4 TIIE SUNDAY OREGOXIAX, PORTLAND, ArRIL, 2C. 1908.
Hon. Richmond Pearson Hobson to Lecture
Congressman From Alabama Will Speak at the Heilig on "The National Defense."
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PRIDAY evening:. May 1, at' the
Hellig Theater, Fourteenth and
Washington streets. Captain Richmond
Pearson Hobson, Congressman from
Alabama, will deliver a lecture on
""National Defense." This will prove
to be a most interesting and timely
ubject, coming as it does on .May 1,
the anniversary of Admiral Dewey's
victory in Manila Bay, and the pres
ence of the big fleet of war ships in
the Pacific. Captain Hobson endeared
himself to the American public the day
he and tliree of his men sank the col
lier Merrimae In Santiago Bay and
bottled up the Spanish warships for a
time. Captain Hobson is the champion
In the present Congress at Washington
for a larcer navy; his speeches on the
ubject the past two months have
stamped him as an orator, of which both
thn Ktate of Aliibama and the entire
Navy can be proud. This brilliant
younjr m;in has had actual experience
In war and is no doubt one of the most
dIh authorities on the question in this
country.
Captain Hobson was overwhelmingly
elected Presidential Elector-at-Iarg-e In
Alabama In 1904, and was one of the
three men Invited to address the Demo
cratic Convention In St. Louis.
These Invitations, as Is well known,
are given only for high attainment in
statesmanship and oratory. He was
last year elected to Congress from the
Sixth District of Alabama, having
made perhaps the most phenomenal
compalgn in the history of the State
for thn nomination, defeating; his
predecessor, who had held the seat for
20 years and' who is such a strong
politician that after being defeated by
Captain Hobson in the district, he de
feated six candidates to fill the next
vacancy in the United States Senate
from Alabama. . .
In Captain Hobson's canvass In the
general election last Fall, the Repub
licans In the district, who are strong
in three counties, united with the Dem
ocrats in giving him the largest vote
received by any Congressman from
Alabama, a vote that ran far ahead of
the district.
He is a type of youniar manhood that
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POPE SMOKES CIGARETTES
AND OF THE IXFIDKli TURKISH
VAIUKTY, TOO.
"I'H to Tliia Time I Han Been tn
nhlei to Christianize Tlicm,"
SHJ 9 Hs Holiness.
MADRID, April 18. Saintly as he 1,
th Poe is very li'uman, even jorular,
tvIich it so pleases him. The Bishop
of Accqui, who has just returned from
visit to the sovereign pontiff tells
this anecdote with Intense enjoment:
The Tope asked the Bishop to dlno
TvltU him. Alter dinner his holiness
smoked R Turkish cigarette, to which
lie is pnrllal.
The Kishop, noticing the kind of to-bai-vo.
said:
"Does your holiness really smoke
Turkish cigarettes?"
"Yes. my dear friend." answered the
I'opo smiling. "l"p to this time I have
been unable to Christianize them."
"Other times, other jests," adds the
Bishop. In tellingr the story.
"A few hundred years ago the Pope
would have said, "X cannot Christianize
them, so 1 burn them. "
The good Bishop says, too. that the
Pope's sKsters wish to sell the old inn
at Rii-se. which they inherited from
their parents, and which lias been their
source of income (or years. The aged
women urged on tlicir brother that
tliey had ample means now to meet
their modest noeds.
But a stronger argument, aa they
thought, proved unconvincing. They
insisted that it ia undlgnltled for rela
tives of the Pope to be Innkeepers to
peasants.
But his holiness Informed them that
be disapproved of their purposo, say
ing: "Honest labor never has, never can,
disgrace any one."
The Kishop of Acequl presented to
the pontiff a coin of Tope Innocent IX.,
lated 1501. Even the Vatican's price,
less collection of coins lucked this rare
and valuable piece.
DR. NANSEN WILL RETIRE
Is to Holgn as Norwojrlan Minister
to Knjtlund.
LONDON. April r. (Special.) London
has probably seen the last of Dr.. Nansen
as KIitc Haakon's representative in this
country. The distinguished explorer left
recently for Norway and his retirement
from the ranks of diplomacy is definitely
decided on. It has been known for some
time past that he intended to resign office
as soon as a convenient opiortunity of
fered, and at the end of last year men
tion was even made of his probable suc
cessor. No one, however, has yet been
selected to take Dr. Nansen's place as
Norwixian Minister in London, and all
reports on the subject are entirely prema
tura. Norway is still new to her position as a
kingdom separated from Sweden, and has
not a large supply of trained diplomats.
Dr. Natieen himself had no previous ex
perience as a diplomatist, and with his
study Norwegian snse of independence
was in some respects decidedly uncon
ventional. On one occasion last year
when Queen Maud was visiting London
he was seen striding through the streets
towards Bucklnsham Palace attired in an
ordinary lounge suit and a small bowler
hat. and doubtless supremely unconscious
that there was anything in his costume
that might be unsuited to a royal audi
ence. But this unconventlonality only extend
ed to non-essentials. It Is no secret that
with Kinjf ldward Eur. Nansen was per
sona grata, and there will be general re
gret that he is ceasing to represent Nor
way in this country. It may not be gen
erally known that during the Winters he
has spent here the distinguished explorer
developed a great liking for foxhunting,
and rarely missed aa opportunity of fol
lowing the hounds.
BALLOON PARTIES NOW
English Society TalresTp Dangerous
Sport as a Fad.
LONDON, April 18. Country house
balloon parties are becoming fashion
able. Count DoJtremont. president of the
Belgian Aero Club, and Count Catlllon
do Paint Victor, one of the founders
of the Aero Club of France, have come
to Kngland to join a country house
ballooning party, given In Easter
week by Lord and Lady Langattock
for their son, the Hon. C. 8. Holls, at
their country seat, the Hendre, Mon
mouth, t
Four balloons have-been taken to
Monmouth for ascents In the neighborhood.
Oxford Is the larrftpt university in the
world. It has 21 colleges and five balls.
TralPftd falcons to carry dispatches in
time of war have been tested in the Rus
sian army. Thir sseed Is four times as
rapid as that oc carrier pigeons.
Is fast coming to control the politics
and destiny of America. He has be
come universally known as tbe leading
exponent of the movement to increase
the American Navy for the purpose, not
only of protecting our coasts and com
merce in foreign markets and Island
possessions, but also for maintaining
our peace and exerting a strong influ
ence In the Orient and the world gen
erally, for the peace of the world and
the extension of Institutions like those
we er-jpy; especially for building up an
International organization for peace
analagous to the organization wnicfc
would substitute peace for war in In
ternational affairs.
He has made over 1500 speeches, and
gone practically into every state and
territory in the Union; and In over S30
cities In 41 states the audiences have
unanimously adopted a resolution em
bodying the purpose of his lecture, giv
ing instructions in each case to the
Congressmen from the district Sena
tore from the state and President of
the United States. His work along this
line has been recognized by the great
Inter-Parliamentary Union, of which he
is now a member.
WAR ON RATS IN LONDON
DESTRUCTIVE RODENTS TO BE
FED OX DEADLY GERMS.
Result Will Bo Spreading of Fatal
Yyastlnj; Disease, Says Official
Vermin Exterminator.
LONDON, April 25. (Special.) The
great war on London rats has begun.
"One estimate of the damage done by
rata during the course of a year has pro
duced a total of $50,000,000. From ex
haustive observations, however, which I
have made throughout the country, I
should place the figure at tSO.OOO.OOO or
even $70,000,000. The reports of my travel
lers show, in fact, that only two indus
tries are really immune from these pests
those of the stone-mason and the iron
founder." The above observation was made by C.
A. Furu, who with his "rat exterminator"
last week commenced" a campaign to free
the London and India docks at Tilbury
from a veritable plague of rats. The
aamage aone oy rats at tne docks is e:
traordinaty. They gnaw through sacl
of grain and spill the contents; atta
bales of paper, hi which they tear ra
ged holes; and rip gaps in consignments
of cloth and other goods, rendering whole
lengths of material entirely valueless
There are Z7 sbeda at the London and
India docka, each of which stands upon
an acre of ground. An old man named
Lawrence, who for ten years endeavored
to check the Increasing horde of rats
by means of traps and various poisons,
calculates that burrowing under the floors
of each shed are at least 2000 rodents.
Upon this estimate, which Is considered a
conservative one. the rat population of
the docks is tl.OOO.
Experience has proved that each rat
does damage to tbe extent of at least
one farthing a day. Thos the rats at the
docks are responsible for nearly 3W
worth of damage a day. or, in round
figures, $13,000 a year. The remedy by
which it is hoped to exterminate this
rat army In a space of six months is
not in, tbe nature of a poison. Pota
toes are infected with a tasteless germ
particularly deadly to rats and mice,
and then placed 'in the rat runs. The
rats, after eating the potatoes, con
tract a wasting disease. This, in ad
dition to proving fatal at the end of
three or four days, is highly contag
ious to other rodents.
VH FOR 0L0 GUILLOTINE
HEADS OF THREE MURDERERS
IX GERMANY LOST.
Crooks Punished for Brutal Batch
. cry of Three Persons for Pur
poses of Robbery.
BERLIN. April 25. (Special.) The
guillotine Is still In use in Germany.
On the evening of July 19 last, five
Croat laborers asked for lodgings at
an Inn in the lltle hamlet of Durbuacb,
some miles east of Cologne. They
spent the evening playing cards with
the host and his wife, but when the
former was lighting tbem to their
rooms they set upon, him and killed
him. They then attacked the woman.
Who had retired to her room, and after
a fierce struggle, stabbed her tV death.
There remained yet another, inmate of
the house an old woman of 86 who
was butchered' in her bed.
The five miscreants then laid hands
on everything of value they conld find
In the honse annd decamped. All were,
fortunately, arrested and convicted.
One committed suicide in his cell and
a second, who Is at present under ob
servation in a lunatic asylum, was re
prieved and sentenced to penal servi
tude for life. The three others were
decapitated at I o'clock In the morn
ing last Friday.
The .executions were carried out
with an old guillotine, dating from the
time of the French administration on
the Rhine. Two of the doomed men
faced death without flinching, but the
third had to be forced onto the bas
cule, and only the fall of the knife put
an end to his screams of terror.
IRISH PEOPLE PLEASED
Blrrell'a National University Bill Is
Given General Support.
DUBLIN. April 25. (Special.) The peo
ple of Ireland are much pleased with Mr.
Blrrell's Irum university bill. The case
for the establishment of a university in
which Catholics will receive the same
facilities for higher education as are
already enjoyed, by their Protestant fellow-countrymen
has been proved again
and again to tbe satisfaction of all reason
able men of all parties. The only oppo
sition to -it springs from the bigotry of a
small faction who regard the fact that
Catholics In Ireland are deprived of the
opportunities of higher education as being
a fit and proper retribution upon them
for belonging to such a church.
Mr. Blrrell's scheme proposes to found
two new universities in Ireland, having
their seats at Dublin and Belfast, under
such names as might subsequently be
decided: The university in Belfast will
have but one college the Queen's College.
Dublin would have three constituent col
legesCork, Gal way and a new college
with a charter-Incorporated body In
Dublin itself. New charters would also
be required In Cork and Galway recon
structing the governing bodies of those
colleges. Neither university could add
to its constituent colleges, but would en
joy severely restricted powers of affilia
tion. The Royal University would be dis
solved; its building, property and endow
ments being dealt with In the bill; Its
$100,000 a year being divided between the
two new universities. There would be no
tests and no declaration by the profes
sors. Mr. Balfour gave his entire approval
to the schema, declaring that in his
opinion, speaking broadly, no better one
could have been devised.
"DEATH LEAP" WELL NAMED
FRENCH CIRCUS PERFORMER IS
KILLED IX 439TH FEAT.
Audience of 8000 Persona in Ber
lin Sees Gadbln Plunge 100
Feet to His Doom.
BERLIN, April 25. (Special.) A French
performer named Gadbin was killed here
before the eyes of 6000 spectators while
going through a daring performance known
as the "death leap" at the circus Busch.
Gadbln's performance consisted of leap
ing from the roof 100 feet in height to
an inclined, smoothly-planed shaft. After
landing on the shaft, be slid down into
a net at tbe bottom. The distance from
the point where the leap began to the
top of the Inclined shaft was 60 feet, and
the shaft was 40 feet in length. A suc
cessful performance of this feat neces
sitated leaping so skillfully to the shaft
that the body should bit the shaft lightly
and glide down the surface without severe
6hock.
The hazardous nature of the perform
ance was sufficiently indicated by the
title given to it. Gadbln himself under
stood thoroughly that the least deviation
from the proper course through midair
would inevitably result In his death. He
dived from the roof headlong, and poised
his body while shooting through the air
at such an angle that he alighted on
the shaft at exactly the same angle at
which the shaft was inclined, thereby
sliding down without further resistance.
This time, however, he failed to main
tain this poise and, struck the upper nd
of the shaft with his chest. He turned
a somersault and fell heavily to the
ground. Death ensued shortly afterwards.
The performance was stopped Immed
iately. Gadbin had performed his "death
leap" 43& times without mishap.
OPENS SPOKANE RESERVE
Senator Piles' Bill Likely to Be
come a Law.
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ORKOONIAN NEWS BUREAU, Wash
ington. April 00. It is- quite probable
that before the adjournment of Congress
the bill introduced in the Senate by Sena
tor Piles and in the House by Represent
ative Jones, authorizing the opening up
of the Spokane Indian reservation, will
become a law. The bill is heartily in
dorsed by the Secretary of the Interior,
who. In a letter to the committee on
Indian Affairs, sets forth his reasons for
approving the bill.
Last January the Secretary sent Spe
cial Agent Edgar A. Allen to the Spo
kane reservation to confer with the In
dians as to the form of legislation' de
sirable looking to the disposal of their
surplus land that is. what remains
after the allotments are all made. After
a month spent among the Indians, Mr.
Allen reported that the Indians are will
ing that the surplus lands along Cheme
kane Creek and Spokane River, suit
able for farming, shall be opened to
homestead entry, the tribe to be paid
for such lands at the rate of $5 per
acre. Sections 1 and 36 shall be
granted to the State of Washington
for school purposes, to be paid for by
the United States at the rate of $1.25
per acre.
The Indians wanted suitable lands
reserved for townsite purposes, the net
proceeds from the sale of town lots to
go to the Indians. They also asked
that the surplus timber land be re
served, and that they be permitted to
take such timber aa they needed for
fuel and for other domestic purposes,
and that they have the right to pas
ture their stock In the reserve for a
period of 25 years. The Indians are
to be reimbursed for the timber lands
surrendered by having placed to their ,
credit the gross receipts from the sale
of timber within the reserve for the
next 25 years.
These stipulations have all been in
serted in the bill now pending. There
will be available, after allotment, some
8000 acres of agricultural land and
about 80.000 acres of timber land. The
bulk of the reservation, it will be seen,
that Is. the bulk of the agricultural
land, will be embraced In allotments to
the Indians.
Its
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TJIHan Russell, Kleanor Robson, Willie
Collier and a number of other biff stars aro
headed in this direction.
MARSHFIELD COMPANY CELEBRATE 60TH WEDDING ANNIVERSARY
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MR. AD MBS. W. H. BAT AND THEIR FAMII.V. I
MARSHFIELD. Or., April zS. (Special.) Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Ray, who recently celebrated the 60th anniversary, of
tbelr marriage, are one of the oldest eeuples la this part of tbe state. The aoeompanying picture shows Mr. and Mrs.
Ray, together with members of tbelr family and was taken on the occasion of their anniversary celebration.
W. K. Ray was born March t. 1127, in Jackson County, Tenn. Mrs. Ray's maiden name was Miss M. E. Cllnkenbeard.
She was born May zl. 182S. In Bourbon County, Ky. Both moved to Western Missouri with their parents when young,
and were married at Rush Bottom. Holt County. Mo., on April S. 1848, Squire D. H. Dunkln performing the ceremony.
Ttfey lived In Mercer County Mo., from 185: until 1664 and then moved to Nebraska and later to Northwest Kansas. Dur
ing April, 1S92. Mr. and Mrs. Ray came to Coos County. Or. They say they think this is tbe garden spot of the world
and expert to stay here the rest of thetr lives. Tbey were the parents of 11 children, six sons and two daughters now
living. There are also 42 grandchildren and 13 great-grandchildren, most of whom are shown In the picture. Mr. and
Mrs. Ray are both members of the Church of Christ, have been life-long Christians, and are much beloved by tbelr relatives
and friends. ' '
PORTLAND RAILWAY, LIGHT
oak POWER COMPANY
Bulletin No. 1
The Portland Railway, Light & Power Company is a public
service corporation, and w realize that the most valuable asset a
public-service corporation can have is the good will of the public
We are trying to be candid and sincere in all our dealings with the
public and with the city, and we frankly admit that we shall con
sistently strive to secure and maintain the good will of the people
of Portland.
It is an important part of our business to run a street railway
and to run it efficiently. We feel that we can do more, ordinarily,
by attending to our business than by entering into discussions or
explanations.
The secret of getting along with the other fellow in this world
is to hive a better understanding of his troubles. The man who
is the sharpest critic is often the best friend when he understands
the other fellow's job. i
Comparatively few people realize the difficulties of modern
street-railway operation. When anything goes wrong, everybody
notices it; whenever everything goes right, nobody notices it.
We want to have everything go-right and everybody to notice
it. We feel that we are making friends with the people of Port
land, and that onr efforts to give the best service possible are being
appreciated. This is not the. accomplishment of a day, but the
result of grinding work and large expenditures for some years
past, and we desire to show the public what we have done and are
doing for the improvement of the service; what problems we meet
with daily, and some of the methods which would be mutually help
ful and beneficial to the railway company and the public.
You may take this fact as assured, that it will not be possible
to remove all sources of complaint. There is the amiable gentle
man who kicks at home and growls all day at his office.
We cannot expect to escape him between time. He will prob
ably kick at the publication of these articles. But, leaving him
out of the question, it is still plain, from the nature of the business,
that there will frequently be unavoidable troubles and inconven
iences. We carry a large portion of the population of Portland twice
a day. Counting the transfers, people step up and down from the
cars 820,000 times a day. The streetcars of Portland pass .back-,
ward and forward through crowded streets, covering about i.9,000
miles, or one and one-quarter times the circumference of the globe,
in a single day. There will always be accidents under these circum
stances. Then, too, the conductor's lot is not a happy one. Ee
has to collect money from people of all sorts and dispositions. He
alone is expected to keep his temper, and it is his duty to do so.
If he does not, upon proper complaint, he is disciplined, and per
haps discharged. We endeavor to secure the highest class of em
ployes. We are proud of the character and courtesy of our men,
and we believe that, as a body, they have not their superiors in the
country. Still they are only human, and they make mistakes. Many
a reasonable kick will necessarily be registered against us. The
unreasonable kicks come hard. We feel that we can do away with
many of them if the public understands the streetcar business a
little better. We want to present to yon a Beriea of articles dis
cussing some of the problems, together with a statement of how
we are meeting them. -
As for the reasonable kicks, we want to hear them. They help
us. We realize that we can best serve ourselves by serving you.
An outsider can sometimes suggest remedies for existing conditions
which have escaped the men engaged in the detail of the work.
Suggestions are solicited. y
If, by telling yon our story, you will understand us better, and
the spirit of mutual helpfulness will be advanced, we shall feel that
our work has been well done. We welcome honest criticism, par-
tienlarlw if it ifl ffnnd.tiAr.nrAH