THE MORNING OKECiONIAN. SATURDAY, DECE3IBER 12. 1908
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CANNON OPPOSES
IT
Tells Rivers and Harbors Con
gress He Will Vote Against
FOLLOW BURTON'S ADVICE
Speaker Says He AVill Vote for Ap
propriations Recommended by
Committee Van Cleave's Plea
for Deep Channels.
WASHINGTON. Dec. 11. Speaker Cant
non yesterday made known his unalter
able opposition to the principle of finan
ciering waterway improvements by the
issuance of Government bonds. This wsas
In an address to the Rivers and Harbors
Congress.
He declared that. "!f perchance it were
possible the rivers and harbors committee
should report a bill to Congress provid
ing that there should be an issue for the
next ten years to meet the proposed Im
provement bonds In the amount of 1
OOrt.OOO.OfiO. I would not vote for it."
Mr. Cannon's attitude is at variance
wiUi that held by Vice-President Fair
banks, Andrew Carnegie and others as
expressed before the Congress yesterday.
".Now, nobody wants the iederal Con
gress In the next days to commit itself
to an expenditure of K.or.W.000 for
'waterways and to Issue bonds," said Mr.
Cannon. "If It Is necessary to issue
bonds. I stand ready to Issue bonds. But
expenditures must be safe and sane.
The Speaker declared, however, that he
nvould vote for appropriations reported
by the rivers and harbors committee under
the leadership of Representative Burton,
who, he said, has done more for water
ways Improvement than any other man in
Congress.
James W. Van Cleave, president of the
"Vational Association of Manufacturers
told of the manufacturers' interests in
waterways improvement.
Interest of Manufacturers.
Mr. Van Cleave declared his preference
for the lakes-to-gulf project, but said as
each locality deserved priority given to
its own particular scheme, the Rivers
Harbors Congress had a mission which
appealed to men who think contlnentally.
He said production constantly outran
home consumption, and In order to keep
mills In operation In periods of stagna
tion. prii-es of manufactures must be re
duced and the cheapening of transporta
tion would help to do this. The best way
to do thm and at the same time quicken
transit was to put the waterways In nav
igable shape. He showed by figures the
great stake the manufacturers had in this
movement, saving that Interest was sec
ond only to agriculture. He predicted
that by the CTop-moving season of 119
the traffic congestion on the railroads
would return. In the last 20 years the
volume of manufactures had Increased 100
per cent and the railroad mileage only 45
Ier cent. Railroad men themselves had
admitted that their facilities could not
grow fast enough to meet the demand,
therefore waterways must supplement
their work. Railroad companies would
not oppose, but some 'would probably
help. Waterway improvement would fur
nish them more work Instead of lees. He
pledged the aid of the National Manu
facturers Association.
Utilization of waterways as a factor In
transportation was the subject of an ad
cress by J. A. Ockerson, member of the
Mississippi River Commission.
Among the speakers of the afternoon
session were Governor Charles Deneen.
of Illinois, w ho told of the work done by
Illinois in connection with Its waters, and
Robert L. Owen, Senator from Oklahoma,
v hose topic was. "Oklahoma's Interest in
the Improvement of the Nation's Water
ways." - Senor Joaqutm Nabuco. Ambassador
from Brazil, told of the waterways and
harbors of that republic.
Among the district directors are these:
Pacific Const district. X. G. Blalock.
Walla Walla. Wash.: A. H. Devers. Port
land, Or., and George C. Pardee, Oak
land. Cal.
President Joseph E. Ransdell and Secretary-Treasurer
J. F. Ellison were re
elected. MUST PROTEST FORMALLY
Fulton Calls on Portland Bodies to
Act on Young's Appointment.
OREGONIAX XEW9 BUREAP. Wash
ingtnn. Dec. 11. (Special.) Senator Ful
ton continues to receive telegrams from
residents of Portland protesting against
confirmation of John C. Young as Post
master of that city. He has as yet re
ceived no advices tending to show that
commercial bodies and other representa
tive organizations of Portland have taken
up the affair, and said todny that if
Mr. Young's appointment Is as obnox
ious ns indicated by Individual telegrams
thus far at hand it behooves those bod
ies to take formal action and submit
with their protest some tangible state
ment of (rround for their opposition.
Meanwhile Postmaster Minto will re
niHtn in office until his sucessor is con
firmed and qualified, and it may be that
lie will hold on until March 4, and pos-
what action Is ultimately taken upon the
nomination of Mr. Young.
Senator Bourne today declared his pur
pose to stand by Mr. Young to the end.
ACCUSED OF ERB MURDER
Widow and Si-ter-in-I.aw of Penn
sylvania Politician Indicted.
MBTOA. Pa.. Dec. 11. Mrs. Florence
Erb and her sister. Mrs. Catherine Belsel,
were indicted by the grand Jury yesterday
for the murder of Captain J. Clayton
Krb, husband of the former, at his coun
try home. "Red Gables." on October f.
The ball bond of Mrs. Erb was permitted
to stand for her appearance, but Mrs.
Belsel was sent back to prison. .
TRIPLETS ; FATHER IS 82
Mr. and Mrs. Ambrose A. Calhoun
Now Have CIS Children.
COLUMBUS. Gi.. Dec. 11. Triplets
were born yesterday to Mr. and Mrs.
Ambrose A. Calhoun, of this city. This
couple now has children. The father
Is - years old.
RIGHT-OF-WAY MEN ACTIVE
Vuion Pacific Busy Effecting En
trance Into Aberdeen.
ABERDEEN. Wash., Dec. 11. (Special.)
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BONDS
Orders fcivrn by lnlon Pacific officials
to rush preliminary work on the Grays
Harbor line of the Puet Sound exten
sion are being: followed to the letter, ef
fort centering now on Uie acquisition
of the rlcht-of-way for the Aberdeen en
trance. H. F. Baldwin, chief engineer of
the railroad, together with about six
rlRht-of-way agents and attorney, are
now in the city and negotiations are being
pushed.
Following the postponement of the case
against the Vulcan Iron Works, by reason
of the question of harbor area rights and
the possible intervention of the state in
the suit, an agreement was reached last
night whereby the proceedings against
Alex Poison and the Western Cooperage
Company were likewise transferred to the
i .. ...,. nf nntirt The nrfAnflnn of
the railroad agents seems now to crystal- J
l!ze on the purchase of the property or
Mr. Poison, that of the- Cooperage Com-
panv and of Anderson and Middleton.
''rriS'!;
is declared that the proposal for a post
ponement of litigation was slue to the de
sire of the railroad company to settle
these suits out of court If possible.
FANATIC SHARP ARRESTED
HOLY ROLLER LEADER FOCXD
ASLEEP IX HAYSTACK.
Wounded in Both Hands He Surren
ders Without Resistance Fifth
Riot Victim a Bystander.
KANSAS CITY. Mo., Dec. 11. A. J. Sel-
zer. a bystander. Injured on Tuesday In the
fight between the police and religious
fanatics, died at 12:25 this morning. This
brings the death list up to six.
KANSAS CITY. Dec. 11. James Sharp,
self-styled "Adam God." and the man
who led the fanatics in their flght with
the officers, was arrested last night at
Monticello. Kan. He gave himself up
without showing any resistance. "Adam
God" was wounded in both hands, a shot
had pierced his coat sleeve, wjiile another
bullet had passed through his cap. When
found he was asleep beneath a huge hay
stack. He told the officers that he was
willing to be taken now that he had
"finished the work that God sent me to
do."
Three more names were added today to
the list of dead as a result of Tuesday's
battle between religious fanatics and
the police here, the total number of dead
now being five.
At noon today Louis Pratt. 45 years old,
the foremost disciple of James Sharp,
died at the General Hospital, and an
hour later Michael Mullane. a policeman,
succumbed to his wounds at St. Joseph's
Hospital. Policeman Dalbow and Lula
Pratt died immediately after being shot
Tuesday.
Mrs. Pratt states that she now knows
that Sharp was a false prophet and
"wishes that she had remained in the
good old Baptist Church."
WILDCAT IS HOMESICK
Animal Get Xew Lease of Life
From Xew York Chinamen".
New York Times.
The Chinese wildcat in the Central
Park Zoo has received a new lease of
life, according to the keepers there.
and a graphophone may be used now
to make life seem more worth while
to him. If this plan is adopted one of
the machines will collect sounds in
Mott street that are expected to help
to cure the cat's recurrent fits of nos
talgia, which is the dictionary name
for homesickness.
There is a box nailed to the wall by
the side of the quarters of the lady
hippopotamus and her young son. and
on a shelf of this lies all day long a
slim and long-bodied little animal with
green eye and a sweeping tail. The
yellow sign saya that it is a "Fells
Chinensis." He may take exercise at
night, but all day he is motionless,
still, apparently melancholy, noticing
nothing.
He is in surroundings that offer lit
tle congeniality. The lady hippo and
her young son are out of his class. The
capybara is not only from South Amer
ica, but he is like a rat magnified some
200 times. The lions across the. aisle
are from climes unknown to the Chi
nese wildcat. Practically everything
in the Central Park Zoo has long ago
earned how to eat peanuts, and have
thus become more or less American
ized. The Fells Chinensis will not have
peanuts.
Last week a couple of Chinamen,
rare visitors at the Zoo, strayed Into
the lion house, stopping before the
home of the wildcat. The minute he
heard their talk he Jumped from his
shelf and began purring and rubbing
himself against the side of his box.
He played ball with a chicken bone on
the floor, and had a good time. The
uplift he got from this rode him along
joyously for two days afterward.
And there Is a plan on foot, sav the
keepers, to collect Mott-street sounds
In a graphophone for the Fells Chi
nensis. if more iaundrymen don't visit
the Zoo. There Is some apprehension,
however, as to how the Hons and the
tiger will take tue graphopone.
EXPLOSION INJURES SIX
Premature Blast In Western Pacific
Tunnel Xear Shaftcr, Nevada.
SALT LAKE CITY. Utah. Dec. II. Six
men were seriously Injured yesterday by
tne premature explosion of a blast In the
Western Pacific tunnel between Star and
Shafter, Nev.
News reached this city of the acci
dent in a dispatch requesting aid. A
relief left shortly afterwards over the
Western Pacific. The tunnel work is
being done by the Utah Construction
Company. The names of the injured
could not be obtained last night.
KIERAN IS STILL MISSING
Xew York Banks Involved In Fund
ing Company for $1,250,000.
NEW YORK. Dec. 11. Thomas F. Gil-
roy, Jr., the receiver of the Fidelity
Funding Company received no word yes
terday of the whereabouts of the ex-pres-
dent of the company, P. F. Kieran, and
Bainbridge Colby, counsel for Kieran,
had nothing to say about his client's
movements.
Eight local banks and trust companies
are involved in the financial difficulties
of Kieran to the extent of more than
ll.2SO.0u).
Arabian Filial Piety.
London Globe.
One of the best of Arab characteris
es Is that of filial piety. Sons and
daughters of deceased parents take
upon themselves all sorts of Irksome
axks accounted as expiatory or the
minor faults committed by the depart
ed ones during their lifetime, and dis
charging faithfully every payment or
obligation left unfulfilled by dead pa
en ts. for has not the prophet said that
martyrdom even will not atone for an
unpaid debt.
HOPE ABANDONED
FORREDUCEOARMY
Report on French Army Budget
Is Alarming in Reve
lations. -
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i BILLION SPENT ANNUALLY
Six Great Powers Kxpend Vast Sum
Each Year on Maintaining Mili
tary Gloomy Outlook, for Re
public's Naval Service.
PAR 13, Dec. 11. (Special. )-The report
on the French army budft has been
issued, and the hope which prevailed for
a moment that it might be possible for
nations to reduce somewhat their expen
diture on warlike preparations, must now
be abandoned. A calculation of uie av
erage military expenditure of the six
powers, namely, Russia, France. Ger
many, Austria-Hungary, Italy and Japan,
which can mobilize the largest armies,
finds the total amount spent annually to
be no less than $1,007,400,000. and the
number of men which theyNian put into
the field to be 31,700.000. The army
which England can mobilize comes sev
enth, and Is given as 555.000 men. though
her average annual expenditure is use
same as that of France namely, $140.
000.000. Comparing next the expenditure and
the effectives of France and Germany.,
the report states that the German army
estimates show aii Increase this year of
113.800.000. being fixed at $215.5.480.
The French army estimates for this year
are $148,488,740. The totals on either
side are: Germany, 34.118 officers and
602. 670 men; France, 27.310 officers and
511.939 men. The average cost per man
in Germany Is $260, and In France $220.
M. Gervais points out the fact which
arouses the anxiety of many thoughtful
Frenchmen more and more as time goes
on namely, that not only is the French
army between 90,000 and 100,000 men
smaller than the German, but owing to
the diminishing birthrate, a serious Jo
crease in the annual contingent is to be
expected in the future.
Gives Gloomy Account.
The report .on the French naval esti
mates gives a gloomy account of the
present position of affairs In the French
service. M. Chaumet begins by pointing
out that, taking the German bastfe of 20
years for the life of a battleship, France
has only 12 battleships which can be re
garded as capable of taking their place
in the first line, and three others which
might possibly do so. There are five
coast-defense ships which are still suf
ficiently modern, but which are of
doubtful value for offensive purposes.
There are 21 armored cruisers, of which
six are In the reserve. Four of them
are more than 10 years old, but they are
all counted as "good" in spite of de
fects In the design of the more recent
of them. As for the 25 protected cruis
ers, "no one would venture to put them
in line of battle."
There are 351 torpedoboat-destroyers
and, torpedoboata. 30 submarines and
38 submerslbles, but many of these can
only be used for defensive purposes. Tne
torpedoboats have a smaller tonnage
than those of other navies, and 50 per
cent of them are constantly under re
pair. The navy, as a whole, is wanting
in scouts and mining vessels. There Is
no floating workshop. The ships have
only one range-finder each, and that is
unprotected. The two active divisions
of the Mediterranean squadron are. on
an average, 500 men short of their com
plement. The two reserve divisions have
only sufficient crews to keep them clean,
and would require over 800 men to bring
them up to war strength. There are
constant complaints of a shortage of engine-room
hands and stokers. A com
plete renewal of guns and stocks of pow
ders and projectiles is desirable. The
great naval ports of Toulon. Brest and
Cherbourg need to be brought up to date.
Xo Improvement Possible.
M. Chaumet contends that no serious
Improvement is possible without a fun
damental reform of the existing organi
zation, and enters In detail into the
changes necessary for promoting the zeal
and efficiency of officers and men. He
points out that without a true naval pol
icy France's naval expenditure of $H4.
000.000 a ,year is largely wasted. France
has no naval programme, and on ac
count of the slowness of construction it
will be 1915 or 1916 before a new battle
ship is added to the French navy.
Conscription is a thing of the past un
der the new military law. "Drawing
lots" had for some time since become
a meaningless formality, as every able
bodied Frenchman was called up to
serve, whatever number he drew, but It
had been kept up as an old tradition.
The two years' service law has now
finally done away with it. This week
the city of Paris will put up for sale a
curious lot of miscellaneous lumber.
This consists of all the apparatus for
drawing lo(s at the conscription, num
bers, boxes, etc.. used for nearly a cen
tury. The city of Paris attaches no sen
timental value to the articles, and they
will most likely not bring much. Still,
some curiosity hunter may have a fancy
to buy up the number as relics of the
old conscription.
WAR WILL SURELY, FOLLOW
Servians Will Xot Submit to Aus
trian Yoke.
VIENNA. Dec. 3. (Special.) Thirty
years ago the serfs of Bosnia fought
for six long months before they sub
mitted to the Austrian yoke. To the
Servians the Incorporation of Bosnia
with Austria Is death. Just as the ces
sion of Macedonia would be the death
blow to Greece. If the powers at the
conference refuse to listen to the Just
reclamations of the Servians, then
Spring will usher in a war which will
end either in the disruption of Aus
tria or the disappearance of Servia
from the map of Europe. War between
Servia and Austria sounds but feeble
chatter, but an Insurrection of the
16.000.000 Slav subjects of the Austrian
emperor Is not an eventuality that
Francis Joseph will care to face.
The Bulgarian question Is easily
-capable of solution; so, too. Is that af
Crete. Turkey has long since known
that the island was lost to her forever,
and that Its absorption by Greece was
only a matter of time. The time has
now arrived and the porte must ac
cept the inevitable. With regard to
BOHnla and the Herzegovina, the case
is different. Their annexation by Aus
tria destroys the last hope for the
formation of a United Servian king
dom, which should act as a buffer
against the Germanlzatlon of the
Balkan Peninsula. Servia and Monte
negro see themselves cut off from the
sea.
The question at issue Is whether
Austria-Hungary has violated her en-
J gagement towards the Ottoman Em
pire severally, and towards the Euro
pean concert collectively, and it is so
Important that the facts relevant to
this question should be accurately
known. The phraseology of article 25
of the Treaty of Berlin Indicates that
something far less than a transfer of
sovereignty was Intended. Had this
been Intended, terms appropriate to
express it would have been employed.
To ascertain what meaning was put
by Austria-Hungary upon the article
we have only to turn to the secret pro
tocol, only qui-te recently divulged, of
July 13, 1878, and to the convention of
April 21, 1879, to both of which Austria-Hungary
and the porte were the
only parties. The protocol, upon the
signature of which the porte Insisted
as the condition- precedent to her sig
nature of the treaty of Berlin, ex
pressly states that "the authority of
the sultan shall be unaffected by the
fact of the proposed occupation." that
"the occupation shall be considered to
be provlsiona4," and that the contract
ing parties shall come to a subsequent
understanding as to details. The con
vention of 1879 begins by reciting that
"the fact of the occupation of Bosnia
and Herzegovina does not affect the
rights of sovereignty of his majesty,
the sultan, over those provinces."
The question of the conference, and,
with It, of a definitely pacific solution
of the crisis, has been gradually .narrow
ing Itself down to the one crucial issue
whether the conference shall be governed
with regard to the annexation of Bosnia
and Herzegovina by the principle of "Im
partial examination" and "perfectly free
discussion," which was laid down in 1871
as a condition precedent to the meeting
of the London conference for the revision
of the Black Sea clauses of the Treaty
of Paris. This principle, to which Russia
herself subscribed under pressure from all
the other powers, found no stouter advo
cate than Austria-Hungary, and Lord
Granville placed it solemnly on record in
his opening speech" as president of the
London conference. Equally emphatic is
the protocol signed on the same day by
the plenipotentiaries of the powers, laying
down as "an. essential principle of the law
of nations that no power can repudiate
treaty engagements or modify treaty pro
visions, except with the consent of the
contracting parties, by mutual agree
ment." That both those principles are at stake
at the present juncture seems as plain as
the noonday sun. Yet Austria seems ab
solutely determined to deny them. Her
contention is that, whereas Russia then
sought to be discharged of certain treaty
obligations, the object of Austria in an
nexing the occupied provinces is only to
be the better able to discharge the obli
gations with regard to their good admin
istration which she undertook under the
Berlin treaty, and, further, that the an
nexation ia an accomplished fact which is
beyond discussion, whereas Russia's re
pudiation of the Black Sea clauses of the
Treaty of Paris affected the prospective
status of those waters and therefore re
quired consultation and agreements con
cerning the measures to render ineffect
ive. Even If this were not the idlest
sophistry, Austria cannot possibly deny
that, the substitution of the Emperor
Francis Joseph's sovereignty for that of
the Sultan in Bosnia and Herzegovina is
a "modification" of the treaty of. Berlin,
and a very Important one, since she her
self alleges that without it the monarch
could not have conferred a constitution on
those provinces.
Not a single power harbors any hope
that the accomplished fact can be re
versed at the conference, any more than
In 1871. But an "Impartial examination"
and a "perfectly free discussion" of the
question are required In order not only to
safeguard an "essential principle of in
ternational law," but to enable Austria
to show that the annexation will be car
ried out. as she declares, in the spirit of
the obligations assumed by her at Berlin
for the better government of the two
provinces.
This is briefly the issue which will pre
sumably give rise to the most acute dif
ference of opinion between Russia and
the western powers on the one side, sup
ported probably by Italy, as far s her
position in the Triple Alliance allows, and
Austria-Hungary and Germany on the
other side. A direct settlement between
Vienna and Constantinople would not at
together remove that difficulty, for it
would still require to be ratified by the
other signatory powers. What lends un
mistakable gravity to this impending con
flict of views is the growing antagonism
between Austrian and Russian feeling
which underlies It, and the profound ap
prehension created by the mysterious pol
icy of Germany.
TRUST PROVIDES $50,000 FIXE
FOR BREACH OF FAITH.
Hearing Against Combination Re
veals Its Methods of Regu
lating Prices.
c3bvELAN-D, Dec. 11. A ' world-wide
agreement of all the powuer companies
in this country and Europe was presented
at the Federal hearing before Special
Master Mahaffey here yesterday. It pro
vided for a $50,000 fine for any breach of
the agreement. This document, after pre
sentation, was Identified by Almon Lent,
of the Austin Powder Company, of this
city.
The , agreement was signed in 1897 and
provided that it should continue in force
for ten years and afterwards Indefinitely.
The document, it is said, shows that
the Dupont Company, the Austin Powder
Company and neariy 100 other concerns in
this country, nad signed It, and also
all the powder concerns In Europe. The
100 In this country Include every powder
company in the United States.
It was alleged that it is set forth in
the agreement that If the United States
received any bids from a foreign com
pany for smokeless military powder the
combination would find out what the Eu
ropean concerns had bid and that the con
cerns here should not bid any less tiian
the same price, but should bid more.
SEEK KNOWLEDGE OF ROAD
Boy Riding Brakcbcam9 Is Taken
In as Runaway.
Arthur Johnson, 15 years old, who
stated at the police station this morning
that he is a student at the Oregon Agri
cultural College, and that his home la
in Astoria, was arrested at East Water
street and Hawthorne avenue shortly
after 1 o'clock and booked at the station
as a runaway boy.
Johnson says there were no studies that
he liked at the college and that he has
been rldlns the brakebeams between Cor
vallis and Seattle for the past ten days
endeavoring: to gather knowledge not
taught In textbooks.
GIRL DIES; MAN ACCUSED
Catlilamet Doctor Arrested Charged
With Unlawful Operation.
ASTORIA. Or.. Dee. 11. Special.)
Madeline Longtaine, the Cathlamet girl
who has been under treatment at a
local hospital for an alleged unlawful
operation, died late tonight. Dr. Pea
cock, of Cathlamet, is accused of being
responsible for the girl s trouble.
LAWYERS 111 OIL
E S5
Kellogg Accuses Rosenthal of
Misrepresenting Facts in
Regard t? Prices.
PROFITS OF 100 PER CENT
Advance In Cost to Consumer Xcts
Octopus $83,000000 in 1896,
Against $24,078,000 for
Previous Year.
NEW YORK, Dec. 11. Accusing each
other of saying that which was not true,
opposing counsel In the Government's
suit against the Standard Oil Company
as a combination in restraint of trade,
enlivened the hearing today. Professor
J. F. - Johnson was being cross-examined
Frank B. Kellogg, the Government law
yer, several times criticised the Standard
Oil for' fixing upon 1833. which he said
was a year of exceedingly low prices, and
each time the Standard attorney. Moritz
Rosenthal, replied that it was because the
Government's tables showing Increases in
oil prices always start from that year.
"They do not. That is not true," Mr.
Kellogg explained.
"I repeat, they do," said Mr. Rosenthal,
"and when you say that is not true you
make a statement that is false.
"Economists have had a hard time de
termining what a reasonable proof Is,"
responded Professor Johnson.
Mr. Kellogg and Mr. Rosenthal later
got together and had the words of. their
tilt stricken from the records.
Continuing his testimony, Professor
Johnson said the price of oil from 1X95 to
1898, Inclusive, was 5.6 cents per gallon;
for the years 19(6 to 19i1S. 7.29 cents. The
average price of all commodities for the
first four years advanced 9.17 per cent
and for the last four years 11.62 per cent
"Then oil advanced 1214 ,Der cent more
than general commodities during those
years?" asked Mr. Kellogg.
"Yes," replied the witness.
Reads From Records.
From the records of the Standard's ex
hibits, Mr. Kellogg read figures showing
that In 1895 the Standard manufactured
40.000.000 barrels of refined oil, with a net
earning of $24,078,000, or a net profit of
60 cents a barrel; that in 1S96 it manu
factured 64.000.000 barrels of oil with a net
profit of JS3.000.000. or $1.30 per barrel.
"Do you think a general rise of com
modities justified a profit of more than
100 per cent in any one commodity?"
asked Mr. Kellogg.
The witness could not be induced to ay
that he thought the profit of 100 per cent
and more was outside th bounds of rea
son. Rosenthal' Objects to Questions.
I
Mr. Rosenthal objected to the general
tenor of Mr. Kellogg's questions, contend
ing that it had not been shown that the
$1.30 a barrel profit came exclusively
from the manufacture of oil.
The missing contract of the Standard
Oil Company, which explains the loan
made by the corporation to T. N. Barns
dall, of Pittsburg, Is now in the hands of
Kellogg. The contract, it Is said. Indi
cates the Standard's complete control of
the oil field, which Mr. Bamsdall operated.
Two contracts. In fact, cover the transac
tion of the loan of $7,500,000, and the se
curity given by Mr. Barnsdall was the
bulk of the stock of the Barnsdall Oil
Company, mortgages on coal lands and
righto in Oklahoma. These same securi
ties, tVilllam Rockefeller testified on the
witness stand, a year ago, were prac
tically worthless, in his opinion. This
made .. Mr. Barnsdall's property the
trust's, and the Government counsel
hopes to show that he was thus prac
tically a dummy, furnished with funds
to build up the business of the Standard.
The original loan was made by the
Standard Oil Company Itself, but the
last one, dated February, 1907, extend
ing over a period of seven years, was
made by President Young, of the Prai
rie Oil & Gas Company, a Standard sub
sidiary. March of Soap and Democracy.
Everybody's Magazine.
Soap and water are befriending democ
racy. Of the personal habits of the
masses down to the middle of the last
century the less said the better. The fol
lowers of Jack Cade and Rienzl were lit
erally "the great unwashed." A gentl
man had some excuse for crying.
"Faugh!" and holding his civet-scented
handkerchief to his nose. The common
people lost quickly the respect of those of
their number who had won through to
cleanliness and refinement. "Good breed
ing" referred to baths rather than to
manners. When. 60 years ago. street
cars were introduced, jt was predicted
that no gentleman could endure to ride in
them.
How is it now? The streetcar is so
popular with all classes that the cab can
hardly find a foothold. Besides, the tri
umphant progress of the private bathtub
thanks to cheap city water the cities
have been Installing municipal baths.
Last year 34 American cities suppliei
more than 18,000.000 free baths. And the
movement is In its Infancy, if we con
sider what England and Germany are do
lug. The effect will be the narrowing
of the esthetic space between those with
social position and those without. Class
distinctions will count for less when th?y
turn merely on whether you have an
automobile, or keep a servant, or dress
for dinner.
PII.KS CURED IX 6 TO 14 DAYS.
Paso Ointment Is guaranteed to cure any
rase of Itching, blind, bleeding or protruding
piles In 6 to 14 days or money refunded. 50c.
Olympia Malt Extract, good for grand
ma or baby. Only 1S-100 of 1 per cent
alcohol. Phones Main 671. A 2467.
(EnUWihed 18731
An Inhalation for
Whooping-Cough, Croup,
Coughs, Colds, Catarrh,
Bronchitis, Diphtheria.
Crasolen is a Boon to Asthmatlom.
Does it not seem more effectl-re to breathe In a
i. . n ,k krMthinflr organ than
la Uie the remedy into the stomach?
Cresolene cares because the air, rendered
. . i ., i- ..arTied orer the diseased
surface with eery breath, gi Ting prolonged and
constant treatment. It is lnvaluaMo to mothers
with small cnuaren.
FOT imnKU uiruafc
there Is nothintr better
than Cresolene aJitiseptlo
Throat Tablets.
Send 6o In postage
for sample bottle.
ALL DRUGGISTS.
Send costal for de
scriptive BooaJot.
Vapa-Creaolene Co
ISO Fulton Street,
Kw Tort
MS
We Are Manufacturers of tFte famous
"MADE IN OREGON" TRUNKS
Every Trunk Stamped With
THE PORTLAND
MAKERS CF HIGH
54 Third, Corner Pine.
WHY buy Easteiu-nia.li' TRUNKS, knocked together hy pieceworkers
and shipped into the city to be so!d by elothimr, tltpartment and drug
stores? There is no Vomparison between our 4i Made-in-Oreon "
Trunks and these cheap Kastern-madc Trunks. When you spend your
money, be sure you get " Made-in-Oreon " goods. You may get your
money back again who knows?
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cron I !!!.tr,.-l'! ii't i
The HANAN SHOE has
a great reputation because
the makers have persistently maintained the high
standard of their work, and have trusted the shoes
to make their own friends. Good quality and
a perfect fit are strong arguments in a shoe.
Sole Agents
For Portland
iTT-ffT T"Tr yiifsr-'- 1 " " " "
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COLUMBIA TRUST COMPANY
714 COUCH BUILDING
a- 1
ooKane
Two Trains Daily
Portland to Spokane
Via
O. R.
The "Spokane Flyer"
Leaves Portland at 5
7 A. M. next morning.
This is a through fast (rain, Portland to Spokane,
via Oakesdale, carrying Buffet Smoking and Library
Car,.-Standard Sleeping Car, Tourist Sleeping Car,
Coach with comfortable high-back scats, ami Smok
ing Oar.
The "Spokane Passenger'
Portland and Spokane via Colfax.
Leaves Portland at ( P. M., arrives Walla Walla
at 5 A. M., arrives Spokane at 11:1.3 A. M.
This train has Standard Sleeping Car, Portland to
Spokane, Portland to Walla Walla, besides equip
ment of coaches.
Tickets and berth reservations at City Ticket Office, Third and
Washington Streets.
WM. McMDRRAY, Gen. Pass. Agent, PORTLAND
a "Made in Oregon" Sticker
TRUNK MFG. CO.
QUALITY BAGGAGE
107 Sixth St., Near Stark.
l.'si wmim ii 1
.V. II
Cor. 7th acd Washington Sts.
BUILD! BUILD! BUILD!
We have several plans of bun
galows. Call and see them if you
contemplate building a home of
your own. We can finance it for
you. Plans and specifications at
1 per cent.
Building Department.
109 FOURTH STREET
service
the
8i N.
P. M., arrives Spokane at
Cooking and Heating
Fuel and Trouble
Savers
EVERY CHARTER OAK IS
GUARANTEED
If your dealer tries to talk you into th
mistake of buyinr another make, write to us
CHARTER CAK STOVE AND RANGE CO.
ST, LOUIS, MO.
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