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NOTE DESIGNS TO
SELBYS- TO OPEN
FIGHT THIS WEEK
WEDSSWEETHEART
AFTER 33 Y.EARS
MONTANA MAN USES CLOTHES
HE BOUGHT IN EARLY 70'S.
CLIMAX TODAY IN
PAYNE TARIFF BILL
DEATH AT HOME
BE SYSTEMATIZED
PATTERNS FOR SERIES TO BE
CUT FROM 19 TO ."
POPULAR BELIEF
WHEA
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AWAITSRDOSEVELT
Naples Adorns Herseif
for Noted Guest.
EX-PITTSBCRGER DIES SOON"
AFTER LEAVING TRAIN.
Despite Conditions,
Price Keeps Up.
VALUES LOOK FICTITIOUS
Supply and Demand Offer No
Basis for Quotations.
NEW GOVERNMENT REPORT
Estimates on 1009 Crop Will Be
Made on AVednesday Specula
tors Believe Patten Will
Carry May Deai Through.
CHICAGO, April 4. (Special.) Popular
sentiment Is now as confidently com
muted to a belief In still higher wheat
values as It was to the contrary propo
sition some six months since, when
values were about 30 cents a bushel lower
for May and 10 cents lower for July. It
Is apparently oblivious to the fact that
May wheat closed Saturday just 29 cents,
July 20'4 and September 14 cents higher
than at the corresponding date last year.
leaving out the fact that the bullish
forces of the world now have an able,
resourceful and well-equipped leader,
there is nothing in the legitimate demand
and supply propositions, either domestic
or foreign, to warrant such a vast dif
ference between the values current at
the respective periods.
Annual Increase Kapid.
Going- back to the Letter year, 1S9S, for
a parallel case, reveals the present situ
ation still more at fault. For the five
years previous to the Lelter year, the
average wheat crop of the United States
was 456.000.000 bushels. In the last five
years it has averaged 642.000.000 bushels.
The average Winter wheat yield for the
Ave years previous to 1898 was 291,000,000
bushels, and for the last five yeare it
has averaged 410,000,000 bushels.
The average acreage harvested for the
five-year term previous to the Leiter
year, 1SW!. was SS.622,000 acres, of which
the Winter wheat proportion averaged
33.117,000 acres. In the last five years the
average acreage has been 48.400,000 acres,
and the "Winter wheat area has averaged
2S,fK2.000 acres. The acreage officially re
ported in December last as having been
seeded for the 1908 harvest of Winter
wheat was 29.8X4.000 acres, or nearly
l.OnO.AOO acres more than the previous five
year average. '
Last year's wheat crop was 665,000,000
bushels, or about 23,000.000 bushels more
than the five-year average. While sta
tistics do not always tell the story, the
above vital facts cannot be ignored, in
a weighing up of the present situation.
In the speculative field the situation is
different. It has been demonstrated be
yond the possibility of denial that the
believers in less sensational values have
been routed in the open market arena and
that until their ranks are recruited from
fresh and strong forces they cannot hope
to fight with an even chance of success.
Forces other than speculative are likely
to chape wheat values In the future.
The last quarter of the crop year has
been entered upon, a period that usually
sees small wheat demand, particularly In
years of high nrices and wimn tv i
month of the year Is devoted by millers
to preparing to erlnd the oncoming new
crop of Winter wheat.
Shorts Not Yet Out of Danger.
It Is hardly In order for millers to
become excited and overload with high
priced old wheat at this time and It is
almost a certainty that the. bulk of them
will work from hand to mouth until the
new wheat is available. Their policy
then will be determined by circumstances
then prevailing.
With the speculator it is different. He
Is quite generally convlnpod that Patten
will carry his May deal through to ma
turity and this may make a situation
which obviates the necessity of his run
ning through to the last day of next
month and exposing himself to the pos
sible delivery of a great deal of high
priced wheat. As a finished campaigner,
the big bull leader knows well the possi
bilities involved, and he may rind It easier
to turn his deal over to the July specu
lator and Investor and wait for a more
suspicious opportunity in which to re
nMate property If he so desires. Never
theless it is quite probable that shorts
In wheat will be lven a lively time be
fore they have an opportunity to see
lower prices and most of these that have,
not yet covered may be forced to do so
before the tide turns.
Government figures showing the first of
ficial estimate of tiv condition of the
crop as It emerges from Winter quarters
111 be Issued at noon on Wednesday.
While little growing weather has been
wn. except in the far Southwest, and the
condition as of April 1 will not be a
fair estimate of the actual condition of
the crop, the trade will, nevertheless,
place a deal or store on it.
HITCHCOCK JS VERY SICK
Kcara for Hecovcry of rx-Set-rctary
of Interior.
WASHINGTON. April 4.-Ethan Allen
Hitchcock. ex-Secretary of the Interior,
Is critically 111 at the home of his son-in-law,
Commander siuis. I". s. N and
Brave feara for his recovery are en-tenainid.
Taken Sick In I.os Angeles, Doctors
Give Him l"p, and He Asks
To Be Taken East.
PITTSBURG. April 4. (Special.)
Harry V. Van Norman, formerly of
Pittsburg, died here this afternoon in
the arms of .Jits family, after being
carried across the continent by his
young wife In one of the most exciting
races with death."
Van Norman married Miss Jenks.
daughter of Frank Jenks. city editor
of the Gazette-Times of Pittsburg, five
years ago, and went to Los Angeles
as manager of a Rochester, N. Y.t
house. He became ill some months
since, and one week also he was told
by physicians that he had no-chance
to live. He asked to be taken home,
and his wife raced with him to Pitts
burr, reaching here 12 hours before
he died.
For six days and nights Mrs. Van
Norman did not sleep stopping off for
a few hours at Houston, but the physi
cians there urged her on, saying there
was no hope. Mr. Van Norman, who
had been worn practically to a skele
ton, from 195 pounds to 108, insisted
on trying to carry their grips from the
train in Pittsburg to the cab, but col
lapsed. He was insistent that he
would again be well In the Pittsburg
air, but while talking to his wife this
afternoon he collapsed and was dead
in a few minutes.
BOYS SMOKING START FIRE
$2,000,000 Blaze In Fort Worth
Attributed to Cigarettes.
FORT "WORTH, Tex.. April 4. To a
party of small boys and a carelessly
thrown cigarette is credited the fire
of yesterday, which destroyed property
to South Fort Worth valued at $2,000,
000; caused the death of J. J. Newton, a
bank employe, and the serious injury
of six others, and rendered 300 families
homeless. -
Today and tonight the burned dis
trict was under guard of state troops
to prevent looting. A mass meeting
of citizens was held and relief com
mittees were 'named.
The fire originated In a barn, where
boys were smoking cigarettes.
SITUATION NEARS CRISIS
Diplomatic Relations With Nica
ragua Are Badly Strained.
WASHINGTON, April 4. Indications
are that diplomatic relations between this
country and Nicaragua are nearing a
crisis, resulting from the failure of Presi
dent Zelaya to adjust the Emery claim.
The reticence of the State Department
in regard to the case indicates that the
situation is grave and that there is lit
tle probability of any settlement on the
basis proposed by Secretary Knox.
A significant fact is that J. H. Greg
ory, the American Charge d'Affaires, who
Tecently reached here from Nicaragua,
Is not expected to return to the Central
American Republic.
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WOMEN WILL STREW ROSES
German Consul-General to
Give Carnation From Kaiser.
DECORATE HARBOR CRAFT
Steamship Admiral Waiting to Carry
ex-President on Next Stage of
Journey to Africa Stay In
City Is to Be Brief.
GRISCOM ARRIVES TO
ROOSEVELT.
MEET
NAPLES. April 4. (Special.)
Ambassador Griscom arrived this
afternoon from Rome, accompanied
by Mr. and Mrs. John W. Garrett
and Mr. and Mrs. W. C. Dodge, to
welcome ex-President Roosevelt. The
steamship Hamburg, with. Colonel
Roosevelt and party aboard, will ar
rive tomorrow morning. They will
leave for Africa at 10 o'clock In the
evening.
Mr. GrLacom sleeps tonight on the
American converted yacht Scorpion,
on which he will leave for Massina
tomorrow. Colonel Roosevelt tomor
row morning at 10 11 o'clock will pay
a visit to the Duca d'Aosta, at Capo
dlmonte. Later ha will visit relative
at the hotel De Londrea and make a.
tour of the museums.
.......
NAPLES, April 4. The steamship
Admiral, which Is to carry ex-President
Roosevelt to Mombassa. is lying
in the harbor, decorated with flags and
with special quarters set aside for Mr.
Roosevelt and his party. Numerous
gifts of flowers have been sent to the
ship, and tomorrow the remembrance
of the German Emperor, in the shape
of great masses of carnations, typical
of the German colors, will be placed in
Mr. Roosevelt's cabin.
The Hamburg is expected at noon,
and Mr. Roosevelt will be greeted on
board the steamer by representatives
of the City Council, who will extend to
him an official greeting, and a party
of women who will strew his path with
roses.
Greetings From Kaiser.
The German Consul-General will ex
tend the personal greetings of the Em-
New Plan Expected to Do Away With
Confusion and to Hamper
Counterfeiters.
WASHINGTON. April 4. Assistant
Secretary of the Treasury Coolidge has
approved a plan for systematizing de
signs for United States notes and coin
certificates, thus securing uniformity
in portrait and general design.
At present there are 19 different de
signs for United States notes and coin
certificates of. various denominations,
leading to confusion and uncertainty.
Under the new plan there will be but
nine.
The 1 silver certificate will carry
the portrait of Washington, the 2 sil
ver certificate the portrait of Jefferson.
The . J5 -note, whether silver certificate
or greenback, will carry the portrait
of Lincoln. The $10 gold and silver
certificate and United States note, that
of Cleveland; the $20 that of Jackson;
the 50 that of Grant; the $100 that of
Franklin; the 1500 that of Salmon P.
Chase; the $1000 that- of Alexander
Hamilton.
The portraits of Hillegas, Monroe,
Silas Wright. Lewis W. Clark, Mans
field and others will be eliminated.
The eagle, the buffalo and the Indian
head, which have proved to be easily
counterfeited, also will disappear. All
duplications will be done away with.
The new system, it is believed, will
discourage counterfeiting.
HEINZE RESUMES MINING
Wallace Excited Over Report He
- Will Seek to Recoup Fortune.
SPOKANE, Wash., April 4 (Special.)
Announcement which has reached Wal
lace, Idaho, that F. Augustus Heinze is
to return to Couer d Alene after an ab
sence of almost three years has created
intense interest in that district. It is
taken for granted that Heinze is com
ing back to recnun his miiiinno ,v,tnu
sufTered seriously in the earlier stages
of the depression in New Yora. a year
and a half ago.
A large crew has been put to work in
the Stewart mine at Wardn'er, his most
valuable property, and it is understood
that active operation with a full force
is to be ordered.
Big things are expected to be happen
ing when Heinze gets into harness again,
for he is a man who deals in big figures,
and mining history records no more dar
ing plunger. AH of the tunnels at the
Stewart have been' ordered cleaned and
the yards cleared away- ready for in
spection on his arrival.
ST. PAUL OPERATES TRAINS
First Locomotive Passes Through
Tunnel at Taft, Montana.
WALLACE. Idaho. April 4. The first
train to pass through the St. ' Paul Pass
tunnel at Taft on the line of the Chicago.
Milwaukee & Puget Sound Railroad, made
the trip at noon today-. Work trains are
now run from the Coast to a point near
Missoula.
First Skirmish Due in
Probate Court.
OTHER HEIRS STAND FAST
All Profess to Feel No Anxiety
as to Outcome.
SECRETS MAY COME OUT
Identity of Mrs. Selby Mother Like
ly to Be Revealed If Suit Is Car
ried on and New Sensation Is
Promised as a Result.
PROVISIONS OF BALDWIN WILL.
SAN FRANCISCO. April 4. (Spe-"
cial.) Under the will left by the
late Lucky Baldwin, the bulk of the
vast estate, estimated in value at
S23.OO0.0O0. was left to his . two
daughters. Mrs. Clara Stocker acd
, Mrs. Anita McClaughry. The famous
Santa Anita ranch was' bequeathed
to the two who, all told, were to re
ceive J20.000.000. The balance was
to be divided between Mrs. Lillian
Baldwin, the widow, who was to re
ceive one-third Interest in the Bald
win annex property In San Francisco,
valued at $500,000, Zelda Selby. the
third daughter, was to receive $70.
000; and smaller bequests to Mrs.
Elizabeth Rush, grand-daughter, and
H. A. Unruh. for many years Bald
win's business manager.
The will was satisfactory, save to
the widow, who. it Is said, brought
about the compromise and. now to
the mysterious daughter. Zelda
Selby. who is threatening action if
she Is ignored.
SAN FRANCISCO, April 4. (Special.)
The threat of David S. Selby, husband
of Mrs. Rosella Selby. who was recog
nized by 33. J. ("Lucky") Baldwin in his
last will as a daughter, and remembered
with a legacy of 200 acres of land, valued
at $50,000. to embroil the Baldwin estate
in endless litigation unless a more gen
erous provision was made for his wife
by the other Baldwin heirs, is on the eve
of fulfillment, according to Selby.
The Baldwin will is to come up for
probate in the Los Angeles court this
week, and the opening gun in their fight
for a larger share of the Baldwin estate
will- be fired at that time.
Other Heir Remain Calm.
The ultimatum of Selby, however, Is
Fond or Pies, He Seks Out Cook and
EInds She Is Woman He Had
Won and Lost.
SPOKANE. Wash.. April 4. (Special.)
His wait of S3 years for the woman he
loved was rewarded today, when Alonzo
Newton, attired in the wedding garments
made for the near-wedding in the '70s.
and using the wedding and engagement
rings purchased for the girl sweetheart
of his youth, took to his heart and home
Mrs. Eva Drake.
The wedding ceremony was celebrated
at Taft. Mont. Mrs. Drake came to Taft
from Texas, made pastry and sold it to
the eager searchers for home cooking.
o tond aid Mr. .Newton become of it
that he asked the boy who delivered the
pastry if he could meet the cook. The
boy escorted him to his mother, and they
discovered in each other the sweetheart
of years ago.
UNKNOWN SHIP IS SUNK
Spars Seen Sticking Out of Water
by Steamer Dominion.
BOSTON. April 4. Tidings of disaster
to an unknown ship at sea were brought
to this port today with the arrival of
the Dominion Coal Company's steamer
Dominion, Captain Northcutt, from
Louisburg, C. B.
About 200 miles to the eastward of Bos
ton Light late in the afternoon the steam
er passed the lower mast andtopmast of
a large "vessel. The spars were sticking
out of the water and apparently were
attached to a sunken hull.
FEET WASHED BY ALFONSO
Spanish King Will Celebrate Tradi
tion of Holy Week.
MADRID. April 4. The roval fnmllv
has returned to the canitat for Hniv
Week, which will be celebrated with the
traditional religious solemnity bv the
Spanish court.
King Alfonso, assisted bv the Grandees.
will wash the feet of 12 noor
Thursday, in Imitation of Christ, and
subsequently will 3t before them with
his own hands a mammoth feast.
THEOLOGS HINT AT STRIKE
Princeton Students Demand More
Modern Curriculum.
NEW YORK, April 4. The differences
which have existed between Dr. Francis
L. Patton, president of the Princeton
Theological Seminary, and the under
graduates culminated today when reso
lutions were adopted by the students in
which the ultimatum is set "forth that
either Dr. Patton is to be made to pro
vide a more modern curriculum or the
entire student, body will resign.
PAY MAY BE ADVANCED
Rumor That Western Union Has
Given 15 Per Cent Increase.
NEW YORK. .April 4. It is rumored
here today that the Western Union Tele
graph Company has granted its employes,
Including operatois and subrchiefs, a 15
per cent increase iu wages, beginning
April 1.
The increase Is explained by the offi
cials as due to the general increase in
business and the reductions in the copper
market.
TAFT WELCOMES ATHLETES
Enthusiastic Reception to Yale's
Track Team in White House.
WASHINGTON, April 4. Yale's track
team, including a large number of
Old Ell's stalwart athletes. Invaded
the White House today and was ac
corded an enthusiastic reception by
President Taft. The athletes came 'to
Washington early in the day on their
way to Charlottevllle, Va.. where they
begin training. The reception was in
formal. WOMAN DIES AT 112 YEARS
Leaves Large Property and Boasted
She Never Had Doctor.
NEW YORK, pril 4. The death of
Mrs. Fanny Friedman, aged 112, was
reported today. She was born in Hun
gary, January 3, 1797, and had been ill
only a few days. It was her boast that
she never had a doctor in her life and
one was not called In until Friday.
Five children, 64 grandchildren and 18
great-grandchildren survive her.
KING EDWARD GODFATHER
Will Stand Sponsor for Son of John
Hubert Ward.
IXJNDON. April 4. It is said that King
Edward will be godfather to the son of
Mr. and Mrs. John Hubert Ward, who
was born on March 24 last. Mrs. Ward
was Miss Jean Reid, daughter of the
American Ambassador.
CLOSING ON CRAZY SNAKE
Troops Get Orders to Stay In Field
L"ntH Chief Is Captured.
HICKORY GROUNDS. Okla.. April 4.
Colonel Hoffman, in command of the
state troops hunting Crazy Snake and
his troublesome Snake Indians, received
orders tonight from Governor Haskell to
remain In the field tillhe captured the chief.
Date for Vote to Be Set
for April 10.
DEBATE TO BE SHUT OFF THEN
Those Who Asked Free Lum
ber Will Not Oppose.
TAFT APPROVES COURSE
Opportunity Will Be Given for Vole
on Various Disputed Schedules '
and Chance Exists Bill May
Pass In Some Shape.
WASHINGTON, April 4.-The climax in
the House consideration of the Payne
tariff bill, will be reached in all proba
bility soon after the House convenes to
morrow, when the committee on rules will
bring in an order fixing the time for
taking trial vote on the bill and providing
regulations for introducing and discussing
amendments.
The rule which will be brought in
tomorrow sets April 10 as the date
for a vote on the tariff bill and pro
tects the measure. It is said. ' from all
amendments except those recommend
ed by the ways and means committee
and offered on the floor of the House,
which will give an opportunity for a
vote on the question of free lumber,
protected barley and protected hides.
Rule to Be Adopted.
A majority of the 26 or more Re
publicans who drafted yesterday's pe
tition to the tariff framers asking for
protection on lumber, coal and Iron
ore have been prevailed upon not to
oppose the Payne bill. This Is re
garded as Insuring the adoption of the
rule. It is said also the dissatisfied
Republicans have been assured that
matters in which they are especially
interested will be given careful at
tention when the bill reaches the
Senate.
Chairman Payne. Representative
Dalzell, Representative Dwight and
other House leaders conferred with
President Taft yesterday, and the
President is said to have approved
the tariff programme.
General Debate Shut OIL
The rule will shut off general de
bate automatically, and from .the time
of its adoption until the bill is sub
mitted to a vote discussion of the
tariff will proceed under the five
minute rule.
' In view or the probability of the early
adoption of this order, both sides are pre
paring to consider the bill in its final
stages. The matter of the time that will
be given for amendments will be fixed by
the committee on rules, but that com
mittee will be guided entirely by the
wishes of the committee on ways and
means.
No one doubts that the fate of the bill
will be known before the end of the week
and" there Is Just a little doubt that it
will be passed in some shape.
There are very few members who would
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INDEX OF TODAY'S NEWS
Th Weather.
YESTERDAY'S Maximum temperature, 00 5
degrees; minimum, ;t7.2 degrees.
TODAY'S Fair and warmer; northwesterly
winds.
I'orelaTn
Naples makes preparations to glvo Hooit
velt flowery welcome. Page 1.
French watch American tariff bill with great!
interest. Page 4.
Industrial.
Spokane prepares to receive 40,000 visitors
to National Irrigation Congress. Page 12.
WlUapa Harbor cities start active campaign
for deeper channel. Page 13.
Domestic.
Popular belief Is that wheat prices will
continue to rule high, notwithstanding
logical conditions to the contrary.
Page 1. .
Boise broker arrested in Washington oa
fraud charge. Page 4.
Standard OH goes on trial for Its life today.
Page 2.
Calhoun cane has broken all records in.
length of time taken. Page 3.
Senator Hopkins, of Illinois, threatens tn
put primary choice up to voters of state
Page 4.
New England bartenders propose liquor reg
ulatlon. Page 4. f
National.
lively scramble is being made for places
on rivers and harbors committee. Page a.
Fate of Payne tariff bill to be known this
week. Page 1.
New designs of currency to simplify series.
Page 1.
Sport.
Shortstop Olson protested for spitting run
ners. Page 13.
Casey's band forced to quit game with
Jacksonville- by hall at end of fifth;
score. 3 to 0. Page 13.
Judge McCred-e maintains his stand on con
troversy with Swing over Shortstop
Shinn. Page 13.
Pacific Northwest.
Mrs. Nelwn. whose husband Ist life trving
to find her. said to be in hiding in p-
kan; lively scramble made for dead
man's estate. Page 5.
Whole peninsula below Astoria said to bt
slowly sinking. Page o.
Spokane lad kills himself trying to scars
girl with "unloaded" revolver. Page 4.
Portland and Vicinity.
Five candidates In race for recommendation
by Republican Assembly. Page 9.
Portland women will not do without gloves
and hose, despite higher tariff charges.
Page 8-
Clerk Thomas declares latest school census
Is incomplete. Page 14.
Judge Morrow will decide St. John liquor
case today. Page 14.
Vnlversa lists break ground for church on
East Side. Page ft.
Evangelical conference makes assignments
of pastors for coming year. Pace 7.
New bills open at Portland theateis. Page T.
Official list of Rose Festival events given
out. Page 12.