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THE ...MORXISG OREGONIAN, : SATURDAY, OCTOBER 23, 1909. U ....... - TflFTWQULD BOND : FOR WATERWAY'S Time to Erjd Procession by . Jerks, Which Has Been Congress'-Method. AID TO CONTROL RAILROADS President Would Kef-p Roads la Bounds, but Encourage Them to Extend and Develop Land by a Square Deal. CORPUS CHRISTI. Tex.. Oct. 22-An-nouncing himself as an advocate of deep --waterways, when siich projects can be shown to be practicable, and declaring tha piecemeal "procession by Jerks" pol icy of Congress in the past with refer ence to such Improvement should be re placed with a definite plan. President Taft caused much enthusiasm at the In terstate Inland Waterways Leagma here today. . . . The President said that In addition to extending commerce the deepening of In land waterway wouid serve to control railroad rates. M-anwhlle, he urged the .amendment of the interstate commerce laws to make their provisions more ef fective. Opposes Itadlcal Railroad Laws. Mr. Taft added, however, he did not favor radil leRislatlon. that his purpose merely was to kri'P railroad 'companies within bounds. lie said the railroads should be encouraged. In some localities, he said, there was a deposition to do in justice to the railroads and to drive them to a system of economy which prevents the development of the country through which thf-y pass. The President said citizens would go to any extent to get a railroad to come into the country, but not a friend of the railroad could be found anywhere except perhaps the local counsel. The President urged a "square deal" for the railroads, that they might not be deprived of reasonable profit through poyular prejudice. System In River Improvement. Charging that the halting and sporadic system of river anil harbor improvements in the past was the work of the com mittees in Congress which had responded to clamor from home and to party con siderations, the President said the time had come for a change In this system. A nine-foot Intcr-coastal canal was one of the projects to which the President referred as part of a definite system of waterways Improvement. Before any project is entered upon, the President declared. It should 1 thorough ly considered by a board of engineers as to Its feasibility. Once the improvement Is declared desirable and the communities Xwhlch It la to serve can convince Congress that their growth has been such as to Justify the expenditure o a large sum of money to take care of increasing trade, bonds should be Issued so that the im provement might be begun at once. The President said he could see ho dif ference between improving inland water ways and digging the Panama Canal., Bach project should be separately consid ered to determine whether or not it la worth doing, he eaid. Conservation Laws He Asks. The President, after giving credit in his address to Theodore Roosevelt for frlving the first Impulse to conservation of natural resources, said: "Of the Government forests we have put about TO per cent In forest reserva tions under control, so that we shall not suffer from forest fires or the denudation by private persons. We have not taken the steps that ought to be taken, but the states doubtless will follow the anodel plan of the General Government to pre serve the private-owned forests from fire and from that sort of treatment which shall make the country a waste. "We have not yet adopted the laws, but I hope to recommend them to Con gress, by -which the Government shall retain some control over the use of coal lands still owned by the Government and Kill to be put under private use; by which the water-power sites shall be segregated from other parts of the public domain and parted. with only under sucn conditions as shall enable the Govern ment to secure a proper revenue there from, and to rulute the rates of power charged by those who shall take posses sion of those sites and transfer the waterpowef Into electricity; by which the Government shall retain the pliospnate lands containing immeasurable wealth in respect to fertilizing the soil of the West. Xo More Piecemeal Work. "The most Important topic of this con vention, because it Is the Immediate sub ject of consideration, is the preservation of our waterways. We have invested mil lions of dollars in our waterways, and we have done xcellent work, when the work was specified. In helping to (make out' rivers more navigable: but the trouble with the -work has been that it has been done, largely piecemeal. "I have confidence In the conservatism of the people and Congress that they will not adopt every enterprise haphazard and go into business on the theory that it does not cost anything because we can issue bonds to pay for It. but I believe they will go to work with conservatism, that they will calculate the question whether now Is the time to do the work or whether the country ought to develop 'more before making such an expendi ture." Mr. Taft arrived here at 11 A. M. and was taken to a grandstand placed at the foot of a natucal terrace, where the dele gates to the waterways convention and the general public had gathered. Dedicates Golf Links. When he had finished his speech he went out to the Corpus Christ! Golf and Country Club and dedicated the new links by driving a ball from the first tee. The club presented him with a bag of nine splendid golf sticks as a souvenir of the occasion. ' The President and several members of his party dined at the home of Mrs. H. M. King, who owns more land than any other woman In the United States. Her ranch here comprises 1. 300.000 acres. The President returned to Gregory at 3 o'clock this afternoon and left there at 8:30 for Houston and Dallas. CONDENSED NEWS BY WIRE Detroit A S2S.OOO endowment fund was completed Friday by the Woman's National Missionary Association of the Lnlversalist Church. Youngatown. O Six of the 15 county offV rsra and a salesman Indicted by the special grand Jury for offering and accepting a bribe Save pleaded guilty. Simla B. I Twelve persons were .killed In recent earthquake shocks at Sellout a small town on the Quetta Railroad. In the central part of Belurhlstan. Pan Diego. Cal. F. E. Hawman. wanted In Pueblo. Colo, for embezzlement from the Redmen's Lodge, is under arrest here pending- the arrival of a Colorado officer. Hartshorns. Okla. Of 13 mn who wsra entombed In the Rock Island Coal Company s mine No. 10. at the time the explosion oc curred here Thursday, all but one are dead. Copenhagen The cabinet of which Count Holstein-Ledrebord was premier, resisnea FrW following a vote In the Chamber oz Deputies rxprrulng want of confidence in tb government. Washington American capitalists have, been granted conoeions in Turkey for 1-4.J m!i of railroad through Armenia for an electric line at Patla. Greece, and lor a new railroad In Honduras. San Francisco Gerald Mann, a telephone lineman, seized a live wire Friday, was in stantly killed and slid to the foot of a pole before the horrified gaze of thousands or Portola. sightseers. Huntington. V. Va Charged with the murder of Thomas H. Patton. a rival in love, of Hendricks. Ky.. 'Ji sears apo. Alex Me Far:and was arrested Thursday to be re turned to Kentucky for trial. New York The will of Mrs. Mary "S. Rob inson, the writer of children's stories, vha committed suicide, leaves 20 000 for the suuport of "disabled persons of Rood char acter who do not attend theatrical perform ances." Philadelphia flix residents of tkis city, each named John C.eorge Relst. went to the office of Kenry Mulier Thursday, and ea tl man made affidavit - that the Peter R- st. who died In tiermar.y. "o years ago. after having accumulated I.W.0O0. was his father. New York An organization to be known as' the Character D-lopmfnt League, and which proposes moral education of school children outside the church and Irrespective of their rrtjgioua affiliations. Is being financed t.y James Terry White, a retired publisher of this city. Leesvllle. Va. A short time ago a party of voung people of this city went on an old fashioned piwum hunt, capturing several of the animals. Some time during the same night aome one placed a 'possum In the package department of the postofflce and adrirossed It to president Taft. It was found next morning by the postmaster after the animal had chewed up and destroyed all the mall in the buy. gooosIrTscorgheo WALLA WALLA FIRE DOES $25,000 DAMAGE. Oddfellows" Temple Is Threatened With Destruction When Fire Chief and Men Reach Scene. WALLA WALLA. Wash.. Oct. 22. Op"clal.) For a time this evening It looked as If the I. O. O. F. Temple and Trinity Lodge I. O. O. F. building, two of the largest business blocks in the cltv. would be destroyed by fire when the Trlnitv Idge building was damaged to the extent of JSono and the SJ0O.(K stock of the Davis Kaser department store suf fered a $.009 loss. Damages are covered by insurance. Origin of the blaze Is not known, but when first discovered was burning fierce ly In the shipping and packing depart ments in the rear. When the firemen ar rived the flames were fast eating their way Into the elaborate banquet hall of the Temple. Fire Chief William Metz had his men fighting the flames from the Inside and announced tonight he will hereafter fight fires in this manner. ANGRY THIEF BURNS HOUSE Disgusted Because He Obtains Little " Plunder, He Applies Torch. MOSCOW. Idaho. Oot. 22. (Special.) Angered because when he robbed the residence of Mrs. Olive M. Jolly, one mile east of Deary, this county, and obtaining nothing but a saw for which he could get any money. John Davenport set the house on fire, walked into Deary and sold the saw for SI. This in substance was the statement In the Probate Court today when Daven port pleaded guilty to a charge of arson. Mrs. Olive M. Jolly, a lady barber and crass widow of Deary, the owner of a Quarter section of timber in the White Pine district through which the Wash ington. Idaho and Montana Railroad passed, was absent from home when John Davenport, who claims, to be a grandson of the founder of Davenport, Iowa, from where he recently came to Bovlll. In search of work, entered, and not finding what be expected, fired the house which contained household goods on which there was no insurance. Davenport gave his age as 3H, and his occupation as a laborer. He was ar rested by Deputy Sheriff Brown and will be sentenced to the penitentiary when court convenes next month. N. P. MAY USE NORTH BANK Engines Pot In Readiness to Handle Passenger Traffic. VANCOUVER. Wash.. Oct. 22. (Spe cial.) The master mechanic of the Spo kane, Portland & Seattle Railroad Com pany, of Vancouver, has received orders to get the ten passenger engines of the road ready for handling the Northern Pacific passenger equipment. To do this he will have to have the en gines piped so that steam can be carried to the baggage cars to operate dynamos, which furnish light In the trains. The North Bank road trains are equipped with gas. but the Northern Pacific uses electricity. When the engines are equipped to han dle the Northern Pacific equipment and trains. It is expected that orders will be received to handle the equipment over the bridge across the Columbia River. Into Portland from Vancouver. CAR THEFT CASES REVIVED Ely and Edwards Are Rearrested for Larceny at Pendleton. PENDLETON. Or.. Oct. 22. (Special.) Frank J. Ely and William Edwards have been rearrested and were ar raigned this afternoon in the Circuit Court In connection with the wholesale j thefts committed last February from the local O. R. & N. freight depot. These men. together with Charles Dickens, were, arrested at that time, but the charge against them was dis missed by the Justice qf the Peace. Later thev were Indicted by the grand Jury, hut Ely had disappeared. He was finally located in Seattle, and was brought back today by a Deputy Sher iff. Dickens made a confession. In which he Implicated the others. Ely was transcontinental freiRht inspector, and the others were warehouse employes. FIRST DEGREE NOT SOUGHT State Does Not Ask Change of Venue for Woman'. TACOMA, Oct. 22. In the case of Mrs. Kvalshaug. chared Jointly with Charles Newcombe in the murder of her husband, the state' will not ask for a change of venue, from Judge Easterly, as was the case with Newcombe, be cause the Judge Is opposed to capital punishment. The action is taken to Indicate that the state will not seek a verdict of murder in the first degree, with penalty of hanging. In tl.e woman's case. k Inland Shipper Complains. SALEM. Or.. Oct. 22. (Special.) Bert Lemon, a merchant at Mohawk, on the Wendllng branch of the O. R. & N., has complained to the State Railroad Com mission regarding alleged delay In the delivery of freight shipments along the branch. COLONIES NOT FIT FOR GOVERNMENT American Dependencies Which Speak Foreign Tongue In capable of Self Rule. , PORTO RICAN CASE PROVES General Davis Says Outside Territory Must Eventually Have Part in" Federal Affairs, but the Time Is Not Ripe. ' MO HONK LAKE, N. T., Oct. 22. "Porto Rico," "Hawaii" and the "Mo honk platform" were themes under re view today at the Mohonk conference. The speakers at the morning session who discussed the present and future of Porto Rico were Major-General George W. Davis, U. S. A., formerly Governor of Porto Rico and later Gov ernor of the Panama Canal Zone; Regis H. Post, ex-Governor of Porto Rico; William F. Wllloughby. ex-president ot the executive council; Charles Furtxel, formerly Secretary of State, and Caye tano Colly Cuchl, of San Juan, member of the Porto Rican House of Delegates. General Davis declared that the present system by which the United States ruled the Islands under the "or ganic act." was far more favorable to Porto Rico than the so-called SpanlBh self-government. Must Prove Fitness. Territorial government, he said, nec essarily was withheld, because it was desirable that the Porto Rlrans should prove their fitness for self-government. "Citizens of the United States." said General Davis, "cannot reasonably and consistently be denied ultimate partici pation in Federal affairs, but to the citizens of Porto Rico, all of a foreign race and foreign tongue, there could and should be such denial until It is shown by experience that they are fit ted for participation. It seems evident such was the intention of Congress, and recent events have shown that there was justification." Platform Is Adopted. Dr. Lyman Abbott presented the plat form, which was adopted on motion of Vice-President Sherman. The platform says in part: We affirm ceitain fundamental prin ciples, which the Nation's failures and successes In the Indian Service have Il lustrated and enforced. The duty of the American people to establish liberty and Justice is the same toward all its non citizen subjects. Keeping this end ever In mind. It is the duty.of the Nation to give to all un der its authority adequate protection of person and property, whether personal or communal; government by law, not by the will of a personal ruler, military or civil; courts of law accessible to the poor est and humblest; processes of law prompt, economical and equal in their op erations; taxes no heavier than the ex penses of their government, economically administered, require; sanitary provisions for the prevention of disease; schools that shall furnish industrial and moral as well as academic Instruction, and the insplra Hon of a re!igion founded, not on fear, but on the love of God. Indian's Rights Denied. This means to the great North Ameri can Indian the abolition of the tribal re lations, in which the fundamental rights of the Individual are denied; the substitu tion of personal for tribal property, the recognition of the Indian's right to travel freely and peaceably and to buy and sell in the open -market, and his ultimate admission to American citizenship. It means for the Filipino opening to him the American market, as it has been opened to the Hawaiian and PoTto Rican. Finally. It means securing well-paid agents of unquestionable integrity and proved capacity to represent the Nation in its work for the betterment of these people. It does not necessarily mean either eventual statehood or eventual in dependence for our island possessions. It may. mean self-government under .Ameri can" protection and subject to American sovereignty. HENRY A. CLEEK PASSES Wealthy " Albany Resident Dead, -' ' Aged 1 6 Years. ALBANY. Or.. Oct. 23. (-Special.) Henry A. Cleek. one of the best-known men in Linn County, died at 1:30 o'clock this afternoon at his home In this city at the. age of 78 years. He had been ill for several months. Mr. Cleek was bom in Sullivan County, Tenn.. October 28, 1833, and was raised on a farm .In that state. In 1S37 he crossed the pla'ins to California, but later re turned by way of Panama to his native state. He came to Oregon In 1S61, cross ing the plains for a second time. He located in Benton County, where he lived for 14 yeans. He then went to Oook County and engaged in cattlo-ralslng on a big scale, having a farm of 3000 acres on Willow - Creek. He lived in Crook County for 28 years and became one of the best-known stockmen in Eastern Ore gon. Mr. Cleek amassed a fortune in cattle raising and retired from business in 1900. Hrt had since made his home in this city. Since coming to Albany he had sold his Crook County holdings", but still owned a 1300-acre farm near Plainview, Linn County. He Is survived by his widow and five children: Isom Cleek, of Prineville, Or.; Mrs. Varian Smith, wife of C. Sam Smith. ex-Sheriff of Crook County; Hugh Cleek. of - Plainview, - Linn County; Charles C. TJleek, of Albany, and Mrs. Chester Stevenson, of North Yakima, Wash. DEPOT IS AGAIN LOOTED Burglars Make ' Second Raid at Brownsville. HARRISBURG, Or., Oct. 22. (Spe cial.) The Southern Pacific depot here was entered last night by burglars and practically all the freight and express packages In the building opened. The money drawer was broken into, .but no money was secured. A checking up Is being made to ascertain what goods were stolen. This Is the second time the depot has been robbed this month, several hundred dollars' worth of goods having been taken in the former raid. Washougal Improves Sidewalks. VANCOUVER, Wash., Oct. 22. (Spe cial.) At the last meeting of the Town Council of Washougal, it wss decided o build 2700 feet of cement sidewalk. WHICH IS WHICH? Schumann-Heink or Victrola YOU cannot tell the dif ference between Schumann-Heink singing on the stage and through the Vic trola in your home. She sings "The Rosary" and "Stille Nacht," her most famous songs, at our Victor concerts ev ery day. You are invited to come in and hear the Victrola 's repro duction of her singing. The Victrola is the new horn less type of Victor Talking Ma chine. It has an amplyfying sounding-board with quadrupled surface instead of a horn. This gives the tone a mellow, natural quality not to be told from life itself. Frice of Victrola, $125. Easy terms if desired. SlieraariJaj? &Lo. Sixth and Morrison. Opposite Postofflce. Store Open This Evening. Wholesale and Retail Victor Machines, Records and Supplies THEY NEED TRADES Federation Would Give Young Vocation Schools. - CALL ON STATES TO ACT Industrial Education at ?ight for Young Workers Girls' Lack of Technical Training Cause of So Many Divorces. . WASHINGTON, Oct. 22. Night schools for the education of the children of the poor along industrial lines, in addition to schools for the similar training of day students, probably will be asked by the American Federation of Labor, whose cAmmittee on industrial education is in session here. Advocates Of vocation schools are striv ing to have such an institution engrafted on the state public school systems. Labor leaders tonight appeared to be getting together to insist that the day instruction be made supplemental to the schools that will be kept open at night for Juvenile workers. Want Xight Vocation Schools. None of the committee members would prophesy the nature of their recommen dation, but nearly all favor the system of night vocation schools to be maintained at public expense throughout the country. The decision will not be made public until- the next convention of the Ameri can Federation of Labor at Toronto, No vember 8. John Mitchell, vice-president of the Fed eration, Is chairman of the committee. President Gompers, who investigated the question on his trip abroad, occupied a seat in the meeting near the chairman. Representative W. B. Wilson, of Penn sylvania, known as the "miner states man," and a member of the committee, declared for technical training as a part of the public school system. Ignorance Causes Pivorce. , The fearful revelaOons made daily In the divorce courts of the country. Indi cating' that domestic infelicity is directly due to the lack of technical training among girls, was declared by Miss Ella M. Haas, from the department of In spection of Workshops and Factories In Ohio, to be one of the most powerful ar guments for Industrial education. The committee will continue It session tomorrow and thereafter will begin com piling Its report. - ALIEN CLIMATE TOO MUCH Finn Will Be Deported Because He Can't Stand Grays Harbor. ABERDEEN. Wash.. Oct. 22. (Spe cial.) Far from the fatherland, after suffering for months with a disease which he deelaros is caused by the climate, penniless and a county charge, John Kauppenin, a native of Finland and barely more than 21 years of age, will be deported at his own request to Finland, in the hope that amid fkmiliar scenes, attended by relatives and former associates, and in the atmos phere of his northern tableland, he will regain his former health. Kauppenin came to Aberdeen direct from Finland, but soon after going to work contracted a cold which merged Into acute rheumatism, and since his first Illness he has been unable to earn his own living. It is expected the county will pay his way to New York and that from there the trip will be paid by the Government. . i Class to Wipe Out Debt. UNIVERSITY OF OREGON, BugenS, Oct. 22. (Special.) by levying, a special tax of $2.50 on each of the 88 members of the class, the senior class at the univer Schumann-Heink Says: "I consider the Victor Recordsmirrors of the voice and the best vocal Instructors of the day. They reproduce the art of the singer so ac curately that no point of beauty and no fault es capes detection. "What a wonderful Btudy they are for gift ed students and how welcome they must be to artists to enable them to enhance the good and to avoid the bad." sity hopes to meet the debt thrown upon it hv the financial failure of the Oregana, their official publication Issnted last year. At a special meeting today Manager Lonsley of the Oregana reported that the book had now settled all its liabilities but J218.S3. I'nion County lawyers Organize. LA GRANDE. Or.. Oct. 22. (Special.) Preliminary steps in the formation of - the Union County Bar Association were taken today, when the lawyers of this city met in the Commercial Club and effected a temporary organization with Circuit Judge J. W. Knowles as i-hnlrman and Attorney C E. Cochran secretary. One of the objects toward which the new organization Is to work is the building of a county law library. Reserve Street lo Be Improved. VANCOUVER. Wash., Oct. 22. (Spe cial.) The bonds of Rector & Daly, con tractors, have been approved, and work on the Reaerve-street road began today. This firm secured the contract to build this street between the city and the military reservation, about J18.000 being the bid. The street will be 60 feet wide. most of which will be macadam. It will be the main thoroughfare into the city from the north and east. ' Front Street Now Main Street. BAKER CITY, Or., Oct. 22. (Spe cial.) The City Council has decided that Front street is not the proper name for Baker's main thoroughfare, and that body has officially announced that the name of the street shall be Main, stead of Front, in the future The Council has also ordered that names of streets shall appear at the corners In letters imbedded in cement sidewalks. Graham Caught In Seattle. SEATTLE, Oct, 22. Angus A. Gra ham, wanted in Los Angeles on charges of obtaining money under false pre tenses, was arrested by the police here today. According to the information in the hands of the local police, Graham secured sums aggregating more than $2000 by means of an alleged fake mining scheme. Sutherlln Will Show Fruit. ROSBBURG. Or.. Oct. 22. (Special.) The first annual fruit exh.blt of the Sutherlln Valey fruitgrowers will be held In Sutherlln, November 1 to 12. Appropriate cash prizes have been of fered for the best exhibits. English cannel, anthracite hard coal and drv wood can best be had from A. H. Edlefsen, Chamber of Commerce. CENT) TEN fTNTC coin or stamps, and re OLIW ILULUUJ ceive my booklet, "For Those Who Would." Practical, helpful. For men and especially young men. F. BURROUGHS, 2323 Prospect Avenue, Cleveland, O. STANDARD OF HAT VALUE Love ' Mm Adve: We Plot c4el Mystery l all combine to make "Room Number Three At Three Forks Tavern" a little more exciting than any story you ever read. A crackerjack detective story written around the dramatic figure of the young and falsely suspected heroine. A great story the great est work of the famous author of " The Leav enworth Case," and "The Millionaire Baby," Anna Katharine Green ' In the same number are : " The True Story of a Young Actress," How a Woman Built an Aeroplane," " Votes' for Women -from the Inside," Why I Left the Woman's Club," the last writing of Edward Everett Hale, eight good stories, and seventy pages of practical departments all in the November WOMAN'S HOME COMBAT I ON THE GREATER i WOMAN'S & HOWE Making the Standard Rye Ml dt9r Write n for a beautiful booklet telling the whole interesting story of how the Standard Kye Whisker of America is made. A.Guckenheimer & Bros., ASK FOR lill'T DSGovlnspfete,d Esii38 Why? Because you demand pure food, you keep your kitchen spotless ,and you want all cooking accessories the same. Be sure! Take no other! 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