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4. THE STJXD AY OREGOXIAX, PORTLAND, OCTOBER -13, 1907. MONEY STOLEN BY EMBEZZLERS First Half of 1907 Holds Rec ord for Three Years in Amount. BANKS WORST SUFFERERS Dishonest Employes Annexed $5, 482,687 Beneficial Associa tions Los Much, Insur ance Companies Little. ' NEW YORK. Oct. 12. (Special.) The bonding companies of this city have Just found out how much the clever rogues here and elsewhere In the United States have stolen during the first six months of the present year. The total, compared with the corresponding period in 19U6 and 1906, is as follows: IBfiT, $5,S4.fl85 3!o s.nm:i9 11K7 . S.48.t87 Total for the three periods 14.M6,687 April Is the favorite month with em bezzlers. They begin their operations with the first gladsome warbles of Spring, just before the race tracks are swept up for the season. The defalcations by months, this year, were as follows: January f 72S.713 3hruary i1.6H0.1H1 March 1.4S1.S0O April l.l:(O.B.13 Mav i 40e.l2 Julia 204.410 Total for six months J6.48S.687 In April, 1905, the nimble thieves got away wlih t-. 333.046. In the following April thry made their blKgcst hauls. The banks and trust companies were the worst suHerrrs. They lost J2.OSO.B90, as against only $758,750 in the tlrst half of 1906. The publlc-Bervice corporations and the like were the next hairiest hit. They parted Involuntarily with J936.335. as against $985,380 In the first half of 1906, and J620. 011 in the first half of 1905. Next were the general business houses, which lost $819, 372 through dishonest employes, as com pared wilh $1.0:10.373 in the first half of 19nt. Miscellaneous institutions, brew eries. Ice-cream saloons, stores, etc., were robbed of $817,874. as against only $459, 369 in the same months last year. Beneficial associations had their funds depleted to the extent of $400,703, as against $142,934 In 1903 and $296,876 in 19D5. More than $253,000 in court trust funds were Btolen, an excess of only $5000 over the same period in 1906. In the first half of 1905. $795,513 of court funds disappeared through peculation. The transportation companies lost $104,552, as agelnst $75,964 in 1906 and $92,300 in 1905. The Insurance companies were the smallest sufferers. They lost by thievery only $69,563, as against $137,435 in 1906 and $13,561 in 1905. This does not in clude funds Juggled in dodging Insurance commissions or "yellow dog" accounts. HEALTH BEGINS AT HOME Shows Why Fhysiclans Shouldn't Inspect Children at School. PORTl.ANT, Oct. 12. (To tho Editor.) In The Oregonlnn for the past week or ao a discussion ha been going on as to whethr the public schools shall b visited by a commission of Dhyslclans to look after th health of the pupils. Thore Is a division of opinion In the mat ter. Home Pay "yes," some "no." I, as a common citizen, ilea ire to enter a protest to that manner of looking after the chil dren's health. In the schools; It should be attended to In the children' homes. That Is to suy. the teacher should promptly re port tn the principals of the school any case of Indisposition or lUueaa seen In a pupil, whether it be acute or chronic In character, and the Health Board should at once be nntlflnd of It.- The child should then be visited at Its home by a competent physi cian, where all the surrounding circum stances could b looked into. It Is In the home where the conditions of 111-henlth arlfe. It may bo possible .that the child doea not get enough to eat. or unwholesome food Is eaten, or In many ways conditions about that rfhlld'a home are productive of the Ill-health In question. The teachers or principals should be judges of the sanitary conditions among their pupils. If they are not. how can a physi cian enter a schoolroom and leaving the same In 20 mlnutea, determine the condi tion of thft Tirnlth of tho children? The causes of a child'! ill-health. If it I belongs in the home, should be kept aacred from the knowledge of all others, and In ' no other place can that be done than In th "home, if the causes of Ill-health arise in the school or about the building or play ' grounds, these causes should be eliminated , at once by the authorities. , In some respects I am something of a ; Christian Scientist. There is no surer way to put a child on the .Joad to Ill-health than to start a physician after aim, to ewe that he keeps well. Fome years ago I discovered that many .children in our public schools suffered from wtak eyes, and am persuaded that the f cause was bad light and the Incessant use 'by the pcholara of white paper tablets for writing. So far as I know, nothing has been done to mi Citato this evil. W. H AMPTOJfiMITH. IMPORTED LICORICE ROOT 'We Bay Half a Million Dollars' Worth a 1'ear Front Asia Minor. ' Licorice root grows wild In the fields of jiAsIa Minor, and few attempts have been made thus far toward its cultivation. Vntll 60 years ago it was practically un used, says Fur News. The root grown on the Meander Plains Is the beet in the world, being superior to that found in ; Syria, Mesopotamia. Caucasia, Siberia or 'China. The exporters of the root lease licorlee , bearing lands for a period of from three to five years. Digging usually begins In October, and is done by peasants, who at the end Of each day deliver the root to the various depots and receive payment ac cording to the quantity they bring. The root is plied up and exposed to the air until about May and June. It then welglie only half as much as originally, owing to the thorough drying process to which it has been subjected. The root is ported to obtain the qualities known as . "debris" and "bagette," both of which are highly valued. Licorice root is shipped in bales weighing about 220 pounds each, pressed by hydrau lic machinery and strapped with iron bamls. The United States is the principal consumer of this class of licorice, which is shipped in Its natural state as raw l.iHtwial, being admitted free of duty. H is converted into licorice paste for lm-diolnal purposes, and la especially used for flavoring plug tobacco. Licorice root In its original state can also be found In any drugstore In America. Annual exports to the Visited States amount to about 14, 2W tons, valued at $5SO,000. The Efficacy of Tree Leather. PORTLAND. Oct. 12. (To the Editor.) Kefrrrlnc to ths communlrmtlon in The Ore gonisn regarding the substance resembling chamois skin. I irould state that several year, ago my former husbsjid fonnd seine t ot the sun funiL At that tuns I thought J it was buckskin. He said that the In dians asserted it was valuable In checking the flow of blood from a, wound. I after wards placed It on one of my bands for that purpose. Putting it over the fresh cut, this tree leather, as they called It, sticks like conrtViaster. checking the now of blood and holding the flesh In place. It la also very healing. It grows In decaying spruce logs and is one of Nature's remedies. A READER. STEAL BY THE MILLION Pilfering Employes or the Big Pitts burg Industrial Plants. New York Press. Millions of dollars a year are lost to the great Industrial establishments of the United States through theft by employes. And to guard against this and apprehend the guilty ones a vast private police and detective force is maintained at enormous expense. Nowhere else n the country is this more signally shown than in Greater Pittsburg, with its 5000 manufactur ing plants, employing 280,000 work men, for that city, as is well known, is the industrial metropolis of America. While the number of employes caught pilfering is small in comparison with the total number of men employed, tha aggregate is large enough to make one pause and think. Electric manufacturing companies suffer most from this kind of theft, as they use large amounts ot copper, and this metal, besides being of consider ably value, bringing twenty-one cents a pound as- Junk, can be successfully concealed on the person. It can al ways be sold to unscrupulous dealers in Junk. Tools, leather, bales of linen, etc., all used in such work, constitute the balance of the goods stolen. It is said that the annual theft of employes of the three great electrical concerns of the country the General Electric, the Westlnghouse and the Western Electric totals more than $100,000. The General Electric Com pany employes 18,000 men at its vast works at Schenectady, N. Y.; the West lnghouse Company, 14,000 at its East Pittsburg plant, and the Western Elec tric, makers of telephones, about 6000 at its Chicago works. The value of material and tools stolen from the WeBtlnghouse works In a year is about $30,000. Eighteen employes were con victed and sent to the penitentiary or workhouse Hast year. Since the first of the present year 46 arrests have been made, 36 of which proved convictions, the other ten not yet having been dis posed of. In .the majority of cases the offenders are foreigners and of the less educated class, Americans figuring in the minority. But there are exceptions, apd some of them are inexplicable. There is the case of a young man of excellent fami lly, heir to a fortune in -Maryland, where his parents stand high In the business and social world. Last Sum mer this young man, who is an eleo trlcal engineer, and, until his arrest, employed in that capacity at the works, was taken Into custody by Chief of Police A. A. Conners, and, upon, his room being searched, a vast amount of copper, bales of linen, tools and other things ware found. At the trial the prisoner pleaded guilty .and was sen tenced to three months in the Alle gheny county Jail. He could -not give any clear, intelligent reason for his ac tion in thus blighting a promising career and bringing disgrace on his family, so his strange crime must be added to tl!e category of those com mitted by kleptomaniacs. He had 500 pounds of copper in his room and had sold 2575 pounds of the same metal. The police also found $267 worth of tracing linen in his room. Some of the men detected in ab stracting goods from the shops do a regular exporting business, as was proved in the case of three Slavs and a Russian, who systematically pilfered rolls of cotton and rubber, which they shipped to Austria and Hungary. Each man received two years in the peniten tiary. Various and ingenious are the de vices used by many of these men to purloin goods out of the works. Some wear belts around their -waist, on which are hooks, and to these they at tach bundles of one kind or another. Some use their pockets or their dinner buckets, and in the Winter conceal quantities ot goods or tools under their great overcoats. In some cases the police have found that the wives, mothers and sisters of employes materially assist the purloin ers by selling the copper and other goods for them. Some of the big steel companies and others never send a case to court if they can help it, as expe rience proves Juries always sympathize with the offenders, many of whom re seive small wages and support large families. Great, rich corporations get small consideration in many ot such oases. Steel mills making only heavy ma terial are not sufferers to any great extent at the hands of dishonest em ployes stealing goods, as such .things as rails and structural shapes cannot be carried off. But finished steel, such as crucible, is often stolen and -valuable chemicals spirited away; also tools. The big glass factories fre quently report thefts of cut glass. In one recent case in Pittsburg workmen got away with a wagon load of 16 barrels of glassware at midnight. KILLED BY FREE IMPORTS Gloomy Report on Condition of the English Hop Industry. IONlJON. Oct. 11 (Special.) "Free imports are killing the hop industry of England, as they have many other in dustries." This significant statement is made by Messrs. Le May in their annual report on the English hop crop. The re port says that there are 1784 acres less in cultivation than there were last year. Thirty-one years ago the acreage was more than 72.0C0; now there are only 44,938 acres. As far back as 1819, when " the consumption of beer was not more than one-fifth of what it is today, the acreage was 61,014. Owing to the low temperature of the Summer, the report adds, the cones of the hops have developed very slowly. The consequence is that they are small, but they are full of lupulln, and the quality generally will be the richest in brewing properties that has been dealt with for many years. Wood and Water, Into Sugar. Popular Mechanics. An electro-chemical process by which wood and water are actually converted into the purest and sweetest sugar is being demonstrated in a Western city. The machine, which costs only $1000, is composed of a water boiler, a furnace for heating steam until it turns Into hydrogen and oxygen, a retort in which the charcoal is reduced to a gas and mixed with the hydrogen and oxygen, a water tank in which the combination of gases is cooled, an air compressor and a set of highly charged electrodes. In a - test the machine's output of chemically pure sugar was 70 pounds in 30 minutes. It is claimed that sugar can be produced commer cially at one cent per pound from ele ments almost as free as air. A. VuUleuroier, Jeweler, ta now located at 250 Alder street. This week cut glass and painted china at reduced prices. Eyes fitted to classes, $3. at Metxger"i. CURS STILL SCARCE Lane Says the Traffic Grows Faster Than the Supply. PREDICTS- FUEL FAMINE yorthwest Will Suffer If Winter Is Hard and Long:, for -eSal Output Is Stationary, While De- i xoand Is Increasing. OHEOONIAN NEW3 BUREAU, Wash ington, Oct. 13. Interstate Commerce Commissioner Lane returned today from a trip to the Pacific Coast, thoroughly convinced that the business of the North west is going to suffer by reason of the general car shortage. He found throughout that section that, although the railroads are Increasing their equip ment, some very extensively, business is growing twice as rapidly, and in con sequence the roads are bound to fall farther and farther behind. He did not discuss the question in detail or indicate what action the Interstate Commerce Commission is likely to take, for he has not yet had an opportunity of conferring with his colleagues. Mr. Lane said there would be a fuel famine in the Northwest, if there should be a lor.g, hard Winter. Increase of manufactures, and increased use of coal by railroads calls for more coal than the old markets have been accustomed to supply, and wood fuel cannot supply the deficiency for domestio use, because of the high wages demanded by lumbermen, making it unprofitable to place wood on the market in large quantities.- If the Winter is mild and short, the Northwest may escane without suffering; otherwise there will be hardship. ARE BETTER THAN WHITES Natives Learn More Rapidly Than Settlers In South Africa. JOHANNESBURG, ' Oct 12. (Special.) Many extraordinary facts regarding the -position of the natives in the Transvaal are given in a' series of reports lsssued by the Transvaal Land Owners" Associa tion. The reports are made by special commissioners sent out by the associa tion. In one the writer says: "It has become quite a common practice for white men to plough land for na tives. The latter pay the former so much per acre. A decided advance Is notice able among the natives as regards their method of cultivation. In former years most of their land was tilled by women, who used the hoe, practically their only Implement of agriculture, whereas at present it is quite common to see the men cultivating by ploughs drawn either by oxen or donkeys." Another of the commissioners writes: "The rapid strides the natives are making toward civilization and the eager ness they display in endeavoring to learn to read and write have of late become very marked. I regret to say It, but it appears to me . that the native children, as regards education, are comparatively advancing more rapidly than the chil dren of the poorer whites in the out lying districts. I find that on most of the stadts visited a large number of boys are away at work. In fact, in some stadts I found only the womom and old men, all the younger men being away. "From conversation with the natlveB, they all state their willingness to work, but not underground. They also strongly object to being recruited, as they, with out exception, all state that they have been cheated by labor agents to such an extent that they prefer to go and look for work by themselves, as then they will know exactly what work they will have to do and what the remeunera tlon will be." Dealing with the native hut tax, the same writer says: 'I note the government no longer charges a na tive anything more than 10 extra for the second wife. By this I mean that a na tive with four wives pays the same as a native with two. Until recently this, of course,' was different He had to pay for every wife above one." With regard to agriculture, it is' point ed out that the first Sowing of the Whi ter crop of Kaffir - corn has been de stroyed by locUBts, which has necessi tated a late second sowing. Unfortu nately a number of farmers of the Bijwoner class have been unable to pur chase a second supply of seed. Owing to Immunity from horse sickness by in oculatlon, mules are increasing, and are now generally used for transport pur poses, replacing donkeys, which were largely used after the war. This season the game generally has Increased. This is especially the case with koodoo, stein- buck, pheasant and guinea fowl. Wild dogs are increasing, and complaints are constantly being made, more particularly from natives, of losses of goats and sheep Kiued ny tnese animals. CHANGING "BULL RUN" Mr. Hlmes Suggests "Te-wal-1 -kirm" or "Tal-bo-kun-do'' Indian Names. PORTLAND, Oct. 12. To the Editor.) Anent the question of changing the name of the stream which supplies Portland with the beet water on earth at least there Is none better. If left to me, I should most emphatically say. "Don't." The name Is homely, it Is true, but as a rose by any other name would be Just as sweet, so no nam can be given in place of "Bull Run' which will make the water from the wild mountain stream taste one whit "better. If the people, however, are aesthetically disturbed by the word now In vogue, and are bent on having a change, I sincerely hope, with du deference to the excellent gentleman who suggested the name "Cas cades," that It will not be adopted. That name is already very common, and has no especial fitness for the stream under dis cussion. Every stream deecending from the Cascade range, on either side, la equally entitled to such an appellation. Personally, I am In favor of retaining; the Indian names of streams and localities, so far as they can be recovered; and for that reason permit me to suggest the word. "Te-wal-i-kum" River.- an Indian word sig nifying; "crooked." which Is particularly tit tins. If applied to Bull Run River, as that Is a very crooked stream; or "Tal-bo-kun-do" River, meaning "good water," "rapid water." or "swift water." GEORGE U. HIMES. Xorthwest Brevities. Aberdeen, "Wash. The Bell Theater, a vau deville house, was closed today on account of a mortgage. Aberdeen, Wash. Councilman Leltch, of the Bouth Side, has resigned to accept a position with tha Pollard Steamship Company, at an Francisco. Oregon City Elmer R "Woodworth seeks divorre from Eva B. "Woo?wrth, to whom he was married December 20, 1904. at Bakers fleld. Cat Bend. Or. A man named O'Neill planted a single potato In a hill last Spring. This Fall be dug from the hill 49 potatoes, weigh ing 19 pounds. Bend, Or. A traction engine designed to haul freight between Shanlka and Madras will have to wait till the road through Cow Can yon is widened. ChehaJlsv Wash- Glenavco is tho new post- office at the terminus of the Tscoma East ern, four miles from Morton, and C H. T sous dale Is Postmaster. Lyle, Wash. Hon. J. O. Tyle. founder of this town and pioneer granger, was seriously Injured by a fall from a buggy. His old ago makes recovery doubtful. The Dalles, Or. James Hogan, crossing the track in front of an approaching switch en gine, fell, and his right arm was cut off. He does not remember how it happeaed. Walla Walla, "Wash. Michael 8u 111 van. cor poral of Trooo F, Fourteenth Cavalry, who mysteriously disappeared from the presidio at , Monterey, Lai., nas surrenaereo to me re cruiting officer of Davenport, Cal. as a de serter. Sullivan bore an excellent reputation as a soldier. Eugene, Or. The Humphrey Memorial M. El Church will have a chorus choir this Win ter under the direction of Irving W.. Glen, leader of the University of Oregon Glee Club. The organist will be Melville Ogden. who at the age of 15 was playing the organ In Trin ity Ohurch, Portland. Chehalls, Wash.- At Worxman Hall 'tonight there was a reunion of old soldiers and old settlers of Lewis County. The following peo ple were on the programme : Rev. W. J. Dickson, Judge A. E. Rice, W. W. Lan shorn e, IT. - E. Harmon. Rev. D. A. MacKensle. D. Motter, William West and T. H. McCleary. Refreshments were served. University of Oregon Senior class officers have been elected as follows: James Cun ning, of Baker City, president; Miss Helene Robinson, of Eugene; vice-president; Mica Belle Van Duyn, of Eugent, secretary; Uoyd Brooks, of Portland, treasurer; Miss Emily Muehr, of Oregon City, editor; Webster Ki'n kald, of Eugene. sergeant-at-arms. The graduating class numbers over 60. BODIES ABE PETRIFIED TWO JOISTS IX) VXD ICKED TO STOXE IX COFFINS? Removal Shows Effect of Water on Corpses After Burial 40 Years Ago. CHICAGO. Oct. 1. (Special.) Workmen who today removed 12 bodies of nuns from the lot in the rearof the Academy of the Ladies of the Sacred Heart found that two of the number, those of Mother Oalway, iounder of the institution, and Mother Gauthreaux. her successor, were petrified. Both practically were Intact, even to the robes In which they were bur ied, while only the bones of the other ten were found. . Bight men exerted all of their strength to remove the metallic casket containing the body of Mother Galway, and Its esti mated weight was 1100 pounds. The body of Mother Gauthreaux, which also was in a metal 'coffin, w-as removed from the casket, as the latter had been cracked and disintegrated by the frost. Mother Gauthreaux died in 1867 and her predecessor in office died four. year, later. Both were prepared for burial and placed in the caskets by the nuns at the Insti tution, and it is believed that the cover ings were not properly fastened. This ad mitted the water, which is presumed to have caused petrification. LURES THE FARMERS WEST Good Effect of Irrigation Exhibit at , Jamestown Fair. OREGOXIAN NEWS BUREAU, Washington, Oct. 12. 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The Virginia farmer is not made of that kind of stuff that goes to make a success in the West. He Is too lazy and shiftless. He thinks too much of his ancestors and not enough of generations to come, or even of the present generation. This ap plies to the general -run of Virgin ians. There are a few exceptions, but very few. So far as known, only two Virginia farmers have as yet abandoned their native state to seek new homes on Government land in the West. But a much larger percentage of Middle Western men have caught the fever from the exhibit at Jamestown. CATCHES DIABOLO CRAZE Ixndon Flays Old-New Game With Great Enthusiasm. LONDON, Oct. 12. (Special.) Dia bolo, the game whloh is played every where in Paris, has crossed the Chan nel at last and is being sold by the thousand In London. The game is cen turies old, and the revival has been brought afcout by an improvement tn the dtabolo. 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