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8 TITE MORNING OREGONIAN, TUESDAY, 1909. i a ii - ; . t CURS STOP DURING PRESIDENT'S VISIT Immense Throngs Gather, to Greet Taft in Omaha Dur ing His Stay. RIDES OVER CITY IN AUTO Cheered by Children Waving Flags as He Passes Sohoolhonses At Des Moines, Outlines Work to Be Done by Next Congress. 9MAHA. Neb., Sept. 20.-Presldent Taft. Waving the Insurgent states of Minnesota and Iowa behind him. stopped In Omaha for the afternoon and evening on his way to the Pacific Coast. The President found Omaha In the midst of a streetcar strike. To avoid the possibility of trouble. Mayor Dahl man ordered all attempts to run cars during the President's stay to be dis continued. The strike did not prevent the gathering of a great -crowd In the down town districts and there were times when the President's automobile had dif ficulty in making its way through the cheering throngs. The President was taken for an hour s ride through the streets and parka. He pafsed nearly every school building In Omaha and received a Joyous greeting from the school children, who stood In front of the schools and waved flags and cheered their loudeet. At De Moines today the President de livered the aecond of the Important dec larations of policy he had outlined for hla trip. He addressed himself to the Inter state Commerce and anti-trust laws and detailed at length the recommendations of amendment to statutes that he will make to Congress In his message next December. . At Denver tomorrow night Mr. Taft probably will discuss the conservation of National resources. GOVERNOR JOHNSON IS DEAD (Continued From First Page.) conscious and complained of being un comfortable. He waa conscious almost all night and evidently realized the end was drawing near, although he eald nothing. Mrs. Johnson was with her husband. JOHXSON ROSE BY HIMSELF From Direct Poverty His Nature Led Him Ever I'pward. CHICAGO. Sept. 30. (Special.) Gov ernor Johnson was a forceful representa tive of the best type of American man hood. By sheer force of will, by unflag ging perseverance and by stubborn adher ence to what he believed to.be right, he steadily raised himself from the low es tate in which was born until, at the last, he stood before the people of the Nation as a man of great mental capacity, of strict moral Integrity and with high ideal of civic and political alms and ends. He won and held the love and confi dence of the people of Minnesota because they believed him to be honest and capa ble, and because they believed that public preferment should be based on private worth. That Governor Johnson's public career should have so appealed to the people of the country at laree as to cuse him to be considered, a year ago. an acceptable can didate for the Democratic nomination for the office of President of the United States came about through the sober knowledge that the people had of his public and private life in relation to the State of Minnesota and the country gen erally, rather than from any sudden and inflamed notion based on popular emotion. The fact that Governor Johnson was thrice elected Democratic executive of a state that otherwise was overwhelmingly Republican was owing not to political chance, but to a' reason founded in the h?st thoucht and sentiment of a thinking people. The people of Minnesota knew Johnson ffr what he was. and because of that knowledge they forgot his political party and their own political party and chose him to administer their public af fairs. Servant of People. Governor Johnson's idea of his relation to the people was. In a way. an expres sion of the estimate in which he was held bv the people. When first elected to the office of Governor he said: "I am going to try to be a first-class hired man;" and that notion so fitted in with the popular conception of what a Governor should be that Governor Johnson was measured only by his own rule of conduct. When he' went before the people for a second elec tion hla argument waa: "One good term deserves another;" and the people, think ing that was so. and looking to the record he had made during his first term of of fice, again forgot their party and returned him to the Governor's chair. The history of the Governor's early life doea not form a pleasing picture. He ar rived at his high station through a vale of tears. Poverty was ever at his side, and a hauntmg shadow lay across his path at every step of his Journey. Governor Johnson was born at St. Peter, Minn.. July 38. 1S61. His parentis were Pwedlsh immigrants. His father. Gustav Johnson, was a blacksmith, who had come to America on the charity of friends who hoped that life In a strange land, far re moved from the influences of his native place, would help him to comjuer an early acquired appetite for strong drink. For a time' the young blacksmith' seemed to have reformed. He worked steadily at hla trade, married a Swedish girl, who had made her home at St. Peter, and began to rear a family of children. Mother Ift In Poverty. But the thlnt for alcohol reasserted It self, and the father drifted from bad to woTse until he left home and was finally Bfr.t to the county poorhous?. a mental and physical wreck. The wife and young children, of whom John Johnson was one, were left penniless, and the mother took 1n washing to support herself and little ones. This elate of grinding penury lasted until John Johnson was 13 years old. Then, with his firrt independent thought young Jo.hnson tccriflceU the little school ing his mother was able to give him and Insisted on taking employment In a printing shop. He gave every cent of his earnings to his molher. but still she had to work and scrub for other people. The Johnson boy read and studied at night, and tried bravely to fit himself for a better position. And after a while he waa given employment In a drugstore at St. Peter. He worked steadily, studying all the time, and firally he waa earning JT5 a month. Then he Insisted that his mother give up her life of drudgery. The self-education to which young John son had subjected himself enabled him to become a licensed pharmacist, and (hen he obtained a place on th staff of the Bt. Pet?r Herald. By close economy he saved a little money, and with this he procured for. htmself an interest in the newspaper arid became its editor. W ins Respect of All. AH this self-denying effort, covering all the years of his youth and early man hood, had won for Mr. Johnson the high regard of his neighbors, who knew the terrible odds that he had overcome and respected him for his honest and suc cessful struggle. The editorship of a newspaper led Mr. Johnson Into the field of politics, and his neighbors expressed their faith In him by electing him to the State Senate of Min nesota. There for the first time he had an opportunity to prove to the people of the whole state, and to his neighbors In particular, that he was a man worthy of their trust. ' In 1904. when Mr. Johnson was first named for the Governorship by the Democrats. It was thought that he did not have the ghost of a chance of being elected. It wtis true mat me wpuDiicau . party was split in the state, but then Theodore Roosevelt was the Republican . nominee for President, and a Republican. , .... .-J X InhnUMI landslide was expecuru. jh. made a house-to-house canvass during the campaign, and the people rose to him. Roosevelt carried the state by some thing like 12.000 plurality, but when it was all over It was found that Jotinson had been elected Governor by a safe plurality of 6SS2. And In 156 he was re elected by 72.618 plurality, although every other state office elected was a Republi can. And It happned again In W8. Presi dent Taft carried the state by S6.3a3 plurality, but Johnson (Dem.) was elected by 28.002 plurality. Leaves Two Children. On June 1. ISSN. Johnson married Elenore Preston, a young woman who had Jupt graduated from a convent and waa teaching art In a private school at St Peter. Two children were born to them. Mrs. Johnson is a Catholic and Governor Johnson waa a Presbyterian. In matters of publio policy Governor Johnson favored a state income tax and a state Inheritance tax and he Inclined toward municipal ownership of public utilities. He favored the Idea of an Ini tiative and referendum and an employ ers' liability law. He stood for the Gov ernmental control of railroads. 10 TIE FARM CENSUS CROP REPORTERS WILL WORK OS RURAL STATISTICS. Ranchers and Experts Will Gather Data on Agriculture, Begin ning April 15. WASHINGTON. Sept. 20. Forty-five thousand enumerators out of the esti mated grand total of 65.000 will be en gaged April 15 next in gathering the required Information concerning agri culture for the 13th decennial United States census. Director Durand pur poses making every effort to secure progressive farmers and crop report ers for these places. His action is based upon the recommendations of Chief Statistician LeGrand Powers and the advisory board of special agents composed of protessors of economics and farm experts who have been as sisting in the formulation of the schedule of Inquiries concerning farm operations and equipment. By means of the 'census schedule an effort will be made to secure an ac curate statement of the total number of acres of land in the farms of the country, by states and counties; also the improved area, number, and size of farms. On account of the growing im portance of tenancy in many parts of the country, considerable information will be secured as to whether farms are operated by owners, tenants or hired managers. Information about the value of farm, buildings, and other permanent Improvements, and of the farm equipment, both machinery, im plements and livestock, will be se cured. The inquiries concerning livestock and their stock products, also Include cattle, work animals, sheep and goats, swine, poultry and bees. The facts as to the number and value of livestock at the time of the enumeration are to be secured in some detail, taking Into consideration ages, sex and use of ani mals. Furthermore, data will be se cured relating to the number and value of each species of animal raised, pur chased and sold; and the quantity and value of animal products, Buch as milk, cream, butter and cheese, wool, eggs, honey and wax. There will be but one schedule for agriculture. There may be a small schedule for the enumeration of ani mals in cities. Tuis will be carried by the city enumerators and It wil cover horses, milch cows, chickens. etc. housed in barns, stables, etc., in the cities. No attempt will be made to get the area of city gardens or vacant lot cultivation. TO REMOVE FULTON'S BODY Magnificent Mausoleum Will Be Pre pared for Last Resting Place. NEW YORK, Sept. 20. The surviving grandchildren of Robert Fulton, in a letter addressed to Cornelius Vander bllt. president of the Fulton Monument Association, sanctioned today the re moval of Fulton's body from a vault in Trinity Church to a mausoleum and me morial to be built In Riverside Drive. The movement for the Fulton memor ial has been under way for some time and $40,000 has been subscribed to de fray the cost of preliminary work. In all it is proposed to expend $3,000,000 on the structure. Samuel L. Clemens (Mark Twain) is vice-president of the association, while others identified with the movement in clude James J. Hill, J. D. Archbold. Ja cob Schlff and E. H. Gary. STRIKEBREAKERS COME IN No Disorders Reported In Trouble at Omaha. OMAHA. Sept. 30. Nonunion conduc tors and motormen to the number of 125 arrived today from Chicago. No special effort was made to resume car service today. There have been no disorders. Marriage Licenses. YOl'NQ-PEOPPElS Martin Young. 48. St. John: Minnie Poppel. 4S, city. JAOOBS-WKSTERM AX Samuel Jacobs, 26. cltv: Bessie Weaterman, 22, city. L.E-EZER-BATSTONE R. X. Leezer. over 21 citv: Klorenre Batstotie. over Is. city. FARLEY-HARRIS John A. Farley. 25. cltv; Anno. I. Harris. 21. city. kCZMAR'K - WAGNER Joseph T. Kacimarck. over 21. city; Mary E. Wag ner, over 1R. city. FOSTER-COFFEE Charles Henry Fos ter. . 3A city; Lois Alice Coffee, over 18. city. HEXRICKSON-CARLSON' Ernest Hn rlckson. 28, city; Esther Carlson. 24. city. Wedding and visiting cards. W. O. Smith & Co.. Washington blrlg.. 4th and Wash. Wild horses are found roaming In bands on the plains of New Mexico. Arizona mod Nflvtrti. Of 50 horses captured by rangers In the Modoc National forest, about half proved to be branded stock which had grown wild, the others being horses that aad never known the ownership of r" GUVIS WILL TELL WHAT HE KNOWS Deposed Official is Preparing Statement on Alaska, Coal Scandal. SENDS PRESIDENT LETTER Insists His Duty to Country Demands That He Make Public AH Facts Regarding Investigation Now in Hts Possession. SEATTLE. Wash., Sept. 20. (Special.) Louis R. Glavls. deposed chief of the Seattle field division. United States Land Office, is domiciled at the Lincoln Hote? in this city engaged in the preparation of a voluminous document dealing with the Cunningham coal land entries, the case now pending before the department, and which was. the direct cause of his official decapitation. Just whether Glavis Is going to give his literary effort to the public In the form of a commulcatlon to some news paper or sell It to a publication he has not stated. After making publio hla letter to President Taft. Glavls said: "I have said the last word In this matter until my own official statement is ready for publication. My letter to President Taft is self-explanatory. My reason for making public the letter ia because the President maJe public his letter in which he attacked my Judgment and intelligence and the propriety of my conduct as a Government employe. I am confident of the soundness of my" posi tion, and that I will be able to so. con vince the people of this country I have no doubt. Just when the statement I am to prepare will be made public I cannot say. but I believe it will be within a few days." ... Mr. Glavls" letter to President Taft follows: ' "Thf President Sir: I have laid before you fll the essential facts In my pos session regarding the official conduct of certain cases by the Department of the" Interior concerning coal lands in Aio.tr. Am chief of the field division directly concerned, and because of the tremendous values invoivea, i ten. mj personal responsibility most keenly. Th- avirinnr-e Indicated that a great syndicate Is trying to secure a monop oly of this coal, in direct vioiauun vi the law. "Ultimately. I felt myself obliged to appeal to you, over the heads of my superior officers, in order to bring .. - . . . In... about the emorcemem oi ms which in a measure would conserve these coal lands to the people at large. 'I deemed It my duty to submit the facts to you, and I cannot regret my ac tion. "Since there may be now even greater danger that the title to these coal lands will be fraudulently secured by the syndi cate. It is no lees my duty to my country to make public the facta in my possession, concerning which I firmly believe that you have been misled. This I shall do in the near future, with a full sense of the seriousness of my action and with deep and abiding respect for your great office." TAFT REMHBOOPS SOLDIERS COMPETING FOR PRIZES IN DRILL WORK. Cavalry, Infantry and Artillery Take Part In Maneuvers Feats in Horsemanship Seen. DES MOIXES, la., Sept. 20. With a review of 5200 soldiers from all over the Middle West by President Taft here to day the greatest army maneuvers and tournament in the history of the coun try began. 4 Brigadier-General Charles E. Morton, commanding the department of the Missouri, stationed at Fort Omaha, is in command of the operations. Cavalry, infantry, and artillery took part In the tournament. Many valuable prizes are offered for the best tactics, feats of horsemanship and evolutions. The Third Battalion, Sixteenth Infantry, captured first prize for wall scaling. A record of 27 seconds was made. Private Craft, of the Seventh Cavalry, won the Roman standing race In 30 H seconds. John Wilson, 8-year-old son of C. W. Wilson, of Winterset, was severely In jured by a piece of bridge timber that was blown up during the maneuvers conducted by the Third Battalllon of Engineers. Captain King's horse troop of the Second Cavalry carried off the prize for horsemanship. 300 LIVES BELIEVED LOST Vessel Reported Burned and Blown Up in Orient. MANILA. Sept. 20. The British steamer Harlow, Captain Bruce, from Newport News June 14 for Port Natal and Manila, reports that on July 27, while -180 miles from Durban, she passed a steamer on fire. The vessel, whose nationality It waa Impossible to make ouf, Nvas shortly afterwards destroyed by an explosion. It is supposed this steamer is the miss ing British steamer Waratah, which, with 300 passengers on board, has not been heard from since July 26. FLYING CARNIVAL CLOSES Calderara Fails in Attempt to Lower Curtiss' Record. BRESCIA. Italy. Sept. 20. The flying carnival closed today with a new height record for this, meeting. Rou gier reached an altitude of 198 V4 me ters (about 650 feet). Lieutenant Calderara. after wreck- AND CALLING Ar. W.G.SMITH El CO UK3H MSTON BUXTV WASHINGTON. lng his aeroplane, broke out a reserve chain and attempted to lower Curtiss" time, but he succeeded in covering the distance only In 50 minutes 50 3-5 seconds. FIREBUGS RAZE SCHOOLS Two Buildings and Church Destroyed at Viola, Idaho. SPOKANE. Wash., Sept. 20. (Spe cial.) Just a week to the hour after two schoolhouses at Viola, Idaho, six miles from Palouse, Wash., were de stroyed by fire, the Christian Church was discovered in flames at midnight last night, and before help came the structure was. in ruins, the work of in cendiaries. The churchj had been fitted .up for school purposes,- and following a dis pute over the hiring of a teaoher in the district firebugs have set about to raze every building set aside for a schoolhouse. The fire a week ago. In addition to destroying the schoolhouses, burned an old hall and cremated three horses, the presumption being that the hall. If left, might be used 'as a. school. Harry Draper's bloodhounds, of Spo kane, reached Palouse this afternoon and traced the horse used by the in cendiary, followed by all available armed men In the countryside. Ranch ers are contributing freely to a fund to arrest the firebugs. NEW MOVE EXCITES BURNS Surveying Crews Outfitted After Visit of John F. Stevens.. BURNS, Or., Sept. 20. (Special. )-Great excitement has been created here by an order which was placed Saturday with a local hardware firm for camp stoves and outfits for 20 men and requests for singu lar equipments for five more camps. The order was placed by County Sur veyor Faulkner, who refuses to disclose the forces behind the movement. He came in from Ontario last week 'with Colonel Wood, of Portland, and William Hanley, who assisted some days ago in organizing a branch company of the Coos Bay & Boise project, and many are as sociating his order with these men, but Wood and Hanley are out of the city and cannot be reached. It is also thought possible the parties may represent John F. Stevens, as they were in conference with him last week. Harry Hunter, of Lake View, permanent ly connected with a road grant company and accredited with intimacy with Mr. Stevens, insists that it all means the beginning of the end of Harney County railroad Isolation. PEKIN CLAIMS EDUCATOR Chicago Professor Called to Orient for Imperial University. CHICAGO, Sept. 20. Dr. Oskar Eck stein, assistant -in chemistry at the Uni versity of Chicago, has been called to the scientific department of the Imperial Uni versity of Pekln, China. News of the appointment was received here today from Dr. Eckstein, who Is In Seattle. LODGE IS GROWING Oddfellows Make Good Report at Seattle. KUYKENDALL. GRAND SIRE Wyoming Man Is Chosen Head of Grand Lodge, and John B. Cock rum, of Indianapolis, Is Chosen Deputy Grand Sire. CATTLH, Sept. 20. The Sovereign Grand Lodge of the Independent Order of Oddfellows of the United States and Canada, after being welcomed to the state and city at a public meeting in the Moore Theater, adjourned to Oddfellows Temple and began its sessions, to which only members having the Grand Lodge deeree were admitted. The annual report of Aeting Grand Sire W. L. Kuydendall showed the member ship of the order throughout the world at the close of 1908 to be as follows: Subordinate membership, 1.492,478; en campment membership 216,225; Rebekah Lodge membership, 603,981; Patriarchs Militant membership, 22.136; total mem bership, including subordinate lodge members and sisters only of Rebekah Lodges, 1,888,376. The total net increase for the year throughout the world was 93,476. The total revenue for the year was $16,370,937. The expenditures for relief were I5.500.S26. The total invested funds of the order were 146,211,869. The grand sire recommended the adop tion of legislation that will prevent members from engaging in the creation and fostering either of any society which bases its membership wholly or mainly on any branch of their order. This leg islation Is desired to prevent formation of other women's organizations than the Rebekah branch. In the statistics of membership the quaBi-independent grand lodges of Aus tralasia, Denmark, Germany, Sweden and Switzerland are Included. They have no delegates in the present meeting. Acting Grand Sire Kuydendall waa elected deputy grand sire at the Denver Boverneign Grand Lodge last September, and became acting head of the order upon the death of Grand Sire John I. Nolen. At today's session W. L. Kuydendall, of Wyoming, was chosen grand sire, and John B. Cockrum, of Indianapolis, Ind., was elected deputy grand sire. Other candidates for the office of grand sire were C. A. Keller, of Texas; Hill Mon tague, of Virginia, and J. S. Hoagland, of Nebraska. Tonight's events were a meeting of the Grand Secretaries Association, a banquet to the visitors by the local Rebekah com mittee, and a degree contest by tne Pa triarchs Militant. The linen industry in Ireland employs 70.000 persons. m ii ml ii M Kottem Wiromg Of course, there are two sides to. the question. There always are. Here is the big, smooth, silent, powerful service corporation. If it could speak and would permit an interview it would probably say : "I'm not in politics. I'm in business. Politicians sometimes try to raid me and I prevent it, but I take no hand in what is going on except when it concerns my business. I have to protect my stockholders; my duty is to them, and, moreover, I am run by men whose private lives are above re proach. I am not responsible for these things you complain ,of. Evil has always existed and always will." And against that stands the little 98-pound Judge JUDGE BEN B. LXNDSEY, of Denver, Colorado, and he says in substance to the service corporation: "You are the boss. Nobody asked you to take charge of things, but you dictate the candidates for both parties for the same office at the same elec tion. Your brains have made crime scientific. Your ability to organize has made it more profitable. You have grabbed the state; and to protect what you have grabbed you find it necessary to corrupt all who stand in your vvay from the Judge to the Sheriff's Deputy. Don't tell us that you are not responsible. You run the state and the state isn't running right. In fact, it's running very rotten wrong. Run it better, or get out. It's your mess; you've got to stand for it." When you open Judge Lindsey's "BEAST AND THE JUNGLE" in the October EVERYBODY'S MAGAZINE you will begin to read the most amazingly concrete revelation of cussedness political and municipal that has ever been told by a man whs knew what he - was talking about. The application is for every city in the United States big enough to know the meaning of the word "graft." And politics aside, it is a story that will carry you right off your feet. Unless all signs fail there won't be any too many copies of EVERY BODY'S MAGAZINE in sight after the first rush, and you are respect fully urged to get yours now. 15 cents a copy. $1-50 a year. Published by THE RIDGWAY COMPANY, Union Square, New York City. The Danger Mark MERCHANDISE OF MERIT ONLY EVERYTHING NEW FOR , TOMORROW Tomorrow morning all departments - in the Lipman-Wolfe establishment will be dressed in Fall, raiment introducing to you the newest of new Autumn goods. We have made more extensive and more comprehensive preparations than ever before. The crisp, bright newness of Autumn mer chandise makes the Lipman-Wolfe store radi ate with interest in every section. Particularly attractive will be our exhibits of new Suits, Millinery, Dress Goods, Silks, Laces, Infants' Apparel, Junior Suits and Neckwear. Not for many seasons have the styles been so generally acceptable. Our displays this week are representative and may be safely considered as correctly presenting the authentic styles for Fall and Winter. Welcome. CANADA FARMERS EXHIBIT Alberta Plans to Make Showing at Dry Fanning Congress. BILLINGS, Mont., Sept 20.-Wlth the announcement that Lethbrldge. Alberta, will send a special car of delegates to the fourth Dry Farming Congress comes the request from J. W. McNichoI, secretary of the Lethbrldge Board of Trade, for the limit of apace in the Exposition hall. Sec retary McNichoI will arrive at Billings, October 21, four days before the opening of the International Dry Farming Exposi tion, and will personally attend to ln etalling the exhibit from his district. It 1 1 Robert W. .Chambers Is, said there will be about a carload of dry farm products In the Lethbrldge ex hibit and 200 feet of space will be set aside for the display. Alberta officials and agriculturists re port that the Interest in the Canadian Northwest in the forthcoming session ex ceeds that In any preceding agricultural -convention. Several hundred Canadian farmers have joined the Congress during the Summer, and the officials of this or ganization In Alberta declare that their province will have one of the largest del egations at the Billings meeting. Their exhibit is said to give promiae of being one of the finest ever sent out of tha province. The Canadians are, coming to Billtnga to capture a number of the premiums.
