Show ATOR MITCHELL SENTENCED TO JAIL forever disqualified from holding office and muss pay a fine of 1000 for his acts in connection with timber frauds portland ore july 25 united states senator mitchell convicted of using his office of united states senator to further the law practice of the firm of mitchell tanner of this city was today sentenced to pay a fine of 1000 and six months penal servitude pending a review of the case by the supreme court ot the united states execution of the sentence will be deferred in the meantime mitchell will be placed under bail to the amount of 2000 in pronouncing sentence upon the aged united states senator judge de haven said the statute under which the indictment was found provides that the offense shall be punished by imprisonment of not more than two years or by a fine of not more than it also renders the defendant incapable of again holding any office of trust or profit in the united states As I 1 construe the language othe statute the punishment must be both fine and imprisonment but the court is given great latitude in fixing the amount of fine or imprisonment the court may make the punishment merely nominal in pronouncing noun cing judgment it is not my purpose to comment upon the evidence or the verdict found by the jury in reaching a conclusion in this case I 1 have given consideration to the age of the defendant which may be taken into account in mitigation of punishment and the further fact that he forever hereafter is disqualified from holding office in view of these facts and in consideration of the nature of the offense the judgment of the court is that the defendant be imprisoned for alc months in the county jail of mulino mah county in this state and that he be fined in the sum of 1000 SECRETARY TAFT TALKS wants philippines hawaii porto rica and alaska controlled by bureau honolulu july 19 via san francisco july 25 daring bis visit here secretary taft expressed himself as continuing to hold the opinion he had expressed before that free trade should be established with the philippines as soon as the treaty with spain by which spain has equa privileges with the united states expires which will be in two years the secretary also stated that he favored a 25 per cent reduction ot philippine tariffs at once at the close of his address at a luncheon given in honor of the party he said that he wanted to unite the affairs oi hawaii porto rico alaska and the philippines in one executive bureau of the government all matters of information about these various islands and alaska could come to such a bureau he said and hawaiian citizens in washington could go to it to discuss the affairs of hawaii secretary tatt said in an interview that the question of fortifications tor hawaii was one that mus be solved soon to all interviewers he stated in connection with the chinese exclusion law that there was no intention to admit any more coolies and when informed that some of the hawaiian planters would like more such laborers said that no change of policy in that respect was intended PRAISES CHINESE and warns americans against the japanese new york july 25 count formerly russian ambassador at washington expresses the opinion according to the new york heralds paris correspondent that all now depends on the japanese and that it their demands at the coming peace conference are reasonable peace is assured speaking of the russian representative M count said 1 I think this infinitely important task could not have been In trusted to a better representative he is a man of extraordinary capacity and of the finest character he knows the tar eastern question as few men know it and is a patriot regarding internal differences russia has now reached a critical moment in her history but america has had such a moment so has france these difficulties will disappear and russia will be stronger than ever they ar merely passing difficulties and it would be unwise to attach too much importance to them referring to the chinese count cag binl said 1 I liko the chinese it takes years and years of worry and trouble to bring them around to your way of thinking or to induce them to enter into an undertaking but once ed they are loyal A Chin amans word is as good as his oath 1 I speak with all caution and circumspection but am nevertheless afraid that at no distant date england and america will have reason to ro gret this war they may have more to fear from japanese competition than from russia ROBBED A BASEBALL PLAYER portland ore july 25 harry schwartz a for an attraction at the lewis dark fair as arrested tonight on a warrant charging him with having robbed manager walter mccreadie Mc Creedie of the portland baseball team of over worth of jewelry it Is stated that mccreadie Mc Creedie left the jewelry in his locker in thes teams dressing room at the baseball park one day last week and when he went back to dress after the game he found the jewelry missing |