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y Issued Semi-Weekly T ue s d a y and Friday Issued Semi-W eel: Tuesday arid Frid i TITTT-SIXTH YEAB NO. 8. ! . r- SAIXM, OREGON, TUESDAY MOSNINO, DECEMBER, 5, 1905. . . f FIET SECTION EIGHT PACZ WILL MODIFY FOOTBALL STJLES. University of California and Stanford to Co-operate in Such Move. - BERKELEY, Dec. 4. The academic council of the University of California has taken into its own hands the mat ter of revising the game of football on the Pacific eoast so that the "objection able features in the sport as now play ed may be eliminated. Stanford is co operating in the movement and the auj DTDSrWIlMF ALONE' That determine the actual worth of an article. Price linked with qnaiity makes true value. An article which gives satisfactory serviee makes the buyer a permanent customer. It is the reliability of oar merchandise, to gether with price marked on the spot cash basis, that keeps our business growing. - 1 Undersells " regular stores." .lust hih-erad suits at iJO per cent discount. You'll find jthem on our bargain table. They're values you can't afford to overlooky Over 200 Boys' Knee Pants Suit- on our bargain tables at 20 to iiO per cent discount. Ages 3 to 11. Uring your boy in. We ean fit him at "money saving" prices. Dur ing the rainy season you need absolutely solid footwear. Have stood the test for 14 years in Salem. Every pair is built to, give satisfaction. Shoes for every member of the family. Men's genuine Cravenette " rain coats at "cash store" prices. Just the right weight for our Oregpn climate. We save ydu from two to three dollars on every rain coat. -- Our Dry Goods Department Is a busy place. Salem ladies appreciate our efforts to supply tbem with the most desirable tlress goods at priecs from 15 to 23 per cent .lower than "regular stores" ask for same qualities. We'll have our Holiday Goods ready for your inspection by December 8th, which will give you ample time to make your selections .from the most complete line of Holiday Nov elties we have ever shown. pflW: liJREOJPZJES: BAUG tJREOJPZJBSl BARGAIN HOUSI? - -- . - One Week's Clearing Sale Owing to the wonderful display of Christmas Goods that ws have now mapped oat we have decided to hold a powerful CLEARING BALE for one week; slaughter the prices right and left, clearing the shelves and tables so we will have sufficient room for oar entire Christmas show goods, sold less than manufacturers cost. Here are a Wonderful GOc Fancy Dress Goods, yd... ..25c G9c Fine Dress Goods, yd,.... 39c 85c Newest Dress Goods, yd... .49c Fine Imported Dress Goods at the same ratio of low prices. Remnants of Dress Goods, half price Fine Silks 23c, S5c and 49c yd. $1 Fine Dress Silks, price yd... 65c Remnants of Silks, half price. 8 l-3c Outing Flannels, yd . . . - .',4e 1000 yds Calicoes, yd. ....... . -S3ie - ' i - Sale prices throughout this depart ment. Prices slaughtered on Muslins, Table Linens and White Goods. Ladles' 76c Outing Flannel Night Gowns, price .j , 5c AU Hosiery and Underwear at slaughter prices. Ribbons at any price you want them. Men's Clothing, Hats and Shoes in the same boat. Prices cut to pieces. Salem's Greatest t r. ... S McEVOY Corner Commercial and Court Streets, Salem t thorities of the two universities will act entirely; independent of the nation al committee. The smaller universites of the coast will be ased to bnd 'them selves by the recommendations of the HAS A FEW HIMSEL Charles Bailey, a farmer near June- tion City, is 44 years old and the father of thirteen children, all living and in eood health. lie eame to Oregon Nebraska a few years ago. from now we are offering about 150 men's few of the Bargains Sous Silk, ball : . . . . Best Standard Pins, paper. Best Safety Pins,per doz. Ladies' 25c Hose Supporters Best Spool Silk, spool..... . 1c ...2c , . .10c Christmas Toys before being marked at any price. Best Saxony Wool skein Sc Shetland Floss, skein.... 7c Boys' Short Pants, pair. . .'. . . . .19c Boys ''Suits, Half Price. Boys 10c Suspenders........... 6c Boys' 85c Sweaters, price. .... .49c Ladies' $1.25 Swans Down Dressing Saques, sale price... ........69c Cheaper ones and better ones. Ladies $1 Black Mercerized Petti coats, clearing price ;.65c CLEARING PRICES ON CLOAKS, SUITS, MILLINERY and WAISTS. Thousands of articles in this Big Store that you can buy cheap dur ing this Clearing Sale. Children's 25c Underwear, clearing price ..... IV. 10 Growing Store. . . " . ' - BROS. ALL IS QUIET IN ST. PETERSBURG DELATED REPORTS TELL OF CON- DITI0N3 IN ISOLATED CITT. EXTREME TENSION PREVAILS Telegraph Lines V Are Still Tied Upj and Armed Patrols I Guard Streets. Count Witte Believes Emperor By Ac ceding ; Demand for Universal Suf frage May Still Find Ground Upon Which All Can Stand. ..ST. PETERSBURG, Pee. 3. (Via E lytkuhnen, East Prussia.) The eity remains quiet, 'but an extreme tension prevails, and there are armed patrols in the streets, especially in the neigh borhood o tbe telegraph office. The tel egraph an 1 postal tie-np remains com plete. Holdiers and employes of other departments are being used to deliver portions of the vast aeeumnlation of mail. The telegraph, operators met yester day 'a threat to discharge them tojlay unless they returned to work by re solving to prosecute the strike until their demands are satisfied, The League of Leagues, which is issuing decrees like a veritable provisional government, has openly defied the pre fects warning to the walking delegates and agitators, that any attempts to per suade the employes to leave work would lead to their arrest and a fine, the issuing of a eounter proclamation of warning not only to the Russian ' but to Danish operators that they work at their peril. The authorities think the strike will be broken in a few days, but the basis of their optimist is not I state J. Witte is now convinced that the em peror by acceding to the demand for universal suffrage, may still find com mon ground on which the government and moderate and extreme elements can stand. If this fails to stay the headlong march of events, a proclama tion for a ready male constitution might be tried as a last eard. Then nothing would remain except the dic tatorship. I Competent judges of the situation be lieve a lictatorship, while it might re strain the. rising flood teaiporarily, woud only increase 'the dissensions of the 'cataclysm and when the dam goes it will sweep government and dynasty away to common ruin. Serious Fight at Kieff. Vienna, Dec. 4. The Tageblatt pub lishes a communication from Odessa via Podwoloezyska, GalicL. saying that a thousand reservists have been released from serviee and are hungry and home less. They are parading the streets ask- 1 ing for food. The governor general re fuses to help them and they are threat ening to steal and plunder. Travelers arriving at Odessa .from Kieff report a serious fight therf; Fri day between the engineers and Cos sacks. Many hundreds were killed or wounded. Th i.eue Frie Presse pub lishes a dispatch from Lemierg,r Oal ieia, evidently referring to the same oe eurrenees at Kieff, and says the eniri- j neers refused to work as telegraphers, hundred armed men left the barracks and paraded the streets, where they were joined by a number of infantry men and followed by a erowd of work men. Near the railroad station the mu tineers engaged 300 Cossacks and drove them off. Later in the Jewish quarter the mutineers faced the infantry .regi ment, which fired two volleys, killing 163 ersons and wounding many. The remainder of the mutineers surrendered. Many Russian and Polish families, the dispatch s says, ar fleeing from Kieff, where martial law has been de clared. ' More Trouble in Finland. ' Ilapnarda, Sweden, Dee. 4. A dis patch reeeived from Tornea, Finland, reports that there is a new railroad trike in Finland, which was caused by the nominations to the new senate, and that an industrial strike may be ex pected. London, Dee. 4. A St. Petersburg eorrespondent of the Times says three regiments at Riga have refused to per form police duty. The sailors of the imperial guard have mutinied. Koenigsberg, East Prussia, Dee. 4. The Ostrepussiche Zeitjang prints re ports from Liban saying several of the nobility, officials and other residents of Livonia and Courland were attacked by the peasants, killed and terribly muti lated. . ; ; Believes Witte Will Succeed. Warsaw, Doe. 4. Libtski, a promi nent, lawyer and editor, whom the gov ernor general of Warsaw exiled and who was released, at the request ef the Zemstvo congress, "returned here today from 8t. Petersburg. , He expreseed eon fidenee the present agitation would not result in,a. revolution. He added that the strike was aa epidemie and was even bow dying out, owing to the ex haustion of the working classes. ' Lilt fki further declared the military mu tinies bad not been planned, but were merely sporadic outbursts resulting from the general ferment. H. Mid Witte was certain to over come the difficulties with the military and strikers, , and t&os strengxnen bis own position-:.; . Troubla la Ministry. Paris, Dee. 4. A St. Petersburg cor respondent to the Journal says that serious difficulty has arisen in the min istry resulting in an acute crisis. The socialists, toe correspondent says, have informed the government that if the postal men be not replaced an appeal will be made to the people to take arms against the government. The St. Petersburg eorrespondent of the Matin describes the sinister aspect of the Russian capital. He says patrols are everywhere, the doors and windows of houses closed, stores barricaded and Cossacks camping in the streets. There is no news from other parts of 'the em pire, says the correspondent. The St. Petersburg correspondent of the Figaro says that Witte presented to the council of ministers a project grant ing universal suffrage. The population at fcst. f etersDnre, according to tne or- respondent, displays absolute indiffer ence to the scenes of anarehy, ' while the authorities appear powerless. German Squadron Sighted. "St-Petersburg, (via Eyalken) Dee. 4. It is reported from Cronstadt that the German squadron was sighted in the Baltic sea near the Russian coast. The rumor attributes the appearance of the squadron to the preparatory flight of the Russian imperial family. Agrarian and anti-Jewish outbreaks are reported to have occurred in the governments of Chernigoff, Terek, Kursk and Kasan. TO CIECLE WHOLE VALLEY. Work on Electric Line Through Grande Sonde Is Now Under Wsy. LA GBANDE, Or., Dee. 4. A gang of Japanese laborers left this morning for Union, to begin grading for the Central railroad,' projected to circle Grand Ronde valley. A. B. Browne of Union, one of the promoters, has just returned from the east, where he was in conference with a number of capital ists. He has deposited large sums of money in the La Grande banks for the use of the company. The proposed railway is to be an electric line, beginning at Union and circling the valley. It will touch at Hot Lake, La Grande, Summerville, El gin and Ctove, andMhence back to Union. No arrangements have been made for power, but it is not thought likely that the company will build its own plant, as the amount of power 'used the first few years will not exceed SOO horse power. . The officers of the company are: President, Alonzo Cleaver, Union, Or.; vice-president, Charles F. Mitchell, New York; 'treasurer, Charles E. Graham, New Haven, Conn.; secretary, Thomas Madden, New Havep; directors, Alonzo Cleaver, Union; Charles F. Mitchell, Iew York; Charles E. Graham, Xew Haven; V. T. Hammer, Bradford, Conn.; D. K. Ailing, New Haven; Thomas J. Madden, New Haven"; Robert A. Marr, T. tV. Davidson and Arthur Browne of Union. The building of the electric belt line means much towards the development or Grand Ronde valley. With conven ient transportation facilities and high class service, the benefits ill bo great. Unless present indications fail, work will be commenced immediately, and the road pushed to completion within a short time. EVADE PROCESS SERVERS. The Postponement of Examination of Rockefeller, . Rogers and Others la Necessary. NEW YORK, Dee. 4. Postponement of the examination of John 1). Rocke feller,' II. H. Rogers and other Btandard Oil men in the matter of ousting the Standard Oil trust from Missouri has become necessary because of the fail ure to get serviee on Mr. Rockefeller and others. The hearing was to have begun today before Frederick Sanborn, of this city. Postponement has been taken until Jan uary 4. Mr. Rogers was recently served with a subpoena, but it is said that serv ice is void, and that he will have to be served again. Among others lor whom process servers haVe been looking are Henry M. Flagler, John D. Archibald, Wade Hampton, Jimes A. Moffet and Walter Jennings. . BUSINESS AWAITS .OFFICERS. News of JXddy and Lawrence, Appoint ment Glad Tidings for Boseburg. ( ROSEBUBG. Or., Dee. 4,-rJhe reop ening of the United States land office here on the appointment of B. L. Eddy register and James M. Lawrence receiv er, announced Saturday,' will; be fol lowed by a immense rush of business, and it is probable Special Agent Hig by, now in charge, with several others, will be retained some time as assistants. The resumption of work by the office will relieve a condition of affairs that gave rise to much dissatisfaction and delay. The particular choice made is by no means . entirely satisfactory to many local politicians and others, but it is generally conceded that anything is better than to have the offices remain vacant. '; . ";. 1 ' ' h ANNOUNCES APPROVAL. Secretary Hitchcock to Apportion IV 000,000 for Work on Umatilla Irrigation Froject. WASHINGTON, Dec. 4-(8pceial.) Senator Fulton had a satisfactory in terview this morning with. Secretary Hitchcock, who announced bis approval of the Umatilla , irrigation project atd his intention of apportioning l,(KWr000 for the work which e expeets will Le commenced without delay. " . OCCUFDSS ANOTHEB, ISLAND. ' LONDON, Dee. 4. A Vienna corre spondent to the Daily Telegraph says: The interna tioaal fleet has occupied the island of Lemnos (European Turkey). The Austrian foreign oCce expects the porte will immediately acquiesce in the demands of the powers, r ; I ATTl XT ATTArVJ A T - UU1V ilxlXJLVilXll BATTLE SHIPS SECEETABY BONAPARTE OF NAVY MAKES LHTEBESTDNG BEPOBT i LESSONS FBOM EASTERN WABS Qualities ; Universally Recognized as Necessary to Strength in Act- nal Conflict, ; Other Questions Discussed and Sugges- turns oaerea aa to Requirement ox Nation's Naval Equipment Vessels Eecommended to Be Constructed. WASHINGTON, Dec 4. In ihis re port, transmitted to congress f today, Charles J. Bonaparte, secretary' of the navy, discusses that braneh of the gov-. ernment thoroughly, aud among other things, says: '- Within the past two years very im pressive lessons to naval problems of the highest importance have been af forded by the bloody war in eastern Asia, sow happily concluded. As to some conclusions to be drawn from this experience, we Aay fairly say that everyone is agreel. Such are the par amount importance to a belligerent of thorough preparation,' drill, discipline, target practice, and proximity to a well supplied base at the moment of decis ive conflict. ' On other points professional opinion, at least, is practically unanimous. It is universally recognized by those qualified to speak that, morale and gun; nery being equal, victory will usually fall to the heavier batterv: that tor pedo craft and mines have a real, al though a somewhat restricted, field of usefulness in naval warfare, and that superior speed is of value in a fleet, not merely because . it , enables the commander to force or avoid battle, but because it is a source of strength in actual conflict. ' , On yet other questions, however, wd can not . say that any such unanimity exists. The recent war has taught us little, if anything, about the utility of submarines. It has caused, or at least; left, much difference of opinion as to the value of armored cruisers, aud it has created- a still more serious di vergence of views respecting the best limit of size for the future battle ui;. As a matter f fate, no battle ehsp'of as much as 10,000 tons displac-emeuC was used by either belligerent, aud while, on the other hand, at least one great power has determined upon the! construction of in 18,000 ton battle ship! and others are reported to have in con-l templation vessels of from 20,000 tof 22,000 tons, on the other, some author ities think these leviathans will prove leas formidable ami more vulnerable' than battle ships of ld,000 tons, such as oiy contemplated South Carolina and Michigan.) The department has been eauiel ser ious concern by the conflicting advice on the last mentioned question, ten dered it by its authorized expert ad visers. The general board recommend ed some time since that the two last mentioned vessels be increased in dis placement from 16,000 to 19,000 tons. The board on construction dissents from this recommendation. The general beard has further recommended the au thorization of three battle ships, to cost approximately $3,250,000 each, and to be of such tonnage as will suf fice to secure an armament of at least; ten 12-inch guns. The board on con struction dissents from this recommen dation likewise, and advises ipstead three battle ships at an estimated cost of 7,500,000 each, with an anticipated armament of eight 12-inch guns and substantially the same tonnage as is contemplated "for the South Caro lina and Michigan. ' After very carefully weighing toese divergent views, I feel that it is not as yet sufficiently clear that the larger and more costly battle ships would have such increased efficiency in battle as to justify the certain addition to the publie burdens involved in accept ing the views of the general board. Ua lsa, therefore, you or the congress Sdall direct otherwise, I shall orlcr the con struction of the South Carolina and Michigan on the plans approved by the board on construction. With re speet to new ships to be authorized at the present session of the congress, it seems frper, owing to the high au thority of both hoards, to give their recommendations ia moVe detail. That of the general boar as follows: j "Approximate unit cost. Total. 3 battleships ....$3,250,000 24,750,000 3 scoutx cruisers. . 2,000.000 8,000,000 4 destroyers .... 750,000 . 3,000,000 4 torpedo boats . . 100,000 400,000 4 sabmsrines 230,000 1,000,000 1 gunboat of Hel ena type ...... 2 small gunboats. 2 river gunboats. 6O0,O4O 25,000 80,000 600,000 C0,000 160,000 TotaJ .. 33,960)b0 The . board on construction proposes t substitute for this program the fol lowing: . . J '-' Approximate ; unit eost. Total. 3 battleships $7,500,000 42200,000 2 scout cruisers.. 2,000,000 6,000,000 2 river gunboats. 100,000 1 200,000 Total . $23,700,000 It say farther: ""This board's fail ore : to recommend destroyers, torpedo boats, ; submarines and vessels of the Helena clans ia doe to the aeeessiy for economy and also to the opinion, that such vessels are not nearly go esential to th fleet t the present time as those above recommended. Should the depart ment, find it necessary to make still further reductions in the building pro gram,' it is recommended that such re duction be . confined to scout cruisers and river gunboats, since the board is convinced that , the primary and most important type of vessel for the navy .is the battleship.' The department recommends the au thorization of the following additions ttrthe navy: . 2 battleships ............. .$13,000,000 2 scout cruisers 4,000,000 4 destroyers .............. .3,000,000 2 submarines or submersible 500,000 1 gunboat of the Helena tyj.e 600,000 2 river gunboats . . . 200,000 Total .. ....,.....$23,300,000 The same reasons which lead me to think it inexpedient to enlarge the di mensions of the 'Sduth Carolina and Michigan lead me to advise that the battleships to be authorized be of the type recommended by the board on con struction. Should professional opinion become substantially unanimous in ad vocating larger vessels before the con struction of these ships is actually com menced, their plans can be, of course, remodeled. It will be observed however,! that I have assumed the .grave resionsibilitv of overrulidg both boards with regard to the numlx-r of battleships and that I have disregarded the advit-e of the board on construction to make all re ductions which economy renders need ful in other types. In my. judgment the navy needs at least four destroyers, at least two more scouts, and at least one vessel of the Helena type. I ! re tain two submarines or submersibles for 'the sake of experiment and by rea son of their comparatively small cost, and the two rivr gunlxtats for the last reason and also for their ascertained utility. A very serious -.responsibility..', must rest upon any civil ofticer wbo, in a matter affecting the national defense, disregards the judgment of those qual ified to speak as the authorized repre sentatives of expert ojunion. I recog nize and accept this responsibility within the limits alnive set forth. In view, however, of the large reduction made by the department in the esti mates of both the general board and the board of construction, I trust that it may meet your views and that bf the congress to authorize promptly the con struction of the thirteen vessels recom emnded, as well as the suggested new Constitution. 1 Program for Shipbuilding,! There has been of late much discus sion in the press and elsewhere I s to the advantages and disadvantages for the United States of a large navy' und as to the proper limits to be sot to the extension of our navy. ( To treat these questions fruitfully we must. bear' in minl that as applied to a navy the terms large" and small" can be only relative. , A navy is an instrument of warfare, and it can. be reasonably described as large or small only with reference to the strength, of the enemy it may have to encounter. Jn fact, if we compar. the ratio of our naval strength to our national "an-i, or to the extent of our coast line, or to our cHiiimerce, or to our population with that corresponding iu the case of any one of the principal naval powers,, sy, for illustration, of Great liritain or France or Germany, we must reach the (f'ontinued on I'age Kight.) mmw - m a w- k at - - - m HAVE YOU SEEN Tilt: NEW f ALL SUITS Witb the Gats cat with flare over tho hips and slit in bntk the collar and JapcJs wider Vests lower and '1 rousera lou? They're Our New Ones Have you seen the new Top Casts and OvercoaU with "wider col'afs and lapels Skirts 4 full with an aitistic eye to drapery and elegance? " ' They're Our New Ones : , cp. Disnop, IS NOW READY FOR BUSINEC FITTY-NINTH CONGRESS CC VENE3 AT WASHINGTON. ! DAY PASSES WITHOUT INCTDEI Senate Holds Brief Session and l journs Out of Bespict to Late Senator Piatt. House Re-elects Joseph G, Cuir. Speaker and Takes Other Steps ' Perfect Organisation Oregon IIou Members and One Senator Absent. WASHINGTON, D C, Dee. 4. T; fifty-ninth congress was opemvl to.) -with brief session in both house u, snate. The presentation of the prr ident's message haviag Wen defcrrt until tomorrow, there was practically I. business outside the usual first l;i rontine. The time of both IkmU.h w.' devoted to the innl formalities i opening day. There was the usual exehanjjo greetings among Die'mle.rs, the intro.lu tion of new-eowers, the great llor:. display and the hundreds of viwitin with beautifully gowned women pr dominating. Corridors, eon)m:tt riHinn and cloak rooms were thronge. and the bu'Mle extended: even to tl: floors of the chambers. " Senator Fairbanks ealled the sennt to order on the stroke ef 12 and ainut' t a neon si f the house was rapei to or der by Clerk McDowell. The openh) pravers wer made b'v he chaplain , Kev. Dr. K.lwtrd KveVett Hall in tlir senate and Kf .- II. X, Couo.n in tin htu. ). In both tTfio senate and the Jiouv committee were ajpointed to wait upon' the president' an.j inform him that i-nni press was ip semsion. Jn the hon Cl-Tk MfDowcll calle.1 the roll anl th administration of the oath of ofiiu and the drawing of seats followed. In tho senate resolutions ,of re speet t" the memory -of the-late. Senator I'latL if Connecticut were adopted and th'1 adjournment was in further tribute t his memory. The president' message to bo sub fitto.l tomorrow is awaited with keen interest, though its salient features are a (ready known to the -members of con gress. jThoso who have been privileged to lookTovcr the. document say that it the not comprehensive message Prei- dent; Uoowcvelt has ever submitted to roitgK'MS.'. It covers a lar;e vaiioty of subjects, interWl and extcrnnl, and pays particular attention to the subject, of railroad rate legislation and federal UH'r vision of corporations. The rules of the lat house weio aiopted, and the present otliccrs re tained. Thene ollieers are: Clerk, Alex ander McDowell;- ' sorgCHUt-at-arins, Jleury Cnsson; diMtrkeeper, F. 11. Lyon; nstinaster, Joepli t'.McKIroy; cliap lyin. Itev. Henry. X. Coulcn. ' There will be no changes in tho minor oOices. such aa chief clerk, nuperint cii'l ent. of the document room, litbursing .(Continued on I'age Kight.) The Season's Neivet ond Best (OlotHiin Hats ; ond TToAAery pnopRiETcn x