THE MORNING OREGONIAN, TUESDAY. FEBRUARY 9, 1909. 1 BILL SUNDAY TO DB.C1M5TIR5UP WILL SPEAK AT WHITE TEMPLE TONIGHT ON "BOOZE." FLAY DEMON RUM Tonight's the Night, White Temple's the Place, and "Booze" the Subject. In Methodist Association He Takes Dr. Wilson to Task for Recent Marriage. TROTTER'S NOON MEETING PREACHERS GIVE REBUKE HISTERIAL ROW ! i ''' " '! i ' . - i v-.". . j Vote to Hold Xo More Meetings Till Cline's Term Expires Protest Against Young for Postmas ter Is Also Discussed. As a result of a sensational factional clash between ministers the Methodist Ministerial Association yesterday, by a vote of 18 to 5. adjourned until March 19, the date upon which the term of the president. Rev. C. B. Cllne, D. D.. and the other officers, will expire. It is said that the anion was taken to administer a severe r.-buke to Dr. Cllne for certain actions, involving hi expression on the Portland, postmastcrshlp in particular. Dr. Cline. however, voted for adjourn ment. Five Important papers by members of the organization, scheduled on the pro gramme, are thus eliminated because of the long intermission between sessions. However this flsht over long adjourn ni"nt was mild In comparison to state ments made on the floor by Dr. Cline. which reflected in the most serious man ner upon Dr. Clarence True Wilson, pas tor of Centenary Church; Dr. Benjamin P. Young, pastor of First Church, and Dr. W. B. Hollingshead, district superin tendent. After the motion to adjourn until March I? was declared carried by Vice-President William R. Jeffrey, Jr., who was called to the chair by Dr. Cline. the latter made some remarks which created nothing short of a sensation. While ho did not mention names, the circumstances cannot be mistaken, and it is known and openly admitted that he referred to the recent marriage of Dr. Wilson to Mrs. Arthur P. Tifft, a divorced woman, which was performed by Dr. Young, and at which Dr. Hollingshead was present. Dr. Cline said that he met a friend nar the Commercial block recently, and the friend asked him if the Methodist Church had abandoned ail of its laws on marriage and divorce. Says Marriage Outside Pale. All who were present immediately rec ognized the point Dr. Cline was trying to make, and It is said there were cries for order; but Dr. Cline continued, and de clared that, in his opinion, a "recent marriage" In this city was absolutely out side the law of the church: also tliat he held the officiating minister and the dis trict superintendent, who witnessed it, - equally guilty, or similar words. The cession was executive, and the members were extremely reticent, so that the ex act words used by Dr. Cline and others were not obtainable. District Superintendent Holllngshead. when asked regarding the affair, said that he did not feel at liberty to tell about it. btit when inquiry was made re garding the marriage of Dr. Wilson, Dr. Hollingshead said without hesitation tUit It was clearly within the discipline, and could not be questioned. He also said that the incident was not in connection with the ministerial meeting, and that he did not regard it as the sentiment of any save the man who uttered it. "As to the law of the church." said Zr. Hollingshead. "it Is clear and plain, unmistakable, that an Innocent party to a divorce shall not be made to suffer, and the marriage referred to was such an one." Dr. Clarence True Wilson declined to make any statement, and Dr. Benjamin Young is at Salem. He was not even present at the meeting yesterday morn ing. Dr. Cllne said: "Being personally Involved. I must ask that I be excused from making any statement; if anything is to be pub lished, let some one else tell it." Feeling of Long-standing. There has been 111 feeling between Dr. Wilson and Dr. Cline, it is said, for some time. Several weeks ago there appeared in The Oregon lan a most scathing, sarcastic letter signed "J. F. Clark." which criticised Dn Wilson se verely for past utterances and acts. At a subsequent meeting of the Ministerial Association Dr. Wilson accused Dr. Cline of writing the letter, and it was eventually admitted that this was cor rect. There was still another affair which caused considerable feeling among the Methodist ministers. It related to the Portland postmastership. A teleprram was sent to senator Pulton, at Wash ington, admittedly by Dr. Cllne. The difference of versions came in as to whether he said that 100 Methodist preachers protested against the appoint ment of John C. Young, or whether he merely represented himself In protest ing. A committee was named to inves tigate, but two weeks ago, at the reg ular weekly meeting. Dr. Cline volun tarily produced a letter from Senator Pulton, .which said that Dr. Cline did not assume to represent any one but himself, and that Senator Fulton was surprised to learn that it had been pub lished in The Oregonlan's Washington dispatches that Dr. Cline had assumed to represent the entire organization. Owing to more or less of a factional line-up that is said to exist among the ministers of the denominational organi zations, it is said that the meetings of the association have not been very largely attended and not very evangelistic for some time. During a recent sermon, a Methodltt minister, who is a member of the association, told his congregation that "if any one should get a touch of religion and shout 'Amen' right hard In the min isterial meeting, he would be arrested for waking the dead." He added. "And I am not telling any secret, either." Dr. Cline Retains Leverage. The meeting adjourned yesterday morn ing, and will not meet until March 29. when Dr. Cline's term as president will expire, and at which time new officers will be elected. As president. Dr. Cllne will have the naming of the committee on nominations, which gives him consider able leverfge. if he should see fit to wield it. Dr. Cllne succeeded Dr. T. B. Ford as president. Dr. Ford was pastor of the Sunnyside Church, and was known to have a few brethren who did not lavish any particular amount of devotion upon him. Some say that Dr. Cline fell heir to a little of the ill-feeling alleged to have existed against Dr. Ford. The official programme of the associa tion will probably carry over into the next six months' sessions, when the fol lowing papers, now on the schedule, will verv likely be reaa: reoruary io. v. . Jeffrey. Jr.. 'The New Course of Study"; February 22. Harold Oberg. "George Wash ington": March 8, C. L. Hamilton, "Reli gions of Authority vs. Religions of the Spirit": March 15, F. U Young. "Country Charges vs. City Appointments"; March j j. w. McDougall, "The Church and Organized Labor." Red Cross Shoes reduced at Rosenthal's. r s i f f x 1 1 & t I ' it" " V t ft. s ; . :. . '5 ; v. fc t - 4 f - t .-i. BILLY SIXDAV, THE BIG DEALIN TIMBE Forest Tract in Tillamook County Brings $1,075,000. CARRIES 1,000,000,000 FEET Land Adjoins Tract In "Washington County Sold Recently and Same Interests Are the Purchasers. Another big Umber deal came to light yesterday. A tract of 13,480 acres of timber lands in Tillamook County, ad Joining the Simpson tract in Washing ton County, an account of the sale of which was printed in The Sunday Ore gonian, has been secured by the same Interests that bought the Simpson tract and is said to have secured the Import ant Schrader tract as well. The amount Involved is about $1,076.X in this latest transaction. This sale is of combined tracts in the Wilson River district and is estimated to contain at least l,0...0no.ono feet of logs. There are several individuals and firms mentioned In connection with the deal, two expert lumbermen, T. J. Leonard and J. E. Page, having worked in con Junction with Wr. C. Slattery in getting the several owners to sign over the property into one company's control. That was finally accomplished, however, and then the firm of Stine & Belcher entered into the transaction and were given a ten days' option on the whole combined tract. That option expired last Saturday, hut before banking hours had elapsed the sum of $10,000 in gold coin was deposited with the bank in Portland where the contract had been placed in escrow, and the bargain was thereby bound. Both members of the firm of Stlne & Belcher are at present in Chi cago, so that a verification of their con nection with the deal could not be se cured yesterday. From Information re ceived from a reliable source, however, there is no doubt entertained that the firm Is handling the property. It is reported by those supposed to be In a position to know the facts the Wil son River tracts cost Mr. Slattery about $.S0.000, which, if borne out by more positive Information, shows a gain of over $200,000 In the deal. This tract Is considered the largest body of standing timber handled in one deal In many months in this1 part of the state, and with the two tracts referred to In The Sunday Oregonlan, secured by the same capitalists, makes an invest ment of considerably over $2,500,000. That Eastern capital is interested in the big transaction is believed by all who have, any information on the subject, but un til the absent members of the firm of Stine & Belcher return it is unlikely that names will be divulged. Concerning the projected railroad line that is to enter the timber lands of both the Washington and Tillamook County tracts, it is learned that the right-of-way has been secured from Portland to Tillamook Bay and that It is the inten tion of the Midland to ultimately build the road between those points. DEAL NOT YET COMPLETED Belcher and Stlne in Chicago Clos ing Negotiations. CHICAGO. Feb. 8. (Special.) F. S. Belcher and W. F. Stine, of Portland, who are in Chicago, negotiating for the sale of a tract of timberland in Tilla mook and Washington Counties, said that the deal had not yet been consummated, and deemed it wise for the interests of all concerned to give out no information tonight, regarding the deal and who the probable purchasers are. Messrs. Stlne and Belcher have been in Chicago several days, negotiating for the sale of the land. "The deal has not been consummated as yet," said Mr. Belcher, "but we hope to complete negotiations tomorrow. Pend ing the closing of the deal, we do not care to say anything about any phase of it. However, if we close the deal to morrow we will be glad to make a statement." "Are the Swifts o any Eastern capital ists interested with you In this deal?" "I refuse to answer that question, one way or the other. I will not answer any questions until the deal has been. put through. Come and see me tomorrow." ANSWERS BROTHER'S SUIT J. P .Lynda Presents Counter-Claim (or $1871. Trouble between brothers Is respon sible for some rather unenviable charges by one brother against the BASEBALL EVANGELIST. filpd vesterdav in the State Circuit Court. J. F. Lynds, presents a counter claim of $1871 against E. A. Lynds, who lately sued for $169S. And he takes occasion to set out in detail oi an nuegea piaii on ..f rr tl F- A T.vnHs familv to get the financial scalp of J. F. Lynds. Not only is it a falling out between brothers but between plumbers, for the two have been operating in that lu crative field of endeavor since 1906. ,i i . v. , . . I w, c lino nrnsnftrpd. so J. F. Lynds says in his answer, but the am bitions Of the Hi. A. bvnas lamuy ima grown Devona douuuo. j uc cmci mis fortune came, it is alleged, when Miss . . -i .. ...rhtBp ,i f Mr. a T.vnds. uunu. J j 'i" ' . --- . was put in as bookkeeper at $40 a month. J. F. Lynds alleges tnat tne young woman has got the books in an awful i .n ihst d rtrficit of S5000 is now shown notwithstanding the fact that the company is in gooa unni;ii u. frthor alleges that she has been Induced by her father and mother to falsify the books. One instance is related of all profit on the plumbing of eight houses being withheld from entry and nothing snown -jwpi actual cost of materials and work. CHIEF OF SHRIHEB5 HERE IMPERIAL POTENTATE ALDER MAN VISITS LOCAL TEMPLE. Portland Members Give Banquet In Honor of Distinguished Visitor. An important and most interesting event In Mystic Shrine circles was held last night at the Portland Hotel. Edwin I. Alderman, imperial potentate. Ancient Arabian Nobles of Mystic Shrine, the im perial sovereign of 129.750 Masons of the two great rites, of the United States, ac companied by E. A. Osborn, assistant chief rabban of 3 Kahir Temple, arrived in Portland and was banqueted and enter tained bv the local Shrincre. Mr. Alderman Is making a visit to the Coast to meet the Shriners of the various cities and states. He was met by J. G. Mack, past illustrious potentate of Al Kader Temple, and chairman of the com mittee on reception; D. W. Taylor, past Illustrious DOtentate of Al Kader Temple; W. H. Galvani. illustrious chief rabban of 4 : Edwin I. Alderman, Imperial Potentate Nobles of - Myatlc Shrine. Al Kader Temple: Archie Thurlow, Illus trious chief rabban; W. C. Bristol, Illus trious high priest and prophet; B. G. Whitehouse. illustrious recorder; D. G. Tomasini. Illustrious Oriental guide; Hen ry Beckwith. illustrious first ceremonial master; George W. Stapleton, illustrious second ceremonial master, and the follow ing illustrious nobles accompanying them and of the receiving party: E. G. Jones, R. A. Miller. William Davis, captain of the Arab patrol; Wr. H. Raymond; W. B. Ames, of Malaikah Temple, of Los An geles: J. M. Raymond, of Abdallah Tem ple. Kansas; George Van Voorhis, of Is lam Temple, San Francisco, and others. The receiving caravan traveled to the depot in the horseless camel, and be sieged the O. R. & N. train, some 14 hours late, at 9 o'clock Sunday night. Imperial Potentate Alderman will re main at the Hotel Portland all day to day, where a general reception will be held, so that all resident and visiting no bles will have an opportunity of meeting the great dignitary, and In appropriate manner pay their respects and make their salaams. The Imperial potentate does nt like display, nor too much ceremony. All he wishes is to meet the Shriners, and of course the Shriners desire greatly to meet him. It Is written! BIsmillah! Selah! Barbers Especially Invited to Hear Speaker Who Precedes Baseball Evangelist Arrangements lor Overflow Meetings. BT ERNEST M'GAFFET. Today's the day. tonight's the night. The Sunday aggregation "hit the Iron trail" yesterday, , ana the advance guard, consisting of the redoubtable Mel" Trotter. Mrs. Trotter, Miss fliuir- house and Miss Miller, will come in this morning from Spokane. Mr. Sunday arrives in the evening. Already the air is tremulous with premonitory temblor rumblings, and the final crash will materialize wnen Bill" comes. He will flash athwart the Oregon'an skies with the coruscat ing brilliance of a ttfrice-luridescent comet, newly broke from the astro nomical reservation, and the "Siss, Boom, Ah" of his glittering sctival flights will seem like so many oaring rockets to the dazzled multitude, or the aurora borealis phantasmagoria ob servable when a fireworks shop catches fire. "Bill" Is here, or on the way, and with "the goods." He has selected the time, the hour and the topic. 'ine time is tonight; the hour is the hour of seven-forty-five in the shank of the evening; the topic angels and ministers of grace defend us selected lor tne oc casion is "Booze." Some' exhorters might employ a more polite term, but not "Billy" Sunday. If "a spade is a spade," then "booze" Is "booze." So take notice, the subject or spnaay s rip-snorting, devil-defying, pitch-forking, and altogether cantankerous ad dress tonight is "Booze." Picture it. think of It, dissolute man. Lave In It. drii.k of It, then. If you can. come and hear "Bill" flash his oratori cal "slants" across the gospel "home plate" and strike out Bacchus and his bunch. Not all the minlous or jonn Barleycorn, rooting like mad in the "bleachers" can save the "rummies" when "Bill" is in the "box." One after another they come up only to be "fanned out" by the "unerring skill ot the old-time ballplayer. When "Bill" comes into a community the saloon keepers usually put their shutters up and go away until he leaves. For if there .is anything that "Bill" uses his spiritual "lamps" for, and that arouses all his latent power of "coaching," it's battling against "booze.' Lecture Great Hit in Spokane. "Booze," the very word arouses all the husky fighting spirit in "Bill," and he goes -after the demon rum like one possessed. Up at Spokane he had a meeting not long ago at the tabernacle built for him in that city, and he deliv ered this same address. There were 10,000 people present, and they do say that "Bill" fairly "out-Heroded Herod" in his matchless maze of vituperative verbiage against the baleful booze. He began, dressed as usuaL' But after about half an hour of pyrotech nical oratory he proceeded to take off his coat, to the cheers of the enrap tured multitude. A little further along. warming up to his wore, ana wua m "score" all in his favor, he shed his vest, to renewed applause on the part of the frenzied audience. Still more wrought up by his subject "Bill" next peeled off his larboard cuff, following that burst of eloquence with the re moval of his right ditto. By this time his hearers were in a state of almost uncontrollable excitement. Then "Bill" snatched away his collar and tie. and, to complete his fighting attire, he yanked off his left "gallus" and went after the devil until the people in Spo kane yelled themselves hoarse with ap proval. "Bill" don't believe in giving Satan any chance for his "glass alley." No temporizing with "Bill." He hates liquor, and the way he sails into it, and the sale of It, and the drinking and manufacture of it, is something to throw cold chills Into the traffic and everyone of Its supporters. At Spokane 600 men came forward at the invitation to declare themselves for a better life, and it was "fiilly" Sunday's Napoleonic onslaught against the whisky camps that brought about the local option movement In Washington today. Trotter Invites Barbers to Listen. . "Mel" Trotter will speak at 12 o'clock today in the main auditorium, or the Y. M. C. A., Fourth and Yam hill, to men only. ' Issues a spe cial invitation to the barbers, "one of whom he was which" in the old days. And now "Mel" can lather a sinner, rub it in, strop the theological razor, give him a close shave, wax his mustache, apply the witch hazel, powder and other ungents, shampoo him, brush his hair and shout "next!" with any ex horter who ever switched trades. There will be a meeting at the White Temple at 3 P. M. for both men and women. "Mel" is figuring on giving an ex clusive talk to men at the noon-day meeting, and the way he will go after the pharlsees and hypocrites will be "a caution to snakes." "Mel" Is a hard hitter of the Ketchel type, and he "bores in" like "battling Nelson when he squares off against the devil. Come and hear alel" touch up the "short-weight" artists and the shoddy manufacturers. There won't be any quarter given to the ones to whom it is coming. Preparations are now being made to open up the churches adjacent to the White Temple, In the event of big crowds and have Mrs. Sunday, "Mel" Trotter, Miss Muirhouse and Miss Miller address the crowds until Mr. Sunday can appear to address the "overflows." In this way It is hoped that everyone will have an opportunity to hear "Billy" Sunday in his first, fiercest and possi bly last appearance In the Rose City for many years. At all of the meetings a free-will offering will be arranged for, merely to defray the expenses of Mr.' Sunday and his 'devoted band of adherents in their trip to Portland. Those who wish to contribute will thus be able to afford themselves that natural gratification. Tonight's the night; today's, the day. One continual round of fireworks. I "Mel" Trotter at noon, "Mel" Trotter at S o'clock, Sunaay In the evening, and possibly Mrs. Sunday, Miss Muirhouse, Miss Miller and Trotter in the evening, at different churches, holding the throng until "Bill" arrives. "Bills" in History. English and American history con ins many "Bills." The "Bill" of tair The Streetcars Were Crowded to Their Utmost ; Conductors Were Never so Busy, All Day Long. There Never Was Such a Perfect Demonstration of Popu larity in the City of Portland. If This Great Crowd Is Interested You Ought to Be. Our Only Office Is at End of Rose INVESTMENT Rights. "Bill" Shakespeare T3U1 Gladstone, "Bill" Marcy, "Bill Sher man Silver "Bill" Morrison, the DlnK Zy Bill, "Bill" Bryart. "Bill" Tan and other more or less talked-about tbMb in their day. But how their luster fades when compared to the cloud-compelling fame of the nonpareil Bill Sunday. Other "Bills" may have Uiejr admirers struggle to pla them In halls of fame, but "Bill Sunday ai ready has a half dozen halls of fame built especially for him """'of America. It was said of one of mvthology's famous heathen deities "Great is Diana of the Ephesians. But how much more truly can It be uttered, and with even more startling "fn'" cance "great is 'Bill' Sunday of the Presbyterians." MIXISTEKS ARE FOR QTJ1ETXESS Criticism of Billy Sunday for His Noisy Methods. In an informal discussion yesterday morning of the methods of "Billy" Sun day and other evangelists by mmisters of the Evangelical-United Brethren Min isterial Association. It was the consensus of opinion that such methods do not ac con?plish permanent results; that the ac companying excitement nf the regular work of the church are nurtful. On the contrary, the methods employed by Rev. George Soltau, who Pen holding meetings in Portland for some time, were approved, because of thpevqUNtn8hupp mentioned the Mills meeting held in Portland several years T Which swept the city with excite ment and yet in the clean-up, said Rev. Snnpp "here was little to show for it. "For my own church. DO cards were turned over to me." he said. STgned with thrnames of people who sa.d they wanted to live a Christian life, and not one came into the church. I understand this was the general experience of other city pas- t,'3' Bt)eaklng of the Chapman meetings. Rev H C Shaffer said there were no results commensurate with the big sum of money that was raised and paid out for the staff of evangelists that swept the city. , , , ,, "The United Brethern Church, con tinued Mr. Shaffer, "is now doing its own evangelistic work. It employs its own ministers anS pays them through the Home Mission Society, with excellent results Rev F. Beni, of the First German Church, declared, that the results ob SPECIAL! For 10 days only, we will sell lots in GREGORY HEIGHTS for ONE HUNDRED DOLLARS and up, payable $5.00 in cash and $2.50 a month. "We will build a house for you as low as $10.00 a month. Remember, you will live in the best residence section of the city, have the best streetcar service, Bull Run water and live one mile within the city limits. It's a propo sition that cannot be- duplicated in any city in the United States. Get busy. Ten days only. COMPANY tained by the traveling evangelists, who employ the usual methods, are a big crowd and a big collection, which he said are usually the objects aimed at. "Billy Sunday criticises the pastors of churches." said Rev. Mr. Shaffer, "and that causes a lack of confidence in the pastors." Nearly all present spoke in formally, and all favored a more quiet method of reaching the masses. MEYER WEIL BOUND OVER Held in Bonds of $1500 on Charge of Using Malls to Defraud. Meyer Well was bound over by United States Commissioner Marsh yesterday morning to answer to a charge of using the mails wrongfully with the intent to procure goods from a Chicago firm, while he was a resi dent of New Mexico. Bail was reduced from $2000 to $1500. J. F. Boothe, Weil's attorney, will present a habeas corpus petition to Judge Wolverton FAMILYCOUGH SYRUP Cures Any Cough in Hve Hours. XEW PRESCRIPTION HERE. Here is given the most effective cough prescription known to the med ical world. It is a mild laxative, too, and this is what a body needs when suffering with cough and cold on the lungs. A cough or cold indicates poi sons in the system, causing Inflam mation and congestion. Nearly all cough syrups relieve, but make the trouble worse by their constipating ef fects. This prescription not only re lieves quickly, but it cures any cough that is curable: Get one-half ounce fluid wild cherry bark, one ounce com pound essence cardiol and three ounces syrup white p.ine compound. Mix in- a bottle. Take for acute cough or bronchitis twenty drops every half hour for four hours. Then one-half to one teaspoonful three or four times daily. Give children less according to age. A few hours' treatment will cure and heal the throat and lungs of aU but consumptives. Cut this out and give it to some friend who may need it to be saved from an early death by consumption. City Park Line this morning, praying for Well's re lease on the ground that no case was made out against him before the Com missioner. Mr. Boothe says the evidence adduced showed that the brokerage firm which ordered the goods in question had au thority to order, and had carried on a considerable correspondence with the Chicago firm relative to the goods be fore any legal action was taken. Mr. Boothe takes the position that the pres ent proceedings are in the nature of an attempt to force collection of a possible civil claim by instituting crim inal proceedings, and says he is con fident of his client's release. Save money at Rosenthal's shoe sale. A Skin of Beauty is a Jay Forever E. T. FELIX GOUFACD'S ORIENTAL CREAM OR MAGICAL BEAUTIFIES B move Tn. Pimply Freckles, Moth Patch Rub, mad Skin DlneMti, and every Ditrrms on beauty, and de nes detection. It has stood the tt of 60 years, and is eo harmless we taste it to be lure it fa properly made. Accept no counter feit of alruUai name. 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