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THE MORNING OREGONTAN, SATURDAY, JANUARY 9, 1915. OH LETTER IS BAN ADMITTED IN BERLIN Suppression of Belgian Cardi rial's Note Is Declared Closed Incident. PRIESTS DISPUTE GERMANY Many Declared Arrested for Bead Ing Mercler Communication, De rpltn Seml-Offlcial Denial From Kaiser' Capital. LONDON. Jan. 8. Reuter's Amster dam correspondent sends the following 'According; to a telegram from lie lln. tonight's Issus of the North German Gaictto published tha following: inspired coramuoa cation" -Th ArchbLihon of Mallnes. Cardlm Mercier, Issued a Christmas paa:o-nJ letter which he directed should be read from the pulpits of all the churches in his clocese on January 1 and tne ioj lowing Bandar. In addition to remarks on religious matters, the letter con tains a series of political statements which are Irreconcilable with the pres ent state of occupation The German authorities, therefore, were obliged to take measures to prevent further propa gation of the letter. Cm i aer-Ceaeral Acts. -When the Governor-General drew Uie attention of th? cardinal to the matter, the latter declared, vemaliy and In writing, that his letter was net In any way meant to be of an Inciting nature. On the contrary, he added that his intention was to pacify the popula tion and endeavor to remind them, with out hurting their patriotic feelings, to be submissive. In demeanor at least, to the existing German authority. 'However, as the Governor-General was of a different opinion with regard to the letter and feared it would have an Inciting effect. Cardinal Mercler uij not Insist upon the execution by his clergy of his directions for continued reading of tha letter from their pulpits. Before this the Governor-General nad prohibited the publication and propaga tion of the pastoral letter. Iarlde-at Settled, Says Berlin. " The Incident can now be regarded as settled." " The Rosendaal correspondent of the newspaper TIJ'l at Amsterdam sends a dispatch in which he Insists that jar dlnai Mercler. archbishop of Mallnes. was arrested and imprisoned In his Dilate, and that even now he Is de tained In Mallnes. The correspondent says the cardinal will soon declare personally that In his own palace he was deprived of his personal freedom, that he submitted to a kind of interro gation, that his palace was guarded by military and that he still la for bidden to leave Mallnes. The cardinal declined, the corre spondent says, to go to Brussels at the request of the Germans, and when he learned that sme priests who reaa his letter In public had been treated In an unseemly manner he accepted full responsibility for what he had done. The senior cure of Antwerp. after receiving a message from Ma llnes. told the Tijd correspondent this morning, with the greatest emphasis, the dispatch says, that the cardinal would not be allowed to leave Mallnes until a final decision was received from Berlin. German Report Contradicted. In a dispatch from Rosendaal the correspondent of the Amsterdam Tijd save that M. Dessuin. who printed Car dinal Mercler's pastoral letter, has been fined 600 marks 1135). with an alternative threat of SO days' Imprls nment. Continuing, the correspondent de Clares that the vicar of Hemixen was kept a prisoner in the fort at Hoboken from Saturday noon until Sunday morning. The vicars of Duffel. Con tich. Brasschaet and S hooten also were Imprisoned. All of these priests are prepared, the correspondent of the TIJii declares, to contradict on oath the Berlin semi-official telegram deny ing that any persons have been arrest ed for reading the pastoral letter of Cardinal Mercler. CEMETERY J5EAL IS OFF M. Johns Conncll Postpone Buying Acreage In Gatton Tract. ST. JOHNS. Or Jan. (Special.) The purchase by the city or nve acres In the Gatton tract for a city cemetery at tha rate of J100 an acre has been called off hy the Council. City engi neer J- O. Burlson made an investiga tion of the statement of & C Cook that there waa no road laid out within three-quarters of a mile of the tract and reported that Mr. Cook's statement waa practically correct. The surveyor reported that a new road would have to be built through Ramsey Acres to the Oatton tract. On the report of the City Engineer the Council voted to postpone the purchase of the land In definitely. Mayor Vincent bad asserted the price waa exorbitant and had denounced the deal as a "hold-up." Public senti ment among the citizens of St. Johns waa said to be strongly against the purchase of the property at the price, when It waa averred, that the assessed vatuatlon was only (13.30 an acre. It waa the plan to sell lots for graves and pay the owner out of the pro reeds, so the city would not have been called on to pay out money directly. WHALEMEN'S ORGAN QUITS Industry Xo Longer Big Enough to Justify Publication. NEW BEDFORD. Mails, Jan. $. The decline In the whaling industry reached a point where It Is no longer profitable to maintain a periodical de oted to Its interests, according to the publishers of the Whalemen's Shipping 1.1st. who today announced that this week's issue would be the last of that weekly Journal. When the paper was established In 1S41 the number of vessels engaged In the whale fishery waa 7S. with an aggregate tonnage of 199.174. Three years later, the high-water mark In the industry waa reached, with 680 ships, aggregating 233.253 tons. To day only 33 vessels, with a total ton nage of S11. are engaged . in the search for whales. The highest price for sperm oil. reached In the time of the Civil War. was S2.TS a gallon. I-ast year's product sold at 45 to 48 rents. OREGON PASTOR BENEDICT Her. J. Thomas Cowley, of Canyon rllle. Take Kngllsh Bride. cently In which the pastor of the local Methodist Episcopal Church. Rev J Thomas Cowley and Miss Emily Eales, of Torquay. England, were married. The ceremony was performed at the home of the bridegroom's cousins, Mr. and Mrs. E. L. Martin. Lents, by the Rev. James H. Irvine, pastor of the Methodist Church at Cornelius. Or., and was witnessed by immediate relatives only Miss Doris Martin attended as bridesmaid, while A. S. Henstock ot Portland, late of London, acted as best man. The bride, who recently arrived from England, is the eldest daughter of Samuel C. Eales, a contractor, while the bridegroom is a native son of the Isle of Man. but lived for several years in Liverpool, tngiana. in wmuu he served as pastor and founder of a successful mission In the slums. He also was pastor of the Methodist Epis copal Church at Colona. Colo., for two years prior to his appointment to Can yonvllle. at which place be is now serv ing his second year. BOY CONFESSES MURDER ST. I.OCIS WOMAN STRANGLED TO DEATH Bf STEPSON. Crime Admitted on Arrest of 1-Year- Old Fmgittve in Arkansas Hand kerchief faed tm Straggle. ST. LOUIS. Jan. 8. Jesse E. Cog' gins, the l-year-old boy who has been sought by the St. Louis police since Tuesday night for the murder of his stepmother. Mrs. Olive Collins, was arrested today In Argenta. Ark., and. according to Information received from Sheriff Hutton. of Little Rock, the boy made a full confession of the crime. Young Cogglns is expected to waive extradition and It Is thought he will be brought back to St. Louis on Sat urday night or Sunday morning. According to the confession he is re ported to have signed, young Cogglns went to his room in a lodging-house after murdering his stepmother, and on wiiuiv morning read newspapers of the crime and that he was wanted. That morning he took a train to Pine Bluff, Ark., where he waa advisea Dy a rrionii tn cm to Texas and Join the Armv. He left Pine Blurt on inurs- day and arriveo in uiuo night. rwectlves were watcning ior mm there however, and when ne went to Argenta to board a southbound freight train he was arrested. In the confession Coggins Is report ed to have said that the struggle which ended in the death of his stepmother started when she corrected some of his table manners. He made a jesting re ply, and, according to the confession. she picked up a butcher knire. e dared her to use It and she started toward him. He then seized her arms and twisted his handkerchief about her neck, choking lier to deatn. PRISONERS CITE WORK IROVWORKERS OF DYNAMITE CON SPIRACY ASK PAROLE. Seventeen Mea Call Board's Attention to Rapidity With Which They Completed Cell house. LEA VEX WORTH. Kan., Jan. 8. The rapidity with which they constructed a ripw cellhouse at the Federal prison here was one of the arguments put for ward today by 17 structural Iron workers convicted ii the dynamite conspiracy cases at Indianapolis, who appeared before the Federal Parole Board. Having served one-tnira oi tlielr sentences, the men are eligible for parole. Frank M. Ryan, or cnicago, ex-neaa of the ironworkers, was not eligible for parole, not having served a buiii cient portion of his sentence. For seven years tne prison manage ment had been trying to get the cell house built. When the ironworkers arrived in the prison. Warden Morgan explained the situation to them and put them to work. Ryan was maao lore- man. Within six monins tne iron work on the cellhouse was completed. Only one of the men who applied lor parole failed to do his share in the construction work. That man was Hockin and he waa willing to help, but the others objected because of the part he played In the prosecution of the ironworkers by the Government. Hockin has been tending a gate In the prison yard. 'JITNEYS' HURT RAILWAY VNITF.D COMPANY TO SEEK PRO TECTION AGAINST BCSSES. Competition by Automobiles Is Making Big Hole ta Receipts and Cor poration Plana Defrnae. FAN FRANCISCO. Jan. 8. (Special.) Jitney busses are dealing a solar plexus blow to the street railways. So keenly has the United Railroads al ready felt the sting of the competition. o many nickels that heretofore clinked Into the pay-as-you-enter cash boxes re now being Invested in gasoline. hat the Board of Supervisors and even the Railroad Commislon will be ap pealed to. General Manager Black, or tne united Railroads. Is up in arms. If the Jitneys would only operate in the outskirts they would be an aid to the railway ystem. Black says, but since they Con ine their attention to the down town istricts only "the cream of the trade they are scooping up gobs of nickels nd making a remarkable noie in tne receipts of the company. That the won! is yet to come is the fear of Mr. Black. . If these Jitney busses assume the proportions they have In Los Angeles nd the southern part or the state," said Black, "it will most certainly com pel us to cut down the number of our hop employes and cancel further ex tensions." Across the nay the Jitneys have also One Three Great Sales Merged Into If You Wondered at the Economies for Grown-Ups Come Saturday to An Astonishing Sale for Girls and Boys The Pictorial Review February Patterns are ready, showing, the latest fashions for the coming season, also Feb ruary Fashion Sheets Second Floor Merchandise of J.Merit Only" Saturday, on the Fourth Floor Most Important Sale of Short Jacket Suits For Small Women and Misses HALF PRICE 30 Smart New Suits in This Collection Sold Regularly From $12.50 to $25.00 Sale $6.25 to $12.50 These suits aic in the newest styles, which will be worn exclusively this Spring and Summer. Jackets are in short length, plaited or belted, and the skirts in yoke top, plaited and some tunic models. They come in serges, poplins, cheviots and fancy mixtures, and the jackets are lined with peau de cygne silk. The woman or girl who buys one of these suits will certainly secure a fashionable garment at just half what she will have to pay later on in the Spring. s Smart, Tailored Suits With Short Jackets Sizes and models for small women and girls. Suits Selling Regularly Up to $25.00 Sale $6.95 . In serges, cheviots, fancy mixtures, fashioned on the new short jacket lines fashionable models for either women or girls There are just 15 of these suits, and at this remarkably low price there will not be one left by noon. Come early in the morning before they are all sold. Fourth Floor Girls' Jaunty Skating Coats $4.95 Sold Regularly From $10.00 to $15.00 Coats that have become so popular for skating and sports wear, made in belted and belted-back styles, showing the new deep armholes. with set-in sleeves. They have large patch and small inside pockets and are trimmed with large fancy buttons. Coats come in plaids, checks and novelty effects and have convertible collars. Sizes for both women and girls. An Assortment of Winter Coats at $3.98 Which Have Always Sold Up to $12.50 Long and short coats, in materials and styles for general utility and skating wear. In fancy mixtures, zibeline and plaids, also several coats of white polo cloth. Remarkable coats for this price. Girls' Walking Skirts Selling to $12.50 Very Special $1.98 Of serges, black and white checks, wool crepes, in navy, Copen, green and plaids. Lengths only from 30 to 36 inches. Half Price Sale of Girls' Fine Dresses Linens, crepes, poplins, ratine, fine gingham, lingerie, silks, vel vets, challie, serges, broadcloth, voiles, laces. Dresses selling regularly from $2.75 to $26.50. Half Price Sale $1.38 to $13.25 Dancing and party frocks as well 'as school dresses, in a wonderful assortment of the most attractive styles and colorings for girls from 2 to 1 4 years old. French coat styles, Norfolk, low-belted and straight models. Oliver Twist. Peter Thompson and two-piece dresses, and the daintiest of party dresses, primmed with fine laces, embroidery, nets, silks, ribbon girdles, braid, velvet ribbon, hemstitching, hand embroidery. Girls' Wool Dresses, Selling to $5.00 Very Special $1.95 Sizes 2 to 14 years. In wool serges, black and white checks, stripes, white washable corduroy, fancy mixtures and plaids. In a variety of attrac tive styles, with plain and plaited skirts, trimmed with pipings, embroidery bandings and braid. Also imported embroidered dresses. Fourth Floor White Sale of Muslin Underwear For Children One-Third Reduction Plisse crepe gowns trimmed with lace or embroidery and ribbon. In open front and slipover styles. Sizes 1 to 14 years. Regular $1.00, special 67c WHITE PETTICOATS In sizes 4 to 1 6 years. Trimmed with lace, embroidery, tuckings or insertions. Regular.. 85c $1.00 to $2.25 Sale 57c 67c to $1.50 MUSLIN DRAWERS In straight or knickerbocker styles, extension side plackets, trimmed with hemstitching, embroidery, beading and tucks. Regular 20c 50c to $1.50 Sale 11c 33c to $1.00 NIGHT GOWNS Of excellent quality cambric. longcloth or muslin. In high or low- neck styles. ttrectively trimmed. Sizes 2 to 1 6 years. Regular.. 85c $1.00 to $1.75 Sale 57c 67c to $1.17 GUIMPS Made of fine white Persian lawn with round or square shape necks, with yoke of Madeira embroidery, lace insertion or clusters of tucks. Made like waists to be worn with separate skirts, or low-neck dresses. Sizes 2 to 14 years. Regular.. 75c $1.00 $1.75 Sale 50c 67c $1.17 Fourth Floor He map scratch and mar the boy a bit, but he can never hurt the suit. AH Boys' Apparel at Prices in . This GREAT SALE OF SALES That Will Make You Marvel Navy Blue Serges, Cheviots, Corduroys' Mixtures and Stouts All New Suits, Best Materials Finest Workmanship $5.00 to $8.00 Suits, fancy mixtures and corduroys $3.98 $10.00 to $13.50 Sack Suits, serges and cheviots, $4.95 $9.50 to $13.50 Suits of serges and cheviots .. .$7.95 $9.50 to $16.50 fancy tweeds and mixtures for $7.95 $8.50 to $12.50 Suits for stout boys $4.95 $6.50 to $12.50 fancy mixtures, sack and Norfolks $4.95 Boys' All-Wool Overcoats in Mixtures Regular $6.50 to $8.00 Coats, sizes 3 to 9 years, $4.95 Regular $12.50 Overcoats, sizes 3 to 18 years. . .$6.25 Regular $13.50 Overcoats, sizes 3 to 18 years. . .$6.75 Regular to $20.00 Coats, sizes 3 to 18 years. ..$10.00 Boys' All-Wool Blouse Suits Regular $7.00 to $12.50 Suits, sizes 5 to 9 years, $4.95 BOYS ALL-WOOL RUSSIAN SUITS Regular $5.00 Suits, serges and fancy mixtures, $3.95 Regular $6.50 to $8.00 serges and fancy mixtures, $4.95 Regular $9 to $14.50, serges and fancy mixtures, $6.95 Boys' Blouses and Shirts $1.00 laundered Blouses 50c 50c soft Blouses, 39c $1.00, $1.25 Blouses, of soisette and flannel $2.00, $2.50 Blouses, in soisette and flannel J-.. $2.00, $2.50 Shirts, in flannel and soisette $1.00 BOYS' HATS BOYS RAINCOATS SI 00 to $2.00 felts and $3.00 Tan Raincoats $2.39 Velvets OUC M an nummun $1.75 to $3.00 felts, vel vets, plushes, tweeds 98c $4 to $5 beaver hats $1.98 BOYS' GOWNS 50c flannelette gowns 39c 75c flannelette gowns 59c $4.00 Tan Raincoats $3.19 $5.00 Tan Raincoats $3.98 BOYS' SWEATERS $1.00 wool sweaters 79c $3.50 wool sw'ters $2.25 Fourth Floor AGENTS FOR FREE SEWING MACHINES made an Invasion. They speed about the cities, up the llls to Claremont or Piedmont or over to Berkeley or Ala meda with capacity loads that have caused General Manager Alberger, of the Oakland Traction Company, to Join battle agrainst them. A movement is under way by which the various railway systems In the state hope to have the Jitney put under a license, and possibly under an amend ment reoulrin that a certain percent age of the gross receipts' be turned over to the municipalities in wnicn xney operate. Carranza Revokes Concessions. GALVESTON. Tex.. Jan. 8. Conces sions of every character grantea in Mexico from January 1, iS7t, to Janu ary 7, nave Deen uecmreu ii u"cu by a decree of Carranza, according to Information reaching the Mexican Con sulate here today. WHERE THE RUSSIANS ARE SWEEPING ONWARD IN INVASION OF ATJSTRIA-HUN(JAB.Y. rl CAJTTWVTTXE. Or, Jan. . Bpe aL) A pretty wedding- took place re- Te V fiST 1- r TO PB.MJTRATK. E MBARGO IS WANTED Keep Breadstuff in America, Is Advice of Chicago Grocer. USE OF CORN IS FORECAST Resolution Proposing Prohibition of Shipments Abroad to Be Offered Before Retailers' Association. Cost Is Excuse Given. CHICAGO, Jan. 8. Resolutions call ing on Congress to place an embargo on the export of wneat and flour, as well as on arms and ammunition, it was announced here today, would be in troduced at the next meeting of the Chicago Retail Gnocers and Butchers' Association. 8. Westerfeld, chairman of the trades relations committee of the National Association of the Retailers, planned to begin In this manner a de termined fight against the high cost of flour and, incidentally, of home-baked bread. Leaders on change predicted today In some Instances that If tha price of wheat went much higher there would be a general turning to corn In place of 'wheat bread, both in this country and in Europe, Other dealers were of a contrary opinion, and asserted that bakers' complaints were unwarranted that a barrel of flour costing IT would make 27J loaves of bread, for which the '.-etailers collected J1S.7S at 5 cents a loaf. Who got the difference was asked, and the conclusion was drawn that wheat was still relatively cheap. One expert put the breadstuff situa tion this way: "It Is not so much a question of price for wheat as a question of supply. Will there be enough to feed two conti nents? If wheat goes to 2 It will mean eating corn as never before. In this connection one of the prin cipal firms on the Board of Trade made public dispatches received today indi cating that farmers' ideas as to corn were away up that many growers said corn would soon sell at (1 a bushel on the farms. The latest price of May corn in Chicago today was 76 cents. PR0HI BILL PROTEST OUT Provisions of Measure, Up Next Week, Not Voters' Will, View. ROSEBURG, Or.. Jan. 8. (Special.) Although recognized as one of the framers of the prohibition bill which will be submitted to the State Legis lature next week. Attorney B. L. Eddy, of Roseburg, yesterday said he had filed a protest against two of the pro visions contained In the measure. Attorney Eddy asserts that provision of the proposed law which gives a per son the right to purchase 20 gallons of beer and five gallons of whisky or wine each 28 days is not in accord with the wishes of the voters at the last general election and will defeat the purposes of the prohibition movement. Mr. Eddy also objects to that pro vision of the bill which gives drug stores the right to sell alcohol. PREMIUM PUT ON DOLLAR American Coin Is Xow Worth. $1.05 Jn Switzerland. npTiTfTn Switzerland, via Paris. Jan. 5. The American dollar Is now worth flv franca St centimes S1.05) at Berne. This represents a remarkable rise since nnonini? of the war, when checks on America yielded only three francs 50 centimes (70 cents). The rise in exchange is due to heavy buying of grain In the United States for Switzerland. CROOK VACANCY IS FILLED H. J. Overturf, of Bend, Appointed to Seat on County Board. BEND, Or., Jan. 8. (Special.) H. J. Overturf, of Bend, was appointed County Commissioner of Crook County by tne County Court today to succeed Willis W. Brown, of Gateway. Mr. Brown s resi dence is in that portion of Crook which was cut off to form Jefferson County at the last election, and In selecting Mr. Overturf, the court took the position that the office was vacant automatically when Jefferson County was established. Mr. Overturf Is one of the youngem men ever on the County Court He has lived in Bend for nearly 10 years and Is connected with the Miller Lumber Com pany. He is also clerk of the local School Board. It Is understood that he will take his seat Monday. Peace Pact With Bolivia Ratified. WASHINGTON, Jan. 8. Secretary Bryan and Ignaclo Calderon, Bolivian Minister, exchanged today ratifications of the peace commission treaty between the United States and Bolivia. Siamese capital, employing rnth en gineers and machinery, Is constructing- a large cement plant near Bangkok. Price A Table d'Hote Dinner $1.00 ' Unequaled TT3WHERE in the coiitry is such a magnificent dinner to be had as in the beautiful Arcadian Garden. - Served in courses from 6 until 8 to the accompaniment of a very choice musical pro gramme Heller's Augmented Orchestra and Singers. YOU GO THERE OF COURSE! I Multnomah Ltxrrxoua Axn for note ...