TIIE " MORNING OREGONIAN. WEDXESDAY, MAT 11, 1910.
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Accused Physician on Stand
Ai! Day and Defense Rests
Its Case.
Senators Take Issue With
Entire Bldg-, Cor. Fourth and Morrison
Heyburn Theory That Com
petition Is Fiction.
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Tube9 Accounted for by Pro
posed Laboratory Room.
KANSAS CITT, Mo., May 10. At the
close of a Ion; and arduous cross- ex
amination of Dr. B. C. Hyde by Pros
ecutor Virgil Conkllng late today the
defense In the Swope murder trial
rested. The case will be In the nanus
of the jury by Saturday, it la thought.
Dr. Hyde waa on the witness stand
almost the entire day. That Dr. Hyde
could not name a druggist, other than
Hugo Breckleln, ot whom he had pur
chased cyanide In the ten years the
physician said he had used It, was re
garded by the State as the most valu
Hble development of the Interrogation.
Dr. Hyde began to purchase cyanide
of Breckleln last Fall.
Many Culture Tubes Obtained.
The State laid great stress on the
fact that Dr. Hyde obtained more than
L'.OOO culture tubes for the reception of
germs. The defense contends this only
proves the physician's assertion that he
was stocking up for a laboratory.
On direct examination Dr. Hyde said
he never poisoned any members of
the 'Swope famiily; that he never
dropped capsules in a street in Inde
pendence, as Thomas H. Swope, Jr.,
alleged to have seen him do; that he
used cyanide mainly for killing bugs
in his office and that he injected cam
phorated oil and that alone into Mar
garet Swope's arm.
Cyanide Used for Bugs.
Prosecutor Conkllng introduced on
cross-examination several patent bug
powders and asked Dr. Hyde why he
did not use them. Dr. Hyde said he
used so much bug powder that proved
Ineffective that he finally gave it up.
Dr. B. C. Hyde'resumed his testimony
on his own behalf when the Criminal
Court session opened this morning.
The physician smiled as he came out
of his cell and skipped up the steps
that lead into the courtroom. Mrs.
Hyde was waiting for him.
"Testifying doesn't make me nerv
ous," he said. "I'm glad to have an
opportunity to tell my story."
"Did you ever, after October 2, have
anything to do with the capsule you
gave the nurse for Colonel Swope?"
asked Mr. "Walsh.
"No, sir," replied Dr. Hyde. He tes
tified that he gave Margaret Swope a
hypodermic injection of camphorated
oil and nothing else. He said that on
the morning following the giving of
the hypodermic Margaret's arm was
swollen. The witness spoke in a low
voice, and Judge Latshaw was forced
to ak him twice to talk louder.
It was generally agreed in the Swope
house, said Dr. Hyde, that he should
go to New York, and meet Lucy Lee
Swope.
Ucrms and Poisons Missing.
"L'pon your return from New Tork,
did you find anything missing from
your office?"
"Yes, there were germs and poisons
missing. Among other things gone
were some typhoid and diphtheria
germs and some cyanide of potassium
capsules."
"Had you planned to experiment in
bacteriology ?
Yes, even as1 early as August. 1908. I
arranged for space for a laboratory in
the building in which my office is lo
cated." Apked about cyanide, Dr. Hyde
admitted he bought it of a local druggist.
"What were you going to do with the
cyanide?
I was going to use It to kill vermin.
The soiled towels, in my office attracted
roaches and buses and I took the towels
bonie every S.turdHy night. I wanted
them as free from insects as possible. I
also used the dry cyanide to sprinkle on
towels when they were spotted with blood
and in cleaning nitrate of silver stains.
The reason I had the drug in capsules
was because it is a volatile poison and
this was a convenient form in which to
have it put up to keep it from wasting.
"Was any of this cyanide ever given to
any human being?"
"No sir."
"Did you throw away capsules of any
kind in a street in Independence on last
December IS?
"I did not." At this point the defense
closed its examination of the witness.
SHASTA LIMITED WRECKED
Ilea v Kains Cau.sc Spreading
Kails at Eugene.
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fcl'ii KNE, Or., May 10. (Special. The
Shasta 1 limited was wrecked this morn
ins1, just outside the city limits, as The
result uf the loosening of the roadbed by
last night's heavy rains. Only tlv
prompt nt'tss of the engineer Jn stopping
the train, which was going at a speed
of miles an hour, within 300 feet,
savcd the train from going over a 15-foot
embankment. There is a sharp curve
where the rails spread, and the place h
fciven the road much trouble. The en
Kne passed over the place all right, and
the engineer knew o nothing wrong un
til He felt the tender behind him bump
ing over the ties. About the same time,
lie discovered that the mail, baggage,
smoker and sleeping cars had left the
trark and were careening at angles of
45 degrees.
Tassengers were badly shaken up, but
no one was seriously injured. The track
was torn up for a distance of 100 feet,
and rails were bent into fantastic shapes.
Two wrecking trains came and the track
is clear tonight. g
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'aris Disappointed Lecture Is
Given in English.
"TEDDY" TOYS, FOR SALE
Replies of Colonel as He Appeared
on Hunting Trip In Africa Dis
played Great Applause
Greets ex-President's Speech.
BY GEORGE GRANTHAM BAIN'.
PARIS, April 25. (Special.) Mr. Roose
velt is a very busy man. "While he was
in Egypt he began to receive so much
mail that he was obliged to press into
service his one-time First Assistant and
Secretary of State OLauirhJin to help
him answer it. Now he keeps a secre
tary busy all the time. I called on him
Sunday morning on a special mission and
while he was talking with me he pointed
to a heap of letters which had just come.
(They have mall deliveries on Sunday in
Paris). In spite of the many demands
on his time, however, he received a little
girl who came on a charitable mission
and put his autograph on a big portrait
of him which she wanted to sell at a
hospital fair.
One illustration of the local interest in
his visit stared at me from a. shop win
dow as I made my way through the Rue
de Rivoll to the City Hall. In a shop
called the "'Infants' Paradise' was dis
played under the American flag a big
box labeled "Lea chasses de Teddy
Roosevelt en Afrique."
The box was not less than three feet
sciuare and In it were a ngure or tne
ex-President about nine inches high
glasses, teeth and all dressed in a khaki
suit and helmet. A bearded African in
semi-military dress and turban, carrying
eun: two African bearers in no dress
to speak of, miniature tents, articulated
elephants, tigers and lions, spears and
an assortment of forest trees. This won
derful toy was priced at J19. so only the
children of the very rich can familiarize
themselves in this way with, the doings
of our mighty hunter.
At the City Hall a large crowd awaited
the coming of the distinguished guest.
The police kept them at a reasonable
distance. The reception, was set for lliJO
o'clock, but it was just noon, when the
President struck his little bell to call the
Council to .order. A minute later ail
stood as ex-President Roosevelt entered.
He was accompanied by M. Millerand, of
the Cabinet, and by Mr. Bacon, the
American Ambassador, Mr. Jusserand
and others. He was greeted with liberal
applause.
The President or the council began nis
speech almost immediately, speaking
slowly and articulating with great dis
tinctness. I sat where I could see Mr.
Roosevelt's face and I saw his lips- un
consciously repeating? the words of the
President. Occasionally he nodded ac
quiesence in what was said by the Presi
dent and the speakers who followed him.
When one of them spoke of race suicide,
Mr. Roosevelt laughed very heartily.
When another spoke of license as lead
ing to anarchy, Mr. Roosevelt turned and
made some vigorous comments to Mr.
Millerand. Occasionally he joined in the
applause which greeted some speaker's
words.
When he arose to answer, it was quick
ly evident why Mr. Roosevelt does not
make public speeches in French. His ac
cent is execrable. Though he had his
remarks written on a scrap of paper to
which be frequently referred, he stumbled
and mixed his genders and altogether
made quite a lingual mess. One has
imagined Mr. Roofevelt speaking fluently
with the French President and the Ger
man Emperor In their own tongue. If he
knows no more German than French he
will have some difficulty making Em
peror William understand.
The members of the Assembly, how
ever, received the ex-Preshlent's brief
remarks wrth kindly indulgence and ap
plauded them liberally. They crowded
around him and shook his hands, until
he was led away to the luncheon given
in his honor In the Salle des Fetes.
The invitations to this City Hail func
tion by the way stated that it was given
to "M. lo President Roosevelt" and all
the speakers addressed him as "M. le
President."
RICH MAN'S SON IS SUICIDE
Coroner's Jury Kinds Frank Ii.
Smith Killed Himself.
lKTROIT, May 10. That Frank L.
Smith, son of the late Eben Smith, one
cif the famous group of Leadville million
aires, firedw the shot which caused his
ieath yesterday morning, presumably
with suicidal intent, was the finding of a
Coroner's jury at the inquest held today.
Charles T. Carnahan. a brother-in-law
of the dead man. testified that Smith's
first words to him after the shooting
were:
"I tried to do a good job."
rrimmr. of Paris, tha Japanese Rovern
PKiu intends to establish m motor matl vn
service. dslR-netl to cunncct the principal
l a -ria In Japan.
BALLINGER
IS
FRANK
(Continued From First Page.)
men spectators rebuked the Senator
because he undertook to discipline the
inquisitor for "snapping" at members
of the committee.
You can Insult witnesses, but you
can't insult the committee," said Nel
son hotly, addressing Brandeis.
"You can't insult him, either," Inter
rupted the lawyer's fair defender,
whose identity was hidden behind a
solid row of chantlcler hats.
Incident Restores Harmony.
Nelson was too surprised to answer.
So was Brandeis and harmony was restored.
Brandeis asked the Secretary about
his connection in the interim with
several companies that had cases be
fore the Land Office. In all of these
cases, Ballinger said, he represented
the companies purely out of accom
modation, as it belonged to that class
of business his firm did not care to
develop.
Work Hone as Accommodation.
Reading a. letter written by Ballinger
as the representative of the Hanford Irri
gation Company in which he had used the
term "we," Brandeis asked the witness
about his relations with that company.
"I have no hesitation in saying," said
the Secretary, "that I had $2000 worth of
stock In the company. I have since dis
posed of it."
"Why did you not so state during your
direct examination?" inquired Brandeis.
'Because I did not think of it, and did
not think it cut any figure, and don't
think so now."
Returning again to the Cunningham
claim, Brandeis asked the Secretary why
he had appeared as counsel for the com
plainants before the Land Office after he
had passed upon the claims as Commis
sioner of the Land Office. Ballinger re
plied that he drew up the affidavit for
Clarence Cunningham end presented it to
Secretary Garfield, more as a matter of
accommodation than anything else. He
said he had not "appeared" before the
Land Office in these cases as a lawyer.
Questioning the secretary as to whether
the propriety of representing the Cunning
ham claimants before the Land Office
had occurred to his mind, Brandeis
pressed the witness for a direct answer.
Ballinger merely replied there wes no
occasion for it to occur to his mind, as he
was satisfied he was violating no law.
Tht attorney referred to Attorney-Gen
eral Wlckersham's resume of the Glavis
charges which has been prepared for the
President. Wickersham construed sec
tion 190 of the revised statutes as con
taining nothing to prevent Ballinger from
appearing as counsel before the Land
Office within two years after he had left
it. Brandeis asked the Secretary why
he Had not called to the attention of the
Attorney-General or of the President that
Secretaries Hitchcock and Garfield had
both made rulings to the contrary and
that Assistant Secretary Pierce had ruled
that Ballinger himself could not prac
tice before the Land Office.
Ballinger replied he did not consider
that the rulings had any statute to back
them up.
The name of Senator Piles of Wash
ington was brought in through an effort
of Brandeis to. show that "Guggenheim
interests had aided in procuring Bad
linger's appointment as Commissioner.
Although the committee by a party vote
sustained , Senator Sutherland's protest
against a Senator being "dragged into the
investigation," Brandeis was permitted to
read a newspaper account of a celebra
tion of Senator Piles' election, held in
Seattle In January, 1905, at which Mr.
Piles was quoted as saying in a speech
that "Charles Sweeney brought about my
election." Sweeney is president of the
Federal Smelting Company, subsidiary to
the Guggenheim syndicate, and Is one of
the Cunningham claimants.
Ballinger said he was present on
that occasion as Mayor of Seattle, but did
not recall Mr. Piles' speech. Senator Piles
urged President Roosevelt to appoint Mr.
Ballinger as Commissioner, but the latter
today reiterated his former statement
that he did not decide to accept until he
had been urged to do so by both him and
Secretary Garfield.
Brandeis had stated he had reason to
believe Ballinger's appointment as Com
missioner of the Land Office and later as
Secretary of the Interior was the result
of an effort of those influences of the
Northwest interested to have someone in
the Land Office whose ideas regarding
the patenting of lands in Alaska were
different from those of Secretary Gar
field. Ballinger declared that the Cunningham
claims had been clear listed by him on
the strength of records before him and
that on the same records, as he said be
fore, he woudd clear-list them again.
SALEM WARNED OF FEVER
Health Officer Wants Precautions
Taken to Block Disease.
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SAlKM, Or., May 10. (Special.) Dr. O.
B. Miles, CTity Health Officer tonlfrht is
sued a statement in "which he said
"Notwithstanding reports of the pre
valence of scarlet fever in the city, there
are only two cases of the disease and.
two others that are under suspicion or
being scarlet fever. There are some
cases in the surrounding towns and near
ly 100 In Portland and I wish to "warn
Salem people to use every precaution
to avoid contracting the disease by com
ing in contact with Outsiders. We are
sparing no effort to prevent a spread of
the disease In this city."
rr. J. X. Smith, medical inspector of
the public schools, gave notice two weeks
ago that every case of sore throat In
the schools must be reported to him and
the children sent home. JVlso that all
children in families where the disease
has made its appearance must be kept at
home until the Quarantine its raised.
Legislation Cannot Change Natural
Conditions, Elkins Points Out.
Dividing Line in Rate Mak
ing Is Hard to Find.
ORSGONIJL! NfJWS BUREAU, Wash
ington, May 10. "Water competition Is a
fiction." declared Senator Heyburn, of
Idaho, in the course of a speech in sup
port of his long and short haul amend
ment to. the interstate commerce bill.
His declaration was made in response
to an interruption by Senator Briggs, of
New Jersey, who had set up the argu
ment that transcontinental rail rates
were necessarily affected by water com
petition, an argument that did not meet
the approval of the Idaho Senator, but
which brought forth the foregoing
answer.
A little later in Senator Heyburn's
speech, he was interrupted again by
Senator Briggs, and the following oc
curred, as quoted In the Congressional
Record:
Mr. Brirsrw I should like to ack the Senator
from Idaho If he supposes that the rate by
rail la the same or less than the water rate
from ocean to ocean?
Mr. Heyburn There is no water rate from.
ocean to ocean, strictly speaking-, except It
might be around. th cape. It is purely
theory.
Mr. Briega It may be a theory; but, at tne
same time, a great many shipments are be
ing made on that theory, and the rates are
being made on that theory.
AVa ter Ra te Is Rea 1 it y .
In the midst of his speech. Senator
Heyburn - was interrupted by Senator
Elk iris, who, like Senator Briggs, be
lieves that water "Competition Is a factor
in regulating rail rates. The following
occurred:
Mr. Elkins Mr. President, one word. I
want to tell the Senator that the State of
Washington ships lumber into my state, and
live ia a lumber-producing state, it ships
shingles, it sells lumber in my state cheaper
than we can sell our lumber. The rate from
the Washington lumber camps to Chicago is
much less than from Louisiana. Mississippi,
North Carolina and West Virginia. There
s a common point Chicago. I do not know
how many miles It Is from Washington to
Chicago, but we will say from some lumber
producing point In Washington in the Rocky
Mountains it is 2000 miles to Chicago. That
rate ' is less than In the lumber-producing
sections of the Southeast 500 miles from Chi
cago. Ought not that to satisfy the Senar
tor? I have a barn on my place in West
Virginia that Is covered by shingles brought
from tne btaie oi wasnington. it you de
stroy the long-and-short-haul provision in
the present law, then you will destroy all
the markets In the Bast or Middle West for
umber and shingles from the State of
Washington.
Mr. Heyburn If there is some place on
the coast where they can put the lumber In
your market and sell It to you cheaper than
we can, they would sell you the lumber and
we would not participate in that prosperity.
That is why we want
Mr. Elkins They will send It around
through the Panama Canal when the canal
Is completed and get the lumber to New
York, cheaper than you can get it there.
You cannot help that. The Atlantic Ocean
was made before we were born.
Mr. Heyburn Yes; I have heard it was.
Mr. EJlklns And we had nothing to do
wun tne ma King or it. jur. .president, we
cannot legislate against natural conditions.
We cannot by legislation change the Atlan
tic Ocean so as to locate it this side of the
Rocky Mountains. We can not locate Lake
Micnigan by act of Congress between Idaho,
Utah and Montana so as to make Salt Lake
or Boise City as large as Chicago. We can
not equalize natural- conditions.
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Supreme Council Convenes.
NASHVILLE, May 10. The Sypreme
Council of the Knig-hts of America,
convened here today. This afternoon
at Mount Calvary Cemetery, the grrave
of James McLAugrhlin, the founder of
tb.9 order, was decorated
logical Conclusion Sought.
Pretty soon. Senator Aldrich became
interested. Senator Heyburn had re
peated over and over again his conten
tion that the charge for the long- haul
should be the maximum charge for the
short haul. The Rhode Island Senator
finally broke in, and catechised the
Idaho Senator, saying:
"I should like to find out something; about
the basis of the Senator's contention with
reference to his amendment. Suppose that
the rate from New York to San Francisco is
20 cents a hundred pounds on some article
of merchandise; does the Senator think that
the rate to Reno ought to be 20 cents a
pound ?
Mr. Heyburn Tes; that it shall- not ex
ceed 20 cents a pound.
Mr. Aldj-ioh And the rate to Salt Take
City ought to be 20 cents a hundred pounds?
Mr. Heyburn Yes ; they wi 11 not com
plain If you put them on an equal footing.
Mr. Aldrich And to Denver the rate
ought to tie zo cents a hundred pounds?
Mr. Heyburn Yes.
Mr. Aldrich And to Salina?
Mr. Heyburn You are getting- east of the
line now. Yes; as far as I am concerned, I
do not see why the railroad should charge
more for hauling to Salina than they charge
to San Francisco. They do not do half the
worn.
Mr. Aldrich The Senator thinks that
would be a fair rate?
Mr. Heyburn That would be the maxi
mum.
Mr. Aldrich What would be the mini
mum 7
Mr. Heyburn We do not care about the
minimum. This bill Is not undertaking: to
deal with that Question.
Mr. AJdricli I hu noose the Senator would
not say the rate ou?ht not to be the same
rrom xsew York to .Baltimore?
Mr. Heyburn I will let Baltimore look
out lor that point. It Is a seaboard town.
Aldrich Answers Argument.
As the colloquy closed. Senator Aldrich
advanced a few ideas of his own by way
of answer to the main argument made
by Senator Heyburn. He said :
I was trying to find out exactly what
was in the mind of the Senators who sup
port this proposition. For instance, take the
rate on lumber. Should the rate on lumber
from Idaho to New York be the same that
it is irom Micnigan to New York or should
there be any difference in rates ? Take
Montana, Tor instance. Should the rate on
copper from Helena and Butte be the same
as the rate on copper from Michigan ?
Should the rate on wool from Idaho and
Montana be the same as the rate on wool
from Michigan or should there be some ref
erence to distance in connection with it?
If so, what rule of distance is to apply?
Should the farmers who live in Iowa pay
the same rate that the farmer pavs who
lives In Western New York, for instance,
for eggs or butter or wheat?
The Senator talks about the wheat fields
of Idaho. Should the wheat grown in the
wheat fields of Idaho pay the same rate as
the wheat grown in the wheat fields of
Minnesota? If not, - why not? Are we to
have a distance rate established or what is
to De tne rule that is to annly If we are to
have a disorganization of the entire rate
business of the country?
I do not know but that the rule may be
right. I realize that there are great dis
crepancies, and those discrepancies have
grown out of existing conditions. For in
stance. I was talking with a man the other
nay aoout tne rates down the Mississippi
River. He said that in the old days of
siRamooaii me rates irom c'airo to Mem
phis. iNatooez. Shreveport. and New Or
leans were just the same. Why? Because
It was a question of loading and unload
ing steanxsrs; that that was the principal
element of cost. For a long time a man
who was shipping dr goods of any kind
from Chicago to any one of these ports
paid the same rate. "When the railroads
were built the Illinois Central and th other
roads which competed with the steamboats
were obliged to give the same rate to Mera
ph is. Natch ez, S h neve port, and New Or
loan. There was a condition that con
fronted the railroads.
Line Hard to Draw.
I will agree that on the surface of the
thing that does not seem to be fair, but
what are you to do? What rule is to ba
established ? If you establish a distance
rate, then It Is a mileage rule. If you
say that the rate ought to be less to Reno
than to San Francisco, I will agree upon
the face of the papers that that is so, but
what about the people of Salt Lake ? Are
tney to pay the same rate that is paia to
Reno? Why should they? What about
IXinver? Why should the people of Den
ver pay the same rate to New York that
tho people of Salt Lake pay. and why
should the people of Kansas City pay the
same rate to New York that the people
of Denver or Salt Lake pay?
ir tne rule or competition wnicn nas
been established through all these years
is to De auoiisnea, what rule is to taae
its place?
Later senator Aldrich said:
I am not undertaking to say that all the
rates at every Dolnt in the United States
are proper, or that their relation to each
otner is properly aajustea. i am only
suggesting that these rates have grown out
of existing conditions, involving a great
variety of elements, and if w are to dis
organize the rates. If we are to destroy cer
tain commercial centers ana create otner
commercial centers, it Is Important for us
to Know the rule, tne absolute rule, .wnicn
It to be adopted In establishing rates to
take the place of the present rates.
Air. tievourn x will uaii sometning oi
the rule that has been adopted in the past.
The officers and men Interested in building
the railroad to Portland, Or., practically
controlled the cltv and owned vast hold
ings tner. iney too it tne rauroad to
Portland when It was a very small place,
and they built It up by giving it ad
vantages and discriminating In favor of It.
They did not nave any interest in tne otner
cities along the route. The same is true
of T acorn a ; and I have In my mind a place
in the state or vv ashinirton wnere. because
the town would not make certain conces
sions as to the right of way, the rauroaa
built a town a mile and a half away, which
practically destroyed " the old town.
New Towns Built T7p.
At "Weiser. Idaho, which Is one of our
growing places of vast importance, where
cattle, sheep, grain, beets, and other prod
ucts come from, they built the railroad
down a mile away from the old town, and
they gav Inducements to people to do
buttineRR where the railroad was locatea.
because the individuals connected with the
enterprise were interested there. But they
could not gobble up the old town when they
came to it. n nose people naa Deen tiier
for wears on the banks of the Weiser River.
They were there away back in the early
'60s; they had some pride in their hold
IntrH. snri thpv would not give them UD
because some railroad man came along and
said, "We want that block, and we want
that block, and want that street; you will
have to vacate that street and get off of it;
we want to put our tracks there and our
depot there." The people said 'no, and
the railroad men saia. we win dumu mo
r rn Rome where else. xney oia duui
it somewhere else, and they have done the
ha me thine- in many otner n.aces mat we
a re nil Tamil In r with. That is one Of the
elements that enter into the fixing of rates.
They will give rates to those places in
which they are interested.
Mr. Aldrich During my life I have seen
great cities built up and great communities
established. The West Is full of them. St.
Paul and Minneapolis, in iact every great
- r h ir in th wiRt is treat, either on ac
count of its natural advantages of loca
tion nr because tne transportation com
panies have given it facilities, both In rates
and otnerwise, mat mej vo v
other communities.
Every man in t n is en amoer Knows i n bi
my statement is true. What is the remedy?'
Are we to destroy St- Paul and Minneapolis
and establish some new center of activity
in Minnesota in some town which hardly
has an existence today? Are we to trans
fer the trade of St. Louis and Kansas City
and Minneapolis and St. Paul and Denver
tn nme niace in laano wnicn is nut
known upon the map?
ATH
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ALL
OTS
12 WEIGHERS SUSPENDED
Collector of Customs Loeb Takes
Action, Following Investigation.
NEW YORK, May 10. That Collector
Loeb'a vigilant watch over the customs
service here has not relaxed was evi
dent today when the announcement
came of 12 additional suspensions as a
result of fresh investigations. Nine of
the suspended men are inspectors. All
12 were formerly engaged In weighing
importations of sugar, figs and cheese.
These suspensions, it is announced,
are the first result of a general Inves
tigation being made by W. f. Dennl-
son. Assistant United States Attorney
General, and his force of secret serv
ice men from the Department of Jus
tice. The blow fell without the least
warning. There was much excitement
among the 400 men employed in that
branch of the service when the sus
pensions were announced.
Some of the. men affected were sup
posed to have good records, and It was
given out that further inquiry might
result in reinstatements. Every branch
of Government employment in the, port
is under investigation, and other sus
pensions are expected.
Free Cigars Are Opposed.
HARTFORD, Conn, 'May 10. A res
olution was passed at today's conven
tion of the National Cigar Leaf Asso
ciation, putting the organization on
record as opposed to monopoly in any
form. Another resolution was pre
sented condemning the free admission
of Philippine tobacco as contrary to
specific pledges of the Republican platform.
NOW ON SALE
It is the development of the resources of the territory
adjacent to a distributive point that makes a city
out of that point and a profit on a realty investment.
If the resources are extensive, the city is bound to be
large, n
RESOURCES Klamath Falls, Oregon
Twenty billion feet of timber, great stock and dairy
country, grain, fruit, vegetables, water power, rail
road center and wonderful resort country. There is
also at Klamath Falls a hot springs that will be
famous, as the analysis of the water is the same as
that at Carlsbad. The Government is now reclaim
ing 300.000 acres of the richest land known at cost of
4,000,000.
Until recently Klamath Kalis has been 60 miles from
transportation, with a population of 3000. Today the
new main "ine of the Southern Pacific is running into
Klamath Falls. It has been announced that ttve Ore
gon Trunk will be built to Klamath Falls. Further
prospects of transportation are the Harrlman line front
up the Deschutes, the Harriman line from across Cen
tral Oregon, and the Hill line from across Central
Oregon.
You can pee from this that Klamath Falls is des
tined to become a greater railroad center than Spokane
is today, and this will come about in the near future.
You who read this advertisement can put it down
as a fact that Klamath Falls is going to grow so fapt
that it will break all records and astonish the people
of this entire country.
There is one resource that Klamath FallB is not
favored with that is to the credit of Spokane Falls,
Wash. the mining resources; but this resource will
be more than offset by the resort and outing resources
in favor of Klamath Falls. The beauty of big Klamath
Lake and surrounding country, with the exceptionally
agreeable climate at all times of the year, the abund
ance of all kinds of fish and game and the mysteries
of Crater Lake are going to attract thousands and
thousands of people to Klamath Falls every year.
LOTS NOW ON SALE. NOW'S THE TIME TO BUY
Price of Klamath Falls Lots $150 Up
Terms 10 Down, Balance to Suit
If you are looking for a safe investment that will
show a big permanent profit, Klamath Falls is the
place. As to the amount of profit, this is a matter
that depends entirely on your patience. Some pur
chases may show 200 per cent, while others will show
a tremendous profit.
Those who get in on the ground floor in any city
always come out with the profit.
The investing in and holding of realty has been
the foundation of the wealth of every wealthy man in
Portland today.
There are some excellent investments in Klamath
Falls business, warehouse and residence property.
The Souther-AIbertson Co.
Exclusive Sales AKts for Everything in "
KLAMATH FALLS,
286 OAK STREET
WARNING This property that we are selling is the
official Southern Pacific townsite property, and we are
the exclusive sales agents. Don't let others tell you
different.
F. E. TAYLOR & CO, 402-3 Lewis Bidding, Authorized Agents
B. E. Walker. LL.D, President.
A. Laird General Manager.
Established 1867.
The Canadian Bank of Commerce
HEAD OFFICE, TORONTO.
London Office,
2 Lombard Street. E. C
New York Office.
16 Exchange Place.
Branches Throughout the Dominion of Canada; Also at San Francisco,
Seattle and Skagway.
Canadian Collections. -
This bank, having over 180 branches, distributed throughout the Do
minion, is enabled to offer unsurpassed facilities for making collections
in any part of Canada.
Portland Branch, Cor. Second and Stark Streets, F. C. Malpaa, Manager.