THE SUNDAY OREGONIAN, PORTLAND, -.JANUARY 30, 1910.
GUMS CENTERS
FIRE ON "DENNETT
Chief Witness in Coal Inquiry
Says He Thought Commis
- sioner "Crooked." s
LETTER TO MOORE READ
Secretary Ballinger Had Written
That Ho Could Not Approve Pat
ents If Allegation Made
AVcre Proved.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 29. Louis K.
Olavis concluded his testimony before
the Rallinger-Pinchot Congressional
Investigation committee late tonight.
He will be called at the resumption of
the hearing Monday afternoon for
cross-examination by any persons
against whom he has made charges.
Glavls' last day on the stand was f u.l
. of interest. It developed the animus
! which long has existed between the
i.Land Office and the Forestry Bureau,
' and the resentment the Land Office
! force felt when Olavis "called in the
; forestry." as they termed it.
i resell I a 1 1 v e meijaiwiiiii, v-ojuumuu,
) and Kinkaid, of Nebraska, were inter-
i the Land Office, had acted as attorney
for Mr. Kinkaid.
talayis Centers un Dennett.
Glavls asserted that Ballinger had
J suggested to him not to pursue an in
; vestigation against Representative Mc-
.L.acnnn, saying mere naa oeen iuu
miinh rt flint Onrt tT t h 1 Tl ET In ZtlG
i past.
When Glavls was asked the direct
question whether he thought Secro
tary Ballihger and Commissioner Den
nett were In league to do wrong in the
Alaska cases, he replied:
"Well, I thought the cases would ne
better protected with them out of the
' way."
- Glavis' attack appeared to center
more today upon Commissioner Den
1 nett. He said he became convinced
in the Summer of 1909 that lienneft
was "crooked" and took steps to get
carbon copies of letters Dennett was
writing back to Washington. Several
of these letters were introduced in evi
dence. Dennett Letter Read.
One was from Commissioner Den
nett to II. II. Schwartz, chief of the
field service. It was dated July 20, i
1909, at Seattle and said among other
things:
My Dear Schwartz: The worst situation on
thei line Is the find here. Our friend. Glavis,
regarded me with suspicion and. after talk- '
ing awhile showed me your ttileffrara asslgn
lnff the coal cases to Sheridan. Xow I
fiKUtva that Glavls is preparing to make a
cushion for himself to fall back on, and
:also putting himself in shape to have a
good and succeed.- In cancelling the Cun
ningham cases. While ho looks Innocently
at me, yet I can see that his heart is bad,
though" why it should be I cannot tell, ex
cept that he .wanted to drag, the cases out.
luv(s Motive Questioned.
'In a second letter, from Dennett to
Schwartz, dated Seattle, July 22, 1909,
occurs this paragraph:'
Olavis Called Treacherous.
Glavis has these coal ..cases on the brain
and cannot see anything but Just one line.
.1. have told him how it looks to us and
have reminded hlrh of everything "that we
have done for him nnd- that it- looks as if
he were returning our favors by not stand
ing by us as he ought to. H? has not acted
'.as you or I would act under similar cir
cumstances. It looks a little treacherous
to me, this calling in : the forestry.
Glavls explained he had asked Shaw
'by telegram to come to Seattle to co
operate with him on the Cunningham
Claims, as several were in - forest re
serves. This was how the. Forestry
Bureau first came into the controversy
officially. j
The last document read while Glavis
'. was on the stand, called out a great
deal of laughter. It was a telegram
from Mr. Schwartz, -dated Washington,
August 12, 1909, at the time attacks
were being made upon Secretary Ba -linger
and others, and was addressed
to M. B. McEnery, special agent at
Denver, Colo. It read:
Get into scareheads tonight and Associat
ed Press, if possible, that Secretary and
t'ommlssioner have secured evidence show
log unlawful combinations of several hun
dred coal entries; that General Land Office
- is assigning its best coal engineers and
lawyeres to Seattle to assist in the coming
trials. The Commlssloncr-Goneral- Office,
while In Denver, had exipreesed confidence
Ihut several hundred entries would be can
celed; that Government Is making every ef
fort to scure speedy action on these cases,
as all coal ntries in Alaska have now been
suspended for over four years; that Govero
ernment la anxious to clear these lands of
bad entries that It may get coal for Its coal
ing ' stations In the Pacific; that special
agents BHy coming hearings will reach some
of the larest intetests yet uncovered and
that Falllnger has made it plain that he
will sta-nd behind them to the finish; that
.several of the railroad corporations owned
by Kastern capital are making direct efforts
to delay the hearings, hoping that next
Congress will pass further remedial legisla
tion or permit greater consolidation, but it
Is the position of the Commissioner that
such entries as are fraudulent, as the law
fttands. should be canceled at once and
criminal lla.hlllty developed before statute
bars action. 1 understand newspaper at
tacks about to be made on Commissioner of
of the General Land office. Secretary of the
Interior and Assistant Secretary of the In
terior Pierce on Alaska coal. . I wish, to
Tore-stall.
Senator Nelson took part in the open
ing proceedings, by insisting that
Glavls make direct answer to ques
tions. He asked Olavis whether any
attempt was made to hinder his work.
"I will have . to .explain," Glavis be
gan. "Answer yes or no," said Nelson,
sharply.
"Ves. they did."
Glavis admitted under pressure that
Government interest was no placed in
jeopardy by the assignment of Special
Agent Sheridan to the coal cases. Ha
declared that a field examination was
necess-nry to establish a prima facie
case. He said that he was so dis
. heartened by a ruling given by Assist
ant Secretary Pierce, which h re
garded as favoring the coal lands
claimants, that he once thought of re
signing and giving the facts to the
press. He went to Henry M. lioyt, who
said a scandal ought to be avoided. The
ultimate result was a letter from Judge
Ballinger to Mr. Wlckersham, asking
for a new opinion on the act upoa
which Pierce had ruled.
Moore Was Disappointed.
, A letter from Jules C. Moore to Se3
retary Ballinger was read. It said:
Assistant Secretary Pierce proved a dis
appointment and I am going home with a
message that will give scant comfort to my
ctssociates. Your reasons for turning this
matter over to your assistant are appre
ciated, but we had a.! felt that whon you
were named to the position of Secretary,
with your full anil complete knowledge and
your sense of Justio?. our long-dolayed
patents would be forthcoming.
In the course of his reply. Secretary
- Ballinger wrote to Moore:
'his aat hajs, iuwever, been carefully
looked into, and I wish to say that, in
view of all the facts now disclosed, I would,
if I were ruling upon the matter, hold that
the principle announced in the opinion of
Judge Hanford, In the case of the United
States against the Portland Coal & Coke
Co.. la directly appllcabka to these cases,
and that. If the allegations made be proved,
patents cannot issue uader the act of April
28, 1904.
Glavls went into some detail about
the visit of Commissioner Dennett to
Seattle In July, 1909. Letters were
read in this connection in which Den
nett, and Glavis both spoke of each
other in anything but complimentary
terms.
Stenographer Copied Letters.
Glavis testified that he had heard
Dennett was writing some "peculiar"
letters to Washington and had arranged
with the man - acting as Dennett's
stenographer to save a copy of all let
ters from him.
"I thought he was crooked," said
Glavis, "and when I went to see him
I asked the stenographer to take down
all I said and all Dennett said to me."
Glavis said that he had also told
F. J. Heney of his suspicion regarding
Dennett. He told Heney the Land Of
fice at Washington was hurrying him
In the Alaska cases and expected him
to interview 600 or more people in 60
days.
"In view of all I had heard about
Mr. Dennett, I thought something- was
wrong," said Glavis.
-The witness said that Mrf Ballinger,
according to a man named White, had
represented Representative Kinkaid, of
Nebraska, In the "Green group cases."
"Was there anything wrong in that?"
asked Representative Madison.
"No; it was part of the work he did
after having been in the Land Office
and had knowledge of the cases." ,
Plnclrot Said, "See President."
Glavls, at the conclusion of his tes
timony, said that in Spokane, Wash.,
in the Conservation Congress, he met
ex-Governor Pardee, of California, and
G-ifford Pinchot. He told them all his
troubles in connection with the coal
land cases, and Mr. Pinchot advised
him to go to the President.
The witness also brought out the
fact that ex-Assistant Law Officer A.
W. Shaw, of the Bureau Of Forestry,
had gone to Chicago to help him in
his report to the President.
Glavis took the eport in person to
Beverly and presented it to Mr. Taft.
He said he returned West from there,
and that the next thing he knew he
was dismissed from the service.
"That," said he, "ended my connec
tion with the Alaska coal land cases
officially," he added, after a pause.
ItESIGXATIOX WAS SURPRISE
Farewell Banquet to ' Jack'- Ballinger
Told at Hearing.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 29. The" Investiga
tion of charges made against Secretary
Ballinger and officials of the General
Land Office, by Representative Hitcncock
of Nebruska was resumed today before
.the House Committee on Expenditures
in the Interior Department.
Representative Page of North Carolina
Introduced a newspaper account of a
farewell banquet given to Jack Ballinger,
a relative of the Secretary, before he left
for the West. It included a statement
that young Ballinger was leaving the
service of the Government to begin law
practice in Seattle with the present Sec
retary 'Ballinger.
Commissioner Dennett of the land office,
who was being interrogated upon the pay
ment of young Ballinger's traveling ex
penses from Washington to Seattle, was
asked ' whether the publication of such
an account would warrant the allowance
to an employe who was about ot sever his
connection with the Government.
Mr. Dennett replied that he knew noth
ing of the banquet and that he did no
know young Ballinger was to resign.
BALLINGER GJVES ADVICE
(Continued From First Page.)
the opportunities of others to live and
enjoy their share of the bounties of
nature." .
Mr. Ballinger referred to President
Taft's recent message to Congress,
which-declared that the soils of the
country that produce foodstuffs are
also worthy of conservation, and the
Secretary declared that the soils should
be included in conservation with the
forest, mine and water resources.
Develop Under Federal Control.
."Water power resources should be
developed under Government control,"
Mr. Ballinger insisted, '"to save the
coal and 'the forests from being con
sumed for fuel." Mr. Ballinger de
clared that such development should
be through private enterprise under
Government supervision and control,
and that Congress should give to the
executive branch of the Government
the authority to obtain those results.
"In view of the National interest in
these resources," concluded the Secre
tary, "it is incumbent upon Congress to
give to the executive branch of the
Government sufficient power and au
thority to protect us against the con
tinued waste and destruction of the
public domain: And it is the earnest
determination of this administration
that it may be clothed with sufficient
authority and equipped with the neces
sary machinery to accomplish all that
is possible through Federal agencies
in this particular."
ALL PARIS GIVES PRAISE
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oration per acre. As the trees draw the
moisture from the soil, permitting evapor
ation, this energy is proportional to the
number of leaves. Consequently, refores
tation is the only natural remedy.
American Relief Received.
. "The American Chamber of Commerce,
presided over by Ambassador Bacon, to
day adopted resolutions of sympathy. The
American Ambassador said he and Con
sul General Mason were receiving cable
grams offering assistance, if agreeable to
the French government.
" "The Offering 6f aid TrOhl ' abroad, ' said
Ambassador Bacon, "is a matter of great
delicacy upbn such occasions, but I am
sure that contributions from Americans
in all parts of the world or from any
body else, will be gratefully received."
Ambassador Bacon subscribed $a000 and
the amount through this agency tonight
reached $.15,000. Newspaper subscriptions
exceed MW0. .
Flour Famine Obviated.
Premier B'rland has arranged for flour
mills and oil reservoirs1 in the west and
north to send flour and oil to Paris by
special trains, so that the danger of a
bread and oil famine Is practlcaly over.
Learning that speculators were planning
to corner the potato market and send
prices up, the government issued an edict
that, if this Is carried out, speculators
will be sternly prosecuted.
The foot bridge erected at the Espla
nade dea. Invalides collapsed tonight, pre
cipitating scores of people into the water.
All were rescued hy soldiers.
Theaters present weird sights'. The
electricity having failed, managers have
resorted to lamps and candles. Water
pouring into the basement of the Opera
Comlque tonight suddenly drowned tha
electric dynamo and the opera was sung
in almost complete darkness.
Harry B. Macklin of Philadelphia is
visiting with his uncle. N. B. Macklin,
of this city.
HOT REPLY IS MADE
Oldenburg's Words Cause of
Uproar in Reichstag.
SPECTATORS, T00 JOIN IN
Conservative Agrarian Had Said
Emperor Must Have Right to
Order Troops Close Reich
Stag at Any Moment.
BERLIN, Jan. 29. The Reichstag . was
the scene of an angry demonstration to
day, when in the course of a speech
Herr Von Oldenburg, a Conservative
Ggrarian,' declared "the German Emperor,
as King of Prussia, must have the right
at any moment to order a Prussian lieu
tenant to come here and with ten men
close the Reichstag."
: The members on the left 6lde rose to
their feet, protesting with shouts of "mon
strous!" "scandal!" "impudence!" and
"breach of the constitution!" '
The spectators joined in the uproar,
which lasted for several minutes. Finally
Herr Schrader, Liberal, made a formal
protest against Oldenburg's remarks,
which he said constituted a grave insult
to the Reichstag, the Emperor and the
Army.
The Conservatives greeted Oldenburg's
words with thundering applause.
Herr Singer, Socialist, speaking to a
point of order, said he assumed that the
president had not heard Oldenburg's dec
laration, as otherwise he would have vin
dicated the honor of the Reichstag.
Prince Von Hohenlohe, who was presid
ing, admitted that he had heard the words
objected to, but said he understood the
speaker as indicating only the degree to
which military discipline must be car
ried. Oldenburg immediately confirmed, this
interpretation of his statement.
Loan sharks must leave
Ios Angeles Mayor Suggests Bank
ruptcy to loosen Clutches.
LOS ANGELES, Cal., Jan. 29. (Special.)
The four principal commissions - under
the present administration are now united
in the plan to drive loan sharks out
of City Hall. The first will be begun
by Charles O. Hawley, of the Fire Com
mission. - The Fire Board took the matter
up officially and next day Judge Charles
Silent, of the Park Commission, notified
Mayor Alexander that his Board is will
ing to Join the movement. Now the
Police Commission and the Board of
Health have fallen In line and the in
dications are- that the loan sharks will
have to go.
Mayor Alexander, who is chairman of
each of the Commissions, is heartily in
sympathy with the campaign.
"I want to see all city employes freed
from the influences of these money
lenders," he says. "No employe who goes
through bankruptcy to get out of the
clutches of a loan shark will find him
self in disfavor."
PLUMMER AGAIN ADRIFT
Steamer Snohomish Reports Failure
to Tow Derelict to Port.
VICTORIA, B. C, Jan. 29. The United
States life-saving steamer Snohomish re
ported to Pachena Point by wireless last
night that the attempt to recover the
derelict four-masted schooner Susie M.
Plummer, which has been adrift since
early in December, had been unsuccessful.
The Snohomish reported that she found
the derelict anchored in 45 fathoms of
water oft Cape Russell, near the north
ern end of Vancouver Island. A boat's
crew went on board, cut the anchor
chains and made a hawser fast. The
Snohomish stood by until dark, by which
time the Plummer had cleared the rocks
oft the entrance to San Josef Bay and
was drifting past Vancouver Island be
fore a west-southwest wind.
STATISTICS SHOW FAILURE
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it for the second time. In these two
years, which : will expire on May 1, the
farcical side of the question has presented
itself.
A perusal of the police blotter and the
figures are interesting show that drunk
enness increased under no-license. In
the first three months of the dry regime
the arrests for drunkenness were:
May, 1Bi8 m
June, 19i8 ' "lS
July, 1U08 jao
Total ' 379
Average per month - 12J
In the second three months the arrests
for the same cause were:
August, '. ifio
September. 1908 175
October, 1908 174
1 Total , 509
Average per month 169
' ' Arrests Grow In 1909. '
For the same months in 1909 the in
crease was really astounding. The po
lice blotter gives the number of ar
rests as follows:
May, 1909 ; -;. 221
June, J9I9 2ti5
July, 1909 238
A total of . ............. .604
Or average, per month, of 221
The following three months show a
still greater gain.
August, 1909 297
September, 1909 2r4
October, 1909 . 250
, 801
Or average, per month,' of... 2(17
These figures clearly prove that un
der so-called prohibition conditions
grew worse. License, on the other hand,
with its restrictions and police regula
tions enforced as it is practicable to
do, is capable of steadily bettering con
ditions. Another feature about the no-license
system In Worcester is the demoraliz
ing effect upon young men. Covering
this end of the matter. I rely upon a
statement made by the Rev. Arthur
Wright. His computations concerning
the importation of liquors, taken from
the express records from May 1, 1908,
to October 1, 1909, or for 17 months,
show that 283, 673 cases of beer Were
brought into the city, making an av
erage of 16,681 cases per month. -
At the present time the business has
Increased to such an extent that ap
proximately 40,000 cases are being con
sumed each month. The question is
asked. Where is it being sold? The
answer is easy. In kitchen dives, pri
vate dwellings and lodging-houses. The
law permits any citizen to have it
shipped to him. Thais, instead of con
centrating the business in a limited
number of licensed places, scores of
men and women have entered the busi
ness and dispose of the goods to friends.
With many women in the business the
demoralizing effect upon children can
be readily understood. -
Thus no Intelligent analysis' of the facts
can escape the conclusion that more,
rather than less, liquor is being consumed
now than under license.
Touth, "more than any other class, suf
fers. Under no-llcen9e there can be, of
course, no restrictions. A young man
can buy all he desires, while under a
strict license law the dealer refuses to
sell him any liquors, and will hustle
him out of a saloon at double quick
time, fearing that the youth will be seen
in the place by some vigilant policeman.
Under the no-license system the Sunday
and holiday business Is flourishing. With
restrictions of license not one-fourth of
the liquors now consumed on theses days
could be obtained.
Not only in Worcester have the people
been aroused to the real conditions, but
in other New England industrial centers
Fall River, New Bedford, Gloucester and
Marlboro turned from prohibition this
year to license. In'many other towns and
cities the no-license majority was greatly
reduced at the elections. Haverhill, al
though nominally a license city, turned
this year into the dry column as a result
of a liquor dealers' fight. Salem did the
same thing, but in this city, where both
systems have been tried, the conditions
under license are shown to be far better
than under no-license.
Crime Shows Increase.
Reverting to Worcester, the police
records show that crime has increased
fully 20 per cent under no-license. From
an. economic - viewpoint Worcester, with
conditions even worse than under license,
loses from the loss of its license revenue
nearly $250,000 a year. In order that I
may not be too harsh in my comment on
Worcester's failure to enforce the law, I
quote an article in the Providence Journal
under date of June 6, 1909.
"The figures that are daily furnished
at police headquarters as to the record
of arrests for drunkenness and the
amount of . liquor delivered by express
are not such as to make glad the hearts,
or sweet the temper of such persons as
favored the Inauguration of a no-license
system in this community. This, too, it
is asserted by the police, who are familiar
with conditions in the tenement districts,
that express wagons deliver beer by the
case and keg in homes where no Such
consignments were ever delivered before,
and that women and even children are
tempted by 'the nearness and large quan
tities of intoxicants to form drinking
habits. : Since no license went into effect
on May 1, the arrests for drunkenness
were 317,- an increase of 16 per cent over
a corresponding period under license."
This article covered the situation in
Fall River and the same conditions can
be said to prevail in all other large
centers in this state.
WAGNER FLAT IN CHICAGO
liasohall 'Player's I'atronym Haiti
Plan for Naming Schools.
CHICAGO, 111., Jan. 29. (Special.) The
Chicago Boar dof Education Is about to
change Its methods of naming school
buildings, and a proposal , will be sub-,
mitted to the buildings and grounds com
mittee Monday. ; It is planned to name
schools after famous composers. This
method, however, is meeting with con
siderable opposition "among members of
the board.
A Liszt school would be nice, they ad
mit, also Brahms, Beethoven and Verdi.
One faction believes that a Richard Wag
ner school, named after the famous musi
cian, also would be nice. Bnt here comes
the rub. Farslghted members" of the
board think the name would suggest
"Only Honus," that squat, stoop-shouldered,
bow-legged demon, who, alone and
unaided, wrestled the championship pen
nant from Chicago and New York during
the 1909 baseball season.
Trustee G. Reifenhagen, -who suggested
the musician plan, while willing to honor
all other great masters, had been per
suaded that Wagner cannot be .honored
with a school building named after him,
for fear honor be generally attributed to
Pittsburg and not to Germany.
'M0NA DEVERA" BAFFLES
Mysterious "Woman Dead in Aber
deen Witli None to Claim Her.
ABERDEEN,, Wash., Jan. 29. (Spe
cial.) Mystery surrounds the identity
of Mona Devera, who died at a local
hospital last night after a long Illness.
It is said the woman has-been a res
ident of this vicinity for several years.
Up to. a few days ago she lived in a
rooming-house at 314 South F street.
Andrew Blum, proprietor of the place,
declares that he knows nothing about
her beyond the fact that she leased
the room and lived there for several
months until taken ill. At his sugges
tion she was sent to the hospital, where
she died.
He says the woman has a daughter
living in Pittsburg, but a careful search
of the woman's effects fails to reveal
the address of relatives or friends. The
police believe the name she used was
assumed for some purpose best known
to the woman herself. It is said she
formerly was on the stage and it is
thought "Mona Devera" is her stage
name.
LABOR MAYOR FOR GAMING
San Francisco 'Itnler- Says Quiet
, - Poker Game Is Not Illegal."
SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 29. "The Chi
nese may gamble their heads off, as long
as they don't break the law and do keep
to themselves," declared the new labor
Mayor of San Francisco, P. H. McCarthy,
head of the State Building Trades Coun
cil, yesterday. He continued
"Poker is a perfectly legal game,' as I
understand it, except where the house
lakes a percentage. The authorities have
been keeping policemen in Chinatown to
pry into private houses at the expense of
the taxpayers. I will not stand for that
sort of thing. - ' " .
Mayor McCarthy's declaration was made
in an interval of. a busy day in the new
labor administration. Besides the instal
lation of a new police chief, a former
Police Commissioner, who had. been de
posed by the Mayor, questioned the legal
ity of such deposition, and members of
the Health Board showed sighs of making
a legal battle to prevent being ousted.
FUNDS POUR IN FOR. RELIEF
Red Cross Sets Aside $5000, States
Ready With Help.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 29. The Ameri
can National Red Cross today appointed
from its contingent funds $5000, which
was sent to Paris.
BOSTON, Jan. 29. The people of
Massachusetts today sent to Paris a
preliminary contribution of $5000.
PROVIDENCE, R. I., Jan. 29. Gov
ernor Pothier sent a message to Presi
dent Taft today stating that the State
of Rhode Island stood ready . to con
tribute toward the Paris relief fund.
K
Grant Phegley, Manager
TRIP CALLED JUIET
Immigration Commission Is
Called Extravagant.
INQUIRY IS PROPOSED
Amendment Offered to Porto Rico
Act Provides for Treatment of
Anemia Taft Hears Plan
for Coal Royalty.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 29. An Investi
gation of the expenses of the Immigra
tion Commission, a sequel to the re
cent flurry in the House over charges
that members had ""junketed on their
trip abroad," is provided for in a joint
resolution introduced by Representa
tive Macon, of Arkansas, creating a
joint committee of one Senator and two
Representatives for the purpose. Mr.
Macon was the author of the charges
on the floor of the House.
The committee is to be empowered
to subpena witnesses and administer
oaths. Mr. Macon proposes to make
another speech in the House attacking
the commission when the diplomatic
and consular appropriation bill is
brought up.
Anemia to Be Treated.
An amended organic act for Porto
Rico was submitted to the House to
day with an accompanying letter of
Secretary Dickinson reporting on his
recent trip o inquiry to the Island.
Thf proposed act recommends a Con
gressional appropriation of $200,000, co
operatively with -the insutar govern
ment, for the treatment of anemia,
which Secretary Dickinson says af
fects. 400,000 people. ' " u '
" Taft Longs for Alaska Coal.
John E. Ballaine, of Seattle, was in
troduced to the President today by Sen
ator Jones of Washington and briefly
Are You
Getting
What's Coming to You?
Food That Is Eaten and Undigested Is a Waste of
Time and Vital Energy.
A Trial Package of Stuart's Dyspepsia Tablets Sent Free.
It Is a true saying, and one that has
never ; been . r-efuted, that.. . "It is not
alone what you eat that builds you up
and supplies heat, energy and strength,
and rebuilds the tissues and cells of the
body, but vrhat yon digest of the food
eaten."
The great importance of the digestive
and nutritional processes and their re
lation to the proper maintenance of
good health has long been recognized
by physicians. - '
The person whose digestive and nu
tritive functions are adequately per
formed generates within himself a
power of resistance against which dis
ease or disease germs will battle in
vain.
Every normal person possesses a cer
tain amount of resisting power, and
when the functions of digestion are up
to the highest point of activity and
capability they create conditions which
are very unfavorable to the growth or
development of disease" germs, while,
on the other hand, should the nutri
tional and digestive powers fall below
the average, germs develop rapidly
and the system falls an easy victim
to disease.
The importance ofthe stomach in the
maintenance of the general health, and
the power to resist disease or bacterial
invasion, cannot be overestimated, and
if this organ ' weak hd inefficient
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our big stock of Suits and Overcoats, comprising all the
newest fabrics, color designs and striped effects. We can
please even the most particular men. The tailoring alone
marks them as "classy." -
Men's Stylish Suits
$15 Suits for
$20 Suits for
$11.75
$14.35
Men's Fine
$ 1 5 Overcoats for .$11 .75
$20 Overcoats for . $14.35
Boys' Snappy Suits
These garments are extraordinary values and should appeal to all
thoughtful mothers. The suits come in plain serges, fancy cassitneres, thibets,
cheviots and tweeds. v
$5.00 Suit Values . .
$6.50 Suit Values . ..
$10.00
Outfitters to Men and Boys
RAW SKINS AND FURS WANTED
J. P. PLAGEMANN. Mgr.
explained the proposal made by him to
the Senate committee on Territories
a few days ago to pay a royalty of 60
cents a ton for coal to be taken from
the Government lands in Alaska.
The President remarked , that ho
hoped Congress would some day make
provision for getting at the immense
store of Alaskan coal. .
Water Company Pays Dividends.
WHITE SALMON, Wash.; Jan. 29.
(Special.) Stockholders of the White
Salmon Water Company at their annual
meeting elected as directors for the en
suing year N. W. Torrey, T. Wyers, R.
Lauterbach, R. A. Byrkett, T. Wyers, Jr.,
and A. H. Jewett. A. dividend of o per
cent was declared from the first year's
business. The directors elected the fol
lowing officers: President, N. W. Torrey;
vice-president, R. Lauterbach; secretary,
G. T. Jewett; treasurer, H. L. Simpson;
manager, R. A. Byrkett.
Steamer Norway Purchased?
VICTORIA, B. C. Jan. 29. It is re
ported here that the steamer Norway,
of Christiana, . has been purchased by
a local company for use in the British
Columbia coasting trade. The Norway
is a passenger steamer of 1874 reg
istered tons, and is operating between
Grangemouth, England, and Norway.
The reported purchase price is $45,000.
Pol.-son Firm to Erect Bl? Plant.
HOQUIAM, 'Wash., Jan. 29. (Special.)
It transpired today that Manager A. L.
Matthewson, of the Poison Shingle Com
pany, with other associates, will soon be
gin the erection of a modern sawmill ad
joining the present plant of the Poison
Company. The . new enterprise will be
named the Eureka Cedar Lumber & Shin-
you are simply not getting what should
be coming to your general system from
the food Ingested, and the constitution
is being" partially starved.
It is always an easy matter to get all
that is coming to your system from
the food eaten when you use STUART'S
DYSPEPSIA TABLETS after meals. In
no other anti-dyspepsia remedy can
you get so much digestive power as is
embodied in these tablets, a single
grain of which will quickly digest 3000
grains of all kinds of food.
When you use these tablets, you have
the absolute assurance that all of the
nutritious food eaten will be digested
and assimilated, and will go to build up
new tissue and new cells; and when
the building-up processes of the body
are equal to, or in excess of, the tearing-down
processes, then the good
health and integrity of the entire gen
eral system will continue indefinitely
unimpaired.
Purchase a box of Stuarf s Dyspepsia
Tablets from your dTugglst for 50
cents, and use them regularly in order
to make sure that your body and all its
organs are receiving from the food all
the nutriment necessary to keep it
built up and enable it to resist disease.
A postal card mailed to the F. A. Stuart
Co., 150 Stuart Bldg., Marshall, Mich.,
will bring a. free sample of this great
remedy for dyspepsia and indigestion
by return mall.
$25 Suits for ... . $18.75
$35 and $40 Suits . $25.00
.
Overcoats j
$25 Overcoats for . $18.75
$35-$40 Overcoats . $25.00
4 to 16
Years
J
$3.75 I $7.50 Suit Values . . $5.00
$4.50 I $8.00 Suit Values . . $5.75
Suit Values . . . $7.00
Seventh and Stark Streets
for which "vve pay the highest market price. Largest
and oldest manufacturing furriers in the Northwest.
Price list and shipping tags mailed on reijuest.
H. Liebes & Co.
288 Morrison Street, Portland, Or.
gle Company. Plans from the Allis
Chalmers Company for the mill work are
being considered.
WORCESTER, Mass., Jan. 29. Simon
Chandler, said to have been the first man
to enlist in a regularly organized military
company in response to Lincoln's call for
volunteers in the Civil War, is dead at
his home in this city.
NO PAIN -NO PAIN
No More Fear of the Dental
Chair, Nor a High Dental Bill
CONTINUED LOW RATES
FOR THIS MONTH
The teeth we are making with
out the old and clumsy plates
are proving a winner, at a price
that you will agree is satisfac
tory to you. It is what you want.
No trouble to answer questions.
WHY PAY MORE?
Full Set, that fit So.OO
Gold Crown, 22K $3.50
Bridge Teeth, 22K. ... -S3.50
Gold Fillings I... $1.00
Silver Fillings 50
If )n are nervous or have heart
trouble, the Klertro Pa In leas System
will do the work when others fail.
All work warranted ten years.
BanJc reference. Open evenings and
Sundays. Lady Attendant.
ELECTRO
PAINLESS DENTISTS
Corner Fifth and Washington, Across
from lerklns Hotel.
INVEST N
Here is opportunity for ideal
investment.
THE RADIO BELL for treat
ing the skin and scalp by
means of electric UKht rays.
Destroys facial blemishes,
freckles, moth patchos, moles,
tan. etc. Attaches to elec
trical socket In home. Sent
prepaid anywhere, $6 complete. Write
for d?criptlve circular, telling Its many
uses, or send us your order. , The Law-
ton Klertrlral KtectalUeM Dept., 611 Mar
ket St.. Y llminKton. Del. Agents wanted.
References, anv hank or business house
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