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r - 1 the aionyrsG okeuoxia tuesdat, jtjsbk ua k y 3, iuy. -? " il y OBJECT TO INSURANCE BILL Legislature Flooded With Pro tests Against Passage of Clemens Measure. HARD FIGHT BEING MADE I'art That Appropriation Ts Carried hy Bill Caused It to Be Sent to House, 'Where Fight Is On, ' It Being Led by Jaeger. STATS CAPITOL. Salem. Feb. . (Spe cial.) Vigorous opposition from the lead ing business and manufacturing Interests of Portland has developed to Representa tive Bean's Insurance bill, better known as the Clemens bill, to the extent that the probability of Its passage in Its pres ent form Is slight. Particular exception Is taken to that provision of the bill -which reduces from J.VI.00O to C5.000 the deposit required of all foreign fire Insurance companies before they can engage in business. The mea sure has been reported favorably by the Insurance committee, of which Clemens is chairman. Since It carries an appro priation, the bill has been sent to the House committee on ways ana means. Jaeger Leads Fight. Tn the House, Representative Jaeger, of the Multnomah County delegation. Is di recting the fight against the bill. Dur ing the day he received a large number of telegrams from representatives of large property interests In Portland, urging him to continue his activity against the hill and defeat It If possible. These tele grams uniformly protest against any change In the present law requiring a de posit of $50,000. It is also denied by the authors of these messages that It is Im possible for them to obtain all of the In surance they desire from companies op erating In the state and complying with the conditions of the present law. Committee Amends Bill. Pome slight amendments were made to the bill hy the Insurance committee. The js alary of the Insurance Commissioner was fixed at J.1000 and the limit of insurance that may be carried by companies in any one block was removed. The committee a too Inserted a clause requiring the pub lication of reports by the various com panies operating In the state. The emer gency clause was stricken from the bill. Before any foreign company can engage in business in the state, following the pas sage of the bill. It must first file with the Insurance Commissioner a certificate from the Insurance Department of New York, certifying as to Its financial con dition. Mr. Clemens, In support of the bill, insists that such a certificate In itself should be a sufficient guaranty of the Insurance company and contends that the interests of the general publlo are certainly protected adequately by the ad ditional requirement of a corporate surety bond. What Objectors Say. Defeat of the Bean or Clemens bill Is urged by the Honeyman Hardware Company, which by Its president, T. D. Honeyman, today. wired Mr. Jaeger as follows: "The experience of buyers of fire In surance in Washington with many companies In the hands of receivers, and the loss of hundreds of thousands of dollars of unearned premiums and losses, should be the strongest argu ment for the maintenance of the pres ent statute requiring a deposit of $50. 000. We have no trouble in securing insurance In admitted companies." The following message came from the North Pacific Lumber Company, by Its president. Donald Mackay: "We have no trouble in securing all the fire insurance we need In companies with deposits in Oregon, and hope this session will pass no law amending or annulling the present deposit law. The recent failure of several companies do ing business In Washington should serve as an object lesson." This from K. Quackenbush. a Port land agent: "Understand many property-owners claim they are unable to secure suffic ient insurance protection. Our office open for additional insurance on Flelschner. Mayer Company. Eastern & Western Lumber Company. Meier & Frank and others. Suggest property owners see all Portland agents repre senting companies authorized to trans act business In Oregon and am satis fied desired Insurance can be procured. Shorter messages condemnatory of the pending bill have been received by Mr. Jaeger as follows: "New insurance bill bad measure. Hope it may be defeated. Buffum & Pendleton." "Insurance bill should be defeated. Does not help the situation. Olds. Wortman & King." "Insurance bill a joker. Gives no relief. Should be killed. Samuel Ro senblatt & Company." "Proposed Insurance law does not cure evils. Should not pass. Wood ard. Clarke & Company." "Vote against insurance bill. $50, ftOO deposit excellent protection. John Deere Plow Company." "Wish to protest against passage or Insurance bill. R- M. Wade & Com pany." We trust you will work against new insurance bill. Believe It pernicious. Lowengart & Company." Among the firms and people tele graphing Mr. Jaeger to oppose the pending Insurance b,ill are: Portland Flouring Mills Company. Honeyman Hardware Company. North Pacific Lum ber Company, Buffum & Pendleton, Samuel Rosenblatt & Company, Olds. Wortman & King. Woodard. Clarke & Company. M. Baruh. of Wadhams & ' Company: John Deere Plow Company, J. C. Mann, Morris, Baker & Company, Neustadter Bros., Acme Mills Company, R. M. Wade & Company, George Cad- well, Tauoenneimer oenmeer. v. i. C. Sllva. representing Chamber of Com merce building: Lowengart & Company, and Fithlan Shoe Company. . GRACE IV HOUSE IS BRIEF Holds Up "More" Bills, but Quickly Reconsiders Action. STATE CAPITOL. Salem, Feb. 8. (Special.) The House this morning re solved to make Thursday night the time for considering ail bills providing In creased salaries, and before the noon ad journment rescinded Its action. The ex cuse given for abandoning the Thursday night meeting was that these bills prop erly should be taken up in their order as they pass through the different stages of legislative procedure. For the fifth time. Mahone's bill In creasing the salaries of the clerks In the Portland Justice Court was referred to a committee this afternoon. The bill came up for passage, but was objected to by Rusk and other Representatives from the smaller counties, for the reason that it established a dangerous precedent In that It extended the terms of the Justices from two to four years. After considerable wrangling, theh bill was referred back to the Multnomah County delegation, from which it was reported favorably only last Friday. The Governor today vetoed two sal ary bills, as follows: S. B. 32, by Hart To Increase the sal ary of the Circuit Judge of Baker County to $4000, and S. B. 19. by Chase, to raise the salary of the Clerk of Coos County. The vetoes were not reached by the Senate and no action thereon has been taken. Senator Bailey's Senate bill 153, to re quire County Auditors' fee book to be bound book, was defeated by the Senate today by a vote of 14 ayes to 7 noes, 15 ayes being necessary to pass a bill. Tax Exemption Favored. In the House this morning the com mittee on assessment and taxation re turned a favorable report on Representa tive Hughes' bill providing for a tax ex emption of $500. Resolutions were today read In the House from the Oak Grove Improvement Association, in which that organization Indorses Senator Albee's bill placing streetcar corporations under the Jurisdic tion of the Railroad Commission and pro tests against the favorable consideration of any legislation that would cripple the Railroad Commission In Its work. An invitation from President P. L. Campbell for the members of the Legis lature to visit the State University next Saturday. "Commonwealth day." was ac cepted this morning on the part of the House. The details of the excursion wlU be arranged later in the week. Mining Bills Fall. Representative Muney has not been very successful in having enacted bills relating to the mining Industry of the state. Two more such bills. Introduced by himself, were killed by indsfinite post ponement in the House this morning. One reduced to $10 the fee that should be charged mining companies for filing ar ticles of Incorporation with the Secretary of State, and exempted all such corpora tions from the payment of other assess ments to the state. The other measure provided for the appointment of a state mining examiner at a per diem of $8 and expenses. When Representative Bean's bill pro viding that the State Printer be put on a flat salary reappears in the House it will have been so amended as to provide for the election of that officer and fix his salary at $4000 per annum. The flat salary programme, however, is not to go into effect until the close of State Printer Duniway's term. January, 1911. The office will continue an elec tive one and the term will remain four years, the same as other state officers. These were the material respects in which the bill was amended tonight, by a joint committee consisting of the House standing committees on Judi ciary, revision of laws and printing. The bill probably will be reported back to the House tomorrow. TEX BIILS PASS EV HOUSE Action Taken on Large Number of ' Measures Yesterday. STATE CAPITOL. Salem. Feb. 8. (Special.) The following bills passed the House today: H B 172. DonMs Authorizing County School Superintendents to make partial ap portionments of school moneys. H B. 195. Hughes Requiring that all baking powders be labeled as to their true Ingredient BuBkAothorl7.,nK Wallowa County to sell certain property. H B 11. Umatilla and Morrow County delegations Appropriating J3000 per an num for an agricultural experiment eta- "H B 1H. Hrnicr Increasing salary of Assessor of Curry County from $400 to $600 per annum. . . H B 31. Buchanan Appropriating $15,000 for codifying the statutes of the " B 157. Irrigation Committee Creat ing board of control for administration of state's water supply. H B 171 Carter Authorizing main tenance ' of private flsh hatcheries. H B 2S3. Committee on Commeret Giving Railroad Commission Jurisdiction over complaints of aliened discrimination. H B 216; Carter Facilitating service of notice on orchardlsts to renovate or chards. These Bills Fall. The following bills failed to pass the House today: H B 1B9. Muncv Reducing to $10 the fee charged of mining companies for filing articles of Incorporation. H B 161. Muney Creating office or State Mining Examiner at a per diem of $S and expenses. Two Bills Burled. Bills were Indefinitely postponed in the House today as follows: H B. 126. Muney Amending law as to estates In dower and curtesy H B 47. McCiw Permitting banks to be capitalised for more than their paid-up capital stock. New Bills Introduced. New bills were Introduced In the House today as follows: H B. 318. Beats Providing for enforce ment of Judgments of surety companies organized under the laws of another state. H B. Sl. Heals Regulating and licens ing the sale of Intoxicating liquors. 11 B. 320, Beals Requiring payment to state of an annual license fee of 5 by all billiard and pool rooms. . H B 3-1. McKlnney (request H. W. Lytle) Regulating the practice of veter inary surgeons. H B 322. Jaeger (request Arthur Lang ,uth) Enabling minority stockholders to gain representation in the election of of- 0H B. 323. Bean Regulating fishing in the Sluslaw River. SENATE DOORKEEPER REFUSES AD MITTANCE TO SPEAKER. Floor -Ofricer Obeys Orders to letter and Shuts Out Even Men Permitted to Enter. STATE CAPITOL. Salem. Or.. Feb. 8. (Special.) At Its evening session to night the Senate enjoyed an exhibition by a doorkeeper who had nerve enough to obey instructions, and he did It, even to the extent of forbidding Speaker He Arthur admission to the. Senate cham ber. Because the Senate was the only branch in session tonight, the lobbby a nnnn filler! and Serz-eant-at-Arms ) Dufur told Doorkeeper George A. Wag- RED-HOT TALK IS IT HEARD SALEM Heated Debate Between Re formers and Opponents of Sunday Rest Law. GEORGE BAKER IN THICKEST Defends Sunday Theaters Against Attack by Quackenbush -Her. Mr. Martin, of Adventists, Opposes the Law. STATK CAPITOL, Salem, Feb. 8. (Spe cial.) Brisk enough for boxing gloves was the clash today before the Senate Judiciary committee between a large del egation of Portland reformers and spokesmen of Sunday theaters and stores of that city over Senator Abraham's bill to put the ban on Sunday amusements and traffic where money Is paid, on Monday morning newspapers and on Sunday excursions. For three solid hours the debaters kept at ' It, even through the dinner hour, .....it "r-Vk until nnlv twn members of the committee. Chairman Hart and Chase, remained. The reformers made little progress be fore the committee, since the report will be adverse and will pnobably be unani mous. The members are Hart, Parrlsh, Chase, Slnnott and Hedges. Baker Stands Cp for Theaters. Opposed to the Sunday ban were George I. Baker and John F. Logan, representing theatrical and business in terests, and Rev. Mr. Martin, represent ing Seventh Day Adventists. Champions of the bill were F. McKercher, T. S. McDaniel. Dr. Kimball, W. H. Scllick, Dr. Benjamin Young and Dr. Comer. In support of the bill its advocates declared that they wanted it passed, not for theological reasons, but for economic benefits of one rest day out of seven. Quackenbush went further to ' say that the main object was to shut up theaters and stop baseball games on Sunday. He declared theaters to be allied with sa loons and disreputable houses for en pnarement of virtue and promotion of vice among the young. He admitted that he did not attend theaters, but In sisted that he knew their drift toward excessive vice and against the virtuous efforts of family life. Dr. Young In sisted that there was a vast difference between union of church and state, which his following did not want, and union of Sabbath and state, which it was trying to obtain In the Abraham bill. Sunday Plays for Laborers. On the other side it was contended that Sunday amusements were run for work ing persons who can attend them only on that day; that they do not prevent church-going, that there was no relation ship between theaters and liquor and that the bill . would Interfere with Individual freedom to no good purpose. Rev. Mr. Martin, of the Adventists, said enactment of the bill would be a step In direction of forcing observance on Sunday as the Sabbath by civil law which he declared pagan. He quoted yards of scripture, even outdoing the Sunday Sabbatarians In Holy Writ. He declared the Christian world reached its lowest stage when it used civil law to enforce its tenets. Rev. Mr. Martin and Logan used Jesus, Constantlne, Roger Williams, Mather, New England Puritan stocks. Thumb screw, fires of Salem and other historic allusions to the displeasure of the reform element. Baker Corrects Quackenbnsh. Dr. Young declared that when "You break down the Christian Sabbath, the Nation will be fraught with peril." Quackenbush declared that Mayor Mc Clennan closed moving picture shows In New York because they are wreckers of youth, but Baker declared that -the establishments were closed for violation of the fire laws and they are now all running. Others In the reform delegation were: Reverends William H. Foulkes, Henry Marcotte, E. M. Sharpe, A. J. Montgomery, J. R. Knodell, H. H. Pratt, J. A. McVeigh, H. B. King, James McClure. Albert Brlx, W. R. Hoover, Henry Hoeck, E. G. Johnson, L. E. Kerr, Charles H. Gaylord, I. B. Rhodes, M. C. Reed, W. Beneftel, D. Mulr and I. M. Walker. Slow AVork With Road Bill. STATE CAPITOL, Salem, Feb. 8. (Spe cial.) The Senate spent two hours dis cussing the Johnson road bill this after noon, but made little progress and re ferred the bill to a special committee composed of Senators Norton, Johnson, Selling, Hedges and Oliver with leave to report at any time. The Senate took a test vote on the bill under a motion to strike out the enacting clause, and this Indicated a strong majority In favor of the bill, but there were so many In stances in which the' language was not clear or the details were not satisfactory that the bill was referred for further I amendment. ernncr tn rinse the doors. Waggoner, who is a man of 70 years and well known as the author of the book, "Stories of Old Oregon." carried out or ders to the letter. Representatives have special privi leges In the Senate, and when Repre sentative McDonald came to the door he pulled it open to enter, as usual. Wag goner told him the door was closed, but McDonald tried to press in, whereupon Waggoner lunged against the young Representative with his whole weight and pushed him back. Then up walked McArthur. "Can't come In." said Waggoner. "But I'm a member of the House," protested McArthur. "I don't care If you're Speaker of the House, you can't come In," rejoined the unvleldlng doorkeeper. "Well. I am Speaker of the House, replied McArthur. "Can't come in." persisted Waggoner, and McArthur stayed out. One great trouble In the Legislature has been to find doorkeepers who would enforce the rules, but there Is no trou ble In that respect in the Senate at this session. Ban on School Fraternities. STATE CAPITOL. Salem. Feb." 8. (Spe cial.) The Senate this evening passed Colo's anti-school fraternity bill by a vote of 17 to 12. The bill was briefly discussed. Cole, Selling, Abraham and Nottingham supporting the measure and Hedges, Albee and Bailey opposing it. The bill prohibits secret societies in all public schools in the state except the State University and the Agricultural College. MADDENS MUCH DIVORCED Turfman Gets One to Match That Given Wife. tlon with alleged libelous publications re garding the Panama Canal purchase. Mr. Cromwell was under examination during the entire three hours. Deputy Attorney-General Oliver H. Fagin, of Washington, D. C, who has drawn many of the notable Federal In dictments, arrived here today and was In conference with District Attorney Stlmson. He came from Oklahoma, where he drew the Indictment, in the Haskell When District Attorney Jerome was asked today If he had dropped the Pan ama Investigation, he said: "The prosecution in the state courts must take precedence over that in the Federal courts to get results. A prose cution of the same person In the Federal Courts would be a bar to the prosecu tion In the state courts. "I am not going to enter Into any speed contest to get the Indictment in this case, and until I hear from the Attorney-General that I am to have the precedence in this, prosecution, I shall take no steps.". LINEAGE JMS NOUGHT SPAVTSH GIRL CHARGED WITH SERIOrS OFFEXSE. IT Held for Theft, Investigation of Plot to Abduct Oirla Is Being Made by Police. Laying claim to the high-sounding name of Isabella Martinez, and lineage from an ancient family of Spain, a dark-haired daughter of Castille fell Into the clutches ' of the police last night and Is now the occupant of a cell In the city prison under Matron Simmons' care. When arrested she gave to the desk officer the name of Pearl Wallace, but to other officers she related what she said was a par tial history of her life. p kaiiiuiia.uiy anil ' v i aim n 1111 n .tuui . ber of gems gleaming on her fingers, tne woman was iaKen into custody by Sergeants Goltas and Kay as she ontoroil a flnu-ntnu'Tl n nftHm ent-hOUSft. She Is being held pending an Investi gation Dy ine police or tne men ui a diamond pin with which she Is charged. 1 Another and perhaps more serious charge that Is being Investigated In volves her In a plot with confederates to induce a number of girls and young women of Portland to go to Boise, Idaho, and other points. The young women were to be Induced to make the trip, according to the police, by promises of lucrative employment. In reality, as designed by the plan the police are investigating, they were to have become the slaves of the Spanish woman and her confederates. A woman asserting she was a rela tive of one of the young women who had agreed to make the trip related the details of the plot to the police. She hoped, she. said, by the exposure and frustration of the scheme to prevent the departure of her cousin. She pleaded so earnestly and with such ap parent sincerity that she was permit ted to go on her promise to appear in the Municipal Court against the Span ish woman at the proper time. Tom Eastman, a bartender in a sa loon at Fourth and Everett streets. Is said to have charged the woman with stealing his diamond pin. THREATS OF REFERENDUM East Side Making Determined Fight for Courthouse. A delegation of East Side business men, under the leadership of President C. A. Bigelow, of the East Side Business Men's Club, will leave Portland Wednes day morning for Salem, taking with them two bills relating to the rebuilding of the -County Courthounp. These bills oppose the Reconstruction of the building on the present site and are the initial guns In the fight the East Side push clubs are making to have the Courthouse remiut on me nasi niue. They are indorsed by all the push clubs "and will be presented to the Multnomah delegation. In case one of the bills fails to pass, it is said the referendum will be Invoked In an attempt to stop the use of the present site for a new build ing. . . MATE WEALTHY AT LAST English Sailorman Will Finish Time and Then Wed Sweetheart. SAN FRANCISCO. Feb. 8. From third mate of an English ship, beating about the world in search of cargo, to a man of comprehensive wealth is a long step, but It Is sometimes accomplished In a single day, as in the case of Frank P. Perry, of the British ship Marlborough Hill, which arrived today from Rotter dam. Perry received a letter from his English home announcing the death of his father, arid the fact that he had in herited $15,000 from the estate.' The young sailor, who has climbed to his present position from an apprentice boy's berth, will stick to his ship until his time expires in May and then return to England to wed a girl who has been waiting for him for two years In his home town Acton, near London. Mother Smothers Babe. PENDLETON. Or.. Feb. 8. Clasped tightly In its sleeping mother's arms and pressed to her breast, the 3-weeks-old baby of Mr. and Mrs. Theodore Krause, of near Nolin, was accidentally smoth ered to death by its mother Friday night. Mrs. Krause has been frantic with grief since awakening Saturday morning to find her baby dead In her arms. Chicago. Attempted bribery of represent atives of organized labor will be made a crime In Illinois, as It is In New York. If a bill Introduced In the Chicago Federation of j,.hftp bH"ome a law. Special Sale f Goldeo Oak Dressers Nine patterns selected from our line and priced con siderably less than regular with the intention of re ducing stocK. of each attractive dresser styles that display the variety; that enables a pleasing selection tobe made of a bedroom piece in .the, medium or less I expensive grade. Sale ends tomorrow. See Seventh Street window display. $ 9.75 Pattern No. 805 A plain Dresser with Ronare bevel-plate mirror. Regular price $13.25. Special - Pattern No. 24 Combination Dresser and Commode, with bevel-plate mirror. Regu- lar price $21.00. Special Pattern No. 34? Large Dresser, has large bevel-plate mirror. Two top drawers in quarter-sawed golden oak; regular price $19.00; special $14.. o Pattern No. 255-Large Dresser, with fancy drawer fronts, Urge oval-shaped bevel-plate mirror. Regular price S23-50 50 Special .i t- oco.1.. T.o-row Dresser, in craar- ter-sawed golden oak; regular price $U.UU, special $18.00 Pattern No. 282 2 Large Dresser in 'quar tered golden oak; has large oblong-shaped bevel-plate mirror. Reg. $26.50; special. .$18.25 Pattern No. 12 A plain Dresser in select ed quarter-sawed golden oak, dull finish, dull brass trimmings ; large mirror of heavy bevel plate. Regular $39.50. Special $24.75 Pattern No. 21 Dresser in selected quarter-sawed golden oak, dull finish; plain drawer fronts, with old brass trimmings; large bevel-plate mirror. Regular price $52.00. Special $28.25 Pattern No. 22- Large Dresser in finely matched quarter-sawed golden oak; plain drawer fronts; also have old brass trim mings; full width mirror of heavy bevel plate. Regular price $55.00. Special $29.75 SALE OP CHIFFONIERS ENDS TOMORROW TULL COMPLETE HOUSEFURNISHERS CLOSE-OUT SALE OF BUCK'S STOVES AND RANGES TO EQUALIZE TUXES State Commission Proposed in Amendment to Bean Bill, BOARD WILL HEAR REPORTS Summaries of County Assessments to Be Gone Over and Examined to Basis or 'laxauoni in. as Several Counties ot State. STATE CAPITOI Salem, Or., Feb. 8. (Special.)-Only one material amendment has thus far been Teoommended by the joint' commitee on assessment and taxa tion, which have under consideration Rep resentative Bean's bill which provides . . . . i .1 r rpa-r rmmissloners. ror a oiaw "w""1 ' " ... . That amendment consists of an additional section conferring on the members ot the board the power and authority to equal ize county assessments. The two com mittees will hold another meeting at 7:30 o'clock Tuesday night, when the Asses sors from several of the counties of the state will be present. The additional sections of the bill pro vide that within 20 days from the time the assessment roll of any county has been finally equalized within the county, he shall transmit to the secretary of the Board of Tax Commissioners a certified copy of a summary of the assessment roll, under seal of the County Court. As an equalizing board, the members of the board are authorized to proceed as fol lows: In order to ascertain and equalize the amount, of taxable property in each county in the state, the said board shall on the day in each year, examine the summaries of assessments in the several counties as made by the County Asses sors and equalized by the county board of equalization and as certified by the County Clerks to the secretary of said board and said board may obtain such information as they may deem necessary to enable them to ascertain the true relative value of such taxable property In the several counties, and. shall equalize the value of the property in the several counties, so that the same shall be as nearly uniform as possible, and shall de termine from such values so equalized the percentage of such equalized value of taxable property In each county to the value of all the taxable property in the state as so equalized. And for such pur poses the said board or any member thereof, may summon witnesses, admin ister oaths and take and receive testi mony and shall have the right to require any officer of any municipality or county of the state tor certify or testify to any relevant fact. Such witnesses shall be allowed the usual fees for witnesses tes tifying in criminal prosecutions, except that any officer of any municipality or county of the state shall receive only his actual, necessary traveling expenses. Such claims shall be audited and paid as other claims against the state ore paid. In January every year the board is re quired to meet and ascertain the amount of funds that will be required for state riirnoPs dur'ne the nsuiner var lnoh ... ..n Rimh .m-onortion of the VUUULJ . ' ' , ' total tax as the total value m mt li able property in that county, as equalized by the Tax Board, bears to the total of all the taxable property In the state as equalized. Each county must pay into the state treasury not later than May 1, one-half of the state tax as apportioned, the re mainder to be paid by November 1. APPEAL TO HIGHEST COURT Streetcar Company to Carry Fight Against City. Up LEXINGTON", Ky., Feb. 8. John E. Madden, the noted turfman, was grant ed a divorce in the Circuit Court here today from Louise Madden-Bell. Mrs. Bell had been granted a divorce from Madden in another state and married Bell, who Is also widely known. Mad den in the meantime had filed a suit against her, and the decision is in that case. CROMWELL TELLS STORY Testifies on Canal Libel Jerome . Insists on Precedence. KEW YORK, Feb. 8. William Nelson Cromwell, who was counsel to the Pan ama Canal Company of France, the rights of which were purchased by the United States Government, was a witness be fore the Federal grand Jury today in the Government's proceedings against the New York World and others in connec- THE POTTER barbISa DOUBLE AMERICAN PLAN ONLY HAS SINGLE ITS OWN 84.00 SQUAB RANCH ST.OO 5.00 LIVESTOCK FARM $9.00 SB.OO POULTRY RANCHES 811.00 S7.00 VEGETABLE GARDENS S12.00 SS.OO PRIVATE COUNTRY CLUB 13.M RACE TRACK AND POLO GROUNDS PRIVATE LIVERY, WIRELESS TELEGRAPH ART GALLERY AND PICTURESQUE GOLF LINKS GOOD TABLE, GOOD LIVING. CHEERFUL SERVICE RATES GRADUATED TO ALL REASONABLE REQUIREMENTS ACCOMMODATIONS FOR ONE THOUSAND GUESTS ARTESIAN WELL, AND REFRIGERATING PLANT CONSERVATORIES AND G R E E N H OUSES A VHOLE MILE OF GERANIUMS OPEN ALL THE YEAR ROUND 30,000 FINE ROSEBUSHES we producb CHILDREN'S GROVE no BKTm ALL OF OVH ZOO, 6 0,0 00 TABtB Olf OVU STAPLE PIGEONS THK .WHOLES Ajttj PACIFIC COAST nrM Tl i 1 ,h aA Vnrt RnoklBL Free Gtop-over Prtollec en Rant Bctwaen Saa Fntadvw and Im Aiarelc. xsooKlt ana mti hiuhu.i...u . Peck-Judah Co.. 801 Oak St., Commercial Club Bids'. DELICACIES MILO M. POTTER. Mgr. The temporary Injunction secured by the Portland Railway, Light & Power Company in regard to underground wires was dissolved by Judge Wolverton yes terday, who recalled the restraining or der issued last week. An appeal was at once prayed for to the United States Supreme Court by the attorneys for the company. Judge Walverton declared that the or dinance In question, number 18.002, is a police regulation, and prosecutions under it are valid, using the following lan guage: The city charter empowers the Common Council to provide punishment for viola tion of any ordinance of the city bv to and Imprisonment and ordinance No. 16003 is strictly a police regulation within tne competency of the city, therefore perfect v valid, and a prosecution under it would ba In pursuance of law. On Wednesday an ordinance will come up for discussion before the City Coun cil Intended to extend the time in which the Portland Railway. Light & Power Company may comply with the ordinance in question. This ordinance the com pany insists should be passed, as it con tends that It cannot comply with the or dinance in less than probably two years. If it is expected to make the changes which the ordinance directs. The decision of the presiding Judge upholds the city's claim to the right to enact legislation of this character, but it remains to be seen what the decision of the Supreme Court will be in the event of an appeal to that tribunal. Peacock Recovers" Strength. ASTORIA, Or., Feb. 8. (Special.) Dr. Fred Peacock, the Cathlamet phy sician who was shot a short time ago by Mrs. A. Longtaine, is recovering nuftA rnnfiilv from his lnlurlftM and is able to walk about the hospital. He will probably return to his home in Cathlamet In about another week. Amendments to Excise Ijaw. WASHINGTON, Feb. 8. Representative James Miller, of Kansas, who has benn chosen as the House loader and spoken man for the Anti-Saloon League of America, introduced today for the Anti Saloon League the amendments to the excise laws of the District of Columbia, drafted by the corporation counsel, ap proved by the Commissioners of the Dis trict, and previously introduced in the Senate by Senator Gallinger, chairman of the Senate District committee. Attend Rosenthal's great show sala. AN ITCHING PALM Jfo Care foT It. Other Farms of Itching Preferable. There is no cure for an Itching palm the money kind. Even poslam, the new skin discovery, cannot help it. But when it comes to ecema, the most an noying of Itching skin troubles, poslam will stop the Itching at once and cure the worst cases in a few days. So with hives, rash, scabies, spilt toes, piles ,and scaly scalp, all of which are different forms of eczema, accompanied by se vere itching and caused by Imperfect digestion and careless diet. Poslam comes In two-dollar Jars, but fifty cents' worth will answer in curing any of the diseases mentioned. It can be had of any druggist. The Skidmore Drug Co. and Woodard, Clarke & Co. make a specialty of it. That results are Immediate will be amply demonstrated overnight by the use of the experimental sample which the Emergency Laboratories, 32 West Twenty-fifth Street, New York City, will send free by natl, in plain wrap per, to any one who will write for It. You Wouldn't Eat Raw Meat? w 4 ""either would you eat 1 common, ordinary rolled oats if you knew it was raw and therefore indigest ible. You can boil "rolled oats" all day but it won't cook them. Boil ing water isn't hot enough to do it. H-O is the "meat" of the oats, steam-cooked for three hours under pressure and high temper ature, thoroughly dextrinizing" the starch and making it easily digested by the most delicate stomach. The process is pat ented. There is no other cooked oatmeal. Tell your grocar it must be H-O this time. 7 want some mort. Oliver Twist. 3