THE MORMXG OREGONIAX. MONDAY, MARCH 7, 1910.
O'BRIEN DECLARES
HIS NEW POSITION
ES in
SENATOR AND FIGURE OF NATIONAL PROMINENCE, WHO
DIED YESTERDAY.
CENTRAL
Irish Leader Says He Heads
No Party, and Is Working
for Country's Benefit.
Miss M. Virginia White Demonstrated W. B. and La Viola
Several Vice-Presidents Will
Conduct Departments, Is '
. New Plan.
Corsets At Our Store, March 7 to 1 9
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PROTESTANT AID WELCOME
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J. T. HARAHAN TO RESIGN
SHAKFUP COM
LilS
English Scored for Simplicity In
Politics, and "Molly Maguircs'
Held fp to Scorn of All
for Their Treason.
DUBLIN. March 5. (Special.) Mr.
William O'Brien has written a letter H
the newspapers In which he Bays:
"The English public, who are the
keenest business men in the world, are
marvelously simple-minded folk the
moment they come to deal with Irish
affairs. I have been receiving: requests
for interviews from no less than eight
English newspapers, of various politi
cal shades. Inquiring what are my In
tentions as leader of the new party of
Independent Nationalists. So far as I
know, I am not leader of anything.
There is no such party, nor do I know
what Is meant by the phrase "Independ
ent Natlonalst,' which Is certainly not
of my invention.
"The facts are that three weeks be
fore the dissolution of Parliament I
was living tranquilly In the neighbor
hood of Florence, with no more idea
of a new party or of being myself
dragged back into Irish politics than of
my being swallowed by an earthquake.
For more than nine months I had not
opened an Irish newspaper nor commu
nicated in any way with any Irish
member of Parliament. The first news
I received from Cork was that a plot
was on foot to expel from Parliament
Mr. Maurice Healy, who, having been
elected by a majority of 1100 votes on
my resignation, was denied admittance
to the Irish party, whose pledge he
was quite willing to take.
News of Plot Received.
"I learned at'the same time that or
ganizers were busy working up opposi
tion to all of my friends In the County
of Cork who were members of the Irish
party and whose sole offense was that
they had stood with me in the struggle'
to combine all classes and sects of
Irishmen In a common patriotism, and
to save the benign process of the abo
lition of landlordism from the destruc
tion which has now overtaken it. The
only communication of any kind I sent
to Ireland in reply was the following
telegram: 'If these people are wise
they will drop their campaign of
vengeance against my friends." These
people have now learned wisdom In
ample measure at the polls, but they
learned It too late.
"It was solely with a view of saving
my friends in Cork from extermination
that I returned to Ireland. On my ar
rival I found to my stupefaction that
similar plots were on foot against at
least 20 members of the Irish party in
different-parts of the country. .Those
plots took the form of packing the con
ventions for the selection of candi
dates with delegates from specially
manufactured branches of the United
Irish Leagtie, and especially of the
schismatic 'Board of Erin' wing of the
Ancient Order of Hibernians, who now
adopt and boast of the old ribbon nick
name of 'Molly Maguires.'
"These maneuvers were all direct
ed and paid for by the 'standing com
mittee' in Dublin, a majority of whose
members It was acknowledged on oath
In the prosecution of Croan vs. Devlin
and Johnston are Initiated members of
the 'Board of Erin.' This is far the
most serious aspect of the situation, as
the 'standing . committee' is in com
plete control of the funds of the United
Irish League, and In this way both the
league and the Irish party are now the
creature of the Irresponsible officers
of a secret society as to whose legiti
mate object no explanation has ever
been offered, and as to which all that
is certain is that Its rules exclude Irish
Protestants (and consequently one
fourth of the Irish population) alto
tether. Had No Part in Result.
"On my arrival in Ireland I found
public opinion in 16 or 18 different
counties in open revolt against the
convention-packing set on foot by the
organizers of this occult junta. With
this discontent, or with its expression
at the polls. I had nothing to do out
side the City and County of Cork. A
number of the so-called 'Independent
Nationalist' candidates were not even
personally known to me. They polled
45.547 votes, against 44,865 given to the
official candidates of the 'Molly Ma
guires.' "In all this I have counted for little
or nothing outside the City and County
of Cork. The rout of the 'bosses' of
the 'Board of Erin' is wholly of their
own doing, and would almost certain
ly have led to the complete breakup
of the party in its present servile con
dition If the opposition had only been
under any general direction or sup
ported by any semblance of popular or
ganization. In the whole extent of this
vast County and City of Cork, contain
ing one-eighth of the entire Nation
alist population of Ireland, we won bv
an overwhelming majority, the one ray
of comfort for the 'masked conspira
tors' (It is one of His Majesty's judge's
own phrases) of the "Board of Erin' be
ing the momentary exclusion of Maur
ice Healy by a scurvy deal worthy of
the war politics of the least enviable
of constitutionally-governed lands.
THOMAS C. PLATT DEAD
(Concluded From Firnt Pace )
active interest in affairs and refused to
neglect his business until the dictates of
nature Imposed a rest.
He was out of bed at 7 o'clock every
morning and always early at his office.
J. P. Cudahy, Jr., registering from
Omaha, Neb., arrived at the Hotel Se
ward yesterday. When informed of the
icenrrence at Kansas' City, he said:
"Why, that Is pretty eerious, isn't it?
"Mr. Cudahy Is a cousin of mine, but I
know nothing of any difficulty in hla
family. I have been away from home
several weeks, and if the watter was
known to the family it had not reached
me. I really can not tell you anything
of the man supposed to have been In
lured." TWO SPECIAL TRAINS
To the Aviation Grounds.
Will be run by the O. R. & N. today,
leaving the Union Depot at 12:30 P. M.
and 1:30 P. M. Remember, the 1:30
. train, will be the last train.
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THOMAS C.
RECORD IS TELLING
Ballinger's Conservation Ex
cells Predecessor's.
ACTION, NOT TALK, SHOWN
Report of Director of Geological
Survey Shows Practical Preser
vation of Lands and Power
in Last Year.
OREGONIAN NEWS BUREAU, Wash
ington, March 6. In spite of all the
criticisms that have been heaped upon
him by the believers in or advocates
of the Pinchot type . of conservation
Secretary BalUngpr nas' made a rec
ord for . accomplishing- results tending
tq practical - conservation that excels
that of any of his predecessors, or of
Mr. Ptnchot himself. The - difference
Is that Ballinger has actually brought
about action, whereas his detractors
have confined themselves largely to
talk.
Under Secretary Ballinger's direc
tion, the United States Geological
Survey has been at work for the last
year on a practical scheme for the
sensible conservation of public coal
lands, phosphate, oil and asphaltum
lands, and lands containing1 water
power sites. The following: statement
by the Director of the Surv y, George
Otis Smith, shows what was done in
the last 12 months:
Coal Lands Withdrawn.
Coal-land withdrawals were made covering-
7.675,000 acres not previously with
drawn and the form of withdrawal affect
ing an additional 9,000.000 acres was
changed to cover all forms .of entry instead
cf coal entry alone. The new regulations
of April lO, 1009, for the classification and
valuation of coal lands, materially Increased
the sale price of these lands and fixed more
definitely the standards of coal classifica
tion. Thus, for example: under the old
regulations, in eight widely separated town
ships the total area classed as coal land
was 60,320 acres and the sale price was
fixed at $2,088,600, whereas, under the new
regulations, the area in the same eigth
townships classed as coal land is 126,663
acres and the sale price is $15,777,668 an
Increase in area of over lOO per cent and
in price of over 600 per cent.
Under the old regulations the maxi
mum price per acre for coal land was
fixed at $75; under the new regulations
the maximum price per acre thus far fixed
for any particular area is (465. The
maximum valuation of a single township
under the old regulations was $94i,600;
under the new regulations it is $9.206.S94.
Special efforts have been made, to release
from existing withdrawals all noncoal
area, and the total area classified dur
ing the year, amounting to 17,200.000
acres. much the large part. or about
1 4 . 0O0.0O0 acres, h as been c I assed as non -coal
land. The sale price of the 3,436,000
acres classed as coal land has been fixed
at t91,4PO,O0O. The same land, if told
at the minimum price fixed by law,
would have yielded 6x477.OO0.
3,889.141 Acre Restored.
Phosphate-land -withdrawals- In force
March 9. 1909. covered all vacant public
lands in an area comprising 1,493,551
acres In Wyoming. Utah, and Idaho.
Iuring the year areas covering 2.389.141
acres were restored to entry, for the field
work showed that they contained no
phosphate. Additional witlidrawavs In
cluding 399,693 acres have been made
and the form of withdrawal has been
changed so as to cover entered as- well as
vacant lands. All unpatented elands in
an area of 2.504.103 acres are now
affected by phosphate withdrawals.
The California oil-land withdrawals made
prior to March. 1909, aggregating 2.313,482
acres, ore vented the acquisition of tha
withdrawn lands only under the agri
cultural land laws. All lands covered by
these withdrawals could be legally exploited
for oil or other minerals. .During the year
these lands were excepted from acquisition
as oil or as mineral lands as well as for
agricultural use. New withdrawals were
made In the States of California, Colorado.
Oregon. Utah and Wyoming of a total area
of 2.10,510 acres. - In California there were
restored to entry 956.916 acres that field
examination hail shown to be non-oil land.
The area now covered by "oil withdrawals
Is 2 487.070 acres.
Cm March 4. 1909, power-site withdraw
als were In force covering vacant public
lands on 29 rivers in nine states. These
withdrawals have since been reviewed by
the Geological Survey, the form of with
drawal has been changed to include all en
tered as well as all vacant lands and the
lands that were found to be not valuable
for the purpose for which the withdrawal
was made have been restored to entry.
New withdrawals have been made along 97
rivers covering land not involved In
previous withdrawals and increasing the
total number of states affected to 11. These
power-site withdrawals now cover about
1.300.OOO acres of vacant public land and
200.000 acres of. entered land.
EUGENE BOASTS, OF 13,750
New Directory Gives TTnlversity
Town Increased Population.
EUGENE. Or.. March . (Special.) :
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this week, (rives the university seat a
population of 13,760. The announce
ment bears out the most flatteTingr ex
pectations as to the grrowth of Eugene
during- the past 12 months.
-The new figures on population are
considered authentic. They are based on
the lowest multiple ever used in com
putation of the number of residents,
two and one-half to a family. There
are over 5500 names in the directory.
Allowing for the students, Eugene still
safely has over 12,000.
This city nearly reached the $1,000,000
mark in building permits for the year
1909. The expansion in building and
improvement lines continues, over
$30,000 being the aggregate value of
new construction inaugurated during
January, when interruptions to outside
work were most frequent.
Extension of the city lines of Eugene
is now being considered by the city
council: Petitions for annexation to
the corporate lines have been prepared.
The district includes part of what
is known as the College Hill- district,
around which a new streetcar loop is
to be built. If the annexation of the
outside districts is completed by April
this city will get the benefit of the
added numbers in the Federal census.
The Commercial club is giving much
attention to industrial and investment
matters . and many people of means are
investing here as a result. : Eugene
will, in all probability, become the
operating headquarters of the' Klamath
Falls and Roseburg- divisions of the
Southern Pacific. -
NAVY CONTROVERSIES UP
FEDERAL SITREME COURT TO
DECIDE ON LAWS.
Government - as Well as Several
States to Argue on Laws
Protested Against.
WASHINGTON, March 6. Several
states and the United States will appear
this week before the Federal Supreme
Court in defense of rights asserted or
laws enacted.
Nebraska will maintain the constitu
tionality of ber grain elevator law of
1905. The Missouri Pacific Railway Com
pany failed to comply with the law re
quiring railroads to construct switch con
nections for grain elevators with a ca
pacity of 15.000 bushels, located along
their rights of way.
Once again the controversy between
Kentucky and the national bank over the
taxing of the bank has come to the
court.
Kansas comes into the court in defense
of her anti-drumming act. The law for
bids drumming or soliciting on trains of
business by phypicians, masseurs, bath
houses, boarding houses or hotels. Al
Williams, a boardinghouse keeper, was
arrested in 190S on a charge of solicit
ing on a train for his boardinghouse in
Hot Springs... He. answers that the law
interferes with his inherent rights.
Minnesota has complained of illegal
cutting of timber on her school lands.
The United States, is interested in an
unusual naturalization prosecution and
in a suit to determine whether a rail
road, leasing or otherwise procuring the
right to use the tracks of another land
aided railroad, is entitled to ' full pay
for carrying the mails, or whether It is
subject to 20 per cent reduction.
.The naturalization question arises .In
the case of the United States, against
Gustay Holmgren, of California. He was
indicted on a charge of swearing that
he had known for five years in the
United States Frank Wersta, an appli
cant for naturalization, whereas, it is
alleged, he had known him only- four.
The oath was made in a -state court, but
Holmgren was prosecuted on the charge
of perjury in a Federal court." The ques
tion has been raised whether the Federal
courts have jurisdiction in such a case.
The question of pay for carrying the
mails arises out of the contract of the
Postofflce Department with the Chicago,
St. Paul. Minneapolis & Omaha Railway.
The dispute is Over the service from Le
mars to Sioux City. Iowa.
FINANCIERS SEE ROUTES
Albany & Interurban Railway Riglit
- of-Way In Question.
ALBANY. Or., March 6. (Special. )
Local capitalists who formed the Albany
& Interurban Railway Company spent
the past few days, accompanied by en
gineers, viewing the prospective routes
for their lines out of this "city.
They traversed a route from Albany to
Sweet Home by way of Brownsville,
Crawfordsville. and Holley; and another
to the same objective point by way of
Lebanon. Waterloo and the South San
tiam Valley. . It is said that the com
pany expects to build both linee. but it
has not .been determined on which route
work will first commence.
Chamberlain's Stomach and Liver
Tablets Invariably bring relief to
women suffering from chronic consti
pation, headache, biliousness, dizziness,
sallowness of the skin and dyspepsia,
tould by ail dealers.
Position of Board Chairman to Be
Created for Retiring President.
. East and West Contend
'for Successor.
CHICAGO, March 6. (Special.) A
complete reorganization of the Illinois
Central Railroad system, including
the Yazoo & Mississippi Valley Rail
road Co., has been decided upon by the
directors and detailed plans are now
being worked out in New York.
The -reorganization plan includes the
resignation of J. T. Harahan from the
presidency and the election of two and
possibly of four vice-presidents in
charge of the various departments. Un
less there Is a change of programme,
the new Illinois Central officials will
be elected at a meeting of the board
to be held in New York next Wednes
day. It is possible that elections may
take place on that date and that an
nouncement may be reserved for a later
date.
After Mr.' Harahan has tendered his
resignation, it is said, the position of
chairman of the board will be created
for his beneflt, as well as for the benefit
of the road. It is understood that the
selection of a president to succeed Mr.
Harahan lies between an Eastern and
a Western man.
Among the Western men considered
for the place are: F. A. Delano, presi
dent of the Wabash: Howard Elliott,
president of the Northern Pacific, and
W. A. Gardner, vice-president of the
Northwestern road in charge of opera
tion. One of the Eastern men men
tioned is F. D. Underwood, president
of the Erie Road. Still another possi
bility is I. G. Rawn, now president of
the Monon.
CLARK GROWS BUTTERNUTS
Prune Hill Product Compares Very
Favorably With That of East.
VANCOUVER, Wash., MarcTi 6, (Spe
cial.) Butternuts two and a half inches
long have been raised in Clark .County
this year. English walnuts, almonds,
hazelnuts, filberts and black walnuts
have been raisedsuccessf ully here.
The butternut's brought to Van
couver today were grown on Prune Hill
above the Columbia Contract Company's
rock quarry, ten miles east of Van
couver. The seeds were planted 13
years ago by Morris Sutton, who
brought them here from Michigan. The
product compares favorably in richness
and size with Eastern nuts. The trees
are 13 years old and bear annually
more than a bushel each.
-A. A. Quarnberg, horticulture inspector-for
this district, who has made
a specialty of raising nuts in this
county, is authority for the statement
that the soil and climatic conditions
are nearly ideal for the successful
raising of many varieties of nuts,
which bring fancy prices in the Eastern
markets.
"SPECS" 200 YEARS OLD
Coovert Family Owns Interesting
Relic of Many Generations.
VANCOUVER, Wash., March 6. (Spe
cial.) A pair' of spectacles which haa
been In the Coovert family more than
two centuries is in the possession of M.
L. Coovert of this city. The ancient
spectacles were made by hand and are
heavy and crude, the bows and rims
being made of hand-hammered copper.
The bows have a joint In each one. ,.
The relic was given to Mr. Coovert
by his mother, Mrs. Elizabeth S. Rob
ertson, of McMinnville, Or., who is 68
years old. Her mother, Mrs. Sease. now
93 years old, a resident of Indiana, gave
them to her, and they were worn by
Mrs. Sease's mother before her.
Fully nine out of every ten cases of
rheumatism is simply rheumatism of
the muscles due to cold or damp, or
chronic rheumatism, neither of which
require any internal treatment. All
that Is needed to afford relief is the
free application of Chamberlain's Lini
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to be' pleased with the quick relief
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these is the FIT U. WE INDORSE FIT U MOUNTINGS.
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San Francisco, Oakland, Sacramento, Vallejo, Fresno, Denver,,
Omaha, Kansas City, Salt Lake City.
MONEY IS PLENTY
Prosperity Shown in Class of
Linn County Litigation.
FORECLOSURES VERY FEW
Suits to Quiet Title and Other Ac
tions Connected With Transfer
of Real Estate Grow More
Numerous Yearly.
ALBANY. Or.. March 6. (Special.)
Unparalleled prosperity throughout this
part of the state la nowhere reflected
more clearly than on the register of Cir
cuit Court cases In Linn County. Ac
tions for the recovery of money and
suits for foreclosure of mortgages are
rarely Instituted here now, while suits
to quiet title and other cases incident to
the transfer of realty are Increasing in
number rapidly.
A compilation of statistics for the last
year, and also for 1904. 1899 and 1S94. re
veals this prosperity-Indicating condi
tion. In 1894. Ill cases were filed here to
recover money. In 1899. five years later,
the number filed was onlyf49. A de
crease of more than. 100 per! cent marked
the next five years, and in 1904 only 20
cases of thia kind were instituted. Last
year the number was only 16. Those
figures, prove conclusively that investors
are becoming more and more able to
meet their financial obligations without
the necessity of court action.
AVIATION
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All those who cannot afford to
pay the 60c can see the perform
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fence, free.
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Portland, Or.
It is with the greatest pleasure that we announce the
arrival of Miss M. Virginia White, expert corsetiere
and demonstrator.
This is Miss White's first visit to the Pacific Co'
having demonstrated exclusively in New York, Bosl..
and Chicago, also on the Continent, where La Vida
and W. B. Corsets enjoy a reputation attained by no
other American corset.
The new Spring La Vida is the product of master
minds, who have produced in this Corset a mold over
which to fit gowns of the latest fashions.
La Vida Corsets are built of everything best. The
craftsmen," who make them, are skilled costume tailors,
who produce each pair entirely by hand labor.
We invite you to come and have a trial fitting.
; Properly selected and fitted by Miss White your La
Vida will give you the figure of a sylph. It will round
out the sudden bulges into fading curves, build out
sunken lines, flatten the abdomen and lend to the bust
just the effect that the new style in waists demands.
Each pair is masterly wrought from the finest imported
materials.
The number of cases for foreclosure follows: 1S94. 48 cases; 1S99, 20 cases
of mortgages tells the same etory, as 1904. fi cases: 1909, 2 esses. '
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