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PUBLISHES FULL ASSOCIATED PRESS REPORT COVERSTHE MORNING FIELD ON THE LOWER COLUMBIA NO. 208. VOLUME LXIII, .,S OREGON, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 7, 1907. ' PRICE FIVE CENTS TAFT IS WELCOMED Portland Extends Greeting to Secretary. JIAKES FRIENDS EASILY1 Hon, L B. Wilcox Entertains Visitor Who Addresses Mon ster Crowd. ADDRESS IS NON-POLITICAL Judg Georg H. William Introduce! Him at Luncheon H U EntauUU tally Greeted nd Without Doubt Could Get Support of Oregon Republican. l-ORTLAXI), Sept. 6.-Secrtry of WW Taft aud party en route to the Philippines, spent today la Portland the guet of Theodor B. WHeox. preel dent of th Oregon Development League. This l Tff first vUlt to the Pacific Northwest ami hit Uy In Portland to day we made the occasion of eeveral plrnt attentions s to distinguished statesman end hi pertjr, Tbe 8eoret5y was the guest of Mr. Wilcox at luncheon given iu tbe Port U n Hotel mtd 50 of tli niMt prominent professional and buslnes men of Oregon Uo being guctte of Mr. Wilcox on thl occasion. . ' H did not require any rllort to re li sin! the enthusiasm which prevailed at the luncheon and when T. H. Wilcox Introduced the flrt speaker, lion. Cvo. II Wlllliinii, the former attorney-general of the United SUlos, there was a spon tancoue burst of applauie, at tlie aged luit still heart jf pioneer of Oregon arose to extend welcome to tbe Secretary of War. Judge Williams explained that he bud known intimately U presidents of the United State and he hoped, liowing to Mr. Taft. to kuow 13. The judge eaid he Imd known another Secretary Taft in a business and aoi-lnl dudge Williams laid he did not pro pone to deliver a political speech, but an Secretary, Taft later said "He was clone tliar, if he wasnf thar," and If bia remarks Imd been made on the floor of a national convention Taft at leat would have been placed In nomination. Few speakers in Oregon can hold an audience a can Judge William who U 84 yearn of age. The eomdiiKlon of his reinnrkg w greeted by prolonged hnnd clapping. ' Former Senator- Gear In also spoke in terestingly and promised Taft If he re turned to Oregon in another capacity he would welcome blm none the lew hearty. Taft wag apparently n unusually fine humor and delivered an addreu replete with wit and logic. Ms free delivery, liia easy manner captured the audience. Taft mid he was firmly convinced the time had come when the country wai tired of the plethora of millionaire!), and of their Influence upon governmental and publlo affairs, and it had been demon strated and could further be shown the business of the nation could be run on the principal of a "square deal" to everyone and especial privilege to non, be he rich or poor. That, he said, had been the principle of diie present admin istration and would be with the Repub lican administration to come, lie ex pressed confidence in the ability of the people to rise up and regnlate whatever abuses might e.it and said people had done this before and would do it again, If the occasion offered.' j "Government and ths people ar in ntrol." he said, "thev are deaf in the rlticisms and machinations of the now- erf ul and arromint combinations nt'i capital, and they a r equally deaf to tli rents, so freely uttered by powerful demagogues." . ' J Tonight Taft Is speaking under the auspices of the Oregon Development League addressing over 5000 people at the Armory It was tbe first tlms tb vast majority of the audience bad ever heard Mm and bis nddre. was listened to with unusual Interest and b was frequently Interrupted by applaus. Mr. Taft's ipeeeh at the Armory was !e voted to a minute resume of the his tory of the 1'snama Canal and It pro- glD'. Ills addre was non-political and non-partisan. LOOKING FOR SON. After ao Years Mrs. Connler Remem bers Sbt Ifss Child in Raw York. BROOKLYNN. Y, Sept. fl.-Th po lice have been Vd to look for William Henry Bablneau, who is employed some wliere In Brooklyn as a bartender. The Information fhireau at local Po lio Headquarter received a letter tbl morning from Mrs. Anthony Connler, of Fltehburg, Mass., who say she is hi mother and want to find blm. Mrs. Connler, twenty years ago. lived Ic Brunswick, Nova Scotia, with her two children, Mary Jan, ten month old, snd William Henry, S year old. '8b w a widow and very poor. Tb girl was sriven to a familr In Kogcrsvllle, Canada, and the boy was adopted by a family In Halifax. This was twenty years ago. Mr. Bablneau married again and lost track of her children. Three week ago the daughte who marnea a prosperon business man named Protou, of Rojrernvllle, was d. ing through Fltchbuiv, Mans., and acci di ntly met her mother,' whom she be. lievej dead. A happy reunion followed, and then Inqulrie were made for the son. Tlie mother and daughter beard he was In Brooklyn working s a bar fender. ,y WRECK ON SOCK ISLAND. CHICAGO, Sept. .-Meagr Inform- tlon at the olllees in this city on the Chicago, Rock Wand 4 Pacific RallroaJ state Uiat 11 were killed and seven In jured hi a wreck near North, Iowa, to day. " TO BORN HOSPITALS Where Cases of Bubonic Plague Have Existed. - ARE ALL WOODEN BUILDINGS People of San Francisco Are Satisfied With the Way the Government Has Taken Hold of the Plague Situation and Confidence Has Been Restored. SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 0-The board o," health today recommended to the board of uperviBors that the city arid county hospitals which have sheltered a number of plague cases., be burned. 1 The supervisors will hold a. meeting tonight when they decide what action is to be taken In tho city and county hos piUl which is a collection of large frame buildings and it has long been planned to demolish, them. lire announcement that the marine hospital service Is to take charge of the plague situation I regarded as an as surance the progress of the disease will be stopped In short order. Dr. Rupert Blue, who has been assigned to direct the campaign, had charge durmg the for mer appearance of the plague and has the confldence-of the entire community." LOVER'S VICTIM DIES. ONTARIO, CaU Sept. C Miss Julia Keye, the 17 year old daughter of Geo. Keyei, secretary of the Cucamonga Vta tcr Company, who was, shot In tho back by Mi jealous admirer, William Motzing- er, who afterwards committed suioide, died at the home of her father yester day. . IS DARNG HOLD-UP J Masked Men Terrorize Pul lman Passengers. GIVE UP POCKETBOOKS Three Men Rode as Passengers on Car But Suddenly Dis play Guns. GUNS COVER THE CONDUCTOR Void-up Men Try to Enter Sleeper But it la Locked Jump From Train After Collecting Valuable and Escape De tectives and Bloodhound Give Chase. OMAHA, Sept 0. Tb Omaha and Texas Express on the Itock Iland was held up today near Murdock. Robber, w ho were passengers on tbe train, arose from th seat shortly after leaving Murdock, their face covered with masks and with revolver lu each band, coven-d th passengers. Th leader or dered everybody to keep still and not reit or they would be shot. The men went down the aisles with hat In their hand, while a third kept the paengers covered. AH the pas sengers were ordered to throw their pocket books into the bats and this was don. A conductor appeared in the car with r pito In his hand, but was promptly covered by four guns and forcwd to drop his revolver. After getting all the money In the car the robbers jumped from the train which had slowed down for a grade. An attempt w made to enter tbe sleeper, but it was locked. Pursuit is being vigorously prosecuted y railroad detectives and a sheriffs poie with bloodhound. . DIG UP MORE INDICTMENTS. JAMESTOWN. K.1 Y, Sept. fl.-The Federal Grand Jury returned an addi tional indictment ngainat the Pennsyl vania and New York Central Railroads, the Standard Oil Company and Vacuum Oil Company. Bich indictment con tains 58 counts. Uncle Sara Oood-bye, Prince I My wrinkle of entertaining princes' j I ; The Crown Prince of Sweden leaves News Item, HALF CROP OF ORANGES. Bartow Paper Says That i About the Correct Estimate. BARTOW, Fla., Sept. fl.-The Courier. Informant says of the Florida orange crop i "At this season of the year there l always a great deal of peculution as to the outcome of the orange crop. Buy era are abroad with their interested statements of a good! crop and all sorts of plausible ' reaions for low prices. Others, perhaps, equally Interested on the other side, predict a small yield; and between the two, the ordinary grower, who does not keep fully up with tbe times on such matter, i sorely purxled to know what to think or do. "Various and widely different est! mate have been and are, still being made, on the present year's crop, and we feel that it Is our duty to our readers to sift these estimates and furnish them, as far can be done, information that can be relied on. This we intend to do, flora time to time ,a the season ad vances. "It should be borne In mind that last it seaon's orange crop was a little less Mian 2,750,000 boxes, and that the per centage named lu the various estimates for thl seaon are based on these figure. 'The florid Orange Growers' Co., organised at Plant City recently, found it to be the consensus of opinion of a huge number of the bet informed men in the state on this subject that the crop would be about 52 per cent, or very little over half of last year's crop Other authorities estimate as high as 60 per cent, but those who make tbe high estimates are generally vague and inJefl n!te in their ntatements, and judge from tlie crop in limited area rather than from a view of tbe entire field, or they are buying and of course interested in depressing prices." TWO GET DEATH SENTENCE. ' KIEV, Sept. 0. A court mar- tial today sentenced tlie niuti- 4 neers of the 21st batallion which 4 on June 17 killed the command- er of the 3rd company, fired volley at random and were not sulNlued until surrounded by five battalions of loyal troops. Two of tlie prisoners were condemned to death, seven were sentenced to imprisonment in the mines and tlie rest received lighter punish- ments. " 4 DECISIONS NEXT WEEK. SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. C.-The As sociated Press is informed that the Su preme Cout intends handing down a de; cision regarding the writs of prohibi tion of those hidictedxin the bribery graft cases early next week. 400 are certainty getting on to the ' ' . the United States about September 8. TO ADMIT IB II FREE An Irrigation Congress Amendment. IS FATHERED BY RAKER Resolution is Loud in Its Praise of Rooseveltian Reclama tion Policy. THE SESSION IS SPIRITED National Irrigation Congress Alao Favor Cutttng Timber From Reserve to Maintain Forest Service Next Ses sion at Washington, D. C SACRAMENTO, Sept. 6.-The Na tional Irrigation Congress today adopted a report of the committee onsresolutions as presented by its chairman, ex-Gover nor Pardee, of California. There is an endorsement of Roosevelt' policv, of reclamation, irrigation, forest preserva tion, and tbe conservation of resources. The departments having big work in hand are endorsed. There is a, recom mendation that . the government only charge enough for timber cut from tbe forest reserves to pay for the mainten ance of forest service. The Irrigation Congress is asked to make every effort to have the Seven teenth session of the Congress held in Washington, D. C- at tb same time the National Congress ig In session and pro vide for a committee of five to promote the matter. Protection is also asked for the beet sugar industry and aid for work of irrigation, reclamation, preservation and conservation. The report' was adopted as a whole after a spirited discussion on tbe amend ment, which Judge Raker, of Modoc County, Cel., sought to have added. This was made a special order for tomorrow morning. , Judge Raker's amendment asked for the removal of duty-on timber coming into this country. ViIIett M. Hays, assistcot secretary of agriculture, delivered a vry interest ing address on "Country Life Education for the New Sections." The convention then adjourned until tomorrow. WITHHOLD STATEMENTS. Railroad Presidents Meet in Chicago and Hold Back July Business. . . , . ; NEW YORK, Sept. 6. The presi- df nts of several railways met at " the hotel today to discuss the new law under which railroads have been forced to charge to operating expense certain sums heretofore charged to construction account. One oi' more of the railroad presidents is said to have alked over the long dis- ance phone to Roosevelt's secretary at Oyster Bay. i ' It is Btated that a number of railroads are holding back July statements be cause of the showing they are compelled to make under the law. ARGUMENT ON DEMURRER. SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 6.-Judge Lawfer heard arguments today on the demurrer interposed by the defendants to tlie bribery indictments returned by the Oliver grand jury against Calhoun, Maullaly, Ford, Abbott, Drum, Desabla, and Martin, of San Francisco; the Gas & Electric Light Company, and of Ruef and Schmitz. ' WOULD EXPEL CLASS. Pleb Cadet May be Dismissed Dis honorably. NEW YORK, Sept, 7.-The "silent treatment" given a "plebe" at West Point, it is tated in dispatcfae received nere, na resulted in a elash between th plebe' class and the commandant at th Military Academy, Colonel Robert Lee Howze which threaten to deplete tb supply of U. 8. Army officers four years hence, for Colonel Howze issued an or der two day ago to the effect that unles the eadet was relieved entirely of the "ilent treatment," he would dis honorably discharge the entire class. A cadet, tbe son of a wealthy Chicago man, is the young man around whom th trouble center. He is a plebe, and it is stated received th "silent treat ment" jodt only from hi own c!as, but from the cadet in tbe other classes be cause of a complaint he is alleged to have made when he was mildly, hazed by a fellow classmate. The cadets, it is understood, have de termined to remain firm in their atti tude. ; 'HUMMEL A WRECK. May be Unable to Testify in Coming Trial af Harry K. Thaw. NEW YORK, Sept. 6. "Abe" Hum mel's physical and mental condition is such that the date for tbe second trial of Harry K. Thaw for the murder of Stanord White cannot be set He is not able to testiy. It is doubtful whether he will rally sufficiently while in the penitentiary to make s competent witness, and the state ma never again be able o rest its case against the Pitta burg urderer on the testimony of the little lawyer. GO BACK TO WORK. ANTWERP, Sept. 6. Work wa re sumed . on all steamers where 4000 -strike breakers were employed. WHEAT MARKET CHICAGO, Sept. . Wheat, Decem ber, opened 89 l-4c closed $1,021. WILL INVESTIGATE Metropolitan Company Fails to Produce Books. SPECIAL GRAND JURY GRANTED Attorney Bonaparte Obtains Order Granting Jury But District Attorney Jerome Will Not Say What- he is Go ing to do With it. NEW-YORK, Sept. 6. District At torney Bonaparte today obtained an order for a special grand jury in addi tion to the regular grand jury. Jerome has not announced his purpose further than to say that the present business required a special jury. This was the course he followed in in vestigating the insurance cases. Unusual interest in his action is displayed be cause William M. Ivins who is investi-' gating affairs of the Metropolitan Street Railroad declared yesterday he Intended to call the District Attorney' attention to the fact that book of the company have been destroyed, preventing the dis closure of some of the mergers through which that company passed. Ivins said he would ask Jerome to pro ceed against the company if he found there was any violations of the penal code, The time limit set by the public, service commission to produce books other than those destroyed, Expired to day without the compliance by company. which is resisting the order. YESTERDAY'S BASEBALL SCORES; At Portland Portland 5, Oakland 1. At Spokane Spokane 9, Vancouver 2