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... . ...... ( 5 Of The Jcurnil ; 7 Tonight fair ana coldj Friday. ,' falrj wind mostly northwesterly. a : ' i . ;.. : ';....-'-.''..-! . .i. i - .. . VOL. IV. NO. 45. PORTEAftD. OESGOM." THURSDAY EVENING, APRIL 87, , 1C3. FOURTEEN PAGES. price five cz:rrr. mi J- Ilcrlon CcuatyGrcnd Jury ; vLI Rcpprt eg School ; , Land muds. -. i---. BtG FISH HELD BUTv ' J : ; SMALL FRY LET pO 'Consequently Few Indictments w cxpeciea; dux ah ot King . the Benefit Ues. e"L; - (Ties t'Jeerasr 'Staff OorrasDoadeat) - Salem.' Or. AorU '!. Th4 lnvutln. tlona of tha Marlon county grand Jury wio ma ecnooi land frauda have brought xo ugnt a mui of incriminating evt dence and laid bare the operation, of thM ot tb ,char!" ot "P"00 tha , y-swindlers who have robbed tha atate of ; immense traot ot land. Indlotmanu will ba returned tomor- .... raw aiicrnoon, wow ina jury will pre- ,- , aani iia-nnai report., owing to tha lrv adequacy of tha atata lawa and tha Ilnv ite Jurisdiction of tha grand Jury, .which can Indict only for. Crimea corn. ' Biitted tn Marlon county, ' many of tha , awinaiera wui eacapa. but it Ja believed 1 that the lnvetlatioa will raault In tha 7 reatoratlon to the atata of hundred of tbauaand of acrea fraudulently aecured MH9 tiuavaa. i It la expected that the lodlctmenta will be faw in number, for tha (rand -Jury haa aouarht to reach1 only the prln lpela, allowlnir tbelr toola to eacapa. ; Probably a hundred indlatmenta could be , returned if the entailer offender were .to be proufht to Juetlcev .-, , . .,, - The Kern Involved, V Jj . 8. A. D. Puter, notorloua for hie frauda agatnat the fovernraent. haa bean a Urge operator la state achool landa, and much of the tread Jurya time- haa bean 6e 'voted to hla aa. , It ia freely predicted i .. tnac be mux be round tmonr those ln- 4 ictea wnen the report la filed., ,v - . ' " A. T. Kelllher. formerly of tlalera. ae- ' . quired. Immense tracta of land throuch dummlea or through appllcatlona In the - name of riotltlous persona. - In bun , dreda of ca see applications for the pur chase of landwere made' In fictitious naatea, and the claims were Immediately ' - aaala-ned " to Kelllher. The evidence against hint 1 regarded 'a very strong. . F. W. Jewett of Hlbblng, Mlnneeota. la another heavy operator whose trane- actloira have been under - scrutiny, and whoae holding of achool land are said to have been secured front , the . atata throuch fraud. : ;''"-;"' ." Tnraar Under' earohJlgliVr' ' Ii L Turner of Salem, a notarj pub . , lie, whoae certificate ia attached to large numbers of application for achool ' landa declared to be fraudulent, was be v fore the wnd Jury thla morning. 1 Ex .' perta on handwriting have declared that Turner forged the elgnaUurea of some of these . appllcatlona, and )hen - at - tached hla notarial' certificate, declaring - thawtha fictitious applicant had made ' oath before him to the etatementa, there recorded. Turner la believed to have ' been in the employ of (Kelllher. , ..-. ' . XAwa Arm Ja Sooad. ""'ri-- ' ' The state lawa are very Inadequate for the punishmenfcof persona guilty of land frauda. ;- There ' la no provision for ' the punishment of conspiracy to derraad ' the state of it lands. 1 0ffender can , be reached only where they have vlo- lated , the statutes against . forgery, perjury and .-subornation of perjury. " , Furthermore, the Marion county grand Juryi cannot reach criminal who ' crime was committed In another county: I- "Hundreds of fraudulent applications emanated from Multnomah county, but V these cannot be acted upon by this grand Jury. ' Many Portland men have , 'been Before thla grand Jury daring ita ' sessions, among them George Soreneon, -Thad S. Potter and Charles JY Lord, all under federal indictment; J. J. Flts- gerald. 3. 8. Well, M, F. Culver and W. ",T. Burnay. r' :::;.-. .Most or all of them' certified a no ., tartes1 to applications for achool landa, . which are regarded aa fraudulent.. -WtUtnl K. . Jones of Portland, tor- merly . member of . the legislature and . recently lndloted.for the second time ' Jby the federal grand Jury, waa a heavy operator, in vcnuui wiwi,i" n . i ...J nln. ' mnnntiin' jfljinr.) Many of the transactions it Which -his name appear ar sa!fo be tainted wltH fraud. : .:- .'. " T-.'U, Kay,' Manlay and Other. , F. P. May si state aemator from itult tvomah county, and also . under federal Indictment, appeara In the background having been Intereated" ia . $he Blue mountain operation.- s i- . , Horace O.-McKinley, Dan Tarpley and T Contlnued on Page Six.) KING fJoaraal Rpeetsl Serrtc.) "., rittsburg. April' 2 WJamea B. Xaugh 11 n, treaaurer ofvth famous steel firm of Jonen ft Laughlln, worth H.00O.MO In hla . own name, wa arrested at . an early hour thla morning Whll trying to j us his night key to let himself Into Ma noma. He wsa mistaken for a bur glar by a special . policeman, and In spite of the protest of the multl-mll-llnnalre, dragged Into a' police box, bun dled into a pntrot wagon and looked, In a dirty cell, lie Weir. refused the Tight te telephone to' tha butler or hi wife, . the pmire telling him that t'l rood bur gr h4 a ' District; ittornejr Marin ing Says -Councilmcn VJVithBtd Franchises WILL ASK AT ONCE FOR A GRAND JURY Satisfied That There Has Been v Corruption in City Council, and. Is Deterrnlned to Un- r earth Dishonest Men. w "I am almost, certain that a grand Jury will be ealledV Said District At torney Manning today, "for the evidence that haa been adduced la my investlga- Vliy GVUIKU km UJL .U HIIUU, ter that nothing short of a "complete and vigorous Investigation will gatlafy the end of Justice. -. . ...v - "Some -of the testimony la specif ia If name men and earns of money al leged to have been paid to influence votes, and even goes o far aa to give la exact detail . the attempts, and. It la asserted, the 'aucceasfol attempts, to purchase the support of councllmen for certain meaaurea and their vote against ether. ':.' ' . 't v ' ; , .' ."I 'have had before me Councllmen Merrill, Sharkey and Bentley, J C. Atnaworth, 3. H. Thatcher, district man. agar of the Pablflo Statea Telephone aV Telegraph company; Manager fitow of the new telephone company, who la try. mg. to obtain a franchise and who failed In such attempt more, than a rear ago. and 'Manager Craney of ther Trinidad Aapbait company. ' , 1. cannot give out their -teatlmonv. Especially la reference to the eoun oilmen,, wba are under Investigation, must maintain alienee, But I may si thJL Couneilmae Merril4 although sub poenaed aa a witness, haa not been re ferred to in any of the charge that nave been lodged against members of the council." .' '.'... -- . The particular matter Just now under Inquiry is the alleged handling of money by Councilman Rumelln for the purchase for councllmen s yotos, and that 110.000, or approximately tliax aum. wa paid to defeat tae proposed franchise asked by tna new telephone company a year and a half ago.- . ' :- ' -K- " ; .- - . Other charge will follow in the In vestigation the claim that money haa been -rraf ted from contractors on street ana oinerwora zor me city, tnat con' tracta have been manipulated in a man' ner to cause the city to pay mora than H ahould for many improvement of the paat three yeara ,-1 'Say to the people,, aald Councilman whiting Xoday. "that I court an Inves tigation. Tura on the dlmellght. and if there haa been corruption let the guilty mea.be punished., I care not who they may be; any man who will betray-his trust and accept money or other consid eration for hla vote aa a public servant, such a man ahould receive no merciful treatment from the courts. - t For my part, I hope the investigation will, be pushed to the extremity, i certainly welcome lt" . ' ;:. ,:-.!, .. . - CARNEGIE ESTABLISHES .BIG PENSION FUND ' . Iaeraal Special nortea.) " j New lork. ' April ST.- The announce meat i made today that Andrew Car negie haa eatabllahed a f 10,800,000 fund to provide i "retiring' pensions for teachers of universities, college and technical schools; la tha United Statea and Canada; t . . ;. . . , : ' CONFESSES TO KILLING . AMERICAN TEACHERS , - v i i ',,;;... -T, (Joarsal Upsets! Service.) ; V ; f Washington. April 7. The leader of tha outlaw who murdered four Ameri can school teachers near.' Cebu. Philip. plnea, in .June, lvOVhaa been captured and haa ' confessed. The government will urge the extreme penalty. . . ;. H - m ii t'H "- KOBKoar om.iwm. sbkum. , ' : (loarasl Spectsl ervlM. v ' ' Salt Lake, April 17. A demurrer In the eaae of.' Don Carloa Museer and Charlea Bmurthwalte against the Mor mon church and Josenh F. Smith, trua. tees, was filed' this morning. It atatee that the church waa Improperly made the defendant becauae. It ia a Voluntary religious association and not a corpora tion or legal entity, . . - , TASTES IN Not until f o'clock dl.l Mra. laughlln, frenaled with worry, find out that her husband wa locked ' up. When aha Alighted at the station from her own carriage there waa a scene, and Inside of 10 minute the authorities had Mr. Laughlln on , hla ' Way -homey -with- hla pocket full of cockroaohe and other vermin. , . ; " - Laughlln, ' after taking a bath, em ployed Congressman Burk lo .handle the case against the city, lie Said: .Tim the champion cockroach killer of the world.,' I killed a million last hlht In that lousy cell. I had to. or they'd have gt a DR; MACKENZIE- ; IDS flIRS: BR01 Groom Prominent Physician and - Bride .Well Known in ,Spo 'V.ff kane Society.. . APnriiMiu Be?nr-Nnairrrs "At fiY ABBOTT THOMAS -XT' Numerous-Portland People Pres entCouple Leave for Trip . -v ' ; - V to California; ( ..',; .(Special rMspateb t The 'eeraaLl Spokane. Wash.. April JT At the home of 4fra. K. B. Luhn, In thla city, yeaterday afternoon. Dr.' Kenneth A. J. MacKensle of .Portland : married Mrs. R. EL Brown, sister of Mra: Luhn. ' The ceremony-was performed at I p. m. by Abbot Thorn aa ot :' Mount Angel, and wa attended only-by near relatlvea of tha pair.. - . , - . j . , - These person were here from. Port land to attend , the wedding; i Mra. : R. Lea-Barnss. Mlsa - . Isabella - MacLeayi Ronald B. MacKensle, llaa Jean Mao- Kenale, Mia Barbara MacKensle and Andrew Kerr.'.-: ' ' The bride and groom left on the af ternoon train to visit tn Salt LaloV San Francisco and aoutbera .California be fore returning to Portland, where; they will -make their home. , . Mra. Brown haa been a resident of Bpokane for yeara, and I well ' known In aociety. r. .... v v' ''' , "SEE, MAMMA IS ANGR Y; : WILL KILL HERSELF" Woman Frightens Children Into j Obedience, But Uses Arsenic . Instead of Sugar. , - ' JeorasI Special Salt Lake, April IT. "See, mamma 1 angry: now she s going to alii herself. Thla wa the expression often used by Mra. Jane Maynard to frighten her children into obedience. - Following the words: the woman would put eugar in a glass ot water-and drink the mixture and feign Illness. This always bad the effeot of producing; good behavior. The Maynarda lived at South Jordan, aettlement a , few miles from Salt Lake. Yeaterday afternoon during her husband a absence, the mother had trouble with one ot the little ones. The ohlldren were - unsble to tell exactly what -the mother did, following her re proach of the lad, but , the neighbors afterward found the woman-lying, dead in her home, i ' ' , j An axaralnatloa disclosed .that aeatn resulted from strychnine poisoning. Bo far as ia known no motive, for -suicide existed. The strychnine waa uaed in poisoning wolves ,- that . '"pray ; on the flocks. .-. - ' r It 1 believed the woman made a mis take and put strychnine Instead Of sugar In her glass yesterday, GOT THE EXPERIENCE, ; . : : i SHE WAS LOOKING; FOR V (Jooraal SpecUl Servira.) ' - Chicago. April 17 Seeking material for a book on the Temptatlon'of Toung Women in Chicago."' Mra Anna Howard wa not . disappointed. - She found an entire and, complete -array of material before she left the cab which was to convey' her within eight, of the "seamy Ida" V .''? ' " ' r In the Harrison street police . eourt today aha asserted that aha had been robbed by Robert Pie of 1700 and had been injured by him. She engaged the cab an which ' Pie waa employed -and deolded to visit a west side "levee" for her llret impressions, Mrs. Howard aid. '.' ' It 1 alleged by Mra Howard that Pie elsed and chloroformed er, pX ter which he took .'her diamond rings , valued at 1700, from. her ear and finger. - "I retursed tor aonsclousness In the cab before ! got home," Mrs. Howara reported to the police. "I did not know my diamonds were gone until I reached my room." -'x '" '' "-.11 1 r,r in-r 1,1 .. ' ". POatZmOT MZUJI BUAvf v . IJeamal Speetal Swvtce.1 - Pomeroy, Wash, April I7.--The Pom- eroy flour' mills, containing tlO.000 worth of grain and flour, burned early thla morning. .Loaa $25,000. Origin un known. The Allen hotel waa damaged by watea : . .- Some of the Officers and Delegates FIFTY MILLIONS ' IS Mil Eleven of Leading Stocks Plunge : Downward in Spite of '. ' 5 ' : " 'Juggling..', j $ BEARS SURPRISED AND, 'BULLS PANIC STRICKEN v ....;:. Amalgamated I Feels ; Lawson's y Rst to Tune of More Than 'A ; fi Five Millions. (loaraal Special Service.) ' .. New Tork,prU t7. The total shrink age In the value of .11 of . the leading atocka in today alump aggregate $S0,2I7,(72. Among- thoae showing the heaviest loss are: .- Amalgamated, It, SO.OOO; t Atchison, ' 3,0O4,000r Smelter, ll.lSO.0vO; St. PauU IJ.M7.15; Cana dian. Pacific, tt,7&0,000; - LoulavUle Nashville, f3.400.000; New Tork Central. ti.Dvv.vvv, rennsyivania, 'aia.vuv.gve; Reading;- ti.2QO.000; Tennessee Coal, 1,I5MI; Union Pacino, 17,147,141. -. Such d crash as waa witnessed on the stock ' exchange , today - has' not 1 been seen In this city for many a day., '' The Blgelow defalcation n Milwaukee Is generally accredited by the trade a being the' principal cause : of today severe slump.. .... t -. . The bulls are panlo-strlcken and even the bears, whom - the market -enriched. do-not-tknow.whaUto aay ottoday-a performancea on -.'change.- . The market opened .with a. down ward tendency and but for vary , alight delays, the price gradually worked toward the bottom, j The closing-waa the weakest een In jaaraw-' . :?-.. t. The -losses rhown today are heavier than, during any - recent session, all thlnga consldere. .-v.- --' , ' 'Tennessee CoareV' Irea proved a gold mlne to the bears with its net loss of M.llVon every share or a total losa en all atocka Issued of tl.lsl.KS, . Pennsylvania railway . Is . worth just about $16,000,000 less -thla evening than it wa last night.. During the day It lost iz.zjh on every share of .atock. Amalgamated Copper ran up asalnat T A.inn and the Ku r tnAm . rA th. total stock of th,corporatlon la valued at 14,650,000 lesa than Uat night. u account or a very u&ravoraoie statement the Atchlaon to 11 way received a alump of $2 a shar. toty or 11.004,000 on na louu noiainga. . ; '-Union Paclflo had mora trouble tdtlaV n ita conflict with the merger crowd and thla, with otnar bear causes, let the price .down Just about $7,147,140. . ' Reeding railway storks could ' not wlthstandtha general slump and price are $J oft on each share.. On Its total capitalisation Reading today lost abouft 14,100,000. ,'','- ...' . , . , - ' ixoran Ksirsis unsssT. -' : '' (ieoraai Spldel Servies.l f , Kansss City, April 17. II. H. Tucker, Jr.. today . bought a tO-acre tract at Turner, Kanaaa. on. which he will build a large- Independent oil refinery. - ' ' -i i ' . ' v" t V f . . - ... Ilwul SikMl.l ..!. l- ' Milwaukee, Wis., April ITl-r-rtre early thla morning destroyed a six-story salldlng" occupied by the Hanaoa JTur company, Loaa, tlOO.OOO. ' , .TDM TTMM.ii22L50JM DKV J. JJiv E-t Mil A SIyoSS okosek; to the Oregon Development League .Convention. i-irrcrv-T" " ' 11 i 11 ! ' 1 MAHY TEAMSTERS JOINING STRIKERS Employes of Large Houses Co Out Refusing to Handle-Goods for Non-Union Firms. ALL CHICAGO UNIONISTS MAY BECOME INVOLVED Labor Leaders Threaten to Call : Out Every' Trades Union Man :,.::r.- .'Inithe City. ,y: (Jnaraal SpecUl servtea.) - Chicago, April 17. Five hundred po licemen were detailed this morning to the storm center of ' the , teamsters strlka. It Is expected, that' tha strike will spread to- several large houses and be accompanied by vlolenca .The police are escorting wagons to and from the stores and freight houses. ' .'- - .The driver of Marshall' Field A Co, Carson, Pixie. Scott ft Co., John C Par- well ft Co.,, Joined the strike this morn lng. None of these concerns sent out wagona from the barna .One hundred and ninety, drivers of the Forbea Cart' age Co. went out. "This strike affected sv urms q wnica tne eoncerna furnish wagona '''''- " .. . -. v-.-;- . The driver of .the railway and ex press qompanlea refuaed to haul aoods for' the -compaalea . against ' which . the teamsters struck, thus further eompll- eating- the altuatton, Labor-' leaders claim there will be 1,000 teamsters out by' tonight. ' t - ' " '"' ', ' Xbor leaders threaten to . call out every unionist in the city. If necessary, to wtn the atrlke, which now hingea on the employment by Montgomery Ward ft Co. of -former union teamsters. A special meeting of thehlcaao Federa tion of Labor wllr be called to empower the bualnesa agent to order strikes ac cording to their discretion. v . One hundred and sixty drivers of the United States Express company refused to deliver goods to" the boycotted flrma, and atruck when one of their, number waa discharged. Their action affords tha opportunity desired by the employers to sak the federal court a to enjoin the strikers from Interfering with interstate commerce. . ; ; , v.- . ' . ,' l The strike waa precipitated by the re fusal of Montgomery Ward ft Co. to re instate any of their striking teamsters when the strike called to assist the garment-workers was called off, and was ooca torted by an ultimatum by the Em ployers' (association against unionism. The great retail bualneas of the city will practically be " paralysed until the war is fought out. Shoppera will hardly venture fata the fighting sons, and the great stores like Marahall Field ft Co., Mandel Brnsf, Carson; Plrle. Hontt ft Ca, Slegel ft Cooper and Rothschild's can make no eJellverlea ot purchase -At least thla service will, be fraught with great danger and risk. , . j , TURKEY LEASES TRIPOLI X. 'JO A FRENCH,CQMPANY ' ' (loaraal SpeeUI Service.) ' " Rome,' April 17. A aeaaatlon haa been created by the announcement that Tur key haa leaaed Tripoli for yeara to a French company, which -undertakes to make extensive Improvement a in the port, securing in return Import and ex port pecuniary advantages. " -.J yOUNG PATRICIDE r IS AH "EPILEPTIC State Rests Its Case and Boy's Mother Goes to Stand to. , Show. Son Is Insane, WOMAN SWEARS HUSBAND ; WAS LAZY DEGENERATE Murderer's -Sister Is Among Witnesses and States ' ; ,; He Is Seventeen. 'jS-. v v (Biwrlsl Dieeateh' te The JoarsaL) Chehalls, Wash., April $7 The state's case was brought unexpectedly to a close in the trial of ; Tom Brown for slaying hla father, thla motnlng after three wltbeaaea had been called. These wsre Surveyor Oetger to,-Identify the Plata he had made of tha scene of tha tragedy, 'John ' WOdebour. who staid there the night of the crime and who dug up' the 'first bullet fired at Brown and produced 1t In court and Identified the aame, and Mra Myrtle Toung. sis ter of the .defendant. . She lives - in Dryad, It miles from Brown's and had not been home for two years until her father-was killed.. She waa married at IS, and gave Tom's age aa told by his parents atlT. . ; The state rested, Attorney Falkner stating that the defense had stated la open court that they admitted the kill ing, and would plead insanity for the prisoner. ' .. Mrs. Florence A. , Brown, mother of the prisoner, was the- first witnesa for the defense. Attorney Ponder stated they would prove her husband waa a drunken. Indolent, degenerate man, who had threatened his family, and threat ened hla wife with death if ahe did not deatroy her ' son Tom, - after his ' con ception. and other statements along such lines to show that 'the defendant was an epileptic and had been- ao for years. .'. ; . a '. ; .. .. : The motnere testimony was along llnea to eatabllah thee etatementa There was a sharp legal eonteet over the admission of certain evidence. Falk ner contending that the. defense bad ao right to introduce evidence showing tho causes of Insanity alleged, but might produce testimony toprove.that the boy waa Insane. The court permitted the evidence to go In. V - Walter . Blake waa tha first witness examined yeaterday. He is a brother of Mra Florence Brown, mother of the boy who is being tried for his Ufa Mr. Blake testified to being called to the seen ot the tragedy, on the evening that It occurred, from his home about one mile distant from ' that of tho Brown . - ... Blake stated that on the day ef the murder he aW Tom Brown at th school house, snd when called to the Browne' home that night he met Tom about a quarter of a mile from the house. ' He asked him why he had-kllled his father and the boy replied that he had to do "It, and ' that -if he had not killed him then he would have had to do so at some other tlm When ; Blake told tha boy that he could hava found protection at the Blake home, the boy Insisted that he had to Kill bis rather. Blake told . the . story given by Tom to him at the time of the murder, be ginning with hla return to hla horn after school waa dismissed.-of his dis covery that his father had borrowed hla pony to use without his knowing It. and his starting down tne. road to, meet nis father and , brother Charles when he found this out. " - According to 'Blake th accused boy told htm thst he hsd found his father with the ream stuck trom pulling tod heavy a load and that a quarrel enaued In which Tom Insisted that hla father take th pony put ' Tom claimed that (Continued on Page' Two,) TRAVELS 5 ARCTIC-ATMOSPHERE m a :-;i:" --.- . . (Joenal SpeeUI ikrvtee;) Omaha Anrll 17. With a , revolver. Em II Schwarta fought against jeath In the tee box of a Union Paclnd refrig erator ear. After five day of Arctlo expoaur he finally attracted attentloa and gained relief by firing a pistol shot through the roof of the car as the brake man waa paaalng overhead. Schwars avaa en route to New Tork from San Francis and rode In a re frigerator ear from Laraml Wyoming, to Omaha. During the Journey he lost It pounds, and when rescued bo' h feet were 1., n so he could not -- 1. C SIcreTransportatioaFa vccilitlcs, Keynote cfK Lesslk. GROWTH RETARDED BY-1 - LACK OF COMPETITION Meri Who Are Pulling Altogether . Well-Directed", Effort .to i: Build Up the State Discuss V Oregon' Resotf rcest ; Men of eastern and western 'Oregon clasped hands today across the Cascade; ' and made a vow to continue pnceaalng-l ly to work for railroad connectlona be- -tween th . Willamette valley and tha great isolated sections of the state. v- Transportation facilities was the key- ' note of today sessions of th Oregon Development league. Nearly all the res olutlona and many of the speakera re- ferred to transportation problem . The absolute necessity -of more progressive pollclea along this line. - if Oregon la1 to be developed la the preeent decade, ia keenly ..appreciated by-all the leading minds In the league. Sentiment through- -' out tha-state criticises the ultra-oon-servative policy of existing railway llnea, and tha man in attendance at the convention are giving expression to It They want - the railroad companle to. puah out through the atate, build feed era and- cross the' state from east to weat Many committees are ready to- . extend material assistance Int construct ing such llnea ! -',.,. .. ': Oat ' mednoad : staves.' -Preajdent Smith said he had received Information to the effect that th rail-" ' roada hava 'already practically ' decided to grant- reduced rates With Stopover privilege, from Portland to all point . reached by the lines in Oregon, to en courage exposition visitor -to make side trips and inspect the country. ' The an nouncement caused great enthusiasm in ' th convention.. President Smith -then appointed the following committee to confer with the railroad officials on thla ; aubjectr- Colonel K. Hofer of Salem,' Judge Stephen A, Lowell of Pendleton. H. M- Cake of Portland, Walter Grlffln ot Eugene, L. 3. Simpson of North Bend. . . Today'a sessions concluded th second . annual convention of the leagu Sec tion reports were reed and adopted, reso lutions were paased expressing the sen timents 1 ef ' the delegatee on various questions affecting th business inter ests of th atate, brief addresses were made by Judge Lowell of Pendleton, Dr. W. C. Eliot Colonel R. W. Richardson of Omaha,. Judge J. H. Scott ot Salem. J. W. Bailey, Jefferson. Myers, . Colonel E. Hofer and other , -,. ,j ''-: - Want Bfosa SMlroada.". " ' Henry Hahn. of the open -river com mittee of the Portland chamber of com mere submitted the following resolu- " tlon at the morning, aeaalon: - ' "Where Practically all of the rail road systems operating In this atate are. under one control and one management, and ' Whereaa, For a number of year pest but little additional mileage ha been built in thla stste, and "Wherea A large portion" bf this state Is now without proper transporta tion facllltle and Vhereas, Bald portions of Said etate '' have great natural resources and large ; bodies of unoccupied land which only need transportation facilities in order to be settled upon and developed, and . "Wherea It la absolutely essential - to the interests ejf this state and to alt parts and portions thereof that such' transportation facilities - be furnished at once, and - ' - - ."Wherea On several occasions direct' etatementa have been made that . new-, roads would be built and extended into the Interior of th state, aa well as tov the coast sections thereof; now. there- - K for be It . . . . ' "Reeolved, That the Oregon Develop ment league, composed of members from all parts of the state of Oregon, does , (-hereby express Its regret that aald roada gave not been . built, and doea hereby -earnestly request the said transporta tion companies to build railway' llnea and furnish transportation ifaclli ties to the' portlona of this atate now without them. ' -i .' ' ; .''' Taaaka fo SUlp. . - f Judge Lowell of -Pendleton made sj strong speech In support of the resolu tion. He said It was a matter for deep gratification among thaeitlseng of east ern and central Oregon to see the men of the Willamette valley and Portlamt Join handa tb help the people eaat of th Caacadee In their effort ta secure transportation facllltle He paid a fine (Continued on Paga Two. DAYS IW - '' t did not suffer much until th tr tr 1 day. The car seemed to gel cnUer and colder and I feared to go to ;., Staying awake is whst make a f ' eras. 1 felt a grinding pala In ' stomach, aa though two bone w -blng together. I walked xt tha car until I dropped. 1 1 the car waa terrible and ad y came over me. A r VLln i through the lege s I -- ' sleep made r r- r ' , r from the eo! - i At vy , efforts ( te t t ' scr:.. ; U t ;srlenoa, Bchtri "i . . ' , : r , , . . . : . f