t THE MORNING OKEGOyiAX, TUESDAY, JULY 4. 1911, ii i in ii ii h i i ii i i jii LOW-HATE BUTTLE Southern Pacific Mt Make Big Cut in Willamette Valley Tariffs. SHIPPERS WILL BENEFIT fnle Cae I Delayed by Techni cality Freight Rales Mill Be Down as Result of Decision of Judge Bean. Unless the Southern raciflc Company succeeds In holding up. on a techni cality. Its can in the Federal Courr aarainst the Oregon Ptate Kanroaa m mission over Willamette Valley freight rates, a cut of from I to 30 per cent of the class freight rate must be made at once. The new rates, as soon as put into effect, will operate betm-een Portland and St. Joseph, or Corvallls: Sheridan Junction and Sheridan: Whiteson and Alrle: Woodhurn and MohawR Junc tion: Mohawk Junction and Wcndllng; Mohawk Junction and Natron: Sprins- flld Junction and Springfield, Albany Junction and Albany. Action Taken In September. The low rates were ordered by the Ttallroad Commission last SeptemDer, after a hearing at which it found the class freight rates, then In force, to be unjust, unreasonable, excessive ami discriminatory. When tne ranroaa company brought suit for an injunc tion to restrain the commission from enforcing the rate, and the court re fused to grant It. th lallroad was ob liged to put up a bond of $50,000 to Insure shippers against loss. Since that It has been giving rebates. Jndse Bean's decision in the case yes terday was to sustain a demurrer to the application for an Injunction. This gives the original complaint no stana Ing in court, and Is a sweeping victory for the commission and the shippers. Attorneys W. P. Kenton. J. E. Fenton and Ben C. Day. representing the rail road, secured permission to file an amended complaint, but whether this will be done, or whether an appeal will be taken to the Appellate Court has Sot been decided. , Rates Alleged Too Low. In Its suit the railroad alleged that lower rates are unfair, causing it to operate at a loss. In his decision Judge Bean (ays the railroad company de clared Its receipts for lSOs to nave oeen 17.104. nsi. and asserted these would be reduced by 12ti.31.80 should the lower rates take effect. But attorneys for the railroad afterward admitted. says Judge Bean, that there was an error In the footing, and that the actual estimated reduction In the receipts would be only I16S.07I.4S annually. Judge Bean says that the statement that It will be necessary to raise the rates on farm produce and other freight traffic other than class freight. In order to meet expenses. Is Inconsistent with the farts alleged. He gives the gross expenditures for 1909. taken from the complaint, as J...S.19.69. which would leave a net balance for that year of II.:!4.313. The value of the property bonded and the floating indebtedness is I39.CS2.0O. says the complaint. Nothing is said about interest being included In the aggregate expenditures, therefore. says the court. It is fair to assume that it is included In the operating expenses. Thus, he says, there Is a net balance of I1.24.3S3 to be applied on the stork of the par value of $19,000,000. Showing Declared Inuf fielent. 'On this showing." continues the court. "It certainly tan not be consist ently said that the earnings of the com plainant . . . will afford but slight com pensation above the cost of service, or that the order of the Commission is con fiscatory, or that the rates fixed by the Commission will not afford a fair return jon the value of the property. There is no statement as to the cost of conduct ing state business by the railroad, nor as to the difference between freight And oaesenger expenses." The railroad company argued that the legislative art creating the Railroad Commission Is unconstitutional, be cause, it Is urged, rate-making is a leg islative function. Judge Hean said: "Rate-making is a legislative func tion, and when rates are fixed by the Legislature or by a subordinate body to which the power has been delegated, they will not be declared invalid by the Federal courts unless they are so un reasonably low that their enforcement would amount to the taking of the property for public use without com pensation, and therefore, practically, confiscation. "But the rates now In controversy 'were made by the Slate Commission In (the light of a knowledge of the facts, and after a thorough investigation and hearing of the party Interested. They are made by law prima facte lawful, and are therefore presumed to be rea sonable, fair and Just. . . This court has no authority to fix rates, nor should It usurp the powers of the Commission." Another point was that the new rata order conflicts with Interstate com merce rates. On this point, as well as '.he constitutionality of the act. Judge Bean said he Is In full accord with the Secislon of Federal Judge Wolverton In the Campbell rasa, w hich Is In the Com mission's faror. FLIGHT TESTS SUCCESS Salem Arlatm-s Will Hold Cherry Fair Week. Meet SALEM. Or. July S. (r-peclat.) fhree attempts this afternoon by P. Q. Suddleston In the new Tuylor-Huddle-rton aeroplane, whlh has been con structed In this city, amply demon strated that the machine can fly. al though there was nothing spectacular acout any of the short low flights. It Is probahle. If the mat hine can re properly adjusted, that an exhibi tion will be given by the Salem avi ators at the Cherry Fair this week. The machine Is a biplane, similar to the Curtlss type. DALY OUT OF COMMITTEE "o Appointment Made to Fill Va cancy on Charter Board. wni H. DaTy ha tendered to Mayor JlushJgiit Ms resignation as a member of the charter committee of 15. re cently named by e-x-Maror fUmon. Mr. Daly had previously announced his In tention of resigning. -tiut waited until the new Mayor took office before doing so. No ona has a yet been named to fill tie aoanor " ! I ..... , j,, ,? 1 WOMAN MAKES FIRST FLAG IN PORTLAND HALF CENTURY AGO. a - . - ' v it" - . ' -MUM. I. K. BILLS ASD FLAG. Today, when so many flags are waving In the city where 1.000,000 roses bloom, a sweet-faced old lady sits sunning herself on the veran da of her home. She thinks or another July 4 half a century ago, when rortland was but a village and boasted of but one flag, a flag made painstakingly by this same old woman. This woman is Mrs. P. K. Bills, who has lived here since 1SS3. She Is called "grandma" by those who know her best. "You eee It wj;s hard to get any kind of goods In those days (1861) but I was anxious to make a flag." said Mrs. Bills, tolling of how she made the first flag in Portland. "I knew a sailor; so 1 got some goods from him. The red was all-wool delaine. The blue was of marine, about a yard square. Tne nearest to white I could get wa a light cream delaine. I sewed the stripes together, then cut out the stars and sewod them on the blue marine, then I cut out the goods under the stars so they would show on both sides. "We put it up In our yard on Main and Second streets (General Cof fin's old home). There wasn't a houe west of Third street at that time. I gave the flag to Mr. Himes. of the Oregon Historical So ciety, the last time he was here. I felt as If I was getting pretty old and couid not take care of It." When asked how old she Is. Mrs. 1:111s exclaimed: "Now, that's a pretty question to ask an old wo man": fhen her eyes began to twlnklo nnd she added, "Honey, If I live another month I'll be K2." The flag Is at present on exhibition in the Ortcon Historical Society rooms In the City JIalL It measures 17 feet 3 Inches In length and R feet In width, and except for sev eral small tears Is In very good condition. Ml REIGN BEGUN Mayor Rushlight Names Heads of Committees. OATHS OF OFFICE TAKEN Slaver Is Confirmed as Acting Police Chief and Harlburt Is Appoint ed City Engineer Short Session Is Held. In a five-minute session at 4 o'clock yesterday afternoon, the machinery of the new Executive Board was set In motion for the ensuing term. Mayor Rushlight presiding. John B. Coffey heads the police committee. C. A. Blge low the Are committee, R. O. Rector the bridge committee and W. H. Fitzgerald the street committee. T. L Hurlburt was appointed by the Mayor as City Engineer and his ap pointment was confirmed promptly by the Board. He took charge of his de partment at once. Captain E. A. Slover was named as Acting Chief of Police by the Mayor, and. upon motion of John B. Coffey, the appointment was confirmed by the Board. Mr. Coffey then moved that the bond of the new Chief be fixed at $10,000. This was seconded and carried and. there being no further business. the meeting was adjourned. All of the members of the new Board were on hand at 4 o'clock. The Coun cil chamber, where they met. was-.dec- orated lavishly with roses. City Auditor Barbur administered the oath of office to the members as they stood, when called to order by tne Mayor. Committee Are Named. - Teputy City Auditor Grutse read the list of committee appointments as an nounced by the Mayor. These are: Rules and order of business Meets at 3:30 P. M- Friday Board meeting dajf D. Soils Cohen. Wsldemar Seton. George Hornby. Fire committee Meets 4 P. M.. Thursday preceding Board election day C. A. Blgelow. John Perry. D. 3. Cohen. Police Meets 4 P. Ml, Thursday pre ceding Board meeting day John B. Coffey. Waldemar Seton. W. 1L Flti-g-erald. Bridges Meets 3 P. M, Thursday preceding Board meeting day R. O. Rector. IX 8. Cohen. John B. Coffey. Fitzgerald Heads Streets. v Streets Meets I r. L. Thursday following Board meeting day TV. H. Fitzgerald. R. O. Rector. C A- Bigelow. Sewers Meets 3 P. M.. Thursday pre ceding Board meeting day John Perry, John B. Coffey. Ir. 1L C. Fixott. Street cleaning Meets 3 P. M.. Thurs day preceding Board meeting- day W. Peton. George Hornby. M. J. Murnane. Lights Moets I P. M., Board meeting day M. J. Murnane, W. H. Fitzgerald. It. C Fixott. City Hall Meets :S0 P. M-. Thursday preceding Board meeting day Oeorge Hornby. R. O. Rector. C A. Blgelow. Current expenses Meets 3:80 P. M.. Board meeting day 1L C Fixott. John Perry. M. J. Murnane. r SUFFRAGIST SEES GAIN MRS. MARY ARKWRIGHT HIT- TON, OF SPOKAXE. HERE. Hope- to Send Two Women to Vh ngton Ijeglslatnre Expressed. Progress of Movement Told. "Statistics In recent elections held In different parts of the Etate of Wash- ngton entirely refute the contention hat women do not take an Interest In public affairs and for that reason the rlicht of suffrage should not he extend ed to them." asserted Mrs. May Ark wright Hutton. of Spokane, Wash., a prominent suffragist. To date, women in my state nave had the privilege of voting In only hree Important local elections since he right of suffrage was given them last Fall. Their first opportunity came In the recall election of Hiram Olll. ex- Mayor of S-attl. For that election 23.- 00O women registered and the returns ho wed that the great- majority or them voted. In Spokane! 8000 women registered for the lectio of Commis a. V sioners under the commission form of charter and nearly every one of them went to tha polls. "The women of Washington today hold at least threo Important public positions. We have a food inspector in Seattle, Spokane and Tacoma and a woman Police Commissioner In Seattle. We have the right to vote for all offi cers, including Presidential lectors. At the same time we are eligible to all offices and are liable to Jury duty. In fact, many women already have served as Jurors in my state. In the election next year wo expect to send at least two women from Spokane County to the Washington State Legislature. "Spokane is th largest city in Wash lngton having the commission form of government and It is giving very gen eral satisfaction. Taxpayers as a whole are more than pleased with the manner In which municipal business is conduct ed. Besides, the commission govern ment makes It possible to fix respon sibility." Mrs. Hutton has Just returned from Olympla. Wash., where she attended the annual convention of the Washing ton State Federation of Woman's Clubs, She reports---that the sentiment for woman suffrage at this meeting was Just as unanimous as was the feeling against that reform at the convention of these clubs a year ago. "Equal rights for woman" was the keynote of every address at the convention, according to Mrs. Hutton, who declares that wo man suffrage "has como to stay" In Washington. In the campaign that preceded the wloptlon or tnis- consti tutional amendment in Washington, Mrs. Hutton was president of the Washington Political Equality League an organization that was discharged as soon as the 'adoption of the amend ment was officially, declared. En route to her home at Fpokane, Mrs. Hutton decided to spend a few days In Portland, where today eh will be Joined by relatives, wno win par ticulate in the proceedings of the Christian Church convention, which will open Its sessions today, ino party consists of Mrs. Henry Grombacher, a sister, and Miss Lulu Shephard, of Cleveland. O.: Mr. and Mrs. George Grombacher, of Spokane; Mr. and Mrs. It. G. Grombacher, of Seattle, and Mr. and Mrs. F. T. Bailey, of Butt, Mont. BIRO PROTECTION IS CRY COLD SPRINGS RESERVOIR IS MADE NATIONAL PRESERVE. Government Official Say Hunting and Fishing- Is to Be Absolutely Prohibited for Three Years. KERMISTOX. Or.. July 8. (Special.) F. M. mile, special agent of the bio logical department of the Cnlteo biaies Oenartment of Agriculture, spent sev eral days here this week in connection with his work. The big Cold springs reservoir, which supplies this project with water. Is a National bird preserve. As yet no effort has been made to prevent hunting and It was for this reason Mr. Dllle came here. He posted notices and made other necessary ar rangements for the protection of the thousands of ducks and geese which make this large body of water their home. In speaking of this subject, Mr. Dllle said: "It is the policy of the Government to convert all reservoirs on reclama tion projects Into National bird reser vations. This has already been done with the Cold Springs reservoir. I am here to Investigate conditions, secure local men to enforce the rules and reg ulations of the department and attend to such other matters as are necessary for the protection of the birds. On these reservoirs hunting and fishing are absolutely prohibited at allseaT sons of the ypar and ther are rigid laws against violation. The preserve not only Includes the reservoir, but enough of the shore line adjoining: to protect the nesting places." Mr. rllle also announceu mat tnere as a shipment of between 20.00 and 30.000 bass on the way here. As soon as the reservoir Is stocked with these fish there will be a strict prohibition of fishing for three years. Then It is expected that that this will be one of the finest planes In the state for this sport. There are already many salmon trout In the reservoir. I. awn mower Nips linger VAXmrVKR. Wash.. July 3. fSpe- clal.) Desiring to see if the lawn mower would cut flesh as well as grass. Glen, a small son of Mr. and Mrs. R, H. Griffith, got his finger tangled up In the machine this morning and one finger on the left hand was cut on. Merry-Go-Rounds) Are Barred. VANCOUVER. Wash.. July 3. (Spe cial.) Becoming tired and nervous by the monotonous hum nnd din of the music-box on a merry-go-round In Camas, the City Council of that place has prohibited the operating of the contrivances within the city limits. FORGES ARE JOINED Suburbs Work Together to At tain Common Ends. SLOGANS FORWARD CAUSE Mount Tabor Helps Monta villa to Get Carnegie Library, Compli ment AVIII Be Returned In Securing- Park Betterment. Who are we? who are wet Who are we? We've come down to .Monta V To help vou get from Carnegie The thing you seek a Libra ree. Oh. boost Mount Tabor Park. ro It now, do It now! Panit Mt. Tabor Park, do It now! ioost Ml. Tabor Park. While vou'ra happy as a lark. Boost Mt. Tabor Park. Do It now! Citizens of Mount Tabor and Monta viila have Joined forces In working for two things of common Interest to secure an appropriation of $250,000 for the Improvement of Williams Park at Mount Tabor, and to get a Carnegie library at Montavllla. These projects will play prominent parts In the celebrations to be held in these suburbs on the Fourth. The. cel ebration In Montavllla will take place In the mornlngr and a large delegation from the Mount Tabor Improvement Club will leave the end of the car line for the Montavllla celebration at 10 o'clock, singing the foregoing slogans as they go and on the return. "Montavllla is after one of the Car negie libraries, and we of Mount Ta bor are going to help them get It," said C. II. Welch, president of the Mount Tabor Improvement Club. "We have appointed. Joint committees to work together for the library. Mon tavllla Is entitled to that library, and we are going to the celebration on the Fourth singing our slogans .to show the folk of that suburb that we mean to help them out. "We want to make Williams Park, In our own suburb, the finest in the city, or on the Coast. It will cost 8250,000 to make the improvements, and we shall ask for a special bond issue for that amount. Williams Park is for the entire East Side and I believe that the people will stand by us. Every Portland citizen is invited to our ceie brations on the Fourth, at Montavllla In the forenoon, and at Mount Tabor in the afternoon. Automobiles win run from the end of the carline to Al tamead Park, where the Montavllla celebration will be held. We will boost' for the Carnegie library In Montavllla and for the Improvement of the Mount Tabor park." The Montavllla library committee, of which John W. Conway Is chairman, will offer land for the library free or cost. They will ask that one of the three libraries offered Portland be erected on the East Side, and wish to locate it where It will be convenient to Mount Tabor as well. BEETLE PEST IS CHECKED GOVERNMENT FIELD MEN SAY DANGER IS SMALL. Yellow Pine In Eastern Oregon Re ported to Have Suffered Heav ily Last Season. 6UMPTER. Or., July 3. (Special.)- Work of the Government Entomo logical Bureau In the extermination of the black beetles that infest the pine forests of Eastern Oregon has been finished for this season. Over 100 men, who have been working In the field, have left the camps. The officials who have been direct ing the work expressed themselves as well pleased with the result of the season's campaign, and say that within two years. If the work is carried on properly, danger to Eastern Oregon timber will be eradicated. It has been commonly affirmed that the beetles attack only black pine, but reports this year show that fully as many yellow pine trees were affect ed by the pest. The black bugs bur row Into the trees and after the larvae Is matured the beetles free themselves from their birthplace and epread the Infection to other trees. Since starting the war on the beetles more than 30.000 Infected trees have been cut down and burned. These were scattered over a large range of coun try, extending about 20 miles. Th plan Is to cut down the Infected tree and bum the trunk and branches, also the stump. In this way the bugs and eggs In the tree are destroyed. RUSE SAVES EX-BANKER DEPOSITOR WITH GIN' WANTS CASH FOR FOURTH. President of Defunct Vancouver Bank Calls Police AVhcn De . mand Is Made. VANCOUVER. Wash.. July 3. (Spe cial.) Flourishing a revolver. Adolpb. Jastcr. of Salmon Creek, today entered the office of H. C. Phillips, president of the defunct Commercial Bank of Vancouver, and demanded money that his wife and children might be able to celebrate July 4. Jaster had $1702 on-deposlt. in the bank when it failed. Phillips, who Is Register of tne United States Land Offflce. was alone when Jaster entered the office. PhilllDS told Jaster that he liad money In the bank down stairs, and suggested that they go and get the matter settled. Going down stairs, Jas ter meanwhile covering Phillips with the gun. Phillips, went Into the bank and Jaster stood outside watching him. Phillips telephoned to the police sta tion and John Secrlst, Chief of Police, responded and took Jaster In charge. AC the police station. Jaster said he did not Intend to harm Phillips, but that he thought he might be able to scare the bank president into giving him a few dollars so he could cele brate the Fourth of July. The gun was not loaded: Later Jaster was re leased. Phillips says ho will not pros ecute. Jaster has a wife and three children. He has collected 10 per cent of the deposit he had in the bank. MYSTERY MARKS PLAGUE Scientists Unable to Explain Epl- dcmlo In Manchuria. pt. PETERSBURG. July 1. (Spe cial.) The pLague irtiicli recently raged in Manchuria has disappeared. It appeara to have been as mysterious a scourge as any that struck fear to the hearts of nations' in the Mid dle Ages. After carrying off about 100.000 victims it vanished. Even con tact with the dead bodies does not now Impart the infection. Medical authorities hold that it ws an un paralleled phenomenon in the history of public health. It appears to have been a hitherto unheard-of variety of the pulmonary .plague known to medi cal science. Never before, and no where, except In Manchuria, had an epidemic been recorded which killed 100 per cent of those It attacked. Again, during the whole period of the plague not one infected rat was found in Manchuria. Neither preventive measures nor treatment during the malady, euch as Injections of anti-plague serum, pro duced the slightest effect. In a word, it might have been one of the plagues sent by Moses, so obscure was its origin and so mysterious was the way In which it fastened on its victims. DESERTTO BE IRRIGATED TASK OF RECLAIMING GARDEN" OF EDEN IS HUGE. Undertaking Second In Engineering Magnitude Only to Building of Panama Canal. CONSTANTINOPLE. July 1. (Spe cial.) Next to the Panama Canal, the greatest engineering feat in the world's construction camps today is the irrigation of the desert "of Mes opotamia. Sir William Willcocks, who has surveyed the region for three years, is convinced it Is the original Garden of Eden, and he promises when a regular supply of water once more reaches the arid zone that it will blossom like the rose and be worth at leaet $200,000,000. Then there will be more apple trees to Tjeguile the myriad descendants of Adam and Eve who will flock to take up home ste.ids. Work has just been begun on this long-projected scheme, and the first 3000 laborers are at work with the preliminary preparations. The British contracting engineer. Sir John Jack son, famous for dock works, has con trol of the Job, with Arthur Noel Whitley, another Britisher, who has been second In command on the rail way construction work across the Andes, as commander on the spot. The work 13 a huge one, for It en tails opening a gap through the mountains and building watercourses, dams and reservoirs. Three great barrages will be built, the first at Hlndia on the Euphrates, where the first section, irrigating 600,000 acres at a cost of $7,500,000, will be worked. It will then match the work the Brit ish Government has done in the lower Nile in consequence of the building of the great Assouan dam, modern Egypt's contribution to the wonders of the world. DWARF SHOWS STOPPED 125 Lilliputians In Paxis Prevent ed From Giving Performance. BERLIN, July 1. (Special.) A dem onstration by 125 dwarfs took place the other day outside the Sport Palace In the Potsdamerstrasse. The man agement of the Sport Palace had col lected these tiny performers from all parts of the world and had concluded contracts with them to appear for three months. All put In an appear ance, but were faced by closed doors, and the Intimation that the contract could not be fulfilled, as the police authorities had refused permission for the performances to be given in the Sport Palace. The dwarfs assembled outside the Sport Palace to demand compensation. Some of them came with miniature ponies, with which they carry out a Lilliputian circus performance. Among them was the tiny dancer Ulpts, three feet six inches in height, who came from America to appear at the Sport Palace. Two brothers equally diminutive came from Bordeaux and -the remaining dwarfs had assembled from such dis tant places as San Francisco, Buenos Ayres, Johannesburg and Melbourne. After a noisy demonstration before the closed doors of the Sport Palace they adjourned to a neighboring res taurant, under the leadership of their smallest member, aged 68, who is ex actly 28 Inches in height. Coos Farmers Have Institute. MARSHFIELD. Or.. July 3. (Spe cial.) Ranchers of Coos County will have an opportunity this month to attend farmers' institutes conducted by professors from the state agricul tural college. There will be institutes at Myrtle Point, Coquillo and Marsh field on July IS, 19 and 20. Dairying general agriculture and livestock hus bandry will be discussed. Cherries Unhurt by Rain. SALEM. Or.. July 3. (Special.) After Investigating for several days to de termine the exact condition of the cherries. It has been found that the crop In this section has not been hurt by the rains and tne entries ror me Cherry Fair to be held the last of this week are larger than ever Detore ana are growing dally. Cotton Crop Best in History. WASHINGTON. July 3. Official es timates of the cotton crop of 1911 in dicate that it will be the largest In the history of the country, approximat ing, according to the present figures, 14,425,000 bales of 600 pounds each, ex ceeding by almost 1,000.000 bales the record crop of 1904. W. S. Royce Named Newport Agent. ALBANY, Or., July 3. (Special.) W. S. Royce, who has been chief oper ator in the Western Union office here for tne past five years, has been ap pointed agent of the Corvallls & East ern Railroad at Newport and left to day' to take charge of the Newport office during the heavy traffic of the Summer months. Fire Explodes Rockets TTTTTrTTTNTKON- Kan.. Julv 3. When fire of unknown origin broke out today in n. ennfectlonerv and notion factory warfthnnaA a lat-CA SlinnlV Of fire- works Btored in the building exploded. and rockets shooting in an directions endangered the firemen. The building was destroyed at a loss of $50,000. Fast Lumber Carrier Building. MARSHFIELD. Or.. July '3. (Spe cial.) Kruse & Banks, shipbuilders of North Bend, have begun construction of a steam schooner for the Simpson Lumber Company. It Is to be one of the fastest lumber carriers on the Coast and will be used out of Coos Bay. This will be the fifth boat built by the North Bend firm this year. ti imnnn of rve flour Into Norway is Inrreaslns. The 'Canadian Trade Commls' slonar at Chrlstlsnla states that It amounts r about halt a million sacks annually Xrom Germany. Jfplll The Jmperial Oregon's Greatest Hotel 850 Rooms, 104 Suites, With Private T- . V. .DSUIS. TTTXT TTTrPTnnV "P.TTTT.Ti TWIT. " Moderare Rates: Phil Metechan & Sons, Props. PORTLAND HOTEL n WKREU SEPT, 1008. PRIVATE HOTEL LENOX B, D. and V. H. JOR.GEN8EN, Propa. and Mam. CORNER 3d AND MAIN STS. Hot and Cold Water. Lonj; Distance Phono ta Every Room. RATES Sl.OOand Up V Hotel Donnelly TACOMA, WASH. Most Centrally Located Hotal in tha City Recently Modernized RATES 75c TO $3.00 European Plan Free 'Bos $1 " all Miss Millie Schloth. swimming Instructress of the T. V. . C. A. 111 have charge of the swimming exhibitions in Gearhart Natatorium during season. Miss Schloth trill also give Instructions in swimming and diving. T SEE FETE Tacoma's Carnival Opens With Briliant Pageant. . TROOPS TO BE REVIEWED Governor Hay Will Bo Present at Crowning of Queen In Stadium. Floral Parade Is Feature of Four - Day Programme. TACOMA. Wash.. July 3.-Ppecial.) A crowd, conservatively estimated at 50,000 persons, of whom probably 10, 000 were visitors from other cities, witnessed a spectacular dash by the Tacoma fire department tonight through the business section, -which was so Illuminated with red fire as to resemble a general conflagration. The dash concluded the day's programme of the Carnival of Nations, Taconia's four-day Fourth of July pageant. A floral auto parade this afternoon and an Illuminated procession of decorat ed automobiles, bicycles and motor cycles this venlng were other fea tures. George B. Kandle won first prize for the best decorated car in the after noon floral parade. Prizes in- the evening were awarded to motorcycle and bicycle riders, Roy Packard get ting first for motorcycle, and Earl Allen first for bicycles. Governor Hay will review tomor row's pageant, which will be participat HRONGS NEW PERKINS Fifth and Washington Sts. OPENED TUNE, 1908 A hotel in the very heart of Portland' businet activity. Modern in every respect. Rates, $1.00 and up. Moderate price restaurant in connection L. Q. Swetland. Secretary and Manager. J I SftgS The largest and most magnificent hotel in Portland; unsurpassed in elegance of accommodations or excellence of cuisine. European plan $1.50 per day and upward. O. J. KAUFSIANN". Manaer. THE CORNELIUS The House of Welcome, corner Park and Alder: European plan. new. modern and strictly up to date: fine sample rooms: rates $1 per day and up: rooms with hath, $2 per day up; all outside rooms: our omnibus meets all trains. E. P. MORRIS, H. E. FLETCHER, Proprietor. Manager. HOTEL RAMAPO Cor. Fourteenth an JW&shingioij Mew Hotel, Elegantly Famished. Rates $1 and Up SPECIAL RATES FOR PERMANENT European Plan. Bns Meeta An TratnsJ M. E. FOLEY, PROPRIETOR, BATHS. THE BOWERS HOTEL Special Announcement Commencing July F!rt, Nineteen Hundred Eleven AMERICAN AND K t" HO PEA N I'UN Very Attractive Permanent RU'S to Families and Ptrt prlo Gentlemen. Hotl Newly Furnished and Decorated. Table d'Hole Breakfattt 0..M Table d'Hote I-uncli ..0 Table d'Hote linner . ,. 1-0U Also la Carte Menu. Service in TVa Room I'nttl 12 o'Cloek P. M. IWrshmentR Served on Roof Garden Kvery Kveninir. Private Dinner Parties, Luncheon and Banquet (riven Personal Attention. Perfect Service In All Department. H. O. BOWERS, PRES.. AX1 K.R. For Seventeen Years Mur. The Portland. Portland, Oregon. KTlTi 153 tS 3 5?iiir(H i Hotel Geariiart BY.THE-SEA Gear hart, Or. (CLATSOP BEACH.) Improvements completed, ready for Summer guests; American plan. Res ervations can be made with H. C. Bowers, Bowers Hotel, Portland, Ore gon, or by mall, telephone, or tele graph, to Hotel Gearhart. ed in by the National Guard from all parts of the state, arriving for the annual encampment at American Lake. Besides these the crews of the cruiser West Virginia and monitor Cheyenne will participate. A track meet, aquatic meet, games and dances of all nations wi'.I lead up to the crowning of the Queen in the Stadium tomorrow night, to be followed by a brilliant pyrotechnic display in the Stadium and by vessels In the harbor. Sumpter Wants New Depot. SUMPTER. Or., July 3. (Special.) The reports of the State Railroad Com mission scoring the Sumpter Valley Railroad and demanding that action to remedy defects be taken at once, meets with approval in Sumpter. particularly that part of the report concerning the depot at this city. The attention of the railroad officials has been called to the condition of the building here many times, but, though promises have been freely given, no action has ever been taken. Stream of Whisky Afire. GLASGOW, July 3. Dalmores Dis tillery was burned today causing a loss of J500.000. A remarkable spec tacle was furnished by a stream of burning whiskey running from the flame-swept building Into the Cromarty Firth. HOTEL NEACOXIE GEARHART, OREGON. (Clatsop Beach) European Plan. Btoorcs by dy or week. Modersta Hates. G. L. REES, PROPRIETOR. Write or telegraph for reservation