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About Morning Oregonian. (Portland, Or.) 1861-1937 | View Entire Issue (July 6, 1910)
THE 3IORSIXG O RE G O XI AX. WEDNESDAY, JULY 6, 1910, KILLED, 9 fi TRAIN HUR T WRECK entieth Century Limited rashes Head-On Into a Speeding Freight. TAKE IN ORDERS CAUSE Iivy Timbers nuricu inrougn kxjf on Men and Women in Day Joach, Maiming and Killing a Number of Passengers. IDDLETON", Ohio, July o. Twenty Isons were killed outright, three prob- fatally hurt and half a dozen were Lously Injured In a head-on collision I ween a freight and a passenger train the Cincinnati, Hamilton & jjayton ilroad here today. t the killed. 18 were passengers, tne er victims being members of the pas tier train crew. he trains were the Cincinnati section the Twentieth Century Limited on the Four and the second section or a ight train on the Cincinnati, Hamilton Dayton. he freieht was attempting to make I siding to frive the passenger train a ar track, when the Limited, travel- 50 miles an hour, flashed around a Irve and crashed into It. If'he Big Four train had been detoured avoid a track blocked by a xreignt eck earlier In the Bay. I. misunderstanding of orders caused disaster. The engine crews bad time to Jump d all escaped. All the dead and in- Ired were in the first two cars, the hoker and the day coach. llSvery seat in the coach was torn from fastenings, the roof was thrown to Iie side and massive timbers from a eight car hurled with great force, ruck among the men and women in e coach. Even before the crash came ople were running to the wreck from lie MIddletown station. It is likely that a separate investlga- lon will be made by the State Railroad fommlsslon. f RAIN FALLS THROUGH BRIDGE Engineer Killed and Two Trainmen Injured In Wreck. ALT A PASS. III.. July 4. The north lound Mobile & Ohio freight, No. 32. a tvuble header, went through a bridge five lilesi south of here this morning. Rolla Thornton, engineer, was killed. pnd two other trainmen Injured. IUPREME COURT CRIPPLED eath of Another Justice Not Leave Quorum. Would WASHINGTON", July 5. The death of rhief Justice Fuller results In an almost jnprecedented situation as to vacancies Ion tne bencn. snouid justice ivioooy accept the terms of special legislation enacted by Congress this Summer and Iretire on full pay, there will be three .acajicics until Governor Hughes takes Ithe oath of office. Governor Hughes is, expected to take the oath In October, Itmeaeeding Justice Brewer. T.ia way I has been prepared for the retirement of I Justice Moody. The death of the Chief Justice calls for the selection of still another mem ber. With these three vacancies, the serious illness and death of another member of the court would bring Its work absolutely to a standstill until Hughes is seated upon the bench, six Justices constituting a quorum necessary lor the transaction of business. Politically the death of Justice Fuller will have an important significance. He was a lifelong Democrat. First a Demo cratic editor, he was elected to office as a Democrat, was a delegate to sev eral Democratic National conventions, and was finally appointed to the bench as a Democrat. All the precedents call lor the appointment of a1 Chief Justice of the same political party as the Presi dent. In fact only two Associate Jus tices of opposite politics from that of the President have been appointed to the bench Justice Jackson and Justice Lur- ton. ng on the unfortunate inhabitants. The poor little dogs are in terror or the reptiles. But even had the story been true, you can see for yourself something quno as curious. Puffins, known as sea par rots, may be found sharing burrows with rabbits, and birds and animals live together apparently on excellent terms. There are many animals of different kinds which live in partnership. The shark and the pilot fish are an instance in point. The greedy shark never touches its small companion, but, on tne oiner hand gives the little fish protection from such enemies as the bonito, while the pilot fish appears to act as guide and Intelligence officer to the shark. A rare and interesting lizard known as the tuatera is found in the Chicken Islands, oft New Zealand. This is rather slow and stupid creature, and does not appear to be able to find much food for itself. It is, however, clever at Bur rowing and digs deep holes in the sandy soil. The islands are a great resort for the petrel, a small sea bird which nests there n vast numbers. The petrel cannot bur row, so the two creatures, the lizard and the bird, have entered into partnership. The petrel nests in the mouth of the tua tera's burrows, and the lizard profits by the remains of the fish which is the food of the birds. Small creatures that are entirely with out means of defense sometimes get other larger ones to adopt them. An instance of the kind may be seen any Summer day along the mouth of the Thames. In the clear, shallow channels between the sandbanks float scores of jellyfish. and if you look carefully you will see. swimming underneath their long tenta cles, numbers of very tiny white shrimps. It ussd to be supposed that the jellyfish lived on the shrimp. Now it is known that the case is very different. The jellyfish actually protects the little crea ture. Take the shrimp away from Its protector and it dies almost at once. The partnership is as strange as any on record, for it does not appear that the shrimp makes any return for the protection whicli it receives. Sea cucum bers also protect an almost microscopic little fish in similar fashion, and to give one more instance of a one-sided part nership, a great catfish which lives in Brazilian rivers allows a small fish to swim in and put of its gigantic mouth. GREEK ARMY IN CHAOS CLAMOR OF JUNIORS COMPELS SCANDALOUS REVELATIONS. Lunatics Found on Active Rolls Are Retired, but Libertines With Big 'Pulls'' Evade Punishment. ' ATHENS, July 5. More army- troubles are imminent in Greece due to a whole sheaf of summary dismissals. When the Military League was dis solved at the close of the recent crisis. General Zorbas, Minister of War, es tablished a court of honor to deal with scandals in the army, including: the cases of 11 officers who were notorious libertines and six who were in lunatic asylums, though still on the active list. There were threats of compulsorily retiring: the dissolute 11, but they had "pull" enough to- prevent that. The six lunatics were retired on pension and other cases were taken up that re sulted in 73 officers of various grades. accused of misconduct, being dismissed without right of appeal, for the de cisions of the court of honor are absolute. A whole series of anoma'ies were' Involved in these discharges. Some of the offenses dated back many years, the t-ials were not properly arrange!, and the courtmartial was conducted by officers of lower grade than the ac cused in many cases. These retirements, coupled with the excesses of the extinct Military League which promoted Junior3 recklessly and retired old-r officers wholesale on pen sions, is producing a situation al..n to military anarchy. The junior office-s are still clamor ing for advancement and that is the real cause of the constant dismissals, for room must be made for the ag gressive younger men. To the rablic the outlook is serious, for eve-, if millta disturbance are a-erted, th- financial burdens are con stantly increasing, owing to the rapid promotions and the increase in the pension list. Either way disaster seems Inevitable, for the country is heading straight for lankruptcy i: not ft - rebellion. PORTLftNDERS AT FICHT MANY FROM THIS CITY WERE - IN SEATS AT RINGSIDE. SOME ANIMALS THAT HELP Instances of Assistance Which They Give to Each Other. Pearson's Weekly. A keeper in the Zoological Gardens at Stockholm has seen the mountain foxes deliberately throwing pieces of meat out through the bars of their cages to the gray crows waiting out side. The weather at the time was bitter ly hard It was March last and the crows were half starved. It was no one fox only which acted in this cur ious fashion. Two of the animals were eeen to feed the crows on two differ ent occasions, and it seems hardly pos sible to doubt that the well-fed foxes had some sort of desire to help a hard up fellow creature. Not so many years ago the idea of one animal being kind to another of uilte a different sort would have been laughed at- We were told that wild life was1 one fierce struggle for exist ence. There was no room for unsel tishness. But as our knowledge of nature slowly Increases, we are finding out many things of which we never be fort dreamed, and one 1 that some aminals exercise the virtues of charity and unselfishness. A Scotsman living In St. Helena had some goats and also a pet monkey. The latter struck up a friendship with one of the goats, and the two became great chums. One day the goat, wan dering far afield in search of food, got among a patch of prickly pears, and when it came out its nose and coat were full of the needlelike spines. The poor beast was in misery. To his astonishment the owner soon af terward saw the goat lying down, while the monkey, with the utmost care and patience and with more than human accuracy, pulled out one by one all the hundreds of spines. This was not the only time that the monkey performed a similar service. Many times afterward the same thing happened. Whenever the goat got among the cactus it went straight to its clever friend, who patiently acted the part of surgeon. When we were children we used to be told a wonderful story of how those little American marmots, which are called prairie dogs, shared their bur rows with owls and rattlesnakes, and that animals, birds and snakes lived together in perfect amity. This yarn had not the merit of truth. While It Is a fact that snakes do invade prairie dos towns, it Is for the purpose of llv- Some Played Faro and Roulette, Too, and Nearly AH Were Pulling for Jeffries to AVln. E fJGLISrl WORKERS NOT 50 BADLY OFF Labor Member of Parliament Points Out III Effects of Protective Tariff. AMERICA !S GIVEN DIG RENO, Nev., July 5. (Special.) The Portland followers of the fight were many. They were scattered all over the arena. But three of .them are registered at local hotels and as they had no special train they were hard to find. Some played faro, others gath ered roun the roulette tables' at the Golden, the center from which fight dope radiated, while others went off to the rooms they had engaged to get the first sleep they had since they came to Reno. They were a disgusted crowd, ' sick at heat, sore with thmselves and just as mad at Johnson as any collec tion of men could be. That is as a general rule, although there were marked exceptions. They were pretty generally agreed that Jeff failed be cause he could not come back. Among the Portlanders recognized around the ring were: James H. Bannon, W. P. Swope. D. E. Otis?, H. H. Burgess; H. R. McDowell, R. Van Cunneon, Ed ward Mendenhall, Carl C. Harbaugh, San ford Hirsch, Jack amey, A. L. White more, William Haydon, Fred Cooper, Fred Sechtem, J. E. Blazier, Gene Blazier, George Holcomb, Kd Hollenbeck, Al Waddell, Dick and Billy Madison, Jack McGuire. "Biddy" Dowell, Jack Grant, Joe Stutt, George P. Parker, Frank Shee land and Harvey 6'Bryan. BOY DISTURBS PRESIDENT Urchin Shoots "Fallleres," and His Arrest Follows. PARIS. July '. (Special.) Presi dent Fallieres s morning walk was dis turbed the. other day by an incident, which is narrated by the Echo de Paris. As the President was strolling leisurely down the Champs-Elysees. a small errand boy who was passing rec ognized him and shouted after the man ager of his kind, "Yah! There's Fal lieres. Look at him!" Instantly the Secret Service men who always follow the President on his walks gave chase, and after an exciting pursuit caught the urchin and gave him a sound shaking. Then they took him to a police station., where he was solemnly searched. As no revolver, dagger, or bomb was found concealed about his person he was released after giving his name and address. , Free Traders Point Out That Ger man Toyniakers Toll Longer Hours at No Greater Wage to Send Smaller Goods. LONDON, July 5. (Special) Pro. longed fiscal struggles1 in England, be tween the great political parties, have produced conflicting evidence amusing to the impartial foreigner who oDserves what is going .on over here. For a time it was the fashion to wail of England's disappearing industries. Jo seph Chamberlain led the orcnestra on that note. Now it is a field day for the Free Traders, who are doing their level best to persuade the average man that he lives' in the best spot to be found the world over, and his lot in life is one glad, sweet song 'compared with the wretched existence of poor mortals com pelled by birth or other unfortunate cir cumstances to reside in other quarters of the globe. Occasionally a workmen's representa tive joins hands with government com pilers in a competition of soothing sta tistics Thus", while J. Ramsay Macdon ald, labor member for Leicester, is writ ing articles for the liberal press to prove that German workmen are worse rather than better for a protective tariff, a spe cial commission of investigation from the Board of Trade has issued a report on the comparative cost of living in Brit ish and Belgian towns. Incidentally, Macdonald gets in several digs at the American tariff. German manufacturers tried, he says, to reduce wages to meet that tariff, but the work ers refused to agree. So today the Amer ican consumer is made to pay more for Solingen cutlery or Arnstadt gloves'. 'He Is the man, according to Macdonald, who has to bear the brunt of his own in creased duty. He goes on to declare to the British workmen that It is wise to stick to free trade, and further, to show that the American and German tariffs are alike bad. Take his remarks on the toymakers of Sonneburg as a sample. He declares home work on sweating conditions is. de plorably prevalent, and he adds: "In vain. I sought for some benefit they were deriving from protection. What has hap pened to their cost of living? . I was told in the co-operative store, which has 1700 members, that the price of every staple of life had gone up. I have In my pos session a price list they issued . in 1907 with the prices of 1910 marked on its margin by the secretary. Fats, bread, coffee, butter, tobacco, preserves, sugar have all gone up from 10 to 30 per cent. Here, again, the testimony was quite definite. Wages are not going up to meet ing an inferior quality of article because the people cannot buy such good ma terlal as they used to do. Less butter and more margarine, less coffee and more roasted corn are being sold. "At the same time, the burdens - on the people's shoulders become heavier. A man whose income is $450 per annum showed m his rates and taxes paper, and I found that he had to pay an in come tax of $26 and other direct rates and taxes amounting to about the same sum. Thus it is abundantly clear that tariffs do not produce such a large in come to the stats as to lighten the load of taxes borne by the home people. They have to submit to dear food and heavy taxes as well. "But once more I came across the American tariff up In these mountains. When I began this inquiry I had no idea of what help I was to get from this last American folly. It has been In opera tion for a sufficiently long time to en able one to see how it is really to work, but not sufficiently long for the eople to have forgotten what happened when It -was first Introduced. "At first there was consternation. Amer ica would not yield. Sonneberg might have been a town in a Free Trade State for all the help it got from the German tariff In negotiating with America for a lower tariff wall. Now the consterna tion has gone. "We do not mind the tar- 'ift at all now,' said an exporter to me. "Then tell me what has happened, I asked. He took up two Teddy bears, one smaller and less well finished than the other. "This.' he said, raising up the larger one, "is the bear we used to send for a mark: this (raising the smaller one) is the one we now send." " 'Then it .is not the foreigner who pays?' I perused. He smiled and with visible pride in his idiomatic English re plied: "No fear! The consumer pays. The American child has to put up with a poorer Teddy bear, a more rickety doll. a Ilaooier rabbit, and those who. In former times, had to buy these poorer qualities orr account of their poverty, can not buy them at all now, because the American government has been laboring under the delusion that if you put a tax upon Imports the foreigner pays it. This inferior article beara less wages and its manufacture has Increased in pro portion to the volume of trade with America. The Sonneberg work people have consequently to work longer hours to make the same weekly wages as they used to do. lnus the result of the Amer ican tariff has been to diminish the Joys of the American child and increase the toll of the Sonneberg worker surety Very miserable thing to work for. "One further point I have noted regard lng Sonneberg which is of some consider able importance. Whilst going through the town under the guidance of one of the members of the Saxe-Meiningen Landtag, he drew my attention to the fact that several flags were flying half- mast. 'We respect England very much,' he said. " "More than America?' I queried. Yes, more than America. We do not like America. It is unjust.' " As to the earnings of these toymakers, Macdonald instances a family of a man his wife and nine children, occupying three rooms. They paid $41 a year rent and taxes. Their total income was $175 per annum. The Board of Trade report on Belgium Is one of a series which to date has e braced Great Britain, France and Ger many, In addition to the fertile acres of King Albert's subjects. "An English workman, with an average family, who should go to Belgium and endeavor there to maintain his accus tomed mode of living, would find his ex penditure on housing, food and fuel slightly diminished. But at the same time. so far as can be Judged from the trades selected for international comparison, he would find his wages reduced bv about one-third In spite of much longer hours.' Which will doubtless be useful for cam paign orators in the coming political struggle In England. Aside from the character of the report and Its relation to the English working man, there is much of interest in its pages. For instance, there is an illumlna ting report of the proportionate amoun i of horseflesh consumed by the working Never have you heard in any musical instrument a tone so wonderfully sweet, . clear and mellow. Hearing is believing. Come in any time no obligation. Shermanjpay Ss'Cbi Wholesale and Retail Sixth and Morrison Opp. Postofiice class in the large cities of Belgium. Thus more than 10 per cent of all the meat consumed is horse flesh, as compared with 40 per cent of beef and 15 per cent of pork. Furthermore, the percentage of income spent on meat by the average family does not appear to have any rela tion to the size of the weekly pay enveK ope, for it is the same among the class which is in receipt of $o a week as among that receiving twice as much. It probably will be interesting to Amer icans to read a list of the prices paid for food commodities by the working class of Belgium. It must, of course, be borne in mind that this class is in receipt of weekly wages ranging from $5 to $6 per week. Here Is the list: Coffee, 13 cents per pound; loaf sugar, 5V4 cents per pound; salted bacon, 14 cents per pound; eggs, 24 cents per dozen; butter, 25 cents per pound; margarine, 15V6 cents per pound; potatoes, 5 cents per seven pounds; flour, 18 cents per seven pounds; bread, 8V4 cents per four pounds; milk, 4V4 cents per quart; beef, 13 cents per pound; mutton, 13 cents per pound; veal, 17 cents per pound; pork, 15 cents per pound; coal, 25 cents per hundred weight. Except in the larger cities and more particularly Antwerp, tenement houses are almost unknown, the working class residing In small self-contained houses of two, three or four rooms. The average rent paid for two rooms is $50 a year, for three rooms $fiO, and for four rooms $75. Consider that the protectionists have al ready published figures to prove how mad the British, workmen are to fight shy of setting up a protective tariff and It will be seen what food for confusion has been served up to the average voter, too busy with his own affairs to look deeply into the conflicting evidence. OUT LEE PUGILISTS FIND READY REFUGE AT ST. JOHNS. Forbidden to Have Bout in Portland, Kid Exposlto and Le Have Six Hot Rounds in Suburb.. "Kid" Exposito, who was to have fought Charley Richardson in the Ex position building last night, made a hur ried trip to St. Johns after the police interference, and in a mill with Frank E. Lee knocked the latter out In the sixth round. Exposito was not to be outdone by the police stopping the fight in Portland. Rather, fight fans of St. Johns were not to be outdone, for at 8 o'clock last night they telephoned Exposito a challenge to box Lee, a former lightweight champion of the Pacific Coast, ten rounds. Al though Exposito only weighs 118 pounds and Lee tips the scales at 150, the young Italian accepted the challenge and, hur ried to St. Johns, accompanied by Char ley Turner and another backer. A fight had been arranged between Lee and Frank Arnold in the skating rink at St. Johns to follow the big mill at Reno, but Arnold was sick and un able to enter the ring. It was through this mishap to Arnold and the interfer ence of the Portland police that St. Johns fans had the pleasure of witness ing one of the fastest fights ever pulled off in that suburb. The two men mixed it from the start, with betting and odds in favor of Lee. In the third round Exposito knocked Lee down and picked him up before the count was finished. In the fourth and fifth rounds Exposito stalled, not trying to hit his adversary. . In the sixth the young Italian let drive a straight punch in the mouth and Lee went down and out. AERONAUT SHOOTS DOWN UiLi 1 CLEANUP SALE! Our Entire Stock of Men's and Young Men's Suits CONSISTING EXCLUSIVELY OF THIS SEASON'S MODELS ARE OFFERED YOU AT GREATLY REDUCED PRICES Blues and Blacks Included All $20.00 Suits at All $25.00 Suits at All $30.00 Suits at All $35.00 Suits at pi wk kMM m v 285 Morrison, Bet. Fourth and Fifth, Opp. Corbett Building mars, of the Bronx Zoo, has started a campaign to teach residents of New Tork -the importance of taking proper precautions against disease-spreading insects and to instruct them in the economic value of certain other Insects. A large collection has been gathered and In a few weeks' it will be complete. A cabinet containing the Insects which prey on the giant locust will be put in the collections and the placards will explain the significance of the two species. Eight or 10 luminous beetles from South America are also on tne way to the too. But the most Important part of the insect collect on will con sist of glass cases and tanks containing the larvae of those insects which breed in stagnant pools and which are a menace to health. There will also be cases containing other insect larvae which breed in decaying matter around the grounds of country houses and be side each or tne cases win De oiners containing either the larvae or the ma ture insects which devour the injurious Insects. A Cat's Trip in a Mailsack. . New York Tribune. The cat will come back as the old adage says even if she has to use Uncle Sam's mall service to get home. This was proved not long ago in the case of a valuable old tabby belonging to the Tribune's mailing room. Every newspaper mailing room in the world has a cat has to have, in fact, to keep the rats which swarm about the paste barrel in check. On a recent Sunday morning, when the early mail for Bos ton was being made up, the Tribune's puss crawled into one of the great can vas bags. Pouch and cat were throwp on a wagon and then on a mall car at the Grand Central. When pussy woke her for the day, and at night returned her to the sack and shipped her back to Park Row. She Is now on the Job again policing the basement. Parachute-jumper Makes Perilous Descent, Tangled in Ropes. HILLSBORO, Or., July 4. (Special. The Fourth of July celebration here today nearly ended in a tragedy when an aeronaut, who was to have made a parachute jump following a balloon as cension, got tangled in the ropes of the balloon, and was unable to cut himself loose. Clinging for his life to the covering of the big air bag. which had become deflated in the upper air, he shot down ward several hundred feet, and was only saved from death through the softness of the dirt In a'garden where he lighted. Just before he hit the ground, still hanging to the balloon, he struck against a telegraph pole and received painful Injuries. Thousands saw the perilious descent. A crowd estimated at from ' S000 to 10,000 persons, participated In the cele bration here. Hon. R. R. Butler, of Condon, was orator of the day. INSECTS TO BE DISPLAYED Campaign of Education on Disease Breeders Is Begun. NE-W YORK. July 5. The New York Zoological Society, with the assistance of Director Hornaday and Curator Dlt- TRUE BANKING Our conception of true banking la to afford abso lute security to our depos itors, a lenlM that In in every hum efficient and treatment of patrons ttant fosters mutual helpfulnesx. Our organization and equipment enable us to handle any legitimate trannactlon bavins to do with money or property. Call or write for our free pamphlet summarizing our service. MERCHANTS SAVINCS & TRUST COMPANY J. Front Watson .... Pret. R. L. Durham.. .Vic-Prct. W. H. Fear. .... .Secretary. New Pianos $295 M Having Arranged With Fac tories Whom We Represent We Will Accept All Piano anuf actur ers' Checks Coupons and Credit Certificates, no Matter by .Whom Issued. 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