THE SUNDAY OREGOXIAN, PORTLAND, FEBRUARY 23, 1905.
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VICTORY FDR HILL
OVER RARRIAN
All Tariffs to Portland Not
Concurred in by Northern
Pacific Must Be Canceled.
LONG HAUL FOR HILL ROAD
'Jntcolattt Commerce Commission
Kules One-Way Business Must Be
Sent Via St. Taul or Through
Billings to the Northwest.
CHICAGO, Feb. 22. It was an
nounced today that the Interstate
Commerce Commission has made a
ruling compelling the Union Pacific,
Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul, Chi
cago & Northwestern, Missouri Pacific
and other railroads to cancel all tar
iffs on file to the Far Northwest
through Portland, Or., which have not
been concurred in by . the Northern
Pacific.
The order means that all one-way
business from Chicago and contiguous
points which has heretofore been
routed to Seattle via Granger, thence
over the Short Line to Huntington,
from there over the Oregon Railroad &
Navigation Company to Portland,
and thence to Seattle over the North
ern Pacific must hereafter be routed
by way of St. Paul or over the Chi
cago, Burlington & Quincy through
Billings, Mont.
The Portland gateway has long been
a point of dispute between the North
cm Pacific and its southern competi
tors. The Northern Pacific has always
refused to participate in a sale of
tickets through to Seattle unless they
wore routed through St. Paul or Bill
ings, thereby securing the long haul.
The Chicago, Burlington & Quincy, in
an effort to overcome this attitude,
sought to file a schedule with the In
terstate Commerce Commission stating
that its through tariff Included a local
ticket purchased at Portland by the
railway company and given to the
passenger so that lie might reach Sc
uttle or contiguous points over the
Northern Pacific
Thi-s tariff was declared illegal by
the Commission and, when its atten-.
tion was called to similar schedules
tiled hy other roads, all were ordered
i ancellcd It was held that all tariffs
filed by a road must have the written
concurrence of all other roads over
which tickets are sold.
i:STIiOlM) HATE IS HIGHER
Hardwood Lumbermen Complain of
Discrimination Agains't Them.
CHICAGO, Feb. 22. There is a differ
ence of 35 cents a hundred weight to lum
ber shippers of the Middle West between
hauling a carload of lumber from Los
Angeles to Missouri River points and
hauling the same car. refilled with lum
ber, from the Missouri River to Los An
geles. This difference was considered yester
day by the Interstate Commerce Commis
sion in the complaint of the National
Hardwood Manufacturers' Association
against all the Pacific Coast and Middle
West railroads.
Railroad officials maintained that
there Is no necessity for a lower West
ern rate because the Coast competi
tion Is Inconsequential and that the
low Eastern rate is made because the
rastbound traffic Is much heavier, when
the westbound shipments of other commo
dities than lumber eliminate empty car
movement westward.
Commissioners Prouty and Harlan yes
terday heard testimony in the complaint
of 16 creameries of Nebraska and Kansas
against four railroads and five express
companies charging illegal combination to
raise rates. In August, 1907, the rates on
shipments of creamery products were
raised. The railroads and express com
panies claim added cost of labor and op
erating expenses necessitated the in
crease. Close Shops Till Times Improve.
ST. LOUIS. Feb. 22. The . Missouri
Pacific shops at Sedalia, employing
800 men, and the St. Louis, Iron Moun
tain & Southern Railroad shops at
Doloreck, Ark., with a force of 1200
nien, have been closed and will not
reopen until March 6.
At tho offices of the general manager
of the Mis sourl Paciilc-Iron Mountain
system, the following statement was
made today;
"The general falling off in the vol
ume of business leaves less work
necessary on equipment than during
normal conditions when locomotives
and cars are most actively In use, In
consequence of which the company has
closed Its principal shops during the
last week of the month of February
rather than dismiss the equivalent
number of men from the service."
RELATIONS ARE STRAINED
APPREHENSION OVER ATTITUDE
OF JAPAN IX MANCHURIA.
Many Rumors Rife ns to Feeling
Between China and Japan.
Russia on Guard.
ST. PETERSBURG. Feb. 22. (Spe
cial. ) All sorts of rumors as to im
minent complications in the Far East
and the dispatch of large reinforce
ments to Transbaikalia have been rife
for some days past. Suspicion has
naturally been aroused in many quar
ters that these stories constitute a
maneuver Inspired by the supporters of
the big navy schemes. But from care
ful Inquiry there appears to be some
genuine basis for apprehension with
regard to the relations between China
and Japan, and that Russia therefore
thinks it wise to be on her guard.
Japan's action in regard to Man
churia Is being watched very closely
by Russian diplomacy, and it is be
lieved that tin: recent publication of
the Russian Orange-book, though giv
ing only the briefest possible summary
of the negotiations which led up to tho
Russo-Japanese treaty, was intended
to convey a gentle reminder to Toklo
that Japan has by treaty pledged her
self to -the integrity of China and tho
open door In Manchuria. It is diffi
cult to separate the false from tho
true, but the Russian government is
undoubtedly in a position to secure
valuable Information from M. Shipoff,
who l-.aa Just returned from the Far
East.
It is understood that his impressions,
while Justifying some anxiety, owing
to the strained relations noticed In
Manchuria between the Chinese and the
Japanese, are far from bearing out
the alarmist views which some hot
headed people would like to propa
gate. Cool-headed skeptics cannot fall
to note that these sensational develop
ments In the Far East seem timed
to coincide with the arrival of the
American squadron In the Pacific. At
best, however, the situation in the Far
East is disquieting. -
The Government has finally intro
duced a bill for the construction of a
second gauge of the Trans-Siberian
Railway. The work of duplication will,
it is estimated, cost $85,&00,0OO, and will
take eight years.. For the current
year the Government asks only a credit
of llg.oOO.OOO. '
TROUBLE AHEAD ON YUKON
"Reindeer Bill" Hubcr Forewarns
Xew York-Paris Auto Racers.
TACOMA, . Wash., Feb. 22. "Reindeer
Bill" Hube. the Alaska mail carrier,
now in Tacoma. says the automobiles on
their way to Paris will have plenty of
trouble down the Yukon to Nome. The
only chance the racers will have to reach
Nome on schedule time. In the opinion of
"Reindeer Bill." is to follow in the wake
of the big dog teams carrying the malls.
The snow gets as deep on the frozen
river as It does on land. If the ice is
smooth and the wind heavy, the snow will
blow off, but often It accumulates and
makes travel difficult. The large, heavy
sleds with their S00 and 400 pounds of
EDWARD'S NIECE MAY CHANGE FAITH IN ORDER
TO WED
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ROME, Feb. 22. (Special.) The rumor of the betrothal of the Princess
Patricia of Connaught and the Count of Turin is apparently well founded. The
delay in the official announcement is due to the question of the conversion
of the Princess to Catholicism not being yet settled.
The constitution does not insist that the wife of a royal Prince must be
a Catholic, but a mixed marriage would be unprecedented in the House of
Savoy. Prince Victor Emmanuel, Count of Turin, is the" second son of the
late Amadeus, sometime King of Spain and otherwise Duke of Aosta. Victor
Is thus first cousin to the King of Italy. He is 36 years old, lives in Florence
and has never been married.
The Princess Victoria Patricia is the second daughter and third child of
Prince Arthur, Duke of Connaught, oldest surviving brother of the -King of
England. She is almost 22 years old. Rumor had her engaged at one time to
the young King of Spain, and It was said that her unwillingness to change,
her.'rellgton was the cause of the breaking off of the match.
Uncle Sam's mail, together with the dog
team, comprised of a dozen or more nui la
mutes, may break the trail enough for
the automobiles to travel over it.
DECREASE ONLY $8,000,000
OREGON BANK DEPOSITS ARE "WEIL MAINTAINED.
According to a recent report of James
Steel, State Bank Examiner, 111 of the 134
state and private banks and 55 National
banks of the state on December 3 last,
reported individual deposits aggregating
J56,6S9.452. On August 22, last, 105 of the
141 state and private banks and the 55
National banks of the state reported Indi
vidual deposits amounting to $64,696,921.
This falltng off of only $8,000,000 In de
posits for the six months when financial
conditions generally were seriously, dis
turbed is considered remarkably credit-
RESOURCES.
Hems. .
Ixann and discounts
Overdrafts
Securities, bonds, etc
Banking house, furniture and fixtures....
Other real estate owned
rue from banks and bankers...
Checks and other cash Items
Exchange for clearing-house
Cash on band
U. S. bonds to secure circulation
U. S. bonds to secure deposit
IT. S. bonds on hand '
Premiums on U. S. bonds
Five per cent redemption fund
Due from United Stales Treasurer
Expenwp
Totals
LIABILITIES.
Items.
rnpital stock
Hurplus' fund .
Undivided profits
Dividends unpaid
Due -to banks and bankers....,
Individual deposits
Notes and bills redlscountcd
Bills pavable
United States deposits
Deposits United States disbursing ofTleers
National bank notes outstanding.
"Reserved for taxes. ..1
Bonds borrowed
OUi-r liabilities
Totals
In the following statement Is shown the condition' of the state and private
banks and 55 National banks in the State of Oregon, at the close of business
August 22, 1907:
RESOURCES.
Items.
Txtans and discounts :
Overdrafts ,
Securities, bonds, etc
Banking house, furniture and fixtures
Other real estate owned
Due from banks and bankers.,
Checks and other cash Items
Exchanges for clearing-house,
Cash on hand .
U. S. bonds to secure circulation
U. S. bonds to secure deposits .....
U. S. bonds on hand
Premiums on U. S. bonds
Five per cent redemption fund
Due from United States Treasurer
Totals
LIABILITIES.
Items.
Capital stock
Surplus fund
Undivided profits "I....
Dividends unpaid
Due to banks and bankers.
Individual deposits
Notes and bills rediseounted "..'..".'.'.
Bills payable
United states deposits
Deposits United States disbursing officers!
National bank notes outstanding
Reserved for taxes
Other liabilities ,
Total
........
WEIGHTY SPONSOR
FOR THE SPIRITS
Oliver Lodge, Who Believes in
Messages From Dead,
Noted Scientist.
HAS HAD GREAT CAREER
Englishman Whoso Statement Has
(startled World Was Discoverer of
Wireless Telegraphy, Even
Before Marconi.
LONDON, Feb. 15. Can we communi
cate with the spirits of the dead? Are
those who have passed over to "the
other side" able to send us .messages?
Throughout the ages man, longing to be
assured of a life beyond the grave, and
yearning to know what that life will be.
able to the banking institutions of the
state.
During the intervening six months rep
resented by the two reports to Bank Ex
aminer Steel, the amount of cash on hand
increased from J9.646.S23 on August 22, to
$10,847,152 on December 3.
For comparative purposes,' a summary
of the two reports is printed. The fol
lowing statement shows the condition of
111 state and private banks (out of 134
banks in the state), and 55 National banks
in the State of Oregon, at the close of
business December 3. 1907:
Ill State , 65 National .
Banks. Bunks.
$19..i3n.l!76.S7 20,(t:.0.3.r.3.S3
S-49.341.4S 450,477 l:i
4. IO7.013.8S 3,ti30.BC7.S2
1.012.4510 7S2,OB4.10
tt.'I7,lr:t. 12 10o,;3..4
6.!til,2S0.S0 8.(H8,292.3::
14 l,8:i.3." 14,",022.r.4
lSO,5.5.9-'i 24!,41.V4!
3,5Wti.332.2- 7,2."oisOo!21
2. 302, 850. OO
l.S79,750.0o
307,7410.00
07,013 30
, 11.445 (H
1.005.00
57.6S4.04
"
$38.S82.853.5 $40,103,649.79
Total.
$40,29.830.20
4. 308.818.01
7.737.671.70
1.794.320.20
737.818.06
14,729.573.13
2Mi.S6l.S9
430,051.42
10.847.152.23
2v3l2. 850.00
1,879.750.00
1O7.78O.0O
07.O13.30
11.445.00
1,005.00
57.GS4.04
S82.689.0O3.38
Ill Slate
Banks.
4,74.0.-.2.21
7S7.031.S3
I150.692.S2
3. 147.no
1.810.047.12
27,94rt.nm.37
24.505.88
if'7.9(17.36
55 National
Banks.
S 3.831. ooo.no
2.312.37.-.Ml
741,810.00
1.497.00
6.12.423..'.S
28,742.843.14
48.357.43
50,000.00
1.234,174.81
851,786.55
2.2S.-..435.(V
2;, 400.00
4O.ufl0.no
222.583.40
Total.
S 8.377.9.-.2.U1
3.099.400.83
1. 092.3O2.82
4.644.00
7.942,472.68
56.0S9.452.61
70.863.61
357,967.36
1.234, 174.81
651,766.55
3.2S5.435.0O
20.400 00
40,000.00
222.563.40
136.582,033.59 $46,108,649.79 $S2.6S0.603.38
ios
State Banks.
$19,461,846.65
9S4.2K4.73
4,323.608.99
992. 248.96
3S0.297.27
9.235.322.21
161.583.82
10S. 13414
2.698.3S1.32
.
'
National Banks.
$24,678,182.69 $44
408.029.25 1
5,863.830.34 10,
777.327.52 1
1 106,257.94
11,987.397.30 21,
234,652.01
380.385.13
6.948,241.74
2.458,800.00 2
1.S25.0O0.0O 1
163,940.00
72,542.67
122,830.00
2,405.00
Total
140.U29.34
,390,313.S
187.439.33
,769.570. 4S.
4S6. 553.21
222.719.51
396.235.S3
4SS.519.27
648,823.08
,456,600.00
S25.000.0O
163.940.00
72.542.67
122.S30.00
2,405.00
i;08.O9 $5tl.023.621.59 $94,371,329.68
105
State Banks.
.$ 4.588.291.81
8S0.T17.8S
723.S81.96
2.355.00
. 2.090, 185.39
. 29,974.135.71
31.380.39
73,000.00
National Ban
ks. Total
$ 3.886.000.00
2,332,S75.00
785,351.03
7,869.50
10.019,323.75
34,722,785.88
37.570.01
3U.000.00
$ 8.454. 291. 81
3.213.592.83
1,509.413.01
1O.224.S0
12.109,509.14
64,696.921.59
6S.93O.40
105.000.00
9)11.724.33
810.323.Otl
2,395.350,00
16.000.00
20.24S.81
961,724.53
S10.323.08
2,39
330.00
1 rt.noo.no
20.248.81
3S.3,i)0S.0a o6, 023.631.5a JM.371.528.6S L.
has anxiously sought for answers fo these
momentous questions. Wise men of an
cient Egypt. Babylonia, India, China
and Greece all puzzled over thenv and
today there Is no subject of such uni
versal interest.
Now a startling statement on the sub
ject has been made by Sir Oliver Lodge,
a man whose fame in the realms of
science makes his carefully worded as
sertions of the utmost value.
To appreciate the importance we must
attach- to -his suggestion that proof of
communication with the dead, which
many investigators deem satisfactory,
had recently been given, we must glance
at the past achievements of this extra
ordinary man.
Only Ordinary Education.
B,orn 57 years ago in Fenkhiill near
Stoke-upon-Trent, Sir Oliver as a boy had
a very ordinary education, and he was
taken into business by his father in the
potteries when he was only 14.
He made his first acquaintance with
science by reading an odd monthly num
ber of the English Mechanic, afterward I
picking up what he could from the ar
ticles of the Penny Cyclopedia. On a
visit to London he attended a course of
six lectures by Professor Tyndall, and.
fired by these, he went back to his work
In trie potteries determined to pursue tho
study of science.
He attended evening classes in chem
istry, and by amazing Industry and ability
in his odd hours he learned enough to
matriculate at the London University by
the time he was 20.
A year later he was permitted a Win
ter's course In. the South Kensington
Chemical Laboratory, and on the annual
examination list he came out bracketed
first. Next he passed the Intermediate
examination for a science degree at the
London University, obtaining honors in
both chemistry and physics.
Begins Famous Career.
Then he tried for a scholarship at St.
John's College, Cambridge, but .was just
beaten. Undaunted, he went to study
mathematics at the London University, i
helping to support himself meanwhile by
teaching In exercise Classes. In 1875 he
took his B. S. degree, and the post of
demonstrator of physics at University
College was created and offered to him
Immediately after.
From this time the young sicentist was
fairly launched on the career in which he
has earned so much fame.
He was the first discoverer of wireless
telegraphy, anticipating the work of Mr.
Marconi by several years. His experi
ments were limited to a quadrangle only
60 yards across, but he triumphantly dem
onstrated the possibility of aerial trans
mission of messages.
But, learned though he is. Sir Oliver
Lodge has ever been one of the most
pleasant and popular of men. All the
students who heard his lectures at dif
ferent universities were enthusiastic 4n
their praise of him. When lecturing he
would take long strides (he stands well
over six feet In height) up and down be
fore the lecture table, lay his fingers on
his lips, gently stroke his beard, and
often remain silent for some minutes be
fore uttering a word.
Then when he did speak his phrases
were so illuminating that they conveyed
more than the ordinary lecturer could
drive home in twice the time.
rv'spels London Fogs.
One cf the practical problems to which
the Principal of Birmingham University
(a pos; to which he was appointed a few
years ago) has turned his attention was
the clearing of our atmosphere of fog.
The result of Sir Oliver Lodge's experl
mants in this direction were shown to an
interviewer. The professor filled a bell
jar with smoke and led electricity Into
the smoke by means of an insulated
metal bar placed in the middle of the jar.
No sooner was the current turned on
than the particles of smoke suddenly be
gan to arrange themselves together and
to tread, as it were, the measures of an
intricate dance. For a few seconds this
dance went on and then, hey, presto! all
the space was beautifully clear and the
smoke was clinging to the walls of the
jar or deposited in a silvery powder on
Its floor. . . i
SU Oliver successfully ' tried a develop
ment of this plan in the open air. For 60
yards round the electricity radiator the
air was kept completely clear in the midst
of a dense fog. On another subject, that
of the problem of the "loafer," the scien
tist once spoke as follows:
Work for the Poor.
He took the Illustration of workmen
who enter a factory to take advantage of
the organizing and administrative capac
ity of its head. On this analogy he con
sidered the poorhouse, stripped of its
stigma of disgrace and deterrence,
should be made not merely a place for
malntaifiTng the impotent and aged in
fair comfort, but an Instrument of in
struction and discipline for able-bodied
wasters and failures.
By drifting under the organization and
discipline exercised by the community
they would acknowledge failure of a
sort, and just the same disgrace, neither
more nor less, would attach to them as
that which attaches to a man who fails
In business. - ,
Whether it was their own fault or their
parents', or the fault of social conditions.
Sir Oliver would not have us stop to In
quire, but simply to imitate the wisdom
of the medical profession, which does not
seek to blame, but seeks whole-heartedly
to cure.
He has always stoutly opposed the ma
terialists, who In the 19th century op
posed their assertion that matter was the
sole ultimate reality to the teachings of
Christianity. Since then the attitude of
science has changed, and Sir Oliver
boldly gave it as an axiom that matter
is only the instrument and vehicle of
mind.
Mind's Power Over Matter.
As illustrating the powers he believed
mind possessed, he said In one of his
lectures:
I would not hold that even a doll on
which much affection had been lavished was
wholly inert and material In the lnoreanlc
sense. The tatooed colors nf a regiment are
sometimes thought worthy to be hung in
a church. They aro a symbol, truly, but
they may be something more. I bav rea
son . to believe that a trace of individuality
can cling about terrestrial objects.
So with scientific reasons for believing
in the powers of the mind or soul. Sir
Oliver Lodge published what he called
the "INew Catechism," in which he sought
to reconcile the claims of both science
and religion.
The text of the simplified catechism for
children started with:
What are you? I am a living belnj? on
the earth, with a.' body' ascended from the
animals and a sxlrit descended from Gcd.
What are our chief duties? To be help
ful and industrious, to endeavor to be good,
to learn the rule3 of life, and to obey them.
What is God? Tho hlchest and best be
ing that we can conceive, infinitely higher
and better than we are. the manager and
controller of everything, kind and loving to
all.
Believing that by investigating the
claims of spiritualists some aid toward
the solution of the problems connected
with the belief in the immortality of the
soul might be found, the scientist has
for years been at work with the Psychical
Research Society. It is as a result of
this work that he made, his most recent
pronouncement upon the subject of the
possibility of communicating with the
dead.
McMlnnvllIe Woman Dies Suddenly.
M'MINN VILLE, Or.. Feb. 22. Mrs. J.
M. Harrington, of this city, died very
suddenly last evening of apopletic
symptoms. She had been having a light
siege of grip for a few days, but haa
been over to a neighbor's In the after
noon. She was a member of the Chris
,tlan Church of thia city,
OF
Tuberculosis Making Fearful
Inroads Among Alaskans.
LIVING IN UTTER SQUALOR
Surrounded by Filth and I'nsanl
" tary Conditions, Death Rate Is
Increasing Alarmingly Tract
able and Eager to Improve. -
OREGONIAiX NEWS BUREAU, Wash
ington, Feb. 22.-rIf the ravages of tuber
culosis are unchecked. It will be a matter
of only a few years before the native
population of Alaska, Indians and
Eskimos, Is completely exterminated.
How to check the spread of this and
other diseases and protect the Alaskans
Is a problem that Is dependent upon Con
gress, for nothing can be done except
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NATIVES
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MRS. DIETKRICH IS CAST OFF BY HER IIL'SBAND.
According to latest Information from New York, Alfred E.
Dieterlch., the young Standard Oil millionaire, is being advised by a
prominent New York law firm, and suit for divorce from the wife,
who is reported to have eloped with . one of ' Alfred G. Vanderbilt's
grooms, is to be brought at Poughkeepsle. .
"I will never take her back. No man with red blood in his veins
would. She has gone with Brenchley.. To me she is as dead."
Thus declared the husband, while discussing a report circulated in
horse show circles that .the couple were preparing to return to New
York shortly.
Until now Mr. Dieterlch has expressed absolute faith in his beau
tiful young wife, who is said to be worth $8,000,000 in her own right.
In all previous statements he has said that the stories of her having
been in love with Brenchley were started by the young horseman him
self. It is not believed that Mrs. Dleterich will make any defense against
her husband's suit, but fear is expressed that 3he will contest the
father's application for their child, which she abandoned when she
went away with the coachman. This child, a beautiful little girl of
five, is still with her father, whose city residence is 500 Fifth avenue.
New York.
by Congressional authority, coupled with
Congressional appropriations. Friends of
the Alaskan people argue that inasmuch
as Congress has appropriated liberally to
stifle yellow fever and malaria in Panama
and Cuba, and is furnishing doctors to
the various Indian tribes in the United
States, it could consistently make a
modest appropriation to prevent the ex
termination of a self-supporting people
whose preservation means much to the
future development of all Alaska.
The sanitary conditions prevailing
among the natives of Alaska was made
the subject of exhaustive study by Cap
tain Paul C. Hutton, Assistant Surgeon,
United States Army, and his report has
been transmitted to Congress. It shows
in vivid language the frightful spread of
tuberculosis and other disease among the
Alaskan natives, who, while willing to
learn, have never had the advantage of
any training In sanitation, and who have
not the slightest knowledge of medicine
and its uses. What these people need,
says Captain Hutton, is friendly help
and advice from competent white men.
With such assistance and advice, their
condition can be materially improved, and
the death rate greatly reduced.
Awful Ravages of Consumption.
Captain Hutton discovered that over 20
per cent of the natives In the communi
ties visited by him, were suffering from
advanced stages of consumption. Another
12 per cent showed all the symptoms,
though tlie disease had not reached an
acute stage; and an additional 36 per
cent were found to be "in a tuberculous
condition," which justified the opinion
that they would later develop the disease
in Its worst form. It was further dis
covered that on an average three chil
dren are born to every Alaskan family,
and the death rate among the children is
practically 65 per cent.
Trachoma Is another prevalent disease
among the natives, not a few being total
ly blind, and many others with impaired
vision, due to this contagious affliction.
While the spread of trachoma Is bad
enough, it is shown that the very exist
ence of the disease te a menace to the
white population as well, for the natives
travel on the same boats, sleep In the
same hotels, and frequent the same lo
calities as do many of the whites. An
immigrant afflicted with trachoma Is de
nied admission to the United States, yet
the Federal Government spends not a
cent to check or even treat the disease
among the Alaskans.
Living In Fearful Squalor.
"The Alaska Indian has no idea of con
tagious diseases,"--says Captain Hutton,
"and unless taught to do so, takes no
precaution to prevent the spread of dis
ease to his family or neighbors, and on
account of the squalor and filth in which
he lives, the wonder Is that any of them
have survived. A portion of them reside
In fairly good one-room frame houses,
with glass windows, which they never
employ for ventilation. On the contrary,
the Ingress of all air is sacredly pre
vented by the thorough calking of win
dows, doors and cracks, and houses being
'without chimneys air cannot enter. Im-
agino one. two or even more cases of
tuberculosis In the same room with the
children and friends of the family; im
agine the afflicted ones expectorating
largo quantities of tubercular sputum,
containing countless millions of tuber
cular organisms, promiscuously about the
room. Imagine, also, that the room Is
rarely swept, never scrubbed, and is con
stantly littered with bones abandoned by
dogs and children, crumbs, dirt and filthy
rags. If you can also Imagine foul
smelling garments thrown carelessly on
the floor, a few cookng utensils of the
crudest form, containing remains of the
last meal, a simple board bunk, or per
haps two, a small sheet-Iron affair U6ed
for a stove, an Idea may be formed of
the interior condition of the fairly pros
perous Indian's house. Exteriorly, tho
scene changes but little; discarded gar
ments and old shoes lie rotting In the
moist . soil; salmon skin and fresh flesh
disintegrating; tin cans partially filled
with stinking slush and half-buried and
decaying matter everywhere. Both in
side and outside we find everything con
ducive to the propagation of germs which
produce the disease that now threatens
their extermination."
Natives Eager to Iarn.
Captain Hutton says the Alaska na
tives are better patients than the aver
age white man, and moreover they are a
tractable people, easy to teach and eager
to learn. They have none of the preju
dices which characterize the American
Indian, and readily adopt civilized meth
ods when properly presented. It would
therefore not be stich a difficult prob
lem to prevent the rapid spread of dis-
i ' j?
,
eases which are now destroying them.
It is Captain Hutton's belief that much
can be done to prevent the further spread
of the disease and to relieve those now
afflicted. He Is satisfied that if the mat
ter is properly treated, the natives can
be instructed in sanitation and cleanly
habits and taught to take proper care of
themselves and their children. Their
present condition Is due entirely to ignor
ance. In his concluding appeal for an ap
propriation. Captain Hutton says:
"I doubt if any country in the world
can show such a percentage of tubercular
natives as Alaska, and the mortality
from this disease is really terrible. One
has but to visit a few shacks and ques
tion the natives as to the cause of death
of his brother or his sister, or to view
from the door the number of scrofulous
children squatting about in sputum and
ifUth, to see the old women, ragged!
and foul smelling, sitting upon the floor
in a foot of pollution, feebly attempting
to weave baskets, while their garments
are defiled by the most dreaded disease
of the human family, to realize the neces
sity for action on tho part of humanity."
A Federal grand jury that sat last.Dc
cember also made an Investigation of the
condition of tho natives in and around
Juneau, and reported that the situation
was such as to call for the application
of appropriate remedies "to preserve a
race of people naturally of a peaceable
and industrious character whom we be
lieve capable, by education of forming a
desirable class of Inhabitants. They have
for years furnished labor for the develop
ment of the fishing industry, the lum
ber industry, the fur trade and the trans
portation facilities so important in the
development of a frontier country."
This same jury looked into the moral
condition of the natives, and reported It
"very deplorable." The natives are living
according to customs handed down by
their forefathers; those customs are not
the customs recognized by the white
man's law, yet It Is deemed Inadvisable, at
one fell swoop, to convict every native
who lives according to his teachings; the
grand Jury rather recommends the
gradual substitution of the white man's
law to cure these social evils.
MAKE HIT IN ASTORIA
Clay Clement Opens Season in Ore
gon With "Xew Dominion."
ASTORIA, Or., Feb. 22. (Special.)
Clay Clement and his company opened
here tonight in his popular play, "The
New Dominion," to a large audience
and leaves tomorrow for Portland.
"The New Dominion," as is well
known, was written some years ago
by the talented actor and has been a
favorite with playgoers for some
years. The Clement company this year
was assembled In Oregon and will start
en tour from Portland.
The Japanese youth gives bis sweetheart.
Instead of an engagement ring, a piece oC
siUc foe hec sash.
ST. PAUL'S AGED
MAYOR RETIRES
After 45 Years Spent in Office,
He Leaves Politics in
Povertys
BOSSES WANT YOUNG MAN
Through Vnfortunate Investments
and Devoting Fortune to Pay the
Bank's Debts. Robert A. Smith
Is Left Entirely Penniless,
ST. PAUI,. Minn.. Feb. 22. (Special.)
Robert A. Smith, the venerable Mayor
of St. Paul, who has held public office for
45 years, and who has occupied the
Mayor's chair for seven different terms
and an unexpired half term, 15 years in
all. Is down and out, and at the age of
80 leaves politics without a cent. His
) action follows the determination of his
party boss to run a different man for
Mayor during the pending city campaign,
which involved brusque notice to the
aged Mayor that his years of political
usefulness are at an end.
"Bob" Smith, as he is affectionately
known to both political parties, has had
a political career equaled by but few
men In the United States. Of the 59
years since he became of age, 45 have
been spent In office. As a Democrat he
was for years practically Invincible in his
campaigns for municipal honors, and
throughout his lifetime of public service
he has successively won and held tho
friendship of a substantial factor of the
opposing party, a fart which largely ac
counts for his exceptional record in pub
lic life. Though once a man of much
wealth, he is now penniless through un
successful business ventures and misfor
tunes, and now with his wonderful vigor
partially impaired, lacks even the modest
competence which might mean the dif
ference between comparative comfort
and poverty.
Fought Through 19 Campaigns.
Nineteen different campaigns attest his
political sagacity and succors. During
his life in St. Paul he has paid the city
$140,000 in taxes, but of what he has re
ceived from the city them Is nothing
left. In the gloom of the Bank of Min
nesota failure, a memorable financial dis
aster. "Bob" Smith loomed up as a
heroic figure, and his entire personal for
tune to the last dollar went to pay the
claims of depositors. Tho bank finally
paid 70 cents on the dollar, but he was
financially ruined. Since that time his
business ventures have been unsuccess
ful and ho has never succeeded in regain
ing the lost ground.
"Too old we need a younger man" is
the grim comment of his political man
agers. And with this curt verdict, al
though hundreds of voters feel that the
venerable politician could again win at
the-polls, he is reluctantly content. "De
Bob," as he has often been satirically
named, lacks the strength to take up the
fight of the under dog, and has not tho
resources for a single-handed campaign
against men whose power no one knows
better than he.
"I won't run again." he said. In com
menting upon his long public life. "What
there is left I shall need for my own
support, and it would not be wise to
risk tho money In an uncertain political
fight. I shall go to California now, but
I'm coming back, and I'm going to vote
at the next election, too."
E
THIS NLMIJKK TO DEFET
COAST AGAINST JAPANESE.
General Grant Tells Rome of the
Problems of Defense In Case
of Actual Ho.-tllitics.
NEW YORK. Feb. 22. Forecasting th
needs of the Army in time of war, Major
General Frederick D. Grant, U. S. A., in
a speech tonight at the annual dinner of
the Society of Cincinnati In New York
State, at the Waldorf Astoria, declared
that "in case of a war with a great
nation, Japan, for instance, DAO.OOO troops
would not be sufficient to properly gar
rison the Pacific Coast, north and south."
The defense of the country. Insofar as
tho Army is concerned. General Grant
said, is not as simple a proposition to
solve as many think it would be.
General Grant said he looked upon the
8,000.000 men capable of bearing arms for
the Government, if need be, as the Army
of the United States, while the 50,000 or
more men composing what is known as
the Regular Army may be looked upon
as a trained nucleus of men who are at
all times under arms and ready to take
the field as trained soldiers. He declared
the Army has been reaching out to tho
militia more and more of recent years
as an auxiliary force.
After expressing tho opinion that SOU..
000 troops would not properly garrison the
Pacific Coast in case of a war with
Japan. General Grant, speaking of the
Japanese, said: ,
"Their army Is so well trained that I
do not think we could get along with
less than 1,000.000 troops. The same Is
true of the Atlantic, or would be if wo
were attacked by some great power. Ton
may see for yourselves how many troops
would be needed in the event of disaster
to the Navy."
ROADS ARE BETTER AHEAD
American Car Still in Lead of AH
Other Competitors.
GOSHEN, Ind.. Feb. 22. The American
car In the New York to Paris race, driven
by Montague Roberts, left here at 8
this morning, with a prospect of better
roads ahead than any that had co far
been traversed on the trip across North
ern Indiana. Roberts reached South
Bend at UuiO A. M. and left at 2 P. a.
for Michigan City. i
KEXDALLVILLE, Ind.. Feb. 22. Re
freshed by a 30 hours' rest in this city.
Sartorla. with the Italian oar, left here
at 8 o'clock this morning. He expected
to reach Llgonler. 20 miles west, by noon.
St. Chaftray is still repairing his French
car and expects to get away today.
TOLEDO. O.. Feb. 22. The German car
and French car renched here this after
noon at 3 o'clock. The German car went
straight throush without a stop, but the
French car will remain here over night
.ap.d will leave at 9 o'clock, tomorrow.