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Senate Passes Bean In
surance
BECOME LAW AT ONCE
Governor Will Appoint Insuranoe
Commissioner, Head Newly
Created Department
ASTORIAN MAY BE APPOINTED
Best Piece of Legislation Don In
Many Ytrt Orgon to be Fr
Stat Hereafter and Open to Com
petition In Insurance Matter.
STATEHOUSE. Salem, On Feb.
19. Only three votei were recorded
against the bill creating an insurance
department when it reached tba Sen
ale this morning. This 'Is the only
measure producing revenue that the
Home hi submitted to the Senate
thii imicn, all other revenue-making
measures having been defeated be
fore they could leave the lower
branch of the Legislature.
So itrong wai the sentiment in
favor of the insurance bill that when
22 Senate voters were pledged last
week the opposition flattened out.
and most of such Senators as did not
like it either voted yes or became
conveniently absent when the vote
was taken.
Senators Miller of Linn and Lane
and Hart were the two who spoke
for the bill Miller explained that
the Covernor and Secretary of State
have advocated it. The speaker read
statistics showing the result of the
present system of handling Insur
and stated that with the passage of
this proposed law the State would
receive between $25,000 and $30,000
a year above the running expenses
of the office.
The measure permits new com
panies to come into the field, and
creates an Insurance center at Port
land. It was in the interest of econ
omy, and brought in money to the
State, and for these reasons Hart
advocated it.
One of the effects of the bill will
be to prevent the San Francisco in
surance combine from dictating the
way business shall be conducted
throughout Oregon.
An emergency clause is attached,
and as the Governor favors the bill,
he will probably approve it within
a. few hours and make his appoint
ment before he departs for Wash
ington to be seated as United States
Scliator, next week.
FEATHERWEIGHT
FIGHTERS BATTLE
Meet in Ten Round Bout in Which Driscoll Has
a Shade the Best of it
NEW YORK, Feb. 19. Jem Dris
coll, the English featherweight cham
pion and Abe Attell, the world's
champions in that class, met in a 10
round bout tonight at the National
Athletic Club and Driscoll had the
shade better of the .contest. No
decision was given by Referee White
as the laws of the State do not per
mit a decision being rendered in
New York. Championship articles
were not involved in the articles gov
OUT
Cn 'VtQTfPnAV
One of the important features of
the bill is that every Insurance com
pany must publish a condensed state
ment once a year in every county in
the Slate in which they accept bus!
inn. Sam Koier, now chief deputy
In the Secretary of State'a office. Is
prominently mentioned for the office
of Commissioner. ,
HAS BUSY DAY.
Washington Legislature Would Make
Public Protect the Railroads.
OLYMPIA, Feb. 19-The House
today passed a bill changing the
character of the state medical board
by placing two osteopaths on it. The
Senate substitute for the House
local option bill reached the House
today and was referred to the public
morals committee, which is believed
to have a majority opposed to the
bill. The Senate defeated the bill
prohibiting members of city councils
appearing for hire in criminal or
other cases in municipal courts or
city departments; adopted the bill
giving railway commission power to
say whether railroads hereafter to be
constructed may cross at grade, pub
lie highways or other railroad lines;
passed a bill making It a mlsdemean
or for stealing rides on railway
trains. This bill gives trainmen pow
er to make arrests and call on by
slanders to assist.
ID STEELrHAR-
KET TO BE OPENED
PRICES WILL BE MODIFIED
BY THE BIQ STEEL COR-
PORATION
NEW YORK. Feb. 19-Open mar
ket in ifon and iteel industry that
manufactures believe will lead to
the stimulation of the induatry was
created late today when Former
Judge Gary, chairman of the direc
tors of the United Statea Steel Cor
poration, made an official announce
ment that the "Leading manufactur
ers of iron and steel have determined
to protected their customers and for
the present will sell at such modified
prices as may be necessary with
respect to different commodities in
order to retain their fair ahare of
business." Prices to be determined
on will be given by manufacturers
to their customers.
$6000 APPROPRIATED
WASHINGTON, D. C, Feb. 19.
The rivers and harbors bill which
was reported to the House today
appropriates . $600,000 for investiga
tions, surveys, contingencies and in
cidental repairs for rivers and har
bors for which there is no special
appropriation. Included are prelimi-
erning the match.
At the conclusion of the contest
both men were in good condition and
could probably ha.ve gone many
more rounds. Both men were very
fast, but Attell seemed to have
more steam behind his. blows. Dis
coll's left Jabs' were frequent and he
landed them in one-two-three fash
ion on Abe's face. At in-fighting the
American proved to be better, send-
jing in some hard body punches that
staggered the British boxer.
nary surveys of the Columbia, Yaki
.1 I ir!,i . .
iim ami tower wuiamcue rivers In
Oregon and Washington and Ta
coma harbor.
MADE KNOCKER ON SIGHT.
CINCINNATI, Feb. 19. -Judge
Taft was tonight made a "Knocker"
at sight. The initiation furnished
amusement for a hundred prominent
business and professional men at a
"Knocker" annual dinner. The
Knockers' Association is an auviliary
of business men's clubs and its prin
cipal business is to knock everything
that hinders the advancement of the
city or its welfare.
LAWYERS HAVE HOT TIME.
Charged That Attorney Ach Knew of
. Assault on Heney.
SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 19-Re-
vlving the memories of the attempted
assassination of.F. J. Heney today it
was charged that Henry Ach, Ruefs
attorney, knew of Mass's intention
to shoot the prosecutor. The accu
sation was ung at the attorney for
the defense during one of the most
heated exchanges that has occurred
during the Calhoun trial, and before
the court bad resumed calmness
Judge Lawyer had threatened L. F.
Ryington of counsel for Calhoun and
Heney himself with imprisonment in
the county jail. One seat still re
mains vacant in the jury box- Ten
talesman were examined and dis
charged during the' day.
CONSERVE RESOURCES.
WASHINGTON, D. C, Feb. 19-
So thoroughly impressed is President
Roosevelt with the necessity of con
servation of the natural resources of
the world that he today directed Sec
retary of State Bacon at suggestion
of the North American Conservation
conference in session here to send a
formal invitation to foreign powers
to participate in the conference to
deal with this important problem o
be held a The Hague next Septem-
bor.
ROBBERS ROB BANK.
EL PASO, Texas. Feb. 19-Rob-
bers btew open the vault of the
State Bank at Kilgore today and Es
caped with $3400. Bloodhounds were
put on their track-
INSPECTOR POND AP-
TO
POPULAR NAVAL OFFICER
GOES UP ANOTHER ROUND
IN LADDER OF SUCESS".
PORTLAND, Feb. 19.-Bearing
the signature of President Theodore
Roosevelt, Charles F. Pond, inspec
tor of the lighthouse district com
prising the Oregon, Washington and
Alaska coasts, received yesterday
from Washington, D. C, a commis
sion making him a captain in the
United States Navy. One more ftep
and he will become a Rear-Admiral,
making the highest round on the
naval ladder. Dewey holds the posi
tion of Admiral, but the title in this
country will die when he passes
away.
Captain Pond had just returned
from an official trip to San Franisco
when he found his promotion papers
awaiting him, In six or seven years,
under ordinary conditions, he will
reach the pinnacle to which everyone
n the service looks forward for years
before attaining. While the recent
promotion does not necessarily mean
that he must report for early sea
duty, such is generally the case- Al
ready the , greater part of the cap
tain's life has been spent aboard a
man-of-war.
Starting in service as a cadet mid
shipman in June, 1872, he remained
in that position for six years. He
was appointed an Ensign in 1878; a
Lieutenant, junior grade, in 1885; a
Lieutenant in 1891; Lieutenant-Com
mander In 1899; Commander in 1905.
The commission arriving yesterday
mades the second he has secured
signed by President Roosevelt.
llS FlHI
Providence Took a Hand
and Saved Many Lives
2 PERSON WOUNDED
Twenty-two Shots Fired at Close
Range Into a Crowd of
Merrymakers
TWO AUSTRIANS DID SHOOTING
Would-be Murderers Arrested and
Now in Jail Under Strong Guard
as People Have Sworn Vengeance
' and May Attempt to Lynch Them.
ELY, Nev., Feb. 19.-What Is
termed the intervention of Provi
dence alone saved more than 20 men,
women and children from being
slaughtered in this city Wednesday
night, when Mike Rakisch and Nick
Evanesvlch, Austrian, .-stood in the
doorway and opened fire upon
crowd of merrymakers in the house
of John Krompotac After the shoot
ing 22 bullet holes were counted in
the walls of the House, yet with all
this shooting but two persons were
wounded. .
I he saooting Austnans were
among 30 others who had been in
vited to a social gathering. They
are said to nave become angered
when some one in the party accus
ed them of being members of the
Greek Catholic Church. The two
men, after threatening all the men
with death for the alleged insult, left
the house and secured revolvers.
Returning they stood in the door
way of the room where the men and
women were dancing and the chil
dren playing and opened fire upon
the crowd. Louis Bican, formerly of
Sacramento, and the guest of honor,
and John Trana fell wounded. The
women grasped their children in their
arms and threw themselves face
downward on the floor. Meantime
officers were attracted by the shoot
ing and placed the two men under
arrest. They are now m jail under a
strong guard, since the Austrians of
the city have sworn vengeance and it
is feared that they may attempt to
lynch the wound-be murderers.
The escapes from death were mi
raculous. Tranx, one of the victims,
was wounded by a bullet that passed
through his coat, trousers, under
garments and imbedded itself in the
flesh near the base of his spinal
column,, whence it was removed by
the victim himself. Bican, the other
victim, who was shot in the leg,
comes from Sacramento. His 3-year-old
child, sleeping on a bench, nar
rowly missed death when a bullet
lodged in the wall back of it, missing
the child's head by about an inch.
Pandemonium reigned, the women
and children kept up their terrified
screams until the officers had the
shooters safely under arrest.
TAFT FAVORS WATERWAYS.
CINCINNATI, Feb. 19. -Judge
Taft, speaking to. the Chamber of
Commerce today discussed the wat
erways plans and said they should
receive his heartiest support, tie
cautioned patience because very
properly, congress moves slowly and
because at present a deficit of $100,
000,000 confronts those responsible
for the government.
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HEAD OP DARTMOUTH.
NEW YORK, Feb. 19.-An an
nouncement made by F. S. Streeter,
a trustee of Dartmouth College, re
vived the report current some days
ago that Representative McCall of
Massachusetts, has been offered and
is considering the acceptance of the
presidency of that' institution. Pres
ident W. J. Tucker, who has been
the head of the school since. 1893 is
at present continuing to hold the
position, but as he has passed his
seventieth year he is desirous of re
tiring and is only waiting the selec
tion of his successor. Mr. Streeter is
of the ppinion that Congressman Mc
Call will accept, b-it as yet he has
not announced his decision in the
matter. .
VETERAN DIES.
HOLLISTON. Cal., Feb. 18.-Dr.
Samuel J. Call, a retired physician of
the Revenue Cutter service, is dead
here from an attack of Bright's di
sease which he contracted as the re
sult of the exposure that he suffered
on the memorable reindeer relief ex
pedition sent to Point Barrow, Alas
ka, in 1898, by the government to re
lieve some whalers imprisoned in the
ice. For his services at that time Con
gress Toted him special gold medal.
Just before his retirement from the
service of the government, Dr. Call
was attached to the revenue cutter
Thetis.
SETS ASIDE VERDICT.
SPRINGFIELD, Feb. 19. -The
State Supreme Court today set aside
the verdict of the Dewitt county
court in the famous Snell will case
and left no grounds on which a con
test may hang another case. The
court held that a man has relations
with woman which may be deemed
improper, it did not affect his ability
to make a will.
PUBLIC PRINTING EXPENSE.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 19--Con-
stant and uninterrupted growth of
the cost of public printing has in
creased this item of public expense
from $200,000 in 1840 to more than
$7,000,000 in 1905 according . to the
report of the printing investigation
commission created four years ago
which submitted today to Congress
a report covering its extensive inquiry-
The commission consists of
the two committees on printing of
the two houses of Congress, and
Senator Piatt is its chairman.
Savings of more than $500,000 a
year are being effected, according to
the report, as the result of legisla
tion recommended fro time to time,
giving the joint committee on -printing
certain powers of supervision. It
states that under recent legislation
279,598,837 printed pages, including
such expensive publications as the
congressional record, the publica
tions of Geographical survey and the
year book of the Department of Ag
riculture were eliminated from the
surplus printing which had formerly
been piling up in warehouses to fi
nally be condemned and sold as
waste.
The saving on the three classes of
publication was about $100,000. These
publications had been piling up until
there, were more than 9500 tons in
storage, enough to fill an ordinary
railroad train more than three miles
long. Rent for that, portion of these
publications stored outside of govern
ment buildings was more than $13,-
000 a year.
Many, department reports have
been reduced in volume and others
have been recommended for discon
tinuance as a result of the discovery
by the commission that the various
executive departments and bureaus
were submitting their reports to
Congress and having them put in
type at Congressional expense, af
ter which the department used the
plates for its own publication. The
growth of expenditures, it is shown
have been driven backward until the
expenditures for the last three years,
compared with 1905, show an aver
age annual reduction of 10 per cent.
The commission holds that revis
ion of the printing now which Is the
growth of seventy years is necessary.
The report says that the commis
sions policy has been to build a
printing law by distinct parts which
STATE ill BUILD RAILROADS IF
LEGISLATURE HAS IIS I'JAY
could later be intelligently codified.
Recommendations are made for a
discontinuance of bulk appropria-
tions, providing for reports from the
public printer, showing the product
of the office, and that the powers of
inquiry now vested in the commis
sion be conferred upon the joint com
mittee on printing, the speaker to ap
point before the close of such con
gress a temporary committee on
printing to serve until the appoint
ment of the next regular committee.
The committee is composed of
Senators Piatt, Elkt'ns, and Milton
and Representatives Landis, Per
kins and Finley.
LIFE JOB FDR ADJUTANT
GEIUICOfi
LEGISLATURE CAN'T CREATE
OFFICE OF WHICH TENURE
, IS OVER FOUR YEARS.
STATEHOUSE, Salem, Or, Feb.
19. The discovery was made this
morning by Campbell and Dimick of
Clackamas, that the clause in section
1 of S B-. 35, by Smith, Umatilla, giv
ing the Adjutant-General, Quartermaster-General
and Chief of Militia
of the National Guard of Oregon life
tenure of office, is in defiance of the
Mate constitution and as such is
void. Section 2 of Article 15 of the
Constitution reads as follows:
"Whenever, the duration of any of
fice is not provided for by this Con
stitution, it may be declared by law;
if not declared, such office shall be
held during the pleasure of the au
thority making the appointment.
But the Legislative Assembly shall
not create any office the tenure of
which shall be longer - than four
years.
Whether this will invalidate the
the whole law or only the clause in
question remains to be decided. The
opponents of the clause are in doubt
as to whether they shall try to get it
eliminated before adjournment or let
the courts pass on it afterwards.
DOG GUARDS MASTER.
CHIAGO, Feb. 19.-A large dog,
the companion of John Hillie, a her
mit, stood guard and held at bay
three polilenien yesterday when they
attempted to seperate him from the
lifeless and frozen form of his mas
ter . A watchman was attracted to
the shanty by the whining of the an
imal. He saw the outstretched
form of a man on the floor and noti
fied the police. The door was bro
ken down, but the dog jumped at
the policeman, forcing them to re
treat. After a half hour of coaxing,
the dog permitted them to take the
body.
CONGRESS PASSES
APPROPRIATIONS
Three Great Measures
Thousands and 45
WASHINGTON, D. C, Feb. 19.
Never during the present session of
Congress has such a large amount
of executive business been done as
was today. The army bill carrying
appropriations amounting $102,626,-
000 and pension bill aggregating
$160,869,000 were passed. Forty-five
other bills were passed.
Three of the great supply meas
ures of the government passed
Senate Takes Fall Out
of Harriman
FISHING BILL PASSES
measure Regulating Fishing for
Salmon on the Columbia
Passes Both Houses
AGREED UPON BYB0TH STATES
McCue Make a Hard Fight to Keep
the Bill From Passing But the
Legislature Stood by Joint Confer
ence Report Adopted at Seattle.
STATEHOUSE, Salem, Or, Feb.
19. Edward H. Harriman, the rail-
Toad magnate, was given a verbal
flaying in the Senate today after
which that body adopted a resolution
proposing an amendment to the
State Constitution so that the State
may own and construct railroads.
The resolution has already passed
the House, party lines were cast
aside in the discussion and vote.
The Senators charged Harriman with
preventing the development of Cen
tral Oregon and charged, with using
obstructive tactics when the Hill
lines were building the Spokane,
Portland & Seattle Railroad (North
Bank road) down the Columbia
river, and accused of considering
Central Oregon as his private do
main. It was declared if the Senate
adopted the amendment Harriman
would do something and if it was not
adopted he would do nothing, or if
the State went so far as lo build a
road, either the Harriman or Hill
systems would be only too glad to
buy it. The resolution has had the
support of the most prominent busi
ness men and interests of Oregon.
The . Senate today refused an ap
propriation for the normal schools.
Every cent of support was withdrawn
from the normals and then came the
passage of a bill repealing them. On
top of this the Seriate appropriated
$100,000 for a road to Crater Lake.
The Senate and House are in what
appears to be an all night session and
before they adjourn some slight tem
porary provision is expected for the
normals.
FISHING BILL PASSES HOUSE.
McCue Made Fight Against the Bill
Odds Were Against Him.
STATEHOUSE, Salem, Or., Feb.
19. The House today passed Senate
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Enacted Carrying Many
Other Measures Pass "
through the various stages of enact
ment into laws today in the House.
The fortifications bill was completed
and went to the Senate; the sundry
civil bill was reported and postoffice
appropriation bill was sent to con
ference. The report of the special
committee on pulp and print paper
investigations was read; the river
and harbor bill was reported and the
report of the special printing inves
tigation committee was submitted.