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THE SUNDAY OREGOXIAN. POBTIxAND, DECEMBER 24, 1905. WIFE DESERTS POOR OLO FITZ Beaten Pugilist's Bride Elopes With a Pennsylvania - . - Millionaire. HAD LONG BEEN FRIENDS 3Injor C- S. J. Miller Leaves New York "With Mrs. Fltzslmmons t While Trusting AVife Awaits His Return Home. PITTSBURG, Pa., Dec. 23. (Special.) Pittsburg: heard with amazement to night that Major C. S. J. Miller, the millionaire son of General Charles Mil ler, commander of the Pennsylvania National Guard, had sloped from the Portland Hotel, New York City, with the wife of Robert FItzsimmons, the pugilist. Major Miller resides in Franklin, Pa., where ho has a beautiful home and a beautiful wife. He married Miss Pren tice ten years ago. She was the most popular young woman in the town, and the most handsome. 3Iet Her as an Actress. Two years after they were married. Major Miller met Miss Julia Gilford, then playing at a Franklin theater, the woman with whom he has Hoped. He invited her to his home, and xiia wife helped entertain her, but the tongue of gossip had never since connected her name with that of Miller. At a late hour' tonight Mrs. Miller had not learned of her husband's scan dal. She was waiting up for him, hour ly expecting his arrival from New York with a Spanish nobleman, whom ne had written her he had mot In Gotham. The couple have no children. Was Youngest of Mayors. Major Miller, soon after his marriage, was unanimously elected Mayor of Franklin, in succession to his father, .ind enjoyed at that time the distinc tion of being the youngest Mayor in tno United States. He organized the Franklin Manufacturing Company, the largest woolen waste concern In the ountry. and ho is vice-president of the General Manifold Company, capi talized at $-1,500,0 30. lie is easily a millionaire. Socially Major Miller belongs to the swell clubs In New York. He Is an ar dent yachtsman and a crack automo bllist. In "his swift car, Fiat, driven by Chevrolet, he won two races from Bar ney Oldflcld at Brunot's Island here in June. It Huns in the Family. Major Miller's father, the General, created a sensation here not long ago by divorcing his wife and marrying a singer in a church choir. ROOSEVELT AS BOSS. (Continued From Page 1.) a formal statement was given out which said: In viciv of recent developments In tli Speakership contest, it Is the sense of those present that every Republican mem ber of the- Assembly from the County of New York should vote at the coming cau cus for James W. "Wadsworth. Jr. All the men elected to the Assembly from New York County on the Republican and Municipal Ownership tickets have In-on Invited to meet and confer. Some of them have failed to do so: some have at tended some meetings, and some, whllo agreeing to stand together with those fleeted on the Republican and Municipal Ownership tickets, met separately and de cided to act separately. The Republican members have made every attempt to unite with those elected on the Republican-Municipal Ownership ticket, but the latter have declined to unite, and now stand alone. It was the understanding at the meet ing that the vote of the Republican mem bers indorsing Mr. "VVadsworth was not binding on them. Despite the fact that the statement was made that the Municip-1 Ownership As semblymen v. Ill not unite with tho Re publicans, an effort will be made to e ure universal support for Mr. Agnew if he will consent to run. lIiATT IS TAKING XO HAND Caring for Health and Watching Contest With Equanimity. A ASHINGTON. Dec 23. (Sjeclal.') Senator Tliomas C. Piatt arrived here this evening, accomiwnicd by his wife, and an nounces that ho will leave Tucsdav for Hot Springs. Va., and that he expects to be absent until the middlo of January. He says that he Is taking no part in the contest In his own state, and that he docs not expect to discuss the situation with the President. He declares that his health Is of more account to him than political contests, and that he has reached that point In life where ho can enjoy his ease and look with equanimity on the po lalral struggles about him. WADSWORTH STIL.Ii CONFIDENT Goes to Washington, but Not to Sec President Roosevelt. WASHINGTON, Dec. 23. James Wadsworth. Jr.. of New York, candidate for Speaker of the Assembly of his state, arrh-ed In Washington tonight to spend the holidays with Mrs. Wadsworth. who Is visiting her mother. Mrs. John Hay. Speaking of tho campaign for the Speak ership. Mr. Wadsworth said that he ex pected to win. but could not add any thing Interesting to the situation beyond what is already known. "Mr. Morrltt says he is In the race to sta. and perhaps he is," continued he. ' I have no appointment to meet the President and do not know whether I shall sec him or not." -MERKITT ATTACKS GOVERNOR He Also Alludes to Presidential In terference in State. NEW YORK. Dec. 23. E. A. Merritt, Jr candidate for tho nomination for Speaker of the New York State Assem bly, made. a public statement tonight In which ho said that "In the face of the repeated demands for their resignation or removal, by people and parties of all sorts, tlie Governor has continued to ex tend over Francis Hendricks, the Super intendent of Insurance: Frederick D. KU burn. State Superintendent of Banks, and George W. AJdridge. State Railroad Commissioner, tho necessary protection of Ills official power. It U -not to be wondered at that they should cleave to the Governor," said Mr. Merritt. "The President Is said to be out for Wadsworth. If so, he Is taking a part which Is not the first case of Presiden tial interference Jn the politics of the state. Such Interference has heretofore resulted In disaster to the Republican party of the state. "The conference held here yesterday, consisting of all the leading members of the assembly and about half of the Re publican members-elect, by their ex pressions of opinion show clearly that the action of the Governor is most dis tasteful to every man who has had any real legislative experience. For all dis agreeable consequences no one can be held responsible except the Governor and his kitchen cabinet, who have forced a false and unnatural situation." WILL ALLOW GAGE TO LIE Roosevelt Will Not Offend by Forc ing Bishop's Confirmation. WASHINGTON. Dec. 23. (Speclal.)-If the Senate purposes waging warfare against the President. It will discover the Chief Executive eager to offer conciliation up to a certain point. This was made manifest today by the announcement from the White House that J. B. Bishop, of New York, secretary of the Panama Ca nal Commission, recently nominated to fill a vacancy on the commission, will not be permitted to exercise the function of a 'Commissioner until his nomination has been confirmed by the Senate. Although a warm personal friend of the President. Mr. Bishop hag assumed that his defense of the President and his Secretary of War from the severe criticism directed against him In both branches of Congress meant that the Executive purposed making an issue of him, even if in doing so he of fended the Senate, which Just before the holiday recess was Inclined to view Bish op's nomination somewhat in the light of an affront. Mr. Bishop announced yesterday that he would at once perform the duties of his new office. Additional significance Is attached to this from the fact that the commission Is understood to be about evenly divided on the question of a lock and a sea-level canal, and the vote of the new member might affect the Anal decis ion. Tho President, however, will give Congress no occasion to complain upon this score, for, after the conference at the White House today. Mr. Bishop an nounced that he was not serving as Com missioner and would not do so until his confirmation. He Is continuing to act as secretary. It was made clear by a number of Sena tors before they departed for their homes ,that Bishop's nomination would not bo re ported to the Senate until the committee on Interoceanlc canals has received as surances from the White House and from tho Secretary of War that Bishop was not to occupy the dual position of Com missioner and secretary. The Senate will not listen to the former New York editor receiving a salary of 510,000. The mem bers of the appropriation committee point to Mr. Bishop's testimony before them recently to show that he has very little specific knowledge of canal work. McCIclIan's Majority Reduced. NEW YORK. Dec. 23. (SpeciaL)-Offl-clal returns of the vote for Mayor were completed tonight by accountants, who worked all day at the City Hall to com plete tho work before Christmas. Chair man Doull announced that he would not give out the figures before Tuesday. The returns show that McClellan received about 300 votes less than he was credited with in the police returns. This would reduce his majority over Hearst to about WOO. The certificate of election will be Issued Tuesday. DEFIES THE PRESIDENT BAXTER REFUSES TO RESIGN WHEN DEMAND COMES. VHiraska District Attorney Charged With Dereliction of Duty Defies Attempt at Removal. OMAHA. Neb.. Dec. 23. (Special.) United States District Attorney Bax ter, whoso resignation was requested by President Roosevelt two weeks ago, haa defied the President to remove him from office. In a letter to a member of the Nebraska delegation In Washing ton, he announced that he had no in tention of complying with the Presi dent's request. He states that ho will not resign at the present Juncture. Tho Information that the resignation of Mr. Baxter had been requested was made public a few days after the an nouncement that United States Mar shal Matthews would be dismissed, but it was understood that the request had" been In tho hands of Mr. Baxter for over a week at that time. The contest Is an outcome of the light sentunco pronounced by Judge Munger on W. G. Comstock and Bart lett Richards, wealthy cattlemen, who pleaded guilty to charges of Illegal fencing of public land In Nebraska. The action of the court was severely criticised by Secretary Hitchcock, who. It was understood, had the support of the President. The Secretary declared a fine of 5300 and six hours' Imprison ment entirely inadequate In vlew of the fact that the Government had ex pended thousands of dollars and years of time In working up the cases. Marshal Matthews was dismissed on the ground that, when tho defendants.' were sentenced to six hours' Imprison ment in his custody, ho permitted them to spend their time with their own at torney at a local club. Baxter was cen sured for not Insisting on a more se ver penalty and generally that nls prosecution of the land cases had been perfunctory. B1GEL0W PAYS IN CHECKS Bankrupt Makes Five Per Cent Div idends on Debts. MILWAUKEE. Wis.. Dec 23. (Spe cial.) Forty-three checks, aggregating 3107.KS.45. were mailed by the Wisconsin Trust Company, trustee for Frank G. Bigelow. bankrupt. In payment of a S per cent dividend of claims against Bige low. which was ordered by Referee in Bankruptcy John S. Maxwell last week. The largest check was received by the First National Bank. The bank's claim against Bigelow is S1.5S5,3SU1. and a check for $79,269.23 was received. The smallest check was for 30 cents, repre senting a dividend on claim for J5 filed by W. W. Hellengenthal for repairs lo BIgelow's harness, Tasgart Wants His Boys. WOOSTER. O.. Dec. 23. (Special.)-Attorneys for Captain E. F. Taggart decid ed tonight that an effort to bring the Taggart boys back to Wayne County Is to be made at once. Judge Eason said to. night that the case Is ended. "The matter of contempt may go to the Circuit Court on error," he continued. The custody of the children remains un changed. My decree has not been modi fled, and the only technicality which would prevent exercise of the authority of this court over the children is the ap peal of that part of the case governing the children to the Circuit Court." S It TRUST II MAN? Courts Will Decide Rules of Testimony. CASES IN PREPARATION Roosevelt Suggests That Attorneys Find Whether or Not a Corpora tion Can Refuse to Give Evi- ' dence During Trials. WASHINGTON. Dec 25. (Special.) Upon suggestion of President Roosevelt, the right of a corporation to refuse to testify on the ground that it cannot be forced to incriminate Itself is to be tested by the Government. The Department of Justice Is understood to have under prep aration cases that are aimed to thorough ly determine the rights and Immunity of corporations. The decision will be of the utmost Importance, for If It is held that a corporation is not entitled to tho immu nity granted in individual cases, the legal pathway of the Government in Its gigan tic fight against the trusts will be cleared of an obstacle that at all times has hin dered and often prevents a trial in court on the cases presented. A well-known au thority said today: "The Supreme Court has already held that a corporation Is a person within tho meaning of the Hih amendment, where it protect persons from taking the property without due process of law. What they may decide as to this larger question is uncertain. In a day when the greatest business Is done In corporate guise, the argument Is strongly pressed that the safeguard of individual liberty ought not to be extended to the artificial person, which, after all, is merely the creature of the state. It is literally mak ing a creature above the power of the creator." FAVORS THE IIOME-3IAKER.- President Commends Wilson's Policy With Grazing land. WASHINGTON, Dec 23.-Pres!dent Roosevelt, in a letter addressed to Sec retary Wilson, of the Department of Ag riculture, on the subject of fees for graz ing horses and cattle In the National forest reserves, upholds the Secretary in the regulations formulated by him and which will become effective January 1, whereby certain rules are laid down for the granting of grazing permits. The communication is thi result of a protest sent to the President by cattlemen from one of the Western States and is based on a report by Mr. Wilson, to whom the Potest was referred. The letter of the President follows: I hare rrceli-ed yottr letter of December TO. I eordUlly approve of the roller yea m cxr rytac on. Our effort U to keep the crazier land in the forest rtrxrem for the taw of the trtoclanen. and crrprcUUy the rautll Keck men who Actually live la the neighborhood of the rerves. To prevent the waste and de rtructlon of the reserves and lo keep tbm ma that they can be permanently ued by the stoelcmen no less than br the pebHe. you haw to jpend a certain amount of money. Part ef thla money li to be obtained by charging a small fee for each head of stock pastured oa the reserve. Leos than a third f th actual raise ef the sraxin? is at present charged, mad it is. ct court, perfectly obvious that the man who pasture hU stock should pay something for the preservation of that pasture. lie sets all the benefit of the paMure and be pars for its use but a small fraction of the value that It is to htm. and this money is In reality returned to htm because it in used in keeping the forest reserve permanently available for ute. Tou this year make a rpedil reduction by which the ranchmen pay but half rates. This is In accordance with the steady policy of jour department as regards the Western Ian. whlh is to favor in every way the actua: settler, the actual horse maker, the man who himself tills the soil or himself rears and cares for hi Email herd of cattle. In grant ing grazing permits you giro preference first to the small, rear-by owners; after that to all regular occupants of the reserve range, and flnailr to the owners of transient stock. Tats is exactly as it should be. The rmal. near-by owners arc the bemesteaden. the men who are making homes for themselves by the labor of their hands, the men who have en tered to possess the land and to bring up their children thereon. The other regular oeeu pant of the reserve range, that Is. the larger ranch owners, are only entitled to come after the smaller men. If. after bese have been admitted. thre still remains an ample pas turage, then the owners of transient stock, the men who drive the tramp herd or tramp flocks hither and thither, should be admitted. These men have so permanent abode, do but little to build up the land and are not to be favored at the expenee of the regular occu pants, large or icnall. This system prevents the grass from being eaten out by other herds or flocks of nonresidents, for only enough cat tle and sheep are admitted upon the reserves to fatten upon the pasturage, without dam aging It In other words, under the policy yea har adopted, the forest reserves are to be ued as among the raon potent influences in favor of the actual homemaker. ef the man with a tew dozen or few score head of catlfo which he haa gathered by his own Industry and is himself caring for. Thla Is the kind of man upon whom the foundation of our citizenship rest, and it la eminently proper to favor him la every way. - BIU..S FIOOD CONGRESS. Thousands of Measures Arc Awaiting Action or the Session. WASHINGTON, Dec 2S. (Special.) Although Congress adjourned tor a two weeks holiday, the filing forces of both branches will secure very little rest in that time. They are far be hind In their wrk and will not, for two weeks, be able to clear their tables for the Incoming rush after thcrrecess. In the House tho number of bills Is close to 10.000. House members have introduced an average of about 20 bills each, while Senators have brought forth considerably more per capita, and the total is almost 12.000. Two thirds, or thereabouts, of all measures introduced arc private and claim bills, and about 000 pension claims have gone to the invalid pension committee of the House alone. Friday is pension day in the House, except when the rule is suspended by agreement In order to allow other matters to be considered. It Is figured that If all the Fridays remaining in an average session should be devoted to this busi ness. It would be necessary to pass 280 of these bills per day to clear the docket. Of measures of general concern about 1500 bills have been introduced in the House and 1300 in the Senate. Of these about 200 arc for public ap propriations. CANADIANS SEIZE TATLER. Gloucester Fishing SclKxincr Did Not Pay License Fee. ST. JOHNS. N. F.. Dec 23. An Inter change of cablegrams respecting the alleged seizure of an American herring fishing vessel by the Newfoundland authorities has developed the fact that the vessel meant was the Gloucester fishing schooner Tatlcr, . which was seized at Sydney. N. W. F.. a week ago by Canadian authorities for ship ping Newfoundland fishermen there to engage In the herring Industry in the Bay of Islands without paying the Canadian license fee. Previous to this year tho Canadian government regard ed the herring vessels as traders and exacted no license fee, but Secretary Root having recently declared that an American shipping register carried with It a fishing certificate, Canada decided to compel the payment of a license fee. The Newfoundland au thorities are not responsible for this development at all. DEPAItT3rEXT FEELS -CONCERN Grave Situation In China Is "Realized by Politicians. WASHINGTON. Dec 22.-(SpcciaL There Is grave concern in the State De partment over the Chinese situation and the concern Is deepening day by day. The statements following the Shanghai riots lo the effect that the State Department officials were not infected with the ex citement that prevailed In the European capitals over the matter were true only lq one sense. The excitement has been kept under control, but anxiety and ap prehension are present and the gravity of the situation I? only emphasized by the attempt of the officials to hide their feelings. China Is being much discussed by the American stale authorities to the exclu sion for the present of everything else. It is known that there Is a maw of In formation touching the rapid spread of Chlneso hatred for foreigners in the pos session of the department which It has not seen fit to make public. The officials have certain knowledge that while the rioters have directed their assaults im partially against all foreigners of white skins, the Inciters of the riots liave made a special mark of the Americans'. It Is not so much for the Immediate present that Secretary Root fears as It Is for the future. The mere matter of a trade treaty with China has sunk Into insignificance In face of the fear that at any moment further demonstrations may be made against for- GRAND DCKK BOWS. WHO IS SAID TO HAVE DRAWN HIS SWORD tTON THE CZAR. J Grand Dcke Boris. wb is reported ts hare drawn his sword upon the Czar and the Czar's brother. Michael, at the pa la co of Tzarakoe-Selo In a family quarrel laat wek. and to bare been peremptorily ordered out of Iluisia In co&sequcnee. Is the dUsipated and un ruly oa or the Grand Duke Vladimir, and nephew ef the Czar. His visit to thla country two years ago. and several incidents In which variety actresses figured, are well remembered, not at all to his credit. He also figured In another disgraceful incident at the front during the war-with Japan; he had been ent out far duty, and had takn with him a retinue of dissolute character! from St. Petersburg, with whom he was committing all eorta of debaucheries. "When reproached by General Kuropalkln. he is said to have drawn his swerd oa the commander, in-chief. If he did not actually strike him. Boris is one ef the Grand Dukes whom the Czar bold responsible for the conditions In Russia today. elgners In other parts of the empire, as the news of the Shanghai rioti" spreads. The State Department has not failed to note that Japanese resident of China, who arc foreigners as far as the Chinese government Is concerned, have been free from molestation. In this they see an other significant thing, and in view of the events of the recent past. It Is be lieved in Washington that a real foreign demonstration against China for the pres ervation of the rights of Americans and others would be met with more than the mere verbal objection of Japan. New Commander of Kcarsarge. PHILADELPHIA. Dec 23. The com mand of the battleship Kearsarge. now stationed at League Island Navy-Yard, was today transferred from Captain Ray mond P. Rogers to Captain Herbert Wlns low. Captain Rogers has been ordered to shore duty at Washington, his two year term of sea service having expired. Navy In Hurry for Officers. WASHINGTON, Dec. 22. The Navy De partment has decided upon February 12 as the day for the graduation class of 1&C3 at the Naval Academy. The reason for tho graduation of tho cadets In advance has been tho pressing need of officers, and If this condition still prevails. It may require tho graduation of the next class In February. 1S07. Fairbanks Entertains Hi Icy. WASHINGTON. Dec 22. Vice-President Fairbanks entertained at dinner to night James Whitcomb Riley and the members of tho Gridiron Club. SEARCH FOR MURDERERS Mexican Authorities Detain Persons Connected With Diaz Tragedy. EL PASO. Tex- Dec 23. It was learned today that the Mexican au thorities at Santa Rasalla have de tained all possible persons connected In any way with the murders of Ruth erford and Murray, who were murdered last week near Diaz. Mexico. Mrs. Sophie Rutherford, wife .of the dead Philadelphia man. Is among the num ber, and It is understood that the au thorities are endeavoring to learn from her something of the feeling that existed between her husband and O. B. FInstad. who was arrested yester day. Louis G. Gougbener. who also was wounded In the attack on Fln stad's home. Is understood to be under surveillance in the hospital. AccHsed of Producing Sliaw's Play. NEW YORK. Dec 21 Arnold Daly, the actor, was held in Jl&J ball in the Tombs Police Court today, charged with riving an Immoral perforasaace ta presenting George Bernard Shaw's ptey. "Mrs. War ren's Profeaatea." INN UNDER RUE Editor of Fads and Fancies Is Grilled. MEMORY IS DEFECTIVE Assistant District Attorney Osboarne Drags Out Story of Business Methods In Publishing tho $1500 Book of Society. NEW YORK. Dec 23. (Special.) Under scathing cross-examination to day. Colonel Mann, editor of Town Topics, who accuses Peter F. Collier and his son. proprietors of Collier's Weekly, and Norman Hapgood. the ed itorial writer, of criminal libel, told of his business relations with Robert A. Irving, who was arrested last week on a charge of attempted blackmail growing out of the -Fads and Fancies' scheme- Colonel Mann was a reluctant witness and continually answered questions with I can't remember." The lawyer brought out tlje admission that Mrs. Huntington's subscription had been made in fwo payments of 33000 each In cash. "l didn't get a dollar of It." de clared Colonel Mann, under fire of questions. "It was turned Into Town Topics." "Did you not tell the reporters that you had a cartload of scandals that would blow up New York if they were printed?" "As near as I can recall." answered Mann. "I said that cartloads of scandal ous matter were coming into my office-, which I never used." Colonel Mann admitted Irving had obtained most of the subscriptions to "Fads and Fancies." receiving a com mission of 15 per cent, which may have amounted In the aggregate to 315,000. He declared that he could not remem ber having given Irving letters of in troduction to Grover Cleveland and Frederick Gebhart. and he denied he had made statements about William IC, Alfred C. and Reginald Vanderbilt. "Did you get the Vanderbilts as sub scribers?" demanded Assistant District Attorney James O- W. Osborne. Colonel Mann again protested that he could not remember, whereupon the lawyer ordered him to produce his list, Coionel Mann opened a copy of "Fads and Fancies." "Did you regard these contracts and receipts as proper safeguards?" Again a long wrangle followed, but Colonel Mann finally answered: "Yes; we did safeguard the public and I defy you to produce- anybody who can say that we did not fulfill our contracts." During the examination the contract was produced showing that Senator Depew had paid for "Fads and Fancies" 31500; Mr. Osborne, at the same mo ment, introduced a list from the Dis trict Attorney's office in which 32500 was set opposite Depew's name. He said Mr. Depew paid 31500 for two pages. "What Is "the lowest price for 'Fads and Fancies?" asked Osborne. "33000." "Did you not read your own 'master piece, asked Mr. Osborne. "I did not; I was too busy." replied Colonel Mann. "I never read 'Fads and Fancies' before and never shall again." "Oh. oh." said Mr. Osborne, laughing, "you charge 31500 for a book and then you do not think it worth reading. This question was objected to by counsel for Colonel Mann and was withdrawn with apologies. ije added: "Colonel, you must not make me laugh." SHAFT FOR FIRST MORMON Church Leaders Erect Monument In Joseph Smith's 3femory. SOUTH ROYALTON. Vt.. Dec 25. In memory of Joseph Smith. Jr., founder of the Mormon faith, a monument which had been erected on the site of his birth place was dedicated today. The memor ial Is located In the town of Sharon, three miles from this village, where In a little farmhouse Joseph Smith was born 100 years ago on December 24. 1S05. President Joseph Smith and a party of about 50 of ficials of the Mormon Church and repre sentatives of the Smith family were pres ent from Salt Lake Tho exercises wero held in a memorial cottage near the mon ument. Brief addresses were delivered by sev eral of the Mormon officials, and Presi dent Smith offered a dedicatory prayer. The monument was unveiled by Miss Ab- ble Wells, daughter of Julian F. Wells, a prominent Utah Mormon, with whom the project of erecting the memorial orig inatcd. The monument Is of dark granite, high ly polished. Its total height la K feet 2 Inches, and it is said to be the largest pol ished granite monument In the country. ALL MEETINGS FORBIDDEN Cossacks Drive People From Streets With Heavy Knouts. ST. PETERSBURG. Dec "3. Mid night.) Lato tonight, after an order had been Issued to the prefects forbidding meetings of any description, public or private, Cossacks and troops cleared the Nevsky and Moskala prospects and other thoroughfares. " In many places the Cossacks used their knouts freely, even on women. It is be lieved that a state of siege will be de clared In St. Petersburg tomorrow. Actors Have Christmas Tree. DENVER. Dec 23. Before his depar ture today from Denver. William F. Crane, the actor, prepared a pleasant surprise to be given the members of his company while en route to San Fran cisco, where they will open with "The. American Lord." on Monday night. Mr. Crane has arranged to have a decorated Christmas tree set up on board the train and on It will be hung presents for all the members of his party. With Mr. Crane In addition to his thteatrical com pany. ' are his wife and several friends. The party occupies two special cars on the Union Pacific's Overland Limited. Mme. Bernhardt Is Pleased. NEW YORK. Dec. 23. Madame Sarah Bernhardt, appearing In "La Sorclere." tonight closed her two weeks engagement at the Lyric Theater. The company will depart tomorrow afternoon for Syracuse, where a performance will be given Mon day night. Madame Bernhardt's managers today expressed themselves as being so well pleased over her successful tour that she will play a return engagement In New York in the Spring. The Saltan of Morocco owes hi "reil-or'n-ized array of 2O.09Q men. to which, in war time Irresulars coeld b UM. tkey to tbe Scotctunan. KxU Sir Harry Maeieaa, kt draws a salary f 3B.te a year. OUR GREAT REDUCTION SALE ! : 1 IS NOW ON : Garments to Order for Cost of I I Material and Making j Reducing Stock for Stock-Taking Suit and Extra Pants of Same I I or Striped Material to Order for $25 o Our high standard of Workmanship and Linings will be fully maintained during this sale Satisfaction Guaranteed In All Cases Garments to Order In a Day If Required. Full-Dress and Tuxedo Suits a Specialty. 108 Third Street SI:, An Eastern Shipper Appeals Against Rate on Rubber. TO COMMERCE COMMISSION All Hallroads Operating "West ot Chicago 3Iade Defendants in Suit Backed by United In terests of Country. WASHINGTON. Dec. 23. A complaint directed against railways operating west from Chicago and charging unreasonable and discriminatory rates on rubber tires for bicycles and vehicles was filed -with the Interstate Commerce Commission to day by the FIske Rubber Company, of Chlcopee. Mass. SPRINGFIELD. Mas?.. Dec. 21 The complaint Is directed against the Atchison. Topeka fc Santa Fe Railway Company, the Chicago Sc Northwestern Railway Com pany, the Chicago, Burlington & Qulncy Railway Company, the Chicago, Milwau kee &. St. Paul Railway Company., the Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific Railway Company, the Colorado Midlands Railway Company, the Denver Sc Rio Grande Rail way Company, the Great Northern Rail way Company, the Missouri Pacific Rail way Company, the Oregon Railroad & Navigation Company, the Oregon Short Line Railroad, the Southern Pacific Railroad Company and the Wisconsin Cen tral Railway Company. This complaint is one of seven distinct charges, and Is based on the ground that the charges on rubber tires In the terri tory through which the defendant compa nies operate Is excessive. The excessive charges are chiefly due to classification. In the Southern territory rubber tires are carried as first-class material, while in the territory in which the defendant companies operate a rate of two and two and one-half times the rate of first-class material Is charged, according as to whether the tires are inflated or deflated. This rate makes the charge on less than carload lots in tho territory operated in by the defendant railroad companies in excess of the express charges to the same points. The action taken by the FIske company Is not in any way connected with the present railway rate regulation agi tation, and its complaint Is in the clas sification of rubber tires In general. While the FIske Rubber Company is the com plainant in this case, practically all the rubber Interests In the country are in terested, and are in sympathy with the movement and are parties to this action. The complaint filed by the FIske com pany Is made with a view of bringing the matter before a public tribunal, there to discuss whether or not the rates at pres ent charged are excessive. CARS MEET BROADSIDE ON Ten Persons "Received Injuries In Accident at Los Angeles. L03 ANGELES. CaL. Dec. 23. Ten per sons were more or less seriously Injured in a broadside collision of two street-cars at Long Beach avenue and Twenty-second street this evening. A. car on the Long Beach branch line crashed Into an Ascot Park car. The following are among the Injured: D. Gattone. Internal injuries. ' Mrs. MUton Kin?. Comptoa: badly cut about head and Internal Injuries. H. A. Albee. Upland: hip dislocated. Henry Winter, badly cut on bead. Mrs. H. B. Fullmer, internally injured and badly bruised. Henry "Winter was hurled through a win dow o the Ascot Park car. Xo Consumptives in Schools. CHICAGO. Dec 23. The school medical committee of the Board of education yes terday took a hand in the fight to stamp out tuberculosis In Chicago and to pre vent its spread In the public schoolrooms by adopting, without a dissenting vote, a resolution calling for the appointment' of a cotufAittee to wraf t a rule providing ex clusion frees the ;Mic schools of all vic tims of the disease. Tke eamniKtee was alee empowered to OREGON HQ SEMIANNUAL prepare a plan for the medical examina tion of all "susplcjous" pupils, with a view to determine whether or not they should be denied admission to the school room. Tuberculosis was held to be as Infectious as smallpox, scarlet fever or diphtheria. ' NOBEL PRIZE WINNERS. Rewards for Those "Who Have Been of Aid to Humanity. New York World. The Nobel prizes, founded with his vast fortune by Alfred Nobel, the inventor of dynamite, to reward each year those who have most aided humanity by scientific or medical research, by Idealistic literature, and by the promotion of peace, have been assigned this year to Thtllpp Lesnard. Kiel University, for re searches Into cathode rays; Adolph von Uaeyer, Munich University, for researches In organic chemistry; Prof. Koch, of Berlin, for researches de signed to promote the prevention and cura of tuberculosis; Henrylc Slenklewlcz. whose trilogy of llsh historical novels is a lesson In patriotism. BAroness Berthe von Suttner, of Vienna, for her labors and writings In the cavae of Interna tional yeace. The World here adds the names of all who have received the Nobel prizes since their foundation until the present year: ll01 Roetgen. X-rays; Van t Hoff, physic ist; Von Behrlng. developer of antitoxin for dlptheria; Sully-Prudhomme. poet; Henry Du nant. founder of the Bed Cross; Frederic Pay. writer on oeace. 1002 Lorenr and Zeeman. physicists; Fis cher, Investigator of uric acid: Major Bos:, ma laria Investigator; Mommsen, historian; Prof, de Martens, who visited this country with the Russian peace envoys. 1003 Becqucrel. of the Becquerel rays; M. and Mme. Curie, linden of radium; Arr henlus. Swedish chemist; Flnsen. discoverer of Fl risen rays; BJorsen, poet; W. H. Cremer, M. P.. of the London Arbitrator. IfKH Baron Raylelgh. British Royal Insti tution; Sir William Ramsey; Prof. Pavloff, St. Petersburg Military Academy of Med!- jrlne; Frederic Mistral. Provencal poet, and Jose Bchegaray. Spanish dramatist. Already the lengthening list is becoming an International upper house of the truly great men of Europe the men whosa achievements dwarf the deeds of warriors and the petty contrivances of ordinary statesmanship. Habit-forming Medicines. "Whatever may be tho fact as to many ef tb so-calied. patent medkaces eon taining injnrfoos InKrediente as broadly pabifaoed in some Jo-ama,! of mors or leas Influence, this publicity has certainly been of great beoe&t in arousing needed attention to this subject, It has, ia a considerable measure, resetted lit tha most intelligent people avoiding sock foods aod medicines as may be fahHy sus pected of eontalntog the Injurious mgre dlects complained of. Becognizing this fact srsae time ago. Dr. Pierce, of Buffalo, H. T-, "toolc time br the foreJcck,- as It were, and ptxbHsbed broadcast all tha ingredients of which his popular medi cines ore coTsposcd. Thai he has com- rtlo4nW f ru-oA tall eA nit i9.vniTMr i-Htii-c nA- I all opposition that might otherwise b arged against nis medicines, Decaase tney are now or rxow ooMPoamoK. Further-acre, from the formula printed oa every bottio wrapper, it will be seen tha these medicines contain no alcohol or other habit-forming drags. Neither do they cob tain any narcotics or lajackHari agents, their ingredients bdng porelr vegetable, extracted from the roots of ; medicinal plants found growing in tbj aeptns oi our American iorwu anu oi well recognized curative virtues. Instead of alcohol, which even ia small portions long continued, as in cbstinate cases of diseases, becomes highly objec tionable from its tendency to produce a eraving for stimulants, Dr. Fierce env ploys chemically pure, triple -refined glycerine, which of Itself is a valuable remedy in many cases of chronic diseases, being a superior demulcent, antiseptic, antifermont and supporting nutritive. It enhances the curative action of ta Golden Seal root. Stone root, Black Cherrybark and Bloodroot, contained in Golden Medical Discovery,'' in all bron chial, throat and lung affections attended with severe congas. As will be seen from the writings of the eminent Drs. Grover Coc, of New York; Barthokw, of Jeffer son Medical College, Phila.; Scu cider, o( Cincinnati; ElHngwood, of Chicago r Hale, of Chicago, and others, who staaa as leaders ia their several schools of practice, the foregoing agents are the very beZ Ingredients that Dr. Pierce eoold have chosen to make up his fa meas "Discovery" for the care of Hot esly breach al, throat and tear aJFee tfoas, bet abo of chreic catarrh hi aM ias varieas farms wherever fee ted. i 1