SUSPICION POINTS
TO 22 WEIGHERS
Care Taken in Appointments
Not. Availing in Prevent
ing Sugar Frauds.
INVESTIGATION GOES ON
President Taft Said to Be Content
With Progress Being Made,
but Congress May Take
Hand, Too..
WASHINGTON', Nov. IS. Twenty-two
assistant weighers in the New York Custom-House
are known to have been im
plicated, or are under suspicion. In the
Fo-called sugar trust fraude.
This is set forth in a statement tonight
by Chairman Black and Messrs. McIIhey
and Washburn, of the Civil Service Com
mission, in answer to charges that ap
pointments and removals in the New
Tork Custom-House were at the dictum
of the trust.
The statement of the commissioners is
largely argumentative, designed to show
the care taken in the preparation and
rating of examination papers and how,
by reason of methods in vogue, it is
practically impossible for the commis
sion examiners in Washington to show
favoritism in rating. Authority is given
to appoint officers to examine Into ante
cedents of eligibles and to remove place
holders whenever the public interest so
requires.
The information regarding the 22 as
sistant weighers came from the New
Tork Custom-House. Two of the assist
ant weighers were appointed without cer
tification by the commission, the remain
ing 20 having been appointed by certifi
cation from 1SS5 to 1907. There are now
employed at New Tork 126 assistant
weighers.
Examinations by which these assistant
weighers have been chosen in the last 15
yeans,- says the commission, have been
prepared and rated at Washington. The
examinations themselves are conducted by
local boards at New Tork or elsewhere.
The statement concludes:
"What the commission desires to em
phasize to the press Is that it has used
not only all of the precautions possible
in the selection of its eligibles, but it has
If ft in the department unimpaired power
of sifting such appointments, when ones
made, to the bottom, and exercising the
power of removal at any time that the
Interest of the public service requires."
vAXDEKSOX SAYS PAY D EX LED
New Figure Enters Sugar Scandal
With Demand on Government.
NEW TORK, Nov. 1. A new figure
j was introduced tonight In the Investiga
tion of frauds charged to the American
Sugar Refining Company, when Edwin
I. Anderson, ex-superintendent of docks
for the company and a close personal
friend of the late Theodore A. Have
meyer. announced througn nls attorney
that he was the man referred to by
James B. Reynolds. ex-Assistant Secre
tary of the Treasury. as the one who
gave the department the first specific
information concerning the frauds.
Anderson has filed claims with the
customs authorities for compensation
which he estimates will reach jl, 000,000.
For the last two years, he says, he has
been furnishing evidence to the Govern
ment, and it was through him, he as
serts, that Richard Parr gained bis In-,
formation.
Anderson absolves Mr. Reynolds of any
attempt to check the Investigations, .de
claring that the ex-Assistant Secretary
was enthusiastic in his desire for prose
cution. In fact, the first activity came
as the result of encouragement which
Mr. Reynolds gave him, he says.
Anderson says the American Sugar
Refining Company requested his resigna
tion after Mr. Havemeyer's death In 190S
. on the theory that "he knew too much."
lie had then been in the company's em
ploy for 32 years.
He says be came into possession of
positive proof that the Government was
being defrauded of at least 500,000 a
year at the refinery where he had been
employed. When he laid his evidence
before the authorities at Washington.
Anderson continued, the matter was
taken up at once. Both Colonel Guerry,
chief of the Customs Department, and
Beekman Winthrop, then an Assistant
Secretary of the Treasury, promised him,
he says, that his claim for compensation
would be allowed and accordingly be
went ahead with the investigations.
Anderson says that when his investi
gations were in progress he was shad
owed constantly by deteotives and was
so far convinced that he was in dan
ger of attack and possible assassination
that a special Secret Service agent was
assigned to act as his bodyguard.
REWARD IXCEN'TIVE TO PARR
President BelieTed Satisfied With
Present Investigators.
WASHINGTON. Nov. IS No official
notice will be taken by the Treasury De
partment, at least for the present, of the
controversy between ex-Assistant Secre
tary James B. Reynolds, now a member
of the tariff- board, and Richard Parr, a
deputy surveyor attached to the New
Tork Customs House.
The meat of the controversy appears
to be the desire of Mr. Parr to obtain a
moiety of the fine imposed upon the
sugar trust for alleged frauds In weigh
ing sugar at the customs docks. It de
veloped today that Mr. Parr, last Spring
presented to the department a statement
of these alleged frauds. In which he laid
claim to such an amount as the Treasury
might allow him for discovery of the
frauds.
The claim- was to be paid out of the
fine Imposed on the sugar trust, which
amounted to J2.000.000. The department
has taken no action on that claim.
Secretary MacVeagh declined to enter
, the controversy and would not say even
that any intimation would be given to
Parr that arguments In newspapers were
distasteful to the department.
CABINET SILEXT ON SUBJECT
No Reason for President's Advisers
to Act, Members Declare.
WASHINGTON. Nov. 16. Members of
the Cabinet, after the first meeting since
the adjournment of the special session of
Congress, declined to discuss what had
been done at the meeting.
With regard to the "sugar trust"
frauds at New York. It was said by one
member that there was no necessity for
the Cabinet to consider the situation.
Attorney-General Wickersham and Sec
retary MacVeagh are Intrusted with the
investigation of the frauds and it was
stated that the situation is satisfactory
to Mr. Taft.
The Cabinet session lasted two hours
and 40 minutes. President Taft's mes
sage to Congress, especially with rela
tion to the proposed amendments to the
Interstate commerce and anti-trust laws,
was considered.
. From remarks let fall by Congressional
callers at the White House today there
seems little doubt that a Congressional
committee will be appointed to investi
gate the sugar frauds and Custom House
corruption in New York.
SCGAR HEAD SAYS XOT GUILTY
Indicted Man Would Appeal for Re
moval of Trial.
NEW YORK. Nov. IS. A plea of not
guilty to the indictments charging them
with effecting entries of sugar at this
port by false weights was entered today
by James F. Bendernagol, ex-general
mminr nnd sunerintendent of the Wil
liamsburg, plant of the American Sugar
Refining Company, -ann six minor em
rHOTOORAPHS IJGHT WAVES IN- t
VISIBLE TO THE EYE. J
Professor Robert W. Woods.
NEW TORK, Nov. 15. (Special.)
Anyone familiar with the use of the
camera knows that It will pick up a
great deal that the eye does not see.
That Is one reason it is necessary to
retouch portrait negatives. The lens
brings out lines In the face which the
eye fails tp notice. Dr. Robert W.
Woods, of Johns Hopkins University,
has used this to obtain novel results.
He has photographed light waves of
colors Invisible to the human eye.
The discovery which Professor Woods
exhibited to the Photographic Club of
Baltimore Is of great value In as
tronomy as well as photography for
Professor Woods hss already taken
photographs of the moon by the sew
process. -
ployes of the company, who were Jointly
indicted with him.
Attorneys for the Indicted men served
notice that they reserve the privilege of
appealing for a removal of trial.
TROOPS TO GUARD MINERS
CContinued From First Page.)
was sealed the first time Saturday even
ing. In my explorations In the mine I
did not find any bodies."
An iron pipe line was laid this morning
from the reservoir to the entrance of the
shaft and from it a long lead of hose
was dropped into the shaft. Two hundred
thousand gallons of water have been
brought In tank cars to Cherry and placed
on sidetracks near the reservoir. A steam
fire engine was brought from the zinc
works at La Salle and forced the water
through the pipe and hose lines to the
bottom of the shaft.
Appeals for Relief Answered.
"Shoes, underclothing and quantities of
women's and children's garments are ur
gently needed for the families of the vic
tims. Also money is necessary to take
care of these poor people during the com
ing Winter," declared E. P. Bicknell, of
Washington, D. C. director of the Na
tional Red Cross Society, today, after a
conference with the charity workers
gathered here. The appeal was tele
graphed to various cities in surrounding
states and responses came that supplies
soon would be on the way. Headquarters
were established here, from which char
ity will be distributed systematically.
Mayor Charles Connolly acted as bank
cashier and paymaster for the St. Paul
mines. Along the walk outside the bank
today were lined survivors of the disas
ter. It was the regular semi-monthly
payday, and in the envelopes were the
wages of the 600 men employed there
amounting to $19,000. At the mine office
half a mile away employes receive their
'time-checks," the 1st and 16th of the
month. Today the Information was
given out that wives or daughters of
those who were "down" would receive
their checks.
CHERRY DISASTER SECOND
Bat One Other American Mine
Claimed More Victims.
' WASHINGTON. Nov. 16. According to
records kept by the Technologic Depart
ment, the Cherry disaster will rank the
second greatest in this country. Only
. 1. !,., nt Unnnnimh W Va in
n-hlr.h 3 minora Inst their liVPS. CP. n I
furnish a greater death list. At Monon
gah. when the mine was penetrated, the
bodies of some who had probably lived
8 hours were found Rescuers equipped
with helmets and resuscitation apparatus
might have saved five, It is declared.
Every rescuer now is equipped with
enough oxygen to keep him alive in a
gaseous mine for two hours. The oxy
gen is carried in two cylinders on the
back and is fed into the helmet through
rubber tubes. Carbon dioxide thrown out
In the breath,' is caught up In two tanks
of potassium hydroxide. Each rescuer
also carries a tank of oxygen and an
apparatus for resuscitating the victims.
At the Government station at Pittsburg
and at Its branches at Urbana. III., and
Knoxvllle, Tsnn.. 500 miners have been
Instructed in a week in the use of the
apparatus. The three largest coal com
panies in Pennsylvania have established
stations with oxygen- equipment of their
own. All coal companies are being urged
by the Government to do so.
The equipment of the miners of Europe
with oxygen apparatus has helped reduce
the death rate among them to .015 per
cent of those employed. In the United
States the death rate is .04S6 per cent.
It is stated authoritatively that the
death rate of miners in the United States
until 190S had been Increasing faster than
the production of coal. In 1907 3200 men
perished in mine disasters. That year
Congress appropriated $150,000 for educa
tional and experimental work among
miners. After a year's work the fatali
ties of 1908 were 2450.
Hermann's Body f ound.
MYRTLE POINT, Or.. Nov. IS. The
body of Binger Hermann, Jr., was found
at 8:30 o'clock this morning one mile
below where the accident happened. He
had received an injury to the head from
drift. .
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F
is
Rich Philanthropist Succumbs
at 76 to Pneumonia in
San Francisco.
WORK KAD GROWN RAPIDLY
Many Houses of .Ref nge for Unfor
tunate Girls Come From
Movement Started as
Memorial to Child.
SAN FRANCISCO. Nov. 16. Charles
N. Crittenton. of New York, .widely
known throughout the country as the
millionaire founder of the Florence
Crittenton Rescue homes for girls,
died in this city tonight of pneumonia
after a brief illness of less than a
week He was 76 years old. Mr.
Crittenton founded 73 rescue homes for
girls in this country and several in
Japan and China, which he named in
memory of his daughter, Florence,
who died in her youth.
Mr. Crittenton was on a tour visit
ing the many rescue homes throughout
the country which he established. He
arrived in San Francisco 10 days ago.
He was taken ill within a few days
after hlB arrival, pneumonia quickly
develoDed and, on account of his age.
his physicians held out little hope for
his recovery. He aiea snorny Derore
7 o'clock tonight at the Motel .Nor
mandie.
Mr. Crittenton was the senior mem
ber of the firm of Charles N. Critten
ton & Co., wholesale druggists of New
York.
DEATH MOCRXED iy PORTLAND
Last Contribution Made Locally Was
$500 to Refuge Home.
"What dreadful news," said Mrs. Cleve
land Rockwell, when advised over the
Dhone of the.sudden death sof Mr. unt
tenton. "He was the most lovable man
I ever knew. It Is shocking. Why,
had a letter from hlra only last Tues
day, in which he asked me to write him
at San Jose. He will be a loss to the
whole world."
The Florence Crittenton Refuge Home
was established in Portland originally by
Mrs. Riggs as the Refuge Home for
Women. About six years ago tne tiov
emor appointed a committee to investi
gate its affairs, and the report submitted
by that body resulted in the formation
nf a. new comoratlon. which became af
filiated with the National chain of Flor
ence Crittenton institutions, of which
there are 14 in the United States and four
In foreisrn lands.
Twenty-seven years ago 4-year-old
Florence Crittenton died at the palatial
residence of her father on Fifth avenue,
New York, the last child of the family.
Afterward Mr. Crittenton decided to de
vote his fortune to the betterment of the
condition of unfortunate girls and to do
it in the name of his little daughter. He
sold the magnificent residence In which
she had romped and went down among
the slums to found a home. The nrsl
mission was erected on Baxter street and
still stands. He established a Mission
Board in Washington, D. C. and
through that source his immense fortune
has been sent to the institutions which
needed it most.
Mr. Crittenton was last in Portland on
October 23, when he spoke at the White
Temnle. the First Christian Church and
the Taylor-Street Methodist Episcopal
Church, afterward attending a reception
at the home. His last contribution to
the home was J500, which he donated to
ward the new building just completed.
ASTOR IN STORM'S PATH
Yacht With Colonel and Son Missing
Since November 8.
NEW TORK, Nov. 16 The friends of
Colonel John Jacob Astor are worried
because nothing has been heard from him
or his son Vincent since they sailed on
their steam yacht the Nourmahal, from
Port Antonio, Jamaica, on November 8.
While Colonel Astor has no definite pro
gramme it was said at Port Antonio that
the Nourmahal would go direct from
there to Porto Rico, where it should have
arrived several days ago. Since leaving
Jamaica the vessel Is believed to have
encountered the hurricane and torrential
rain storms, which have swept over the
West Indies.
Inquiries have been made at the marl
time exchange and at other places but no
information concerning the yacht had
been received. The boat is a big yacht
and stanchly built and it is believed that
It could weather almost any kind of a
sea.
PETTY THEFTS NUMEROUS
Millinery Store Robbed, Supposedly
by Woman Burglar.
The millinery establishment of Mrs. C.
R. Fenton, 414 Stearns building, was
burglarized Sunday night, over $200 worth'
of plumes, ribbons and laces being taken.
The theft was reported to the police and
Detectives Carpenter and Price were as
signed to it. It is believed the burglary,
was committed by a woman.
Mrs. Hugh Elliott, living at Wichita
Station on the Mount Scott carllne, re
ported losing J30 on a Mount Tabor car
yesterday afternoon late, between Fifth
street and East Water. The money was
in a small purse, concealed in a pocket
of her skirt. The car was crowded and
she did not discover her loss until after
crossing the Morrison -street bridge.
The offices of the National Realty &
Trust Company. Z25hi Washington street,
were broken Into Monday night and the
desks all plied open, but nothing of value
was found.
During the past week numerous reports
of petty thefls and burglaries have been
reported to police headquarters. Thus
far, however, none of the cases has been
cleared up.
SAMPLE SUITS REDUCED.
Tremendous reductions on all sam
ple suits and coats for women and
misses. You won't get better values
this season. McAllen & McDonnell
Third and Morrison st.
Extra special Children's bearskin
coats in all colors and sizes, special
at $1.98. .
Washington Members Attend.
OREGONIAN NEWS BUREAU, Wash
tngotn, Nov. 16. J. C. Lawrence, H. A.
Fairchild and J. S. Jones, State Rail
road Commissioners of Washington, are
here attending the annual convention
of the National Association of Railway
Commissioners.
GRITTENTONHflM
on
DEAD
Mil
How to Obtain One, Free
The method is simple every ten-cent purchase from any of the BEN SELLING or MOYER
STORES entitles the purchaser to' one vote, which may be cast for any boy or girl not over 18 years.
The contest began Wednesday morning, Nov. 10, 1909, and ends Feb. 10, 1910, at 6 o'clock P. M.
The FIVE AUTOMOBILES will then be given to the five BOYS and GIRLS who have re
ceived the highest number of votes. SALES CHECKS WITH -EVERY PURCHASE.
Each sales check indicates amount of purchase a check for 50 cents worth of goods counts
for five votes,, one for $10 for one hundred votes, etc.
Place the sales checks in an envelope and write plainly the name and address of the person
for whom you wish to vote and deliver it at any of the BEN SELLING or MOYER STORES.
Sales checks will be dated to count as a vote any check must reach us not later than seven days
after the purchase. SAVE YOUR CHECKS. TELL YOUR RELATIVES and FRIENDS to
HELP you. You must keep on the jump and hustle, for there are other BOYS and GIRLS who
want these cars. No one in our employ eligible as a candidate.
Bem Selling
PRIMARY ELECTIOH. HIT
LOS ANGELES VOTE COUNT IS
FRAUD, SAITS CANDIDATE.
Sweeping Charges Made in Suit
Filed Regular Election to
Be Held December 7.
LOS ANGELES, Nov. 18. In the suit
filed today by W. C. Mushet, demanding
a recount of the ballots cast at the
recent pr.mary election, sweeping:
charges are made that election officers
in every district in the city are guilty
of misconduct.
The City Council made an official
count of the ballots and declared that
George W. Smith had won second place
on the ballot to be used in the regu
lar election by a majority over Mushet
of 19 votes. The first count had given
Smith 61 majority.
Mushet eays that in every precinct
election officers credited Smith with
ballots that had been cast for Mushet,
and that in every precinct they can
celled ballots cast for Mushet and cred
ited Smith with ballots that should
have been cancelled.
The defendant is given until Novem
ber 28 to answer. The regular election-takes
place December 7.
PERSONALJVIENTION.
J. C. Rex. of Moro, is a guest at the
Nortonia Hotel.
Mr. and Mrs. S. A. Kozer, of Salem,
are at the Seward Hotel.
E. L. Klemer, of Hood River, Is a
guest at the Ramapo Hotel.
W. B. Hail, of Tygh Valley, is regis
tered at the Nortonia Hotel.
A. G. Schwartz., of New York City, is
registered at the Lenox Hotel.
A. A. "Walker, a farmer of Gaston, is
a guest at the Imperial Hotel.
John GV Murphy, a merchant of Bingen,
is registered at the Perkins Hotel.
Judge J. C. Moreland. of Salem, Is
registered at the Cornelius Hotel.
L. H. McMahon,. an attorney of Salem,
is registered at the Imperial Hotel.
B. P McCormack. a banker of Salem,
is registered at the Cornelius Hotel.
"Will R. King, a prominent politician of
Salem. Is a guest at the Hotel Oregon.
Mr. and Mrs. E. A. Keith, of Wichita,
ENDS INDIGESTION, HEARTBURfJ. GAS
AND HEADACHE FROM BAD STOtVIACH
Your Out-of-Order Stomach Feels
Fine Five Minutes After Tak
ing a Little Diapepsin.
There would not be a case of indl-
gestiou here f readers who are subject
to Stomach trouble knew the tremen
dous anti-ferment and digestive virtue
contained in Diapepsin. This harmless
preparation will digest a heavy meal
without the slightest fuss or discom
fort, and relieve the sourest, acid
stomach in five minutes, besides over
coming all foul. Nauseous odors from
the breath.
Ask your pharmacist to show you
the formula plainly printed on each 60
cent case of Pape's Diapepsin, then you
will readily understand why this
promptly cures Indigestion and removes
such symptoms as Heartburn, a feel
ing like a lump of lead, in the stomach.
ireobi
Fourth
and
Morrison
Kan., registered at the Lenox Hotel yes
terday. -:
A. J. and M. 8. Hall, cattlemen of
Kent, are registered at the Perkins Hotel.
George H. Baker, a merchant- of Spo
kane, is a guest at the Cornelius Hotel.
I T. Harris, Superior Judge of Lane
County, is a guest at the Imperial Hotel.
M. J. Flnlayson, a prominent cattleman
of Antelope, is a guest at the Perkins
Hotel.
H. B. Morton, a fruitgrower of Hood
River, registered at the Perkins Hotel
yesterday.
J. B. Callahan," of Taeoma, visited in
Portland yesterday and took quarters at
the Ramapo. ,
Samuel White and J. N. Hart, attor
neys of Baker City, are registered at the
Imperial Hotel.
Miss Minnie Washburn, of Eugene,
visited Portland yesterday, registering at
the Seward Hotel.
. John Doumit, a merchant of Cathlamet,
was a Portland visitor yesterday, with
rooms at the Hotel Oregon.
George F. Lamping and E. J. Young,
prominent Insurance men of Seattle, are
registered at the Hotel Oregon.
M. T. O'Connor, a millionaire lumber
man of Winlock, is visiting Portland and
has taken quarters at the Hotel Oregon.
Mrs. J. "W. Condon, Mrs. E. M. "Wil
liams, Mr. and Mrs. F. S. Sampson and
C. Lewis Wilson comprise a party from
The Dalles registered at . the Seward
Hotel, who were shopping in Portland
yesterday.
Earl Sanders, formerly a resident of
The Dalles, and a well-known former
student of the University of Oregon, but
now an attorney at Coeur d'Alene, Idaho,
accompanied by his wife and children, is
a guest at the Hotel Portland.
7 PIANOS SOLD YESTERDAY
There Is no reason for Reed-French,
the piano store way out of the retail trad
ing district on Sixth and Burnslde, selling
seven pianos yesterday, except the sheer
fact of their pianos being absolute bar
gains. People who had seen Reed
Krench'a quoted prices of pianos, in the
papers ..of Monday and Tuesday, knew
they must be bargains from the way
the prices read J198, $212. $238, $365 and
they were not disappointed, for the pianos
far surpassed their advertised prices.
Today will be a bigger, busier day. A
Reed-French piano bargain Is always a
piona bargain. See display adv. in another
part of today's paper. Store open tonight.
Remember the place. Sixth and Burnside.
From $75 to $300 saved on any piano. Six
dollars gets a piano and the fWst pay
ment commences with your next payday,
but you get the piano right away.
Harris Trunk Co. tor trunas and bags
Belching of Gas and Eructations of un
digested food, water brash. Nausea,
Headache, Biliousness and many other
bad symptoms; and, besides, you will
not need laxatives to keep your stom
ach, liver and intestines clean and
fresh.
If your Stomach is sour and full of
gas or your food doesn't digest and
your meals don't seem to fit, why not
get- a 50-cent case from your druggist
and make life worth living? Absolute
relief from Stomach misery and per
fect digestion of anything you eat is
sure to follow five minutes after, and,
besides, one case is sufficient to cure a
whole family of such trouble.
Surely, a harmless. Inexpensive prep
aration like Diapepsin, which will al
ways, either at daytime or during
night, relieve your stomach misery and
digest your meals, is about as handy
and valuable a thing as you could have
in the house. , ,
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