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THURSDAY, MAY 21,1908 8 THE MORNING ASTOMAN, ASTOIUA, OREGON. Fancy Specials 8 Oz. Bot. Pitted Selected Olives 35c Maraschino's Cherries..... , $1.00 Dundee Marmalade (large size) 30c IGOz. Bot. Large Queen Olives.. 40c Major Grey's Chutney , 85c 8 Oz Bot. Spanish Stuffed Olives 20 A. V. ALLEN SOLE AGENT FOR BAKER'S BARRINGTON HALL STEEL- CUT COFFEE, 40c PER CAN. PHONES-711 AND 3871 ' BRANCH PHONE-713 I MCK TO THE LAND James J. Hill Draws a Lesson From Governor's Convention THE IDEA 18 A GOOD THING Neither the First Meeting Nor the Second, Third and Fourth Will . Show Results Which the Public Mind Will be Able to Grasp. NEW YORK, May 20.-That the recent conference of governdrs was a good thing and should be made an annual event is the opinion of James J. Hill, prsident of the board of direc tors of the Great Northern Railroad "who was one of the special guests in Tited by President Roosevelt to ad dress the meeting at Washington. The idea behind that conference," Ur. Hill said, "is a big thing. There are persons no doubt who feel and treat it cynically but they are wrong. Everything has to have a beginning, and it is easy enough to be cynical. In an annual convention of the gov ernors of states of this land I see an institution which can be nurtured and built into one of the great forces of the nation. "Neither the first meeting nor the second, nor the third, nor the fourth, will show results which the public mind will be able to grasp but I should say that after the expiration of the formative period big things will be realized. If, as it is generally sairf, this nation has reached a pass should occasion the gravest apprehension, it is about time that we began to put our louse in order. I do not know of a betted way to go about it than through the permanent establishment of an annual gubernatorial conference or convention. "But I want to say right here that I lelieve Washington should never be selected as the place for another meet ing of the kind. "The atmosphere of the capital is essentially political. You must keep politics out of this institution. I think a city like Springfield, 111., would be an ideal place. Then thercj are the large university and college towns. The place chosen should be where big agriculture experiments ar being car ried on. There you have object les ions to hand lessons which are es sentialfor our redemption is to come from the soil and in no other way. "It is all very well to hold conven tions and prepare papers and talk, tut we might as well stay at home if cut papers, our talk and our purposes mean nothing. At the recent confer ence talkers were limited to twenty minutes, and to illustrate what I have just said, I want to mention the case of a man from Chicago who got up and used 13 minutes of his time telling as that if the world kept going around as it has been doing for so long, that at the entl of ten thousand years it -rill have sprung a foot through ero sion. ''What I hope to see is the people looking ahead and planning for a couple of generations. That will be far enough to get them into the habit f thinking and those who come after will inherit the ideas and purposes of conservation and carry them along ior their allotted time. We must go lack to the land. There is no other tray for us." DENVER CONVENTION When tTje doctor Is called he asks: "Hop are the bowek?" They are gen rHy wrong. His visit might have bttn saved by a timely dose of Lane's Family Medfclr.e. Finishing Touches Being Put On the Auditorium ALL HEADQUARTERS SECURED Those in Charge of the Convention Say the Requests For Seats Are Twice as Many as For Any Previous Convention. DENVER, May 20. Preparations for the national democratic conven tion have been practically completed. Work on the new. Auditorium has been hurried until nothing remains to be done but to place the seats in position. As an indication of what the attendance will be the unusual de mand for seats at the convention is significant. Those in charge, of the convention for the national commit tee say that the requests for seats are easily twice as numerous as at any convention the democratic party has ever held. At the headquarters of the sub committee of the National Demo cratic committee which is in charge of Former Governor Osborne, of Wyoming, the hardest work of the convention preparations has been dis posed of. All the delegations so far selected by the various states have been provided with headquarters, and the printing of tickets and badges has been attended to. A special souvenir badge has been prepared for the members of the national committee, and there will also be a special badge for delegates. The arrangements for doorkeepers and guests in the auditorium have not been fully made. This work will be more comprehensive than usual this year. Admission tickets to the general public will provide for seats in cer tain specified sections to which the ticket holders will be directed by ushers. In this manner the confu sion and noise occasioned by a large crwod pressing toward the most de sirable seats will be eliminated. It is estimated that each session of" the convention 1400 people will be pro vided with seats. The members of the national committee will hold a meet ing in Denver in the latter part of June and decide upon the temporary chairman. The decorations for the national convention will be the most elaborate that have ever been attempt ed in Denver. Electrical effects will be conspicuous in the decorations and flags and bunting will be used in a lavish manner. VIGOROUS DEFENSE Aged Senator Denies All Mae Wood's Charges REPUDIATED HIS SIGNATURES Disturbed the Congregation. The person who disturbed the con gregation last Sunday by a continually toughing is requested to buy a bottle tf Foley's Honey and Tar. T. F. laurin, Owl Drug Store. RUEF JURY STILL OUT. SAN FRANCISCO, May 20 After being out for 26 hours the jury in the case of Abraham Ruef, who has been on trial tor the past seven weeKS shortly after 11 o'clock tonight sent for a part of the Phillips testimony. It took the counsel for both sides nearly half an hour to find the par ticular portions of the Phillips testi mony desired and which evidently had something to do with the question in tilt: 'deliberations of the jurors of whether or not the former supervisor was an accomplice of Ruef. After the testimony was sent to the jury loud talking was heard from the jury room indicating that 'a heated discussion was in progress. Judge Dooling was still in chambers a few minutes before midnight in the hope that the jury would reach a verdict.' , BASEBALL SCORES. At San Francisco San Francisco 5, Los Angeles 1. At Spokane Butte 3, Spokane 0. At Seattle Aberdeen 9, Seattle 1. At Vancouver Vancouver 5, Ta coma 4. Justice O'Gorman Announced That the Trial Must be Concluded at To morrow's Session no Matter How Late the' Sitting of the Court NEW YORK, May 20. rhysicnlly so weak he practically had to be car ried in and out of the court room, United States Senator Piatt was at times a spirited witness today when he appeared, to testify in his own be half in Mac C. Wood's suit for an ab solute divorce from him. His denial of all the charges brought by Miss. Wood was emphatic, and when prod ded too hard by the plaintiff's coun sel, the aged senator proved himself capable of a vigbrous defense. While the defendant in the action was in the court-room much of the day, Miss Wood, the plaintiff, did not attend the trial. The prosecution of the case for the defense aside from Piatt's own testimony, was marked by a sharp attack on the authenticity of the marriage certificate which Miss Wood offered in evidence to sup port her conversion of her matrimon ial contract with the Senator. This was followed by an effort to show that the letter in which Senator Piatt is said to have admitted his marriage to Miss Wood was written over his signature on a blank sheet of paper to which he had previously affixed his autograph on the request of two women applicants for it while he wa staying at the Hotel Arlington in this city in 1906. Plat himself in his tes timony categorically denied that he ever married or promised to marry the plaintiff ,and repudiated the sig nature purporting to be his on the marriage certificate and the genuine ness of several letters which Miss Wood testified came to her from him. At the conclusion of the afternoon session Justice O'Gorman announced that the trial must conclude at tomor row's session no matter how late the sitting of the court that might involve. SEVEN ARE OWED n OUTLOOK BRIGHT. CLEVELAND, May 20.-Barring a possible squabble over the details ot a settlement, the indications at mid night tonight were that a peaceable end of the strike of the motormen and conductors against the Municipal Street Railway Company will come tomorrow. The conferees at that hour were still in executive session, but ac cording to the reports emanating from the room the chances seemed to indi cate an amicable agreement to arbi trate the matters in dispute would be reached before adjournment. CURRENCY COMMISSION. WASHINGTON, May 20. The appointment of the currency commis sion to be composed of nine senators and nine members of the house, will be provided for in a bill to be intro duced in the Senate tomorrow by Senator Aldrich, This course was decided on today by the conferees. Undoubtedly this means that the lead ers in congress are determined upon the final adjournment of congress on next Saturday. GENERAL ROW. GUTHRIE, Okla., May 20. A scene was created in the house today when Tillotson, Norvell, and other so-called house "insurgents" attempt ed to throw Speaker Murray out of the house. They rushed toward the speaker's, stand declaring their inten tion, but were stopped by the more conservative members. A general row ensued and it was some time before order was restored. , , NO CURRENCY BILL. WASHINGTON, May 20.-The conferees on the Aldrich-Vreeland currency bill held another meeting to day and failed to agree. It is now apparent that the whole subject of financial legislation will go over to the next session. Fatal Accident Happens to Pleasure Party GASOLINE TANK EXPLODES Nine of Members of the Party Suc ceeded in Reaching Shore and Were Saved Drowned Were All Prominent People of Community. M KM PI I IS, Tenn,, May 20.-A tel ephone message received early today reports that seven member, member oi a pleasure party, were drowned in White Kiver near Clarendon, Ark., last iiijdit when the tank of the gaso line launch aboard which they were riding exploded. The drowned are: MISS LILLIAN WINtlELD of Clarendon, Ark. MISS ALMA PETTE of Coving ton, Miss, MATT IE COUNTS of Clarendon, Ark. MISS BESSIE PALMER of Kan sas City. MISS ALINE BURTON of Hel ena, Ark. JOS. McMANUS of Clarendon, Ark. I OK. A. L: HOUSTON of Claren don, Ark. N'nie other members of the parly were saved. All -were prominent young people. RESULT TO BE ANNOUNCED. BALTIMORE, May 20. Informa tion that is believed to be reliable is that the second vote cast by the Meth odist Episcopal Conference which is in session here today resulted in the election of the Rev. F. W. Anderson of New York and Rev. J. L. Nuelson, of Borea, Ohio. The instructions to those handling the ballots were that everything connected with the result was to be kept an absolute secret un til announced in the convention tomorrow. MISSOURI FOR BRYAN. JEFFERSON CITY, May 20,-Vo-ciforously applauding the name of W. J. Bryan the delegates to the democratic state convention here to day instructed Missouri's 36 delegates to the national convention to vote as a unit for the Nebraskan's nomination for president ENQUIRY CLOSED. TACOMA, May 20-When the third day of the inquiry into the sanity of Chester Thompson, the slayer of Judge George Mead Emory closed today, Prosecutor Rowland was sat isfied he had laid the foundation showing that Thompson is a paranoic and that another brain storm might overtake him again if excitement was the cause to bring it on. Chester was on the 'stand today and made a good showing and appears strong, mcnally any physically. He denies he now be lieves his former delusions and said he began to recover directly that he fired the fatal shot. CASTOR I A lor Infants and Children. - The Kind You Han Always Bought Bears the Signature REPORT IMPROBABLE. 1 WASHINGTON, May 20. The in vestigation of the wood pulp and pa per question was not concluded today and the chances for a report being made to congress in time for action at this session are not as bright as they were a few days ago. A number of paper manufacturers were examin ed today and the committee was in formed that several others are due from the west tomorrow. The testi mony today embraced both increase of cost of the body that goes into paper" and increase in price of wages. Arguments against removal of tariff on wood pulp and paper also made. , NEWSPAPER MAN MURDERED. EL PASO, Texas, May 20 Monroe M. Hirrell, formerly of Oklahoma City, who for a number of years .was engaged in newspaper work, was shot and killed here tonight by J. F. Mit ehim, proprietor of the El Paso News. Mitchim, who was arrested, claims that Hirrell threatened his life. Be fore he lapsed into unconsciousness Hirrell said: "I am murdered." LANSING, Mich., May 20. W. J. Bryan was endorsed today by the state democratic convention and the Michigan delegation to the national convention was instructed to vote for him under the unit rule until he was nominated. -a THE Harrington Patent Washer Improved June 4 1907 i The Agitator works on scientific principles, forcing the suds through the clothes by compressed air. PliCO $5.00 Use galvlnlred tub 17 inches. deep and 17 Inches wide, with straight aidesnot flaring, with drop handles one-third from top of tub is best, although the washer can be used in any tub or boiler. Cover clothes with water deep enough to cover caps of wisher when held down. Press down a number of times opposite you at the outer edge of the tub with a quick, firm pressure, before moving the washer. Then move over the width of the machine. The washer can be used, also, to rinse with. Do not overfoad it and the machine will wash as much as any $10 washer, and do It easier and in less time. It will wash whole carpets, Oriental rugs; lace curtains, loose wool or wooden comforts. Follow directions and it will please you. The Foard & Stokes Hardware Co liu-ornorntrri Succetiors to Fo-.rd & Stokei Co. THE ROAD OF A THOUSAND WONDERS Shasta Route and Coast Line of the Through Oregon and 'California Over 1300 miles of scenic beauty and interest attractive and instruc tive. This great railroad passes through a country unsurpssied for Its scenic attractions, and introduces the traveler to the vast arena soon to become the scene of the world's greatest industrial activities. There is not an idle or uninteresting hour on the trip ,and the variety of conditions presented excites wonder and admiration. 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