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THE OREGON SUNDAY JOURNAL PORTLAND, SUNDAY MORNING, OCTOBER 13, 1907. CZAR GIVES FIRST INTERVIEW TO THE COUNTESS TOLSTOI Hearst Journal Service Accomplishes Great Newspaper Feat Ruler Is Friendly to America Wants to Form Alliance With This Country. Fears Growing Power of Japan U IN HANDS OF STRIKERS Gigantic Labor Movement 3Iay Tie Tp All of Italy Unless Government With draws Troops Telegraph! Systems Cut Off. YOU ARE WELCOME TO CREDIT fliK f GOOD PL.JXCEZ TP TRADEL J Sole Agts. Monarch Malleable Ranges LIBERAL DISCOUNTS FOR CASH think the people living here In palaces nre happy In their power anil weulth'.' Not at ail. Tl tiii In one trouble after mother. Even their majesties feel themselves very unhappy, anil 1 hav seen tunes when til majesty has not slept and has eaten nothing In two days. If I could tell freely all I have seen here, oh, you would be very much sur prised " 1 was dressed and the court came Bands of Hooligans Taradcl Streets, Overturning Cars I and Automobiles Light' PJant May Be Shut Off by Workmen. (Burnt News by Lonreit Leased Wire.) St. Petersburg, Oct. 12. Countess N. Tolstoi, a near relatlv of the famous Russian novelist, Count Leo Tolstoi, and daughter of a former great statesman, recently had an in terview with the czar and his fam- , . , , . , I entered again, asking- me to come to fly, privately, in Peterhof. Countess tS!L lne tea wi8 scrved on ttie veranda Vnl.td ... In the I'nlfed States!"' the garden and the czar. th?i - , , 1 n r 1 .1 . O . f th F rhUl1r..n a.um i rFTlIRl HMri linttl f h Vm m Mr, t (ratted Frees Leised Wire.) Rome. Oct. 12. Italy faces one of the most dangerous crisis of her recent history tonight In the attitude of strik ing workmen at Milan, the kingdom's second city, who having tied up busl- OFFICE DESKS No other store in the city can match our prices on Desks. We are closing out this line to put in other poods and will continue this sale until every one is disposed of. The price is limited only by the cost. Roll Top Desks as Low as $18.75 THE BANKER TAKES YOUR NOTE And the wholesaler extends credit, and may also accept .i. . r i i i .. . . me note ui uuycrs to secure ms uusiness relations Wltn them. Without credit the volume of business done throughout the world at the present time would be re duced more than half. Did you ever think of that? Our customers have had every opportunity to realize that it pays to trade here, because we do business on the mod ern basis, without any hitch. We don't prate about what we do when WE ACCEPT YOUR PROMISE TO PAY a certain amount each month or week, according to your wishes. We know that the income of some men is so defined that it becomes necessary to buy the furniture for a home or some parts of it on the same basis that the dealer buys his goods of the wholesaler or manufac turer. Credit here is a business privilege which you may enjoy without worry. LIBERAL DISCOUNTS FOR CASH EXTENSION TABLES If you want a round pillar Extension Table at a reason able price you must come to us, for you will pay more else where. We make a specialty of the round top pillar tables with supported center and di vided pedestals. We have a number of styles to select from between $12.50 and $17.00 three years ago ana travnea more j alter me, and we sat at a table Deauti- I pledges Itself never again to employ! than a half year throughout thel-;''" against strikers. Frantic ef-M .- cv, . rTlrt under the Hue Russian national shirt and the torts are being made with prospect of i name Tichanova and lived fouri weeks in New York. This is the first interview with the ciar from the beginning of the war and revo lution written directly for a news paper. Br Countess N. Tolstoi. I was Invited by the private secretary ef the czarina to be the guest at tea cf her majesty at Peterhof !n the last month, and In the note It was said that I should bring with me some Interest ing things pertaining to my travels In America, 'for their majesties would be very much interested to hear you tell bout the American life and news." I took everything I had and went A special Imperial enrriage took me from the station of Peterhof to the palace und 1 was led to the room ap pointed for me. In a half hour a court dame entered, asking me to follow her to the apartments of her majesty. She hook me warmly by the hands, saying: 'I am very glad to meet you and listen to your Interesting talks, and my hus band will enjoy it. He will be surprised at meeting you, for 1 have not told him of your coming. It Is very nice that you have come, and we will go Imme diately to my husband. He Is In his writing room, and I beg you to be aa free from ceremony as possible." At His Majesty's Door. We walked through several very ele gant apartments to the door of his majesty's rooms. In the room near to the writing room of the czar stood two fuard officers in their run unllorms. hey greeted us very respectfully, and the czarina asked each of them: "Is . his majesty alone?" The officers replied the premier had Just left his majesty and we entered after the officer had opened the door. Itie czar was sitting at tils table, read Ins seme letters and documents. Ills face was very sad, but taking notice of our entrance he rose from the table aiul kissed the hands of the czarina. "Holla," paid the czarina to him, zarlna wore a. nlciureauue national success to extend ths warfare through drees, with gorgeous gems. Bhe looked j out Italy unlesa the governmeal yields, very pretty. I little Is known of real conditions In 1 had not begun my talk as the Grand Milan, even telegraph and telephone Duchess Tatjana shouted: service being practically cut off A le- Please, countess, tell me shout the tayea message wnicn got through to- negro and Indian girls whom you saw In America and what they said to you." The cxax put his hand on her mouth, saying: "Hut, my dear child, do not disturb the counters. Bhe herself will know better what to tell us. America Is a wonderful country. Indeed, and 1 have the greatest respect for an American " I told of the great freedom prevailing night declared the situation desperate. The city Is completely In the strikers' grip. Railway and postal service has been abandoned. Hands of hooligan range the streets all day creating panic everywhere. Au tomobiles and tram cars wrre compelled to stop and In some cases were overturned. The gravest fear are entertained of '1111 In every place. Business mutters seemed violence during the night especially to Interest the czar vcrv much and he that the strikers may close the electric appreciated, the American business lighting plants, leaving the city In spirit. ' The elections of the state and darkness. The military Is confining lt federal officers was a new thing to him J self to protecting banks and public and he asked me for some pictures of buildings the most popular political figures. Most A mob of women recognized an offl of all he asked about the personalities cr today who ordered soldiers to fire of Roosevelt, Bryan, Edison and Hearst, on rioters yesterday and tried to lynotj He said he had the photographs of all him. He was rescued. In a dying con of those men In his cabinet. i dltlon by troops. "Hut tell mo of the American love stories, marriages and divorces," said the czar. "I have heard that a man or woman In Ameejca can marry and di vorce as many times as they like and there are people who have been 16 times married and divorced. Is It true that there Is near New York a so-called Coney Island, whera the people may go and be married even In the cafes and hotels by tlie clerks and saloonkeepers and the marriage Is legal? The king of England told me that women and men A good Iron bed. Just like the picture, for the price we ask Is not to be found In other rtorcs. This pattern Is enameled In white ' and green, lias five spindles In the head and foot. Price Is only g.i.ilo VU .., Trt m sn IS WILLIAM WEBB N NN IINIINTV? IS S.IIIIS uuuii I I i 1 n,iigianu ioia me mat women ana men o, ut fix n t fn a0fewiefaysland to marry n(i dlvorce ktealtny mranger r airly j fits Description of I smiling. 'I wish to surprise you by ln- witnout telling you, nd she Is here. viting the countess Thev spoke among themselves French or German, for the czarina does not speak good Russian. Our conversation also was In t rench. "I am very, very glad to meet you." aid the czar, stretching out bis small hand. 'Tour father was always my good teacher, and ho talks so perfectly like an orator. I have become Interested In the experiences of your travels In America, and as I nm Interested In the life of that wonderful country I will be very much ph ased if you could tell me fcornething of Its life and types. "We will drink tea in the garden, and there I should like to listen to the stories." The cznnna eat at the writing table nd the czar offered me a chair near to him. Just before me on the table was a long report by Premier Htolypln and the other end was crowded with elmllar reports 1n Russian A letter by the kaiser was before the czar. The czar was wearing a gray, civil dTess. with high Russian boots. Ills face looked tired and nervous. lew of the Park. The czarina and I left him and went to our private apartments. A most beautiful view was offered from every window over the mo.t expensive arti ficial park fn -the world and over the quiet Baltic sea. The chambermaid who was ordered for my service was a very pretty Caucasian girl and knew the estate of mv father. I began to talk with her while I was dressing for tea. "How long have you been here In the palate service. I asked her. "Kour years and a half," she replied. "Are vm happy, being so near to her majesty?" "I don't know. I think I was more happy while I lived In the village end everything was going; well. Do you "While I was the czarevitch I dreamed much of going to America and witnessing the marriages on Coney Island, but my father did not like ttie Idea, rearing I would not return, for I waa very adventurous at that time. I thought It would not be very bad to marry the daughter of a multimillion aire. Forgive me, mv dear Ally." Zaspell's Slayer. The Czar went to the czarina, klsslnc her hands. She smiled and replied (Special Diipt-h to The Journal.) Albany, Or.. Oct. 12 It Is possible that William Webb, wanted at Heppner, slowly: Perhaps it would be better If . Oregon, for the murder of E. F. Zaa- you had married a wealthy American I pell on the night of September 2S, may lady. 80 you would not need money so ! b, ln tll8 runtrv surrounding Crh ?lnance"d 9h" CU,d 0Ur of I Aeporreach'AlCan thaa '! thin, , ,.k- ,,i , . , , man who acts somewhat queer has been ..fL to . Wy'.,b lnter" 1 s,'f n thf-re- 4 'a' e hides away In ested to hear the stories of the money ih. .,i . ' UlnT. r,e Im.rl r,H fh .-I"" " u...ii. u., i r?.: i.iuies th.Pi. ." . j .r MmuD , ratten irom gardens DINNER CELL RANGE Trice of the four hole range. Peonle who have seen the alleged wild man describe him as about 60 years old. with gray hair, and as being particularly bald. He Is said to carry a revolver and has at money, continued tlie czarina I told what I knew about Rockefeller, Carnegie and some others. Then our talk turned more and more ;2r,J (v,??.,vzar, wn" kTT' ln" I Ume8 appeared on the roads leading to terested ln the talk of trouble between I I'r.i.i,.. the United States and Japan and he The man wanted at Heppner Is "an aid he would be satisfied with an alii- . American laborer, about 40 nr. ni ance with the l.nlted Stntes against ' height, about 6 feet 7 Inches; weight' the growing power of Japan. He ex-:n;n or i? nr.nn,i- .nw ,.uvi..' pressed the opinion that a war between blue eyes, light hair, bald ln front (only Kusala and Japan would be sure to . n rM- irnDiir hair. tn .., in come ln tlie next five years smooth shaven, but may have short It is not true that I ever nnnosed ..r,,-ih Uor. v, ,.n..,i j the Idea of a railroad connecting Siberia ever eyes" through a tunnel under Hehrlng sea This description covers ln detail that with America." continued the czar. "I of the man seen near Orabtree and have ordered a committee to Investigate , wanted l.y Sheriff E. M. Shutt of Union this question and inform me of a result, county and for whoso apprehension a I would like to see tlie first train con- reward of J500 Is offered nectlng the two largest countries in the j It is said the Heppner suspect's real wor'J- t , i name Is Webb MeCaslin, aliases being It was not the letter of Roosevelt William Webb and Webb McLaughlin, that Induced me to make ne.-ic with ! The officers of r.lnn r r.,i,r,rir,o Japan, but my respect fur public opinion to locate the wild man. It is thought of America. that If the mysterious suspect Is really "I am very sorry that In the course , the murderer, he may have become en of the last massacres of Jews the public tlrelv crazy on account of his crime opinion of that great country has been j pre v'ing cn his mind. turned against me I am not guilty of .Sheriff Shutt informs the officers of all those troubles." 1 I.inn that Webb, or MeCaslin, often "If some of the prominent Americans i acted somewhat crazy and possibly has should request your majesty to grant , become entirely so; also that he has a some educational and social reforms ln : brother In southern Oregon and Is prob your empire, would you grant their re- . ablv working his way In that direction, quest?" I asked the czar. j After a diligent inquiry of the resi- "I think that no othr nation in the I dents ln that section. It Is learned that whole world Impresses me so muc h as i nothing has been seen of him since the American, and I would be will In p i Wednesday, and he probably has left to grant them more than to any other ' that part of the county altogether. If nation." replied the czar, liehtlnir a ! ho Is found there he will be annre- si if Tji? is , ). Sanilary Davenport Couch $7.75 A couch by day a bed by night and a comfortable, full -sized double bed, at that. A couch, that will look well ln the parlor, or any room of the house. No one would suspect It was a bed when It Is closed up. The frame Is mads of malleable steel, riveted to gether, and fitted with guaranteed "Diamond" mesh fabric, sup ported by three rows of the best oil-tempered spiral springs. A perfectly sanitary metal couch or bed that will last a lifetime. Ironing Board $1.45 Folding Ironing Board, mads of close grained whit pine, fast ened together with screws and bolts. Size 67 Inches long and 14 Inches wide. Adjusting to three positions. Regular $2 60 special 81.4K. Brass Rods Brass Rods that extend to 45 Inches. Adjustable to any window, l&o value for 7c This range Is equal ln quality to those you can buy at other stores for $10.00 more money. It has four llrts, 14-lnch oven, full nickel trim mlngs. asbestos linings. Body madi of heavy sheet steel. Top made of cast Iron. Roll Door Closet and is ut together ln a first class shape. e are all sold out of six-hole ranges ln this tyle, but expect a carload this next week. Price of the four-hole range 828.00. Perfection Heaters KTi 2..io; ftfin Medium size, Just like the picture. . .83.90 Large size, Just like the picture. . .85.40 Osi tsf as ;' 6sSB--:iTr ' l - r i .'1 x , LTC& , L' : 1' ; X $l,Op Per WeeK Ths question of economy ln purchasing a range is determined by the amount of fuel required, ths time It will be used and the cost of repairs. The Monarch Range is made of wrought Iron and steel and Is Indestructible and 'there are no repairs necessary. ml U T" - V. v. w4.k arch Range whenever you wish r1reU on nnt,,, framei! t0 maJte ,he ,, and joints, thereby economizing the fuel. We will pay $30 for your Mon- ch Range wh to dispose of it. , V..-, ,r.fTW!r A man who owns a fine coffee plantation in Jamaica said: "Four years ago I discovered that coffee was ruining my health, and I quit and have been using Postum ever since." Experience taught this man t that he could not drink his own high-grade coffee. Its active drug caff eine irritates the ner V, VOUS system, interferes with di--1 gestion, and trouble is sure to I follow.. . Some folks may take the hint and change to Postum. It is absolutely free from drugs, ! and when well made, that is, , boiled 15 minutes, it has a deli cious toste similar to the mild, " i ':: i- - J.!. xL. nigii-'gxaao javas, wmi ic naiur '"I vital fnrvl elements of the field , grains that repair the damage fson." Read that 'little health classic, The Road to WeUville," cigar lioth the czar and czarina were much impressed by the fact that the police men ln America did not wear any arms and did not pay any attention to the personalities of the population, as Is the custom in Russia and all over Eu rope. They asked me to get a good photograph of a typical American po liceman. I promised to do It immedi ately, and the czar said: "I would like to present It to M. Stolypln. nuking him to mail a copy to every governor and chief of police as an example of how they ought to train the people and the police to respect one another mutually." After five hours In the palace of the czar, the Imperial carriage took me hack to tl;e railmad station, and when pass ing tlie windows of the children's apart ments one of the daughters of the czar opened tie window and erled: "Countess, when you again are going to travel In America, you must take me with you. Sen,) mv greetings lo the negro and Indian glrlR Good bye!" YAXrOI'VElilFKCir SERVICES T0M0KR0W rcific Coast PreM Leased Wire.) bended and taken to Union county. DOCTORS WILL SEE IE GEORG PETTIBON E Court Will Act on Their Re port Demand Trial Without Barrow. (Special Dispatch to The Joarnal.) T?oise. Ida., Oct, 12.' Judge Wood will tomorrow name a commission of physi cians to examine Into the condition of George A. Pettlbone and on their re port he will determine whether or not the trial shall proceed Tuesday. If the report is adverse tlje trial will be con tinued about one month, probably to November 18. it Is understood C far Vancouver, Wash.. Oct 1 ; Servlees ence Darrow desires the case continued. will be held in the various bouses of i ""Jl1 XtLTt sent to It. saving If Darrow Is unable streets Rev n in iNumum i to laKe pari in ino inm ii un piucccu .... M ltUDK? TtnKT -.ipa, lomorroW as follows mcuiuaisi ISinth Sun- morning service. :4 .j o clock day school. 5:4fi a 11 o'clock; evening service Rev r Sr7cn,h an'3 P:,r streets. Rev. J. R. Rell of Corvallls. Oregon will preach morning and evening BaptlKt--Corner of Kleventh and lP,r ney streets. Rev. Arthur Leonard '1 wnri.i of South Pasadena, California will preach at 11 i m.; Pastor R Yeat rnan will preach at 7:30 p. In St. Luke's Episcopal Last Fh.hit, .. C streets. Rev. W.' C Shl,! ' UsmU services at 8 and 11 a, m and Christian Science Society- R0l)n-. Sunday school, in a m.; Sunday ,errl Ices. 11 o'clo-k: midweek meeting 8 t m., Wednesday, subject for tomorrow Uoctrlns of Atonement" lomorrow' without him. POLICE SHAKE-UP COMING TO ASTORIA (Pacific CcMit PreM Leased Wire.) Astoria, Or., Oct. 12. At a special meeting this evening of the board of police commissioners Chief Gammel was appointed truant officer on request of the school board. Patrolman Coffman was suspended, at the expiration, of a leave of absence, for conduct unbecom ing an officer. Charges against patrol man Llnvllle for slandering Police Cap tain McTwombly were read and an in vasUgaUoo wlU bs Held,' October-S, U We are happy to say that our Steinway pianos have begun to arrive. Twenty eight handsome grands and uprights are now on hand and 36 more are now en route. These are mostly Steinway Grands. It is a surprising fact that Sherman, Clay & Co. are the largest distributors of Steinway pianos in the world. This is very complimentary to the people of the Pacific Coast. vmrx a i ... . . it1 ,j,r ni i .iiimu, i if iv ,,' , r jerri'' m &m mtv v i m irti fiisr as if ini km it ir 11 im rs"" , ,i, s .. ;,r' a v ,3" 1 t'WBfwtn.!' ir- m 11 e 11 i n . ri n 11 ri rig 11 11 - im ri n ri iiif7 WW fw 'Wi if' 1 if 'Sim lit ' Portland The Steinway has a wide renown Throughout the earth, in every town ; It's fairly won a world-wide fame And matchless made the Steinway name. "THE HOUSE OF QUALITY.' Sherman Kay & Co Spokane Everett Bellingham SIXTH and MORRISON STREETS Opposite Postofflce Pacific Coast distributors Victor Talking Machines Steinway Pianos. which time the board adjourned. It Is the unanimous opinion of the board that the department should be reorganized and the rules strictly enforced In future. How to Dross. From the New York American. Put your clothes' "on.- VOTE TO CLEAN UP CITY OF LOS ANGELES in (Pacific Coo it Press Leased Wirt.) Los Angeles, Oct. 12. At a meeting; Mavor Hamer's office todnv at? tended By Un mayor., city 'council, city 1 hand to see that th orders are obeyed. attorney and a committee from the state health board, and Dr. Foster, sec retary of the state board of health, it was decided to order a general clean ing up of the city of Los Angeles. An order wUl be Issued to the people of the city to begin at once a war of ex termination on rats, fleas and noxious nuisances, and the police will be at mayor nrpr win veto tne ordlnanC cutting off the seven Inspectors front the board of health and the city will be put in as sanitary condition as pos sible for fear of the spread of the plague epidemic at this time In Pan Francisco. Eyes fitted to classes $1. at Metzger's. A
