tQ THE SUNDAY OKEGOXIAX, PORTLAND, NOVEMBER 13, iwo.
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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-
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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.
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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
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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
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