THE MOBXING OREGONIAN, FRIDAY, JANUARY 30, 1903.
NEW BROOM IN USE
Chief of Police Hunt Starts
Three Reforms,
MUNICIPAL COURT IS PUZZLED
Vagrancy Case Is Continued by
Judge Hogue Until He Can Kind
Out if All Offenders Are to
Me Treated Alike.
REFORM "WAVES STARTED BY
CHIEF OK POLICE HUXT.
To brins about better conditions
among: the vicious classes.
To atop Chinese lotteries.
To force all garbage to be taken to
the c'ty crematory.
"If Chief of Police C. IT. Hunt will an
nounce his policy In regard to the vicious
classes, the Municipal Court -will do all
It can to assist him. in carrying out that
policy. One offender -will not be fined,
however, for an offense that others are
allowed to commit without being' mo
lested." This In substance is the declaration
made In the Municipal courtroom yester
day by. Municipal Judge H. W. Hogue
and Deputy City Attorney J. J. Fitzger
ald, when 24 inhabitants of the North
End appeared for trial on a charge of
vagrancy. Chief Hunt, however, refused
to outline his policy or to tell what he
Intends to do. Unless the- Chief or the
members of the court change their minis
in this matter it looks as though their
policies would clash.
A movement has been started by Chief
Hunt by which, he says, conditions In the
North End will be improved. Twenty
four of the inhabitants of that section
have been arrested on charges of va
grancy. It seemed to be the understand
ing of the court that the arrests had been
made because these people were in some
way -worse than the general run of that
class. The vagrancy law is very broad,
and any prostitute may be found guilty
and fined under it. Heretofore the police
have used this law as a weapon with
which to keep down crime. If they were
convinced that a theft or other offense
had been committed and there was not
sufficient evidence to convict, the offend
er was fined under a charge cf vagrancy.
The 34 who were brought up yesterday
were brought in from a part of the city
in which prpstitution exists in its most
flagrant form. TheJudge found a number
of the prisoners guilty and fined them
without hesitation. It -was when the case
of Trilby Thorne was brought up that
the conflict began.
"The evidenco in this case," said the
Judge, addressing Chief Hunt, "shows
that the defendant is a prostitute, but
that she is no differently situated than a
thousand others in the city. Sho has
never given the officers any trouble, and
there have been no crimes committed m
which It is thought that she could have
had a hand. Do you wish her to be
fined?"
"The charge is vagrancy?" said the
Chief.
"If she is guilty I expect her to be
fined,' replied the Chief.
"Is It your Intention to bring in every
person that Is guilty of prostitution?"
asked the Judge.
"Now, that is an unfair question," re
plied the Chief earnestly. "I do not think
I ought to be asked to tell what I Intend
to do. These people have been brought
from the worst part of the city. Condi
tions there are an eyesore to any respect
able citizen. I propose to do all that I
can to better the conditions. I have com
menced with the worst ones first."
"Yes," replied the Judge, "but this court
will not be a party to any action that
does not treat ail alike. If you say that
you will bring every violator of this ordi
nance who stands in the same light before
the law as does this defendant, I will Im
pose a, penalty upon her."
Here Deputy City Attorney Fitzgerald
was asked for an opinion.
"As a prosecuting officer," he replied,
"I do not wish to prosecute one on a
charge, if all others that ae guilty of the
same offense are not brought into court.
If you are going to bring in one, bring In
all, the highest and the lowest. They are
all vagrants under the law." And the
Attorney waved his hand In a sweeping
manrier, and struck the table emphat
ically as he concluded.
"Do you want me to bring every pros
titute in the city here for trial?" demand
ed the Chief, as he looked about the
small courtroom in a doubtful manner.
"I simply want to know," explained the
Judge in a confidential tone, "in what
manner to regard this action. If you are
making a war against prostitution, well
and good. This court will stand by you.
and will fine every one that is brought
here and convicted of that charge. If you
only want to fine those against whom
something more than prostitution is
proven, the court should know it, in order
to judge the evidence rightly."
"That Is a question I will not answer,"
replied the Chief. "It Is not my place to
6ay who will be convicted and fined. I will
make the arrests, and do all I can to se
cure the evidence. The court must then
judge from the evidence that I furnish
whether or not there will be a convic
tion." "I will say this, however," continued
the Chief, after a moment's pause.
"There Is nothing spasmodic in this. These
raids will continue. Thefts, murders and
crimes of every sort occur among these
classes frequently. Twelve complaints of
larceny have been made during my lour
days in office, and if the practice can be
6topped I Intend to stop it."
"If I fine this defendant. It will be with
the understanding that you are to con
tinue to bring in offenders of the same
kind," said the Judge.
"They will be brought In as fast as
there is evidence to -convict them," re
plied the Chief promptly. Judge Hogue
pondered, and continued the case in order
to make up his mind as to what was really
expected of him.
In an interview later, the Chief refused
to cay how extensively the war against
the vicious classes would be carried out.
"I have commenced, with "-the worst,"
said he, "and Intend to improve condi
tions." "When asked if he expected to finally
close all houses of Ill-fame, he only re
plied that he would have to be judged
by his actions and .riot his words.
"All I will expect of the court," he re
plied, "is to. Usten to the evidence that
I 'shall present and to pass upon the
cases."
"But," replied the reporter, as much in
doubt as ever, "evidence can be pro
duced lo prove every prostitute a, va
grant. , Do you expect them to be fined
every time they can be proven guilty of
vagrancy?"
"Only offenders whom my officers think
should be prosecuted are brought Into
the court," replied the Chief. "If they
are proven guilty of the charge we place
against them, they should be convicted
and punished."
TO CLOSE CHINESE LOTTERIES.
Chief of Police Hunt Gives Ultima
tum to Celential Cli ance Seekers
Chief of Police Hunt has taken a de
termined stand against Chinese lotteries.
Every proprietor or agent of a lottery
was called into the Chiefs pffice yester
day at 4 o'clock and given notice that
the lotteries would have to close. After
talking the matter over, tho Chinamen
agreed that every lottery would close to
day. "It has been my experienco In these
matters." said the Chief, in talking of
the lotteries, "that gamblers of all sorts
will do just as tho police tell them to. I
have ordered these people to cease their
play and I am sure they will do it. I
called them into my office, and told them
they could choose between fighting the
officers of the law and closing their places
of business.
"I intend to keep right after them and
Insist that no Chinese lotteries run in
Portland. I made them understand that
I meant it, too."
After tho Chief had finished talking,
Seld Back, who acted as interpreter, ex
plained tho situation, and a conference
was held.
"We close them all tomorrow," they an
nounced, and the meeting was over.
Tho closing of the Chinese lotteries will
stop a form of gambling in which a' large
percentage of tho citizens of Portland
engage. The agents sell the lottery tick
ets in every part of the city. Young men
and women working in shops, as well as
many business men, are said to risk
money at this game.
Must Core for Gnrbne.
The police authorities . will Insist here
.after that all garbage bo taken to the
city crematory. By way of demonstrating
that they are serious in this matter, they
yesterday ordered the arrest of all offend
ers against the ordinance which provides
for this. H. Tilzer was the first victim,
and upon appearing before Judge Hogue,
was fined 520. A, Caswell, special officer
for tho Civic Improvement Association,
made the arrest. He says that he warned
tho garbage haulers that they were not
to dump their garbage in out of the way
places, but that they did not heed the
warning. Tho officers think that a few
lessons will be enough, and that the team
sters would rather go to the crematory
than pay many J20 fines.
LOST DAUGHTER FOUND.
Had Gone to Work to Get Money to
Go to School. .
P. J. Sharp, the Portsmouth man whose
daughter, Sadie, disappeared Wednesday
morning, had a pleasant surprise yester
day afternoon. The daughter telephoned
that she was alive and safe and that she
was employed as nurse girl in a home
in Portland. The girl did not realize that
her absence would cause her parents any
worry, and therefore said nothing of her
determination to work that she might
earn money with which, to attend school.
After leaving tho schoolhouse, where
her presence was not required Wednes
day morning, Sadie walked to Woodlawn.
where she called up an employment
agency on the public telephone. As she
could get no promise of a position from
the agency, the determined girl, who is
a few month over 14 years old, walked
all the weary miles into the city and pre
sented tho same petition to a First-street
merchant. It so happened that the store
keeper was in need of a girl to care for
his children and after questioning the girl
closely told her to go to his homo at
Sixth and Jackson streets and tell his
wife that she had been engaged subject
to the wife's approval. Tho appearance
of the girl, as well as her answers to
their close questions, met with their ap
proval and Miss Sadie was engaged forth
with. During the day she read in The
Oregonian of her parents' distraction over
her absence and she at once called up
a neighbor's 'phone and asked for her
father.
"Is this you, papa? came the'volpe
over tha wires.
"Why, Sadie, where on earth are you,
how did you get there and why did you
go without telling us anything about it?"
was the surprised reply of Mr. Sharp. t
"I'm all right, for I'm over at Sixth
and Jackson streets and I'm taking care
of three little kids."
"But why in the world are you taking
care of any children?"
"Why, papa, you see I wanted to earn
enough money to go to. another school
next year and this was the only Way I
saw to do it. I hope you aren't worried
very much about me?"
"But why are you taking care of the
children?"
"I'm a nurse, girl, that's why."
This was a little too much for the man
who had been scouring the woods around
Portsmouth all night in the fear of find
ing the girl's body.
"Sadie, don't you know that you did
very wrong in not telling us that you
wanted to go to town. If you are at Sixth
and Jackson streets, I will come for you
right away."
"But, papa, all the folks have gone out.
and I've got to take care of the children."
"Well, I am coming," and Mr. Sharp
hung up the receiver with a determined
bang and started for town.
By the time the father reached the house
where his daughter had engaged herself
as nurse girl the lady of tho house had
returned, and another complication ensued
for she was unwilling to part with Sadie,
for whom she had already formed a liking.
The father's arguments . prevailed, and
Miss Sadie went back to her Portsmouth
home, while the youngsters whom she had
taken such good care of wept at parting.
Sadie says that she will return to her
young charges, and her- employers say that
they will take her back any time she
wishes to come.
. Sadie is not the real daughter of Mr. and
Mrs. P. J. Sharp, for she was adopted by
them 14 years ago in Illinois. Whether
the girl will assert her independence as to
earning her living is a very Important
question with the Sharps just now,
JUDGE FOR PHILIPPINES.
Place on Supreme Bench. Accepted
liy John 31. "McDonough.
WASHINGTON. Jan. 2L John M. Mc
Donough, formerly Secretary of State of
New York, has been consulted by Presi
dent Koosevelt with a view of his ap
pointment to the position of Assistant Jus
tice of the Supreme Court of the Philip
pines. The letter written by the Presi
dent to Mr. McDonough amounts prac
tically to an offer of the place If the lat
ter desires it. The vacancy among the
Justices is caused by the promotion of
Colonel Jame3 F. Smith from the. position
of Assistant Justice to that of a member
of the Philippine Commission to fill the
vacancy caused by the retirement of Com
missioner Moses.
McDononsh Has j cented.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 29.-John T. Mc
Donough, formerly Secretary of State of
New York, has accepted provisionally the
appointment of Justice of the Supreme
Court of the Philippines. The conditions
on which he accepts are said to be of
such a nature that his appointment un
doubtedly will be made.
To AddrcBM Baptist Young: People.
Bev. Walter Calley, national secretary
of the Baptist Young People's Union, will
speak at the First Baptist Church this
evening. 'Mr. Calley Is acknowledged to
be one of the leading men in his denom
ination, and especially In all work pertain
ing to the young people of the church.
He resigned the pastorate of the Boston
Tabernacle to accept his present position
and devote his time exclusively to that
phase of endeavor. After the meeting a
reception will be glyen him by the young
people of the church.
Snow at Dallas.
DALLAS, Or., Jan. 29. (Special.) Snow
began falling here last Tuesday and has
been falling almost steadily ever since
that time. A heavy rain last evening
melted agreat deal of that which had
fallen, but a. heavy fall of snow this morn
ing makes It about three inches deep at
this place.
WU GIVES HOT TALK
Says in America Chinese Get
the Worst of It.
RUSSIA'S CLAIMS RESISTED
Scandnl in Hljyli Japanese Official
Circlets Slum's Money Difficulty '
Banks nnd Churches Cause
Trouble In Philippines.
Mall advices received by the steamship
Indrasamha, bring news of the ar
rival of Wu Ting Fang, the late
Chinese Minister in Washington, at
Kobe. Wu Is on his way to take
the newly created office of assistant to
the Chinese Secretary of Commerce, and
ho was an object of much interest to the
Japanese newspapers. An interview with
him In the Kobe Chronicle on the subject
of Chinese emigration to the United States
quotes him as saying:
"The American people hitherto have not
known the gross injustice which has been
done to the Chinese, and they did not
know that merchants and students were
practically prohibited from going there.
The law allows certain Chinese to go
there, and was originally intended merely
to exclude Chinese laborers. All the other
classes wore allowed to go, providing they
had certificates, but as the law Is at
present carried out It is practically im
possible for Chinese to enter the country
at least they have, the greatest difficulty
in doing so by reason of the unreasonable
Interpretation of the law by the execu
tive officers and the most ridiculous way In
which the law is carried out. Even the
best class of Chinese find the greatest
difficulty in entering the country, a fact
which is Injurious to the commercial In
terests of both America and China.
"Hitherto this gross Injustice has been
little known to the mass of the Ameri
can people, but during my stay there I
pointed this out, and people were surprised
at such a state of things. I represented,
also, that it was against their own Inter
ests. The Injustice would have been done
away with but for the American laborers'
unions, which are swayed by their leaders
against the Chinese. The laborers have
votes and the Legislature consequently
does not wish to offend them, although It
at least knows of this wrong done to the
Chinese. Yet I think if the question is
properly ventilated in America, the popu
lar sentiment will not tolerate it any
longer. But it is a -laborious task.
"The most absurd thing is that while
this law was enacted to exclude Chinese
laborers from the states,, emigration to
which oun government had originally
consented with great reluctance, they now
apply the exclusion law to the Hawaiian
Islands and the Philippines, where the cir
cumstances are totally different. "When I
passed the Hawaiian Islands a week or
two ago, the complaint was that the place
Is decreasing In prosperity purely for lack
of laborerr. They have Japanese -there.
It is true, but then I understand that
Chinese arc preferred. People there are
now memorializing Congress with the ob
ject of removing the exclusion laws, but
as yet nothing has been granted. And
then the Philippines the Chinese do not
compete with the native.", why should
they introduce the law there? I hope for
the best. I think when the real merits of
the case are known that there will be a
change; but it is a political question."
Chinese Are AeRrressive.
In a special dispatch to the Kobe Chron
icle from Vladivostok, dated December
2fi, it Is said that the Chinese are assert
ing their right to the control of the -Man-churlan
railway. The dispatch says that
with regard to the disturbances caused In
the Tzitzikar province in Northern Man
churia, by Chinese marauders, the Vos
tochnle Viestnik of this city Is in receipt
of information, to the effect that the
Governor of the Tzitzikar province has
received orders from Pekfn to prevent
TALES OF
ONE of the prominent arrlvals In
Portland yesterday was John E.
Andrews, who has Just come from
Alaska, where he represents a large com
mercial agency. A part of his business
Is the supplying of outfits to miners, and
during the past four years he has trav
eled over pretty nearly all of the great
Northwest, and he has made one trip
to Siberia. These facts add weight to his
opinions.
"I have just finished reading a couple
of articles in a long series which Is being
written for a London magazine by an
Englishman who walked across Siberia
and whose exploit has won him world
wide fame," said Mr. Andrews yesterday.
"He tells of the dangers and hardships
of the trip, and I suppose that what he
says is mostly so. I have just read, too,
that Lieutenant Peary wants 5150,000 to
finance his next trip In search of tho
North Pole, and In his Interview he tells
of the awful troubles he met with In
spending the last $150,000.
"I don't want to say a single word In
.detraction of what these men have dune,
and I am perfectly willing to believe that
they are entitled to all the praise that
their courage and enterprise have brought
to them. But how many De Windts and
Pearys are there of whom the weld has
never heard? How many good and brave
men, seeking for something far more
tangible than the North Pole, have en
dured hardships in comparison with which
the experience of these great explmers
would seem to be a pleasure excursion?
"De WTindt crossed Siberia behind rein
de2r, with plenty of gold in his peckets,
almost limitless provisions and the help
and backing of the Russian government
When Peary goes north It is n chartered
steamships, with a large party of assist
ants, with limitless resources, -Uso, in the
way of food, and with the assurance that
if ho doesn't come back within a certain
time his friends will send a whole fleet
In the way of a relief expedition to find
him. The same is true of nearly every
man who, after a journey In the far
North, comes back and gets his name in
the newspapers.
"Compare this condition of affairs with
that of the unnamed heroes I have in
mind the mining prospector who, carry
ing only the provisions that can be moved
by a couple of sore-footed dogs, goes un
aided Into the great unknown above the
Arctic circle. Some have come back rich,
some have come back poor, and a great
great many have not come back at all.
Their wanderings remain uncharted end
no man knows how far North they have
gone. No relief expeditions give them
courage to press on In their, search for
gold, and they know that their whole"
dependence is upon themselves.
"I am not sentimental and not a
prophet," said Mr. Andrews in conclusion,
"but I would not be a bit surprised to
learn, when the North Pole Is really dis
covered, that the skeleton 'of an Ameri
can prospector had been found beside it"
BY long odds the most picturesque pic
ture of the Chinese New Year cele
bration has been the costumes In which
the native women and children appear In
the streets. In their purples and pale
blues and vivid reds they have been ver
itable walking rainbows. The high-class
Chinese woman, whom one seldom sees In
public, is always on show during the
New Year feasts, and as she patters un
the Russians by all means In his power
from colonizing the territory within the
boundaries of the Chinese Eastern Rail
way. He is also said to have been recom
mended by the Pekin government to en
deavor to colonize the districts along the
railroad by Chinese, and to distribute his
troops in such a manner that in the event
of any complications, the railway could
be taken from the Russians at once.
There is llttlo news of tho- threatened
rebellion in China, save that Prince Tuan
Is still active. According to telegraphic
dispatches received at the English nnH
German legations from the Consuls at
naimun. ennce j-uan nas raiseo a reoci
llon conjointly with Tung Fuh Siang and
placed a certain district In Kansu prov
ince under occupation. The rebels are in
formidable power and openly announce
their intention of dethroning the Em
peror and putting tho Prince's son fin the
throne.
Scandals in Japan.
The remarkable number of officials and
others Implicated in the text-book scan
dal is an evidence of the extensive nature
of the alleged frauds, says the North
China Mail of December 6. According to
a Tokyo dispatch, the Chief Procurator
in the Tokyo Chiho Salbansho has Issued
a warrant with the Imperial approval for
the arrest of Mr. Kano Ryogan, formerly
Governor of Toyama, but now on the re
tired list. It is stated that Baron Funn
koshl, who was summoned to the Pro
curator's office in connection with the af
fair on the 26th Inst, applied for permis
sion to visit the court at night time in
order to avoid public attention.
Mr. Shlnosaki, president of the Normal
School of Fukushima Prefecture, and Mr.
Okubo, Instructor In the same school,
were arrested on Friday night It Is
stated that Mr. Fukushima was arrested
at Tokyo, where he had proceeded, it is
alleged, with the object of destroying
evidence. Mr. Takeda, president of the
Nlshijln "Weaving Company, of Kyoto,
was arrested on Thursday last on a war
rant Issued by Judge Nakagawa in the
Tokyo Chiho Saibansho,x which was served
i upon him by a detective in the iMetropoll
I tan Police Bureau, who specially came
j down from Tokyo. Tho prisoner was im
I mediately conveyed to the capital by
train. The charge against him is sala
i to be that of embezzlement of money In
, some relation to the scandal. Mr. Takeda
joined the NishiJIn Weaving Company in
December last year, and subsequently
purchased 535 snares in the concern and
became managing director.
M. IV Kicked Out.
The Yokohama Advertiser says that an
enormous amount of money has been se
cured by those who dealt in school sup
plies, and adds that six members of the
j Seiyu-Kwai, Including five M. P.'s, were
struck off the list of membership of that
party on the 19th Inst. The cause which
1 led to. their exclusion was that they held
! a secret meeting in the Nanlwa-kan In
Suklyacho for the purpose of organizing
a body .among themselves, claiming it to
"be at the Instigation of the government.
Mr. Matsuo Torazo, .an M. P. for Yama-guchl-Ken,
"was invited to join the body
on the same day, but he refused and re
ported the affair to the Headquarters of
the Seiyu-Kwai, which step resulted in
the expulsion of five members from that
party. N
The election of the new Mayor of Yoko
hama in succession the late Mr. Umeda
Yoshinobu took place In the Yokohama
City Hall on Dec. 16. Mr. Ichlhara se
cured the largest number of votes, 25
being cast for him out of 46, Mr. Saitoh
assistant mayor of Yokohama, securing
the remaining 21 votes. The nomination
of candidates' for the mayoralty of Yoko
hama has been left undecided for the
past two months, but finally arrange
ments were effected between the so
called "Merchants" and "Land-owners."
The Japanese House of Representatives
sat for the first time on Dec. 29 since
the prorogation of the Diet, when the
Land Tax Amendment Bill came up as
the first business of the day. Before en
tering on the debate. Count Katsura, the
Premier, addressed the House, and after
dwelling at some length on the policy of
the government said that the completion
of the national defense and the develop-'
ment of the national wealth must always
go hand In hand, otherwise the. country
would be left behind in the general prog
ress of the world.
The Poverty of China.
A conservative Chinese newspaper,
quoted by the Shanghai Mercury, in
THE TOWN
certainly along on her tiny feet she ap
pears to be about as well-groomed as any
of her Western sisters.
A well-knowrf jeweler, watching some
of the gaily-clad Celestials pas's his door
yesterday, said:
"No matter how rich they may be the
Chinese women very rarely care for preci
ous stones. They care for the very finest
and rarest of textures and embroideries
and no store in the United States has on
sale the quality of silks they wear. And
they like heavy gold ornaments. See that
enormous yellow thing In that woman's
coil of polished black hair? It is of solid
gold, and weighs two pounds If It weighs
an ounce. It will be a wonder If her neck
doesn't ache tonight
JUST at present Seattle Is very far
from being wide-open, In tho sense of
the term as it is employed by gamblers,"
said L. N. Schoenfeld at the Portland last
night "I do not think that there is a
game of any sort running In the city, and
no man can make a safe prediction as to
when there win be. A majority of the con
servative business men of the city are In
hopes that the present conditions have
come to stay, but very few of them be
lieve It The unexpected raid of the police
upon the Rainier-Grand Hotel hows that
they began at the top Instead of at the
bottom, and this threw an awful scare
Into the gambling fraternity.
"Most of them left town, including "W.
H. Fagon. who was indicted by the grand
Jury for cheating at games In the Rainier
Grand. He went to British Columbia. At
present all eyes are on the grand Jury,
which Is making a most sweeping Inves
tigation of the City Council, and of the
granting of franchises and saloon licenses.
It Is going back as far as five years In
Its Inquiry. Many stories of large sums
of 'money having been paid to Councilmen
for municipal .favors are In circulation,
and the Jury proposes to probe the
charges to the bottom. They believe the
accusations to be true, and are going after
the members implicated with a sharp
stick."
IN orders to protect their floors the
large department stores now require
their customers who come in with drip
ping umbrellas to deposit them with a
small boy who stands at the entrance
j with a bundle of brass checks. Yester-
aay anernoon tne sun came out brightly
for a little while, and half a dozen shop-
! pers went calmly away and forgot all
; about their rain protectors. This may re
j mind them where they were left
THE recent publication of the names
of the men who served In the Ore
gon volunteers -during the Spanish-American
War and who have not applied for
medals or money due them has made
Adjutant General C. U. Gantenbeln a
very busy man for the past few days.
"It is a tribute to the far-reaching cir
culation of The Oregonian," he said yes
terday, as he handed a check to the lat
est applicant "The money and the med
als havp been here for a long time, and
their owners have been marked 'missing.'
Since the publication of the list they are
turning up one "by one, and I am hoping
that all will eventually be accounted for.
Some, too, I have learned are dead, and I
am dealing with their heirs. This morn
ing I gave a medal and $50 to the widow
of a man who served in my battalion of
the Second Oregpn.'
pointing out the poverty of China at the
present time, says that Chinese financiers
have tried every possible war to help the
government out of its present difficulty.
New taxes, such as the house-tax, prepared-opium
tax, wihe-tax. sugar-tax,
etc., have already been put In force In
the different provinces. But the revenue
derived from these new Impositions Is
still not large enough to meet the needs
of the Government Hence, other taxes,
.such as the land-tax, poll-tax, stamp
tax, etc., are now under contemplation.
The vernacular Journal draws attention
to the fact that there Is a large class of
people In . China, such as the monks,
priests and nuns, who get a very com
fortable livelihood neither by tilling the
soil nor by weaving cloth, nor by any
other work which taxes the brain or the
muscles. These people, according to the
native journal, are a great burden to all
the .other people in the. country, and
never do anything for the common good.
The Government should Impose a heavy
tax on them, it is claimed, In order to
relievo Its other subjects to some extent.
How many Buddhist temples, Taolst
temples, nunneries, etc, there are in the
Empire at present the journal quoted Is
not In a position to say. According to
the reports made by the Provincial Gov
ernors in the reign of Emperor Kang
Hsi, there were C713 large temples and
6490 small temples whose establishment
had been approved by the throne. As to
private temples, that Is to say. those
which were built without Imperial sanc
tion, thero were S483 large ones and
58.6S2 small ones. The number of monks
living In these temples was 110,232; the
number of Taolst priests. 21.2S3; and the
number of nuns, S515. The total number
of temples of all descriptions through the
Empire was 79.620, and the total number
of monks, priests, and nuns together,
140,193.
A special telegram to the Straits Times,
dated Bangkok, January 1. says:
Tho banks have practically refused to
do business since Thursday morning last,
when the mint here was closed. They
have filed claims for compensation from
the Siamese government
Business Is at a standstill, and the rice
mills have shut down. The banks have
refused to. accept the dollar as current
coin, and have refused to accept govern
ment notes. An offer subsequently made
by the treasury to arrange for an ex
change basis of 20 ticals to the pound
sterling has been laid before the head of
ficers of the banks. The import firms and
the general foreign community' welcome
the gu!d standard scheme, on the ground
that, had matters been otherwise, the sit
uation would have been parlous.
Referring to the new scheme the Bang
kok Times of November 27 says: "The
announcement of yesterday that the
scheme for the establishment of a gold
standard In Siam has been adopted and
haa become law, came as a great surprise
to the whole "community. After the hope
less drifting of exchange from bad to
worse, which has recently affected the
foreign community very seriously, the
news caused a feeling of relief and of
hopefulness. At the same time no one
professed to understand how exactly
Bangkok stands now or what was to be
expected. y
Xew Bank Law In Philippines.
The Philippine Commission has passed
an act providing for the closing of banks
In case of their Insolvency or when. In
the opinion of the Civil Governor, their
continuance in business may Involve Igss
to their depositors. The Manila Times
says that In case the examination jnado
by the treasurer shall disclose to him
that the condition of the bank Is one of
insolvency, or that its continuance in
business in the receipt of deposits will
Involve probable loss to depositors, he will
inform the Governor of the facts, and if
the- Governor finds upon investigation that
the facts are true, he will close the bank.
The "Free-Zone" Harbor.
A dispatch to the North China . Mall
dated Vladivostok, December 28. says:
The exchange committee here Is In re
ceipt of Instructions from the Depart
ment of Finance at St. Petersburg, to se
lect from among the prominent residents
a special committee and sub-committee
to assist in perfecting the details In con
nection with the "free-zone harbor" at
the Port of Vladivostok, authorized by
the Minister of Finance, M. de Wltte,
during his recent visit to the port.
Philippine Church Changes.
A dispatch from Manila to the Hong
Kong Press, under date of December IS,
shows that our church troubles in Manila
are not yet ended. A papal bull giving a
new constitution to the Roman Catholic
Church In the Philippines was proclaimed
in Manila Cathedral by the bishop admin
istering the archdiocese on the 8th ihst
The document makes a number of
sweeping changes in the constitution and
administration of the Romnn Church in
tho islands. The secular clergy are to be
Increased, a system of missions to be es
tablished throughout the Islands, and the
church finances are to be rearranged. No
mention Is mado In the bull as to "Arch
bishop" Aglipay's schism, but there Is a
warning which undoubtedly relates to
that movement, referring as It does to
the usurpation of the power and authority
of the church.
The Dominican Order Is congratulated
on its wcrk and the college of the order
Is given the title of Pontifical University.
"Archbishop" Agllpay, head of the new
National Filipino Church, has given his
views on the new constitution and con
cludes an exhortation with the following
pacific sentence: "My poor compatriots,
to be pitied are those who do not see the
poison hidden In the polished phrases of
the proud general at Rome. May God il
luminate you!"
SAYS IT'S OZOKERITE.
The Stuff on Kelialem Bench That
Sonic Call Beeswax.
"The substance found at the mouth of
the Nehalem River la not beeswax at all;
it is ozokerite, a mineral wax," says Dr.
August C. Kinney, a well-known Astoria
physician, who has privately held this
opinion for several years. "I have had
four different analyses made of the sub
stance beside my own analysis, and all
have agreed that It Is ozokerite and not
beeswax. This puts an end to the myth
about the beeawax-laden ship being
wrecked on the beach, for I believe that
the mineral wax came down the Nehalem
River from an unknown source, which
it might be well to find, as ozokerite Is
always found In the neighborhood of oil
deposits. As to that, however, I cannot
say positively, but of one thing I am
certain, and that is that the substance Is
ozokerite and not beeswax.
"One thing which seems to prove that
assertion is the fact that tons and tons
of the stuff have been taken from that
vicinity, one man having sold 17.C0O
pounds as beeswax. -Again. It Is found
above high-water mark in the river and
has been found under the roots of trees
some distance from the water. The can
dles found there might very easily have
been melted from It, for the chunks as
they are found have a very different ap
pearance from the candles. Ozokerite Is
much like paraffine and, has nearly the
same constituents."
The legend of the wax-laden ship
wrecked before the memory of any In
dians now living Is a widespread one and
is devoutly believed by most of those
who have found samples of the wax in
the sand around the mouth of the Ne
halem River. Some two years ago the
late L. B. Cox obtained a chunk of the
wax that had a bee In it, which was
then said to prove that the stuff was ot
animal and not of mineral origin. If it
be mineral, there Is room for Interest
ing speculation as to how the bee got
in It
Boilermakers on Strike.
SPRINGFIELD, Mass., Jan. 29. The
bollermakers and their helpers in the Bos
ton & Albany Railroad shops. In West
Springfield, numbering about 40, struck
yesterday. The step was taken to secure
the discharge of a fellow workman, whom
they claimed was not a member of the
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union in good standing for the reason that
he had not paid his dues for some time.
The bollermakers held meetings and
were In consultation with officials of the
road, and It is generaly believed by both
sides that the matter wlU be satisfactorily
arranged today, and that the men will
go back to work.
RED
CROSS IN TROUBLE
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President Declines Office nnd Man
agement" Is Attacked.
WASHINGTON. Jan. 29. General John
M. Wilson, vice-president of the National
Red Cross, presented to Congress a me
morial regarding that organization, espe
cially In reference to difficulties which
have arisen in regard to the management
of its affairs. Included In the papers Is a
letter from Secretary Cortelyou to Miss
Clara Barton, president 'of the Red Cross,
In .which be says that, in accordance with
a copy of the by-laws submitted by the
association, the President and his Cab
inet are constituted a board of consulta
tion of the American Red Cross.
Mr. Cortelyou says it is Impossible for
tho President and Cabinet to serve and
asks that public announcement be made
of the fact. Complaint is made" in a
memorial to President Roosevelt of the
manner In which the organization is
placed in the hands of one association and
of the management of the finances. These
memorials are referred to in the letter
of Mr. Cortelyou.
A letter In the memorial gives an ac
count of the manner In which the new
by-laws were adopted. It says that
through Frances W. Water, Miss Clara
Barton, President of the-organlzation, se
cured a large number of proxies for the
meeting on the representation that she
desired to secure "some slight changes"
in the by-laws of the Red Cross, and
then at the meeting presented an entire
ly new set of by-laws, which, among
other things, permitted the President of
the organization to- bo elected for life,
gave the President power to appoint a
President pro tern, in case of sickness or
absence, with full power, and created an
executive committee consisting of the
President and four members, the latter
to be appointed by the President-elect.
Mr. Foster, at the meeting, protested
against the adoption of tho by-laws,
which had not been printed, but they
were adopted. 135 to 89, 72 of the votes
being cast by proxies.
The letter of Secretary Cortelyou to
Miss Barton follows:
("Certain members of the Red Cros's, in
cluding ex-Secretary of State John W.
Foster, ex-Secretary of the Navy Hllary
A. Herbert, Brigadier-General John M.
Wilson, retired, Thomas F. Walsh, Simon
Wolf, Mrs. J. Ellen Foster, Miss Board
man and various other ladies and gentle
men of high standing, have sent the
President a letter, of which a copy is
herewith sent to you, and accompanying
it is a copy of what purport to be the
by-laws recently adopted by the Ameri
can Red Cross. In a further letter, the
i-Tesldent has been informed that the
Treasurer of the Red Cross, W. J. Flat
heir, has resigned on account of dissat
isfaction with what Is alleged to be loose
and Improper arrangements for securing
the needed accountability for, and super
vision of. the disbursements of the money
furnished In time of exigency to the Red
Cross by the charitable public. It appears
from these by-laws that the President of
the United States and his Cabinet are
constituted a Board of Consultation for
the American Red Cross. It Is not possi
ble for the President or any member of his
Cabinet to serve on such a committee,
and the President requests me to have
you have it publicly announced that the
President and Cabinet cannot so serve."
Tho memorial to the President con
cludes as follows:
"By the above cited provisions of tho
by-laws, we claim that the policy of this
organization and the administration of
the finances are placed within the arbi
trary power of a single person. Legisla
tion Is asked to relieve the condition."
May Strike on the "Katy."
ST. LOUIS, Jan. 29. Unless an early ad
justment of the demands of the wage-increase
committees of the Missouri, Kan
sas & Texas Railroad system is made,
between SCO and S00 trainmen and conduc
tors, it Is declared, will strike. It Is un
derstood that the "Katy" made a. coun
ter proposal to the demands of the train
men and conductors for a 20 per cent In
crease in wages. This proposition was
submitted by the committee to a vote of
the men, who declined it and. declared In
favor of a strike.
Xaraed by the President.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 29. The President
today sent the following nominations to
the Senate: i
George E. Roberts, Iowa, to be Di
rector of the Mint
Army Colonel Charles L. Davis, Fifth
Infantry, to bo Brigadier-General; Ueu-
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college, or "special examination. Particular at
tention given to those backward in publlo
school work of any grade. Call or write.
tenant-Colonel Richard H. Pratt Fif
teenth Cavalry, to be Colonel; Major
Frederick K. Ward, First Cavalry, to bo
LleutenantCoIonel; Captain E. Smith
Swift, Fifth Cavalry, to be Major; First
Lieutenant H. C. Whitehead. Tenth Cav
alry, to be Captain; First Lieutenant
Henry M. Morrow, Ninth Cavalry, to bo
Judge Advocate, with the rank of Major.
Albert B. Hatfield, at-large To be a
Lieutenant of Infantry.
Navy To be Assistant Surgeon, Richard
T. Sutton, Missouri.
Brovrnell Oat of Antis Reach.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 29. The Attorney
General has rendered an opinion to the
effect that Captain Brownell, who was a
member of a volunteer regiment, and
whose name has been mentioned in con
nection with the killing of Father Augus
tine in the Philippines, and whose con
duct has been a subject of discussion In
Congress, is no longer amenable to the
civil or military law for his actions while
in command of a "Vermont regiment in the
Philippines.
DAILY 3IETEOROLOGICAL REPORT
PORTLAND, Jan. 29.-8 P. M. Maximum
temperature. 43; minimum temperature, 3G;
river reading, 11 A. M., 17.6 feet; chance In
24 hours. 1.6 feet; ptal precipitation. 5 P. M.
to 5 M.. 0.G6 Inch; total precipitation since
Sept. 1. 1902. 28.76 Inches; normal precipita
tion since Sept. 1. 1902, 25.96 inches: excess,
2.80 Inches: total sunshine Jan. 2S. 1:15; pos
sible sunshine Jan. 28. 0:30; barometer (re
duced to sea level) at 5 P. M.. 20.81.
PACIFIC COAST "WEATHER.
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STATIONS. f -5 g f S.
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: S : ? :
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Astoria
Bismarck ......
Boise
Eureka
Helena
Kamloops, B. C.
North Head
Pocatello
Portland
Red Bluff
Roeeburg
Sacramento ....
San Francisco ..
Spokane .
Seattle
Tatoosh Island .,
Walla "Walla ...
144
0.20i
SW
NW
E
SE
SAV
E
SW
Cloudy
0.00
Clear
0.01
Snowing
Raining
Clear
0.82
ft nn
0.101
Pt cldv
480.24
Cloudy
00.00
16l E
Cloudy
43 0.53
S
SE
E
SE
W
SE
Rainlng
Cloudy
Raining
4!O.0O
4410.06
50 0.001
Clear
Clear
Snowing
20.00
.120.06
4210.28
S
Cloudy
4410.42124 S
Sleeting
Cloudy
44O.0O20 SE
Light
WEATHER FORECASTS.
A storm of marked energy- made Its appear
ance Thursday morning off Cape Flattery,
which Is now moving rather slowly eastward.
The following maximum wind velocities oc
curred during the last 12 hours: North Head.
70 miles, from the southeast, and Tatoosh
Island. 52 miles, from the southwest
Rain has fallen generally in Western Oregon
and "Western Washington, and some roow la
reported in Eastern Washington.
The Indications are for rain or snow In this
district Friday.
The river continues to rapidly fall. The
stage at Portland at 5 P. JL was 18.9 feet
WEATHER FORECASTS.
Forecasts made at Portland for the 23 hours
ending at midnight Friday, January 30:
Portland and vicinity Rain; southerly winds.
Western Oregon and Western Washington
Rain, possibly part snow; southerly winds.
Eastern Oregon. Eastern" Washington and
Idaho Rain or snow.
EDWARD A. SEALS, Forecast Official.
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