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T THE MORNING OREGONIAN, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 11, 1900- HAWLEY POSES E FRESH LAND GRAB Yaquina Wagon-Road Com pany Seeks Large Area Which Was Not Granted: NO INDEMNITY ALLOWED Mofl It Can Legally Claim Is 8 4 Acre Instead, of 9126, Provided in Bill Before Congress. Two Grants Overlap. OP.EGONIAN NEWS BUREAU. Wash ington. Feb. 10. As a result of a search he has been making In the In terior Department. Representative Hawiey today discovered that the I'orvallls & Yaquina wa?on road bill, recently Introduced In the House, con tain! a Joker which would operate to defraud the Government out of sev eral thousand acres of valuable land In Oregon. The bill permits the road company or Its anslgns to select 912B acres of land in addition to that already pat ented In order to satisfy fully its Brant. It being alleged that this acre age within the limits of the grant Is held by settlors who might legally be ousted. The bill proceeds on the the ory that the road company was en titled to a total grant of 90.240 acres, but Mr. Hawiey finds upon examina tion of the records that the road com pany was entitled to only S3.6S5 acres, that being the total area of vacant public hind within the limits of its prant when the wagon road was built. The law authorizing the grant contains no provision for indemnity or lieu se lections. To date the Government has patented to the road company or Its assigns SI 892 acres, apparently leaving 1790 acres still due. but the records further show that there is an overlap of this wagon road grant and the grant to the Oregon & California Railroad, and this overlapping area, conalning 170 ncres, has been ratented to the rail road company. ' If the railroad company earned this tract prior to the construction of the wagon road, then the wagon roaC company can legally lay claim to only M acres In addition to what it has al ready received, and even this small area is claimed by settlers, who allege priority of right, so in reality there Is practically no land due the wagon road company unless It be land In the overlap district now held by the rail road company. This point is still to be cleared up- ItAP AT EXECUTIVE ORDER Amendment to Xaval Appropriation Bill Would Stop Commission. . WASHINGTON. Feb. 10. Connected with, but not confined In Its operations to the Senate committee amendment to the naval appropriation bill providing for a commission to examine into the busi ness methods of the Navy, is a provision prohibiting the use of appropriations In paying commissions which have not the sanction of Congress. The provision is evidently intended to prevent the crea tion of commission by executive order, and although It is made a part of the naval bill It is general In Its application. Following is the text of the amendment: And hereafcer no part of the public moneys or of any appropriation hereto fore or hereafter made by Congress shall be used for the payment or compensa tion or expenses of any commission, or any members thereof, unless the creation nf such commission shall have been au thorized by Congress." COOS BAY TO HAVE DREDGING Unexpected Jetty Funds May B Used on Channel AYork. ORBGONIAN NKY9 BUREAU. Wash ington. Feb. 10. Representative Hawiey, who has- been persistently urging the river and harbor committee to authorize the use of the unexpended balance of the Coos Bay Jetty appropriation in operating the new Government dredge In Coos Bay. today received written assurance from Chairman Burton that his committee had made such provision in Its bill. In urging this legislation, Hawiey point ed out that local interests had raised J15.0.O for operating the dredge, and in dicated that the unexpended jetty appro priation, now lying idle in the treasury, might profitably be expended in dredging. AGREE ON DRV FARM MEASURE Conferees Knock Out Nonresident Feature, Except for Utah. OREGONIAN" NEWS BUREAU. Wash ington. Feb. 10. Tho conference commit tee on the dry farm homestead bill reached an agreement today knocking out tho nonresident feature except as to Utah. An amendment was adopted pro viding that no dry land shall be subject to entry in 3i"-acre tracts until such land has been designated by the Secretary of the Interior as not being susceptible of successful irrigation ot reasonable cost from any known source of water supply. WOULD LOSE OX AD VALOREM Evidence Against Change In Form of Wool Duty. WASHINGTON. Feb. 10. That an ad valorem duty on wools would be im practicable and would result in many abuses which would deprive the Govern ment of considerable revenue was the most Important statement made before the House ways and means committee at the supplemental hearing on the wool schedule today. t AamnAm nho EI1VI tlA WPnt tO the Wall In Chicago after paying au.uw iur o. . on the Board of Trade, enlisted in the Army here late yesterday. As. reference the recruit gave W. IL Vanslcklin. a cap italist of Geneva. 111. He said, he had been playing the markets for several years. CHICAGO, Feb. 10. (Special.) Harold M. Ivea. a well-known Chicago young man. today enlisted in the Army at Spo kane, Wash., according to a dispatch from that city. His action came as a sur prise to his relatives and friends, who have known little of his movements dur ing the past year. Ives is a son of John H. Ives, a sales man in Carson, Pirie & Scott Company's wholesale house. Three years ago he married Miss Marian Lindman. a daugh ter of John i. Lindman, a wealthy Board ot Trade man. Until a year ago he was associated with his father-in-law In busi ness. He then suddenly left for the West and was on a ranch for a time. Mrs. Ivfs is with hen- parents In Chicago. When informed of Ives' enlistment In the Army. Mr. Lindman tonight said that he had not heard of it, but refused to MANNING GETS PROMOTION Oregon Man Advanced In Consular Service on Merits. WASHINGTON, Feb. 10. Isaac A. Manning, of Oregon, now Consul at Cartagena. Colombia, was today nomi nated for Consul at La Guayra, Vene zuela, This appointment is based sole ly on merit, and carries with it promo tion from 2noo to 13000 a year. LOSES FORTUNE; ENLISTS Chicago Youth Joins Army at Spo kane Arter Checkered Career. SPOKANE. "Wash.. Feb. 10. Harold M. Ives, aged Oa, well dressed and wearing NEW MEXICAN AMBASSADOR TO THE INITEU STATES. : - n" I i ! - it . ! H i -w -' - 1 i t t . ' .:V1 if j t i ? i - - - t t . s a I iM.ii null ilMMHM 'li lilT A.al T Topyrlgf t 1908 by Geo. Grantham Bain. F. J Ie la Barra. NEW YORK. Feb. lO.(SpeclaL) F. L. da la Barra passed through New York recently on his war to Mexico where he goes to consult the Foreign Office concerning- the con clusion of his mission to Belgium be fore assuming his duties aa Ambas sador from Mexico to the United states. Durlntr his brief stay in New York. Mr. de la Barra dictated to a representative of the Bain Dally News Service the following state ment concerning the diplomatic re lations between Mexico and the t'nlted fitstes: "The relations be tween Mexico and the United States must day by day be more cordial because their respective economla Interests with mutual advantages re quire them to be so. Apart from this fact there Is absolutely no po litical question which can divide them, due to the fact that both gov ernments have as a basis of their international poller respect for the rlEhU of others." discuss his son-ln-law's action. At the home of Mr. Ives' father equal reluctance was shown in talking of the young man. BELL TELLS OF 11 "UNWRITTEN LAW" NOT IN ins DEFENSE. Man Who Killed Actor Says He Feared Wife and Child Would Leave Him. DENVER. Feb. 10 Burdette Bell, on trial for the murder of C Cuvler Dury, an actor of Clncinnattl, O., for whom his wife had left him, today went on the witness-stand in his own behalf. No effort was made to raise the "un written law" In Bell's defense. Bell discovered his wife and Dury together In a Curtis-street rooming-house. "Dury pushed me against the wall and choked me," said Bell in answer to question by his lawyer. "The thought came to me that he would do me bodily injury and perhaps kill me and run away with my wife and little baby. I wanted to get out Into the hall and talk It over with him. After the shooting which followed. I went down to the police station and gave myself up." Previously Bell had testified that Tils wife had confessed to him the night be fore the shooting of her relations with Dury. Mrs. Bell told her husband that Dury pot her intoxicated, and that this and her ambition to go on the stage had led to her downfall. WOOLBUYERS IN COMBINE Eastern Men Admit Organization and Are Fixing Sale Dates. PENDLETON. Or., Feb. 10. (Special.) Though often accused before, the Eastern woolbuyers are coming Into the local field, for the first time, w!th an openly acknowledged organization. It is de nied by the buyers, however, that the organization is formed for the purpose of In any way attempting to control the price, declaring the individual buyers will be free to bid any price they may see fit. They say tho movement Is merely to give them an organization to deal with the organized sheep men in arrang ing the sales dates and other similar mat ters. The arranging of the dates for hold ing wool sales in Eastern Oregon this season is now under way and the dates will be announced in a few days. The buyers, through their secretary, William Ellery, have submitted the dates of May 24 and June 4 for Pendleton and have asked that all the wool from the sur rounding country be brought to this city to these sales. They object to going to Pilot Rock. Echo, Condon or Vale for sales this year. AMERICAN BEEF CHOSEN Great Britain Gets Over "Embalmed Beef" Scare and Sends) Order. LONDON. Feb. 10. A Chicago firm has been awarded a contract to supply the British army with corned beef for a period of three years. The first delivery, between 500.000 and 1,000,000 pounds, will be made next July, and further deliveries will be in accordance with the require ments of the army. The meat will be packed at Chicago, under supervision of British army officers. OldsJWortunan m Big Bargains for Remnant Week Thursday -Housekeepers' Day-Supply Home Needs Today G mat 9 viean Ub of C & ur tains Russ, Iron Beds & Couch Covers, Etc. Savings too good to miss on goods of the sort that anyone is glad to place in their home. Very attractive Curtains; handsome, durable Rugs; enameled Beds, strongly made and nicely finished in fact, dozens of bargains in bed- Take advantage of these great savings. ings, hangings and home fittings. ClunyLace Curtains White or Arabian, good full size, fine variety of designs, excellent values. Reg. $3.50 vals., pr. $2.65 Reg. $5.00 vals., pr. $3.65 Reg. $7.50 vals., pr. $5.35 Sale Enameled Beds Reg. $12.50 Beds at Rg. $14.50 Beds at. Reg. $15.00 Beds at . .$8.75 .$9.65 .$9.95 Great, reductions on odds and ends of white enameled Beds; very fine grade brass trimmed, strongly made, with heavy connections, con tinuous posts; full or three quarter size; $11.50 Of QC vals.; special, only.Oliww Small-Sized Rugs Wool Double-Faced Smyrna Rugs Size 30x60 inches, regu lar $2.25 value, at the 01 QQ special price of only.Oliww Best Royal Smyrna Rugs 30x 60, regular $3.75 val- OQ OC ue, at only, each 0-0u Axminster Rugs Best grade, 30x60 inches; regularly worth $5.00 each, at the special low price for Thursday's 00 0C selling, of only, eaoh.OOiOU Fine Royal Wilton Rugs Size 36x63 ; exquisitely beautiful patterns, rich material, regular $9.00 value; special for Thursday, only. .56.75 Couch Covers $1.65 Extra special savings on heavy tapestry Couch Cov ers, in Oriental designs and colorings; 60 in. long and full width, fringed all round; much in demand for protecting fine lounges or for use on sanitary couches. Reg. each, Reg. each, Reg. each, Reg. each, worth special worth special worth special worth special $2.85 only. S1.65 $4.00 only $5.00 7C $7.50 or pc only.OuiDU Silkoline Comforts Comforts, covered with good quality silkoline and filled with line white cot ton, yarn, tied; $2.00 values, for S1.65 Cotton Tape Box Package of Tip Top white cotton tape, 10 pieces in box, 3 yards in each piece, all widths for general use; regular Ifjp 25c package, special today IwU HAIR-PIN CABINETS Large size box of wire hair-pins, assorted, spe- 1 Cp cial. the box IWU ENGLISH PINS 360 in paper; regular 5c value, special today. BATH SOAP Large size cakes, Violet or Bouquet scented, regular 10c Cp cake, special today .WU HARDWOOD TOOTH PICKS House hold or Hotel size, good large boxes, 20c package, special PEARL WHITE FLOATING SOAP For bath or toilet, large-sized cakes, special each .'. WHITE WAX PAPER For wrapping lunches, cakes, candies, etc. Spe cial. the package "ll PEROXIDE OF HYDROGEN In large size half-pint bottles; regular 25c value, at .30 Violet ...5c .10c P- 5c )ing 4c 19c Cut Glass-Half Beninant Sale on Libbey's Rock Crystal Cut Glass, in artistic designs, at just Halt tne regular prices ValentinesFrZ$i All sorts are to be Had here and prices are indeed low. Please all your friends with a remembrance of St. Valentine's day, when the cost is so small and you can make selections so easily here. Post cards, Comic Valentines or very rich affairs. Prices run QC ftfl from 1 to UJiUU For Valentine Parties In our Stationery Department you will find paper Napkins in heart design, paper cases, lunch sets, playing cards, tally cards, stickers, seals, postcards and val entine stationery. WINE GLASSES Set of 6, PJj 7C regularly $17.50, special only. g Oil J WATER TUMBLERS Set of 6, reg ularly $18.00, at the spe- CQ fin cial low price of only, per set.ij) JiUU 12-in. Vases $13.50 values, CC 7C special, each, . only ODi I J Individual " Salted Almond Dishes, worth $14.50 for set of 6; 07 CC special for Remnant Week.OlifcJ Footed Sherbets, regularly $22.00 for set of 6; on sale during P1 1 Ofl the Remnant Sale, only... 01 liUU Ferneries and Jardinieres Very artistic designs, nt half price for Remnant "Week; regular 50c values, special ....... -Zo? Regular 75c values, special .....38 Regular DOe values, special 45 Regular $1.25 values, special 63 Regular $J.7o values, special 88 Regular $2.50 values, special $1.25 Wall Plaques In cameo effect ; half price for Remnant Week. Regular $1.00 values, special ....5Q? Regular ,$1.15 values, special 58 Regular $1.90 values, special 95 Regular $2.25 values, special ....$1.13 $2.50 75c SUGARS AND CREAMERS Re gi larly $3.50 the pair ; Rem nantWeek price, only CHAMPAGNE TUMBLERS Set of 6; regularly worth $5.50, at On 7C the low price of only, per set. 01' w WHISKY TUMBLERS Regularly worth $4.50 for set of b; PO HC Remnant Sale price, per st.0tiu 6JN. PLATES Regularly priced at $1.50 each; special... Dozens of other bargains in rich Cut Glass for Remnant Week. Plate Rails 10-in. size, made in old-fashioned designs; one thousand styles of dec orations. These are made by the famous English Wedgewood factory. The finest assortment in all the Northwest at Rem nant Week prices. Candle Shades In many designs and of many sorts. Take advantage of this half price sale and supply your needs during Remnant Week. Regular 10c values, special, each . . 5 Regular 15c values, special each . . 8 Regular 20c values, special each ..10 Regular 25c values, special each . . 13J Save on Linens All odd lines of soiled and mussed linens, good makes, prices even lower than before PATTERN TABLECLOTHS In all lengths, reduced as follows : $4.00 vals., $3.05 $7.00 vals., $5.95 $4.75 vals., $3-95 $3.00 vals., 6.75 $5.50 vals., $4.25 $9.00 vals., $7.25 WASH GOODS 1200 yards of rough weave Novelty Suitings, good and popu lar materials, on rj Ty sale Thursday at 10.11 lilCC FLANNELETTES Lot of 8000 yards fleeced back Flannel in neat figures, with side bands; regular 18c qualit at the special, only, per yard See the New Ginghams Very pretty Wash Goods for Spring on display and sale in the Linens and "Wash Goods Section. A wealth of pretty pat terns a large choice as to eolor, design and price; domestic or imported goods. V f Specials in Kitchen Needs American Waffle Irons, special 68? Griddle Irons, special price 35i Enameled covered Roasters, each. .40c Extra grade Wash Boilers $1.50 Water Pails, special price 15 Wire Clothes Lines, each 17? Metal Polish, the can, only 12 Brass Bird Cage Hooks, each 10 Picture Hooks, the dozen 8 Tin Pie Plates, each only 3 Handled Cake Turners, each 4 Large heavy Wire Forks, each 2 Solid metal Teaspoons, set 25 Solid metal Tablespoons, set 50J Fancy ring Jelly Moulds, regular $1.00 value, special 50 $1.25 fancy Jelly Moulds 63 $1.35 fancy Jelly Moulds, special. .68t? In Black Silks The most staple article in any silk stock, and when all weaves are included, from a store like this, 'tis worth your while to look to your needs and supply them now. Louisines, Messalines, Crepe de Chines, Peau de Cygnes. Brocades, Surahs, Taf fetas and Directoire Satins. Regular $1.00 quality, at the low nr. orice of only, per 3'ard, during sale. UJu Regular $1.25 qualities, for the low price of only, per yard. $1.50 qualities, at the low price of only, per yard. Regular $1.75 qualities at low price, per yard lar $2.00 Qualities, at the low price only, per yard Regular $2,50 qualities, at the low price of only, per yara. . $1.05 $1.23 S1.48 $1.59 $1.98 Portland's Most Wonderful Shoe Sale Remnant Week has brought forth Shoe. Bar gn, unprecedented, unparalleled. A drastic, determined effortjo TiTnpevnair of odd lots, every pair of small sizes or narrow widths in one week's busy selling. Values as Thal$5.00go at $1.50. Oxfords and slippers worth to $5.00 go at $1.98. MenShoes worth toOOgat $2.98- and women 's riding boots worth to $15.00 at $5.00. All men and women with small feet are positwely ntravaeant if they fail to attend this sale. There is going Jtobgsellingj so come early and secure best choice. : 1 HEXIGMS RISE IS MOT PEOPLE KEBEIi AGAIXST LAXD IX)RD KT7LE. Government Takes Prompt Steps to . Suppress Outbreak, Even Ar resting Women.' MEXICO CITY, Feb. 10. Following the riots in the State of Morelos, where sev eral men were killed and injured, the Mexican government has arrested a number of persons, all followers of Pat ricio Leyva. the anti-Federal candidate for Governor of the Sttte. Leyva has been dismissed from his Government po sition. Inspector of the Irrigation De partment Fomento: and many of his followers have been charged with se dition. The president and secretary of the Fre Suffrage Clube at Jojutla, and the presi dent and vice-president of a Blmilar club at Tlaquiltenango have been put in Jail on this charge. Many others have been arrested In different parts of the Btate, including several women. Some of these latter, it Is said, merely shouted, "Viva Leyva." The Mexican Herald is outspoken In the declaration that the sentiment of the majority of the people of the state favors Leyva. "To understand the situation," the Herald says, "It is necessary to know the history of Mexico and the suffering of the people at the hands of the Spanish landlords. This Is more in evidence in Morelos than almost any other state, and Leyva represents the people aligned against this rule." ANNOUNCEMENTS. Dr. Horn, the optician, 3d floor Swet land blutr., guarantees satisfaction or money refunded. No fancy prices. No really young and attractive woman ever gets off a streetcar backwards. MILLIONS WALK STREETS GOMPERS PAINTS DOLEFUL PIC TURE FOR STRAUS. - At Labor Conference He Contrasts Relief for Italy With Neg lect of Labor. WASHINGTON, Feb. 10. -Prominent labor leaders participated in a "council of labor" at the Department of Commerce and Labor toay. Presi dent Gompers, of the American Federa tion of Labor, and Commissioner-General Meade, of the immigration Bureau, were among; those taking part. The meeting was called at the in stance of Secretary Straus. The- problems discussed, aa sug gested by Mr. Straus, included legis lation to extend tne sieamooai inspec tion service to the Inspection of loco motive boilers; consideration of statis tics of immigration in connection with emigration: and greater effectiveness of the Nobel prize which President Roosevelt devoted to the Foundation for the Promotion of Industrial Peace. Mr. Straus urged that railroad locomo tive boilers be placed by law. under the supervision of the steamboat in spection service. Mr. Gompers pointed out that nearly 2.000,000 laborers, who previous to Oc tober, 1907, had been employed, now are walking the streets. Congress, he said, had provided instant relief for the Italian sufferers by the Italian earthquake, but when relief is asked for American laborers, it is styled pateralism and is given no considera tion. John Mitchell said from two to five million men in this country now are unemployed. The conferees called at the White House and met the President. Red Cross Shoes reduced at Rosenthal's. SPRINGER BROS. V. C. CAMPBELL $7.50 Per Ton Main 1225 A 1225 r i