TAFT TALKS ABOUT -,! iiirirnrlt were lecallv Turkish provinces. Russia could not say anything touching the position of the Slavs therein without offending Turkey. Now Russia thinks herself at liberty to claim a voice In the future of these people. The situation thus created is regarded In Eritish official circles as grave, al though, it is hoped that In the eleventh hour eotne means will be found to avert war. SOUTH'S PROBLEM CAUSE OF NEW SPRING ARRIVALS MAIL ORDEES PROMPTLY FILLED JILTING THOUGHT SUICIDE Praises Work of Booker T. 'Washington and Finds It Solution of Trouble. REGRETS RACE PREJUDICE fcits With Xejtro Leader at Carnegie. Hall Meeting and- Sa9 Future Outlook Is Bright it Kaccs Work Together. NEW TOR K. Feh. 24. Mr. Taft was the principal speaker at the Carnegie Hall meeting tonight in the Interest of Hampton Institute. He was escorted to the platform with Booker T. Washing ton. Mr. Taft in his address said 9.rt.of) of the 10.000. 'W negnxs of the country lived in the Southern States. "We have the problem and we have 6lmplygot to solve It,-' he asserted. "We have a raee feeling. It does exist, and that is a part of the problem. 1 believe in my heart you are going to work It out by realizing that it is not to the advantage of either to make it difficult for both to live together. "The negro is absolutely essential to the South. Hence it Is that the work of the Hampton Institute has such tre mendous Importance. It is the solution of the race question."' No unprejudiced person. Mr. Taft said, could read the statistics -of tiie negro race In the last 50 years and not feci con vinced that a solution was to follow. "Why." he declnred. "a race that can produce Booker Washington in a century ought to feel confident that It can do miracles at times. It is difficult to speak In parliamentary language of advocacy of the doctrine that we ought to keep the negro in Ignorance." HEKRICK XOT FOR CABINET Taft May Select MncVcagli, Who Seems to Lead Kace. NEW YORK. Feb.' 23. Ex-Governor Myron T. Herrick, of Ohio, will not be Secretary of the Treasury in the Taft Cabinet. A statement, written hy Mr. Taft after conferring with Mr. Herrick todav. says: "At the invitation of the President elect, Governor Herrick called on Mr. Taft today. Mr. Taft authorized the statement that the mention of Mr. Her rick for the portfolio of the Treasury as If he had been a candidate did him great injustice, because Mr. Herrick wrote to Mr. Taft as early as December last to say that his business engagements were such as to prevent his acceptance of a place in the Cabinet." The elimination of Mr. Herrick at his own request would seem to put Franklin MacVeagh, of Chicago, in the lead for the place, but Mr. Taft said it would be jeveral days before the matter would be settled. PRINTER'S BILL TOO BIG Deficit of $300,000 Startles Appro priations Committee. OLYMPIA. Wash.. Feb. 23. (Spe cial.) Members of the subappropria tions committee are disposed to stir up l fuss over a $3i.nnn deficiency appro priation asked for hy the State Printer. The printing funds became exhausted jeveral months ago. but the then State Printer, C. W. Gorham. upon the advice of state officials, went ahead with the work of getting out the biennial re ports. Members of the committee, while not charging graft, assert that there has been gross extravagance some where in the disposition of the print ing fund. Iarge supplies of printed matter, such as half the 3n0 edition of the session laws of 19n7 still on hand, are pointed out as examples. The lommlttee will investigate printing matters and try to fix the blame for conditions and devise means for fore stalling repetition of similar condi tions. COUNCIL BACKS MEMBER Hoquiam Aldermen W ill Defend Gil lespie Ouster Proeeedins-s. HOQUIAM. Or.. Feb. 23. (Special.) The City Council tonight In regular session voted. S to 4. to ohey the writ of man date issued by Judge Irwin, of the Supe rior Court, and to appear February' - and show cause why Councilman Gillespie should not be ousted and "a. special elec tion he called to name ft Councilman from the Fourtli Ward. Gillespie was appointed by the Council over the protest of UK voters of the Fourth Ward, who have been active in protesting his qualification and who have sufficient funds to carry the case through the Supreme Court. The question as to whether the Coun cil can appropriate the people's money for the Councilman's defense of the writ of mandate is a mooted one and the out come of the present issue is more a test of the recall law than any vindictive fueling against Mr. Gillespie, who has innumerable friends. The arbitrary ac tion of the Council in appointing Mr. Giflespie over the majority protest is the bone of contention and the end is not yet. SEND WOMEN BY EXPRESS feuTfragettes Try "Parcels Pot'' to Reach Premier Aqttith. but Fail. IXINDON. Feb. 03 The "human letters" were dispatched to Premier Asquith this afternoon by the Inventive militant suf fragists. Mrs. Drummond and Mrs. Cris tobel Parkhurt were the senders of this novel mail. Entering the Strand Post office, the two women inquired if it was a possible thing to "send two human letters" by express. Upon beiiiij ar.wwercd in the affirmative, they brought in two other colleagues. Mrs. McLellan and Miss Solomon, and ad dressed them to the premier's residence, prepaid. The two women were at once dispatched In the care of a telegraph messenger. The servants at the Premier's residence, however, refused to accept de livery of tliis suffragist mail, and the police appeared and quickly cleared the women out of Downing stre t. RUSSIA BACKING FOES (Continued From First Page ) iltude in all these negotiations has been mi tiim firmest character. Whila Bosnia lUSSlAX ATTITCDK DOCBTFUL Warns Servia to Keep Peace, but Is Xot Committed. BERLIN. Feb. 23. It is learned that the attitude of Russia is still doubtful In connection with the Austro-;Servian situation. Servia has neither received assurance of Russian support in case of hostilities nor has Russia Intimated that assistance will be withheld. A dispatch from St. Petersburg de clares that Russia in the last few days has earnestly warned Servia against doing anything that might tend to a breach of the peace. FIGHTING MEX STAY AT HOME Servia Grants Xo Passports for Any Fnder 15 Years. BELGRADE!, Feb. 23. The Servian gov ernment has given .orders that until further notice no passports are to be Is sued to men under 43 years of age. The object of this measure is to keep all men of military age at home. KAY DENIES CONSPIRACY SAYS HE WAS RELFCTAXT TO ARREST OFFICER STUART. Chief Declares Raid on Quelle Was Made Because Patrolman Pis regarded Warnings. That the raid by the police on the Hotel Quelle Saturday night in which R. I Stuart, a patrolman, was caught In the net of his brother officers on an immoral charge was the result of & conspiracy on the part of Detective Sergeant Kay and others engaged In the raid to "do" Stuart, was vehement ly denied last night by Chief of Police Grltzmacher. "The raid was made on my orders." said the Chief. "The report that there was a . conspiracy against Stuart Is filse and utterly ridiculuos. The truth about the matter is that Stuart had been warned about his relations with this woman with whom he was founo. Information came to me that he still maintained the relations and I ordered his arrest if the evidence could be pro cured. When I learned that he was at the Hotel Quelle. I ordered the captain on duty to organize a squad of men to make the arrest. "There is some talk about town about the disgrace to the department. I know it is an unpleasant thing for one of our officers to get caught in such an entanglement, but it would be much worse if we failed to act with such glaring evidence confronting us. A patrolman of this department we hope should conduct himself in such a man ner that he will reflect credit upon it. It would have been impossible for us to have made an exception of Stuart. He shall receive the same treatment as anyone else violating the law where the knowledge of the offense becomes known to us." Sergeant Kay, against whom is Inti mated the - inspiration of the raid, promptly denied this. "I did not know anything about it until a few moments before it happened," he said last night. "I was ordered"to report to the Police Station where I received orders from Captain Slover to. join the others in the duty assigned us: None of us wanted to perform this duty. I didn't. I had received my orders, however, and I had to do as I was told. "The accusations made by Mrs. Parker against me are simply ridicul ous and without truth. "Mrs. Parker could not tell the names of the man and woman In that room and afterwards said she had known them for two years. She couldn't even decipher the name on the register. You are able to tell of the character of her house when you may go to the register and s. that several of her hooms are rented to different couples on the same night. The name set down on the register for the room In which this couple is supposed to have been is Ed Durana. There is noth ing to show that he Is accompanied hy a woman and Mrs. Parker violated the rules of keeping the hotel register when she let her room in that way." Patrolman Stuart is not at work on the force. He was relieved of his star and other police Insignia on the night he was locked up in a cell in the City Jail. -Since his release on t'Jo bail tne Chief of Po lice has announced that he will not be permitted to return to his duties until his case has come before the Police Com mittee. Formal charges have been filed against Stuart by Chief Grltzmacher, but at the request of Stuart's counsel, his hearing will probably not be had until the middle of next week. The officers making the raid were Ser geants Kienlen, Keller and Kay, assisted by Patrolmen Swennes. Burstow, Blue, Montgomery, Owens and Sims. Chief Grltzmacher said last night that all the men had exhibited reluctance in execut ing the orders to go and arrest Stuart, but they were all forced to obey them with no other alternative perhaps than of leaving the department. According to the statements of some of the officers iq charge in the depart ment Patrolman Stuart has not been re garded as one of the most efficient of the patrol force. Through alleged laxities in discipline and conduct it is said he has been in disfavor with his superiors for some time. It is eaid the officials of the police de partment are trying to discover the men of the first night relief wtfo are reported to he raising funds to aid Stuart in his tight aaainst the charges made. It is also hinted that If these men are learned, ofiicial action OTll be taken to prevent anything of the kind being done. SENATORS BUY PHILLIES Baseball Team Sold to McXichol, Wolf and Durham. PHILADELPHIA, Feb. 23. The North American this morning prints the follow ing: "Today at noon the Philadelphia Na tional League Baseball Club will pass into the ownership and control of Con tractor James P. McXichol, Banker Clarence Wolf, and Israel Durham, all state Senators. "All indications point to the retirement of William J. Sheetline from active partic ipation In the affairs of the club, but su pervision of the team will remain In the hands of William Murray, the present manager." Grease Burns In Rooms. Burning grease in the rooms of J. Simpson, who occupies housekeeping apartments in I the- Union, block, 91 First Street, called out the fire depart ment yesterday afternoon about, 4:30 o'clock. The damages were slight and the blaze was quickly subdued by r h emics.1 aouartuo. Story of Lieutenant Moller's Wooing of New York Girl Is Revived by Friends. THREE WOMEN SEEK RING Call at Morgue at Bellevue und After Seeing Body One Is Much Af fected Officer Was Under Court-Martial' Cloud. NEW YORK, Feb. 23. Three young women called at the morgue late tonight and requested permission to see the body of Lieutenant Moller, who died at Belle vue Hospital last night after shooting himself In a local hotel. They appeared deeply moved and the youngest inquired for a ring which she said the Lieutenant had worn on his left hand. She was told that the ring was in the possession of the police. Before leaving the morgue the women made a number of inquiries con cerning the case. They refused to give their names and addresses. Lieutenant John J. Moller figured in a court-martial case In the Philippines about a year ago, involving a charge of allowing Filipino prisoners to be cruelly tortured, but was acquitted, although Brigadier-General Albert Mills, command ing officer of the Department of the Visayas. protested against the finding of the court. With Lieutenant Moller. Lieutenants C. R. Bennett, also of the Eighth Infantry, was tried by court-martial. The charges were that they permitted the president of Tlosa. Island of Leyte. and his friends, to torture prisoners. The lingers of the victims were crushed In a vise, it wa alleged, to extort Information they were supposed to possess. Chaplain E. B. Smith. TJ. S. A., of Gov ernors Island, was asked if he thought that the court-martial had had any ei fect on Lieutenant Moller's life, and he said he could see no reason why It should have made him morose. In view of the fact that hi was honestly and fairly ac quitted. SAX FRANCISCO, Feb. 23. Specula tion was - rife in Army circles today over the motives that could have driven Lieutenant J. J. Moller, of the Eighth Infantry, to commit suicide. As a result the story was revived that the young Army officer had been jilted less than a year ago by a young woman with whom he had become acquainted while stationed at Governors Island, and to whom he had been attentive up to the time of his departure for the Philippines. ASSISTANT MANAGER TAKEN G. J. Kaufman, of Portland Hotel, Arrested for Lld-Llftlng. G. J. Kaufmanh, assistant manager of the Portland Hotel, was arrested last night by Patrolmen Sims und Ackerman, on the charge of lifting the Sunday lid. He was released on bail. The officers making the arrest were the same two who cleverly deceived the force of wait ers in the Portland Grill 'Sunday night and procured evidence of Sunday-liquor selling on which the police are going to prosecute the hostelry to the i full ex tent of the law. Detective Sergeant Kay appears in the case as the complainant. It was the Intention of Sergeant Kay to arrest H. C Bowers, the hotel manager, but this official was out of the city and he caused the man In charge of the hotel on the night of the offense to be taken into custody. The hotel management has secured the services of Attorney Joe Simon, and will probably fight the case. When seen at the police station last night. Assistant Manager Kaufmann said: "Tnder the circumstances there is nothing to be said. I do not know what action will be pursued by the directors of the company." It is said about town that the Portland Hotel will allow the charge to drag through the courts a little until the public ity attached to their arrest has. subsided and then take "their medicine." TRUST FIGHTS FOR LIFE (Continued From First Page.) opening and continued to the very close. Steel common opened at 44i and on sales of 12,000 shares broke to 44's. From that time the decline was precipitate. The last sale was at 41'4- Steel preferred broke from 10i to 107. Since the steel cuts were announced last Friday there have been several con ferences among the heads of the steel companies party to the "gentlemen's steel agreement." and It was reported today that the price of other products of iron would be announced at an early date. Among those mentioned was tin plate. When Judge Gary was asked for a statement concerning the loss of the Pressed Steel Car Company and other contracts he sent word through his sec retary that he did not care to discuss the matter. CONFIDENCE QUEEN -GUILTY At Age of "9 Mrs. Peck Gets Ten Year. Sentence. NEW YORK. Feb. 23. A sentence of ten years' imprisonment was imposed to day by Judge Craln upon Mrs. Ellen Peck. T9 years old, of Spark Hall, New York. Mrs. Peck, who is known to the police as a "confidence queen," was con victed of having obtained J2000 from a brokerage firm upon the false representa tion that she owned 225,000 acres of coal land. John Collier Very Sick. John Collier, of the firm of Driscoll & Collier, transfer agents. :s dangerously ill in St Vincent's Hospital. He is the victim of an attack oi appendicitis which started about a week ago. He was removed from his home, 319 Chap man street, to the hospital and operated upon last Wednesday. Slight improve ment has been manifest during the past two or three days and last night t was said thai his chances for recovery were fair. Mrs. Blackman III. Mrs. Alexander Blackman. wife of the Rev. Alexander Blackman, of Baker City, is seriously ill in the Good Samaritan Hospital. Mrs. Blackman Is recovering from .the effects of a surgical operation performed a few days ago. She Is expected to recover. The Rev. Mr. Blackman formerly re sided In Portland and was pastor of a church here. LARGEST AND LEADING Wed Express shipments from the East of Spring merchandise for every de partment are arriving daily. We mention a few of the new arrivals FIRST FLOOR ARRIVALS - Beautiful Spring neckwear, belts, gloves, bags and charming millinery, have arrived in great profusion. LOSES S2DDD Carl H. Delfs Is Charged With Embezzlement. LANG & CO. ARE VICTIMS Peculations Said to Have Been In Small Amounts Extending Over Two Years In Trouble Before " in Missouri. Carl H. Delfs. a bookkeeper and cashier for Lang & Company, whole sale grocers, was arrested last night by Deputy Sheriffs Baty and Bulger, at Sixth and Washington streets, on a bench warrant issued late yesterday afternoon from the Circuit Court, charging him with larceny by embez zlement. Lang & Company are said to be out about J2000, stolen in small amounts for a period extending over nearly two S'ears. The case against Delfs was worked up by a detective agency in this city. The prisoner was taken into custody on the street and in default of bail was locked up in the County Jail. Gambling, it is said, has . been the cause of Delfs' downfall. He has a home at 832 Tabor avenue, nearly paid for on the installment plan. He Is mar ried and his wife says she will return to her relatives 'in Castle, Mo. Delfs is also from Missouri. He asserts his innocence, but it is said that when he came here three years ago from Kirksville, Mo., he had just been released from Jail for a simi lar offense. He occupied temporary positions until two years ago, when he secured a permanent position with Lang & Company. His wife had deserted him on ac count of Ills disgrace in Missouri, but rejoined him here. "Suspicions were aroused January 23 when a discrepancy was discovered in one of his accounts. On January 28 he was discharged. Since then he has been at work-for the Foresters of America. Yesterday afternoon the grand jury found an indictment against him and a bench warrant was issued. Delfs, it is said, attempted suicide when his former trouble was known and a close watch has been kept of him. The complainant against Delfs is the United States Fidelity & Casualty Com pany who were on his bonds and who will have to make up a portion of his thefts. The experts say that the evi dence against Delfs is conclusive. JAPS THREATEN STRIKE LABOR AGITATION" ON HAWAII AX PLANTATIONS. Radical Organs of Brown Men Pro pose Sending Warships or General Exodus. .HONOLULU, Feb. 23. Urging the Jap anese plantation laborers to strike for higher wages and. If necessary, appeal to their government for warships to back up their, demands, the Shinbun, a Japa nese newspaper published at Hilo, pro poses as a last resort that the Japanese leave Hawaii if their demands are not complied with. The Hilo paper is sup ported in its proposals by the Nippu, an other Japanese publication, Issued in this city. The Japanese employed on the big sugar plantations of Hawaii have been seeking an advance in pay for some months, and. the strike agitation, par ticular! hy the Jaaaaeie cress at tha FIRM FURRIERS. s day nes THIRD FLOOR ARRIVALS Exclusive designs in Ladies' Spring Hosiery. Fay Hosiery for Misses and Beautiful new Bonnets, Coats and Dresses for the Babies. SPECIALS FOR TODAY INFANTS' AND CHILDREN'S DRESSES AT HALF PRICE A manufacturer's sample line of Infants' and Children's Dresses in lawn, mull and nainsook, beautifully trimmed with lace and em broidery, at HALF PRICE. THE CELEBRATED NAZARETH WAISTS FOR CHILDREN The regular 25c value for 19 WE PAY THE HIGHEST PRICE FOR RAW FURS AT ALL TIMES SEND FOR PRICE LIST AND TAGS Island, is becoming steadily more pro nounced. . NOT FRIENDLY TO JAPANESE Hawaiian House Almost Rejects Resolution Against Anti-Jap Bills. HONOLiULU. Feb. 23. The Territorial Senate gave the House concurrent reso lution approving President Roosevelt's Japanese policy a cold reception today, and the measure was saved from de feat in the upper house only by the vote of President Smith. The resolution In cludes clauses criticising the proposed anti-Japanese legislation by the neigh boring states, and the principal objection urged bv the Senators was to these ref erences." The bill was finally referred to the Judiciary committee. HARBIN" TROUBLE ARISES ONCE AGAIN". Czar Orders Chinese Shops to Close Because of Refusal to Pay Railroad Taxes. PEKIN, Feb. 23. The situation at Har bin, Manchuria, arising from the insist ence of Russia that she administer the local municipal government, took on a critical phase two days ago. when the Russian authorities closed all the Chi nese stores and warehouses at the princi pal points in the railroad zone west of Harbin because of the refusal of the owners of these establishments to pay taxes imposed by the railroad authori ties. Sir John Jordan and W. W Rockhill, respectively the British and American Ministers to China, lately notified the Russian legation here that while Great Britain and the United States did not de sire in any way to interfere in the rela tions between Russia and China, they would be under the necessity of re affirming their previous treaty obliga tions if the question of the municipal con trol of Harbin was raised. 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DENVER. .Feb. 23. Two men are known to have perished in the blizzard which raged in Colorado yesterday and a third is so badly frozen that he probably will die. A Mexican sheepherder was frozen to death near Hugo, and a white herder who accompanied him is not ex pected to live. B. F. Kirkpatrick, of Fort Morgan, was found frozen to death. He had become separated from his party in the storm. Thousands of sheep throughout the east ern portion of the state were killed by the storm. FAMINE THREATENS TOWN'S Rescue Parties Digging Through Snow to Crested Butte. ' GUNNISON. Colo.. Feb. 23. The Denver & Rio Grande Railroad has a force of 2.V) men clearing the branch line to Crested Butte. Crested Butte has been shut off by snow for weeks and a famine Is Imminent. It is probable that the line between Gunnison and Salida will be re-opened tomorrow. OFFICER KNOCKED DOWN Saloonkeeper Accused of Harboring Long Grudge. Charles Porter, a police officer, swore out a warrant for the arrest of Charles Mays, a saloon-keeper, on the charge of assault and battery yesterday and Mays Is held in the City Jail without bail. Porter declares while he was off duty, he. with some friends, went into the sn- You know the dandruff germ is likely to if fl attack any one's scalp it hasn't got the m power to discriminate. But the scalp that j is hygienically clean offers no opportunity I for the dandruff germ (Eau de ED.PWSHAIRTONIGS 1 keeps the scalp hygienically clean a shampoo will M not do this. Washing course but to insure against dandruff and falling hair, ED. PINAUD'S is a necessity. j m 1 It is recognized by thousands of people that B ED. PINAUD'S is the to the root of hair .troubles, carrying with it that which imparts germ-resisting qualities to the scalp and hair roots. The trial of a 50 cent or $1.00 bottle will establish ED. PINAUD'S HAIR TONIC as your favorite toilet requisite. Ask any first-class dealer. PARFUUERIE ED. PINAUD Bldg. Hl"d"tatirflttt"ttiiiiim"tiiiii TO WOMEN AND CHILDREN. N ews Children. Coyotetr-Vi. loon kept by Mays and that the proprietor assaulted him and knocked him down, hitting him so hard he was insensible. Porter says that when Mays kept a saloon at Front and Madison streets he was obliged to Interfere several times be cause of disorder In the place and that Mays acquired a grudge against him then. Wallacc on Trolley Line. SPOKANR, Wash.. Feb. 23. (Special.) The Council of Wallace, Idaho, will to morrow night grant a franchise to the promoters of an electric line from Wal lace to Spokane, construction to start at once. Branches will connect Wallace with Burke and with Mullan. Two four coach trains daily will ninkn t lie N'l-iullf run to Spokane In three hours, by nay of Coeur tl'Alene l,ake. Is there more than one kind of Ivory Soap? No! But there are a hundred imitations. They resemble Ivory Soap in size, shape, col or and wrapper some times even in name. It is a waste of money to buy such soaps; and a waste" of time to use them. Ivory Soap 994o Per Cent. Pure. to thrive. Quinine) the hair is necessary of B finest hair tonic. It goes ED. PIHAUD NEW YORK I tint i iiiiiiliiihiliiiiiiiMiiiiiihiiirlli iihiwJ 4