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THE' MORNING OEEGONXAS, TUESDAY, AUGUST 2G, 1902. -11 SWITGH IS NOT SAFE Coroner's Jury Finding in Fulton Accident HOW GUILD LOST HIS LIFE Motoraian .and Gonductor Exercised Doe Care, lrat Unfortunate Pas senger Wm Thrown Under Wheels. That switch No. '3 of the City & Suburban Railway Company, at Fulton, is dangerous and unsafe was the opinion of the Coro ner's jury Inquiring last night Into the circumstances connected with the death of Peter Claud Guild, IS years old, of Twenty-third and Nlcolal streets. The vidence showed that Guild was thrown Sunday night, from car No. 65; that he fell under the pilot board, where he received Injuries causing a1 hemorrhage of the right lung, and that this led to his death about two hours afterward at St. Vincent's Hos pital. In framing their verdict, the Jury said In closing "that Motorman Erumley and Conductor "Walker exercised due care, and that it appears to this Jury that said switch Is dangerous and unsafe, and is not the proper kind for the place and location such as herein referred to." Evidence was lyen that some one must have opened the switch in question; that the motorman oent on his car, believing the switch to be closed, and that the jar or jolt resulting from the car suddenly leaving the main line for the switch caused about 15 people who were standing on the car steps to fall off, and that Guild was one of them'. The dead young man's grandfather was the proprietor of the property known as Guild's Lake. Policeman Carpenter told of taking Guild from the trolley car to St. Vincent's Hos pital. Mofbrman Brumley testified: "The accident happened at switch No. 3, one quarter of a mile this side of Rohse's Park, and the car was running at the usual rate of speed, :wh!ch was not excessive. t I slowed down as we approached the .switch, and expected to find it closed as usual, but, as it afterward turned out, the switch was open and we ran Into It. Tho car was crowded with people, and aome of them were standing on the plat forms and the side steps. As the car en tered the switch there was a jar or Jolt, and people who were standing on the steps fell off. I did not see Guild on tho t car, and the latter did not leave the track. I saw one woman with her nose bleeding, and I offered' her my handkerchief. Just about this time Motorman M. Naegle, of car No. 67, came running up and said that there was some one under my car. I did not "know this, and when I looked I saw a man lying across the track. I backed off my car and assisted the man, Guild, to Naegle's car, and Naegle took him to the city to get medical attendance. I do not know whether Guild was a passenger on my car or not. The windows of the vesti bule, where I was, were open. I do not know what caused the switch to be open, but a car going south would have closed It. Is Jt a spring switch? I don't know. I never move it myself. There was no one on the track In front of the car. so far as I saw, when the accident happened." Conductor Walker largely corroborated Brumley, and stated that he thought there were 52 passengers on board the car at the time:. The witness dia not know why tho switch was open, when It oucht to have been closed. He added that the same switch was found open Saturday night, and expressed the opinion "that the switch must have been tampered with by some unknown person. Dr. Locke testified that Guild's death had ensued through injuries which caused hemorrhage of the right lung. Motorman Naegle stated that, in spite of repeated warning, some passengers persist in rid ing on top of trolley cars coming from Fulton, especially .late at night. Charles H. Carter, of Porter street, one of the passengers thrown from the car steps when the car entered the switch, stated that he was thrown SO feet distant, and on that occasion wore a new suit of clothes he had bought the previous day. E. G. Walden, Rolley Moon and Joseph Shriber also testified. OUR FOREIGN POLICY. The United States In Its Relations to the British Empire. Pierre de Coubertin In the Figaro. We Europeans are wont to ask and not without 111 humor whether the United States might not have done without a foreign policy. So soon as a nation has successfully crystallized into a great state it becomes a prey to an ambition the principle' of which is noble, although the pursuit of It may often prove fruitful in errdr and in justiceah ambition to shed its rays afar and to act upon other races, to dominate them if possible, at least to win them over to its views and to make them share Its aspirations. Such Is the genesis of every foreign policy. Self-Interest has doubtless provoked wars, and will do so again, but It has never been sufficient to supply the groundwork of a foreign pol icy; and where does one find In history the neoDle which has hotn - - JtAtJl J to make money and has made no sacrifices on oenaii or loftier Ideals? Does such an one exist today? It certainly is not the American people. We French have been grossly mistaken with reference to them. Fora whole century we have ignored their young universities and despised their military exploits. We, their natural teach ers, have, through Indifference, neglected a profitable task, and have left it to oth ers. Far more to satisfy a baseless dy nastic caprice without a future, we have run the risk of losing all the benefit of the services formerly rendered by a La Fay ette and a Rochambeau and of the blood poured out by their soldiers. The Mexican expedition went directly counter to the foreign policy of the United States. For already at that time and long -before the United States had a foreign pol icy; and for this reason it is absolutely idle to ask oneself today if they might not havo done without; the Xact is that they did not do without one. This policy was first colonial, then con tinental, and finally universal. It requires a mental effort to picture tc oneself the IS confederated states the day after their emancipation.- Occupying a strip of territory fronting on the Atlantic Ocean, ignorant not pnly of the resources, but also of the' geography of the immense conOnenr back of them, the Americans of that day were In some sort a fragment of Europe in exile. They had fled from her, and yet they lived upon her, moral ly In particular. The French revolution weakened the tie; they approved neither Its excesses nor tho desperate struggle maintained against It by the Kings. Lit tle by little they withdrew their glance from the ocean, and, turning toward the Interior, began to colcnise. For what other name can be given to those daring camps, embryons of future cities, or to those persistent clearings, effected under Ihe threat of the Indian tomahawk, across the unknown depths of the new world? The accession to the Union of the first, state without a shore marks an Impor tant date in the trans-Atlantic annals. Very on. the colonization gained Itrength, pushing toward that Northwest, through which It was thought that the Mississippi communicated with the Pacific Ocean. It even took the continent In the rear, and the first Americans who succeeded In crossing the Rocky M&uh tains and the Sierra Nevada found in California compatriots who had arrived by sea and who were already cultivating this rich soil. Before the slow infiltration of the Amer ican element the remains of the Euro pean domain disappeared. Napoleon had sold Louisiana, Spain ceded Florida; Texas annexed itself after a vain at tempt at independence. The work was completed by force. The United States defeated Mexico; their armies took pos session of Monterey and Vera Cruz and camped in the City of Mexico; the war lasted two years, cost 23.000 men and S00, 000,000 francs (;150,000,000). but it ended with the treaty of Guadaloupe-Hldalgo (1S48); that Is to say, by the cession of New Mexico and of all the Pacific region. At the, price of great labor and effort, well served by the indomitable energy of its adventurers, and under the spur of a public opinion which had gone wild on tho subject of grandeur and enterprise, tho wise Republic of Washington had be come In 0 years one of the three great territorial powers of the universe. What plana would it now pursue? As early as 1822 it had sketched out the chief lines of Its future action. At tne suggestion of the head of the state, and notwithstanding the Indignant protests of the Spanish Ambassador. Congress that year had solemnly recognized, even be fore It actually existed, the sovereignty of the Spanish communities of South Amerida, in revolt against the mother country, and this recognition had taken on the character of a distinctly antl European manifestation. The following year President Monroe, commenting upon the occurrence, had formulated the fa mous doctrine which bears his name, and which long remained the fundamental charter of the American policy. This document has been the cause of much discussion; It requires, .indeed, long discussion to find in it any obscurity. It asserts with a distinctness accentuated by the act to which it served as a corol lary the determination, if not the right, of the United States to appoint themselves protectors of all the American states, and to Intervene between them and Europe on every occasion. The War of Secenslon and the long crises which preceded it alone prevented this policy from being established In practice and translated Into action. Moreover, peace was hardly established, when one saw the Washing ton Cabinet call for the evacuation of Mexico by the French troops, with an energy in which there was more of anx iety" to preserve the Mexican Republic and Independence than of grudge ngalnst Napoleon III for his 111-tkncd offer of mediation between the North and the South. So soon as this pressing danger had been averted it became necessary to repair the evils resulting from the Civil War; there was a need of great public works. The laying of the trans-Atlantic cable, tho construction of the railroad from New York to San Francisco, the Philadelphia Exposition, the revision of the customs tariff, occupied the attention of the American people until James Blaine came to remind them of their con tincntal mission. The one whom In 1SS3 they called at times the trans-Atlantic Bismarck entertained- on this subject vast projects; for which credit has been denlel. to him, but personal recollections make it impossible for me to entertain a doubt on this subject. His premature death and his somewhat imperfect means of action prevented Blaine from giving the full measure of his power. After him the idea Jiveq on. Today it occupies an. uncertain position The United States cave but a meager sup. port to the recent Pan-American Congress, ana tney seem scarcely to notice the In creasing friendliness, so full of lmD6rt. which is growing between Spain and her old emancipated colonies; perhaps the ap proaching redemption of the Panama Canal and the difficulties which will result from the concession to an American com pany of a vast territory on the Upper Amazun (a concession for which Brazil bit terly reproaches Bouvla). it may well do that these events will result In the res toration of Monroeism; but. 'for the mo ment, Monroeism has lost strencth. The fact of tho matter la that before Uncle Sam's gaze, a new role Is beginning io snape ueeir, toward which he tends un consciously, urged onward more by cir cumstances than by ambition. To police the New World Is a fine thing, and full of profit; but to become the keystone of the gigantic Anglo-Saxon edifice, that would be more glorious and still more profitable. For some time past, in spite of a tra ditional sharpness of tone, an attentive observer might have detected the in creasing bonds of sympathy which are continually growing closer between Eng lish and. Americans; differences of In- tercst prevented these from flowering. but you will see them burst Into flower all the same. And, besides, it Is not with England that there Is the greatest intercourse. England Is the old mother, whose arro gance formerly brought discord into the family; there are young brothers and steters born since- the quarrel came to an end. With these there is the very best understanding, and they are full of respectful admiration for their elder brother. Washington doubtless foresaw this certain' evolution when, in his Im mortal will, ho warned his compatriots not to bo carried away by their own feel ings. "A nation," he said, "which per? mlts itself to indulge either In love or in hatted toward another nation becomes in -some sort the slave of its own pas sion." Whom could he have had In mind when he wrote these words If It were not that mother country which he still loved and .whose prestige and hos tility he equally dreaded? The England of that day has become the British Empire, and the British Em pire, in turn. Is on the way to become the Anglo-Saxon confederation. In thia second transformation the United States find themselves much more deeply In volved than Is believed. What strong ilea between nations are afforded by the same language, and the same habit of thought, one uniform way of looking at life and one Identical conception of moral and of social duty! Against the power issuing from such a mass, salt pork or cotton could never havo the last word; their claims, for that matter, are always changing, and a commercial understand ing, which today is hard to attain, will tomorrow perhaps bo within easy reach. In any case, destiny Is little by little urging the United States to tho first rank of the giant group; they are no longer free. A few years more, and this situation will be apparent to thu light of day. Let anyone then attack Australia, let South Africa be threatened, let mishap befall Great Britain, and you will perceive that, according to the pic turesque phrase which is repeated at banquets, "Blood is thicker than water. and that the star-spangled banner has become par-excellence the flag of the Anglo-Saxons. And you may bo sure that at Washing ton, for the defense of that flag, in the future cannon will go off ver easily. Rival Magnates Meet. CHICAGO, Aug. 25. President J. C. Os good, of the Colorado Iron & Fuel Com pany, passed through Chicago today en route to New York. He left this city on the Lake Shore limited, and by a coinci dence, John W. Gates was a passenger on the same train. Mr. Osgood says his trip East has no bearing on the contest be tween himself and the Gates party for con trol of Colorado Fuel. MRS. DE BACK FROM EAST TIME CARD, STEAMER T. J. POTTER This week the O. B- & N. Co.'s steamer T. J. Potter will leave Ash-street dock for Astoria and Ilwaco as follows: August 2T 9 A. M.; August 27, 9 A. M.; August 28, 9:5 A. M.; Autust 29, 11 A. M.: Saturday, August 30. 1 P. M. Bag cage roust be received at Ash-street dock SO minutes before departure. Ticket of fice. Third and Washington. The Potter will make her last trip this season, leaving Portland, Saturday. September 13, at 1 P. M.: returning, leave Ilwaco Sunday, the 14th. at S P. M. FORTIiAJiD-CIIICAGO. Seventy hours and thlrty'mlnutes (TOU) Is the time of tho "Chicago-Portland Spe cial" from Portland to Chicago. Leaves Portland every day at 9 A. M. Ticket offira Third and Washington, O. R. & N. Co. HER LEWIS AXD CLARK HISTORY IS IS HAXDS OF PRINTER. Untiring Efforts of Well-Kaown Ore Son Authoress to Secure Data for Her Book. OREGON CITY. Or., Aug. .-Special.) After nearly four months spent In Eastern cities in search of material for her forthcoming work on the Lewis and Clark expedition. Mrs. Eva Emery Dye returned home this morning. She Is glad to return to Oregon, and says many peo ple in the East aro talking of Oregon, and whole colonies are coming here to take up timber claims. Mrs. Dye stopped a few days in Chicago on her way home to arrange for the publication of her new book, which will be-handled by A. C. Mc Clurg & Co., the firm which published her "McLoughlin and Old Oregon." An agree able surprise greeted her In Chicago by the news that her "McLoughlin" had gone into its fourth edition, and her publish ers are already planning for a fifth edi tion, which will be illustrated. Mrs. Dye made very satisfactory terms with her publishers, and will receive the best per centage ever given by them for a his torical work of the kind she has Just com pleted. Her manuscript Is in" the hands of tho publishers, who expect to place the book on sale before Christmas. They will commence work on an edition of 15,000 immediately. After her departure from Oregon last April Mrs. Dye went to Topeka, Kan., to get the correspondence of William Clark, covering a period of 30 years. This cor respondence is In the hands of the State Historical Society. She remained there about 10 days and worked hard taking notes. She next went to Kansas City, where she remained two days visiting the public library, which has many historical collections. Her next objective point was Columbia. Mo., the seat of the University of Missouri. She was there two days. The university has a great collection of old newspapers -giving accounts of Inci dents that happened at the time of the expedition, and these papers contain valu able material. President Jesse, of the uni versity. Is Interested in Oregon, and was out here on a visit last Summer. Mrs. Dye also met at Columbia College Will lam Swltzlcr, the Missouri historian, who became Interested in her work and ren dered her great assistance. He Is .the best authority on Missouri history. The State Historical Society of Missouri has Its center at Columbia, and Its collection has recently been enriched by a $30,000 gift from Colonel Samson, of Sedalla. who not only donated his library to the society, but went to Columbia to take charge of the collection. Mrs. Dye was in St. Louis a week visit ing John O'Fallon Clark, the grandson of William Clark. Bhc then went to Madi son, Wis., where she spent the Summer. Madison Is the great historical center of the West, and boasts 'of the Draper col lection, which Is the largest collection of Middle West documents in the world. Wisconsin was opened by the Blackhawk War, and the first house was built In Madison In 1S37. Nino years later the State Historical Society was started, and in about 1S53 the society sent for Lyman C. Draper, of Philadelphia, who was even then well known as an antiquarian, to come and take charge of its historical col lection. Draper remained there the rest of his life about 30 years and spent his life collecting documents. He secured whatever material he could relating to the Clarks, and riotcs on this subject form his principal collection. He obtained ma terial on Boone, Tecumsch. and. In fact, all of the heroes of the. Middle West, until the society ha3 thousands of -alu-able manuscripts. Mr. Draper was In tho habit of taking his little pony and riding out in tho Alleghanles, hunting up pio neers, taking down their recollections and getting old documents. He went through Kentucky and gathered much material there. In this he was fortunate, as the War of the Rebellion destroyed much that was valuable In the way of pioneer history while It was making more history of another sort. Tho war interfered with Draper's, work, but ho still kept on wher ever he could get hold of anything, so the Draper collection has come to be the greatest, and no one can write a history of the West without consulting it. Many volumes are devoted entirely to the Clarks. After Draper's death he was suc ceeded by Reuben Goldthwaltes, who has become noted as an editor of Middle West documents. He was Invited to edit the original Journals of Lewis and Clark, and permitted Mrs. Dye to make use of them, sp that After a year of waiting she finally got access to all of the Lewis and Clark material In his possession. Mrs. Dye left Madison for home August 1C. Sho will take a much-needed rest and spend her time reading, the proof sheets of her history. As yet sho has not de cided upon the title for her book, the sub title of which will be "The Story of Lewis and Clark." WILL WORK BENEFIT. Correspondent Thinks "Timber Re serve" 1VIH Help the State. PORTLAND. Aug. 25.-(To the Editor.) Noting the opposition to the proposed timber reserve" in Eastern Oregon, I wish to suggest some facts worthy of con sideration in the premises. We have great expectations from the irrigation of desert lands in the state, the possibilities are great, and nothing of a personal advan tage to this or that individual should be allowed to shape the policy of tho Gov ernment In this matter. Public policy, in Its most extended application, should be that, controlling this question. The water sheds of the John Day. Powder. Burnt and Malheur Rivers should be under the control of the Government. If we hope to realize on the irrigation proposition, and there Is but one way to do it. Timber reserves do not mean the per manent withdrawal from the market of this produot, but only its protection from fire and slaughter, and ultimate use in the market when demanded by the trade un der such regulations as will Insure a con tinuous growth of the forest So manipu lated, the result cannot fail to be of vast benefit to the greatest number. While small areas may be temporarily with drawn from the operation of the land lo cator and timber shark, vast areas will be made to blossom as the rose, where thou sands of real producers may find homes and opportunity to build commerce of the state. The fact that Dick. Tom. or Harry got certain lands that they may be able to use as base for some speculative end should not enter Into consideration. They may or should care little, unless speculators on a large Bcale, when the reservation would be the very lost thing desired, as it takes the Imnnrfnnt nrnn that stictnln. )..!. . r , - kucu IIUUBC, and this class is vociferous In Its opposl-' Lace Curtains I have used Pearl in e to-day for wash ing lace curtains and like it very much. Washed easier and cleaner than with any soap used be fore. I like it very much. Mrs. Rev. J. D. E. One of the'4Hi:oai. 63 best and l TO SMOKERS OF THE 3 1 SftElfia n IN THE WoVlDi SwQGMI I Hi TwtH the United States 'collect Taxes on 1 orniU)S HOW (Cijers bearing $3.00 per thousand tax.) TwtH the United States 'collect Taxes on during the Month ov December, sqo2? A'2 EOO ftfV wJH be given in January, 1903, to the persons whose estimates yi,Zjjf9sj are nearest to tfce nufcej. 0f cigars on which $3.00 tax per thousand is paid during the month of December, 1902, as shown by the total sales of stamps made by the United States Internal Revenue Department during December, 1902, Distribution will bo m&do g.c foKoxrat To the.... To the. . . To the... To the... To lbs... To the... To the... To tho... To the. .2 To the .8 To the 80, .(1) ...2 ...5 ..10 ..20 ..23 .CO .100 .000 000 000 85, 85.213 213 person estimating the closest persons whose estimates are nest closest..... ($2,500.00 each) persons whose estimates ore next closest (01.000.00 each). .... persons whoso estimates arc next closest. (500.00 each) persons -whose csitmates are nest closest. ($250.00 eaoh) persons whose estimates arc nest closest (Q 1 00.00 each) persons whoso estimates nro next clocca: ..1... (950.00 each) persons whose estlsuttea are next cloeest (625.00 each) persons whose estimates are nest closes:. ($10.00 each) persons whose estimates are next closest ($5.00 each) persons whoso estimates are next closest wc will send to each one bor of 50'Crcmo" Cigars (value 2.50 per box)...., $5,000.00 fa casfc 5.000.00 5,000.00 " 5,000.00 6.000.00 2.500.0O 2.500.0O " 2.500.00 " 20.000.00 " 1 5,000.00 75,000.00 persons. .142.500.00 Every 100 bands from above namea cigars will entitle you to four "estimates (One Fiorodofa" band counting as two ha ads frco the 5 ceat cigars nentioced; and no less than 100 base's r:ll be received at any cne tine for cstioutes.) Information which may be o? valuo in making estimates: tho number of Cigars now bearing $3.00 Tax per thousand."" for which Stamrj"- were purchased, appears below : In December, 1900, '"- . " December, 1801. ' January, 1G02, " February, 1902. 467,092,208 Clgara. 479;312,170 490.033.717 445,495.483 " In March, 1903, April, 1902, Kay, 1902, 510,599,027 Cigars 616,835,163 023,033,907" In caso of a tie In estimates, the amount offered will bo divided equally among theso entitled to It. DistributIon"bf thcawards will bo IM"0 wjC0Q J January 1st, 1003 aa the figures are obtainable from the Internal Revenue Department of the United States for December . . yur U.H nElc ?nd Po5t OScc Addrera plainly on packages containing bands, The Postage, or Express charges oa your Dackaee oust bo fully prepaid, in order for your estimate to participate. - or &ju All estimates inier tfcis offer nasi be forwarded before December 1st, !902, to the . . FLORODORA TAG COMPANY, Jersey City, N. J. Yoa do npt lose the valuo o? your bands. Receipts will be sent you for your bands, and these receipts will bo just as r04 as the bands themselves In sc'curlcff Presents. One band from "Florodora," or two bond3 from any of the other Cigars meat Jos bd above, will count in-securing Presents tho same as one tag from "Star," "Horse Shoe," "Spear Head," "Standard Navy," "Old Peach and Honey," "J. T." "Waster Workman," "Fipor Keidsisck,'" Jolly Tar," " Boot Jack.' Old Honesty, or "fumei- looacco; or ono "Sweet Caporal" Cigarette Box Front. ma wiaHt oa a sepers a piece ct paper, with yoar oaoag cad address plainly written on each. Etanlc form for estimates vritt b mailed upon application. Illustrated Catalogues of Presents for 1903' end 1904 will be ready for distribution about October 1st, 1902, and will bo mailed on :ept 01 tea .cents, or ten tobacco tags, or twenty curar bands. ' tlon. No less than three concerns In Port land had estimated a number of town ships in this proposed reserve, and were Just ready to launch a profitable business In locating. Pendleton. Baiter City. La Grande and Burns all have persons sim ilarly Interested. These lands are val uable; the reserve will Injure rather than benefit present Owners. . The sheep, cattle and stock business will oppose- this reservation to sorae extent. In Ih'elf nhort-slghtc'dness, as they will be found later to oppose all Irrigation schemes that threaten to make two blades ot grass grow where only one grew before. Another sourco of opposition to this re servo, to be made as the basis of all irri gating schemes by the Government In the state.Is the private nterest now. exploit ing Irrigating propositions under the Carey act, whereby large areas are to be appro priated by a monopoly; who of course will fight all competitors In their line. L.et us for once put down some of these private ends and selfish motives and se cure the greatest good to the greatest number. The present generation has all the original resources It can develop to advantage. Let us leave something for posterity. P. B. P. - President Brlglaaia Young III. SALT LAKE CITY, Aug. 23. Unofficial f announcement 13 made today of the seri ous illness of Brigham Young, president of the quorum of the Twelve Apostles of the Mormon Church. President Young, who has been on a trip through the Jackson 'Hole and Teton Bhsin country In Idaho for his health, has been operated on for dropsy, and Is said to be In a criti cal condition. As president of the Quorum of twelve. President Young is next In line for the president of the church. Creditors Mar Get Full Settlement. CHICAGO. Aug. 2a. A plan Is on foot by which creditors of the Elgin Creamery Company may have their claims settled In fuIL Attorney Popenhussn, with Obedlah Sands, president ot the company, called today on Judge Kohlsaat and eirbmltted a proposition thatcertam persons, as yet unknown, should purchase all 'the prop erty of the company at a price which will more than satisfy all outstanding claims. The nominal value of the assets is S730.e00 and the claims amount to about $3c0.CC0. IlECnEATIOS. If you. wish to enjoy a dayof rest and oUasure. take the o. R. & N. train "from Union depot at 9 A. M. for a short trip up the Columbia, returning. If desired, by boat from Cascade Locks. Tickets and particulars at O. B. 3 K". ticket office, Third and "Washington.