The Oregon daily journal., February 06, 1909, Page 2, Image 2

THE OREGON DAILY JOURNAL, PORTLAND. SATURDAY. EVENING FEBRUARY 6, 1800.
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Oregon's Common School
Fund Will Be Materially
; Increased, According to
; Biennial Report of State
Land Agent.
- (By1 Journal Leased Salem Wire.)
slim. Or.. Feb. 8. Of all the in
valid selections of lands mad a during
ine period oi me irregmanues in uw
state land agent's office, between Jan
uary jl. 198 and January 1. 103, but
Iu0 acres remain for which repayment
has not yet been made, according to the
hlennlal report- or state juana Agoni
D. V. Galloway. The records show that
.' Curing the four years Just prior to
ISO! selections had been made on bogus
" mineral and other Invalid base to the
txtent of about 8700 acres.
"This state of affairs," states the
feportr "threw Oregon in disrepute with
the general land office and the depart
ment of the Interior at Washington and
Delayed the approval of valid selections
and brought much trouble and loss to
many who had. in good faith, purchased
these improperly selected lands and
were depending upon tfis state for the
title. During the period covered by the
report, therefore, the principal work of
the state land agent's office has been
to idemnify selections in satisfaction
of losses to the land grant for the bene
. fit of the common school."
The report further seta forth:
"The work has so far proceeded that
except In a few instances the defec
tive selections have been cancelled or
, held for cancellation by the commis
sioner of the general land office. In
these few" unsettled cases proceedings
are now under way for the, purpose of
rfecting- adjustment of the selections.
- Of all the selections made on this
bogus mineral base and which have
y been cancelled or are subject to can
cellation, there are remaininr about
2800 acres for which repayment has
. not yet been made. There has been
considerable delay from difficulties in
. locating and securing proper appllca
. tions for repayment from the present
holders of land ..through conveyances
from the state. Gradually they are
coming in and It is hoped to secure
' final disposition of these cases in the
near future.
) Valid Selections Approved.
"As soon as the greater part of the
invalid selections had been cleared
away, the general land of flea proceed
ed with the approval of the valid se
lections. During the last year and a
half 10 clear lists, showing the final
SDDroval of selections aarareaatina
7h.62.6 acres In the different land
districts, have been received. For
three years prior to that the general
land office had Issued no clear list
: of Oregon selections.
,. t'Thls fact, in itself, showed the im
proved condition. A. large number of
selection lists with valid bases but
upon which action had -in many in
stances been delayed several years have
been taken upland approved. Prac
tically all such lists have now been
- cleared and for all the land districts 'of
the state the approvals of selections
have been brought down to date as re
cent as could In . any manner be ex-
;pected." ' - -;
,' ' Regarding1 additional base- made avall
, able by the creation of forest reserves,
snd their sale, the report has the fol
lowing to say:
! "By executive proclamations oa"
March 1 and 2, 107, new forest re
serves were created and those already
existing were enlarged to the extent
that nearly M.000 acres of new base
was made available for Indemnity school
selections. This, added to the s0,OO0
available at the end of the period cov-
ered by Mr. West's last report, gave a
total of near 164,000 acres. Deducting
.the acreage of the selections made from
January I, 1907, to October 1, 1S08, we
have remaining about 98.600 acres of
valid base in the different national for
ests, as follows: Siskiyou 61,760, Cas
cade 14.720. impqua 1J.160, Fremont
1.J80, Whitman 240, Wallowa 14.620,
Malheur 40, Suislaw 2600, Oregon 1280.
Total 08.800."
Sale of the Lands.
Regarding the sale the report states:
"The state land board on October 21,
1807, advanced the price from $7.50 to
. 8.76 per acre, at which rate selections
are now being made. By the general
. land office rules of April 25. 1907, Jthe
slate waa required to publish for at
leant 30 days notice of each list of se
lections. - 'While .the price remained at $7.60
per acre the applicant for the selected
land was required to pay the cost of
. such publication, as lie was also re
quired to pay land office filing fee.
But with the advance to $8.76 per acre
, the board ordered that filing and pub
lication fees and expenses incident to
the making of selections be raid bv the
state. This plan has worked satisfac
torily and has simplified the process to
a ronuiaeraoie extent.
"Initial payments smounting to $29
OS on 1S.S02.86 acres selected at the
$.7S rate have been paid to the clerk
of the state land board. The total
amount that wm accrue to the principal
of the common school fund from the
selection of this number of acres at the
rate specified is $145,276.02. . The total
cost to the state of these selections
has been $1,82.$7. Deducting this
amount from the $146,276.02, leaves
iMJ.zvz.i. tne net price or the 1S.
602.16 acres; or $8.(3 per acre."
Germany Is freely Imitating Ameri
can patterns in the manufacture of
farm Implements and machinery,
though American harvesters still pre
dominate. Avoid (be Grippe
A prominent doctor says
"There is no disease whose
evil effects are, so far-
reaching as the grippe.'
Be wise and fortify the sys
tem against an attack with
WjOSTETTER'Q
1 U CELEBRATED V
STOMACH -
Bitter S
and -save yourself a 'lone
;trl- rw11 T.. -t- ' ii
sFv.n. Afc 1S aiso excel
lent for Poor Appetite, In
gestion, Dyspepsia, Cos
tiveness. Sleeplessness, Ma
laria and General Dphllitv
Genuine has Private Stamp
cr neck.
Lively Clash Between Presi
dent Bo werraan a nd H.
A. 31iller of Linn.
(By Jooroil Leased Salem Wire.)
fiftipm vrh. . 'a lively clash 'be
tween President Bowerman and M. A.
Miller, the Democratic floor leader,
added to the gaiety of the senate yes
tprrinw nftArnruin. Tt all hanDened be
cause Bowerman went out of his way to
criticise the senator from Linn for his
attitude in opposing salary Increases
for county school superintendents.
Miller , was writing peaceably at nis
desk w hile the bill increasing the pay of
the Sherman county superintendent was
under discussion. Bowerman took the
floor in support of the bill, sent up
letition winch he said wss sutnea oy
arge number of farmers in favor of the
raise, and took a dig at Miller. JHe
said that it seemed strange that a
senator who was always scheming to
get more money for the schools should
vote against bills to pay the school
superintendents a fair salary.
Miller was surprised bv this attack.
as he had taken no part in the previous
debate, ana ne put considerable steam
behind his reply. ,He said that when It
came to scheming, he could tell some
thing about others, If that ware desired.
"If J chose to open up on scheming I
could make somebody blush," he de
clared. "I was sitting here quietly, at
tending to my own business when the
president of the senate went out of his
way to drag me in. I am responsible
to my constituents, and not to any other
senator, and I will vote as my -con
science ieus me.
Bowerman then arose and poured oil
on the waters. He said hehad not in
tended to use the word "scheming" In a
personal or orrensive sense. He was
perfectly willing, however, to have the
senator from Linn tell all he knew about
any schemlnr that has been amino- on.
Hart of Baker "butted In" by saying
that Miller had made an "unwarranted
attack," and -he .called on him to tell
about "scheming." if he knew anything.
Abraham of Douglas Improved the
opportunity to score on Hart by, remark
ing that he thought the president and
Miller could settle their own differ
ences without assistance from him.
The final gust in the storm came
from Bingham of Lane, who demanded
that Miller tell all about the i-hmlnr.
or apologise. He said Miller had a pe
culiar way of showing his interest in
the schools.
Miller, on a question of personal
privilege, referred to Bingham as "the
great 1 am," and said that the senator
from Lene coulrt not hnai tha, whni.
senate. He said he would conduct him
self without advice from Ttlncham onH
as to the scheming, he might tell of how
Blnghsm had slipped bills from one
committee to another, putting them
where they did not belong.
FAST PASSENGER
HITS GELILO
(Special DUpstcb to The Jonrnat.)
The Dalles,. Or., Feb. . With both
legs broken, one having; been ampu
tated, and an arm crushed so badly that
It will probably be amputated, James
McElbiney of Celllo lies In the hospital
here today, nerhans fntall-v in In re, A Haw.
In g been run over by a locomotive near
Celllo last night.
McElhiney, who Is about 60 years old,
wag walking along the track near Celllo,
In. the darkness, when the engine of
the passenger train struck him, break
ing both legs, and hurttns; him several
feet his left arm being orushed when
he fell.
It is feared that he la injured inter
nally. He is conscious today but does
not know how the accident occurred. It
is considered miraculous that he waa
noti killed, as the passenger train was
running at high rate of speed.
VISITING NURSES'
VALENTINE TEA
A valentine tea Is to be given by
the Visiting Nurses' association Feb
ruary 16 at the home of Mrs. Helen
Ladd Corbett. Invitations are now be
ing sent out to about 1700 people, and
each invitation is accompanied by a
little Bilk bag into which the recipient
is asked to drop as many coins (de
nomination not mentioned) as she haa
had birthdays. The money will be
brought to the tea and the proceeds
will be used for the regular work of
the association, v Last year a similar
affair was held att the home of Mrs. W.
B. Ayer, which was signally success
ful. Floods Rain Placer Diggings.
(United Press Leased Wire.)
Marysvllle. Cel.. Feb. 6. Recent high
water washed away gold bearing grav
el in the bed of the Yuba river., ac
cording to a report received here to
day'. Miners who have been panning
and rocking for half a century were
compelled to abandon their holdings.
M A FJ
DELAYED PASSENGERS FROM SOUTH
REACH CITY BY WAY OF OGDEN
Sixteen Pullmans, carrying nearly
100 storm bound travelers, rolled Into
the union depot at 11:80 today, having
rome from San Francisco around Robin
Hood's barn to Ogden and thence over
the O. R. N. to Portland. The pas
sengers were travel stained and weary
and some of them had been' for a week
trying to get from San Francisco to
Portland.
s Reports received today indicate that
(ne water In the Sacramento valley
ha subsided so that trains will prob
ably get through today. The cars re
ceived by way of Ogden were those
TRADE WITH ALASKA SHOWS A
' HEAVY DECREASE IN 1 908
Reports of the .United States customs
service for Alaska received by the Port
land chamber of commerce show that
there was a decrease of more than S3,
000,000 In the shipment from "the
states' to Alaska last year, compared
with the year before.
During 1908 there was shipped to
southeastern Alaska $4,721,144, of which
$(39,093 went to Juneau. The ship
ments to southern' Alaska, were $1,731,
914. to Bering sea and Arctic ooean
points $3,117,671, and to Bt Michael and I
OWNER'S POVERTY
FAMILY COW TO
"LivinaT in a honiut without wtnwai
with an empty pantry and a drunken
father this family certainly deserves
attention." Tlua is the concluslod of
Offl-er Fullers report on the condition
or in nowdii ramllv wnicn lives at
Twelfth and Gaines streets, Marquam
hill.' - ---- - - i-.
The Rowel 1 cow win hongry Thurs
flay and there . waa nothing about th
Admiralty Insists on Six
New Ones, at $33,000,000,
Instead .of Only Two.
(United Press Leased Wire.) t "
London. Feb. 6.. The Rrttlah cabinet
deadlocked again today over the ques
tion of whether six Dreadnaughts. at the
cost of $33,000,000 or two at a cost of
$11,000,000 should be ordered. Thai lords
of the admiralty demand the construction
oi six monster battleships, contending
that no less will meet tile requirements
of the navy. The opposition is repre
sented by Viscount Morley, secretary
ror inaia; uavia uoya-ueorge. Chancel
lor of the exchequer:; John Burns, pres
ident of the local government board, and
Winston Churchill, president .of the
board of trade.
Edward Grey, the foreign secretary,
Is leading the fight for the demands of
the lords of the admiralty. The argu
ment-today was heated at times, but
resulted in no decision or settlement.
Premier Asquith sought -to support
tlie six battleship program by Including
the united states as one or me possiDie
foes which England might have to face,
but this Is regarded as ridiculous. The
opponents made their chief argument
on the basis of the treasury shortage.
If Asquith does not yield he seems cer
tain to alienate a large faction of his
own party and' if he does yield too
much his action undoubtedly will
strengthen the conservatives, A. show
of weakness by Asquith at this time
probably would result in overturning
the present administration.
The crisis is one of the most serious
faced by the government in a long
time, it is nopea mat decision may
be reacnea oy juonaay.
BOrlMOB
Iff PEST HOUSE
(United Press Leased Wire.)
New Tork. Feb. 6. A bomb explo
sion drove a score of scarlet fever pa
tients into the street today from an
east side tenement In which they had
been quarantined by the health author!-J
lies. ine wihd wieu&ea me enure
front Of the building, a five story struc
ture. No one was injured by the ex
plosion, although many of the sick were
In danger in a panic that followed the
blast.
j
LINCOLN CENTENNIAL
TO BE COUNTY AFFAIR
(Special Dispatch to Toe Journal.)
Forest Grove. Or.. Feb. . The ob
servance of the Lincoln centennial in
this city will assume the nature of a
county celebration. The exercises will
oe neia in Marsn nan. invitations
have been Issued to the members of
R. C, and the townspeople, as weil as-l
to tne citizens or otner towns or Wash
ington county.
The principal speaker will be Hon
orable George H. Williams of Port
land, the only man who can speak of
Lincoln as a personal acquaintance;
and a member of Grant's cabinet. Be
sides the address of Judge Williams,
patriotic selections and songs will be
rendered, and Professor' Orr of Pacific
university will read Lincoln's address
at Gettysburg.
MYERS DEMANDS
A TEIAL BY JURY
The question of whether or not a
contestant In a will case has the right
of trial before a Jury is being argued
In Judge Gantenbeln's court today.
George T. Meyers Jr., who by his fath
er's will was bequeathed all but $20,
000 of an estate valued at $300,000, the
120,000 going to his sister Mrs. Geo-
f;ia Frances Stevens, Is the contestant
n the case.
The county eourt set aside the will
on the ground that George T. Meyers,
senior, was at the time of the making
of the will, mentally Incompetent, and
the estate was equally divided between
the son and daughter. The son now
asks for a trial of the case by Jury.
NEWLANDS SAYS NO
ELECTORATE OF JAPS
(Daited Press LaaaeS Wlr.t
Reno, Nev., Feb. 6. Benator Francis
G. Newlands. who shortly after the
last presidential election announced his
desire to become the next Democratic
candidate for president,, in a special In
terview with a Washington correspond
ent of a local paper declared today that
Mongolians must be denied political
equality if the supremacy of the white
man was to survive. Newlands Is also
said to have asserted his belief that
the negroes of the United States should
not be allowed the elective franchises.
that were started from San Francisco
for the north and turned back because
of the floods. Only such passengers
as were in a great hurry to reach
Portland came by the long route.
Included In the two sections of the
storm bound trains were the private
i ini ix. ooinern, ine actor,
and his company, and of John n.
Isaacs or t'hleago, consulting engineer
for the affiliated Harriman lines. Mr.
Isaacs has come to Portland to Inspect
the steel bridge with a view to its rei
construction and . will spend several
uays in ruruana.
the Yukon basin $3,294, 9. Domestic
snips mat cleared numbered 406 and
carried $74,415 tons, and foreign trade
snips numbered 197 and carried 119,774
tons. .
The report shows that it cost TTm-l
Sam an average of 87 cents to collect
eacn oonar oi customs in the district,
and it Is believed that Alaska has the
record for the most expensive customs
omce in .tne woria mat at Kodiak,
where it costs the government 1206.60
tor eacn aouar collected,
FORCES HUNGRY-
EAT. STRAW BED
place to give her. Bo a bedtick was
ripped open and she was presented with
a meal-of straw The father of the fam
ily, o the policeman reports, docs little
but patronize saloons. There are . eight
children in the family, but the patrolman-found
they had no-flour, coffee,
sugar or kerosene.- The onlyeaubles
In the house were twe loaves of bread
and pan of potatoes, ; i-: i
- . - ' V
Street Railway Company Is
Stiff Necked on New
Franchise Bills.
.Although the council met this morn
ing i to consider - the t ranchlxea ukaii
by the Portland Railway, Light &
rower company on various street ex
tensions, . no consideration of- tha fran
chises resulted. The franchise ordi
nance was made a special order of
business for next Wednesday at the
regular council, session.
City Attorney Kavanaugh's report on
mi two ordinances suDmittea to mm
by the council several months ago was
read before adjournment. " Mr. Kav
anaugh returns both - the Wallace and
the Dunning ordinance and with them
a new one embodying parts of both. Ho
does not recommend this, but says it is
ine pest ne can arart unqer tne circum
stances as the railway company post
lively refuses to consider any fran'
chlses which shall have in them clauses
regulating fares, requiring free Street
Bprinnnng, or granting -common user
privileges. ;
Leaving out these three provisions of
tne Wallace ordinance,' whlcn was arart
ed by the city attorney, Mr. Kavanaugh
sends In a substitute which protects
the interests of the city as well as they
can be protected in the absence of the
main features Of the original ordinance
ana mat means not at aii.
PRESENT STORM
WILL END SOOli
According to a general forecast Issued
this morning by Chief of the Weather
Bureau Willis L.' Moore, the storm now
raging here will pass to the southeast
tomorrow. District Forecaster Edward
A. Beala, in charge of the local office,
received the telegram at noon today
from Washington. D. C., the forecast
being as follows:
"Washington, Feb. . A storm that
now occupies the north Pacific coast
will ' move southeastward over the
Rocky mountains Sunday, and then east
ward over the plains states Monday and
Tuesday, and reach the Atlantic coast
about Wednesday, attended by snow in
middle and northern districts, and fol
lowed bv a cold wave that will appear
over the northwestern states Sunday or
Monday, advance over the central val
leys and lake region Monday and Tues
day, and reach the 'Atlantic states about
the middle of next week." .. ,
CAUSES ARREST OF
HER FICKLE LOVER
That his sweetheart In Sacramento Is
so anxious to see him again that she
has caused his arrest in Portland so
that he will be taken back to Sacra
mento, willy nllly. Is the assertion of
C. A. Blanchard, who was nabbed by
Detective Price a few minutes before
13 o clock last nlEht. when - he called
at the Postal Telegraph office to send
a telegram to the young woman.
Blanchard Is charged with embezzle
ment, according to a telegram from the
chief of police of' Sacramento received
by Chief Oritemacher last evening.
Hiancnara nao just written the roi
lowing message when the officer
stepped up to him: "Miss Rae Verne.
327 L street, Sacramento, Cal. Sweet
heart come to Portland. Have fine ro-
sioion, furniture, one hundred per.. An
swer wire."
"No, I won't need any extradition, pa
pers; wire them to come after me Just
as quick as they can," said Blanchard
to Captain Moore when asked at the po
lice station If he would return to Cal
ifornia without making a fight
Blanchard said this morning that the
girl had become so Jealous of him that
he determined to teach her a lesson, but
within six hours after leaving Sacra
mento he regretted his apparent deser
tion of her. He says he will marry the
girl at the first opportunity, and that
she will certainly withdraw the charge,
that being her ruse to gethlm back to
Sacramento. Blanchard has been un
able to get bail.
NEW MAGAZINE RULES
FOR PUBLIC LIBRARY
The following magazines are now to
be found In the circulating room of
the public library: Atlantic, Bookman,
Century, Educational Review, Harper's,
Home Needlework, House Beautiful,
Manual Training, Outlook, Review of
Reviews. Revue des Deux Mondes,
Scrlbner"s, World's Work, and Boston
Cooking School. Current magazines may
be taken for three -days and cannot be
renewed. Century, Harper's, Scrlbnefs,
Home Needlework, Revue des Deux
Mondes and House Beautiful are bound
for circulation. They may be kept two
weeks and then renewed, they may also
be reserved by postal card.
A story of Abraham Lincoln will be
told in the children's room on Friday
afternoon, February 12 at 4 o'clock.
Beginning February 7, the Albina lib
rary, 32S Russell street will be open on
Sundays for reading only from 2 until
6 p. m.
CROOKS FIND
POOR PICKLG
That two men are vainly trying to
work a short change swindle Is the
opinion of the police who have received
several reports within the past week
of such attempts being frustrated by
the suspicions of storekeepers snd their
refusals to become victims of an old
game with a new wrinkle.
W. C. Church of 671 Williams avenue
reported laat evening that a man
dressed In dark clothes, slim of build
and sickly In appearance, tried to ten
der a $10 bill In payment for a 10 cent
purchase. Church declined the bill.
The man's partner wore eye glasses.
" souin roniano erocer reDorted a
f'im,!5 at'emPt ear,v the week, but
1 nuiiiii, mn bu)ichjib wrm arousea
and he declined to make change.
TRAIN AGENTS OF f
0. R. & N. PR03I0TED
Announcement has been made by the
Southern Pacific that A. R. Charter,
formerly a train agent on the Southern
Pacific lines, Is appointed train auditor
In charge of the Oregon division of
the Southern Pacific. Mr. Charter has
been in the employe of the Southern
Pacific for seven years'. "J. W. Strelt,
formerly district train agent, has re
signed. All of the train agents now
employed by the O. R. A N. will go on
the Southern Pacific as train auditors
excepting A. A. Ioeb, who is said to be
slated as train' auditor in charge of
the O. R. AN.
Preparations for Installing train audi
tors on the O. R. & N. are about com
pleted and the auditors will be placed
on all O. R. ft fc. through trains Tues -!
day or Wednesday of next week.
- ,. Baoes Suaday Against Time.
Sunday afternoon the racers nf h
six days' meet will -station themselves
in different parts of the rlnB" and pace
each other for one mile aeralnat (I mo
and at night they will do the same for
two miles. This makes a very spectac
ular race, hd may establish some new
records. The six day race meet closes
tonla-ht. and has beert a arrest aurcMa
As no one Is sure-of the honors yet.
thar race tonight will decide and will
likely be the est-of 4he week. - Now
Is tha time to get . the roller skating
habit ,. ;
Boomers of the Inland Em
pire Arrive on Special
. Train. "
Portland cannot call itself Its own
today. Spokane possesses it From 11
o'clock this morning, when Secretary
ievi u. aiunroe or tne? Spokane cnam
ber Of commerce arrived with his 226
SDokane and Inland emDire boosters, en
route to California until late this af
ternoon, not so much as fhe peep of a
foriiana ooosier , was neara. wiinoui
osiemauon opoKane capiurea tne city.
Due to arrive at 9 o'clock, the special
O. R. & N. train bearlnar the excursion
did not arrive until nearly' la o clock.
The "seeing; Portland" trip planned by
the commercial club was therefore
postponed until this afternoon, the ex
cursionists taking the ' cars at 1:30
o'clock. From the depot the party pro
ceeded Immediately to the Portland
hotel, where lunch was served.
Following lunch booster addresses
were made by Levi a. Munroe or Mpok
ana -H. Wittonberr and Tom Richard'
son of Portland, -Mayor c. X' Herbert
Moore of- Sookane. and W. Cousins of
Medicine Hat, Alberta. Tom Richard
son presided and managed after some
difficulty to inject a few boosts for
Portland Into his brief introductory ad-
At l:0 o'clock tonight dinner will be
served lor the visitors at tne jommer
eial club. Following the banquet, an
informal receDtion will be held. After
the reception the members of the party
will go directly to the depot and aboard
their special train, which will leave for
the south at 10:30 o'clock. v
The itlnerarv Includes all nromlnent
California pleasure resorts as far south'
as ixs Angeies, wnere vne cnamuer mi
commerce will entertain tne iniana em
pire visitors. The party will return he-
tore way 4.
; "T want to sav a word about Port'
land's hospitality," said Secretary Mun
roe this afternoon. "YOU wm remem
ber that we made this same trip last
winter, .and ever since that time the
Spokane people havo been talking of the
cordiality of Portland people end of
their free hospitality. In the California
cities our treatment was the best but
somehow it doesn t approach that of tne
fortiana people, i tmnic it must oe
tnat we are ait or tne same people,"
SHIPS SAIL OUT
PAST GIBRALTAR
Great Warship Fleet Is on
Home Stretch of Round
the World Cruise.
(Halted Press Leased wtre.)
Gibraltar, Feb. . With tha cannon
of a dozen foreign warships in the
harbor booming a farewell salute and
the aruns or the impregnable Briiisn
fortress In the rock Joining in a thund
ering chorus, the American battleship
fleet sailed on tne last leg or me
greatest fleet -cruise in history and
began the most spectacular portion of
its lourney around the world.
The fighting ships weighed anchor
S o'clock in the morning and with
the customary precision steamed-from
the harbor in single column formation,
squadron by squadron, with an equal
space between ships.
Vhcn the -strait of Gibraltar has been
passed, the single column formation
will be broken and the vessels will
engage in battle evolution that will
test ships and men as they have not
been tested at any previous stage of the
great cruise.
Tha flee will rendezvous In Hampton
Roads, where tt will be reviewed by
President Roosevelt, who will crown his
presidential service with floating pa
geant. The vessels will then disperse
to the various navy yards on the At
lantic coast to undergo whatever re
pairs may be necessary.
Reports on their condition will be
forwarded to the navy department, but
from the various reports sent to the
department from time to time, there is
little likelihood that anr of the shins
will need serious overhauling.
DAII PLAN
FOR BIS MEET
(Special Dlspttrh to The Joorual.)
Forest Grove. Or.. Feb. 6. Arrange
ments are being made for a big dairy
men's meeting to be held In this city
February 11, at which prominent dairy
men of the state are being secured to
make addresses, among them being; Dr.
James Withycombe of Corvallis, and E.
T. Judd of Portland.
The Washington County Dairvmen's
association was organized a year ago,
and has been of much value to the stock
raisers or ine couniy. tf is planned at
the comina: meetlna- to hrlns- Into th
association all the dairymen In the
county who are not now members.
A number or the officers of the ss
soctatlon have moved out of the state,
but a permanent organization will be
effected at the" coming meeting.
GRANT" SHERIFF GETS
ALLEGED RUSTLERS
(Special P1natck to The Ioornl. '
Canyon City, Or., Feb. 6. Alton
Shough and Jack Monroe were taken
into custody by Sheriff Collier last
Monday at Austin and are now lodged In
the county Jail, charged with the lar
ceny of a horse and saddle. Shough
is a young man. hardly 19 years of
a LT a la mMt,w e .K- nr.. .!.(.
ant. Dave Shough. Heretofore he has
borne a good reputation. Little 1
known of Monroe. It is alleged thatl
they left Dayville, taking with them
. "v uiviiniiix iu i-Q o oiiuuhii nun
a saddle belonging to a man by the
name of Wilson. . -"
When they were apprehended at Aus
tin they were taken ty surprise, while
asleep, by the sheriff, and although
armed with three revolvers - they of
fered no resistance. Handcuffed they
were brought to Canyon City. They
will have their preliminary hearing
Friday.
NIXON PROMISES
FOR HIS STATE
(United Press Leased Wire.)
Washington, Feb. 6. Senator- Nixon
of Nevada and Senator Flint of Cali
fornia conferred today with President
Roosevelt regarding the antt-Japanese
situation In the west Senator Nixon
assu red tha bresident that the Nevada
legislature . would do nothlnar
rash to
plunge the country Into war.
SENATE OVERRIDES
SALARY VETOES
, - -
(By Jovraal Leased Selena Wire.!
Salem, Or., Feb.- . Three bills. In
creasing the salaries of the county
school superintendents of Morrow,
Yamhill and 8hetman counties, were
passed over the veto of the governor
by the senate yesterday afternoon and
are laws, as they had already passed
the house bjr two thirds vote.
Expert Refuses to Discuss
Proposed Double Bridge ,
; at Glisan Street.
' Ralph Modjeskl, the Chicago bridge
expert, after having spent three days in
Portland, during1 which time he made
rinal inspection of the North Bank rail
road bridges across the Willamette and
Columbia ri very, left for . his home this
morning. . .- ; .
Engineer Modjeskl several months ago
was employed . by - the city council of
Portland to report- on the most feasible
sites for 'a new steel' bridge across the
vv uiametie to replace tne present steei
bridge at Holladay avenue. His' report,
which cost the city $5000, recommended
Broadway '.as being the best possible
sue. jjuring ms visit, nere, nowever,
Mr. Mod ieakl ' refused to discuss tha
local vbrldare ouestldn.. and no oninlon
could be secured from hlta as regards
the proposed-' double- bascule structure
at Glisan street. - '
Since his -visit 'here several months
ago, Mr.. Modjeskl has been appointed
as one of the consulting engineers of
the new steel structure-at Quebec, end
also has: been retained to make a final
inspection i tne new Manhattan bridge
at New. York.' the bulldlnar of whleh was
one of the most - difficult engineering
feats of its kind ever attempted. -
-Mr. Modjeskl would make no state
ment as to tne results or his inspection
vi tna nvnn xhuik onages. ' r
MAYOR'S VETO
GI1EII BACI1IIIG
Appraisers Report Shows
Sell wood Park Site Is
Worth $3389.
That Mayor Xne had eause to veto
the Sellwood park purchase was shown
this morning : when - the report of ap
praisers appointed to ascertain the
value of the land waa submitted at an
adjourned session of the council. The
report estimates the reasonable value
of the entire -tract at 133.849. The
price which the city was asked to pay
was $62,600. W. H. Moorebouse who
made the offer to the park board, de
clared at that time that he was mak
ing it low out or pure philanthropy.
The price an acre asked by Moore
house for 15.7 acres Is $4000. The Ap
praisement on 10.S acres of thle is
$2600 an acre. On E.4 acres the value
fixed by the appraisers is $8049.
The report of the appraisers was
placed on file and Mr. Moorehouse
waiving legal formalities, agreed to
internose no technical objections to
condemnation proceedings, which will
be bes-un by the city attorney as soon
as possible.
SELF DEFENSE IS
SOODABER'S PLEA
' t. i.vv: v .-,5a
nn.ri Anton Moe In Goodairer'e saloon
t mu North Third street. Thursday
evening, will be 'arraigned in the,, po
lice court Tuesday morning. He has
retained Beneca Fouts as his attorney
and the lawyer declares that evidence
that Goodarer acted in seir ae tense
will be brought In. The coroner will
hold an Inquest at 4 o'clock this aft-
ernon. . .
Ooodaeer was taken to nis saioon
yeaterday afternoon to allow him to
count his cash and take from his safe
ronertv left in nis care. Tne saioon
as been closed since his arrest.
Tha fact that Goodaaer. although a
large man and powerful In appears noe,
wears an artificial leg" and that - Moe,
the logger he killed was of powerful
phvsique will be dwelt upon by his
attorney. The testimony or George
Ixigger. tne only witness ox ine snoot
Inar found bv the police so far. Is. how
ever, that Godager shot Moe without
nrovocatlon. The other man. who. ac
cording to Logger, was in the saloon at
the time, is suit Deing sougnt oy tne
authorities.
Murder a Strike Incident.
New Tork, Feb. . An unidentified
man was kinea ana several persons
m-.ro In lured In a fisrht at the clothing
establishment of Jacob Greenfield on
he east side yesterday afternoon.
Forty employes went on strike and a
riot followed when other employes re
fused to Join them. The establishment
was wrecked.
444)4444)44)44!
The WOmirS GREATEST OPTIMIST:
ABRAHAM LINCOLN
His cheerful, though strong disposition, was
one of the character wonders of his time. v ' '
Lincoln even in this day everts an influence
-for good what must he have done in the past! The
many sidelights on his life and times will be shown
in the articles written for tomorrow's Sunday
Morning Journal. y
"Lincoln's Great Love for the South.'
"Lincoln's Happy Hours at Home."
2 "Lincoln s Speech at Gettysburg "
"Lincoln's Plea for Universal Charity." -
X "Lincoln's First Love Story."
2 ., "Lincoln's Love for His Mother." -
X "Lincoln as' Seen by Men of His Time."
i Let us be optimisticalso. If we do not know
X . how to be, then : :. ; ;
STUDY LINCOLN AND HIS LIFE
1 THE SUNDAY MORNING JOURNAL WILL
2 PRESENT TOMORROW THE COMPREHEN
I : SIVE REVIEW OF ONE OF THE WORLD'S
GREATEST MEN AND OPTIMISTS. -;
1 a . ir rrK m m it a n n ii M r
I ABKAITilAlii
ItlMIlL IWIIU0
Three Policemen ; Distin
guish Themselves on
First Night Out. "
Going on duty Sor tht first time last
evening. Officers Stillwell, Stewart and
Burston, new members of the police
force, spent a busy eight hours, ; for
they were put Under the able tutelage
of Sergeant Tom Kay and sent out to
mend the morals of the city. , . -
Raids on three downtown lodging
houses followed, two hauls being made
by the new policemen and another raid,
this one on the Oxford house. Sixth and
Oak streets, being made by Officers
Sweenes and Inskeep; who have done
"moral" work, before. ' . .
Three women were arrested by the
new star wearers in a loagmg nouo
over" a saloon at the northwest corner
of Fourth and stark streets, one of the
Inmates, Mrs. If. Kelly, being charged
with conducting a disorderly house; and
another, Trlxie White, with selling
liquor without a license. .. - . .
Burston, Stewart and Stillwell, all in
plain clothes and, full of enthusiasm.
lark, but after purchasing a bottle of
beer flashed their, bright, nsw stars
on the unsuspecting women- and took
them to JalL . i
Earlier In the evening Elizabeth Mc
Donald and C. H. Bosarth were as.
rested at 17 M First street, and then
h nw mm, tinrrvinaf northward, made
a raid on a house at 23$ Davis street.
Incidentally they picked up on the
street two women of apparently loose
character, one of whom proved to be
the former wife of Melville Bradley,
who- killed Policeman Gittlnga J
ago as the result f outings' alleged
Intimacy with Mrs. Bradley, t The Brad
lev woman, since her husband fled the
country, has been arrested several
times. : She says she is the wife of a
Greek bartender named Kakowns. but
a suspicion that she never troubled,
about so small a matter as divorce is
At tne vxiora, vioia Dimin. .
ner. Ida Spencer and Samuel Clark were
arrested.- Their case will be -heard in
the municipal court jreoruary u.
'.CLUiOfJEII MAY
SELL LlUi BADGES
Badges bearing the picture of
Abraham Lincoln will be sold by
the W. C T. U. February 12 and
the . ladles who sell the badges
will not have to pay a license,
either.. This waa decided by the
4 - council this morning when it
passed an emergency ordinance
that will permit of the sale of
the badges without the payment
to the city of a license fee.
A "delegation from the W. C, T.
U. waited upon the lawmakers
this morning and asked that the
permission be given them. They
had been advised, they said, to
go ahead and sell the badges
without such permission, but
they did not believe in violating
the law:
STERILIZATION BILL
FINDS A CHAMPION
l. 3. Walters, a Portland real estate
Sent, for four years chaplain of the
Inols state reformatory at Jollet and
, lifelong student of criminology. In a
lecture last night at the nrpwortn
Mima i-hurrh Twentv-fourth and Sa
vior streets, emphatically advocated the
atr4ltjLtlnn of criminals. The keynote
of the address, to which a large number
listened, was tnat strenuous means ow
taken to Insure the passage of a bill
recently submitted to the state legisla
ture by Dr. Owen Adair of Warrenton.
Or- which provides for the steriliza
tion of all habitual criminals and the
hopelessly Insane.
Ur waiters ararued that penal pun
ishment never corrected crime, and con
tended that a man once located as a
criminal should never after be allowed
abroad. He said he considered crime a
moral disease and emphasized the decla
ration that habitual criminals should
not b allowed at large to prey upon so
ciety and to reproduce themselves. To
sterilise them he believed would be one
of the most successful punishments
possible. x.
u unnffed at the complaint that con
vict labor worked In competition with
free tabor, and wonaerea at tne onrer
ence between the laborer being taxed
in aiiiinnrt conviots In prisons and be
ing forced to a small extent to compete
with their labor while supporting them
selves, a
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