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
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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
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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.)