The Sunday Oregonian. (Portland, Ore.) 1881-current, November 15, 1908, Image 10

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Newspaper Page TexttQ THE SUNDAY OKEGOXIAX, PORTLAND, NOVEMBER 13, iwo. idiiipabia iniirrc I! , READY FDR WAR ' tt I. - lar v " - - -0 f r. VfST c - WILL SOON FINISH LINE TO LINNTDN United Railways Will Run Trains to That Point in 60 Days. TRACK NEARLY ALL LAID Work of Ralla-On? and flo.-lns Kern Gaps Now B-in Itonr ly Koduced (;ang. orfk'ial Arc ow Bojlng Kqulpmcnt. Comparatively little work remains to finish th I'nitod Hallways line to Llnnton. I"or the greater part of the distance -track is laid and a little bal lasting; Is . 11 that remains undone. Howrvrr.'itapi along the war will have m he filled with track., and this . task Is l.-lnft accomplished, larsre crowds of workmen now helnr engaged In laying th tie and spiking down the rails. Grading is practically completed, even bevond L.lnnton. Bridges have been erected and within 0 days the officials of the road expect to have trains running to I-innloii and beyond: Jn fact, almost to Holbrook. a distance of about It miles. This will bring the new line practically up to Cornelius Pass, where the road will cross the divide of hills on the west side of the river and reach the plains of Washing ton County. So well advanced is the work that the construction forces are being re duced at the present time. Until re cently about 100 men m-cre employed in the gangs, h'lt only comparatively mail gangs are now kept busy linking the completed sections of the trac)r to gether with rails. Work will be con tinued all Winter, however, upon the I'nlted Hallways interurhan system, al though less can be accomplished during the Winter months than In Summer. I'pon conquering Cornelius Pass, the highest point the new road will reach In Its line into Washington County, the I'nlted Hallways will branch out to Hlllaboro and Korost Grove, besides building to the Tillamook Coast. The entrance to Portland Is the link in the United Railways project that has de layed the company, because of fran chises, changes in ownership, etc. The good weather of the past few months has aided greatly tn the construction work of the line to Llnnton. Officials of the United Railways are now carrying on negotiations for equipment with which to commence op eration of the Llnnton line. About the first of the year It is evpeeted trains will be running' regularly to that point from this city and that the Stark street line will also be In operation. NEW EQUIPMENT IS ORDERED Passenger Cars for Oregon Electric Coming This Week. New passenger equipment for the Oregon Electric Railway passed Omaha yesterday on Us way to Portland. It is expected to reach here within the coming week and consists of six pas senger and two tiaggage cars. Freight equipment ordered by General Manager Talbot some weeks ago haa arrived at IntervaJs during the past week. The passenger cars en route are uniform with the present equipment on the line with the exception that they have no mall compartments and are without motors. They are designed to attach to the motor cars in trains of two and three ears each. The Interior finishing Is richer and more artistic than the cars now in service. The new time card on the Oregon .Electric will become effective this morning. It provides for greatly in creased service In the way of addi tional trains and faster schedules, as well as for connections with the Hills boro branch trains, which are now to be put into operation. ARRANGE TO HANDLE CROWDS Railroads Expect lo Bring 6000 to Football Game. Preparations are being made by the general passenger department of the Harrlman lines to handle the crowds from the Valley towns to Portland next Saturday for the football game be tween the Oregon Agricultural College and the University of Oregon. Assist ant General Passenger Agent Scott es timated tha 6000 people will be brought to Portland for this game. He says Interest in the . outcome of the match Is very high in the two college towns, as well as in the other cities f the Willamette Valley. He expects Eugene to send down ;on people to the game and Coryallia a like number. Albany fs expected to turn out 500 people and the same number will prob ably come from other towns. A special rate for the round trip ha been made by the Southern Pacific and five or six special trains will be run. reaching Portland about noon and leaving for the return trip at 8 P. M. Saturday night. FOREIGN TOVKISTS ROB TEM PLES AND DEFAC E STATUES. One Expedition Arranged to Steal Celebrated Tablet and Float It Away Down River. PEKIN. Nov. 14. (Special.) Much india-natlon has heen aroused among educated Chinese and European resi dents In China by vandalism on the part of foreign tourists in. the North ern Provinces of the Empire. To such an extent has the depredations been carried on during the last year or two that some of the most famous and val uable monuments are threatened with destruction. At the Ming Tombs the statues in the celebrated avenue of stone images have been badly defaced. Outrages have been committed in the Temple of Heaven Inclosure at Pekin. which have been the subject of repre sentations by one of the government boards to the throne The carvings around the base of the famous marble tope in the Yellow Temple are being gradually destroyed. So daring and unscrupulous have been the depreda tions of foreigners at the Temple "Ta-Kaotlen.- in Pekin. that the place has recently been entirely closed to vis itors. The crowning example of these senseless acts of barbarity was the or ganization last year of an expedition to Sianfu. the object of which,-as the leader afterward avowed, was to filch the celebrated Xestorlan tablet and float It away by the Wei and Yellow Rivers. Fortunately, this amiable de sign was frustrated by the' vigilance of the Governor of Shensl. who had the monument removed to a place of safe ty. These and other facts are set forth in a circular, which has been issued by a Pekin resident, calling upon foreign ers living In China to take concerted action for the discouragement of van dalism. , The Chinese government has notified the Foreign Ministers that, in order to preserve Chinas sovereign rights, the subjects of non-treaty powers will be protected by the Chinese authorities without the Intervention of the repre sentatives of other countries. The Im perial government cannot forfeit its rights by granting Consular Jurisdic tion to such subjects simply because thev claim to be under the protection of a treaty power. This pronouncement has apparently been called forth by r.-preseniatiiions by the German Minis ter with regard to the protection of Ottoman subjects by Germany. He was informed that, while the Chinese government- would be pleased to receive communications from Turkey through Germany about her subjects. Turks would continue to be linger the protec. tlon of the Chinese authorities In the same way as are Siamese and other for eigners whose countries have no treaty with China. While there are not many Ottoman subjects in the Empire, there are In Yunnan. Kansu, Hsinkiang, and other provinces, large population of Mohammi-dans. and It is pointed out that Germany's influence in China would in all probability be quite dis proportionately Increased if Turkish subjects were actually placed under her protection. PLAYED JOKE ON SARDOU LOIE FILLER PALMED OFF JAP , ANESE AS AUTHOR. Kawakami Loaded With Comjili . mcnts by DrantatM, Makes Reply Which Dancer Translate-. PARIS. -Nov. H. (Special.) Miss Uie Fuller, the American actress, has just published her memoirs In French, and in them she tells a most amusing story about Sa.la Yaeco's husband. Kawakami. and the French Society of Authors. It wa Miss Loie Fuller who brought Sada Yacoo and her husband to Paris eipht years ago, and they immediately became the fashion. One day Miss Fuller men tioned that Kawakami was the author of most of the plays in which his wife acted, and M. Sardou said: 'Then we should be glad to admit him to the French Society of Dramatic Au thors." He was received in state by the com mittee In full session, and Sardou made a long and eloquent speech congratulat ing him. He sat down, and all eyes turned to Kawakami. "I understood." Mies Fuller says, "that Kawakami was expected to reply, but he did not. He had not. of course, under stood a word of Sardou's speech, and sat in his place smiling contentedly at everybody, present. 'Tell him what I said." said Sardou to me. and if you have ever attempted to translate a long speech into signs you will know how I felt. "I had not the courage to remain eilent. so I gave Kawakami a transla tion in rapid English of what I re membered of Sardou's speech, and Sardou punctuated it with 'Yes, yes. yes' the only English word he knew. Kawakami knew no English at all, but I made him understand by signs that he was expected to get up and speak. He did. He spoke for nearly three-quarters of an hour (in Japanese, of course), and everybody gaped in admiration. Then Sardou asked me. "What did he say?" and I made the first and last speech of my life, and only hope I did not undermine poor Kawakami's repu tation. For as I speak no word and un derstand no word of Japanese I doubt whether I did his long speech Justice." Death trom starvation was the vardlct at a Shoredltch ( England Inquest on a woman match seller named Upton, age 6. Her husband said he was 81 years of aga and trey had only 30 cents a svee.lt to live Situation in Balkans Far From Being Amicably Settled as Stated. CONFLICT SURE TO COME Serria. Rouniania and Othc States Arranging Military Forces lor Struggle in Which Turkey Will Be Involved. SALONIKA. Nov. 11. (Special.) Some newspapers have declared that every thing is quiet In Bulgaria and t'nst all chance of war has passed away. livery one ought to know, on the other hand, that the preparations for. war continue throughout Servia. Bulgaria and Eastern Roumelia. Roiimedia.' too, is beginning to set Its military house In order. In point of fact the situation Is growing very serious and there is nothing humor ous in it except the alleged resolve of the old Sultan to send the leaders ' of the Young Turks Into the field at the earliest possible moment. Young Turks In Control. Looking on at the game In whi;h the diplomats of Europe arc the players and the peoples of the Balkans nre the pawns, well-Informed persons have long since known that the Macedonian question could only be settled by war. No enc In the Near Blast was for a moment de ceived by the Murzstegg agreement, though that is now ancient history. Aus tria and Russia were playing for their own hand and not for the amelioration of the lot of the Christians of the East. England, unconsciously, was playing into the hands of both by setting at nought the efforts of the Turks to save them selves. When at last the Young Turks, ridiculed by Lord Clinic, overthrew Hamidianism and inaugurated a form of constitutional government. Austria and Russia saw the roads to the south her metically sealed by a powerful military Empire, such as three centuries ago car ried Its standards to the walls of Vienna. But one course was open, nameiy. to crush the new government before it had time to organize its forces. The Young Turks had shown such moderation in the hour of their victory, such capacity for evolving order out of chaos, such magnaminlty towards their oppressors, that there seemed every prospect of the unexpected really com ing to pass and the Sick Man taking on a new lease of life. So Prince Ferdi nand was invited to Budapest, where he had hitherto been an unwelcome visitor: he was received with royal honors and the plot was hatched which, on October 5, burst as a bombshell into the chan celleries of Europe. Bulgaria threw off the yoke of the Porte, and the grandson of Louis Philippe declared himself 'isar of Bulgaria, while the Emperor Francis Joseph announced the incorporation of Bosnia and Herzegovina into his kaleid oscopic empire. Here, in Salonika, with Its hetero geneous population of Jews, Turks. Bul gars. Greeks, Roumanians and Serbs, all Is ferment. This is the point of the lance. Here is the headquarters of the Third Armv Corps of the Ottoman army, the corps destined to bar the southward march of Austria and to carry Sofia by force if the sublime Porte so -wills It. Here still is the seat of Hilmi Pasha, the Inspector-General of those paper re forms so elaborately drawn up by West ern diplomats. One of the Generals on whom the task of leading a division win fall said: "Of course, we all have foreseen that the new constitution was not to be unop posed. Now. Just as we are preparing to put our forces into proper order. Bul garia declares her Independence, Austria throws down a second challenge and .Greece or rather Crete annexes her- J. G. Mack and Go. Gift Furniture No gift is so sure of welcome as a piece of furniture. Christmas stocks, now on show. Extraor dinary selection includes: SEWING TABLES TEA TABLES AND TEA-WAGONS JARDINIERE STANDS MUSIC AND CURIO CABINETS CONSOL TABLES BOOK BLOCKS CANDLESTICKS, HALL CLOCKS CHAIRS, SETTEES, ROCKERS THE LATEST NEW YORK NOVELTY Pompeiian Willow Furniture New, Beautiful and Not Expensive. See Window Display. NEW .AND COMPLETE 'STOCKS OF Furniture for the HALL, PARLOR, DINING-ROOM LIBRARY AND BEDROOM MAGNIFICENT ASSORTMENTS OF RUGS AND CARPETS DRAPERIES, LACE CURTAINS AND UPHOLSTERY FABRICS y Fifth and Stark Large Showing of New Axminster Carpets in Tans and Browns Car pet Department Also New Wilton Brussels and Caledon Scotch Rugs Agents for The Daveno Only Perfect Davenport Bed. self to Greece. From a military point of view all these states have done the right thing. Why, Indeed, should ' they wait until our army was reorganized when their chance of success would be small Indeed? Personally, as a soldier. I sympathize with Bulgaria. ' She saw Greece and Servia, both far inferior in every way. recognized as Kingdoms; she was a vassal state, nothing more natural than that she should wish to become an independent Kingdom. So long as the Oriental railways were under the control of what was-practically a Turkish company. Bulgaria was tied hand and foot. The lines are badly built, badly organized: the working is disgraceful and the rolling stock utterly inadequate. We should be delighted to be able to do what Bulgaria has done: Work the railways with our own troops and send the Israelitish financiers, who are draining our life's blood, back to their offices in Vienna. Unfortunately, we cannot do so. The Sultan has so often applied to the company for friendly loans that no one outside the palace and the company's own offices knows exactly what our indebtedness is. Then again, Bulgaria knows that our army is now thoroughly disorganized. . We have been forbidden to carry out the simplest man oeavers or to train our men in the .usa of the new weapons. Her armies, though numerically inferior, aTe Immeasurably superior, man for man. For Bulgaria to postpone a war for another two or three years would be to court inevitable dis aster. y San Fedro Marine Xotes. SAX PEDRO. Cal., Xov. 1. The steamer Casco arrived today from Albion with lumber. The steamer Chehalis cleared for Grays Harbor. Departures today: Steamers Saginaw, J. Marhoffer and Capistrano. for Grays Harbor, and steamer Fifleld for Seattle. The schooner Lizzie Vance arrived 30 days from Grays Harbor, with lumber. VIEWS ALONG UNITED RAILWAYS LINE 1 - ' J ,se' v - - w r6 a tF -ijr '&jL JZ- Try- - ? tr'Vw--fy'I: . . jar-X- -! 1' 5; .. . s - , ' :Wi2l!rr ''t a - - - -I MENACE-TO FRANCE Meat Trust Establishes Pack ery in Republic. FARMERS CRY FOR HELP American Packers Take Advantage of Law to Capture Control of In dustry Government May Impose Restrictions. PARIS, Nov. 14. (Special.) Alarm Is felt here at the pr5spect of France being some day at the mercy of an American meat trust. The agricultu ral group of the senate Is taking the matter up, and M. Mellne, who has done much for rural interests in this country, does not attempt to. conceal his uneasiness. Mr. Meline is ex-President of the Council and Minister of Ag riculture. He says that the American company, with headquarters at Chicago and a capital of J50.000.000. wliich had ac quired a meat monopoly in the United States, contemplated repeating the operation in France. Soma three years ago it tried to buy a big tract of land near Dieppe and. as the munici pality objected, it turned to Graville. Sainte Honorino, in the vicinity of Havre, this time with success, and so huge slaughter-houses were construct ed in no time. The plan was to get ground as well In the neighborhood of the great mercantile ports, like Bor deaux and' Marseilles, and also close to the Villette meat market, in Paris. French Farmrra Alarmed. French agriculturalists naturally grew alarmed, and now the group in the Sen ate is intervening. This apprehension, says M. Meline, is more than justified. If the company, as he argues, professed to deal entirely with . French cattle, it is certain that it would lniport an ever increasing number of American oxen and sheep, as they cost little more than half the price of the native animals. So they would soon crush the French market. Even if they did not Import much cat tle at first, the result would be dis astrous all the same. as. with the cap ital at their command, they would bring prices down and "strangle our poor farmers.", getting cattle across the At lantic to lower prices further if they of fered any resistance, but, of course, selling very dear to the butchers, as is done in the United States. iM. Meline is all the more anxious, as America has already purchased the very pick of the French cattle and so is likely to prove a formidable competitor ' in various international markets. What, he asks, will France have gained from all her sacrifices during the past cen tury in the effort to increase and im prove her stock of cattle, which num bered 33.O0O.OCO In 18S9, and now amounts to almost 50.000.000? France's commercial treaties compel her to admit cattle for which customs duties have been paid unless they " are unhealthy, but these animals can only be killed in slaughter-houses specially told off for this purpose and in which the origin and the quality of the cattle are very carefully examined. All. the com munes, large and email, can build these establishments on payment of special taxes authorized by law. It Is in the interest of the communes to manage these slaughter-houses on their own ac count, and how are they likely to resist the tempting offers of companies which, as at Graville, propose extremely gen erous terms In order to obtain the con cession of exploitation. Herein lies the chief danger of all, and Ir. M. Meline's opinion it can only be met by restricting authorization to the com munes to the exact requirements of their own Inhabitants. Thus would easily be foiled the vast speculation which .consists in the concentration at some points only of the territorv of the slaughter of all cattle intended for food. Then will no longer be constructed in a little commune like Graville a slaughter-house costing $2,000,000 and nearly as big as that of I-a Villette, with alongside it a factory for preserving meat intended to conceal the importation and the slow penetration of such articles Into France. he put a gallon of water Into his two gallon milk-can. "No one shall say that my milk Is not clean. If that don't wash it, I don't know what will unless I put in a little soap." HOWL OVER CAT TAXATION A Carerul Dairyman. Harper's Weekly. "There, said the honest dairyman, as Feline Lovers of Paris Incensed at Attempt to Raise Revenue. PARIS, Nov. 14. (Special.) Beset by the usual cares of Chancellors of the Ex chequer, M. Cajlaux has been looking round for new sources of revenue, and has pounced upon cats. But cat-lovers set up a wall of indignation. Dr. Lep inay, who is secretary of the Society of Assistance to Animals and keeps a stray cat home of his own, protests loudly. In the first place, cats are invaluable be cause they destroy rats and mice, which propagate disease. In the second place, cats are not a luxury, are faithful com panions to many poor folk and far cheaper to keep than dogs. Thirdly, how are you going to tax cats? Out of about 380.000 dogs the tax is paid at most on 100.000. What, then, can the 700.000 or 800,000 cats of Paris be expected to bring in? A paltry J4000 a year at most. The poet. M. Harauceurt. who is president of the League of the Friends of Cats, and always works with a cat on each knee. All on the left and Baba on the right, is furious and satirical. Will the tax-collector look for the house cat under the bed or behind the pile of MSS. in the bookcase? His verdict is that, besides being absurd, the cat tax would be "un democratic, detrimental to the public health, useless and cruel." Steinlen. the black-and-white artist, who loves cats, and has drawn many a puss lapping milk, rather approves of the tax. because cats will thus be legally acknowledged and people will think more of them. His only objection is. how is the tax to be enforced? Will the collector be armed with a warrant to search houses? Be sides, cats would have to wear collar, which most of them would not stand for a moment. the Paris Exhibition, and quoted by th Gil Bias. M. C'lemenceau wrote that he would like to see M. Alfred Picard (his new naval minister) "hanged, drawn and quartered, and broken on the wheel for having, by his organization for the com ing exhibition, thrown Paris into such a state of confusion. "I am an enemy of the death penalty for mere murderers." wrote M. Clemen ceau in 1900. "but if I learned tomorrow that M. Alfred Picard were to be hanged, to have his flesh torn with hot pincers, and to be broken on the wheel, I might protest In humanity's name, but I should do so in the secret hope that my protest passed unnoticed." CO-OPERATION IS FAVORED Workmen May Share .in Profits Hartlepools Yards. of LONDON, Nov. 14. (Special.) The trade union delegates to whom was submitted Sir Christopher Furness' co-operative scheme have now recommended it for adoption by the local branches of the various unions concerned, if this advice be followed, the shipbuilding and en gineering yards at the Hartlepools will become a great co-operative concern-The men will take up shares on easy terms of payment, and on these they will obtain a fixed interest of 4 per cent, together with such further dividends as the sur plus profit of the concern may yield. There will be a works council, composed in equal numbers of representatives of the men and representatives of the firm. All grievances and disputes are to come before the council, which will also dis cuss various matters of common concern. TT it fails to effect a settlement in case of dispute, the matter will go automatically to a court of arbitration. Sir Christopher Furness hopes that if the experiment suc ceeds. It may lead ultimately to the in strument of the strike being abandoned throughout the entire industry, and the establishment of a board of arbitration, composed of delegates from the councils of the various works in the area, with power to appoint an arbitrator, for the settlement of all general differences. PULLMAN COMPANY WINS Rates on Sleepers Will Not Be Re duced in Louisiana. NEW ORLEANS, Nov. 14. In the United States Circuit Court of Appeals this afternoon the case of the Pull man Company against the Texas Rail-, road commission was again decided In favor of the Pullman Company. case Involved the order commission orderfhg a about 20 per cent in charges. The of the Texas reduction of Pullman car WANTED PICARD HANGED Paris Laughing Over Article Written by Clemenceau in 1900. PARIS, Nov. 14. (Special.) All Paris is laughing at an article by M. Clemenceau, written eight years ago, at the time of BgOFNG The Roof that "proves," sun proof and rain-proof; needs no paint or repairs. Following are a few' "Wont's" about Rubber Sanded Roofing: Won't chip. Won't wirp. Woa'ttear. Won't crack. Won't rust. Won't decay. Won't ihrink. Won't crumble. Won't need repairing. Won't absorb moisture. Won't attract electricity. Won't need any paint to preserve it. Won't be affected by any climatic changes or conditions. Won't cost as much, in the long tun, as other roofing. What Rubber Sanded WILL do is told of In our booklet "ROOF TALK," which will -amm be sent free upon raquest, together with samples of the Roofing Itself. PIONEER ROLL PAPER CO. 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