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10 THE 3IORXIXG OREGONIAN, FRIDAY, 3IAY 14, 1909. FOBTL&XD. ORBGOX. Entered at rortland, Oreron. Postofflc as Second-Class M.tter. bubacrtptlon Bates Invariably la Advance, (Br Mall. ) pally, Sunday Included, one year, ... . .$ 8.00 laily. Sunday included, six. moothl 4.23 Xally, Eunday Included, three montbl.. 2.25 IDally. Sunday Included, one month.. ... .75 Ia!!y, without Sunday, one year. ...... -0O Imily. without Sunday, aia montbl s 23 Dally, without Sunday, three montbl. .. 1.TS Dally, without Sunday, one month...., .60 Weekly, ona year.. .......... 1.G0 Buniay, one year 2-60 Sunday and weekly, one year .. -60 (By Carrier.) Tally, Punday Included, one year. a.00 Lmily, Sunday Included, one month... -75 How to Kemit Send poutofnce money Order, express order or personal check oa your local bank. stamps, coin or currency are at the sender's risk. Give postofflce ad dress In full. Including county and state. Poetare Kates 10 to 14 paves. 1 cant; 19 to 28 pages, 2 cents; 80 to 44 paces, S cents; 4A to 60 pages. 4 cants. Foreign poatase double rates. Kaatern Business Office The 8. C. Beck with Special Agency New York, rooms 48 60 Tribune building. Chicago, rooms 010-013 Tribune building. I"OKTI-ANI. FRIDAY, MAY 14. 1909. the: thought wb think. "What do you think," asks a. paper of Nebraska, "of Dolllver and Cum mins? Aren't they about the cleverest pair of performers who have appeared on the Senatorial stage In years? Doesn't It do your falling heart good to read of the way they are pouring in the round shot on tariff revision, hit ting the old Senate leaders in the solar plexus about seven different times a day?" What do we think of Dolllver and Cummins? the Senators of Iowa who have been troubling Aldrlch on some days with their volubility. Noth ing; much; for they are protectionists, too. Protection doesn't sit Quite so easily on Iowa and Nebraska and Minnesota as on the Eastern States. But Iowa and Nebraska and Minne sota are not ready to give up protec tion, either. They simply want to get more of It for themselves. The performance," therefore, of Cum , mlns and of Dolllver Is clever, but It Is the trick of slight-of-hand perform ers. This is a scheme of robbery, they say; but we are not getting our share. Others are getting too much. "We want a more equitable division. Give up part of your share to us, and then it'll be all right. - This Is old contention, over pro tection. It is the quarrel over the benefits that is, over the loot. Till men like Dolllver and Cummins can come to the principle of tariff for rev enue only cutting out protection as a robbers' scheme they can have no solid ground to stand on. They will still be at the mercy of Aldrich. Tax Imported commodities, of uni versal consumption, not produced in the United States, tax incomes and let In free of duty commodities (except articles of luxury) like those produced abundantly in the United States. Elimi nate protection, since it is so odious. Give- to people free trade. But Sena tors Dolllver and Cummins do not stand for this. They want to deprive the Eastern States of the advantages of protection, yet Increase the bene fits of the system for their own state and the Middle West. Reform consists in securing your own advantage at the expense of others. WASHINGTON AND OREGON. The pleasant welcome which the vis itors from Portland have received at every stop in Washington is one among many evidences of the close relation between that state and Oregon. In habited by people of the same stock and the same social environment, they have substantially the same soil, cli mate and natural resources. Each state is divided into two sections which dif fer greatly in all these particulars, but between Western Washington and Western Oregon the resemblance Is close, while the eastern sections of the two states are still more alike. Although Washington has grown more rapidly in wealth and population than her sister south of the Columbia, still, when it comes to reckoning up years she Is a good deal younger of the two. American colonization began in Ore gon as early as 1834, If we pass over Astor's futile expedition. Whitman did not locate at Walla Walla until two years later, and his station was ulti mately destroyed and led to nothing while Jason Lee's enterprise, at Salem, really laid the foundation of two states. The pioneers in the Cowlitz Valley and around the Sound went from Ore gon. Indeed, a considerable part of Washington was originally organized as a county of this state. Thus it might perhaps be more accurate to speak of our northern neighbor as the daughter rather than the sister of our more sedate but not less solid common wealth. Washington's .fortunate situ ation In the direct path of the trans continental railroads to the sea secured for her an earlier development than fell to the lot of Oregon. Naturally, her seaports throve under the stimulus of capital and easy communication with the East, and the promoters of er railroads found profit In planting colonies along their lines. With all this advantage, however, the cities of Puget Sound have had a hard task to hold their own with Portland. The natural advantages of the city on the Columbia have outweighed their arti ficial ones. The greeting to the vis itors shows that at bottom all the rivalry between the states Is friendly and expresses the sensible feeling that there is room In the country for all of us and a good many more. PKACE CONGRESS IXMdTATIONS. In the fabled account of the two felines In Kilkenny, It Is reported that "they snarled and they fit, end they scratched and they bit, U1 instead of two oats, there wa'n't any." On some what different lines, but with ultimate results of elimination not dissimilar, all of the great nations of the earth seem to he making fair progress. In this high-pressure race toward finan cial destruction, the United States as yet, has not struck as swift a gait as Is shown by England, Germany and some of the other foreign nations. The reason for this Is largely due to th fact that It requires more time to get rid of a dollar than is needed In the ordinary disbursement of fifty cents. This country was long on resources, and short on fighting equipment, when it entered the game a few years ago. and Us financial resources are such that It can stand & financial drain for war purpose that would bankrupt half of the nations of Europe. Perhaps the exhaustion of the resources of some of those countries, will be accomp lished before, our own war burden be comes as ponderous rfrrt.innately as that of our European neighbors, and it will thus become our duty to give de cent interment to the modern Kil kenny cats. ' The apparent hopeless ness of checking this awful expendi ture for Army and Navy purposes Is shown by the Inability of our numer ous peace conferences and congresses to suggest anything practical for changing the system. Bishop Fallows, an acknowledged leader in his calling, which is any thing but warlike, in discussing the recent peace convention held in Chi cago, says: "General disarmament is a consummation devoutedly to be wished, but it would be suicide for any one nation to disarm while the other nations are multiplying the armaments of war." The Bishop also concludes that "We are ready as a people to take the lead in disarma ment but until the nations are ready to follow, we will have a Navy that will proportionately match that of any other power on the globe." The wars of the past twenty years have been fewer in number, and peace congresses have increased in number as compared with preceding periods of similar length, but in point of cost and destruction, some of these recent conflicts, like the Boer war in South Africa, the Hussla-Japan conflict, or the Spanish-American war, make most of their predecessors even rather mild affairs. The peace congresses and con ferences, however, accomplish some good, for the barbarities which marked our conflicts a few generations ago, are now placed under the ban by all civilized nations, and while there may be more killing, there is less cruelty. For all that, war remains much the same as General Sherman declared it to be many years ago, and until the limit of war debt of the great nations of the earth is reached, the dove of peace will continue to flutter her wings and be always prepared for flight. WILLAMETTE BRIDGF.S. Answer is not yet given to the ques tion, how, since the bonds for the Mad-ison-street bridge have been sold and the money paid in, this money can be diverted to the construction of a bridge at Market street. Sherman street wants a bridge, it seems, as well as Market stre.t. Are bonds for all these proposed bridges to be sold ? A real estate boom at various localities, promoted by general taxa tion, doesn't seem to toe desirable. At Madison street a bridge has been established these twenty years. To the bridge at this point thoroughfares have been adjusted. South East Portland and Oregon City can come that way more conveniently into the center of the West Side than by any other. And, as conditions are. It is the cheapest way. The burden will be less to the taxpayers of the city. It is not a ques tion to be decided in the Interest of any special group of property-owners, but for all of them; and for the public cqnvenlence also, after the bridge is built. Hawthorne avenue, leading down to the Madison bridge, is now a thoroughfare. It is the Southeast's main avenue Into the West Side cen ter. Neither Market street nor Sher man street, nor both of them, could be so convenient. Besides, the bonds for the new bridge at Madison have been sold and the money is in the treasury of the city. Can an arbitrary transfer of this money to some other street be legal ? Again, can these bondholders be forced to take their proportion in a larger amount of bonds for a bridge to be built somewhere else? It is not any private Interest, nor values in lots on one street or another, or promotion of values for one locality or another, that should be allowed a moment's thought. In consideration of such a question. It is the general In terest only. There should be but one new bridge now, south of Morrison street; and renewal of the Madison bridge clearly Is the proposition that most commends itself especially since the bonds have been sold for it and the money la in hand. The northern portion of the city pre sents conditions of another and totally different kind. Besides the railroad bridge, a municipal high bridge is be coming an increasing necessitj-; and the proposition for such bridge, say from Broadway or Hancock street to the West Side, is before the people and cannot be ignored. But everything can't be done at once. Now the ques tion is, concretely, shall the Madison bridge, for which provision has been made, be constructed, and the Penin sula bridge be authorized, or a scram ble be made for everything at once, without definite plan or purpose for solution? A PROCREATrVE FROUIGT. TVanted a baby carriage for little Dolores Orijalva. 9 months old. the 36th child of Juan Manuelo Grljalva. Donors will please communicate with Miss Katherlne Felton, Associated Charities. The above notice was clipped from a recent number of the San Francisco Call and Is reproduced, not for the pur pose of assisting an irresponsible specimen of the animal kingdom who wears the human form to get a baby carriage for his thirty-fifth child, that is in charge of the Associated Charities of San Francisco, "but to advertise Juan Manuelo Grijalva as the sodden, selfish one might almost say pestilen tial creature that he Is. It is not too much to say that a band of homeless, untrained, wretchedly clad children foisted upon any community are a pest, in that they are a drain upon Its resources and promise no return. A band of uncared-for children, thus turned loose upon society, is more than likely to carry the taint of the squalor, the unthrift and the utter lack of personal responsibility in which they were begotten with them wher ever they go. become parasites with abnormally developed blood-sucking propensities, and perhaps Inaugurate a pestilence of crime. Following this advertisement for the gift of a "baby carriage" for the thirty-fifth child of the husband of four wives, three of whom are dead, this man Grijalva, now in his 70th year, 'advertises his inability to take care of himself and the younglings of his band and with Impudent assurance calls upon the public, as Its benefactor, to help him out. In the hope of en listing sympathy in his behalf, he plaintively wails that he has complete ly lost track of ten of his thirty-five children; that some of them were thrown out upon the world so long ago mat no wouia not Know them if they passed him In the street. It is further urged that he is-a most affectionate father, in proof of which he is said to have wept piteously when the rumor reached him that his latest born the Inmate - of a charity hospital was dead. Upon this sorrowful announce ment he actually went to the hospital to make known his sorrow and was overjoyed to find his child still drink ing the milk of charity. So this man's story runs a mixture of the grotesque and the exasperating; of human animalism and parental ir responsibility, with an undercurrent of vaingloriousness because of the large number of children that he has, liter ally speaking, given to the world, though manifestly he himself does not know whether they are a blessing or a curse to the uneonsulted recipient. It is certainly a severe strain upon the Rooseveltlan idea which teaches that a multitude of children is, an unmitigated I blessing, to witness the smug self-satisfaction of a man whose energies have been devoted so entirely to the repro ductive function that he has developed neither inclination nor capability for the support of his progeny. The exhibit is that of a low grade of animalism which differs from that of the wild horse of the plains only in that it voices an appeal for admira tion or commendation in having given to the range so many untamed colts to forage for their living or starve in the attempt, as conditions may decree. It is only human animalism that, at tempting to strike a high note In the scale of self-laudation on the basis of abnormal reproduction of its kind, brays harsh discordance on the ear of thrift and shamelessly makes a merit of its inability to take care of Its own during the period In which parental oversight is needed. A FACT MADE PLAIN. Mr. William Newell, of Oak Point, Washington, writes a long letter to The Oregonian, the whole tenor of which is contained in the following extract: We were surprised to see in The Ore gonian of May 7 that the paper had thrown its great influence in a quasi indorsement, at least, on the side of rakes and libertines, as against those who steal public money. We are ied to believe, from reading the editorial of May 7, that it is not so bad to. be a libertine and rake, if you are not a thief also. It is this sentiment, given ut terance through great Journals like The Oregonian. that fills the land with the Whites of society, and their Nemesis, the Harry K. Thaws. Mr. Newell need not have been led to the supposition from reading The Oregonian that it was "not so bad to be a rake and libertine if you were not a thief also." The fact that The Ore gonian distinctly presented was this, namely, that the Immorality of men, in their relations with women, is less censured, if corruption and peculation in public trusts are not traced to them; and conversely, if such malfeasance can be traced to them, that they are doomed to disgrace and ignominy. There is' nq possibility of mistaking the judgment of mankind on this fact. The Oregonian was not talking about such creatures as the Whites and Thaws. Nor was it excusing in the least the "irregularities" of such men as Hamilton, Nelson and Cleveland. But it did 'say, and it still says, that no people refuses to honor its great men for their public services espe cially after they have passed into his tory because of their sins in private life unless they have been betrayers of public trust also. He knows little of human nature and has read little of human history, who does not perceive this distinction. It Is not pretended, of course, that there Is any excuse for sexual immorality. The fact, however, Is noted that eminence in public serv ice and character obscures while not excusing it especially after the names have passed into history. -PROTECTING JAPANESE SEALERS. Unless Japan Is seeking to accumu late a large assortment o trouble, she will hardly send any warships to Bering Sea to protect her poaching sealers. There is no denying the fact, as stated in a Toklo letter re ceived at Victoria, that "Japanese sealers are seized every year in and about the Bering Sea on charges of poaching." Neither can it be truth fully denied that these seizures are at least technically illegal when they are made outside the three-mile limit. But Japan sealers have not been con tent to carry on their work well clear of the legal limit and in a locality from which the craft of other nations are barred by the decision of the Paris tribunal. Instead, her marauding schooners -have been raiding the breed ing grounds and taking the fur bearers well inside the three-mile limit. If the Nippon government should send warships to protect this class of sealers, It would be deemed an invita tion to other nations interested to get ready to fight. This is not an Ameri can affair alone, for the rules and reg ulations adopted at the Paris tribunal, and still in effect, were the work of representatives of both England and the United States, while Russia, also an interested party, unqualifiedly in dorsed the policy there agreed on. At that time the sealing operations of Japan were quite limited and the oper ations of the fleet were confined to the Japan Coast, with an occasional raid on the Copper Island rookeries. Later, when Japan gained a higher standing with the other powers, informal com plaint was made by all three of the countries most Interested against the unrestricted operations of the Japan sealers in Bering Sea. Japan, while advancing the plea that she had not been a party to the Paris decision, i promised to respect the regulations there formulated, but has never taken any definite steps to hamper the oper ations of her poachers. In view of the dearly bought exper ience this country has had in seizing sealers in Bering Sea, it is hardly probable that the Japan sealers beyond the three-mile limit will be troubled, although Japan has assumed a moral obligation to prevent sealing in those waters except subject to the Paris tri. bunal regulations. It will, accordingly, be unnecessary for Japan to send out any warships to protect these sealers, and if the craft are sent for the pur pose of protecting the class of sealers that American authorities have been seizing, they will have a large task ahead of them. Before undertaking it, Japan would do well to figure out the exact fighting strength of the United States, Great Britain and Rus sia. All three of these countries are in partnership in the seal protection matter, and there is, accordingly, very small likelihood of Japan starting any thing in which the result would be as certain as Would follow any attempt to protect poaching sealers. The old mail coach, . drawn by floundering horses over mountain passes and vast stretches of lonely up land, is being eliminated albeit all too slowly from the postal service in the outlying districts of the state. Within a few days, we are told, railway mall service will be established to Klamath Falls. The story of the old mall coach. if written, would be instinct with the romance of long and lonely night rides, disabled horses, broken down vehicles, assaults of highwaymen, strenuous battles with wind and snow, sleet and rain, and desperate flounder, ings through apparently bottomless mire. This dark shading would be re lieved, however, by incidents of jour neyings through the cool mountains on moonlight Summer nights, of the pleasant companionship during long Summer days among passengers ex ploring these solemn wilds in quest of business, adventure or pleasure, and of quaint tales in wayside .inns told before blazing hearths while the stage was being repaired or a relay of horses awaited. Travel by rail has its advan tages, and we are all eager to avail ourselves of them, but seen through the haze of memory and by the re flected glow of youth travel by the old stage coach is not without its charm. Park improvement, so-called, that contemplates the wholesale uprooting of native trees and shrubs on the sev eral park sites that belong to the city should not be allowed. To denude the land of dogwood, maples, pussy wil lows, hazels, young fir, spruce, hem lock and the various small, glossy leaved or flowering shrlubs. Indigenous to the soil of Oregon, will be a mis take for which the substitution of for eign trees, shrubs and plants can ill atone. The cost of such substitution would be enormous, and may well fall under the head of unnecessary outlay. The configuration of our park sites for park purposes is in the main perfect. Much of the native growth can be very properly cut out, but to clear and grade these lands, as for an orchard or a wheat field or a lawn, woujd be little else than wanton vandalism. Park Commissioner Mische should be in structed to revise his plans for park improvement, to the end that much of the native growth may be retained. Nathan Straus, the New Tork phil anthropist, asserts that tuberculosis is increasing in that city, notwithstanding the vigorous campaign waged against it. Unfortunately, vital statistics sup port the assertion, the reports of the health department showing this in crease to have been 33 per cent in two years. Mr. Straus says that milk from tuberculous cows is responsible for this increase, and that science will fight in vain to destroy this scourge so long as milk drawn from tuberculous cows is used. The statement is alarm ing and disgusting. It exposes at once the inefficiency of health boards, the criminal carelessness of dairy keepers and the menace thafc-confronts the vast army of milk consumers. The old idea was that any farmer's boy could plow and any farmer's girl could cook, neither requiring'any in struction in these important vocations. Farmer Ray Gill completely refuted the first statement in an address be fore Evening Star Grange recently on the "Preparation of the Soil." The latter assumption has been so often disproved by the messes concocted by the hired girl from the country, who was employed on the assurance that she was raised on a farm and had cooked all her life, to need further refutation. The Daughters of the Confederacy unveiled Wednesday their monument to Captain Wirz, at Anderson, Ga. There are yet many monuments to Wirz and Andersonville prison hob bling around in the Northern States, and there are many mounds over the victims of Wirz' conduct of that pen that have no monuments to mark them. But time Is rubbing smooth many of the rough spots, and in a few years "Dixie" will be the National air and we shall all be brethren, the dead and the quick. There is one great reason why the Republicans of Portland should'nt "get together." Their political opponents don't want them to do so. Men, of course, must respect their political op ponents. Politeness required the French to say, at Oudenarde, to their opponents, drawn up in order of -battle, "Gentlemen, will you have the goodness to fire?" Courtesy always re quires men to consult the feelings and wishes of their opponents. Mr. Albee poses as an anti-machine candidate for Mayor, but is the choice of a "combination of bodies so con nected that their relative motives are constrained" (see Webster's diction ary) to bring about the withdrawal of Dan Kellaher and make Albee's run ning easy. But Dan does not play sec ond fiddle for anybody, and the Albee forces are not a machine! Horrors, no! There isn't such a tract of country in all the United States as the two-tlfirds of Oregon or 60,000 square miles where there is no railroad. Mr. Har riman knows this almost as well; as The Oregonian does. Is he ever going to do anything about It? Chicago doctors in convention de clare the tonsils useless and a breeding-place for tuberculosis. At some former stage of life they may have been needed, but now they are classed with the tail and the other appendix. Mr. Albee always has been a fervid champion of the primary law. Now he is fighting the direct primary method. This is natural, however, since the primary law stands in the way of his candidacy." James J. Hill says we shall have prosperity right quick if we stop tar iff agitation. But have we not pros perity now? Are not our colleges turning out oarsmen enough and foot ball men? The prima donna of the New Tork Metropolitan is about to marry the baritone. The ceremony will be on a scale commensurate with affairs of note. They have unique ways to keep the name of their proposed new county in the public eye at Cottage Grove. The latest is a Nesmith washing machine. France and Russia have $1,250,000, 000 in reserve. That amount would keep a war going nearly two years. After all the good things Dr. Large, attending, has done, just think of his being sued for divorce! Mr. Albee's platform is "anti-machine politics." Then how did he come to be a candidate? Flying machines cost twice as much as automobiles, but they will come down after a while. . AGAINST MADISON BRIDGE CHANGE Statement of Rnnu Why It Should Be at Once Rebuilt. The following statement by residents of the southern part of this city is affixed as an analysis of the bridge situation in that quarter. It is worthy of attention, not only in that part, but elsewhere, since the ques tions at issue concern all citizens. "The present Madison-street bridge was built In 1890, and an important highway thereby established from the West Side to the Southeastern part of Portland. Car lines connecting there with, known as Hawthorne avenue. , Sellwood and Mount Scott cars, now operate on Hawthorne avenue, and the lines known as the Estacada and Ore gon City lines operate from the east ern terminal of the bridge by the river road, serving a population of from 35. j 000 to 50,000 people. These lines are 1 standard, gauge and cannot be oper I ated over any of the other existing ' bridges, neither could the lines oper ated on the river route use the high bridge proposed to be built at Market street in place of the Hawthorne-avenue bridge, as its grade would be way above the river route line and the cars would have to make a. long detour to reach the river tracks. The lines us ing Hawthorne avenue would have to' make an extra run of six blocks to get by way of the proposed Market street bridge back to the tracks on Hawthorne avenue, and we are in formed that the street railway com pany could not and would not use a bridge built at Market street, as the grade of the same and the detours necessary to reach their river and Hawthorne avenue tracks would make an excessive cost of operation. "The proposed bridge at Hawthorne avenue will cost $450,000, on which the interest amounting to $18,000 would largely, if not entirely, be paid by the street railway company. There have been no specifications or definite plans from which to figure the cost of the proposed Market-street bridge. In the petition for it they apparently estimate the cost at $900,000, though it would probably run 50 per cent more. The interest on the bond issue proposed would amount to at least $36,000 per1 year, of which the1 car company would pay nothing, but all would fall on the taxpayers. "The approaches at either end of the Hawthorne-avenue bridge belong to the city, but the approaches on the east side to the Market-street bridge for a matter of four blocks, belong to pri vate owners and would have to be con demmed at a large expense. "Hawthorne avenue is three miles long and has been widened to 70 feet by the property-owners giving five feet on each side to the city, in order to make it capable of .carrying the traffic of an Important street, and a contract has just been let for a hard surface improvement for the purpose of facilitating the business of an im portant highway, at a cost of $171,000 to the property-owners; this improve ment to be completed this Summer, whereas. East Market street Is but a matter of 12 blocks long and cannot be extended on account of the sys tem of laying out' of streets in what is known as Ladd's Addition, and is not a hard-surface street. It is only 60 feet wide and can never become an important highway. The approach to the Market-street bridge on the west side of the river is also across private property, which would have to be con demned at a very large expense. "In June, 1907, by a vote of 11,872 to 2568, it was decided to rebuild the Madison-street bridge at its present loca tion. Litigation was had to test the validity of the bond issue; a decision was had. the bonds sold, and the money is in the City Treasury drawing inter est for this purpose. It is questionable whether this money can be-transferred to another bridge location. It certainly cannot without long litigation. "The immediate necessity for a bridge Is conceded and In the case of rebuild ing at the present location construc tion can commence almost immediately, whereas. In the case of the changing of the site of the bridge, a -long delay will necessarily ensue on account of the necessity of getting the permission of the War Department for the loca tion of the bridge, and the lititgation which would be involved through con demnation proceedings, testing the va lidity of the bonds, and on behalf of the property-owners whose rights would be affected. With the present lack of adequate bridge facilities, this delay, which might run' into years, would be' disastrous to the interests of thousands of people whose business Is located in the tributary district, and whose facilities for getting back and forth from their homes would be se verely injured." "The distance ' from the Morrison street bridge to the proposed Market street bridge is much too great for the proper handling of business gross ing the river. It will be necessary for the growth of the city to build more bridges further south, but the city cannot afford to abandon as well es tablished an artery of travel and busi ness as Hawthorne avenue. "The. people who have established businesses and invested money on First street and Hawthorne avenue and their tributary districts, and who have do nated their property for widening Haw thorne avenue and assessed themselves $171,000 for the present Improvement for Hawthorne avenue, and who have made improvement on the said avenue and the contributary neighborhood, have done so on the strength of those being the arteries leading to an im portant bridge, and the removal of it would cost them hundreds of thousands of dollars, whereas, the removal would only benefit a few property-owners along a dozen blocks of Market street, who did not buy their property on the strength of any such condition, and who have made no improvements nor donated anything nor assessed them selves for the convenience of the busi ness of the city. "Property-owners and business in terests have already sustained a loss of thousands of dollars a day for months on account of the delay In get ting this bridge built, and we' trust that no attempt to change the location, which will involve further years of de lay, will be successful. "Of all -the existing or proposed bridges, the Hawthorne-avenue bridge and the Morrison-street bridge are the only two which lead to the large dis tricts of flats on the East Side, which will one day be one of the great job bing and warehouse locations of Port land; and the Morrison-street bridge alone Is not able even now to carry the traffic for that district. The pro posed Market-street bridge would be too far to the south and at too high an elevation to reach this district without great loss of time and dis tance. Furthermore, the proposed Haw thorne bridge will be so high above the river that it will seldom have to be opened for the passing of shipping. "We appeal, therefore, to the citi zens of Portland not to tax themselves $36,000 or more per annum, not to pro long the- inconvenience and money loss of 35,000 to 50.000 people, nor to de stroy long established property values and business interests by moving an important bridge - from an avenue 70 feet wide and three miles long, which is one of the main arteries leading to the city, to a little street 60 feet wide and about half a mile long which leads nowhere, and which change would only serve to make a profit to the owners of a dozen blocks of property at the ex pense of hundreds of thousands of dol lars to vested Interests and established businesses." LTLE TO WELCOME GUESTS Business Men of The Dalles Will Also Greet Portlanders. LYLE, Wash.. May 13. (Special.) The Lyle Commercial Club has ap pointed a committee, headed by Mal com Mclnnls, to receive the Portland visitors Saturday morning. The Dalles band has been secured for the occasion and a number of prominent business men of The Dalles will be present. It is proposed that the members of the party be driven to Pine Hill to view the noted orchards, Fred Batch's grave, the author of "Bridge of the Gods'" and to- secure a good view of one of the largest concrete -bridges in the world. The following well-known farmers are expected to join in the greeting, George W. Smith, Rev. E. B. Hylton, William Morginson, Edward O'Neil, George W. Ott, J. G. Maddock, James O. Lyle and Judge A. T. Higby. Secretary Ramsey, of the League, at Goldendale, has made extensive ar rangements to entertain the Portland ers on their arrival there Saturday in the forenoon. Automobiles will be used to show the visitors about town. DALLES SEEKS CONVENTION Wants to Entertain Grand Dodge of Oddfellows in 1910. THE DALLES, Or., May 13. (Special.) At a meeting of The Dalles Business Men's Association Secretary Patterson was instructed to send Invitations to the Oregon Threshers' Association and the grand lodge of Oddfellows t hold their conventions in this city. The thresher men have been invited to meet here in December and the Oddfellows In 1910, a convention city having been selected for their 1908 meeting. Should the I. O. O. F. grand lodge meet here 1200 delegates would attend, and the Business Men's Association means to land this convention if any reasonable inducement will secure it. The Vogt Theater, which seats 2000 people, would be used for a convention hall. The new $86,000 hotel will offer accommodations unsurpassed by any town of its size in the state. FOR STOLEN LOVE, 10,0 0 0 Aggrieved Husband Gets All He Asks in Seattle Court. SEATTLE, Wash., May 13. (Special.) For the first time in the history of aliena tion cases in which damages are sought, a jury in Judge Wilson R. Gay's branch of Superior Court today awarded J. R. McGee, "a verdict of $10,000, all he asked, against S. C. Campbell, a former grocer at Green Lake for the alienation of the. affections of Mrs. McGee. Three months ago the case had its first trial and the jury disagreed. Today, after a three days' hearing, the jury agreed that Mc Gee had lost all he claimed to have lost. The two families went to housekeeping together according to MoGee'8 story, under an .arrangement made by Campbell and McGee's wife. It was charged by the husband that Campbell escorted Mrs. McGee to sundry entertainments in the evening, and that gradually the wife's affections seemed to ooze away. Finally Mrs. McGee, feeling aggrieved at the alleged nonsupport of her husband, ap plied to the courts for a divorce from him, which was refused as not showing sufficient grounds. Then McGee became interested in the matter and filed a suit for $10,000 for alienation. HAY MAKES OPENING TALK Governor Addresses Conservation Congress at Walla Walla. WALLA WALLA. Wash., May 13. (Spe cial.) With a large attendance of prom inent men of the Northwest present, the first annual session of the Washington State Conservation Congress met in this city today for the opening ceremonies which consisted of an address by Gov ernor M. E. Hay, who is presiding, and an address of welcome by Mayor Eugene Tausick. An interesting programme has been pre pared for this occasion and many noted speakers will deliver talks upon various subjects pertaining to the conservation of the various resources of the State of Washington. This afternoon all the school children of the city were marched to the Commercial Club, where the meet ings are being held, and listened to a short address by Governor Hay, after which they formed in line and had an opportunity to meet him. The session will close tomorrow night. WOMAN'S BODY IS FOUND Unidentified Corpse, Richly Clothed, Promises Mystery.. BELLINGHAM, May 13. A special to the Herald from New Westminster, B. C, says: While clearing a lot in Burnaby, a suburb, last evening, workmen found the 'body of a woman in an advanced state of decomposition, death having occurred at least six months previously. Beside the body was found a bottle and glass vial containing a reddish liquid. Close by some crticles of wearing apparel were found in a pile of ashes, having been partly burned. The woman' had been richly clad and apparently was about 30 years of age. On the breast was a Knights of Pythias pin. No clew to the identity of the woman has been dis covered. In her stocking was $9.70 in United States coins and bills. An inquest will be held. BIG CATS BECOME PLAGUE War of Extermination to Begin in National Reserve. TACOMA, Wash., May 13. (Special.) Cougars and wildcats are becoming so numerous in the Mount' Tacoma National Reserve that plans are being formulated to rid the forests of the dangerous ani mals. If the management acts upon the suggestion of the Pierce County Game Protective Association, the services of William Montgall, of Ashford, and ex cellent tree dogs, will be employed in the work of extermination. During the past few years these ani mals have multiplied so fast that the deer and birds in the reserve are becom ing extinct. Authorities state that this action is absolutely necessary for pro tection of game. Ball Games on Pioneer' Day. WESTON, Or., May 13. (Special.) Among the amusements scheduled for the pioneers' reunion May 28 and 29 base ball will have prominent place. The Weston Normal will play the Pendleton Indians May 28 and Fort Walla Walla May 29. Lewis Smalley, a Walla Walla aeronaut, has been engaged for balloon ascensions both days. J. D. Lee, of Portland, will give the memorial address May 28. Dalles Church 50 Years Old. TH3 DALLES, Or., May 13. (Special.) The members of the Congregational Church of The Dalles will celebrate the 50th anniversary of the organization of that denomination In this city the second week in June. Rev. W. A. Tenny, of Berkeley, Cal., and Mrs. Camilla F. Don nell. of The Dalles, the only two living charter members, have accepted invita tions to the celebration. BARTON HELD NOT CHIEF Naval Bureau Controversy Ended by Ruling Rendered. WASHINGTON, May 13. A decision of Attorney-General Wlckersham, made public by Secretary Meyer today, ap parently settles the controversy over the question whether Rear-Admiral John K. Barton continues legally to hold the office of Chief of the Naval Bureau of Steam Engineering. The Attorney-General says, in effect, that he does not. and that the post of chief of that bureau is vacant, and that the Rear-Admiral, having been re tired by a board of medical survey of the Navy, thereby vacated the office of engineer-in-chief. Chief Constructor W. L. Capps, fol lowing Rear-Admiral Barton's retire ment on December 22 last, was appoint ed to act as head of the bureau, but this appointment, the Attorney-General says, did not fall within the provision of section 179 of the revised statutes, since the vacancy was caused not by death, resignation, absence or sickness, but by the compulsory retirement of Admiral Barton, and the vacancy thus created can be filled only by the Presi dent pursuant to law. The designation of Admiral Capps by ex-Secretury Newberry was in line with the latter's plan for the reorgani zation of the Navy, and was intended only to be a temporary assignment- The issue raised in Admiral Barton's case has been a fruitful topic of discus sion in naval circles. The designation of Admiral Capps to act as head of the Bureau of Steam Engineering re vived to some extent the feeling be tween the officers of the line and staff. Since the advent of the new admin istration, Lieutenant-Commander H. I. Cone, engineer-in-chief of the Atlantic fleet during the trip around the world, was nominated for the office of Chief of the Bureau of Steam Engineering, but the nomination was held up by the Senate. BILL TO CONTROL PORTO RICO Provides for Appropriations Whether Passed by Assembly or Not. WASHINGTON, May 13. Olmstead of Pennsylvania in the -House, today, offered a bill amendatory to the act creating a. civil government in Porto Rico. It pro vides that "if at the termination of any eestion of tha Legislature the appropria tions necessary for the support of the Government, shall not have been mad in ampunt equal to the sums appropriated in the last appropriation bills, the sums for such purposes shall be deeme,d to be appropriated." The bill also authorizes the President to designate one of the executive depart ments of the National Government to take charge of Porto Rico affairs. Clark of Missouri at once objected to immediate consideration, on the ground that the President's message had not as yet been referred to committee. In con sequence, the bill lies on the Speaker's table. By a. vote of 74 to 104, a resolution by Garrett of Tennessee, directing the Speaker forthwith to appoint a com mittee on insular affairs to consider the President's Porto Rican message was de feated. OIL BARGE STRIKES SAND Current Carries Vessel Out of Chan nel and Is Beached. ASTORIA, Or., May 13. (Special.) As the Standard Oil tank steamer Maver lick was crossing in over the bar this evening with oil barge No. 91 in tow, the strong current carried, the barge to the south out of the channel and she struck heavily several times. Fortunately, the steel hawser held and Captain Daniels was able to bring the barge up to anchor age below Smith's Point, where she was beached. The barge is leaking badly forward and It Is feared her bottom is also damaged further aft. Her pump room is said to be full of oil, so it is supposed her tanks are injured. The barge is several feet down by the head, and this even ing barges were engaged to lighten the oil barge forward so that she can be towed up the river in the morning. INDIANS GET MITCH LIQUOR County Officials Start Move to Sup press Sales in Idabo. GRANGE VI LLE, Idaho, May 13. (Spe cial.) The Idaho County officials will co operate with the Federal officers in an attempt to suppress the sale of liquor among the Nez Perces Indians. The first action was taken Tuesday, when Jesse James and D. Corbett, Indian members of the Stites baseball team, were placed under arrest on a charge of drunkenness. The team came to Grangeville from Cottonwood, and it is said the Indians were drunk when they first arrived here. During the past few weeks the Indians have been securing large quantities of liquor in the Camas Prairie country. CHILD DIES AFTER SHOCK Slightly Scalded by Hot Water, Little One Never Rallies. WALLA WALLA, Wash., May 13. (Special.) While washing some of the woodwork in her house this afternoon, Mrs. P. Demarest, living a few miles on the outskirts of the city, set a tub of. hot water on the floor. Into which her 4-year-old daughter Gertrude fell. Although the water was not hot enough to scald the child severely, she was brought to a local hospital and, despite the efforts of physicians to save her she died. It was said by one of the attending physicians that death was due to a shock that would not have killed a person of stronger physique. BRIBE RETURNED TO OWNER Spokane Divekeeper Given Back -- Money Sent to Police Chief. SPOKANE. Wash., May 13. (Special.) The now almost - forgotten bribe amounting to $300, which Frank Bruno, the former well-known divekeeper at tempted to give ex-Chief of Police Ren H. Rice, after remaining in the custody of the County Clerk since last July, was today by order of Judge Hinkle, turned over to Bruno's- attorney, Horace Kim ball. The Judge stated that he was unable to decide on any other course under the circumstances. No one proving a better claim to the money. It was returned to the original owner after the state had retained $11 for court costs. HAMILTON GETS NO BAIL Charge of Stealing Military Fund la Placed Against Him. OLTMPIA, Wash., May 13. (Special.) Information was filed in the .Superior Court here this afternoon charging Ortis Hamilton with embezzlement of $11S8 state military funds. This is the charge upon which he Is being held in Jail. No ball has been furnished yet by Ham ilton. Trial will be had next month.