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PRICE FIVE CENTS.
PORTLAND, OREGON, MONDAY, JANUARY 18, 1909.
VOL. XL. VIII. XO. 15,020.
1908 SETS RECORD
MINE DISASTERS
PORTLAND AT TOP
uiunir pmiiv ic 500,000 suicides
O'BRIEN TOLD NOT
- TO ANGER NIPPON
ALKALI PETE CAN'T
STAND PORULARITY
iiiiull mmiLi iu YEARLY BY OPIUM
TO STATE CAPITAL
N WHEAT EXPORTS
SLAIN IN SEATTLE
PRESENT YEAR BIDS FAIR TO
DUPLICATE SAME.
POPPY PTtCG RESPQXSIBLK FOIl
SELF-SLAUGHTER.
USEFULNESS AS FEDERAL DE
TECTIVE IS SPOILED.
HOPKINS
HURRIES
W. L. Seefey, Wife and
Daughter Killed.
WOMEN'S HEADS BATTERED
Girl's Fiance Breaks In and
Discovers Dead Bodies.
NO WEAPON CAN BE FOUND
Murder Occurs Thursday Night.
Women Are in Xightrobes, Man
Partly Clothed Seeley Said
to Hare Financial Trouble.
FEATTLE. Jan. 17. W. L Seeley, an
attorney and ez-Natlonal Bank Ex
aroiner for Illinois under Controller
of the Currency Eckles; his wife, Mrs.
Kate M. Seeley, a member of the N
tlonal Society of Daughters of the
American Revolution, and his daughter,
Mlrs Rene Seeley, a student at the
University of Washington and a mem
ber of the Delta Gamma Sorority, were
found dead in a bathroom of their
home, 307 Eighteenth avenue. North.
in the fashionable CapMtol Hill district,
at 1 o'clock this afternoon. They had
been dead stneo the previous Thursday.
Hammer Tscd to Kill Women.
The women, each of whom was clad
in nightrobes. had been murdered by
being struck in the head, evidently
with a hammer. There was no mark
of violence on Seeley. He Is believed
to have been partiality chloroformed
and then drowned in the bathtub. All
three were kneeling at the side of the
bathtub with their heads submerged in
the water. A steamer trunk was on
the bodies of Seeley and his wife.
AH the doors and windows of the house
were locked on the Inside. Sjeley's arms
were covered with blood as If he had
- carried his wife and daughter to the bath
room.
Blood Stains All Around.
Seeley was clothed In his underwear.
shoes and trousers. His nightgown.
which . was bloodstained from the
bodies of the two women, was found
beneath a lean pillow in the room
occupied by him and his wife. The
pillow on which Mrs. Seeley had been
sleeping was saturated with blood.
Seeley came here less than two years
ago from St. Joseph. Mo. He bad lived
there two years, coming from Ottawa.
III. He had engaged In the practice
of law wherever he had been for the
past 20 years. He was 63 years of age.
his wife about three years his junior.
and his daughter was 22 years old.
Girl's Fiance Finds Bodies.
The bodies were found teday by
Guy M. Smelzer. affianced husband of
Miss Seeley. and E. R. Zlbbell. a friend
of the family. The family could not
be communicated with after 9 o'clock
Thursday night, when Smelzer talked
over the telephone with Miss Seeley.
Efforts to get Into communication with
them after that were unsuccessful
The only living thing on the premises'
was a huge black cat. which was
locked In the basement and which.
since Friday, had been fed by neigh
bors. The animal was a. family pet.
Seeley In Financial Troubles.
Although keeping up the appear.
ance of prosperity. Seeley had been
forced to borrow money for his last
month's house rent from W. W. Wl!
shire, an attorney from whom he rent
ed desk room In the New York block.
Police detective searched the house
for the weapon with which the murders
had been committed, but were unable
to flr.d any bloodstained Implement.
No Jewelry or other article of value
was taken from the house. Every
window and door was found to have
been securely locked.
uuy Ji. fmeizer was the last person
so far aa is known who held any com
munication with any member of the
Seeley family. He talked with Miss
Seeley. his fiance, over the telephone
at 9 o'clock Thursday night. She said
nothing of any family trouble at that
time. He was talking with her of their
plans to go to a party the following
right at the home of a friend.
Smelzer Tries to Get In.
Tr.e next morning smelzer called up
the residence again on the telephone but
got no answer. He tried twice after
that to catch the bouse on the. wire but
failed. Finally he ascertained from the
telephone company that the line was in
order and surmised that the members
of the family were away for a short
time.
That evening he went to the house but
failed to get any response to his knocks.
He rang the door-bell and knocked on
the door. There was no sound from
within. He went to the home of H. D.
Moore. In the neighborhood, and with
Miss Claire Moore, friend of Miss Seeley,
he returned to the Seeley home and
again tried to get an answer to his
knock.
Cat Found In Basement.
A noise was heard in 'the basement and
upon Investigation they found that it
waa the big black rat. The milkman had
left a bottle of milk on the back porch
Rev. A. S. Grcesr, of International
Reform Bureau, Makes a
Startling Statement. .
CLEVELAND. O., Jan. 17. "Opium
causes half a million suicides a year.
declared Rev. A. S. Gregg:, of the Inter
national Reform Bureau today, with ref
erence to the opium conference called
by President Roosevelt, which begins Its
session at Shanghai February 1. The
statement Is based on letters and reports
T"l IT TIT T K m-.r Bnu.Dl , . -
tary of the Reform Bureau who has
been sent to Shanghai by the bureau to
attend the opium conference.
Dr. Thwlng will ask the conference
take action that will hasten the destruc
tion of the opium traffic throughout the
world. Dr. Thwlng says he has ob
tained statistics from four Chinese
provinces with a population of 680,000
in which he says the proportion of the
population using opium Is from 30 to SO
per cent, and. the amount of money spent
for the drug is JJW.000.000 a year.
President Roosevelt called the opium
conference at the suggestion 6f Bishop
Brent, of Manila, and delegates have
been appointed by China, Japtin, Slam.
Persia. Russia. Germany. France, Great
Britain. Italy. Holland and the United
States.
"LIVE LIKE JESUS" HERE
Dr. Brougher to Launch Movement
.Next .Sunday.
CLEVELAND. O., Jan. 17. The two
weeks" effort of 1800 young people of
this city to 'live as Jesus would live-
closed today with a big mass meeting
at the Epworth Memorial Church.
Rev. W. B. Wallace declared the test
has been a success. Thousands In
Cleveland attempted the test, but did
not officially join the movement.
A letter was received from Rev.
Charles M. Sheldon, of Topeka, Kan.,
.uthor of "In His Steps." the origin
tor of the idea, complimenting the
Cleveland young people on their deter
mination. Dr. J. Whitcomb Brougher, of Port
land, Or., at an experience meeting of
those who took part In the movement
tonight announced that next Sunday
he would Inaugurate a similar move
ment In Portland.
348 AUTOS ARE BURNED
Six Boston Garages Destroyed by
Fire Loss $800,000.
BOSTON. Jan. 17. The most extensive
automobile storage and repair plant In
the city burned today, destroying 34 auto
mobiles, Talued at 1750.000. The fire spread
to the old trainshed of the Park Square
railroad station, formerly used as the
terminal of the Providence division of the
New York, New Haven & Hartford Rail
road, and destroyed the bicycA track and
large pavilion used for exhibition pur
pose. Tne damage to tne Dunamg win
bring the total to 500.000.
There were six garages in the storage
station.
PRISON REFORM HER WORK
Mrs. Florence Maybrick Asks Con
gress for Improvements.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 17. Mrs. .Flor
ence 31 ay brick, whose release rrora
an English prison five years ago was
due to the efforts of American women,
declared here today she "was devoting
her life work to prison reforms. In a
statement she appealed to Congress to
provide the National Capital prisons with
sanitary facilities.
Mrs. Maybrick denied the rumor that
she was engaged to be married.
MEN CAUSE OWN DEATHS
Overcharge of Powder Responsible
for 65 "Lives in Lick Branch.
BLUBFIELD, W. Va.. Jan. 17. The
Coroner's Jury today decided the explo
sion last Tuesday In the Lick Branch
mine was. caused by an overcharge shot
of gunpowder, and that 65 men came to
their death through no fault of the
company.
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Mrs Ben Tillman. Jr., and Miss Leona Tillman are involved In the charges against the Senator in an indirect way, because it was in their
names, supposedly, that some of the land the Senator coveted was to be entered. Miss Leona Tillman Is very popular in Congressional social cir
cles and was recently elected president of the Archonides Club an organization whose membership is limited to the daughters of Senators and
members of the House. This club supplements the Congressional Club, which is composed of the wives of Senators and Members.
Hochi Hurls Editorial
at Ambassador.
SAYS AFFRONTS MUST STOP
Warns America "For Sake of
Peace in Pacific."
RECALLS FORMER INSULTS
"Boundless Patience" Becoming Ex
hansted and Cure for "Malady
Which Has Attacked Rela
tions" Is Called For.
YOKOHAMA. Jan. 17. (Special.) Under
the caption, "Don't Anger Us," the Hochi,
In an editorial addressed to Thomas
O'Brien, the American Ambassador
Toklo, aays:
at
Japan is grateful to America for
opening the country, and reveres her as
the land where virtue Is honored, but
fears that sooner or later repeated insults
will compel Japan to resort to a deter
mined policy of eelf-protection."
The Hochi recalls how, at the time of
the school question, the Japanese were ob
jeots of intolerable abuse and slander,
and that despite Federal expressions of
regret and sympathy. Japanese interests
and honor were not protected.
Japan's yielding attitude," continues
the Hochi, "rather eeemed to tie her
hands and augment the restriction of the
rights enjoyed by all civilized powers.
Considering the fleet's visit, American
generosity toward our exposition and the
visits of commissions of business men
is highly desirable to find a cure for the
malady which has attacked our good re
lations. The Hochi appeals to Ihe Presi
dent and the people of America. Although
the Japanese still believe the magnanim
ity displayed in the past will continue.
the ceaseless affronts are exhausting our
boundless patience. For the sake of
peace in the Pacific, don't anger us.
"JIXGOES" TO BE SQUELCHED
California Legislature to Sit Upon
Anti-Japanese Legislators.
SACRAMENTO, Cal., Jan. 17. (Special.)
One of the most important things which
la scheduled to come up lu the Senate
within the next few days Is the putting
of the extinguisher down good and hard
upon those members who have persisted
In stirring up the Japanese question at
a time when a majority of both houses
as well as the Administration faction at
Washington, are most anxious to let It
rest.
Several bills calculated to rouse the ire
of Japan have already been Introduced
and more are being made as fast as the
pena of the agitators can write them.
There is no likelihood of any of the bills
getting out of the first committee Into
whose spacious pigeon-hole they happen
to drop, but not satisfied with the cer
tainty of defeating such measures, the or
ganization Intends to prevent, as far as
possible, the discussion of the possibility
of passing them.
It Is the old and worn-out Leavitt or
ganization alone wlilch la agitating for
anti-Japanese legislation at this session.
The reorganized majority under Wright's
leadership believes that Washington
should be left alone to deal with the sit
uation. In regard to the demands, the situation
Is, of course, different, and there appears
to be no way of keeping them from
shooting as many arrows at the Orient
aa they think advisable.
"It is the cheapest kind of gallery-playing
to argue for such bills as the anti
alien landholder measure or that for
bidding California corporations from hav
ing Oriental directors." said an influ
ential member of the Upper House today.
'Everybody knows that the bills won't
pass. Under the circumstances it looks
like extremely poor and petty politics to
try to pass then."
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Sleuth in Beef Trust .Prosecution Is
Moved to Other Fields by
His Employer.
CHICAGO, Jan. 17. (Speclal.)-Popu-larity
Is responsible for ye downfall of
"Alkali Pete," Idaho "cow puncher" and
detective of the Federal beef Investiga
tion. . His familiarly striking- figure was
much In evidence In the Federal building
during the past two weeks and District
Attorney Sims admitted today that he
had been transferred to other fields, with
the remark that the Federal secret serv
ice man's usefulness is ended when h
becomes a popular JJoI.
"Alkali Pete" was originally a ranch
man In Idaho. He became Sheriff in
that state and was known to be a quick
man with a gun. He afterward became
a Government secret service operator and
was brought to Chicago to assist in the
investigation of the packing industry. It
might be all right to hide behind boulders
in a canyon, but when such a Strang
appearing person hides behind a pillar in
the Federal building and takes peeps at
the man he is shadowing he is bound to
attract more or less attention. Such
was the case with "Alkali Pete."
INDIVIDUAL IS PLAINTIFF
Government Xot Sponsors for Libel
Suits on Canal Scandal.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 17. The latest
suggestion regarding yesterday's sensa
tional developments regarding the service
of subpenas in newspapers in this city
and elsewhere is that an individual and
not the United States Government, is the
real plaintiff In the case.
It Is true that the subpenas served read
'The United States vs. the Press Publish
ing Company." But if the proposed action
is criminal, as Is generally assumed to
be the case, that would be the form of
a subpena even where an individual is the
complainant, according to the practice in
the District of Columbia.
The' identity of this Individual or In
dividuals is purely a matter of specula
tlon, for the public will have to await
the Issue of the promised statement of
Attorney-General Bonaparte.
AGED TRAPPER IS SUICIDE
Beno Salvo Found Dead In Lonely
. Cabin Near Idaho City.
BOISE, Idaho, Jan. 17. A cm-oner's In
quest, held today at the isolated and
snow-covered cabin of Beno Salvo, the
80-year-old trapper and miner, found dead
Saturday near Idaho City, and probably
the first white man to explore what is
n,ow Idaho, revealed that the old man
shot himself with a . rifle that he had
carried In the mountains for many years.
He had run a pencil through all the
January dates on his wall calendar up to
and Including the 9th, which was prob
ably the date of the suicide. On a slip
of paper he had scribbled the words
Very sick," and below them "Crazy."
He left his belongings, including his
gold dust, to miner friends. A sister and
a brother reside somewhere In California.
BANK LOOT IS RECOVERED
All but $280 of $3250 Taken at
Klamath Falls Secured.
KLAMATH FALLS, Or., Jan. 17. (Spe
cial.) Officers have recovered J2950, which
lacks only 1280 of the total amount se
cured from the Klamath County Bank by
the robbers yesterday. Jack Hall and
Rial Bruner, the robbers, will be ar
raigned In court tomorrow morning.
They engaged counsel Immediately after
their arrest, but speedy action is expected
by the state's attorney.
KILLED FOLLOWING HOUNDS
Josh Clark, Pioneer Hotel Man, Is
Crushed Under Horse.
PILOT ROCK, Or., Jan. 17. Josh Clark,
pioneer hotel man of Albee, Or., aged
65 years, was Instantly killed at S o'clock
this afternoon on Bear Creek, 25 miles
south of this place.
He and a party of friends were on
horseback following a pack of hounds in
hot pursuit of three cougars, when his
horse fell on him. I
FIGURE IN OREGON LANDS SCANDAL.
It. B. Tillman, Jr.
,
Confident He Will Be
Chosen Senator.
DENEEN TAKES SEAT TODAY
Illinois Legislature Will Tackle
Senatorial Fight.
DUBOIS OPPOSES . HOPKINS
Ex-Senator From Idaho Reported to
Be AVorking Against Former Col
league Because Mormons Are
Said to Favor ' Him.
SPRINGFIELD, 111., Jan. 17.-(Special.)
After a spirited series of battles, during
which Charles S. Deneen and his friends
had apprehensions that the Shurtleff Re
publican and Democratic members of the
Legislature would "conspire by unfair
means to oust the Governor from his
chair and Install Adlal E. Stevenson
therein." Mr. Deneen will be inaugurated
as chief executive tomorrw. The other
Btato officers-elect will be inducted into
office at the same time and with the
machinery of the Legislature in work
ing order, the General Assembly will
turn Its attention this week to the elec
tloft of a United- States Senator to suc
ceed Albert J. Hopkins.
Senator Hopkins, who will arrive here
from Chicago tomorrow morning to look
after his Interests, is quoted as saying
he Is certain he will have on the first
joint ballot 116 votes, or 13. more than
enough to nominate. He feels sure of
this number and believes that when the
time comes every Republican in both
houses will vote for him. Arguing that
he is entitled to every ballot from his
party. Senator Hopkins says he carried
every county In the state at the pri
maries against William E. Mason and
carried 86 of the 102 counties against
Representative George E. Foss.
"Caucus Aot Needed,' He Says. -
After the- primaries," said Senator
Hopkins, ."I announced that I considered
myself the victor and that I was going
to seek the passage of resolutions by' the
Republican State Convention, declaring
me the candidate of the party. At that
time neither Mr. Foss nor Mr. Mason
challenged the procedure; by their silence
they ratified it, and the convention adopt
ed the resolutions. So I am the sole party
candidate, and I do not think that any
Republican in the state would care to en
danger his future by entering , the lists
against me. As to a caucus, in Iowa,
Governor Cummins, after the primaries,
declared that a caucus was unnecessary.
the legislators having been instructed at
he polls, but a caucus was held in order
to preserve a time-honored custom.'
First Ballot Before Caucus.
Both elements concede that a caucus
will not be called until Tuesday, at least,
after the Houses have taken separate bal
lots on the Senatorshlp.
The most encouraging feature of the
situation, as the Hopkins leaders look at
It, lies In the fact that the anti-Hopkins
forces are scattered, not having united on
candidate. With the opposition in a
nebulous form, the Hopkins men assert
that they will have no trouble In swing
ing most of the Foss men to the junior
Senator. This belief, however, is not
hared by the anti-Hopkins men, who in
sist that a deadlock will crop up on the
first joint, ballot; that "dark horse" can
didates will be trotted out, and that the
tie-up will finally be settled by the elec
tion of a compromise candidate.
A startling development tonight was the
Western story that the Mormon church
has had active emissaries In Illinois for
weeks, working for Senator Hopkins. Ex-
United States Senator Dubois, of Idaho,
uncompromising enemy of the Mormon
church, has been -in Illinois for several
weeks, and this is declared to be signifi
cant of Western gentile opposition to
Hopkins.
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Science Ha9 Xot Yet Solved Prob
lem of Preventing: Formation
of Deadly Gas.
PITTSBURG. Jan. 17.-The year 1!W8
was marked- by more mine horrors and
by more loss of life underground than
any other year in history. And the year
1909, scarcely three weeks old, appar
ently is going after JOOS's record. Only
last Tuesday 100 lives were lost in an ex
plosion In a model mine near Bluefieki,
W. Va., and on tne Sunday before death
exacted another heavy toll In tho Letter
mines at Zeigler, 111.
"Science." said a mining engineer to
day, "has not yet solved the proble:
of preventing the formation of gas. W
recognize three kinds of mine gases
the fire damp, after damp ar;d white
damp. '
"Fire damp Is the only one of the trio
that is explosive. It i a gas given off
by coal under the influence of the hrat
of the earth. When Davy "invented th
miners' safety lamp it was thought that
all danger of mine explosions was over.
The lamp has the flame surrounded with
a metallic screen which does not perml
the passage of the flame. But th
screens burn out after long usage an
miners grow careless."
FRICK TO SELL FINE HOME
Sours on Pittsburg Because of Social
Slight to Daughter.
PITTSBURG. Jab. 17. (Special.) Real
estate men of Pittsburg have a quiet
tip that "Clayton," the Pittsburg palace
of H. C. Frick, on Homewood avenue,
is for sale. The steel king is desirous of
quitting Pittsburg forever.
According to those close to society
Mr. Frick is bitterly angry at the lack
of interest shown in the coming-out
party of his -daughter, Helen, here some
time since. Only about 15 young men
scarcely enough to perform the figures
of the dances, were in attendance at the
big party at "Clayton," according to
some of those who attended. Tills is
where Mr. Frick is said to have rise
in anger and declared himself.
DARING TRIAL AT RESCUE
Man Enters Train and Shoots at Of
ficer Guarding Brother.
FORT SMITH, Ark., Jan. 17. Enter
ing an Iron Mountain train rear hero
today in which his brother. Grant Quinn,
sat handcuffed to Policeman Burgess,
who was taking Quinn to Little Rock
to be turned over to the military au
thorities as a prisoner, Lee Quinn shot
at the. policeman.
Burgess returned the fire and several
passengers went to his assistance.
Quinn, after emptying his pistol, jumped
from the train and escaped.
Irwin Brassfleld, a passenger, of Mul
berry. Ark., received a fatal wound.
Burgess was uninjured and took his
prisoner to Little Rock.
HIGH WIRE RIDER FALLS
Women Faint AVhen Performer
Plunges 35 Feet to Earth.
LOS ANGELES, Cal., Jan. 17. (Special.)
Hundreds of men, women and children
were horrified today when Charles Wll
Hams, 30 years old, fell Jb reel from a
high wire at Chutes Park, on which he
was trying to ride a bicycle.
Williams struck on the edge of the pond
and his body rolled Into the water. He
was rescued and at the receiving hospital
It was found he was suffering from a se
vere concussion of the brain, lacerations
and bruises.
The surgeons give no hope of his re
covery. A number of women fainted when
the man fell.
ONE KILLED IN WRECK
Rock Island Train Runs Into Switch
Engine.
LITTLE ROCK, Ark., Jan. 17. Rock Isl
and passenger train No. 43, from Memphis
to El Reno, Okla., ran Into an open
switch and crashed into a switch engine,
killing the fireman of the switch engine,
J. M. Woods, of Argenta, and partly de
molishing both engines today.
The engineer of the passenger train,
John Morrison, and his fireman, W. D.
Dorasatt. Jumped before the crash. Both
were hurt.
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SHEPHERD LOST IN SNOW
Searching Party Starts Out to Find
W. A. Mitchell.
GRANGEVILLE, Idaho, Jan. 17. (Spe
cial.) A large searching party left White
Bird, Idaho, today, to look for W. A.
Mitchell, a sheeplierder for George Poe,
who was lost during the storm of last
week. Other searching parties have found
no trace of the missing man. Mitchell Is
believed to have lost his footing on a
Bteep hill and rolled into a canyon.
IROQUOIS CLAIMS SETTLED
Chicago Theater to Pay $750 a Case
for 30 Deaths.
CHICAGO, Jan. 17.--It was made pub
lic today that after five years of litiga
tion settlements had been made in the
cases of 30 of the deaths caused by the
Iroquois Theater fire. It is stated that
$750 a case is to be paid.
ShipsMoreThan Whole
of Puget Sound.
STANDS NEXT TO NEW YORK
Beats Every Other Port in
United States.
1908 RECORD IS ENVIABLE
Only Portland and San Francisco
Among Ports of Entire Country
Show Increase of General Ex- ,
ports for Calendar Year.
OREGONIAN NEWS BUREAU, Wash
ington, Jan. 17. According to official
statistics, prepared by De-partmont of
Commerce and Labor, Portland, during
the calendar year of 1!K)S, exported mors
wheat than any other American port,
save New York.
Its total shipments to foreign markets
for the .,year amounted to 13.041!,063
bushels, as against 9,237,437 bushels in
1907.
Exports for the past year of the entire
Pugot Sound district amounted to but
11.917.6S2 bushels.
Last year Portland exported only
685,044 barrels of flour, loss than half
the amount exported in 1K07.
Puget Sound's flour shipments also de
clined from over 2.500,0u0 barrels in 1907
to 1,500,000 barrels last year.
Almost every port In the United States
shows a falling off, both in exports and
imports during the year juwt endod, just
two exceptions being reported by the De
partment of Commerce and Labor.
The port of San Francisco shows an "in
crease In exports from $17,000,000 In 1907,
to $28,000,000 in 1908. but Us Imports fell otT
from JoO.OOO.OOO to ' $41,000,000. Portland
shows a fall of $1,000,000 in imports from a
total of $4,000,000 in 1907, and in increaso
from $12,525,000 to $15,750,000 in exports.
In the Puget Sound district Imports fell
off from $23,000,000 to $20,01X1.000, and its ex
ports from $37,000,000 to $35,000,000. The in
creased exports from tho Pacific Coast
consisted chiefly of wheat and lumber.
The greatest falling off In foreign com
merce -was at the Atlantic ports, the total
decrease being about $500,000,000.
ATLANTIC PORTS ALL LOSE
Bulk of Loss in Foreign Commerce
on Eastern Seaboard.
WASHINGTON. Jan. 17. Of the" ap
proximately' $500,000,000 ""reduction in "the
foreign commerce of the United States in
1908, when compared with that of the
preceding year, nearly $400,000,000 was in
the trade which was accustomed to pass
through Atlantic ports. This is the state
ment made in a report Issued by the
bureau of statistics of the Department of
Commerce and Labor.
The Imports of the AHantic ports in
the calendar year 1907 were $1.107,000,O
while the exports were $1,156,000,000 as
compared with an approximate import
total In 1908 of $SHO,000,000 and an esti
mated export total of $1,050.0110.000.
NDEX OF TODAY'S NEWS
The Weathrr.
YESTERDAY? Maximum temp?ratur, 51
decrees; m nil mum, 7 degrees.
TODAY'S Rain ; cooler In the afternoon;
wind shifting to northwesterly.
Foreign.
Tans Shao YI asked to raise loan to col
onize Manchuria. Fage .
Japanese newspaper addresse editorial ta
Ambassador u wnen ueciarinj Ameri
can affronts will not be much longer
tolerated by Japan. Page 1.
National.
America again to turn over Cuba to own
government. Page 2.
President Roosvplt wants Fine Arts Coun
cil appointment. Page
Iom.cftti'i
Schooner and crew of six men lost off Long
Island shore, page ..
Debris cleared from track at Glen wood; one
man still missing, page ..
Year 1908 set record for mine disasters.
Paw 1.
Rabbi Wise become champion of President
Roosevelt. Page Jl.
Taft praises work of negro Y. M. C. A.
Page 3.
Governor Deneen to take office today; Sen-
atonal fight on in earnest, rage i.
Pacific Northwest.
Seattle man, wife and daughter found deal
in bathtub. Page l.
nauguration ceremonies of President Ho-
man begin. Page 4.
Cosgrove to ask .Senate to recall Mead ap
pointment. Page 4.
Inland Empire fears big flood. Page 5.
fcports.
Jeffrlbj gives exhibition and Is declared fit
as ever. Page 13.
Bill to be submitted to legislature permit
ting limited boxing matches. page 9.
O'Connell matched with Riley, of Tacoma.
Page 2.
Industrial.
Power plant to be erected on Santfam.
Page 12.
Linn County fruit men to organize union.
Page 12.
Klickitat County becoming famous for fruit.
Page 12.
The Dalles new city hall occupied by offi
cials. Page 13.
Portland and Vicinity.
Senator Coffey will Introduce resolution Inl-
Legislature providing for division of
state into new districts. Page 9.
Report of Governor Chamberlain shows fre
use of pardoning power. Page 14.
Four good roads bills are approved by
Grange. Page 14.
State hardware dealers will meet In Port
land tomorrow. Page 1 .
Heavy rain melts snow rapidly, but flood
if not feared. Page 5.
Poultry exhibit is vrell attended. Page 13.
Liquor dealers attend Centenary Methodisl
Church la body. Page 6-
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