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; SllLlED BY mmm pendent Oil Company Files Crief Attacking Secretary of Interior. Roosevelt 4 and Other Public Men. ' (flr Ilia tnternitloDal Xewi Brlee.) Wushlngton, Feb. 1. -Tho direct and epeclfic charge that Secretary of the In tprlor Walter I Fisher end other high effielals of the government are con trolled by the Standard OH company la made in & brief filed with , the house committee on Indian affaire by J. the T'ai-le Sum Oil company,' the lndepen' dont company which has appealed to congress for validation of oil and gas leases It negotiated with the . council . of the Osage Indians in Oklahoma. The leases ere Bald to be worth $800,000. i . The brief wee prepared by Albert L. .Wilson of Kansas City, counsel for the independent company. 1 "We have a ciar In the United Statee, and he sits at 29 Broadway," says the brief of the independent company. "His edict i more "powerful than the edict f the czar, ; Ue commands government, al officials as thoroughly and as com pletely e though they had worn al lcpianco to him. . ' ; y. "A former' president , of the United states, a. former attorney general and former postmaster general, two federal Judges, a district attorney, the present secretary, of the Interior, the first as. distant secretary of the .interior, tht commissioner; of Indian ; affairs and many minor officials have proven them Bt lvos. willing Instruments in carrying out policies directly in harmony with the wishes and demands of the czar at 25 Broadway. ' ; ' ' , r "No man can take this record and come to any other conclusion than that these officers of the United states have been conducting!! affairs of their of fices just as precisely as the cxar at 28 Broadway would have conducted them tf he had his own employes in these post, lions." ;ff !, " v;'4?.5V,v;v:'i,: i f. At another point In thel brief refer, enco Is made to an act "Of the secretary of the interior, who has! shown all along flat he is aUsohjtcIy.4mlnated and con trolled by the same influence that gets its orders from the czar at 26 Broad way." (Splal to Th Journal.) Sun Francisco, Feb. l.-It began three years agtv when Mrs. Vivia Alice Mow att sold a carload of raisins from her Fresno ranch to Thomas Randall Car. lyle, a, wholesale grocer of North Yak ima, Wash., and it has Just culminated in a wedding' at. Del Monte, iy j, In V,ts. Mowatt long had the distinction of being the only woman Jn the United states who operated. her own vineyard. After the first successful sale to Car lyle, he bought without i having 'to be awked. Moreover; liking the raisins so much, he liked very much more the at tractive business woman, who sold them. Tho ceremony : waa attended1 tT the smart set from, the San Joaquin valley and southern Calif ornla. '- Miss Patricia Carpenter of Fresno attended the bride, and Benjamin Van Bokkelen of Seattle was best man.. The honeymoon will be ifctHKed at Del .Monte and at Santa Bar bara, - , SUGGESTS , NEW NAME-. FOR THE" CIVIL WAR (TJnltcd Press Leased MTire.l .. Washington, Feb., oubllo cam- raisrn to wipe out the words "civil war" and '-"war .'of-the -rebellion"' from history was launched In the house to day by Representative "'Edwards of (Jeorgia.'-- He Introduced v a - resolution providing that the famous Struggle be officially and legally known ' as the 'War between the states."'.,. "Tho two old phrases .have .become distasteful to both-the jiorth and the south," Rd wards .declared. "They should be stricken from histories studied by imr children in school, as a step toward .elimination of any. vestige of sectional fet-hr-a." THREE IOWA INSURANCE COMPANIES ABSORBED Pes Moines. Iowa, Feb. I. The Fire men' Vund Fire Insurance company of Fun Francisco, with assets of $10,000, ono today absorbed three big Dee Moines fire 'companies, the Hawkeys, tiie Is Moines Fire and the Commer cial Underwriter with $120,000,000 but standing risks. The consideration was over-$1,000,000 but- the - exact- figures are not known. The local companies will be converted Into branch offices and heavy loans will, be .made On Iowa farm lands , - 1 - . , .11 u roa La Grippe, Grippe, Grip, Influ enza, or a hard stubborn or ob stinate Cold that hangs on, or by what ever name it may be called, is broken up by Df. Humphrey's "Seventy-seven.", Don't vit till your bones begin to ache, take "Seventy-seven" at the first feeling of lassitude and escape the pains and soreness of the Head, Back and Chest, Cough, Jfrre Throat, General Prostration E" 3 Fever, or it may take longer t,i break up.' . ,' , : t pays to kep "Seventy-seven" ..n Jy.'it is a small vial of pleaS- ,' i V'-it. Uruggist, 25c, or mailed. ' iivi' Iltuiirj), Jiodii'ine Oo.i l.f8 i h.Niw Yurk. AtlwrUscrnent, GROWER m THE i i ,i 1 303 ARRESTS J Drunkenness Most General Of . fense; . Vagrancy Comes 1 Next , in Order; There were 1808 arrests made by the police in January. The monthly report of Harry Circle, record cleric for the department, waa completed yesterday, giving .these figures. Of this number 66 were women. , , As .usual, the largest number of ar rests was for drunkenness, which num ber totaled 844, The nejet highest num ber of arrests was for vagrancy, which amounted to 277. .v.; - ; Fighting was pretty good. 82 being arrested for this offense. Ouiitoters to the number of eight were arrested. Conductors of bawdy houses is decreas ing each' month, there being only three found last month.. . i . .. .. There were nine demented persons picked up, and three deserters from the army taken In charge, Larceny cases totaled 30. The efforts, to stop tho ille gal sale Of liquor had good results, as only , seven were arrested for this of. fense. Profanity was low, the records showing only three men arrested. Other statistics show the police re covered 26 stolen automobiles, answered S3 accident calls, reported 60 dead ant-. male of the streets, gave fire alarms, assisted 42 Injured persons, abated 147 nuisances, reported 128 sidewalks being obstructed, put up 17 stray horses, re ported 81 places where water waa run- ning to waste, and the patrol answered 800 calls. '.i;;.-h '.. -wW. .; . ? : ': The state railroad commission scored one yesterday at a conference of the railroad commissioners with Percy C Stroud, city attorney of St Johns. The city of St Johns recently passed an ordinance fixing new water rates for water 'users in that community. The St John's Water company which fur nishes the aqua in that section paid no attention to the new ordiuance, nd the municipality, through Its city attorney then took the matter up with the state railroad commission; -The hydrostatic experts of the commission, however, have been very busy of late with other matters, particularly the water problems of the city of Marshfleld. . St. Johns grew Impatient, ' It waa in timated that the railroad commission was derelict In its duty, and their rail road commissioners, desiring to do the right thing by all, called a meeting to which St Johns' officials were Invited. Alter having the matter explained to him. City Attorney Stroud expressed his willingness to await the pleasure of the commission, It being the understanding that the ruling of the commission on the matter of St. Johns' water rates shall be effective from February 1. The St Johns people are asking for a reduction rates for water service. The St. Johns Water company was represented at the conference by its at torney, R. W. Montague. HYPNOTIZES GIRLS JHAf JHEY MAY KISS HIM pws Taed Wire.) "', ; Leipslg, Feb. 1. The imperial court In the case of Johan Bennecle, nrlnciDal Of the Eberf eld' high schqol, has held tnat a teacher.-has no right to" hvnno. ti rirl-puplls apd then suggest that tney kiss him. ? , y ,'.; Even, "in the Interest of ; science." which was Bennecle's defense, the Judge ruled that the professor ? should riot take liberties, with young women In a hypnotic state that he would not take Were they In normal Condition. - Several girl pupils of the school com plained that Bennecle hynotixed , them and made them, by suggestion express affection for him, He pleaded that he was invoking the mental, science to correct bad habits of the girts-an de nied that he had done anything Improp er, but a lower court sentenced him to jail for ten days. ; The professor ap pealed and the Imperial high court af, flrmcd the decision. .. Jt j. , , INSANE ASYLUM PATIENT - KILi,S ANOTHER INMATE DnIt(J Press Uti Wire.) Tacoma, Wash., Feb. 1. Obsessed with the idea as a result of previous experiences that any indication of enl lepsy in another patient meant that he himself was about to receive a Bevere beating; Oscar Conrad Erickson, 2 an inmate of the Stellacoom asylum, killed, James Tattison, another Inmate, with a single blow when Pattison dls- played symptoms of an epileptic seiz ure. Pattison was 60 years old and the force of the blow caved In his ribs. 'It is believed one ftf the ribs pierced his heart ' 1 ' Pattison was committed to the asy lum from Chehalis last October1. Erick son was committed from Puyallup in July. CHILDREN PARADE THE STREETS DESPITE COLD (United Pres Leased -Wire.) Columbus, Ohio, Feb, 1,t Ten thous and persons, -mostly children, marched a mile through the streets of the city this afternoon with 5 the thermometer at sero, in the greatest religious dem onstration in the history of the city. The occasion was the procession' of the 61 local churches participating In the revival conducted by Billy Sunday. TAX RECEIPTS ON. FIRST DAY REACH $4708.58 TOTAL " u in i n li ii i nn it'-:' 4 The first day of taxpaying yesterday enriched the county 4 exchequer to the, extent of 4 708.68 cash, and resulted in 133 taxpayers being relieved of fur- d 4 ther worry over their obligations 4 ' 4 in that line. The rebate of J per v, cent allowed for prompt payment :j - amounted to (142.95, ' ! Until March 15 the rebate will : , be allowed. 1 Taxpayers desiring , - to pay but half of -their assess- menu this spring have until . the , ! ,; first Monday in "April lo ' rnake i i .surh payments. The last half ,' ' must be paid bffore' the firsts ( , junnaay in ucioDcr, biiouio. no , payment be made before the" firt Monday irv Aprll theps- Xr-hen!sTF,T'nille top'(1ia'l-"' tIcs- , "' -' ' .". , -'. A WYUD VICTORY IS SCORED BY MB COMMISSI!! OREGON SUNDAY JOURNAL, FORTLANQ SUNDAY MORNING, i i ii ii i i i imu . i ' ij.ii. m iijssiJSiuaJsssj t. .t.. gssae?!? lllf' FOUND 111 GARRET -. ni,'"1'- " ' " i '.,f '' ," Countess de- Chevannes", For merly of Philadelphia, Ben-sons,- Deserted by Fortune Seeking Husband, I H Poor. , ' (By the Internntlonil Newt Brvlr.t . ' -Paris, Feb, 1. Countess de Chevan nes, 'once wealthy and a talented au thoress, lias been , found In an ' attic in Mdnt Marts in a most destitute con dition, the result of an international marriage followed by a series of mis fortunes. , ' The countess was formerly Miss Tien son4 of Philadelphia. She is a relative of the late Archbishop Benson and of the novelist Benson, and has wealthy relatives in California, When discovered she told those who came " to aid her that she should yet inherit, a great for tune and it is stated here she is the next heir to a great estate owned by an uncle in California, Mor than 26 years ago the countess. then young, beautiful' and rich, mar ried the , Count de . Chevannes. His pedigree was long and his habits were extravagant. ;.,Soon he dissipated her fortune. ' Penniless she sat down ' and wrote a book called "Ourida." The book tells of her courtship and ' her 1 great love for the spendthrift nobleman, but its strong point is a story of"a hunt for a. fortune. This hunt was made by the count and here was the fortune. The book was published by the nub. linhlng house of the Biddies of Phila delphia and is said to ba a cure-all for American girls bent on marrying for eign titles. An old Philadelphia friend found the countess after a long search. He gave ner immediate assistance and then turned, her over to the clergy of we Engim church in the Avenue Hoche, Later she was sent to ;. the American hospital at NeUilly. T New Mexico Will Ratify Fed eral Amendment Tomorrow; Required Number. (TJnlUd Prei Lemed Wire.) Santa Fe, N. M., Feb. 1. By noon Monday morning enough states will have approved the federal incoma tax amendment to make it effective as soon as the secretary of state has announced its ratification. Late thia afternoon the New Mexico Senate endorsed the amendment by a vote of 19 to 1. The resolution of en dorsement was reported favorably by the Judiciary committee late yesterday and a vote was taken today without any preliminary dlscuesion, According to the advocates of the measure a canvass of the lower house shows, more than two-thirds of the membership will vote for the measure whenA U comes 'up, there on Monday morning This ,'wlU complete ratiflca tion. by the thlrty-elsrtlv state In the Union making the required threequar' ters Of all the commonwealths. AnV Swiss or Ensrllnh kv vtnd mM changed to up-to-date stem wind and bbi vy. l. oimpson, - me fioneer watcn- Jiaker, 309 Gerllnger building. Take levator. Farm wages with board In the United States averaged for men $10.09 a month in 1866; 1S.ES In 1875 and $20.80 in 1909. Mter-lmmimy Specials a We have just remaining lots Rubberized Raincoats Guaranteed Waterproof The regular at only ........ Underwear Lewis and Stutgart's CO QC . $4i0. Union Suits at 6dJO Sweaters $3.50 Sweater Coats, white, cardinal, gray &?C stamps with' every purchase. Ask PEjhem. ;,, ;, ; SUFFRAGE INVASION THREATENS WASHINGTON Votes for Women Workers Develop Plans ' ti.ViA". . : I i A - ' SSC-- -B'kilJU - -i - ;.'".'S :.Wl'' ita y.rJ TO0TO8 (Oarf "General" Rosalie Jones to Lead Hikers1 Squad to National Capital. . (United Press ' Lctwd Wire.) : ' Washington, Feb. . 1. Legislators are Just awakening to the fact that Wash ington Is threatened by a suffrage in vasion. It sets a cold chill running down the back of the "regular" states men up on Capitol Hill. Not .only la the suffrage movement reaching national proportions; now, but what is more, the women have estab lished headquarters in Washington. And still further, they are preparing for the biggest demonstration to call attention to .the national demand for equal voting rights ever attempted in this country. Over on F street, near the treasury department, a gaudy flag has been de manding attention. It is a trl-color af-falr--whtte, - green and purple and marks the woman suffrage headquar ters. A good-sized office force is em ployed. " Just now the headquarters is bending every effort to make the suffrage pa rade and pageant here on Pennsylvania avenue, March 3, the most spectacular affair of its kind ever seen in America. There will probably be 6000 women In line. March 3 is the day before President-elect Wilson's inauguration, and there will be thousands of people here in Washington to witness the Inaugural ceremonies and the Inaugural parade, which is a fixed part of that celebra tion,; ' : A request from suffrage leaders ask ing congress to pass a constitutional amendment letting "down the bars against woman voting is to be prepared in connection with ' the allegorical pro cession and pageant; ' ', .general Bosalle to ead. "Oenerar Rosalie Jones, of '! Albany pr bust", fame, is to lea4 a pilgrimage ef suffragists to Washington from New York on foot, and at'Philadelphia, Balti more and all intervening points other "pilgrims" have agreed to join her. Mass meetings Will be held along the way to interest farmers and others in the "cause." The "'pilgrims" are to carry staffs, and dress like marchers going to a shrine. The pilgrims will take about 20 days in the march, and join the Washington procession after their arrival. Society women of Washington, New completed taking inventory; and with: new Spring, goods already here, wish to close, out quickly all v, ' of Winter goods. Hence these after-inventory specials, which it will well pay you to take advantage of. Act Quickly if You Would Get Best: Clioice , For the Quantity of Each Lot Is Limited S2 15$Q fipL Boys' Overcoats & Suits The regular $5, $6 and PQ Of? $7.50 garments, only 0OOO Furnishings . $1.50, $1.25 Sweaters,- only 59 $1.50, $2 Bffys' Felt Hats, 5f M QK THESE SPECIALS, AS WELL ASA DISPLAY OF .UiMlilflWwiWiWllW - l-'. Morrjson at FEBRUARY t,. r. it Top Left, Miss Fola La FoIIette; - daughter of Sea ator - Follette, who wlIL lead the actors' delega tion la the suffrage parade; right, Ine Milholland, . who will take prominent part la suffrage demon stration at Washington. Bottom Rosalie Jones, who will lead a squad of su'ffraglst marchers from New York t Washington. York, Philadelphia and Baltimore are already hard at .work on the plans for the procession and wives of senators, representatives, army and navy officers and financiers may seen at headquar ters every day doing routine work and giving out literature. Miss Alice Paul, member of a fashionable Philadelphia family, is in active charge, and among the marchers will be Mrs. La Follette, wife of Senator La Follette of Wiscon sin; Miss Flora Wilson, daughter of Sec retary of Agriculture Wilson) Mrs. Har vey W. Wiley, wife of Dr. Wiley, the pure food expert; Mrs. William Keut, wife ,of Representative Kent of Cali fornia; Miss Elsie, daughter of Repre sentative Hill of Connecticut; Mrs. Helen S. Oardener, a well-known author ess 'and wife of Colonel Day, United States army, and many other prominent women.' ; v . ' . Floats Will Peature Parade. . The plan is to hold a procession, in which there will be 26 floats, illustrat ing the development of women and the part they now play in the world's af fairs. After each float will march a section of women or men. There will be a homemakers' section, an actresses' section led by Miss Fola La Follette, daughter of Senator La Follette; a law ' ' . Suits, Overcoats and Raincoats The regular $20, :: $14.85 $25 and $30 gar ments, only T c Men's Regular $5," $6 , $7.50 Trousers, . Men's Hats : $3 and $2.50 Stiff Hats, , ? 1.85 $2.50, $2 Eng." Cloth Hats, 5tf NOW ON EXHIBITION IN OUR WINDOWS, Fourth. Successor to A. B. Steinbach &' Co.' , ' ' I ' - . 1313. for March 3 Pageant yers' section, led by Mrs. Ellen Spencer Mussey, president of the Washington National Law school; a college section, led by Miss Elsie Hill; a clergy section in which the Rev. Anna Howard Shaw, the suffrage leader, will head; a den tists', physicians' and authoresses sec tion, and even a men's section.', A dashing band of cavairywomen, commanded by Mrs. Richard Burleson, wife of Lieuenant Burleson of the army, will lead the procession. They will be mounted on fuH-blooded horses, and many of the riders are from the younger society set in Washington Miss dene-' vieve Clatk, daughter n Speaker.: champ Clark of the house, is to take part, but probably will not ride. ', "From Vass'ar, Bryn Mawr and other women'a colleges will come a very largo contingent, in some cases led by offi cers of the colleges themselves. Suf frage societies in all parts of the coun try have agreed to send representatives and to carry suitable banners. One of the leaders .will be Mrs. Anne Hamilton Pitser, eister-lrt-law of Speaker Clark, who represented Colorado at the Balti more convention, and voted for' him there. She is now stopping in Washing ton with her sister, Mrs. Clark, and is actively helping the cause. DOCTOR PLEADS GUILTY TO INSULTING ACTRESS (tJulted Prm 'Tjwd Wire.) San Francisco, Feb. 1. -Accused of sending an obsene letter to Miss Eliza beth Mayr.e, vaudeville actress, in which he arranged for a clandestine meeting, Dr. Samuel Weiss, a young physician, pleadad. guilty today. x ; He will be sentenced Monday. s - In order to trap Weiss, Miss Mayne kept the appointment as specified in the letter1, accompanied by a detective, who arrested the sender. -Typhoid Is raging in the Servian army with" increasing vlrulency.' Ac cording, to reporW brought across the river fnom Belgrade to Semlln, the dis ease hap reached the proportion of an epidemic. A special commission of doc tors, nurses and hospital stewards has been brought from Italy to assist In the -work of checking the disease. Trousers Men's and (PQ AfZ The regular- now tPUelt r $4.00 kinds now Suit the Lion Overcoats and Topcoats Spring" and" Fall ! tf&Zf Pf " " weights; some PCxv silk" lined .$18 (hY - ' : $20 and $25-coats J ""' ".' '' V " ' '" ' " "'" ' 4 -v 5.' k .-rtfv :v.:: .- -. , . -".? si K?k-;. 1 1 r. I All Leather Suitcases, (PQ A r ier Suitcase regular $5.00, SPRING 1913 CLOTHING, .'.' ' ' - - , m DELIWK HEW '. KG New, Bill Under Way Promises Much in' Interest df the Con? sumcr -: Committee Com pletes Hearings. . . . (United Press Le'wJ Vtr. Washington, Fob. l.--Although Wood, row Wilson will not be inaugurated president for a little over a month, and )hik .into tnr mlHni? of the extra sos- TO ill OF IF V1V11 J1UJ9 ilUl Vl uw:u . y4 work of the extraordinary session wlf . be begun Monday. 1 The house ways and' means- commit-' tee completed all bearings - today on tariff revision. Monday the Democrats ' members" will begin their framing of the j5W' Democratic bill which is to. re place the Payne-Aldrieh law. , They will keep steadily at the work from now Up until the Sixty-third congress con venes. : Probably a few days after the new house is organised the revision bill ' . will be ready for presentation. a From . the statements ; made by the committee members during the bear Injrs, it is certain the new bill will be a consumer's tariff revlBlon. There will be a tremendous scaling dowri of the ; protection wall. Plans of manufacturers during . the hearings that they, be ac corded, "protection," met with ! scant . encouragement from the Democ ratio v members Of the committee. The general bill. It is said, will dlf- : fer only slightly from the various Dem ocratic tariff bills passed by the pres. ' ent congress, and vetoed by President Taft. ' k :;',:'; The biggest cuts, it is said, will be Lmnds on wool, leather and agricultural, Raw woot under "Schedule K," tha ' i biggest item of the whole tariff revls- . Ion, it Is stated, will be put on the free list. .This will be satisfactory to the manufacturers who. declared before the committee that the present duty did not now protect them from competition Carded wool manufacturers, however," , declare that the duty is necessary to their existence. r . , Leather Is also due for a revlsio downward probably to the rree list, MILLIONAIRE H0B0 IS HOOTED FROM MEETING (United FrM LMd Wlre.t : New Orleans, Ijl., Feb. 1. James Eada How, the millionaire "hobo," was repudiated by his own convention of Casual, Unskilled and Migratory' Work era of the World here tonight and told to get out of the meeting. The ousting of the former leader was the result of a switch on the part of the hoboes In con vention to President Jefferson Davis, between whom and How there had been continual warfare for months. He called Davia a socialist and Davis called How. a "fake.'i "Down with How and his postage, stamp phllanthrophy," yelled Davis. "He has never given us any of bis mythical millions." That was the cue for tho hoboes to rise and shout their approval and order How to the "backwoods,"' . 4 SHEPARDS WILL VISIT L, BRIDEGROOM'S MOTHER (Br th International Hurt Service.) r -New Haven, Conn,, Feb. 'LMr. and Mrs. J. Flnlay Shepard will. tomorrow pay their first visit as man and. wife . to the aged invalid mother of Mr, Shep ard "at the New Haven hospital. The couple visited Mrs. Shepard before the ' wedding and tomorrow will receive the ' ' maternal blessing from her. Mr. and ' Mrs. Shepard came to this city tonight quietly and are quartered at the Hotel. Taft. Tomorrow's visit will be the last ' here- before a trip to Europe, ' i ' ' IV 'v- ' txk t V Shoes $5.00 and CQ A C only Cases ' now a t Utlttl We deliver by Par cel Post to out-of .town, customer. J :l.k ''t,y?k-k .' VJ X - r