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About Morning Oregonian. (Portland, Or.) 1861-1937 | View Entire Issue (March 5, 1909)
THE MOUSING ORIG0XIAy. FRIDAY, MARCTI 5, 1909. NEW LINE TO BAY CITY M'GRATH SAYS Hill to Operate Fast Steamers on Portland-San : Francis- . co Run, Is Report. OUTLET FOR NORTH BANK General Manager Clark, or S. P. & S., Says Ills Company Is Nego tiating for Ocean Service Hill Official Denies tlie keport- T. a. McGrath, of Portland, is authority for a statement that a new steamship company has been organized to operate between Portland and San Francisco, ac cording: to a special dispatch from San Francisco, where Mr. McGrath is now staying temporarily. The steamers, according to the San Francisco dispatch, .will be operated, it is believed, in connection with the North Bank Railroad, the Great Northern and the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul, thus affording James J.. Hill an entrance into San Francisco. M. G. Adams, general freight agent of the Spokane, Portland &. Seattle Rail road, declared in Spokane last night that It was news to him if a new steam ship company has been organized to handle the business for his railroad, the Great Northern and the Northern Pa cific, but said further: Slaking Arrangements, dark Says. "We are arranging- for some steam ship company now in operation to han dle our business between Portland and San Francisco, and, when this arrange ment Is completed we expect to estab lish through rates from Spokane and all points east to San Francisco." The service, according to Mr. McGrath, will be firet class, and fast time will be made. It is proposed that the trip shalj be made between the two ports in 36 hours by vessels capable of a speed of 22 knots. '"There will be four boats," Mr. Mc Grath is quoted as saying, "But I am not now at liberty to discuss the mat ter at any further length or to go into details." From another source in San Francisco, comes the information that two steamers for fast freight and . passenger traffic have been -ordered . from the East, and that the steamers will be ready for opera tion within 90 days. It was first reported that the steamers to be secured In the East were to be the Tale and Harvard of the Metropolitan Steamship Company, but E- tV. Apsey. general manager of the Metropolitan Company, in Boston, stated last night that these vessels have not been secured. Yale and Harvard Not Sold. "This company." Mr. Apsey is quoted as saying, "is in the hands of a receiver. It would be impossible for us to sell any steamers without the receiver's permis sion. The Harvard and Yale will re sume their Boston-New York service May 1." No order for the sale of the Harvard and Yale has been issued, says another Boston dispatch. The Great Northern official at St. Paul denied that the Hill interests have or ganized a new Portlajid-San Francisco steamship, company. -Louis W. Hill, president of the Great Northern, is now en route to the Pacific Coast, expecting to spend a month in California. T. S. McGrath. who gave out the In formation regarding the proposed Portland-San Francisco steamship line, is a resident of Portland, and president of the T'nited Steel & Equipment Company. Ho resides at the Arlington Club. He is to be Pacific Coast agent of the new line, according to San Francisco information. SEATTLE PRIEST PASSES FOUNDED MANY CATHOLIC IN STITUTIONS ON" COAST. Mgr. Prefontaine, Member of Papal Household, Dies at Close of Seventieth Year. SEATTLE. March 4. Mgr. Francis Xavier Prefontaine. member of the papal household, and the oldest priest in this city, died today, aged 70 years. H established the first Catholic church in Seattle in 1867. and founded the Academy of the Holy Names, now housed in a building costing $300,000; Providence Hospital: a church at Port Townsend. in the White River Valley: and several Important Catholic Institu tions of this city, which have since be come notable. His first congregation numbered 10 white people, men, women and children. On September 24, by special papal de cree, he was Invested with the purple robes of the Pope's household by Bishop Edward J. O'Dea, and won the title of Monsignor. Without regard to denom ination, he was universally loved - and respected. A solemn pontifical requiem wjll be In toned at the funeral services at St. James Cathedral on Tuesday, and old friends among the laity will act as pallbearers. RIGHT AT WORK ON NEW JOB ROOSEVELT BEGINS AS EDITOR BY SCORING ENEMIES. Fays Respects to Yellow Journalists and Those Which Foster Slan lex and Cynicism. 'NEW YORK. March 4. The first edi torial articles from the pen of ex-President Roosevelt, which appears in the March issue of the Outlook, deals with the subject of "Journalism." It says In part : "Every owner, editor or reporter of a conscientious newspaper is an asset of real value to the community. We have many newspapers, big and little, of this kind. But we also have many that are emphatically not of this kind. "During the last few years it has be come evident that certain newspapers are controlled by men who have gained wealth in evil fashion, who desired to stifle honest public opinion and who And an instrument in the purchased mendacity of those who edit and write for such papers." Mr. Roosevelt then pays his respects to "the apostles of that hideous yellow journalism which deifies the cult of the mendacious, the sensational and- the inane." In conclusion, he refers to another Vtype of temptation which has great fascination for men of cultivation and which is quite as fatal to their useful ness as yellow journalism." He says of these: "A newspaper which avoids vulgar sensationalism, which appeals to people of taste and intelligence, may never theless do them grave harm and be within, its own rather narrow limits ah element of serious mischief; for It may habitually and consistently practice a maltgn-and slanderous untruthfulness which, though more refined, is as im moral as sensationalism. "A cultivated man of good intelli gence who has acquired the knack of saying bitter things, but who lacks the robustness to fight alone among men. is apt, if his nature has anything of mean ness or untruthfulness, to sit In clois tered aloofness and to endeavor by an unceasing output of slander to bolster up his own uneasy desire to be con sidered superior. "Now. a paper edited by men of this stamp does not have much popular in fluence, -but it may exert a real influ ence for evil by the way in which it teaches young men of good education that decent and upright men are as properly the subjects for foul attack as the most debased corruptionlst; that ef ficiency and ' wickedness are inter changeable, and that the correct atti tude to adopt In facing the problems of our time Is one of sneering and su percilious untruthfulness." WOULD END EXTRAVAGANCE TAXPAYERS WILL- PROTEST AGAINST BIG BURDEN. Mass Meeting Called by Charles K. Henry "Will Be Held at Helllg Next Tuesday Night. Taxpayers who believe a halt should ba called in Portland over what they term extravagance in municipal expendi tures, are to meet at the Heilig Theater next Tuesday night. Charles K. Henry has taken a leading part In stirring up a sentiment against city and county officials for what he terms a ruinous practice, and is the prime mover favoring a mass meeting to con Elder taxation. Mr. Henry a few years ago organised a committee of 100. which was instru mental In putting a quietus on a plan to build a new courthouse for Multnomah County, claiming that a coterie of of ficials had rushed the scheme through without giving taxpayers an opportunity to voice their approval or disapproval. He now intends to suggest that a similar organization be formed to investigate ac tion relating to bond issues and taxa tion. At the meeting Tuesday night it is in tended to -inform citizens Just what has been done in the way of Increasing tax rate in Portland and propose a remedy for what advocates of lower taxes assert is doing the city grave harm. They say the present high rate of taxa tion is keeping away large enterprises that might otherwise locate In this city, and the remonstrants contend that a public sentiment should be aroused to stop any further spending of the people's mousy on the scale of the last two years. STEPHENSON IS ELECTED Lands Wisconsin Senatorship by Majority of ' One. MADISON, Wis., March 4. Isaao Stephenson was today re-elected to the i Isnae Stephenson, Wisconsin Mil lionaire. Itc-Electrd to T'nited States Senate on Twenty-Third Joint Ballot. United States Senate by the Joint Assem bly on the 23d ballot, receiving 63 votes out of 123 cast. LABOR LEADER ARRESTED J. H. Walsh Accused of Street Speaking In Spokane, SPOKANE, Wash.. March 4.-(Special.) J. H. Walsh, National organizer of the Industrial Workers of the World, which caused the bloody street riots here last month In which a policeman and a num ber of others were seriously hurt, was locked up in the City Jail today, charged with street speaking. Since the riots the Chief of Police ordered that no more street meetings be held, and an ordinance to this effect was passed, the ban affect ing even the Salvation Army. The Industrial Workers object to the law and Walsh himself decided to test It. SPOKANE PLANS REVIVAL Ministerial Association , Secures Services of Gipsy Smith. SPOKANE. Wash., March 4 (Special.) Gipsy Smith, the great English evan gelist, who has been meeting with such great success in the big Eastern cities, has expressed his willingness to the Spo kane Ministerial Association to come to Spokane and conduct a series of revivals. Probably a tabernacle like the one In which Billy Sunday held his meetings will be erected. The revival date has not been decided. . Horse Thief Found Guilty. KLAMATH PALLS. Or., March 4 (Special.) Alf Wallis was found guilty tonight of stealing 14 horses last De cember in this county and shipping them to San Francisoc Charles Lls key, his companion, who had a separ ate trial and was found guilty, will be sentenced Saturday. FINDS BOX OF GOLD Richard Cornett, of Milwau kie, Digs Up Treasure. TROVE WORTH ABOUT $2000 Neighbors Vouch for Discovery of Nuggets Believed to Have Been Burled by Australian Miner Twenty Years Ago. Richard Cornett, of Mllwaukie. un earthed, a treasure trove In his potato patch yesterday that Is reminiscent of Captain Kldd and his burled doubloons of ruddy gold. A rusted tin box, packed tightly with gold dust and nuggets, was turned up by his spade. The box weighed about 10 pounds. Its con tents are said to be worth about 200. The box was found Just 22 feet from the end of an old rotted log. To mark the spot where the treasure was hid den, 22 spikes had been driven in the log. The row of spikes pointed to the place where the box of gold had been burled. Old residents of Mllwaukie say the gold was undoubtedly hidden there by an old Australian miner who lived on the spot 30 years ago. He died without telling the location of the gold. An old resident of Milwaukle, well versed In the folk-lore of the pioneer town, said: "An old Australian miner lived and died here. He said his daughter was to come to him from Australia and he had written to her where she would find his treasure on the homestead claim he had there. And he told me It was many pounds sterling that is English money, you know, but it was all for his daugh ter. We did not think, it was true, for his daughter never came, but we used to dig occasionally over his place to see if we could find anything. But though we poked mighty hard, we never found a thing." Only a short time ago Richard Cornett bought the lot on which the treasure was found from T. R. A. Sellwood, a well-known resident of Milwaukle. In telling of the find, John, son of T. R. A. Sellwood. said last night: "We sold the lot to Mr. Cornett a bare three months ago. If we had only dug around some, the money would have been ours. Cornett took the stuftT into town and a Jeweler told him it Is worth over J2000. Quincy Addition, where the Cornett lot Is, was named after my grand mother, and I have heard her talk of some gold having been hidden (here abouts. Richard Moran, who dug around' some, told me of the "2 spikes In the log, and after the tin box was found I meas ured off the distance and found It was Just 22 feet from the log." Richard Sinclair, of Milwaukle, testi fied to having seen the box. "It weighed about ten pounds." he said. Mr. Cornett declined to discuss his find yesterday, but said he had found some thing. The finding of the box of treasure fol lowed closely the birth of a son to the wife of Mr. Cornett, the lucky finder of the buried Australian gold. STILL SEEK LAST JUROR SEVENTEENTH VENIRE IS EX. HACSTED. Up to Date 1350 Citizens Have Been. Examined In Effort to Fill Calhoun Jury-Box. SAN FRANCISCO, March 4. Disqualify ing prospective Jurors at the rate of five an hour, the attorneys engaged in the trial of Patrick Calhoun, president of the United Railroads, exhaused the 17th special venire late today with out discovering a talesman to occupy the 12th seat in the Jury box. When court finally adjourned until to morrow, the record disclosed that 608 citizens out of the 1360 summoned had been actually Interrogated at greater or less length, and in this respect the trial has eclipsed the record of Abraham Ruers trial, where peremptory chal lenges were first exercised at a much earlier stage. The proceedings today were for the most part of a routine character, a ma jority of the talesmen being challenged because of opinions relating to the de fendant's guilt or Innocence. Ernest L. Thompson, a manufacturer, who was Interrogated during the early session, was passed by the defense and engaged in several sharp exchanges with Assistant District Attorney Francis J. Heney before he admitted a belief that Mr. Calhoun was innocent. A challenge by the prosecution was finally allowed In his case. Judge Lawlor will examine the 18th special venire consisting of SO citizens, torn orrow. LAD KILLS THREE COUGARS Boy of 19 and His Dog Bag Three Monster Mountain IJons. SPOKANE. Wash.. March 4. (Special ) Into the County Commissioner's office at Coeur d'Alene, Idaho, Roy Peters a 19-year-old lad from St. Maries, known near his home as "Fighting Bob Evans " walked with the skins of three big coil gars, all of which he had killed with the aid of "Old Ben," the best known cougar dog in the St. Maries country The largest of the skins, that of a mal cougar, was nine feet from tip to tip' but those of the two females were nearly as large. Peters killed the cougars near Santa, In the loops of the St. Maries River. The hound had trailed the "var mints" through the snow and treed them. It took the boy but 20 minutes to bring all three down. Beside the bounty of SIS each given him by the County Commissioners, the boy will realize from $10 to 15 each for the skins, making the adventure worth to him $75 or more. HOME COMPANY TOO SLOW Spokane Franchise Subject to Can cellation ' by Delay. SPOKANE. Wash.. March 4. (Special.) After having spent approximately $300,000 in buying a site, erecting a cen tral building and doing much conduit work. Corporation Cbunsel Hamblen filed notice today with the City Clerk that the Home Telephone Company's franchise is subject to cancellation. Hamblen states that, under the terms of the fran chise, the company has not completed the installation of Its plant within three years, and it Is therefore subject to for feiture at the action of the Council, but AHEAD OF TIME ON SHIRTS We are showing new Spring styles in Shirts that are pleas ing both as to color and design. If yon watch our daily ads we will keep you posted. Pink and corn colors, with collars to match, are the newest to Q Oft date. Price Ss.UU CLOTHIERS 166-1 TO THIRD ST. before this forfeiture can be binding It must be acted upon by the courts. HARSH WORDS ARE PASSED LIQUOR. ISSUE AROUSES WRATH OF HOUSE MEMBERS. Motion to Amend Idaho Constitution by liberals Dcfca ted by Close Margin. BOISE. Idaho. March 4. Speclal.) After a fight that approached bitterness and during which personal references were made and explanations heard, the House today gave a resolution providing for a constitutional amendment against the liquor traffic in this State. S3 votes to 19 against it. but owing to the constitutional requirement that such resolutions shall receive a two-thirds vote, the resolu tion was defeated by the narrow margin of two votes. i The. Ho,U8e defeated the bill chang ing the Sunday rest law so as to permit al.hV " 8T- Johnston. Spring Apparel Now Ready As soon as you're ready to take up the question of Spring clothing, you'll find us ready with a great line of Hart Schaffner (k? Marx fine goods new patterns, clean-cut, smart, correct in style, of good qual ity in fabric and tailoring, accurate in fit. These are the important things our clothes give a man, and they're exactly the things you want. SamlRos enblatt Co. . Corner Third and "Morrison Streets dec la rlnn the bill a subterfuge, designed to annul the Sunday rest law altogether. He waa strong in denouncement of the pending measure. A resolution was adopted instructing the Btate Iand Board and the legal de partment of the State to take the re fusal of the Forestry Department to lease State lands to the Supreme Court of the United States for determination of the State's rights. The State Auditor notified the Senate that there are Insufficient funds remain ing of the $50,000 appropriated for the tenth session to meet the expenses of the House and Senate for the past ten days. The Senate went on record se passing a community property bill alvlng all com munity property to the husband in case of the death of the wife and half of the property to the wife on the death of the husband. New man Wanted In Canada. Cleve Newman, wanted In British Columbia on a charge of highway rob bery, was arrested late last night at Caxadero by Federal officers and lodged in the County Jail. He will be returned to British Columbia for trfal. Newman is charged with having held up the station agent and storekeeper at Brtderville. B. C. on December 19. Bon Hart, who t In iail In British Columbia and Billy Newman, a brother. In Jail at Spokane, are charged with complicity in the crime. l.o Angel Th. Convention of th. In ternational Association of Chief, of PoUr. will" tie hekl in I'ltliburc. instead of her.. n at nrt rlnne1 vSA.L?ElT WOODEN MILLS CDOTHING COMPANY Clolhicrtr, Furnisher. Tailorcr Grant PKelcytLA 7x4 R ta.rio SEE SUNDAY'S BIO AD. aw. I 1 1 1 I MAIL ORDERS PROMPTLY FILLED LARGEST AND LEADING FURRIERS. Cor Fourth and Morrison Sts. NEW SPRING ARRIVALS OUTFITTERS TO WOMEN AND CHILDREN. FRIDAY BARGAIN DAY Unusual Offerings in New Spring Apparel and Millinery FOR LADIES, MISSES and CHILDREN "New Spring Millinery Sale $10 Trimmed Hats For Street Wear For Only $4.85 A special offering in a sample line of new Spring Street Hats, made of fancy braids, straws, peroxylene and horsehair, in all the new shades, beautifully trimmed; regular values to $10.00; for Friday only $4.85. HATS TRIMMED FREE LAST TWO DAYS to take advantage of our offer to trim free all shapes and trimmings purchased in our un trimmed department which we offered for one week only. This offer is made in order that the public may know that we carry the finest assortment of flowers, foliage and shapes at the most reasonable prices in the citv Take advantage. J ' SAMPLE SALE OF EVENING DRESSES A special purchase of ladies afternoon and evening dresses which we place on sale in two lots. Lot 1. $65 Ladies' Afternoon and Even ing Dresses For $20.75 Made of excellent quality chiffon broadcloth in the latest styles and colors, apricot, rose, taupe and petuma; actual values to $65.00, for only $29.75. Lot 2. Ladies' $40 Afternoon and Even ing Dresses For $18.75 Of superior Panama and albatross, colors light blue, heliotrope, tan, nile, navy and brown; regular values to $40.00 for $18.75. HOSIERY SPECIAL 19c. Ladies' seamless Hose, in black and colors, of the celebrated Gordon dye; regular 25c values; special today at 19. LADIES' SPRING HOSIERY SPECIAL 49c. Ladies' plain and fancy lisle Hose; regular values to $1.25; specially priced for today at only 49. MUSLIN UNDERWEAR AT HALF PRICE. Special lot of muslin Underwear, soiled by window display, for ladies and children, at one-half the regular prices CHILDREN'S NEW SPRING BONNETS. A complete showing for Spring of Infants' and Children's Bonnets, in fancy straws, embroidery and lace, trimmed with lawn and dotted swiss; prices range from 75 to $7.0O. " TIT TTlDn H.T CI ITTITTT l-f -!- -.- n . In cream serge, poplin and all-wool Bedford cord, with black velvet trimming and fancy braid- nrices ranee I SPECIAL ATTENTION IS CALLED TO THESE TWO LINES. "VWutkrat-'- WE PAY THE HIGHEST PRICE FOR RAW FURS AT ALLTIMES SEND FOR PRICE LIST AND TAGS Coyote