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PORTLAND, OREGON, THURSDAY. FEBRUARY 17, 1910.
PRICE FIVE CENTS.
VOL. Li. NO. 15,339.'
TIFT TO SEKATL:
'REDEEM PLEDGES'
President Tartly Says
Stop Wasting Time.
LEADERS MAKE PROGRAMME
Conference Today Will Hasten
Action on Bills.
POSTAL BANK IN TANGLE
Conflicting Amendments Create Dif
ficult Problem Railroad Bill to
Be Forced Through Conser
vation. Bills ' Incubate.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 18. In effect
President Te.ft said to some of the Senate
leaders whom lie called to the White
House today:
"Why don't you pass measures to re
deem party pledges -while the House is
dealing with appropriation bills? You are
moving too slowly?"
It is said he exhibited extreme impa
tience with the degree of progress thus
far made toward the enactment of Ad
ministration bills.
, By way of result the Senators' were
able to announce tonight the following:
Senators Announce Programme.
The almast hopeless tangle in which
the Root and Smoot amendments have
ensnarled the postal savings bank bill
will receive attention at a conference to
morrow in the rooms of the finance com
mittee, of which Senator Aldrich Is chair
men. When whipped into shape, the
postal savings bank bill Is to displace the
Alaskan legislative council bill as the
unfinished business, and the latter is to
be laid aside as involving problems that
cannot be solved at the present session.
The Administration railroad bill is to
be reported from the committee on inter
state commerce next week and force put
behind it to pass it without material
amendment.
. Conservation Bills Seem Safe.
The several conservation bills are to
be perfected by a. syecial committee of
Western Senators appointed today by
Chairman Nelson from the membership
of the committee on public lands, and
these measures are to be reported to the
Senate as rapidly as completed.
The anti-injunction bill is to ' be eon -
ldered by the judiciary committee next
Monday.
Statehood legislation, which already has
been reported from the committee on ter
ritories. Is not to be permitted to lag,
and probably will receive attention as
soon as the postal savings bank is out of
the way.
This programme includes neither the
federal Incorporation bill nor ship sub
sidy legislation, although the latter Is
likely to pass the Senate without much
debate. It will meet dif ficult'hurdles in
the House.
Taft Is Growing Angry.
Senators Carter, Borah and Bevcridge
carried from the Capitol the President's
views of the delays encountered by bills
contained in his programme. They re
ported that there could be no mistaking
the President's temper. . The postal sav
lugs bank bill gave him the most con
cern, it is said, because the opposition
that bad developed to such legislation
did not appear to him based on sound
principles..
When the Senate adjourned today, the
postal savings bank bill was In such a
tangle that no one was willing to proph
esy its outcome. In truth, the adjourn
ment was brought about chiefly because
the Senate whs not ready to face the
Fituation in reference to this bill, and
there was nothing else that could be
considered, as the Alaskan bill was In a
snarl even more Intricate.
Postal Banks in Danger. .
All afternoon Senators entered Sena.
tor Aldrich's room. As a result of
these visits, it was arranged to have
a conference of wider scope tomorrow.
At that time will gather all Senators
who have introduced conflicting amend
ments to the postal bank bill, and Re
publican leaders have announced .their
determination to "see the , President
through" on his programme.
Mr. Aldrich predicted tonight that an
agreement would be reached that would
bring to the support of the bill enough
Republican to pass it.
Mr. Aldrich does not disguise that he
considers the problem exceedingly dif
ficult. On the one hand Senator Root
and his followers are contending for a
provision like that contained In the
Root amendment, which would con
stitutionally justify the creation of the
postal banns by placing them under the
borrowing clause of the Constitution.
On the other hand, many Western
Senators take the position that such a
Clause would Inevitably have the ef
fect of concentrating at Washington
v the vast fund that it Is expected the
postal depositors will bring out of
hiding.
The two positions are ultra-antagonistic
and friends of the bill fear that,
unless one side or the other gives way,
the bill must fall.
Chief Revenue Agent Dies.
PHILADELPHIA, Feb. 16. F. A.
Alexander, Chief United States Rev
enue Agent in Philadelphia, and one
cf the best known men in that branch
of the Government service, died iiere
urazed 67 years.
CHAMBERLAIN PUTS
MARK AFTER NAME
PATHETIC SCEXE IS EXACTED
IX HOUSE OF COMMONS.
With Frame Shrunken and Face
Ashen, Former Leader Takes
Oath of Membership.
LONDON, Feb. 16. For the first time
since he was stricken with paralysis
years ago, Joseph Chamberlain appeared
in the House of Commons today and
took the oath as a member of the new
Parliament. The advent of the tariff
reformer was quite unexpected and af
forded a dramatic surprise for the offi
cials and members who were being
sworn in.
Mr. Chamberlain walked with difficulty.
being assisted by his eon. Joseph. Austen
Chamberlain, and Lord Morpeth. He ad
vanced to a front seat before the bench,
where the oath was administered. "When
the membership roll was placed before
him for his signature, he requested the
aid of Austen, who signed the name of
hie father, the latter appending his mark.
Still supported on either side, Mr. Cham
berlain moved to the Speaker's chair and
shook hands with .Mr. Lowther, after
which be made, his way slowly from the
Chamber within which so many stirring
episodes of his life have occurred.
The whole scene was painful to those
who recalled the vigor exhibited by the
statesman upon his previous appearance
in the . House. Today his frame -was
shrunken and his features ashen.
He was unable to move without assist
ance and haltingly whispered the words
of the oath after his 60n had spoken them
In his ear. It was evident to those -who
witnessed the evidence of extreme weak
ness that all hope of a recovery from his
Tmysical infirmities must be abandoned.
There was perfect silence throughout the
trying ordeal.
EXCHANGE DROPS HASKINS
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Expulsion Result of Recent Coal and
Iron Poof
NEW YORK, Feb. 16. Henry S. Has
kins, board member of the stock ex
change firm of Lathrop, Haskins & Co.,
which failed with the recent collapse
of the Columbus & Hocking Coal & Iron
Pool, was declared ineligible for re
instatement on the exchange today
because of his firm's connection with
the fiasco. As Mr. Haskins was the
only member of the firm having a seat
on the exchange, the action of today is
equivalent to expulsion. His seat will
be sold and he never will be able to
become a member of .the exchange
again. The report of the committee of
insolvencies says:
"The failure of the firm of Lathrop,
Haskins & Co of which H. S. Haskins
was the floor member, was caused by
reckless and unbusinesslike dealings
and said Henry S. Haskins is declared
ineligible for reinstatement."
Two other stock excuange houses,
J. M. Fiske & Co., and Robert Hall &
Crlss, have to appear before the gov
ernors of the exchange for their par
ticipatton in the pools.
TRACK REMOVAL IS LEGAL
Court Sustains Farmer in Contest
With Railroad.
, LA GRANDfcT Or.. Feb. 16. (Special.)
-The re-hearing of the old case of the
O. R. & N. Railway Company versus
Hector McDonald, of Wallowa County,
came up yesterday" in the Circuit Court.
McDonald formerly donated the right
of way across his f aim to the railroad
company with the understanding that
the tracks were to be laid within two
years. As this stipulation was not com
plied with. McDonald started in to tear
up a portion of the track already laid.
The company applied for an injunction
staying McDonald . from thus interfering.
It was granted. Judge-Knowles yester
day decided ' in favor of the defendant.
who is now at liberty to go on with his
work of demolition.
The case was appealed to the Supreme
Court.
PRINCESS DE SAGAN SUED
Ex-Parenls-ln-Law Seek $13,00 0,
Alleged Anilities Due.
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PARIS, Feb. 16. The Marquis and
Marquise de Castellane have instituted
suit against Princess de Sagan for
$13,600 back annuities which they al
lege the Count and Cnuntess in the
marriage settlement of 1898 engaged
themselves to pay at the rate of $5600
a year.
This annuity was paid until the
Count and Countess de Castellane
were divorced, when the Countess, who
was Miss Anna Gould, refused to con
tribute further to the support of her
former husband's parents.
BOY TEASING DOG IS SHOT
Melrose, 'Cal., Six-Year-Old May
Die, Police After Assailant.
MELROSE. Cal., Feb. 16. For teasing
a pet dog belonging to George Pelligrini
a wine-dealer, Angelo Formecks, a 6-year-
old boy, was shot through the head today
by Charles Barromeo,- an employe , of
Pelligrini.
The child's condition is critical and the
police are searching for Barromeo.
Wright Finds Aviation Field.
MONTGOMERY, Ala., Feb. 16. Wilbur
Wright was here yesterday for the pur
pose of buying, ground near this city to
build an aviation field. Mr. Wright will
go down from here today to New Orleans
and ship his aeroplanes here. He says
that the rolling plains of this section are
peculiarly adapted .to the purpose.
FlGOefl
EOT
building burheo
Fire Incendiary, It Is
Believed.
FLAMES EAT MASSIVE PILLARS
Thousands at Guilds Lake
View Picturesque SighL
DEPARTMENT POWERLESS
Favorable Wind Prevents Spread of
Fire, Buckets Ready to Save
Nearby 31111 Structure.
Empty, Ko Insurance. '
The Government building, one of the
ornamental edifices of the Lewis and
Olark Exposition, was totally destroyed
by fire last night. The fire started shortly
before 7:30 o'clock and burned fiercely
until after midnight, lighting up the sky
n all directions. The fire was visible all
over the city. Great crowds took the
cars to the shores of Guilds Lake, and
n spite of the rain and mud, stood for
hours, watching the great building, as
upport after support gave way with the
onward roar of the flames.
Xo Insurance Borne.
The building was the property of the
Amanda W. Reed estate, of which Martin
Winch is executor. There was abso
lutely no insurance on it, as no Insur
ance company would take the risk, the
structure being absolutely devoid of fire
protection, as last night's fire, and the
futile efforts of the fire department to
reach it either by fireboat or by engine,
showed. The building cost $235,482, but
Its value since the fair had been nominal.
It was empty, and no lives were lost or
endangered in the conflagration.
Nothing could he learned last night as
to tho origin of the lire, but the theory
of members of the Fire apartment is
that it was incendiary. Ttampa are sug
gested as a rause, two of the three fami
lies living -on the little neck of land
which connects the Island with the main
land, declaring that hobos often go that
way, probably to obtain shelter.
.Stranger Seen Xear.
Frank "Wheeler, a teamster, -whb lives
in a shack hear the burned structure, said
last night that about 3 o'clock yesterday
afternoon he aw a tramp walk toward
the building,' and sal-i he watched the
man who appeared to he a foreigner.
as he thought he- might turn off to visit
Jake 'Baker, who lives nearby. But the
man disappeared, says Wheeler. J. S.
Tarter, an employe of the Eastern &
Western Lumber Company and his family
are the only other persons living within
a mile or more of the building.
( Firemen Are Helpless.
Assistant Fire Chief Young and Truck
Company 3 responded to the first alarm
from box 68, at Twenty-sixth and Thur
man streets. Truck 3 Is at Fifteenth
and Gllsan streets. Before the Assist
ant Chief could reach box 68 the first
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INDEX OF TODAY'S NEWS
The Weather.
YESTERDAY'S Maximum tnvperature, 39
degrees; minimum, 33 degrees.
TODAY'S Snow, turning to rain; south
easterly winds.
foreign. .
Joseph Chamberlain takes -oath in House.
of Commons; scene is dramatic. Page 1-
Roosevelt lingers in African wilds to hunt
elephant and eland. Page a.
National.
Glavis arfmits transfer from Alaska to Ore-
eon cases, followed his own report or
needed aid. Pa Re 1.
Taft calls on Senate to hasten action on
bills to redeem platform pledges and
leaders get busy. Page 1.
Opposition to Koot amended to postal sav
ings bariK bin tnrearena defeat ot meas
ure In Senate. Pajce .
Los Angeles Quaker ministers publicly de
nounce white man for deserting Eskimo
wife. Page 1. .
Wills, Involving millions, broken by Illinois
Mipreme court in famous fcneu ana War
ner cases. Paire .1.
Niece of Senator Elk ins tries suicide when
forbidden to choose theatrical career.
Paire a.
No competition exists between Southern
Pacihc and union Pacinc, testifies Traftic
Director J. C. Stubbs. Page 3.
Negro herb "doctor" who treated Swope
family for eiprht years earned big lees;
he denies blame for deaths. Page 2.
Wert, North wept and Southwest swept by
fierce bUKzard. rape 2.
Mayor McCarthys appointees to school
board put to rout despite protection oi
police. ' Page 2. -Sport.
Manager Mt-Credie sfpns up all his men
except Ivan Olson, over whom he is
not worrying. Page 7.
Ajnerinan League 're-elects Pen Johnson
president at salary of $25,000 annually,
for 20 years. Pago 7.
Commercial and Marine.
Another London hop firm buys in Oregon
market. Page II 1.
"Wheat prices jump two cents at Chicago.
Page '21.
Keadi ng t he feature of trading In stocks.
Page 21.
Chinese cabin bov accused of stealing pris
oner on board ehij. Page '20.
Northwest.
American Development Company aslcs elo
trie railway franchise for Rogue River
Valley points. Page 8.
General Maus says that Colonel Abercrombie
was relieved because arimiistration was
unsatisfactory: no court martial contem
plated. Page B.
Orchard of rV? acres in Rogue River valley
sold for $"-00,000. Page 6.
Baker saloons voluntarily decifle on early
closing and observance of Sunday law.
Pane 1.
Newberg mass meeting subscribes $16,335
for Pacific College building. Page 12.
Ex-Co vernor Moore may enter race for
Senate. Page 8.
Sensational evidence is expected In trial of
Boise bankers. Page 6.
Ben Conger says Jean Burnett got $1000
bribe. Pace 3.
Portland and Vicinity.
PresMent of largest berry-growers asso
ciation In world tells of advantage of
co-operation. Page 14.
Odd-length question partially adjusted;
Western Retail Lumbermen's Assoclaiton
elects officers, selects San Francisco as
next convention city. Page 20.
Revl T. B. Griswold, of Portland, elected
president Oregon State C. E. Union.
Page 15.
Farmer's Mutual Fire Relief Association
elects directors at stormy meeting.
Page 15.
Sudden return of Francis J. Heney to Cali
fornia revives rendrt he will run for
Governor. page U.
Washington-street business men protest
closing one track on double-tracked
thoroughfare. Page 12.
Italyv and Sweden Bend roses for planting
in Portland, page 9.
Jury awards Ada E. Blue $22,500 for In
juries sustained by being thrown from
Mount " abor car. Page S.
DEFENSE OF LUZON BEGUN
Maneuvers of 1 0,000 Men to Work
Out Philippine Problems.
MANILA, Feb. 16. The Blue Army,
General Daniel Brush commanding:, b3
gan ,its""northern movement today for
the annual maneuvers. This force as
sumes the defensive in the execution
o? the land maneuvers. The Red Army,
under command of Captain Teniplln M
Potts, will embark on transports on
Thursday and proceed to the North
Coast, where It will beg-in an attack
upon the Blues.
Tne programme permits a landing
and an advance upon the enemy at any
point available between Subig Bay and
the Llngaysr Gulf. Nearly 10.000
troops will be engaged. Major-General
William P. Duvall. the umpire, will de
part for the pcene of activity on Friday.
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MOWN REPORT
Many Cases in Oregon
Were Pressing.
AID NEEDED, HE TELEGRAPHED
Return to Alaska Work Urged
by Chief Schwartz.
HOYT TO BE CALLED NEXT
Chairman of Committee and Pemo-
cralic Member Engage in Col
loquy Over Glavis' Habit of
Answering Indirectly.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 16. The cross
examination of Louis R. Glavis today was
marked by some acrimony on the part of
Mr. Vertrees, who was vexed at the ef
forts of the witness to make long ex
planations as answers to every question,
and also by the admission by Glavis that
his transfer from the investigation of
the Alaska cases, of -which he since has
complained, to the cases in Oregon fol
lowed a telegram he himself had sent to
"Washington, saying that the Oregon
cases would require tho services of the
entire field force until July. The com
mittee was in session three hours today.
It adjourned finally until Friday.
Mr. Vertrees made little headway in
his cross-examination. In one of the dis
putes over the long answers of tho wit
ness. Representative Graham, of Illinois,
a Democrat, and Senator Nelson, of Min
nesota, chairman of tho committee, had
a warm colloquy..
Mr. Vertrees read Into the records to
day several letters and ' telegrams deal
ing with the "calling in" of the Forest
Service by Glavis. In the cross-examination
of the witness it was shown that
before he was called off the Alaska coal
land cases In May, 190S, he had tele
graphed the department at Washington
that the United States Attorney at Port
land had urged the necessity of closing
up about a thousand cases in Oregon,
wherein a hearing has to be held almost
immediately, and the full field service
-would be needed.
Oregon Assignment Given.
Three days later Glavis was taken off
the Alaska case and assigned to the Ore
gon work. Glavis testified that he got no
orders to resume the Alaska cases until
October, 1908.
A brief exeputive session preceded the
resumption of the hearing this afternoon.
Mr. Vertrees began immediately to ques
tion Mr. Glavis as to the alleged necessity
for a field examination of the Alaska
coal claims, prior to his making final re
ports. Glavis had declared he had not
been given time to make these examina
tions. He admitted, however, he had
been instructed that the results of the
field examinations could be put into the
records after the evidence on other feat
ures had been taken.
Glavis said he did not agree with the
office in this matter- He felt that the
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ESKIMO WIFE LEFT,
MINISTERS' IRE UP
EX-FAR NORTH PARSONS DE
NOUNCE WHITE SPOCSE.
Los Angeles Quaker Missionaries
Expose Eli M. Smith's
Cruel looser t ion. .
LOS ANGELES, Cal., Feb. 16. (Spe-cia-L)
Indignant over what they as
sert is cruel desertion of axi Eskimo
wife and child by Ell M. Smith, who
until last night was in Long Beach,
J. V. Geary and Dana Thomas, former
Quaker missionaries in Alaska, today
came out with a public denouncement.
Dana Thomas, now superintendent
and president of the Huntington Park
Friends Church, has issued a signed
letter telling of 'Smith's marriage in
Kotzebue, Alaska, The missionaries
say they wish to protect innocent
women from his wiles, because he was
recently married to a Washington, D.
C. girl
Geary combined with his duties as
a missionary in Kotzebue, Alaska, the
position of postmaster. He says that
It wrung: his heart to see a little Eski
mo woman, who patiently watched the
mail for more than- four years in
hope that her white -husband would
prove true to her. He declares that
Smith espoused his Far Northern bride
in legal form before Mrs. Otha Thomas,
then a Friend preacher at Kotzebue.
They had a white child which lived to
be three years old, but died a year ago,
the boy was christened Ell M. Smith,
Jr.
Smith suddenly came before the pub
lic eye when he made a spectacular
dash across the continent carrying the
mails several years ago.
CRITICS ANGER WARFIELD
"Music Master" Weelines to Appear
if liutle Newspaper Men Attend.
BUTTE. Mont., Feb. 16. (Special.)
David Warfield, starring in the "Music
Master," incensed at Butte newspaper
criticism of his company, announced that
he would not appear on the stage at the
Broadway Theater tonight If . Butte
newspaper man was in the audience, and
further, that he would keep a man of
his company at the door of the theater to
see that no one passed the door on a
press pass.
Mr. Warfield declared that it was a
mighty fine state of affairs that he had
to come out among the miners, miles
from nowhere, to find that he had an
inferior company. Other language mora
forcible was used by the actor In giving
vent to his feelings..
The dramatic critics praised Mr. War
field, os Warfield, but regarded his sup
port as amounting to nothing and his
vehicle as very poor. The scribes say
they had all of Mr. Warfleld's company
they desired the first two nights and none
attended this evening, the concluding
night.
BABY UNDER TRAIN UNHURT
Wedged Between Ties, little One's
Life Is Spared.
iJODf. Cal., Feb. !. '(Special.) The 2-
year-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. George
Hummel, residing a half mile west of
Victor, narrowly escaped being ground to
pieces Sunday morning by the Valley
Springs train, according to information
received here today.
The little tot had wandered to the track
and was crushed between two ties when
the train rushed by. Engineer Baldwin
did not see the child in time to stop be
fore reaching the spot, but he applied the
emergency brakes. The engine and two
cars passed over the child before the train
was stopped.
Miraculously the child came out un
scratched when the train was brought to
a standstill. The mother, who saw the
accident from the door of tholr home,
fell to the ground In & faint when the
child was restored to her.
MERCHANT MAKES VIOLIN
Just to Be Busy, Dayton Man Fash
ions Amost Perfect Instrument.
DATTON, Wash.. Feb. 16. (Special.)
"I wanted something" to do and so I
made a violin," said Dick Harper,
wealthy retired merchant, of Dayton,
today on completing a perfect model of
a Stradivarlus violin, which musicians
say is worth between $50 and $i!0.
Harper had seldom held a violin In his
hands before attempting this feat of
handicraft and the results of his three
months' of pastime toil, is a marvel to
his friends. Part of the Instrument is
made of native wood, only the back be
ing carved from Eastern white maple.
Mr. Harper probably never will make
another violin, but he will keep this one,
he says, always. Musicians declare tho
tone of the Instrument to be excellent
and say with ago tho violin should be
worth hundreds of dollars.
MOTHER LEAVES NO WILL
Rudolph and C'laus Spreckels Would
Administer Estate.
.
SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 16. Applica
tion for appointment as special ad
ministrators of the estate of their
mother, Mrs. Anna Christina Spreck
els, was filed today in the probate de
partment of the Superior Court by Ru
dolph and CTaus A. Spreckels. who de
clare In -their petition that the busi
ness of the estate must receive imme
diate attention.
No will was filed and the petitioners
state that they have seen none. Judge
Coffey will act ujuou the application
tomorrow.
DR. BURKE LETS NG
HNEQUESTIDr HIM
Newspaper Men Are
Ordered Away.
NURSE VICTIM RECOVERING
Sheriff Returns With Deposi
tions From Miners.
SATISFIED WITH HIS TRIP
Workmen Give Evidence That Dyna
mite Was Purchased by Owner of
Sanitarium- in AVhich Tragedy
"Was Enacted I'cbruary 5.
SANTA ROSA, Cal.. Feb. 16. (Special.)
Dr. Willard P. Burke's sanatorium, tho
scene of the attempt to murder Luella
Smith and her 11-months-old son, Febru
ary 5, Is barricaded from access today as
If the members of the Burke family con-
sidered themselves in a state of siege.
No guest, unless he has proper creden
tials, is allowed to register at the institu
tion, and every precaution is ebing taken
to prevent an outsider from staying at
the health resort who might obtain an
Insight into the inner workings of that
resort.
Reporters Are Kept Out.
"Dr. Burke has nothing to say to h
public and at the present time no repre
sentative of a newspaper is wanted on
the grounds of this sanatorium. "We have
done what wo could to assist the officers
who made the Investigation, and now wo
are firm In our belief that we have a
risht to bar any one from the grounds."
said Dr. H. E. Dessau, the sanatorium
dietician today.
Luella Smith, the victim of the at
tempted murder at Burke's Sanl
torlum February 5, is able to be about
the grounds at the Sonoma County Hos
pital, where she is a patient. She will
be . able-..to. appear before the grand
jury to testify in the Dr. Burke case
on Friday. Her- Injuries received dur
ing the explosion of dynamite in her
tenthouse on the sanitorium grounds
-have healed, and she Is now able to
take practically the entire charge of
her baby.
No one except her brother, who vis
ited her Monday afternoon, has been
allowed to talk -with her at the lios- -v
pltal. District Attorney Lea and Sher
iff Smith arrived tonight on their re
turn from Dr. Burkes Butte County
mine with some dozen depositions
from miners who knew of the doctor's
securing dynamite at the mine on hU
visit in December.
Lea and Smith are evidently well
satlslled with the result of the trip
and said tonight that Thomas ltlley,
the miner who gave the doctor the ex
plosive, will appear before the grand
jury at its session on Friday. Lea de
scribes the visit to the doctor's minu
at Kanaka Peak as follows:
Miner Who Talks Discharged.
"The last part of the way to tin
mine we had to go on foot. As wo
were going up the trail we met Thomas
Riley coming down. He had just been
discharged on account of the Informa
tion that he had given to Sheriff Smith
regarding the dynamite on his former
visit. A messenger had preceded us
from Orovllle to the mine that morn
ing, and had brought the word that
Riley must go."
Sheriff Smith said that the piece oi
burnt which wa round by the side of
the tenthouse of Luella Smith after
the explosion at the SHtiitorium was
taken by them to the Kanaka Peak
mine on this trip and idenlitied " t he-
men as being tne same aunt ie
which is used at the mine, and a.s sim
ilar to the piece which hart been ar
ranged for the doctor to blow out hit
"two-ton rock on the sanitorium
grounds."
Probe of Secret Work Begins.
District Attorney Ia was asked to
day if he would investigate the mattei
of reported practices at the sanitorium
in certain operations of an unusual
character. Lea answered: "It might
be necessary to do so. It will depend
on the turn affairs take later."
Lea went on to speak of this mat
ter in a manner which showed that ha
was familiar with the facts and had
conducted an in vestipation along these
lines. He described in detail the man
ner in which these operations had been
performed.
ROSEBURG HAS GALA DAY
Douglas County Citizens From All
Points Attend Booster Meeting.
ROSEBURG, Or., Feb. 16. Roseburg
held open house today, entertaining
about i)00 visitors from neighboring
towns and localities in DourIhs Coun
ty. It was the sequenee to the "get
together" excursion of Rosehurg boost
ers two weeks ago, the objec t ot which
was to cement the bonds of social
and business intercourse and to arouse
a spirit of co-operation in general pro
motion work.
At 6 o'clock in the evening a ban
quet was tendered the city's guests
by the Rosehurg Commercial Club, and
at 8:30 at the Dig Tabernacle there
was an open programme of music and
speechmaking. in the latter of which
three prominent Portland men took
part. These were Judge L. K. Web
ster, Dr. Andrew C. Smith and Aman
Moore, president of the Portland Ce
ment Company, who discussed Oregon'
manufacturing possibilities..