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PORTLAND. TUESDAY. JUNE 21. 1904.
BACK TO THE COUNTRY.
We hear continually of Individuals
In our several Northwestern States who
are making money rapidly in growing
fruits, hops, wool, wheat and other
products; others In various branches of
the livestock trade; still others In fish
eries, dairy business, lumber and
mines. Success In any of these or other
'undertakings depends chiefly on man
agement. The markets -usually -are
good, though for one product or another
there are bad market years. Still, the
man who persists, in the long run will
succeed. Instances are numerous, in
all these Northwestern States, where
men have made and are making thou
sands of dollars net upon a single crop.
Multitudes who were mortgaged heav
ily at the -time of the'finahcial panic,;
and whose cases then seemed hopeless,
paid out afterwards with the wheat,
hop or wool crop of a single year.
This statement Is Introductory to an
observation on the profits and prosper
ity obtainable from industries through
out .the country districts, in contrast
with the disappointments that so often
follow efforts which so many make to
live and do business in the cities. For
those who will take hold of it, country
life offers" ten chances of success where
city life offers one. For many years
our ablest public economists have been
deprecating the strong trend or tendency
of population into the cities. But senti
mental warnings on such a subject
could have no effect. "What may have
effect is manifest proof of better
chances of success in the country than
in the city. This may offset the sup
posed fascinations of city life and the
glittering prizes offered in the lotteries
of Imaginary opportunity In the city,
when no argument of the common kind
would be of anyavail.
During recent years the development
of the city and the growth of urban
population have proceeded much faster
than the relative growth of the country.
But the law of compensation Is begin
ning to operate on the problem, and it
promises to do more In checking the
rush to the cities than all the argu
ments of economists, sociologists and
statesmen. After all that has been said
about the superficial attractions of the
city, the greatest attraction exerted by
the city upon the rural spirit Is the
promise of easier and quicker material
gains. But when this matter becomes
open or subject to debate; nay, indeed,
when conditions arise so that the facts
disprove it, the actual truth Is bound to
gain attention. "When it Is demonstrat
ed that our young people can do better
in the country" than in the city, they
will remain In the country; and experi
ence is now rapidly proving that this is
the case. For the larger number the
country is the place to make money and
to enjoy the best of life, free from the
stress of care. Quick transportation
brings country and city together; so
that people may live in the country and
yet have freedom of communication
with .the life of the city at the same
time escaping the multitudinous hur
dens of city life.
Hence it is that whereas formerly
during many years there was a steady
stream of tendency towards the city.
the evolutionary movement of the pres
ent time is producing a refluent wave
that rolls back on the country. The
:lty demands so much that little of the
property within It pays considerable
profits. Rural property, well managed,
may actually be better; and It needs
only to be demonstrated to the sensible
man that the gains of the city life cost
&s much as they are worth, and are ac
eompanled by privations for which
there Is no recompense, to make him
prefer the surer, safer and more inde
pendent profits of rural life.
Constantly in the city the people de
mand more and more expenditure, for
"public utilities," as the Jargon goes.
It seems there Is no possibility of set
ting a bound or limit to these demands.
Public taxation is employed to the ut
most possibility, to support these de
mands; and since this is found to be an
insufficient resource, bonds . are sold.
which stand as a mortgage on all the
property of the city for all time, to sup
ply present and anticipated wants; and
besides, there is a drastic .system of
personal or private taxation for 1m
provements which the public demands.
to be paid for by the owner of the ad
joining property. Moreover, the public
debts of all the important cities long
have been and still are increasing -rapidly;
and payment of Interest becomes
an lncreaslng'burden. "
The-growth of municipal debts, with
the burdens they Impose, thus becomes
a. reason whypeopIe who desire an In
dependent property should turn their
attention to the rural districts.' The
Oregonian is not sorry to see that the
tendency, so long in the direction of the
city, is now manifestly towards the
country again. Everybody can't live in
the city, and the more who. live in the
country the better both for city and
country. To see such numbers taking
the back track to the country districts
is a cheering fact; for even the cities
will not grow further till the coun
try fills up, or will grow further only
as an Industrial and -productive popu
lation shall fill the country round about
and make the most of the resources It
contains. FJ11 up the country and the
city will grow fast enough.
OREGON LEADING THE WAY. i
Every newspaper in the United
States, daily and weekly, and every
magazine, notices the result of the elec
tion in Oregon, and the indication from
it that the country is for Roosevelt.
Nothing Oregon at this time can do,
not the Xewis and Clark' Fair, nor any
thing nor everything else, can or will
obtain the attention of the country to
the. extent this incident has commanded
It This event has obtained universal
notice throughout the United States.
Do what we will or may, make every
exertion we can, and we shall not get
for Oregon the attention that this Inci
dent has given the state. In this facE
(not now speaking of the principles In
volved) lies all the vindication that The
Oregonian could have desired, for the
course it took during the campaign.
"Then Is there nothing but Roose
velt?" Let us .anticipate this inquiry.
No man is absolutely necessary to a
cause, but a man may be, in his time
and for his time, the representative and
embodiment of a cause. You never can
separate principles from men. There
is a mumping cant and puling
Jargon about "principles, net men,"
as if you could separate one
from the other. When you find a man
who, like Theodore Roosevelt, stands
for the best things in our American life,
and who, moreover, is sound and judi
cious and firm in his dealings with the
larger questions of international policy,
what else do you require? The man
always Is the embodiment of principles
and purposes and of forces In action.
These are the reasons why Theodore
Roosevelt Is now to be nominated, with
out a dissenting voice, in the conven
tion of a great party, for the Presi
dency of the United States. It fell to
the lot of Oregon to make the first em
phatic declaration, through the voice of
her people, to this end.
"A PRETTY QUARREL."
"William Jennings Bryan "gives it out
cold" that "the men who' are opposed to
Judge Parker will be in control' at St
Louis." Further, "they will nominate
the candidates and prepare the plat
form, and it will not be the New York
platfdrm or the New York candidates."
"Which raises, a pretty question for the
Democratic Convention. Owing to the
two-thirds rule, and with the assist
ance of Hearst and- Gorman, Bryan
may be able to "execute the purpose thus
declared. But, slrtce New v'York, in
every possible contingency or combina
tion, is absolutely Indispensable to
Democratic success, why should New
York be cut out so rudely, or cut out
at all?
Senator Daniel, of Virginia, whose
state, together with nearly the whole
South, Is for Parker, answers Bryan's
pretensions by saying, that the South
ern States, which will supply the bulk
of. the Democratic electoral votes, will
assert themselves for the New York
candidate. But this may not carry him
through. The drift of Senator Daniel's
remarks, further, is that "it will appear
to the group of Southern delegates, rep
resenting the majority of Democratic
votes in the electoral college, as men7
daclously offensive for any group of
Northern managers, representing states
that at this time are in the Republican
column, to attempt to run things with
a high hand in St Louis."
Furthermore, "with Mr. Bryan on one
hand, clamoring 'for supremacy and
able to deliver a very few votes in the
electoral college and with the bosses of
some Northern States, on the other
hand, that don't deliver any votes, de
manding precedence, it seems about
time for the states which furnish most
of the votes to raise meekly a voice and
with all due modesty ask for a day in
court."
These things, and some others, make
the" Democratic situation "a very pretty
quarrel as- It stands'
NORMAL SCHOOL WORK.
In The Oregonian a few days ago at
tention was called to the rapid progress
made In the work of harmonizing and
perfecting the public-school system of
this state. It was shown that the eight
grades of the common .schools have been
made uniform throughout the state, that
in nearly , every county high schools-
have been established providing a four
year course leading up to the freshman"
year of the State University, and that
the University has dropped all studies
which are properly included in the
high-school course.
In this connection it may not "be amiss
to refer to the recent action of the
Board, of Regents of the Monmouth
Normal School In adding one year to
the course at that Institution. That
action Is quite likely to lead to similar
action at the other normal schools, and
soon we shal have four-year courses
at each of the four institutions which
have been adopted by the state. To
say that, the people of the state believe
we have too many normal schools is
telling no secret, for the protest has
many times' been voiced. There Is no
opposition to the normal schools as
such, for there is a work for them to
do. The only objection that has been
raised is that in creating so many nor
mal schools the educational work has
been scattered and perhaps weakened
at the same time that the expense has
been Increased. If this additional year
which is being added to the normal
school course is in fact a year of train
ing designed to prepare the teachers
more 'thoroughly for their work, no op
position Is likely to be encountered. If,
on the other hand, the . -purpose Is
merely to add to the course those stu
dies which are necessary to complete
a high-school course, thus making the
state normal schools In effect local high
schools. It will not be surprising if
some one raises a protest The normal
schools should not be permitted to drift
away from the. purpose for which they
were created and are maintained to
train teachers for work in the public
schools.
Several of the normal schools have
been offering instruction in branches
which are also included in the common
school course. In other words, schools
maintained at. the expense of the state
are giving eighth-grade instruction.
There may be some justification for this,
but the average- man will be inclined to
say that no one should be admitted to a
state normal school until he has com
pleted the eighth grade in the common
schools. If instructors employed by the
state devote a portion of their time to
teaching normal students the common
school branches, there Is a weakening
of forces which cannot be good in its
effect For the same reason that the
State University has dropped the work
that should be done in the high school,
the normal schools should drop the
work that should be done hi the com
mon schools. Each institution, com
mon school, high school, normal school,
Agricultural College and State Univer
sity, should give Its attention to the
work for which It was particularly designed.
THE YICE-PRESnJENCY.
In the original formation of our Gov
ernment It was Intended that the Vice
President should be selected from the
first rank of American statesmen, and
this theory was put In practice in the
selection of John 'Adams and Thomas
Jefferson. Aaron Burr was a brilliant
politician rather than a statesman.
George Clinton, Elbrldge Gerry and
Daniel D. Tompkins were inferior in
ability to Aaron Burr. Tompkins owed
his selection to his patriotic devotion to
Madison's Administration in the "War of
1812-14. John C. Calhoun was In the
first rank of American statesmen.
Martin Van Buren was equal fo the
.possible responsibilities of his succes
sion to the Presidency, for he was at
once a very able and versatile man. He
had been Governor of New York, United
States Senator, Secretary of State, and
Minister to England, before he became
Vice-President Richard M. Johnson
was a mediocre man. John Tyler was
an aale and artful politician. George
M. Dallas was a man of good abilities.
So was Millard Fillmore. "William R.
King was of mediocre abilities, and was
in declining health when he was elected
Vice-President in 1852. John C. Breck
inridge was a man of brilliant talents
in politics, and a fine soldier In the Civil
"War. Hannibal Hamlin was a man of
sturdy good sense and moral courage,
but In no sense a superior man. An
drew Johnson was a man of great nat
ural ability, but an energetic dema
gogue rather than a statesman. Schuy
ler Colfax was a very commonplace
man, utterly unfit for the responsibili
ties of the Presidential succession.
Henry "Wilson was about the caliber of
Hannibal Hamlin, a sturdy man of
moral courage, but not really equal to
the responsibilities of the Presidency.
"William A. "Wheeler was a commonplace
man., who was In poor health when
nominated for Vice-President Chester
A. Arthur was a man of fine presence
and of excellent executive ability, and
he deserved the nomination that Blaine
wrested from him in 1884. Thomas A.
Hendricks was a man of excellent pub
lic ability, and Levi P. Morton was a
man of sound financial views at a time
when "free silver" was beginning to be
a dangerous heresy. Adlal E. Steven
son was a smodth, plausible free-sllver-lte,
who would have undone all Cleve
land's good work had he succeeded to
the Presidency. 1 Garret A. Hobai?t was
an able man, fully qualified for the
Presidency. Theodore Roosevelt has
been entirely equal to all the require
ments of the succession, following the
death of McKInley. He has discharged
the duties of his great office so ably
and uprightly that he is invariably
spoken of with personal respect by the
"independent" press that are opposed
to his election. The Springfield Re
publican and the New York Evening
Post have always given President
Roosevelt full credit for excellent abil
ity and straightforward public purpose.
Four Vice-Presidents, before Theodore
Roosevelt were elevated to the Presi
dential office through the deaths of
Presidents Tyler in 1841, Fillmore in
1850, Johnson in 18G5, and Arthur In
1SS1. Each failed at the end of his term
to obtain a Presidential nomination. In
the "Whig National Convention of 1844,
held In Baltimore, when he was Presi
dent, Tyler's name was not considered
among the candidates either for Presi
dent or Vice-President At the "Whig
Convention in Baltimore In 1852, Presi
dent. Fillmore received 133 votes, Gen
eral Scott 131 and "Webster 29 on the
first ballot On the last ballot Scott
had 159, Fillmore had 112 and "Web
ster 21. Andrew Johnson's name was
not considered in the Republican Con
vention of 1S6S, and In the Democratic
Convention he received a very small
vote. Chester A. Arthur in the Na
tional Republican Convention of 1884, at
Chicago, received 278 votes on the first
ballot, against 334 votes for Blaine, 93
for Senator Edmunds; 63 for Senator
Logan and 49 scattering.
Mr. Roosevelt Is the first Vice-President
raised to the Presidential office
through the death of the President who
has been nominated to the office of
President It is a splendid tribute to
the power of his forcible and impress
ing personality that he Is morally sure
of being nominated for President with
out any opposition. This fact assures
his election. There Is no instance in
the history of the Republican party
when it was absolutely united that It
was defeated. The Republican party in
1S84, when Cleveland beat Blaine, was
badly divided in New York State.
Blaine was opposed by Conkllng and
Gurtls, his old-time Republican associ
ates. He was opposed by Henry "Ward.
Beecher and by Carl Schurz. In 1892,
when Cleveland again ran, the party
was divided. Tom Reed was bitter
against Harrison; so was Piatt, and no
body expected Harrison? election.
Roosevelt has managed to command the
support of all the warring elements of
the party.
NOW FOR LIFE'S BATTLE.
After all, your diploma will prove to
be little more than a souvenir of your
college days. In a gilt frame hanging
on the wall of your room. It will look
very pretty, and you will be proud of
It, but In a few years you will have for
gotten the meaning of Its stately Latin
phraseology. The great, busy, work-a
day world will neither know nor care
whether you have a diploma or not The
question which the world will ask uo
Is, "What can you do?" and a college
diploma will be taken as very slight
evidence of your ability.
If you become a teacher, your diplo
ma will count for something and may
secure you a good position, but if you
J seek employment in business, in pro
fesslonal pursuits or even In such ordl
nary work as farming, you must dem
onstrate by actual performance the ex
tent of your powers." The railroad
manager,, the manufacturer, the bank
er, the city editor of a newspaper, may
each need your services, but yon must
begin at the bottom and climb up.
Your native ability, developed by the
mental discipline and knowledge ac
quired at college, may increase the rap
idity of your promotion, but the long
list of names at the bottom, of your
diploma will not make your progress
easier. If you take up the practice of
law or medicine, your diploma will
draw no patronage. By small begin
nings you must show the world what
you. can do, and when the right kind of
evidence has been presented the world
will not withhold its approval. Your
diploma Is a beautiful souvenir, but put
It away now and take off your coat and
go to work.
That most vulgar of ambitions the
desire to become "the richest man that
ever lived" has been ascribed to John
D. Rockefeller, the great Standard Oil
magnate, whose methods, looking to the
realization of this ambition, have been
recently exposed by a series of articles
In McClure's Magazine. It Is not prob
able, according to a writer of painstak
ing research, in the Jewish Magazine
Menorah, that this ambition will be re
alized. This writer from his study of
the Talmud and other ancient sources
finds that before the Christian era there
were men of far greater accumulations
of wealth than those of any multl-mll-lionalre
of the present time. He men
tions In proof of this estimate Korah,
who by robbing Joseph of but a third
of the fortune the latter had accumu
lated while he was Pharaoh's Prime
Minister, came into the possession- of
coin the value of which, according to
our standard, was $3,000,000,000. He
computes Solomon's wealth at $500,000,
000, and cites three Jews in Jerusalem
in Roman times who were able to meet
expenditures of $100,000,000 a year for
twenty-one years, one of them giving
his daughter a dowry of $425,000,000.
These stories make the wealth of
Rockefeller shrink in value and make
the day of the fulfillment of his ambi
tion to be yet afar off. It can hardly
be expected, however, that this discour
aging presentment will put a check
upon his striving. These richer and
richest men are so far in the back
ground that only the plodding savants
discover them, and even then their re
lation to the wealth of the world is so
dim and uncertain, and has been so
-long dispelled by time and change as
to be practically meaningless. The to
day and the tomorrow of wealth are Its
all-absorbing eras; its yesterdays are
uninteresting.
If the Eastern newspaper reports are.
not overdrawing the picture-, many of
the Immigrants who are pouring Into
this country on cut-rate tickets are
much inferior to the Chinese in clean
liness, morality and about every other
characteristic desirable In good citizen
ship. And yet organized labor, which
bitterly resents any "leeway" In the ad
ministration of the Chinese Immigration
laws, does not seem alarmed over this
Invasion of the lowest of European
types. The East is overcrowded with
humanity of this class, and the few
honest laborers who may be mixed in
with the offscourings of the Old "World
will find but small demand for their la
bor In the' congested cities. The same
reasons that prevented them coming
from Europe before the rate was re
duced to $10 per head will prevent them
coming farther "West, where "hewers of
wood and drawers of wa,ter" are in de
mand. Capital may not suffer by this
invasion, but if the necessity for shut
ting out the Chinese existed it Is cer
tainly" time to call a halt on the cut-
rate immigrants which the warring
steamship companies are now dumping
on our shores.
The report of the Department of Com
merce and Labor on mines and mining
In this country for 1902 the latest
available shows that during that year
there were 151,516 mines, quarries and
wells In operation, giving employment
to 619,856 officials, clerks and wage
earners, and costing their owners or
operators $624,245,330. The value of the
product mined was $796,826,417, so that
the net gain over and above expenses
for labor and material was $172,581,087.
The number of operators,, corporate and
individual, was 46,856, the net .profit to
each being only $3684, or for each mine,
quarry or well $1139. Stock corpora
tions were practically the only operat
ors and owners. Their capitalization
was enormous, and the profits to stock
holders were very small when the gen
eral average was struck- The familiar
story of the little fishes that were de
voured by the sharks was exemplified
in the great mining corporation pool
every time a dividend was declared.
New York papers arriving yesterday
contained numerous half-tone cuts of
the steamer General Slocum. The pic
tures lacked the variety noticeable In
the General Slocum pictures printed on
the Pacific Coast the day following the
disaster. The big Fall River liner Puri
tan posed for the General Slocum pic
ture used by a Puget Sound paper, and
the Hudson River liner Albany passing
Grant's tomb on the Hudson was used
by another Coast paper as a half-tone
cut of the General Slocum. All of the
General Slocum pictures printed by the
New York papers were of the same
boat
Mrs. Edison, the wife of the "wizard,"
has been doing some inventing herself.
She noticed, that few men attended the
services at the Orange (N. J.) Metho
dist Church, and was told that many
of them stayed at home to mind the
baby while wlfie went to church. Mrs.
Edison thereupon planned and estab
lished a playroom under the church,
with games for the children and a nurse
to look after them. So now the families
of Orange can check the baby, while
father and mother go to church. Just
what new excuse the men are preparing
now is not stated.
Perhaps James Inman, of Roseburg,
who announces himself as a candidate
for the Presidency, hasn't heard that
"something nearly as good" Is going
begging in the shape of a Vlce-Presl-dentlal
nomination. General Lane, also
of Roseburg, made no such mistake in
1860.
These are rare June days, says the
Providence Journal, in the sense that
they are more like October. This rare
remark applies to the Oregon June dnys
of the present year, "a little fire In the
grate" being one of the essentials of
comfort mornings and evenings.
The Government is actually finding
out a great deal about the General Slo
cum that the Government officially was
supposed to know all about before.
Numerous gentlemen who do not want
the .Vice-Presidency are passing anx-
ious-moments while scannintr th news
from Chicago.
CURRENCY SYSTEM FOR PANAMA
WASHINGTON, June 20. Secretary Taf t
and the commissioners for Panama today
concluded arrangements for a currency
system for Panama, which is to be sub
mitted to the Panama Legislature for rati
fication. The plan already has been out
lined in these dispatches. It provides gen
erally for a sufficiently reserved bimetallic
system.
The following statement was given out
by the "War Department:
An agreement was reached today at
the "War Department between Secretary
Taft and the Panama Commissioners, by
wnicn the gold currency of the united
States shall be legal tender In the Repub
lic of Panama, and the money of Panama
shall be legal tender In the canal zone.
This agreement will" be transmitted by the
Panama commissioners to their govern
ment, and. if adopted by the constitutional
convention, will settle the question of cur
rency to be used In the construction of the
canal.
"The substance of the agreement Is that
a gold dollar of the same value shall be
the standard of value in Panama, and that
the currency of the United Sttes shall be
legal tender there, with provision for the
issue oi iracuonai silver currency or. tne
Republic of Panama. It Is provided that
such silver currency of the republic shall
be coined to any amount in the nominal
value of $1,600,000 In gold; the silver to be
obtained by tho recolnage of the Colom
bian coins now in circulation on the Isth
mus, and that at the option of the Canal
Commission, if the construction of the
canal shall show such coinage to bo neces
sary, there shall be an additional colnasro
of fractional silver to the amount of
$1,500,000. The parity of all the silver
coined shall be maintained by the deposit
in some bank, in the United States of 15
per cent of the nominal value of such
fractional currency and the net seignior
age on the amount coined at the request
of the Canal Commission. In order to
prevent the manipulation of exchange at
the expense of the public and canal works.
the republic and the commission agree to
co-operate by the sale of drafts at reason
able rates to keep down the exchange on
New York and thus prevent a disturbance
of the parity."
CAPITAL WILL MAKE NO. FIGHT
MacVeagh Informs Roosevelt He Will
Get Support.
"WASHINGTON. June 20. President
Roosevelt was advised today that a large
proportion of all the great financial con
cerns will support his candidacy. Ex-
Attorney-General "Wayne MacVeagh gave
him this assurance. Mr. MacVeagh." who
Is CQunsel for the Pennsylvania Railroad,
and many of the leading anthracite coal
companies, took luncheon with the Presi
dent today. The President has now been
repeatedly advised that all the "Wall street
Interests dominated by J. P. Morgan will
contribute liberally to the Republican
campaign fund. Mr. Morgan Informed
Cornelius N. Bliss, now in Chicago, to this
effect and told him that ample funds
would be supplied by the leading cor
porate Interests. Pledges of support and
assistance have been given the President's
friends from a large percentage of the
leading financial and commercial Institu
tions, out he has also been Informed of
the opposition to him on the part of 'the
Rockefeller Interests,, which Include the
Standard Oil Company and the Interests
centered in James J. Hill.
The President has been told that J.
Pierpont Morgan sent personal, represen
tatives to Chicago to assure the party
leaders there of sincere support and lib
eral contributions.
PRESIDENT RECEIVES VETERANS
Members of Twenty-Third New York
Regiment Visit the White House.
WASHINGTON. June 20. President
Roosevelt today received the delegation of
about 100 members of the Twenty-third
Regiment, Veterans' Association, of New
York. They are in "Washington on a
pleasure trip. In greeting the veterans,
the President said:
"I wish to say one word of greeting to
you as comrades and fellow New York
ers. I hall the chance of welcoming to
the White House veterans of the Twenty-
third Regiment For many years, in one
position and another, I was connected
with the New York National Guard, and
therefore I understand, as only a man
thus connected can understand, what the
Twenty-third Regiment has done and
what it means.
"I take peculiar pride, as head of the
Nation, in welcoming representatives of
those men who performed duties that
ought, under ideal conditions, be per
formed by all Americans. I congratulate
you and thank you and bid you welcome
here."
At the conclusion of his remarks, which
were received with cheers, the President
shook hands with each person present
FOUR-STORY BRICK COLLAPSES
One Person Is Killed, Another Burled
Under Debris, and Seven Injured.
KANSAS CITY, June 20. One person
was killed, another probably Is dead,
burled under tons of debris, and seven
others were injured, one fatally, here
today by the collapse of the four-story
brick building at Third and Delaware
streets, occupied by the Block Preserv
ing Company. The collapse was caused
by the explosion of ammonia on the
fourth floor. One side of the structure,
extending Its whole height, fell In. There
were 50 girls on the upper stories at
the time, and a panic prevailed among
them. Many escaped down the rear flre
escape, while others were rescued by fire
men. The dead:
BERT BCHVEN, Joplln, Mo.
Burled under the ruins:
LILA ALLEN", aged 13.
The injured Claude Chambers, may die; Mls3
Martha Phiater, aged 10, condition serious;
Mtes Viola Baker, 15 years, serious; Mrs. Mary
Bolen, 38 years, serious; Miss Lizzie Rollers,
forewoman, bruised; Patrolman Gallagher, cut
on face and bands; W. II. Miller, fireman, cut
and bruised.
Chambers was burled for four hours.
The building was 25 years old. It was
damaged during the fatal tornado In ISSo
and had never been properly repaired.
Commutes Sentence of Disbarment.
HONOLULU, June 20. The Supreme
Court has commuted the senttneo of dis
barment passed upon G. A. Davis to sus
pension of practice until next October.
G. A. Davis Is a woll-known attorney of
Honolulu. He was disbarred from prac
tice In the courts of the territory last
August for his connection with the case
of John K. Sumner, an aged capitalist,
whose relatives sought to secure his es
tate. Davis took tho matter of his dis
barment to President Roosevelt: but was
informed that tho President had no power
to Interfere vlth the action of the court
Standard Oil Absorbs" Russian Trust.
ST. PETERSBURG, June 30. According
to tho Novoo vrcmyn. tne Russian oil
combination hat capitulated to the Stand
ard Oil Company, and even tho Roths
child and Knobel lnterosts have como to
term with the American concern. The
whole output of the Baku wells Is at
present In American nanus, tne rivals
having, become menus.
Sentence of Vagrant Suspended.
HONOLULU, June 20. The sentence
paused upon Darling Natureman, who was
convicted In a Police Court here for
vaerancy. has been suspended to allow
him to leave for San Francisco tomor
row on tho steamor Sierra.
Inheritance-Tax Laws Valid.
DENVER, Colo., June 20. A decision
given by the State Supreme Court today
affirmed tne constitutionality ot tne m
herltance-tax law.
LEITER LEAVES ALL TO FAMILY
Widow of the Well-Known Merchant
Gets One-Third of Estate.
WASHINGTON. June 20. The will or
the late Levi Z. Leiter. the Chicago mil
lionaire, was filed today In this city. It,
names Mary T. Leiter and Joseph Leiter,
his widow and son. as executors, and they,
together with his daughters, Nancy Lath
rop Carver Leiter and Marguerite Hyde
Leiter, and Seymour Morris, of Chicago,
are designated as trustees.
The will leaves one-third of the estate,
outside of specific reservations of coal
lands, to the widow, and the rest is left
for equal distribution, per stirpes, among
the children. There Is nothing In the will
which Indicates the total value ot Mr.
Letter's estate.
Specific provision Is made to guarantee
Joseph Leiter an annual income of at
least 510,000 under any circumstances.
Mention la made of the marriage settle
ment of $700,)00 previously made .on one
of the daughters, Lady Curzon, In addi
tion to which the will bequeaths 51.000,000
more as a trust fund for her, the total of
51.700,000 to be charged against her as an
advancement in the distribution of the es
tate. The trustees named for this Inde
pendent fund are Joseph Leiter. Robert T.'
Lincoln. Chicago; Francis Nathaniel Cur
zon, of London, and St John Freemantle
Broderlck, of London.
The will cites that during his lifetime
Mr. Leiter gave the following amounts in
"advance": To Lady Curzon, 51.700,000
(including the $1,000,000 created by the
will), to be charged against her In the
general estate; to each of the daughters,
Nancy and Marguerite, 1000 shares of
stock of the Chicago Railway Company
to bo valued at $155 a share, and 1000
shares- of the capital stock of the Edison
Company, of Chicago, to be valued at
$143,000, making a total charge against
each of $300,000. to be treated as advance
ments In the division of the income and
principal of the trust
To Joseph Leiter, advancements, partly
covered by notes signed by him, but can
celed and not to be taken Into account
and partly evidenced by entries In books,
amounting to $2,000,000. the latter to be
charged as an advancement
The will says Mr. Leiter has purchased
title of 7500 acres of coal lands In Illinois.,
and certain shares of the capital stock of
the Universal Company, and directs that a
corporation may be formed under the Illi
nois laws to operate these lands. The
trustees are directed to permit Joseph
Leiter to manage and control these lands.
The dividends and profits are to be ap
plied as a credit to the amount Invested
in the coal lands, the earnings to bear in
terest at 5 per cent per annum. Whenever
Joseph Leiter repays to the estate left by
Mr. Leiter In fiill the whole amount in
vested In coal lands, the fuel company is
to be conveyed absolutely to him.
SEES JAPAN TIRING OF WAR.
Russia So Regards Rumor of Willing
ness for Mediation..
ST. PETERSBURG, June 20-An in
terview wltii Baron Suyematsu, pub
lished in Paris, and suggesting that
Japan is willing to accept the
mediation of a power equally well dis
posed to Russia and Japan, while re
garded as a tentative utterance, at
tracts much atention. coming from the
Marquis Ito. It Is generally Interpret
ed as meaning that Japan Is shrinking
before the prospect of a long, exhaust
ing war. Government officials do not
show tho slightest disposition, how
ever, to relax their position, the senti
ment being that, having been forced
into the war and driven to make heavy
sacrifices, to stop just now, when Rus
sia is prepared to accomplish some
thing, is quite impossible. Diplomatic
circles are keenly interested, but the
opinion is unanimously expressed that
it will be impossible for Russia to .con
sent to end the war with her military
prestige Impaired. Besides, It Is point
ed out that Baron Suyematsu admits,,
that Japan has not reduced her de
mands.
The French Embassies are hardly dis
posed to believe that Baron Suyematsu
spoke by authority, and the American
Embassy is disinclined to discuss the
matter, and to suggest that if a medi
ator Is wanted the United States fulfills
the condition prescribed by tho Baron.
RUSSIANS NOW ABLE TO REST
Kuropatkln Reports Enemy Has Not
Gone Beyond Vafangow.
ST. PETERSBURG. June 20.-GeneraI
Kuropatkln has telegraphed to the Em
peror, under date of June IS, as follows:
"General Stakelberg reports that the
enemy has not advanced beyond Vafan
gow. It is reported that three bodies of
troops are extending their front from be
tween Vafangow and Tschonjon. After
two days of fighting and two tiring
night marches by difficult mountainous
roads, the troops have been able to rest.
Their morale Is excellent It has not yet
been possible to procure precise details
ot our losses. Accurate nunmers are
only procurable In the following regi
ments: First division, East Siberian Rifles, 15
officers killed and 49 wounded, 12 of whom
remained on the battlefield; 3S6 soldiers
killed and 992 wounded, 5S6 of whom re
mained on the battlefield, but some of
whom, however, were picked up by the
ambulance train. In the Thirty-third,
Thirty-fifth and Thirty-sixth Regiments
1 officer and 120 soldiers were killed and
19 officers and 604 soldiers wounded. Nine
ty-six of these soldiers remained on the
battlefield. The first artillery brigade lost
10 officers and 103 soldiers killed; the Ninth
Brigade of Artillery, 1 officer and 25 sol
diers killed; the Tobolk Regiment 1 of
ficer and 3 soldiers killed, 1 officer and 40
men wounded and 3 missing; the Mar
schansk Regiment 6 officers and 131 men
wounded. 11 men killed and 8 missing."
CORRESPONDENT IS RELEASED
Fuller Gives an Account of the Situa
tion at Port Arthur.
INDIANAPOLIS, Ind., June 20. Tho
Indianapolis News today received a spe
cial cable from Hector Fuller, Its spe
cial staff war correspondent at Chefoo,
giving the following account of his re
lease from Port Arthur and tho situa
tion inside the besieged fortress:
"Chefoo, June 20. Af tor spending five
days In a Russian prison. I was re
leased and put on board a Chinese Junk
and sent to this place.
"The stories of starvation In Port Ar
thur spread by the Japanese are untrue,
as stores and supplies' are constantly
arriving at the besieged city from Chi
nese ports. The Japanese blockade is
Ineffective.
"The garrison consists of between
50,000 and 60,000 troops, and the health
of both soldiers and civilians is good.
The damaged battleships have all been
repaired and the harbor entrance
cleared of obstructions. Immense new
forts have been constructed, and. In my
opinion, the place Is in no immediate
danger of falling into the hands of the
Japanese.
"The Japanese attack by land made
on the 6th Inst, was 'easily repulsed. I
was the first correspondent to report
the blockade."
(Mr. Fuller was 'rowed across to Port
Arthur from the Miao Uto Islands by
two Chinamen in an open boat and was
on landing; June 13, seized, blindfolded
and thrown into a prison. Inside the
fortress, a3 was announced at the time
by the Associated Press.)
Fleets Said to Have Met.
TOKIO. June 20. It Is reported that
VIce-Admiral Kamimura is engaging the
Russian Vladivostok squadron off Oshl
ma. The Navy Department has no con
firmation of the report out nopes if may
be trus.
NOTE AND COMMENT.
"War correspondents hr Illinois today wlU
report heavy firing from the direction of
Chicago. ,-
A mad engineer running a train on a
Rocky Mountain division is out of place
m real life. He should be in melo
drama. Japanese cartoons depict Russia as an
octopus, it's a case then ot octopus eat
octopus when the Standard Oil Company
gets after the Russians.
This Fall will be published a book called
"Who's Who on the Stage." A much
larger volume would tv "Whn's Xnt- Rr
Many as He Thinks on the Stage-?1'
Honest would you have sinlled to see a
Spokane motorman, with three highway
robbers in the car. running away from
the pursuing plain-clothes detectives,
whom he had mistaken for drunken men?
Russians are now saying that Vladivos
tok Is a better harbor than Port Arthur,
so what does the fall of the fortress sig
nify. The only trouble with Vladivostok
Is that Nature's blockade with Ice can
not be broken.
Excavation still going on In the Forum
at Rome, under direction of the Italian
government has uncovered a capstan, of
unknown antiquity. Doubtless It was
employed In winding up the affairs of the
ancient Roman Empire.
When President Harper, of Chicago
University, went to McGill University re
cently to' be LL. D.'d once more, one of
the Canadian speechmakers referred to
his as. "Midas of the golden touch."
Many a "golden touch." indeed, has Dr.
Harper made.
The following plaintive question ap
peared unanswered In the correspondence
columns of the Philadelphia Inquirer:
"Will some one of the readers or this paper
please tell me how to live on $12.00 a veek?
My rent is $14.00; we have 10 In family (all
children).
Russell Sage might be able to answer
this, but it Is doubtful that another per
son capable of doing so Is in existence.
On Sunday we expressed the opinion
that bed was the. proper place for sauo
people at 3:30 in the morning. It Is with
pleasure wo notice that the Mazamas
subscribe to the same declaration of be
lief, despite their heralded ideas of crawL
Ing to the top of Inspiration Knoll in the
Improper hours of Sunday morning. It Is
Just as much fun to plan a picnic as to
spend the day on one, and you have
none of the discomforts.
At a colliery, near Leeds, Is a shaft wtta
a staging around It, Its height being con
siderably above the average of such erec
tions in the West Riding, says the Argo
naut A miner had fallen off this stag
ing to the ground, and on recovering con
sciousness, was offered a glass of water
by one of the men who had picked him
up. Looking at the water In disgust
and amazement he exclaimed: "
, hoo fur doos tha' ha' to fall at
this pit afore they gives yer brandy?"
In Mount Holly, N. J., a boy of 16 re
solved to play a practical joke on his
father, so one evening last week, when
the man was returning to his home the
boy jumped on him from behind with a
cry of "JIands up!" The father had an
open knife In his hand, and, thinking he
was In the grasp of a. robberv-.struck. out
with 'his weapon.' He pierced hl3" son's
heart with the blade, the wound proving
fatal in a few minutes. There Is lots ot
fun In practical joking, although some
people condemn It
When the jlngals cease their jingling
and the Thibetans are at rest the officers
of the British expedition go hunting, and
a correspondent draws an exciting picture
of a Captain chasing a showa, which, it
appears, Is a species of deer that has
never been seen in captivity. The gal
lant Captain, after galloping close to tha
showa, jumped off his horse, seized the
quarry round the neck and rolled over
and over with it down a slope until
caught in some rose bushes. The animal
was brought into" camp, and was to have
been sent to London, but some one gave
it a meal of salt and the only showa In
captivity passed out of the ken of circus
managers.
Some curious statistics regarding the
class graduating from Princeton this year
have been gathered by the Nassau Herald.
The average age of graduates Is 22 years
and 6 months, the weight is 143 pounds
and the height 5 feet 10 inches. Of the
Intended vocations, business is the most
popular, while law and medicine follow,
with civil engineering and teaching next
Football and baseball are the favorite
sports, while the preferable style of
beauty Is the brunette and the favorite
name is Helen. Helen must have brown
hair and blue eyes. In the entire class
185 smoke, and only 53 began smoking In
college. The seniors boast of kissing 151
girls and retaining 614 girl correspondents.
WEX. J.
OUT OF THE GINGER JAR.
"Do you ever feel as though there was
nothing In life for you?" "No. Life's al
ways full of work for me, and they never let
me forget It." Chicago Record-Herald.
"Do you think that matrimony will add to
the duration of human life?" "Yes. I don't
see how most of the divorce lawyers would
live without it." Cleveland Plain Dealer.
Crabshaw He has the Inventive faculty very
highly developed. Crawford What has he in
vented? Crabshaw Nothing, so far as I know.
But when his wife goes out he can think o
things to keep the baby amused by the hour.
Judge.
"I'll have you know, stranger, that I belong
to Chicago," said the Yankee. " 'Deed, an"
wha'd hae thocht It?" quoth the skeptic Scot.
"Frae the wey ye've been speaking, I thocht
Chicago belonged tae to you." Glasgow Even
ing Times.
The Limit Comcrib Conrad Ain't it dis
gusting de way dese foreigners Is crowding
In everywhere? Next-House Noonan Fierce;
de last time I wuz in Jail dey put me in a cell
wid a Pole an' a Daso. Wot yer t'Ink o" dat?
Puck.
Elsie Ma, tell me some profanity, won't
you? Mamma Why. Elsie! Little girls
mustn't use profane words. Elsie Oh. I
don't want to say 'em. I Just want to think
of them when I fall down and bump myself.
Catholic Standard and Times.
"Miss Kate Fallon will sing 'For All Eter
nity!' " was the startling announcement calm
ly made by the chairman of the Home Govern
ment Branch at "the branch's last concert of
the season" yesterday. The song, however,
only lasted five minutes." Glasgow Evening
Times.
Mr. Sauer (to his wife) How horrid of yoa
to be always looking as sour as a crab-apple!
Just look at Mrs. X . over yonder; the very
picture of cheerfulness. Mm. Sauer You seem
to forget my dear, that Mrs. X is a widow.
New Yorker.
"Don't you think it Is wrong for your hus
band to bet on horse raxes?" said the pru
dent woman. "It is. very frequently," an
swered xsjing Mrs. Torklns. "The trouble
is that you can't tell when until after the
race Is run, and then it's too late." Wash
ington Star.