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Recurrence of graduation sentiments has long been a theme of sarcasm rather, we should say. of poor wit. We all comment, in deed, on recurrence of the old gradua tion ideas, in the college orations and essays: but the Ideas are sound, even though the expression be crude, and why. therefore, shouldn't they be re peated? Principles of truth and of mor ality in this world are few and simple; and their themes never will be outworn. Therefore, on reflection upon the sub- ject, let us say that the feeling of su perior pity, so often expressed, that there can't be something newer than the everlasting harping by the com mencement students, upon the possibili ties of reforming the world, or the necessary steps to be" taken to better politics, or morals, or our aesthetic senses together with the patronizing remark so often heard that students "will get over these fancy Ideas" Is. It self rather cheap and stale. All pros pect, all promise, lies in the hones en thusiasm of youth. Without renewal from the perennial fountain of youth there would be mighty danger of the bankruptcy of morals and of ideals. Such attitude on the part of maturer minds Indicates a shallowness that ought to make us all ashamed. To be sure, the soaring of the commencement 6peaker Into the realms of warfare against current graft, or his idealistic flights into the regions of municipal beauty, may seem to merit the verdict that his reforms "can't be done." and that when he has rubbed up against .the world a while, as older ones have, he will come down from the heights and be glad to sweep out an offlce and to read the advice of a self-made mer chant to his son. Of course the grad uation address may be beyond immedi ate or perhaps eventual achievement: the speaker may have "hashed up" from various- sources a number of ideas that he has little faith in himself; but it seems certainly better that the com mencement essayist snould have longed and eventually lost than that they never should have longed at all. Ideas and ideals are to be kept alive in this world even against a hopeless cyn icism. The idea which the schooj or college graduate dwells upon this season of the year, that he and his colleagues in the near future are to take up the noble work of purifying the National life, has in it an element of "hlfalutln," but it is true all the same: and it is far better to cherish and to encourage this idea than to treat it with affected derision. It is by no means sure, moreover, that the commencement graduate may not be able to do Just those things that eeem to us who hear him so impossible. We are so big a country, and we hear so much of iniquity and graft and dis reputable politics and business that we older plowhorses have accepted the Idea that ive all now and in the time to come must stick to our furrows and take our medicine. But the young colts may have a keener sense of the present and future than we. And if nothing comes of it all. they will remember in after years that there was a time when they kicked up their heels in the exuberant Joy of a belief that thej were going surely to demolish all the fences In the neighborhood and bound into fresh fields and pastures new. Charles Denby. formerly United States. Minister to China, and at pres ent diplomatic adviser to the Viceroy of North China, does not take a serious view of the threatened Chinese boy cott. He credits the movement to the students and politicians. But Mr. Den by cannot ignore the fact that the mer chants and bankers are standing right in with the students and laborers, and it Is the influence of the commercial classes that is causing people who are in touch with the situation to view it with alarm. China may, as Mr. Denby asserts she will, refuse to permit any more coolies to come here, even if we let down the bars. This, however, does "not prove that she will not resent our insulting treatment of her subjects, or that she will not insist on. a modifica tion of the exclusion act, China, like the rest of the world, has moved some what since Japan used her for a football. TACOMA. Xoday we are going to be asked by 3000 leather-lunged Boosters (with a large B) from the City of Destiny to "Watch Tacoma Grow." We shall. We do. Portland was here first, and It has always kept a comprehen slve eye open to the development and progress of every other community In the Pacific Northwest. So it has not overlooked Tacoma. It could not If It tried. It has been amazed at the growth of the lusty Puget Sound city. It has marveled at the headway It has made in the face of many obstacles. Tacoma was In the first Instance the creation of a powerful railroad corporation; now it is an independent and self-reliant mu nicipality that asks no odds from any competitor and depends on the special favor df no railroad for its continued prosperity and happiness. Once Ta coma was helped along. Now it flies by Its own wings. Once It concerned itself every hour in the twenty-four about what the Northern Pacific might do for it. Now the Northern Pacific sues the merchants and manufacturers and shippers of Tacoma for a greater share of their business. Once It was Important to Tacoma how many boom lots the Tacoma Land Company sold in a da3 Now there are others, and real estate as an exclusive pursuit has been relegated to a back seat. Once Charles B. Wright. John W. Sprague. C. W. Griggs and a few other estimable gen tlemen owned Tacoma. Now Tacoma owns itself. Once, when Hanson's mill shut down. Tacoma shut down. Now it has among its industries some of the greatest sawmills In the world, and these are. but a part of the varied and successful activities of the place. The whole story of Tacoma Is told In the fact that it had but seventy-three in habitants in 1870: now it has somewhere from 60.000 to 75.000. The long-time rivalry of Tacoma with Seattle is part of the familiar annals of the Northwest. Under the spur of com petition. Tacoma grew noisy, robust, formidable. If it had not been for Se attle, there would have been no Tacoma that is to say, no Tacoma like the present Tacoma; and. Indeed, if there had been no Tacoma. there might have been but little more than a sawmill or two where the splendid City of Seattle now thrives. Tacoma has exchanged some hard blows and harder language with Seattle. But Seattle never put Tacoma to sleep, though it would at any time for many years have cheerfully officiated at the obsequies. And Tacoma never got in a solar plexus on Seattle, though it tried hard for a long time, carefully avoid ing the Seattle Jaw. It knew it could make no impression there. Over here In Portland we watched the battle for many years, and piously thanked heaven that we were not as quarrel some as some others were. But we wished all the happy participants good luck and better aim. But those days are of the past. Peace reigns and everybody is satisfied with himself, and reasonably well pleased with his neighbor. - It has been learned that the knocker does harm only to himself, and the prosperity of all is a certain guaranty of individual success. The misfortunes that have at one time or another befallen Tacoma have in like manner retarded the progress of Port land. Seattle and the whole Northwest. The factors that have contributed to the welfare of Tacoma have likewise helped along everybody else. So we wish godspeed to Tacoma and .the Ta coma Booster. You can't have too many people at Tacoma to suit Port land, too great a commerce, too beautiful a city, too contented a popu lation, or too high an ambition. Every thing goes. And we shall watch Ta coma grrw with satisfaction and ad miration, and with a prayerful hope that It may grow fast enough to suit even Tacoma. SERIOUS BREACH OF CONFIDENCE. John F. Wallace, ex-chief engineer of the Panama Canal. Is perhaps quite comfortable in his new 540,000-per-year position with the New York Transit Company, but the manner In which he abandoned his post at Panama will not be approved by the American public. The rebuke administered by Secretary Taft was a scathing one, and shows Mr. Wallace, with all of his attainments as an engineer, to have a. very poor Idea of moral obligations other than those which can be defined by terms of the law. The right of a man to labor or not to labor, or to exact for his work any wage he can command, has never been questioned, but after the agree ment as to work to be performed and remuneration therefor has been made, the employed. If honorable men. are, in obedience to an unwritten law, sup posed to remain with the work until their withdrawal will not hamper or jeopardize it. In the lower ranks of labor, where there are large forces of recruits which can be drawn on. breaches of confi dence of this nature are of small conse quence, the Interests Involved being un important, compared with those which center around a man competent to hold such a high position as that so uncere moniously vacated by Mr. Wallace. Every man is said to be the architect of his own fortune, and Mr. Wallace, in his hasty move, probably thought that the Immediate returns, through increase of salary, would be enough greater to warrant the loss of prestige which he knew must follow such action as he was about to take. His judgment, as well as his honor, seems to have been slightly warped on this point, for. hav ing violated the confidence of the Pres ident of the United States in such a flagrant manner, it would seem some what difficult for him to gain or retain the respect and confidence of others with whom he might temporarily be as sociated. Mr. Wallace asked for the position as engineer at a salary of $25,000 per year. He was perfectly familiar with what was expected of him. and when, short ly afterwards, he asked, that a change be made in the organization of the com mission, his request was granted and he cabled an expression of his satisfac tion. Having made his own terms, both as to salary and to the plan of work. Mr. Wallace remained at his sta tion on the isthmus twelve days, and then asked permission to come home, ostensibly for a conference over canal matters, but in reality for the purpose of accepting a position carrying a greater salary. The enormity of his offense may have appealed more forcibly to Mr. Wallace after his arrival home, for he made the suggestion that he might withdraw from his new arrangements and con tinue with the commission. One trial, however, was enough for Secretary Taft. who quite forcibly expressed hie opinion of the man by saying: "I could have no confidence that you would not in the future repeat the same at a mo ment even more critical, when the con sequences might be even more embar rassing and injurious to the Govern ment." Allegiance to the employers Is expected fn private enterprises, and disappointment Is seldom suffered from a breach of confidence between high class employes and their employers, but In the case of a public offlce the duty Is even more sacred. The Panama Canal Is already overdue, and the resignation of Mr. Wallace, carrying with It, as it does, the necessity for reorganizing the entire forces under him. means further delay and expense. It Is a question whether Mr. Wallace has been a gainer by the transaction. RAILROADS IN EUROPE AND AMERICA. According to the Railroad Gazette, there are in the United States 212.000 miles of railroad, to 190.000 in all Eu rope. The area of Europe is about 3,500. 000 square miles, as compared with 3.000.000 in the United States, excluding Alaska and insular possessions. But Europe Is much more densely populat ed, having four times as many inhabi tants per square mile. In the United States there Is a mile of railroad for 390 Inhabitants, while in Europe there are 2100 inhabitants to each mile of railroad. In Great Britain there Is a mile of railroad to 1875 people, in France one for 1400. and In Germany one for 1694. Thus, whether we look at area or population, the United States Is much better supplied with railroads than Europe, or any of its leading coun tries. When we come to consider the cost of railroads, we find them much cheap er, on the whole, in the United States: but. except In a few instances, they are not so well bullL About three-fourths of our mileage Is of light and fragile structure, compared with that In Eng land. France. Germany and Italy. Our remaining one-fourth Is well built; and there is constant improvement of the major portion. The difference Is shown in statistics of construction. The average per mile in this country is 54S.744. while in Eu rope It is 5112.195. The difference Is largely In completeness of roadbed. Again, the American railroads. In their cost, represent $141 to each person, while in Europe they cost but 547 per head. In this respect Great Britain Is but little behind us. having 5135 worth of railroad to each head of population, but France has only 5S3, Germany 55S and Russia 524. In other words, we have a prodigious length of railroad In proportion to population. Most of It, of course. Is of cheap construction. Of course, we require transportation facilities much more extensive in pro portion to population than does Europe. The very sparseness of population de mands more transportation, as a condi tion precedent to an exchange of prod ucts. But a factor of greater import ance is the larger productive capacity of the people in proportion to number. Our roads carry 60 per cent more freight per mile than the European roads. This superiority Is. of course, largely due to the circumstance that trade Is free In all ports of the United States, while In Europe the exchange of commodities Is restricted by the tariffs of a number of countries. In the comparison it has to be admit ted that our cheaper roads are not al ways so well built as those of Europe, and that accidents Involving loss of life are much more frequent. MUTINY AND RIOT. OR REVOLUTION? Each day adds a fresh tale of horrpr in miserable Russia. Uprisings of peas ants, mob outbreaks in cities, mutinies of sailors, race hatreds carried to the point of open war, martial law the only refuge of the governing clique, the edu cated classes in silent revolt, recruits dragged and forcibly herded to the bar racks, police powerless, law overridden and defied, disaffection rampant In all directions can it be possible that re pression will yet conquer, and so-called peace reign once more In the awful des ert so created? Yes. while the troops submit to orders and disciplined force is pitted against mobs of desperate men. There is a fearful sameness in the sequence of each outbreak, so far as Its history Is known. The fabric of society is torn apart, and the mob, casting aside all restraint, revels in destruction. Leaders of note are absolutely wanting. Not a single sign of organization ap pears. The incendiary, the bomb thrower, rushes to the front and does his work. His maddened followers are faced by soldiery and artillery, preced ed by the brutal Cossacks. Crowds are shot down, and the survivors fly. Or der is restored: so runs the bitter sar casm of telegram after telegram. The streets are cleared, corpses by the hun dred buried in trench and pit, hospitals are crowded. Yet the fabric of the au tocracy, though tottering at each fresh shock, still stands. Odessa repeats the same story. Libau and Cronstadt take up the awful tale In turn. St, Petersburg. Warsaw and Lodz tremble yet. But still no end Is In sight. A day or two ago Poland was re ported to be rising as a nation for na tion It Is though cut in pieces, and al lotted to many masters. Then. It seemed to various observers, a focal point could be descried, and revolution might replace riot. The teachings of history were overlooked. The fabric of government of the empire could stand while Internal disorder only, however widespread, was seen. But a re-created Poland would rally the Poles in Aus tria and Germany as well. A pretext would offer Itself at once for the ad joining robber nations to interfere. Revolution would affect them. too. As In Hungary, as In Poland before, sur rounding armies would appear,, the frontiers would be promptly passed and overwhelming numbers crush the pa triot bands. The nations of Europe outside would stand unmoved, even though horror-stricken at the spectacle, feeling no overpowering summons to interfere and history would repeat it self. In Polish revolution can be seen no hope. The Russian army is the unknown and all-powerful factor. It may be taken as true that the reservists and recruits now being forced Into service are sullen and resentful hating the war. which has brought to Russia an unending series of defeats fearing the horrors of battle, disease and wounds awaiting them; finding here, and here only, a bond of common feeling In the multitude of nations and races which go to the making of a Russian regi ment. So strong a leaven may work In a soil prepared for It when these men Join the ranks. Once let the spirit of mutiny spread in the army as already In the navy, once let the rank and file break out against the cruel discipline for which the' Russian army has an un enviable fame, and refuse obedience then, unless forecasts based on both hlstoryand reason fall, a new sun will rise on the great empire of the East. From the revolt of disciplined men lead ers will emerge, as in the Indian Mu tiny of 1S57. Then there may be some expectation of revolution taking the place of riot, and great results, world shaking and resettling, may be seen. The man who Is trying to convince the people of this country that the sec ond or July, and not the Fourth. Is the true Independence day Is on a level with those cranks who try to explode the stories of William Tell' archery. George Washington's veracity and Sir Walter Raleigh's gallantry. Possibly William Tell did not shoot the apple from his son's head. Perhaps Wash ington did not cut the cherry tree and confess to his father. It may be that Raleigh did not throw his cloak In the mud for Queen Elizabeth to walk upon. It Is possible that proof may be want ing to establish good foundation for scores of stories that have been told from time immemorial stories that are dear to the hearts of all men and women who were once children. It matters not whether the stories be true or false. We prefer to believe' them, for If they are not true they ought to be and the man who tries to disprove them might be in better business. Whether Independence day should have been July 2 is of no consequence what ever. The Fourth Is the day we love and celebrate, and we have no love for the man who tries to detract from Its sacred memories. A social Infamy which Includes a father's heartbreak, a daughter's diso bedience and waywardness, a husband's disgrace and a wife's anguish, is relat ed In the incidents of the unfaithful ness, divorce and marriage of a wealthy man of Los Angeles to a young woman of Chicago, well born and well educat ed, whom his wife had treated as a daughter. The father, a well-known educator, after vainly attempting to dissuade his daughter from the mar riage, cast her oft and assured the de serted wife of his profound sympathy for her in her distress. The faithless husband is more than twice the age of his new wife, and in the reflection that unhapplness and perhaps further dis grace will follow this marriage one must feel regret that the older and greater sinner will suffer less than the younger. The sympathy of decent, self respecting pedple. however, has noth ing to do with this guilty pair. Its en tire force Is drawn upon for the be trayed wife and disgraced father, who are the innocent sufferers. "It is an ill wind." etc. While the June showers were dampening the spir its of the Fair visitors and placing seri ous crimps in the pockctbooks of the Trail concessionaires, they were add ing thousands of dollars to the value of the wheat crop of the Pacific North wesL There has been sufficient moist ure for bqth Spring and Fall wheat, and, with an unusually large acreage, the outlook was never better, for a record-breaking crop. With so many good crops In the past half a dozen years, general prosperity Is mor.e ap parent in Oregon, Washington and Idaho than it has ever been before. This flush of good times will be materi ally heightened If the present glowing prospects for a crdp materialize and prices remain at the present figures. Water shipments of lumber from Portland for the first six months of the year reached a total of 9S.000.000 feet, a larger amount than has ever been shipped in the same length of time from any other port on earth. Despite these enormous totals, they will be exceeded in the remaining half of the year. and. with the Increased milling capaplty planned for next year, the returns for the first six months of 1906 will show a heavy Increase over those for the six months just ended. The lumber busi ness Is making rapid inroads on our forests, but it is placing In circulation an Immense amount of money and giv ing employment to an army of men and big fleets of ships. Following the last Fourth of July celebration there was wide newspaper discussion of the necessity for reform leading up to a "safe and sane" observ ance of the day. No inconsiderable number of persons protested against the attendant noise. Now we are at the eve of the holiday that is unwel come to nervous folk. The average cit izen of Portland seems to be willing to put up with the discomforts hitherto in separable from the conventional Joy making. To sound public sentiment, in terviews have been obtained from "lay members" of the community. These will be published In The Sunday Orego nian tomorrow. The Prince and Princess Henry of Prussia gave a garden party at Kiel Thursday, at which a number of Amer icans were present. Among the names were noticed the Vanderbllts, Goelets and Armours. The list of foreigners present included, among a number of other royal scalawags, the Prince of Monaco, who runs a roulette game at a place called Monte Carlo. All of which goes to show that the sponsors for the foreign fete do not make any close In quiries as to where the money came from or whether It bears the stamp of the American eagle or the coat of arms of some mildewed foreign monarchy. At Portsmouth, O.. the alliance of Women's Clubs has denounced the onion as an article of food in most con demnatory terms. Resolutions were passed classing this succulent vegetable with asafetida and forbidding associa tion with it In any form. Of course this action provoked argument which has shaken the city from center to circum ference. The story of It will be told in The Sunday Oregonian tomorrow. It is delicious to note that a Portland fruit dealer has been arrested for petty swindling In selling a pint of cherries for the price of a quart, his method being to use a measure with a false bottom. And yet certain enemies say Portland is a slow town. Not often does such a lecture as Sec retary Taft administered to Engineer Wallace receive National publicity. How that flaying must sting. The Democrats want to run Mayor Lane, Why should they? They didn't elect him. 0RE&)N OZONE Police Magistrate Treat, of Tucson. Ariz., has fined himself 510 and costs forrldlng horseback on the sidewalk. "We enforce the laws here." he states, without regard to any one; this court Is no respecter of persons." One Is tempt ed to say that this court lacks self-respect, and one wonders how much Judge Treat would assess himself should he adjudge himself to be In contempt of court for that reason. In an attempt to prove that a soclety woman In Ohio, lately deceased, was ec centric, the relatives who sought to break her will put In evidence the fact that at her hotel she had had her dog served with a whole chicken at each meal. In sisting upon protecting Fldo's. fur coat with a spotless napkin. One may as well call It eccentricity as anything else. "When the Red God gets you by the neck." writes Lowell Otus Reese. In Sun set, "throw up your hands and be good!" Now there Is optimism for you with a big round O. Suppose the clutcher hap pens to be one of those pink-winged mos quitoes that Inhabit the Jersey shore? From London comes a story to the effect that J. M. Barrle, the Scotch author, re cently disappointed a comely young ac tress In one of his own plays by inviting her to luncheon and sitting all through fthe meal without saying anything more brilliant than "Please pass the. bread." or "This tabasco sauce is pretty hot stuff, don't you know." The girl, of course, expected Mr. Barrle to blaze with scintillations of genius, to talk so bril liantly that the entire cafe would be Il luminated thereby and the proprietor could save on his electric light bill. The disappointment of the expectant actress was so deep that the correspondents con sidered the, story worth half a column of cable tolls. This little Incident brings to mind a capital story that has been told of the late H. L. Merrick, of the Washington Post. In- his time accounted the brightest newspaper paragrapher in America. Ills son. Frank L. Merrick, is now In Portland, as the head of the Lewis and Clark Exposition press bureau. Once the elder Merrick was a guest at a swell function In Washington, and late in the evening his hostess reproached him for not having said anything brilliant or witty. "And we had expected so much of you." she sighed. "Madam," said Mr. Merrick, "your husband is a dentist, is he not?" "He is." replied the hostess. Then Merrick inquired. "Does your hus band pull teeth at receptions?" The attention of a certain noted oppo nent of race suicide, residing at Wash ington. D. C, when the bear season Is off. Is called to the fact that In New York City one baby Is born every five minutes and sometimes it's twins. How Can This Be? . E. W. Howe, of the Atchison Globe, has taken many "Globe Sights" along the double-barreled weapon of his wit. but when we peruse the following paragraph In last week's Globe we want It distinct ly understood that we're from Missouri and he'll have to sight us: "Here Is a boy story for you: Mrs. Holland wants her son Ray to quit work and accompany her to the Portland Ex position and Southern California, but he prefers to work." Answers to Inquiries. Ernest No, It Is not hay fever that the Secretary of State Is suffering from. Gentleman Cook The best recipe we have to offer for making a Fourth o July cake Is this: Take two pounds of salt petre and powdered charcoal properly mlxed. stir In a few ounces of fresh air. pour Into a mortar and cook quickly by applying a parlor match at the end of a pole. Leila Yes. It fs quite proper for you to pay the young man's streetcar fare' If he has spent all his money In giving you an automobile ride. Anxious Reader To render banana peels harmless, kick them into the gutter. Vox Popull The most plausible explan ation of the mutincerlng of Russian sail ors lies In the fact that they were cruelly and inhumanly treated by being made to pronounce their own names at roll call. The 3Ian With Two Hearts. A. Durr. of New Rochelle, N. Y.. has In serted the following advertisement In the papers: "I agree to sell my two hearts, the buyer being entitled to same after my death." Mr. Durr claims to have re fused an offer of J10.0CO for one of his hearts, on the "ground that he needs both of thm. His proposition to sell out oa the chances of his death Is manifestly un fair to the purchaser. A man with two hearts has twice the ordinary cinch on life. It would appear that If the average man who takes good care of himself can live 70 years. Durr ought to live 140 years. He Is now but 36. with both his hearts beating regularly as clockwork, accord ing to the scientists who have Inspected his ventricular regions. Mr. Durr Is a mighty selfish man. Does he expect any body to pay him 510.000 apiece for his hearts and then wait 105 years to collect the commodities? The man falls utterly to take advantage of his unusual opportu nities. With his two hearts he Is the only man In the United States who Is en titled tq become a polygamlst. Under our benevolent laws a man may give his heart to a ladylove, and with It his hand. Durr also has two hands. There Is noth ing In the law that can be construed to prevent him from giving a heart and a hand to each of two Indies, and If he makes Judicious selections he may wed two heiresses and thus acquire more money than he can reasonably expect any person to pay him for his two hearts. Should he take the dual matrimony route to enrichment, the poet's fine frenzy must be paraphrased, but that Is easy: Three souls with but a single thought. Four hearts that beat as one! Sure, such a combination ought To yield p lot of fun. ROBBRTUS LOVE. INTERNATIONAL HAIL POOL. Steel Trust Given Full Control In the Americas. NEW YORK. June 30. The Times will say tomorrow: By an agreement between the rail man ufacturing companies of England. France. Germany and Belgium. In Europe, and the United States Steel Corporation and sev eral other American railmakcrs. a great International pool In steel rails has been organized to dlvldfe amicably the mar kets of the world. As a result of the formation of this pool the American manufacturers here after will have undisputed control of the steel rail trade of the American continent from the Great Lakes south to Magellan Strait, while the European manufactur ers will "be free from energetic competi tion in all other fields. GIVE BACK ALL THE MONEY Ex-Directors of Equitable Disgorge Syndicate Gains. NEW YORK. June 20. It was announced today at the office of Chairman Morton, of the Equitable Life Assurance Society, that H. C. Demlng, president of the Mer cantile Trust Company, of this city, and Valentine P. Snyder, president of the Na tional Bank of Commerce, of this city, have returned to the Equitable Society thulr respective shares in the profits of the. syndicate known as "James H. Hyde & Associates.' The syndicate, according to the report of State Superintendent of Insurance Hen dricks, sold bonds to the Equitable So ciety at a total profit of 51S6.107. of which Mr. Demlng received 54576 and Mr. Snyder 51510. Both were directors of the society. At the meeting of the executive com mittee of the Equitable Society today, tho resignation of James H. Hyde as chair man of the executive committee wag ac cepted by Paul Morton, chairman of the board of directors. Mr. Morton was elect ed In his place. It was also announced that Mr. Morton has accepted the resignation of William H. Mclntyre as fourth vice-president of the society Mr. Mclntyre was one of the trustees of a majority holding of the stock of the Equitable Society, under the will of the late Henry B. Hyde. He had been with the Equitable Society more than 25 years, and throughout the recent troubles of the society had been a close friend and supporter of James H. Hyde. Answer to Helnzo Complaint. NEW YORK. June 30. Counsel for the Boston & Montana Copper Company has Interposed an answer in the United States Circuit Court here to the amended com plaint recently filed against It by the Johnstown Mining Company controlled by the Heinze Interests. The latter corpo ration charged the defendant with remov ing loose ore in Silver Bow County, Mont,, belonging to It and the Montana Ore Purchasing Company, valued at 531. G00.CCO. The answer declares that the re moval of any such amount of loose ore Is a physical Impossibility. All the speci fications In the bill were denied in detail. Receiver for Braid Company. NEW YORK, June 30. A temporary re ceiver has been appointed for the Castle Braid Company. It is stated that the liabilities are 5430,000 and assets about 534S,700. MASTERY OF THE PACIFIC. Great Britain Views With Alarm America's Naval Growth. LONDON, June 30. During the dis cussion of the naval estimates In the House of Commons, Edmund Robert son, Liberal, a former Civil Lord of the Admiralty, asked for further informa tion concerning the new battleships. Mr. Prettyman, Secretary of the Ad miralty, replied at length, alleging the highest efficiency for the navy under the new scheme. He declined to give particulars of the new battleships, but said prcat Britain proposed to lead, and not follow other nations In naval construction. Sir John Colomb said he did notagrea with the opposition speakers in say ing the time had come when the naval expenditure might be reduced. On the contrary. Sir John said, everything pointed to the necessity for keeping up the naval strength of Great Britain. The real question now is. Who Is go ing to rule the Pacific? President Roosevelt said the United States in tended to rule the Pacific. The United States was giving every sign that this was her inttentlon by the extraordinary Increase in her naval power. Sir John declared that In the not dis tant future discussion would arise In the Pacific affecting the policy of Ja pan, the United States and Great Brit ain. He asked what Great Britain was doing against the time when her In terests ceased to be Identical with those of the two great powers whose naval bases were In the Pacific No one be lieved that the Anglo-Japanese alliance would last forever. Great Britain looked with dread to a rupture w'tn the United States, but she could not set her eyes to the fact that ruptures had occurred between the most friend ly nations. Sir John asked what the government was doing to remind Can ada and the British colonies of the great responsibilities which they would incur when their seaports and Immense Interests in the Pacific were Imminent ly threatened. Secretary Prettyman. replying to Sir John, said Great Britain did not desire the mastery of any sea beyond secur ing an equal opportunity for British trade Interests without fear or favor. To say that Great Britain desired the master- of the Pacific or any other sea might give a false Impression. FOREIGN GREED FOR LAND Necessity, of Monroe Doctrine Em phasized by President Angell. CAMBRIDGE, Mass.. June 30. Presi dent James B. Angell. of the University of Michigan, addressing the Harvard chapter of the Phi Beta Kappa frater nity on "The European Concert and the Monroe Doctrine." said: "The development of the European concert suggests the question whether ultimately, perhaps In a future some what remote, the larger states south of us and Canada, If she becomes en tirely Independent, might Join us In some kind of a friendly American con cert to promote general continental In terests and to prevent foreign Intru sion. Is It not conceivable that Mexico, Brazil, the Argentine Republic and Chile might reach a development that would make this possible? "Who can say that in a similar man ner China and Japan may not make an Eastern Asiatic concert which will work out policies mutually beneficial to their common Interests and also useful to mankind? "I know we are told that there is no longer any danger of an attempt by European states to come up and again take possession of American territory. How one who sees what has been Just going on in China can hold such a view It is difficult to understand. Not in the colonization frenzy of the six teenth century was there a more vo racious greed for the acquisition of foreign territory for the purpose of de veloping and controlling trade. "What ground Is there to believe that If we withdraw our objections we should not see a similar scramble for all the territory south of us from tho Rio Grande to Cape Horn, and how easily would excuses be found for con certs In Euch controversies as has al ready arisen between European pow ers and the Spanish-American States." Deputies Want Text of Notes. PARIS. June 30. Some dissatisfaction Is evident among members of the Chamber of Deputies and the general public be cause the full text of the correspondence between Germany and France relative to Morocco has not been published, though the tenor of the notes Is known. Inqui ries made In official quarters show that the publication of the notes will not be made until the question Is finally de cided, as It Is considered that they would give a mistaken Idea of the present situa tion unless accompanied by the tenor of the diplomatic conversations In regard to the difficulty. These oral communications which have afforded a better understanding still con tinue, and it is Premier Rouvler's Inten tion to await the final solution of the question before, making an official decla CITED IN CONTEMPT OF COURT Senator Patterson Charged Publish ing Intimidating Articles. DENVER. Colo., June 30. The Supremo Court of Colorado today, at the request of Attorney-General Miller, made on be half of the people of the state, granted an order for a rule requiring United States Senator Thomas H. Patterson to appear before the court and show causa why he should not be punished for con tempt for the publication and circulation of certain articles and cartoons which appeared In the papers published by the News-Times Publishing Company, of which Senator Patterson is the owner. A citation was Issued directing the Sen ator to appear In court and plead October 23. 1905. The information on which the request for a rule was based by the Attorney-General charges that the articles and cartoons In question reflect upon the honor, purity and integrity of the Su preme Court and were designed, intended and calculated to hold up to opprobrium and to invite public contempt for the court and certain justices thereof, and for the purpose of leading the people to distrust the fairness and impartiality of the decisions of the court. The citation further charges that the articles and cartoons referred to were pub lished for the purpose of Intimidating, in fluencing and coercing the court in its final disposition of election cases pending, and In rendering an opinion In the suit to prevent the construction of an audito rium in Denver. A number of leading articles, editorials and cartoons are at tached as part of the information, all referring to different decisions of the Su preme Court in election case3 during the past year. FORCED TO DELIVER GOODS Chicago Parcels Express Companies Enjoined by Court. CHICAGO. June 30. Action taken to day by Judse Holdora, of the Superior Court. Is likely to cause a spread of the teamsters' strike to the drivers employed by the local parcels express companies, who do business throughout the city and suburbs. The Employers' Association filed, two days ago, an application for an Injunction preventing these companies from refusing to make deliveries to and from the boycotted houses, as they have been refusing to do since the commence ment of the strike. Judge Holdom issued a temporary In junction against three of the express companies which have refused to deliver merchandise. Those against whom tha injunctions were issued are: The John son Express Company, Page Brothers Express Company, and the South Chicago Steamboat Express Company. These companies, by the' court'. order, will be compelled to make deliveries for all mer chants without discrimination. The court fixed the bonds at 510.000 in the case of the Johnson company, in each of the four bills against it, and 53000 each against the others. Strikers Ask Change of Venue. CHICAGO. June SO. Members of the Furniture and Expressmen's Association, against whom proceedings have been started to compel them to deliver to strikebound houses, went before Judge Holdom today to ask for a change of venue. Attorney James Brady, counsel for the parcel express companies, served notice on the Employers' Association that he would ask for a change on the ground mat juage Holdout is prejudiced. Police Guards to Be Remov CHICAGO. June 30. Whether the team sters' strike Is officially ended by next Monday or not, the police guards are to be taken off the wagons of strike-affected firms In the business district of the city. Mayor Dunne made the decision today believing that danger of rioting in tho streets is practically over. Demand of Weavers Denied. FALL RIVER. Mass.. June 30. The Tali River Cotton Manufacturers Association, at a meeting today refused to grant the demand of the weavers for a restoration of wages to the basis which prevailed be fore last July, when a cut of 12& per cent was made. STUDENTS MAKING BIG FUSS Chinese Government Does (Not Want Coolies to Come to America. DETROIT. June 30. Charles Denby. diplomatic adviser to the Viceroy of North China, who Is visiting relatives here, does not take a serious view of Chinese threats to boycott American goods owing to the Chinese exclusion act. Mr. Denby, who has for 20 years been in close touch with political and commercial affairs in China, said: "The Chinese government Is not back of this agitation, and it is not sup ported by the merchants. It is prob ably that Chinese students are making the trouble. The students of China, like those of Russia, are a factor in politics, young, hot-headed fellows, ed ucated abroad and with advanced re form Ideas. "China is satisfied with the present exclusion laws. I believe that if we repeal these laws China would pass an act forbidding the coolies to come to this country. The government has a contract wltn the big mlneownera in South Africa to supply them. with labor. The government gets a royalty on all the labor furnished, and cannot get men enough. It has recruiting agents all over China now. "The Chinese do not want their la borers to come to America. All China wants Is a fair, just administration of those laws, that students and mer chants be allowed to come in undis turbed and no discriminations." German Fleet Behind the Times. BERLIN, June 30. The German: Naval League. In a regular news bul letin, says the lesson of the battl of the Sea of Japan is that the best typo of warship Is the battleship of the largest displacement, equipped with the heaviest possible guns and armor. The league botes that the Japanese torpedoboats attacked after the Rus sian fleet had been weakened. The armored corvette Hansa, the first warship built under the German Em pire, and which was laid down at Dant zlc In 1872, Is offered for sale to th nlghest bidder. She lies a,t Kiel with several other old vessels, stricken off the navy list. A writer In Die Frenz Boten. which contains official communications, an alyzed the German navy as follows: "Of 38 battleships on paper, includ ing those laid down or authorized by the naval programme, 13 are called 'old boxes,' scarcely fit for harbor defense. Number 3S has not yet been begun. Of the remainder, only ten approach the mddern battleships of other powers In size and gun power. The task before the Government is defined to be to re place the antiquated ships with modern vessels." Soldiers for the Philippines. SAN FRANCISCO. June 30. Tho TTnlt. States Army transport Logan sailed today ior tne fnii.ppines. ane carried 150 cabin passengers. 179 enlisted men of Companies A and B, First Battalion of Engineers. 254 enlisted men of the First Squadron of the Eighth Cavalry. 255 men of the. Third Squadron of the Seventh Cavalry, and two companies of the Tenth Infantry. The latter are to be stationed at Honolulu. 4