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J 'THE OREGON SUIIDAVJOURWAlPORTLANDi-SUNDAYIOIlinNQMAY. .27, 18C3. TRACTIOU LIERGER DOflHPI DOCKS Oil Sill ISLAOD IS-SClIEf.lE-OF LAFE PEfJCE OPEO AIR LHTIilG IS-SUCCESS- -a conPETiioii- Asks Franchises for Roads Out H Declares They Would Mean Saying f Twenty Cents . J on ; ljvery Ton of Freight Discharged In Portland Has " 7 .' vr: Presented Proposal to Mayor Lane. Tom Word Club Addressed by - Judg) McGinn in Chap- - man Square. , '; of Tacomato Steilacoom r '.-"'r - and Olympla. - - r' . ' ) 1 OPPOSES TACOMA RAILWAY AND POWER COMPANY LINE Traction Ptople Allied With Capital . lata Who : Have' Announced Inten tion of Building Line From Tacom to Portland, Via Chehalia. :. (SpcrliU niuMtrk to Tbe JaeraaM -TcQma:3VaaUlIiy:jf. TwoZ.n'w electrloJllwsy lines will ba built this summer and rail by tne racino .Traction . company, according; to the plana sub mitted te the board or county com ': hiisslohera' today In. an application for ?' franchises or the roads. One of these y road will connect, Tacoma. and Stella- coom and the other Tacoma and Olynv . pla, the state caDltal. ' Filing of these applications u'nmsskd the intentions of the traction company '' and. bring it. into the open a a power ful" competitor of tbe Taooma Railway - Power company, which bad alao an nounced )ta intention of building an eiectrto railroad to Olympiaj Both companies are rapidly building to American - laka In the direction of Olympla. The power company already baa an electric Una con true ted " to . Btellacoom and the traction compaay will baveTo nUV barJrofbUBlnea on that . branqh , of It proapectlva ya tem. I T '" for month It haa been a queatlon '; hrre the traction. company will ret ita JowerIJhla jmestion . baa. been aettled by tha filing by A..E. Rothermel, a . member of the . company, of a claim - for 20,000 Cubic feet of water per sec ond on Chamber creek. It I intended '. to divert tha water by meana of a '. flume from tha foot of Laka Btella- joom.aivd.biUit..biapawaa.,piantcap- able of supplying the ayatcm with S"f-1 Tlrlanl nnsi In npimli ill II - - Merger te Oppoae rower Company, . ' .. . The traction company la -allied with -L'- tba ayndlcata of capltallata repreaented . by. E. J. Weeks, who hare announced t heir-Intention of- building: an -electrle railroad from-i-Cantralia and Chehalia --eeuth-io- Portland and-- north to Ta-1 hr Weeks- 4b tha chief engineer of -the traction company, and it la generally va" auppoaed here that the intereata ba rep resents will shortly ba merged with the traction-company and tba two-will r make a bis; light against -tha power T . company,-which la 'also contemplating ' a network of electric tinea extending through the Sound region and to Port Tan d."Tn?pO wercbm party "hacked by Stone at Webster, Boston financiers. It la not. clear who are behind the . ftl"f mmp.ny, tt n g rumnrert that a powerful syndicate, of New York and London financiers are. putting up the - money.- - ,- - -- WJBALLOT BEATS . - (Continued front Page One.) . i-be sot tae-ttotbtw:T Mr..' Stone even railL this puralt 'bosh"' and tblnks it i not worth while spending time Over." . t ' "It will not make the least difference y In the world. he protests. It Is rldlc ulous to think thst It would make a' dif ference any more than any other lauda bio enterprise -or. worthy act.". " But Mra Mary C: Bradford of t)en ver comes, hot from tha - laboratory where practical experiments are made '" ' and reporta to the contrary. She, too, talks' about" the larger aoul and the face through, which It will ehfne, - -Better Tana Cold Cream. T e people who think It changes a woman for the worse conld see our beautiful Mrs. Whltmora," aha acid. ' "She la the president of the Denver . Women's club, which is the most Important woman's olub in the country, and haa accomplished tbe moat, Mrs. Whltmore is a, noted beauty both in Denver and New Tork and is nottued and - complimented - wherever- aha '- goea. Let me tell juu that Jt ts- unneceary and bad form to assert equal suffrage through nyts'cnUns " dresC One ""woman came out from New York to settle In Denver as an attorney. She affected the mannish style of dress and that "wortodJTier Tallur. In Colorado 'we have tha substance and do- not need to clamor for the shadow and wa look with distrust on any that do. . In fact It la tha fact that 'women are so totally ""nBlffgrent-frwm men that -makes thy tn corporationm-or.tneir.iaeaainw. govern mental action so important. anaa Acta os Body. "En large any one's responsibility. power, freedom, self-respect and sense or efficiency end the mind will act on . I the body. Full responsibility is tha beat education that is why- American y men are stronger looking than those of ' -Z any other nation.. The same holds true with women. ' Give them mora freedom . of thought and they will grow out The women of CO years ago were not as fine apeclmena of womanhood aa we .have now, and we all know how much - more enlightened womanhood haa be come In that time. It will need time to Show the results, but after we bave '"' ! THE SUNDAY-JOURNAL -GIVES . PRIZES FOR: PRETTY BABIES Nearly every parent in Oregon and Washington hat the prettiest child in the country, and is tending a photograph to The - Sunday Journal's baby contest editor to prove it. Nothing; that hat been proposed in soma time has awakened to much-interest aa vthit con test, in which every boy and girl n Oregon and Washington under 6 years old is given a chance to win a valuable prize. - - Already portraits of all tortt and condition of little ones bors- and girls, blondes and brunettes, fat and lean children, short and tall -fiaber (for thetr-yar)r ttrly-haire,-traitht-4airMn4 -not-4nu-v T X haired have been received, and it ..had a larger or finer collection of . TnitrnaL -X One thing has been cfeafFy proved In this contestTandlhal tsiharX the parents ot tne prettiest cnuaren in Oregon ana wasnington ao not seem to care so much to get the valuable prizes as they do to have their babies recognised at the prettiest in the two states. The ' prizes, though, everyone knows are worth winning a deposit in a" saving bank of $20 to the credit of the prettiest babe, and beautiful silver cupt tor three others. No child under 6 years old it barred. If van think vourt is the (Tfettiest tend a picture, with the name and age T of the babe and the address of the e - nvtt t . - in .... :M Alll JUUG VV CTCIJ IllUfcllCl III UlgUII ,IIU ,r9lllll)(lUII win w given the chance ta prove conclusively that her baby is the prettiest. A committee of competent judges will study each picture sent in -and pass judgment on it fairly and unflinchingly. All you have to do is to send in your baby's picture before June 30 to the Baby Con test editor Of The Sunday Journal, with the name and age of the child and tne parents' address. All children under 6 years are eligible. I -The natures of tome of the pretty babies In Oregon and Wash- X ington will ,be. printed in next Sunday's Journal. . . . .. T ' ' - ..... ..' - '. ' .. It MuniclpI dock on Swan island. That is the plan of Late Pence,' who propoaad to tha. city that it aid in com pleting the usefulness of' his electric lines by providing a place where) vessel may ba loaded from his cars. '. If tha city doean't favo'r tha schema Pence declaree ho will build suitable wharvea on Swan Island himself. Further to complete tha circuit ha haa aubmltted a proposition for an electric railway franchise on Front street. .- rtriathe -purpose-ef tha Pence., com pany to run electric car from the Wil lamette valley into the city, along Front street to the municipal doks,-where the freight theycarry" wlirba unloaded Into deep-water vessels -without -a second handling, ... '.. ' Other cars,- - also - operated by elee trlcity this to e generated by Pence'a own power plantwill come into Port land front the north over tha line for which ho has aeeured a franchise on the St. Helena road.. And theaa cars will likewise dlacharge their content at the municipal wharvea, going ta Swan Island over tha bridge which Pence off era to build. The, city ia to own a portion of the channel side of Swan laland, for" Penco of fera to deed tMa property to tha city of Portland in partial payment for a franchise on Front street, his gateway from: tha;' mthi :--irr.r'iriz."; ' . Socks Woald Mean Saving. -- Munlolpal docks -wllL-mfiaH-k-Saylng of it cents on every ton of freight dis charged in 'Portland, Pence aays. ' " It will mean the upbuilding of tha coaat shipping industry and will ba a tremendous impetus to foreign trade.' If the proposal la looked upon with favor by tba oltlsens of Portland tha matter will be put up to the eouncll within a ahoTt.tlmo.'i: Mr. Pence called upon Mayor Liana yesterday afternoon with, his proposal embodied In writing. It-ts addressed to t her mayor-moA.. will go before, the publ "t Mffldtty,"tWr'n6dn Br 1 d'tilScKdIscHsS the franchises on Front street which have been granted to tha United Rail ways company and the Willamette Val ley Traction company by the council. -,a.havebcen..negotlatlngMfor Swan island, for several months," said Mr Pence -last- evening. '"BwanIsle.nd-liaa a elosed channel on . this side, but an open channel on the other,- the eastern Bid. It la the only chance for muni cipal docks, for every other piece of Iaterf ront property is' already owneo r some large Interest which will hold to It. Martin wincn ror tne a. u. ana Amanda Reed estates and Oskar Hnber helped secure the signatures. r 'If the couneir wont help -in building these docks I will do It myself.;. Mo PORTLAND. BOASTS OF GREAT Fortlani 'naa'lneprle- winning stick - to-buslneas-man. He is 'Joseph Zalln- ekle. .. . Chicago baa her wheat brokers ' who leave, their' off lets for seven jnlnutes at luncheon' time, drop 10 cents "Intd a nickel-in-the-elot machine, receive there from a piece of pie and a cup of Chi cago river coffee and then rush back to theiri tickers; New Tork has her Wall street financiers who do not leave thetr office desks but who seise their noon-through-- a pneumatio tubti London bankers "merely swallow a drop of Scotch" from a bottle once In a while throughout the day and to not take any time for a dyspeptic-producing lunch eon. But Portland has them all left at the pout with her Joseph Ealinskte. Joaeph la an east aide barber. He had a shop at East Sixth and failing streets. had a whole new ' generation or two tha -women will be finer, stronger , and blgger-eouled than now." ' Mrs. Bradford referred any one who la irr-doubt about the efTeet -of euffeaa to the men of Colorado, who aha: aaid, boast that they have the prettiest wom en In tha country. And yet there Tire always two sides to a question, and Pr. Wilson asserts thatibe would be'sorrf to1- aee " Oregon's- beautiful - women-be come like the hard-featured women of Colorado, who go about managing men a business. But "Oregon's beautiful '- may have been merely a touch of blarney te eaaa tip tbe conclusion.. 0REG0NIAN APPOINTED - -T0JIECLAMATI0N SERVICE (Waihlnstoa Banao ef The Joaraat.) Waahlngton, May2. Earl K. Knight of Redmond, Oregon, has been appointed assistant engineer in the reclamation service and assigned to duty , on the Huntley project, Montana. is tafe to tay that no paper ever Z pictures than this of The Sunday X parents on the back. tnM -.4 liri.lil.MAk .:tt V. maratlmo city can aver ba complete without aucb accommodations to encour age the ahlpplng bualness. San Fran cisco baa found such wharves of tbe greatest value to her. There tbe wharf age charges are cente per ton. Here they are It cente, and there is no reason why city docks here should not be operated as cheaply." ' Those cltlsena who have Insisted that the Front street franchises contain clauses providing that the city may take ever the lines at some future time may find objections to tba Feme Front street proposal, It - does not contain a - word about the purchase of tba Front street rnad hy the mnnlclpslltyJTlllaJirrltten proposal, however. Is not in formal shape and cbangea may be agreed upon at the meeting Monday. Pence already baa in the hands of the street committee of the council a fren chlse ordinance for his road to occupy streets connecting the St. Helena road with tha city's thoroughfares. He now seeks a franchise from Nicolal street over streets to be determined to Front street at Flanders or Hoyt, thence along Front . street to - Jefferson, thence, to Water, along Water to Hood and finally out to the southern city limits. ' The Pence proposal says: . "We ere willing to haul over the tracks on all the streets granted cars 'from connecting line at some fair and reasonable rate to be agreed upon and specified in the franchise, and In that reapect wlirhow. atate that we are will ing to give twice the length ef haul for tbe sum specified in the pending fran chises of the United Railways company and the Willamette Valley Traction company aa Is required of them In that franchise, and to give the same haul they undertake for one half the sum specified. Two dollars and aTtalf per car la the sum specified in the franchises men tioned These have already been granted by the" wi i n"TT"" nS-Twht - yi--TjL: tianau ma muiiuii! ui maiui LH". The Pence company offers' to deed to the city the east end of Swan island, giving It 4,000 eet of waterfront on the channel side. However, the city is to bulkhead to the harbor line on the north- sides and dredge , the channel to a It is proposed to operate the FronT treat trackaon tne -Common user principle. In thia way care from the Willamette valley will come through the city along ' Front atreet and bo taken directly to dock to be constructed .on tha municipality-own propertyon Swan Island. The Pence company offers to biilld a bridge to meet the demands of both city and federal authorities toaaa Swan Island tn IhajmalnlandLand fretgnt- wouio) - oa j-conre;HLyw. iui bridge. . -. r v - EST, STICK- i TO-BUSINESS MAN j - But Ja .aaw,a better, bunlnes corner at l.'nlon avenue and Falling streets, and he determned to move. He secured the movers and they told him to close up shop and they would move him. .. : . "Close upT7Not " much!" said - Joseph Zalinpkle. "Tou fe-on with the moving. This shop keeps working."- It did. Customers entered the mov ing barber shop and Joseph shaved them with an air aa icalmly as though he were at work In the Waldorf-Astoria. K a euetewns was eut. ' i - :wtWben Joseph.. hadjhaved fiye men and out two head of hair the movers announced that they bad the shop on the new location. "That aof said Joseph, "I waa too busy to notice." Back. Chicago. ' To the wooda. New Tork. Fade away, London. Tou have no" Joseph Zalinsklel 4 L TRACT Rival Spokane Railway -Lines Contest-Ownershipflf Large Acreage in Idaho."" FORMER OWNER DECLARES C0NTRACT NOT FULFILLED Deed Given Inland Empire Company Held Invalid by Spokane-Pend d'Oreille Lake Rapid Transit Com' pany Long1 Legal Battle In Sight. Spokane. -Wash May 2. A lively legal battle Is In prospect between ri val railway companiea wishing to oper ate lines from Spokane .to Pend d'Oreille lake. The' terminal grounds at the lake are the aubject of the controversy, the Spokane-Pend d'Oreille Rapid Transit and the Inland Empire eompanlea each claiming ownership. - The weberg .property, was sold sev eral months ago- under contract . t the Prairie Development company, an aux- llle,ryef -tha. Rapid. Transit for. 1 41,00(1. to ald V J.?' Vf a..ded .wduld. be.glven.. The payment due May 1 was by mutual consent post poned until May It. John Kleberg alleges tHat the money was not forthcoming on that day, the contract bad lapaed and accordingly he sold tbe tract to F.'A. Black well bf the. Inland Empire company. - R. A. Hutehlnnon. manager or the Spokane-Pend d'Oreille Rapid Transit company, aays that beyond doubt bla company holds title to tne tract or I. TOO acres and holds the deed to Black- well for tbe laland Empire company In valid. ' - -We will sue Lleberg." he said today, for apealflo performance of contract. We had the money at the' time set, but they did not come for it. We have brought suit against Mr. Lleberg for 115,000 damages, and will proceed as soon aa we can get service. Our rompany ewne every foot of Squaw bay except that owned by the Washing ton Brick Lime Co., so we will not lack for terminal grounds should we lose thia traot." , ' . 1 TERr.llNA iirmspiTF- IIIUIUI U I bV- 4ji I - - - ..... - I TELLS AUDIENCE HOW SHERIFF KILLED GAMBLING Crowd .' Crowa Enthusiastic ' and Cheera Every Mention of Word's Name Meeting Held Under i Aua ' pices of .Traveling Men's Club.7 . ' At the ODeri-alr meetlna in Chanman equal's (the south -plasa) last- night. lag Men's Tom Word club, Henry E. McGinn . spoke to an enthusiastic au dience en "Why Tom Word Should Be ReeleoUd.'' - He- was - introduced- by Charles W. Ransom, and said in part: "When -Tom Word became sheriff there were It gambling aaloona in Port land,taking in more than 1740,000 every month. They were. running in violation of -the law. but the authorities were collecting, fines monthly 'and allowing these' men to go on doing business. Within IT days after Word took tha oath, of office ha had closed every gamb ling houssr-in Portland and they are still closed. "The question of' law enforcement la the one most prominently before tbe American - people today. .: Labor has coma to know that it has not had ita hare of tbe riches it produces because tha law .have not been rigidly en forced. 'LaFollette was made governor of Wisconsin because he enforced the law. Folk was made governor of Mis souri because he enforced tbe laws. Tom Word is preeminently ttaslaw en- rorcement man of this state. Crime Carnival rreveated. L "Had it "noVbeen forThe workTaone by Word we should have had a carnival of crime at the Lewi and Clark fair. He beat thejapr9t.ot J?.oo.oot!ey VQiflaaiMfe nin in linilaa iSi in li for that reason th gang is going- to stand by Stevens, The gamblers and three-card monte dealer bave 'come back from Tonopah to support Stevens. Every dive in tbe north end had a pic ture of Stevena behind the bar until .1 mentioned . the. fact a short, time ago. and they -hMta-jtoca hssn tsknn-down.; Tom Word took their gambling para phernalia from them and kept it till he had secured signed statements from all of them that they would not gamble here. His promise that ha will do better In -the-futnre-than- he" has done In the paat means something. Had word taken the money the gamblers would have paid him for im munity he could have retired from of- Ipxfc, But they oulrt .not buy . him. When he was elected -he promised he would treat ayery one alike. And when ever we aee a man in a local office Who ha d6n MS duty it IS "our duty to see thst he remains there. When-, ever gambling run in violation of the law eome public official Is getting a graft. ' There , is .no such' graft here now. Conditions are infinitely . better .than. the.y,were two ..years ago. . "If Bob Steven were elected, the laat year of. his admlnlatratlon would make Portland a paradise for gamblers, or I am mistaken In the men-who are supporting snd counseling him. But aftar-thaelectlon a week f rom Monday Stevens will go back to his "position aa cashier of Ladd Tllton's bank, which he held Tor IS years before he became a candidate for sheriff. The meeetlnglosed with three cheers for Word, followed by cheers for Mo- Uinn, - . - ... - DARING ESCAFE IS MADE BY AMERICAHSFROM MEXICO Conductor Who Shoots Man, Holds Up Train and Rides ' 7to Safety. (BpecTrrlpii- or le(l WTpi te The JonrTTT Jiminea, Mexico. May IS Joe Larccy, an American paasenger conductor on tbe Mexican Central railroad, hets just msde one or the-moit "daring esrapeB-from this country ever known. He shot and killed a Mexican at a dance here three hta ago. . lie fled ut 'the Mexican Central track six miles, where ' Be nwxned a iwthboand- pasaenge rSan 1 .. Six Mexican police from Jlmlnet were on-tne xrain expecting. ne wowia at' tempt to make hla escape in such man ner. They ordered Lareey to surrender but Instead of obeying the command he drew hla own revolver upon the Mext can police and ordered them off - the train. They got off and walked back to town. - Larcey took possession of the engine and cut It loose from the remainder of the trauvand Engineer George Dempsey waa forced to remain at the throttle, The two men then began a wild ride toward the Texas border. 170 miles dis tant. The train dispatcher waa advised ths engine waa rum Ing wild and the track was cleared. Running records on the Mexican Central were smsshed. Larcey took to the cactus-covered deeert at point south of Juarea and Is supposed to be safe on the other side of the Rio Grande by thia time., TAKES INDIAN'S CASE -T0 COURT OF APPEALS ' (Rperial DiptrS te The JoarnaL) Pendleton, Or., May t. Attorney R. J. Slater of this city haa taken an ap peal to the United States circuit court ot - appeala in tha . eaae, of ' Columbia nd now serving a sente ntence bit McNeil' laland. After Judge Hanford denied a writ ef habeas corpus for the convicted Indlsn, Mr. Slater determined to carry the case further, . For a time he considered the question of filing a motion for rehearing before Judge Hanford. Thia step, bow ever, wss not taken and Instead the case will be taken to the higher court at San Franclscov CANDIDATES SPEAK AT T CALEDONIAN PICNIC '-'-' tapeeial Dtninti W. Th Joorsal.t Athena, Or., May St. The Caledonian plcnle which haa been held here for two days eloeed tonight. It waa one of, the beat- ever held In Umatilla county and in highly enjoyed by large crowd a from all parts of eastern Oregon. Scotch songs snd dances with able addressee proved especially Interesting. Today was candidates' day, all candidate mak ing talks to tbe assemblage, - 7 7'K:'' r) Iff; ewflV:c 7- What Are You Looking", For ? If you're looking: for good clothes, turn your gaze right toward this store. You'll' see here's 1aTgeStrpply"Of thrHaTTifchaffneToTManr suits: Alr-wtKnilKgh Spe for outing, for any summer, THREE-PIECE SUITS OUTINCrSUITS $12.50 to $30 $10 to $20 : Saml Rosenblatt m Co. CORNER MQR6AN fORLUKB TRUSI. "Continued fifoinITi Dn-T" terest irt the flotation of the new and greater coal trust. Reading stock is rising on account of this new move ment among the coal properties, but in addition its price is being forced up by a powerful pool. - : . - The publicr-tt-ia astumedV-wilLbe tet-in-wherr the merger-of theeoal interests is effected," as tt was when theteeLtrustwas ilormed, and Is expected to contribute an ' immense i j n-'--- -rB av I iw- dlit i CT1 t. " ' - Jraii ITT - t -t i lip r1! 17 V s-t fc-TSa. sX'3.'' 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Vvlr 4aa.. w sV isagiateiaaatsitesiiisai r Copyright 1906 ty Hart Schaffher & hot weatner wear, we guarantee THIRD AND MORRISOTTTREETS amount of excess in capitalization of the greater coal trust over the entire market vahie of stock of the seven railroads which own63 percentof the anthrscite iieldii The -railroad companies control 98 per Cent of the coal output and bave hitherto, through the medium of the Temple Iron company as holding company, constituted the coal trust If Wall street has sized tip the situ ation correctly the buying of stock ofthe. coal roads by those .who . are interested- in tha Bergcroi- the coal properties is done in the belief that iFthe pubTTc can be induced to Invest $500,000,000 in the purchase of coal ' 7" 'And jrou'want to sit ton jrour porchryouU T X ti .1 a j e I cxi uie ncea Here is one foot 6 inches All - : J 9S Mane your full satisfaction. properties from the railroads and yet leave the same in stock for- the men who now own and -eontrol-the-eoal - fields 1n connection with the Tailroads, the hnldm nf the big blocks, of atock IineaLjCQadiiIljrj3fiLenofe mously . .. 4 , - Knox ea the reaea. '. Senator Philander . C Knox haa not given any encouragement to the) move ment started by his . friends to give) him the Republican nomination for gov ernor of Pennsylvania. Though the con- " rentlon la- not far distant the BepublW cans of the Keystone state stilt appear to be up In the air ' aa regards the gubernatorial candidate. , ' Whcn.lhc Nice Summer Days Coizz 01 a goou, : , Comforllafe . Porcli Kceticr ! rocker, exactly as pictured, 1 made from hard maple, rush seat, slat back, ' S feet 8 inches high, 2 feet 2 inches wide, deep; . colors, green, red and f. maple. 7 Regular price anywhere $3.78. . COVELL'S Wcq!i - Spccicl" .FIRST T 4 j .. - " - - - .