THE SUNDAY OREGOXIAN. PORTLAND. OCTOBER 20, 1907.
EVERY OFFICER HAS HEM
GERMAN LIBEti SUIT SHEDS
LIGHT OX AFRICA.
Man Accused of Outrages Defends
Himself by Saying He Acts Ac
cording to Custom. .
BERLIN. Oct. 19. (Special.) It would
be hard to Imagine a more curious com
mentary on the German colonial scandalB
of last year, and the events which led up
to the dissolution of the Reichstag, than
the libel action of Roeren againsj
Schmidt, the hearing .of w-lch was con
cluded recently at Cologne., The parlia
mentary storms of last December reached
their climax with a series of charges
made In the Chamber by the leader of the
Center, Herr Roeren, who at the time oc
cupied a high position on the judicial
bench, against Georg Schmidt, a former
chief administrative official at Atakpame,
In Togoland.
According to the Catholic deputy,
Schmidt, who was at the moment in the
gallery of the House, had displayed in
his office the manners and morals of a
negro potentate. Of him it was said that
he signalized his arrival at the station by
having tt announced by the public crier
that all the gtrlB of the neighborhood
were to assemble that night for a dance,
which. It was suggested, was a kind of
corybantlc orgle, and that the mothers of
all who failed to put In an appearance
would have to pay a fine of twenty
marks.
He had ordered forty elderly natives to
be flogged for refusing to work at the
fenclng-ln of a tree which it was his de
sire to preserve. A native chieftain,
named Kukowlna. who, on beha.f of him
self and other headsmen, had dared to
complain to the Governor of Schmidt's
arbitrary and Illegal actions, had been
summoned before the station chief and
thrown into prison. A notorious pro
curess, named Ssisagbe, whom Schmidt
had chosen as a mistress, had been ele
vated by him to the rank of queen, en
dowed with powers of summary Jurisdic
tion, 'and invested with a sword, as the
symbol of her office. He had kept a har
em of immature girls, which, according
to native ideas, was a capital ofTence,
and of them, a. certain Abdjao, he had
flogged with a horsewhip. Finally,
he had ciused the personnel of the Cath
olic mission, with whom he had come into
acute conflict through his excesses, to be
dragged out of their beds at dead of
night and imprisoned Hill a peremptory
message came from the Governor, Herr
Horn, ordering their release.
It was to this speech that Herr Dern
burg replied by accusing Herr Roeren of
having attempted to influence .the pro
ceedings then pending against the colonial
official Wlstuba. and so came about the
struggle between the Government and
the Clericals, ending with the dissolution
and a mot d'ordre against the Center.
Bchmldt at once challenged Herr Roeren
lo cast off the Immunity which hedges
words spoken In the Legislature, and to
repeat outside Us walls the accusations
which he had brought forward. The
Catholic leader responded by hinting
that the Colonial official should seek
exculpation In disciplinary proceedings,
which were understood to have been
Instituted against him. Schmidt had,
however, meanwhile retired from the
service of the state, and was no longer
subject to Its disciplinary provisions,
but he took the step of publishing an
open letter. In which he charged his
adversary with having misused his po-
sitlon in the Reichstag to utter what
' he knew to be baseless calumnies, and
with being no longer worthy to occupy
the position of Judge.
Herr Roeren's answer to this was to
.enter an action of libel, the hearing
of which has Just concluded. Judg
ment has been reserved, but the evl
idence given has already" raised the
proceedings to the first rank among
political causes celebres. for not only
has It produced a number of extra
ordinary vignettes of German Colonial
life, but It has aroused something
more than a "strong suspicion that
Herr Dernburg's specific indictment
anrl the wild attack on the Center
which followed it were. under the
mildest interpretation, based on misap
prehension. The witnesses examined were chief
ly German Colonial officers, who were
nearly all on the side of Schmidt, and
the Fathers of the Catholic Mission
at Atakpame, who were unanimous
against him. The evidence showed that
Schmidt had at least three black
wives, and one witness deposed that
everywhere he went he met black
women who 'claimed to be wives of
Schmidt. Schmidt admitted that he
maintained a harem, but he said It
was the custom of the country, and
all of the German officials and officers
had black wives; in fact, there were
no other women in the colony.
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Scotch Interested in Politics.
GLASGOW. Oct. 19. (Special. ) An emi-
HEILIG
THEATER
14th and Washington
Phone Main l
Begins Tonight 8:15
Continues Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday Nights. Special Price Matinee
Wednesday ' - ,
The Big Musical Record-Breaker
JOS. M. GAITES PRESENTS
JOHN L. KEARNEY
In Richard Carle's Musical Triumph
THE MAYOR
...60...
PEOPLE
-OF-
TOKIO
...60...
PEOPLE
The Same Original Production
The Famous Peanut Ballet
The Blue Ribbon Chorus
An Army of Funsters
EVENING PRICES.
Lower floor, except last 3 rows. $1. SO
Lower floor, last 3 rows 1.00
Balcony, flret 4 rows 1.00
Balcony, last 10 rows 73
Entire gallery .10
Boxes 10 00
SPECIAL MATINEE PRICES.
Entire lower floor 91.00
Balcony, ft rat 4 rows - .75
Balcony, last 10 rows.........
Entire gallery -..
Seats Selling at Theater.
. Phone Main L
UT7TT T THEATER
. 1 1 "IT 14th and Washington
r-B- Phone Main It
Saturday NIGHTS
October Special Price -25-26
Matinee Saturday
The Comedy Triumph of Two Continents
A. MESSAGE
FROM MARS
as played v
Three Years in London Two Years in New York
Carefully Selected Cast Including
The English Comedian
Mr. Wallace Widdecombe
Evening Prices
Lower floor, except last S rows. $1.50
Lower floor, last 3 rows - 1.0O
Balcony, A rat a rows . 1.00
Balcony.. next 5 rows.... 75
Balcony. lat 5 rows B0
Gallery, reserved, 86c; balance. . .215
Boxes 10.00
Special Price Saturday
Matinee
Kntlre lower floor I'.I.Sl.OO
Balcony, .first 4 rows....:.
Balcony, last 10 rows 50
iallery. reserved .- .85
Balance gallery 25
rent Cabinet Minister, who Is spending
his holiday In Scotland, writes to a friend
In London that tremendous Interest is be
ing taken In the forthcoming meeting at
Edinburgh, which Is to be addressed by
the Prime Minister, Sir Henry Campbell.
Bannerman.
There Is, he says, an unprecedented de
mand for tickets from all parts of Scot
land. "When Scotsmen play up In this style,"
he adds, "it means business, the funeral
(political) of Rosebery, among other
things. We must bury the corpse In the
Autumn. 'Real spade work,' this."
FIGHTING FOR PURE MILK
Montclalr Health Board Declares
AVar on Local Trust.
MONTCLA1R, N. J., Oct. 15. The
most important forward move yet un
dertaken by any municipality In this
country has been made by the Board
of Health of this town In ordering the
exclusion of all milk that comes from
herds that are not proved free from
tuberculosis.
This action is based upon the dem
onstrations of Dr. E. C. Schroeder and
lr. John V. Mnhler, of the Bureau of
MOUNTED:
Broadsword Contest
For Championship of the World
Carl Nelson
. vs. .
Major J.A.McGuire
TODAY
(SUNDAY)
RAIN OR SHINE
Baseball Grounds, Twenty-fourth and Vaughn Sts.
Admission, SOc.
THE RINGLER SCHOOL OF PHYSICAL CULTURE
Departments of (1) Physical Training, (2) Swimming, (3) Dancing,
(4) Dramatic Expression.
Eight instructors. Complete courses. Class and private lessons
daily. A select, high-grade school. Department of Dramatic Ex
pression under the instruction of Mrs. Walter W. Bruce. Visitors
cordially invited to inspect the new quarters of the East Side Athletic
Club, the finest in the West. The Healy Building, Grand avenue and
Morrison street. M. M. RINGLER,
Phones : East 5670, B 1003. Director.
Animal Industry of the Federal De
partment of Agriculture. These ex
perts have demonstrated the , lnf ect
lveness of milk from tuberculous ?ows
and the probability of all milk from
untested herds containing the germs
that convey consumption to men, wom
en and children.
Acting upon these proofs " of the
common cause of tuberculosis, the Fed
eral Government has urgently recom
mended the pasteurization of all milk
from untested herds.
Six months ago the Montclalr Health
Board warned a big company that has
been bitterly opposing pasteurization
that If It wished to continue to sell Its
milk raw It would have to certify that
the cows supplying the milk had been
tested with tuberculin and proved free
from the disease.
The certificates offered have been
unsatisfactory, superficial examina
tions being relied upon In many cases
Instead of the Infallible tuberculin test
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Thursday
Evening
October
Heilig
Theater
MME.
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G
O
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D
A
Seat Sale
Opens
Tuesday Oct. 22
PRICES
Lower Floor, $2.50; Balcony,
$1.50 and $1.00; Gallery: Re
served $1.00, gallery admission
75c; Boxes, $15.00.
Baker Theater
George L. Baker, General Manager ,
Telephone Main Two
PORTLAND'S FASHIONABLE POPULAR - PRICED PLAYHOUSE.
HOME OF THE INCOMPARABLE BAKER STOCK COMPANY.
All Week day Matinee Today Oct. 20
Lorimer Stoddard's Dramatization
of F. Marion Crawford's Famous
Historical Novel
- A .
Romance
of Old
Spain
In the Palace
of the King...
Lavish in Rich Costume and Scenic Mounting
A Grand, Magnificent Production . -
at ropuiar rrices
EVENINGS 25c, 35c, 50c. MATINEES 15c, 25c
Stage Direction William Bernard. . Matinee Saturday.
NEXT WEEK DIPLOMACY
THEATER
EMPIRES
MILTON W. SEAMAN, MANAGER
PLAYING ONLY THE STAIR-HAVUN EASTERN ROAD ATTRACTIONS
Morrison S 12th Sts.
ONE MAIN 117
'All This Week First Performance
Today Matinee Sunday, .October 20tii, 1907
W. F. Mann Presents the BreezyWestern Play
THE
cowpuNoe
By Hal Reid.
329 Consecutive Nights in New York, Chicago and the East.
A thrilling story about an Arizona Cowboy.
T .. A WESTERN PLAY WORTH WHILE.
Matinees SundayvWednesday and Saturday.
Night Prices 15c, 25c, 35c, SOc. Matinees 10c, 20c.
Next Attraction THORNS AND ORANGE BLOSSOMS
and so Montclalr ha9 ordered the milk,
from- these herds excluded from the
town.
The action of the health board has
been precipitated by the declared In
tention of the milk; trust to fight both
pasteurization and the enforced test
ing of cows with tuberculin.
The urgency of the peril of tuber
culous milk was demonstrated last
week by the discovery that there were
32 tuberculous cows in the model, cer
tified herd kept by the City of New
York on Randall's Island to supply
milk for the city's waifs. This discov
ery led the city's charities commis
sioner, Hebberd, to substitute ' for the
certified milk of this herd pasteurized
milk, which has been used at all the
other city institutions.
Quakers to Meet in 1912. .
RICHMOND. Ind., Oct. 19. The five
years' meeting of Krlends In 1812 will
MAIL ORDERS
-From Portland and oat of town are
now being received. Regular box of
fice sale opens next Wednesday. Mall
orders will be filled and returned be
fore box office opens next Wednesday-
,
For
The World's Greatest
LADY VIOLINIST
MAUD
POWE
LL
, V Recital at .
HEILIG
THEATER
Friday Afternoon
' Oct. 25
" o'clock'. '
PRICES
. Lower floor, first 10 rows SI. SO
Ixwer floor, last 6 rows 1.00
Balcony, first 9 rows 1.00
Balcony, last S rows 75
Gnllpry (reserved) .75
Admission AO
Boxes . , 10.00
HOW TO ORDER SEATS
Address letters and make check
or money orders payable to Heltlg
Theater.
PIANO RECITAL
BEATRICE DIERKE
OCT. 29th, 8: IS P.M.
Murlark Hall, Washington and 23rd Streets
Admission, $1.00
Tickets on sale at Graves & Co, Eilers Piano House and
Box Office
be held In either Indianapolis or Rich
mond. Members of the board of legis
lation at today's session include O. R.
Bray and Jesse Dawred. of Oresron:
John Chawner and Dr. W. B. Coffin, of
California,
eGRAND
VAUDEVILLE DE LUXE
Week of Monday, Oct. 21
A BILL OF BIG
HEADLINE ACTS
Joseph M. Wood Presents
JESSIE MAE LLOYD
The Petite Singing and Dancing
. Comedienne, with
CHARLES WOOD, .
Phenomenal Male Soprano.
8 SINGING AND
DANCING C0MEDIANS--8
Special Added Feature,
THE FOUR McNALLYS
America's Greatest Wire and
Acrobatic Act.
JOE BILLY
PALMER & SAXTON
Two Sons of the Ghetto.
GEORGE LAVENDER
Talkologue.
FONII BONI BROS.
European Vocalists and Bell Im
itators. "
THE WHITESIDES
Presenting Their Own Comedy
Creation, "Nonsense."
JOE THOMPSON
Rendering the Latest Eastern
Hit.
TWENTIETH CENTURY
MOTION PICTURES
"Stage-Struck." '
Three Shows Doily at 2:80, 7:80, Stiff.
PRICES:
KveDlna and Kundar and Holiday
Matinees, Iff and 25 Cents.
Weekday Matinees, lse to all Seats.
Coming Not. 4 May Tohe, formerly
Lady Frances Hope.
T ARQUAM
JL-T B Portland s Famous Theater. (Telephone Main 6)
GRAND
Five Nights, Commencing rPllficrIcl r Oof 99
(Matinee Wednesday, Saturday) X LJ.t'OU.iX V V-L. bhJ
.Hoot MonI Hold on Everybody
Return Engagement
The San Francisco Opera Go.
Presenting
Frank Daniel's Greatest Success
THE IDOL'!
EYE
Every Song a Gem Every Line a Scream
Be on hand to greet Alda Hemml, Maude Beatty, Daphne
Pollard, Lillian Raymond, Arthur Cunningham, Eugens
Weiner, William Blaldell,' George Kunkel and the Califor
nia Beauty Chorus of near-prlnclpala.
Evening 25c, 50c and 75c. Matinees 25c and 50c.
THE STAR
TELEPHONES: X Mx fJSS
SUNDAY MATINEE, October 20, '07
For the Entire
Week
THE R. E. FRENCH STOCK COMPANY
Presents the Stirring Melodrama
in five acts
In the Shadow
o! the Gallows"
By Miss Lilian Mortimer
TIME AND PRICES
Mn tin em Sundays, Tuesday Thursdays and Saturdays, at 230. 10
and 20 rents. Kvery evening at 8:15. lil, 25 and 3.1 rents.
Secure reserved seats by either phone. Season seats may be had by
application at box office.
LYRIC THEATER
Main 4685 Both Phones Home A 1026
WEEK COMMENCING MONDAY, OCT. 21
THE LYRIC STOCK CO.
PRESENTS
That Thrilling Melodrama
"BEACON
LIGHTS"
Matinees Tuesday, Thursday, Saturday and
Sunday. Prices 10c and 20c.
Every evening at 8:15. Prices T5c, 25c and
35c; Boxes 50c.
Box office open from 10 A. M. to 10 P. M.
Order seats by both phones.
Week of
October 21
PANTAGES
Fourth and
Stark Sts.
Best Family Theater
J. A. Johnson, Resident Manager
ADVANCED VAUDEVILLE
Stars of All Nations
Una Clayton 6 Co.
"What's in a Name"
Big Eastern success
Miss Hardie Langdon
Commedienne
Jean Wilson
Illustrated Song
Two Big Features
Georg'e Thatcher
The famous minstrel
and Monologist
and 1
The Keller Troupe
of
Cycling Acrobats
headed by Jessie
Keller
The two most ex
pensive Acts ever
put on one Bill in
Portland
The Janson Company
Illusionists
The Blograph
Latest Pictures
Guy Smithley
Funmaker
Pantages Orchestra (evenings) . . . Direction H. K. Evenson
Performances Daily at 2:30, 7:30 and 9 P. M.
Admission to Gallery and Balcony 15c. Lower Floor 25c.
Boxes 25c.
Any. seat at weekday matinees for FIFTEEN CENTS
The 20th century fund of the Free Meth
odist Church In Knjrland has now reached
the sum of over fSOO.OOO, while the silver
wedding fund of the same church amounts
to more than 150.000.
Many French vineyards are likely to be
turned Into rose gardens. The perfume fac
tories pay $60t per kilogramme of pure es
sence of ropes and ,the demand ts greater
than the supply.