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THE OBEGONIAN, -PORTLAND, JJJsUABY , 1905. WOUNDED BY THUGS Suburbanite Is Assailed Near Hisjiome. RUNS AND IS FIRED UPON Two Masked Men Lie In Walt for A. E. Fogg-on East Stark Street and Shoofc, Him. In vthe Heel.. A. S. Fogg, 140L East Stark street, was held up and .shot-last night at 10 o'clock by two masked men "While -within a hun dred feet of his home. The bullet, which Is of 88-caliber, took effect In the left heel. "While painfully hurt, Fogg's wound Is not considered a serious one. The thugs cot nothing. Fogg was on his way home from the city, and had left the car at Belmont street, hut a few minutes before. As he neared Forty-seventh jand East Stark streets ho noticed two men approaching: him. They suddenly parted so as to allow him to pass between them, but feeling that something was wrong he at tempted to pass around the taller of the men. This move was thwarted, however, and Fogs was hailed: "How about It old man? Hands up." "Not much," replied Fogg gamely, breaking Into a run for his residence. One of the men whipped out a gun and shot at the fleeing man. That the hold up did cot prove to be a cold-blooded murder is pronounced little short of miraculous. One man Is described by Mr. Fogg aa being over six feet in height, while the other was somewhat shorter. They both wore long black coats, black derbies and masks. The scene of the hold-up is 40 feet out ride of the city limits. Local police were called, but refused to respond, saying that the robbery was committed outside of the city limits, and was not in their territory. Sheriff "Word and a tdeputy were telephoned for, and immediately went to the Fogg residence. As yet the men have not been apprehended. FINDS POKER GAME. Sheriff Word A vests 28 Men In lla zler's First-Street Saloon. Sheriff Word and a force of deputies last night raided a poker game that was running In a side room of John Blas ter's saloon, 246 First street. They ar rested 28 men, found at the tables, but took no paraphernalia. The prisoners were marched to the Coun ty Jail, where they were locked up, Joe ing unable to furnish ball in the sum of 550 each. The prison" was filled with the players. For some time it bad been rumored that a game was in progress in the place, and ivfcon RhnHn Word flnnllv heard Of it. he marshalled his forces and went forth. No' difficulty was encountered after Bhenn IYoit and Deputy Moreland broke open two doors hat led into the room where the game was in progress. When it became known that the Sher iffs forces were about to enter, there was a scramble for places of escape, but all ttmw rut off. The onlv thine left to do was to submit to arrest. At the Jail the prisoners were unable to place ball nd had to be locked up. JBiaziers oonas were fixed at $100. WILL NOT REORGANIZE. Rumors Regarding Hill Roads Denied Delano's New Position. CHICAGO, Jan. 7. (Special.) Officers of the Hill roads arc indignant over the reports that have been sent out from St. Paul regarding a reorganization of the Burlington and Great Northern systems. While It Is admitted that minor changes of officials may be made, nothing radical is contemplated. Mr. Hill says he now has the Burling' Ion Company well organized. No changes will be made In the traffic departments. r.or will anything further be done in the operating end of the company. Whether Mr. Harris is to resign will develop at the corporation's annual meeting in this city next Wednesday. The traffic depart ment of the Burlington, presided over by Darius Miller, 1b one of the best in the country. P. S. Eustls, passenger traffic manager, heads the passenger department and it is through his work the Burlington is today one of the biggest passenger sys tenia In the country. Mr. Delano, the retiring general man' agcr, says he leaves the Burlington with the best of feeling toward not only Mr. Hill, but every officer of the company. It 1 now said tliat Mr. Delano resigned with the purpose of accepting either the vice presidency of ooo road or the general managership of another. During the freight handlers' strike two years ago, he was the most active railroad officer In the negotiations between the officials and the employes. Willard to Do Delano's Work. CHICAGO, Jan. 7. The duties of the general manager's office in the Bur lington system will be taken over by Daniel willard, second viec-presldent. next Tuesday, on tho retirement of F. A. Delano from that position. Accord Ing to President Harris, the place of general manager may not be filled for eome time. PB0VTDES FOE STATE BUILDING Washington Fair Commissioners Will Ask Legislature for $75,000. SEATTLE. Wash., Jan. 7. (Special.) The Board of Commissioners for the Lewis and Clark Fair finished up their wcrk today and adjourned to meet in 01ympla where they will urge the pas sage of an appropriation of $75,000 for the Washington exhibit at the Fair. Of this amount It 1b planned to spend 525, 000 yfor the Washington building, rrhe balance will be used In getting up a suitable exhibit. Elmer E Johnson today positively de clined to accept the position of commis sioner. His successor has not been named, and no action will be taken until tho bill providing for the appropriation has been presented to the Legislature. Mr, Johnson feels keenly the censure that was heaped upon him for his man agement at the St. Louis Exposition. These criticisms came mostly from men whom he had favored, but he says his experience at two expositions is enough to la? t him- for a while. YELLOW FEVEB AT COLON. Three Passengers From There Shovy Disease on Reaching Havana. NEW YORK, Jan. 7. Illness report ed among eome of the passengers on the samshlp Dora, from Colon, Panama- and Port Llmon, Costa Rica, to Vera Crux, Mexico, has been diagnosed as yellow Xever. cables a correspondent of the Herald at Havana. There were S00 . passengers -aboard, including 200 for Cuba, when the ship -reached Ha vana, and was detained outside owing to the Illness of three Cubans, two ot wnom were women. The vessel was placsd in Quarantine and the patients were transferred In mosquito-proof ambulances to the yel low fever hospital. The man died-And both of the women are said to have such severe cases of yellow fever that tney are not expected to live. No rear Is expressed of the disease spreading. WELL-SJT0W5 BIVEUCAX DEAD Interesting Career Lead by the Late Captain Gzlbraeth. Captain Oliver Galbreath, who died at his , late residence near Tualatin, Washington County, Or., January S, 1905, was a native son, aged about 45 years, and died near the place of his birth after an illness of several months. For a. number of years he has been engaged In the Government serv ice on the river and harbor improve- j ment of the Willamette and Columbia J "Rivers and their tributaries, also on Puget -Sound, acting as mate of the j steamer Bkaget on the Sound and for a great many years was mate jfon the 1 old snagboat Corvallls, which piled ; the Willamette. During the last few i years he has served as captain of the Mathloma, but when the last-named boat was started to work on the last appropriation and he was called on to take her out. he was compelled. through ill health to decline. He was married to Sarah K. Spencer, who sur vives him with one child, Mauris, aged 12 years. He also leaves five brothers, George Galbreath, and Samuel Gal breath, of Tualatin: Joseph Galbreath, of Sherwood; Lycnrgus Galbreath, of tne Government dredger w. s. Ladd, and John S. Galbreath, of Browning. Mont., and two sisters, Mrs. Martha Stone, of Kalama, and Mrs. Effle Beck er, of Seattle. Captain Galbreath was a .charter member of the A. O. 17. W. No. 92, of Tualatin, and was a member of she Woodmen of the World of Corvallls. Funeral services will be held at his late residence near Tualatin, today, at 10 A. M. Interment in the cemetery near Tualatin Station. Friends and ac quaintances respectfully invited to at tend. Magistrate Ommen, of New York, has ordered 45 saloonkeepers ' to re move family entrances, boxes, parti tions and booths as violations of the Raines law. BY RICHARD ROE. FRANCISCO GURGIULO, steward of the good ship Saint Celeste, sat on the bowsprit and pondered on the misfortunes of life. First, the steward's boat lost the Christmas-day race, and the steward, therefore, lost a month's wages. Second, he was arrested for shooting gulls and got the limit. Third, he was arrested for striking a sailor and got a $10 flnc. Therefore, Francisco de clared life to be a miserable bore Francisco was not an anarchist, but he thought things In common with that race of Irresponsible people. For instance,, he thought of the bottles of good wine in the captain's locker, to be used by none but the captain and the mates. He thought of 'the diamond stickpin in the captain's cravat, and reflected that he had not even a stickpin without a dia mond in it. A frenzy seized upon Francisco. Without stopping to think more than once, Francisco Journeyed to the cap tain's cabin, fonnd that no one was within, and took for himself the much desired stickpin. It had cost the captain 250 francs on the other side. Then he journeyed to the captain's locker and appropriated for his own use five bottles of wine from the captain's own private stock. Francisco walled until dark, and then prepared for departure. He placed tho Fled the Steward. pin In an Inner pocket and took the wine from its hiding place. Then the steward, with the plunder beneath- his arm. hurr rled from the ship. In the morning the captain discovered that he had no stew ard. Later he discovered that he like wise possessed no stickpin and no winc. Hc went to the police and swore out a warrant. But Francisco had flown to Astoria, and at that port taken the steamer Co lumbia for 'Frisco. They may get him there. But when they do the pin -and wine will be gone! t t t SU LIN appeared, before Judge Hogue to explain how he came by a certain spade found in his possession. AhLln had been out of Jail but a week. He was sent there for stealing-axes. Whenever Ah Un sees an axe he gathers It in and delivers It to a pawnshop. When Ah Lin appeared In court he' de manded an Interpreter. He got one "Ask him where he got the spade," di rected Judge Hogue. I The Interpreted, asked him. 1 "Un tong ew chen chin gottum no Captain Galbreath. ... .t In the Shadow of the Bars DEMAND FOR ROOMS Prospect of Fair Visitors Has its Effect s RENTERS TO PROFIT, TOO Landlords Will Increase Rents; but Those Who iHave Leases May Supply Apartments at a Gooi MgureThis 'Year. Househuntens in Portland are facing the. Fair year, and that means nigh rents not only "for rooms, but for whole" buildings. The experience of other-Fair cities is that the price of rooms becomes Ave times as much, and that the rent of houses doubles during the short period of the Exposi tion. It is not merely that landlords be cqme suddenly over greedy and wish to make a mint of money while they can but that the demand is so great that" they can ask about what they pleaeo and get it. It looks like a hardship on the face, of it, and It Is for some bousehounters, but not for most, for almost every one rents to Fair visitors all the spare rooms avail able, and as the landlord only doubles his rent and the renter of rooms pilea up the price Ave times, he is the man who makes money. It will pay a great interest on the investment to run a room-'lng-house here this year. Take the experience of St. Louis. It is said that there was not a room within two ntllcs of the Exposition grounds which did not rent for $2 a night. A house could not be had in that vicinity for any price. One of the- Oregon, com mlasloners rented a house so far from the Exposition grounds that It took him an hour and a quarter on the excellent street-cars to get home, and though It had only six rooms and was furnished In mediocre style,, he paid $175 a month for it, and gave an Ironclad lease for the term of the Exposition. In ordinary times the house would have rented for about $75. Other people renting there had similar experiences. In Buffalo, where there were many empty houses before the Exposition be gan, rents were all doubled, and flats which there, as here, nmt for $35 a month empty, suddenly jumped to $75. Hotel rooms In both these cities were $10 and $15 a day, and then often there were two strangers In the same room. In the light of the experience of other Fair clUes, conditions will be like thl3 here next Summer. Portland In reality Is worse off than the other cities, for here nothing can be rented now, and the de mand for houses always keeps ahead ot the supply. Just now In Portland, there is a demand for houses not too far out renting for $25 to $30 a month. Old unsanitary "buildings of any sort can demand that price now. But as soon as the price goes above $30 the demand slackens. This, however, seems to be merely a temporary condi tion. What houses have been built in the last two or three years have been of the better class, except those in the far sub urbs, and have rented for $35 or $10 a month or better, and the men whose in comes would only permit of a $30 house have been competing for what they could get at that price. Real Estate Is Active. The new year brought activity for the real estate men close in its wake. All business has picked up quickly after tho csklkl wang ye tong hoyke talu, conte un wing, sakl un tlnu yip yum, tang yu boo do agywon, cee nee yalu ting lskl gotun," said Ah Lin. "He say he bought It,' said the Inter preter. "Ask him how long ago," demanded the Judge. The Interpreter asked. Ah Lin screwed his face to one side, stuck his hands out Into tho air and delivered hlm- "Ah IJn Dellrered Him noli of an Ora torical Effort. self of an oratorical effort lasting half an hour almost. "What did he say?" Inquired the Judge. after the bailiff had secured order. "He say a year," answered the Inter- peter. His Honor reflected and remembered that the Interpreter was charging by the hour. Ah Lin began to prepare for an other .oratorical outburst, and explained through the interpreter, before the Judge He Implored th Police for Protection. could stop him. that ha knew not one word of English, and could not, therefore, plead his case successfully. The Judge took, that matter into consideration and paid 30 days instead ot the 90 he was about to suggest. The Interpreter told Ah Lin he was to break rock for 30 days. Then Ah Llngearned the language. "D ." sal a Ah -tin. VI- holidays, and real estate more quickly than any other. Real estate brokers are wearing a new smile- now, and say with conviction that they look for a prosper ous year, mare prosperous than they ex pected or even, hoped for, i There is practically no new building yet. For although the architects are busy ennnrh ihfv have not come to breakinz ground. - There will be. however, .a great deal of building between now ana. June i, especially of bouses which can vbe 'rentd during the Fair. The realty transfers and the building permits of the past week fol low: Real Estate Transfers. December 31 $ 2f.3 January 3. . January 4 -i,213 January 5 52,96 January 6 14.S10 January 7......;...... 16.637 Total ."r. $156,361 - Building Permits. : January 3....". $ January 4 3.0 January. 5 6.0S0 January' 6 2,400 January 7....: 5,550 Total $36,200 GBEAT STORM m EEW ENGLAKD Gale and Rain Drive Ships Ashore and Flood Streams. BOSTON. Jan. 7. The- heavy north easterly storm which set In last night embraced all New England. The rain, accompanied by a rise of about 30 de grees In temperature, rapidly melted the Enow and caused much inconveni ence. Tho gale, which reached a ve locity of 80 miles an hour on the coast, caused rough seas and high tides. The schooner Lizzie carr went ashore at Concord Point. Rye Beach, N. H., and Frank Been, first mate, was knocked overboard and drowned. The other members of the crew were res cued. The storm had cleared by noon today. The storm created a tremendous surf along the coast and in Connecticut. The excessive rainfall caused a rapid rise of the rivers. The severity of the -storm on Long Island Sound com pelled the Fall River steamer Pilgrim, from New Tork to Fall River, to put in at New London. At Wlnsted, Conn., the Mad River overflowed, so that the main street was ten Inches under water today. Reports of slush-covered streets, washed-out highways and similar dam age come from many places in the state. FLOODS IN NEW JERSEY. All Rivers Rising Rapidly and Much Damage Is Expected. NEW YORK, Jan. 7. The heavy rain fall of yesterday has swollen the streams in Northern and Eastern New Jersey. Tho Rati tan Is 19 feet above its normal level tonight. The Ice has gone out and all roads In Its vicinity have been rendered Impassable. Great damage has been done to bridges and buildings along its banks. Trouble Is anticipated In the vicinity of Fompton Lakes, where all rivers and brooks are rising rapidly. Much alarm Is felt In Patterson at the rise of the Passaic River. Today goods were removed from many of the factories and stores along the river front. The offi cials of Patterson are making active prep arations to cope with the flood. Addition, al police have been stationed In low-lying districts, and more fire 'apparatus is to be provided for the wards along the river. Sudden Rise In the Schuylkill. PHILADELPHIA. Jan. 7. The effect of last night's heavy rainfall, which was driven by a 36-mile gale, aro in evidence today in all sections of the city and environs. The most serious result Is the swollen condition of the Schuylkill River, which is 17 feet above normal at Manayunk, a suburb. Four teen mills are closed as a result of the flood, and 4000 hands are Idle. The water, dammed up by the Ice, backed up and overflowed Into the basements and first floors of the fac tories and mills which line the banks of the river. Tide Floods Atlantic City. ATLANTIC CITY;. N. J., Jan. 7. An Immense tide, driven up by the south west gale, swept along the coast dur ing the night, flooding the beach front. One hundred feet of railway tracks at tho beach terminus of the Pleasantvillc trolley road were washed out, and two fishing boats wero wrecked. MORSE STAYS IN ETJB0PE. Lawyers Do Not Believe Mrs. Gel shenen Fled on Deutschland. NEW YORK. Jan. 7. Charles W. Morse, the banker, did not arrh-c from Europe on the steamer Lucanla todav. He engaged a stateroom on the vessel and ic was expected that he would gv: on board at Qucenstown, but he failed to an pear. Assistant District Attorney Garvan to day said he placed no credence In tho re port that Mrs. William Gelshenen was in New York, and that she would appear before the grand jury on Monday. Mr. Garvan said: "I accent the word of her lawyer and her son that she sailed last Tuesday. We are satisfied that Mrs. Gelshenen was not a passenger on the Deutschland today. Her daughter. Mm. Gelshenen, Miss Edith English, and Miss Dunn, aunt of Mis3 Gelshenen, were passengers on tho Ham burg liner. That telegrams, letters and baskets of flowers were sent to the Deutschland for Mrs. Gelshenen Is easily explained by the fact that many of her friends, hearing that she was to sail to day. sent these tokens of friendship." Mr. Garvan denied a report that sub pen as have been Issued for Attorneys James M. Beck and Samuel Untermeysr for their appearance before the grand jury, and later District Attorney Jerome said that no pbpena had been issued for FIND FATE ON TREES. Trace of Mrs. M. E. Sailor Discovered at Skamokaway. That Mrs. Marie E. Sailor fell from the sidewalk Into the Columbia River at Skamokawa, Wash., while attending a dance there two weeks ago last night is now tnougnt io oe a certainty, ior yes terday afternoon searchers found some hair on the trees below, just over the river's brink. It Is supposed the young woman lost her balance and feu over the sidewalk. which Is above the water, and that she fell in and lost her life. Dragging the river has failed as yet to loeare the body Death of Sister Majella. Eister Gerard Majelle. of the Sisters of the Holy Names of Jesus and Mary, who, before she took the Veil, was Mies Claire V. Gcwd, died at St. Mary's Academy and Oallege early yesterday morning.'yThe aeceasea nun was a nauve oi untario, where her mother and brothers reside. Nine years ago she entered the Com m unity of the Holy Names. She died In the 31st year of her age. and the seventh nf her religious profession. The Inter ment will take place at St. Paul, Or. On Uniform Bill of Lading. WASHINGTON. Jan. 7. The Interstate Commerce Commission today set a hear ing to be held in this dry January 21. on the Question of adoption of a uniform, bill of lading tnrougnout tne omcial classin cation territory of the railroads: v 3V WE enter tomorrow upon the- third week of- our Annual Sale, the most successful in 40 years of a progressive and liberal policy. Our sale embraces every department of our business and nearly every item. It is safe to say that reductions we offer are not duplicated by any other store. With all our care in buying, stocks will accumulate and this January sale enables us to "clear the decks" for the coming year- Our sale is a saving-time to everyone every day of this month ; will bring to us hundreds of new customers vho will remain patrons of the largest retail and wholesale drug house in this country. IT MUST BE BORN AGAIN DEMOCRATIC LEADER TELLS GREAT NEED OF HIS PARTY. John Temple Graves Admits Cause of Its Failure, and Urges Adoption of Positive Policy. r?rM(7TTJT ATT. Jan. 7. John TomDle Graves, of Atlanta, Ga., was the chief orator at the Jackeon-day banauot of the Duckworth Club tonight, speaking on "Definite Democracy, in tne course oi his speech, he said: Tn if nntnrc and its mission the Dem ocratic party has been, and must be, a reform party or radical party. In the conditions whlcn eurrouna ic now, una inlulnn anr! method become the Drice of Its popularity and the necessity of its life. We have always lanea. ana al ways will fall, as a party of negation and a party 6f opposition. We have failed because we have been unfaithful. We havo failed because wo have trimmed and hesitated and straddled. We have failed because we havo compromised with the apparently successful doctrines ot the Republican party and surrendered to men whose Interests and convictions were so nearly akin to our political op ponents that they ought in common hon esty to respect the Republican party to which they belong. We havo failed be cause. In our political hunger for suc cess, we have Imitated the platforms and pandered to the powers ot the opposite party that held the Government. "Mr. President, the Democratic party never had a clearer mission or a brighter promise than today. Defeat Is discipline and. disaster Is education. Out of the wreck of our fortunes wo will build a noble and more enduring usefulness. The Democratic party is going to bo reborn, reformed and reconsecrated to the Con stitution and to popular rights and lib erty. "We cannot afford any longer to be a party of mere negation, a party of oppo sition or of servile imitation ot the party in power. We are going to believe nmithlnar. and we are colntr to do some thing. We are going to be a party of creeds and not merely a party ot nungry desires. We are going to quit crawling on our bellies before the Juggernauts of power, and we are going to quit truck- ltnir IIIta cOTcarda to the shadow Of a merely temporary success. We are going to And and to follow real leaders, if wo havo to smash every slate and annihilate every politician that has fattened upon our suffrages for 40 years." .BELIEVE IN ROOSEVELT. Graves Says Southern People Are Changing Towards Him. CINCINNATI. Jan. 7. In an Interview here today. John Temple Graves, of At lanta, spoko as follows: "T. Rnuth is raDldlr chanclns Its at titude toward President Roosevelt. The people of that section as a whole .are ni lnnier nnnrehpnslve concern tnir his course toward 'them as the chief execu tive of the land. They have learned his true worth, and are beginning to assume that decree of confidence In him once reposed In the late lamented William Mc VlnlPtr" 1 On the question of cutting down the Southern representation in uongrci, Jir. C1 ri Toc2 egfri? T An nnt believe It will ever be done. The Southern people for the most part arc Indifferent as to tne mauer. aiuiougn many would welcome it. But it will not be done: Mr. Roosevelt is against It, aa are many of the Northern people. Reception to Consul Miller. ' EUGENE. Or.. Jan. 7. (Special.) A ccptlon was given oy me. .cugene com mercial Club this evening to Hon. Harry B. Miller. Consul at Nlu Chwang, China, who is spending a short leave" of absence at his home in this city. The afTalr was o"hUc and a, larse number took the o im WOODARD, portunity of meeting Mr. Miller and learning of the conditions in the Orient. Mr. Miller made a most Interesting ad dress and gave much Information regard ing the country and people which have been so prominently before the people for the past year. AGAINST EAJXWAY MATWETL Court of Claims Says They Can't Col lect Traveling Expenses. WASHINGTON, Jan. 7. Justice Wright, of the Court of Claims, has handed down a decision in the cuso of the Railway Mail Clerks against the United States in which he holds tht the act of Congress making appropria tions for the postal service does not provide for tho paymcrit of board and lodging of such clerks when absent from their homes on duty. The court decided that ratfway mail clerks do not "travel under orders of the Postmaster-General," but that they travel by order of the statute creating the office of a postal clerk; that the statuto granting traveling expenses to "railway postal clerks while traveling away from their headquarters," had no application in the case, as postal clerks havo no headquarters. The court fur ther held that the clerks had expressly accepted tho obligation to pay their own expenses. This case affects the right of nearly 12,000 railway postal clerks. ARMY BILL CUT DOWN. Appropriation of 69,000,000, Which Is $5,000,000 Less Than This Year. WASHINGTON, Jan. 7. The House committee on military affairs today practically completed the Army appro priation bill. It carries In round num bers J69.000.000. which Is about 53.000, 000 less than the estimates and S5.000, 000 less than the appropriations for the current year. Following arc the im portant changes compared with the amounts appropriated last year: Horses for cavalry and artillery. 5200,000, reduced .5200,000; barracks and quarters, J3.4S8.950, reduced 5261,050; military post exchanges, 5333,500. re duction of 5165,500; barracks and quar ters, Philippine Islands, ,5230,000, reduc tion 5135,590; transportation of the Army and Its supplies, fl2.000.000, re duction 53,000.000; construction and re pair of hospitals, 5315,000. reduction 575,000; medical and hospital depart ment, 5600,000, increase ?4i),000; ord nance stores and supplies and rifle tar get practice, 51,250,000, Increase 5100,-000;- mllltla material, 5516,000, reduc tion 561.Q00. ATONED FOR HIS CRIME. Filipino Convict Pardoned as Reward for Good Service. WASHINGTON. Jan. ".The President has pardoned Juan M. Gulterrez, now serving a lire sentence in iJUiDifi frtson. Manila. Gulterrez Is a native Filipino, who was convicted by a military commis sion of having killed prisoners, and was sentenced to be hanged, but on account of the aid rendered by him to the United States In securing the surrender of other Insurgents, the. sentence was subsequently commuted to imprisonment at hard labor for life. The present action of the Presi dent is based upon information that the testimony upon which Gulterrez was con victed was unreliable, being, it Is alleged. part of a conspiracy to get him out of the way. and also because -of the sub sequent Important service rendered the Government of the United States by Gulterrez iix the suppression of the Phil ippine Insurrection. " Hearing of Rebate Case. WASHINGTON. Jan. 7. The 2ntci state Commerce- CoBtmlsslon today set next Friday, at Chicago, ns tne time and ntscA for thm rhs.irinsr In tha caso Involving charges of granting rebate to the Colorado Fuel S: iroa Company CLARKE & CO. by the Santa. Fe Railway. There have, been no communications on tho' sub ject between the Commission and Sec retary of the Navy Morton, who" was vice-president of the Santa Fe at tho time the rebates are alleged to kav been allowed, as to his appearing a a witness. Lower Telegraph Rates to Alaska. WASHINGTON, Jan. 7. The Secre tary of War has approved the recom mendation of the chief signal .officer ot the Army which reduced the press rates between Seattle and' points In Alaska to one-half the present tariffs. Cable rates will remain unchanged, but .the land tariffs between stations in Alaska will be changed somewhat at an early, date. Patient With Venezuela. WASHINGTON, Jan. 7. Reports that this Government has addressed an ulti matum to Venezuela are officially de-. dared to be untrue. Although the sit uation there has long been one of con siderable annoyance to this Government. Its patience Is not yet exhausted, and recent instructions have been sent Min ister Bowen. Candidates Must Stand TestC WASHINGTON. Jan. 7. Secretary Murphy, of the Isthmian Canal Commis sion, today announced that all positions under the commission which by executive order -are exempt from civil service ex amination have been filled, and that no additional appointments can be made In any department of the commission except through the Civil Service Commission. Japanese Noble at White. House. WASHINGTON, Jan. 7. Baron Ken taro Kentaro, a member of the House of Peers of Toklo, was a late caller at tho White House-' tonight and remained with tho President for over an hour. Electric Road to Moscow. SPOKANE. Jan. 7. By request of a large number of jobbers and merchants. President Goodall, of tho Chamber of Commerce, tonight called a public meet ing for next Tuesday night to start stock subscriptions for the building of an elec tric and steam railroad from Spokane to Moscow, Idaho. The estimated cost Is 53,250,000. The incorporators, Jay Graves, E. Lewis Clark. J. C. Twohy, F. A. Black well, A. Coolldge and T. L. Greenough, havo subscribed520O,O0O cash. The promoters are largely tho men who financed and built the electric llna be tween Spokane and Lake Coeur d'AIeuc, which has proved a remarkable financial success. Opposed to a Closed Season. VANCOUVER. Jan. 7. The British Co lumbia Fishermen's Union, In a mass meeting today, adopted resolutions op posing the proposition of the canners to have a closed season for salmon fish ing on the Fraser River In 1305 and 190?. The resolutions will be forwarded to tlie government. The union believes the sal mon Industry can be better protected by limiting the number of fishing licenses. Dallas Plays Winning Ball. DALLAS. Or., Jan. 7. (Special.) Tha most exciting game of basket-ball of Jhe season was played between the T. M. C A., of Salem, and the Dallas Athletic Club at this place at College gymnasium tonight, the game terminating in a score of 21 tb U In favor of the Dallas club. Myres and Burch did the goal-throwing for Dallas, while Ford, Teats and South wick made this possible by excellent team work. Fulton's Measure Is Commended. SALEM. Or.. Jan. 7. (Special.) The Greater Salem Commercial Club here to night adopted a resolution commending Senator Fulton's measure for the' pur chase of the canal and locks at Oregon City. "It looks like a good dor." "It Is." "Lonr pcdlsreeT' "Two Inches longer than any oth er dog of Ita kind in the city." Cleveland Flahr Dealer. .