THE SUNDAY OREGONIAN, PORTLAND. MARCH 7. 1909.
f Beekman Winthrop took the oath of
j office as Assistant Secretary, succeed
I lng Herbert Satterlee. Secretary
J CABINET
Meyer installed Charles E. Taylor, a
Washington newspaper man. as bis pri
vate secretary.
Don AL Carr. of Canton. O., was ap
pointed secretary to Richard A. Bal
Una'er. TAKING UP REINS
INVOLVE DIAMONDS IN SUIT
2
Ml Except Dickinson and Mac
iVeagh Have" " Taken
?: iOath of Office.
EXTRA' --SESSION CALLHD
Congress. ilay" Move to Change In-ausurajXonLbate-Tart
Will Con-tinue-Conser-ation
Oommii-
. - slon in '" Action.
WASHINGTON, March 6. All but two
of the iiine members of President Taft's
cabinet? are'.now in office. Six. including
Secretaries Knox, Meyer, Balllcger, Wil
son 1 and Nagl and Postmaster-General
Hitchcock, took the oath of office in the
cabinpt-roora -. today.. Attorney-General
Wickersham was sworn In yesterday and
Secretary -Dickinson and Secretary Mac
VeaKh .will, present themselves for duty
within a wek or so.
Secretary Cortelyou announced tonight
that he expected' Ills successor. Franklin
JIacYeagb." to, reach Washington some
time Sunday and that the treasury port
folio would ' be transferred to him 'on
Monday nextt
i Extra Session Called.'
The "President " issued a proclamation
calling .Congress In extraordinary session
March .li ... While there was nothing in
the call which hinted at the purpose of
Keck Jewelry Interests Said by
Widow to Be Badly Tangled.
CINCINNATI. March . To obtain a
retransfer of stock and compel an ac
counting of diamonds estimated by her
to be worth $188,000. Clara Keck,
widow of Herman Keck and adminis
trator of his estate, Hied suit today
against the Herman Keck Manufactur
ing Company, the Duhme Jewell y Com
pany, Oscar Keck as president of both
companies and against Robert Carroll,
of the Herman J ..eck Manufacturing
Company, appointed by the Federal
Court In bankruptcy proceedings Insti
tuted by N5w York creditors.
Mrs. Keck , alleges that she was in
duced to transfer the stock of the
Herman Keck Manufacturing Company
and the Duhme Jewel: y Company by
Oscar Keck to the Herman Keck Manu
facturing Company, on statements
which she now believes were not cor
rect, and she asks that the stock be
i transferred back to her. She also
i alleges that the Herman Keck Com
' pany is in danger of becoming in
I solvent.
MS vtmrv MHM Jaffa
LAW ON SNAKE STEALING
Konedlble Reptiles May Be Stolen
With Impunity, Saya Court.
LOS ANGELES. Cal., March 6. It is
not larceny to steal a snake unless It Is
an edible snake. Boa-constrictors are
not edible and therefore one can purloin
them with Impunity. So held Justice
Chambers when he released Sylvester
White. 17 years of age. from a charge
of grand larceny because he had pur
loined the pet boa-constrictor of Frank
Leroyi a snake collector. But White had
nie session, us ooject nas neretoiore D3en taken a watch and some other valuables
stated to- be- to - revise the tariff and I ki,i,. v, unov. - r.H ,, fr
petit larceny, to which he pleaded
transact no. -Other business. The weather
calmiiy which overtook the National
capital on inauguration day, however,
has created such a general public demand
for a change of date for the inauguration
that ; the " prediction of , Congressional
action pit" this seems-to be general.
Continue Conservation 'Board.
The continued existence of the Na
tional Conservation Commission seems
to be assured, notwithstanding the ac
tion, of Congress,' which has been In
terpreted to discourage the continu
ance ;of that body. Mr. Taft conferred
today wtth.:the joint -committee of representatives-
of- the- National and state
bodies of this organization. The posi
tion of: the executive Is said to be that
the poismlttee was appointed by Presi
dent; ; ltoose.velt s-s a consulting body
on thejquestion of conservation of the
Katiqnal-resourc.' j-of the country, and
that thee -states. Indicated their will
ingness for coTOperation by appoint
ing consulting committees. That such
an arrangement can -be carried on with
out Congressional approval and with
out ' Federal ; expense seems to be the
decision reached.
C : Independent of Congress.
This, question .was raised- by an
amendment to an appropriation bill,
and the members of the joint commis
sion on conservation,, which.- includes
Senators. Nelson, of -Minnesota and Mil
ton of Florida,- representing the Na
tional commission, and Governors
Willson of Kentucky. Deneen of Illi
nois,' and ex-Governor Pardee : of
California, representing the state or
ganizations, took up the Questions
with , Mr. Taft- The position of the
Joint' committee . la., that. Congress has
no jurisdiction ' to legislate the com
mission out ;of existence,- in view of
the . fact that It is an advisory board
appointed by. -the executive and aerv-
lng;without compensation. .. .
Taft Slow Handshaker.
guilty. White said he had pawned the
snake to another party. The court. In
ruling on the subject of snakes as
property, said:
Under the laws of California, It is
not a crime to steal wild animals and
snakes that are in captivity unless they
are used as food. The laws In many
states regard these so-called pets as
property and make It a larceny to steal
them. This court will have to rule that
it Is not larceny to steal a snake."
ECHO OF PEERING MURDER
House Where Quaker City Tragedy
Occurred Is Burned.
PHILADELPHIA. March 6. The last of
a chain of incidents in connection with a
famous murder case of 1866 occurred to
day when a frame dwelling In the south
ern section of the city, in which eight
persons were murdered, was destroyed by
fire. The killing of the eight persons
shocked the country at the time.
Christopher Detring. his wife and four
children, a young woman- visitor and a
lad who worked around the place were
killed with an axe while they slept by
Anton Probst, who had been employed
by Durring. The only ..member of the
Dearlng family left alive by Probst was
a lad who. when the murderer committed
bis ghastly deed, 'was visiting relatives.
This survivor, William Doering, a few
weeks ago, met a violent death, falling
and fracturing his skull.
SWEPT BY AVALANCHES
Villages In Carinthia Wrecked, Ten
. Persona Killed.
Mr.'. Taffs second day at th White
House was one of handshaking and glad
words. D?U-gatlpn. .after delegation was
received. His methods in the art of
"mixing" were demonstrated to be dif
ferent from those of Mr. Roosevelt. Mr.
Taft stakes more time than did his pre
decessor In making the acquaintance of
his callers, and insists on knowing not
only.' their full names, but their residence
and' matters of TamiTy history." The Te
sult;is said to be that it requires as much
time for him to meet ten men as it did
. for Mr. Roosevelt to greet 100.
The Union League Club of Brooklyn
presented Mrv Taft today with a bronze
tablet on which were engraved the fare
well" Words of Abraham Lincoln.
In welcominghis many visitors to the
White House Mr. Taft remarked that,
although ho had- coma.-In like a lion,
having reference to the blizzard on March
4. he hoped to go put like a . lamb.
Greetings from Philippines.
Collectively and Individually the nine
members of the Philippine Commission,
through Governor-General Smith,- have
sent 'to Mr. Taft-. heartiest . gieetlngs
and, best wishes fora prosperous and
happy Administration. .The Governor
General also senf to. the Secretary of
War 'for transmission to" the President
a resolution adopted March 4 by both
Houses of the Philippine Legislature
expressing-. admiration and hope that
his .Administration may abound with
all. kinds of blessings and benefits for
the . Americans and for the Philippine
people. A preamble to "the resolution
recites that -the establishment of civil
government in. the Philippine Islands,
the . Inauguration . of 'a., Philippine .tfa-.
tional Elective,. Assembly and the right
now: enjoyed--by the -Filipinos to par
ticipate directly in .the'-maklng of their
own Jaws-were .brought about through
tne enorts, acuity and energy of Mr.
Taft: - -' -"- '
1 Knox Has Little Joke. -
The ceremony "of administering the
oatti of office to the six -members of the
Taft Cabinet who presented themselves
at the White House -.today,, which was
performed by Chief -Justice Fuller, was
witnessed by. Mr. .Taft, ..The incident
recalled tcrnhe new- President "the In
cident of his own oath. at the Inaugura
tion. The -Chief Justice, In reading the
oath'.i obliged - Mr. Taft "to faithfully
execute the Constitution," ' Instead of
"the .office of President." This slip
has '.been a subject of pleasantry be
tweerrTajtfrn;a..b.ia"Secretaiy of
State, whjo,jltis said, remarked . at the
time tin- an undertone to Mr. Taft,
"Don't do it." The oath, however, is
considered sufficiently binding.
'j'Will Give ,Xo. Interviews.
Mr. Taft had his first conference as1
President with the corps of Washing-'
ton newspaper correspondents at the
close of the day. He greeted the score
or more of men personally 'and- stated -that
in fairness to himself It would be
his pol'.cy that quotation marks should
not embrace statements of news- which
might be given out at the White House.
When' he desired to make' a formal '
statement it ..would, ,. lie said, be ad
dressed to Congress or -be embodied
In a-speech. This policy is a continua
tion iof that which has heretofore pre
vailed, it being considered the preroga
tive .of the President not to be quoted
in the public press in any case except
in formal statement.
This reorganization of the Navy De-
riirtm..nl ?t 1M rell IT -. ot - Itli
. VIENNA, March 8. Telegrams re
ceived here, from Carinthia, Austria,
report that a series of devastating
avalanches have occurred there and
that numbers of houses in the differ
ent villages of the section have 'been
swept away. It Is known that already
ten deaths have resulted.
Kaiser Portrait for Harvard.
BOSTON, March 6. A portrait of
Emporer William of Germany has been
presented to the Harvard Germanic
Museum by Hugo Relslnger, of New
York.
Is This Fair?
Certain Proof Will Be Made That
Stuart's Dyspepsia Tablets Cure
Stomach Trouble.
THE
PASSING OF THE OLD
COMING OF THE NEW
HE discontinuance of the Columbia
"Woolen Tvlills does not, as many might
believe, mean a departure from the tailor
ing business. The Columbia "Woolen
"Mills Company organized a little over
three years ago, has developed into the
largest tailoring establishment on the
Pacific Coast. To throw this business away
would be folly of the worst kind. "What, then,
does the organization of the Salem "Woolen Mills
Clothing Company indicate.? To the reasonably
well-dressed man. it means everything. The
latter company embodies all that the Columbia
"Woolen Mills did and a great deal more. The
old company dealt exclusively in tailor made
clothing. The new company maintains the
If There
Is Anything
In Furnishing
Goods
You "Need,
"We Have
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tailoring department on a much higher grade than
ever before, will carry a complete line of ready-to-wear
clothing of the very best kind, ranging
in price from $12.50to $25, besides being stocked
from cellar to garret with the best, most up-to-date
and nobbiest line of furnishing goods ever
shown in the city of Portland. In all that the
Columbia "Woolen "Mills Company was good, the
Salem "Woolen Mills Clothing Company is vast
ly better, combining every feature that goes to
make a complete shop for men. If the Columbia
Shop pleased you, the Salem "Woolen Mills will
do so even more satisfactorily. It is the only
men's store in Portland, catering exclusively to
men and carrying almost everything that a man
usually buys.
TAILOR MADE DEPARTMENT
As modestly as permissible, we are pleased to announce that our tailoring department is surpassed by none in the city. With an entirely new force of men,
all selected from the standpoint of ability, equipped with a very large stock of new Spring woolens, and determined to do even a higher grade business
than ever was turned out by the Columbia Woolen Mills, we are ready for your Spring order. Besides carrj-ing a complete line of imported and domes
tic cloths, we will be the only tailoring shop in the city in a position to turn out a suit for you made of wool grown in Oregon, manufactured into cloth
in this state and tailored exactly to fit you by Oregon workmen. For these excellent lines of first-class tailoring, we have adopted prices ranging from
$30 to $50. We guarantee that no suit can be obtained in this city for the same price, possessing the quality, fit and satisfaction.
IF THE SUIT WE MAKE FOR YOU IS NOT SATISFACTORY, WE DO NOT WANT YOU TO WEAR IT.
FURNISHING GOODS AND HATS
It is worth a great deal to a furnishing department to be able to show exclusive novelties in gentlemen's wearing apparel. In thus respect we lead the city.
Our line of neckwear, collars and shirts, underwear, handkerchiefs, socks, suspenders and pajamas has the virtue of being the newest made, most of the
goods coming direct from the factory considerably ahead of the stocks that were bought too early to be strictly up to the times. An instance of our oppor
tuneness in this regard is shown by our stock of Earl & Wilson collars, all the latest shapes, for a bit apiece. These collars, made by the same people an
" the E. & W., are as durable as the two-bit collars and and fully as satisfactory as the latter. We are especially proud of as nobby a line of hats as has ever
been shown in Portland, We have every style, soft and derby, and the blocks are as new as are made.
READY TO WEAR
To be able to carry a stock of Oregon-grown-manufa"tured-and-tailored ready-to-wear clothing has been the ambition of a great many clothiers of this state.
It has remained, however, For the SALEM WOOLEN MILLS CLOTHING COMPANY to be the first dealers in Portland to be able to do this. No man
who loves Oregon and travels away from his state can afford to dress in other than a strictly Oregon suit of clothes. We have . .hundreds of patterns,
weights, colors and sizes, many of which have already been placed upon display and are ready to show. Little by little, during the coming week, new poovis
will be placed on display as rapidly as we can turn them out. The prices of these suits, guaranteed to satisfy the most critical, will range from $12.50 to
$25, discounting any clothing prices ever offered in the city, as well as showing a better quality of goods than Portland has ever seen.
IF THE SUIT YOU BUY DOES NOT COME UP TO OUR GUARANTEE, WE'LL REFUND YOUR MONEY.
INASMUCH AS OUR LINE OF
FURNISHING GOODS IS THE
NEWEST AND LATEST IN THE
CITY IT WOULD BE WELL TO
CALL SOON.
THIS EXPERIMENT FREE.
Stuart's Dyspepsia Tablets are made
to give to the system, through the
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We will send you a quantity of these
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Thousands upon thousands of people
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Phamacopoela.
One of the ablest professors of the
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purities. Bismuth, to absorb gases and
prevent fermentation. They are dell
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Jamaica Ginger in Itself a well known
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Liquid medicines lose their strength
th ionger they are kept, through
evaporation, fermentation and chemical
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It is due your stomach to give It
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All. druggists sell them. Price 60 cents.
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WOOJL7JEN MIMjS
CUO'TIHN' COFSKANY
Clothiers, Farnishew; Tailorcr
Grant PKele 7& Starlc
OUR COMPLETE STOCK OF
SPLENDID SPRING WOOLENS
HAS ARRIVED AND IS NOW
ON DISPLAY IN OUR TAILOR
ING DEPARTMENT.
MING LIFE EASY
Roosevelt Spends Day
Book and Ax.
With
NOT A WORD TO PUBLISH
Ex-President Reads and Chop Down
Trees Oyster Bay. Neighbors
Will Give Reception Be
fore lie Departs.
OYSTER BAY. N. Y., March 6. No
callers were received by ex-President
Roosevelt today. He remained at hii
home on Sagamore Hill all day. spend
lng the forenoon Indoors, reading and
attending to his correspondence and
the afternoon In the woods back of
his home, chopping down trees. In
side the ex-President's home Is a bowl
of roses and other flowers, gifts from
friends In Washington. New York and
elsewhere. Boxes of flowers from New
York arrive dally.
Mr. Roosevelt continues his policy
of refusing to talk for publication.
Plans are being made by the real
dents of Oyster Bay to hold a farewell
reception to the ex-President and Mrs.
Roosevelt on the eve of Mr. Roose
velt's departure for Africa.
change
of administration was completed today. J 160 Stuart Building. Marshall, Mich.
Collier to Feed Editor.
NEW - YORK, March- 6 Theodora
Roosevelt. ex-President of the United
States, will be the principal guest at
an informal breakfast at the home of
Robert J. Collier, in Park avenue, this
city, on Saturday morning next. Thirty
others, will be present and they are
men prominently identified with maga
zine work. Among the more prominent
guests beside Mr. Roosevelt will be
William Dean Howells, Albert Shaw.
Richard Watson Glider, Walter H.
Page and the Rev. Father John J.
Wynns, editor of the New Catholic
Review of America, Other guests who
have no connection with the press will
be Major-General Wood, Mr. Newberry,
until recently Secretary of the Navy,
and Clarence H- Mackay.
GERMANY FEARS CORQUEST
STARR
PREDICTS
DEATH
Say Roosevelt Will Fall Victim to
Disease In Africa.
CHICAGO. March 6. "Theodore
Roosevelt will never return to the
United States alive. If he carries out
his announced Intentions of exploring
the dark regons of Africa In quest of
big game."
This is the opinion of Professor Fred
erick Starr, of the University of Chi
cago, whose prophecy is based on his
knowledge of the dangers of that coun
try, particularly the insidious fevers,
gained through his expeditions to the
Congo Free State.
The ex-President, according to the
educator, will Invade a seotlon of the
country where few white men have
dared to venture heretofore on account
of the fatal nature of prevailing epi
demics, and the "sleeping sickness."
"His danger," says the professor. In
a communication to students, "will not
He In the ferociousness of the animals
which dwell there, but In the fevers the
explorers have come to fear and which
have taken the lives, of many. I have
visited Africa and have known the ex
tent of these. I had a fever peculiar to
that portion of the country I visited
nine different times and narrowly es
caped with my life.
"The ex-President haa not the temp
erament that, a man needs who would
withstand the dangers of the "climate."
SEES
DANGER IX
SITUATION.
lilBERIAN
Mercantile Papers See Plot on Amer
ica's Part to Annex African
Republic,
BERLIN, March . The proposal made
in Washington to send a special commis
sion to Liberie to Investigate conditions
there has aroused suspicion In some Ger
man trading circles as to whether the
United State does not meditate the u.ual
Phenomenal!
of all the
champagne im
ported into the
United States
since iuuu was
G. H. Mumm & Co.'s
Extra Dry and Selected
Brut.
Being made, only of the best
grapes from the choicest vine
yards, Mumm 'a champagne stands
pre-eminent for quality, purity,
natural dryness and bouquet.
annexation of this republlo after first
assuming a protectorate over it.
The Rhenish Westphalian Gasette.
which represents manufacturing and com
mercial Interests, alludes to what it calls
the American policy of conquest, and
warns the German government to be
watchful.
The Foreign Office has been fully in
formed of the conditions that led to the
proposal to send out this American Com
mission.
Strike) Near in
CHICAGO. Marc-h
Nickelodeons,
. Vaudeville
per
formers at 6-cent theaters are Indignant
over an attempt of the manigei to in
augurate "splits." whereby they are
forced to go -from one theater to an
other daily. At present they have one
split a week, which means that they play
four nights in one theater and three In
another. The Moving Picture Owner1
Association has determined to adopt the
new system. It Is said that audiences
tire of the artists If they are kept more
than a day In any one theater. "One
split a week. XX salary, or strike." Is the
ultimatum handed in by the performers,
of whom there are about lOuO employed in
the nlokel theaters.
ON
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DAIRY FARM SANTA BARBARA
There are 175 big, kind, red cows which supply all our
milk, cream, butter and cheese. High, fresh quality,
wholesale, makes possible OUR LOW RATES.
OUR WINTER RATES
Single. $4.00. $4.50, $5.00, $5.50, $6.00. $7.00
Double, $7.00, $7.50, $8, $3.50, $9.00. $10.00
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