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formal assurances, that the West Uma WEST UMATILLA MIN'.S MISDEEDS tilla project will be taken up at an early date either by readjustment of the tentative apportionment of the re clamation funds or by the assignment of funds not yet apportioned. Prob ably $1,500,000 will be available for the commencement of the West Uma tilla project. "JONATHAN BOURNE. JR. "GEORGE E. CHAMBERLAIN. Delineator for February Now on Sale NEW JUDGE OF COURT OF COMMERCE NATIVE OF NEW YORK WORKTOBE DONE GROW If! VOLUME Eight New Indictments Are Found Against New York Bankwrecker. STREET RAILWAY INVOLVED Robin Charge $110,000 for Right of May Which Ct Nothing, and $200,000 for Construction Vhleh Was Not Done. NEW TORK, Jan. . Eight new Indict ments, one of them superseding the origi nal, were found today against Joseph U. Robin, the banker and promoter. Two more of Ms companies fell foul of the law. this time represented by the Public Pervlje Commission, which will order an Inquiry Into their books. LweIlors in the Bron who re paying on the Installment plan for lota bought from the Bankers Realty tc Security Company, organised by Robin, formed m committee to contest the valid' ty of Inortgag-s executed by the, company In favor of tlie Washington Savings Bank, of which Robin was president. It wa prored that title to Driftwood Farm. Lis country pluce on Long Island, B.:seed to Ma siMer. Dr. Louise Rohlno rltro. a year ago. but this was not re- rcorrled with the Coun-y Clerk until last week, after the Northern Bank, of New S'ork had suspended. 1 Finally the District Attorney pushed with renewed energy his Inquiry Into tobln's parentage. K Strt-et Hallway Seems Looted. The eight new Indictments charge theft ' funtis aggrrcatlng tCuT.OjO from the -''ashinjrton Savlncs Bank. The Public Service Commission an mnced that It wished to know why last annual report of the South rxon Traction Company showed an nlry of $110,000 fur right of way bought, when the route authorised by trie company's franchise Is chiefly through the public streets of Queens borouxh. Long Island. The commis sion is similarly puzxled by an entry f IHHO.Oo expended for construction work as shown in the report of the Railroad Traction Construction Com pany, a corporation through which Robin controlled the South Shore Trae tloa Company, when, so far as known y the commission, the company has one no construction work of lmport nee. After a long wrangle with District ttorney Whitman. William Travers -rorae. counsel fur Robin, delivered he hooks of the construction company. hlch he previously had refused to urrendcr on the ground that the pro Suction might incriminate his client and embarrass the company. Letters Betray Parentage. A bundle of letters signed "Your (tvlng Louise. and "Tour son. Jo leph." were turned over to the Dis trict Attorney today by relatives of Sir. and Mrs. Herman Roblnovltch. re pudiated by Robin and his sister yes terday after the old coaple bad positively Identified them aa their children. All the letters were ad Jresaed In endearing terms and most f them asked for monev. Robin Is still in the Tombs, unable to find 140.004 ball, and the report of the alienist on bis mental condition as not yet been given out. BAY CITY BOOMERS GO OUT I'ncle Sam Asked to Rack Fair, All Western States Also. SAX FRANCISCO.. Jan. . A dele gation of San Francisco business men leparted for Washington today to re sew activities In behalf of the inter national exposition of 1915. to mark Uie completion of the Panama CanaL At the same time the board of direc tors of the Panama-Pacific Interna tional Exposition announces that It a-lll proceed at once to enlist the ac tive co-operation of all thj Western tates. which are assumed to he solid arrayed In favor of San Francisco as the proper place to hold the cele bration. In each state where the Leg stature meets during the early part f 1911 a committee from San Fran zirro will have Introduced a bill pro rldlng fur state participation In the Imposition. Action has already been taken In regn and Washington, where Cali fornia has Invested heavily In previous xposltiun. and In these states legis lation Is exoected to be prompt and appropriation liberal. POSTPONEMENT IS DENIED Savy Department Refuse to Halt Davis Court-MartlaL PHILADELPHIA. Jan. C Permission tor an Indefinite postponement of the tourt-martlal proceedings against Major avts. United States Marine Corps, who accused of Insubordination, was re cused today by the Navy Department and a brief session of tha court was Sell Adjournment was taken yesterday 3i order that the Navy Department silght be asked by telegraph whether It would be necessary to call aa wit nesses Rear-Admiral Sebree. stationed at the Ware Island Navy Yard. CaL. and Mrs. Davis, the mother of the al.vjor. Mrs. Davis la now on her way Crum Japan. DYNAMITE IS IDENTIFIED Original rackac Which Blew Up La Etta Smith's Tent, In Trial. SANTA ROSA. CaL. Jan. (.At to lay's session of the trial of Dr. W. P. Burke, charged with having dynamlt ri the trnt-house In which Lu Ktta Smith was sleeping with her Infant, what was alleged to be the original package of dynamite procured by Dr. Burke at the Kanaka l'eak mine In December, 109. was produced by attor ' Beys for the defense. The package was Identified by Fore man Hedge of the mine, who said that be wrapped tt up and gave it to the loctor himself. Voting hjr Mall Advocated. TOPKKA. Kan.. Jan. . A bill pro- rMlnv thit rllrojiff .ninlnv.i awbw ' from home on election day may vote tne siaie ucaei oj iiihji nmm oeen arawn IIP by Slate Senator Qulncey. of Saline. He arrived here today to present tha bill to the Legislature. n y ' JOII K. OAKLAND. WASHINGTON; Jan. . ISpeclal.) One of the new Judges of the Court of Commerce Is John E. Carland. of South Dakota. Mr. Carland waw born in Oswego County. New York, on December 11. 1833. He was admitted to the bar In 1875. He was sppolnted a -United States Dis trict Attorney for Dakota Territory In 1SS5. and was made a Justice or the Supreme Court of South Dakota in 1SSS. In August 31, 1890, he was appointed a United States District Judge of South Dakota, and has held that position ever since. GUSTOMS ARE BASIS Americans May Make Loan to Honduras on That Security. TREATY LIKELY SEQUEL If Itepnbllc'9 Indebtedness Is Re funded, It I Proposed to Have American Officer There to Collect All Duties. scc-nr tnpv. J-,n. C. It was said to day In reliable quarters that the nego tiations hv the commissioner appointed by the Honduran government and New York bankers for refunding tne iion duran Indebtedness are still pending, and that the main features of these negotiations Is a loan to be secured py the customs receipts of Honduras, which are to be collected under a treaty to be arranged with the United States. The details of the plan have not been given out. They would seem to contemplate the appointment of an American customs officer to see that the customs receipts are collected and dispensed In accordance with the pro- .,, itnnf lrmation can be obtained, however, of reports that this win amount w -u aicih.u rate, although It la eo interpreted in some quarters. The refunding of the Honduran ex ternal debt has been under discussion for a year or more. This debt orig inally was contracted about 40 years ago. and consists of four loans' mado between 167 and 1870. The principal amounts to 5.398.570. Payment of Interest began to fall off aoon after the debts were Incurred and Interest payments stopped entirely after 1872. The aggregate of unpaid Interest up to July. 10. was estimated at I17.071.SiO. This made the total Indebtedness for principal and unpaid Interest 22.470.510. or about S10,ti47.- It Is understood these refunding plans by the London banking house of J. P. Morgan Co. have been carried forward In this country by the Ameri can house of J. P. Morgan & Co. The American State Department has explained that lta interest In the mat ter was due to the unsettled condition of Honduran finances which It was de sired to place on a stable basis to pro mote stable conditions In tha country itself. TAFT WILL HELP IIOXTJCIiAS Violation of Monroe Doctrine Head ed Off by Financial Aid. WASHINGTON". Jan. . In order to avoid any possibility of the Intervention of European powers In the affairs of Honduras, in contravention of the Mon roe doctrine., the United States Govern ment is endeavoring to straighten out the tangled financial affairs of that coun try. There la no present Intention. It Is said In the State Department, of estab lishing a financial protectorate over Hon duras. . . Much dissatisfaction Is expressed by the foreign holders of Honduras bonds, especially those In Great Britain. It Is said the debt of Honduras with Its ar rearages In accrued Interest amounts to more than IWO.OOO.flOO. The republic is negotiating with American financiers for a loan of 17.5uO.OCO to H0.0iO.Wi0. OUTLAWS' GUNS BETTER London Police Kxcu.e Tlieinselves. Suicide Tlieory Kxploded. LONDON. Jan. . The Inquest Into the death of the two outlaws who were killed while resisting the police In their Sidney street home on Tuesday, began today. The testimony showed that soldiers were summoned by the Commissioner of Po lice, because the anarchists' revolvers were so superior to the weapons of the police and that less than 50 police officers participated In the affair, the remainder being required to deal with the crowds. The examination of the surgeon who performed the autopsy developed that one of the men waa shot by the police I . 1 or soldiers, while the other probably died from suffocation. One of the bodies showed a bullet hole through the skull, the bullet having entered behind the right ear. I believe, said the witness, "that this Injury caused the man's death. I do not believe the wound was self inflicted." Tha surgeon thought the victim died before the flames reached him. The Inquest was adjourned to Monday. MILK DRIVER IS KILLED Harry Uoodalo Falls Beneath Mount Scott Train. Harry Goodale died last night at St. Vincent's Hospital from Injuries re ceived yesterday morning when he at tempted to board a Mount Scott train at East Thirty-fourth street and Haw thorne avenue. Goodale was a driver for the Sanitary Milk Company. He tried to board the rear platform of the first car of the train and missed his footing. He fell between the cars, the wheels of the second car passing over his lugs below the knees and severing them. The Red Cross au tomobile ambulance took him to St. Vincent's. Goodale lived with Ms wife and child at 363 Marguerite avenue. He was 37 years old. RUSSIA WILL FIGHT TRUST American Snlt Against Liners Keenly Interests- Muscovites. , ST. PETERSBURG. Jan. 6. The pro ceedings of the United States Govern ment against the Atlantic conference, the alleged pool of 13 steamship compan ies to control the trans-Atlantlo steerage traffic, has excited keen Interest here, where it is asserted that rate-cutting by the combination drove the Russian volunteer fleet out of business after It had suffered a loss of KD0.000 In 18 months of attempted competition. An emigration bill drawn for the pur pone of fighting the pool will soon come up In the Duma. $234,470,750 FIRE LOSS Only Two Other Years llave Exceed ed 1010 In Extent of Damage. CHICAGO. Jan. . Statistics made pub lic here show that losses by fire In the United States and Canada in 1910 amount ed to 34.470.7.V). or over 30.0o9.000 more than the losses In 1203. December losses were exceptionally heavy, aggregating 4.-U.28.000. There were 36 fires during the year which caused damage of ICOO.OVO or more, and in 10 the loss exceeded Jl. 000,000 each. In only two preceding years have the fire losses been heavier than In 1310, one being the year of the Chicago fire, the other of the San Francisco. COMMERCIAL LIFE PALLS Minister Who Becanto Uallroad Agent Goes Back to Pulpit, L03 ANGELES. Jan. 6. Speclal. After forsaking the ministry for the rail ing of commercial agent for the Salt Lake. Route at Santa Ana. G. L. Moore found that love for tne ministry was too strong and his resignation has Just been banded to Frank H. Adlms. gen eral agent of the company. Mr. Moore, within a few days, will take up the duties of a Methodist minister at Spokane, Wash. Mr. Moore took up rail roading and he found his salary was not sufficient to make ends meet. Tclcgraph Campany Held Liable. BOSTON. Jan. . In sustaining a verdict of ISO obtained by William E. Verrailye against the Western Union Telegraph Company, the full bench ot the Supreme Court holds that a tele graph company Is obliged to accept a sticker" on a message intended to fix additional liability on the telegraph company. In the event of a delay In transmission or non-delivery of a mes sage. The Western Union Company refused to receive such a message. Suffrage Delegate Named. DENVER, Jan. 6 Governor Shaf- roth appointed today three delegates to the convention of the five suffrage states to bo held at Tacoma. Wash., the latter part of next week. The dele gates are Mary C. C. Bradford, Superin tendent of Schools In Denver County: Mrs. Helen M. Grenell. ex-State Super intendent of Education, and Mrs. Sarah riott Decker. Mrs. Bradford alone will go to Tacoma. Ballinger Will Secure Cash for Irrigation Ample Money Now Available. HAWLEY AND ELLIS. ACTIVE They Win Over Ballinger to Adop tion of West TCniatilla Project, AVhlle Bourne Plays Golf and Chamberlain Visits Home. (Continued From First Pase.) of the other projects that received ab normal apportionments on December 36. Just what apportionments will be re duced to take care of Oregon will be de termined later. Effort Made for Klamath, Too. Representatives Hawley and Ellis will confer with Secretary Ballinger tomor row, in regard not only to the West Uma tilla project, but lo Klamath as well, as) it will require a,BOO,000 in excess of the XSOO.OOO allotted by the President to com plete those units that are approved by the Army Engineer Board. Mr. Hawley Is especially interested in procuring more money for Klamath, but he and Repre sentative Ellis have Joined hands to work for both Oregon project and will pre sent their appeal for both. Bourne's Secretary Gets Busy. A telegram bearing the signatures of Senators Bourne and Chamberlain, was sent today to one Portland commercial or ganization, expressing confidence that the West Umatilla project would be taken up and be allotted funds. Mr. Bourne is playing golf In Augusta, Ga., and Mr. Chamberlain is in Mississippi. Neither has yet turned a hand to assist In pro curing additional money for Oregon irri gation works. This telegram was written by Mr. Bourne's private secretary,, who got wind of the fact that Mr. Ballinger is preparing to help Oregon and undertook, by thai means to etave off further criti cism, such as has been heaped upon the heads of the two Senators. Mr. Bourne's private secretary signed this telegram with the names of both Senators again the Bourne-Chamberlain alliance. Neither Senator from Oregon knows what is being done to aid their state in the matter of irrigation appor tionment, and there is on tile nothing from either of them beyond a mere let ter transmitting the telegraphic protests of Oregon commercial organizations, which are duplicates of what were sent directly to Mr. Ballinger. Idaho Given $1,000,000 Already. Idaho la already beginning to feel the benefit of Its recent liberal apportion ment. Mr. Ballinger today eet aside $1,000,000 to begin construction of the Arrow Rock dam on the Boise River, which will form the main storage reser voir of the Payette-Boise project. This dam alorfe will cost 15,159,000. more than the total cost of the West Umatilla project. It will be of masonry and be 31S feet high, impounding 150,000 acre-feet of water. WATER BIGHTS MAY BE LOST Hermlston Urges President to Act and Save Them. HERM1STON, Or.. Jan. 6. (Special.) The Hermlston Commercial Club to day sent a telegram to President Taft urging reapportionment of the reclama tion fund, giving a sufficient amount to start work on the extension of the Umatilla project in order to save water rights of the Umatilla River to the Gov ernment, which will otherwise be lost i next August. Ninety per cent of the west side ex- I tension Is public and railroad land, easily acquired by settlers of moderate means. This is. in fact, the original v. .mA n,AiAi.t a nri in no sense can be considered a new scheme. In order to conserve and distribute water from the same source of -supply most eco nomically. Joint operation of the pres ent project with the extension Is de manded. A. P. Davis has Just said It Is the best project in the United States, and reclamation officials agree. Army engineers did not see this land when here, nor had they time to inves tigate the real merits of the proposed extension. The present Umatilla proj ect Is proving a great success, but lands under the extension are better The fact that much of the water right needed for the extension may bo lost to the Government has apparently been lost sight of, and this is made a strong point in the telegram to the President. Th water for the exten sion would be taken from the Umatilla River and other Interests are only wait ing for a chance to irrab it from the Government. This opportunity wlfl be affroded unless construction Is begun within the next six months. SEXATOKS SEXT TELEGRAM They Give Assurance of Conbtruc tioii on West Cmatilla. The following telegram was received vesterday by each of three organiza tions, the Chamber of Commerce, the Portland Commercial Club and the Live Wire organization: "After a conference with the Depart ment of the Interior and the Reclama tion Service, we see no hope of secur ing a larger apportionment from the loan fund for Oregon reclamation projects, but feel confident, from In- Scrofula Is commonly Inherited. It may, how ever, develop so slowly as to cause lit tle If any disturbance during childhood. It may then produce dyepepsia, ca tarrh, and marked tendency to con sumption, before causing eruptions, sores or swellings. To get entirely rid of It take the great blood-purifier. Hood's Sarsapa rllla, which has effected more cures of all blood diseases than any other medi cine. "My boy suffered from scrofula, which covered his face entirely. I gave him Hood's Sarsaparilla. and when he had taken three bottles he was com pletely cured." Mrs. Elsie Hotallng, Voorheesville. N. Y. There is no real substitute for Hood's Sarsaparilla Get It today. In usual liquid form or chocolated tablets called Sarsataba. WOMAN AFIRE; WILL DIE Explosion of Storo Ignites Clothing. Victim Fights Heroically. LOS ANGELES, Cal., Jan. 6. In a futile effort to save herself from the flames of an exploded gasoline stove, which had' ignited her clothing, Mrs. Lida Lynn set fire today to her home. The house was destroyed and Mrs. Lynn was probably, fatally burned. Mrs. Lynn was cooking over the stove when the explosion occurred. Burning oil was thrown upon her and she rushed into another room, where she fell on a bed in an effort to smother the flames. The bed took fire and the flames drove the tortured woman Into the yard, where she stood screaming until neighbors' reached her and with coats and blankets finally extinguished the fire. LOST SAILOR MERE YOUTH Lad AVho Fell Overboard From Ger man Ship From Portland. ASTORIA, Or., Jan. 6. (Special.) It was learned today that the sailor who was lost overboard from the German bark Goldbek, as that vessel was cross ing out over the bar yesterday after noon, was a young man about 17 years of age, who joined the vessel at this port after she arrived down the river, and bad relatives residing at Portland. His name could not be learned, but Captain O. Kaletsch, of the Goldbek. sent a letter ashore for Captain A. Kohnke. master of the German bark Wansbek, which is now in Portland, and It is supposed the name of the young man, as well as other informa tion concerning him and the accident, are contained in it. Vancouver High Best Debaters. VANCOUVER, Wash., Jan. 6. (Spe cial.) The Vancouver High School de bating team. Miss Frances Stone and Lester Wood, won a forensic contest tonight from the Auburn School team, Russell Holt and Claude Walker, the winning team having the affirmative side of the income tax question. The Judges were Portland educators. Pro fessor . E. O. Tabor, of the Lincoln High;'-Professor T. J. Newbill. Wood lawn, and Professor Edwin Anders, of the Washington High School. Harrlman Lines Buy 109 Engines. PHILADELPHIA, Jan. &. Announce ment was made here today that a con tract for 109 engines has been awarded the Baldwin Locomotive Works of this city by the Harrlman Railroad System, and that the price Is between $3,500,000 and $4,000,000. The contract calls for the de livery of tha engines during the Spring and Summer of this year, and the order insures steady employment to thousands of men until next Fall. Strike Babies Have Xo Milk. CHICAGO. Jan. 6. Five thousand "strike babies" are In danger of starv ing. The milk fund for supplying nourishment to the babies of the strik ing garment workers will be exhausted tomorrow, and the committee of which Mrs. Joseph T. Bowen Is chairman, is at a loss for ways and means of con tinuing the supply which has saved the lives of hundreds of infants during the labor ptruggrle. Hunters in the jungle, men whose adventurous spirit pr zeal for science takes them into the wild places of the world, usually carry on their persons some torm ot cocoa for emergency ration, should accident carry them away from their base of supplies, because pure cocoa contains more nutri- 1 ment than any other tood. COCOA is made trom the finest and best flavored cocoa beans and is absolutely pure. It is the most delicious of all beverages and a most economical food. It is as easily digested by the young child as by the grown man. Costs less than a cent a cup. D. Ghirardelli Co. Since 1852 Store Opens Today at 9 A. M. Saturday An Ideal Day for Shopping in This Store Throughout the store ypu'll find Clearance Sale Tickets on merchandise we wish to cleanup before stock taking. Of Great Importance Are Our Sales Today Misses', Girls and Child's Coats and Dresses Under Muslins at Very Marked Reductions House Dresses Marked Very Low Today Clearance of Hosiery and Underwear Clearance of Men's Shirts at 85c Each Clearance of Fine Art Needlework Clearance of Fine Rugs and Lace Curtains Every Suit, Coat, Dres and Waist Reduced Clearance of Handbags and Suitcases Join the Book Lovers Club NOW $1 Down, $1 Week Books Delivered, Fvst Payment GAMUT OF TOPICS RUN BILLS ON ALL CONCEIVABLE SUBJECTS UP IN' CALIFORNIA. Stringent Measure Against Race Gambling OfferedFate of Squir rels and Geese In Balance. SACRAMENTO, Cal., Jan. 6. Equal suf frage, race track gambling, San Fran cisco water supply, bakeshops, employ ment of minors, retirement salaries for school teachers, coyotes, tree squirrels and wild geese all come within the scope of legislation proposed through bilia intro duced in the Senate today. , Senator Walker's anti-racetrack gamb ling bill is intended to stop oral betting. It provides penalities for any person "who engages in pool-selling with or without writing at any time or place." It also Interdicts receiving, holding or for warding, for a consideration or gratuitous ly, funds or memoranda to be staked or offered or for the purpose of being staked upon a trial, or what purports to be a trial or skill, speed or endurance of man or beast or between man and beast or between mechanical apparatus. Another bill permits the shooting of tree squirrels, which, the Senator who in troduced it declares, eat up all the acorns and make hog-raising expensive. A bill fathered by the same Senator al lows the killing of wild geese from a blind. These fowl, he aesertu, have eaten grain to the value of J200.000 in Colusa County alone within two years, and the farmers have been driven to hire men at Mwi"vwra9S'' t 1. m $40 per month, supply ammunition for them and send them forth to destroy tha geese. Since the passage of the law pro tecting geese, several fa.rmers of that sec tion have been arrested and fined heavily for violating it, and the Senator describe the feeling over the subject as bitter. MUTINEERSJJIE SUDDENLY Leader of Revolt in Brazilian Navy and ii Others Dead. RIO JANEIRO, Jan. 6. According to today's Journal do Commerclo, Joa Candido, the loader of the recent re volt In the navy, and 44 other muti neers have met sudden death. Can dido succumbed to gangrene while a prisoner; 26 of his associates died of Bunstroke while engaged In repairing the fortress on Cobras Island, and 18 others were suffocated In their cells In the prison on Villagainon Island. A rigid censorship maintained by the government since the revolt in the navy makes it impossible to confirm officially the rumors of recent rioting at Para and elsewhere in the Repub lic. I Lumber Rate Case Suspended. WASHINGTON. Jan. 6. The Inter state Commerce Commission today or dered a suspension for 120 days, pend ing a hearing of the proposed cancella tion of the Joint freight rates on lum ber shipped by the Tacoma & Eastern Railroad from Oregon and Washington points to points on the Chicago & Northwestern. Burlington, Northern Pacific and other Eastern carriers. m 1 m ft 7 i)r i'r.;