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18, 1008
U, S, ATTORNEY, GENERAL
TAFT SELECTS
; WICKERSHAH FOR
I ATTORNEY GENERAL
ImooUonn?" ,lDe or n '-'
courthaHernnil';i t0 -
to the. present statute would be In
inr ,h1,i,T,U :.01!s whe.r ihe wealth
1 Mctuuiiui. usually
New Tork, Dec. 18. Presi-deui-eloet
Taft has selected
Ceorge V. Wlckersham, of
the .New York law firm of
Strocg & Caldwell, to be at
torney general. This was
learned Uday from a source
resarded 83 reliable.
EUGENE WINS
DEBATE FROM
ALBANY TODAY;
-NO. 207.
LlIlDS J. HONAPAKTi;
I ;:. . usually renders an.
j adverse judgment anmtter ofTou'e ATOR KNOX FOR
Kr:uli; . SECRETARY OF STATE
double jeopardy, as the appeal of the I
SWJllBeru... to Affirm or Deny Cur-
this respect, and again In the absence !
I ot S0Ine such provision of law as iho 1
; nnorney-general recommends culltvi Washington, Dec. IS
Amid cheer after cheer the Judges'
decision waft announced that twn in
j one Eugeue had won the debate from
Albany this aftornoon. Such enthusi
asm as was demonstrated In that
assembly room has never been
paralleled before. The students all
seemed to go,wlld with delight. The
debaters aud coach Huntingdon, were
picked up and carried around the
room time aud agaiu. It was Inspir
ing to see how much this foreusie vic
try meant to the students.
With the exception of the rebuttal
the Eugene team had the better of
the argument throughout.
The Eugene team was far better
in their delivery than their oppon
ents. The Eugene high now has a clean
chance to win the chniunlotiKliiik of
-When' "ate. Mie nas stiowii that she
uuua uui m-givi. m-i mfiiiry nors. ior
REPORTED DECLARATION
OF WAR DISCREDITED
BY EUROPEANS
Berlin, Doc. 18. Both tlio German foreign office and Pres
ident Castro discredit the report that Venezuela has declared
war against The Netherlands. The feeling is growing hero that
Castro left Venezuela, not because of illness, but because of the
political turmoil; that he has no intention of ever returning.
Castro will go to a hospital Sunday for a week of observation to
det ermine whether an operation is necessary. He still denies tho
truth of the demonstrations at Caracas on December 11.
. t to mi. ..j u;!irMp mnv j . . ncl..l it . l - .
eilgton, ura, io. uui mo j -. -uja noiu just punish- i "j--u ii mo report mat he Dad been ; ,, i,r-;r
mutes should have the rlcht 1 , , utl lne 'aw as fiua v deter-lou an "as accepted the port-i , , ., ,, , 0,
t If ."me court X , rtof resort, folio of secretary of Mate in theTaft j J " , ?i 'V ! r Yl KS? ..J
""""area mat the cons kli.nt ,ml- taoinei. Senator Knnv c:,l,l- ...-.......,.....,..,
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affirm
' : ., , "-'iires mat .the consistent nol- caoinet, senator Knox said:
States as a matter of right, Icy of the department of justice dur-; "1 1,1,1 not "art the rumor am
r a conviction Is reversed on "nS tlle 'enr in enforcing the statutes : see no reason why I should a
bv the defendant to a circuit i intonae1 to protect the Interstate and " "I duny
th I'uieign commerce of the country! lne senators attitude is em
I"' ' - , " .iiui.i me evus arising through combi-
j by Attorney-General Bona-j nations in restraint of trade, and al
ia his annual report for the fis- tempts to create monopoly, as well as
Wending June 30, 1908, sub- Discrimination!! and other illegal
L to congress today. In this '
Lion he cites the case of the (Continued on Page Four.l
itirely
i non-commital.
Misses Margaret Monteith and
Lora Taylor came up from Albany
this afternoon to witness the debate
ioiu uaaiveiiiiiii game, i ney are tne
1 guests of Miss Florence Thrall.
Spi lugiicld.
Monmouth Herat 1: Mrs. Mnrta
Smith is transforming her hophouse
into a barn. She has most of her
hop yard .plowed up aim will plow
up the r.cst as soon as possible. A
little more of the same kind of work
could be well done In the Willam
ette valley.
DUTCH DO MOT BELIEVE IT
The Hague, Dec. 18. The foreign office hero gives no cre
dence to the report that Venezuela hns declared war against The
Netherlands. The rumor apparently originated from Bogota,
Columbia. It is believed that the basis for this declaration is
the action of President Gomes of Venezuela in declaring that his
country is "in a state of defense. '"
A Wireless Message-Hamptons' Cash Price
A STUPENDOUS BARGAIN TIDAL WAVE
Sweeps all former offerings aside and stands
first in the ranks of great values. Friday and
Saturday we are going to place on sale some of
the celebrated WOOLTEX COATS at the lowest
price of the season or that we will ever make.
WOMEN' COATS
$5000 Wooltex Coats, all wool materials, nch
. ly trimmed, semi-fitting; a garment any woman
wiH be proud to possess. Two days special.
,- each? . . ... .............. . . . . I $27.00
ANOTHER TALL COAT VALUE
The value of this $35.00 Coat is tall; it is styl
ish, warm and up-to-date, but the price is short.
Two-day special, each. $25.00
SILK PETTICOATS AT THE PRICE OF SATEEN
$5.00 Black Taffeta Silk Petticoats, with wido
flounce; deep dust ruffle; Friday and Saturday
special, each $3.75
A PETTICOAT VALUE TO BE CONSIDERED
$6.00 Colored Taffeta Silk Skirt, a good wearer,
'' worth the regular figure; two days' special,
. each . . . .' $4-90
ALL-OVER NET WAISTS GREATLY REDUCED
$5.00 Ecru Net Waists as a "goodbuy"price ;
each $2.25
16-BUTTON STREET GLOVES
$2.50 Gloves, the kind to wear well, to look
well, to give comfort to the possessor; at a bar
gain price; the pair, special $165
25c JAPANESE CREPE FOR KIMOIMAS
500 yards Japanese Crepe, mostly dark colors,
all new Jap patterns; just right for kimonas;
Friday and Saturday, the yard 20c
HANDKERCHIEFS AT A SMALL PRICE
25 dozen Hemstitched Handkerchiefs with fancy
kj i,D iriP- Fridav and Saturday,
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D0LLS FOR LITTLE WOf.ZY
10c Jointed DoUs, natural hair; Friday and Saturday,
each 5c
20c DOUBLE-HEADED DOLLS, 10c
Friday and Saturday our 20c Dolls, reversioie, snow
ing one side up a white head, the other a black head.
all dressed; special, each
I CWTS-SUI7S-5Klirrj
1 RWU10RUaUIMIMO
A Quality Coat
fou probably have your own idea made up as to the
kind of overcoat you'll wear this season. If it isn't a
Hart, Schaffner & Marx overcoat guess again. You'll
make a mistake if you don't find that name in the coat
you buy. You'll find it here and it always stands for
tho hpst rinthps marie. It wll he to vour advantage if
you take no other.. Overcoats from $10.00 to $30.00
OVERCOAT
IS and Boys' Over.
coats; two-day special
each $4.00
Hampton Bros.
tt n Willamette St..
WHERE CASH BEATS CREDIT
NECKWEAR
New line Xmai Neckwear
for men ; Tecks, 4-in-hapls
and Clnb ties, each, 25
and 50c
THREE MURDERERS
DROP TO DEATH .
FROM ONE TRAP
Triple Execution of Men, Who
Die Without Flinching
Belllnglinm, Dec. 18. A Ulnpatcli
I from New WestmluBter, U. C, ay:
i Without aiwUtnnce. Jainoi Jon-
kins, a negro; Jack I'ortella, a negro;
, aud Lee Ctiuug, a Chinese, wnlkoil
! to the gallowi in the provincial lull
I this morning to tlio drop without a
j murmur. After the ropo wna ad
, Justed to the neck ot each tho Sal
vation Army officers repented prnyor
! and tho trlb stoo4 on a single trap,
(lrupplug lo eternity simultaneously.
! l'orlella Vfus particularly uncuueern-
I Jenkins asasulted and murdered
Mrs. Mary .Morrison at llaxelmere;
PortelU killed a Mulatto woman at
Vancouvor and Chuug killed another
Chinaman.
Chung and Portella confessed.
Jenkins did not. The latter was con
victed solely on circumstantial evidence.
WILBUR WRIGHT
ESTABLISHES NEW
AEROPLANE RECORD
Remains in the Air for a Little
Less Than Two
Hours
Lemans, Franco, Doc. 18. Wilbur
Wright made a now world's record
today for heavler-than-alr machines
by remaining lu tlio air one hour and
t3 minutes nnd 59 seconds. The best
previous record wus one hour, 81
minutes and 51 seconds, made by
Wright, on October 10th of this yoar.
Wright kept control of his won
derful machine at all times. The
motor and the guiding apparatus
worked perlectly, whether sailing
Into tho Blight breeto or with It.
TAFT AND PARTY
NOW AT AUGUSTA
Augusta, On., Doc. 18. President
Taft and party arrlvod today , Yes
terday Taft held a conference with
President Itoosevelt on the Panama
Canal.
QUAKER STATE
i
GRAFTERS SENT UP
Each Member of dang Gets Two
Years and a $500
Fine '
ROBBERS ESCAPE
IN AUTOMOBILE
After Looting Two Banks and
Battling With the
Citizens
llarrlsbiirg, Pa., Dee. 18. Two
yenru of Imprisonment and a fine of
$50(1 was the sentence meted out to
duy by Judge Kunkol to rack of the
four men convicted of defrauding
the state In connection with the fur
nishing of the capltol building In this
city. All will appeal. The defend
ants were John H. Sanderson, Phila
delphia, contractor for furniture;
James M, Shumaker, Johnstown, sup
erintendent board of public grounds
and two othora.
SALT LAKE MAN
KILLED IN ACT
OF BURGLARY
Hall Lake, Dec. 18. Kditar Ames
was shot and mortally wounded early
today while in the art of stealing
goods from a bakery, by Albert Itlch
ardson. Hie proprietor, who, owing
to previous thefts, was on guard.
Ames was a former employe of the
baker's ami leaves a wife and three
children.
TRAIN ROBBERS
GET SMALL LOOT
FROM EXPRESSTRAIN
Overlooked Money and Quanti
ties of Valuable
Booty
Portland. Dec. 18. Crudity
throughout marked one of the most
sensational train robberies ever pull
ed off lu this vicinity last night.
Throo amateurish bandits hold up
nnd looted the t'hlcago Kxpreia ou
tlio O. It. & N. about eight inllej east
of Puitland but all the plunder thoy
secured was about Ji'.:0 worth o( dia
monds and cheap Jewelry takeu from
tho way safe, tvmiciliiug over $.lnuo
In cash was overlooked by the delib
erate robbers, although It lay In easy
reach, having been tossed behind the
small way sate by Ktpretui .Messenger
Huff, to whose pivseneo ot mind the
protection of tho real valuables In
the exire car may be attributed.
Neither ot the two combination bag
gage and mall cars, which carried
thousands of dollars of registered
mall not n passenger In tho coaches,
six In number, occupied by about
JtiO through passengers from the east
were molested.
It Is plain from all tho circum
stances that the robbers expected t6
find rich loot In tho cxprosa car,
which they prepared to secure by the
uso of nltro-glycorlno. Thore being
no through safe, they had no use for
explosives after bursting open the
car doors with oxploslvos. One small
safo was not locked and opened to
the touch.
Two men have been arrested who,
la a general way, answer the descrip
tion of two of the men Implicated In
the robbery. The arrests wars mad
by the sheriff's deputies on the out
skirts of Portland.
There Is tome reason to believe
this was tho same gang that robbed
the Oreat Northern train at Hlllyard.
Wash., on the night ot December Vlh,
but their work last night was crude
as compared with the work ot the
Great Northern robbrs,
A roward o( $1,500 for each of the
robbers baa been otforod by General
Manager O'llrlen, of the O. It, & N.
Tho express company will also offer
a rownrd.
SWEDISH STEAMER
(illibou. Neb., Dec. 18. Hl rob
bers, after dynamiting the safe of
tho Parmer's State Hank of Keene,
28 miles south of here, and the Com
mercial Hank of tilbbon, engaged In
a pitched battle here with the citi
zens early today and escaped In an
automobile with $fi,G00. One of the
robbers Is believed lo have been
wounded and carried off. Posses are
In pursuit.
The robbers got $3,000 at Keene
and 12,000 here.
ARGENTINE WILL"
SPEND LARGE SUM
UPON ARMAMENTS
lliienos Avrcs. Dec. 17. A bill a
Ihorllng that the government expend 1
$7r,ono,00t) for armaments, passed
the i-liaiuber of deputies yesterday. .
Chill will probably also consider the!
passage of measures to Increase her
naval ariiiHitieui. Thin bill may be
the cause of tlie desi rurtln of the
agreement between Chill and Argen
tine, wtiirh prohlMt either country
to Increase their fighting forces. In
:uUicll-iirc the ll.eswllre Will be
fought In the upper house. .
Knrllcr Kc(ort,
Portland. Dec. IS. ). K. ft
N. train No. 1, westbound, was held
up and tlie express cur was dyna
mited by four robbers at 8:50 last
night, eight miles east of Portland.
The robbers did not molest the pas
sengers but uncoupled the mnll and
express cars and compelled the engi
neer to pull down the track a short
distance toward Portland. The ex
press car was blown open with dyna
mite and Express Messenger Huff was.
forced to open the sate.
General Manager J. P. O'Brien, oC
the llarrlman lines, has offered i re
ward of $1,500 for the arrest of each,
of the robbers,
A special train was ordered out of"
the Union depot as soon as news of
the holdup reached Portland, carry
ing n posse of deputy sheriffs, rail-,
rosd detectives and officials of the
O. It. & S. They slatted a hunt fer
tile three desperadoes that lasted all
night. l'i to an early hour this,
morning no captures of suspects had.
been mude.
The looted train, with the express
car splintered from the dynamite ex
plosions that had wrecked tho safe
Inside, reached the I nlon depot about
1 1 o'clock last night. It was In charge,
of Conductor Dunn.
LOST IN COLLISION
Dover England, Dec. 18. The
Swedish steamer, Undbolmen, was
sunk In a collision with the German
steamer, Frlederlkeu Muller. tight
of the crew of the former were
drowned. The eurvlrora were land
ed here.
The German boat was aerlously
bro.i, but kept afloat and gave In
valuable aid to the Bwedlab craft.
The eight men. who lost their lives,
became frightened In the turmoil and
Jumped Into the sea and were drown
ed befo0belp could come.
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I
miCA( WHKAT MAKKKT.
Chicago, Dec. 1 Dec, $1.00;
May, $1.06; July, 5; Sept., ft..
KAMI WKATHKIt
MIR TOMOItltOW
Oregon; Pair tonight and
Saturday. Easterly winds.
Washington: Pair tonight
and Saturday, except rain
near the coast. Colder lo the
northeast. Kasterly winds.
Idaho: Fair tonight and
Saturday. Colder.
FRESHMAN CLASS WINS
CROSS COUNTRY RACE '
THIS AFTERNOON
The freshman class of the Univer
sity won the three-mile cross-country
race thla afternoon by taking the sec
ond, third and fourth places, ind
well, the Junior class captain, took:
first place, and a 'II man. Her
bra licit, second. The Junior class won
B4-cond place. The time was about 15
minutes. Kuch team was composed
of five men.
MURDERER VICTIM
OF MOB'S FURY
U-xliigtoii, Ky., Dee. IT Kller
Hill, who was arrested for the mur
der of thirteen-year-old Mantle Wom-ai-k,
In Adair county, Kentucky, sev
eral time transferred to different
Jails b- th eaiilhorlties fur safekeep
ing from mob, this morning wu
lynched at Mouth ello. The mob was
unusually determined lu Its pursuit,
and the prisoner had many narrow
escapes before filially caught.
Eruest Nye, the -year-old son of
I.roian Nye, was drond In the Al
sea river about noon Monday. The
family reside eight wiles above
Waldport and all travel between
borne and town la done by boat. The
boy was missed shortly after dinner,
and a he had been seen going to
ward the float bis mother became
alarmed and a jearch was instituted.
The boly was Tound about i o'clock
short distance below the float,
where It had 1 -dged again" aom
brush.