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4) y THE MORNING OREGOS1AX, WEDNESDAY, APRIX. 20, 1910 . fe!r ?Jr mteedr. esS 4-dr &dr m-r Kb ' " ' ' MMIW.If a; uMr;in M.. I nr-nrHTilil rV r--- .1 nittH- - ' ' ""T-- " 1 ' iit ii mtM. '-.,.i. .r,,- naTi w ' n im ' ii. laMfc 'ithjatA'a'iij .mwij-imj? j' .jain-iji.!; . vij Til '-. ? . J".: , --''---V'li,;il,i-1l:-.-V.iw.:,,...,'... i..!..- .1 K4jA M MM il 1 1 11 1 Ml kji'-j 11 .1. nn.ii- i ,1. I I..-IIIH. )in. IMTligJ iMWIFM InntTWtiri-inWUh-jiiHi nil Jllitflfcu; A ijil A gang of a hundred men are busy making good our T7i 7 1 CLIP OUT AND MAIL. COLUMBIA TRUST COMPANY. Please send me some special Beaumont literature. t Name. . . ... ....... . . ... . Address ...... . .......... . claims of immediate improvement The tract is alive with activity. The present army of workmen will be shortly replaced by another and still another men to clear the streets, men to grade the streets and lots. Men to lay cement curbs and walks. The coming 60 days will be spent in divorcing Beaumont absolutely from the slightest taint or suggestion of pioneering. i Beaumont improvements are going through with a rush. Landscape gardeners are busy now laying out lawns and sowing grass seed. When the work is completed Beaumont will have: 28 to 48-foot street from curb to curb. Hard-surface pavement, 9-foot parkings, 1 foot inside parkings. 6-foot cement walks and cement curbs. i One dozen rose bushes planted to each lot. Two shade trees to each lot. Homes set back of a 25-foot building line. Building restrictions, $2500 to $7500. Sewers, gas, Bull Run water, electric lights and telephones. Exclusive streetcar service. Beaumont's streetcar line will be operat ing without delay. v Beaumont's aim is highest among home-site properties. Her ultimate position will be uniquely supreme. For your home or for investment, investigate Beaumont. ITT fJ 11 KU31 COMPANY BOARD OF TRADE BUILDING SUBSIDY WITNESS WITHHOLDS NAMES Ex-Editor of Organ of Lobby May Be Punished for Con tempt of House. MONEY PAID TO PAPERS Chautauqua Trip of Landls Fi nanced by League Mysterious London "Boodle" Combination Precipitates Refusal. WASHINGTON. April lfl. Whether a report to the House will be made on the recalcitrancy of John M. Maxwell, of Indianapolis, ex-editor of the organ of the ship subsidy lobby, who refuged to answer questions about his source of in formation for charges made In the Amer ican Flag reflecting on members of Con gress, will be decided at an executive session of the ship subsidy investigating committee tomorrow. This was decided today after Maxwell's counsel questioned the power of Congress to rorce answers In such a proceeding. Secretary John A. Penton. of the Mer chant Marine League, recalled as a wit ness today, testified that for the last year lie nad drawn compensation at the rate of $7200 a year, that he stood responsible for the American Flag, but regretted some of the undignified characterizations1 in the November Issue. Maxwell edited that number. He recalled some of the contributions to the league, including or ?euoo from ex-Oovernor Herrlck of Ohio, and a check from John Hays .Hammond. Farm Paper Subsidized. He said that the League had paid the Texas Farmer and other papers for copies containing matter favorable to the . league s propaganda, and that such prac tice was not uncommon. The League had paid part expenses of ex-Representative Landis. of Indiana, on a Chautauqua trip, and of ex-Representative McCleary, of Minnesota, on a speechmaking tour. He assumed responsibility for a letter cent into the district of Representative Lenroot, or Wisconsin, in which the lat ter was referred to as guilty of false hoods. At the afternoon session of the Investigating- committee Chairman Olcott again asked John M. Maxwell to name his informant as to the published charge that a London conference ot shipping interests had been organized to make a pro rata assessment to carry on a "Washington hoodie cam paign" against ship subsidy legislation. "Do you still decline to give that name?" asked Olcott. "Yes. sir; I still decline," answered . JMaxweJl. iAa4o iiia-puijlLshed, tac4Sr a Aepxi sentatlve Kuesterman of Wisconsin, he said that his informant was John A. Penton, of Cleveland, secretary of the Merchant Marine League. The next point was as to the refer ence to subsidizing of certain Congressmen." Who are they?" repeated the chair man. "During my connection with the League," said Mr. Maxwell, "I was in formed certain Congressmen enjoyed more or less friendly relations with foreign shipping Interests." The in formation, he said, was contained in a private letter to which a private letter in reply was sent from a con stituent of Kuesterman. No names were mentioned in the letter. His in formation was largely hearsay. The witness refused to answer this question further. His counsel made a statement as to the precedents for the witness course in not answering this question. He contended that Congress could not compel answers where the matter does not contemplate proposed legislation or official misconduct. TWO SENATORS WHOSE RETIREMENT IS ANNOUNCED AND ASPIRANT TO SUCCEED SENATOR ALDRICH. POLICE CHIEF HOLDS JOB liewiston's Council Takes Slap at Mayor In Revoking Action. LEWISTON, Idaho. April (Special.) The action of Mayor B. F". Tweedy in suspending Chief of Police A. A. Masters without cause was revoked by the Coun cil this afternoon, at a special meeting called for the purpose of considering the suspension. The Council Is composed of six mem bers and the Mayor. Two of the mem bers In sympathy with the Mayor did not attend the meeting but the rein statement of Chief Masters was made unanimous by the four members present. The Mayor has persistently declined to make public his reason for th3 sus pension of Chief Masters and when the matter was before the Council this after noon, he offered only the provisions of the charter, which gave him the right to make the suspension as an excuse for his act. It Is believed the recall petitions now being circulated against the Mayor will be held in abeyance until further de velopments are disclosed. LAW OF 1909 INOPERATIVE Mod ford Loses Suit Becauses Judge Set Out of Own District. SALEM. Or.. April 19. (Special.) Southern Oregon lost another case to day when the Supreme Court decided the case of M. F. Hanley vs. the City of Medford, against the city and In favor of Hanley. This is the case in which Medford has been trying for over a year to secure a right of way across Hanley's land for the city's pipe line for a municipal water supply. In June, 1909, the City of Medford began proceedings to condemn Han ley's property and secure the right of way. The county and city officials petitioned Governor Benson to design nate someone to hold a special term of court, under the provisions of a law passed in 1909, which provides that there shall be an additional Judge for the Second Judicial District and that this judge shall, in addition to his regular judicial duties and labors, per form such judicial duties in districts other than his own as shall be desig nated by the Governor. Govecrior Benson, (llt:eoted.Judge Jabcv . i ..fimm. , el ' i s . f - -: 3 i . . HI 4 "w-, . - i ?, JOURNEY T. B, TO FRENCH GAP1TAL S. Coke, of the Second District, to go into the First District, presided over by Judge Hanna. and hold a special term of court to hear the condemna tion procedlngs. At this special term of court the jury rendered a verdict of $600 damages in favor of Hanley. Hanley at once brought suit to restrain the city from entering upon his land, claiming that the proceedings were void. - The injunction was granted and the city appealed. The Supreme Court holds that the powers of Circuit Judges are confined to the districts where they are elected- Other cases: James Bums, appellant, vs. C. O. "Witter and Florence J. Witter, respondents. Appeal from Multnomah County. Reversed and re manded. Opinion by Chief Justice Moore. Jacob Necklaus. appellant, vs. H. F. Good speed et al., respondents. Appeal from Til lamook County. Reversed. Opinion by Jus tice McBride. A. Caste! and Kent Ballard, appellants, vs. Klamath County and County commissioners. Appeal from Klamath County. Affirmed. Opinion by Chief Justice Moore. SENATOR HALE TO RETIRE (Continued From First Pas;e. . He declared that the Senators had been influenced wholly by considerations of health. Politics, he believed, did . not enter into their determination. As for himself, the Speaker, after taking a fling at "muckrakers," declared he was going to live 25 years longer j and have a good time while he wag do ing it. ' New Excursion Boat on for Seaside. SEASIDE, Or., April 19. (Special.) A new rlVer excursion launch is being built by the Seaside Boat Manufactur ing Company, which will run on a daily schedule from the mouth of the Ne canlcum River to the Seaside House, commencing operations about May 1. Xiua total cost-of tb launohk when -com- 1 -ff ' M f pieted, will be approximately $1000. G. H. Smith is the owner.- Exultant Young Fans Arrested. Exulting over the victory won by the home team. Harlan Bristow and Robert Heath, two high school lads, proceeded to vent their enthuslaslm by pelting number of seat cushions at the fans In the stands m the Vaughn-street ball yard yesterday afternoon. In the height of their caprices. Patrolman Rupert nabbed them. They were charged with disor dorly conduct at police headquarters. Naarly three and a quarter million tons xtt potatoes were. cauecL-un xreiana iaat 7er Visit to Budapest Is Series of Popular Outbursts of Adulation. HE VISITS ARAB HORSES Ex-President Keenly Interested In Breeding of Famous Steeds Foal Is Given His Name Count Szechenyl Has Close Call. BUDAPEST, April 19. Theodore Roosevelt and his son Kermit left here tonight by the Orient Express for Paris, where they will arrive Thursday. In stead of crossing Switzerland, their route runs north through the Austrian Alps and Southern Germany. Mr. Roosevelt's last day in Hungary only furnished additional proof of the deep impression his personality has made upon the hearts of the people. Enthusiasm Increased up to the mo ment of his -departure. Hundreds cheered at the front of the hotel, when he left this morning for a visit to the government stock -farm at the Babotna,, where the breeding or Arao norses is carried on, and thousands were massed about the station when he returned at 7 o'clock tonight. rFantlc Crowds Hurrah. They greeted him with Hungarian cries equivalent to the American "Hur rah for Roosevelt." The ex-President seemed to understand and appreciate. The packed streets echoed the cries as he passed and this demonstration was .thrice repeated later in-the even ing in front of the hotel as he departed for the station, where another frantic multitude had waited until midnight to see him off. The same popular enthusiasm was displayed 70 miles from Buda Pest on the drive from the railroad to Babotna. Carriages drawn by six horses, with drivers in picturesque Hungarian cos tumes, drove the party through the thatched -roofed ivllages, decorated with crude American flags and adorned with hastily constructed triumphal arches. In each village the schools had been dismissed that the children might join in the acclamation. Horses Delight Roosevelt. Mr. Roosevelt greatly enjoyed hi! visit to the breeding farm. After lunch at which the speeches of welcome were most fervid, a score of pure-blood Ara bian stallions were trotted out for his inspection. The Colonel In charge of the stable, an Arab bearing the euphonious name of El Faallallac el Hedad. who came from Syria as a stable) boy, took the greatest pride in showing the tine points of the beautiful animals, saying to Mr. Roosevelt: "I am not married; my wives are in the stable." The ex-President and ladies of the party, including Countess Szechenyl, who was Miss Gladys Vanderbllt, fed the horses with sugar. Later the party vlsite dthe brood mares, where Colonel Roosevelt was shown a tiny thoroughbred foaled today. It was a Illy, but the Colonel christened it "Roosevelt." There was an Inspection of blooded cattle, sheep, pigs and domes tic fowls. When the party left. Colonel El Faalal- lac asked the ex-President if he were satisfied and In reply Mr. Roosevelt shook, him .warmly by the hand saying. 'Good-bye, comrade. The dinner at the foreign office tonight was followed by a big reception. Count Szechenyl, who had a narrow es cape from serious injury from the whirl ing blade of a fan on board the train on the trip to the breeding farm, suffered no ill effects tonight. The sharp blade grazed his head. Another half inch and it would have claven the skull. Police Guard Vancouver Workmen. VANCOUVER, "tt'ash., April 18. (Sp clal.) 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