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THE MORNING OREGONIAN, FRIDAY, JULY 10, 1908. 6 IS L Threatens to Rival Bryan as .Perpetual Candidate for Presidency. LEARNS VALUABLE LESSON Will Not Repeat in 1912 Krror He Made in Launching His Boom Three Years Before the Convention. OREGONIAN NEWS BUREAU. Wash ington. July 11. Hon. diaries Warren Fairbanks has decided to follow the ex ample of William Jennings Bryan and become a perpetual candidate for the Presidency. No sccner had the Chicago convention adjourned than Mr. Fairbanks announced his purpose to go after the nomination four years hence. In the meantime, he will not seek other office. The experiences of Mr. Fairbanks in the recent campaign wilt be of value to him in his npxt ughi, ii he makes practical ap plication of the lessons taught by his fruitless race for the nomination this year. .Mr. Fairbanks wag the flrst candidate to appear in the field after the election of President Roosevelt. Nearly three years ago he let it he known thai he wanted the Presidential nomination in 1908, and fully two years ago he began a syste matic campaign for delegates in the South. He made good progress, too. At a time when it looked as though Fair banks would go to the convention sup ported by most of the Southern States, Frank H. Hitchcock, then First Assistant Postmaster-General and later made fa mous as chief engineer of the "steam roller.' made a quiet trip through the Southland. What Mr. Hitchcock had to say to Republican leaders has never been made public, but it was ample, for the men who two years ego were clamoring for Mr. Fairbanks went to the (M ! "" (convention and cast their votes fn banks was Taft boom the Preside Mr. Hitcht-i faft. When Mr. Fair- .iiU in the South the not Vsen launched and :td no ravortte candidate, .it t'.at time was not repre Taft, but the President. The eentin: M President 1'i meii it wlee to head off the Fairbanks movement before it assumed serious proportions not because of any personal dislike of his Vice-President, but because he believed Mr. Fairbanks did not represent the policies of the adminis tration. It "was not until some time after the Fairbanks movement in the South was checked that the President let it be known that Mr. Taft was his preference, but as soon as the Taft boom was launched the big Secretary got the full benefit of Mr. Hitchcock's earlier work in the South. The announcement of Mr. Fairbanks that he will devote the next four years to the practice of law is taken to mean that he will not launch his next boom two years in advance of the convention of 1932: the probabilities are that the error made lust time will not be repeated. TVhethirj oor not Mr. Fairbanks will be a f3rrJ3'fet candidate depends largely rpon whther the people tire of reform durlr.jc the coming four years. As long as the reform sentiment prevails, so long will Mr. Fairbanks be unavailable. FAST IN ICE, BUT SAFE Seattle Firm Secures Message From Ship Ohio Near Nome. SEATTLE, (Wash., July 9. (Special.) The steamship Ohio, which has been due at Nome for weeks, is safe but la still fast in the ice not far from that city, according to a cablegram received by Frank Waterhouse & Co. today. The message dated yesterday stated that the Revenue Cutter Thetis had just arrived at Nome after sighting and speaking the Ohio. Captain Conrad i was still waiting for the Ice to break up sufficiently to allow him to proceed to Nome. Water house & Co. cabled north for further particulars. The Ohio left Seattle June 1. and has therefore r)een 9 days out. Other ships that left at the same time reached Nome, returned to Seattle and have started on a second tri- north. The Ohio is the last vessel left in the ice bound Bering Sea. WAGES DEPEND ON SILVER Sailors fiet Favorahle Decision on Test Case at Hoquiam. HOQL'IAM. Wash., July (Special.) United States Commissioner Seth Warren today decided in favor of the crew of the schooner F. M. Slade. wherein they sought to recover the d.ift'erence between actual United, States quotations on Mexi can dollars and the rating of 52 cents per dollar as charged them by the Master of the Slade while in Mexico. This is said to be a test case and more for the matter of establishing a precedent rather than for the money in volved, as the entire difference allowed the crew by Judge Warren was only $16.30 and many other similar cases are in pros pect pending an authoritative arrange ment between the two respective govern ments controlling such payments. AGREEMENT IS PERFECT Mexican AmbResador Confers With Stale Department on Raids. WASHINGTON. July 9. A perfect un derstanding between Mexico and the T'nlted States as to this Government's purpose to take all steps possible to pre vent violations of neutrality laws on the Mexican border, was reached r.t a two hours' conference between Acting: Sec retary of State Bacon and Ambassador CYeel. The Ambassador had no complaints to lodge against Amerl an officials. Roosevelt's "oyafte Begins. NEW BEDFORD. Mass.. July 9 Com mander Peary's ship Roosevelt arrived In the lower harbor early this morning and dropped anchor off Clark's Point. She came to take on whaleboats. whalins supplies and a quantity of supplies for the medical department. The Roosevelt sailed later in the day for Sidney, c. B. A slight accident to the engine caused delay In the vessel reaching this port, but Captain Bartlett. before sailing said repairs had been completed. Torpedo-Boat Goes on Rock. ST. PETERSBURG. July 9. A Russian torpedo boat was wrecked in the Guif of Finland today by running on the rocks off Reval. The crew were saved. Later the dnmase to the vessel was temporarily IT USE FAIRBANKS bOA repaired and she was towed to Helsing fors. This Is the third naval accident in the Finnish Gulf during the present, aavl gating season. GARFIELD F0R N EW WAYS Will Reform Methods of Keeping Land Records. ORBGONIAX NEWS BUREAU, Wash ington, June 30. Important changes in the method of keeping records relating to the public lands will take effect July 1. These changes are the result of an Investigation made by Mr. Garfield shortly after his appointment as Secretary of the Interior. It was discovered that many of. the meth ods adopted when the General Land Of fice was first organized, nearly 100 years ago. were still in vogue. These antiquated methods involved a large amount of du plication of work, both In the district land offices and in the General Land Of fice at Washington, D. C. A separate series of numbers for each class of entries has been in use at the district land offices, such as the Home stead series (Original)," ''Homestead se ries (Final)," "Desert Land series," "Min eral series," etc. Applications and en tries were only numbered when allowed or approved. Under the new system, each district land office will maintain but one series of numbers for all kinds of entries. Applications and entries will be numbered at the time and in the order in which they are presented or received at the district land offices, before they are considered for the purpose of allowance or rejection. This will permit of a ready determination of the priority of filing of each applica tion or entry. Receipts for All Money. Another important change is in the method of issuing receipts for moneys paid to receivers. Applicants and entry men heretofore have been compelled to tender money with their applications and entries, and no receipt would issue until it was determined whether the applica tion or entry could be allowed. Many applicants seriously objected to the depositing of their money without some form of acknowledgment of its re ceipt. A new form of receipts has been adopted. These receipts are serially numbered, before coming into the hands of Receivers, with one series of num bers for all Receivers. Press copies are made of all receipts issued, and forward ed to the General Land Office at the end of each month. All persons tendering moneys to Receivers will hereafter be given a receipt therefor at the time the money is tendered. The issuance of a receipt does not necessarily mean that the application or entry is allowed or will be allowed. Ap plicants and entrymen will be notified of the allowance or rejection of their appllcaitons or entries. New Forms of Blanks. Blanks for the returns and accounts of local offices- to the General Land Of fice have been reduced to a uniform size to accommodate the ordinary size type writing machines. Heretofore these blanks have been of a large, unwieldy size, which necessitated making them out by pen and Ink, and in numerous cases 3h local offices were compelled to prac tically suspend business until their monthly and quarterly reports were com pleted. Local officers were compelled un der the old practice to duplicate for the quarter all that had previously been re ported each month. j The quarterly re ports hereafter will be merely a recapit ulation of the monthly reports. Thirty large size bound books and 53 large size blanks have been replaced with 14 uni form size blanks. An alphabetical index of all applicants and entrymen will be kept at each dis trict Land Oftice. Such an index for the entire land service will also be kept at the General Iri Oitfc, Washington, D. C. Under the nevr system local offices and the 'Sencra: Land Otfio will be able to identify, and give full information in re gard to, any application or entry by be ing furnished with only (a.) The name of the applicant or en try man; or (b.) The name of the land office and number of entry; or (c.) The number of the receipt. Information as to the date- or kind of entry or description of the land will not be necessary. Gives Full Information. Innumerable inquiries in the past have had to go unanswered by reason of the fact that sufficient information was not furnished to identify the case. Each district land office is also fur nished with modern office supplies. Some of the offices in the past have been com pelled to file letters in old cigar boxes and such other receptacles as were avail able. It was upon the recommendation of ex Commissioner R. A. Ballinger that the work of changing the old practices to a modern business system was begun. Mr. Dennett, the present Commissioner of the General Land Office, heartily supported the recommendation, and is to be credited with putting the system into effect. DENY TELEPHONE MERGER Both Companies Assert Consolida tion Is Not Vnder Way. Reported merger of the two telephone companies of Portland are vigorously de nied by officials of both companies. The reports are absolutely without foundation, according to the officials. The report that has been current for several days is to th; effect that plans are under way for the consolidation of the Pacific Telephone & Telerapn Com pany and the Home Telephone & Tele graph Company. "There is absolutely no truth in the re port," said Alfred L. Tetu, general mana ger of the Home Company, last night. "It is just the same kind of a report that the Pacific Company always starts whan it gets up against it. When it is real ized that we are getting the business, this report is always started just to injure us." Officials of the Pacific Company are equally as emphatic in their denials of the reported consolidation. "If it Is true, I have heard nothing of It." said J. H. Thatcher, general agent of the Pacific Company. "All I have heard or seen about the alleged consolidation was in the newspapers." Drowns Before Helpless Father. PORT TOWNSEND. Wash., July 9. While playing at the wharf near the cannery, the 4-year-old daughter of Da vid Hansen, a cook, drowned while in close proximity to her father. The girl went with her father, who is employed at a pile driver, and stood on the wharf. Suddenly the father heard a scream. Rescue was Impossible, as the girl was caught in the fishing trap. Girl's Death a Mystery. VICTORIA, B. C, July 9. Mystery still surrounds the death by suicide of pretty Dora Howcroft, whose body was found on the Beacon Hill Park beach last Sunday. The mystery began at Calgary, whence the girl came to Vic toria two weeks ago. She had some overwhelming sorrow, but what that sorrow was no one knows. Bnllding Falls; Ten Killed. ST. PETERSBURG. July 9. The roof of a house being constructed near the Duma buildings collapsed this morn ing and crashed down through the partly finished floors. Ten workmen were killed outright and 40 others were injured. WORRY OVER NEWS Central American Diplomats Confer on Honduras." MEETING WITH BACON Acting Secretary or State Impresses on Callers .Necessity fop Strict Neutrality Xlcaragnan War ship on Mysterious Errand. WASHINGTON,' July 9. All the Central American diplomats in Washington ex cept Senor Ugarte, of Honduras, and Am bassador Creel, of Mexico, discussed the situation incident to the revolution in Honduras with Acting Secretary Bacon at the State Department today. Both the United Sbates and Mexico are pressing upon the Central American countries the necessity of absolute neutrality In the pending trouble in Honduras, which, ac cording to treaties ratified by the Cen tral American Peace Conference at Wash ington last Winter, was declared to be neutral ground. A report that one of Nicaragua's war vessels had sailed for another Central American port, presumably Amapala. Honduras, caused some consternation among Central American diplomats. Revolution Small Affair. HAMBURG, July 9. The Consul General here of the Republic of Sal vador has received the following cable gram from President Figueroa: "The revolutionary outbreak in Hon duras is very Insignificant and will be easily suppressed by the government of that, state. Salvador is carrying out the obligations undertaken with the other state of Central America and is keeping a watch on her frontiers and capturing all fleeing revolutionists." TABRIZ TO BE BOMBARDED PERSIAN CITY DOOMED, SAYS RUSSIAN CORRESPONDENT. Anarchy Reigns Supreme and Czar's Subjects, Including Consul, Flee for Lives. ST. PETERSBURG, July 9. A spe cial correspondent of the Novoe Vrem j'a who has just reached Tabriz re ports that the situation there has reached a state of extreme anarchy and the bombardment of the town Is a queetion of only hours. According to the dispatch sent by the Novoe Vrem ya's correspondent, Rachid Khan, who is tn command of a large force, en tered the city yesterday at the head of several batteries of quick-firers and presented orders purporting to come from the Shah, that all Russian sub jects evacuate the Khlania quarter, where the revolutionists are massed and have been holding uninterrupted meetings In the mosques. After Khan's arrival the Russian Consul, M. Pohitonoff, who for the last few days has played a leading role in the government of the city, fled to his country villa, a few miles distant, tak ing along with him as an escort a ma jority of the available Cossacks. He left a mere handful of Cossacks In Tabriz to protect the lives and prop erty of the Europeans. N'o News of Tabriz Massacre. LONDON, July 9. Telegrams toda-y to commercial houses having connec tions in Tabriz, gave no indication that there has been any fighting there and the report from Odessa that hundreds of men, women and children in Tabriz had been killed by Cossacks is quite without confirmation. CLARK IS POSSIBLE MOSES Selected as Man to Unite Dissevered House Forces. OREGONIAN NEWS BUREAU, Wash ington, June 30. If any man can unite the Democratic members of the House of Representatives, Champ Clark, of Missouri, is that man. Clark is the probable successor of John Sharp Will lams as leader of the minority, and is the man - most likely "to be chosen Speaker, in case the Democrats should control the next House; In many ways Clark is an improvement on Williams, and gives promise of making a better leader. That Is the only reason to doubt that Clark will be elected. He is the best man for the position, and the Democrats have lately failed to do the right thing in Congress. Notwith standing past failures, the friends of Clark are preparing to make a strong fight in' his behalf, and are confident their man will be chosen minority leader when Congress reassembles in December. It is a fortunate tiling for the Demo crats that Williams voluntarily retired. He had reached that stage where he was doing his party no good by his alleged leadership in the House, and was doing a great deal to disrupt the very poor organization that existed. Williams' greatest .error was the pro tracted filibuster that he inaugurated in the middle of the last session, and kept going to the very end. There have been filibusters and fill busters, but of all the utterly absurd and useless filibusters, that was the worst. Few Democrats sympathized with Williams in what they knew was a futile effort to force the Re publicans to pass certain legislation, but. as stated by a prominent member from the South: "We fellows have got to follow our recognized leader or our people will not return us to Congress. We may know he is wrong, but the one thing our constituents demand is 'regularity.' so we have got to bow to the foolish dictation of John Sharp Williams, and Insist upon the filibuster, though we know it will avail nothing." Unlike Williams, Champ Clark is a practical politician, and a pretty shrewd one. He is not possessed of Williams' egotism, but he is gifted with a sense of judgment something that Williams lacked. Moreover, Clark has a large per sonal following, something akin to the personal following of Speaker Cannon. Clark's popularity, like that of Cannon, extends beyond the party aisle. In de bate Williams was scathingly sarcastic and intensely bitter. Clark inclines to ridicule. In a running debate In the House there are few who can successfully meet Champ Clark, for he is'never at loss for an answer and never slow to reply to the most cunning attacks. Clark gets out of a tight place in good nature; he tries always to turn the joke on GREAT REMEMBER every article in our store is marked in PLAIN FIGURES. All you have to do is to look at the price ticket and deduct one-half. We have strictly one price and never change the price tickets. No exaggerations ever permitted in any of my advertisements joked; he preferred to sting his op ponent, and his sting was felt in his own .party, as well as among the Re publicans. Physically, Clark iH better equipped for leader than Williams. The latter is hard of hearing, not a small handi cap In debate such as takes place In the House of Representatives. Clark not only has good ears, but a splendid vfice, full and distinct, readily heard all over the House. It will be a great relief, after the rasping, whining tones of Williams. Both Clark and Williams are students; the latter is a very ac complished scholar, though he never looked the part. In his pe-sonal ap pearance Williams was always untidy and unkempt: he was sometimes termed a "diamond In the rough." Champ Clark is no dandy, but he Is no slouch. To see him the first time one would pronounce him a gentleman farmer, a friend of the common peo ple. And that is just about what he is. Big, genial, jovial, but a Democrat to the core. Champ Clark bids fair to improve on John Sharp Williams as Democratic leader In the House,. If given the chance. GUARDING PAPER MONEY Checks Against Thefts of Currency While in Process of Printing. Chicago Record-Herald. The paper money of the Government is brought in lronbound chests, locked and sealed, from the Bureau of En graving and Printing to the cash room of the Treasury and there delivered upon receipt to James A. Sample, chief of the division of issue, in sheets of four bills each. They are complete with signature and numbers, except for the seal, which is printed upon them with power presses In a small apart ment under the cash room. These presses are worked by two people, usually a man pressman and a woman feeder or assistant. When the seal has been imprinted upon the bills they are counted automatically, bound in packages of equal numbers by bands of paper, marked, signed by the per sons who have handled them, and passed Into the adjoining room, where the sheets are cut, the bills are re counted and inspected, so that the im perfect ones may be thrown out. They are then bound into packages of equal amounts and taken to the drying vault, where they He upon the shelves for several weeks, until the Ink has be come perfectly dry. ' Kvery safeguard that ingenuity can that she looks forward to the critical hour with apprehension and dread. Mother's Friend, by its penetrating and soothing properties, allays nausea, nervousness, and . all unpleasant feelings, and so prepares the system for the ordeal that she passes through the event safely and with but little suffering, as numbers have testified and said, " it is worth its weight in gold." $1.00 per bottle of druggists. Book contain ing valuable information mailed free. THE SRADflELD REGULATOR CO. . Atlanta, Ga. BALF-PEGE OF MEN'S AND BOYS' CLOTHING is rushing to a finish ONE-HALF of the Men's Suits and a large proportion of the Boys' Suits have been sold in the last four days. If you wish to share in this BARGAIN CARNIVAL it would be well to come THIS WEEK today if possible. Young Men's Outing Suits One-Hal! Off $15.00 Outing Suits, now. . .$7.50 $10.00 Outing Suits, now. . .5.0O Boys' Suits at One-Hal! Every Boys' Spring Suit in the house, Knickerbocker or straight pants, all this season's latest styles, ages 7 to 16 years. Boys' $ 5.00 Suits, now $2.50 Boys' $ 6.00 Suits, now $3.00 Boys' $ 8.00 Suits, now S4.00 Boys' $10.00 Suits, now. . . ?5.0O Boys' $15.00 Suits, now $7.50 "All Boys' Suits, Blacks and Blues, ONE QUARTER OFF. contrive is placed around these trans actions, and the chief of division can tell which of his hundred or more sub ordinates have touched the different bills in the vaults. He knows who re ceived them, who printed the seal, who wrapped and cut them; for every pack age Is numbered and Its history 1b re corded In an enormous book. The combination of checks Is so com plete that Mr. Sample would know within 20 minutes If a single bill were missing, but he has never had occa sion to test this knowledge except twice within 15 years. Only two at tempts have ever been made to steal the money of the Government while it is In this stage of its history. On one occasion many years ago a pressman passing a pile of notes upon the table of his neighbor slipped the top sheet under his blouse without being observed and carried it with him into the lavatory, where he was suc cessful In concealing it. The theft was discovered within five minutes and it was clearly apparent that he alone could be guilty, although the evidence was purely circumstantial. No one saw him take the money. Therefore he was not arrested and was never publicly charged with the crime. But he was dismissed from . the service and he knew the reason, why. The bills were never recovered. He probably de stroyed them, as they did not appear in circulation. On another occasion eight or ten years ago a colored messenger whose business was to haul the money about on a cart slipped a loose sheet into his pocket unobserved while passing be tween the printing and the counting rooms. This theft was also unseen, but the responsibility was fastened upon him. The pile of notes was complete when it left the printer, for it was counted and registered automatically In the press. When it reached the counting room one sheet was missing and the package had not been out of the possession of the colored messenger In the meantime. Therefore he alone was responsible, and, as he could not offer anv satisfactory explanation, he, too, was dismissed from the service, but was not prosecuted, because there was no direct proof of his guilt. PUTER GOES AFTER BURNS Denies That He Aided In Bringing McKinley Back From China. PORTLAND, July 9. (To the Editor.) It has come to my knowledge that while William J. Burns, formerly of the Government Secret Service, was here re-centiy- ae a" witness in the Booth case. Is to love children, and no home can be completely happy without them, yet the ordeal through which the expectant mother must pass usually is so full of suffering, danger and fear he made the statement to several differ ent persons that I was the direct cause of having Horace G. McKinley brought back from China. I take this occasion to brand this statement as a malicious falsehood, and challenge Mr. Burns or anybody else to prove that I had any thing to do -with the return of McKin ley. or that I was in possession of any information bearing upon the subject un til after his arrest. The fact of the matter is that Burns is sore because I have told the truth relative to my escape from him in Bos ton on the night of March 26, 1906. and he has taken this despicable way of "get ting even" by trying to create the im pression that I have been engaged in some underhanded business of the nature indicated. While Horace Stevens was in Washington last April as a witness in the Hyde-Benson case. Burns inquired what I was going to say about him in my book. "If he says anything derog atory to me," threatened Burns, "I will come up there and have those state suits against Puter prosecuted to a fin ish!" "If you are aware of any criminal act of Puter's in connection with the state lands in Oregon." was Stevens reply, "it is your duty as a public official to give the facts to. the proper authorities." "Well," said Burns. "I will 'see what he has to say about me." "Then you are going to make your personal interests superior to any other consideration in the matter?" was Stevens rejoinder. "Yes, and furthermore continued Burns, raising his voice to a high pitch, "I shall not only press the state suits against Puter, but I will also prosecute THERE is just one thing to do to eliminate the possibilities of even good coffee hurt ing you. We do it. By removing the direct cause from which cof fee harm emanates. The harm in coffee is a form of tannic acid. The cause is the bitter, indigestible, acid, herbal matter, largely responsible for this form of tannic acid. You get the benefit in pure coffee and pay for no waste 10 to the pound. The result is, f brind Coffee is demanded ever afterwards . when once tried. Of course with the harmful waste out our profits are less. . But I People who once try Puri-tan-ated Brand Coffee simply will not have something else. Our theory is right I Puri-tan-ated Brand Cof fee is right.- People who drink it are right and so is the grocer who sells it. At reliable grocers in 1-lb. cans, granulated CLARK, COCCIN & JOHNSON CO. Coffee Importers and Roasters, Boston, Mass. THE HTOSON-GEAM CO, Distributing Agents. Men's Suits at One-Half Men's $40 Spring Suits, now $20.00 Men's $35 Spring Suits, now $17.50 Men's $30 Spring Suits, now $15.00 Men's $25 Spring Suits, now $12.50 Men's $20 Spring Suits, now $10.00 All Men's Black and Blue Suits, One Quarter Off. At One-Quarter Off The following items Young Men's College Suits, Young Men's Spring Suits, Every Blue and Black Suit in the house, Men's, Boys' and Youths'. Washable Suits $1.00 Washable Suits, now. $1.50 Washable Suits, now. $2.00 Washable Suite, now. $3.00 Washable Suits, now. $5.00 Washable Suits, now. . 75 .$1.12 ..$1.50 .$2.25 ..$3.75 LEADING CLOTHIER anybody who aided Puter in writing his book!" "Oh, please don't Imagine that you are dealing with the Sweet Home contingent when you try your high bass on me.' said Stevens, and the incident was closed. This accounts for Burns animus In the matter and Is in keeping with the gen eral characteristics of the man. The fact is, he has degenerated into a fallen idol, and anything he may have to say In future will never be taken very seriously by those who areaware of his remarka ble propensity for drawing the "long bow." S. A. D. PUTER. HOT FIGHT ON CONFESSION Lawyers Argue All Day on Admis sion in Adams Trial. GRAND JUNCTION. Colo.. July 9. Ar guments were concluded today on the question of the admission of Steve Adams' confession as evidence at his trial on the charge of murdering Mine Superintend ent Arthur Collins, in Telluride. The point was hotly contested, as the state's case, it is said, is based largely on the confession. ( The defendant declared the confession 'was secured both through coercion and promises of immunity from punishment and is, therefore, not admis sible as evidence. . American Woman Wed9 in Paris. PARIS, July 9. Helen Brown, an Am erican, was married in this city today to Paul Dupuy, a lawyer and son of Senatoi Charles Dupuy. rant 1VUJ