VOL. XLVI.-XO. 14,420.
PORTLAND, OREGON, MONDAY, FEBRUARY 25, 1907.
PRICE FIVE CENTS.
FARWIERS" TRUST
IS STERN REALITY
CheckingFlowofCrops
to Markets.
HOLDS OUT FOR A FAIR PRICE
Alliance With Labor, Union to
Kill Middlemen.
STRONG IN MANY STATES
Vast Quantities of Grain Stored
Awaiting an Advance Strings of
Banks to Finance Movement.
Brokers Feel Effects.
CHICAGO, Feb. 23. (Special.) The
farmers' trust has arrived. It has
stretched its big, strong hands over the
-nates of Indiana, Illinois, Iowa, Ken
tucky, Wisconsin, Kansas, Nebraska, Ok
lahoma, Missouri and Texas. Its knotted
fingers have piled up millions of bushels
of grain and fruit,' and thousands of bales
of cotton into a mountain heap, and the
trust has said to the dealers of the world:
"You can't have any of this until you
pay us what we think is coming to us.
Now do your worst."
Boards of trade all over the country
and commission men are beginning to
wake up to the fact that this protective
organization of the farmers already is
a powerful factor in the markets of the
world, and that it bids fair to loom tre
mendously in future years.
Ever since early last Fall, Board of
Trrde men and shippers of grain have
been talking about the scarcity of cars.
To that scarcity they have attributed al
most entirely the fact that corn, wheat
and other farm products do not move
to the market centers with more haste.
The dearth of cars is an everyday theme
in the speculative and commercial gossip.
That there is a great Ideal in It nobody
disputes, but a still more significant phe
nomenon of the day is that grain is being
held back because the farmers are deter
mined they shall get the price they have
set on their own property.
Enlist Aid of Labor.
To date, the farmers' trust that Is the
generic term for the movement has been
going it almost alone. Now it has
launched a plan by which it hopes to
enlist the organized labor of the whole
United States. If this plan be carried
into execution and there Is reason to
believe it may be the combined move
ment of farmers and union men to con
trol prices ana distribution of agricul
tural products will be the' biggest scheme
in the history of the American labor and
husbandry.
Never was the time so propitious for
the fanners to get together and stick to
gether. The Grange of former days, the
Farmers- Alliance and other similar or
ganizations, were started when the farm
ing class was in the poorest possible
financial condition. In fact, it was be
cause they were in straitened circum
stances that they gave their support to
these various movements. When times
became more prosperous, these move
ments lost force rapidly.
It Is different today. The farms of
Ihe West are not plastered with mort
gages. The bountiful crops of the last
five years have lifted literally hun
dreds of millions of dollars of incum
brances of this kind. Deposits in
Western banks have Increased amaz
ingly. The owners of the great bulk
of these funds are the farmers. They
come nearer being an independent
class today than any other class in the
United States. Still, they are per
suaded that they are not getting; their
share of the general prosperity, hence
the launching of the trust.
Are Holding Back Crops.
Men who have been over the states
which raise a surplus of corn, wheat,
oats, cotton and livestock have come
back to Chicago with the message that
back of the car scarcity as an explana
tion of the slack movement of grain to
market is the fact that the farmers
are organized and that they have a
concerted plan to hold back their farm,
products until they get satisfactory
prices. Being in no need of ready
money, they are carrying out their
programme on a scale that is surprising-.
Nothing of this is heard on the Chi
cago or other Boards of Trade In the
open discussion. The grain dealer, the
commission man, the shipper and the
speculator studiously taboo the sub
ject. If they speak of the farmers'
movement at all. It is with a con
temptuous sneer, and the prophesy that
it will come to naught.
.Say They Will "Stick.-'
"The trusts and combines, the spec
ulators and Board of Trade men call
us Jays, hayseeds, Rubes and moss
backs," says M. F. Sharp, a Kentucky
leader of the farm trust. "They say
that if we do organize we won't stick,
but I want to tell you that when an
organization reaches a stage where It
is able to dictate prices and get them,
it Is the best sticking organization in
the world."
There was something out of the or
dinary about the movement of grain,
last Summer long before the car short-
re was thought of. The statistics of
previous years based on crop compari
sons went all awry. The wheat and
corn trade lost its bearings completely.
It did not know how to reckon on the
future, even approximately. The Ag
ricultural Department issued its esti
mates of the crops as previously. These
figures showed that the production of
corn was by far the biggest since offi
cial records have been kept. The yield
of wheat was the largest with one ex
ception. Basing their calculations on
the movements of crops In previous
years, the trade expected certain things
to happen from week to week. These
things did not happen, and one of the
reasons for it, if not the greatest rea
son, was the refusal of the farmers to
accept bids made to them.
Have Influenced Markets.
Walter Fitch, former president of
the Chicago Board of Trade, in sum
ming up conditions of the .year 1906,
admitted to a reporter that the concert
ed action of the growers of wheat and
com was one of the vital Influences on
markets and prices during the crop
year. As a controlling factor he put it
alongside the inadequate transporta-
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Senate Today.
tion facilities. As to whether it was
to be a permanent influence, he did not
venture an opinion, but he attached
much importance to the fact that the
farmers of the Nation have been edu
cated up to a higher plane of values
for their grain than formerly obtained.
Stories are coming forward, now that
country elevators in Kansas, Nebraska,
Illinois and Iowa are full to overflow
ing with corn and that hundreds of
thousands of bushels have been piled
up with a temporary covering to shield
it from the weather. The owners of
a vast deal of this grain are the farm
ers who have financed and build spe
cial elevators to store their grain for
prompt shipment when - prices ' "are
right."- Leaders of the farmers' or
ganizations declare- the holding back
of this grain accounts for the discom
fiture of professional dealers, and they
say the new order of things will be
felt more and more as time goes on.
Society ot Equity Strongest.
There are several big combinations
of farmers in the West, but the one
that Is making the most noise is the
American Society of Equity, which has
its headquarters in Indianapolis. There
are other organizations more limited in
scope. Down in Texas the farmers have
a combine of their own which is mak
ing itself felt in the Southwest.
One of the Interesting features of
the ' general movement arises in con
nection with the Oklahoma Constitu
tional Convention. In that territory
the American Society of Equity is
strong. One of the directors. H. D.
Wilson, lives there. He has able lieu
tenants looking after the interests of
the farmers in the convention, and it
is said that 70 of the 112 members
have been pledged to support certain
provisions as an. integral part of the
constitution. Among other 'things they
seek to be exempt from the operation
of any anti-trust provisions that may
be Inserted. There is a lobby at Guth
rie watching the progress of events,
and if the party in control does not
"come up to .the scratch" it will be
marked for slaughter. ;
If the word of rthe officers' of the
American , Society of -Equity is to be
taken at its face value, this society
today 'has a membership of 270,000
farmers,- being especially strong in Il
linois, -Wisconsin, Indiana, Oklahoma,
Kansas, Iowa and Nebraska. There
are a few members iri' Michigan, and a
campaign to strengthen the combine in
that state is now In progress. Lively
organization work also is going on in
other Western and Southwestern States
where the' Meld is promising. Unlike
past movements, this one is most suc
cessful where the financial condition of
the farmer is the best.
Alliance With Unions.
The propagandists- of the- American
Society of Equity believe they have
made a ten-strike by appealing to the
organized labor of the country. N. C.
Crawley, of Wisconsin, owner of a fine
farm near Baraboo, and one of the
field generals of the society, recently
presented his case to the local Feder
ation of Labor. He assured the labor
men that 50.000 agriculturists of the
Badger State will be in the combine for
better prices before June I. Already,
he declares, many of the farmers have
pledged themselves to purchase no
goods wearing apparel, foods or field
implements that do not bear the union
label or are not made by union labor.
Mr. Crawley makes his appeal to the
laboring classes through their pocket
books. He represents that,, while the
farmers, by allying themselves with
the labor unions, will get better prices
for their products, the laboring classes
will share the benefits of affiliation by
buying their commodities more cheap
ly. In his talk to the Chicago Feder
ation of Labor he said:
Argument to Working Man.
W farmers are getting 20 'cents a bushel
for our pntHtoes and you men are paying
the commission men or grocers 80 cents to
llrt cents a -l-jshel for the same potatoes.
There should be no such discrepancy in
tile price to the producer and the price to
'll.e consumer. The middleman is getting
entirely too much out of the transaction.
The freight charges and the cost of hand
ling and distribution do not Justify the
commission man and the grocer In levying
so R-.eat a-tribute on you.
What we ought to do is to get together
and control prices and distribution. The
farmer ought to be paid more and you
ought to pay less. Let us put the gambler
and, the speculator out of business. They
are not creators of wealth, and the world
does not owe them a living. Whether you
Join us or-not, we are going on with our
(Concluded on Pace 2.)
THAWWQRRIED BY
JEROME'S TACTICS
Fears to Undergo Men
tal Examination.
RESTLESS DAY IN THE TOMBS
Defendant's Counsel Discusses
Case With Prisoner.
THAW'S MOTHER IS UNEASY
Expresses Willingness for lunacy
Commission Attorneys Say Kx
amination of Mrs. Thaw Will
Be Continued Today.
NEW YORK, Feb. 24. Clifford W.
Hartridge, personal counsel to Harry K.
Thaw, visited the prisoner at the Tombs
today and for an hour the two discussed
various matters, among them it was
said, the possibility that the prosecution
might seek to interrupt the cross-examination
of the defendant's wife when
Thaw's trial was resumed tomorrow
morning.
It has been reported, though without
apparent authority, that District Attor
ney Jerome will shift his attack on the
defense and insist that the direct exam
ination of Doctors Deemar and Bingham,
alienists for the defense, be concluded
before the state continued its cross-examination
of Mrs. Thaw. This move
would be construed as in the direction of
an application for a lunacy commission
to examine Thaw.
Mrs. Thaw on Stanrl Today.
This report is said to have reached the
prisoner and caused him no little uneasi
ness today. Mr. Hartridge. however, was
able to assure him that Mrs. Thaw's ex
amination would be completed before the
defense called other witnesses. Stipula
tion to this effect had been given, the
lawyer said. - - "
Attorney G. B. Gleason. associated with
the defense, spent 20 niimites with Thaw
earlier in the day. In spite of these talks
with his counsel, the prisoner was report
ed as having spent a restless, unhappy
day. It is well known that he desires
nothing less than to undergo a mental
examination.
Thaw's Fears Set Things Back. .
That Thaw's fears have set things back
was showed today In a statement credited
to a court official. According to this
man, Mrs. William Thaw. mother of
Harry, ten days ago approached the Dis
trict Attorney through friends and ex
pressed her willingness that a commission
in lunacy be appointed. The mother's
state of mind, it was said, was the result
of having read the harrowing story told
on the witness stand by her daughter-in-law,
and the merciless cross-examination
by Jerome, combined with the natural
shrinking she felt from taking the wit
ness stand herself.
It is understood that Mr. Jerome on
his part wishes to avoid at this time
such drastic action as asking for a luna
cy commission. He has declared in court,
however, that if he could be convinced
that the slayer of Stanford White was
Insane he would drop the prosecution.
FIERCE BUTTLE REPORTED
MCARAGCAX FORCES CLASH
WITH ARMY IX HONDURAS.
Indefinite Dispatch Received In City
of Mexico Details of Affair
Hourly Expected.
CTTT OF MEXICO, Feb. 24. Dr. B.
Estuphnan, minister to Mexico from Sal
vador and Honduras, tonight received the
following vague message from Honduran
officials:
"Nicaraguan forces have invaded Hon
duras. Fierce battle ensued."
When the battle was fought, where the
encounter took place, and what was the
ultimate result of the reported struggle
is left to conjecture. ,
This is the first word Dr. Estuphnan
has received from Honduras for several
days, although he has sent several cable
grams of injuiry. Details of the battle
are hourly expected.
IXVASIOX THE CAUSE OF WAR
President Zclaya. Sends Personal
Message, to Associated Press.
NEW TORK. Feb. 24.-The Associated
Press today received the following cable
dispatch:
Managua. Nicaragua, Saturday, Feb
ruary 23, S:30 P. M. We went" to war
because Honduras forces attacked our
small, garrison on the frontier, looting,
burning and killing. We demanded satis
faction and It was denied. We agreed to
accept whatever decision the arbitration
court might render, but President Bonilla,
of Honduras, dissolved the court by with
drawing the Honduran arbitration.
"Nicaragua has triumphed In four com
bats over .the Honduran forces without
suffering one defeat. Our forces are to
day in the territory of Honduras.
teisned) "ZBLATA.
"President of Nicaragua."
X'rge Overthrow of Zelayas.
PANAMA, Feb. 24. The mail which
EVENTS OF COMING WEEK
Clo"h)K Days of 09th Congress.
Appropriation measures and the
ship subsidy bill will occupy atten
tion of the House during the week."
while the Senate trill be busy dis
posing of the post office bill, the
pension bill, sundry civil bill and
general deficiency bill. The Be-ve-ridge
amendment to the meat inspec
tion bill will also co 171 e up.
On Monday Senator Depew will
make a formal address in the Sen
ate on the deposit of public moneys
and Senator Patterson on Wednes
day on the question of the Gov
ernment ownership of utilities. There
also will be made an effort during
the week to secure the ratification
of the Dominican treaty.
Harriman Roads on the Rack.
The Interstate Commerce Commis
sion will meet in New York City on
Monday to continue its investigation
of the Harriman railroads. Many
notable financiers and railroad men
have been subpenaed and are ex
pected to appear for examination at
this sitting of the commission.
Among them is E. H. Harriman. It
Is planned to call Mr. Harriman to
the witness stand Immediately on
the opening of the hearing.
Among others expected to appear
are William C. Rockefeller, Jacob H.
Schiff. head of the New York bank
ing house of Kuhn, Ioeh & Co.,
Otto Kahn, C. W. Hilllard, comptroll
er of the Chicago & Alton Rail
road; William Mast, comptroller of
the I'nion Pacific; Alexander Milter,
secretary of the Union Pacific, and
others.
Arrange Battebal! Schedule.
Baseball men, representing the
major and minor leagues, will hold
a series of meetings in New York.
The annual schedule meetings of the
National and American Leagues will
begin Monday and probably continue
until Wednesday. On Wednesday the
National Baseball Commission will
begin a session. The commission will
pass upon many disputed points af
fecting the various leagues of the
country.
Sixth Week of Thaw Trial.
The trial of Harry K. Thaw for
the murder of Stanford White enters
on its sixth week, with little pros
pect of an early termination. Mrs.
Kvelyn Thaw, wife of the prisoner, is
expected to appear for a contimi
ance of the cross-examination when
the trial is resumed.
arrived here today brought a procla
mation signed at Cholutee, Honduras,
by Generals Anastastio Oritz, Paulino
Godey, Emllio Chamarro, Benito
Etheavrria, Antonio Bustos and Rafael
Hernendez, representing the various
political opposition parties in Nicara
gua who are among the officers of the
army of President Bonilla of Honduras.
The proclamation is addressed to Cen
tral Americans and says that President
Zelayas' downfall Is anjurgnt neces
sity for the purification of the political
situation In Nicaragua.
LEATHER EXPORTS TREBLE
Industry Contributed $150,000,000
to Foreign Commerce Last tear.
WASHINGTON", Feb. 24. The leather
Industry contributed Jlfi0.000.000 to the for
eign commerce of the United States in the
year 1906, against less than $55,000,000 a
decade earlier.
These figures, announced by the Bureau
of Statistics of the Department of Com
merce and Labor today, combine imports
and exports of leather and Its manufac
tures and imports 'and exports of hides
and skins. The value of hides and skins
imported In the calendar year 1906 was
practically $S4,000,OCO, having quadrupled
in ten years.
ENDS OF LEVEE ARE TIED
Difficult Engineering Fele Is Ac
complished at Xew Orleans.
NEW ORLEANS, Feb. 24. Control was
secured today over the dangerous crev
asse near Jesuits Bend, the state engi
neers succeeding In "tying in' the ends
of the broken levee so that the breach
did not widen. It was announced at the
State Engineer's office that should the
situation become threatening the crev
asse can be closed, although at great cost.
Jt was decided to let the break flood the
surrounding country for a few days.
CONTENTS TODAY'S PAPER
1 The Weather.
YESTERDAY'S Maximum temperature, 52
degrees; minimum, 48.
TODAY'S Rain; southerly winds.
Foreign.
Pope rejects French government plan for
leasing churches, rage 2.
Porty members of the crew of ths ateamAr
Imperlatrlx perish ; passengers all res
cued. Page 2.
Fierce bat le reported hetween troops of
Nicaragua and Honduras. Page 1.
National.
Kakir. writes on world-wide work of the
T. M. C. A. Page 1.
Elkins report on rate bill shows steady de
cline In passenger . and freight rates.
Page 2.
President Roosev delivers short sermon
to schoolboys at Groton. Page 4.
Iomestic.
Jerome's tactics worry Thaw, who dreads
lunacy commission. Page 1.
Senator Bailey wants investigation report
hurried so he may hasten to Washing
ton. Page 2.
Oregon legislature.
Summary of work of lawmaking body. Page
3.
Now banking law very liberal in Its provi
sions. Page 3.
Appropriation for Drain Normal may fail,
page 4.
New law as to loaning of public funds not
overly effective. Page 3.
Portland and Vicinity.
C. E. Loss Company in financial straits;
Its lawyer is arrested at Drain; Presi
dent Loss calls it conspiracy; effect on
ITnited Railways. Page 1.
Bond Issues involving expenditure of $2,475.
000 will be voted on at next city elec
tion. Page 8.
Moses L. Tichner, prominent Elk, stricken
with heart failure on streetcar. Page 14.
Dr. Brougher says newspapers should print
details of Thaw trial. Page 12..
Portland telegraphers make -open declara
tion of union membership. Page 8.
tr House .preaches final sermon. Page 12.
LOSS COMPANY 111
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Creditors Press Rail
road Builder.
CAUSE HIS LAWYER'S ARREST
Attorney A. C. Emmons and
Two Companions in Toils.
FOR TECHNICAL BURGLARY
Charged With Breaking Into Loss
Offices at Drain to Obtain Ac
count Books Victims of
Conspiracy, They Say.
DRAIN, Or.. Feb. 24. (Special.) A. C.
Emmons, a prominent Portland lawyer;
W. B. Heed and J. S. Holland, all in the
employe ot the C. Ei. Loss Company, were
arrested here today on a charge of tech
nical burglary, and placed under $1000 bail
each. Emmons secured bail money from
a local bank and left on the evening
train for Portland. Reed and Holland
are still in the custody of the town con
stable and will have a preliminary hear
ing in the morning. The offense with
which they are charged Is the breaking
into a building and taking valuable books
and records relative to the affairs of the
C. B. Ioss Company, which has the con
tract for grading the Drain branch of the
Southern Pacific. J
The me.i arrested arrived from Portland
on an er'y train and went at once to
the office of the Loss Company where
they packed up all the books and records
and took them to the depot for shipment
by express to Portland. The agent re
fused to ship them, taking the stand that
it was a holiday and that the express of
fice was not open.
The local officials of the Loss Company
were notified of the attempted removal of
the books and warrants were issued for
the arrest of the Portland men.:
Sul-con tractors have-come in -from th
camps along the line of construction to
await the outcome of the affair. It is
said that Loss has secured the estimates
for several months, but has not turned
over the money due the sub-contractors,
with the result that many creditors,
whose claims in the aggregate amount to
$50,000, are waiting for their money.
The attempt to secure the books, In
the small hours of the morning, is con
strued by the sub-contractors as an ef
fort to destroy or get the records out of
the Jurisdiction to hinder creditors.
MR. TOSS 31 A KES STATEMENT"
Admits That His Company Is Embar
rassed Creditors Will Meet.
Lawyer Emmons arrived in, Portland
from Drain at 11:30 o'clock last night
and was met by an Oregonian reporter.
He was indignant over his arrest at
Drain, which, he declared, was an out
rage. He said that Reed, who is a pri
vate detective, and Holland, a book
keeper of the Loss Company, reached
Drain early yesterday morning and went
direct to the Drain offices. On producing
an order from President C. E. Loss, they
were given the books of the corporation.
The office, he says, was not broken Into.
Mr. 'Emmons arrived on a later train,
after the books had been secured, and
had been in town but a few minutes
when he was placed under arrest, with
Reed and Holland. Emmons says that
J. T. Tobin, who is in charge of the office,
and Thomas Owens, a sub-contractor,
instigated the arrests. Mr. Emmons says
he and his companions showed the order
for the books and would have been re
leased by the Justice of the Peace had
It not been for a complaint filed by To
bin. alleging that personal letters and
documents belonging to him had been
taken with the company's books.
When Mr. Emmons secured bail he took
the first train for Portland to consult
with Mr. Loss. Reed and Holland are
sti'.I under arrest. The books are In
a hotel at Drain, where they are being
guarded by representatives of both fac
tions. Both Mr. Loss and Mr. Emmons, his
attorney, last night declared their belief
that there was a conspiracy on foot to
compel the C. E. Loss Company to for
feit Its contract with the Southern Pacific
for the construction of the Drain branch,
but they were unwilling to make any
positive statement that the company
would be able to meet its financial ob
ligations. Mr. Loss said he had no idea
how deeply the C. E. Loss Company,
of which he Is president and owner, is
indebted. He says the affairs of the com
pany have been left entirely in the hands
of T. J. Tobin. who has been supervising
the work at Drain. He intimates that
Tobin has been guilty of gross misman
agement, but declined to make direct ac
cusations. Significant facts are, however, that the
creditors of the C. E. Loss Company will
hold a meeting in Portland either today
or tomorrow, and that Mr. Loss said
last night that he was willing to do any
thing that the creditors might ask. He
declared that, he was trying to protect
the creditors of the company, not to
hinder or defraud them.
Mr; Loss asserted that it would be
utterly Impossible for him to say whether
the company would be able to meet its
obligations until he had examined the
books. He admitted that from the turn
of events it looked as if the company
was in financial straits. He declared that
so far he has put $60,000 more into the
work at Drain than he has taken out.
When asked relative to the United Rail
ways lines in Portland, Mr. Loss said
he thought that project would go ahead
as planned, but was not emphatic.
"I think the United Railways Company
will be all right," said he, "as it is en
tirely independent of the Drain contract,
which is a personal transaction of mine."
Rails for the United Railways lines are
now being received In Portland and it
was last week given out that the work
af actual construction would shortly be
gin. Mr. Loss says he has not been In
Drain for three months, the work at
that place having been in exclusive
charge of Mr Tobin. Mr. Loss has been
losing money all along on this work,
and when he learned tnat J. S. Holland,
a bookkeeper employed by the com
pany at Drain, had been sent away on
a vacation, he became suspicious and
; Senator BaHey, Who Is Anxious for
Investigation Committee to Ke
4 port So He May Hasten to Wah
f Ington.
sent for Holland, who was in Cali
fornia. Holland had In his possession ab
stracts of the company's books at
Drain which. Loss says, do not agree
with the statements sent him by Tobin.
Mr. Loss became suspicious and tele
graphed from Portland ssking Tobin
to meet him here, which Tobin declined
to do. Mr. Loss then sent Mr. Emmons,
Mr. Holland and W. B. Reed, a private
detective, to Drain to obtain the books
of the company, and gave them a writ
ten order for that purpose.
"This affair looks very suspicious to
me - Knii besrlns to-, iidicat that I am
the victim of a conspiracy," said Mr.
Loss. "I cannot understand the actions
of Mr. Tobin, as I had implicit faith in
him and left everything In his hands.
Tobin is very friendly with Thomas
Owens, one of the sub-contractors.
"The company owes Owens consider
able money, but our relations with him
are somewhat involved, as he owes us
more than we do him. There is an
other firm of contractors to which we
are indebted, but the railroad company
has held back enough money as a
guarantee fund to pay them off. Why,
they should try to keep us from obtain
ing the books, which belong to us, and
to which I have a perfect right, as
president of the company. Is a mystery
to me."
Jt was learned last night from Mr.
Emmons that Tobin had made plans
to sell off the supplies of the company's
commissary department at Drain, os
tensibly to raise money to pay off
some of the obligations of the com
pany. SHE KIDNAPS RICH OLD MAN
Millionlare Is Feeble-Minded and
Woman Is Placed Under Arrest.
MEADVILLE, Pa., Feb. 24. Emma
Dare, charged with kidnaping George
Rhodius. said to be feeble-minded, at
Indianapolis, January 21, and marry
ing him' in Louisville. Ky was arrest
ed tonight at the Todd Sanitarium,
Cambridge Springs. ' Rhodius, who Is a
millionaire, was with the woman, who
will be taken to Indianapolis for trial.
SOUGHT TO GET HIS , WEALTH
Parties Have Been - Searching for
Elma Daro for Past Month
INDIANAPOLIS. Feb. , 24. Elma
Dare, it is alleged, took Rhodius from
this city at midnight. January 21. and
married him the next day in Louisville.
Since then their location has been un
known. Attorneys for the Rhodius es
tate, have put forth every' effort to
locate the missing couple. Rhodius'
fortune is estimated at $600,000. It is
charged that the supposed forced mar
riage was part of a plot to gain posses
sion of his property.
DIETRICH TO BE NAMED
Indications He Will Be Nominated
for District Judge in Idaho.
OREGONIAN NEWS BUREAU. Wash
ington, Feb. 24. Present Indications
are that F. S. Dietrich, of Pocatello.
will be appointed District Judge .In
Idaho to succeed Judge Beatty, whose
resignation has not yet reached
Washington. If his resignation ar
rives next week, Dietrich's nomina
tion will probably go before Congress
before the session adjourns. This
week Supreme Judge Ailshle will have
an opportunity to get before the Attorney-General
to answer the charges
pending against him. As yet he has
not seen the charges and does not know
by whom they are preferred.
Poisoned by Eating Tomatoes.
EL PASO, Tex.. Feb. 24. Major Charles
Davis, of this city, and Colonel Brady
are desperately ill at midnight, both suf
fering from ptomaine poisoning, caused
by. eating canned tomatoes while out
hunting today.
Y.M.C.A.ANDITS
FIELDS DF LABOR
Its Enterprise Extends
Round the World.
GOOD SENSE WITH RELIGION
Club, Church, Home and Col
lege for the Young Men.
ROSES ALONG LIFE'S PATH
Help to Those Who Will Help Them
selves Of Humble Origin in Eng
land 63 Years Ago. Growth
Since Then Remarkable.
BY FREDERIC J, HAPKIN.
WASHINGTON. Feb. 19. (Special Cor
respondence.) A prominent worker in tho
Young Men's Christian Association has
said that it could answer the roll call of
a recreation club, a hotel, a church, a
university, a gymnasium, a real estae
corporation, or a home, and prove its
claim to any of these names. This so
ciety owns over 500 clubhouses, and the
value of its land and buildings in the
United Slates alone is over $t2.000.W.
In almost every city it lias facilities for
entertaining transient guests in a fash
ion as good and less expensive than the
average hotel; It is prepared to conduct
religious services when and where they
are needed; It is educating a body of
students 39.000 strong, who can be admit
ted on certificate to scores of colleges;
it has gymnasiums so thoroughly
equipped and under such exceptional in
structors that Dr. Anderson, of Tale, r.U
long ago remarked: "They are the finest
body of specialists in physical training
in the world."
"What I like about your work," said
President Roosevelt to a body of men
representing the Y. M. C. A., "is that
you mix religion with common sense."
This is done by the very old and simple
method of being a friend ard comrada
when one is needed, by helping the man
himself, by caring for the body and mind
as well as for the soul, by proving that
it is best to do our work in the most
conscientious fashion, and to continu
ally be fitting oneself for better work.
The manner in which this great organ
ization is reaching the young may he
shown by the statement that if the boys
in all the departments could be brought
together they would make an army more
than twice as large as that commanded
by Hood when he was opposing Sherman
In Georgia.
If Out of Work, Will Get You a Job.
Are you a stranger, eager for work and
capable of doing your best when it is
offered? Go to the nearest Y. M. C. A.
building, and see what the employment
agency can do for you. You can lodge
there for the night, have your bath and
a good meal, and be ready to face the
world again after a good night's rest. Do
you want to improve your spare tim
studying for some better position, or to
rise in your own trade? The Y. M. C. A.
has night and day classes that embrace
all the English branches. mathematicF,
the sciences, business courses, law, ora
tory, mechanics, art, the foreign lan
guageseverything, in fact, that school,
colleges and universities may offer, and
the tuition is t free to those who have
paid a small annual fee of about $15.
Boston, Detroit and several other largs
cities have added a course for chauf
feurs to the regular curriculum. Every
where there Is specializing in different
branches as the need arises, for the one
great thing about the Y. M. C. A. is that
broadness of spirit which makes it mod
ify Its aims to meet the needs of the
people whom it serves. Near Denver,
for example, there Is a SO-acre farm,
where association members with tuber
culosis are sent and offered a good chance,
to fight the disease with fresh air, sun
shine and friendly companionship to help
them.
Where Foreigners Get American: Idea
Are you a foreigner? Whether you have
come from some Y. M. C. A. Club In
the old country' or not, your chances ar
better for assimilating American ideas if
you are thrown with men of the asso
ciation over here. In Troy, X. Y., there
are ten nationalities In one club, eagerly
studying American history and familiar
izing themselves with the growth and
aims ot American Institutions. In New-
York there is a $100,000 building for
Frenchmen alone. At De Kalb, 111., there
is a school maintained by the Y. M. C.
A. for the American Finns.
If you are a railroad man. you know
the many places along your route where
a fellow, tired and dirty after a long
and nerve-racking run. can drop in and
have a bath, a good dinner and a quiet
smoke in the billiard room. This is the.
best substitute there is for your home
on the other end of the line. You and
the other 84.000 railroad members had no
such loafing place as this 30 years ago.
Nobody seemed to care then whether you
rested or not, Just so you were in time
for the work next day. No wonder that
some of the men drank, and with veiled
eyes and unsteady hands rushed past
danger signals to strew the line with
appalling wrecks.
Comfortable Rest Room at Evening.
Are you a worker in a mine or fac
tory? Then at noon, when you get out
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