Show centennial MEDALS WERE ONLY PLATED portland ore sept 19 athletes from various sections ot the united states who competed in the lewis and dark championships given under the auspices of the lewis and dark exposition and who imagined that for first place winning they received gold medals valued at 2250 are just awakening to the fact that the medals are gold plated affairs valued at from 5 to though thero were a few of the higher priced cast the first complaint that some ot the prize winners were displeased with ane treatment accorded them by the exposition officials was received from san francisco in a letter addressed to bert kerrigan director 0 athletics at the exposition by eugene van court of the olympic club of san francisco who protested against the small intrinsic value of the medals won by several of the champion athletes of that clab when seen today mr kerrigan admitted hat he had permitted the impression to go out among the competing athletes that the medals were of gold and valued at 2250 tor the first medals and down to 15 for the less meritorious medals kerrigan claims that ha never made the direct statement that the men were competing for gold medals but permitted the men to believe ahey were contesting for really valuable prizes in order to himself scandal the manufacturing jeweler explained that he bad never represented the medals to be anything more than they were gold plated on copper he also snowed his accounts which make it plain that several hundred medals were ordered by the lewis and dark exposition and that the prices were arop 6 to 1250 each SOCIALIST PRESS MATTERS feua of dixe velmer sept 19 in the notional social democratic convention today the threatened mariia mental battle over various matters concerning abo newspaper organs was delayed and perhaps through the adoption of a resolution referring all those matters to a committee ot fifteen there if a strong determination among the delegates to get rid ot the systematic criminations crimi nations and recriminations crimi nations between socialist newspapers the official position ot the Vor warts also seems doomed in any case it la expected that a committee will thresh out all press matters behind closed dhori and give to the convention finished results of their investigations for reform hermann 0 member of tho reichstag madeine business report of the national he admitted a certain amount of lassitude lias invaded the ranks and that some of the younger members of the party breal of a split herr said differences always existed and hat onla their were |