JAPAN NOW SEEKS GERMANY AS ALLY Loss of Britain's Aid Felt in Tokio. GROWING CORDIALITY SHOWN Society Is Organized to Pro mote Friendly Relations. NOGI HAILED IN BERLIN Treaty Between En I ted Mate and Great Britain Caue Mikado to Cast About for w Alli ance n Pacific ALL ARBmtATIO TK KATIES TO BE HEXT AT ONCE TO nrxATK. WAHHINOTON. Alt. Tha -aval arbitration treaties htwn the ratted states and Oreat Britain and the t'nltad State and Franca, sir thla afternoon will be nt at one, to tba rVnats (or ratifica tion, Aa anon aa tha eopK o( tha lo traatlaa had Wa -alanad. President Tart afftxad bla Blrnatura to tha two maun of transmittal. It waa thought at first that an exchange on tha rranco-Amarlcan tratT would b acaanr befora It could ba sent to tha nppar bouaa. Later, on official notification from parte of tha signature thara. Prwi drnt Taft docldad to rub. tha trea ties at one to tha Baaata in tba hooa of socwrtng action at thla aa sion. BERUN. Aug. . (SpeclaL) A close and friendly understanding between Germany and Japan aa regards ques tlona affecting their interests In the Pacific la foreshadowed here as a prob able direct reault of tha Anglo-American afbftratfoa treaty. The organisation of the German Japanese Society Jut founded In Tokio to promote friendly relations, la cited aa one evidence of the new tendency of the two powers to draw together. XoKt'i Ileeeptlon Cordial. Another sign of tha growing cordial ity Is seen In the extremely hearty re ception accorded to the war hero. Gen eral Nos;!. who Is In Berlin. The semi-official Koelnldche Zeltung has report from Tokio that England's action In altering; the terms of the al liance so aa to exclude tha possibility of war with America la causing: grow Inc disaatisfactloa among the Japa nese. It points out that Japan must now turn to ome other power to replace tha advantage loat through the alteration of the British treaty. Move Not Accidental. "It la. perhaps." adds the paper, "not entirely accidental that Just at this time a new German-Japaneae Society sliould be formed, which Includes many Germans In Tokio and Tokohama and Kobe. It will be formally Inaugurated In September under the presidency of Viscount Aokl. the former Ambassador to Washington. A German school has already been founded In Tokio. Let ua hope that the new society will lay the ' foundation for atlll more Important undertakings." General Nor! In a few days goes to Mayrnce. where he will be received by the Kaiser, and will attend the review of the troops aa Hla Majesty's guest. WAR ISSIE 1 WITH SENATE President I Strongly I)rlrou of Early Ratification. . WASHINGTON. Aug. S. President Taft will send to the Senate tomorrow the general arbitration treaties be tween the United States and Great Bri tain and the I'ntted Statea and France, signed for this Government and for Great Britain here today, and signed In Paris for the Government of France. The brief messages of transmittal to the Senate were written and aigned by th President today and tomorrow It wilt lie with the L'nlted States Senate to ratify what has been termed the, greatest step toward the abolition of war that the world thus far has taken. Already there have been mutterlngs from the Senate over these treaties. President Taft Is noncommittal, but waa strongly desirous of putting them before that body before the adjourn ment of the special session. The ceremony of signing the treaties took place In the President's library In the White House. Secretary Knox. Prltl.ih Ambasaador Bryce. Counsellor Chandler Anderson, of-the State Department; Osmond Ovey, second secretary of the British Em bassy: the Vlcomte Saint Phalle. of the French Kmbassy; two members of the Cabinet; a score of newspaper men and three pbotographera were present. The treaty with Great Britain waa signed at 1:10 o'clock this afternoon. Secretary Knox and Ambassador Bryce signed duplicates at the same moment. The French treaty was signed by Mr. Knox one minute later. The treaties out of tha way. Presi dent Taft took hla place at the desk. Before him were laid two messages to tha Senate. He affixed his name, and then so far as the executive end of the Government Is concerned the matter waa concluded. Tea minutes after the ceremony. Mr. Fryce waa walking down the Capital iCooclnded ea Pag X) HILL SURVEYORS SEEK LINESOUTH? ENTRANCE TO SAN EKANCISCO MAY I1E COAL. Railroad llullder Known to Have Had Scout In Sacramento Valley Recently. WILLOWS. CaL. Aug. . (Special.) A mysterious party of a dosen en gineers has been running a eurvey down the west side of the Sacramento Valley three to Ave miles west of Or land and Germantown, In this county. They have been operating for some time, as they are understood to have come through nasa ana icn.m. counties already. The men were seen by a business man of Orland. who questioned them aa to the purpose of their survey and they said that they were employed to aelect a route for tne proposea aqueduct to carry water from the Mc- Cloud River In Siskiyou County to San Francisco. That statement is doubted here, as It is understood that tne aqueauci project Is Intended to run down the east side of the Sacramento River. It Is believed here that the surveyors are In the employ of J. J. IUU and that they are running a Jlne for a railroad from Central Oregon to San Francisco Bay. It Is known that Mr. Hill has baa a scout In the Sacramento Valley within the past six months. TOWN TO SEND 200 ELKS Victor. Colo., Population 10,000, Plans Big Convention Delegation. Victor. Colorado, a city of only 10.000 Inhabitants, will send 100 Klks to the Portland convention next Summer, de clares D. H. McOrath. a prominent member of Victor lodge, who la visit ing M. J. Geary, general agent for the Rock Island. "Colorado Elks have been waiting for tha last two years to come to Port land, as they felt sure that tha conven tion would come here If the lodge went after It. Comparatively few of them traveled to Detroit or to Atlantic City this year and last, but hundreds wl!) come to Portland. Denver already has promised a special train and I would not be surprised to see at least two other special trains run out of Colo rado. Wa expect to have enough from Victor and Cripple Creek alone to fill one solid train." Mr. McGrath la much Impressed with Portland and may aettle here. WEST TO TRACK BIG GAME Game Warden and Health. Expert Will Accompany Governor Party. SALEM. Or.. Aug. J. (Special.) With guns, arounltlon. a doctor and a game warden. Governor West and Su perintendent of Public Instruction Alderman will leave for Curry County soon In quest of big game- Superintendent Alderman expressed the opinion today that any chance of violating the state game laws went agllmmerlng with the announcement of Game Warden FInley that he would accompany the executive party. Dr. Calvin 8. White, of the State Board of Health, will look after tha health of the party while In the mountains. PRAY BILL IS PUT OVER Authority to Sell Burned Timber Not Given to Settlers. OKEGONIAN NEWS BUREAU. Wash ington. Aug. . The Democratic ma jority of the House public lands com mittee today refused to report the Pray bill, authorlxlng the aale of timber killed, or seriously Injured by forest fires last Summer. Tha bill waa drawn to permit home stead aettlers to sell burned timber on their lands and the Secretary of the Interior to sell burned timber on the public domain. The Democrats of the committee held that this waa special legislation, af fecting only a few persons and directed that it lie over until next session. AUTO LIKE RAILROAD CAR Hood River Man Equips Machine With Flanges to Ron on Tracks. HOOD RIVER, Or, Aug. I. (Spe cial.) D. C Eccles. son of the lumber and auaar magnate of Ogden. Utah, and auperlntendent of the Oregon Lumber Company's mill at Dee, Is planning a unique means of making quick trips along tha route of tha Mount Hood Railroad. Toung Eccles Is equipping his automobile with wheels that have flangea. He will thus be able to follow the rails. Mr. Eccles expects greatly to reduce the time now taken In traveling from different points along the lumber lines. LAFFERTY T0PLAY THIRD Oregon Representative Will Be In Baseball Lineup Against Denis. OREGONIAN NEWS BUREAU, Wash ington. Aug. i.- Representative Lafi ferty. of Oregon, will play third base on the Republican Congressional base ball team which la to meet a picked Democratic team In this city next Mon day. Church Women Form League. MEDFORD. Or.. Aug. S. (Special.) Forty church women met yesterday and formed the Med ford Civic League, the object of which will be to promote "civic righteousness." The alogan of the league la: "Medford Morally Clean." and efforts will be made to keep young girls off the city streets. TARIFF ON COTTON REDUCED DY HOUSE Third Great Revenue Measure Is Passed. FREE LIST CONFEREES NAMED Threat to- Pass Wool Bill Over Veto Alarms. REPUBLICAN WHIPS BUSY Minority Members Recalled to Washington to Forestall Demo cratic! Effort Attack on Lemons Stirs Callfornlans. WASHINGTON, Aug. I. Supported by all the Democrats and by 30 In surgent Republicans, the Democratic cotton tariff bill, the third of the big tariff revision measure brought forward by the Democratic House of Represent atives, passed that body tonight, JOJ to 1. The bill cuts the average tariff on cotton manufactured goods from 4 to 27 per cent, ad valorem, a 21 per cent, reduction. The Democratic leaders es timate that It reduces revenue by about 13.000.000. Not an amendment was offered to the bill, although the Republicans attacked It vigorously on account of alleged In crease In certain Items over the rates of the Payne-Aldrlch tariff law. Lemons Placed on Free List. Scarcely had the cheers that greeted the passage of the cotton revision bill subsided when Democratic Leader Un derwood, calling up the Free List Bill, aa It passed the Senate a few days ago, accomplished a strategic move which surprised the Republicans. He asked for a conference on all the amendments to the Free List Bill, ex cept that of Senator Gronna. of North Dakota, putting cement on the free list. He urged that the House accept that amendment, adding to It lemons. Pacific Coast Republicans made In effectual attempts to atop this sudden and unexpected putting of lemons on the free list, but the amendment car ried. Tha change gave the House Demo crata what they asserted to be an added advantage In dealing with the Senate In the -conference tomorrow. ' Republicans Called in Haste. Tha Republican. leaders in both houses of Congress called In absent members from all parts of the country tonight In preparation for a threatened attempt of the Democrats to pass the wool tariff bill, over the President's veto. Tha Democratic leadera In the House have asserted within tha last 24 hours that they have the neces sary two-thirds majority to pass the wool bill over the President's veto. They have been doing effective mis sionary work In the Senate today. The Republican managers In the House in sist tonight that they have enough (Concluded on Page 3.) II ........... Y flirtisssss.es .sss.t.liSI. tr JUST A QUESTION OF TIME. ' , niiiiiii- UMPIRE KNOCKED SENSELESS BY0RT EX-POUTLAND PliAVEK PETS BACMGARTEN "TO SLEEP." Seattle Crowd Hisses Its First Base man as- Police Lead Him Away; "Jakey" Cheered on Reviving. RFTAXTI.R. Wash.. Aug. 3. (Special.) Hissed and hooted by the spectators. George Ort. first baseman of the Seat tle baseball club, formerly of Portland, was led from tha grounds by three po licemen during the Seattle-Spokane game today, after he had knocked "Jakey" Baumgarten, the "umpire, un conscious. Angry because the umpire had pre viously fined' him for back-talk and be cause Cooney, of Spokane, was given two bases on a wild throw to first. Ort petulantly hurled the ball at Baum garten's head. He followed up the throw himself, swinging heavily upon the umplre'a face with his closed fist. Baumgarten tottered, then fell, sense less. It was several minutes before Baum garten recovered from the effects of the blow.. He finally shook himself, straightened up and announced that the game would proceed. The crowd loudly cheered "the boy umpire" for his pluck In finishing the game after the batter ing he had received. In the absence of President Lindsay, of the Northwestern League. Secretary Baxter suspended Ort indefinitely. When Lindsay returns from the South, he will decide what punishment will ba imposed upon the belligerent player. MOTHER'S ANGER SOFTENS After Pursuing Runaway Daughter in Auto, She Permit Wedding. OREGON CITY, Or., Aug. . 3. (Spe cial.) The marriage of Miss Nellie Bafley, daughter of Mrs. Jennie Bailey, residing at Canby, and Helmer Olsen. was solemnised yesterday at the court house. Judge Beattle performing the ceremony. - Miss Bailey Is the young woman who ran away from her home at Canby Tuesday morning.. walking from Canby to New Era, and from that place by train to Oregon City, thence walking to Redland. where Olsen was working. Her mother, with . a Deputy Sheriff, pursued her In an automobile and caught her Just aa she waa greeting her sweetheart. Yesterday the mother became tender hearted and gave her consent to the marriage. . So did the father of the young man, and they both appeared as witnesses to the ceremony. Olsen is only 18 years of age, and his bride Is 1. WATER QUESTION RAISED Woodburn May Acquire Plant and Make Needed Extensions. WOODBURN. Or.. Aug. 3. (Special.) The City Council yesterday decided to aubmlt to the people the question of municipal ownership of the water works, at a apecial election to be neia early In September. At this election the voters will decide whether the city shall Issue bonds to secure cash for the pur chase of the present plant, and to make necessary extensions. The service furnished by the present owners of the water plant is said to have been unsatisfactory and Inade quate for the demands of the city. The City Council refused to renew a con tract for municipal service with the water company, which expired about one year ago. and made an effort to force the company to improve its sys tem, which was done to a small extent. Superintendent Page, of Salem, gave the city an option on the present plant at the price of 39650. GREAT LOOP ROAD F Not One, But Two Big Highways Sought. EAST AND WEST SIOES UNITE Enthusiasm Rules in Meeting at CapitaJ City. SUCCESS SURE, SAYS WEST Slate Will Supply Rock and Convicts Will Do Work on Roads Along Each Side, or River Spe cial Session L-ikely. SALEM. Or.. Aug. 3. (Special.) At one of the most enthusiastic mass meetings ever held here, delegates from all parts of the Willamette Valley to night put their stamp of approval on the proposed, Portland-Salem Capital highway. They went on record as favoring not alone a road for the East Side or for the West Side, but a great highway to make a loop along each side of the Willamette River. Delegates from the west side showed where the citizens already have se cured within 17000 of the required amount, while delegates from east side towns were Just as optimistic that tne mnnev they need can be raised in a comparatively short time. West Confident of Success. While nothing definite was accom plished so far as specifications was onnceT-ned. the suggestions received and the offers made demonstrated clearly that the plan as proposed by Governor West will be worked out to a successful conclusion. "T have no doubt now as to tne eventual success of the project," do clared the Governor, after tne meet inr "We shall have two broad, beau tlfuL permanent highways. Ot that I feel fully assured-. flnvernor West In his speech to the delegates moved the Salem delegation to a resolution which provides that Salem will construct a system of good macadam roads connecting the state in stitutions and will construct them at no expense whatever to the state at large. The resolution promises that this snau he done at an early date. The executive rebuked the citizens or s.uni tnr- faiiine to do this in the past and declared that this was the principal imn for threats that have been made to mave state institutions to another location. "We ahaJl furnish the rock quarries. which are located on state ground, and It will not cost Marlon county a cent for the rock or for the labor, save the expenses of the convicts," he said. Good Roads West's Ambition. t la mv ambition, during my term In office, to get this good roads work under way. and I believe It can be done through the Portland and Salem hlgh "When I ascertain what kind of a road bill the Highway Commission for (Concluded on Page 3.) TO SALEM RED LAMB'S CHORD MAY REVIVE GIRL'S LEG TENDON OP LIVE SHEEP IS SEWED ON, LIMP LIMB. Melissa Oades, II, Enable to Walk for Two Years, Undergoes Oper ation Animal Gambols. By taking the tendon, Achilles, from the leg of a lamb and sewing It Into the bone of the left leg of 11-year-old Melissa Oades, an operation performed Wednesday by Doctors Rich and Marsh, at the Good Samaritan Hospital, the little girl, who has been paralyzed in both lower limbs for the last two years, Is expected to recover the use of her limbs. For six weeks a plaster cast will be kept in place and the girl will be kept abed. After that she will be allowed to walk with the cast on her leg until the sewed-ln tendon Is tied up with grown tissue and has become a part of her anatomy. . Putting the girl and the lamb under ether on an operating table in the sur gery department of the hospital. Dr. Rich removed the tendon from the leg of the lamb and sewed It securely upon the top layer of bone in the girl's leg, putting the limb in a cast after the operation. The wound made in the lamb's leg after the operation was also attended to and the animal, little the worse for the operation, was soon frisking about the grounds of the hos pital. The girl rallied well from the shock of the operation, which Is thought to have been successful. The operation is believed to be the first of its kind In Portland and not many cases have been found in the United States. The usual tendons used In replacing human tendons are those from dogs, but the parents of the girl, who live at 646 East Twenty-first street, were opposed to the use of a dog's muscle and a lamb was substi tuted. LIFE-SAVING SITE IS GIFT Government Expected to Spend $14,000 on Newport Improvement NEWPORT, Or., Aug. 3. (Special.) A special meeting of the City Council was held last nlgnt for the purpose of tak ing final action on the gift to the Gov ernment of a strip of waterfront for the location of a life-saving station. A communication was read from the Government accepting the proffered site, and a resolution was passed authorizing the Mayor to make a deed to the Gov ernment for the parcel of ground, wnicn has a frontage of 75 feet on the water front, and 75 feet back on the street. An assignment of lease was purchased from J. Margson for a portion of the ground, for J450. Captain Wellander, of the local life saving station, states that the depart ment is to Invest in the neighborhood of $14,000 In the building and boat, which is to be of the latest, type. JACKSON IS OUT OF MONEY Southern Oregon County Has to Pay Workmen In Warrants. MEDFORD, Or., Aug. S. (Special.) Because of lack of funds, Jackson County will now pay all workmen In county warrants. If they can sell their warrants at par, they will get their full wages. If not, they must take what they can get. While the County Commissioners realize that this is bad for both the workmen and the county, they see no way to avoid it. Before this, warrants in denominations of $500 and $1000 have been issued and sold By tne county, with some difficulty of late. This money has been used to pay employes. Now warrants for the exact amount due the employe will be issued each nav day. It is the consensus of opinion that the method will prove costly ana un satisfactory. NURSERY SUES FOR $20,000 Roseburg Man Alleged to Have In jured Firm by Statements. tm t oTinDn fv A ii tr 3 Knee! al. niuiiuvi.ui v.., o- ' The Oregon Nursery Company, has filed suit in the District Court against George A. Bradburn, of Roseburg, ask ing 20, OUU aamages lor mitseu laioc statements regarding the nursery stock of the plaintiff. The statements in question were in a Portland rinllv June 26. 110, and the article, which forms part of the complaint niea, was in u iim- . , . ( nr with Mr Rradburn. tj L ail 1ULI71 . .... -. . . . .... who In the published statement Is quoted as saying that the trees were ..... .-( V, anthriun(up. The com plaint states that such charges are in jurious to tne company a uumu RANCHER SHOOTS COUGAR Beast Killed Near Astoria Measures 6 1-2 Feet From Tip to Tip. . ASTORIA. Or.. Aug. 3. (Special.) One tha inrrpKt cnuears ever seen in this vicinity was kflled today by O. A. Cole on his ranch In the Tucker Creek dis trict. Th animal was a feroclous-iooKing beast, and measured six and one-half fpet from tlD to tip. Last nigni it en tered Mr. Cole's barnyard and killed a calf. Early this morning the cougar was seen by a neighbor. He notified Mr. Cole, who. shot it. FIRST INFANTRY TO SAIL War Department Orders Movement to Philippines March 15. OREGOXIAN NEWS BUREAU, Wash ington. Aug. 3. The First Infantry, now at Vancouver Barracks, will sail for the Phillipines March 15 next. This announcement was made b.v the War Department today. CITY URGED TO BE READY FOR CANAL John Barrett Advises Trade to Prepare. . LEGISLATION PUT FOREMOST Pan-American Union Chief Asks All to Aid, u;,!:, $1 TOLL IS RECOMMENDED Speaker at Commercial Club Ban quet in His Honor Extols Port land and Declares All Coast Mrast Know Ditch's Benefits. Portland must prepare for the open ing of the Panama Canal if she Is to reap her full share of the benefit there from. That was the keynote of the address by John Barrett, director general of the Pan-American Union, who spoke last night at a banquet, tendered him by the Portland Com mercial Club. He said Portland's slo gan ought to be, "Prepare for the open ing of the Panama Canal." Mr. Barrett spoke of the activity of other Coast cities, and expressed the wish that Portland Join hands with them In the preparation for the event which will mean so much to the Coast. He urged that the harbor and the channel of the Columbia be Improved as much as possible, that no plans ba spared to increase trade relations with Japan, Russian Asia, the Philippines, India and Australia, and particularly with the 20 South American countries. South American Visit Erged. A delegation of 50 or 100 business men ought tro go from the Pacific Coast to South America soon, he said, to learn of the opportunities for export to those countries,, and to invite the business men there to attend the ex position In San Franolsco In 1915. He said he planned to visit the Canal a short time ago, but was called to San Francisco to turn the first spadeful of earth on the exposition site. While he was on the coast he de termined to visit Los Angeles, San Diego, Portland, Seattle and other Coast cities, he said, to awaken an Interest In the great opportunity the canal will provide for this Coast. He urged that an effort be made to have Congress pass at the next ses sion. In December, one of the bills ap proved by Colonel George W. Goethals, In charge of the canal. He declared that the tolls on ship ping ought not to be more than 11 or $1.50 a net ton, and that the policy of the Government ought to be clearly defined at once, that steamship com panies may build or purchase steam ships. Mr. Barrett spoke of the days when . he worked in Portland as a newspa perman and of th encouragement given him byRL Pittock, F. W. Mul key, C. M. Idleman, C. S. Jackson. Charles J. Schnabel and others. Mr Barrett said: Barrett Lauds Portland. The honor which the Portia Commercial Club does me tonight is profoundly appre ciated: first, because of my residence In this city in the formative period of my. Ule. . ,. T j .nmA Wast from a room and education in New England, and. second ly, becau.e it is an expres.lon of the Inter est of this city and tne Northwe.t in the vital and all-important question, as far a. Its water commerce is concerned, of getting ready for the opening of the Panama Canal. Without a desire to please, or being Influ enced by mv affection for Portland, let me say. as one" whose official business takes him all over this country of ours and often times to foreign lands. I have seen no city th.isliT..Tri"h'ch,f"ldhDSpTrltry than Portland. With, therefore, its remark hia growth during recent years, with Its i.n,r,hia nosltlon in a rich section oi our country where land and water communi cation meets, with the location and the op portunity to become one of the principal ports of the Pacific Ocean, provided It takes advantage of what God and man have already done for It. let It make It. tocsin. Its motto, and Its slogan, for the next three years- "Get Ready for the Panama Canal. In urging you to get ready for the Panama i would not fall to recogniie and praise what this city has already done to make Itself a commercial entrepot of the high seas and a metropolis of a resourceful Interior. Great credit is due to your Com mercial Club, your Chamber of Commerce and other organizations, to your newspapers ana to individual men, for what you have already done and are doing to place Port land in the front rank of cities not only of ih. TTnlted States but of the world. The steps you have taken and the money you have expended for the Port of Portland, and the plans you are now developing for the building of complete ocean traffic terminal facilities, prove beyond question that if Portland win supplement these achieve ments and these plans by the further steps which I have the honor to urge upon you. she will truly come into her own with the . opening of the Panama Canal. Channel Subject of Repot. In a careful statement which I shall pre- nnra in the near future in co-operation with Colonel Georee W. Goethals. the eminent engineer building the Isthmian waterway, I shall have both pleasure nd pride in point ing out what has been and Is being accom plished for the-deepening of the channel of the Columbia and the Willamette from the ocean to this city, and what you propose to do In terminal facilities with your bond is sue of $2,5uO.OOO such information being compiled for the benefit of the great steam ship, shipping, exporting and importing in terests of the world to show them what they will find ready when the first merchant vessel passes through the canal. It would seem as If this was tne psyeno loglcal moment to discuss with Portland and the Pacific Northwest what must bf done to get ready for the Panama Canal. The recent decision regarding railroad rates Is in Itself one of the strongest reasons why Portland should do everything it can to pre pare for the new conditions of commerce which -will develop with tne opening ol tne (Concluded, on Page 0.)