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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. One of the most
practical as well as one of the mos't
valuable exhibits at . the Jamestown
Exposition is that of the United States
Reclamation Servicer Essentially, it
is the same exhibit that attracted such
wide attention at the Lewis and Clark
Exposition; working models of Gov
ernment projects and illustrated lec
tures demonstrating what the . Govern
ment is doing and how Government ir
rigation helps the farmer. It is es
timated that 95 per cent of the James
town visitors are farmers. The great
bulk of them come from .Virginia and
neighboring states, but of late there
has. been an Influx from the Missis
sippi Valley, Ohio, Indiana and other
states of the Middle West.
The reclamation exhibit is not-accomplishing
much among Virginia
farmers, but it does appeal to' farmers
from the Middle West, and not a few
of the latter class have become suf
ficiently interested to make further In
quiries with a view to selling out and
moving West onto Irrigated land. These
farmers have been convinced of the
superiority of crops raised on irrigated
land. They see in the West no loss
due to drought; they appreciate . the
value of larger and better crops, and
are laying plans to follow the advice
of Horace Greeley. -
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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. It consists of twirling
the diabolo which is made of two
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cones joined together on a cord be
tween two sticks, hurling it into the
air, and catching It on the cord.
"We are selling thousands," said Mr.
Hemley, of Regent street, the other
day. "It was known before as the
'devil on two sticks.' I have 100,000
sets on order, and the Paris factories
cannot turn them out fast enough.
I am arranging for two professional
dlabologists to come from Paris to
give lessons in the art, for, in a way.
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Like a book you fold and hide from
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One motion, and it's gone from you.
Another, and it's back in place.
A marvel of compactness, grace!
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the throwing of the diabolo la an art.
Some of the feats which can be per
formed with the diabolo are marvel
ous. It can be thrown up to a height
of SO feet, caught behind tha back and
Jerked up to another B0 feet."
Francois Coppee Critically 111.
PARIS, Oct. 12. Francois Coppee, the)
well-known French poet and playwright,
is critically ill.
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