The Sunday Oregonian., July 26, 1908, Page 5, Image 5

THE SUNDAY OREGOXIAX. PORTLAND. JULY 26, 1908.
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ftPPEflL DIRECT
TO ROOSEVELT
Cincinnati Shippers Demand
Punishnjent of Big Roads
for Contempt.
UNDER OLD JUDGMENT
Ask President Point-Blunk Whether
He Intends to Enforce Decree
Against Missouri Pacific
and ltock Island.
CINCINNATI. July 25. Brushing aside
all Intermediate procesess and modes of
action, the Receivers "and Shippers' As
sociation of Cincinnati has carried its
war against a general increase in rail
way freight rates directly to the Presi
dent of the United States. In effect a
communication forwarded to President
Roosevelt last Saturday at Oyster Bay
and made public here yesterday asks the
chief executive whether or not he in
tends to enforce a decree isssued some
years ago against certain railroads. If
so he is asked at once to cause the Attorney-General
to bring proceedings for
contempt against the Missouri Pacific
and the Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific
railroads.
Denying that politics has anything to
do with the letter at this time, it is ex
plained that because of the fact that
certain general increases In freight rates
are to become effective August 10 by
certain roads, prompt action has become
necessary.
to state the facts In connection with J.
D. Duback, who has said that I was
the first man who came to him and
talked about the timber. The fact is
that two other men went to Duback
before I ever met him. I told Duback
I had never seen the timber and knew
only what the cruisers had told me.
The only part I took In the transac
tion was to close the deal after Du
back had filed on the land. When my
self and McAdams went to Duback's
office the next morning to settle up,
he asked McAdams to sign a piece of
paper vouching for the corner, which
McAdams did. Duback then asked me
to sign the same document, but I de
clined, telling him I could not sign
the paper for the .reason I had never
seen the corner or the land.
Duback then asked that I sign the
paper as a receipt for the money. With
that understanding I signed the paper,
but insisted before Duback that I
signed the document only as a receipt.
In fact, my signature was accompanied
by the following explanation: "Will
not vouch for corner. Sign for the re
ceipt of the money only. T. B. Bidwell."
' Now this is my part of the business
and I further state that I did not tell
Duback that he would have a "hell of
a good time" to get his money back.
I write this article in my own defense
and to refute the article that has been
published. I am a law-abiding citizen
and the article referred to was ma
licious and harmful, both' to my busi
ness and to my reputation.
T B. BIDWELL.
BOMBAY
ITERS
SHIPPERS DEMAND PARLEY
Ask Presidents of Eastern Roads to
ConTerence on Rates.
Shippers Demand Parley.
CHICAGO. July 26. Shipping interests
of the entire country, represented by a
committee especially appointed at a gen
eral conference of the shippers held re
cently in Chicago, decided at a meeting
yesterday to ask presidents of Eastern
railroads to meet them to discuss the pro
posed increase in freight rates. It was
the unanimous opinion of the committee
men that before beginning a fighz It
would be wise to bring about such a meet
ing with the railroad officials, at the
same time asking them to put no ad
vances in effect until after the conference
had been held.
While action on the rate situation wa
in progress, a long protest and appeal to
the Interstate Commerce Commission was
being formulated by the National Indus
trial Traffic Leagie composed of score
of influential manufacturing and ship
ping organizations at Manitou Springs.
Colo.
The appeal Is for relief from a perma
nent Increase In rates to Texas and calls
attention to the fact that in August, 1905
the Interstate Commerce Commission de
clared a similar increase to be contrary
to the provisions of the Sherman, anti
trust act.
WALKER ADMITS THEFT
Banker Says He Invested Stolen
Money.
HARTFORD. Conn.. July 25. William
F. Walker, who embezzled JntiS.OOO from
the Savings Bank of New Britain, and
about $56,000 from the Connecticut Baptist
Convention, reached this city tonight in
custody of Thomas F. Egun, superin
tendent of the state Police Department
anrt H. J. Hoffman, assistant superin
tendent of the Pinkerton Detective Agency
in Ios AiKeles, the man who arretted
Yalker in a mining camp in Mexico.
Walker was locked up in the steel
cage of the county building for the night
under the guard of five officers and will
be brought before Judge Shumway in
the Superior Criminal Court tomorrow.
On his way Rast with the detectives.
Walker told them that he would plead
guilty when arraigned.
Walker, when seen by a representative
of the Associated Press, refused to tell
what he had done with the money, saying
that he had put it into what he considered
to be a good investment, his judgment
being based on . long- experience as a
successful banker. Walker was poorly
clad. He said that he alone was respon
sible for the crime he had committed.
LOTTERY JOINT IS RAIDED
Lamp Overturned and Fire Started
at a 49 Ankeny.
A raid on a Chinese lodging-house,
at 249 Ankeny street, at 10 o'clock Friday
night, resulted in the arrest of Ling
Wong, a Chinese lottery agent, and in
setting fire to the building, a frame
structure of two stories. The fire did
fjo damage and started from a kero
sene lamp, which was knocked from a
table in the room where Patrolman
Humphreys,- in plain clothes, wag
searching the - apartments of Ling;
Wong.
Several hundred lottery tickets were
found on the Chinaman, who was locked
up.
When the lamp fell, the flames spread
rapidly and the smoke was dense.
Humphreys raced hi prisoner through
the narrow hallway to the corner,
where he pulled the fire alarm. The
Chinaman then remembered he had left
$16 under a secret plank in the floor
and he made frantic efforts to re-enter
the burning building, but was held In
check by the officer.
RUNAWAY GIRL IS CAUGHT
Lida Tucker Says Her Stepmother
Treats Her In Cruel Manner.
Uda Tucker, the li-year-old daughter of
George Tucker, of $38 Alblna avenue, ran
away from home Thursday night. ' She
was found Friday night at the house of
D. Ackley. corner of Skldmore street and
Alblna avenue. The girl refused to re
turn home, alleging cruel treatment from
her stepmother. A police officer, how
ever, took her into custody and turned
her over to her father. She, her father
and her stepmother, will be cited to ap
pear before the Juvenile Court.
TELLS 0FJTIMBER DEAL
T. B. Bidwell Gives Version of
Transaction With J. D. Duback.
POHTLAND. July SR. (To the Edi
tor.) In answer to an article appear
ing In Tk Wconian. Jun 30, I wish
GREAT ARMY IS REVIEWED
PRIXCE. OF WALES WATCHES
20,000 MEX MARCH."
Splendid Military Pageant in Which
Roberts Shares Attention With
Heir Apparent.
.. QUEBEC. July 25. The Prince of Wales
reviewed 20.000 soldiers and sailors on the
Plains of Abraham yesterday, after which
he formally delivered to the Governor
General the title deeds of the battleground
of Montcalm and .Wolfe as a permanent
memorial reservation. Field-Marshal
Lord Roberts, who assisted the Prince
in reviewing the troops, excites hardly
less Interest than the Prince himself, as
many of the men served under him in
South Africa.
The military forces engaged in the re
view were upward of 12,000 in number,
while sailors and marines from the war
ships added another 6000 or 8000.
At an early hour the troops began
marching from their many camping
grounds around the city and massing on
the Plains of Abraham. They included
all branches of the service, cavalry, ar
tillery and Infantry, with many well
known reglmentSj including the Prince
of Wales Rifles and the Queen's Own, of
which Lord Roberts is honorary Colonel.
Each of the warships furnished a large
quota of sailors and marines, who de
barked from the ships and rendezvoused
on the plains.
Dense crowds packed the roads, mak
ing them almost impassable. The review
ing gTounds are alongside "Wolfe Cove,
where the British general made his last
landing, and comprise the entire range
of ground occupied by the armies of
Wolfe and Montcalm.
At .the official dinner given by Earl
Grey last night in honor of the prince,
Vice-President Fairbanks occupied the
post of honor on the prince's right side,
with Admiral Jauregulberry, the French
representative, at his left
MEN SOLD LIKE MULES
GEORGIA'S CONVICT LEASE SYS
TEM ix limelight:
Sensational Testimony Given Before
Legislative Committee Appoint
ed , to Use Probe.
ATLANTA. Ga.. July 25. Startling facts
were brought out at yesterday's session
of the legislative Investigating commit
tee regarding the conduct of the State
Prispn Board, and the convict lease sys
tem. L. B. Strong, a merchant of Ma
con, formerly a convict, testified that
men were lined up at the prison farm
and sold like mules. Sick and Infirm
men, he said, shipped in one day from a
convict camp, were shipped out next
day on another lease.
A sensational charge was made against
Judge J. F. Cobb by a witness who tes
tified that during a recessi of the court
Cobb visited a boy in 'jail, received his
confession and pronounced sentence upon
him.
LUMBER RATE IS RESTORED
Interstate Commission's' Order Is
Obeyed Fight to Be Kept Up.
TACOMA, Wash., Juiy 25. It Is officially
announced by the Northern Pacific Rail
way Company that consideration given
by the transportation lines to the recent
decision of the Interstate Commerce Com
mission on the question of rates on forest
products has terminated in announcement
by railway lines that rates recently fixed
by the Commission will, as soon as pos
sible, be put in effect by the railways not
that they think the rates are just, but
they submit for the time being to the In
terstate Commerce Commission's order.
No application for temporary injunc
tion against the order will be made, never
theless the railways expect to bring suit
urging that the rates are unreasonable
and asking a determination In the courts
to that effect.
This determination cannot, of course,
be had until final hearing and decision
in court, in the meantime it is understood
the only legal rate will be that fixed by
the Commission and, even should the suit
be determined In favor of the railways
in the end, that determination cannot be
retroactive and will operate only from that
time on. Therefore, ail uncertainty as to
what the lumber Interests will be obliged
to pay should be relieved.
It is also announced tha,t the railway
lines will settle for past business on the
basis of the Commission's rate, and upon
such settlements being made, the security
up in protection of the suit before Judge
Hanford, will be released.
ATTACK WHITES
Great City, of India in Revolt
Against All Europeans.
MOBS TERRORIZE PEOPLE
The Milk of Finance.
Harper's Weekly.
In the late financial Stringency, a clerk
In one of the New York banks was trying
to explain to an old German why the
bank could not pay cash to depositors
as formerly, and was insisting that he be
satisfied with clearing-house checks. But
the old German could not grasp the sit
uation, and finally the president of the
bank was called upon to enlighten the
dissatisfied customer. ' After a detailed
explanation the president concluded:
"Now. my good man, you understand,
don't you?"
"Yes." dubiously replied the German.
"I links I understand. Its Just like dis:
ven my baby vakes up in der night and
cries for milk 1 give her a milk ticket."
Repeated Volleys Disperse Them
With Many Dead and Wounded,
but Attacks Are Renewed.
Every Soldier Is Summoned.
BOMBAY. July 25. The 20.000 mill
hands who went on strike yesterday
started to riot this morning, and a
detachment of British infantry was
called out to put down the disorder.
It was found necessary to fire, and as
a result one native was killed and six
wounded. Several members of the Eu
ropean and native police sustained in
juries. The rioters were quelled and
dispersed.
There was a renewal of the outbreak
this afternoon. The mob spread over
from the military district and held up the
Poona mall train. It finally had to be
driven off by volleys from the military.
Europeans are jeered and stoned when
ever they appear on the streets . and
whenever the police and troops make
rescues they frequently have to use their
revolvers. There have been heavy cas
ualties as the result of the fire.
All the available military, including
the Volunteer Rifles and the Light
Horse, have been called out.
In the course of the evening a mob
attacked the office of a police magis
trate with heavy paving-stones. The
Volunteer Rifles were called to the
rescue, and fired on the natives. Five
men are known to have been killed and
43 wounded have been taken to the
hospitals.
GOT EVEN WITH CURZON
Pvfn of the eons and daucbters of the
Mrstham (England centenarian. Mrs.
Maynard. married aevea brolbars and Sla
ters named King.
Earl ot Suffolk Marled Slster-ln-Law
of Imperial Bounder.'
LONDON, July 25. (Special.) The
birth of a son to the Earl and Countess
of Suffolk reminds a writer in the
English press that Lady Suffolk Is
Leiter, the youngest sister of the late
Lady Curzon of Kedleston, to whom
she bears a marked resemblance. Lord
Suffolk met his future wife as Extra
A. D. C. to Lord Curzon when he was
Viceroy of India. The following anec
dote was related at the time in the
Indian press: Lord Suffolk, when at
Government House, Calcutta, came
into one of the offices, and not seeing
Lord Curzon, who happened to be
there, asked one of his colleagues if he
knew where the Imperial Bounder
Lord Curzon's well-known soubriquet
In Anglo-Indian circles was. Lord
Curzon, in a towering rage, told him
that the Imperial Bounder was there
and that he might take his passage by
the next mall to Europe. Lord Suffolk
took his dismissal with equanimity and
became within a very few months the
brother-in-law of the Viceroy.
Miss Maud Allan continues to be the
sensation .in London. Her patronage
by Mrs. Asquith is still causing no end
of trouble among the official and dip
lomatic circles. It is said that two of
three of the Ambassadors of great pow.
ers who, when they went to Mrs. As
quith's garden party, found that Miss
Allan was the star of the gathering,
conceived their official dignities af
fronted, and took occasion to tell the
Foreign Secretary so in no measured
terms. They are prepared to admire
Maud Allan as much as anybody as an
artist, but they say It is not usual for
a Prime Minister to ask- the represen
tatives of great powers to meet even
unique dancing girls at official garden
parties.
Maud Allan has consequently created
an acute social crisis in the Libera?
party.
WITHOUT HAND TOUCH.
How a 7000-Ton Steel Ingot
Turned Into Usable Goods.
Is
Youth's Companion.
Steel is not made with hands. In the
iron and steel industry- of America,
mechanism rules supreme, declares Prof.
J. R. Smith, in "The Story of Iron and
Steel." Man does little more than touch
levers, while the balance is done by
steam and electricity, hammering and
pulling and lifting with a force unknown
to the giants of mythology.
The manless way in which the 7000
ton steel Ingot is turned into a usable
piece of steel, after It comes from the
soaking pit. never ceases to be a marvel
to the knowing Inspector of a great steel
works. It is always a particular amaze
ment to the European visitor. At first
great machines are seen, but the plant
appears to be deserted. You ask your
self why this great building Is deserted
at this time of day. While you ponder
thus, there arises a rumble and a roar
ing noise, aa a great chunk of red-hot
metal larger than a man la seen to travel
with all the Independence of a serpent
across a lot of black rollers, and dive
Into the Jaws of the great rollers, which
squeeze it into a flatter shape. The ingot
then knowingly stops, turns over, and
again dives. with a crackling noise,
through the same rollers, which flatten It
still more.
After this has been repeated a few
times, the amazed spectator happens to
discover, sitting on a high platform, a
man or two, who are pulling levers which
start the machinery of- the 6000 or' 7000-horse-power
engines that drive the know
ing rollers, which are crushing and roll
ing the ingot of steel by quick stages into
the shapes which men can use.
The process is short by which the
Ingot Is started in at one end. of the steel
mill and emerges a half-hour later a
fifth, or even a third of a mile away, at
the other end of the mill, a completed
ralL
LAST
W
ill
M of HALF-PRIG
At One Half Off
MEN'S SPRING SUITS
Men's $30 Suits now $15.00
Men's $25 Suits now $12.50
Men's $20 Suits now $10.00
YOUTHS' OUTING SUITS
Youths' $15 Suits now $7.50
Youths' $10 Suits now $5.00
Youths' $8.50 Suits . . .$4.25
BOYS' KNICKER
BOCKER SUITS
All This Season's Patterns.
Boys' $ 5.00 Suits now $2.50 '
Boys' $ 8.00 Suits now $4.00 i
Boys' $10.00 Suits now $5.00
Boys' $15.00 Suits now $7.50
WASHABLE SUITS
All This Season's Patterns.
$5.00 Wash Suits now $2.50
$3.00 Wash Suits now $1.50
$1.50 Wash Suits now 75c
Tip Craze Helps oHtel Doorman.
Evening Wisconsin.
The tip craze is surely predominant at
the Plaza. Xew York City. The doorman
of that hotel Is absorbing coin like a hop
per does corn. He's been on the Jbb just
eight months, and his pickings have so
far amounted to $13,000. This fact be
came known when the doorman knocked
the management of the hotel speechless
by buying J12.000 worth of the hotel com
pany's bonds. It's a part of the door
man's duty to stand in front of the hotel
and open carriage doors. He bows and
smiles and smiles and bows until the tip
elusive is scared and tucked away in his
pocket.
The Australian government will erect five
wireless stations along its coast.
' flrT
NO EXAGGERATIONS EVER PERMITTED IN
ANY OF MY ADVERTISEMENTS
At One Half Off
BOYS' STRAIGHT KNEE
. PANTS
Boys' $2.00 Knee Pants -
now $1.00
Boys' $1.50 Knee Pants now 75c
Boys' $1.00 Knee Pants now 50c
Boys' 50c Knee Pants now 25c
MEN'S STRAW HATS
Men's $5 Straw Hats now $2.50
Men's $4 Straw Hats now $2.00
Men's $3 Straw Hats now $1.50
REDUCED PRICES FOR OUT
ING PANTS
Men's $6.50 Outing Pants
Now $4.85
Men's $5.00 Outing Pants
Now ... .$3.65
' Men's $4.00 Outing Pants
Now $2.95
Men's $3.00 Outing Pants
Now $2.15
MEN'S FANCY VESTS
Men's $6 Fancy Vests Now $3.00
Men's $5 Fancy Vests Now $2.50
Men's $4 Fancy Vests Now $2.00
Men's $3 Fancy Vests Now $1.50
H
LEADING CLOTHIER
NG
LEADERS MEETTAFT
Harrlman roads who have assembled in
this city.
Chairman Isaacs, consulting engineer,
presided at - the session here, at which
questions relating to the standardiz
ing of all equipment.
Standard-Bearer Shakes New
Yorkers' Hands.
MAKES MANY FRIENDS
TYPEWRITER GIRL WINS
Republicans High In State and City
' Politics Assure Him of Their
Hearty Support Plans
for Next Week.
NEW YORK, July 25. The Republican
leaders of the city were fully alive to
their opportunity yesterday to make the
personal acquaintance of their candidate
for the Presidency, and when William H.
Taft leaned back In his Pullman seat in
the afternoon to Degln his journey to
Cincinnati, he had shaken the hand of
practically every district leader, a num
ber of state leaders and had conversed
with politicians of varying degree of
prominence to the number of several
hundred.
"It has been a day of acquaintance
making" was Mr. Taft's comment after
the impromptu reception was over.
"There is no political significance to
be attached to any of the Interviews
I have had. It Is a little too early for
me to get reports of the situation in
the state, but from what has been told
me by the men I have seen, satisfac
tion seems to be the prevailing state
of mind."
Is Not Coming Back.
So far as Mr. Taft knows now this
will be his last visit to this city until
after election. He will reach Cincinnati
tomorrow shortly after noon. After the
notification ceremonies Tuesday it is hla
purpose to return to Hot Springs at the
earliest possible moment, probably Wed
nesday. , Although Mr. Taft spent the greater
part of the night going over the proofs
of his notification speech, he was up
early and kept a breakfast engage
ment with his brother, Henry W. Taft,
and, the latter's wife, at the Plaza.
He was called on here by Paul Mor
ton and Judge and Mrs. Jackson, long
time personal friends. When the can
didate reached his apartments at the
Hotel Manhattan, he found a delega
tion awaiting him and the callers came
throughout the day without cessation.
Measured for Portrait.
Henry W. Taft assisted the candidate in
receiving the guests for some time. The
last caller was an artist, a woman who
took measurements of Mr. Taft's head for
a portrait. The candidate declared at the
end of the rush that he had really en
Joyed the day and regarded it as having
been most profitably spent.
Judge Taft would make no comment on
the statement of President Roosevelt on
the Standard Oil case.
AMALGAMATE ALL LINES
Harriman's Chief Engineers Confer
on Standard Equipment.
DENVER. July 23. Amalgamation of
the 16.000 miles of Harrlman lines into
a single system iu a. practical, if not a
technical sense, is the subject of a con
ference of the chief engineers of all the
Given $ 16.C5 Damages Against Her
Inconsiderate Employer.
RENO. Nev., July 25. A- verdict of
$1626 returned In the case of Kathryn Col
lins against a brokerage company in
Reno closed a unique damage case. The
plaintiff alleged that she suffered in
juries requiring two operations because
she was compelled to sit at her type
writer work on a cane-bottom chair sev
eral inches too high. Expert evidence
as to what constituted a proper type
writer's chair formed the feature of the
two day 8' trial. She said that her spine
had been injured.
SLASHED BY HIS CAPTAIN
SAILOR SET ADRIFT IN OPEN
BOAT "W RITES LETTER.
Reaches Catalina Island Port in
Spite of Ghastly Wounds Row
Between Smugglers.
AVALON, Catalina. July 25. Believing
it to be his last will and testament,
Andrew Nelson, aged 27, who was res
cued last night from a rowboat at San
Clemente, wrote in lead pencil upon an
old envelope the following:
"I hereby accuse Captain Iveson. of the
schooner Lou, of San Diego, of having
cut me with a knife."
When the exhausted and bleeding man
reached Avalon at 12:30 this morning it
was found necessary to use over 100
stitches to bind the muscles and flesh to
gether. The gashes across the man's
thighs measured six inches and were cut!
to the bone. Jelson was seven hours1
in reaching Avalon and medical aid.
Upon an envelope was also written thai!
dying man s will and testament, De'
queathlng his boat, the Star of SsrT
Diego, .and all personal effects to his
friend, Howard Snyder, of Seattle.
It is alleged that a further statement
was made by Nelson before leaving hers
that his and Captain Iveson's presence
at San Clemente during the past three
weeks was for the purpose of -shooting
seals and fishing, Incidentally, and to
await the coming of the ship Helen from
some Mexican port with 50 contraband
Chinese aboard.
Recent reports say that the schooner
Lou is still at anchor at San Clemente.
The launches Juanlta. Captain Macha
lals. and Santoy. Captain Mathews, left
here for San Clemente tonight and will
reach their destination at daybreak. The
schooner Lou, of San Diego, is reported
at 350 tons.
SUMMER GLEAN-UP
SOME GLEAN DOWN BUT WHAT IS LEFT OF OUR
LAWN MOWERS, GRASS CATCHERS
AND GARDEN HOSE STOCK WE
OFFER AT BIG REDUCTIONS--
12-inch Lawn Mower, former price $3.50,
now $2.85
14-inch Lawn Mower, former price $3.75,
now $3.00
16-inch Lawn Mower, former price $4.00,
now $3.15
14-inch Lawn Mower, lOVi-inch wheel,
former price $6.00, now $5.00
16-inch Lawn Mower, ball bearing, for
mer price $6.00, now $4.85
Simplex Grass Catchers, former price
$1.00, now 85
li tisp, in g Ui.isu, '
'ftritirina
60 feet of Vi-inch Cotton Garden Hose,
coupled, reg. price $4.50, now. .$3.75
50 feet of Vi-inch Rubber Hose, four-ply,
regular price $5.25, now $4.25
50 feet of Winch Cotton Hose, extra
good quality, regular price $5.50,
now $4.50
If your old hose is rotten and leaky or you expect to buy new
next year anyway, do it now and save money.
You can afford to throw away your old Lawn Mower and buy
another.
MITCHELL, LEWIS 8 STAVE R
FIRST AND TAILOR STS.
2 STORES 2
E. SECOND AND E. MORRISON STS