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yÌRBANKS BOGMED FOR
•’RESIDENT BY INDIANA
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Indianapolis. April 1—Indiana Re-
went into state convention
jablicaiis
to «dopt a platform and1 for-
■ally present
Charles
arren
nirbaaks. their candidate for the
I
residency, to the country.
In presenting the name of Fair-I
said cf*
bioki. Senator Hemenway
kin
“He has qualities combining to
■ake a great pr sident and Indiana
,¡11 present his name to* the national
invention with the proud and pat-,
riotlc hope that he may be nominat
ed. He stands for the wise policies
of Theodore Roosevelt, and as presi
dent he will maintain them."
The speaker said the Democratic
party was not justified in feeling
topeful of success because of the r?-
rent financial flurry, and declared:
"The present panic wa« primarily a
tankers' panic; it started among the
high financiers in Wall street and It
has been limited to a great extent to
t h«i ha r* lz a. ”
The speaker was in favor of tariff
revision, and said the people were
bverwhelmingly In favor of It.
letter From Fairbanks.
Vice President Fairbanks sent a
written letter from Washington to
Chairman Overstreet, devoted large
ly to tariff revision, of which he said
it was reasonably certain that
it
would be undertaken at no distant
date, but that the date was secon 1
only importance to the subject Itself;
that it is important that the period
of uncertainty be reduced to a mini
mum.
A determined effoit w :uld
be made by the opposition to contr >1
the next house of representatives. If
it succeeds, Fairbanks says, a Repub
CHARLES W. FAIRBANKS,
lican senate and Democratic house,
ludlauu's standard bearer, prominent,
with diametrically opposite theories,
will be charged with this tremen b in the race tor the presidency.
dously important subject. It is man.
ifest in such an event that the con
test will be protracted and the ulti urges that the Republicans be left in
mate result compromised. Fairbanks control of both branches of that re-
I
vision might successfully take place
Immediately after the next election.
In conclusion he says it is not wise to
enter upon the work of wholesale de
molition, nor wise to make changes
where not required by good business
judgment or some well-iounded pub*
lie demand.
“When revision occurs, it must
Fur-
come along protective lines,
thermore, revision must be made b.v
those who are firm in the prjtective
faith, to the end that adequate pro
tection shall be given to American In
dustry. American oabor and Amer
ican capital. The principles of pro-
tection which have given such t re
mendous Impetus to our trade ati J
commerce, must be carried into any
revision which Is undertaken
“We should bear in mind the fact
that there are many of the schedules
In the present tariff law which do not
require any change. They are only
reasonably protective ami business
for ten years has adjusted Itself to
them. The schedules where changed
conditions have rendered alteration
advisable are not so numerous as to
require as loug consideration as was
given to the appropriation of the
present law.
In short, with regard
to many Items of th» schedules there
is no demand for any change. Con
gress can address Itself to the consid
eration and
modification cf those
which are subject to criticism and
(Continued on Page Six.»
White Linen tailored waists have arrived
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ADMIRAL EVANS
AT SAN DIEGO FOR
MEDICAL TREATMENT
Gloves . , , .
I "I «iffeta Silk
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If
'-<x inch taffeta
just
arrived;
>wn, navy, Copenhagen, garnet
slid eray; others get *1.75; our price.
The yard.................................................
$1.50
The new Easter Sult calls for new gloves.
We are ready with kid. s>lk and fabric,
two clasp tw 16 button leng'hs, *1.25 to
*3.75; silk 1« button, black or white,
*1.5ii to
miner« in the Pittsburg district are
Idle as the result of the failure to
reach an agreement upon wages. It Is
believed the present suspension will
not continue longer than thirty days.
.$i.oo
Royal Worcester Corsets
There is more corset value In a Royal
Worcester Crset fhaa ary ror->
tuad ■
Short hip. long hip, short, medium and
long waist; in fact w.» can fit any form.
Try one—*1.00 to *6.S0.
Columbus, April 1.
Accurate re
port« from the Ohio mining district«
state that 40,000 workmen are Idle as
a roswtt of the iMtbiiUy hu rewsi«
agreement with the operators.
What Are You Going to do for Easter Clothes?
Here’s a clean-cut, dignified Spring Suit style that
we are show’ng to men who like distinction in clothes
with simplicity. It comes in a variety of choice fabrics
and we guarantee a correct fit and the best tailoring you
Ail-wool fabrics and right style
Harf Schaffner & Marx
ought to see them
Suits or Overcoats from $18.00 to $30.00.
This Store is the home of HART SCHAFFNER &
ciothes,
Copyright 1908 by Han Schaffner & Marx
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Mill yob listen to plain bnsf-
talk?
The next time you
•ant a hat get a Mallory Crav-
Mett
' Hat; it will pay you; each
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Hampton Bros
Where Cash Beats Credit i tfj
EUGENE'S
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$40.000
OFFICE
BUILDING,
OPENED
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POST-
TO
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ATTEN-
< ongress to
Special to Daily Guard.
Washington, D. C., April 1.
Blds for the construction
of Eugene's public building
to cost *40,000 have been
advertised for by the treas
ury department and will be
opened May 9, and the con
tract awarded shortly after
ward.
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This action of the department in
dicates that no attention i
being
paid to the efforts of Oregon's «•-»'
egatlon to secure an additional 1
propriation.
Congressman Hawi
has a bill pending in the house f<
*30,000 additional and Is pushing 1
vigorously
The Cost of the pro
posed building, *40,000, represents
the residue of the original ,.'>0.000
appropriation, after paying for the
site and meeting other necessary ex
penses
outside
of
build.
the
Ing
proper.
It
Is not enough
to
erect
such
a
building
as Eugene needs. even now.
and
there will be no provision for rapid
Increase in population and business.
Peorla. April 1.— When 8000 min
ers of thin district reported for work
today they found the mines closed
and the operators preparing for their
spring vacations.
From Various Points.
Springfield, April 1
All th« coal I
mines of Illinois are closed, celebrat-,
Ing the anniversary of the eight-hour
law going into effect. The mines will
remain closed until an agreement Is
reached with the operators regarding
tho scale.
Pittsburg, Aphll 1.
Everett, April 1.
By the explo
sion of a boiler in the shingle mill of
Harman Ar Emmons near here, three
men. residents of Everett, were killed
and three Injured, two probably fa
tally. The dead are: A. O .Garmon,
T. B. Anibuhl and Edward Olson. Th»
cause has not been ascertained.
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VOL! X I EEIt ARM*
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TIIIXG DE THE PAST ♦
Ixirxfnn 'April 1.—At the ♦
♦ strike of midnight Great Brit ♦
♦ ain's volunteer army became
♦ a thing of the past, after an
♦ existence of 4 9 years.
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Philadelphia, April 1. The miners
In the anthracite coal fields of East
ern Pennsylvania are celebrating the
annlversry of the eight-hour day. It
Is expected the mines of this region
will work full blast all, summer, as
the winter stocks are practically ex
hausted and practically no coal Is on
About 40.000 hand at any of the storage plants.
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BIG LAND FRAUD
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The senate
Washington, April 1.
committee on
public grounds and
buildings today reported a bill ap-
preprinting *220,000 for a new
building at Walla Walla.
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PRINCE OE SAGEN
CHARGES AGAINST
WÛÜLDiMARRY
CHANCELLOR DAY
ANNA GOULD
New York, April 1,—That Prince
New York, April 1. The charges
Washington, April 1.—The trial of
against
Chancellor Day. of Helle de Sagau is a sqltor for the
tho land fraud cas«*s against Freder- preferred
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by
Rev. hand of Madame Anna Gould Is an
lek A. Hyde, John A. Benson, Henry tho Syracuse University,
Brandon. Vt.. nounced by the prince himself in a
P. Dtmond and Joost H Schneider, ‘ George A. Cooke, of Hr
involving an alleged conspiracy to de. were ruled out of court by Bishop statement In which he says Mme.
Gould will sail for France soon after
fraud the United States out of val David H Moore at the opening of
Ills departure on April
11».
The
uable lands In several Western states, I the 109th session of the New York I
begun here today before Justice Staf Methodist Episcopal church confer prince's announcement Is coincident
Bishop Moore said he with the circulation of the reports
ford, In the criminal court. Upward ence today.
of 200 witnesses from fourteen states regarded the complaint against Chan that Mine. Gould has quarrelled with
cellor Day a direct attack upon free her family becaus.' of her determina
in the West are here for the trial.
tion to marry de Sagan.
The case has been on the docket s perch 1 nd a 11 ■ «• press
Mme. Gould Is quoted as saying
Cooke's charges were based on
here and in California for the past
that she will not "longer be oppress
four years, the trial having been Chancellor Day’s utterance against
1 President Roosevelt and In defense ed and ruled by her family," etc.
postponed from time to time.
An appropriation of *60,000 was of Rockefeller and other men of
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present ses
sew-|
made by congress at the pres«»nt
great wealth.
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sion to cover the cost of the trial. L
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AMERICAN
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which it Is believed will continue fori
HOP CONTRACTORS HOI XD
BOI Xli FOIl M.ASK A
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at. least three months. It Is alleged (
TO I 1 IlNISII RIGHT QI *1.11*
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the quartet, operating through fictl-l
Seattle,
April
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The ♦
tlous persons, acquired school lands I
Under the ♦ American car
Salem, Or., March 31
In
the New ♦
In Oregon and California by lais en
derision of Judge Galloway, of the ♦ York to Paris race was pla< d
tries and forged signature« by which (
entries were later transferred by the! circuit court. In th<- case of Ixonia j ♦ on board the steamer Santa
Lachrnund k Co. vs. Lope Sing et al. | ♦ Clara today in the presene«» ♦
help of Information from subsidised
If It should be upheld by the «u-1 ♦ of 3000 enthusiastic people. ♦
clerks In the general land office.
preme court, to which an appeal has,
The vessel sailed for Valdez,
been taken, hereafter hop dealers will ♦ Alaska
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be bound by the provision« of their ,
♦ contracts to tak«» such of the crop of! ♦
♦ hops contracted with a grower as ♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦
♦ measure up to the standard of qual
OFFICIAI« FORECAST
The Newport military Organisation
FOB NORTHWEHT ♦
ity specified in the contract price,
Western Oregon and Weat- ♦ and the balance, should the quality has petitioned the Commercial Club
of that place to confer with the ad
n
Washington
Fair
to ♦
fall below th« standard of grade spec
night; light frost, except near ♦ ified, at a reduction in price In pro i jutant-general of the Oregon Nation
al Guard relative to the establishing
♦ portion.
coast.
Westerly winds
of a regular National Guard Com
Eastern Oregon and East ♦
Is the first time that a decis pany there.
♦ ion This
ern Washington and Idaho
has been given by a court in I
Fair tonight;
light frost; ♦ Oregon upon this point, and It Is of
♦ vast Importance to all concerned In I It never rains but It pours. At
Thursday, fair.
Marshfield recently In one day Mrs.
♦ the bop Industry In the state, in oth- j Sjausman
had the following bad luck
♦ er words. It will operate to revalu-
—some one broke the windows out of
I lionize the present system of hop-bny« her launch and sank It, h«r cow got
I Ing and selling, and will operate as a In the city pound, costing her *5, her
Premier Improving.
protection to the grower, under any pet rabbits caused trouble tn a neigh
Ixindon, April 1
Premier Camp- condition of market, which he has j bor's yard, and her son fell off the
not heretofore enjoyed.
■ll-Bannrrman Is improving.
dock and was nearly drowned.
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made clothes; our store is full of these goods
M arx
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can find
tc and gave the admiral his full share
of credit. He expressed the hope of
the speedy restoration of Evans'
health.
Captain Royal R Ingersoll, chief
of staff to Evans, was also a passen
ger on the Connecticut, leaving this
afternoon for the East, on account ol
the Illness of his son
Admiral Evan-' car was attached
to the regular northbound train this
afternoon and he will arrive at San
Luis Obispo tonight.
Magdal na Bay, March 26.
By
United States flagship Connecticut to
San Delgo, April It
The first oc
currence approaching a serious acci
dent since the present target prac
tice of th«> Atlantic fleet began took
plae • on the battleship Missouri nt
2:30 this afternoon. The muzzle of a
6-lnch gun on the starboard side
was blown completely off with th«'
first discharg«* and pieces were hurl
ed with terrific force over th«> ship.
Fortunately no one was struck or
other damage done.
About twelve
feet of the muzzle of th«» big gun was
blown away. Th«» noise of the explo
sion was deafening, but there was no
excitement, not even among the crew
of the gun which exploded.
The
Missouri continued
on
across the
range at regulation speed, and when
she hove to on the return tack an
examination was made. The gun
had bts'n fired at previous target
practices, and the accident is as yet
unexplained.
DEPARTMENT
WASHINGTON ASKS I s »It BlltS
BOILER EXPLOSION
THOUSANDS OF COAL
KILLS THREE MEN
MINERS GO ON STRIKE
Foulard Sfiks— New arrivals of Foulard Silks; the kind with quality back of the name
I lie yard-_
TIIEASI RV
ON
San Diego, April 1
The flag-thip
Connecticut with Admiral Evans on
board arrived off Coronado early to
day and shortly before noon the ad
miral was taken off on th«» tender
Yankton, which arrived yesterday,
and brought to this city, where a prl-
vale car is at his disposal. The ad
tuiral plainly show. d th«» effects of
hl« Illness, and leaves this afternoon
for San Luis Obispo to receive trea.-
m«'nt at the mineral he springs.
To an Associated Press < orr> -p m-
dent Admiral Evans sai l he regret
ted having to leave the fleet, but 'be
orders of his physicians were so Im
perative he could no I inner ignore
their advice, and expressed the hope
that he would soon he able to ar
range for a visit to th«» fleet.
The Connecticut returns to Magda
lena Bay .Immediately. Rear Admiral
Thomas Is temporarily In command
of the fleet.
Evins was accompanied ashore by
his son,
Lieutenant
Frank Taylor
Evans, of the battleship Louisiana,
Lieutenant C. II. Train, Ills f'ag lieu,
tenant, and by Past Assistant Surgeon
McDonald.
He was greet«»d by a conslderbale
crowd on the dock, and was assisted
Into the car.
The Con«»cticut left Magdak»na Hay
early Monday morning, making th«»
run to San Delgo, 620 miles, in a lit
tle more than 4 8 hours.
Admiral Evans today received a
long letter of congratulation and
recommendations
from
President
Roosevelt. In the warmest terms the
president spok«» of the achievements i
of the fleet on the cruise to the Paclf-
Indianapolis, April 1.
Bituminous
coal miners numbering 250,000 are
idle today on account of the failure
of the United Mine Workers of Amer
ica and the coal operators to agree
upon a wage scale to go into effect
today.
District meetings are being held in
an effort to reach an agreement In
different states and it is believed the
strike will be of short duration, Cen-
trai Pennsylvania and Indiana mines
are In operation, the miners agreeing
to work pending th«' outcome of ne
gotiations, which are pdogresslng.
We have t'.<e new spring shades: green, brown, tan, naw and Copenhagen.
CONSTRUCTION OF
P. 0. BUILDING
BOYS’ CLOTHI l S
Every s’ore will sell you boys'
clothing, but If you will buy the
next suit here, we'll show
we sell the best kind
for
money
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