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VOIi. 6. NO. 88
SENATE PASSES TRACK MEASURE MINUS EMERGENCY CLAUSE
HißHimm
IS HIT
HARD
PETITION CHARGES HIM WITH
CONSPIRACY TO DEFRAUD
GOVERNMENT.
(By United Press Leased Wire.)
CLEVELAND, 0., Feb. 3.—A
petition charging E. H. Harrlman
end associates with conspiracy to
defraud the government, was filed
today in the government's suit to
dlssolvVj tihe merger of the South
ern and Union Pacific railroads.
Many of the country's most
prominent financiers, among them
being James Stillman, Jacob
SchlfT, H. H. Rogers, Henry Frick
and William Clark, are made de
fendants with Harriman and the
Southern and Union Pacific, the
Northern Pacific and Great North
ern railroads.
The petition charges that the
Union Pacific acquired the South
ern Pacific to stifle competition.
It also is alleged tfhat Harriman,
through his ownership of railroads
and steamship lines between New
Orleans, Portland and San Fran
cisco, exercises control over for
eign as well as interstate com
merce.
Fifty witnesses were sub
poenaed yesterday to testify in the
case.
TRUE BILLS ARE
FOUND AGAINST
COUNCILMEN
CHARGES OF CONSPIRACY
BROUGHT AGAINST PITTS
BURO MEN BY GRAND JUKY.
PITTSBURGH Feb. 3.—True
bills were found by the grand jury
today In the councilmanlc bribery
charges. Two charges of con
spiracy were brought against
Messrs. Klein, Vl]sack, Ramsey
and Brand. One of these alleges
that influence was exerted to have
the German National bank made
one of the city depositories, and
the other alleging that Messrs.
Brand, W'asson, Ramsey and Vil
sack were interested in a street
paving device which they were en
deavoring to get the city to adopt.
POINT SCORED BY
OREGON HOP
GROWERS
SALEM, Ore., tfeb. 3.—ln the
senate a resolution was adopted toi
adjourn February 12. This action
may result in defeating much leg
islation and will probably be re
elsted In the house, resent indi
cations are that the legislature
will sit the full forty days under
the constitution and will adjourn
February 20.
The Farrell bill requiring doors
of all buildings used for public
purposes to swing outward, passed
the house. Also Che Dodds bill to
permit the railroad commission or
its employes to ride on any train,
car or engine of any railroad in
the state went through the house.
Both these bills must still run the
gauntlet of the senate.
The house bill by McCue to per
mit a separate vote under the local
option law on permitting the sale
of either beer or whisky, after an
extended hearing before t)he com
mittee, will have a favorable re
port from the majority.
This Is the measure Introduced
by the Oregon hop growers to
save their lndustr.-. They claim
that under Its ojeratloc, many
precincts now wet would vote to
■nut out whisky but permit the
sale of malt beverages.
Woman Sxting For
Dteorce Admits
She Lo-Ves Lord
(Ny United Press Leased Wire.)
|S| EDINBURGH, Feb. When
the ( Stirling ■ divorce I case was • re
sumed today, Mrs, Stirling - was
still on the stand under cross ex
amination. ;{s< Mrs. Stirling *, admit
ted that she loved Lord Northland
and In reply to a question whether
If 1 graated ttf divorce j she 1 .would
Jealous Girl *DrinK*
'Poison -A/ Mother 9*
Wedding
CINCINNATI, 0., Feb. 3.—ln
the presence of a number of guests
who had gathered In honor of
the wedding of her mother, Miss
Lena Kohe, 19, drank a quantity
of carbolic acid in an effort to
end her life.
"Don't send for a doctor," she
cried, when a messenger was dis
patched for a physician. "There
is no longer any reason to live and
I want to die." The girl decided
to end her life when she learned
that her mother, Mrs. Jothin Kohe,
who conducts a saloon at Fifth
street and Eggleaton avenue, bad
married her bartender, Charles
Howden.
The daughter, during the two
years which Howden had served
for 'her mother, had grown to love
him and It is said that Howden
and she had been engaged to be
married.
Told No One.
Mrs. Kohe said nothing to her
children when she decided to wed
and slipped away with Howden.
It was not until she returned
home and announced that the wed
ding had already been performed
that anybody knew of tier inten
tions.
The daughter received the news
without a word, but went quietly
to a medicine chest and secured
a bottle, which contained some
carbolic acid.
Before anybody could stay her
hand ahe had swallowed the dead
ly drug.
The arrival of the physician
saved her life, although she Is
burned about the mouth.
The girl said she regretted her
rash act, but that the sliock was
more than she could bear. The
new Mrs. Hoy/den says that she
did not know that her daughter
was In love with her husband and
that her marriage with him had
been planned some time ago.
victims or
WOMAN
DEAD
GATESVILLE, Tex., Feb.
B.—John llimrs and David
Smith, who were shot yester
day by Verno Ware wlille sit
ting in a court room here,
died today and the young
woman was formally charged
With niiirdrr.
The condition of David
Ross, who was also hit by one
of the bullets flred by Miss
Ware, is reported to be ser
ious. Hanes was on trial ac
cusrd of assaulting the girl
when tile tragedy occurred.
THREE KILLED
ON ST.PAUL
RAILWAY
POWERSVILLE, Mo., Feb. B.—
Three men were killed today in a
rear-end collision between two
cattle trains on the Chicago, Mil
waukee & St. Paul railroad. It Is
reported that the engineer lost
control of one of the trains and it
dashed down a grade, smashing
into the train ahead.
WOMAN IS
MISSING
Mrs. J. S. Whitney, 3002 South
Seventh street. Is reported to be
missing from her home and her
husband and friends are at a loss
to explain her absence. Mrs. Whit
ney left her borne unexpectedly
last Friday.
marry him, Mrs. Stirling said:
i "I cannot answer that, for
■ Lord Northland has never pro
i posed to me."
She declared that her love for
- Lord Northland was brought
I about by a conspiracy on the part
* of her husband and Mrs. Ather
ttOß. -
The Tacoma Times.
THINKS VACCINATION
CAUSE OF CANCER
NEW YORK, Feb. 3.—Dr.
W. B. Clark, a well-known
physician, insists that vaccin
ation is the cause of cancer.
He says:
"A cancer waß practically
unknown until cowpox vac
cination began to be intro
< duced. Cancer, I believe, is
i a disease of cell life, a dis
turbance of its equilibrium,
manifested by. the rapid
l growth of cells and the con
i sequent building up of a tu
-1 mor. I have had to do with
1 at least 200 cases of can
-1 cer, and here declare that I
i never saw a caße of cancer
in an unvacclnated person.
The way vaccination
causes cancer is like this:
It takes 21 years to make a
man and but four to make a
1 cow, the former being of
slow cell growth and' the lat
ter rapid. To put the rapld
■ growing cells, or proto
plasm, of a diseased animal
■In a condition of virulent
Infectious activity! Into the
slow-growing cells of man, is
to disturb the equilibrium of
cell life and create the dis
parity, disarrangement and
disorganization which, when
the season for cancer comes
late in life, results in cancer,
if not tuberculosis earlier."
ANTI- JAPANESE
BILLS NOW
DOOMED
(By United Press Leased Wire.)
SACRAMENTO, Feb. 3. —Indi-
cations point to the defeat of anti-
Japanese bills n the senate today
and the possibility that they will
barely carry In the assembly.
The senate committee on execu
tive communications yesterday re
ported against the enactment of
anti-Japanese measures at this ses
sion and warning the legislature
noj; to make itself appear ridicu
lous In the eyes of the nation.
Governor Glllett declared today
that not even the Asiatic exclusion
league can run the affairs of the
state and Involve the government
In complications with foreign pow
ers. The measures were made a
special order for today.
(By United Press Leased Wire.)
" NASHVILLE, Term.. Feb. 6. —
Governor Patterson today vetoed
a bill prohibiting the manufacture
of liquor in Tennessee. Among
the reasons he declared that it
would deprive the state of revenue
without any sort of corresponding
tiAnAfit
BILLY SUNDAY DISSECTED
"HE HYPNOTIZES HIMSELF ALONG WITH HIS AUDIENCE. THE DIFFERENCE: HTS AUDIENCE RECOVERS, SUNDAY DOES
NOT • • • UNSUPPORTED BY PATHOS OB FARCE HE WOULD NEVER RISE AOVE MEDIOCRITY.
BY T. J. DILLON
;': Times Staff Correspondent
OLTMPIA, s• Feb. " —Billy Sunday
came, talked and conquered. I saw one
thousand * men, packed to suffocation In.
a vitiated atmosphere, Jump to their feet
cheer and ". scream in ' the poignancy .' of.
•■■■ their emotions, ;as Billy Sunday, like a
, Paderweiski or a Kubelik played Yon
. them with a master ; hand..".--- , M -/.% '-* {-.
- If Billy Sunday had , been ' before, the
legislature - making ,' the I closing speech I
S for the local option '. bill, and the vote,
taken as he concluded his strong hyp
* notic mixture of prayer, acrobatic j tur
n bling, exhortation (and i tirade, the j local
option bill would have become a law by
an overwhelming ' majority. .! He would
have swept all opposition, before him by
■ his cyclonic ' appeal. ■■'So i Intense Is i his ■
emotion, bo mighty his V struggle ,V". with
word and gesture to express it, that cos
mic metaphor la not ill placed in describ
ing him. ; i .^.»^*js.v.r•'■.*-*<jvV* 'l:-'r X
fey ■I 1 knew ,' of ' Billy Sunday ia ' score iof
I years back. - Shrined in 'my . Imagination
Ihe ! was a I hero | who I shone I with | Just a
mite less brilliancy than old.King Kelly,
... the J king who '4 died %a : drunkard. - And >
when the news came that Billy Sunday
-. had . quitted the ■ essential ■ and " all ■: Im-
I portant | field 1 of baseball :to j take up j the I
. ■ lnconsequental 'business. of a minister, In
the paganess jof youth I resented It, and'
H mourned; him an lost. After listening to'j
♦ him' and ;to s those who ; have 1 listened to
him, one must admit that the amount of
■ good 9 he |Is * doing Jis 9incalculable., be
• yond computation, or mathematical con-1
4 jecture. -->^?i y ?j..^^i- v^ »mS"^ffM
poi Given i a great issue,, backed \by the, Ir- \
•it resistible and undisputable force of \ mor-;
4 ality, and | issue • susceptible :of tempera-,
mental treatment and Billy ( Sunday, is »;
5 great preacher and a': greater pleader.
m m Billy i Sunday, armed \ with ■ cold j logic,
j unsupported toy pathos or force, would
TACOMA, WASH., WEDNESDAY KVKNING, FEBRUARY 8, 1900
BIG THEFT
BLOCKED
HIT.
PL\N OF CITY EMPLOYES TO
STEAL #50,000 IS DISCOVER
ED—BIGHT ARRKBTED.
(By United Press leased Wire.)
NEW YORK, Feb. 3.—Eight
employes of New York's street
cleaning department and a fore
man of a private contractor, were
arraigned in court today on
i charges of grand larceny commit
, ted through the use of fraudulent
, tickets, which were issued to driv
ers of snow wagons and attest to
\ their-removal of loads of snow
i from the streets.
The arraignment of these men
, Is the direct result of an investi
gation conducted by William H.
.Edwards, recently appointed to
the office of street cleaning
\ commissioner.
It Is estimated that the alleged
frauds would have coat the city
!in the neighborhood of $50,000
llf Edwards had not made the dis-
ELEVEN JURORS
IN GOOPER
TRIAL
NASHVILLE, Term., Feb. B.—
J. H. Woodruff, a farmer, was ac
cepted as the tenth Juror at to
day's session of the trial of Dun
can Cooper, Robin Cooper and
John Sharp for the murder of ex-
Senator E. W. Carmack.
Jacob Fruitigen, a fruit raiser,
was accepted as juror No. 11.
ELLIOTT WILL
LEAVE TONIGHT
President Elliott will leave Ta
coma tonig>ht. He had practically
completed his work here and ar
ranged for the starting qf work on
the new N. P. depot and he will
go to Seattle this evening. He
will remain there for a couple of
days before going back east.
MISS THORP
RECOVERING
Miss Mabel Thorp, shot Monday
by Krnest Grant, who latei com
mitted suicide by drinking carbolic
acid, was reported as much Im
proved today and will be able to
leave the St. Joseph's hospital with
in a short time. The bullet which
wounded Miss Thorp was removed
late Monday evening. )
never rise above medloclty. But pas
sionately conscious of the crimes ana
treasons ol whisky; with the whole trag
ic story of drunkenness in his heart,
with the picture of wretched, squalid
homes, starving, degenerate children,
despairing and heartbroken wives before
his eye, then he is himself and reaches
the full scope of his oratorical and dra
matic power.
I doubt If Billy Sunday could appear
before a congress of physicians and
change one doctor's views on the cor
rectness of Koch's theory of tuberculo-
Bls, or If he could convert an educated
aethist to a belief In the trinity of God
or the Immorality of the soul. Billy
Sunday is a Moody or 'a Chapman, and
not a Talmadge of a mills. IMb appeal
Is not to the mentality,' but to the emo
tions. Matthew Arnold would probably
have despised him, or at the. best ac
corded grudging praise.
Call him what you will, mountebank,
Charlatan, faker, emotionalist, you can
not deny that he is tho maximum of ef
ficiency and that his efficiency Is direct
ed toward a great and noble end.
Billy Sunday is not an orator. He is
a good speaker at all times, but never
attains oratory. He is, however, strik
ingly dramatic or melodramatic. When
he comes to one of his climaxes, he lifts
his audience with him like "Dixie" when
the Boys in Blue are triumphing on the
stage.
Billy Sunday is clever, wonderfully
clever in the artistic sense. None bet
ter than he knows the value of sharp
and unexpected contrasts. In clean cut
English he will describe a (raggery,
and then turn the Bible into Billy Bax
ter's phraseology. The indictment of
bad taste might 110 against him with a
critical Jury. j
Abraham Lincoln's pleading (or a na
tion la the Douylas debates never found
It necessary to do stage tails and to
WORK ON U. P.TUNNEL STARTS
DIRT TO GO
INTOGULCK
AGUEEMENT KEACHKD BE
TWEEN RAIL,ROAI> OFFIC
IALS ANI» OOMMISHIONKH
TODAY ANl> riWUMINAUY
WORK IS COMMENCE!*.
The Union Pacific tunnel Job
hns been started.
This morning Local Manager
William Welch closed the final ar
rangements with Commissioner
McGregor for tlie laying of the
pipe line for carrying tho dirt
from this end of the tunnel and
he will have men at work there
this afternoon.
The Washington Pipe company
has the contract for building the
pipe for sluicing the dirt from tho
north portal to the Pacific avenuo
bridge. This pipe will be of pe
culiar construction, made with a
bottom of blocks set on end to
prevent wear.
The factory has agreed to begin
the delivery of the pipe Friday.
Commissioner McGregor this
morning gave the engineers in
structions to rush the plans for
the culvert to be built under Pa
cific avenue to carry off the water
that runs down the gulch. The
plans will be out this week and
the work of building the culvert
will be rußhed through.
Practically all the details, It !■
understood, have been arrangt»d
between the Union Pacific and
Contractors Rydstrom and Huson
and if the contract is not signed
up today it will be in a day or two.
The contractors have ordered t'helr
machinery sent up and in a week
more It is believed the machinery
will' be on the ground.
Before the end of this month
the dirt will be moving from both
oihlh of the tunnel. The track is
going down rapidly on the Center
street end and it will be ready by
the end of this week or the early
part of next.
MAY REQUIRE
WIRELESS ON
ALL STEAMERS
WASHINGTON, D. C, Feb. E
—The house committee on
■ merchant marine decided to
• day to recommend a bill re-'
quiring all ocean steamers
j carrying over fifty passengers j *
to equip with ■wireless tele
-,' graph apparatus. It has not
. been determined whether the
' law will apply to all steamers '
: Balling over. 500 miles or 100 .
I miles. • "• ■■ ■ ■ ,- •-■ .
STISrHENSO.V LACKS •:.'•'
, . ONLY FOUR VOTES
(By United Press Leased Wire.)
MADISON, Wls., Feb. 3.—Senator
Stephenson today lacked (our votes
to re-elect him In Joint ballot. He
received 61 votes. . „ - .^.^ «i
:. Jump on the piano. George Washington,
in his farewell, had no need of the ver
nacular of i Chuck j Conners, but *" Billy
Sunday 1: finds these effective and . uses
. them 'to his ends, and while . the j hyper-'
sensitive may criticise the means, it can
not be denied that they are justified in
the end. ■■*•»»_ -■■-.\.. 1 ':,.':■■">-■ .-■.-■■;> '-'r'-ul.
.'■ He ' paints his • pictures with a coarse
stroke; his colors are tawdry;, his draw
ing crude, but there Is no mistaking his
theme, though he crowds it with an in
finity of gruesome detail. The sot, the
scarlet woman, in all their besltiallty
v and degradation are > thrown * on :,', the
screen before his hearers; with his voice
' '. tuned Ito misery she quotes * the • crippled
\ son of the drunkard or mimics his plea '
! for I bread' and | then !he I moans | the | an
\ guish lof I the , mother 'In '■ whom departed
' hope has left a void. '*>, t.'Spi^S^f^ifajgKß
These pictures are not always refined,
they may not conform with the i canons r
9of '• art, but )as -Sunday would 9 slang" it
"they do the business."^;-,•'-/. :; :v<-^:
■: > ■'■■■ Billy Sunday is in a large measure an
hypnotist i and > Includes % himself I in 1 his,'
hypnosis, with this | difference, that his I
audience recovers . and 5 Sunday does >■ not.
■■ ■£< The day after ■ Sunday spoke, I f asked"!
j men ,who went wild with him, what they :
i thought I about ' local" option, and ' I could j
■ find 1 none who I had | changed . Jhis % mind.
They i looked % back ?afj their I experience I
with Sunday In Incredulous amazement,,'
I some iof them with ] shame, . that they al-1
j 5 lowed , their emotions Ito j run " amuck, but t
I one I and ■' all declared | for the i greatness I
-», of » Billy Sunday. &?«s%?•£ ti ::x, •'•- • . V; .;■'
P4-A8 to his sincerity I believe him. Sub
g jectively I this | may be i important, buts
whether or not Billy Sunday believes
•J everything !he i says, l\ cannot ! see that iit I
t actually, affects the, results. He could ;do ■
&no I more, no! matter«how - much he s be
lieved la the cause, and if be does not
believe in It, be certainly earns what
ever may ba the reward to'iMdcsV^f^
WOULD PUT BE-HEADING
MACHINE OUT OF BUSINESS
France's public executioner, Delbler, also known as "Monsiour
de Paris," putting the guillotine in order for a victim.
I PARIS, Feb. 3.—Shocked by the
fetes that have attend
ed recent executions by guillotine,
I'iriiilcr Clemenseau and Minister
Brland have determined that capi
tal punishment must be legally
abolished In France. A law to
that effect is to be introduced into
the French chamber, and It will
have powerful support.
The Bcenes attending the public
execution of four bandits at Be
thune have never been equaled
ince the French revolution. Thirty
thousand people came to witness
the sight, and made revelry
throughout the night. The streets
were choked with drunken, sing
ing, shouting men and women. At
4 o'clock in the morning, as the
FIND MAN AND WOMAN
DEAD IN HOTEL ROOM
(By United Press I/eased Wire.)
SEATTLE, Feb. 3. —Stretched
across a bed In a room in the
Hotel Teddy Bear, Fourth avenue
and Pike street, that served them
as bedroom, kitchen, dining room
and parlor, the bodies of "John
H ;in]iri and wife," as their names
appear on the hotel register, were
found yesterday afternoon.
Although the name John Har
din appears on the hotel register
md the man whose body was
LAST EDITION
WKATHKR FORECAST: .Rain tonight and Thurs
day. Light south to west wlndi.
prisoners were led out to die, they
wore met with a storm of hisses,
Imiwlh and objurgations. Women
wer* the chief offenders. The
crowd gloated and cheered as each
head fell off at the drop of the
knife.
Even more shocking scenes at
tended a fifth execution two
weeks later. Bloodthirsty thous
ands thronged about the guillo
tine, cursing, blowing horns, wav
ing torches and shooting fire
works.
Premier Clemenceau Is deter
mined that such scenes shall not
be repeated. If the chamber does
not repeal the law, he will insist
that at least the executions shall
be in private.
found in the room was known as
Hardin, there is no correspond
ence in the room that shows that
name. The only letter found in
the clothing of the man was one
addressed to John Hinckle. All of
the mall addressed to the woman
was written to Mrs. John W. How
ard, South Park.
From papers found In her trunk
It was learned by the coroner that
she was formerly Miss Mary
Stringham, daughter of William
H. Stringham, of University Park,
Ore. She was married to Paul
loung in Clark county, Ore., and
divorced from him there in July,
1898.
620 ALREADY
SUMMONED IN
CALHOUNCASE
; ■ , ;»-.-vr.-.-v- -; *!*«-*!«T»>;"»jr^ •■.':<.«v ;<i
(By United Press Leased Wire.)
SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 8. —
Ten , temporary , Jurors have been
chosen so far. In the . trial of Pat
rick Calhoun," president of the
United Railroads, '. who :is accused
of offering a bribe to the boodling
board of supervisors. _V-■•«'■-
■.', The court today ordered the sev
enth venire, which will make a to
tal of 620 prospective Jurors sum
moned so far. ■;:* J "»;i^ f.^'V; :,;,
ARRAIGNED FOR
iplNpa
Thomas Arnold, ; arrested ig Fri
day on 1 a charge of attempting to
destroy the house of i George, Price
by I fire, and who pleaded : guilty
to 1 the ' charge I that > afternoon s In
police court, today faced' a second
charge, that iof : burning fa' North
era * Pacific building ;on , the .even-
Ins of January 28, and; entered a
plea 1 of not iWilty.'^©gP^S^
The fire department was (hasten
ing, to the second fire when Dan
Noonan was killed. S The build
ing |had: been occupied by Arnold
and John Hemingway, and la ■ lo
cated on lota SO and 21 of block
7246.
Arnold will be tried In Judge
Basterday'a court early next week.
8O CKNTB A MONTH.
ALL VOTE
FOB THiS
I Ull . Ills
BILL
HOUSE REFUSES TO CONCUR '
AFTER IHIAHTIO CLAUSE IS
CUT OUT AND EFFECTIVE 3
MIASI Itl. MAY YET v f BBS
PASSED.
(Times Special Service.)
OLYMPIA, Fob. B.—Ole Han
son's riioliiK'k bill, minus the
emergency clause, nils poHNed by
the senate tltla morning bjr a vote
of 41 to O. . ;'., -x-''.--:: J;
The emergency clause provides
that the measure shall become ef
fective Immediately upon Its being
signed by the governor and It has Si
been on this point that the op
ponents of the bill have made
their strongest fight. The Inten
tion of the clause Is to' prohibit %
racetrack gambling at the Mead
ows next summer during the ■ ex
position. '■■•'■ 'i - ;;•"* ts%
House Refuses to Concur. If J>%
The bill was Immediately sent
to the house with a notice that'
, the emergency clause • had been >
i stricken out, but the (house re-
I fused to concur In the change and,
i sent the bill back *to ' the senate;
with a notice to this effect. ■-;•?:>?
The fight in the senate this '
morning was all confined to the
emergency clause. ' "- v ■■ hf^>Sftlßß
Knickerbocker of King attempt- \
ed to amend the emergency clause -
so that the law would go Into ef
fect on May 1, 1000. v, The bill |
with this amendment* was passed,
but again reconsidered and the
emergency • clause : was j stricken j
out entirely. '. •>•:-'■.; \ .■■'■'; '-W:'?ao<
j When.notice of. the. house that
It would not concur in the change
was received, Senator CottcriU of ■
King ' made a .motion . for the ap
pointment of a conference com- ;
mittee. Senator Grave* took the
stand that Inasmuch ■ as i the I bill E
was not amended,' there was no "^
reason for the■; appointment of r
such committee. .- '.'■■';,';?*-'.s*';i
After a long , debate . President
Ruth decided that the striking i
out of the emergency clause was X
not an amendment to the bill, and ;'.
therefore left no opportunity for a y
conference committee. >v However,
he Informed Senator Cotterlll that
he would look the matter up more
closely during recess today and It \
Is possible that he may change his
ruling Mils afternoon. <:.V
'.Speaker Melgs, Immediately
after convening the house H this i
morning announced .; the . appoint- \
ment of Representatives Sims, ':
Taylor, Cogswell and * Spedden *, to f
the . appropriations committee.
This appointment breaks up : th« \
plan to make this committee wet ,
and the committee will now main
tain its relative apportionment! of I
moisture— : the .* drys will still
have ; a small '• majority. 'Mi'^fi-sjS3|
CHAIN OF WIRELESS
STATIONS COiPLETE
(By United Press Leaeed Wire.)
KALAMA, Wash., Feb. 3. —A
new wireless telegraph station has
been opened here which forms ths>
connecting link In the Chain of
wireless stations on the Pactflo
coast. With this plant in opera
tion there will be no difficulty la
sending messages between Puget
Sound cities and Portland and Co
lumbia river points at all times.
Heretofore, owing to peculiar con
ditions existing In the vicinity of
Portland, It has been difficult at
all times to reach Portland from
the northern stations.
CONFERENCE ON
STADIUM DEAL
- President ; Elliott! of the N. : P..
Land Commissioner Thomas Coop
er ; and members iof 1 the } stadium
committee andischool; board i are
this j afternoon f holding :a, confer- ,
ence on the stadium proposition.
The g railway official* ;, declare
they are in ; favor of \ assisting \ In
the stadium project bat they bar*
hesitated to agree to the plans of {
the 1 school i board f for the turning
over of the , land ! desired •by the
tetter.-f^at^ljte^^^^S
it It ils I believed «that t some i [ solu
tion to the problem wtll I>e read
ed f this i afternoon, however, Mid
that the contract ? can* to let an*
the: Improvement starte*.'J^Eßߧ
IPtliTie^S^^S™
ICHICO, Cal., Feb.l <■—A «**£
was hurriedly made my at Tefci
this 1 morning ; and s took • lMli ol
passengers! out n of J the !rft»rff»i
cM liens are terror stricken aad •'
general exodus is in progress. The
water Is over (he entire atty pfcf.