of misconduct in the courtroom and that the men composing the Jury had been in fluenced to return a verdict of guilty be fore the submission of the evidence. Influence of Heney Shooting;. In the other affidavits the defense re cites in detail the circumstances of the shooting of Francis J. Heney by Morris Haas on November 13, and charges that the Jurors had been Immediately influ enced by what they saw and heard of the resultant commotion In the courtroom. Another allegation Is to the effect that Juror Murphy, after he had been sworn to try the case, had visited Judge Law lor, stated that he could not fairly try the case and asked for his discharge. Judge Lawler. says the affidavit, had re fused to excuse the Juror and had not notified the defense of the proposal made. Hays Jurors Threatened. Other charges made in the affidavits were that the court had erred In limiting the argument of the defense and in per mitting Hiram Johnson, in hla closing address, to threaten the jurors. Consid erable attention was paid to Mr. Heney's visit to the courtroom during the period when the Jnry was deliberating, one of the Ruef affidavits declaring that the Jurors had heard the demonstration of greeting to Mr. Heney and that one or more of their number, who favored con viction, had threatened the other mem bers with lynching at the hands of a mob In the street unless they voted to find Ruef guilty. FIRST AERO SHOW OPEN All Paris Turns Out to See Flying ' Machines. PARIS, Dec. 24. President Fallleres, accompanied by his suite, today opened the 'aeronautical salon in the Grand Pal ace, where the most complete exhibition of aeroplanes and balloons is arranged. Large crowds attended. The presidential party gave particular attention to the Wright aeroplane, the first to be built In France by the company that acquired the French rights HIGH SCHOOL FOR ALBANY Taxpayers Provide Special Levy for $70,000 Structure. ALBANY, Or., Dec. 24. (Special.) A new $70,000 high school building In Albany next year is assured by the ac tion taken at the annual schoot meeting last evening. At the meeting sentiment wag practically unanimous for this im provement. The schools are now so Wish Their Friends and Patrons gHIS store will be closed all day today, . J. Christmas, and our immense force of em ployes will be more than glad of the rest after the tremendous holiday business our friends have so generously accorded us. We sincerely thank the Portland shopping public for their liberal patronage, and for their courtesy and kindness in carrying small parcels home with them and helping us through the rush so well. crowded that one room Is conducted in the Congregational Church building. The erection of the high school build ing next Spring will provide more pub lic school room and relieve the con gestion now existing. A levy of 2i mills was made to pro vide running expenses for the coming year and an additional levy of 2H mills was made to buy a site for the pro posed new building. MILLIONS AHEAD OF 1908 Dividends and Interest Disburse ments Next Jan. $210,000,000. NEW YORK, Dec. 24. Dividends and Interest disbursements of trust companies, railroad and other corporations of New York City for the month of January, 1909, will exceed $210,000.0ii0, an increase of ap proximately J17.000.000 over the disburse ments of January last year. The increase is generally attributable to the extraor dinary amount of securities issued during the year. SIX K. K. K. MEN ARRESTED Days of the Carpet-Bagger Recalled in Tennessee. NASHVILLE), Dec. 24. On an indict ment from the Court of Humphreys County, six men were brought to this city last night and placed in Jail, charged with whitecapping and kukluxlng. Be sides these six. 14 men were arrested in Humphreys County yesterday, charged with whitecapping and kukluxlng. GRAFTERS ARE WELL PAID CContlnued from First Page.) manic Investigation of the scandal. Ac cording to a leading Independent member An Unparalleled Display of the Newest and Best Creations in 1 anasome COMMENCING Saturday morning, the 26th, we will have on exhibi tion hundreds of the newest and most artistic Calendars, produced by world-famed artists, at prices consider ably below those you are asked else where from 10 to $3.00, and more. Artistic and unique creations, quality and variety of latest designs, and best value-giving, are features that -will make thisgreat aggregation of the newest and best Calendars produced in all four quarters of the globe, long re membered by Portland people. We will not enter into details here you must COtVV AD SEE this maimificent display to appre ciate the extent of the and the bier saviries in miht mention that (JALrM'Aiv yiar, calm T ION ALLY FIXE AS NEW YEAR'S REMEM BRANCES. As "the eariy bird catches the worm," so will the ""early callers" choose from the stock while it is still new,'bright and complete. See these Calendars you'll surely be delighted with them! SEE OUR BIG WINDOW DISPLAY BOOKSELLERS AND STATIONERS THIRD AND ALDER STREETS THOMPSON The Internationally-Indorsed Sight Expert. ' p 1" v , 1 V A Wishing His Friends and Patrons a Merry Christmas. Second Floor Corbett Building, Fifth and Morrison Sts. of the Council, such an Investigation would give no substantial result. It Is recognized that this scandal will have a potent effect on the city election in February. Every faction of politics is stirred to the utmost, and a flood of de nials is being made by prospective can didates that they were implicated direct ly or Indirectly in the corruption. A $40,000 wireless telegraph plant Is be ins erected at Newport. R . I.. h' "1U Calendars variety, I ho splendid designs price; and, incidentally, we t