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CASTRO OUT OF IT
Venezuelan Dictator Has Had
Enough Trouble.
WILL NOT OPPOSE GOMEZ
Issues Statement In Berlin Declar
ing He "Will Not Fight Settle
ments Xcw Administration
May Make With Powers.
BERLIN', Dee. 24. Cipriano Castro to
day gave a statement to the Associated
Press which amounts virtually to aban
donment of bis t-Iaims to the Presidency
of Venezuela. This statement follows:
"After taking cognizance of everything
printed in the newspapers from Vene
zuela, I doubt the attitude therein attrib
uted to the present government at Cara
cas. But I will huve more to say on this
subject when I am in better health and
when I have full knowledge of what has
occurred.
"In any event I shall place no difficul
ties in the way of the present administra
tion of Venezuela in settling the pending
controversies with foreign governments,
even if this involves my own withdrawal
from activity in the affaire of the Na
tion." General Castro will remain for two
weeks longer In the private sanitarium
of Dr. Israel. He will give out no infor
mation concerning his future plans.
DOLPIIIX
AT
WILLKMSTAD
first American Warship In Vene
zuelan Waters.
WILiLEMSTAD, Dec. 24. The United
Rates gunboat Dolphin arrived here
this morning. The cruiser Des Moines
is expected at noon.
The Dolphin is the first of several
American snips on their way to Ven
ezuelan waters to reach her destination.
The other vessels are the cruiser Des
Moines, the cruiser North Carolina and
the battleship Maine. The Dolphin will
proceed to Ia Guayra and the North Car
olina will stay at Curacao. Both ships
are equipped with wireless telegraphy,
nd hv this means they will maintain
communication between Venezuela and
the outside wcrld. The North Carolina
iias on board W. I. Buchanan, special
commissioner of the United States to set
tle the questions at issue. Mr. Buchanan
will be transferred from the North Car
olina to either the Maine or the Dolphin
The Maine is expected to reach La
Ouayra Sunday.
ENVOYS SPEED TO VENEZUELA
Meanwhile Government Walts and
Warships Keep Peace.
WASHINGTON. Dec. 24. With the
tense feature of the Venezuelan situa
tion removed by the resumption of
friendly relations between the United
t-tates and that country, the State De
partment is awaiting leveropments.
George S. White, special commission
er with W. I. Buchanan, is on his way
there for a conference with the govern
ment and American warships are pro
ceeding in that direction with friendly
intentions. The North Carolina, on
which Mr. Buchanan Is traveling, is a
swift vesel. but it will probably he a
week before he confers with the Vene
zuelans and is able to comunicate fully
to the State Department on the sub
ject. The gunboat Dolphin meantime
will anchor at La Guayra and be in a
r.ositlon to eive assistance to the Vene
zuelan government in preventing dis
orders.
A hopeful view is taken at the State
Department that peace and order may
prevail.
GOMEZ SENDS HIS DEPUTY
t-prcial Messenger Leaves for
the
Continent.
THE HAGUE. Dec. 24. The Foreign
Office has been advised that Jose de
Paul, until recently Venezuelan Minister
of Foreign Affairs, left La Guayra today
for Paris and The Hague on a special mis
sion from the new Venezuelan govern
ment, to open negotiations for the settle
ment of the disputes between Venezuela
and France and Holland.
It was learned at the Foreign Office
today that the enforcing of previous or
ders, prohibiting the exportation of arms
and ammunition from Curacao to Venez
uela, depends upon the successful adjust
ment of the matters now in dispute be
tween Caracas and The Hague, and the
recall of the Dutch warships from Ve
nezuelan waters hangs on the outcome
of diplomatic relations regarding the fu
ture relations between Holland and
Venezuela.
Holland removed the restriction against
the sending out of arms during her trou
bles with Venezuela, and it was generally
understood that the munitions of war
which it consequently would be possible
to transport, were for the use of the
Venezuelan insurgents. Foreign Minis
ter Van Swinderiu has received numer
ous congratulatory messages from home
and abroad on his successful handling of
the Venezuelan dispute.
SCENE OF THE UPRISING AGAINST PRESIDENT CASTRO
NAVY OOAli ORDERED SOUTH
Supplies Thought to Be for Ships at
Venezuela?
NEWPORT. R. I.. Dec. 24. The naval
collier Sterling, now at the Bradford
etation. has received orders to take on
coal and sail immediately for Guantan
amo. Cuba. It is supposed here that the
coal is for the battleships Maine and
North Carolina, which have been sent
to soutliern waters in connection with
Venezuelan affairs.
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people oi me uuuimj
the western section of the
e his official headquar-
T, Kniwliii 1 This nicture shows tl
of vCnezue.a"'wherTpic-tures of Cakro have been burned to show the hatred or the
for "the monkey of the Andes' and their dlsappro-,
Cara-as. where the ouiDreaKs aRai '"""" ""V: ,1 here that Castro has mad
MoT. hasTp'enrmn-o'f SL oury in'tne fountain,
MYSTERY IN DEATH
Messenger Boy Found Poi
soned on Salt Lake Street.
POLICE UTTERLY BAFFLED
Negro Pullman Porter Last to See
Lad Alive, but Crime Not At
tributed to Him Telephone
Call Adds Complication.
SALT LAKE CITT. Dec. 24. The Vad
body of Charles Seins-oth. lfi years
old and employed as a messenger boy
by the Rocky Mountain Bell Telephone
Company, was found today at a lonely
nart of the gravel pit road, about 100
yards west of the Capital Hill grounds, ,
on North Second street, xnere were no
marks of violence on the body, but the
features were distorted and about the
mouth there was an accumulation of
froth, indicating that probably death had
been caused by poison.
The police are baffled in finding a solu
tion of the case. The last seen of the
young man was yesterday afternoon,
when he was sent hy the telephone com
pany to accompany Charles Washington,
a negro porter, to the Pullman office to
collect a bill fncurred by Washington in
telephoning to a Mrs. Marie Kennedy, In
Twin Falls. Idaho. When Washington
heard today of the boy's death, he went
to police headquarters and surrendered
himself. He was placed in custody pend
ing further Investigation of the case.
When we left the telephone onice.
said Washington, "I took the boy with
me to tne muman onice iu bi.
money. I couldn't get it. and we walked
back to State and South second streets.
I told the boy to wait for me there while
I went to a club on Commercial street
to eet the money. I got the money ana
returned to where I had left the boy,
but he was gone and I did not know what
became of him until today. I am Inno
cent of his death."
Washington's story has been corroDor-
ated in a great part.
Another mysterious feature of tne case
was the receipt this morning by the boy's
mother of a telephone message saying
that he had been found in Ogden, and
would soon return home.
By his employers and associates, the
boy is said to have been industrious and
of good habits.
erles committee of the Board of Trade
is preparing a strong memorial, hskiob
the Dominion government to deilne the
sovereign rights of Canada In the North
Pacific, owing to the alleged poaching
of American halibut fishingboats In Cana
dian waters. It expresses the opinion
that waters between Queen Charlotte
Islands and the main land, ranginc from
Dixon Entrance in the north to the
Hecate Strait, are wholly within the
jurisdiction of the Dominion. If this
view is taken by the Ottawa government
and recognized by the United States
Government. American fishingboats will
be driven out of the industry, and Van
couver and Prince Rupert will become
great fishing ports.
The local Board of Trade has passed
this matter for two years, but thus far
has been unable to obtain more than a
formal acknowledgment from Ottawa.
In the forthcoming memorial the estab
lishment of a more efficient fisheries pro
tective service by fast cruisers will be
urged.
TO RAISE
PROBLEM COMMITTEE ON TAR
IFF IS CONSIDERING.
HOME LIFE BEST
President Roosevelt Opposed
to Orphan Asylums.
ADOPTION PLAN FAVORED
Oomcz Opens Trade Gates.
BOGOTA, Colombia. Dec. 24. The new
Venezuelan government has announced
that it will permit the resumption of
trade over the frontier between Venezuela
and Colombia at all frontier points.
FINE BIRDS FOR TAFT
All the Way From England Comes
Dinner Course.
AUGUSTA. Ga.. Dec. 24. Four brace of
English pheasants, beautifully plumed
and plumply fattened, packed In paper
and cold-storage from London, reached
the Taft cottage today a? the Christmas
dinner remembrance of Whitelaw Reid.
American Ambassador at the Court of
St. James to the President-elect. No
Christmas celebration has been planned
by the Taft family.
Mr. Taft expects r.o political callers be
fore next week, when Frank H. Hitch
cock will arrive.
Soldiers of Berlin recently built a pon
toon bridge acroM the River Sliree in 40
lautes.
WRECK BRINGS SIX DEATHS
Lumber Schooner Lost In Heavy
Atlantic Gale.
NEWPORT NEWS. Va.. Dec. 24. News
of the loss off Hogg Island Wednesday
of the three-masted schooner Jeanie
Lippitt. and drowning of Captain Robin
son and five members of the ship's crew,
was brought here today by Andrew Jor
gensen. the sole survivor of the wreck,
who was picked up at sea Wednesday
by the American steamer .Ravenscraig,
Captain Johnson.
The Lippitt was bound up the coast
from Jacksonville for New York with a
cargo of lumber. She ran into the re
cent heavy gale off Cape Charles Tues
day, afternoon, and after taking aboard
considerable water and sustaining much
damage to the Uu'L ran on a snoal of
Hogg Island and "soon went to pieces.
STAMP SLOT MACHINES
roslotrice Department Adopts Au
tomatic Vendors.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 24. If one can
drop a penny in a vending machine and
obtain a piece of chewing gum or a
, nAannta1 nAiv not be able to
drop in a coin and secure a postage
Btsmp
. .hn TrctnffirA DoTtflrt-
lnai i ww
merit wants to make a popular feature
of its service, ana 11 loua.v uiinuumxu
. ... : ,nr nrontirPfl In IsSIlP limited
tnai ii fr"' --- - -
quantities of postage stamps in rolls of
6CO or lwU IOr use m siuini'-"'"h
nrrivimr marhinps. Postmasters
desiring to try the new proposition are
requested to make requisition to the De
partment.
TO EXCLUDE AMERICANS
Canadian Halibut Interests Appeal
to Ottawa Government.
VANCOUVER, B. C, Dec. 24.-The fish-
Interests Will Try to Get Duties
liaised by Senate, but Will Have
to Fight Taft.
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WASHINGTON. Dec. 24. The tariff
framers again met today to continue
the work of preparing a tariff bill.
While protection to industries which
must compete with cheap labor abroad
will be the keynote of the revised
tariff, much consideration will be given
to the question of raising sufficient
revenue for the Government. The
revenue feature involves more diffi
cult problems than cither the pro
tective or other phases of the tariff
revision question.
It is maintained by some that the
Government has been deprived of mil
lions of dollars of revenue during the
operation of the Dingley tariff be
cause of the numerous changes made
in the bill after it passed the House
of Representatives. These changes
were made principally in the wording
rather than in the rates of duty. It is
freely said that numerous large Inter
ests "that will be affected by the new
tariff law as it will be reported to the
Houst will make a strong fight when
the bill reaches the Senate.
It is understod that President Taft
-will exert every Influence to have
the bill go through the Senate as It comes
from the House. It is even saia tnai -n.
Taft will veto the bill if the Senate
makes too many changes tending to in
crease the rates of duty.
One case in point where the Senate
amended the Dingley bill as reported
from the House in 1M7 was brought out
in a humorous incident during the hear
ings several weeks ago. Senator Hale,
of Maine, appeared to ask that tapioca
starch, now on the free list, should pay
a rate of 1 cents a pound. Chairman
Pavne called Mr. Hale's attention to the
fact that tapioca was made dutiable at
that rte In the Dingiey uiu " "
House, and that the Senate struck out
the paragraph and left tapioca, as it
appears in the law now. on the free . listr.
The chemical schedule is not likely
v.,. .Hiniiv affected .by revision.
The requests for changes are prin
cipally for certain specim
not for a schedule as a whole, those
seeking Increases being about as numer
ous as those who have urged decreases.
The subcommittee naa nui j"
:....HAn rtf a rlia'nze in the
UP CyillU-.!BUUIl ... --a-
wording of the enacting clause of tne
tariff law. but it has been suggested that
the new law should be made to go Into
effect on the day alter u is mBu j
the President instead o-' "on and after
the passage of this act." as the present
i. ,,i "in order to facilitate the
work of the customs officers. "
STILL WRANGLE OVER FEE
Thaw Attorneys Fight Over $60,000
Chnrge.
PITTSBURG. Dec. 24. Ex -Mayor W.
A. Stone, attorney for Roger O'Mara.
trustee for the estate of Harry K. Thaw,
today opposed a motion to dissolve the
order restraining Attorney John B. Glea
son of New York, from entering a suit
aga'inst Thaw to recover $60,000 claimed
for attorney fees in defending the latter
In the New York trial.
Some time ago Gleason's attorneys se
cured an order to show cause why
the restraining order should not be set
aside. The original order restrains Glea
son from entering suit for one year, or
until such time as Thaw should appear
before the referee for discharge in
bankruptcy proceedings. . Judge Young
took the matter under advisement.
Guests of Senator Fulton.
OREGONIAN NEWS BUREAU. Wash
ington. Dec. 24. W. J. Furnish. Dr.
iinnrv W. Coe and his son will eat
Christmas dinner with Senator Fulton
tomorrow
Chief Executive Issues Call for Con
ference on Indigent Children at
Which Many Kef or ins
Will Be Discussed.
WASHINGTON. Dec. 24. "The best
way to care for dependent children is the
family home." says President Roosevelt
in a letter made public today, calling a
conference to be held in this city on
January 25 next, for the discussion of the
problAi of caring for indigent children.
With approximately 150.0m) youngsters
-nminir within that classification in the
United States, the auestion has awakened
the Interest of many leaders throughout
the country.
The President sent this letter to about
100 prominent men. The establishment of
a bureau to gather information as to the
dependent children and other subjects
will be considered.
The President in his letter says:
"I am confident that you will be im
pressed with the very great importance
of the subject touched on in this letter
and the desirability that there should be
the fullest discussion of the proposition,
a memorandum of which I inclose. Surely
nothing ought to interest our people more
than the care of the children who are
destitute and neglected, but not delin
quent. "Personally. I very earnestly believe
that the best way in which to care for de
pendent children is in the family home.
In Massachusetts, many orphan asylums
have been discontinued and the children
who have formerly gone to the orphan
asylums are now kept in private homes,
either on board with payment from public
or private treasuries, or in adopted homes
provided by the generosity of the foster
parents. Many religious bodies have
within the past ten years organized ef
fective child-pli--ing agencies. I am ac
cordingly Inviting a number of men
and women, a list of whom I will an
nounce, to the conference to be held in
Washington January 25 and 26."
GROOM IN JAIL NEXT DAY
J. A. Griffith, Recently of Portland,
in trouble In Tacoma.
TACOMA. Wash.. Dec. 24. (Special.)
Married yesterday afternoon and arrested
this morning, J. A. Griffith sat in the
County Jail tonight looking forward to a
disconsolate Christmas. Griffith was
married yesterday afternoon to Miss
Irene Drennon. the marriage being the
sequel of a mock ceremony permormed
on the steamer Flyer a year ago. Taking
Miss Drennon on the Flyer last Decem
ber. Griffith and she were "married," it
Is said, by a friend of his who mas
queraded as a minister. Immediately
after this pretended ceremony they sep
arated. Miss Drennon going to work in a
Seattle hospital as a nurse, and he leav
ing shortly after for Portland, where he
lived nearly a year.
Day before yesterday Griffith returned
to Tacoma and told Miss Drennon that
he wanted to marry her m real earnest,
and yesterday the ceremony was per
formed. This morning Elmer Jones filed charges
of embezzlement against Griffith, claim
ing the latter retained J'.IOO while in
charge of Jones' cigar store.
MEMORIAL TO WOMAN
Methodists of Cnlted States and
Canada Unite in Honor.
OG'DENSBURG. N. Y-, Dec. 24. Con
tracts for the erection of a memorial
monument to Barbara Heck, the founder
of Methodism in America, were awarded
here today.
The monument, the cost of which Is to
be defrayed by popular subscription of
Methodists both In the United States and
Canada, is to be erected on the Canadian
bank of the St Lawrence River, close
to the spot where the body of the
founder of that creed Is burled.
Racing Man a Suicide.
LOS ANGELES. Dec. ,24. J. W. Dwyer,
aged 35, a well-known race track man.
committed suicide between Wednesday
afternoon and Thursday noon. The body
was found this afternoon by the proprie
tor of a rooming-house. Dwyer had been
For the Fifty-Ninth Time in Our Business History,
We Heartily Wish Our Many Patrons a
"MERRY CHRISTMAS"
For one day onlytomorrow Saturday,
December the 26th
We will sell the remainder of our highest-class
Imported Tailor-made Costumes
and Evening Wraps
Consisting of this seasons most approved and newest
styles, selling regularly from $75 to $250 all at
mo
Raincoats, Values to $20 at $9.98
WaistsT Vaiuesto $15.00 at $5.97
An assortment of Women's Raincoats, made in loose and semi-fitted styles of "lcre""
fe" tan and oxford; also of striped rubberized silk. Selling regularly 998
up to $20.00. On sale for
Here is the kind of a waist value that will not come for many weeks after these end-of-scason
sales are over. 125 net, messaline, lingerie and taffeta waists ,n an endless vanety
of styles and designs, all new this season, made and trimmed with tnser- 5 97
tion, lace and fancy medallions. Values to $15.00 for
Women's $5 Coat Sweaters, $1.49
JTni in colors-.n effect as o,c. as i. Is popular, Rlar M49
values to $5.00, on sale for only
tinman, SMIe o
Pole ,o
All Holiday Goods Reduced
than 'carry them over until next Christmas. These articles .re placarded m the jewelry,
lather gods, stationery, toilet articles, pictures, books, art needlework, pyrography, dolls,
notion and other departments .
All Mo velty Dress Goods 'a Off
iUTthis seasons latest Domestic and Foreign Novelty
Suitings reduced one-third. Your unrestricted choice
of 100,000 yards ot all colors at
ALL S1.00 VALUES AT 67c YARD
TTaTVAILUjSAT 83c YARD
rrrT VALUESAT 90c YARD
jTTOVESAT $1700 YARD
ALL$T5 VALUES AT $1.17 YARD
ALL $2.00 VALUES AT $1.33 YARD
ALL $2.25 VALUES AT $1.50 YARD
ALL2jVALUES AT $1.67 YARD
ALL $2.75 VALUES AT $1.84 YARD
ALL $3.00 VALUES AT $2.00 YARD
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living with his wife and mother-in-law
at the Place, and following a disagree
ment Saturday. Mrs. Dwyer and her
mother left the house.
Stop Races for Records.
WASHINGTON. Dec. 24.-Postmasters
will not in the future, under penalty of
dismissal, he allowed to solicit the mail
ing of matter at their offices by persons
living or doing business within the de
livery limits of another postofflce. accord
ing to an order Issued by the Postmaster
General today. The order instructs fourth
class Postmasters not to claim credit
for cancelling postage stamps on matter
diverted from other offices to their office
for mailing.
BRIBE OF $500 SPURNED
Prisoner Testifies as to Honesty or
Yakima Prosecutor.
NORTH YAKIMA. Wash.. Dec. 24.
(Special.) Charles Cook, sentenced to the
penitentiary for holding up and shooting
George Alexander, confessed today that
he attempted to bribe Prosecuting Attor
ney Henry J. Wende to gain his liberty.
Cook offered Wende J300 Just before he
pleaded guilty, if Wende would conduct
the case so that he would be freed.
Cook says he thought everybody could
be bribed. He wanted to make a public
statement that the officers of Yakima
County are honest. The exposures of
graft in newspapers led him, he said, to
ltelieve every man had his price.
TEA
You will find no poor
tea in packages bearing1
our . name. If you find
any such, you know what
to do.
Your frocer returns jonr money il you doa'l
lilt. Schillings Best: we p7 hna.