The Sunday Oregonian. (Portland, Ore.) 1881-current, January 05, 1908, SECTION THREE, Image 30

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Newspaper Page Text8 THE SUNDAY OREGONIAN. PORTLAND, JANUARY 5, I90S. HEW TYPE-OF CUB . TO BE TRIED HERE President Josselyn Considers Putting on the "Pay-as You-Enter" Kind. ' ITS ADVANTAGES ARE MANY Iessens Liability of Accidents, Re duces Time Lost by Stops, Pre- , vents Disputes Over Fares and Saves Money tor Company. Streetcars, where the passengers pay fares the moment they enter, similar to the arrangement at a theater or other amusement place, are likely to replace cars operated on Portland streets. President Josselyn has this type of car under consideration and it is probable they will be brought here after a time and put in service. The "pay-as-you-enter" car, as the new type is called, is so arranged that there is an entrance at the rear of the car for passengers and an exit at the rear also, divided from the entrance door by a brass rail. As passengers get on the car they confront the con ductor, who admits them as soon as they pay their fare.- Instead of the usual five-foot platform, the new car has one of seven or nine feet, and in stead of one door in the end of the car. there are two doors and a railing leading from the step and dividing the platform into two passages. The door to the left is for persons entering the car, while the door to the right is for exit only.- If desired, the entrance door may open only, outward, while the exit door opens outward. Some cars are arranged so that passengers may en ter at the rear end of the car, where they pay fare, and leave the car at the front end. Advantages of the new car are said to be numerous. Among these is the absence of any chance for the frequent disputes between conductor and. passen ger as to whether the latter has paid his fare. The fact that he is Inside the car is prima facie evidence that lie has paid. Neither are passengers annoyed by the conductor walking up and-down the aisle to get fan. In view of the fact that the greater number of accidents occur at the back platform while the conductor Is Inside collecting fares, and are occasioned by the conductor being too far away to sec whether the passenger has gotten on or off safely before giving the sig nal to the motorman to go ahead, the fact that the conductor need not leave his post at the rear end and could de vote his entire attention to the move ment of passengers in and out during stops, would minimize injuries to pas sengers who are thrown by a too sud den starting of cars. The saving of time is said to be a highly satisfactory feature of the new cars for passengers who desire to en ter the cars need not wait until others have alighted. Stopping time is re duced nearly one-half, it is said, by the new method. One feature that appeals to the com pany is that there need be no missing fares with the new car in service. Under the present system the most vigilant conductor will occasionally overlook a passenger and the thoroughness with which he works his car Is largely a matter of memory. At the same time one conductor can handle any size of car without the least trouble, and the main point Is that he can devote almost his entire time and attention to the operation of the car. The propsed change in the collection of fares on streetcars Is but the ap plication of the ""positive" system. In use on elevated trains and subways In the big cities, where passengers must pay before entering the cars. The "pay-as-you-enter" cars have been put in service in Montreal, Canada, where they are said to have met with general favor. Montreal Is a city of 400.000 people, where the prob lem of handling crowds on streetcars, particularly in the business district, was a hard one. The new type of car has had a severe test In that city but has met the requirements. It has been decided to try the new car In many of the big Eastern cities and President Josselyn will, undoubtedly, put the new system In effect here If the car works as well in the East as Is expected. MR. M'CAMANT EXPLAINS About His Legal Services to Title Guarantee A Trust Co. PORTLAND. Jan. 4. (To the Editor.V In a news report published in this morn ing's Oregonlan on the affairs of the Title Guarantee and Trust Company, I notice the following statement: The lecal buslnew of adjusting the bank's affair, preparatory to the failure, was per formed by Wallace McCamant. between Oc tober 28 and November 2. For that service the xpceo account was chanted with $10(10 on November 2. and this sum was credited on McOmant'a $3tiOO note to the bank. This made McCamant a favored creditor for $1000. This statement Is In error in several important particulars. The facts are that at the time when the holiday season be gan. October 29 last, the Title Guarantee & Trust Company was Indebted to me on two accounts for services rendered. One of these accounts was for some Impor tant litigation which I had In hand for the Title Company and for which I have not yet presented a bill; the other was for service In some, other matters which I had rendered a number f weeks prior to that time, and for which I had ex pected to present a bill on the 1st of November. I took this matter up with Mr. , Ross October 31, and received a credit of J1000 on my Indebtedness to the Title Company In exchange for a receipt In full for the services rendered. It is true that on the morning of- Oc tober 30 I was summoned into conference by Mr. Ross and conferred with him about a number of matters from that time until the receiver took possession of the bank, but I did this as & friend and not as an attorney. I told the officers of the Title Company at the time, and have since told the present receiver that I had no bill to present for the services rendered at that time and In that con nection. I am sorry that Mr. Ross should receive any criticism at this time by reason of any transaction to which I was a party, but I am unable to see that the above transaction justifies any criticism what ever. I owed the Title Company on a note, and the Title Company owed me for services which had been rendered weeks before. - If action had been brought upon the note either by the Title Com pany or by the receiver, under the law of counter-claim in this state. I would have been entitled to set off my account against my note. This account for serv ices rendered stood in identically the same situation as my deposit with the Title Company, and this deposit has since been applied by the present receiver on this same note. I . am unable to see that I received anything to which I was not entitled, nor do I desire to be treated differently, or accorded any favors, which are not granted to other debtors of this institution. If I am in error in my view as above stated, there is a plain remedy, and the receiver will doubtless do his duty. WALLACE M'CAMANT. PENSIONS ARE GRANTED Bureau Sends Notice to Represent ative Ellis, of Oregon. OREGONIAN NEWS BUREAU, .Wash ington, Jan. 4. The Pension Bureau to day sent notice to Representative Ellis that the following Oregronians had been allowed pensions under the act of February 6, 1907: James D. Sheets, Freewater; John W Willis. Pendleton : James Hays, Enterprise; Henry C. Warneld, Dufur; David J. Hora man, St. John; Jonas Dailey, Wallowa; Marshall W. Shanklin. Unity; Edwin tt. Beach, Lexington; James B. Clarke, Home-, stead; James M. Thomas, The Dalles; John G. Bleakney.; Bakeoven; Coleman D. Winn, Weston; WTilttaker O. Mettur, Helix; Wil liam K. Haviland, Portland; Oscar F. Bot kin. Mount Tabor, and George B. Bradbury, Walter F. Lewis. Sherrod W. Reece,- Ber nard Keeney, of Portland; W. J. Kingsland. Perry; Ludwlg McKruger, Mosler; John E. Trigg. Woodstock; Ollva C. Rinker. Milton; Marlon Mink ley, Prlneville; Julius J. East man, Clatskanle ; Thomas C- Shreve, Port land (Mount Tabor), and Jane E. Patterson, Samuel L. Lum, of Portland; Moses Austin, Flora; James A. Beeler, Warren; John W River, Mount Tabor; Thomas B. Ienslow, Veronia; Albert B. Porter; Henry Mossie, T'klah; James Lemlson, The Dalles; John H. Wood, Bend; William H. Morgan. Port land; Anthony Cannon, Arleta; William R. Chattin. Summerville; Patrick Kelley. Ru dolph Freeburphouse. Portland; Isaiah Fan hier. Baker City; Engene S. Knapp, Sum merville; John Gordon, Wamtc; Mrs. Mar garet Cavanaugh, Portland ; Phillip T. Knowles, Dufur; Schuyler Rue, Friends; Henry W, Rogers, Summerville; William Matheral, Astoria; James Wright, La Grande: William D. Baxter, Huntington; Asa Cobb, James Wat kins, James McDon- ough, James H. Balor, Newton Clark, Har rison E. Kozen, Jesse F. Anderson. Charles A. Malarkey, David Bomgardner and Jeptha Finney, of Portland. ADDRESS BEFORE Y. M. C. A. Last of Portland's Kojal Family Will Speak Today. At the T. M. C. A. Chape this aft ernoon the Meneley quartet will give the opening: concert, beginning: at 3 o'clock. They will sing a variety of amusing, pathetic and sacred songs. Mr. Richetts, an impersonator of rare ability, and a member of the quartet, will give a reading. . Immediately fol lowing the concert. Colonel John Sobleski, the last of the royal house of Poland, will give the address of the afternoon. Colonel Sobleski and his mother are exiles from Russia, where his father was executed and he robbed of. his rightful succession to the throne of Poland. He is an old man now and has had more than his share of sor row and disappointment, but for many years has traveled in English-speaking countries, spreading his gospel of sun shine and good cheer. After the address there will be an open parliament for the discussion of social, problems In the times of Jesus and today. . The programme will close at 6:15 o'clock with luncheon and sing ing. Test Low Rates. COLUMBUS, S. C, Jan. 4. President W. W. Finley, of the Southern Rail way, yesterday gave out on official statement announcing a voluntary re duction in passenger rates in South Carolina to be kept in effect for 12 months to ascertain whether they are confiscatory or unreasonably low for the service rendered. QUENTIN I Mrxxi if l;ri P l I? xc -C' 7 t "5 I. "., tmrr' ' '."in 'i nihil ! P VSJ;- ' Quenttn Roosevelt. j K - V X, . "111 3 f ' . v f,; " till I i . - , i I y , - 4t '" -- . , . ; . ... l ll i Miss Grace Oolvin. l.lttle Grace Colvln. the daughter of a Washington lettercarrler, avers that Quentln Boosevelt, although he Is a nice boy and can do many tricks the other boys don't know, is not the only schoolmate from whom she received a Christ ma gift. 6he got some 30 altogether. Since the President's youngest son was found t her home one day when his failure to arrive home caused secret serv ice men to start out in search of htm. Grace has become known In Washington as the girl that has won Quentln." She Is one of the most popular girls at her school. Quentln has been a -visitor at her home for two years, and her parents have attached no more Importance to h'is friendship for her than to that of a dozen other boys who are among her playmates, she is 12 years old and has large, expressive brown eyes .and dark brown hair. LEOPOLD SHREWD -IN -CONGO POLICY Spent Large Sum in Develop ment and Now Will Reap the Reward. . STANDS BY BERLIN TREATY Belgian King Deeds Richest , Part of Congo, Producing Great Revenue to Company Com posed of His Friends. BRUSSELS. Jan. 4. (Special.) The King of the Belgians, Leopold II, and his relations with the Congo Free State, are so much In the public mind, and there seems to be, generally speak ing, such an indistinct comprehension of those relations, that it may serve a useful purpose at the present mo ment, when the question of annexa tion of the Congo by Belgium is being discussed by the Parliament of the lit tle neutral kingdom,- to state the facts conected with the birth of the Congo State, and how King Leopold came to be its soverign. In 1876 Leopold II, on his own propo sition, in conjunction with the repre sentatives of the principal European powers, founded an international asso ciation, for the civilization of Central Africa and the abolition of the slave trade. Henry M. Stanley having ex plored a large portion of the Congo River, the King, who was justly recog nized as the prime mover of the time in the great African enterprise, re quested that explorer to undertake tho establishment of hospital stations along the banks, to open up a road to facilitate communication between the interior of the country and the Gulf of Guinea. The Congo, as a dis tinct state, had, at that time, no definite existence. After six years of heroic effort and an enormous sacrifice of men and- money. Stanley accomplished the mission, and Leopold II found the funds necessary for the carrying on of the work. Whence he obtained those funds is another matter, but it is certain that his private purse was drawn upon to a considerable extent. Origin or Berlin Act... . In. 1884, .France and Portugal, be lieving that their respective possess sions in the neighborhood of the Congo might be menaced a3 the result of Leopold's enterprises,- called the atten tion of the great powers to the situa tion, with the result that the afore mentioned association was dissolved and a conference of the powers sum moned for the following year at Berlin. It was at that conference that the now famous Berlin act was signed.. Under it, liberty of commerce was formally and specifically provided for through out Central Africa, France was grant ed a portion of the territory on the right bank of the Congo, while Portu gal obtained that part of the left bank at the mouth of the river. The whole of the remainder of the Con go Basin was declared to form the "In dependent State of the Congo." Leopold II, recognized as its principal developer, was appointed to control it, and with the ROOSEVELT AND HIS "BEST GIRL." consent of the Belgian Parliament His Majesty assumed the title of Sovereign of the Congo Free State. The Congo State was, under this arrrangement, connected with Belgium only by reason of the fact that the King of the Belgians was Sov ereign of the State, that he governed it through an Administration in Brussels which corresponded with the officials of State on African soil. Such, then, were the beginnings of the Congo State, and as such the state has gone on existing ever since. And It is only now. after 22 years of administration by King Leopold, that a proposal to make the State a Belgian colony has taken shape. That proposal is the result partly of the charges against the King-Sovereign and his officials of misgoverning, maladministering, and failing to suppress abuses in the Congo, and partly of a be lief which has got abroad, but which is unwarranted, that King Leopold desired Belgium to take over the Congo as her colony.- - People abroad know enough, thanks to the Congo Reform Association and the missionaries, about the mlsgov ernment and abuses, but about the Bel gian aspect of the annexation question very little is known. The fact is that the King has yet to express his desire for an nexation. No Thought of Annexation. True, both in 1889, in a letter to the then Premier-Minister Beernaert, and In 1901, in a letter to M. Woeste. who occupied the same post then. His Majesty had in timated that he should bequeath his rights in the Congo to Belgium at the day of his death. But those Intimations clear ly contained no thought of Belgium an nexing the State during the King's life time. Moreover, in his letter of June, 1906, addressed to his Secretaries of State for the Congo His Majesty made it abun dantly clear that he neither expected nor desired annexation during his lifetime. To carry on his Congo enterprises. King Leopold has, from time to time during the last 20 years, through his Brussels Administration, raised loans in exchange for Congo bonds and such like paper. Most of these loans have been effected In Belgium, and this fact, added to the con sideration that numbers of Belgians have given the best years of their lives to the service of the Congo State, forms one of the principal arguments of those who op pose annexation on the ground that it would involve Belgium in heavy and pos sibly unknown liabilities. While It is true that millions of Belgian money have been Invested In the Congo at the call of the King. -It is also undeniable that His Majesty has had a practically free hand In the government of the Free State. He had a hard, uphill struggle to make the Congo pay; now that he has succeeded in doing so. he declares pretty plainly that, in spite of the complaints and claims of Great Britain and other powers, he means to profit by the work of his own hands, to take full advantage of the rights and powers conferred on him by the Berlin Act. The Domalne de la Couronne, of which so much has been heard of late, comprises one-sixth part of the Congo Free State. Its resources belong to the King-Sovereign: and a decree das signed granting the exploitation of the greater portion to a private company, whose di rectors are, for the most part, intimate friends of Leopold II. The Domalne de la Couronne is nearly ten times as large- as Belgium, and, ac cording to no less an authority than M. Cattler, the value of Its rubebr produce alone averages $17,500,000 per annum, and even, according to Comte de Smet de Naaycr, one of the strongest sup porters of the King-sovereign, the revenue is a little more than half that sum. What becomes of this revenue? Just what the King pleases. The Free State does not get a cent from it. Yet. in the face of these facts, the King-sovereign has placed this source of revenue f on, Belgium's future colony be yond her reach -by. handing over these revenues to a private company for all time. There can be no doubt, in view of the statutes of the new company, that it can do exactly as it pleases with the Do maine. Under these circumstances It is not easy to see what remains to Belgium after the decree of July 21, 1907, of a Do maine which the King declared to be "In- -CM dispensable" to her. Those who have fol lowed His Majesty's career will give him credit for knowing better than any man how to run his own business. The documents containing the condi tions on which the Belgian Parliament is invited to decide whether it will accept the treaty of cession are now published. They consist, in the first place, of the report of the plenipotentiaries commis sioned to draw up the treaty a master piece of special pleading, covering 96 pages; and, in the second place, the an nexes referred to in the treaty, consisting of 201 pages of decrees and statistics in very small type. It is clear, therefore, that a full appreciation of the contents must be a matter of several days. Most of the information to be derived from the decrees has never before been published, though their contents have been suspected; hence the whole thing partakes of the nature of a bombshell, the arrival of which proves even worse than was expected by those who have been anxiously watching its approach. Estate Goes to Harvard. NEWPORT. R. I.. Jan. 4. It has been learned that Harvard University Is the residuary ' legatee under the will of Frederick Sheldon, who left an estate valued at several hundred thousand dol lars. The estate is made a trust under the will, the income to be paid to Mr. Sheldon's wife during her life and after wards to Mrs. Sheldon's sister and. her daughter. On their death the entire es tate reverts to Harvard. J 1 Inspects Cazadero Plant. As guests of General Manager Ful ler, of the Portland Railway, Light Power Company, the Portland Circle of the American Society of Civil Engineers were taken to -Cazadero yesterday by special car. The party numbered about 30. The members of the excursion in spected the electric power plant at Cazadero that generates a large part of the power used In this city. In these days of numerous Clearance Sales it is hard for some people to distinguish the genuine from the other kind. The goods we offer at reduced prices are the best that money can buy not the kind often found at Clearance Sales. Included in this sale are all Suits and Coats and Wearables for Women and Children. Household Necessities Priced Low- Blankets 10- 4 White Wool Blan kets, regular $5 value, special S3.55 11- 4 White Wool Blan kets, regular f6 value, special S3.90 11-4 White Wool Blan kets, regular J7 value, special. . 84.55 11-4 Gray Wool B!an- kets. regular $7 value, special f 4.55 Comforters 72x90 Maish Comfort el s, sllkoline covers, regular to value, spe cial S3.65 72x90 Heavy Sateen Maish Comforters, regular $4 -value, spe cial S3.05 72x78 Heavy Comfort ers, fancy tops, regu lar $3 value, special.... 82. 10 Rugs " n b I a Velvet Rosa O r i e n tal and floral patterns, 27x54 inches; regular $2.50; special. .$1.15 Coral Bath Ruf . Washable, non - fade able, red, blue, green patterns: regular $1.5); special. SO Eastern Outfitting Co. The Store Where Your Credit Is Good Washington and Tenth Streets E3: EDWARD AS FARMER King Is Enthusiastic Breeder of Livestock. HAS WON MANY PRIZES By Maintaining Two Model Estates, Sovereign Has Improved Methods and Advanced the Standard of Both Horses and Cattle. LONDON, Dec' 28. King " Edward is England's foremost agriculturist. As a breeder of pure breeds of livestock the King follows the example of his pre decessors during a great number of reigns. His success is shown by the list of his more important prizes taken in the year 1907: Royal Agricultural Show Two first prizes for shorthorns. Bath and West Gold medal and prizes for shorthorns, first prize for Southdown rani lambs. Norwich Fat Cattle Show Two first prizes for shorthorns, one first prize for pen, of Southdown lambs. Birmingham Fat Stock Show First prize for shorthorn steer, first "prize for Southdown lambs. Manchester Dog Show Three - first prizes for Clumber spaniel bitches, one first for rough Bassett hounds. Lynn Canine Society First in novice class for smooth fox terriers. Jjondon Cattle , Show In Agricultural Hall First prize for Hereford heifer, first prize for shorthorn heifer, first and second with two Highland-bred steers sent from Sandrlngham, second for De von steer, second for Dexter steer, third for Hereford steer, third for shorthorn steer, third for Dexter steer. From an early time in English history the Kings and Queens of England have been more alive than the est of the community to the vast importance of maintaining pure breeds of livestock. The splendid shire horses which you may find bred on fen and Midland farms today draw their origin direct from the great horses for which Henry VIII set up breeding establishments in Lincolnshire and Cambridgeshire. This zeal for horses of all sorts, and often, of course, associated, as with the Georges, with a less useful Interest in hounds, began during last century to ex tend to cattle, sheep and other domestic animals, till today, when other depart ments of English agriculture have shrunk to miserable proportions, the King has helped to bring stockbreedlng up to an unapproachable level of perfection. He may be said to be more distinctly at the head of the industry than any King In history. As the Prince of Wales he supported an excellent model farm at Sandrlngham, and when the Queen died he succeeded to the similar farm at Windsor. Instead of surrendering one, as some feared, he de veloped both. Now the two are organ ized on the highest scientific principles, and the King is able to keep each for particular species: the cattle and heavy horses are best suited in Norfolk, and the sheep in Berkshire. The possession of two such splendid farms in parts of the country differing greatly in soil and climate gives the King an unequaled opportunity of en couraging the art of breeding In the most thorough fashion. It is no adventitious reason which gives spectators at the big shows, both in Summer and Winter, a su preme Interest in the King's exhibits. He is the first agriculturist In England. Among the great quantity of prizes won at national and local shows, both by the King and Queen, one may say that all have gone to animals which are to be judged, apart from the artificial points dear to the fancy, as true to a useful type. For example, dogs have suffered good deal from the application of false iiearamce Kobe Rujrs Beautiful light patterns, 27x36; regular $3.50 value: special 81,55 Axmlnster Door Rug Floral and Oriental patterns, 18x36 inches: regular S1.75; special.. 81. 10 Briiaselette Ruga 27x 54; regular $1 value; special SOtf Chinaware PLATES. J5.00 Plate 82. SO S3. 75 Plate 81.90 43.50 Plate.. 81.65 S3.25 Plate , 81.75 J3.00 Plate. 1.35 J2.75 Plate 81. 50 S2.50 Plate H1.40 $2.35 Plate 81. 25 $2.00 Plate 9aC $1.75 Plate 95 $1.50 Plate SO S1.25 Plate . TO $1.15 Plate 65t $1.0.1 Plate 55c $0.75 Plate 40 $3.50 Plate 30 $2.25 Chop Dish 81.25 chocolate: pots. $4.00 -Pot... 81.95 $8.75 Pot 81.90 $3.50 Pot 81.65 $3.25 Pot 81. TO CHOCOLATE SETS. $12.00 Set ...86.25 $10.00 Set 84.75 $9.00 Set. SS.OO standards. But it 'was no accident that at the national show the Queen showed dogs and won prizes only in two classes, one for Borrois and one for Bassetts. The Bassetts had been used for hunt ing, and were beautiful examples of the intelligent and keen-scented hunting dog. It Is true that their pace has vanished under specialization, and is now of the slowest, but the dogs possess In high de gree the cardinal qualities of the breed intelligence, docility and a keen nose. So. too, the Queen's Borzoi, one of the most beautiful dogs at the national show, was conspicuous for the lltheness and agility that the hunter especially desires in this Russian deerhound. . In sheep, the royal farm at .-ndsor is conspicuous for the breed of Southdowne. which have proved the most famous short-wboled sheep in the world since the breed was first brought to perfection by John Ellman in Sussex. Among horses the King has shown su preme Interest In the Shire horse, by far the most useful in all species in agricul ture. As an example of his personal In terest In the Shire it may be recalled that at the royal show at Lincoln this year he stopped his carriage and had a long talk with an American professor who had particularly observed the King's Shires during their tdur in America. PRAISE FOR OSWALD WEST Here Is One Man Who Commends Public Official's Act. SALEM, Jan. 2. (To the Editor.) I wish to express the opinion that as a member of the Railroad Commission Os wald West is the right man in the right place. As an Illustration of his quick ap preciation of the needs of shippers, his readiness to render assistance and his ef fectiveness in securing results. I may cite an Incident that came under my personal observation yesterday. A sheep buyer .had purchased 1100 sheep from the far mers of this vicinity and gathered them at Salem for shipment. They were load ed upon the cars in the afternoon ready to be taken to Portland on the freight due here at 5 o'clock x. It was then learned that the, freight was about 14 hours late. Those 1100 sheep were worth about $6000 and If left In the cars an extra 14 hours they would shrink in weight enough to reduce the value at least $400. The mat ter was called to the attention of Mr. West apd he Immediately went 'about getting relief for the shipper. The result was tnat the Southern Pacific took the 10 cars of sheep Into Portland last even ing in a special freight, thus saving the shipper the $400 he would have lost If the cars had been left standing here on the side track until 7 o'clock this morning. The Southern Pacific deserves credit for taking the- cars into Portland in a special freight, but since we know that the shipper could' not have induced the company to do that, we give Mr. West credit and wish to do so publicly. He acted promptly and effectively when he could more easily have told the shipper there was nothing he could do. 1 was not the shipper and have no direct Interest but like to see a competent official com mended. H. H. VANDBVORT. Willing: to Be' Sacrifice. LOS ANGELES, Cal.. Jan. 4. Friends of Frederick F. Wheeler, a capitalist of this city, have opened a correspondence campaign to secure for Mr. Wheeler the Prohibition nomination for President at Columbus, O., next July. Mr. Wheeler admits that be Is a passive candidate for the honor and will be glad to lead the Prohibitionists if called upon to do so. He Is a member of the Prohibition Na tional Committee and has been several times candidate for Congress and other offices. He was formerly a banker and merchant of Albany. N. T. Mr. Wheeler is quoted as saying that of course his party has no hope to win In the coming election, but that the one gTeat principle for which it stands is already winning all over the country. Mr. Wheeler is 48 years of age. E. W. Eckert, Pigeon Fancier. ALLENTOWN, Pa-, Jan. 4. George W. Eckert, known all over the world as the breeder of owl pigeons that have won the first prizes at shows in all parts of the country, died at his home today, aged 72 years. ' aie $7.50 Set...' 83.25 TANKARDS. $6.00 Tankard 82.85 $3.50 Tankard 81.80 53.25 Tankard 81.60 WATER AXD W1XE SETS. $10.M Set 85.75 JS.00 set 13.65 J7-00 Set S3.70 $4.00 Set 81. SO $1.50 Set. 65 SALAD SETS. Jf-00 Set 85.25 $S.50 Set 84.75 $6.75 Set 83.43 -5l Set. 82.60 BREAD AND BUTTER PLATES. $6.00 Set. half-dozen. ..82.95 $4.5) Set. half-dozen. . -82.15 SUGAR AXD CREAMER. $3.75 Set. 81.45 $2.75 Set. 81.55 $2.60 Set. 81.35 $2.00 Set 95 $1.75 Set. 81.40 TEA SETS. Three-Flece. $5.50 Set 82. SO $4.00 Set. 82.00 $2.50 Set 81.40 CUPS AXD SAUCERS. Half Ooica. $7.50 Set 83.95 $6.00 Set 83.40 TANKARD SETS. $16.50 Utopian Ware... 88.75 GARIBALDI FAMILY IN ROW FAMOUS ITALIANS TAKE TROC. BLES TO COURT. Refused Admittance to His Father's House, General Brings Suit to Evict Stepmother. ROME, Jan. 4. (Special.) The Gar!--baldi family are engaged in a ve-' squalid dispute. General Garibaldi mar ried twice, and the second wife, who has survived him. has quarreled with his children by the first wife because she in sisted on keeping the ancestral home at Caprer8. The other day General Ric ciotto Garibaldi went with his wife to the Island and proposed to pay a visit to the room where his father died. When he arrived, however, he found the door shut in his face, and he received an intima tion from Mrs. Garibaldi, senior, that if he attempted to come in he would be ejected by force. The General thereupon collected a num ber of people as witnesses and again de manded admission with the same result as before. He next lodged a complaint at the police station preparatory to the com mencement of a suit to have Mrs. Gari baldi evicted from his father's bouse and the house taken over by the country as a national monument. This suit will bring to light the financial squabbles of the Garibaldi family, which will not be very edifying. A hostile press has teemed of late with suggestions that recent encyclicals, espe cially that dealing with modernism, were Inspired by the cardinal secretary of state or other influences. These persistent re ports having reached the ears of the Pope, he has caused a statement to be Issued denying them absolutely, and caus ing it to be known that these documents were due entirely to his own initiative. BOXERS WRECK MISSIONS Enraged at Sew Taxes Smuggling Arms Into China. SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 4.-C. Polhill, an English missionary, who has spent 20 years in China, and who arrived yester day on the liner Nippon Maru. says that shortly before he left his station at Kai Tsien, in the Province of Szehuan, a place about 1500 miles from Shanghai, the Boxers had caused considerable alarm to the foreign residents. The imposition of a heavy school tax and a heavier tax on opium had aroused the Boxers to anger, and started them on a wrecking I rampage. No lives were lost In the out break, but five buildings belonging to the Protestant and Catholic missions were destroyed before the authorities suc ceeded in quelling the riots. Mr. Polhill is on his way to London. He expects trouble all over China before many months. That small arms in large 'quantities have been smuggled into the Interior of China from this city has come to the notice of the imperial consul at this port. Sun Sze Yee. The information came in the form of an official notice from Vice roy Chang, of Canton. An influential Chinese of Napa. Cal.. named Lee Ming Fai, was arrested in that city with a trunkload of small arms and copious ammunition for the same in his posses sion. He was set free because of his age and the influence behind him. An edict was issued shortly afterward by the Viceroy making it a capital of fense to Import weapons of any kind into the interior of China. Notices con cerning the fdlct are posted In the local Chinatown, and Chinese leaving here for home are warned against taking arms with them. The edict Is to guard against the possibility of the Boxers being equipped and armed for another out break. ADMINISTRATOR'S SALE. 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