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' 1 -' i - ! . . . Good Mornirfgr r V r ' V .Th 'he-r Showr; south to- west ,r - v winds. ..-... - .'..,' CIRCULATION OF THE JOURNAL1 YESTERDAY" VOL. II. NO. 9. PORTTANn, nw.nnn. SIINDAV-MORNINn. MAy H., 1flns WT? gTrrTTrTjg TiiiDT.yjj piacirrvEXENTsr MURDER A -wi. . . .. , ........ . a. V James "Toss Found :Shot - in Burning Cabin Nfear Hood River.-; KRIES' ARRESTED ". - CHARGED WITH CRIME Eye-Witness Tells Coroner's Jury Ries Confessed to Him -7- When - Caught - Firing - the House. (Special Dl.p.toh to Tbe Journal.) . Hood River, Or., May 13. Frank Rlea, a ranchman, living It rails south of " here, was arrested Just midnight" by i Sheriff F.- C. Sexton and a posse. Rica it accused of the murder, of James -f oss. a neighbor, last Thursday morning;. The -residence of Fosa waa discovered, burned -txa the around and In the ruins was 'the f-7-body of Foss. - fwa was a bach-etorand lived the .life of a recluse.- Bherlff Sexton and Coroner Charles N. Burget were notified that he herm It's house- had colls psed s nd s occnpatttr was "burl ed""1n"ths7TQtns. Ou - their Investigation,, of the "report J John Ferktns-confessed to thenrthaf tie - V r4 mfn f-ta armtv th t n rn W lir fh. '""lierraiflrhorae And "that Rles Tlad .told , " liiin that. In hud killed .Foss. Perkins "TifiitBJ runr-abaut-l o'clock on Thnrsdav evening h 'and his hired man . hemr-dT --' seven shots In "the nlghbprhood..of the Fobs home.- He went over to ascertain the crime. : ' : Th affair stirred : the Mount Hood .settlement, and searchers were .quickly . sent out. ' ' .."-. nam ana Jtica esq . nail many guar. re Is und on the night of" the tragedy. - "in- tact only-"afew hours'eforerhad a war or moras? ana 11 is alleged that Fuss applied 'nurd mimes to Rles. "-Ths supposition Is that Rles- at o'clock went "no Foss house . with his Wln . cheater 'and 'demanded an apology, and -whenthnf waa refused shot Fobs dead. Thero is no evidence that the murdered man defended -.himself. All the . wlt- ' nessca "who testified before- the cor" onr'sJ it r,y bj, I d that but seven shots were fired. - OnTK" seven empty shells' were found at the cabin anj a)l were from the gun .carried by Rleg. . Kits Is BeUoeat. Since his arrest -Rles hns been 'very reticent and hns refused to confirm the ronfexslnn of Perkins or to deny that Jie JiiUed-JbiH .muxuVhnskid point blank if. he killed fobs he anawerea tnai he had not told any one about it. The crime was committed within a few , hundred yards of the spot where Norman Williams murdered Mrs. Nesbltt and her daughter, and Rles occupies a cell near "Williams, the. murderer, who Is within a few weeks of the. gallows. Foss was known as an eccentric charac ter and -on two different occasions efforts " had been made to nave him committed rto'nasytiimr-He waa past the meridian of life and for the past-is years naa uvea 'alone on his ranch. He was wealthy but seemed to care little, for the association of others. Borne years ago a', widow nsmed.MrS. RIgffS came into his life and Tt became " common gossip that the old bachelor waa to wed. It .waa a year ago itjils first-quarrel occurred, wltlr Rlea. who, It Is said, was very ' attentive to the pretty widow, it is gossip that her lffve for Foss grew cold after her .tiualntance w)th Rles. ; - - estlmems BITMseV- - The ranchers In. the neighborhood had long known that bad blood existed between the men but' no trouble waa -expected. In - Mount - Hood settlement sentiment - seeing to favor -Foas-but here In Hood River Rles has a number of friends. 1 ' . Rles made a statement to the coro ners Jury but avoided telling as to his whereabouts on the night of the al leged murder. He stated that Foss had vHiru.ri him and that he hadthreatened lo kni Foss but wouti had committed the murder. The coroner's Jury Impaneled Was out lut a short time when the following ver dict-was returned We, the- Jury .Impaneled by" Charles " N. Burget," coroner for wasco county. to Inquire Into the cause of the death of the body now efore 4ia, find as fol lows,: : That his name was James Foss; thst he was about 60 years f age, 'and that ho came to his death at his - csWn about four mile South ofMount Hood nostof flee on the-elevinth day of Mat 1906 ahout thehour Of :0 o'clock P.' m , amTwe further TtncTTnanie came to his death from a gunshot ,-wouna trom the hands of Frsnk Rles. lsrn.nl I i I li Hi s A 1 fl Mil -Csmey,- tiss- Wygant- 7-B----Br-HWr-li. W. Orlbble, Rftssell Oobln. - . "SCIENTIST DISCOVERS WONDERFUL ANAESTHETIC ' """'" 1 ' ' w-r (Copyrlgbt, Hearst Rewi Berrleis by LeaM -'" Wire to The Journal.) ' , Psrls.-May 13. Dr. Fonrneati has.dls " covered a new snd wonderful anaesthe ttfx Its scientific name Is "chorlohy-' Klrate of dleumethylamlnobensoylpenta iiol," but Dr. Fourneau has given It th more popular and somewhat similar name of "Btevalne.'f . L" It Is Injected Into the spinal fluid and In five minutes produces complete anaesthetls of the body below the point of Injection. Tho patient docs not lose consciousness. The effect of the snaea thetlc'last to minutes. Observation lr nisny cases shows that ths jnjcctlon leaves no unpleasant results. ,- . , JUDGE: BELLIKGER'SiGILBERLIOJAfJE FUNERAL AT2:30 Pi H. i7r8 o theTCfematorlum ' JMiz Aftern oon. CITY, AN D STATE. PAY. -HONOR.TO HIS MEMORY Leading ; Men - Chosen - as Pall f Bearers Societies Adopt Resolutions of Respect.- The deatk of Judge Charlea B. BelUnaer of the federal district court for Oreaon Baa evoked aucli universal . expressions of sorrow that it would not be extrava gant to Say that an entire state win be representedLat his funeral services to b held-today at 3:30 6'clockal the Port: land crematorium. No service's will be held at the residence. Vf . wasmngron lodge, A. .... F. 14 A. M., to which Judge Bellinger belonged,' will attend the funeral tat a body, and Rev. T. L. Eliot. D. D.. pastor emeritus of the First Unitarian church, .will -read Ui ilasonlc burial service and deltver the eulogy. A large delegation ot members or the bar in this county will be present, leaving on the 1:30 car from First and Alder streets. 8peclal cars will Be run from First and Alder streets over the Ore gon Water Power & Railway company's lines to the crematorium. " ' Cyrus A. Dolph ad Frank B. Olbson .Lnave thw arrangpmeats In charge. Th rrvices win be In keeping with what -would doubtless have been the wish of - Judge- BeHln r itmple- and -without ostentation. Special cars will . start at 1:30, 1:45 and t o'clock and the public has been notified that they should take cars marked Sell wood and Oolf tanks. '.-""7 The Fallbearers. V" i ". Honorary pallbearers will be Justice R. 8. Bean of the -Oregon ' supreme 1 court, Mayiy George H. Williams, Cynts A. Dolph. formerly a law partner-of Juriae JBelllngerr Asahel Bush of Balem, Dr. narry iane. Judge Alfred . Bears..-Jr... of the circuit court; Tyler Woodward, and ur. ,c. H. Rafferty. - Active pallbearers will be M. O. Lownsdale, Dr. C. H. Chap man, W. W. Cotton, E. D. McKee. Frfd V. llolman and C.1 J. Reed. The de hgPltalls pfhjrunejwU14ainthaJuuds Messages have been received from all parts of Oregon, Indicating that-Jud dip Be linger s burial service will be atten dS'j j by' many persons from other placesrand It is known, that-there -will be present a great number r people, of this city. ' The last public appearance of. Judge Bellinger waa at a banquet at the Unl- (Continued on Page Two.) N E WP O RT-TAX ED -O N EXTRA$I3,0000Q0 (Spwllt DHWtct t.rtea "x1r t) T JottrOl Newport. R. I., May 13. The tax as sessors aftu-t four months of labor, part oft Which wss spent with the tax officials of New York, gave out today a partial statement which. has staggered the people. , They have added to the personal, property valuation of many cltlsen cottagers . f 13.S1S.100 , over last yar-whteh-was ttl,17.60, whtle-thw total taxation In personal property alone was for this year . Ill.i7,00. Ths resl estate tax. however, this year. Increased only I1T4.S99. The rate of lt per 11,000 remains the same. . , , , For a long time cltlxens have wanted the taxes looked sifter better. A new board Of assessors was elected and told to see that there wag at least enough. taxes collected to pay the running ex-l pnfs jwwpir. ins ioisi increase of all takes for this year over last year TEMPORARY JUDGE Try Oregon Land Fraud Cases. D'HAVEN SUGGESTED BY THE LATEJURIST Bellinger Favored1 the Californlan No Decision is ArrT r in Washington (WaahlDgtoa Bnraaa of Tbe Joaraal.) , . Washington,' May -13. Attorney Gen eral. Moody and President Roosevelt had a conferenceTToday regarding a suc cessor, to Charlea B. Bellinger, - United States (district Judge for the district of OregOBy- wlio. riled iaatnlght. . Ha de cision was reached as to the selection of a successor, and owing to tne peculiar condition of .Oregon-politics at the pres ent time, some considerable delay may be experienced before the place Is filled. The name of William H. Hunt, United, States J J ud go fof Montana district. Is mentioned as a probablei substitute Jor Judge Bellinger for the continuance of the trial of Jahd fraud case's. . The matter tf-the assignment for this dutywtil lie left in the hands of Cir cuit Judge William B. Gilbert of Portland, who has authority to asalprn a district Judge from any of the districts Composing the ninth Judicial circuit to perf ormt he duties of Judge of the Ore gon district. . , 1 ...... . It is thought 'here that Judge Hunt will bemosta.allablaif of. duty and that it la probable that he will be selected. Judge Hunt, while comparatively a young man, has had much Judicial ex perlenee., He was Justice of Montana supreme court for. a number of years, resigning , on account of 111 health to accept the secretaryship Of Porto Rico, where later he waa made governor, re signing "to accepts, position, on the feU- eral bench. . ... HUNTIS NOT EAGER. Crowded Socket X,tads Montana Jndse to Object to "Troposed Kew frost. , ,. . (gpeclil nttpatrhi tnteJtom Helena. Mont., May IS. Unless posi tive' Instructions to that effect' are re llvd from th head of the Judicial department' -of the legal department af Washington, Judge William H. Hunt of Helena' will pot go to Portland to try the' celebrated timber fraud rases, a vacancy created by the death of Judge Bellinger.- (Continued on Page Six.) la" IMZ.50J.i0. fThe assessors' refuse to give out names and figures, although It Is positively known that Mrs. .Ogden Ooelet wss found not paying personal taxes here or In Nesf'York.-T8he Is taxed this year for. 1500.000 In personal taxes alone. - - - - - , i ' ' - - -Th estate Of William; O.. Weld of Boston. which paid $250. too personal plropertyTTias"Teeh doubled. John R. Drexel Is lh the class,-he previously be ing taxed for '1 100,000 personal. Tbe estate of General Samuel Thomas pay ing 3260.000 will b more than doubled. James . Van Alnn. paying .350.000 per sonal, -will be trebled. Henry A. Tay lor" wllL-be jumped the highest on the personal property list, he Is now paying $100,000.- Hhrtdge T. Gerry. Edward J. Berwlnd. Mrs. Astor and others have been Increased both " in personal and roal estate tax. , v - - - U. S. Marshal for Oregon Replaced by Charles J.rReedr ROOSEVELTroLLOWS" t- HENEY'S SUGGESTION ota"7 Square Deal," .Is . the Comment of the 7 Deposed Official Cader Pow- ell Undisturbed. - (Wuhhistoo Burriq of Th7Jr.Mrnl.) ' Washington, May 13. United Stales District Attorney Francis ,J Hcney-is now the representative of the adminis tration and aole. arbiter , of Oregon po- mh'Sl ai'ii'liuitieiits,-A4 - 4ils Sl'ii'liniiieiits, -j-Ills Instants Walter F Matthews. United States mar. sharfor Oregonrwss removed today and upon his recommendation Charles J. Reed was . appointed Matthews' sue censor. . .' ' - The only charge made against Matth ews, was that preferred, by Mr. Honey, who 4onsldered Matthews not Suffl cientlv In harmony with Ms ideas "of conducting the laiid-fraud cases liKJrs gon. - Ths-nawly-appolnted marshal had no backers for the place aside from Honey. Attorney-aonerat Moody " said this evenlns-iiwt-4he- aeparlsssnt 01 has no. Intention of disturbing United States Marshal T. CadeT Powell of Nome and that the report of his prospective recall has no foundation so far as -he had any Information on the subject. political circles ss the summary removal yeater daofWJ& MatthewsTrom-he of fice of United States marshal. " The de posed Official' has been a 'conspicuous figure In Multnomah county polftlca and baa lyeenheecXgnUedeadror th party.hiachtne,. .He has been an of ficeholder for many years and was as sistant postmaster before he secured the marshalshlp three years ago. For some time past his power hss been- waning and In the county, election of last year ha suffered. a signal defeat. He has made many bitter enemies In politics ailef'lliu liunu of tils 'UUK-'taT'fnmi of" flee has been hailed by ' them with- re- Jolclng. Charges were filed against Matthews a few months ago, but Jio Immediate ac tion yas taketjby President Roosevelt Senator Fulton . Interested 1 himself in Matthews behalf and on his return from Washington this spring he expressed the confident opinion that the marshal would not bo disturbed In his office. Senator Fulton, .however, does not ap pear to have been In the president's confidence in this matter nor was he consulted as to tbfe selection, of t the new appointee. , This Is the mors re-markabla-in-Arlew of the fact that Ful- Mon Is now the only member of the Oregon delegation- sot Implicated in ths land frauds and long-established prece dent woulddictate, that he should be consulted -as to federal, appointments in this., state. Official -notice of his removal was conveyed to Matthews by the following telegram, received yesterday morning: . "Washington, May 13. Walter F. Matthews, Portland, Oregon: In view of the recommendation of United States Attorney Hency, the president has this United States marshal for the district of Oregon, to take effect Immediately. "W. II. MOODY. Attorney-General." - When-Interviewed shortly after the receipt of this telegramr Matthewsde- clared himself ready to turn over his office at once to his successor, and to assist him as far aa possible In familiar lslng himself with Its duties Were you apprised of the fact that your dismissal - was - lmmlnentr - was asked. "No,.! was not," answered Mr. Matth ews. "I had no intimation that - It was coming:" :; "Had you been Informed that charges had been preferred against you; that yon were not tn sympathy f-ttlr-thatand fraud cases which are 'now before the court?" ... . -. - "I never was told officially that such Charges, If any, had . been lodged. 1 was 'not communicated with on the sub ject by a.ny one -representing-. officially the federal government." . "Had you been given an opportunity to-defend yourself V - . "I was not. Do you think that was a square dcaLJO. place, a man ' In the po sition oT being under accusation and not affuid lilin the. opportunity to;-present his side of-the caseT"- -"Mr.-Mutntcwr was told Jhnnhs nn- derstandlng was that the charges were that he was not In sympathy, with the l.r. ...H t.J n..t l-n,tar.' aBalstanceas he. should, in.' hla- position as X'nlted States msrshat-of -the-eourt her. ""Phoee- who- mske' sue - statements.' said he. In reply,-'-'know-they say what la not true. Every person about the fed eral courthouse know that to be un true. Such allegations are-absolutely false In every pastlcular." Charles J. Reed, the newly appointed marshal. Is well known In Portland and highly respected. . He hHr-been a resi dent of this city for 35 years. He is a Republican, but has never-taken-am active, part In polities-and has never been a candidate ,for office. For the Dast three years he has been the local sgent of the New I York" Mutual Life Insurance company. For it years-after Ms artrlval la Oregon he- was manager; of D. M. Osborne A Co. For five years be was treasurer and manager, ef the 'olumbla implement company and for wo years he was receiver ofW6Ife . (Continued on Pag Two-i Jefferson Myers, President of the VISITS-OKLAHOMA Town of Olustee Is Reported Blown a Away - and . Many , ": 'Lives Said to Be Lost. - SECOND STORM AT THAT POINT IN THREE DAYS Downpour "6f ' . Rain -Inundates Snyder and Streets Covered With Two Feet of Waters (Special Dlnpateb br Leaned Wire to The Joaraal) struck the town of Olustee at 7 o'clock thlsmornlng. It Is reported that the .liolo tflWn whs bluwii away and mauy lives lost. Thls Is the second storm at Olust In three days. - -x At Snyder, the scene of Thursday's tornado, the heaviest rain of the year fell this morning. The downpour lasted for bne hour and at the- end -of - that period the principal streets of the town were burled under two feet of water. I? the . report from Olustee proves true 'irls feared- that fhe loss of life will prove equal to that at Snyder, The constant heavy winds and heavy .down pour of rain renders It almost lmpogBl- l ble to establish telegraphic or telephone communication of a character that la reliable, as many ' connections are " no sooner completed than they agsln fall. Help: Jo searching and..carinL-for the wounded in the stricken district Is now plentiful and the awful scenes of th first 48 hours are gradually disappear ing. - - in the outlying country districts many points have not been hearJfro'm .. .4 I V. . W. .!.... . . . . 1 1 . . . . 1 ""Tr '"'' case. ri """-t'cretarr serious "injury from the tornadoes -of the last week. NEBRASKA DELUGED. Almost Every sjeetlom Tlslted by Clond- ' bursts and Hailstorms. (Special DUpstrh by le.rx-d Wire t Tbe i.wm.l) Lincoln. Neb. May IS. Severe cloud bursts and hailstorms are reported from almost every section of Nebraska to night. Railroad i service has been seri ously hampered on the Billings line of the Burlington railroad. A passenger train passed over a bridge near Cairo ban two -minutes after two spans of the structure gaee way. and were washed down stream. The ' line will probahly.be blocked or 11 hours. The, wheat crop and orchards have been badly" damaged by the hall, wlilch is reported .to have been unusually severe I In at least s dosen counties, JEFFRIES TO QUIT, BUT-NOT-UUST YET Sl-'IAI lipiit,-n I,) ix-ii-q Iri- 'flic JuurnalT Chios so--Ma -r 1 k J J rie-made nig last sow ss a woriu s , cnampion heavy welghf rr-bef oreVr an enthtslathT audience at a local theatre tonight"? rem now onTle'wtU prove afDavy Crockett In rea life. F! him h mountains, the free, fresh sir, the pursuit and slug ging or the grlsily - bear. Also pure domestic bliss and a career of liquid sunshine, unhampered by the prying of a too-lnqulsltive public.'' So' salth' the press agent. - But hist. A newspaper man won Billy Delaney'r ear for a few seconds tonight and the : njjfTt of the Jeffries Ironclad revealed a secret.--.- - I "Jl ain't exactly fon pibllcatlon.-at leatt not too much so." said the mana ger of James J., "but 1 wsnt to mention the st that- we. that is" Jeffries, may be in the Tield for a few weeki longer. We will give the would-be champions chance to fight Jeffries up to ths end Lewis and Clark . State , Commission. WILL-REPRESENT THE PRESIDENT Vice-President Fairbanks Comes - to Portland Fair fdrthe ' ; v . ' Opening. - CONGRESSIONAL PARTY s . MAY BE SHORT OF FUNDS Appropriation fof TerjjThousahd " for Expenses May Not Be Sufficient. (W..blocloa Bure.a of Tks Joarn.l ' -y-r-'-'-g , " "i ce- President -'harles - W. -Fairbanks will represent. President Roosevelt t the CDgnlng of th n riarlr .rpn.l tion at Portland. Oregon, June I. The vice-president had a. conference " with the president today, at which final ar rangements were made. Mr. Fairbanks will go' to Portland directly from the commencement exsaclaes at the Ohio Wesleyan University of Delaware, Ohio, and will deliver an address at the open ing of the exposition. President Roose velt has arranged to participate In th otienlnff of the fair, as he did at the opening of he Louisiana Purchase ex position. -At 4. o'clock p. m. on 'June 1 he will press a buttonwhlch..wlll start the-machinery or the exposition. - The ceremony will take place In a room of. the White House In the presence of members . of the diplomatic -jcorpa and such other guetaa may b Invited to attend JU. Direct communication by wire will be. made between the White House" and the Portland exposition and the ssme gold-mounted key will be. used .as was used to start the machinery of the St. exposition. Pirslilenl Roosevelt will deliver a brief address to . those present at thfl -y Shaw, - when at the White House today, said that he had designated Horace A. Taylor, assistant secretary of the treasury, .as treasury member of the government . board to attend the Lewis and Clark exposition at Portland, and also, to wind up the affairs of the government 'at the' Louisiana Purchase exposition. The. appointment Is -made . to fill a 1 vacahev caused by the aeatn ot WilJftce H. Hills. : ' ' - X thong mqin Important government of Hclals who will attend, the Lewis and Clark fair, either at thet opening . or at some time during Its progress, are: wii Ham H. Michael, chief clerk Of the state department; John C. Schoneld, enter ciers. of the war 'department; yecu -iay, gen erarVgehror tfie"ffeivffrtrtenr--of JuktfcF Merrltt O. Chance, chief clerk Of the poet- office department; S. R. Burch. . chief clerk of the agricultural department; First Assistant Postmasler-Cleneral t'ranfc M. Hitchcock; v F. WTrue. curator of (Continued on Page- feigj.":" . o f J u 1 1 e. AJ'ejL.lliiiL-U-le t&j&i ; e,, we start In on the simple life." -.. t "Atid what is the reason' ot this new and atra-ifl-a resolution?" " '.'1 saw a tear In hla eye-when"the performance was over," quoth the trusty mentoT. "Maybe you don't believe It, but Jeff has the most limped lamps that wers ever blackened by a rlghthsnd swing. When they cloud up a bit I feel Just lljffl, a butcher that ta going to slay an 'Innocent calf, Talk - about your pathos. Well, I-saw rlht away he'd wwep at thu thought of dropping-his crown- so- nyick. I checked the current of hla woe.-Tears sre something I can't stand. . ','Jeff. I said.. e will hold on for..a few moreweeks ', and , you're -still . the champion. "Say but you 'Ought "'to' haie seen him smile." ' ' ; , Judging from . the ilnregolng state ment, if. will be renti that James J Jeffries- Is still the lebamploa of tht worliL,. ; (- '. , ' - 1 r - ' - '' V ? - .; i " - . Fair Corporation and State - Commission Have-Very- Serious Falling Out. ; ACT OF LEGISLATURE CAUSE OF THE TROUBLE" Each Asserts That It Is Headof - Exposition, and That to t ' Everything Must . Be z Referred. - ' The' friction which has existed . bar. t ween the Lewis, and Clark corporation and the Oregon stale commission - for several months struck fire " yesterday, when the former-threw tun, gaunt lot and- too lute for them to take a hand in thu management of the coming fair. 1 he cause Of the row--and a red-hot row-It Is is the -sixth section- of the -l.ewts and Clark exposition act of 1903. it ls-eotwlrud differently- fcy th two sides to the controversy- The commls storr takes the stand that the corpora tion should submit to It all the plans and Intentions for the exposition for Its ap-proval,-whlle-the corporat ton-rnalntw-tmr that it is under no obligation whatso ever, by law or otherwise, to give ah accounting to'Orcgon's . representative s. That there has been-trouble between ot their creation Is an open secret. It found 'an outlet when, a few days ago, a letter reached President tloode from-8eerMtryJiU;.Cs.-:-Oiltnetr.of the stara; comm-sslon,-in which the demand was), made that the corporation comply, wttu the law by submitting to It the allot ment "orrpreeTThT'Ptan""aTia scope-of-ther-entrpr1se:the.JBame, of-the Jurors and examiners, aa well -aa all information respecting concessions and passes, even to -a. list of those" who nave recervea courtesies-from-' ther expowmonT.- ThW letter was written last FrMa at a sp 9ut.ieetlng:5r;the7CcnTimls8ton, Caused a Sensation. At th same hour the. board of dlrec(- ors of the Intr; was In session Therw was a sensation when the missive was read, although It was not wholly unex- nected. It caused a discussion or no J i I . i iiiBnunl una tug MClrUiv Wont Into the safe, from which he produced " an "opinion rendered by Attorney-Oen- eral-Crawford more than a year -ago,' p-rlut at Is In favot ur - the corporation. Armed with this com munication, -which was endorsed at the time by the governor, secretary ot state and state treasurer these constituting, the board of arbitration named in the -legislative -act the board decided with hesitation to "slap. back,". s on mem ber expressed It. ' - t A letter was penned, saying that In asmuch as the attorney-general had de cided that all power of Initiative- and control was vested in the corporation, the -corporation would abide by th Same, and If aid-not-conatdeT-tt- praO- ttcable to submit to the state commis sion Its business" affairs, as suggested. Th letter said -further that the cor,. fporanon was the"TespousiW head of tha exposition ana wouio nui ourreimrr , of It power of Initiative, control, gov,.. ,mmi nr suDervlslon to the commis sion. It was all transacted' In a diplo matic manner which Is to say there tflgh tna x seemed to understand each other per fectly, r ' , . ABg-rjr nlr JTot Speechless. When the reply of the corporation. through President Goode, wis read at the meeting of the state----eemmlsslou yesterday afternoon, there was a veri table volcano. Practically all of the: members of the state commission con demned tt. and talked of it aa an insult. and Anally the whole matter was placed, in the handsof a special committee. It will be heard of later. So -wrathy are the commissioners. In fact, that it , will be , no surprise If the "" question comes before the courts. The papers In the case are numerous and pointed. The law creating the stats commission for the Lewis and Clark . fair appropriates 1500.000. and states that-!Uhe.sJlqamejtit..Pf jspacc for. xhlb-L Itors, classifications and exhibits, plan and scope of the exposition, and the warding of premiums shall be done and performed by-the-Lewis and Clark Cen- ." tenntal and American Pacific Exposition..., and Oriental .falr subject however, to the approval of the commission created by this act." It i further provided that the rules governing rates for en-. trance and admission fees should lie Axed by the corporation, but subject to the approval of the state commlSslon. " -Mor-than-, year-aco- 1L VU. Scot ty as president Of the corporation, wrote Qov- noe Chamberlain, Bseeetary lot ,, Dunbar and State Treasurer J,loore,rre- questlng light on the provisions of the legislative art, Oytsiea ml - Anorsey-Oeaeral- The governor. In turn, wrote the St-' torney.ga4ieralr-aH4 ftnally there rsms reply. staUmg that in order to arrive' at a correct construction of ths act"' It waB necessary to consider the facts and circumstances leading tip to smt ex -Istlng st tn ttmg-of tts""ensi-tmeiit. , The atforney-genersl continued: t "Before the bill for the act In que- ; tlon was Introduced In tlia legislature. 4. this .corporation was fully organised wlththe late ex-Senator Henry W. for- bett as Its president and a number of the most prominent cltlsens of ths . northwest as Its directors, nearly all. of Its. capital stock- had been snliitcrlhtiil V for and payments thereon ' had beu made' by the" subscribers thereto, a sit' for the exposition1 had been selected snrt procured and the plan and scope of ti n exposition decided upon by enW-cfir-x,! tlon. "The scope snd plan of the Kw sltlon so launched and unflrWxii hf ContlfiUl OA l s Tar I-'"' ' - " ... ' V-.- - l ; ' ; -" - .!' I ... r -
