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BETS ARE CALHOUN WILL WIN HIS CASE i METHODS x 4 JURY WHICH IS TRYING PATRICK CALHOUN, ANT NEW PORTRAIT Or DEFENDANT, Granted that we save you only 25c to 40c on the dollaronyour purchases at our Owl Cut Rate Drug Store. ON TRIAL Ifj AFRICA Chain of Evidence Circumstan tial and Important Link Is Lacking. Kashi Trust Sues American Missionaries for Alleged Libelous Utterances. $3 Untrimmed Hats at 95. PROSECUTION IS DOUBTFUL Pcfendant Not Expected to Take Stand Lawyer Will Argue That There Was No Criminal Intent, if He Paid Money to Kuef. BAN FRANCISCO. May 9. (Special.) TVIth the case of tho prosecution against Patrick Calhoun, the millionaire president of the United Railroads, charged with having- bribed the. Supervisors of San Francisco for certain franchise priv ileges, completed and the defense ready to present its testimony, there is lively betting on the. verdict of the jury. The defense has promised that its presenta tion will not take more than four days. After that will come the rebuttal and the charging of the jury, so it is believed that within 10 days or two weeks1 the case will be given to the jury. Public sentiment among the men who make a business of betting on these cases is strongly against a conviction, this theory being baaed on a study of the evidence that has been presented. Sev eral bets have been made at odds of 10 to 1 that. Calhoun will not be convicted. TliTe Is plenty of money at odda of 2 to 1 that the Jury will disagree and there la even money that the railroad man will be acquitted. The Burns peo ple and some of those attached to the prosecution have been making a few bets that Calhoun will not be acquitted. Evidence Has Weak Link. Summed up briefly, according . to un prejudiced men who have followed the case very closely throughout the days of wrangling, the prosecution has made anything but a strong case. It is largely circumstantial evidence. The prosecution has proved by reliable witnesses that on a certain date Calhoun drew by order from the United States Mint the sum of jy.000 In currency. It was also proved that two days later Supervisor Rea paid to a certain real estate Arm in San Francisco $3500 in money of the same denomination as that which had been drown by Calhoun from the Mint. The cashier In the United Railways office further testified that the company was not in the business of carrying currency and he had seen no such sum as that mentioned In any of the three offices of the company. The link is somewhat in complete, in that it Is not proved con clusively that the money was passed to Ruef and later to the Supervisors. Calhoun May Not Take Stand. ' It Is declared, however, that the real weakness of the prosecution lies in the fact that it has not been able to prove that Calhoun had any guilty Intent at tile time he paid the money to Ruef, as it is claimed. vThls Is the point, so says gorslp. on which the defense will rely. It will be strongly urged that even though Calhoun may have turned this money over to Ruef. it was not done with the intention of having it trans ferred to tho Supervisors or any other officials connected with the city. Calhoun will hardly go on the stand himself. In fact, outside of a technical defense in the way of urging that the prosecution has1 utterly failed to prove the bribery charge. It is believed that the attitude of the defense will be to ignore the prosecution. This was done In the case of Tlrey 1. Ford, the attorney for the United Railways, who was ac quitted. Prosecution Has Its Doubts. Kven the prosecution; according to good information. Is anything but san guine of convicting Calhoun. "Some of the gossip says that this accounts for the fact that Heney has kept well out of the case, permitting Deputy District Attorney John CTGara to do most of the work. THIRD LIVE IN ORIGINAL 13 Bureau of Statistics Gives Informa tion About Country. WASHINGTON. May 9. Of the SS. OOn.000 people in the United States, Alaska Included, about one-third live in the IS original states, according to a statement made today by the Bureau of Statistics of the Department of Commerce and I-ahor. Another third live in the states cre ated from the territory ceded to the common union by he original " states and the remaining third In the area arirlcd by purchase and annexation. The statement also shows that in 1D08 there were "54.89S.C00 acres of un appropriated and unreserved land, of which almost one-half was In Alaska, 61.177.000 acres In Nevada, 46.532.000 In Montana. 44.77S.000 In New Mexico, and 42,739.000 In Arizona. FR0HMAN IS ROMANTIC George Bernard Shaw Indorses Man ager's Repertoire Theater Scheme. I5NDON, May 9 George Bernard Shaw, the playwright, in a long letter to the Times protesting against the prev alent idea that Charles Frohman'a scheme for a repertoire theater renders the scheme of the National Shakespeare Theater useless, declares the Frohman project is needed to All In the period of five years before the contemplated me morial theater can be erected. He reject the notion that Mr. Froh man Is a hard-headed business man, and ays: "If he were that sort of a man I should not waste five minutes on his project. He is the most wildly romantic and adventurous person of my acquaint ance."' EGYPTIAN COTTON SUCCESS Experiments Being Made in Yuma, d Valley by Government. SAN BERNARDINO. CaL. May 9. Government experts have turned their attention to the Yuma Valley experi ment farm, where 160 acres of Egyp tion cotton is being planted on the In dian reservation. Trofessor Howard L. Preston, who arrived today, said the experiments had been remarkably suc cessful thv far on tha dtiart lanria. - i - . - , ; ' 'IT- ' - S ' " - I i ' .. k' vo ' 'iriiniiini-mir-iTiiniifimiiiniiTi limVimrti -mart I --v - ,'' MT t ) & -f""- - v - : ! ' ' - , j X !iw " - I ! f ' tV? ;! mtr na"-M'l"-T""--;S""'''"'-'-5-liiiir-iiiifn ' tc T "7 v "iHsrsi ' I mil T I II mTm n 1 1 1 1 1 burned are still standing, but where 7 ft Jfe. "s S.i l III In III III Unlll thev have been burned the people are I fc V "jff t Till I El III III nUllr "till camped In the open. The weather II . , ' s V f JUL I fill IU IlilVL is warm; crops are ripe. If . f QUnRn ciRnpn nrj "adc- New Monarch of Turkey to Be Formally Inducted Into His Office Today. ARMENIANS MAKE DEMANDS Ask That Damage Done in Massacres Be Made Good and New Investi gation Be Started Govern ment Aids Relief - Work. SOJT MAT ATTEMPT RESCUE OF ABDUL HAMII. VIENNA. May . According to a Belgrade - telegram. Prince Burn hem Bddln, son of the ex-Sultan of Turkey, Abdul Hamld. Intends to organize a rifling In Albania. He plana to march to Salonlca at the head of an Albanian army.to rescue his father. . CONSTANTINOPLE. May 9. Reviewing stands were put up In the principal streets of Stamboul today In preparation for the procession tomorrow for the frirding of the sword of Mehemmed V. This cere mony, which corresponds to that of coro nation, will take plac in the Mosque Ayuob, the single mosaue in Constanti nople which Christians are allowed to enter or where they may even congre gate about the entrance or courtyard. It will last but a few minutes, and no for eign eyes will witness the ancient rite of the spiritual power consigning the temporal power to the Sultan. - A stand has been erected for the Diplo matic Corps and distinguished foreigners, eight or ten blocks from the mosque. Sultan to Go in Launch. But the Snltatn will proceed from the Dolmag-Taehe Palace to the mosque in a launch, and from there, attended by the Grand Vizier, the Sheik-Ul-Islam, the members of the Cabinet, the chiefs of the army, the officers of the higher two grades of the Ulemas, and many other functionaries, will go to the Top Kapou Palace, about six miles distant, to kiss the robe of the prophet. But the trans action Is expected to make a rich display. Government Aids Relief. T-Vm rnv.rriTeTit is taking hold of tho relief work in Adana province with vigor. It was announced today tnai odv,wu naa been sent there. The Grand Vizier and Ferid Pasha, Minister of the Interior, received a deputation of the Armenian clergy and laity yesterday. The delega tion was headed by Arscharani, the rep resentative of the patriarchate, who was .1 va mvAvnmeTit would lnoulre thoroughly Into the Adana massacres and severely runish those guilty or inciting them. "The Minister said the investiga tion would be conducted by a military court. Kerid Pasha told the delegation that eight physicians had been sent from Smyrna to Adana and that several had gone from Constantinople. A number of prominent Armenians met today and sub mitted to the government the following requests: Armenians Make Requests. First That the murderers of Christians be punished. Second That stolen property be returned and indemnities be paid for property de stroyed. Third That the women and girls who were stolen be returned, and that men and women who were compelled forcibly to adopt Mohammedanism be allowed to resume their original faith. Fourth That the investigation conduct ed under the chairmanship of the Governor-General be suspended and that a new investigation of the disorders from their commencement be made by a military commission. Fifth That Christians be permitted to participate In the local police establish ment. Sixth That Armenians be allowed to participate in defraying the cost of erect ing a monument to those who have fallen in the Army of Liberty. Americans Liose $0000. The anti-Christian rioting' In Asia Minor that was begun between April 12 and 14 has resulted in the loss of two American lives and the destruction of American property by fire and otherwise valued about J9000. The only loss of life was at Adana, where the Rev. Henry Maurer and Rev. Daniel M. Rogers were shot down while attempting to put out a fire that threatened the missionary buildings there. The financial losses have been allotted as follows: In the-. Province of Adana, $4500: at Kessab. should the reported burning of the missionary buildings there be con firmed. J3000. and In the city of Adana. $1500. This loss was Incurred through pulling down or burning buildings, at tached to the girls' school. Conditions Improve in Syria. LATAKIA. Syria. May 9. Practically all the refugees here have, returned to their homes or are ready- to so. Many f tha houses believed to have bcec Relief AVork at Beirut Greatly - Need of Funds. BEIRUT, May 9. The special relief committee here, of whicli F. G. Freyer, the American missionary. Is treasurer, and the American Consul, G. B. Ranndal, Is chairman, has Issued an appeal espe cially directed to Americans for funds. The appeal says there is1 absolute and imminent need of $20.000 " to relieve the many demands for doctors, nurses, rrted ical stores and" food for the destitute thousands and asks remittances be cabled to the American Red Cross, care of the Ottoman Bank, Beirut. TARSUS FEELS MORE SECURE Refugees Return and Are Sent Into Country to Support Themselves. TARSUS. May 9. Since the proclama tion of the new Sultan there has been a feeling of security here. Those In charge of the relief work are thinning out the dependents by sending them into the country. The refugees wlBh to return to their former homes, so that they may become self-supporting. Six hundred soldiers are here guarding the town. Montana Leaves Gibraltar. GIBRALTAR, May 10. The United States armored cruiser Montana sailed from here today for Alexandretta. The Montana and North Carolina arrived at Gibraltar May 6, and the North Caro lina sailed for Alexandretta two days later. The vessels were sent to Turk ish waters to protect American Inter ests. CARNEGIE GETS GRILLING SOCXALIST ROUNDLY SCORES HIS LABOR METHODS. Last Week He Iraised Rockefeller. Argued for Shorter Hours for Steelworkers. NEW YORK. May 9. Speaking from tho same pulpit in which he -praised John r. Rockefeller last Sunday, Alexander Irvine, a Socialist and lay preacher, bit terly attacked Andrew Carnegie in a ser mon at the Church of the Ascension here tonight. The address was principally in the form of an answer to what Mr. Ir vine styled Mr. Carnegie's criticism of Socialism in one of the Ironmaster's books. "Mr. Carnegie," said the speaker, "scat tered libraries broadcast for the work men, but works his laborers 12 hours a day so they won't have time to read the books. There are 17.00a men in the Car negie plant's, yet only 130 work eight hours a day. The rest work 13 hours a day and seven days a week. "Mr. Carnegie at a dinner with 45 of his associates dwelt on the fact that all but two of them had been working in the steel plants, and the entire 45 were now millionaires as the result of their steel nolings. This he advances as an argument in favor of the present condi tion of things. We do not want a few big men at that awful cost, the' cost is too great. What we want is an uplift of workingmen." ALL TO SHARE IN LOAN China Agrees With Foreigners Re garding Canton-Hankow Road. PE3KIX, May 9. The British. French and German financiers have agreed re garding the Canton-Hankow Railway loan, which the Chinese Government awarded recently to the Germans, where by the British and French are admitted to participation. The Germans also have withdrawn from the ' construction of the road and will have no part in controlling the expendi tures . . In return' for this concession, the Ger mans will have a share in the Hankow Szechuff Railway loan of J12.500.000. At the Joint proposal of British, French an! Germans, the Canton-Hankow loan has been raised to J27,500,O00. SAILORS WANT. REST DAY Go on Strike and Tie np Shipping at Marseilles. MARSEILLES. May 9. The crews of several steamers $f the Messageries Maratime. now in port, struck today. They demand the immediate application for weekly rest day which the company promised after the strike a few weeks g- ...... ST. NAZAIRE, May 9. The steamer Versailles was unable to sail today, the stokers going on strike because of the failure of the steamship officials ,tp set aside'a day of rest. The mails were sent via . Havre. " Beautiful Estate Bought. : LONDON". May 9. Lord Pierrie has purchased Witley Court, near Hasle moc, one of the finest estates in Eng land. It formerly belonged to Whita ker Wright, who committed suicide in 1904 after he had been convicted of embezzlement. The price paid, by Lord Pierrie was $1,000,000. It is stated that Wright spent. tj,3vv,vvu on me property. . j - AS ' i V II Patrick Calhoun. DOHA SEES FINISH Leaders Pessimistic and Ex pect Dissolution. REACTIONARIES IN POWER Have Hold on Court and Progressive Legislation Is Not Hoped Czar Defers Decision on Naval Bill, Which Was Cause of Crisis. ST. PETERSBURG. May 9. The Em peror has postponed his decision in the matter of the naval staff bill until May 11. The Cabinet met tonight, presuma bly in an effort to find a compromise formula which would give partial sat isfaction to the Reactionary party. The jJouma leaders are pessimistic on the general outlook for progressive legislation. In view of the strengthened hold which the Reactionaries have on the court. The dissolution of the Douma in the near future is considered not unlikely. In fact, the members of the extreme right are exulting over the predica ment of the Cabinet, and are planning for the electoral campaign for the fourth Douma, in which the Liberal element will be a negligible .quantity. Rumors that the Kmperor and Em press Intended to take a trip to Lon don. Paris and in the Mediterranean early In the Summer are incorrect. Un- less the schedule is changed, the Em ! peror will go to Stockholm in June. He will return here to attend the un veiling or a monument erected on the Pol Tava battlefield July 9. at the cele bration of the 200th anniversary of the battle. A great and patriotic celebra tion has been planned at Pol Tava, and historic regiments will be assembled. FLORIDA NEGRO LYNCHED Identified by Woman He Attacked and Mob Dispatched Him. JACKSONVILLE, Fla.. May 9. Mrs. John Deas, wife of a farmer at Cam den, was attacked early today by a negro, who was captured later by a mob of citizens and lynched. The women's screams attracted her son. who went to her rescue, but the negro escaped. When the Sheriff reached the scene, the mob had captured the negro Mrs. Deas had identified him, his throat had been cAit and his body riddled with bullets. NEGRO HAS STOLEN GOLD Shows Real Gold Brick, but It Came From New Orleans Mint. NEW ORLEANS. May 9. Lorenzo D. Cunningham, a negro employe of the United States Mint at New Orleans, was arrested today as he was exhibiting a real gold brick. Cunningham confessed he had stolen the gold In granulated form from the separating division of the Mint and then moulded It into the oval shape in which It was found. DYNAMITE USED IN GRUDGE Explosions Occur at Piers of Rail road in Cincinnati. CINCINNATI. May 9. Two dynamite explosions damaged piers of the Cin cinnati. New Orleans & Texas Pacific Kauroad early today. , One of the piers was badly cracked. Two fuses had been stretched be tween the two piers, timed so as to go off simultaneously. The police say the explosions were caused by someone who had a grudge against the contracting firm. Scores of Minor Games. At Pendleton Walla Walla 2, Pen dleton 1. At Dufur The Dalles 14, Dufur 0. At Scio Scio 8. Canby 2. At Lebanon Lebanon 5, Alco Club 4. At Chehalis Chehalis 3. Aberdeen 0. At Jefferson Corvallis 3, Jefferson 0. At Goidendale Portland Maroons 7, Goldendale 6. Eleven Innings. At Montesano Hoquiam 12, Monte sano 11. Today is positively the last day for dis count on West Side gas bills. Read "Gas Tips."' CHARGE IS MISCONDUCT Preachers Allege Concessionaire Company Is Guilty of Maladmin istration and Cruelty Belgian Government Behind Concern. LONDON. May 9. CBy Mail From In terior of Africa. Thursday. April 29.) All white men in the Congo Free State are interested in the trial for libel of two American missionaries. Rev. William Morrison and Rev. W. H. Sheppard. which was begun at Leopoldville. April 20. This Is expected to be a test case by the Belgian Government, arid the Ameri can missionaries 'who have Jong made themselves a thorn in Its flesh by their charges of maladministration and oppres sion of the natives. The suit is brought by one of the con cessionaire companies called the Kashl Trust, which has a monopoly on- the gathering of rubber. It claimed J20.000 damages from each missionary for "cal umnious denunciation." The Belgian Government holds half of the Kashl Xrust stock and a majority of its directors are Belgian officers, so tho suit may be considered virtually one of the Belgian Government against the missionaries. The missionaries charge that the offi cials levy upon the natives oppressive taxes to be paid in rubber, that the popu lation of whole villages, including women and children, is impressed by the soldiers for measuring the rubber: that the la borers are often compelled to travel many miles to the rubber forests, and sleep there for more than a week under un healthy conditions, and that they are often cruelly punished. The American Consul, W. H. Handley, has been instructed by the Government to go to Leopoldville to watch the trial, which will be conducted by Belgian offi cials. POT OF GOLD SOUGHT FOR Excavation for Kentucky Church Being Watched Closely. CINCINNATI, May 9. The excava tion for the building of St. Francis Church in Dayton. Ky., a suburb, is be ing: watched by many who believe that a pot of sold was buried under that site after the raid by General John Hunt Morgan and his-band of Confeder ates near the close of the Civil War. The property belonged to the late Mathew McArthur. a noted Southern sympathizer. There was a subterranean passage leading from the house, and it is here, the passage having long since been filled up, that the tieasure !s supposed to be. The money was left, it was Faid, by a Confederate named Caldwell, who had been North to pay the troops of Gon eral Morgan, then located in this vicin ity. He stopped at the McArthur resi dence, and, his presence being dis closed, secreted the gold, said to amount to several thousand dollars, and escaped, intending to Join General Morgan. The latter was killed in Tennee about the same time. RESTITUTION BY REGENT Prince Chin Rewards Families oi Beheaded Officials. PE KIN. May 9. The Regent. Prince Chun, who since t-he dismissal of Tuan Shi Kai has been collecting lists of officials dismissed previous to his taking office, issued an edict today rehabilitating the reputations and rewarding the families of five officials of the late Dowager Em press, who were beheaded for opposing the Boxers. LABORATORY IS BURNED Fire in Geological Survey Building Damages Minerals. WASHINGTON. May 9. The chemical laboratory of the Geological Survey here was badly . damaged by fire today and only the prompt work of firemen prevented the flames spreading to other departments. The fire was confined to the laboratory, but burned valuable minerals ahd chemicals. Injured When Cable Breaks. By the breaking of a wire cable at the sawmill of Jonsrud Brothers, at Kelso, on the Mount Hood road, Thursday after noon. W. Proctor was badly injured, the accident almost costing him his life. The sawmill was -being moved, and a wire cable attached to a donkey engine was dragging the machinery. It was stretched across the road. As Proctor drove up he I Sample BreaUf ast taken from our Regular BUI of Fare No. A Boiled Rice with Milk,' Hot Cakes with Maple Syrup, Bread and Butter, Cereal Cof fee ...20c No. 5 Buttered Toast, Apple Sauce, Creamed Corn, Bread and Butter. Glass of Milk 20c No. 6 Mush and Milk. Two Eggs. Potatoes. Bread and But ter, Cereal Coffee 2ao No. 9 Toasted Corn Flakes with Cream, Stewed Prunes. Boston Cream Toast, Bread and Butter, Chocolate 30c Meals aerred a la carte all day VEGETARIAN CAFE. A Happy Smile 105 . SIXTH ST. comes easier with 1 good digestion.- I Wanted, Experienced Fitters and Alteration Hands, Experienced Cloa Salesladies., Corset Covers, Drawers 59c e: An immense slock of new Picture Mouldings just in. Lowest prices, best workmanship. Try us. Japanese Floor Matting at 23c 5000 yards of regular 35c Japanese Matting, best quality in natural and fancy, weaves in combinations of green, blue and brown designs. Monday Special 23 c yard got out of his wagon and started to walk across the cable. At that instant ' the stump to which one end of the cable was fastened broke and was hurled through the air with great force, striking Proctor and throwing him 40 feet against a fence. He was badly bruised and a gash cut in his head. His escape from death was considered almost miraculous. . Beer Keg Has Adventures. To have a keg of beer stolen from them after having spent two days in jail on the charge of stealing it, was the tale of woe related to Captain Slover yesterday by C. F. Pflugar, John Keegan and G. A. Doyle. ". These men were arrested a week ago .Saturday night. They had in itheir possession the keg of beer in a gnnny sack.' They MISCHA ELMAN, Violinist AT THE HEILIG THEATER Monday Evening, May lOtfi I THE FOLLOWING IS A LIST OF ELMAN 'S VICTOR RECORDS Ten-Inch, $1.00 Each. No. 61180 (a) Moment Musical I Schubert (b) Perpetuo Mobile Bonn No. 61182 "Faust" Fantasie From Garden Scene , No. 61183 Swing Song . : Barns Twelve-Inch, $1.50 Each. - No. 74051 Souvenir de Moscow Wieniawski No. 74052 Nocturne in E Flat. Chopin No. 74053 Melodie .Tschaikowsky No. 71038 Rondo Capricciosa Introduction Saint-Saens No. 71039 (a) Gavotte. Grossec (b) German Dance (Deutscher Tanz) Dittersdorf We will be glad to play any or all of them for you at any time. SHERMAN, CLAY & CO., SIXTH AND MORRISON STREETS, OPPOSITE POSTOFFICE Victor Machines, Records and Supplies, Wholesale and Retail. Positively the most attractive lot of hats ever placed on sale at this price. An immense assort ment of good " shapesinblackand burnt: values up to $3.00 each. Today at 95c Reg.Vals. 75c to $1 Many dainty styles of Corset Covers and Drawers in new designs in cambric, nainsook and lawn. The workmanship and materials in these garments are unsurpassed. On Monday we offer them, Special 59c were brought to the station and placed In jail and as they could not give any satisfactory explanation as to where they got the beer, the three were held. Later they were released and the beer returned to them. On their way home they left the keg on the corner of the street for a min ute to get a drink in a saloon near b? and when they came out the beer had disappeared. Now they want the po lice to have search warrants issued to recover their keg. Jules Verne Honored. . AMIENS. France. May 9. A- monu ment to Jules Verne was dedicated here today. The great French novelist died at Amiens. March 24, 1906. Under tfie Management of Lois Steers-Wynn Coman Seat sale opens at Heilig Theater Friday morning. May 7th Mischa Elman, the young Russian violinist, continues his successful career in America, his season here being extended because of the great demand for concerts from, all sections of the country. Two more records, containing three selections, have . been played for the Victor by Mr. El man, and they' faithfully repro duce his exquisite tone and mar velous skill. Especially beauti ful are the dainty little "Swing Song" and the sparkling "Gavotte."