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Lipman-Wolfe's
Big Two-page
Announcement
of January
Clearance
Sales
will be found
on Pages 6 and 7
First Section
Goods Reduced in
Every Departme't
LIpman, Wolfe & Co.
All Suits Reduced
All Muslin Underwear
All Waists Reduced
All Cloaks Reduced
All Furs Reduced
All Skirts Reduced
All Infants' Wear Reduced
All Jewelry Reduced
All Millinery Reduced
All Pictures Reduced
All Holiday Goods Reduced
Goods Reduced in all
Sections
Special Envoy Has Froved Ex
pert at Latin-American
Diplomacy.
GREAT WORK HE HAS DONE
Reconciled Chile and Argentina, l"n
ravclcd Panama Canal Tangle
and Now Will End Dis
putes With Venezuela.
WASHINGTON. Jan. 2. William I.
Buchanan, who ha Just arrived In Ven
ezuela as Special Commissioner of this
Government to adjust relation with the
new government of Venezuela, whs a
dealer In crockery LJ years ago in Siouxx
City. Since then he has become the fore
most expert in practical diplomacy in the
I nlted States. He has founded a new
profession, that of business diplomacy.
He has settled more rows, prevented
more wars, made friends out of nations
that were predisposed to be enemies, than
any other man. perhaps, of his time. His
career is really one of the finest examples
that can be found anywhere of the possi
bilities of the public service In tills coun
try for the man who has brains and cour
age to use thorn
Mr. Buchanan has had a career entirely
unique. He became a public character
as general manager of the Corn Palace
expositions, some 20 years ago, in Sioux
City. In that capacity he demonstrated
a large measure of executive ability, and
the expositions became famous. As a re
sult. Governor Boles, of Iowa, made him
commissioner to the World's Fair In Chi
cago. In l.M3. and he was placed In charge
of tiie department of agriculture and for
estry of the exposition. Grover Cleveland
named him to be Minister to Argentina.
Triumphs as Arbitrator.
Mr. Buchanan developed the Idea of
pushing commercial relations: he became
a general agent for American enterprise
in South America and presently had be
come the most popular diplomat In Latin
America. Argentina and Chile were on
the verge of war over a boundary ques
tion. Mr. Buchanan was made the umpire
In an effort to arbitrate their differences.
His work steered that difficult and comm
plicated arbitration to a successful con
clusion. It was the first great triumph
of arbitration as a means to settling vital
international difficulties without resort to
arms, and In South America and among
the powers of Europe It Is still one of
the great recognized achievements of Its
kind. At Santiago and at Buenos Ay res
alike they look upon Buchanan today as
the man who contributed most largely
to rescue South America from the chaos
of petty conflict which had so long
arrested Its development. As a direct
result of that arbitration there exists
today between Argentina and Chile the
world's model disarmament treaty, and
under It the two Governments, once bit
ter rivals, have reduced their military
and naval establishments a.-d their people
have come to look on war as being as
Impossible as it is undesirable.
Settled Big Business Disputes.
That was 11 years ago. While Minister
to Argentina Ruchanan negotiated one
of the best reciprocity treaties ever
formulated for this country: but it went
the -way of other treaties of Its charac
tersmothered In the Senate commit
tees. Appointed Minister as a Democrat, he
was retained under a Republican Admin
istration, finally retiring voluntarily to
become a sort of diplomatic agent for
a large life Insurance company In Its
big business relations with the South
American countries. The company had
a great case pending In Argentina, which
required skillful and diplomatic manage
ment. Buchanan took It and won for his
client. Then he was sent to Brazil by the
same company and did some more equally
effective international cmfwyp rPdMm
effective work. Later the Westfnghouse
Interests. International In scope, wanted
hla services, and for a time he served
both concerns.
The Pan-American Exposition, at Buf
falo came on. and Buchanan was selected
to be director-general. His work for the
exposition marked him as a man of great
affairs.
Smoothed Out Panama Affair.
Next came the Panama revolution in
1903. and the development of that maze
of complications of Colombia, Panama.
France, the canal and the Washington
Government. It was a very practical
question and President Roosevelt turned
to Buchanan, who became Minister to the
Republic of Panama. From that time till
the present he has divided his time be
tween the big business enterprises with
which he Is associated and the special
service of the department. Whenever he
Is needed the State Iepartment borrows
him. and he always produces the results.
Two yeans or so ago he went on a mis
sion to Mexico, the exact character of
which Is not yet known, but It Is generally
understood to have related to effecting
ncreement between Washington and Diaz
for the settlement of conditions In Central
America, the ending of a war there and
restoration anil maintenance of stable
government and relations among those
warring little republics. Again the mission
was a success.
When the Pan-American Congress was
held In Rio. and Secretary Root went
from Washington to preach the new gos
pel, on high authority, of the community
of interest among the Americas, he select
ed Buchanan as one of his delegation; and
once more Buchanan proved himself use
ful. Now comes the tremendous task of
straW?htenlng out relations between
Venezuela and the 'world. The Washing
ton Government wants peace preserved
and. Venezuela restored to speaking rela
tions with the other memo.' of the fam
ily of nations. Likewtse, It wants Vene
zuela required to do Justice to all, and It
wants to be sure than no Injustice is done
to Venezuela. The whole Intricate prob
lem of the Venezuelan concessions, the
ancient treaties, the responsibility of the
new government under Gomez.the respon
sibilities of the United States under the
Monroe doctrine these questions are ap
parently all In the hands of Buchanan as
the practical man of affairs for the
American Government; It Is the greatest
and most difficult mission he has ever
undertaken. But he was the one man to
whom the Administration turned when
the task required expert services: and It
is fully expected by the people who know
the former successes of the ex-crockery
merchant that he will once more succeed.
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POISON IN Hilt ' y- ''A . HOBS MAILS
Two Families in Denver Get
Mysterious Packages.
POLICE ENTIRELY AT SEA
Both Boxes Contain Similar Deadly
Sweets, but Addresses Are Writ
ten by Different' Senders
Three People 111.
DENVER. Jan. 2. The police of this
city are mystified by the reports coming
into headquarters from two separate
sources of the receipt of poisoned candy
sent through the mails, and declare their
entire lack of definite theory as to the
Intent of the person or persons respon
sible for its sending.
Developments came with tho report
that three person. Mrs. Marie A. Smith
and her two children, were lying In a
critical condition from eating candy re
ceived in the mails. Mrs. Smith is the
divorced wife of A. C. Smith, a mer
chant of Miles City, Mont.
I.ater the police were notified that Mrs.
Dniiia Wltwer. IMng in the same neigh
borhood had received a box containing
hoaie-made candy, similar to that eaten
by the Smiths. Having read the ac
count of the experience of the Smiths.
Mrs. Wltwer reported the matter to the
police. Investigation showed that the
contents of the two packages were Identi
cal as to appearance, and the authorities
decided tohave a chemical test of the
candy made. Reports on this test are
expected tomorrow.
fcjxpert examination of the handwrit
ing used In the addresses on the two
packages disclosed they are widely dif
ferent, indicating that the addresses were
not wrlten by the same person.
REVENUE INCREASES AGAIN
Canal Causes Apparent Deficit, but
December Gain la $3,000,000.
WASHINGTON. Jan. 2. The monthly
statement of Government receipts and
expenditures shows the excess of expen
ditures over receipts for the month of
December. 1908. to have been $10,251,593
and for the six months of the current
fiscal year a deficit Is shown of $34,201,400.
December receipts from customs
amounted to $24,519,153 as against $21,744.
672 for December, 1907. From internal
revenue the receipts aggregated $22,529.
592, a gain over December, 1907, of about
J1.714.O0O..
The miscellaneous receipts were $3,249,
71, as against $4,723,931 for December,
1907 The total receipts were $i0.31S,507, a
gain of nearly $3,000,000 over December of
last year.
The total expenditures were $60,570,100.
as against $.".5.S1S,S73 for the correspond
ing month In 1W7. There has been an in
crease In expenditures on account of the
War Department of $3.40n.0oo and over
$,l,rt).000 on account of public works. The
Navy shows a decrease of about $1,300,
ooo and the civil and miscellaneous ex
penditures were reduced by about $1,
250.000. Canal Increases National Debt.
WASHINGTON. Jan. 2. The public
debt statement issued by the Secretary
of the Treasury shos that at the close
of business December 31. 1908, the debt,
less cash In the treasury, amounted
to $997,349,750, which Is an Increase for
the month of $7.91.190. accounted for
by the Issue of $30,000,000 Panama ca
nal bonds. -
The cash balance In the treasury is
$319,S01.41J.
The total Government receipts for
the month were $50,318,507. and the
expenditures were $60,570,100-
John.H. Grabel Dead.
HILLSBORO. Or., Jan. 2. (Special.)
John H. Grabel, aged 35 years, died
at his home near Newton, this morn
ing, from heart trouble. Deceased was
prominent as a Knight of Pythias and
a Woodman of the World, in which
order he carried $2000 insurance. -He
was a son of J. N. Grabel. a prominent
Hillsboro capitalist. A widow, former
ly Miss Elizabeth Bigham, .and . a
daughter, aged s'years, survive.
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T. O. Atkinson. James C. Wasson, Captain John Klein and-Hugh Ferguson
are members of Pittsburg's City Council accused of grafting. Mayor George
W. Guthrie ordered the arrests made when evidence secured by the Investigat
ors was laid before him- W. W. Ramsey was president of the German Na
tional Bank, and was arrested, accused of illegally using the funds of the
bank. A. Leo Well is the attorney for the Civil League and has taken a lead
ing hand in the prosecution of the grafters.
THUG RDB5 LONE WOMAN
MRS. P. LARSEX HELD CP. AND
RELIEVED OF PVRSE.
Robber l"ses Big Revolver to Intimi
date Seamstress, Wlioni He Stops
on Dark Street.
Mrs. P. Larsen. a seamstress em
ployed by H. B. Litt. 351 Washington
street, was held up and robbed on
Twentieth street , near Overton at 6:50
o'clock last night. A thug armed with
a big revolver halted Mrs Larsen and,
threatening her life, demanded her
purse, which was given to him. It
contained only a few cents. The scene
of the robbery . Is beside a vacant, lot
snd the spot is very dark. The thief
sneaked up behind the woman, who
was alone, ani, thrusting the revolver
up close to the hack of her head, com
manded her to halt and put up her
hands. After grabbing her purse out
of her hand he commanded her to pro
ceed. Mrs. I-arsen exhibited great bravery
and presence of mind for one in such
a trying position. She walked half a
block north and, turning, found that
the robber had vanished. Then for the
first time fright overcame her and.
growing faint, she applied at the first
house she ome to for a drink of water
and assistance. Albert Bingham, of
282 Twentieth street. North, took her
Into his residence and called the police
by telephone. Sergeant Goltz and De
tective Craddock were sent to the
scene. One of the officers escorted
.Mrs. larsen to her home. 489 Twenty
third street. North.
Mrs. Larsen said that the assailant
wore no mask. but. owing to the dark
ness. sh a3 unable to distinguish
either his face or his clothing clearly.
He was about 5 feet, 10 Inches tall,
was slender and wore a soft black hat
and dark clothes. His theft netted him
32 cents, a key and an old English half
penny. No trace of the robber was
found.
SEATTLE ISSUES' FIGURES
City Business by Water Approxl
, mates $122,000,000.
SEATTLE Wash., Jan. 2. During
last year Seattle's total business by
water approximated $122,000,000. More
than 1S50 deep water vessels arrived
and departed, with a net tonnage of
more than 3,500.000 tons. Passengers
entering and leaving the port by water
numbered 2.S31.S10.
A summary of Seattle's commerce
shows total domestic Imports worth
$34.359.8U5; domestic exports $46,682,
402; foreign exports $18,598,291: for
eign imports $22,290,052 Merchandise
shipped to Bering Sea was worth
$4,495,463, and . to Southeastern Alaska
$7,246,298.
ECHO OF POOR FAILURE
Receiver Appointed for Southern
Road Which Boston Men Backed.
ATLANTA. Ga.. Jan. 2. J.udge Pardee,
of the Circuit Court, appointed President
H. M. Atkinson and Vice-President P. S
Arkwritvt receivers for the Atlanta,
Birmingham & Atlantic Railroad today.
BOSTON, Jan. 2. Holders of bonds of
the Atlanta. Birmingham & Atlantic Rail
road In this city were notified today of
the appointment of receivers for the
road.
Interest on the bonds was defaulted
yesterday. The company, which was in
corporated In , Georgia In 1905. controls
several transportation companies In the
South and also steamboat lines from
Brunswick. Ga.. to New York. The capi-
tal is $C5,COO,000 and about $8,130,000 of an
authorized issue of $30,000,000 In bonds
are outstanding. The corporation is
largely financed by Boston interests.
The bonds were underwritten by H. W.
Poor & Co., the Boston and New York
firm which assigned last week.
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WALLACE POLITICIANS TAKE
TRAIN FOR BOISE.
Give Out Story That Mormon
Church and Harrlman Seek
Senator's Defeat.
SPOKANE, Wash., Jan. 2. (Special.)
Answering a hurry-up call and hur
rying to Boise to aid In re-electing
Heyburn, eight leaders representing the
Republican party organization of Sho
shone County passed through Spokane
today. They took the first train out.
The paity Included A. H. Connor. ex
Legislator; Walter Hanson, former
Shoshone County Attorney; A. H.
Featherstone, Legislator-elect; John P.
Gray, law partner of Heyburn; August
Sutherland, ex-Sheriff; Harry McKln
ley, merchant and chairman of the Re
publican County Central Committee; A.
B. Coggswell, cigar dealer and politi
cian; Thomas MoCabe, assistant cashier
Wallace National Bank; F. F. Johnson,
president First National Bank, all of
Wallace. From Wardner, Al Page, a
hotel man. Joined the party. ,
The story left In Spokane by the
Heyburn supporters from Wallace Is
that dignitaries of the Mormon Church
and the political power of the Harrl
man system are back of the antl-Hey-burn
movement, which combination
would make hard sledding for Hey
burn. TEN MILLIONS IN GOLD
Nevada's Output for Nine Months of
1908 Reaches Huge Total.
RENO. Nev., Jan. 2. According to the
Incomplete report of State Bullion and
Tax Collector Haley, the gold output of
Nevada for the nine months ending Sep
tember 30, 1908. was $10,019,730.54. He esti
mates the mineral production of Nevada
for 1908 at $21,000,000 as opposed to the
mineral production of 1907 as shown by
official figures of $17,591,486. The gold bul
lion output for 190S is $13,261,730, as op
posed to $12,099,455 for 1907.
City of Mexico Sends $2000.
MEXICO.CITY, Jan. 2. Ten thousand
lires lias been cabled to the Italian
Premier as the contribution by the City
Council of Mexico to the quake relief
fund. Every City Council in the Repub
lic has been ordered to contribute.
George Cochran, 10 Years
Old, Caught in Act.
ENTERS THROUGH CHUTE
Confesses to Theft of Brooch From
Station A, on Vnion Avenue, and
Is Seen by Superintendent En
tering the Office Again.
George Cochran, a 10-year-old boy,
was caught last night in the Station A
postofflce, corner of Union avenue and
East Alder street, in the act of rifling
the registered mail. The boy gained
entrance to the room by crawling
through the chute provided for papers
and large packages. He was caught by
Superintendent W. S. Halvor. of the
station, and his assistant, Elmore Mc
Kenzie, who were on the watch.
On the night of December 31 a pearl
brooch valued at $20 or more was
stolenrom this office. From the traces
left l" the thief the superintendent
Judged It was the work of an amateur,
and lie and his assistant took turns
watching the office at night. Last
night both men saw the Cochran lad
crawl through the chute. They tele
phoned the police station, and Detect
ives Price and Tennant were sent out
and made the arrest.
Before the office was closed for the
night the boy was hanging around
and watching everything going on in
side through the windows. Superintend
ent Halvor stated. Later he was seen
to enter through the chute.
When taken to the station youn?
Cochran, who Is said to be a bright
lad, at first denied everything, but later
confessed to stealing the rooch on
the night of December 31. He told
where he had hidden it, under a wood
pile in the neighborhood, and It was
later found there.
Young Cochran lives with his mother,
who is employed In the Grand restau
rant on Grand avenue, at 1U8V4 Union
avenue. On the woman's promise that
she would produce the boy In Juvenile
Court Monday morning he was allowed
to go home with her.
The police think that young Coch
ran is the tool of a gang of robbers
and are trying to locate some suspi
cious characters they have had under
surveillance.
MILLINERY IS SCORCHED
Blaze in Washington Building Does
Damage to Extent of $7 00.
Fire, supposed to have been caused by
faulty insulation on the electric light
wires, broke out last night at 11:45 o'clock
In the millinery establishment of Florenca
Evens in rooms 36. 37 and 38 of the Wash
ington building, 370'4 Washington street.
Damage to the extent of about $700 was
done. $200 to the building and $500 to the
stock and fixtures of the milliner. The
blaze was quickly put out. Web Harring
ton, who conducts a cigar store at the
corner of Fourth and Washington, and I
tJ. Apperson, a draughtsman, who was
working late In his offur In the building,
both discovered the fire. ' The blaze had
gained good headway and the heat caused
the windows frontnlg on Washington
street to burst and fall to the sidewalk.
Harrington turned In the alarm from box
13.
VANCOUVERTHIEF BOLD
Smashes Windows . on Crowded
Street and Steals Diamonds.
VANCOUVER, B. C. Jan. 2. (Special.)
At the busiest time and on Cordova
street, one of the busiest thoroughfares,
a nervy thief tonight broke a plate-glass
window, seized a tray of diamond rings
and made good his escape, though' most
of the booty was dropped in a hasty get
away. Lyttleton, the proprietor of the jewelery
ctore, made a rush for the robber but
was blocked by two accomplices: The
thief la badly cut and he whole police
force Is now on a still hunt for a man
with a wounded arm.
Prosecutor Declares Under
Him Come Herrin, and
Then Frisco Bosses.
LINE OF DESCENT TRACED
San Francisco Graft Scandals De
scribed From Inside by Mr. He
ney, Who. Draws .Moral for
Phlladelphlans in Talk.
PHILADELPHIA. Jan. 2. Speaking be
fore the City Cluli here today. Franc to
J. Heney, oi San Francisco, declared that
B. H. llarriman, through his control of
tho Southern Pacific Railroad, was re-spons-ible
for the graft and corruption
that has been found hi the Golden Gate.
City. With Abe Ruef and Harrlman was
linked the head of the United Railways
corporation of San Francisco by Mr.
Heney, but the real boss, he said, sits In
New York and has one of ills agents in
California. W. F. Herrin, genera coun
sel of the Southern Pacific Railroad.
"San Francisco is no worse and no
better than the average American city,"
Mr. Heney said. "With the single ex
ception of course, of Philadelphia,, and
even here you have nothing like what
we unearthed in my city. But tho causes
of corruption are the same in all cities.
In San Francisco we found two elements
at work. Coming from one source waa
the public service corporation, and from
another was the saloons and dives, while
behind our backs these forces Joined
hands.
"In this alliance the boss was the con
necting link, but he was simply the
agent of the real boss the big business
man. who wonted to exploit the public
service corporation. The political boss
was really the small duck In the pond.
Behind him was the public service cor
poration and the Southern Pacific Rail
road. "According to my deductions," the head
of the legal department of the Southern
Pacific Railroad, W. E. Herrin. was the
boss behind the apparent boss. But I
am convinced that Herrin was, after all.
the tool of the actual boss Harrlman."
CHIEF FALLS; SHOOTS MAN
Anaconda Youth Accidentally Rilled
While Escaping Arrest.
ANACONDA. Mont.. Jan. 2. (Special.)
William Rockefellow. a well-known
young man here, was shot and probably
fatally wounded by Night Chief of Po
lice Harvey Green, early this morning.
Rockefellow had been arrested for triv
ial fighting, together with several other
young men, and was being taken to tho
station, when he broke and ran, evident
ly to avoid the notoriety of being ar
rested. Chief. GroTTl fired several shots
In the air to frighten the man Into stop
ping. The officer then slipped and fell,
his gun being accidentally discharged,
the shot passing through Rockefellow's
groin.
SLAYDEN'S CHANCES GOOD
Confident He Will Be Chosen as
Speuker at Olympla.
TACOMA, Wash., Jan. 2. (Special.)
According to the reports received at the
meeting of members of the Fierce County
legislative delegation, the prospects of
J. W. Slaydcn for landing the Speaker
ship of the next House are brighter than
ever.
Letters from a number of unpledged
members of the House brought addition
al promises of support for Mr. Slayden,
and he 13 more confident than ever that
his candidacy will win.
J. M. Hayes was Indorsed by the Sena
tors for the position of Sorgeant-at-.Vrms
of the Senate.
TRIMBLE TO BUY AIRSHIP
President Seattle Aero Club Goes
East to Make Purchase.
SEATTLE. Wash.. Jan. 2. (Special.)
William Pitt Trimble, president of the
recently organized Seattle Aero Club. Is
going East soon to Investigate the var
ious models of aeroplanes and dirigible
balloons, and If he Is able to find an air
craft that he can learn to navigate him
self will purchase It and bring it to Se
attle to enter In the races and test flights
to be held during the A.-Y.-P. Exposition.
Mr. Trimble is also authority for the
statement that at least one other mem
ber of the Seattle Aero Club will purchase
an airship if his report on his Eastern
investigations is satisfactory. '
SALTON SEA AN OVERFLOW
Body of Water Said to Be an Accu
mulation From Former Floods.
WASHINGTON. Jan. 2. That the so-
called Salton Sea is not a sea at all.
but an accumulation or waste water in
the bottom of a depression 200 or more
fe.t- hoinw sen level, is the statement
of F. B. Newell, director of the United
States Reclamation Service, appearing
i the annendix of the report of the
Smithsonian Institution.
"The recent overriow or tne, coio
la nnt a new thine." said he. "hut
a revival in historic times of what has
probably occurred frequently in geo
logic history. -
VOTERS RAISE SCHOOL TAX
Increase Joseph Directors' Recom
mendations to 6 Mills.
tncirDtT Of .Tnn 2. (Sneeial.) At a
iiuiiui ... v.., .- -
special school meetlni; the ' directors
nmm,nHcd n. tai of four mills, but
the voters raised It to six and instructed
the directors to increase tne numoer ot
teachers by two the coming season, and
Viol committee anoointert to act
with the directors In taking immediate
steps ror a new Dries, scuooiuuuuing to
be built this coming Summer.