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Jacksonville Post
OFFICIAL PAPER OF THE CITY OF Agent for Government at Work on
Merger Suit.
JACKSONVILLE, OREGON
Chicago, July 31.—Special agents oi
Published every Saturday by the Post the government are in Chicago trying
to collect evidence to substantiate
Publishing Co.
BIDS FOR COLLIERS HIGH.
J. B. BARNES, Editor. proceedings tor the disruption oi the
TALK WITH SCOTT FIRST.
Harriman system of railroads upon
the ground that the combination is in
Admitted as second class matter at violation oi the Sherman anti-trust Navy Department Rejects and Will In Roosevelt Not Ready to Act on West
vite New Tenders.
act.
Point Hazers.
Jacksonville, Oregon.
For more than a week Ralph M.
Washington, Julv 31---- Voting Seere
Oyster Bay, Aug. 6. Secretary of
McKenzie, who did a great deal of
SUBSCRIPTION
preliminary work in the investigation tarv of the Navy Newberry announced War Wright has sent word to Presi
$1.50 w Inch the interstate commerce com yesterday that of the bids submitted dent Roosevelt that he desires the pres
One year, by mail..................
mission made into the affairs of the for colliers under the provisions of the ident to see Colonel Scott and talk with
Harriman railroads has been industri naval appropriation act at the last ses him regarding the findings and recom
RATES FOR ADVERTISING
ously working among big shippers sion of congress, none will be satisfac mendations made by a board of inquiry
One inch, one column, per month. $ .50 with a view to ascertaining how thfe tory. He announced also that, ns no and indorsed by Colonel Scott in the
One inch up to 15 inches per month
Harriman combination has been used, emergency existed requiring immediate case of the suspended cadets. Colonel
per inch......................................... .50 if
used at all, to stifle competition and delivery of anv collier, the navy de
Over 15 inches and up to 20inches. .45 restrain trade. On Mr. McKenzie's partment would invite tenders of col Scott undoubtedly will be received at
20 inches and up to 50 inches.......... .40 new calling list are all of the traffic liers to be delivered within 12 months, Oyster Bay by the president on his
way to West Point from Washington.
50 inches and up................................. .35
men of the big industries in the city. specifying in the invitations the gen
The president's assistant secretary,
The space can be used in one, two, It is not known with what success he oral characteristics, speed, carrying ea
three, four, five or six columns wide. is meeting, but his investigation is ' parity and equipment necessary for th. Rudolph Foster, this afternoon made
Copy should be in as early- as possible. taken as meaning that the “big stick'' naval service.
a statement saying the president had
Not later than Thursday noon to insure has again begun to swing over the
not received the final decision of the
The appropriation was $525.000
publication in the following issue.
'Harriman lines.
War department. The statement adds:
each vessel, and the wording of the
It is understood that evidence is was such as to afford ail advantage ti
“The president, of course, will con e
LOCALS
desired for use in connection with a
Local readers will be charged for at suit to be begun by the government, the Massachusetts company, which to no final decision until he hears
had three colliers practically ready for from General Wright.”
the following rates:
which will be similar to the Northern
First insertion per line...................... $ .10 Securities case, which resulted in the delivery. The department decided that
Subsequent insertions............................. 05 disruption of the Hill merger, so far the bids were excessive, and did n >t
Debt is $20,677,414 More.
meet all of the requirements. The an
Church announcements, resolutions of as a holding company is concerned.
Washington,
Aug. 5. The monthly
nouneement
of
the
rejection
of
all
bids
condolence, births, marriages, deaths
was made after a conference held by statement of the public debt shows
. and general news items will be published
Mr. Newberry with Admiral Converse, that at the close of business July 31,
I free. Anything pertaining to the good
IMMIGRATION BUREAU FRAUD
president of the board of construction, 1903, the debt, less cash in the treas
of the county will be cheerfully pub-
and with representatives of the com ury, amounted to $958,809,823, which
! lished. We reserve the right to correct
' all grammai defects in copy sent in. Scandal Said to Have Been Unearthed panics which submitted bids.
is an increase for the month of $20,-
by Commissioners.
The bids were received during last 677,414.
; All communication» must be signed by
The cash in the treasury is
month.
William
Cramp
&
Son
of
Phil
i the party sending them irt. Don’t be
$1,791,038,029, against which there
San Francisco, July 31.—The big
I abusive in your communications, but stick,
adelphia,
proposed
to
build
three
col
in the hands of Theodore
are demand liabilities outstanding
give good news.
Roosevelt, is about to swing amid the liers at $475.000 each: the New York amounting to $1,437,409,856, which
Shipbuilding
company,
of
Cnmden.
N.
ranks of the Pacific coast immigration
leaves a cash balance of $353,638,173.
bureau of the government, and when J., at $438.1100 each; the Massachusetts The apparent increase in the public
Ship
company,
of
Boston,
at
$425,000
it swings, if seemingly reputable re
debt is accounted for by the loss of
ports can be relied upon, heads big eaeu, and the Maryland Steel company,
cash in the treasury, which, during
anff little are apt to fall into the bas of Baltimore, at $376,000 each.
July amounted to nearly $36,000,000.
ket of political oblivion.
This loss was occasioned by the large
STATE GUARANTY ILLEGAL.
An investigation, which has been
also by the redemption of the notes of
going on for over a year under the
direction of a special commission National Banks Cannot Accept Terms failed and liquidating national banks
named by the president, it is said,
and the reducing of circulation of na
of Oklahoma Law.
has revealed evidence of alleged con
tional banks.
nivance on the part of the immigra
Washington, Aug. 4. In a formal
tion agents in the smuggling of Chi opinion rendered by Attorney General
Law Will be Given Test.
nese and Japanese coolies into the Bonaparte at the request of Secretary
Washington, Aug. 6. The constitu
United States, both along the Mexi
of
the
Treasury
Cortelyou,
it
is
held
to
can border and in the Pacific ports of
tionality of the Federal law prohibit
be illegal for any national bank to
entry.
ing the importation of women from
The commissioners who have been enter into a contract or other arrage- foreign countries for immoral purposes
conducting this investigation now ment with state officials for the pur is involved in the cases < f Alphonse
have their data almost completed and pose of creating a guaranty fund out and Eva Dufour, which are docketed
in a short time will make their for of the bank’s deposits or capital stock
mal report to Washington. When the to be used in paying the depositors of today in the Supreme Court of the
material is in the hands of the presi any bank included within the terms of United States, Six indictments were
dent he will be ready to take immedi a state statute, any deficiency there returned against each in the United
States Circuit court sitting in Chicago,
ate action.
may be in the amount to be received
Agents of the government are now
on the charge of violating the immi
by
them
from
assets
of
such
bank
in
in San Francisco working upon the
gration laws, and Judge Landis refus
finishing details of the case. They arc the event of its failure.
ed to release th-'m on the writs of
Mr.
Cortelyou
requested
the
attorney
making use of a staff of Chinese de
habeas corpus, 'i ney took an appeal
tectives and it is declared a complete general’s opinion “as to the legal right to the Supreme court. The maximum
underground system has been uncov of national banks in the state of Okla
ered and a band of Chinese leaders homa to contribute toward the guar punishment is five years imprisonment
and a fine of $5,300 in each count.
revealed.
anty fund or to avail themselves of
Much evidence has been obtained of the other privileges of the state bank
Ready to Begin Tests.
this practice in southern California ing act.”
where it is charged orientals have
Washington. Aug. 1
The work of
been regularly passed across the Mex
inflating the big gasbag of Captain
Opium Users in New York.
ican border under the very noses of
Thomas S. Baldwin's airship will be
a force of immigration inspectors.
Washington, Aug. 4. At least 5,000 begun today. The tent in which the
white persons in New York city are balloon will be housed arrived at Fort
slaves to the opium habit, according to Meyer yesterday and will be pitched
APPEAL TO LAW.
the statement made today by I)r. today By Monday, birring accidents,
Captain Baldwin will be ready to make
Illinois Manufacturers to Test Decis Wright, one of the three representa his first flight There is an element
tives
of
America
on
the
international
ion on Export Rates.
commission whiqh in investigating the of uncertainty as to what Captain
Chicago, July 31.—The Illinois Man opium traffic throughout the world. He Baldwin's acrid craft will do when
ufacturers’ association took up the said the investigations have led also to it gets up in the air many of its fea
In
Asiatic export problem yesterday and the estimate that there are from 600 tures being new in this country
asked Levy Mayer for an opinion as to 1,000 Chinese residents of New the past Captain Baldwin has siecred
bis balloon by shifting the weight of
to the best method of procedure.
I Members of the association through- York who are addicted to the drug. bis body.
I out the state are alarmed over the The commission intends to extend its
Deepen Mare Island Straits.
prospect and purpose to use every activities to all the main cities of the
effort, both legal and otherwise, to country, to determine the extent of the
Washington, Aug. I. The board of
change the situation
-lie of drugs in the United States.
civil engineers of the army and navy
The Canadian Pacific yesterday de
apponited to suggest some methods of
clared that it was not a party to
New London is Penitent.
improving the approach« s to the Man-
the new tariffs which the zXnicric.an
Washington, Aug 1.—Satisfactory Island navy yard, has decided on Un
transcontinental lines have put out
In railway circles here the under assurances have been given the naw employment of hydraulics in the Man-
standing is different.
It does not department by the officials and citi Island straits. By this means it will
matter, however, so far as the effect zens of New London, Conn., that be pi.-sible to provide an adequate
of the new tariffs is concerned, for there will be no further discrimination depth of the channel at Mare Island to
no railroad originating traffic here against the enlisted men of the navy, accommodate the largest war vessels.
would maintain a traffic agreement or the uniform of the United States, The project is said to be feasible and
with the Canadian Pacific except in the places of public amusement can be maintained, when once it is in
I upon the same terms as traffic is in that city. A formal letter has I.... .. stalled, for $25,000 a yi ar.
received by Acting Secretary of the
< maintained with American lines.
The fact developed yesterday that
< the railroads are aggrieved even
Roosevelt Entertains Guests.
Oyster Bay, Aug. 6. Secretary of
< | more by the commission's ruling that
a welcome to uniformed men of the Treasury Cortelyou and Thomas J.
“such rates or fares must be the same
navy.
for all. regardless of whether ocean
O'Brien, American ambassador at To
< carriage may be designated by the
kio, were guests of President Roose
Release
43
Captives.
or passenger” This would
velt at Sagamore Hill today, Secretary
< | >hipper
compel the railroads to deal with
Washington, Aug. 6. Estrada Ca
< tramp ocean steamers, which they brera, president of-Guatemala, has re Cortelyou driving over from his home
nt Hah-site, mar Huntington. Other
< positively refuse to do. It is the con leased 43 political prisoners, according guests of the president today were: W.
I sensus of opinion that there is no to a dispatch received at the State de
power which can compel the railroads partment from ALnierican Minister C Forbes, vice governor of the I’hilij-
pines; R. It. Rogers, general counsel
< , to engage in this business if they do Hi-imke today.
Of this number 32 of the Isthmian Canal commission;
1 not see fit to do so.
were Guatemalans, six Hondurans and Robert. J. Collier, Norman Hapgood
<
vfu- Nicraguans. It is believed that
and Mr. and Mrs. Mark Sullivan.
<
California Gains in Value.
these men are among those who wi re
San Francisco, July 31 —The Cal
alleged
to
have
been
implicated
in
the
N< w Man at St. Anthony.
Itornia. promotion committee’s Bnlle
< t-n of Progress, dated July 31. will sav: several attempts on the life of Cabrera
Washington,
Aug. 5. Announce
during the last two years.
< “Evidence of the development of the
ment was made at the Postoffice de
state is given in the reports for the
partment today that Charles ('. Moore
< fiscal year of the county assessors
Give Consuls Refuge.
had been appointed postmaster at St.
to
the
state
controller.
Impressive
<
Washington, Aug. 4. Word of the
gains are recorded in most counties arrival of the gunboat Marietatta .•J Anthony, Idaho, in place of Marcella*
J. Gray, removed. This change was
over the figures of a year ago. and
the sum total will show a gain of Ceiba, Honduras, Captain Maxwell decided upon several weeks ago after
commanding,
has
been
received
at
the
many millions in the taxable property
an inspection of the office. The de
< of the state.
Captain Maxwell partment says Mr. Gray has been care
Bond elections have Navy department.
will
give
refuge
aboard
his
vessel
to
been held in a number of cities and
less in the conduct of the office and
towns and in every case the voters the foreigd consuls at Ceiba, whose
< have declared for civic improve exequaturs have been cancelled by failed to give it the personal attention
required.
< ments.”
President Davila, of Honduras, if con
ditions
make
it
expedient
for
them
to
Treasury Department Is Upheld.
<
Three States Fight Trust.
retire from the city.
Washington, Aug. 5. The attorney
<
Topeka. Kan . July 31.—Attorney-
general has upheld the Treasury de
General Jackson yesterday file-! in the
Knockers Are Challenged.
partment in its view of that packages
district court of Shawnee county ous
Oyster
Bay.
Aug
1
—
Morality
of
th.-
ter quo warranto and injunction
by the distilled spirits produced at dis
worker,
on
the
anamn
canal
is
to
b<-
-urts against the Yellow Pine associ
tilleries not affected by restraining or
•
he
-ttbject
of
a
conference
between
ation of St. Louis
The attorneys-
ders must be marked in accordance
< general of Missouri. Texas and Okla president Roosevelt and Serretarv of
with the regulations which took effect
homa, it is stated, filed similar suits War Wright .oday. Secretary Bishop July 1. A circular letter is soon to be
in their respective states in a eon of the canal commission said venter-
i erted effort tn break dip what is al lay: “The president is annoyed at the ; issued to the internal revenue collect
strictures on the morality of the canal ors instructing them in accordance
< leged to be an illegal combine to raise camps and wishes them cleaned up.”
with this view.
the price of lumber to a figure said
< to be unreasonable and fictitious.
Colonel Symon* Retires.
Send LeonarJ to Tokio Fair.
<
Washington, Julv 81.—Colonel Tims.
Indian* Steal Railroad.
Washington, Aug. 5. Major H, nry
Phoenix, Ariz., July 31.— Fourteen W. Symons, corps of engineers, was F. Leonard, of the Marine corps, has
Pima Indians were taken, to the coun ulaced on the retired list of the army been designated as naval attache to th«
ty jail yesterday at Florence to serve yesterday on his application, nfter Tokio Exposition commission in ré
a term for the theft of railroad prop- more than 37 years of service. Colo
ponse to the request of Commissioner
erty from the Southern Pacific com- no| Svtnona is now employed on the General Loomis. Major Leonrd’s con
company. The Indians are the lead- New York state canal commission. He nection with the commission will begin
ing men of the village on the Pima vas formerly superintendent of public
about September 1.
aa
, river built largely out of railroad ties. grounds in this city.
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Jacksonville
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