s THE MORNIKG OREGOmAtf, TUESDAY, ASTOASY 2i, 1905. SHUT OUT SETTLERS Charge Made Against Butte Creek Company. OFfJCJAS MAY BE INDICTED Men Who Fenced the Public Range, It Is Alleged, Have Long Been Shielded by Powerful Po litical Influence. The -work of the Federal grand jury rtvas quiet yesterday and will be for a day or bo, until Mr. Heney, the director of the investigations, recovers from an attack of the grip and is able once more to assume charge of the Govern ment's case. The District Attorney was able to finish the -work of yesterday, but at the adjournment hour nnt lmmediatelyto bed and Dr. Mackenzie was called to attend him. It is promised that the sickness can be driven away In a cou ple of days at the latest. Yesterday was spent in examining the witnesses from Fossil who are here to tell of the workings of the Butte Creek Land & Livestock Com pany. W. W. Banks, Assistant Dis trict Attorney, will continue the work in the same direction today and will in all probability be able to finish with the witnesses called. If so, the exam inations into the Butte Creek case will have been finished. Whether or not indictments will be returned at once is unknown, though it is supposed that the documents will not be made public until the batch now being prepared is entirely finished and ready to return to the court. Investigate Butte Creek Holdings. The trouble resultant from the opera tions of the Butte Creek Company has been brewing for some six years. In 1839 the company built fences throughout the country around Fossil and practically chut the smaller settlers and landholders out of any land other than their own holdings, and even left no egress there. Complaints began to pour Into the offices of the District Attorney and of the Com missioner of the General Land Office, and, In October, 1903, a civil suit was com menced against the Butte Creek Company In the Federal Court. The case was held up on a demurrer to the complaint in March, 1904. About this time, however while the case was pend ing, a partial agreement was reached be tween John Hall. District Attorney, and the representatives of the company, by which the company was to take down some of the fences built and thus remove the cause of Bull. In August, 1901. however, more com plaints began to pour into the office of the District Attorney, and he sent a special agent out to investigate whether or not the company had fulfilled its part of the agreement. This official reported that none of the fences had been taken down, and then Mr. Hall made up hia mind to indict, at the October term of court, the officers of the company ex-State Senator W. W. Stelwer. H. H. Hendricks, and others. F P. Mays was the attorney for the company, and he went to Hall, so it is eaid, asking him not to indict the offi cers, especially Stelwer, but Hall was ob durate, and still said he would bring them all to book for having violated the law and neglected their agreement to amend. Attempt to Shield Declared. Mr. Maya, not being able to do anything to change Mr. Hall's determination, went to prominent politicians, it Is said, and enlisted their support. One of the Oregon delegation, so it is said, went to Mr. Hall and told the District Attorney that he would not permit Senator Stelwer to be disgraced by criminal indictment; that if he wanted to bring an action, to bring a civil one, but that no criminal proceed ings should be commenced. The case was then dropped for the time, and is now pending in court under the originnl civil suit of 1903. Gillman and French on the Grill. As Foon as the Butt.c Creek case is fln irhed the affairs of the Gillman and French Company, of The Dalles, will be brought under the limelight, so it is said. This company is reported to have prac tically surrounded the whole of "Wheeler County with its fences so that the settlers have no upc of the range not given by the company. The scheme of these companies is to have employes take up a string of claims in a big square, enclosing thousands of acres of Government lands. These claims are then fenced and the Government lands are enclosed. Those taking land inside of the outer circle have no means of getting either in or out and are subjected to many inconveniences and abuses by the men working for the company until many of them abandon their claims. The Butte Creek Company has one pasture contain ing 23.000 acres fenced in the manner in dicated, and controls six smaller ones. It is the intention of the Government to indict all of those companies in the state which have been fencing lands to the ex clusion of settlers. George Sorenson yesterday filed hts bond of $4000. required under his Indict ment for perjury, with the clerk of the Federal Court. The bond was signed by the Fidelity Guaranty and Trust Com panv of New York, the same company al ready having signed one bond for S4000. Sorenson is now under $12,000 for three cases in the Federal Court, one for con spiracy, one for bribery and one for per jury. IN THE SHADOW OF THE BARS BY RICHARD ROE. THERE was once a time when Robert could write a cbeck In four figures. He can yet but he doesn't. The other evening Robert began to make the rounds of the thirst emporiums. 'Be fore he had finished he was aware that the number of emporiums was so great that his stock of the necessary would not last the round. Then Robert began to plan. Ho was standing on the corner of Third and Burnsldo streets when he "began to plan. So was Officer Endicott. Robert re membered that he know a bartender In the vicinity, and to the bartender he Jour neyed. But the bartender announced that the boss had given orders that no credit was to be extended in Robert's case. Hence Robert once more wandered Into the night. Officer Endicott was still standing oa the corner. He had an eye on -Robert. He Sad seen Robert before. He watched Rob ert as that individual took from his pocket a. blank check. He saw Robert scribble on the check with the stub of a lead pen cil. He saw this same Robert enter an other- thirst emporium and the officer fol lowed to be in at the death. "Cash thlsr Robert asked the man who wore the apron. ' Robert was interrupted. "Come with me," said a sepulchral voice la his ear. He turned and saw Officer Endicott. "What for?" demanded Robert. "You ought to know better than to at tempt to work a bogus check," replied the officer, and there was deep scorn In his. voice. "Bogus check!" exclaimed Robert. Then Officer Endicott asked to see the paper. His Jaw dropped. This is what he read; ""I owe this dump Jl for drinks received.' "Thas aright.' stammered Robert. "I cn write check In lour, figures. Ain't goia do it, though. Cos me three years once." "He does this frequently, you know," the bartender explained. "We Just keep these to prove to him afterward that he really got the drinks. It's all right, of ficer." Then Officer Endicott turned and walked from the room with fixed and glistening eyes thinking of the manual and the "sys tem." Once outside in the dark both manual and system were forgotten and Officer Endicott risked a fine by breaking into a prolonged roar. EASTERN BAHK0ADEE HERE, New York Central Official Talks of' Lewis and Clark Exposition. John Gill. Pacific Coast freight agent of the New York Central lines. Is In the city for a short visit, looking over bis field. Mr. Gill will, on leaving Portland, visit the cities of Puget Sound and will return to Portland again on his return to his bead- quarters at San Francisco. . ' The visitor Is just returning .from a trip- through the East and tells many incidents to show how well the Lewis and Clark Fair Is known throughout the Eastern and Middle Western districts. Much of this knowledge is coming through railroad ad vertising and the efforts of the raTxoad men, but the opinion which is prevailing that the Fair is not being advertised in the East is a mistaken one, according to Mr. Gill. TO COMMENCE W0SK AT ONCE City Engineer Orders Labor to Begin Immediately on First Street. City Engineer Charles Wanzer yesterday ordered Glebisch & Joplln to commence work Immediately on First street between Madison and Columbia. The Improvement has been delayed for a great many months by the unsecmlng nonchalance of the rail road companies, but today the contractors will break ground regardless of any re monstrances. For some months all has been in readi ness to commence the work, but owing to plans the railroad company had in view for chancing its tracks the improvement of First street has been delayed repeated ly. The pavement is to be stone block and will be laid by Messrs. Glebisch & Joplln, Smyth Sc. Howard and J. W. Sweeney. PEBS0NAXMENTI0N. Anton Nolte, a prominent business man of Pendleton, Is at the Imperial. Leroy Lomax, Prosecuting Attorney at Baker City, is registered at the Imperial. Henry E. Ankeny, of Eugene, is in Portland for a short visit- He is at the imperial. "W. E. Brock, a well-known druggist of Pendleton, is at the Imperial for a few days visit. A. R. Burford, a prominent banker of Walla Walla, is in Portland on a short business visit. F. A. Seufert, of The Dalles, is In Port land, on his return from Salem, where he has been attending the sessions of the Legislature. Malone Joyce, traveling passenger agent of the Colorado Midland, Is in the city on an official visit from his headquarters at San Francisco. J. H. Hcfler and wife havo returned from a year's sojourn In Europe. During their absence they visited the most im portant cities on the continent. OREGONIAN NEWS BUREAU, Wash ington. Jan. 23. S. G. Cosgrove, of Pom eroy. Wa6h., was today admitted to prac tice before the Supreme Court. Senator Fulton today Introduced to the President Judge James A. Fee, of Pendle ton, who brought Oregon's electoral vote to Washington. NEW YORK. Jan. 23. Special.) North western people registered at "New York hotels today as follows: , From Portland W. EL Morris, at the Grand Union; W. W. Bailey, at the Im perial. From Seattle W. D. Hayncs, at the Im perial; T. W. Nelson. F. DImlck. at the Grand Union; R. D. Morrill, at the Hol land, i From Spokane A. Bernstein, at the Park-Avenue. Run Causes Savings Bank to Close. COLUMBUS, O., Jan. 21 Alarm at the suicide today of Charles H. Houseman, cashier of the East Side Savings Bank, caused a run on the bank. The suicide Is said to have been due to business worry. Upon application of the directors a re ceiver has been appointed. The doors of the bank have been closed. The assets are given by Attorney How ard at 5250,000; liabilities $423,000. of which 33S4.400 la Individual deposits. TO CUKE COLD XX ONS DAY, Take Laxative Bromo Quinine Tablets. An ruXtsts refund the money It It tails to cure. X. W. Grove" ognsure Is on each box. SSe. THE OVERWORKED EYES. The faded Eye. the red and. inflamed Eye, the Eye that needs care, relieved by 34 ur la. Jiurtee Eye Reedy Co.. Chios. THE CZAR I WONDER IF THE CROWN WILL PROTECT ME VERY LONG? t TO STOP STRIKES Union Officers Organize for Mutual Benefit WILL HOLD OPEN MEETINGS Hope to Secure Weil-Known Speakers to Explain Industrial Situation " Labor Conferences Will Be Held at the Fair. 'The, Union Officers' Association, the lat est formation!. In labor-union circles, was .fully organized! at a meeting held last Sunday, and is now about ready to take up the work for which it was formed. This association is composed of a mem bership taken from the- various labor or ganizations in the city, and consists of the president, secretary and one other member of each of the local unions. It Is to be an advisory organization, and as such will consider and advise on air labor matters referred to it by the different unions. It also has as one ot its objects educa tion along social and economic lines. Open meetings will be held at which various subjects relating to labor will be discussed, and it is the intention to secure from time to time labor leaders and speakers of Na tional reputation for the purpose of ad dressing these meetings. It is also understood that this associa tion may confer with the Lewis and Clark Fair Commission In regard to the labor conferences to be held during the Exposi tion, and that It, will assist the commis sion in arranging for the conferences. No active work has as yet been taken up by the association, the two meetings held having been devoted to completing the organization. It is expected, how ever, that at the meeting to be held next Sunday some steps will be taken toward arranging for the work of the associa tion. The officers are: A. W. Jones. Cigar makers' Union, president; J. Hughes, Car penters' Union, vice-president; Grant Mc Donald, Pressmen's Union, corresponding secretary: William Noffke, Painters' Union, financial secretary. "THE INNOCENT PURCHASES." Protest Against Recovering Condi tional Sales. PORTLAND, Jan. 23. (To the Editor.) The letter in this morning's Oregonlan by the Hon. D. J. ilalarkey referring to the filing or recording of conditional contracts deals with but one side of the case. Mr. MaJarkpy has not pointed out the fact that the purchaser of pergonal property Is protected by the law as it is at present. Any person selling goods which do not be long to him is liable first "for obtaining money by fatso representations," and he Is further liable under the civil law for the amount paid and damages. The vendee must lay himself liable to the criminal law In order to get tbe money of the innocent pur chaser. The purchaser can further protect himself by asking ot the seller, "Show me your receipted bill for these goods." If tho seller cannot show that the goods are his the buyer does not need to buy them. Is this method not simpler than looking through the records ot a whole county? If the Innocent purchaser is In such danger of losing his money as Is suggested are there not other people in much more danger of lorlng their money? A highwayman may stand in front of my bouse and relieve the parsing pedestrian at tbe point of a gun. He will get the money and will take less chance of going to the penitentiary than the man who sells goods which do not belong to him. The pedestrian has no recourse or protec tion. He must give his money or his life, and he does not know who the footpad is. Why docs Mr. ilalarkey not introduce a bill to make me furnish an electric light and a watchman to protect the pedestrian from being held up? Does he not need the pro tection more than the purchaser ot leased goods? There are two classes ot people who will be benefited in their business by tbe pas sage of these bills brokers and attorneys. When -a man wishes to buy from another any article of personal property he will be sup posed to look up the records of the county to see If It Is paid for. The average citi zen knows nothing ot this process, there fore must hire aa attorney. Then we have "result No. 1." more business for the at torney. Mr. Malarkey states in his let ter. "It does not require conditional sales to be recorded. If the customer has not the cases, and the dealer Is unwilling to ex tend Mm credit, the dealer can still pro tect himself with, the conditional sale." etc, without recording. This Is exactly what will occur. Much business will be done on contracts that will "not be filed. Then the broker will be safe and he will lend money on the goods and we htve "result No. 2." more business for the broker. Now we have no objection to the attorney and the broker making as' much business as they can. provided that It Is not at an unneces sary expense or loss to other members of the community. Now let us eee what the bill will cost the furniture man. the piano dealer, the sewing-machine man. the farming Implement trade, the wagon and carriage companies, the bicycle dealer, the typewriter. ea. rer Uter and other dealers. They have the option to record their leases or to keep them unrecorded. A moderate butlcecs may average tea leases a day. mak ing a yearly expeoa of $750. at the low rate of 23 cents each, proposed by Mr. Ste larkey. In addition to this there will be the time and trouble of recording and re leasing these contracts and possibly a no tarial fee. If the merchant does not record his leases he Is sure to lose a certain percentage ot hi accounts, because brokers can take chat tel mortgages on them; a reasonable esti mate would be 2 per cent. It the merchant does a business of 130.000 a year this will make a loss of $1000. The loss of trade caused br the filing of these contracts, it Is estimated, will b greater than the combined losses from the causes just mentioned. The above are a few reasons why the merchants object to these bills. WM. GADSBY. SCHOOL CHUDREH AID PAIR. Help Advertise Exposition by. Writing Letters to Eastern Friends. The school children of the state are be ing interested In the Lewis and Clark Fair through a plan devised in November by A. Lk Craig, general passenger agent of the O. R. & N.. and Frank K. Wells. County Superintendent of Schools of Umatilla County. According to the plan the pupils of tho public, schools were to bo asked to write letters to friends' and relatives through out the East, telling of the advantages of Oregon and of the Inducements of the Ex position. As a result ot this scheme, which was first tried in the schools of Umatilla County, more than 70 letters were sent from one school In Pendleton, while every Institution In the county set aside a day and wrote letters to friends in the East. The children took great Interest in the letter-writing, and it proved advantageous to the school work. Tho plan Is now being taken up by other counties In the state and every school throughout Oregon will be asked to set aside a day upon which the letter will be written. L. R. Alder man, superintendent .of Yamhill County, Is now at work arranging for the work to be done in all of the schools throughout his county. Thousands of letters will In this manner be sent to all parts of the United States and Canada and it Is expected by those who originated the plan that great good will result from the effort. MONTANA COMMISSIONER HERE Will Attend to Unpacking of Exposi tion Exhibits From That State. Commissioner P. L. Pauley, one of the executives of the Montana Stato Lewis and Clark Exposition Commission, ar rived in Portland yesterday and held a confcrencc with President Goode concern ing Montana's representation at the Cen tennial. There are two cars of the Montana ex hibits already at the Exposition grounds and they will be unpacked tomorrow under the direction of Commissioner Pauley, the exhibits to be stored in the Liberal Arts building until such a time as the Agricul tural Palace Is ready to receive them. Efforts were made yesterday, through Commissioner Pauley, to get Montana to erect a state pavilion, and It Is possible that this may be done, though the com mission has not yet decided the question. them by the iiR?r i r For over half a century Ayer's Hair Vigor has been sold in every civilized land on the face of the globe. Is not this long, unbroken history of success the very best kind of Xarf by tae J. C- Ayer e.. Zwll. 3Ct. Also B&aasetnrrs of ATXR'S KASGAFAXILLa-Pot tie tie. AYZR'S PILLS For comstisattta. ATSJt' OBC&ST MCTOfcAL Ft Mj(k. TO ADJUST RATES Traffic Men Will Fix Inland Freight. Charges, JOBBERS ASK FOR REDUCTION Needs of Interior Will Be Looked . After 'by Railroad Officials Coming Here at the End of the Week. There will be big doings in Porland on Thursday, Friday and perhaps Saturday next when tho traffic representatives of the Hani man lines, of the Northern Pa cific and the Great Northern will all meet In the city, presumably to confer oft tho much-mooted question of lower distribu tive rates to the Interior from the termi nal ooints on the Coast. Ben Campbell, of St. Paul, fourth vice- president of the TSreat Northern, and the man in charge of the traffic for the road. is in the city, and J. C. Eden, assistant traffic manager of the Great Northern, will come from Seattle where they have been for the past few days, and will be in Portland for some time. J. M. Hannaford, of St, Paul, second vice-president of the Northern Pacific; Charles M. Lev, of Seattle, assistant to the President: James G. Woodworth. ot St. Paul, traffic director, and J. B. Baird, general freight agent, will make up the Northern Pacific party. J. C. Stubbs. traffic director of the Har riman lines, accompanied by his new as sistant traffic director, P. C Stohr, whose appointment has just been officially an nounced, will also be In Portland, hav ing left Omaha last night for the trip to tho West. The men will bo In Portland on Thurs day and, either on that date or oa the day following, the combined party will meet with the representatives of the North Pacific Coast Jobbers' Association for a conference on the reduction of the distributive rates from Portland and other terminal points Into the Interior of the Northwest commercial districts. More than three months ugo, a. meeting was held In Portland between the rep resentatives of the association and the local representatives of the traffic de partments of the railroad companies. At that tlmo the association made its griev ances plain to the railroad men and stated what Its position was In regard to the traffic situation. The .matter was thoroughly discussed and a report was made to the head offices of tho different lines by their representatives present at the meeting. At the time it was an nounced that no further action would, or could, be taken until such a time as the central offices had considered the subject in detail. It was expected, however, that some concessions and changes would be made as the result of the showing made by the Association. Though not an nounced, It was presumed that it would take close to three months for the mat ters mentioned In the report to be ex amined thoroughly and an understanding arrived at between the managers of traffic. The meeting set for the last of the week comes as the result ot the first confer ence, and is partially the result of cir cumstances. Both Mr. Campbell and Mr. Woodworth are new men In appointment and are now on their first official trip over the lines to be Berved by them In the future. They would both be In this dis trict at the same time and tho meeting will be held now as the most convenient time as all the heads of the competing svstems could be here. , On Friday evening the Chamber ot commerce wm xenaer wo waning road men a banquet at the Hotel Port land and on Saturday night the -visitors have all be asked to be present at the annual dinner of the Portland Commercial Club. Between the wining and tho dining, it is hoped to convince the railroad men that the stand of the merchants Is right in its conception and should be granted by the roads. It is said that the great trouble between the railroad man and the shipper and merchant is that they are not acquanted, and the Portland men will make an effort to do away with this disadvantage. What Is "the Essence of Socialism?" ITNIVERSITY OF OREGON. Jan. 21. (To the Editor.) Permit a word In reference to your leading editorial of Saturday, Janu ary 21. "The essence of socialism Is equal ity." But docs your interpretation of "equality" apply (a the doctrine and prac tice of modern socialism? If you will exam ine socialism In Its later and more practical Instances you will find that it is not sacri ficing Individual excellence or efficiency to the extent necessitated by Its earlier and more eccentric doctrine. A party of pro test Is, at first, almost always a party of "-Ism" and vagary. The real significance of socialism Is Its protest against the Inequal ity ot opportunity resulting from modern Industrial conditions, a protest needed far more In Europe and the Eastern States than on our Pacific Coast. These absurd, frothy schemes for a "grand dlwy" are as empty aa a clairvoyant's Jabber and as alien to any serious scheme of economic betterment. 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