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THE MORNING OREGONIAN. MONDAY, MAY 24, 1915. WAR DECLARED BY ITALY ON AUSTRIA Formal Notification Is Deliv ered in Vienna and First t Skirmish Is Reported. PATROL IS DRIVEN BACK Italian Residents in Territory of Unfmj Are Being Hunted and Kate of 600 Who Left Trieste Is Still Unknown. i ''ontinurrt From First Pape.) Vienna dispatch to Reuter's Telegram Company, sent by way of Amster dam. TF.XT OP DECLARATION GIVEN Austria-H nngary Accused of Violat ing Treaty of Alliance. AMSTERDAM. May 23. via London. May 24. A dispatch from Vienna says the Italian Ambassador to Austria, the Duke of Avarna, today presented to Baron von Burtan. the Austro-Hun-garlan Minister, the following- declara tion of war: "Vienna, May 23. 1915. Conformably with the orders of His Majesty, the King, his august sovereign, the under signed Ambassador of Italy has the honor to deliver to His Excellency, the Foreign Minister of Austria-Hun-Kry. the following communication: 'Declaration has been made, as from the fourth of this month, to the Im perial and royal government of grave motives for which Italy, confident In her Rood right, proclaimed annulled and henceforth without effect her treaty of alliance with Austria-Hungary, which was violated by the im perial and royal government, and re sumed her liberty of action In this re spect. "The Rovernment of the Kins, firmly resolved to provide by all means at its disposal for safeguarding Italian rights and interests, cannot fail in its duty to take against every existing and future menace measures which events impose upon it for the fulfill ment of national aspirations. "His Majesty, the King, declares that he considers himself from 'tomorrow in ti state of war with Austria-Hungary. "Tho undersigned has the honor to make known at the same time to His Excellency, the Foreign Minister, that passports will be placed this very day at the disposal of the imperial and royal Ambassador at Rome, and he will bo obliged to His Kxeellency if he will kindly have his passports handed to him. "AVARNA." TEIt'KOK IIE1GXS IN TRIESTE People Abandon Houses and Btilld- Injrs Arc Being Sacked. XT D INK, Italy, via Paris, May 23. Terror roiyns among the inhabitants of the Austrian seaport of Trieste, ac cording to reports received here. Houses have been abandoned by the people and some buildings have been sacked. Police and soldiers are said to be in control everywhere in the city. An unknown person in the night suc ceeded in climbing the dome on the Basilica of San Giusto, the loftily-situated cathedral in Trieste, and planted the Italian tri-color at the top. Aus trian gandarmes were engaged Tor several hours this morning removing the flag'. Fugitives from Austria continue to arrive at Ddlne by hundreds. RUSSIANS ARE REPULSED CZAR'S TROOPS TAKE OFFENSIVE EAST OF JAKOSIiAU. (rrmanii Report Capturing 2800 Pris oner), in Baltic Province South rant Zone Reported Quiet. VIENNA, May 23. Russian attacks to the cast of Jaroslau and along the Upper Dniester River in Galicia, were repulsed yesterday with great loss to ilio invaders, according to the Austrian official announcement published today. The text of the statement follows: "There is no change in the general si tuation. "Russian attacks cast of Jaroslau and on the I'pper Dniester were re pulsed with great losses to the enemy. "The Russians also failed in a new attempt to cross the Pruth, near Bo jana and east of Czernowitz. "During battles in the hill country in the region of Kielce 180J Russians were taken prisoner." BERLIN, via London. May 23. The War Office today issued the following communication : "In the vicinity of Shavli we attacked the Russian north wing and defeated it. taking 1600 prisonors and seven ma chine guns. An enemy counter-attack by night failed. "On tho Dubysa River strong Rus sian night attacks against the line Mlviule-iemlgola were repulsed, 1000 prisoners remaining in our hands. "South of Niemen River an enemy night attack to the north of Pilwisckl failed. "In the southeastern theater there is nothing to report." POLAND'S LOSS ENORMOUS Damage Directly Inflicted by War Reaches Half Billion. WARSAW. May 7. (Correspondence of the Associated Press.) The amount of damage directly inflicted upon Rus sian Poland by the war up to January 1 is estimated at 1.014,668.000 roubles ($.-.07,334,000) by the Polish central citizens' committee, which has Just fin ished a thorough investigation of Poland's losses. Of this amount 60S 767.000 roubles 1349.383. 500) is called a direct loss, and 31S.001.000 roubles ($157, 950. SOP) is attributed to damage sustained indirectly during the course of the war. In the occupied portion of Poland 27.000 large and 10,000 small estates are in various stages of destruction, from seuperficial defacement and mutilation to complete ruin. The damage done to furniture and other movable property, excluding livestock, amounts alone to 51,800.000 roubles (25. 000.000). The loss in buildings is 47.500,000 roubles ($23,750,000); livestock 156.069,000 roubles ($78,034,000); grain 141,763,000 roubles ($70,881,500); the loss in de stroyed timber 31.680.000 roubles ($16. 840.000). More than 3.000,000 roubles' worth of dairies and an equal value of distilleries are a total loss. AUSTRIAN-MONTENEGRIN FRONTIER, WHICH WILL FIGURE ANEW IN WAR SINCE ITALY HAS ENTERED CONTEST. 751-" -if-T ;-fK!MiG- fi-SSUp i 1 Map Shows FortrMs of Cattero, One of Mountainous Mature of Border. II NATIONS AT WAR Italy's Entry Is Result of Pop ular Clamor for Conflict. PEACE PARTY IN SECLUSION Declaration of Hostilities Against IVrnier Allies Marks Failure of Diplomatic Efforts Con tinuing Many Months. The entrance of Italy into the world war. which began last August, brings the number of states engaged in the conflict up to 11. Italy, allied with Germany and Austria-Hungary since 1882 in the triple alliance, was called on last Summer shortly after the assas sination of the Austrian archduke, heir to the throne, at Sarajevo, Bosnia, to support the Oermanic empires. She de clined and there began a series of dip lomatic negotiations which soon re solved themselves Into efforts on the part of Germany and Austria-Hungary to induce Italy to remain neutral. Prince von Buelow. an astute German statesman whose wife is an Italian wo man, was sent to Rome with Instruc CHRONOLOGY OF CHIEF EVENTS OF WAR TO DATE. PROGRESS OF THE3 PAST W EEK. May 21 British Cabinet reorganized as result of differences brought about by war. Germans capture Riga, Russian Baltic port. May 23 Italy declares war against Austria-Hungary. EARLIER EVENTS OF THE WAIL June 28, 1914 Grand Duke Francis Ferdinand, heir to Austrian throne, and his wife assassinated in Sarajevo, Bosnia, as result of Pan-Slavic propaganda. July 23 Austria Ha ultimatum to Serbia: 28. Austria declares war on Serbia. Russia mobilizes against Austria: 29, Austria bombards Bel grade; 31, Germany demands that Russia demobilize, Belgians and Ger mans order mobilization. August 1 Germany declares war on Russia; 3, German troops enter Belgium; 4, Great Britain, sends ultimatum to Germany demanding re spect for Belgian neutrality; Germany declares war on France and Belgium; Great Brltaindlares state of war exists with Germany; 6, Austria declares war "on" Russia; 7, French enter Alsace: 10, France declares war on Austria; 12, Montenegro declares war on Austria, Great Britain announces state of war exists with Austria; 15, Japan sends ultimatum to Germany demanding that she withdraw ships and exacu ate Kiau-Chau, China; 17. Belgian capital moved to Antwerp; 20, Ger man army enters Brussels; 23, Japan declares war on Germany; 25, Austria declares war on Japan; 28, British fleet victor in sea fight in Heligoland - Litht, Germany losing cruisers and torpedo-boat de stroyers. September 5 Great Britain, France and Russia sign agreement to make no peace save together; 21, German submarine U-9 sinks Britisa cruisers Cressy, Ilogue and Aboukir in North Sea. October 9 Antwerp capitulates to German forces; 17, four German destroyers sunk by British cruiser in North Sea; 20, Japanese occupy Ladronne Islands, in Pacific Ocean; 27, British Buper-dreadnought Au dacious, third, in tonnage and armament in British navy, sunk by tor pedo or mine off north coast of Ireland; 31, Turks annex and invade Egypt; German submarine sinks British cruiser Hermes. November 1 British, squadron defeated by German fleet off Chilean coast; 3, Great Britain and France formally announce state of war with Turkey; 7, Tslng-Tau, German stronghold in China, falls; 10, Ger man cruiser Emden destroyed by Australian cruiser Sydney: 26, British battleship Bulwark blown up and Sunk near mouth of Thames from ex plosion of own magazine, December 8 German commerce destroyers Scharnhorst, Gnelsenau. Leipslc and Numbers destroyed off Falkland Islands by British fleet. Cruiser Dresden escapes; 16. German fleet raids east coast of England, Hartlepool, Scarborough and Whitby bombarded. January 1, 1913 British battleship Formidable sunk In English Channel by German submarine; 19, German fleet of airships raid Sand ringham and other cities in England; 24, German cruiser Bluecher sunk and three sister ships damaged trying to raid English coast. February 12 British fleet of 34 aeroplanes raids German bases in Belgium; 18, German submarine blockade of British waters begins; 19, Great Britain justifies use of United States flag by British merchant vessels; 23, Kaiser and all Germans go on limited bread allowance; 25. Anglo-French fleet begins bombardment of Dardanelles forts; 26, Boers invade German Southwest Africa. March 1 Great Britain declares absolute blockade; 4, allies' fleet bombards coast of Smyrna; Germans offer to recede from "war zone" policy if permitted to import food 10, arrival at Newport News of German raider Prinz Eitel Friederich discloses she sank United States ship William P. Frye in South Atlantic January 28; 15, German cruiser Dresden sunk after attack by British squadron In Chilean harbor, Bri tain declares blockade against all shipping to and from Germany: 16, British liner flies American flag; 17, German Consul arrested at Seat tle on charge of trying to buy submarine information, German cruiser Karlsruhe unofficialy reported sunk by hitting reef in December; 18, two British battleships and one French battleship sunk by mines while bombaidlng Dardanelles: 21. Zeppelins raid Paris; 22, Russians capture Przemysl, Galicia. and 120,000 Austrlans; 24, members of German cruis er Emden'3 crew raid Dutch colony port: 28. American and 117 other passengers die when German submarine sinks British liner Falaba, April 2 Great Britain establishes Dlockade against cablegrams re garding business of enemy nation; 4. Glfford Pinchot. special repre sentative of United States in Belgium, expelled by Germans; United States refuses to admit right of British embargo on foodstuffs for Ger many; 9, German note declares United States is lax in regard to neu trality; 11, German commerce raider Kronprinz Wilhelm slips into Newport News, Va., later interning; 13, Italy agrees to support Ser bia's claims to outlet to sea; 14, German aircraft make three-day raid on English towns; 19. two Turkish destroyers sunk by Russian mines at entrance to Bosporus; 22, United States replies that Ger man charges of lax neutrality are groundless; 25, allies land armies on both sides of Dardanelles; 28, French cruiser Leon Gambetta sunk by Austrian submarine. May 2 American steamer Gulflight sunk without warning by Ger man submarine, three deaths resulting; British destroyer and two Ger man torpedo-boats sunk in North Sea. 7, British liner Lusite.nia sunk without warning by German submarine, about 1400 lives being lost. Including 140 Americans: 10, German government expresses regret over deaths of Americans on Lusltania; 13, President Wilson demands reparation of Germany for deaths of Americans on Lusitania and other torpedoed vessels; British battleship Goliath sunk by torpedo in Dardanelles. From the London Times. Strategic Points In Balkan States, and tions to do his utmost to save the sit uation. He labored indefatigably for months, but in vain. He offered Italy certain parts of Austrian territory as the price of her neutrality, but her answer was always: "It is not enough." It now appears that Austria did not really believe that Italy would enter the field against her. In the meantime there had arisen in stantly a war party led by "Irreden tists" which made its voice heard in do uncertain terms. Dispatches from Rome for months past have indicated that the sentiment for active participa tion in the war was stronger by far than that on the side of continued neu trality. The Cabinet of Premier Salandra re signed early in May. This was the sign for violent demonstrations in many of the important cities of the kingdom, all in favor of war. A wave of patriotic fervor swept the country and the people were loud in their demands for a begin ning of hostilities. Troops had to be called out to maintain order, but every body and everything which represented continued neutrality was denounced and decried. Even relatives of King Victor Emmanuel were hooted, and there was talk of revolution. The Emperor of Austria-Hungary was burned in effigy in Rome and ex-Premier Giolitti. leader of the pacificists, was driven into se clusion. These evidences of the popular de termination had their effects. The an nouncement was made that the min istry of Premier Salandra would con tinue in office, whereupon there was instant calm throughout the countiy. Having gained their point, the people quieted down as quickly as they thad risen to voice' their determination, and turned their faces to await the call to arms. A girl who marries tor a home Is paying too much rent. GREATEST SIUSLAW CELEBRATION ENDS Throngs Happy in Rain Final Day of Florence Rhodo dendron Carnival. PLANS FOR NEXT BEGUN Year Too long to Walt and Other I'etes Are Being Arranged, for Railroad Is There and City Is Summer Resort. FLORENCE, Or.. May 23. (Special.) The eighth annual Rhododendron Carnival, the greatest celebration in the history or the Siuslaw, Is over. Next year's plans are greater, but the com mittee is not to wait until next year. "We'll celebrate the arrival of the rails at Acme," declared W. H. O'Kelly, of the committee. "They'll be there in two months. We're going to celebrate for the Eugene Elks, who plan to hold their high jinks on the beach this Sum mer. The railroad's here; we can cele brate whenever we want. "Before the end of the Summer we'll have motor trucks and buses to shoot the crowds straight from the railroad to the beach. The County Court has promised us a bridge across the Siuslaw this Summer. We'll build that plank road to the ocean." Florence Summer Resort. "Florence Is a summer resort. The railroad is planning Sunday excursions. It will advertise our beaches, our lakes, our fishing andiunting. just as it does Newport and Seaside. Plans are pre pared for a beach hotel, bath houses and a dancehall. Members of the celebration commit tee today spent the entire morning looking over the north beach, to' be called Heceta Beach, where this devel opment is planned. Rain did not stop the celebration of the third day of the festival. The big steel train arrived from Eugene again this morning earlier than yesterday, for the engineer had orders to "open her up" from the tunnel to the end of the line. The barge loads of people moved down the river as they did yes terday and this afternoon they carried the throngs to the seashore for the motor races. No one seemed to notice the rain. Everyone was wet; no one so much as commented. - Portland Motorcyclist Winn. Bob Stevens, of Portland, on a Har-ley-Davidson, attained a speed of more than 78 miles an hour on the hard sand beacli at low tide this morning, accord ing to the announcement of the timers and judges. His ride was the feature of the racing programme. Stevens won first place in both races. Casteel, on a Pope, and an "unknown" rider from Marshfield on an Excelsior, won second and third, respectively, in the first race, and Waggoner, on a Harley-Davidson, won second, and Smith, on a Pope, won third in the second race. The crowd flocked back to Florence. Special boating parties were made to the jetty, where crabs were caught at low tide and merriment continued until the excursion boat left at 6 o'clock, closing the three days' celebration. ' INTERNED BRITISH STUDY HOLLANDERS PERMIT VMVERSITV ATTENDANCE FREE. Several Other Pumults are Provided and 'Absence of Class Distinction Is Amazing to Dutch. LONDON, May 6. (Correspondence of The Associated Press.) Rev. A. A. Pfanstiehl, of Chicago, who is in Hol land giving a series of lectures on the United States, sends the following ac count of his visit to the internment camp at Groningen, Holland, where the men of the Britieh Naval Brigade have been interned since their retreat from Antwerp over the Dutch border. "The men are fortunate in being placed in Groningen. It is an old uni versity town, and soldiers can profit by the privileges of the ' university class rooms, which are open to tliem with out charge. "The camp is thoroughly organized. Large barracks, low wooden buildings, have been erected on an open plain. There is a large recreation hall Near by, in another building, there are shops of all kinds, where the men can employ themselves usefully at carpentry, wood carving, tailoring. shoemaking. hair dressing, tent and net making, or knit ting and weaving. The men all wear wooden shoes, to which the Dutch quickly accustomed them. "The camp is in charge of a Dutch commandant, with whom I had a long conversation. 'They are a remarkably representative crowd." he told me. 'Her you have university graduates and men of wealth and influence alongside miners, sailors, fishing lads and fac tory hands. All this is strange and in teresting to us Hollanders, who are strictly democratic in theory, yet in practice take a much stricter account of class distinctions than do these Eng lishmen. But I have been noticing the effect, and find that the mingling of the classes is helpful; it certainly has a profound influence on the charac ters of the men, and they learn to un derstand and respect one another. " 'The relation of the two clergy men to the men is also a marvel to us Dutch. They even direct their sports! See, there goes the young preacher now in football togs, to take part in a match. It could never be done in Hol land. It seemed strange to us at first, but after seeing its practical working, I think it's the right thing." " ITALY READY FOR BLOW (Continue From First Pare. the problem concerning the diplomats accredited to the. Vatican has been solved satisfactorily. The Austrian and German diplomats, ignoring the situation in Italy, will depart as if they were merely taking their Summer va cations before the regular time. It had been urged by some that the Ital ian government move energetically with respect to these diplomatic repre sentatives and by others that the Vat ican resist any effort to force them to withdraw. These extreme measures failed and thus the law of guarantees remains untouched. From Germany come reports that considerable resentment Is felt in of ficial quarters there against what is alleged to be the obstinacy of the Austrian diplomacy, which is held to be responsible for the failure of the negotiations with Italy initiated by Prince von Buelow, the German Am bassador. The suggestion had even been made that Austria should be left a one to fight Italy, but pledges taken ty the German general staff and by the German Emperor personally with Emperor Francis Joseph resulted in the triumph of those advocating Aus-tro-German solidarity, even in a new war against Italy. Enemy Concentrates 800,000 Men. About 800.000 Bavarians and Hun garians have already been concentrat ed against Italy, Austria insuring them commissariat service. Although Field Marshal Baron Con rad von Hoetzendorff, chief of staff of the Austrian army, had prepared fer many years for a possible outbreak of war between Austria and Italy, the belief is held here that the campaign will be conducted by the German gen eral staff, which it is said has planned a strong offensive movement against Italy in the hope of breaking the Italian lines and forcing their way into Italian territory, thereby arous- IIOW 1T4LVS ENTRY INTO WAR MATERIALLY INCREASES FLEET OF ALLIES. With Italy's entrance Into the war the distribution of the battle f 1 e e t 8 of the warring nations, omitting Japan, assumes the fol lowing aspect in the four most important sea areas, reckoned in battleship and armored cruiser units, and taking into full ac count those which have been lost: Mediterranean and Adriatic. Battle- Armored ships. Cruisers. Italy 9 Great Britain..' 10 France 20 Austria - Hungary. 13 North Sea. Great Britain 58 France 8 Germany (also for Baltic) 41 Baltic Sea. Germany (also for North Sea) 41 Russia. 4 Black Sea. Russia 6 Turkey 6 10 15 10 3 29 9 Italy also has 12 battle cruisers. It will thus be seen that In the Mediterranean Austria-Hungary, with a total of only 18 battle ships (pre - dreadnaught, dread naught and super - dreadnaught) and armored cruiser units faces the allies with a total of 81. In the North Sea Germany, with a total of 45, is facing Great Britain and France, with a total of 104. In the Baltic, where Germany's theoretical force is the same as it is in the North Sea. owing to the Kiel Canal, she may operate her full units against Russia's ten, while in the Black Sea the strength of Russia and Turkey is about even. Although the latter has the ad vantage of the German battle cruiser Ooeben and the protected cruiser Breslau, she is otherwise handicapped by obsolete or re fitted craft. ing alarm and strengthening the feel ing favorable to peace. Austrian Defenses Sironc., Should such an attempt fail, through the resistance of the Italian army, the Austrians and Germans would then have to resort to defensive measures against a certain invasion. The Aus trian defenses are particularly strong and have been constructed everywhere, even along the Dalmatian coast, which is already protected by fixed and floating mines and guarded by a dozen submarines carrying German officers and sailors. The Austrian fleet is centered at Pola, with only a few torpido-boats and destroyers at Cattaro and Spalato. Other Austrian warships are in the Dalmatian Archipelago, on the north east coast of the Adriatic Sea. Mili tary authorities here do not consider it likely that the Austrian fleet will leave Pola unless forced to do so by an Italian attack. PRICELESS FORESTS RAZED Great 'Woods in Northern France Kali Lndcr Artillery lire. BAR-LE-DUC. May 6. (Correspond ence of the Associated Tress.) The splendid forests of the Argonne, as well as those of the Alsatian slopes of the Vosges Mountains and of the Woevre, are being gradually razed by shell and shrapnel fire. Of the majestic pines that covered these heights there remain only hacked and blackened stumps and a wild tangle of fallen trunks. Germans and French have co-oper ated in thus devastation, but the greater destruction is credited to the intense, concentrated fire of the three-inchers and six-inchers that alone could dis lodge underground German fortresses. There is said to be abundant evidence that all the ground had been carefully plotted and the ranges taken by the Germans before the battles. On many occasions French detachments follow ing obscure paths unknown to any but the woodmen of the region, fell a prey to the tire of German gunners, for whom there seemed to be no secrets in tho thickets of the Argonne. Against the advantages of preparation the French had but one resource to a com plete unheaval of the entire ground by concentrated artillery fire. If tho French succeed in driving the Germans finally into the open, the priceless forests of the entire region of the Argonne, trom Bar-le-Duc north will exist no more. WAR RECORDED BY FILM German Government Has More Titan 20,000 Views of Phases. BERLIN, May 6. (Correspondence of the Associated Press.) No history that ever will be written about the great world war now raging will be quite as complete and striking as the huge col lection of photographs, bearing on every conceivable phase of the conflict, that is being made by the general staff of the German army. Already more than 20,000 reproduc tions that range from soldiers In the trenches to wounded men in the hos pitals have been gathered together and filed away for present or future refer ence. The collection is constantly grow ing, and requires a staff of men to keep In order and supervise. This pictorial record of the war I the finer beoause the government is able, through the rules which it lays down to all photographers who go to the front, to secure a copy of every picture that is made, by amateurs or professionals. The general staff, therefore, has been able to pick and choose for its own gal lery the cream of everything pictorial that concerns the war, and has acquired not only accurate and interesting rep resentations, but photographs that in a great many cases are artistic in the ex treme. CASTOR I A For Infants and Children. Till Kind Yea Kara Always Bought Boars the Signature of f : 'feV . .aw." .V s I ' V":., 1 -i Sr i - 1 y. mmmmm Special entertainment feature this week "I Want to Go Back to Tokio," sung by Miss Marjorie Hardy and girls in costumes that add charm to the song. Also Sig. 1'ietro Marino and his orchestra of Solo Artists. " Ye Oregon Grille " Hotel Oregon, Broadway at Stark. Chas. Wright, Pres. M. C. Dickinson, Man. Director. When in Seattle stop at Hotel Seattle We own it. ALL ROUTES GIVEN Rural Free Mail Docket Is Now Cleared by Department. STILL MORE ARE SOUGHT Alternate Day Service at Hundred of Places Knablcs IMabliohment Along Lines Into Wlilcll Post-maslcr-Gcncral Is Shown. OREGONIAN NEWS BUREAU. Wash ington. May 20. The Postoflice De partment, according to a recent an nouncement, has authorized the estab lishment of every rural free delivery route for whicn a petition had been filed. Most of me new routes author ized will go into operation June 16, and by tho same token, practically all of the new routes have been estab lished on a tri-weekly basis; that is to say, the patrons will receive their mails on alternate days, Sundays being excepted. . This is tho first time since the in auguration of rural service that the Postoffice Department has "cleared its docket," so to speak, and this accom plishment was made possible only by giving tri-weekly service, which en abled the Postmaster-General to cut the salaries of carriers to half the standard fixed by Congress. Alternate-Day Service Solution. It will bo recalled that during the last session of Congress the Postmas ter-General tried in vain to placo the rural free delivery service ,i a con tract basis, contending that if that were done a large saving to the Gov- rnrnent would be effected. His con tention was thrown to tho winds, and when Congress failed to pass the post- office appropriation bill, but continued. b;- resolution, the appropriations of the past year, it went out of its way to raise the maximum pay of rural car riers to 11200. with fixed gradations, according to the length of routes. It provided, however, that where service was on a tri-weekly basis, tho carriers should be paid half the legal rate of pa 3'. At first the Postmaster-General con tended that the appropriations would be insufficient to enable the depart ment to establish any new rural routes. He made tho assertion that all the ap propriations for the rural service were used up last year, and therefore, with the same appropriation for the new year, he could not establish any new routes. Kxperts outside the depart ment, however, who were familiar with the records, quickly demonstrated, and demonstrated publicly, that the depart ment had ample funds to establish several hundred new routes and went so far as to calculate the number of new standard routes tliat could be op erated with the money made available by Congress. Other Itoutrs Are Sought. Under this prodding, the I'ostinaster- Gcneral had the situation examined. nd the result lias been that several hundred new routes have been or soon will bo established, and twice the num ber ordinarily possible because the new routes are to be run at half cost, by reason of the tri-weekly service. More than that, some of the old daily routes s i;' SNX. Proud Old Assiniboinc overlord of peak, glacier and avalanche in The Caurtadian Rockies, neighbor to BanfT, with its Hot Springs Hotel, luxur iously up-to-date, solid in home comforts. Everything Canadian Pacific Standard Nonm Better. Make the Canadian Pacific Hotels your borne this summer. Drive, ride, tramp, climb mountains, canoe, play golf and tennis. Balfour GlacierField Lake Louise Banff Spend yonr vacation In these Canadian Pacific Railway. For ouuiiiei mo. 112. J. V. MURPHY-. O. A. P. D., Canadian Pacific Railway 55 Third St., Portland, Oregon i Col. W'm. F. Cody, BUFFALO BILL will be given an informal recep tion tonight at "Ye Oregon Grille" after the evening performance of his show. Portland will have an opportunity that has rarely . been accorded any other city of meeting close to hand and listening to one of the most famed warriors for deeds the world has ever known. have been put on a tri-weekly basis Lyen when all this has been done with a fund which Mr. Burleson at first contended was inadequate for tho then existing service, the l'otofflro Department is now hunting for new localities where rural service Is needed, but where no petitions have been filed. Postmasters In localities where the mail service is not now -tdequate have been instructed to report to the department whether the establishment of new rural routes in their vicinity woul: be desir able, and on these reports even more routes are soon to be put into oper ation. OAKS CROWDED IN RAIN JINX FOLLOWS MIL CIIRDRil, HIT 3ooo i'i:itsos ii;kv it. New Attractions at Amusement Park t.rt Much Attention Sho, t.lvm In Oprn-AIr Auditorium. Along in 1889 John F. Cordray was buiMing a theater. Curd ray's Theater, on Third street. The first auIicnce was in tho house before the roof was on. There came a sharp shower of rain. l'i went umbrellas and people stayed t- watch the show. The rain Jinx is still Imvering over Mr. Cordray. for at the Oaks Amuse ment Park yesterday the skies fairly wept. But the rain failed to terrify the pleasure-seekers. who wandered all over the park in blissful unconcern. Anl it was a rare sight to wee crowd ed cars tear round the blue streak, witu the occupants hanging desperately on to the parapluics; same thing with the Rodeo, and in fai t all over the park. Of course the show was covered in the open-air auditorium and Nat-on an.l his band gave admirable concert!-, while the Boston Troubadours orTercd a plea.sing musical show "A Spanish So norita." Wide Interest was shown in tiie new attr.-K'l Ions at the park. and. judging by the fact that more than o000 persons visited the Oaks in the rain and during the afternoon, ihrre is every indication that the "Coney I.sland of the West" will have n prosperous se;iso.i. DR. BLAKE ILL IN PARIS .Man Who .Married Mrs. Mackay Overworkcil in Trenches. r.VRl.S. May 2S. (Special. ) Dr. Jo seph Blake, who married Mrs. Clar ence Mackay, has been confined to his bed for the last fortnight as the re sult of an Infection of the foot. Dr. B. Newbauer, who operated on Dr. Blake's foot, told a correspondent today th.it Dr. Blake is doing well and will bo able to return to his work within a few days. Dr. Blake had been somewhat run down because of overwork with the ambulance and hence Ihc infection gained a better hold than If he had been in bin uoial strength. ORDER OF UNITED ARTISANS A Social, Fraternal, Beneficial Fociety for men and womn. Four plans of Insurance t.a.-eii upon adequate rates, and backed by a surplus of nearly one million dol Isrs. 20 lodKes In Portland. Over 11.000 member in Orcgoiv Let us tell you about it- I'lione Main 12L'0. c. I. M'K Supremo st-retary. B2t Drrk Bids-. 1'ortlanal. Ore. ...... cool summer places. Reached by the ha for full particulars, call or write for IIcmutim hdsakabi I k