BASIS FOR NEBULAR
iiSF
HYPOTHEC
OUD
Observations at Flagstaff
i " Lead Scientist to Credit
Laplace's Theory.
NEBULAE ARE STAR DUST
Professor Lowell Says Spectroscope
I-fads to Belief That Clouds of
Finely Divided Matter First
Step Toward Solar Sjstrm.
rmf XCO. March it. Important
tails of recent discoveries concerning
the nebular hypothesis of solar sys
tems by Dr. V. D. Sllpsar, of the Lowell
Observatory. Flagstaff, Ariz., were
mad known here today on the arrival
of Professor Perclval Lowell on his
way to New York. The nebular theory
of Laplace, which tn recent years has
been somewhat discredited tn certain
astronomical quarters, received a strong
corroboration, according to a statement
Issued from Flagstaff.
! .Observers at Lowell Observatory
have established the fact that the
nebulae consist of clouds of star dust
enveloped In gas.
. "This la the first step In the evolu
tion of a solar system," Professor
Lowell's statement reads. The state
ment follows:
"It has been decided at the Lowell
Observatory by Dr. V. D. Sllpsar,
through the spectrascoplc observations,
that the nebula In the Pleiades Is Il
luminated by reflected light of the
neighboring stars, and that this nebula
Is In reality a cloud or finely divided
matter such as the Investigations of
er Norman Lockyer, Sir George Dar
win and Professor Hugo Zelinger led
them to suppose might exist in space.
"The proof of this consists In the
fact that, with the slit of the spectra
rraph so placed as to Include the star
and the wisps of nebula In its neigh
borhood, the resulting spectrogram
shows the spectrum of the star sur
rounded by a faint continuous spectrum
where the nebulosity exists, crossed by
the well-known dark bands of the ab
sorption of hydrogen and other gases.
"This Indicates that the nebula con
sists of solid matter reflecting the light
It receives from the star and surround
ed by cool gases. Or, in other words,
that we see here a cloud of meteoric
matter enveloped In lighter particles of
rases. This Is the first step In the
evolution of a solar system.
"The Importance of this discovery,
which Is corroborated by other Flag
staff observations of nebulae and star
clusters, will be seen when It Is point
ed out that It bears directly upon the
nature of thousands of other nebulae,
and suggests that many of them may
closely reproduce the hypothetical
nebulae assumed by Laplace as the
basis for his nebular hypothesis."
Spectroscopists of numerous observa-'
tories are Interested tn the discovery,
and are working on collateral Investigations.
GRAVEL PITJGIVES WORRY
Injunction Against Warren Con
struction Company Denied.
Circuit Judge Kavanaugh yesterday
refused the application of L S. Friend
ly for an order enjoining the continued
removal of gravel by O. Paulson and the
Warren Construction Company from the
famous Kenton gravel pit of Robert
Ftiaw. Clerk of the County Court, which
was purchased from the county by Mose
llloch, through Anslem Boskowitz, his
nephew, last year and later transferred
to Shaw. The property now belongs to
Thomas Burford.
Friendly, who owns adjoining prop
erty, pleaded that the use of the Shaw
land as a gravel pit Injures the value
of his property. Me alleged that last
year Shaw had signed an agreement
that the removal of gravel would be
iliscontinueU after March 1, 1913, the
tlute of the expiration of a lease which
. Paulson had with the county when
the pit was sold and had agreed that
this prohibition would "run with the
land."
HUMPHRYS ARE BURIED
Brothers' Bodies Laid Beside That
of Mother at Dallas.
DALLAS. Or, March Ji. (Special.)
In the presence of about SO persons,
none of whom were relatives, and with
the snow beating: down hard and fast,
the last chapter fn the history of the
now famous Humphrys brothers was
wrftten here today, when the bodies of
the two brothers were buried In the
I. O. O. F. Cemetery beside the body
of the mother, who died shortly before
the arrest of these men fur the murder
of airs. Orlftfth at Philomath.
Tbe bodies wore brought to Dallas
by Rev. Bsrr K. Lee, of Salem, and
were Immediately turned over to the
County Coroner. R. L. Chapman. They
were removed to tho cemetery at once,
and there a short funeral service was
held. Rev. Mr. Lee ofneiating.
WITNESS COMES PREPARED
Policeman's Keply to Attorney Xot
Entirely Complimentary.
When a lawyer tried to browbeat
Patrolman John Wellbrook. the other
day, he caught a Tartar. Weilbrook
has a reputation for !ry wit" In the
department, and he used it.
It was a liquor case, in which the
policeman testified to the sale of a bot
tle of whisky.
"You say this Is whisky: how do you
know It if? asked the attorney.
"I tasted It." said Well brook, calmly.
"What did you do that for; what right
hod you to drink while on dutyT"
as to be prepared," replied Well
brook. "I told the boys that some
blame fool lawyer would ask that
question."
MUS1CA IS SICK IN JAIL
New York Banker Facing Fraud
Charge In Critical Condition.
NEW ORLEANS. March !4. Antonio
Xiuslea. of New York, who was placed
in pall here last week, with his three
sons, charged with defrauding New
York banks of a large sum of money,
suffered a severe heart attack in the
jail today.
His condition is reported orltlcaL
KELSO COMMITTEES BUSY
Southwest Washington Development
Folk Meet In May.
CKXTRAL1A. Wash. March S.
Slevial.) For the quarterly meeting
of the Southwest Washington Develop
mem Association, which will be held in
Kelso In May. a complete list of com
mittees haa been made up. The Kelso
Commercial Club Is taking up the work
with energy, and will arrange a pro
gramme filled with interesting "stunts"
for the visitors. Following are the com
mittees which will have charge of the
preparations:
Finance C A. Peters, B. M. Atkins.
J. L. Sparling, J. P. Clays and C. R.
Abbott
Programme J. L. Harris. P. P.
Brush. Harry Ames. F. L. Stewart, J.
R. Catlln.- J. M. Ayres. Rev. O. B. Lati
mer and C A. Taylor.
Reception H. E. McKenney, R. W.
Welch. A. J. Davis. A. K. Remlck, C. O.
Talbert. F. L. Stewart, C. A. Taylor, A.
T. Laurie. W. P. Ely, E. S. Collins,-Dr.
C W. Bales. Dr. J. Ballard, B. L. Hub
bell. Dr. A. F. V. Davis. G. A. Polland, F.
Catlln. Sr. and Ben Barlow.
Music C H. Elweil. P. F. Snyder,
Miss Gladys Boys, Mrs. B, W. Welch
and M. J. Lord.
GIRL STUDENT IN JAIL
MOTHER FINDS DAUGHTER
in-T,T AS BURGLARY SUSPECT.
Young Woman Who Goes to Enroll
as Berkeley Art Co-Ed Says She Is
Innocent Victim of Gang.
SAX FRANCISCO, March 24. Mrs.
Lou Clifton, who believed that her
young daughter, Jessie, had come to
San Francisco to enroll as an art stu
dent in the University of California, ar
rived here today from Stockton and
found the gin at the city prison, held
as a burglary suspect and as a mem
ber of the Shea gang who are under
arrest tn connection with a long list of
robberies.
In a tearful Interview between mother
and daughter the girl reaffirmed her
earliar statements that she was wnouy
Ignorant of wrongdoing on the part of
either Patrick F. Shea or his wire,
with whom she lived in a fashionable
apartment for two weeks preceding the
arrests.
Whether the girl la the innocent vic
tim of circumstances, as, she asserts,
the police are at a loss to say. In any
event she will be held with the four
other prisoners, the Sheas, Beatrice Bai
ley and Bert Shepard, alias silver Ling.
The four have refused to talk since
their arrest, but It has been ascertained
that the Shea woman, who is also
known as Maud Evans, formerly lived
in New York and Chicago, and the po
lice assert that Sheas operated in Chi
cago and other Eastern cities before
they came here.
Much of the loot, which was recovered
from the Shea apartment, and the value
of which the police estimate at about
15000, was Identified today by victims
of recent burglaries.
BOUR
REVIEWS
HE
POSTOFFIGE BILL
Ex-Senator Explains Steps
That Won Appropriation
for Portland.
CITY SINGULARLY FAVORED
PORTLAND ANXIETY IS HIGH
(Conduced From Page a.)
service to you and your people that
may be needed."
The Chamber of commerce omciais
likewise sent messages offering assistance.
J. D. FarrelL president of the O.-w.
R. & N. Company, received several mes
sages yesterday from A. L. Mohler.
president of the Union Paoifio. whose
offices and home are at Omaha. In his
first report Mr. Mohler announced that
the company had contributed souou to
aid In relief of sufferers.
Telegraph Poles Stripped.
A later report said that a mile and
a half of telegraph poles and wires
along the Union Pacific right of way
near Waterloo, Neb, had been blown
down and that a mile of pole and wires
were down at Yutan. east of Omana.
These now are being repaired.
All eastbound trains on tho Union
Pacific are being held at Grand Island.
Neb, Railroad officials expect to have
the line open to and through Omaha at
10 o'clock this morning. Forces or
men from various points along the line
are being sent to the scene of the dis
aster to aid In tbe reconstruction and
relief work.
'The section foreman at Yutan re
ports 15 dead and 30 Injured," tele
graphed Mr. Mohler last night. "There
was no damage west of Valley and
south of Mead. Wire service still is
interrupted. Many of our employes
suffered loss to their property."
Mr. Mohler late last night recapitu
lated casualties and damages as fol
lows:
Known dead. 80; Injured, Z40: houses
destroyed. 240; churches wrecked, 11;
schoolhouses wrecked, eight; buildings
damaged. 1250.
J. B. Sedgwick, of 363 uekum avenue.
received a telegram from his daughters.
residing near Hanscom park In Omaha,
advising him of their safety. This mes
sage had been taken to Lincoln on a
train and telegraphed out or mat city.
Mr. Sedgwick lived In Omaha for 30
years, and has been a resident of Port
land for only a few months.
William Rran. of Portland, has been
eager to get information from Cornelius
Riley, a relative or airs, ityan, wno
lives in Omaha.
OMAHA RISES TO OCCASION
Federal Aid Xot Yet Xeedcd, Says
Mayor's Message to Wilson.
WASHINGTON, March 24. President
Wilson received a reply to his tele
gram from Mayor Dahlman of Omaha,
stating that assistance was not needed,
but that the offer was appreciated. The
telegram follows:
"We appreciate your offer of assist
ance, but our people are responding
nobly and I believe we can handle the
situation. Major Hart man. of Fort
Omaha, and his men came promptly to
our assistance and are doing great
work. The people of Omaha desire,
however, to express their gratitude
to you for your message of sympathy."
SKY RED AS STORM RAGES
(Concluded From Pm 8.)
stamiins at the little station when the
storm struck."
Among the first to bring details of
the thoroughness of the tornado's de
structive work in Omaha to the out
side world was F. G. Elmendorff, who
arrived in Chicago tonight. He was
sitting In the lobby of an Omaha hotel
near a window when the wind began
to tear a wide path through a section
of the city.
"I waa sitting near a window on the
first floor of the hotel, when it sud
denly grew dark and I couldn't see to
read." he said tonight. "It had been
raining Just a little and the sudden
darkening of the eklcs made every
body a trifle apprehensive. A few of
us were talking about It, when we no
ticed a bumming sound, which grew
in volume until we recognized it as a
noise of the air, the most fearful and
peculiar sound I ever beard, and after
looking over the havoc wrought. I
never want to bear such a thing again.
"In. a minute or so the storm burst
upon us in all its fury. There were
continual crashes of thunder and ram
fell In torrents. It waa almost a
cloudburst and kept us in so that we
could not Investigate to sea If there
had been a cyclone. Finally the storm
let up and we learned, first over the
telephone, that block after block of
the city had been leveled and that
hundreds of people were dead. We dTd
nothing last rirght but wait for the
reports. This morntng everyone In
the hotel got up before daybreak and
started on a tour of the ruins."
Efforts of Four Years Will Give to
Oregon Metroplls Best Structure
and Equipment of Any Sim
liar Towns, He Says.
WASHINGTON', D. March 18. (To
the Editor.) Impressed with the con
gestion in the Portland Postofflce and
with the probable great growth of
that city, due to the fact that it was
the natural point of concentration by
water grade of 250,000 square miles
of territory, twice that of any other
city In the world, four years ago I
introduced a bill In the Senate and
passed the same through that body
providing for a 1500,000 appropriation
for a new Postofflce site and a $1,000,
000 appropriation for a new Postofflce.
In the public buildings bill passed
three years ago, I secured in the Sen
ate an insertion of an authorization
for 1500,000 for the purchase of a
site, and after about a year's delay
the Government purchased the new
site for 3340,000. At the first session
of the last Congress I introduced in
and passed through the Senate the
following bill:
Section s. That the Secretary of the
Treasury be. and he Is hereby authorised
and directed to enter-4nto contracts for the
construction of a suitable building for a
Postofflce only upon tbe site heretofore ac
quired, bounded by Seventh. Eighth, Hoyt
and Gllsaa streets. In the City of Port
land. Or., at a total limit of cost for said
building, complete. Including meohagilcal
equipment, heating, ventilating, vacuum
cleaning and air washing systems, ma
chinery, mechanical appliances and devices
for handling mall. Intercommunicating tele
phones and clock systems, and such other
labor-saving devices and appliances as may
be deemed necessary at a total limit of
cost, exclusive of site, of $1, 000. 000.
That tbe Secretary of the Treasury be.
and he Is hereby, further authorized and
empowered, in his discretion, to secure the
plans, specifications and estimates for said
building and the local supervision of Its
construction by competition among not less
than frre architects, and to make payment
for the services of the architect whose plan
may be selected out of the appropriation
for said building, any statute to the con
trary notwltnstandlng.
I secured its insertion in the publio
building bill when it came to tbe Sen
ate and its retention and enactment in
the bill by appearing before the con
ference committee of both houses and
demonstrating the Justness of this ap
propriation, thus securing In the Sen
ate twice as -large an appropriation j
for Oregon as was put on for any state
In the Union by the Senate.
Bill of Singular Notice.
Perusal of my bill will demonstrate
that no item of similar scope has ever
been Inserted in any public building
bill. I have endeavored to cover every
item that would be instrumental in
adding to the comfort and health of the
employes and Increasing the efficiency
of the Portland Postofflce. I have
sought to make the Portland Postofflce
the demonstrated best equipped and
highest developed postofflce of similar
size in the United States.
By the Becond paragraph of my bill
I have enabled immediate attention to
be given and plans to be prepared for
this postofflce Instead of having to wait
three years or more for its regular
order on the list, feeling that large
postof flees should be given preference
because of the greater number of peo
ple to be served by the instrumentality.
Three years ago when chairman of
the sub-committee of the committee on
public expenditures I spent several days
in Chicago going through the build-
ngs of Sears, Roebuck & Co- and the
Swift Packing Company, and was
greatly impressed with the labor-sav
ing devices Installed and operated In
these Institutions and the air-washing
machines in the administrative build
ings of both of these companies. I
was Informed by the respective man
agements that they figured over 50 per
cent return on the cost of the installa
tion of the air-washing machines by
increased efficiency of employes In these
buildings due to better hygienic and
more comfortable conditions.
Conferences Bear Fruit.
Since the adjournment of the last
Congress, March 4, I had several con
ferences with the Assistant Secretary
of the Treasury, Sherman Allen, and
the supervising architect, Oscar Wen
deroth. and they are in thorough ac
cord with my ideas of making the
Portland postofflce the demonstration
office of the country, and grasped the
opportunity from a demonstration
standpoint of utilizing the scope of the
language in the Portland postofflce
Item, and in accordance wtih my sug
gestion have directed the Government's
representative at Chicago, A. A, Pack
ard, supervising superintendent of con
struction, to submit letters of intro
duction I have written for him to Mr.
Rosenwald, president Sears, Roebuck
& Co.. and to Mr. Swift, president of
the Swift Packing Company. Mr.
Packard will report such Information
as he secures to Mr. Wenderotb here,
and plans will bo prepared embodying
the utilization of this information, and
tho competing architects will be noti
fied as to space requirements for the
installation of such labor-saving de
vices and air-washing machines as may
be adopted.
In my oninlon this demonstrates con
structive work and foresight. The Port
land Dostofflce employes will receive
the benefit of better hygienic and more
comfortable conditions, and the gov
ernment the benefit of much greater
efficiency at a much less cost than the
ordinary postofflce building will pro
duce. The plan established, if followed
our, will save the Government many
millions of dollars in cost and effi
ciency In construction of buildings and
In the operation of the postal depart
ment, and Portland and Oregon will be
the gainers by being the possessors of
the most up-to-date postofflce, with the
result that architects and Governmental
employes will be sent there for the pur
pose of utilizing said postofflce as an
object lesson In postal and public build
ing activities.
1 have the assurance of the super
vising architect that the work of this
office will be expedited and its com
pletion assured at the earliest date that
conditions will perm It of.
JONATHAN BOURNS, JR.
WARRANT CALL OUT TODAY
Clatsop County Treasurer Gets Busy
With Statements.
ASTORIA, Or., March 24. (Special.)
County Treasurer Sherman will Issue,
if or all sreneral fund
warrants 'issued and Indorsed prior to
January 1. last. This nnngs ice county
paper up to within, two months and 25
vv
SEE THAT
:urve
We Will Get
You Yet!!!
I This is the first of a new
series of single column
advertisements to be pub
lished in this paper daily,
or thereabout, on the sub
ject of Thompson's
Glasses.
H We shall make these ad
vertisements as brief as
we can and we should like
every person to read them,
particularly you.
II The burden of these ad
vertisements will be the
superior merit of Thomp
son's Glasses, which is
really not a burden, but a
boon.
IT Incidentally we shall,
from time to time, com
ment impersonally upon
what is new or novel in
eye wear.
S We do not expect to con
vert you with a single ad
vertisement any more than
you would expect to woo
and win a girl in one visit.
5 Reform must be accom
plished slowly, and the
best wives in the world
took a lot of getting.
I But whether it takes ten
days or a twelvemonth to
convert you,you may make
tip your mind to one thing
We will get you yetU
THOMPSON
EYE SPECIALIST
Second Floor Corbett Bldg.
Fifth and Morrison
21 Years' practical experience.
days of the date of issue, the closest It
has been in many years.
This call will Include all the warrants
Issued during the six months, beginning
on July 1 of last year, and the princi
pal ! toracjt nn thone warrants will
amount approximately to 79,800. It is
expected that anotner can can. do maue
early In the coming monm.
BRISTLES TO CLEAN APPLES
Hood River Fruitgrowers Likely to
Try New Invention.
HOOD RIVER, Or, March 24. (Spe
cial.) According to fruitgrowers, pig
bristles may come into universal use
to clean apples. Since the rise of the
. . . i . i i,A NT.HV.wMt ft has
been necessary to wipe accumulated
dust and tne resiauo wi tsyrayo
apples by hand. However, because of
the high cost of labor, fruit men have
been working to devise means to clean
the fruit by machinery and to separate
it in sizes at the same time.
t." . .-to mY, n htivA witnessed the
operation of tho fruit cleaner and
grader tnat nas oeen exuiuneu imo
week at the ranch of R. H. Weber,
State Fruit Commissioner of this dis
trict, are of the opinion that hand
work Is over. The apples pass along a
cleated belt between brushes of hog
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bristles. Other materials for bristles
were discarded alter a Tew trials, ine
dust and other matter soon clogged
them. However, a kind of natural oil
reiutUHB iu mo uwg . v. .
them to shed freely all of the dtrt
cleaned from the apples. The new 'ma
chine was Invented by O. K. Porter, a
maemmst or ine panes.
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THE retail merchant's telephone serves
not only as a salesman, but also as a
purchasing agent.
When a merchant finds that he is going to run
out of a line of goods, he calls up the wholesaler
or factory, and not only orders a new stock, but
comes to an agreement on the price and the
time of delivery.
The unexpected needs of his customers can
be met with the least possible delay.
If the merchant cannot find what he wants in
town, the Long-Distance Service of the Bell Sys
tem brings him into immediate communication
with other cities and other markets.
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Every Bell Telephone Is the Center of the System