THE SrTJTD AY ' OREGOXIAX, PORTLAND, MAY 17, 1908.
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PROMINENT BISHOPS OF THE METHODIST EPISCOPAL, CHURCH NOW IN
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Conference Will Probably De
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Make Liquor an Issue.
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We are offering EVERY DAY in the
year the two greatest Clothing Spe
cials in the United States. At
STRONG FACTOR IN PARTY
Church AVil Also Prune Expenses
anil May Decline to Amend the
Amusement Regulations as
Desired by Bishops.
That the Methodist Episcopal Church,
assembled in Reneral conference at Bal
timore, will pass resolutions demanding
a strong temperance plank in the plat
form of the Republican party. Is the
principal feature contained in a letter re
ceived by a Portland pastor yesterday,
from a high source of authority. The
writer, who has held for 40 years one of
the chief positions in the church, de
clares that there is a very strong senti
ment among the ministerial and lay del
egates at the quadrennial session to is
sue an urgent appeal to the National con
vention of the party, soon to be held in
Chicago, to come out firmly for the abo
lition of the liquor traffic.
It is pointed out that the Methodist
Episcopal Church has long been a Re
publican stronshold and is, therefore, a
factor to toe reckoned with in the affairs
of the party. At the general conference,
now in session in Baltimore, for example,
there are three Methodists attending as
delegates, each of whom' is the Governor
of a state. These are Governor Buchtel,
of Colorado; Governor Hoch, of Kansas,
and Governor Hanley, of Indiana. There
are also many delegates who hold politi
cal offices of the highest order, includ
ing members of Congress, members of
the Supreme Courts of various states and
others equally prominent.
Bishop Luther B. Wilson, one of the
most conspicuous personages at the gen
eral conference session, is also a Repub
lican, and is president of the National
Anti-Saloon League. This organization,
it is held by Methodists in general, is the
most effective fighter in the field enlisted
under the banner of temperance, and, ac
cording to the authority referred to above,
is quite likely to be indorsed by the gen
eral conference.
Topics Before the Conference.
At ' present, the most absorbing topics
of discussion in tho general conference,
according to the advices received here
yesterday, are temperance, the election
of bit; hops and the "worldly amusement"
problem. There is also great interest
among the delegates as to administrative
policy, and, as already published, there
is strong sentiment against the election
of more than enough bishops to perform
the actual work as it is now outlined.
Ttiere are indications, it is stated, that a
negro bishop, the first in the history of
the church, will be elected, to take
charge in the colored conferences.
All Indications, it is said, point to the
overwhelming defeat of the recommenda
tion of the Board of Bishops, in the epis
copal address, for an amendment to para
graph 248, governing members of the de
nomination relative to "worldly amuse
ments." It is asserted that the senti
ment of the delegates, especially the lay
men, and in fact, the sentiment from all
over the country, as shown at the gen
eral conference, is strictly opposed to
any change whatever in this matter.
Many petitions, one Bigned by 6000
persons, have been sent in to the con
ference for consideration, asking tha
the discipline be left as it is in re
spect to amusements. A petition of
this nature was forwarded to the dele
grates from the Oregon Conference by
Sunnyslde Chapter of' the Epworth
League, bearing about 1000 names,
signed from all over the conference.
Favor Policy or Economy.
Conservative action as to the num
ber of officers to be allowed each of the
benevolent societies, and action look
ing to the strict enforcement of the
policy of oconomy adopted by the
last general conference, is predicted.
It is said that the administration of
the home and foreign missionary
boards during the past four years,
under a consolidation plan, has proved
disappointing. . As was revealed when
the board of home missions and church
extension mot in Portland last Novem
ber, that department of the church bad
far exceeded in expenditures the funds
intended for it, and its officers were
told by several of the bishops in at
tendance at the time that extrava
gance must be stopped. This resulted
in the decision to cut down by one-half
the sum expended yearly for publics
tion work, and it is announced at Baltt
more that further pruning is in store
for this and other branches of tho
church. Kconomy, agressiveness and a
firmer stand than ever on temperance,
it is said, are the controlling senti
ments at the general conference.
Interest attaches throughout all
Methodism and the religious world in
general to the election of the bishops
and other high officers of the church.
Including editors of the various of
ficial publications, publishing agents,
secretaries of the various benevolent
organisations and the general secretary
of the Kpworth League. Balloting for
the election of bishops is scheduled to
begin this week. probably about
Wednesday, and will continue daily un
til the required number is chosen.
PERS0NALMENTI0N.
A. H. Maegly. wife and family, leave
Monday morning for a trip to Chicago.
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Mr. and Mrs. Willard M. Conkiin re
turned Tuesday from San Francisco,
where they were visiting Mrs. Conklin's
parents. Mr. and Mrs. J. R. Best. Mrs.
Best returned with them, but left Tues
day evening for Spokane to visit her
daughter. Mrs. J. A. Kerr, who is ill.
Hon. Gilbert L. King, of Ontario. Or.
a member of the last Legislature, at.
tended the recent convention as dele
gate from Malheur and left for home last
evening, after buying considerable mate
rial for a residence he is about to build
In Ontario. Mr. King was accompanied
by Mrs. King, who is now In Columbia
City, visiting their daughter, Mrs. Carl
Arnold.
E. J. Daly has just returned from a trip
to San Francisco, Los Angeles, S.m
Diego and Old Mexico. He reports that
business conditions are in mucn better
shape in Portland than in any of the
other three cities. "Prices in Los Ange
les." said he, "are very much hisner than
in Portland. In talking with liff Angeles
Investors who also have holdings in Port
land, they expressed the wisn thai ail
their holdings were in Portland. Port
land Is way behind Ixs Angeles, houever.
tot rhPFti"'"" o buildings, street iio-
David H. Moore. Resilient Bit hop
for Oregon.
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GoodselL Who . Read
Kplscopal Address.
provements, lighting, etc. There is no
good reason why Portland should be so
far behind Los Angeles in improvements
when we have a much better city and bet
ter climate. All we need is th3 enter
prise and the spirit."
CHICAGO, May 16. (Special.) The
following Northwestern people reg
istered at Chicago hotels today: Audi
torium Annex, K. S. Parker, George F.
West and wife, Portland; Great North
ern, Cecil Hawlcy, Salem, Or.; William
Hyde Stalker, Ed Andrews, Medford,
Or.
MARY J. HAMILTON DEAD
Aged and Honored Pioneer of Ore
gon Passes Away.
Mrs. Mary J. Hamilton, an aged and
honored pioneer, widow of Samuel M.
Hamilton, of Cascades, Wash., died at
"her home, 853 Howard street, Ports
mouth, yesterday morning at 4 o'clock.
Her deach was caused by pneumonia.
Her age was 85 years, 5 months and 16
days. Mrs. Hamilton was a remark
able woman of the pioneer type, of
sterling character and ability and help
ful to all who came in contact with
The I.ate Mrs. Mary J. Hamilton.
her. She retained all her faculties to
the last, being: able even to direcc her
household affairs. She was born in the
State of New York, near New Tork
City, December 2. 1822. When a child
her parents moved with her to Illinois,
settling near the town of Neauvoo,
where at the ape of 17 she met and
married Samuel M. Hamilton.
In 1S50 with their children, Mr. and
Mrs. Hamilton started 6n the long;
journey to Oregon, with a little band
of friends and neighbors. They
reached this state in October, 1850, and
settled on a donation claim on what
was named by Lewis and Clark.
Strandberg Island, where they reared
to macurity eight children, and by
their industry acquired a competency.
Both were influential pioneers and
well known up and down the Columbia
River for their hospitality. Mr. Hamil
ton died in 1889. and was buried on
the old homestead at Cascades.
Mrs. Hamilton Is survived by the fol
lowing children: Mrs. Lois A. McDon
ald. Mrs. Lorzia A. Jones. Mrs. Thomas
Moffett, Mrs. V. J. Sherman, all of
Portland, and W. J. Hamilton, of Cas
cades, Wash. She lived on the coid
home place until a few years ago.
when sho purchased a home on the
Peninsula. The funeral will be held
tomorrow afternoon at 2:30 o'clock
from Dunning's undertaking chapel,
414 Kast Alder street. Interment will
be at Cascades.
HAVE CONFIDENCE IN 0'DAY
There is no more important office
than that of Circuit Judge.
There is no politics in this office.
The present incumbent. Judge O'Day,
is conceded to be eminently fitted for
the position.
He is no experiment. He has the
confidence of both the bar and the
public, and should be re-elected.
With 2.O00.00A freifrht c&rs in use in thfe
country the daily cry, the hourly cry is
"Mor can, more cars." New cars are put
In Fervid "'"nt belor the paint on them
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The I.ate Mrs. Mary J. Hamilton, t
Henry "V. Warren, Senior Active
Bixhop.
William Fnuer McDowell, Resident
Bishop at Chicago.
Regents Explain Needs of Uni
versity of Oregon.
MAKE REPORT TO PUBLIC
If Appropriation Fails to Carry at
June Election Institution May
Be Vorced to Close Doors.
Expenses Exceed Income.
UNIVERSITY OF OREGON, Eugene,
Or., May 16. (SpWal.) An official state
ment of the finances of the university, to
gether with estimates of expenditures un
der the proposed continuing appropriation.
has just been made by the board of
regents. The statement is addressed to
the people and bears the signature of
every member of the board. It is made
in response to numerous inquiries that
have been mads concerning the plans
which have been made for the expenditure
of the proposed appropriation, the re
gents being of the belief that the people
should know just how the financial af
fairs of the university are conducted.
The text of the statement Is as follows:
New Buildings Needed.
Since 1901, tho university has depended for
its resources upon the annual appropriation
of $47,500. carried by the act of that year,
together with the interest on the university
fund, incidental fees, and interest on the
Villaxd fund, amounting to' about .$10,000 a
year, and special appropriations from time
to time. The act of 1901 was intended,
with the revenues from other sources, pri
marily to cover the necessary current ex
penses at' the time of its adoption.- It has
been necessary to supplement the amount
thereof, from time to time, by special ap
propriations, that of 1905 being $G1500. The
purpose of the bill now pending is to mersre
In one act all appropriations. The amount
thereof is based cn careful, and what is be
lieved to be, conservative estimates, and in
the opinion of the Regents is necessary to
bring the university up to and maintain it
at the standard of efficiency, which the edu
cational interests of the state require. The
bare cost of maintenance is now approxi
mately $75,000 a year. Additional instruct
ors are needed in several of the depart
ments, which will brine the amount for
maintenance to $S.".000 or $90,000 a year.
The library, which touches all departments
alike, will require an annual expenditure
of at least $10,000 a year, for some years, to
bring it to thae proper standard of effi
ciency. Provision should be made Immediate
ly for the accommodation of the women of
the university by furnishing; and heating
the present cottage and by the construction
of additional cottages or a general dormi
tory. This, it is estimated, will take about
$50,000. New . buildings are needed for
class, laboratory and recitation purposes, at
a cost of approximately $75,000. The heat
ing, power and water plant must be en
larged, at an expense of $10,000 or $1S,000
to meet the demands upon it for heating.
Irrigating and fire protection. As soon as
funds are available, the campus should be
enlarged, to meet present and future needs,
by acquiring additional grounds by pur
chase, if a satisfactory price can be ob
tained, and If not, by condemnation.-
Board Without Funds.
Thesa several items -will cost from $125.
OOO to $150,000. and together with others,
developing with the growth of the univer
sity will absorb the entire amount carried
by the present bill, and all additional reve
nues, over and above the expenses of math-,
ten a nee. for a number of years to come.
This covers, in a general way. the needs
of the university as we see it. and the use
to be made of the proposed appropriation.
There is another matter which should be
alluded to. The invoking of the referen
dum has restricted the university. since
January 1, 10O7, to the annual amount ap
propriated by the act of lt01. and about
$10,000 a year from other sources, making
a total of about $60,000 a year, which has
been inadequate to pay the expenses. The
deficiency last year was met by the board
postponing all improvements, purchase of
furniture, additional apparatus, and the like,
and by part of the faculty voluntarily fore
going their salaries for the last quarter of
the year, relying on the approval of the
pending bill or subsequent appropriation by
the Legislature for their payment. The
salaries and incidental expenses for the pres
ent scholastic year will amount to at least
$50,000. to meet which there is an appro
priation of $47.SOO, interest on land fund,
estimated at $5000, Interest on Villard fund.
$22i0. or total of $54,700. At the close of
the present scholastic year the university
will, therefore, be practically without funds
and as the law absolutely prohibits the Re
gents or faculty from pledging the faith of
the state for the university, in excess of the
Income for the current year. H Is not ap
, parent how It will be able to open it doora
1 ERE MONEY GOES
leather B. Wilson, President Antl-
Saloon League.
Jobn,H. Hamilton, Resident Bishop
for California.
next - Pall If the pending appropriation Is
defeated.
We may add that the Regents receive no
compensation whatever for their services, but
realizing, in the discharge of their duties In
administration of the university, they are
but servants of the people, they present th
facts, for the consideration and final deter
mination of the voters, without arfcument
I Respectfully submitted.
y NEHEMIAH L. BUTLER,
. JAMliS W. HAMILTON,
CYRUS A. IXHPH,
WILLIAM SMITH,
FREDERICK V. HOLMAN,
R. S. BEAN.
.1. C. AINSWORTH,
MILTON A. MILLER,
SAMSON H. FRIENDLY,
Board of Regents.
WILL CONTEST NEARS END
Last Testimony in Behalf of Mrs.
Stevens Is Heard.
Conclusion of the George T. Myers will
case is now near at hand. Final testi
mony in the case was heard yesterday
on behalf of Georgia Frances Stevens,
daughter of Mr. Myers, who is seeking to
break his will on the grounds that he
was not of sound mind when -he left the
bulk of his big estate to his son, George
T. Myers, Jr., and cut her off with
$20,000.
Yesterday's testimony was given by
Drs. W. T. Williamson and J. Allen Gil
bert, in the capacity of alienists. They
had no personal knowledge of this case,
but in answer to hypothetical questions
were inclined to the belief that Mr. My
ers might not have been of sound mind
in fancying that his daughter had plotted
with a doctor to kill Mrs. Myeis when
she was fatally ill. The -. hypothetical
questions aaked the two doctors in the
County Court yesterday morning referred
to Mr. Myers' attitude towards his
daughter prior to his death, and embodied
the evidence which has been brought out
by Mrs. Stevens In her efforts to break
the will and share in the $300,000 estate
more fully.
Briefs will be .submitted in the case
shortly and final arguments will be
heard June 22 and 23, each side having a
full day for the presentation of its case.
No further testimony will be heard, both
sides having rested.
Peter Rickmers Is Doomed.
NEW YORK," May 16. Hope has
been abandoned of savins- the hull of
Let Us Consider Glands
For a Moment.
From the
Standpoint
Pathology.
of Clinical
In the treatment of diseases, in
ternal secretions are the governors of
the entire body. Without the gland
secretions we cannot live. A lack of
the secretions of one or more glands
brings on some chronic or acute dis
ease. An over-sufficiency of the gland
secretions or a perversion of same will
produce a chronic or acute condition.
All diseases, acute or chronic, can come
from the three above causes only; think
of it; there is the beginning and end of
our sufferings, no . matter what our
malady may be. Consult - Collier's
Weekly of April 25, 1908, see what it
says about curing; ourselves. Today I
am speaking from fifteen years of in
vestigation of the glandular system,
and I am positive that the internal se
cretions are the preservators of life,
for when we , make dwarf children
grow by its use, when we administer it
to the insane, when we give it to the
hopeless case of myxoedema, when we
remove goitres, when we restore spas
tic and other paralysis, when we take
off or put on flesh as the case may be,
when we correct circulation, assimila
tion, nutrition, constipation, nerve star
vation and fat starvation, remove the
trouble peculiar to women by the use
of the different gland ax ft-acts, as it is
administered in their trinities and mul
tiples thereof, and the patient uses
nothing; else, that is proof positive that
if you want a pumpkin it te necessary
for you to plant a pwmpkln seed, is it
not? Our laboratory is situated in
Kansas City, Mo., where we procure the
glands of four to six thousand sheep a
day and extract the different elements
from the many different glands of the
body, and put them 'up for medicinal
use. One of our many distributing
points Is situated in Portland, Or., 705
Dekum bidg. We send out free of
charge our Blue Book, a scientific treat
ise on Glandular Extracts, answer any
question by mail; our physlcion diag
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WHEN I0D SEE IT IN OUR
MOY
the big German steel ship, the Peter
Rickmers. which ran ashore on Jones
Beach two weeks ago, and from which
her crew of 30 men and about 60 shore
workers barely escaped with their
lives when a second storm a week ago
drove the ship higher on the sands.
The heavy seas have been pounding
over the wreck ever since that time,
and there is now little worth saving
abaut her. Captain Bachman, who was
the last man to leave his ship and who,
since then, has stayed with the life
savers of Jones Inlet, hoping against
hope that his ship might be saved, left
yesterday. There Is still some of the
oil, with which the ship was loaded, in
the water-filled hulk, and this will
probably be brought ashore.
Grand excursion to Delaura Beach. See
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IRELAND'S FIRM FRIEND
Banneriuan Ready to Leave Sick-Bed
for Home Rule.
LONDON, May 16. John Redmond,
writing in the Nation, tells a touching
story of the late Sir Henry Campbell
Bannerman's determination on behalf
of home rule in Ireland. The last time
he visited the House of CommonB, Sir
Henry told Mr. Redmond that It was
his Intention himself to wind up the
approaching home rule debate. The
next day the Premier was stricken
with the illness that eventually proved
fatal. The debate was fixed for Feb
ruary 17. and as Mr. BIrrell, Chief
Secretary for Ireland, also was indis
posed. Mr. Redmond asked Mr. Asquith,
as actinsr leader in the House, to post
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pone the debate. Mr. Asquith declined,
but Sir Henry, hearing of this, sent
word that unless the debate was post
poned he had made up his mind, what
ever the cost, to leave his bed and
go to the House of Commons and par
ticipate in the discussion. Thereupon,
Mr. Redmond says, Mr. Asquith yielded
and postponed the debate to March 30,
The Dalles Gets Commandery.
THE DALLES, May 16. Frank Mil
ler, Grand Commander of Knights
Templar of the state of Oregon, has
recently granted a dispensation by vir
tue of which a commandery to be
known as Columbia Commandery will
be established in The Dalles within the
next 30 days.
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