The Sunday Oregonian. (Portland, Ore.) 1881-current, July 17, 1904, PART TWO, Image 9

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Newspaper Page TextV Rose Leaf Complexion Cream 50c Good Goods Only Quality Considered, Our Prices Clearance Sale of Shirtwaist Suits Comfort and coolness at a small outlay some are very simple others quite elaborately trimmed with heavy washable laces and embroidery skirts are all made in walking length and cut full, so as I to hang gracefully. Hints of lands: Covert Jackets Forty odd Tan Covert Jackets what's left from the many hundreds we had during the season marked at a price which insures them having new owners before nightfall tomorrow. Made of All-Wool Tan Covert Cloths, silk or satin lined several handsome styles to choose from were sold at $16.50, $18.50 and $20.00 choice now at $12.50 Several other styles that sold at a higher price also reduced in price. Child's Silk Coats at Half: mLL0L?o:$rL Coats on sale now at exactly ONE-HALF of former prices sizes 2 to 6. 121cPercalesl01c These Percales are a full yard wide fast in color and of fine quality dark blue, cadet blue, cardinal, gray and black very neat figures and designs big value. 15c Long Cloth lOic Yd We place on sale tomorrow morning 500 pieces of best English Long Cloth 12-yard pieces, which sells regularly at 15c per yard, at the very low price of 1 (He per yard. 85c,$1.25WashGoods50c Persian Grenadines three qualities, 85c, $1 and $1.25 in pink, blue, gray, champagne and black and white; a fabric for waists, full gowns and evening costumes, all at 50c per yard. Three Black Silk Specials ikf Qfe ?er I0 Peces Black Peau de Soie Silks, 21 ' 'tJ' inches wide, guaranteed to be the best $1.25 grade on the market. Af QTf e er ve Peces faH yard wide Black Taffeta , 27 A Silk, soft messaline finish, warranted to be best $1.25 grade. We offer 10 pieces of Black Taffeta Silk, 19 inches wide, wear fully guaranteed, very best 85 quality. RA "Piif IITAG f fW O Kn Great sPeciaIs in the Picture store Pretty, 4jJ i JLviUiCo 1UI dJ Gilt and Weathered Mission Frames Dozens and dozens of subjects Figured Marines and Landscapes. earance Sale of is 25c Music at VOCAL: "A Wise Old Owl," "Heroes That Wear the Blue' "My Sunday Doll," "My Little Irish Canary," "When the Gold Was Turning Gray," "All Is Fair in Love and War," "In Zanzibar," "Take Me .Back to My Louisiana Home," "Your Mother Wants You Home," "Man Behind," "Sunshine," "Down on the Merry-Go-Round," "Old Man Moon," "Old-Time Waltz," "Follow the Crowd on a Sunday." INSTRUMENTAL: "Vision of the Ball-Room," "Yankee Patrol," "Jack Tar," "Micas," "King Cupid," "Sweet Kitty Bel laires Waltz," "My Honey Girl," "Ethiopia," "Sakes Alive," "Windmill," "Roses' Honeymoon," "Wigwam Dance," "Franco American Dance," and many others. Cushion Top and Back CA With Embroidery Silk 4cJw Display of this great special in one of our Fourth-street win dows. The Tops are all in new designs. The Silks are "Hemen ways" which are best. SHIRTWAIST patterns stamped in Mount Meilick floral and cross-stitch designs special at $1.00. Many new designs in Mount Meilick Embroidery. Fast-Edge Linen Pieces at reduced prices. x Butterick Patterns and Delineator lor August on Sale. Lipman, Wolfe & Co. Cotton Voile Shirtwaist Suits $4.8 Made of Cotton Voiles, in gray and blue effects also some made of cream color etamine, showing dashes and dots of black others of champagne colored Batiste all of them trimmed 'with fancy braid. Linen Shirtwaist Suits $6.48 Made of Gream-Coiored Linen Suitings, showing a black stripe, in broken effect also others made of heavy linen cham bray, in gray and blue fancy pearl buttons. AT $12.50 Novelty Shirt waist Suits of white linen circular skirt tucked flounce trimmed with . embroidered tucks and beading. AT $18,48 Novelty Shirt waist Suits of champagne col ored linen, the full plaited skirt is elaborately tailor stitched the waist tucked and trimmed with lace, piping and pearl buttons. Dozens of other suits similar others more elaborate at equally Worth $20 for $12.50 12cGinghams9c These Ginghams are 27 inches wide, come in a wide assort ment of prety checks and stripes, in blue, gray and pink color effects, and are an excep tional value at 9 10c Gillette Safety Razor Agency 51 Are Always Lowest. AT $14.48 Novelty Shirt waist Suits of white linen skirt has tucked hips, double flounce waist has lace drop yoke and trimmed bertha. AT $21.50 Novelty Shirt waist Suits of blue linen and allover tucked lawn waist of the lawn with linen bertha, edged with deep lace sleeves of the lawn the flare skirt trimmed- with tailor-stitched straps. to the above some plainer interesting prices. 25c Madras 19c This country's make equal to the imported and costs less. Wide variety of stripes, in black, blue, green, pink and' tan and white, absolutely fast color. Bedspreads A half dozen extraordinary values that unquestionably merit the attention of every housekeeper, hotel and rooming-house proprietor. Full size, Hemmed Marseilles Pattern Bedspreads very special at $1.13 Full size, Hemmed Marseilles Pattern Bedspreads, extra heavy quality very special at $1.29 Full size, Hemmed Marseilles Pattern Bedspreads, very heavy quality very special at $1.57 Full size, Hemmed Marseilles Pattern Bedspreads, very best quality very special at $1.78 Full size, Fringed Marseilles Pattern Bedspreads, extra heavy quality very special at $1.57 Full size, Hemmed Bedspreads, extra quality real Marseilles very special at $2.47 Towel Sale Towels that will stand the wear test at prices that are less than same grades can be bought for elsewhere. AT 12-. Heavy Double and Twist Cream - Colored Bath Towels, 19x34 inches. AT 15 Sane grade as above, but larger, 20x43 AT 23-Extra Heavy Double Warp Cream Bath Towels, 24x48. AT 30-Same grade as above, but larger, 28x54 inches. AT 9 Heavy Cotton Huck Towels, 14x32 inches, we'll sell a dozen for SI. AT 12 Extra Heavy Cot ton Huck Towels, 18x34 in. Well sell a doz. for 1.40. AT 12 Heavy, All-Linen Crepe Weave Towels, 16x34 inches. We'll sell a dozen for $1.40. AT 15Same grade as above, only larger, 18x37 inches by the dozen, $1.5. See Fourth-street Window. WP if M 1 vmmmmimtmmmmmmmmmmm0mmmmmmmm SCHEME OF BOLTERS Urge That-National Electors Be Left Off the Ticket SAY PARKER IS SURE TO LOSE Bryan-Hearst Faction of Democrats In Washington Hope Thus to Take Onus Off State TIckeEFoster's Strenuous Campaign. SEATTLE, "Wash., July 16. (Special.) The Bryan-Hearat faction among the Democratic politicians are urging a scheme of leaving the electoral ticket off the ticket nominated at the Belllnghaxn ConvenUon next month. This faction Is proclaiming it3 opposition to Parker and its intention to bolt the National ticket. In supporting the plea for no electoral ticket It is argued that Parker could not carry Washington anyway, and that the elimination of the National ticket would save the state nominees. There is no contention even among the Parker Democrats that the National ticket will carry this state. It Is generally conceded that the Democrats have no chance for "Washington's electoral vote, but the straight party men, even those who sympathize at heart with bolters, will not agree to eliminate the electoral ticket. It is pointed out readily enough that if the electoral ticket were to be Ignored any set of Democrats would have the right to step in and name an electoral ticket and might add a list of state nomi nees at the same time who would consti tute the regular party ticket. This would at the outset dispose of whatever chance the other ticket had in the state. Though there has been no opportunity for outlining a- definite programme for the Democratic fight this Fall there Is a tacit agreement among party leaders that very little will be said of the St. Louis nominees. The Democratic organization will confine its efforts to saving something of the state ticket and pulling through whatever county and legislative nominees may be strong enough to come to the front Both L. C. Gilman and John T. Terry, local delegates to the St. Louis Conven tion, have returned, and explain the dele gation's action in the Convention. Both seek to convey the Impression that Turner did not deliver the delegation to Parker. This story Is spread in the hope of allay ing some of the bitter anti-Turner senti ment that has arisen since he National gathering was held. Democratic leaders fear that the Bryan-Hearst following would take revenge on Turner if he is nominated for Governor and are trying to patch up a truce. But thus far none of the bolters have shown any inclination to a compromise. John Y Terry made one statement since his return that is at least Interesting. He says that if the Washington delegation had gone to Parker earlier the Spokane candidate would have received much stronger support for Vice-President That was Turner's contention before the dele gation which" the Hearst following re fused to accept United States Senator Addison G. Foster, accompanied by his private secretary, Thomas Sammons, and State Senator Emerson Hammer, of Sedro-Woolley, came Into town Friday night after a trip through a portion of the Northwest They were Joined here by J. Henry Smith, one of Foster's strong Skagit County sup porters. Under the direction of Sammons, Foster has been making numerous excursions about the state. He cultivated something of that habit last Summer, but the journeyings he is making now are leading him a far more strenuous existence than he contemplated. Foster and Sammons both expressed themselves as extremely confident of the outcome. They claim to have lined up strong in the Northwest Foster literature, by the way, is soon tq be sent out It is already in press at Tacoma and when it goes broadcast in the state a complete showing of Foster's legislative record in the United States Senate will be made. It Is hpped by this showing to overcome any claims that Foster has not been effective, for the statement will make comparisons with the work done by other Senators. The attitude of Senator Ankeny is puz zling and worrying Senator Foster and his friends. They claim that when the time comes the Junior Senator will rec ognize the work done for him in Pierce County in 1S03 and return the aid with Interest They expect eventually to be able to induce B. D. Crocker to come around into active support of Foster, re minding him of the fight that was made by Foster for his appointment as Col lector of Customs and the outcome which made him Collector of Internal Revenue. There is no question but that Crocker and his friends, which naturally would include Senator Anneny, feel very much hurt over Pierce County's failure In the last Republican Convention to stay with Crocker in the Gubernatorial fight B. S. Grosscup is claimed to have brought out Crocker, and the Crocker following in sists that Grosscup is responsible for the fact that Pierce County did not stay with Crocker. The Foster following gives another in teresting interpretation to he action of the delegation. They claim that James M. Ash ton and his following was against Crocker, ritad that they could not control Ashton. There Is not the close harmony between Foster and Ashton that existed at one time, but Ashton at Chicago voted for Ankeny's election as National Com mitteeman. Of- course that was not the Foster programme, but Foster cannot protest against Ankeny's election. At the same time it complicates matters to insist that at Tacoma Ashton was against a friend of Ankeny's because it was to Foster's interests to support him, and at Chicago was with Ankeny because It was to Foster's interests to be against him. The Postmaster fight at Tacoma is giv ing the senior Senator some worry. But for complications that have arisen re cently J. B. Cromwell, the present Post master, would have been reappointed long ago. As it is now there will be 710 recommendation until after the election, and probably not until after the Sena torial contest is settled. In earlier days S. 21. LeCrone and J. B. Cromwell were rival political leaders in the same precinct- They were "both can didates for the State Senate in 1E98. Le Crone won out, but in the year follow ing, CrOmwell was- made Postmaster. Now comes LeCrone, who has a vote in the .State Senate and-.who is one of the men who will name the next Sen ator, and demands that he be appointed Postmaster. .Foster is In a bad position, He ,cannot offend LeCrone ond he does J not rirant 'to displease either Cromwell or any other aspirant for the postofflce. And so the matter has been hung up. It is possible that LeCrone may win out; but he would not be named until"'' after the Legislature had elected a successor to Senator Foster. Thomas J. Church, secretary of the Democratic State Committee, has been wandering about in Southwestern Wash ington. Rumor had it that he was out collecting campaign funs and was meet ing with success. That is really imma terial, for the Interesting thing Is that Church has come back to Seattle with the story that there Is a strong opposi tion to the Republican state ticket In Southwestern Washington, and that tho Democrats will carry Pacific and Clark Counties, break into Cowlitz and, In short, have things pretty much their own way. This claim Is repeated for the edification of those who remember that the Southwest stood by the Republican ticket in 1S96, when the remainder of the state followed Bryan and free silver, and who can recall, for instance, that Pa cific has always been Republican. S. H. Piles, one of the King County candidates for United States Senator, ant? who was Indorsed by the last county con vention, has Just returned from an ex tended Eastern trip, taken to recuperate his health and transact some Important business. Though few know it the Piles headquarters In the Seattle Hotel have never been closed, and a small office force Is still in charge attending to routine matters. Labor Commissioner William Blackman has allowed nls Gubernatorial ambition to fade. Mr. Blackman wanted to be the party nominee In the event Turner would not be a candidate. Then ho permitted politicians to discuss him for the second place. In the excitement over the Na tional Convention and over the discussion of other candidates, Mr. Blacicman was overlooked and the boomlet lost The State Labor Commissioner was in Seattle this week, but he was not seek ing politicians. He had dropped his cam paign and had decided to allow the Demo cratic party to work out Its salvation r without his candidacy. Of course, Mr. Blackman still cherishes the hope that by laying back until the stretch la reached all the. others may ba winded and he can walk homo. But he is not going to do any work" now. PEISOHEES TEY TO ESCAPE. One Soldier Is Shot, and His Two Companions Promptly Surrender. NEW YORK, July 16. Three soldiers Imprisoned on Governor's Island for de sertion have tried to escape In a row boat One of them. Private Alfred Bost wlck, was shot by a sentry. The bullet passed through Bostwlck's Jaw and ho will probably die. His two companions, when they saw that Bostwlck was wound ed, promptly stopped rowing. They were overhauled, taken back to the island, and put In the guardhouse. Bostwlck's com panions were William Rhelner and a man named Cox. They had been model pris oners, and Bostwlck was to be released August 1. Rhelner would have been freed two months later, but none of the men was aware of the shortening of. their terms. The prisoners were at work on an ex tension of the island defenses, being made by filling in. No particular attention was paid to them, and they seized the oppor tunity to escape by wading into the bay and seizing a rowboa One took the oars and headed for Brooklyn. A sentinel ran along the seawall and called upon them to come back, but no attention was paid to him and he fired five shots. Bostwlck, who lay prone In the boat was hit In the cheek. The bul let passed through his neck and severed an artery. An Army boat by that time had overhauled the rowers and towed them back to the Island. Bostwlck's companions were not wounded. Pirates Burn Passengers to Death. HONG KONG, July 16. Chinese pirates In the Canton River have butchered the crew of a Junk and burned to death 40 passengers who were confined In its hold. The Canton River, on which the City of Canton stands, i the Shu-klang, or Pearl River, and is the only chief channel by which the united waters of the Pe-kiang and the Sl-kiang reach the sea. ' CREGbM PIONEE-ROF1835 Moses Lore, of Union County, Now 105 Years Old, Who Recalls the Earliest Misssonaries Blue Mountain Eagle. KEEN-EYED, quick-witted, nerv ous little man, hair white as the driven snow, with the brown skin of the French Canadian, browner with a century's bronzing on the frontier the oldest man In Eastern Oregon may be seen on the streets of the little town of Union, Union County, on any -Saturday afternoon. It Is Moses Lore,, of Catherine Creek, and he was born where Montreal now stands, seven days Before. George Wash ington, first' President of the United States, died In December, 1799. His 105 years are carried lightly. His step Is yet quick and his voice clear, al though he says "ze fog comes to ze eye verle oftln," and he can no longer see his rifle sights. For 42 years he has lived four miles from Union on his little ranch In the shadow of the frowning Blue Mountain cliffs. Three generations of his family have made his house their home, and the county of Union, and the state of Ore gon have been practically hewn from the wilderness during the last half of his eventful and thrilling life. His story reads like a romance, and yet it is but one of thousands that might be unearthed among the pioneers of East ern Oregon. Born of French-Canadian parents where the beautiful city of Montreal now stands, in December. 1799. he Imbibed with his mother's milk the spirit of adventure. When but a boy he came to Detroit, then headquarters for all the powerful Indian tribes of the Central West At 24. he came to St Louis, then the outfitting point for that wondrous crusade of voyagers, Indian fighters, trappers, hunters and restless-spirited frontiersmen, which pushed civilization Into the Northwest. He Joined a private party of hunters, consisting or 30 men, bound for the virgin beaver fields of the Kootenai, in British Columbia, and after innumerable hard--ships ar-d adventures they reached their goal. For 10 years he" lived among the In dians around Pend d'Oreille and Coeur d'Alene Lakes, only seeing the face of a white man on the occasional visits of Hudson Bay parties to their Indian camp. Tiring of the nomadic Indian life, and hungering for a sight of white men and wJvUc,mears homes, he left the Indians 'and came to Clearwater,, where be worked PROMISE iS BROKEN Orpheum Theater Agreed to Allow No "Gambling. LICENSE MAY BE REVOKED City Council Committee Will Almost Certainly Take Action Against the House, Which, They Say, Has Violated Stipulations. Because the members of the liquor li cense committee of the Council "believe the proprietor? of the Orpheum Theater have violated their agreement in allow ing a gambling annex to be opened ad Joining the establishment, the liquor li cense of the saloon will almost certainly be revoked at the meeting of the commit tee tomorrow afternoon. What the committee recommends will almost as certainly be adopted by the Council. The members of the committee met Informally yesterday morning, and decided to revoke the Orpheum license. Official action will be taken at the meet ing tomorrow. Without a license, the the ater, which cost several thousand dollars, will be worthless. The membera of the committee say that written upon the back of the liquor li cense, granted to the Orpheum Theater, is an agreement that the license shall be revoked If the establishmnt Is conducted as a combination house, or if gambling Is started in connection with It. Now that James McDevltt, one of the owners of the theater, and the manager of the gambling annex opened early last week, has been sentenced by the Municipal Court to pay a fine for gambling, the committee holds that sufficient evidence has been given of a direct violation of the agreement between themselves and the Simons brothers, the men who have heretofore posed as tho owners of the entire estab lishment When the Orpheum was about to be opened early in the Spring, two or three Councilmen. took a saunter one day among the piles of seats and furnishings in the remodeled building at Fourth and Stark streets. The plan of the building looked to them like that of a combination house, and they told the liquor license committee as much. When the Simons applied for a liquor license there was trouble. The committee declared that no Burnside-street establishment should be opened on Stark street But the propri etors assured them that it was to bo con ducted as a high-class vaudeville house charging admission, but selling refresh ments after the manner of the San Fran cisco houses. So the license was granted, but the members say that 3. strong pro viso was written upon it But troublous days befell the Orpheum. Sure enpugh a 25-cent admission was charged, and a regulation vaudeville show presented for several weeks. But the 10 cent houses took all the admission busi ness away from the theater, so about a month ago It was opened as a free-show house. A performance Is still given on the stage, but it differs widely from the shows of the first few weeks. Two tiers of open boxes line the upper walls of the auditorium, and these came to be fre quented by others than lovers of vaude ville. There are two bars, one upstairs close to the boxes and the big room on the eastern end of the building In which the faro tables were started Monday, and the other downstairs. These pay separate li censes, $800 a year in all. Dan R. Murphy, attorney for McDevltt, had heard last evening of the threat made by the Council to revoke the Or pheum license. Three members of the liquor license committee are absent from the city, but will return In time for the Council meeting Wednesday. Mr. Zimmer man, however, will not be home until after Monday, so an understanding as to the Orpheum. license was reached yester day. As to the gambling situation. Attorney for Spalding, the associate of Dr. Whit man, for a year. ' He recalls Spalding's kindly teachings and remarkably humane treatment of the Indians, and once warned the missionary of a secret plot among the Indians to murder all the whites at the mission. He came down on the Snake and the Columbia and stopped at the Whitman settlement, and then, thirsting for the green, fields of the beautiful Willamette, he followed the resistless tide of set tlement on down, westward, locating at French Prairie, Marion County, the Ca nadian settlement, where he took part In the formation of Oregon Territory and stood by the Government of the United States against the Hudson Bay Com pany. He located a claim In French Prairie in 1839, married a halfbreed squaw, from whom he was separated 30 years ago, and who Uvea today with a great-granddaughter, six .miles from Meacham, in the Blue Mountains. He followed the Ignis fatuus dream of gold to the California mines, sickened with scurvy, went broke and came back to his farm at French Prairie, content to raise cattle and listen to his bronzed wife croon to her babes in the shadows of, the Cascades. When settlement and civilization crowded thickly about his wilderness in the Willamette, he turned his yes to Eastern Oregon, and was the first Frenchman to settle on Catherine Creek, a settlement of French people which later became famous throughout Eastern Ore gon. That was in 1862, and he lives today on the old homestead. About his checkered and variegated life the whole history of the rise and establishment of an Empire clusters. He sat In the "wolf meetings" at French Prairie, where the virgin em pire of Oregon trembled In the balance. He hauled bis wheat to Dr- John Mc Laughlin's grist mill at Oregon City; was an associate of F. X. Matthleu, the only survivor of the 102 wha voted on the es tablishment of a provisional government ior Oregon, and has seen the state grow from the "Old Oregon" to the new. When he speaks of the thrilling, scenes through which he has passed since that memorable year of 1824, in which he turned his face westward from St Louis now SO years ago more than the length of two full generations- of men he tans, his forehead restlessly and says: "Walt, wait lot me tink; dat ees many years ago; za head sometime forget you know." Ho will celebrate his 105th birthday next December, and Is as' cheerfulwand aprlghtly- as most men of E0. Murphy says tha't he fully expects Dis trict Attorney Manning to take some ac tion jn the return of Sheriff Word to morrow morning; -He has named tomor row as the last day for the District At torney to file Information against the other gambling-houses and esrve war rants upon them. If nothing is done by Tuesday, he declares that he will see if Mr. Manning can conduct the District At torney's office as he now Is, regarding tho gambling situation. CONTRACT LET EOE SCHOOL. Directors of New District Near Mt. Scott to Proceed to Business At a meeting of the School Directors of the new district. No. 47, last night at Ar leta, on the Mount Scott railway, between Woodstock and Lents, a contract for the erection of a six-room schoolhouse, com plete, was let to A. W. Powers & Son of Woodmere, for 59521, the building to bo finished by October 1, 1904. W. A. Schooling, chairman of the board. presided, and Directors H. T. Cummins and P. N. Bennett and Clerk L. E. Brill, with Architect Chappelle Brown, who prepared the plans and specifications, were present when the bids were opened. Bids were re ceived from a number of contracting firms, but none complied with the re quirement of inclosing a check for 10 per cent of the amount of the bids except Mr. Powers, who accompanied his bid with a certified check for $900. Even had any of the other bids been lower and better they could not have been considered un der the notice calling for proposals. Fol lowing were the other bids, without cer tified checks: Tllton Bros., heating, $400; John Tyner, building complete, $11,200; Garrison & Peterson, building complete, $12,029; without furnace being bricked, $11,979; Hepp & Fisher, building complete, $3993; same with four rooms finished, $9493; A. W. Powers, complete, with certified check, $9521, to be completed October L There were also other conditional figures from Mr. Powers, ranging as low as $SS00, for four rooms complete. Architect Chappelle Browne was In structed to prepare the contract for tho successful bidder's signature, so he can start work forthwith. The new building will be one of the finest In the county out side of Portland and Mount Tabor. The district has ah acre and a half of ground for the building. It is expected that the district will negotiate a short loan rather than Issue bonds. Director H. T. Cummins reported last evening that he had completed the school census of the new district, showing 257 children of echool age. Of this number 131 only were in the district last March, the remaining 123 having come in since that time. The new district takes 114 from the Lents district, but of this number only 69 were in that district last year and only 11 attended school, so that the loss to Lents is very small. No district in the state ever had so quick a growth. Practically it has sprung up since last August, when there were but about a dozen houses, but now there are fully 1000 people- In concluding to com plete six rooms the directors thought it would be economy to complete all the rooms now rather than to finish several at some future time. Four rooms will be occupied this Fall, and it will cost about $500, more to furnish the rooms with deskk and furniture, making the total coot of the building $10,000. William Miller, formerly Superintendent Of Schools of Lane County, was elected principal and will have the task of or ganizing the school. EUSSIA PUTS BRITAIN 0EF. While the War Is On, She Will Not Settle Pending Questions. LONDON, July 16. The Associated Fres? learns that there are no attempts at pres ent to settle all the questions pending be tween Russia and Great Britain. The For eign Office has received from Sir Charles Hardlnge, the British Ambasador to Rus sia, the Russian answer to its representa tions, in which the St. Petersburg govern ment regrets Its inability, while the war with Japan is In progress, to undertake such important negotiations, but when peace is restored she will be willing to do so. provided circumstances permit The exchanges were made in a thorough ly cordial spirit, and the Associated Press Is Informed by a high British official that the Russian government has made clear that the foreign offices understand tho disinclination of Emperor Nicholas minis ters to embark into a discussion of the Indian. Persian or other Far Eastern questions, settlement of which Sir Charles Hardlnge sought. This is in no sense a rebuff. As a matter of fact, it Is learned that the Emperor's advisers are as anx ious as Great Britain that the most friendly relations be maintained between the two countries. There is no Intention of taking any action which might cause a change of attitude on the part of the British, which has been regarded up to this time officially correct In this connection, it Is stated that there is no representation of any serious ques tion arising from the operations of the Russian auxiliary cruisers in the Red Sea, although it is known that the British gov ernment has determined to protest against the action of the St Petersburg govern ment in holding up British merchantmen. Foreign Secretary Lansdowne, In talks with the Russian Ambassador, has stated in a way to admit of no doubt that tho British government would not permit a violation of the treaty of Berlin, in re spect to the closure of the Straits of the Dardanelles to warships. On the other hand, Russia has stated in equally em phatic terms that she has no intention of .dispatching any war vessels through tho straits, and diplomats familiar with the situation In the Balkans say that while theV do not believe there Is danger of in ternatlonal trouble there, Russla'3 own in terests demand the presence in the Black Sea of of. the whole of the fleet now there. ATHLETIC TESTS FOE EEEEMEN Civil Service Commission Examines Applicants for Many Positions. Twenty-four applicants for positions as hosemen and laddermen went through the athletic tests of the Civil Service Com mission at the Multnomah Field yester day morning. Eleven men who want to be drivers completed their practical . ex amination. The fraction -of an inch made all the difference fn the world In the examina tion of chainmen for the City Engineer's department Ten applicants were taken upon one of the Park blocks, and told to measure off" a line whose exact length was known. The distance given by the applicants had to be within one-fifth of an Inch of the correct distance, or the candidate was out of the running. Mora than one was disqualified by this condi tion. Just one man, the incumbent, was after the Job of estimate man in the City Engineer's office. Six applicants for positions as slJewalk Inspectors arid four applicants as instru ment men also took the examinations prepared by Civil Service Secretary -Mc- Jvpherson. Separate lists of questions had been made up for each position. m t T "if - c 'jc " n TVP SVfX&St w tfaiiftfcf'.'i7 temx&vmm - . AK &m&ss2sm&&Mtt',zs&&&.K - -r ' .! ,imn-f wmm&m:msh$w&m rcMMm-im?. nmmssmmmmmmmmnMsi. k fteEffaasr-r-Ki-v" -mu -u.u a& HimBSKstssMkdi 53&m&&smaBm&mm&mmmmMmzwj&&msi mmm&zmmmmmmmmmm&&&s...