FLAT RATE OF 10 CENTS IS WANTED Ways and Means Committee Recommends Various Levies for Budget.. WANTS 25 NEW POLICEMEN Subtests Jtj or 1.2 Mills for This Department and 2 1-4 for Ftre. Passes Resolution Asking for Sinking Fund. . The way anil means committer of the City Council held a short session Tuesday night. It recommended a flat rate of ten cents for water; cut down the number of policemen recommended from 50 to 23 and fixed the levy for the department at 1.1 mills; recommended a 2 1-4-mlll levy for the Fire Pepartment. . mill for the lighting, and li mills for street re pairs. It also passed a resolution pro viding for a sinking fund for the city. There were present Rushlight, Kellaher. Punning, Vaughn and Cottel. Auditor Barbur and City Attorney Kavanaugh were also present most of the session. Proposed changes in water rules were considered as recommended by -the Water Board, which are practically the same as those existing with the exception that the Board recommended a meter rate of 7i cents a 100 cubic feet, with a gradu ated discount according to amount of water used. The committee decided to report to the Council a flat rate of 10 cents, regardless of amount used. Another disagreement with the Board was in the matter of charge for water in places where standplpes are installed for fire protection, including automatic sprinklers. The Board suggested a charge, but the committee made the point that the city pays some J"0.W) for water supply for hydrants and that If private property owners see fit to put in additional facili ties, the city should not charge for this aid rendered the Fire Department. After this motion passed. Chairman Rushlight decided that under the provisions of the charter the Council had no authority to lower rates made by the Water Foard sn tt the action with reference :i -.t:ilr' vas left up In the air. . , r"er' i was made with the tax ',y. ilt! o-jf'i reveral items in the bij.i were rnssed over to next Mon dy. whea the committee Is to meet again, and In the meantime heads of de partments will be asked to appear and explain their estimates, the requirements asked for In these instances not being clear to the committee. The amount asked for by the Police De partment is $2f.7.0, which included the employment of 50 additional policemen. The committee cut this down to 25 and also failed to agree with. the Department in continuing the salary of the female de tective and assistant. With these items eliminated, the total was reduced to about 1253.000 and means an apportion ment of 12 mills for the Department. The lighting estimate as made by the committee of the Council is S121.344. and provides for It" additional ' lamps. There are now 1700 lamps used In the city's streets and in the public buildings. The rate necessary to cover the amount asked for is -10 mills. For street repairs m mills will pro duce J113.P00. which was adopted, being $4.ln less than the amount asked for. The Public Library committee asked for $27.5" but the further consideration of that Item as well as parks appropriation was left over. A suggestion that a sinking fund is to be started met with the approval of the committee. It being announced that bond Issues aggregating about J2.S0O.00O were outstanding and some provision must soon be made to accumulate funds to re tire these bonds as they become due. The other bonds, bringing the bonded in debtedness up to t5.0no,OnO, may be taken care of In the future. I TO GULF COAST HILL'S NEVV LIVE OPENS WAY rOR NORTHWEST MILLS. Two Small Gaps to Close Between .Montana and Galveston AVI II . Be Closed in Year. HELENA. Mont.. Dec 23. The Inde pendent says today: A well-known lumberman stated yes terday that he expected to ship lumber to the Gulf over the Hill lines direct and by a route which would be the shortest possible between here and Gal veston. He based his statement on a promise from a high railroad official that the Burlington would handle lum ber from Montana, Washington and Oregon on a direct line. In order to do this two gaps must be closed in Wyoming and Colorado, ap proximately 165 miles. The first is be tween Orln Junction and Gillette. Wyo.. and the other between Fort Collins and Cheyenne. The purchase of the Colo rado tc Southern gives the Burlington a direct line from the Wyoming line to the Gulf coast. The lumberman, having In view the purchase of a large tract of timber land, sought an understanding in regard to the rate. The official advised him to purchase the tract and assured him that within the year he would be able to ship the lumber to Galveston over the Burlington without change, at a figure which would allow it to be transferred to steamers and delivered In the Gulf coast cities at a most reasonable figure. WAS HE REALLY HELD UP ? "JOHN DOE" REPORTS. DISAP PEARANCE OP $5.50. Cannot Tell Anything About Rob bers and Police Quickly Drop Train-Robber Theory This la a story of two bold, villainous looking hold-up men, a lonely, deserted spot, a dark and stormy night, a gun, tS.50 in loot, two "-fly bulls," and a victim, nameless, but otherwise real, who for pur poses of identification only will be known as John. Doe or Exhibit "A." inasmuch as he was ashamed to give his name. This narrative Is set down complete in all Its details save for one thing, the finish. This part of the episode is known only to Mrs. Doe. What she did to John after his explanation of how and where he really got rid of the three-fifty will probably not appear In that part of the Doe family history which is printed on hand-made paper, bound in limp leather, and set out on the parlor center table. Really, to begin at the very beginning, we might be constrained to visit one or several of Portland's thirst emporiums. The actual scene of the play lies in the center of the thickly-populated district bounding the Intersection of Market and Eleventh streets.' The exact spot Is in the shadow of a tree on the corner nearest the tree. As the "harness bull" walks, not a the crow flies, it la 22 blocks from the rookery doin duty In this mu nicipality as a Jail, corner of Second and Oak streets. , , John Doe alias Ex.ilhlt "A, Is headed south, although he lives north. When he reached this corner something hap pened, no one knows but John, and he hasn't told. It Is believed, however, that It was Juet at this point that he put his right hand in his pocket and discovered that the 13.50 he had promised to bring home to Mrs. Doe, who wanted to go Christmaa shopping today, was missing. Anyhow, it was Just 6 o'clock when the fog which was banked in about police headquarters, opened its mouth and epake. , I've been robbed. Do you hear? robbed. Oh, please, send up the police. Two men, one tali and the other short, with a gun. And they stuck the durned thing right in my face. At Eleventh and Market streets. My name? Certainly not. Stop asking damphool questions and send the police. You can find me in the drugstore. Thirteenth and Montgomery streets. Yes, 1 11 wait till they come." ' Detectives Craddock and Hyde found John Doe at the appointed place. Note books in hand they were ready to take down copious notes of the crime. "Now take your time," said Hyde, "and tell us all about It, and tell us how tall they were, how they were dressed, what they said, what they did, which way they went, and whether you think they held up the O. R. & N. train the other night." They talked with Mr. Doe for 30 minutes and all they could get out of him was that he lost 13.50. and to every other ques tion he replied. "I don't know." The "fly bulls" repaired to their office and wrote out a report: "Hold-up. John Doe. at Eleventh and Market streets, at P. M.. by himself." After the departure of the police from the drugstore John got the druggist to trust him for S cents worth of breath pellets and was last seen wending his way Into a bungalow in another section of the cty. MONEY IN OREGON BANKS IXDTVIDrAIj DEPOSITS - TOTAL $78,945,239. Examiner Steel Make Report on Condition of 132 State and 65 -National Banks. SALEM. Or.. Dec. 23. (Special.) State Bank Examiner James A. Steel has completed the following statement showing the condition of 132 state and private banks and 65 National banks In the state of Oregon, at the close of busi ness. November 27, 1908: RESOURCES. 132 Btate banks. $25.P3.4.V4 , MH.fidl.M Items Loans and discounts Overdrafts Securities, bonds, etc Banking- house, furniture and fixtures... Other real estate cwned Due from .banks and bankers Checks and other cash Items Exchanges for clearlns-house Cash on hand . - fnited States bonds to secure circulation United Htates bonds to securer-deposits.. Vnlted Sute bonds on hand Premiums on United gtate bonds Five per cent redemption fund Kxpenses . Othtr Items than above Totals . ......... LIABILITIES. Items Capital stock Surplus fund Undivided profit Dlvidfnds unpaid Due to banks and bankers. .... Inalvldual deposits Deposits due State Treasurer ... United States deposits .: Deposits United States disbursing Notes snd bills re-dlscounted .... Bills payable CD Issued for money borrowed.. National Bank notes outstanding Reserved for taxes Other liabilities ....$ officers. . Totals PACKERS TAKE REBATES? Showers of Subpenas Causes Alarm Among Meat Kings . CHICAGO, Dec. i The issuance of 100 subpenaes, 25 of which were served on employes In the traffic department of Morris & Co.," summoning them be fore the Federal grand Jury, started the report today that the Inquisitorial body would investigate charges of re bating among the big packing firms at the stock yards. District Attorney Sims refused to ad mit or deny any of the reports, but M. T. Borders, attorney for Morris & Co.. admitted that 25 of the writs had been served on employes of the Arm. A flying visit to Washington by Dis trict Attorney Sims, who returned yes terday, and who was In conference there with F. B. Kellogg, the special Government attorney, as well as the Attorney-General, is supposed to have been in connection with the move. The subpenaes were issued from Judge Landis' court late last Monday afternoon, and nearly the entire force in the United States Marshal's office was detailed to serve them. Half a dozen special agents of the Government have arrived from Wash ington and have held conferences with Mr. elms. C0UNTENANCEJ3ADLY PIED Ruction in Composing-Room Lieads to Double Arrest. SAN JOSB. Cal. Dee. 23. Speclal. C. M. Shortrldge. ex-State Senator, and publisher of the Morning Times, was ar rested todav on a complaint sworn to by T. B. McDonald, a linotype machinist in his composing-room, charging him with assault and battery. Shortridge promptly swore out a counter-warrant for the ar rest of McDonald on a charge of mall clous mischief in damaging one of the linotype machines with a hammer to the extent of J500. The trouble occurred. McDonald says, over back pay. Both disagree as to who struck the first blow, but McDonald's friends state that Shortrldge struck the first blow and then used his cane with good effeefr McDonald clearly had the worst of the figftt. BULLET FOR AERIAL WAR German Inventor Patents Device to Destroy Balloons. BERLIN. Dec. 23. A Gottingen gun smith named Schraeder has Invented and patented an expanding bullet adapted for the destruction of dirigible balloons. The bullet can be fired from the regular Infantry rifle. TIIE MORNING OREGOXIAN, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 24. 1903. ACTRESSES FLEE FIRE TO BLIZZARD Flames Drive Chorus , Girls Into Snow Storm in Gauzy Attire. FAMOUS THEATER BURNS Orchestra Plays Till Herald Square , Audience Departs and Averts Panic Terrific Jam on the Streets. NEJW YORK, Dec. 23. Fire broke out In the Herald-Square Theater, at Thirty fifth street and Broadway, last night, ten minutes before the close of the per formance of "The Three Twins," and before it was brought under control had done considerable damage to the build ing, had driven the actors and chorus Into the streets in their scant costumes and had caused great commotion among the crowds on Broadway. There was no panic and no one was injured, the audience remaining in Ig norance of the Are until it had passed Into the streets. The Are caught from an electric sign on the front of the the ater building and spread to the executive offices, which aro on the second gallery of the auditorium. Gauzy Skirts in Snow Storm. As the flames began to gain headway the alarm spread among the actors and chorus and many of the young women left the building by the stage entrance and went out in the storm without giv ing thought to their scant and uncon ventional attire. With the thermome ter hovering around the 20s and a fierce wind driving the falling snow into their faces, the chorus girls beat a hasty re treat for cover at the Marlborough Ho tel; where they were made comfortable. An alarm quickly brought the fire en gines and water was turned on the flames, but not until between J30.000 and IW.OO0 damage had been done to the front part of the theater building and to the gallery of the auditorium. A fire on Broadway is always a spec tacular afTalr and, coming as it did to night, when the theaters were pouring their thousands into the streets lo min gle with the belated Christmas shoppers, it quickly caused a tremendous Jam in the neighborhood of Herald Square. A blinding snowstorm, which deranged all streetcar traffic on Broadway, and the 65 Nat., banks. $25.r.Ofl.OI4.2 342.6M.b4 4.419.n06.21 ts 6 S 2.."9rt 8 8.4.".4..M!9 .! 2aN.STT.83 277.021.74 T.IIW.MW.ST 3.025.ftW. l.nsii.eoo.oo mb.sso.oo 133.3H2.X2 1.12.372.00 4l).2.-i.VSS 29,030.00 Total. 51.4iri.259 .72 8S2.243.37 15.0XS,2.".3.38 2.32.227.4S ftO3.0H1.74 16.831.032.13 440.640.37 R04.181-21 12.710.17 65 3.02.').flO0.0 1, 9su.8nn.no 64ft.80.00 133.362.32 1B2.S72.O0 103.ft4O.SS 117.540.S8 10.rt.247.1T a.S7S.5.'.07 41O.471.0H 8.S.4X'.J.2T 2U.IMW.M 2-J7.1M.4T 6.046.57S.TS M.2S5 .n 8S.510.M SS3.S02.213. i5 153.302.760(85 1,106,894.974.10 132 6.1 Nat. banks 1 4. 566.0O0.0O 2.7.19.994.46 1.213.048 4.1 B.12!40 70 S4.27O.S90 SO 242.508.52 1,1 15.483.44 828.590.93 70' Olio! 00 120,000.00 2.90.480.00 24.300.00 69.724.46 State banks. Total. S 11.508,045.00 4.O.10.O62.51 2,540.122.42 042.04.1.00 1.2WMKM 0.1 . 1.327.O73.07 1.2M.0 . 3.1.12.923.7.1 . 80.674. 34S.82 177.288.53 a.5"7Wl 8.86 414.54 JXH 71 73,04 4in 797 0.1 1.1 15.483.44 828. 50 93 31.128.00 120.5.10.00 32. 782.40 , 2.9SO.48O.00 28.254.58 259,615.61 : 31.12. 00 .19..1.10.00 272.782.40 ""siisos 189.791.15 .A13.502.213.2.1 8,-3.392,760.85 $106.894,974.10 added inconvenience of a strike of the cabdrivers all tended to create a rather unusual state of confusion. Coolness Prevents Panic. Only the coolness of the -theater at taches prevented a panic. When the curtain was lowered upon the final en- semble the orchestra continued to play and Police Inspector McCloskey and Deputy Police Commissioner Hanser., who were in the audience, hastened to the exits and quietly reassured ' those who had discovered the smoke in the second gallery. Sume time after the fire was practi cally out the theater gallery fell and a moment later 35 feet of the roof on the Broadway end of the building came down. The damage was confined chiefly to the angle formed by Broadway and Thirty-fifth street, in which were lo cated the offices of the Shuberts. 19 Shubert and Lew Fields are the lessees of the theater. JILTED, HE DRINKS ACID Charles Johnson Saved by Hasty Ac tion of Girl's Father. Because the girl to whom he was en gaged threatened, after a quarrel, to run off with another fellow, Charles John son, 22 years old. in the presence of his fiancee's parents attempted to swallow carbolic acid, and is now in the City Jail accused of disorderly conduct. Johnson was visiting Mattle Howard in her parents' apartments in the Hotel Ohio, corner of Front and Madison streets. late Tuesday night, The two quar reled, and the girl went to another room and called up a young man over the telephone. Johnson overheard the con versation, and pulling a bottle of car bolic acid from his pocket attempted to drink ' the contents. Mattie's father knocked the bottle of acid from John son's hands before he got more than enough acid in ills mouth to severely bum his tongue and throat. The police were called, and Johnson was taken to the station, where he declares now he Is sorry he did it Johnson lives at 90 East Fourty-slxth street, and Is employed by M. J. Walsh, an electrician, on Fifth street, near Stark. The last man who attempted to commit suicide, was given 20 days on the rockpile at Kelly's Butte. MAIL POUCH IS STOLEN Contains Many Valuable Christmas Packages Xegro Suspected. KANSAS CITY, Mo., Dec. 23. A mall pouch containing 80 pounds of registered Christmas packages consigned to Eastern points, was stolen from the baggage room of the Twenty-second street and Grand avenue depot of the Belt Line Railroad yesterday. Although the postoffiee au thorities refuse to make any statement It Is believed to have contained much val uable merchandise. There was no money in it. The pouch was made up in the Kansas City postoffiee too late to catch the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe train at the Union Depot and it was therefore dis patched to the Grand avenue station and deposited in the baggage room. The baggagemaster stepped into another room to check a trunk. Upon his return the pouch was missiiHg. A negro who was loitering in the vicinity is thought to have secured the pouch. IMPROVEMENT LOOKED FOR Belief Current in Washington That Gomez Is Friendly. WASHINGTON. Dec. 23. A common Impression in Washington is that events in Venezuela are tending toward a better understanding between that country and the United States. Whether this will be reached with the reform government headed by Vice-President' Gomez, in the Cabinet of which the Castro element has been eliminated, or with an entirely new administration, it is impossible to say. Vice-President Gomez' views that the foreign policy of the Castro administra tion regarding the United States and Holland was ill-advised, form an Im portant element in the situation. It would take the battleship Maine a week to reach Venezuela. It is still im possible to obtain any official statement as to her destination. Similar reticence pertains to the movements of the gun boat Dolphin and the cruiser Des Moines, which have been In Haytian waters, but which a dispatch from Port ail Prince says are going to Curacao. With these vessels at or near the Venezuelan coast, the United States would be ready for eventualities. GUDGER CHIEF JUSTICE President Appoints Xew Head of Canal Zone Court. WASHINGTON. Dec. 23. H. IT. Gud ger. of North Carolina, will be appointed by President Roosevelt to be Chief Jus tice of the Supreme Court of the Panama Canal Zone for a term of six years, to succeed Dr. F. M. Duran, whose term ex pires January 1. It is understood that Secretary Wright has recommended to the President this appointment. , Mr. Gudger is an Associate Justice of the Canal Zone Supreme Court, PRESIDENT OUT IN SNOW Takes Two-Hour AY a lk in Raging Storm. WASHINGTON, Dec. 23. In a heavy snowstorm which began this forenoon and continued steadily throughout the day, covering the ground to a depth of about four Inches,. President Roose velt went for a long walk, accompa nied by two secret service guards. It was after . dark when - he returned to the White House from his hard tramp over the 1 snowy roads of the suburbs. Jury Finds Private Guilty. SEATTLE. Dec. 23. "Guilty, without capital punishment," was the verdict of the Jury In the trial of Private James H". Holt, in the United States District Court for the murder of Bandman Henry E. Johnson. May 8, at Fort Worden. The penalty is fixed by law at Imprisonment for life. Judge Hanford announced that sentence would be pronounced in Holt's case January 4. The Jury deliberated nearly 24 hours before arriving at the Verdict. ' . . Pacific Fleet Ieaves Panama. PANAMA, Dec. 23. The United States Pacific cruiser fleet, with the exception of the Colorado, sailed from here this afternoon at 5 o'clock. President Obaldia. the members of his Cabinet and Herbert G. Squlers, the American Min ister, witnessed the departure. More than 8000 men were given shore leave, but not a single serious offense baa been committed. SOUTH AT HEART IS REPUBLICAN It Isn't Democratic Because of Cnanar to Growing Conservatism. New York American (Hearst). The South of today is not at heart or in Its conditions a Democratic South. It Is Democratic In name only. It is devoted to the name of Democracy and to the spirit of Republicanism. In point of fact the new South Is more Republican than Democratic. It is even more Republican than the Re publican party of 'today. The Demo cratic Congressmen from the South dif fer only from the Republicans in that they are more Republican than the Re publicans are. They'are more conserv ative, more reactionary, more disposed to be In sympathy with the great finan cial Interests than the Republican Con gressmen. This statement will be protested, but It is none the less true, the South is distinctly the conservative section of the country, and the Republican party is the conservative party of the coun try in the general acceptance of that term. The South grows more rather than less conservative, and therefore the South will be more and more Re publican rather than Democratic. The real Democratic party is not and cannot be a conservative party, but must al ways be to some extent radical and at all times progressive. The Republican party fits the temper, the constitution and the conditions of the ruling ele ment of the Southern people. The manufactures In the South have outgrown agriculture, and this has caused a mighty change in that people, which makes it more and more neces sary for an alignment with a party which especially protects and favors the manufacturer. The State of Georgia, for instance, in one Democratic burst threw off the railroad yoke and in an almost Immediate reaction put It on again. The South Is ruled In Its politics by the railroad interests and the corpora tions, which is distinctly in line with the Republican party. The South in this period of its remarkable material development, wishes favors from the Government, of which it has heretofore been too small a part, and It Is doubt less true that most of its business men believe that these Government favors can best be secured through the pres ent dominant party. In no section of the country are the business sentiment and the pursuit of the dollars more all absorbing than in the South today. So that for these reasons we unhesi tatingly assert that the South is more Republican than Democratic and by reason of Its growing conservatism more Republican than the progressive element of the Republican party. The Southern Democratic- members, of Con gress are more ultra-conservative than the Democratic Representatives of the North, and even more so than the pro greslve Republicans of either section. Wherefore Mr. Tafc points a distinct promise of success In his movement to Republicanize a section which is al ready naturally Republican. Let hlra prevail, as his clear-cut speech Is cal culated to do. In laying the foolish ghost of negro denomination, and. with the bridle of apprehension off, the Democratic donkey of the South will lope into the green pastures of Re publicanism on which It has looked longingly for year. FREEDOM AS GIFT Governor Hoch, of Kansas, Re leases John Collins. WAS CONVICTED OF JVIURDER Prisoner Sent to Penitentiary In 1898 on Testimony of Negroes. One of Whom Iater Con fesses to Perjury. TOPEKA, Kan., Dec. 23. Governor Hoch ' late yesterday pardoned John Collins, now serving a. life sentence in the Kansas penitentiary for the murder of his father, a well-to-do real estate man of this city, -in May, 1838. Collins will be freed Christmas day. The Gov ernor believes Collins innocent. The Collins case was one of the most remarkable criminal cases In this part of the ' West. Young Collins was a stu dent at the Kansas University at the time of his father's death. He was con victed upon the testimony of three ne groes, all of it being circumstantial in character. At the trial the state set up the plea that Collins was In love with Miss Frances Babcock, a wealthy young society woman of Lawrence, Kan... and that Collins planned the killing of his father so that he might gain insurance which the senior Collins carried upon his life. One of the negroes, upon whose testi mony Collina was convicted, has since written a book asserting that the testi mony of the three negroes at the trial was part of a plan of young enemies of young Collins to ruin him by fixing the responsibility for his father's death upon him. The- elder Collins was found dead In bed one morning after a visit to his sbn at Lawrence. , Mil FLIES TO RESCUE OBJECTS TO GOVERNMENT ROB BING POOR SQUIRRELS. Idaho Senator Has Novel Grounds for Iiatest Attack on Forest Service. OREGONIAN NEWS BUREAU, Wash ington, Dec. 22. Senator Heyburn, of Idaho,- Is going to renew his fight on the Forest Service when the agricultural ap propriation bill comes up In the Sen ate after the holidays. The Senator says that he has "got a good one" on the Forest Service this time, and here it is: During the past Summer a friend in formed the Senator that the Forest Serv ice was robbing the squirrels of Idaho. He started out to investigate. Up in the Shoshone reserve, near Wallace, the Senator encountered a forest ranger sacking nuts. He had half a dozen sacks filled, and was stuffing another when the Senator met him. He Inquired his purpose and found that the nuts were to be shipped East for planting in some of the prairie states where it is desirous of starting new pine forests. "Are you gathering those nuts . by hand?" asked the Senator. -'Oh. no; , we let the squirrels do the gathering and then we take the nuts out of their nests.". "Are you robbing the squirrels on your own authority or are you directed to -do so?" asked the Senator. "I am doing this under orders from Washington," was the reply. And so it transpires that when oppor tunity' "offers. Senator Heyburn proposes to bring up this squirrel incident and de nounce the Forest Service for what he terms its Inhumanity. "Robbing the squirrels is the smallest business the Forest Service has yet engaged in," says the Senator. UNITED STATES MIXERAl, OUTPUT. Last Year's) Surpass In Value Those of 1906 by 8.68 Per Cent. 'Compiled bv W. T. Thom, of the United State Geological Survey, and taken from a summary of our mineral production.) ' The value of the mineral products of the United States in 1907 reached the enormous total of 82,069,289,196, surpassing the value of the same pro ducts in 1906 by 8165,282.162, or 8.68 per cent, that of 1005 by 27.33 per cent, and of 1904 by 68.81-per cent Both metallic and nonmetallic products con tributed to the gain. Rank of the Mineral. Two minerals coal and iron are credited with- approximately 55 per cent of the total for the country, and three more copper, clay produces and petroleum furnish about 22 per cent, the five contributing about 77 per cent of the whole. The minerals whose "Selz" on the Sole Means Good Shoe "When you see the name "Selz" on the sole of a shoe, you needn't ask any more. questions about it; you can be satisfied that it's all right. That name on shoes means "good shoe," just as surely as "sterling" on silver means good quality. It means full value for your money, whatever you pay. Ask for Selz Royal Blue $3.50, $4.00, $5.00. COR. SEVENTH output In 1907- was valued at more than $5,000,000 are listed in the fol lowing table: Value of More Important Minerals Produced in the United States in 1907. Col R14. 788.808 Iron I'.'.'.'.'.'.'.'. 5:.ASS.OOO Topper JIS-JSS'IhS Clay product vJ'iio Petroleum - l-S-ltX Gold -- 9O.43S.fO0 Stone 1117.1 71.KiS.S05 Cement ."""J MIX Sir g" Slot. ffier 7.7" S7.2W.70O line . .7. .7. ............ .7. . . ..... 28. 401.910 Sand and gravel, etc '3.242,002 Lime H6i'ii-a Phosphate rock 'SZ--'? Salt !-', Mineral waters i'SA'XS Zinc, white Slate - f Sulphur 6.142,ioO Products whose output exceeded $1,000,000 in value were gypsum, val ued ac $4,942,264; aluminum, $4,926, 948; mineral paints, $2,979,158; asphalt, $2,826,489; glass sand. $1,250,067; sand lime brick. $1,225,769; and borax (crude), $1,121,520. The total value of the metallic pro ducts in 1907 was $903,024,005: of the nonmetallic products, $1,166,165,191: $100,000, estimated as the value of such mineral products as molybdenum, nickel, titanium, not reported In de tail, brings the total to the amount stated. Rank of the States. ' Pennsylvania, reporting mineral pro ducts valued at $657,783,345, has no close rival for first place among the states, for Ohio, which Is second, re ports products valued at $207,657,339, while the mineral products of Illllnols, the state ranking third, were valued in 1907 at $145,768,464. Fourth on the list Is West Virginia, with mineral products, including coal, natural gas and petroleum, valued at $92,487,960. Colorado is fifth, with products valued at $71,105,128, gold and coal furnishing more than 60 per cent of the value. Michigan is sixth, with products valued at $70,073,920, more than 60 per cent of the value being in copper. New York, the seventh state, reports pro ducts valued at $68,762,815, about 48 per cent of which Is for pig Iron. Mon tana is eighth on the list, with pro ducts valued at $60,663,511, about 74 per cent being copper. The .ninth Is Arizona, with products valued at $56, 753,650, more than 90 per cent of which is for copper. California, with a long list of mineral products, among which gold and petroleum were produced to the greatest value. Is the tenth state, the mineral ouput for the year being valued at $56,679,436. Missouri, with products valued at $53,129,431, and Alabama, whose pro ducts were valued at $52,136,749, more than 90 per cent being for coal and iron, hold respectively 11th and 12th places. Products valued at more than $30,000,000 were reported also from In diana ($39,141,217). Utah ($38,099,756), and New Jersey ($32,800,299). Be tween $20,000,000 and $30,000,000 worth of products were reported from Kansas ($28,577,044), Oklahoma ($26,908,968), Tennessee ($26,525,004), Nevada ($22, 088.700), Idaho ($21,300,612), and Alaska ($20,200,552). States reporting between $10 000,000 and $20,000,000 worth of products are Texas ($19,806,458), Vir ginia ($19,313,182), Maryland ($19,356. 250), Kentucky ($19,294,341). Iowa ($17,623,094), Wisconsin ($13,832,395), Washington ($11,617,706), Louisiana ($10,876,719), and Wyoming ($10,671. 674). All other states and territories reported mineral products valued at less than $10,000,000 HAYES KNOWNJN TACOMA Thought to Be Mixed Up In Murder In Sound City. TACOMA, Wash., Dec. 23. (Special.) Jack Hayes, now held by the Sherin at Portland for alleged complicity in the hold-up of a train, is well known to the Tacoma police department Captain of Detectives Fitzgerald today sent Hayes' photograph to the Portland authorities for identification. The police officers say Hayes tallies in personal description with the man seen hanging around a restaurant on Pacific avenue before the murder of a Japanese cook some weeks ago. The Portland suspect has a mother residing in Seattle. Are You Going to CALIFORNIA? Write Chester "W. Kelley, 603 First avenue, Seattle, Wash., Representative HOTEL DEL MONTE Near historic Monterey, Para dise of the Pacific. 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