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THE OREGON - DAILY JOURNAL. PORTLAND, FRIDAY EVENING, AUGUST 2, 1C07. THE JOURNAL .' AN IKDBP1MBENT, MBWtPAPEB. 0. t. Jtrsana. nrf SneSaf awning, Ta Jraraal BnlM lag. flfts ItBkiu streets. Portusd, Or. "totat l the poetorfloi t Portland, tor tMMBlwIoa tknmck U Ball Mteoad-tlaaa mutt. ' " Alt rartranta reached by this aanba. (yjl tlw opamtur tha department ros want. FOREIGN DVEBTISINO REPgMKSTATIV vralandBiiJnti "tH.I Asvartising Amer. Chicago. Rrnnawtrk Hlilldlnf, Torki Trlbua BuiMlng. . Sabaertptlon Tmi by mall to ar a la (at United Itataa. Caaada er alsxloo. nir.v Am r-r 13 on I n month .1 HI'NDAT. Am r. 12. BO I One moat. DAILY AXD 8UNDAY. a .... rr so l Oh month Do you never look at your self wheu you abuao another? riautus. P PORTLAND'S INTEREST. .ORTLAND 18 Interested in the Milwaukle club, an unlawful gambling concern, because It Is conducted near this city. Its proprietors and most of Its patrons lire here, and except In Its mere situs It Is a Portland affair. But being situated In Clackamas county, the Portland authorities are unable to suppress It. Portland people can, however, and do, through The Jour nal, call on the Clackamas county authorities to suppress this unlaw ful vicious, demoralizing and Ms graceful establishment. The old excuse that district attor neys and sheriffs used to make, that they could not secure enough evi dence to convict, and so could not shut up such notoriously unlawful ' concerns, will not be accepted any more. The Journal knows from per sonal Investigation 'and Inspection that there Is plenty of evidence plain ly In sight in this Milwaukie club. The paraphernalia is there; games are going on; money is lost and won; up till now, at least, there haa been no disguise about it. Besides, times have changed. -Gambling haa been suppressed not only In Portland but largely through out the state and the other states. The courts are more ready to see evidence against this class of law breakers than they used to be, and so are juries, on account of the change In public sentiment. It is not a hard task for these officers, as It was formerly, to stop public gambling. See how quickly Sheriff Tom Word did It here, even when the city administration was not In sympathy with him. Sheriff Harvey K. Brown did the same in Baker! county, and other sheriffs and dis trict attorneys have done it easily. 'All that Is necessary Is to say the word and mean what is said. Such a thing as the Milwaukie club should no more be tolerated than a breeding ground of a pesti lence or the known headquarters of a gang of horse thieves, for two reasons. One sufficient reason is, the thing is unlawful. The officers ' need look for no other reason. But the other reason Is, It is evil, detri mental to the whole surrounding community, clearly against public policy, a sore on the body politics. This thing exists right alongside Portland, which, therefore, has a tha . bosses and th f maehln. and must be destroyed. ,It meant tbat the wires are laid, that skulking foes are afield, and that the battle for the life of th law will hav to be fonaht It means that there Is coming here in Oregon another such a battle as was fougnt and won by Folk In Missouri, by La Follette in Wisconsin, and by Hughes when he fought and routed the politicians of New York. It will be a struggle that will offer the opportunity of a lifetime to the right man, and he is likely to appear, for there la a hero for every crisis. In the defense of the Oregon primary law, he will ar ray himself agalnat the politicians, and with, the people, and will have behind him every agency and influ ence with which to win, just as Hughes won over the aggregated politicians of New York. CRIMINAL TRIALS. T HE HAU trial consumed five days, the Haywood trial many weeks. They may be rather too swift In European countries. and may not always give a defendant as much of a chance as he ought to have, yet it is unlikely that they often convict an Innocent person, and crime, at least murder, is rare there as compared with this country. Is stated that there are 25 murders committed in this country to one in Germany, in proportion to popula tion. The ways of conducting the Thaw trial and the Hau trial are partly responsible for this difference Our courts are absurdly lenient in these cases in the matter of test! mony and argument and disputes by attorneys. In this Haywood case most of the testimony was Irrelevant and three hours' talk by the lawyers would have been as good as three days' talk. If the case had been crowded into two weeks, the same result would have been obtained; nothing essential need have been omitted, and everybody concerned. Including the public at large, would have been better off. The Jurymen at last, as some of them said, paid not much attention to anything but the Judge's charge; that seeming rather favorable to the defendant, they acquitted him. It is a wonder the poor men did not become Insane, The simple fact Is that dragging these murder or other criminal trials through weeks of time is largely an absurd, unamusing farce, and has come to be so regarded by the ob servant public. There Is need of a great reform here, and it lies chiefly in the hands of the courts to ef fect it. . CANT PROTECT HIMSELF. P OOR, helpless old Uncle Sam. He not only cannot protect the people against the hundreds of trusts that are robbing them, many of them partly in consequence of the protective tariff law, but he can't protect himself from robbery at every hand. To get his malls car ried he has to pay many millions of dollars a year more than Is reason able. Express companies hold him up still worse in proportion to what they do. Army' and navy supplies are sold to him at enormous profits. If he needs a shin he has to nav from two to ten prices for it. The right to demand of the authorities powder trust plunders htm on every of Clackamas county that they do their, duty. It wouldn't be tolerated a day in Multnomah county. Isn't Clackamas as good k county as Mult nomah? THE CONSPIRACY AGAINST THE PRIMARY LAW. THE CONSPIRACY against the Oregon primary law does not have designs on a single part, but on the law as a whole. The politicians not only, want to assassl nate statement No. 1, but to throttle . other vital features. They would not only throw the election of senator back into the legislature, but restore the convention system. They are afraid to attack the law in the open, and most of them profess friendship while plotting against it In secret. Afraid to assail the measure as a whole, they hope to destroy it by piecemeal. The proof of evil designs Is In the latest utterance of the Oregonian, which formerly skulked In the rear and from ambush piped Its objections to statement No. 1. Now it throws aside" the thin veii of Its hypocrisy, and in a late issue says: "The " primary election law, which creates antagonisms in the primary that ere ; - carried into the election, contributes . Its steady forces to complete the job" of disorganizing parties. The utterance layB tire the pur pose of the politicians, and means, If it ; means anything, that the ln " trlgue la on. li means that the law 1 1 marked for slaughter, one feature - at a time, and tbat the measure that last winter , secured the election of twoiaenators islf minute, that turned Itie eyea i6f the whole country admiringly on Oregon, and that saved Oregonlans the shame and humilia . tlon of .the scenes always, before in ? cldent to legislative selection of sen- alor, Is distasteful to the politicians, . t , . pound of smokeless or other kind of powder he buys. The steel trust makes him pay whatever price it pleases for armor plate. And so it goes through all the list. He can't help himself, because most of hla hired men, especially those in con gress, are standing in with the plunderers. He is making some spectacular motions against a trust here and there, but they accomplish nothing or but little. If he succeeds in convicting a trust and fining It. the people have to pay the fine sev eral times over and the trust is tet ter off than ever. Uncle Sam looks like a big, hearty, prosperous, power ful old fellow,' but he is really pretty badly tied up. He can't protect even his own pockets. thrown . Into the, breach to deprive roroana ox we usurruci oi me mag nificent territory that nature placed at her door, and made easy for, her by proper effort to forever bold. Not the least of these threatening influ ences is the Harriman system, which Is already conspicuous for its discrimination against Portland and Oregon. The promise to double the exports' of Puget sound through this newi road, means that It must be done at the expense of Portland. It means that It will be done by diverting from Portland products that moun tain barriers and water grades would otherwise send to this city. That it will be done if Portlanders always sit supine, is not impossible. That it will be attempted Is certain, and that means that if ever there was pre sented a reason for Portland to move for the opening of her rivers from their sources to the sea, here It is. These rivers are the means by which she can entrench herself for ever In the position for which she was destined by nature. They are the agents with which she can com pel rates, dictate traffic policies and control Harrimans. They are the key to the situation, and a certain force in preventing the Harriman cabal from promoting elsewhere at the ex pense of Portland and Oregon. With the Harriman circular flaunting In their faces, will not Portlanders Interpret events rightly, and never rest until Oregon's rivers are brought into service? Will not all Oregon help, for is- not Oregon Portland, and Portland Oregon each the handmaid and helpmeet of the other? Now look out for forest fire bows., :..w. a ..- ,'.v,. M&1U V. to ' The ia trnat ! I,,... ,l It No, Powdar dit. MKing: Is It hot anotia-h tor NOISE THAT IS MUSIC. a Ana war to lmmlmnt rlvar Isn't In tb trust -Hiibfw5& u? f tha mountains If Toala la talking to Mars ho la prool youT" Tho raakj thonnomatari are Urf)y ir.ijui.mui, ir ii oaing- unoomiortaOly warm. a a f Rooaevelt la certainty tha most ver satile president ever; note this pro- a e Maude PeaJv Bherwln, Juat married, wants to set loose again already. Good luck for Sherwin. The subject of a sermon waa "The Greatest Saying In the World." Bee our uplifted hand?. Ife Don't." e e But Mrs, Hose Paator Stokes won't be able to tell working girls how they can all catch millionaire nuabands. No great amount of Interest Is being taken in the attempts being made at The Hague to make war more ladylike. But wouldn't it be rather hard on the country If Dr. Wiley ahould live to be 100 yeara old, and be retained in office? Being diaguated with the light run of small aaimon a Dig rish net went out to aea and caught the steamer Alliance. The Independence party carried the election In the Philippines. The assem bly will amount to no more than the Russian douma. , Rattlesnakes In Oregon City have been reported. Sunday, we auppoaa. Isn't thla terrible rattlesnakes at large and saloons all closed? X 1 , UX.JJL! LHtlUISSWSSS CALLED TO REST p ORTLAND has no objection to make to one kind of noise that is being made Just now within hearing of this city. That is the noise made in blasting a track way for the North Bank railroad. The sound of every explosion of blasting powder Is a shout of relief, of rescue, of deliverance, for this city. We all understand, that Mr. Hill 1b building this road to accommodate, enlarge and fortify his own business, and not primarily to please or help Port land; and nobody can foretell Just how he will treat this city; but the fact that the road is coming soon road down the north side of the Columbia river at last, after waiting a quarter of a century for it; a pos sibly competing road, at least an ad ditional one; a road built in spite of and in opposition, tp Oregon's Old-Man-of-the-Sea, Tyrant Harriman that we can hear this road approach ing, and know it will Boon be here, Is reason for great rejoicing. The North Bank railroad will be great thing for Portland, but it will not help the greater part of the state much. It will give no relief to and encourage no development In that great rallroadless region of cen tral Oregon. That vast country is still fenced up by Harriman, with no certainty of his building through it, with the probability that he will only do so when forced to such ac tion by some powerful rival. He has spent many millions to keep Hill out of Portland, and millions more to get into Puget sound cities, where he had no particular occasion to go ex cept to try to hurt Hill, but as to his Oregon, he considers himself lord and master of it, much the same as Leopold has done with respect to the free" Congo state. But let the people up there not despair. Their time for rejoicing will come. Somehow the barriers will be broken down before very long. Then they can Join with Portland and the northern edge of Oregon, which rejoices now at the music over toward the Columbia. An exchange speaks of a young woman in a acraDe an "an auburn mai den of jpme yeara." Well, that la about aa sensrole an expression aa the "some time" phrase so often used. , Mark Twain says at t o'clock In the morning he feels old and sinful. We should think a man 71 yeara old ought to have aald hia prayers and gone to sleep by that time. e Hi Fairbanks didn't eave from drowning "should go on the stage." WhereT Why can't she stay where she la? And If she must travel, why not go by train? As to a theatrical stage, if she goes on it she ahould certainly keep on going on and off. But she appears to be sensibly keeping quiet and minding her own business. At a banauet of newsnaner men In Portland, wine was omitted from the menu. Had the fraternity down this way known It, a keg could have been sent up. wine eoesn't cost much in California. Lks Angeles Times. Is that the reason they would have sent itr nut thank you, we don't drink dlme a-gauon wine up here when we do In a ill i Ige. Oregon Sidelights Athena little girls hay organised a Sunbeam club, e e A field of barley near Helix went 80 bushels an acre. , e Pioneers of Hood Rlrer valley are going to organise. Barley around Pilot Rock yielded 40 to 60 bushels an acre. e De-relopment work is in progress on the Wedrord-Ashland coal mine. Nearly everybody in and around Myr tle Point has been feasting on venison. A Qllliam county man sold his 480 acre crop of barley for 180 an acre, for hay. a The editor of the Philomath Review went over the hills to the poor farm. He was out chasing subscriptions. a A French vicompte is visiting In Al- " A Desert Romance. Said Kalib Haick, a dragoman er tourists' courier, . baa caused no end of excitement in the little old borough of Now Tork by announcing that he Is engaged to marry an American heiress, Miss Elsie Ellwood. of De Kalb, Illinois. Miss Bllwood bas recently returned from the orient after several months' travel with her mother. - i 'Confirmation of the Syrian's ' an nouncement could not be had," says the eastern paper, "from the grandfather t the Waldorf. He said he had heard that Haick had made it. but 'had never had the pleasure' of meeting the young maji." Mr. Ellwood added that he had wired Haick a announcement of the en gagement to her father, and that it waa more than likely that the latter would come on to New York to see about 1L Whatever the BUwoods may thing about It. the announcement of tho en' gagement greatly stirred up Arthur Moore, of Maxwell. Manning Moore, dealers in machinery, who met Haick in the desert of tiahara. Mr. Moore spoke of Haick In "no uncertain terms. He said among other thlnga, that he engaged Haick as a guide, but dls- . V- i , V. .. . v. w tiiaisuu hum, auu mai wi. 4uw,, would tell the Ellwoods all h could to prevent the marriage. Haick was found by a reporter at the office of the "Guidance," a Syrian news paper. He was discussing his coming marriage with a party of friends. He said that the announcement of hie en gagement to Miss Ellwood was all true. They were to be married next Wednes day at De KaiD. v "I first met Miss Ellwood in Egypt when she was about to go up the Nile," said Haick. "Aa I was a tourist guide and contract to take parties through the country, I told her I could supply her party with tents and supplies, don keys, horses, or boats, or anything else they might need for their tour. In the party were Miss Ellwood, her sister, Miss Jean, and her mother. "Of course Miss Elsie and I were much together and grew friendly. Bhe seemed attracted by the oriental life. It was our custom to get out early and ride unui ii Decame insuneraoiy noi, ana then the tents which we had sent on ahead would be found erected for us. and we would stop for luncheon and until it cooled off, and then take up the journey. In this way Miss Elsie and I become very well acquainted and we fell In love and became engaged. I think she will like the llfeln my country." The Ellwoods are one of the best known families In Illinois. An announcement like this opens new worlds for the American woman. Here tofore foreign marriages have been somewhat troublesome to arrange and there seems to be a disposition on the part of some people to doubt their ad visability. Through the brief report which we have of ths one aa planned, there runs the thread of pure romance. The lovers (If lovers they are) met, in the free open air and ripened their ac quaintance under the beata of mid-day, ft Out in the wide places of the earth the gentle cool of the dawn and the sof twilights of the desert and. under the limitless sky. one who has a tenderness for the romantlo can well Imagine how differences of race and the artificial restrictions of rank and of wealth might come to be of little moment. If Bald Kalib Haick sang the songs or his people wild, passionate, yearning songs, which sweep one on to love's madness "And my race is of the Axra Who love, and die of love." or "Till the skies are old, and the sun grows cold. And the leaves of the Judgment book unroia. the intense, passionate cry of tha hot blooded races of the east as we imagine it. and as our song writers translate it for us If he sang. I say. such songs to a young Impressionable girl to whom the world had little more to offer in Joseph Webber Jr., Passed Tcaceiully Away yester day at His Home. . 1 '', , , ' ..I''i t.' ' k" j(- ..; . Joseph Webber JrJ one of those who eame te California la the- first rush of 'it and later removed to Oregon to make his horn, died yesterday at the ago' of T4 years at his home, 111 East Fourteenth. street He came to Port land In . 1981 and was one of .the early Are chiefs of both thla city and San Franolaeo where . hav served In both in stances wits the volunteers. Up to the time of his death he waa a member of the Exempt Firemen's association. Mr. Webber was born In Germany In Hit, coming to this country with his fiarents when 11 years old. He settled n New Tork living there until the fold fever came in 1844 which brought him to the west coast Boon after coming to Oregon ha moved to Albany ana that city was his home for nearly 0 years. For the last IT years, however, he had been a resident of Portland. He was married in San Francisco- in 1866. He is survived by his widow and nine children. They are: Mrs. A. R. Church, Portland; Joseph Webber jr., Han Fran olaeo: T. W. Webber. Portland; Mrs. R. L. Nell! Bumpter; John L. Webber, Ban Francisco; Charles Webber, Portland; Miss Lou M. Webber, Portland; Fred erick Teal Webber, Portland; and Alfred SL Webber. Portland. Mr. Webber waa a member of not only the Exempt Firemen's association but or the Albany louges oi ine inue pendent Order of Odd Fellows and An cient oraer or unuea yvoraraon. FIRST DISTRICT FAIR EARLY IN OCTOBER (Special Dispatch to The JoornaL) La Grande. Or., Aug. 1. The election of officers of the First District Fair association of eastern Oregon resulted in the election of Ben Brown, president; Fred J. Holmes, secretary, and F. I Myers, treasurer. The board or mana- Sers for Union county is composed of en Brown, F. J. Holmes, Ed Conley and Le Tuttle. Charles T. McDanlel and Sam Pace are the members from Wal lowa county. The fair will be held this fall from October 1 to . inclusive. JACKSOII. BUYS HALF-INTEREST SLEEPER ADDED a w s e Persistent Demands Finally Granted by Harriman, $ , . Management, j CAR XEAVES ON 13 RETURNS ON NO. 16 jSJpSJjSgtBBSlSfM V ' ..i' ' ' 1 General' Passenger Agent McMnrmv Home Prom Chicago Plan Being Considered of Placing la Commis sion of Portland-Salt Lake Special. Prominent Seattle Capitalist Buys Into Golden Eagle Dry Goods Company. and possession. the way of affluence but to whom the wild, free life of the desert, and the impassioned cry of a lover would appeal, aa it could not at any other time in her life, la is not lm- a.nyo & jszs r!.bnuo Siffrit szs&jFJSi ?. ne vicompie nonsense, u is no v, ii-ta,,, ,.j (h.t ah, runnmi OPEN RIVERS THE ONLY SAFE GUARD. E' VENTS are so shaping, as to give signal emphasis to recent appeals made by The Journal to the people of Portland. This paper has pointed out that nature has done much for this city, but that it is an uncompleted work. The finishing stones In the great edifice, they tbat are to become the head of the corner, must be lifted Into posi tion by Portlanders themselves. Adding immense Import to these injunctions, comes the Harriman cir cular. It describes the water level extension projected by the Union Pacific to Puget sound. It bears tes timony of the tunnels and easy grades that will make the road of extremely economical operation. It declares that Its completion will double the export of Puget sound.- It makes no difference what the merits of the claims In this ciroular may be, or what its purpose is, a condition is presented, that Portland has, sooner or later, to, meet. Im-i mens artificial Influences Till ' be i California should speak rather softly and humbly when It comes to any question of state as against fed eral rights and powers, for California Is not a "sovereign" or self-governing state. It long ago surrendered it political powers and privileges to W. F. Herrin, representing the "Esspee" company, and it Is that corporation and not the official figureheads that have a right "to speak for California. New England states and perhaps some others are in the same position. They are not states, but railroad provinces or satrapies. credit to him. a A new hotel, a new dwelling house, a new drugstore, a harness shop, a new postofflce and a new livery Darn are going up in Creswell. a a About 180,000 sacks of grain will he marketed in Lexington this season. The sack sale is 85 per cent greater than two years ago and twioe as large as last year's sales. a a Condon Times: The trout are so big In the upper Deschutes that fishermen find a young pup a very good bait, a kitten may be used to advantage, and for smaller fish a mouse will be found most effective. a Japanese residents of Hood River and vicinity to the number of 80 met and organized for mutual benefit and pro tection. They were addressed in their own language by Lawyer Henderson. War! War: War! a The Dalles has about twice as many moons now as sne naa previous to the railroad work on the north side of the river, says the Chronicle, but. be it said to the credit of her officials, the town Is remarkably well behaved. Efugene will be the prettiest up-to-date city of its size on t clfic coast by the end of next year, as serts the Ouard. It will have electrlo cars, the entire business section will be paved and will have a new and mod era passenger station. the Pa- xne niacK sana aiong tne trurry coun- coast is still being investigated. The old Beach Globe says: "The beaoh The Filipinos have elected an as sembly in favor of immediate Inde pendence of the islands, but as the assembly can pass no laws except such as aro concurred in by the gov erning commission and the president, their independence sentiment will come to naught. Successful Indepen dence Is Indeed an impossibility for them, composed as they are of scores of Ignorant and mutually hostile tribes. They must be a white man's burden for a long time yet. v Asking Too Much. From tho Philadelphia Bulletin. Colonel Binks 1 say, -Rastus, did ou see anything of that 'er pullet that 've meen mlssln' for four days? K .'. Rastus ''Deed I can't remember. Irnh. nel, as far back as foah days. All chick ens look-alike to me dese days. Mah ole woman she jess gives ua chicken pita. 4sjc jUU Att la aUjaUad uW lying north of Rogue river for 12 miles is beyond question the richest in gold and platinum to be found on this coast in an almost continuous body. a a Ex-Stftte Treasurer Moore was pros trated by heat one day this week, says the Klamath Falls Herald, while at work in the yards at the sawmill not beins- accustomed to heavy work. What we would like to know Is why an ex-state treasurer was at worn in a sawmill, a that although he weighed J40 pounds and his wife but 92 pounds the rallrmut permitted him to travel for half of what it cost Mrs. Bell, and he believes this is unfair, and thinks the railroad com mission should regulate it perhaps so that Mrs. Bell would pay only quarter fare. This Date In History. It 10 Hudson entered the straits which bear his name. 1(49 Irish Royalists defeated at Rathmlnea, 1718 The Quadruple Alliance formed. 1810 Amos Tuck, first anti-slavery representative in congress, born. Died December 11, 1879. 1817 A steamboat first arrived at 8t. Louis. 1820 Sir John Rone, Canadian states man, born. Died August 26, 1888. 1830 Cnarles X. abdicated the throne of France. 18(1 Congress passed an act confis cating all slaves employed by the con federates for military purposes, 1864 Electrlo light first .exhibited outside the Gaiety theatre, London. 18 6 John Hiram Lathrop, pioneer Missouri eduoator, died. Bora January 'l900 -Attempt made to assassinate tne fihab e Persia la Pari ' Whether her desert lover looks the same to her under her native skies, and apart from all the setting which be longed to the romance, is another ques tion. American girls have pretty good sense; they are not apt to throw away their lives on utterly unworthy men, and it Is probable that In this case the young woman will look squarely at the facts which such a marriage will bring before she takes the step which links her life to that of an alien, a man who can offer her little but devotion, and that perhaps of an ephemeral kind. In the quick, passionate natures, love and hate lie close together; passions are easily aroused and as easily swept away. The fool-hardiness of youth may well stop and consider, not only in the case of a marriage with a dragoman, but in any case where the two natures are of opposite types and of different heritage. I do not think that a marriage should be an affair of convenience, a barter of title for gold; neither do I think that the rash passion which often pos sesses young girls and young men, which urges them to throw all consld-, erations to the winds except that of mutual attraction. Is a safe rock on which to anchor a family. Mutual attraction it is well to have; mutual respect is indispensible, but the strongest anchor of all is a conformity of principles. With this, life Is sure of mutual alms and purposes, and the other things are more apt to follow, but without it, as is dally proven, lives which are linked, gradually drift apart until the end is estrangement, either tacitly covered or openly announced. Girls, bo sure of the principles of the man Who seeks your hand in marriage; the hot songs or the desert draw your heart In answering throb, and life looks easy and beautiful under their spell, by the long, wearisome marches are before you, when there will. be little singing', when the burden must be borne under the overpowering sun. in the heat of the day; when patience and strength and en durance wil), be called for in full meas ure. Bee to it that the man you choose has in him the stuff to stand the Jour ney, ii taxes oacKoone, grit, resolution and endurance. Given these, and the twilight hours may be made beautiful for ypu of the haunting songs of the mornfhg. CELEBRATE BIRTHDAY OF SON OF HEAVEN C F. Jackson, a Seattle capitalist, has bought a half interest In the Golden Eagle dry goods company for $60,000. Although he is very much interested in seeing the Golden Eagle department store expand he will not take an active part in the management of the concern. G. H. Mayes formerly with Lowengart & Co., also owns stock in the establish ment and will be secretary and financial manager of the company. Q. A. Lowit, who retains a great deal of the stock will remain in bis present position of president of the establish ment. w.m r mittlar for several rears in charge of the publicity department of Olds, Wortman & King, has been en gaged as advertising, and sales manager of the Golden Eagle department store. The aim in enlisting In this business, men prominent in the financial and mer cantile world like Mr. Jackson and Mr. Mayes is to extend the scope of the company, open new departments and place me institution upon the most solid and substantial footing. "TONGUES OF FIRE" CONSIDERED FANATICS Oregon Holiness Association i ro- hibits Followers of That Faith From Joining Its Body. After several weeks in Chicago and other eastern cities, William? McMur ray, general passenger agent of the Har riman lines In this territory; has re turned, to Portland. In Chicago he at tended a meeting of tho Harriman pas senger officials, , ' nounced that for the accommodation of residents of the southern part of the state a standard sleeper will henjafter be run regularly between this cltS""iVV ytmwvi ua fcii tun auiu win imvv run' land as a part of train No. 18 and re turn attached to train No. 1(. The car will be used for the sole accommoda tion of - passengers between, these points. There haa been a long and in sistent demand for such accommodations on the part or cltlsens of Medford and other residents of the southern part of the state. Another announcement of Mr. MoMur ray's was the consideration by Harri man officials of the west of niacins? in commission a through train from Salt Lake City to Portland. The tratn will be known as the Portland-Salt Lake Speolal and will be run direct between the two cities. If present plans mate rialise. "There Is nothing I can say at this time about the contemplated throurh train from Omaha to Portland," said Mr. Mc Murray, "though it la under consideration and I have always con tended that the northwest should have a special through train from Omaha. It will come in time of course, but Just when I cannot say. It is iarrelv a matter of equipment" TEAMSTER BALKS OSIER ADVOCATE Despondent Franco-Prussian War Veteran Cut Down From Limb. At a recent meeting of the Oregon Holiness association a resolution was introduced and adopted barring from that organisation any who professed the faith of the "Tongues of Fire," and pro nouncing that religion fanatical. The ntinn nraa unanimous, and one that had been discussed among the leaders for some little time previous. The Oregon Holiness association which has lust completed a series of n.Ainr .t Tremont is an inter-denom lnational assoeistlon organised for the purpose or holding evangensno meet ings. The meetings are conducted in the style of the old-time Methodist meetings anB the organisation is usually finsn tfl fl.11. LeGrand M. Baldwin, president of the association, says, . however, that the leaders, not wishing to countenance fanaticism, decided to pass the resolu tions mentioned. It was the purpose not to reflect on the "tongues move ment," but to protect their own organi sation. The resolution adopted follows: "Resolved, That the Oregon Holiness association do not Indorse the 'tongues movement' or third experience, because it is misleading, unscrlptural and fanat ical, and that the Oregon Holiness as soplatlon do not receive into Its mem bership either anyone professing the faith of the Tongues df Fire' or any one who Indorses the tongues move ment.' K. P. KYLE, I "Chairman. Firmly convinced that the theory of Dr. Osier Is tenable, but disagreeing with the eminent physician as to the method of extermination, Ernst Ilsberg, 68 years of age, a one-legged veteran of the Franco-Prussian war, sought to end his life this morning by hanging himself to the limb of a tree on the river front at Bell wood just south of Spokane street Tbat Ilsberg was unsuccessful In consummating his rash plan waa due to the quick action of a teamster who happened to be in the vicinity. Coming upon the old man hanging from the tree by an improvised noose of rawhide and heavy twine, the wagon driver ran to the rescue and quickly cut down Ils berg. Patrolman Ehmsen was notified and took the despondent German to po lice headquarters, where he waa locked up on a charge of drunkenness. When questioned as to the reason of wanting to kill himself, the brave sol dier who fought and bled for the fath erland, said: "I am now 66 years of age, and no one wants to give an old man a job. That doctor. Osier, I think, is bis name, is quite correct that a man when he reaches 45 years of age should quit the earth. I broke my leg two years ago ny railing in a Drioa- wnere l was employed, ana ai he county hospital, being short of meat, yard. the county hospi they cut It off, as you can see. I can t do hard work, and anyway nobody has muoh use for an old man." Ilsberg formerly resided at 1001 Clin ton street but lately he says the "bushes" nave furnished him a home. The noose caused a large red welt on his neck. Beyond this lie did not suf fer injury. He was In most jubilant spirits at the station and was led away to a cell beating time with his peg leg to the tune of "Die Wacht am Rheln.' TERRIFIC ELECTRIC STORM AT SEA1 (Special Mipatch to The Journal.) Seattle, Aug. 2. Following three days so hot that they broke a!l records for July, a fearful electric storm broke over this city last evening. A thunder bolt struck a wire leading to the dis tributing system, got past the arresters and reduced a transformer to Junk. The result was that for two hours the city was without power or light. Telegraphlo and telephonic communication was also cut off. Street car service was totally demoralized. About two i.urs after the first storm a second, of mf.ior Inten sity, raged for a time. No considerable damage has been re ported outside of the interruptions suf fered in respect of light, power and communications. R0SEBURG PYTHIANS .WILL BUILD HALL Journal Special Service.) Washington. t. C. Aug. -The dragon flag of the celestial empire was city and Alpha lodge contemplates erect- (Bpectal Dispatch to The Journal.) Roseburs-, Aug. 2. At tha Jast reg ular meeting the following officers of Alpha lodge No. -47, K. or 1., were in stalled; Glenn V. WimberlyC. C; M. F. Wright, V. C; J. A. Perry, 4. F.; W. A. Dowell, P.; R. Kldd, M. A.; Elmer E. WlnVberly, M. W.; F. Brown, I. G.; D. P. Fisher, O. O.;. Elmer E. Wlroberly, acting D. D. G. M. The oraer is doing very wen in inis displayed over the Chinese legation to day in token of the fact that this waa the birthday of the emperor, Kuang Hsu. Born August 8. 1872, the present emperor of China, at thirty-five years of age, is prooaoiy tne least Known or the great rulers of the world, and this de spite the fact that his domain in. ex tent and population has few equals and his country Is a center of great attrac tion and-Interest for the rest of the world. ' Kuang Hsu Is said to be popular with the Intelligent element among his sub jects, and it is believed that were he able to shake off the domination- of the dowager empress he would al in bring ing about liberal reforms in China. For eign diplomats, who have resided at Pekln. speak well of the young emperor. But so long as the old dowager retains her .power there is little hope of bring ing about better conditions in the 4iaw. grj Kfiomji inv a fine castle hall upon the corner lot, 40x100 feet, which it recently pur chased on Jackson street . opposite the Hotel McClallen. THREE-CENT FARE GRANTS CONFIRMED Cleveland, Ohio, Aug, 3. At a special meeting of the city eeuncll held last night a curative ordinance was lntrv duced and passed the first reading; which re-enacts and amends all of the grants heretofore mad, in the three cent railway companies. The remedial measure is the result of recent decision of Judge Phillips and Judge Chapman in common pleas court, . in which all for mer franchises were neld to be illegal. The legislation will be rushed--through this week, r ? 1 I "An East Side Bank for East I Side People." I T is unsafe to keep money about the house or carry n upon the person. All money received should at once be placed in a safe repository. Every per son should have a bank account and pay all bUls by check. The Commercial Savings Bank wjTOTT AITD WtttLUt ATS. Invites Your Business " v Information and advice cheer- .fully given. . V Interest at 4 per cent paid on savings accounts from 11.00. up, oompounaea semi-annually. George W. Bates....... President I ' M M v.. . J LI.. tV