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TITE MORNING OREGONIAN, TUESDAY,
1909.
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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
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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. ,
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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.
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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.
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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.