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PORTLAND, THURSDAY, DEC 8. 1907.
THE COPPER COIJAPSK.
The present crisis came on copper.
It broke there, because that was the
weakest link of the chain. There had
been excessive speculation In copper.
Copper stocks and copper bonds had
been exploited to the limit and beyond
Jt. The belief was that copper pro
duction and supply could be controlled,
and actually was under control, of the
Standard Oil copper people. Prices of
copper, and of copper stocks and
bonds, had been forced, on this sup
position, to a value or price a sup
posed value and imaginary price
more than twice greater than the facta
would warrant. These people sup
posed they had control of all the cop
per supplies of America, which are far
greater than those of all the rest of
the world. Stocks and, bonds were
multiplied on this supposition, to equal
the imagined wealth, and were even
carried beyond It. Upon the fight be
tween the bulls and bears of copper In
New Tork the crisis came. It fright
ened the public, and was speedily ex
tended In other directions. Naturally
It fell on the banks which were sup
posed to be promoters of various spec
ulations; and the shock was quickly
communicated to all parts of the
United States.
The Standard Oil copper people be
lieved they had gained full control of
the entire copper supply, or the
greater part of It, and could make
euch prices for copper as they chose.
Tet they had not succeeded, as they
supposed, in getting control of the sup
ply. But they persuaded European
operators that they had done so. For
a time the copper they were accumu
lating from American mines they suc
ceeded In unloading on Europe; but
the European customers presently be
came aware that there was an ever
Increasing supply and first hesitated,
then stopped. The fight between the
bulls and bears In New York and Bos
ton made It impossible to hold up the
price, so as to enable the operators to
unload on Europe. The break came;
the bears lost, temporarily, and the
bulla ZMciaged, though at great loss,
to keep the field by pulling everything
else down with them and making other
Interests, for their' own protection,
temporary allies, In the hope to save
what they might. It shows the
strength of the Standard Oil copper
syndicate; yet the syndicate is doomed.
It cannot control the supply of copper,
and therefore cannot hold the price
up to the figures required by its pro
gramme. The effort to maintain the price of
copper bears a relation to the effort a
few years ago to sustain the price of
silver. In each case the effort failed,
because the metal may be produced
at a lower rate, price or value than the
exploiters supposed or imagined. Cop
per cannot be made Into money; It is
too abundant for such purpose. So
was silver, unless gold was to be lost
from use as money, since no sure ratio
could be maintained between them.
Copper was forced to a price of 18
cents a pound. It is worth about one
half that, because it may be produced
at one-half that, or less. America now
Is producing 2,500,000 pounds of cop
per dally; -other countries about 1,500,
000 pounds. Total, 4.000,000 pounds.
But the .world's consumption Is not
much more than 2,000,000 pounds
daily; and prospects of Increase of
production far exceed all probabilities
of increase of consumption. Copper
will certainly fall to 10 cents a pound;
probably to 8 cents; for Utah and Ne
vada, to say nothing of other sources
of supply, have mountains of copper
ore that may be mined at this low
rate, ' or lower. Full of copper also
are districts in Eastern Oregon and
Northern Idaho and Western Montana,
and l&rgs areas of Alaska, not
yet developed. Never again can
the price of copper be carried to the
height it reached under the recent ex
ploitation upon which it broke. Though
production has been reduced by the
manipulators, the supply on the mar
ket cannot be worked off, except at
reduced prices. Increasing supplies
of copper at natural prices will take
care of the market hereafter.
No speculation of modern times has
so overreached itself as this attemptto
control the copper market. It was
based on the fallacy that the syndicate
could control production. The supply.
It was supposed, was limited, and the
syndicate had "cornered" It. The mar
ket broke on the effort; and this pre
cipitated a crisis in money in New
fork. The copper people, both bulls
and bears, were very powerful; their
bank connections had wide range, and
the conflict between the opposing par
ties gave a scare to banks and to busi
ness, far beyond the limits of copper
operations. Every other line of spec
ulative effort felt the shock; the de
positors ran to the banks for their
money; the banks for their own pro
tection employed clearing-house cer
tificates, and legitimate business waits
till It sees what has become of the
plungers who have dropped Into the
abyss. But the crisis In other specula
tions would not have come so soon but
for the copper catastrophe; which, on
one side of it, resembles the catastro
phe that resulted from the effort to
force and to uphold silver, from 1880
to 1896. .
OUR FREQUENT MURDERS.
The cheapest commodity in the
United States today is human life. It
Is protected by no tariff; It Is monop
olized by no trust. Even the courts,
which are Instituted primarily to safe
guard life, make It of less account
than property. Mr. Justice Brewer
says very frequently that the chief
duty of the Supreme Court Is to pro
tect property, but It is difficult to recall
anything ha has ever said about Its ob
ligation to protect life. From its read
iness to set convicted murderers free
on technicalities one Infers that It does
not feel under any such obligation.
The wholesale murder and holocaust
of a family such as occurred at Ma
cteay the other night excites a little
passing attention even in Marion
County, where murder is one of the
common pastimes of excitable citizens.
Thirteen human lives have been taken
in Marion within a year,, and nobody
punished. Every one of them has
either set the police officers In Just
such a muddle as this Macleay affair
has caused, or else it has been ex
cused under the detestable "unwritten
law," which does so much to encour
age homicide wherever it is preached.
Perhaps the Macleay horror would
have stirred the Indurated consciences
of the Portland officials, but certainly
nothing less could do it. The slaugh
ter of one little boy like the McGrath
child causes not even a moment's dis
turbance of their astral calm. The
death' of a child under conditions
painfully suspicious Is not worth Inves
tigating. How many citizens must be
murdered at the same time to make
up a case worthy the attention of our
guardians and protectors?
"What Is the matter with us? . Are
we reverting to savagery? Not even
Italy, the land of brigandage, where
the knife is thrust into an enemy's
back on the slightest provocation, can
compare with our record of homicides.
In this evil particular we surpass the
world. Mr. Roosevelt, says it is be
cause of our love of technicalities and
our sentimentality. Doubtless he Is
right; but it does look as If Inherent
"cussedness" had a good deal to do
with It. We like to praise our Na
tional good temper, but a country
which can show more murders to the
thousand than any other in the world
must shelter a certain amount of tem
per which is not so good.
THE RECALL OF AOKI.
The recall of Japanese Ambassador
Aoki will be a matter of deep regret to
all who have followed closely the trend
of Japanese affairs in this country
Viscount Aokl is a man of unusual in
telligence, and his views on the Japan
ese question in America have not been
warped and biased by the pretty but
misleading comment of the Eastern
newspapers. The Japanese statesmen
In far Toklo quite naturally have dif
ficulty in understanding the aversion
shown to their countrymen by a 'cer
tain element on the Pacific Coast at a
time when another element of our
variegated society on the Atlantic
Coast, 3000 miles away from .Japan
ese competition, is showing a disposi
tion to welcome all kinds of Japanese
as equals of our own Anglo-Saxons.
But Aokl has not been deceived.
He knows that along the entire Pa
cific Coast, wherever his countrymen
have appeared, there has arisen a
deep-seated and Ineradicable feeling of
resentment over their appearance.
Birth, breeding and racial Instincts
prevent the Americanization of these
Japanese, but wherever they have se
cured a good, strong foothold there is
much evidence that they meet with
signal success in Japanning the por
tion of America where they gain the
ascendency. The honorable govern
ment of Japan is undoubtedly dissat
isfied with Minister Aokl because he
has not been as aggressive !n demand
ing full recognition and no immigra
tion restrictions for his countrymen. In
accordance with the expressed senti
ment of the New Ydrk newspapers.
The jingo party, which seems to have
pretty full " swing In Japan just at
present, demanded that a. slight brawl
between American hoodlums and Jap
anese In San Francisco be rfiagnlfied
into an international question of seri
ous portent.
Aoki declined to make any undue
fuss about the matter, and, to insure
a continuation of the best possible re
lations between the two countries, re
fused to regard It at all seriously. But
if Japan, as reported, is recalling Am
bassador Aoki because he has not been
sufficiently aggressive in stirring up
trouble, she will learn her mistake If
she replaces him with a man who at
tempts to make the United States
kowtow every time an Incipient race
riot Is started on the Pacific Coast
Aoki knew that his countrymen of the
coolie class were not wanted in the
United States. He also knew that
their increasing numbers were causing
a strain on the industrial situation
which must- soon lead to serious
trouble, .and he did not care to in
crease that trouble by wearing a" Jingo
air or making jingo reports to his gov
ernment. The attitude of his successor will be
watched with considerable interest.
When Aokl arrived the United States
was the only country then protesting
against the Indiscriminate admission
of Japanese. Npw the subjects of tht
Mikado are receiving rougher, treat
ment from Canada than they ever re
ceived in the United States. The.
agreement signed at St. Petersburg in
September, by representatives of Great
Britain and Kussia unquestionably left
Japan in the lurch so far as ever
having Great Britain for an ally on
the Pacific was concerned. Canada
is already enforcing harsher exclusion
measures'1. against the Japanese than
are in effect in the United States, and
if Aoki's successor comes here in
the expectancy of compelling a more
humble attitude than has been shown
during -the Aokl administration, he
will be referred to existing conditions
with our nearest neighbor on the
north.
INLAND WATERWAYS.
Taken with reference to the long
future, what he says about our inland
waterways Is the most important part
of the President's message. The dif
ficulty with corporations is for the
most part psychological, like our re
current panics. In creating these for
midable agencies we were a little more
ingenious and powerful than we
thought we could be. We grew afraid
of our own handiwork and have not
yet quite recovered our equanimity;
but that will come In time. Some
Aladdin will presently ' find a lamp
which need only be rubbed on the rim
and the corporate Jinn will obediently
serve the country which they now
threaten to ruin. When our Judges
find a way out of the enchanted for
est of technicalities where they wan
der, the legal troubles with the syndi
cates will disappear like morning mist.
Lack of common sense lies at the
basis of most of our difficulties with
monopolies, and the currency also. But
Internal waterways are among those
material things which lie at the basis
of crWliza.tion. ' Upon them depend the
Increase of population and the security
of human welfare on this continent.
From most new devices In the realm
of mechanics people expect too much.
This was emphatically true of rail
roads. When the country began to be
reticulated with iron tracks It was be
lieved by everybody that the day of
inland water transportation had gone
forever. The old Chesapeake and
Ohio Canal fell into disuse. The Mis
sissippi steamboats" were left to rot at
the forsaken wharves and the towns
along the great river which had
thriven on the trade, of the boats were
almost deserted. The channel of the
river became clogged with sandbars;
the water, forced out of the banks In
flood time, invaded the fertile lands
along the lower reaches, while the de
struction of the forests along the upper
river intensified and hastened the pro
cess of universal ruin. What was the
use of spending time and money to
rectify the river? The day of its use
fulness was gone forever. The navi
gation of the Mississippi had passed
Into history and was of no further in
terest except In Mark Twain's books.
Then came the awakening. The
country discovered all at once that it
was impossible to carry its Internal
commerce on the railroads. The sys
tem of railroad transportation which
had seemed adequate for all time
broke down. It was perceived that we
must either develop the water traffic
once so despised or forever dwarf the
growth of the country. Mr. Roosevelt,
with his usual foresight, was one of
the first to see the dimensions of the
Internal waterway problem, and he
has consistently advocated a broad and
scientific scheme of development. This
scheme would Include the improve
ment of river channels and the con
struction of canals. The rivers to be
Improved are naturally in the first In
stance the Mississippi, with its tribu
taries, and the Columbia. But the
President wisely recommends that the
main channels shall be made navigable
for deep draft vessels before the tribu
taries are attempted.
The first step in improving the chan
nels of the Mississippi and Columbia
Rivers will naturally be to reforest
their banks. This will put "a stop to
the wash of soil, which builds the
sandbars and renders dredging a mere
wasteful palliative. The Mississippi
contains no rapids from the falls of St.
Anthony to the Gulf, except the rather
negligible ones at the mouth of the
Rock River. But with the Columbia
the case is different. To have a navi
gable channel from the mouth to the
head of boat navigation there must be
at least a canal at Cellio, so that this
canal is really a part of the improve
ment of the river channel. Along the
Lower Mississippi a system of levees
Is essential to retain tho water in flood
time, but the previous effect of these
levees has been to make the channel
more shallow and thus neutralize their
protective Influence. The same experi
ence has occurred with the Theiss in
ITungary, the Po in Italy and the
Hoang Ho in China. The beds of
some of these rivers have actually
been elevated above the adjacent land
by the long action of the levees, and
they thus become a greater menace to
the country every year. Permanent
Improvement of a river channel would
Include a system of levees which would
cause the current tp scour Instead at
depositing silt. Fortunately the ques
tion of levees does not concern the
Columbia.
By way of the Mississippi the Middle
West would have access to the Gulf,
but this would not be sufficient. There
is a great area of country which is
traversed by the Missouri. Until that
river is improved the Dakotas, Mon
tana and Nebraska must depend upon
the railroads for their outlet, and we
have learned what this means. Then
a deep waterway should be provided
from Oswego, on Lake Ontario, to
Troy, on the Hudson. The present
plans of New York provide for a barge
canal at an expense of $110,000,000,
but this is insufficient. Canada has
under construction a ship canal from
Georgian Bay by way of Lake Simcoe
to the north shore of Lake Ontario.
With this complete the supremacy of
the Lakes will pass to our northern
neighbor and the wheat and ores of
the Northwest will go to Europe, with
out trans-shipment, down the St. Law
rence. There must be a waterway
across New York which will permit
cargoes to go to Europe1 by way of
New York City without breaking Milk.
The West needs not only a deep water
way to the Gulf, but also ship routes
along its natural eastern outlet.
Interoceanic canals like the Suez
and the Panama strike the Imagina
tion, but their Importance Is very
much less than that of inland water
ways like the canal across New York
and the Canadian route through Geor
gian Bay. ' It is our Internal trade that
has made America prosperous. Still,
the waterway to the Gulf derives part
of its importance from Its being a
feeder to -the Isthmian route. This
oute will relieve the congestion of the
continental railroads. In fact, it will
greatly lessen their importance to
trade, as their managers well knov.
But there will be trade enough for all,
in the long run our inland waterways
are bound to increase la relative Im
portance. Ultimately the . railroads
will become feeders to the canals and
rivers, which are destined to be the
main arteries of internal commerce for
everything except rapid freight. Con
gress cannot take up this Important
enterprise too soon nor treat It too liberally.
Eddie Foy, futimaker for a conti
nent popular alike in the two-dollar
seats and the gallery, has ambition.
He expects to do Shakespeare. Pre
liminary to his debut as a high-priced
star, he proposes to change his name
by adding to it "Fitzgerald." A name
so short as Foy, he thinks. Is a handi
cap. Perhaps Mr. Edward Foy Fitz
gerald has forgotten. If he ever knew,
that contemporaries and posterity in
Eigland and America found no such
fault with a distinguished man named
Fox who is remembered with honor on
this side of the Atlantic. One can
scarcely count the prominent actors,
living and dead, who are known only
by the names they assumed when they
entered the theatrical field. These be
came permanent. The only notable
exception is Minnie Maddern, who by
gradations came to be known to the
present generation as Mrs. Fiske.
"Willie" Collier succeeded In changing
the diminutive into dignified William.
At his time of life, Foy will do well
to substitute Edward for the child's
name. If it is in him to rise to ex
alted heights in the realm of comedy,
he can do It under the familiar name
of Foy.
Henry O. Havemeyer, the sugar
king:, died yesterday. Mr. Havemeyer
rose to the head of his profession by
his signal ability as an organizer of a
trust second only to the Standard Oil
In Its power to enact unreasonable toll
from consumers of one of the great
necessities of life. The magnificent
fortune, for which no place will be
found In his pocket-less shroud, was
plied up by a system of extortion of
big profits from the consumer, and of
depression of values of the raw mate
rial for the producer. In some cir
cles, Mr. Havemeyer is charged with
promotion of the Spanish War for the
purpose of furthering the ends of the
grasping monopoly which he per
fected. Thi3 crime has never been
proven against him, but others have,
and all of the millions which he ac
cumulated by the devious ways of the
trust will not avail in the land In
which his spirit now wanders. In the
Imperishable wealth of a good name
and of good deeds well done, the late
Judge Frazer, of this city, left a for
tune incomparably greater than that
of the dead sugar trust magnate.
"At present prices for wool and
wethers, there Is actually more money
raising sheep in the Willamette Valley
than there is In raising -grain." In
these words an Eastern Oregon sheep
man calls attention to the probable
extinction of the Eastern Oregon
sheep-raising industry, and an In
crease in the business in the Willam
ette Valley. It has been pretty well
demonstrated In the past few years
that the lands of the Willamette Val
ley are more valuable for almost any
kind of farming than for grain-growing.
It has also' been demonstrated
that sheep on cultivated farms in the
Valley are much superior to those
which are obliged to rustle for a liv
ing on the vast ranges of Eastern Or
egon. The influence of the coming Argen
tine wheat crop is already felt in the
world's wheat markets, and prices
have been weak for the past few days.
It will not do, however, for foreigners
to place undue reliance on the Argen
tine crop, for it will be necessary for
it to break all previous records by an
enormous margin in order to make up
for the loss in other quarters. Just
at present the unsettled money market
in the United States Is the most po
tent factor in depressing wheat prices.
Fortunately for the Pacific Northwest,
there has been a material reduction In
ocean freight rates, and. If the down
ward trend continues, it will for a
time at least, make an effective stand
off for the decline in the price of
wheat.
Some philosopher once . remarked
that'"with the exception of horses and
women, old things were the best."
This being true, the people of South
ern Oregon ought to rejoice over the
resumption of "mixed train" service
on the Southern Pacific, for this is one
of the "oldest" as well as the slowest
kind of service now in use on Ameri
can railroads.
Ex-Senator Simon expressed the
opinion that the Title Guarantee &
Trust Company would pay dollar for
dollar of Its obligations. If Mr. Simon
is sufficiently sincere in his belief to
support his Judgment with money, he
can readily accumulate a large num
ber of claims at an astonishingly
heavy discount from the face value.
The Anti-Imperialists held their
ninth annual meeting in Boston Tues
day, and reported very little senti
ment in favor of retaining fhe Phil
ippines. If the sentiment to the con
trary was confined to the..anti-lmpe-rlalists,
there would be very few peo
ple in favor of disposing of them.
At any rate, the man or men who
seek to organize a state convention
anywhere in the Union against Roose
velt, will have a hard task. Conven
tions may not send delegations in
structed for Roosevelt, but they cer
tainly will not send delegations known
to be unfriendly to him.
Commendable indeed Is the spirit of
civic and neighborhood pride that
prompts residents of Portland Heights
to construct at their own expense .a
sixty-foot boulevard.
As If we haven't enough new trouble,
now comes a reminder of high finance
in the life insurance business when
young Mr:. Hyde thought himself dic
tator. It must have been a lady reporter
who, describing the latest prizefight,
spoke of Moir as "uncertain and ill at
ease."
Is "Jimmy" Hyde suffering from an
attack of conscience or is he trying to
"do" the Equitable again?
Gus Lowlt has gone to Denver.
What bank will he get into there?
WILLIAMS STILL THE BOSS
Democrats Reject Scheme to Take
Away Committee Appointments.
WASHINGTON, Deo. 4. By a vote of
124 to 4 the House Democratic caucus to
night voted down the proposition of Rep
resentative Jones of Virginia to take the
designation of minorit. members of the
committees out of the hands of John
Sharp Williams, minority leader, and by
the same vote adopted a resolution af
firmatively placing the power In Mr.
Williams' hands.
Immediately after the caucus was
called to order, Jones offered his resolu
tion referring- to the discretion of the
minority, the selection of minority mem
bers of the committees, and placing the
responsibility on the Speaker. Jones
spoke in support of the resolution for
three-quarters of an hour. He said he
desired to make it unmistakably plain
that In proposing the abdication of the
nominating power by the minority leader
he was actuated by no personal motive.
He said:
I do not want my action to be oonstrued
aa expressing any want of confidence In the
leader we have so recently chosen. The
truth Is, I have been opposed to the nam
ing; of- committeemen by the leader of the
minority ever since that harmful practice
prevailed. 1 am unalterably opposed to the
practice of permitting- the Speaker to
shoulder onto the chosen head of the oppo
sition the task of deciding: which of his col
leagues' shall, and therefore which shall
not, serve on committees of this House.
In other words, I do not believe the Speaker
should, with our consent, be enabled to
throw firebrands into the ranks of the mi
nority to sow conflagration of envy and
dissension.
Carlin, of Virginia, .Jones' colleague,
offered as a substitute the following res
olution: "That it Is the sense of this caucus
that the minority leader be requested,
authorized and Instructed ' to nominate
minority members for assignment to
committees."
The substitute, directing the minority
leader to nominate committeemen, was
adopted by a vote of 124 to 4. - Those
who vated negatively were: Jonos. of
Virginia; Lamar, of Florida; Slayden, of
Texas; and Hard wick, of eGorgta.
Henry then withdrew his resolution,
offered but not acted on at last Satur
day's caucus, for the appointment of a
committee . live to formulate a mi
nority plan to force a discussion of the
tariff question on the floor.
SENATORS OFFER MANY BILLS
More Pay for Army and Xavy Ship
Subsidy Once More.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 4. Nearly 1000
bills were introduced in the Senate to
day and all of them were referred to
committees, where they will be taken up
for consideration after the new Senators
shall be given committee assignments.
No other business of Importance was
transacted. Almost all of these bills
were considered in the last Congress,
and most of them are private pension
bills. The whole number introduced in
the Senate of the Fifty-ninth Congress
was 8627, and before the Christmas holi
days It is probable that at least half of
them will again be introduced and re
ferred to committees.
Among the more Important measures
introduced today were the following:
By Fulton Amending the railroad rate
law in such a manner that a change of
tariff filed with the Interstate Commerce
Commission cannot go into effect where
objection is made until the commission
has declared the rate fair.
By Dick The administration measure
providing for an increase of pay for
members of the Army, Navy and Marine
Corps.
By Burkett Providing for the teaching
of agriculture in normal schools, free
postage on reading matter mailed to the
blind, and prohibiting telegraph and ex
press companies from transmitting re
turns pertaining to gambling.
' By Heyburn Bills providing for the
purchase of public building grounds in
Washington; the establishment of land
courts and appellate land courts; the es
tablishment of a National board of cor
porations, and a department of mines;
and placing in the capitol building ot
each state a model of a naval vessel
which has been named after that state.
By Hansbrough Repealing the timber
and stone act and providing for the sale
of timber on public lands; also a bill
giving homestead entrymen the right to
be absent from their homesteads dur
ing four Winter months.
By LaFolIette Requiring that railroad
rates shall be fixed so as only to yield
a fair return on the valuation of a road's
property.
' By Nelson Extending the free delivery
service to all towns having a postal
revenue of $S0CO.
A short bill which may take the place
of a regular ship subsidy bill this ses
sion was introduced by Gallinger. It
provides for an increase of the mail car
rying rate for lS-knot ships plying on the
Pacific and the South Atlantic to an
amount not exceeding the rate paid to
first-class vessels. The bill Is designed
to meet the ideas set (forth on ship sub
sidy in the President's message.
Gallinger also introduced bills prohib
iting the sale and transportation of poi
sonous foods, providing for a monument
in Washington to the private soldiers
of the Army and increasing pensions for
total deafness.
Two single statehood bills were Intro
duced, one by Teller for the admission
of New Mexico, and the other by Stone,
for the admission of Arizona as a state.
Culberson reintroduced two bills, which
"he advocated in the last Cingress. One
is intended to make Illegal the dealing in
futures, the other to provide penalties
against railroad companies that fail to
furnish cars to shippers.
Overman reintroduced his bill author
izing the President to suspend the collec
tion of customs duties on articles com
ing Into competition with products of
companies which sell abroad at a less
price than in this country..
CANAL-DIGGERS BEAT RECORD
Excavation in November Many Times
That of November 1906.
WASHINGTON, Dec. i Colonel
Goethals, chief engineer of the Panama
Canal, cabled the canal officers In this
fity today that all records were again
broken for the month of November in
the matter of excavation on the Isthmus.
The total amount of earth removed
during that month was 1,839,486 cubio
yards as against 389,407 cubic yards In
November, 1906.
MAT BE DESTINED TO CHINA'
Transport Thomas Takes Cavalry
to Camp In Philippines.
SAN FRANCISCO, Dec 4. The Army
transport Thomas, which will sail for
the Philippines tomorrow, will take
nine companies of the First Cavalary
and two companies of the Sixth Cavalry
to Fort Stotzenburg, on the Island of
Luzon, where SOOO troops are already
stationed.
It Is rumored that they are to be
held In readiness to proceed to China,
in case of a renewal of Boxer troubles.
President Reappoints Post.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 4. The President
today nominated Regis H. Post to be
Governor of Porto Rico (reappointed);
Edward S. Fowler to be Collector of
Customs at New York City, and Wil
liam F. Willoughby, Secretary of Porto
Rico. A large list of postmasters and
promotions in the Navy also were sent to
the Senate.
ABERDEEN SHIPPING NEWS
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Highest Tide of Season Probably
Floats Solano.
ABERDEEN, Wash., Dec. 4. (SpeclHl.)
The highest tide of the Winter was re
corded today, and as the storm whs
light, it is believed the schooner Solano
has been floated. If so. Captain Stream,
who has engineered work on the strand
ed vessel, will come in for a great deal
of praise and a large reward.
The dredge Pacific was successfully
placed in drydoek today at high tide.
The feat was at first considered hardly
possible. The schooner Golden Shore,
which arrived from Mexico recently, will
go on the marine railway as soon as the
dredge Pacific is taken oft.
Considerable trouble Is being exper
ienced by. captains of vessels arriving
here In paying off sailors, as they re
fuse to take the scrip of local banks
and demand gold, according to their con
tracts. The schooner Andy Johnson sailed to
day. Tho schooner Bendixson and bark
S. C. Allen, which left the harbor last
week, are still detained inside the bar.
Captain C. P. L. Roberts has been ap
pointed an assistant quarantine officer.
LIKES THE ASHLAND NORMAL
Senator Miller Visits School and la
Pleased With Appearance.
ASHLAND. Or.. Dec. 4. (Special.)
Hon. Milt A. Miller, of Linn County, a
Bryan and Democratic loader in Oregon,
and a holdover member of the State Sen
ate, who la on a lecturing tour of the
state in the Interest of the Modern
Woodmen of America, with State Depu
uty J. W. Simmons, remained over a
day In Ashland, after filling his lecture
engagement here, for the purpose of vis
iting the State Normal School. Senator
Miller is a member of the State Text
book Commission, a rpgent of the State
University and is deeply Interested In the
educational eyntem of th state. He
addressed the normal students in chapel
briefly and after visiting the different de
partments and looking over the buildings
and grounds, expressed himself as being
Impressed with the school and Its work
and . pleaded with the beautiful irrounds
and the possibilities of developing their
natural attractiveness, which has been
much added to by the work done the
past year.
MESSAGE COMES FROM DEAD
Relic of Steamer Dix Washed Ashore
on Dungeness.
PORT TOWNS-END, Wash.," Dec. 4. A
message from the sea was picked up on
the shores of Dungeness Bay by "Jim"
White last Saturday. It reads:
"Am on the Dix, and all are going
down, down, down, so good-bye to all.
"JOHN."
The reverse side contains the following:
"Should any one find this message mail
It to Aggie Shaughnessey, Missoula,
Mont."
The fact that a man named Shaugh
nessey took passage on the Dix the night
It was sunk by the schooner Jeanie in
Seattle harbor lends credit to the authen
ticity of the note. It is written In pencil
and was corked in a whisky flask.
APPLES TAKE A BIG SLUMP
Tacoma Market Weakens and Fruit
Is a Drag.
TACOMA, Wash., Dec. 4. (Special.)
The apple market has taken a big slump,
prices in some cases having declined as
much as 25 per cent. The commission
men are selling today at 75 cents a box
fruit that brought SI three weeks ago.
Owing to the weakened condition of the
market the street is now carrying a
heavy stock of choice Yakima apples,
which were bringing top notch prices. As
much as $2.50 was being obtained for ex
tra fine Yakimas but there Is no demand
for apples at that price.
ASSERTS POLE SHOT HIM
Country Lad Hit on Hand by a Ball
From Pistol.
ABERDEEN. Wash.,. Dec. 4. (Special.)
Thomas Majek, the Polish youth
charged with shooting a country lad
named Henry Landers, was given a pre
liminary examination today and held on
ball for trial in the Superior Court.
Landers was shot in the hand by a
stranger, whom he now Identifies as Ma
jek. Majek, however, declares he Is en
tirely lnnooent.
Adventifits to Hold Conference.
FREEWATER. Or.. Dec. 4. (Spe
cial.) The next biennial iscsion of the
North Pacific Union Conference of
Seventh-Day Adventlsts will be held
at College Place, January 20 and Feb
ruary 2. This union conference has
under Its Jurisdiction the' States of
Oregon, Washington, Idaho and Mon
tana, and delegates are expected to bo
present from the entire field. Until a
few weeks ago British Columbia was
Included, but that section is in a sep
arate union conference.
Council Levies Tax.
ASTORIA. Or., Dec. 4. (Special.)
The City Council at a special meeting
this evening decided to levy a tax of
18 mills on an assessed valuatton of
$2,380,618 for municipal, park and
library purposes. The ordinance will
be passed at the next meeting.
AGAIN ENJOINS LUMBER RATE
Judge Hunt Bases Decision on In
terstate Commerce Law.
HELENA, Mont., Deo. 4. Judge Wil
liam H. Hunt In the Federal Court here
today signed an Injunction restraining
the Great Northern Railway from collect
ing the excess over the old rate on t.,e
new lumber rate which went into effect
November 1, until the Interstate Com
merce Commission has decided as to tne
merits of the new rate. The new tariff
only affected lumbermen of Flathead
County, who brought the suit alleging
that ulterior motives influenced the Great
Northern in increasing the tariff 30 per
cent.
Judge Hunt held that the Federal
courts have exclusive jurisdiction In cases
involving a construction of the interstate
commerce law- and have the right to
grant a temporary injunction until the
action of the Commerce Commission. This
is among thefist questions raised which
test the power' of the courts to enjoin
carriers before the Interstate Commerce
Commission can act upon the rates
charged. Somewhat similar cases were
recently decided in Seattle and Portland
by Judges Hanford and Wolverton, who
based their decision upon the anti-trust
law, while Judge Hunt bases his on the
Interstate commerce law.
It Is expected the cases will be appealed
to the Supreme Court of the United
States. ;
Finds Bank a Gold Brick.
CHICAGO, Dec. 4.-John W. Worthing
ton has brought suit to set aside the
contract by which he bought control of
the Federal National- Bank from Issac
N. Perry, and to compel? Perry -to return
$40,000 cash and $140,000 In notes. He
says he found In the bank's assets notes
securing ' loans given by firms who had
gone Into bankruptcy and by Individuals
who were in Jail. The bank closed Sep
tember 28, 1907..
BY LILIAN TINGLE.
ONE would think that with the open
ing days of December all Thanks
giving troubles should be over and done
with. Christmas looms threateningly
ahead, of course, but that Is another
story. Yet here lie before me two dis
turbing letters bearing the date of
Thanksgiving eve and addressed from a
well known university. One writer ex
plains that the only thing that kept him
from going home was "some 860 miles of
hard roadbed." and the other speaks
pathetically of the "immense dinner" be
ing prepared 550 miles away, "for all ex
cept the 'loved one' at college": so for
convenience I shall refer to them aB
"X. 850" and "X. Sort" respectively.
X. 850 opens fire by calling me a "gas
tronomic iconoclast" surely a hard name
to hurl at a harmless Domestic Science
woman. Not that I am much scared of
polysyllables as a general rule, though
I think they are rather dangerous thinss
to leave lying around loose. Once when
I was quite young I approached my big
brother with a simple question in organic
chemistry. A plain "yes" or "no" would
have sufficed, but lie was busy and care
lessly flung out,, "diacetyltetrarhloeo
hydroqulnol." I got over it. and it left no
scar; so I have never been really afraid
of them since.
"Gastronomic" I can stand. As Hump
ty Dumpty remarked to Alice. "Adjec
tives you can do anything with"; but
why "iconnclast?" My gastronomic pre
cepts and practice are utterly orthodox;
I don't break things much as a rule
not even promise; I am a very careful
dishwasher and I always try not to step
upon other people's toes. My spelling
book gave "Iconoclast" as "a breaker
of idols"; hut the only idol I possess in
a placid bronze Buddha which nothing
short of a steam hammer could smash.
To nuote Humpty Dumpty again, "Im
penetrability, that's what I say." X. S,V
then goes on to accuse a little article
of mine "Some Suggestions for the
Thanksgiving Menu," I think it was of
having caused the following distressful
symptoms: "My parotid aid sub-lingual
glands began such a secretion of enzymes
as was never experienced before." More
over when he Insisted upon reading the
said article to certain of his fellow stu
dents (separated by varying numbers of
miles from their family turkeys) he
"suddenly became the cushion protecting
some six big fellows from an awful hard
floor" but he read It to them all the
same and caused them to have similar
symptoms.
Y. 550 explains how nothing more ex
hilerating than corned beef and cabbage
was to be expected for the following
day. "Three hundred of us poor unfor
tunates are fed at the same place, and
while it Is very good on the whole (a
fair-minded youth this!) Thanksgiving
day looks Just like any other day to tho
management." He says further "Any
solution you may have of this problem
(that of Thanksgiving emptiness), and
you must have some, will be thankfully
recelved by some very hungry boys."
e
Now the feeding of students Is an ex
tremely important and far from, easy
problem and should be in the hands of
Intelligent and thoroughly trained dieti
tians and careful and competent cooks.
But that is too wide a subject for dis
cussion at this moment. All I have to
suggest refers to the personal side of the
problem. Let every fond mother, sister,
cousin and aunt who has any interest in
any' young man at any university within
a radius of 650 or 850 miles from his
home, prepare and send forthwith (never
mind if he Is coming home at Christmas;
do it. now), a large and consoling hamper
of good things to eat, prepared iu best
home style. It Is not too late for a roast
turkey with a stuffing that "eats good"
cold. Cranberry Jelly travels well In
glass cans. Pumpkin pie is rather hard
to pack but this does not apply to mince.
Fruit cake makes a good solid bottom
layer. Red apples are mighty conven
ient things to slip Into corners. Choice
celery hearts (done up In parafine paper)
with a Jar of home-picked and marin
aded shrimps and a bottle of home
made mayonnaise can be turned Into a
good salad by the most unpracticed
hand. Jellied tongue can be put up very
satisfactorily In an ordinary lard pail.
Chicken, veal and ham (with plenty of
jelly and hard egg sliceH), or pigeon
pies will go nicely in deep enamelled
dishes, and home-made potted or deviled
meats (not tho canned kind of "Jungley"
associations) wlil make of even the hum
ble soda cracker a thing of Joy even
though not "for ever."
If this suggestion Is adopted. It seems
almost certain that the doleful state of
affairs recorded by my correspondents
will be relieved at least temporarily.
But X. 850 has a secret to tell me. It
seems too bad to write of it publicly,
wnen he says, "Sh! not a word." but It
is the only way I can help him. Re
ferring to a menu "prepared by one
woman" he says: "Well, perhaps you
never can tell, but perhaps, I may get
some one to prepare future Thanks
giving dinners for two." That Is a pretty
good plan, and I wiBh him all good luck;
but let him perpend and . mark the fol
lowing Sad but True Story, the moral of
which Is the same- used by Shakespeare
In connection with the Prince of Morocco
and the Golden Casket.
Once upon Ka time there was a nice
prosperous home-loving young man who
was horribly tired of boarding. He met
and adored a most charming girl, who
looked too utterly sweet in a chafing-dish
apron, and whose superlative fudge, in
comparable Newburg-lobster and dream
less Welsh Rabbits seemed to assure
future bliss. There were six beautiful
bridesmaids and a stunning maid of hon
or, only eclipsed by the radiant bride
herself.
But, alas! The radiant bride had neith
er talent nor training for home-making;
and man cannot live by the chafing-dish
alone. She could do nothing for herself
and could neither train nor manage ser
vants. She did not know how to order a
satisfactory breakfast, to say nothing of
preparing one when the cook walked off
at ten minutes' notice; and her dinners
were things to shudder, at, not to see
much less eat.
So they are now boarding, I under
stand. He takes the "Monthly Epicure''
or Borne such magazine, and studies with
keenest interest the menus and recipes
therein: She, however, prefers "L'Art
de la Mode" and "Toilettes," but she
looks sweet as ever In a cute little apron.
The moral for her Is that old one about
"Having the cloak to make when it be
gins to rain."