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COVERS THE MORNINO FIELD ON THE LOWER COLUMBIA PUBLISHES FULL ASSOCIATED PRESS REPORT 84tlj YEAR. KO. 30. KM m MM Mm 9 'PHI SEW Provides for Tax cn Aver ago Daily Deposits RACE BILL UP TODAY Anti-Race Track Measure li Pra dieted to Easily Pass Senate WANT EMERGENCY CLAUSE Advocate of tht Bill Want it to 0 Into Effect Immediately alter Pa aigeHot Fight ia Expected. OLYMPIA. Feb. 2-The bank de port guaranty bill, original In many of Iti particular wa introduced in the Senate today, The bill provide for an annual graduated tax, bated on the average daily deposit, one-half of one per cent the firtt year; one fourth per cent the lecond year and one-eighth of one per cent thereaf ter. Only one-tenth of tax i payable in eah, the balance being in non Intercut bearing certificate! of de posit, until the guaranty fund reache Sl.000.000. Thereafter tht tax mint be paid in cash in fulL The bill pro vides for the investment by the state treasurer all money In the fund In excess of $1,000,000 in bonds, inter est payments on which go to the bank. Only non-interet drawing deposit are guaranteed in full. Two per cent of deposit to 90 per cent, three per cent to 80 per cent and four per cent to 70 per cent. ProvUion for use of fund are similar to those of the Oklahoma law. The act pro vides for numerous safeguards in the licensing of state bank examiner of the new institutions- The national bank are permitted to participate in the guaranty plan. ' , The anti-rack track bill will go to the senate tomorrow without recom mendation from the judiciary com mittee which tonight acted bn In structions from the senate today or dering the committee to report on the the bill. The committee was de cided to, but it was not ready to carry out the threat to reject all criminal bills that it lit been holding up pending consideration of the report of the criminal code commission. The vote of 25 to IS in the senate today to recall the racetrack bill from the committee is not looked on as an ac curate index of the final vote on the bill itself. The house passed the bill without a dissenting vote and the dis aenting votes in the senate according to' some speaker on the floor of sen-: FORMER FIANCE LANDS Thomas Bolin Arrested Two Wives is ST. LOUIS, Feb. 2.-Thomas H. Bolin, a commercial traveler, charged with having two wives in the West, one fiance in St. Louis, another on the Pacific Coast and with having embezzled $1200 from a branch house of the Indiana .concern ; at Provouth was arrested here today following an attempt to spread a false report of his death. The clue was a letter writ- 'itcn to Miss Ida M. Beck of North J I VI t . tJ -. . ato today, will be few Jf any. rrtenaa Of the bill will, try to secure its final pasaage tomorrow, practically unani mous, which it is predicted the bill itself wlU'receive on Its passage, will be divided over the question of at taching the emergency clause, which require two-third vote to carry. Without the emergency clause the law would not go Into effect until June Uth. which advocate of the bill declare would permit the holding of a partial of the racing season. k ON SINKING ICE. PITTSBURG, Feb. 2.-A thousan men, women ana ennuren were onv- en from Lake Elizabeth in West Park, North Side, by police with drawn clubs last night when the ice gave way beneath their weight and began to ink. All of them got off safely but about 200 were compelled to wade ashore in water which covered the ice a foot deep. Hundred of pairs of ahoes and stocking frote to the wearer in the almost aero tempera ture before they reached home. But for the timely action of the police many would nave gone aown wun the sinking ice and migtit have frown or drowned in the lake, which is deep. HOUSES FOR ITALY. NSW YQRK, Feb. 2.-With a car go of 500 portable house intended for the use of the earthquake victims at Messina, Italy, the naval supply ship Eva i now on her eatward voy age. She cleared thi port yesterday with the houses packed in her hold, divided in five layers, and painted five different colors. Printed instruction for their erec tion, with nail and tools, went with the consignment. The shipment now on its way Is one of several that the United State government and the Red Cro will end. Two thousand in all will be shipped from this coun try. Each house will 'house four per sons comfortably. SELL FUNERAL WREATHS. CHICAGO, Feb. 2.-The City Council has passed an ordinance prohibiting second hand dealer from purchasing funeral wreathes and moss from the grave of those who have met death by contagious disease. AUTO BILL OPPOSED. WASHINGTON, Feb. 2. -The house locked horns with the senate today on the question of an automo bile for the white house and refused to acept an amendmendt to the urgent deficiency mill. About all the hope were blasted when the house re-considered its action of last week and by a vote of almost two to one withdrew the increase of $500,000 then made. ,' - -The armv aoDroonation bill was passed and consideration of the agrl' cultural bill immediately begun and was pending when the house ad journcd. HIM IN JAIL in St. Louis for Also an Embezzler Having Yakima, Wash, It was dictated by Bolin to Miss Rachacl Schaefer of Hitchcock, Okla,, who left there two months agphen Bolin promised to marry her. The letter directed Miss Beck to obtain further particulars of his death from Thomas Howard, at 2216 Olive street, St. Louis. The name was recognized by the' Yakima girl and on telegraphic information from there the local police arrested him. mnRll. nVI" w MARRIED DYING MAN. . ; CHICAGO, Feb. 2.-Mr. M. C. Hatcher is a widow after a little'over month of wedded life. Mrs, Hatch er wa married w.ien sue anew ncr fiance wa dying. The wedding had been act for January. On December 0, 1908, Mr. Hatcher' physician told bim that he was a victim of cancer arid had but a short time to live. When he told his fiance she insisted upon hastening the wedding, and they were married the same day. - LEFT ALL TO JOHN D. NEW YORK, Feb. 2.-Duly'igned and executed on March 1$, 1906, the will of John Crom, formerly . of Shamong Township, New Jersey, ha been found, a clause of which read a follow: "L John Crom, do hereby give and bequeath all my real estate and per sonal property, horses, cattle, gold mines, farms, railways, steamships, canal boats, telegraph lines, oil wells, ocean cables, airships, cranberry bogs, cattle ranches automobile and also my castles in Spain; also my castles in the air. to John D. Rockefeller, providing he can find them." SCHLEY TESTIFIES li TEHNESSEE CASE J f ONE OF THE SYNDICATE MAN AGERS TELLS COMPANY'S ABSORPTION WASHINGTON. Feb. 2. Grant B. Schley, one of the men who man aged the syndicate that was sard to have controlled a majority of the stock of the Tennessee Coal & Iron Company when it was absorbed by the United States Steel Corporation testified before a special committee of the judiciary committee which is making inquiry into the President's authority for permitting the merger. He said suspicion was first directed against the Tennessee . Company s stock during the panic a year ago when several banking firms demand ed it to be replaced by other sccuri ties, A a result, Schley suggested that J. P. Morgan should purchase the company and issue steel bonds in order to relieve the marked. COIIIS SERIOUS IS yJ-4 SEVERE STORM CAUSES LAND SLIDES AND .WASHOUTS ON THE S. P. ROUTE. REDDING, Cal., Feb. 2,-The se verest storm of the season so far as flood waters are concerned is raging along the head of Sacramento valley tonight with no indication of let up Traffic is suspended for the night ow ing to the danger, of landslides and washouts, but it will be resumed at dawn if the tracks are 'still clear, The Sacramento is about to flood. be ing over the banks at several points and is filling with driftwood and up rooted trees. The north-bound pas sengers are being held at Red Bluff and south-bound at Dunsmuir. PREHISTORIC SKELETON. NEW YORK, Feb. 2. The skele ton of the prehistoric man of gigantic size has been' found at a town ten miles southeast of the city of Mex ico according to news received here yesterday. The discovery was made by a peon, who unearthed the skele ton which measured about 15 feet in height. It probobly will be turned over to the national museum in Mex ico. The find has revived the Aztec legend that ages ago a giant race in habited parts of the Mexican plateau, flRFfiQN. WEDNESDAY. FEBRUARY - www"f ...... , SENATE IS LIVELY DAY nitiativo and Referendum is Defeated SALARY BILLS PASSED Governor's Vetoes Fail to Reach Salem in Time to Receive Action CONSIDER NEW WATER CODES Senate by Unanimous Vote Passes Bill Requiring Health Certificate ot Person Proposing to Contract Marriage. SALEM, Or., Feb. 2. Initiative and referendum was the storm center of the senate this afternoon. It was precipitated by Smith of Marion county, whose bill makes it a misde meanor to pay for having initiative petitions circulated. The bill was de fcated but not until every senator had been heard. It was charged from the floor that this measure was con ceived by enemies of the Initiative and referendum law who wished to discredit or at least to throw around handicaps which would prevent this free invoking of the initiative or ref erendum. Senators, supporting the bill declared that they had only the interests of the measure at heart and only wished the prevent the use of the initiative for the adoption of foolish laws. Representative Bean introduced a bill this afternoon placing the state printer on a flat salary, and providing for the state board to engage a prac tical printer and the purchase of a new plant within a . specified time. More salary raising bill were passed by the senate over attempts to have the voters in counties affected on the act of these salary measures. The governor's vetoes of the sal ary bill did hot reach the senate in time to receive action today. , These will be taken uptomorrow. , Irriga tion Committee is 'm session today considering several water codes sub mitted. Opposition to the codes is aggressive, as iri the session two years ago when the water legislation wa defeated. The senate by unanimous vote to day passed the bill requiring health certificates of persons proposing to contract marriage. ' RED CROSS EMBLEM. WASHINGTON, Feb. Z. It is proposed to prevent the general use of the emblem of the Red Cross So cietv by means of a bill introduced by Representative : Dcnby of Michi' gnn. If the bill is en&cted into a law only agents of the Red Cross, the Sanitary and hospital authorities of the army and navy and those having previously registered the "Red Cross' as a traacmarK, win oe pcrmuica io display their emblems. A fine of from $100 to $500 is provided for ev ery violation of this section. . GOT HIS IRISH UP. CHICAGO, Feb. 2. Dominick Do- lan, a giant tn stature was locked up for using strenuous methods to clear a hall of which he was the lessee. Brandishing a billy, he overcame six men, breaking a leg of one and an arm of another, and rendering the remaining four insensible in a terri fic battle. . The men he fought were members of the Iron Moulder Union and were raising a disturbance because they had been barred from a meeting, because of the non-payment of dues 3, 1909 DREW PARTY LINES. Contention. In Senate Over .Negro '.'" Custom Collection. WASHINGTON, Feb. 2.-For the first time in several years, absolute party lines were drawn in the Senate when, on yesterday art executive ses sion was ordered to consider the norri ination of Dr, W. D. Crum, to be collector of customs at Charleston, S. c. . " "' ' AH the Republicans on the floor voted to close the door while the Democrats voted to proceed with legislative business. When tne case was called up Senator Tillman asked that it go over, until today. In re suming the fight party lines again will be drawn. Senator Tillman objected to con sideration yesterday in order that he might- obtain protest from business organizations in South Carolina against the continuation of Dr. Crura in the customs service. Republican Senators are under stood to have lined up for Cram in order that Mr. Taft may be relieved of the embarrassment of inheriting a dispute with the " Senate. Many of the Democrats believe that if they can prevent the confirmation of the negro collector at the present ses sion. Mr. Taft would not send his nomination to the Senate. NEW BOAT ON. NEW YORK, Feb. 2.-The regular Star liner Finland will be withdrawn from- the eet and placed in the Mediterranean service as a substitute for the White Star Liner Republic, which lies at the bottom of the At lantic as a result of the recent col lision with the Florida. MANY PUPILS. CHICAGO, Feb. 2.-nAn addition of 1500 pupils to the attendance roll of the various high schools is report ed to the board of education. This is an increase of 50 percent over the record of "last year, and is regarded as the best showing made by any pub lic school system in the country. OU SEi 111,500 TO QUAKE SUFFERERS COL. DUNNE CONCLUDES CAM- PAIGN FOR INDIVIDUAL SUBSCRIPTIONS' PORTLAND, Feb. 2.-Oregn has sent $11,750 to the aid of the Italian earthquake sufferers and with the final draft of $1259 sent today by CoL David M. Dunne of this city, treas urer of relief committe, the books were closed and Italian relief ; com mittee concluded its campaign, for individual subscriptions.. The com' mittee is however, to continue its ef forts, having the Oregon legislature to pass a bill appropriating $10,000 for the purpose, , . ,s TAFT AT COLON. PANAMA, Feb. 2.-Judge Taft and Colonel Goethals and a special orga nizer , proceeded from Culebra to Colon this morning sand Taft had an opportunity to look into the matter of the breakwater which it is propos ed to construct there. ..... . EX-CHIEF IS SHOT. OAKLAND, Feb. 2.-Ex-Chief of Police Hodgkins of this city was shot twice and seriously injured tonight while attempting to capture Charles Clifton, who twice attempted to hold up a drug store on Telegraph avenue. Clifton was captured after a short chasc ,. 17 REPORTED DEAD. BIRMINGHAM, Ala., .Feb. 2.- Seventeen are dead as a result of an explosion in No, 2 Short Creek Mine of the Birmingham Coal & Iron Co. this morning. . Five are whites the others negroes. The explosion is thought to have been caused by a windy shot, URA 0UTLU1ES ATTITUDE TO RAISED THEIR SALARIES. CHICAGO, Feb. 2.- Salarie of aldermen were boosted by the coun cil last night from $1,500 a year each to $3000. The member elected at the next aldermanic election will get $3000 without subterfuge. For the hold overs the council provided "Private secretaries,' at $1500 each, which salary will be given to the holdovers. All who spoke favored a $3500 stipend. The only reason why the $500 was cut off the original recom mendations of the finance committee was because Governor Deneen signed the enabling act on the pledge by Mayor Busse that the salaries would not be placed higher than $3000. TO e SETTLE JAPANESE DISPUTE TODAY CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE TO DECIDE BROWN MAN'S FATE THIS DAY. SACRAMENTO, Feb. 2.--A11 bills introduced in the - California legisla ture restricting the privilege of the Japanese in this state have been' made the special order in the assembly for tomorrow and a lively debate is an ticipated. A majority is claimed by those who favor the anti-Japanese legislation and these claims that all the bills will pass. Those opposed, declare none of the bill will get thru save the possibly alien land bill. The action of the Nevada legisla ture is iapproving the alien land bill. The action of Nevada's legislature ap proving the legislation by California hostile to the Japanese has been re ceived with a cold shoulder in Sacra mento. Members of both houses ap pear to resent outside ' interference with their home affairs. ' 1 ' TOOK TOO MUCH POISON. NEW YORK, Feb. 2.-Leon A. Sadler, a salesman, who committed suicide in his apartment in West Sev entieth Street last night, took poison enough to kill 500 men, according to physicians. Three vials which had contained cyanide of potasium were found in his room, with indications that he had emptied the contents of all three into a glass and drank it. Alder was 35 years old and leaves a widow and two cnuaren. i nat ne made careful preparations for death was indicated by the fact that he had his insurance policies extended until February 5. In a letter which he left to his wife and children he said: 'You will be better off without me. You will find the notice of the exten- sinn nf tnw notifies in mv nopket." j v - j i He carried insurance amounting to $7000. ; r TAKES LAW IN HER OWN HANDS Miss Vera Ware Shoots Betrayer During Court Proceedings Injures Two Spectators GATESVILLE, Texas, Feb. 2. Miss Vera Ware, a daughter of a prominent farmer fired repeatedly into a crowded court room here to day, continuing until the revolver was empty. As a result John Haines, a merchant of Jonesboro, for whom the bullets was intended, is dead, two by standers, James Smith and David Ross, perhaps fatally wounded and A. R. Wiley, Jr., is seriously wound PRICE FIVE CENTS HIE IPIESE Mini Only Friendship Exists He Declares HAKES FINE ADDRESS Says it is Essential That the Two Countries Maintain : Perfect Accord CONFIDENT OF JUST DECISION Japanese Government ! Relying on Sense of Justice of American peo ple For Fair Treatment at Califor nia Legislature. ' TOKIO, Feb. Z-Speaking before the lower house of the Diet today, Foreign Minister Komura outlined the foreign policies of Japan in a carefully worded speech delivered be fore a full and attentive house. The opening sentence gave the keynote of the entire speech, when Count Ko mura said: "The foreign policy of this empire should have as an object the main tenance of peace and the development of national resources." The Foreign Minister dwelt upon the relations between Japan and America at length. He said:. "The friendship of Japan and the United States is traditional and it is absolutely essential that both main tain unimpaired those sentiments of amity and extend and strengthen them by every means. Notwithstand ing the perfect accord which has al ways existed regarding the aims of the two countries in the Far East and in the Pacific, it appear that doubt have been entertained in some quar ters concerning the sincerity of the intentions. ; "In order to remove this misunder standing, the two governments have deemed it advisable to exchange dip lomatic notes, officially announcing a common policy; which I am convinc ed will be largely instrumental in preserving the repose of the Orient. "With regard to the question of legislation unfavorable to the Japan ese now pending in California, the imperial government is relying on the sense of justice of the American peo ple, together with the friendly dispo sition of the Federal Government and , - j is confident that the question will not I lead to international complications." ed. It was during the trial of Haines on serious charges preferred "by Miss Ware that the shooting occurred. Approaching the window from which a view of the court room could be had. Miss Ware saw Haines among the spectators and she could not be restrained, she drew a revolver from the folds of her dress and fired. Three of the bullets struck Haines and he died within an hour. Miss Ware and her brother, Charles were arrested.