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V THE 3I0RXIXG OREGOXIAX. THURSDAY, DECEMBER 22, 1910. TWO PROMINENT FIGURES IN ENGINEERS THREATENED STRIKE UNCLE SI FINDS NEW SUGAR FRAUD a PRESENT WORTH GIVING TO A LADY A Suit From Gray's Late Style Fine Quality HALF PRICE NOW Abuse "Drawback" Privileges at New York May Cause Huge "Refunds." INSPECTION IS AT FAULT Lax System Make It Possible to K . . port Almost Aa-rthlng la 5m of Product of Beet and , Get Big; Bona. WASHLVGTOX. Dec. SL Cuttani ex perts from the Tresiury and special igents of U Department of Justice are -Baking an Investigation which promise !o add another chapter to the Vigar frauds. An alleged ahu-e of the 'drawback" privileges, principally at New York. Is under tnrestlgmtton. and one officer saya the revelations promise to put the Gov ernment In a position to recover nearly as much as tn the underwelghiog cases, hen more than S3,00u,)4 wis paid to the Treasury. When sugar Is Imported, it pays a duty. unlesa coming from the Philippines, and when It Is manufactured Into a product and In th-it form Is exported, the duty Is refunded In the form of a "drawback except 1 per cent, which Is retained to defray the cost of tariff administration. I'nder thia arrangement sugar is lrn ported raw. exported as syrup and many other byproducts of suirar. On each of there the treasury makes "drawback" re fund?. About tT.oo.fi Is paid In that way each year and hall that amount is "draw ba'-k' on exports of sugar and tin. Officials say frauds In sugar extending over several years could easily run Into a lanre amount. Some of the Investigations are aaid to show that the Uovernment has been de-frsuI-d In the "drawbacks" It allowed un'syrups. It la charged the refunds have been paid on high grades of sugar, command ing high duties, while. In fact, a very low grade of sugar waa naed. I'nder the system of examination, the rstome authorities are confronted with tie probability that they may have been paying "drawbacks" on shipments which were not sugar at all. but might. In fact, hare been sawdust, as far as the usual Inspection developed ELLENSBURG IS LIBERAL Too of 4 to Persona Raises Over S40.000 for Y. M. C. A. KLUKXBl"Ra. Wash. Iee. SI. pe-rUil.1-With a tnVOajr campaign for o."0 for the Young Men's, Christian Associa tion ending tomorrow night at 10 J the mark set ess passed at noon today, and i. A. Oununere. field secretary of the eteorlation. who Is In the city In charge f the work, expects that the total will be above W. when t.s final account ing Is made. The cash subscriptions for the fund at noon today were HO.OtJT, and this does not Iro-lude a site for the building valued at I which has been donated, aor aiMt It Include a woman's campaign for furnishing the building, which haa al rr arty ylehled JCSOO. and which will prob ably be raised Slot more before to morrow. The UN census gives Fllensborg a pop ulation of ". Thus the amount sub scribed Is more than tie for every person In the city. This Is believed to set a record for the state and Northwest. HARBIN APPEALS TO JAPS Russian Physicians Refuse to Suc cor Cholera Victims. ST. PETER8RCRO, Pec a. The cor respondent at Vladivostok of the Rech teicgrapha that the rmvugta of the bu bonic plague la Mongolia are unchecked. Corpses frequently mark the sltea of abandoned camp of nomads. The situation tn Manchuria.! gTsre. The German Consul at Harbin has ad dressed a pressing note to the Taotal. demanding that radical measures bo takes to stay the epidemic and atatlng that otherwise Germany will Interfere. The municipality of Harbin haa Invited Japanese physicians to attend the dis eased la the barracks, as the Russians refuse to expose themselves-. From October 3 lo December 11 49 Chinese and 11 Kuse.sr.s were atrlcken and 4il Chinese and r Russians hare dl-d within the precincts of the Eastern Chinese Railroad. WORKMEN FALL TO DEATH Two Injured Clint; to Elevator Shaft Cntil ReM-ued. LOS ANGELAS. Dec. ;i. Hurjcd from the seventh to the ground floor of the new Hotel Alexandria Annex, by the breaking of a work elevator, Ernest Pear-man and J. Lawrence are dead. Charles Tents and Steve Smith, two la borers, were Injured, but ssved their lives by clinging to the sides of the elevator shaft until rescued. The men had started from the ground floor with several barrels of putly, and a hen tbey reached an upper floor. In creased their load to a total of about too pounds. It Is said this weight was greater then the eieTStor was built to tarry, and the accident followed. NONUNION GOODS STOLEN Woolens Bonnd for Taltoe-ebopa Dis appear la Chicago. CHIOAOO. Dee. a,. Five thousand dol lars worth of woolens, waiting to be de livered to nonunion tailor shops, were stolen today from the HI rah Wtckmlre Company, whoee garment workera are on strike. The goods had been loaded on a wagon and were In a bam ready for Immediate delivery, to be made up In clothing. Snort ly afterward, however. It was die. covered that the place had been brokea Into and the guods carted asiay. SHIP IS AFIRE IN OPEN SEA Wireless at Brest Secure- Report ol Ocena Disaster. HREST. France. Dec. SI. A wireless nuif was received tonight from the steamer Prlna Fuel Frtrdcrich that she had sighted a Belgian steamer on fire la the open sea. Tke crew aacearsd to have escaped a the boats '. " z -- -s .v v7Vf -' r: . . ; : i. - . - - - - ? .. : - .V ! ''V"": l ... :,., ,w . ' " ' '. i II ! "ft I - I Jk J n&r. M 1- -' - - Ta. y Warrea a. uteae. Chief of Brother heed ef leossetlve Kaglaeera. MX IS AT RAND Engineers Refuse Arbitration and May Walk Out Today. ORIGINAL DEMAND STANDS W. 8. Stone. Grand Chief of Brother hood, Says Railroad Offer ot a 1-1 Per Cent Increase Mast Be Raised or Men Go Ont. (Continued From First faae. In conference with the trainmen and conductors for several weeks, but the negotiations have hardly reached the point where any definite offer can ba made In figures. It la said that W. J. Lee. president of the Brotherhood of Railroad Train men, and A. B. Garretaon. president of the Order of Railway Conductors, have been prolonging tie negotiations to give the engineers a chance to come to an agreement. They do not want to sign up an agreement and leave the engin eers out. as the latter were the first to begin negotiations for an Increase on the Western roads. Conference Carries Into Night. Dr. Neili was In conference with man agers until nearly midnight, but whether they authorised him to make any fur ther advances to the engineers ha would not say. The managers so far have not formally proposed arbitration under the Erdroan law, but It la known that they are reserving that as a final card which they will play as soon aa It becomes certain settlement cannot ba reached through mediation. The Erdman law was enacted at th request of the. railroad brotherhoods and It la said the engineers can hardly re fuse to avail themselves of Its pro visions. They may be able to avoid It, however, by Imposing conditions which the managers will not accept snd that la said to be the purpose of Mr. Stons tn offering to arbitrate the difference In wages, rather than the entire ques tion. Sj That the question will be definitely settled tomorrow, waa said to be . vir tually certain. The managers are not anxious to prolong the suspense, aa they say It Interferes seriously with the serv ice. When the employes are In a state of uncertainty as to whether they are to be called out on strike at any time. It la said they do not give the bea: service snd every day of delay Is cost ing the railroads money. They are anxious to have the slate wiped clean with the engineers, conductors and trainmen by the beginning of the year, if It la possible. CANADIANS AVOIXD GO OCT, TOO Engineers Offer to Strike In Sym pathy "W ith Americans. WINNIPEG. Uto. Dec. 21. (Special.) Locomotive engineers and railroad of ficiate In Winnipeg talked about the threatened engineers' strike "on CI American roads stated this afternoon that every engineer In Western Canada would go out with the Americans. LAND SALES $12,198,460 Reclamation Fund Secures More Than Half of Sunt. WASHINGTON.' Dec il. Twenty three states participated In the division of the money received from public lands during last year, according to figures given out at the General Land Office today. The total amount received from the public land sales totalled approxi mately tli.Hd.440. of which 0.:l7.t waa placed la the t'nlted States Treas ury as the net proceeds of the sales. K.OTi.ttt went to the credit of the reclamation fund and Sltl.stl was turned over to the United States as Its share of the proceeds. Only 1J states participated In the dlvtslona of the reclamaton funde. Thoee states re ceiving no funds on this account have no reclamation projects witnin their borders. North Dakota leads with the largest amount turned Into the treas ury. 1T.:: ranks first In the amount received by the etatea. t2.4t. but takes third Dlace In the amount given to tne credit of the reclamation fund. IMI.714. South Dakota Is second m eM tne dl vtsons. The Bet proceeds convervd Into the treas-ary from the sale of lands la that stats amounted to 1701. 95: the amount accredited to the state la 131.- r VP" J - -!-..,. ' . V'L: ' -a Dr. Charles P. Nelll. Commissioner of l.a bor. 0t. and the amount for the reclama tion fund Is 9:8.al4. The third state in the matter of net proceeds turned Into the treasury and the amount accredited the state, tops thoee receiving money for the recla mation fund. Montana takes this posi tion. The net proceeds In that state amounted to J!.175. The amount to the state Is 131.(58, and the amount to the reclamation fund Is given aa I3.Z1. "COUNTESS" IS ENRAGED AMERICAN "WIFK OP FRENCH. MAN" ASTONISHES COCRT. "Shameless Viper" Is Denounced; Love, She Says, Caused Her to Mary Picture Faker. TOURS, France, Dec. 51. Examina tion of "Count" D'Aulby de Gatlgny was continued by Judge Roberts today at the resumption of the trial of D'Aulby and his American wife on the charge of having swindled the Duchess of Choi-seul-Praalin In the sale of spurious pic tures during the life of her former hus band. Charles Hamilton Paine, of Bos ton. D'Aulby declared he had never claimed the pictures sold to the Palnes were masterpieces, but had allowed them to be authenticated by American experts snd by American newspapers, which had suggested that the works In question be exhibited at the Metropolitan Museum in New York City. He added that even the late E. 11. Harriman bad been interested in hla offerings and had manifested a desire to deal with him. D'Aulby said that among tho New York experts who had praised his pic tures waa the late Henry Gurden Mar quand. who waa pVeaidant of the Metro politan Museum. Growing excited, D'Aulby shouted: "Those who Bay he never wrote this letter are liars." Judge Roberts Interposed: "What do you call yourself?" "An honest man." shrieked D'Aulby, In reply. After a recess, D'Aulby's lawyer read a letter purporting to be signed by the Duke or Choiseul. claiming that Clioi seul the husband of Mrs. Paine, had no right to the title of "Duke of Choieeul," that he was the Duke of Praslln's repre sentative, a Junior branch of the House of CholseuU and a grandson of the Duke of Praslln. "of bloody memory." "Countess" D'Aulby, unlike her hus band, speaks French with wonderful ra pidity, but nearly drove the aged Judge to despair by lapses Into American. She exolalmed. In reference to the plaintiff, "I didn't know her relations with my husband until later, but If I had known I would have -driven ner out like the shameless viper she was." The witness said she had met D'Aulby in New York and married him for love, being drawn to bim because of his mu sical anility. She never mixed In her VINTAGE CHAMPAGNES or THE NOTED YEAR ISO MONOPOLE RED TOP A DRY WINS DRY MONOPOLE BRUIT A TEST DRY WINE The ConnoisscuTt' Champagnes AI.KX. Is. SHAW Jt CO, t ailed Slates Aaeats, Sew Yec-k aa Krataelseei Chics ge Absolutely Pure The only baking powder mado from Royal Crapo Cream of Tartar Ho Alum, K& Lime Phosphate husband's business affairs and never knew he sold pictures to Mrs, Paine. She refused to answer questions ot opposing counsel calculated to show she had conspired to heighten the plaintiff's Interest In the pictures, saying that per sona so alleging were "liars in the first degree." To complete the day a Parisian expert who examined the paintings purchased by Mrs. Paine, testified that eome of them were deplorable copies, others passable.- but that none was what the catalogue pretended. POTATOES ARE TESTED DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE CONDUCTS EXPERIMENTS. Fire-Acre Tract Near Stockton Used to Grow Spnds' to Deter mine Starch Values. STOCKTON. Cat, Dec. 21. (Special.) The potatoes in the five-acre experi mental field on the Rindge tract, west of Stockton, are being harvested by E. C. Butterfleld. of the Bureau of Plant Industry of Washington. D. C to secure-data upon which to work in Im proving the starch in the tubers and an Increase in the yield throughout the Delta district, even If it is very large at present. The -"spuds" are planted under the supervision of Professor W. Stewart, of the United States Agricultural Depart ment, and different methods were em ployed, both as to soil and seeding. This Is the second time potatoes have been planted there and it is expected much valuable Information will result when the testa on the crop this year are com pleted. Another Important object In making the experiment is to secure the best variety of potatoes that will resist what is known as "scab'V and "wilt." two dis eases that cause the growers much loss soma seasons. 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