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VOL. IV. NO. 27.
Portland. Oregon; Sunday mornino, September 15, 1007.
PRICE FIVEf CENTS.
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SHIW FAIR WHICH OPENS TOMORROW IS SAID
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C-'MQ excel all exhibitions of former years
Far Eeachlng Legal Conten
tion Most Important That
lias Occurred in State for
Many Tears Local Op
tion fiiThreatened.
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Telephone Company Balks
at Payment of' Two Per
Cent on Gross Earnings-
Outlines Reasons for - Ac
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No mor important and mora far
reaching legal contention baa boen ad
vanced in thla atata for many year
than that presented yesterday by the
Pacific States Telephone & Telegraph
company, In Its assault upon the va
lidity of the Initiative and referendum
amendment to Oregon's state constitu
lion.
It vVia AAfilanHAn tt til tlrttmnA
company ts upheld by the courts, the Grover Cleveland Will Make
effect will be to overthrow not Only
the laws enacted through the initiative
4H June, 908,. but also to nullify the
; direct primary law and the local option
V law, which were adopted by popular
yoio in June, jiaiji. , - -j
The qutione raised - go apparently
. to the root of the (juetion whether the
initiative ana tn woiwiaum cum in
vl, ,, .. .... ... BW
TO RUH LAHDIS . iaS.' ' .
FOR PBESIOEBI m ' ' ;; .'. ;
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Amends for Past by
Starting Boom
(Cnltd FtM Leaetd Wbe.)
Washington Heot. 14.-4 oda K. SC.
eorporated Into the American System J Lendls of Chicago may be presented tol
of covernment. voters or ureaon nave I th. now rtarr.n.i. .tinnsi
can be none, and tney nave exercised u""" " ... ,
the powers both of Initiative and ref-1 movement Is on foot to secure bis per-
erendum on a number or important
mission to use We name. This Infor
mation comes from a source of unques-1
tloned reliability.
From Information at hand It appears
the plan nas the support of strong in
fluences In eastern and middle states.
Ht Is not known to what extent. If any,
he judge has entered Into the confer-
measures. It is now asserted by the
San Francisca attorneys of the tele
phone company that the amendment to
the tate constitution, giving the peo
ple tnese extraorainary- powers, is in
violation of the constitution of the
united States.
Corporations Would Profit.
If these attorneys succeed In main- ences. x-prestdent Qrover Cleveland
taming ineir view, 11 win do a, signal is accredited With being one of the
victory, not only for the telephone com- prime movers. It is significant In this
pany but for all corporations, which are conenction that Judge Landis. made an
subject to the S per Cent tax imposed unexpected call at Princeton within the
Dy mo peopie a year ago. more man i pas two weeus. it. was a time when
that, such an interpretation of the fed-1 the publio mind was filled with the
era! constitution wauld render the local 1 Chicago A Alton Immunity case. The
option ana the direct primary laws oricaii causea some comment, but was ex
no effect. v plained by the judge to mean that he
xne question as to tne constitution-1 was going iianing ana naa consulted an
amy of the initiative and referendum excellent authority.
amendment la raised by pleadings filed The talk at the. meeting may have
yesterday In the circuit court of this fomewung 10 ao wun tne iandls presl-
) county. In seeking to avoid paying thei?0"1"" Doom, ine understanding here
tax or z per cent on tneir cross earn-1 '-"",u, aeo-
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VltiW'OGlsbWP RSOM MA1H PAVXLI.IOK 5tt0WWG MIEY.UVg iSTOCK BAXNS AUD
Scientific and Attractive Arrangement of Grounds
Where the Products of Oregon Country
Are to Be Exhibited to Visitors
lngs, levied by the initiated law passed
by the people In 1906, the Pacific States
Telephone & Telegraph company al
leges that the Initiative and referendum
clause of the state constitution is In
direct violation of the constitution of
the United States in nine Instances.
Suit was brought by the state some
time ago against the telephone company
to enforce the payment of the 2 per cent
tax. - The amount sued for Is 19,600.
The answer, which was filed In the cir
cuit court yesterday, was prepared in
Ran Francisco, In the office of EX'S.
Pillsbury, chief counsel for the Paclflo
States company. . j
The Initiative and referendum, and
All laws initiated under it, which in
cludes the direct primary and the local
option law, are anegea Dy tne teie
, phone company to be unconstitutional,
I violating the federal constitution in the
following Instances: '
' That the initiative la unrepubllcan
and . In violation of the guarantee of a
, republican form of government con
tained in article 4, section 4, of the
' constitution.
i That it deprives the legislature of
( by congress of places In Oregon for
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GIRL REFUSES
TO FIGHT UNION
senals and forts as ureacribed bv
article 1, section 2.
That it denrlves the leeislatnre of
I' the power to prescribe the time, place
ana manner oi noiaing elections ror sen
ators and representatives as required by
article 1. section 4.
That it deprives the legislature of
tne power to direct tne manner in which
the state shall atiDolnt electors for
preeldent and vice-president, violating
legislative rowan
That it deprives the legislature of the
power to consent. to tne junction et ore.
ond call on the i-nnalflfi nin
Those back of the Landla boom h.
lieve that the Chicago Judge would
uiuvB a winner in inn n btt fnnw?itinn
and that he could defeat any Republi
can candidate except Roosevelt on a
conservative platform. They figure his
achievements as. a destroyer of trusts
will give nlm a good record even with
While the administration. . s.r,
; v 1 BU1l" against trusts they point
rJS&i. works this" is the Daughter of Western Union
record thflV r(M nrassnf rv asAM. if . I
he has done: -
..S iAUnin"DlBnaara uu company over
29.000,000 for accepting rebates.
r liieti mi Aimn iin nnn fnp i ..!..
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ua-iS.a l? o'g paewng nouae.
Fined two prominent officials of the
Aitnn tin nnn u. "
fense. " (Hetrat Newt by Lonceat Lud Wire.)
Fined the furniture trust ti enn 4 Los Anareles. Rent 14. Frlandhln
secured its dissolution. I broken by the vicissitudes of the teleg-
President Cleveland nnt4 T..i. ranheri' atrtkn was rnrnmpn tpd torlnv
dismissed when the latter was Becre- I when Miss Estella Jones, daughter of
retary of State Gresham'a private seore- I Horace Jones, chief operator for the
lary. At mat time Landis was a con- I western Union at the Ferry building in
Stant visitor at tha Newananor rvtt.- I San Francisco. left her kev in Pasadena.
spondents' club. President Cleveland I hurried to Los Angeles, cast her for
neld him responsible for the premature I tunes with the strikers and Joined the
uuuwmron uj, mo naming aown of the union.
rlaar at Hawaii nri n.i i I Tn hti. trtt.
portant secrets of state. I merly operator for the Western Union
Chief Quits Company and
Regains Friend.
Secretary Gresham'a renlv th
mna ior ianais resignation was that
ji win hjubi leave, notn would leave.
iiiB.uKniana was wimarawn. Landis la
ter pecame a great favorite with the
at Pasadena, who walked out with the
otner operators, was astonished when
her bOBom friend of several years, Miss
Estella Jones, appeared at her home
and announced that sue had been sent
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(Pacific Coast " Trees teaaed Wire.)
Seattle, Sept. 14. While en route
to the race track at the Meadows
this afternoon , in an automobile,
State Senator A. T. Vandeventer, a.
prominent member of the King
County Racing association, Dr. T.
Ferguspn, former state senator of
Tacoma, and Lincoln .Davis, former
itate senator, and James Wilson
were all seriously Injured: Dr. Fer
gnson and Vandeventer were - per
haps fatally Injured. ' .
president. Cleveland, never forgot" he by the company to take the key deserted
had done him an injustice. by her chum. She asked to be directed
to a proper place to live. This courtesy
SENATOR TILLMAN" TO SST A&Tr-
onm i Tr txt hit ttiaitt I For two weeks Miss Jones kept at her
OXXiifllV JLW KjAlJlE VMHIAI1 rT.V?rui y "t" mornlD- without
Mi iivwivnwvii uiiu ca j yimt aw uio
headauarters of the union on Mercantile
(juearat naws oy ixingest Laaiad wife.) " I Place, paia ner aues ana jomea ine un-
Banta Rosa. Pal . Rant. 11 BHBt.I iou.
r , , - wvaa&v.
Benjamin Tillman of South Carolina
will arrive in the state this week and
is to be one of the speakers in a lecture
course In Headlsburr. in thin rmmi.
and elsewhere. His topic at Healdsburg
' n noca i-rooiom i ' ta the
South." At Healdsburg he is to apeak
in the Adventist College church, a build
ing that will accommodate L00O per-
ASSOCIATION DEMANDS
UNIFORriT PRISON LAWS
CUBA IS THREATENED
WITH GENERAL STRIKE
(United Press Leased Wire.)
Havana, Sept 14. Cuba is threat
ened with a general strike. Many labor
unions in various Darts of the inland
have called meetings for tomorrow when
demands will be formulated for shorter
Indian Killed bystreet ifOajrw. L
SpMaI plspateh to -rha JoaraaLI
Seattle. Sent 14.- Padd Sam. an In
dian boy from Bremerton, was knocked
down by a streetcar this morning and
so -severely Injured that he died : at the
Emergency hospital a few hours later
(United Preaa Leased Wire.)
Chicaeo. Sent. 14. Uniform laws In
all' states and territories covering inde
terminate sentences, paroles. Juvenile
courts, the probation or adult offend
ers and the supervision of paroled and
discharged prisoner are to be sought
through a concerted effort on the part
or members or tne .National rrison as
sociation of the United States which
opened its thirty-sixth annual session
In Chicago tonight
more tnan ouu aeiegaies atienaea.
worklne- hours and oavment of w h k;..:' "Z?.?' h. 1"
hood that the employers will errant the
demand.
ernors of every state and territory of
tne united mates,, rrom an tne Cana
dian provinces and three have been
sent by Governor Ma goon to represent
Cuba. - 'The United States government
1s also' represented 'by delegates from
its civil prisons, rrom tne army, navy
and the department of Justice. Attorney-General
'Bonaparte la expected to
be In attendance and is on the pro
gram for ' an address) on "Punishment
and Pardon.'
(Special Dispatch to Tb Jonrnal.)
Salem, Or., Sept 14. The Oregon
state fair promises to be the most suc
cessful show of Oregon products here
tofore exhibited In this city. The fair
ojiens tomorrow and will continue for
one week. Each day's program is full
of entertaining features that Include
races, baseball games and special fea
tures and sports of all kinds. The at
tendance will be larger than In any pre
vious year and the separate, exhibits
already installed afford a representation
of Oregon s resources tnat are a revela
tion.
Those in charge have given special
attention to the aesthetic side and the
result is the grounds and buildings have
been more beautifully harmonized with
the surroundings tnan nas been tne cus
tom in tne past. Lawns are green ana
flower beds are luxuriant with blooms.
Buildings and barns are uniformly tint
ed and from all emanates a very agree
able impression. -
The fair buildings are an snowy
white except the red stock barns in the
back ground which, by contrast, rather
help than mar the scene. At night all
will be brilliantly lighted by incandes
cent lights strung around and above
the Daths and fountains.
Though the statues are in the same
places they were last year the buildings
and grounds have been so arranged that
tney present a aeciaeaiy aurerent ana
more artlstlo appearance. The lawns
have been constantly watered and for
the first time are as near perfect as It
is oossible for them to be. The new
noultrv building on the right and In
the background placed like the cross of
an A between ine two large siock Darns
that form the outer ribs of the fan save
these from the appearance of barrenness
which they otherwise would have.
In Main Pavilion.
Rnterina- the main pavilion, the vis
itor passes between the space allotted
to the state agricultural school OTi his
right and the offices of the fair offi
ces on the left to the county exhibits.
Passing the aisle crossing the build
ing from the entrance of the auditorium
one finds himself among the best that
Marion, Columbia, Benton and Clatsop
counties have produced in the last year,
the two former on his right the latter
on his left. Reaching the end of the
aisle he faces the exhibit of Multnomah
on the extreme south end. Turning to
the' left ha nasses through the exhibit
of outer counties, or unemawa school
and of individual farms, tand is then
ready to go back through another part
of the building that he has not yet
seen.
The first is the gardening department,
which many will consider the nest part
of the pair. The flowers have been In
place for several days and are Just now
rCaeKlnf" their best. Nearly every
flower that adds beauty to the homes
and parks or uregon is mere m its max
imum of bloom and so skillfully trane.
planted that it is difficult to believe
that It Is not the work .of months inr
stead of oniv & row days.
In the art department the pictures
had been iut in place before the open
ing of the fair. The display is supe
rior to" anything of the kind ever ex-
OF DUD FRIEND
Frank Jones Finds Himself
Clasped in Embrace
of Corpse.
(Hearst News by Longest Leased Wire.)
Redding, Cal., Sept 14. When Frank
Jones awakened in bed in a lodging
house at Kennett this morning the arms
of a dead man were around him. The
name of the dead is not known to Jones
or anyone else.
Jonea and the stranger worked to-
g ether a few days on the Cone and
limball ranch near Red Bluff, quitting
yesterday and arriving in Kennett yes
terday afternoon. They went to bed
early In the evening, both being very
tired. They slept In the same bed.
When Jones attempted to get up this
morning he tried to awaken his partner
ana make mm take nia arms rrom
around his neck. - Receiving no answer,
Jones tried to remove the arms and
did so with some difficulty. He then
found that his nartner was dead and the
Doay stiir. jones naa associated with
tne stranger oniy rour aays and had
never taken the trouble to ask him his
name, calling him familiarly "Jack."
The unknown man is aged about 25
years.
BIG Tim SULLIVAN
IS OUr FOR CHANLER
Continued on Page Two.)
(United Press Leased Wire.)
New York, Sept 14. Without in any
way reflecting on W. R. Hearst, W. J.
Bryan, Judge Landis or any other speci
men or uemocrauc presiaenuai timber,
former congressman uig Tim- sum
van of the lower east side, is saving
up ull his cheers for Lieutenant-Governor
Lewis Stuyvesant Chanler.
One tiling "Big Tim" likes about
Chanler Is his pedigree.
"The deeds of the Chanler and the
Astor families are entwined in the his
tory of this cduhtfyT he argues". '"and
the public will have faith in the prom
ises made by a Democrat of such ante
cedents."
Washington dispatches bear our "Big
Tim's" prediction. One of the lieuten
ant governor's friends ia Quoted as say
ing the state committee would be called
together immediately after the Repub
lican atata convention, the Chanler
boom ' launched and plana made for a
solid Naw York Chanler delegation at
the next national convention, ' . I
CHALLENGER TO
CHANGE RULES
Sir Thomas Lipton Will De
mand That Yacht Be
But Seventy Feet.
.Halted. Press teaaed Wire.)
New York. Bept 14. It will be a TO
footer that Sir Thomas Lipton will try
for the America's cup next August The
day of the 90-footer freak with her
enormous overhang and spread of sail
is ended if the irish knight's challenge
Is accepted by the New York Yacht
club.
Private advJcrH from the other side
indicated this fact vry clearly today.
While Sir Thomas Has often criticised
the old measurements rule, declaring
there was no chance to build a craft on
the other side and bring her across in
shape to lift the cup, still It was hardly
expected he would insist on the new
rule as one of the conditions of his lat
est challenger. He does, however, ac
cording to advices here, and it is the
chief of his demand. If It is not grant
ed there will be no race.
Sir Thomas, as well as the other
members know the deed of gift of the
silver mug gives both challenged and
challenger wide latitude. Under It any
arrangement satisfactory to either side
can be made. However, the conserva
tives Insist that unless the races are
held under the old methods and rules,
the cup should be permanently, with
drawn and a new emblem, much more
costly and significant, substituted.
This matter will be fcuight out at
the next meeting. October 8. and pre
dictions are freely made that serious
contentions will arise, no matter what
the decision.
At the clubhouse it is stated that a
tentative syndicate has already been
formed to build four, and possibly five,
yachts to compete for the honor of de
fending the cup. The chief of these is
to be headed by Commodore Cornelius
Vanderbllt All will try to have Herne
shoff designs.
It la anticipated that the yachts all
will be ready about June 1. 1908. and
that the elimination races win do rao
the latter part of the month and early
Sir Thomas will challenge with two
yachts, asking that he be not required
to name the actual contender until a
fortnight before the race. Aa a result
there will be racing in and about New
York all summer. The races win be
sailed about August 16, 1908.
"Plub shams" think Arthur E. Payne
and William Fife will design the two
Lipton yachts.
DOUBTING THOMAS.
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Connecticut Congressma:
Boosts Bremerton; Knocks '
Mare Island and. Has . No
Word for PortlandMem
ber of Naval Committee.'
' 5 J
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Thinks He Notes Effort of
Secretary Metcalf to Fetcfc
Battleshipg to His Home
at San Francisco MiUionj
Dollars Wasted.
Sir Lipton Refuses to Trust Sailing
Master or His Desigaer.
mearat Niwi br Loncest Leased Wire.)
Nv York. Sent 14. Arthur L.
Paa-rse. the English yachtsman, whose
cutter Carina recently won the German
emperor's cup, was much surprised upon
his arrival here today in the Cunarder
T.iK-anlft to learn that Sir 1 nomas lip
ton had selected William Fife, the Scotch
yacht architect to design tne snam-
rock Ty.
Mr. Pearse. who Is en route to Alaska
and Korea, said that in his opinion Sir
Thnmna will never lift the American
cup because "he won't trust his designer
and sailing master. Mr. jrearso aauou:
"The reason I am surprised that Mr.
Fife has been retained to design the new
Shamrock is because Mr. Fife told me
Hhortiv before I left tne otner side mat
he would never again design a boat for
Sir Thomas because, as Fife expressed
it, the Irish yachtsman had the habit
of 'going behind my back to other de
signers to ask them If I was doing
right.'
"Mr. Fife told me also that aside from
the auestfon of designing the boat. Sir
'Thomas made it a rule to hire one skip
per to sail his boat and tnen another to
wnton tne nrsi. jnodoqv can win ine
America s cup under those conditions."
Mr. Pearse was accompanied by Mer
cer Adams. Frank Harris of "vanity
Fair" and H. B. Speke, the son of the
late African explorer.
TIME BEHIND BARS
(Paeifle Coaet Proas Leased Wire.)
San Francisco, Sept 14. Abe Ruef
must go to prison. Late this after
noon Judge- Dunne ordered Elisor Biggy
to close up the Fillmore street "prison.''
In whioh Ruef has been kept since his
capture at Trocadero last March, Ruef
will be confined lu a cell la the city
prison. ,
(United Praaa Leased Wire.) ' '
Waterbury, Conn.. Bept 14-
Any man who sits as a member of
the committee on naval affairs and
uses his efforts to obtain ah appro
priation for some tumble down nary;
yard in his district to the end that
he may provide a well paying. Job
for his constituents is grafting. Not
a single dollar may touch his hands. ,
but j Just the tainft he is rafting
jtrdin th united Stafes government ;
which he ia paid, to serve' and awora
to servetV-greiaaa: George X.y
Lllley of Connecticut, member if "
naval affairs committee. ,
Congressman Lilley undoubtedly alms
his arrows at th California delegation.
which has been advocating the dredging
of the channel to the Mara Island navy;
yard Lllley tells some truths and atso
shows that he does not know much ot
Mare Island or the drydock facilities of
San Francisco bay. Lllley, It is said.
also opposes the fleet coming into th
Columbia river. In aa interview given
out in New York the congressman said t t
Abandonment of the Mar Island
yard was recommended by Admiral
Endlcott, recently chief of the bureau,
of yards and docks, but after the re-
fort had been printed and distributed
t was recalled and suppressed. . Stren
uous efforts are being made to dredge
a channel through the shoals to thla
vanl hut th pnal will iinHonhfawilva haa
greater In the end than the develop
mem or our new yara at uremenon, in
Puget Sound, where there la a great
depth of water and a fine harbor. .
r'The new navy yard has but one dry .
dock and this is not capable of taking? .
care of a fleet as large as that to be "
assembled on the Pacific coast.
"Diligent inquiry among naval offi
cers convince me that the only thing to
be gained is the practical test of our
ability to assemble sufficient coal on
the east and west coasts of South .
America. Aside from tlMs it resolve
Itself into an endurance test, and while
no one doubts that the ships will hold
together, if they do not run aground
nor into each other, still It seems to
me that we could spend a million dol
lars to much better advantage. ,
"There may be somethlnsr In tta
gained in the .great moral effect on the
repuDiics or south America who, hav-
ing seen our great fighting strength
will think more than once before pulling;
any feathers out of the great American
eagle. ,
' From a strategic point of view there)
is nothing to be gained. To make a
show of force to Japan is entirely un
necessary. She is not intending to take
on any expense of war while '.she 1
having difficulty to borrow .money ta
pay her current expenses. -
"The whole thing reminds me of the '
king of France who, with ten. thousand ;
ion, wiruinu up uib nut ana men
marched down again. If the purpose i
to parade around on a visit to Secre
tary Metcalfa home at San Francisco;
and then return, and my information
is that they are to return, I see no ob
jection, except the waste Of 11,000,000
HETTY GREEH f
BY NO I.1EAFIS
iOPEllST
(United Press Leased ' Wire.) -
. Boston, Mass., Sept. ' 14. "jt la -going
to the devil," declared Mrs.
Hetty Green today whevn some one;
asked her for her opinion' ot th
financial situation. r " ; '
"You young men wHI know' what
it is," continued Mrs, Green. Yott
will all be fighting soon, , It wni
not be a foreign foe, but it will t
among yourselves and it wlir it
right here." ' r
jy-What da yoa tblnfc.fcas pr0lj - i
thia eonditionf.' , -'
I don't know, but the fnriv
are being squeezed." I don't t
the poor people, J mean trj t
class. ?hey have got a 1 ' d t
watered stock and the water ; ,
ing squeezed out. It's r .'
it