THE MORNING OREGONIAN, FRIDAY, JULY 10, 1908.
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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
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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
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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
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" it is worth its weight in gold."
$1.00 per bottle of
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mailed free.
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Young Men's Outing
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$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
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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,
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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
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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.
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