THB MORNING ASTORIA N, VKDXKSDAY HORNING. SKl'TKMUBK S7, IR99.
s
GEN. OTIS MAY
HE RECALLED
Ramousl That His Removal Has
Iton Decided Upon.
BROOKE WILL SUCCEED HIM
Belief That Dewey's Opinion is Un
favorable to Otis- Con
ference to be Called.
NEW YORK, Sept. It A special to
the Time from Washington aya:
Coincident with th near approach of
Admiral Dewey, th rumor, about Gen
eral Oti' recall hav ben revived. It
Is a general report that bis recall has.
actually been decided upon. York capitalists now here behind th
There has been a rumor lately that movement are confident that enough
General Brxe was to leave Cut!10" P mandpte
. . I Mexico entirely from the American
"""'i
Jor general is to be sent to the Philip-
pines, there is some deposition to re
gard that as General Brooke's future
berth. The basis for all this gossip
seems to be th report that Admiral
Pewey ha a poor opinion of General
Otis. This report has lately been re
vived and repeated In a number of
ways.
It Is generally believed that th ad
miral will have much influence with
the administration and his views on the
i .
Philippine policy will be anxiously ;
..m,m a Mrm. in,nrin nrevaii. 1
. ter. It Is still the general belief in Wall ' , ,K- ,j ,v. , ..,!....
that when he give, hi. opinion it will tfrM of Ae Manh.,.:D ' hu. freeing the American. 1.
not be favorable to General Otla !,, Railway Co. will soon pas to the!10 lmprrM fjreln pow,r
There Is to be a conference at the ' Metropolitan Street Railway Co., In- Th Englishmen say that Lieutenant
White House shortly after his return, tlrcst9 closely Identified with which j Gllmore and his men are not being
at which the president will meet thi7tta" are creJUed with having iVfXl Thejr M only rlvnf
been large purchasers of Manhattan' .
admiral and the Philippine commls- l,(ock .J Ume wk. lay each for rations.
slon. snd what is said at that confer-' 1. .... n...i vMr.r,i.. ht . nro. Th re"-sl Englishmen assert that
ence may result in some alterations In
the military policy In the Philippine.
PROLIFIC SEED CORN.
Soldier From Porto Rico Produces
a Crop Over Fourteen Feet High.
HLACK RIVER FALLS, Wis., Sept
St John D. Smith, a member of the
Third Wisconsin during the Spanish- j
American war, brought home some corn '
from the island of Porto Rico and
planted it June t! last j
It is now nearly 14 feet high and
still growing. Ears have formed and
are about nine feet from the ground,
but owing to the lateness of planting
will not mature.
xoe iitju are neviy iwice as nri y
a. native corn and the leave. BUCh
broader and longer.
THE DAMROSCH CHORUS.
Dewey Greeted in the Bay by the Fa
moui Concert Leader.
NKW TORK. Sept. 21 When the
Olympla on the day of the Dewey na
val parade rounds the stak-boat In
North river, the school-shiD St
Marys, the boys wearing their white -Transvaal government In this city,
working suits, will man the yards in point to a belief that war !s inevitable,
the saluting custom, which obtained Preparations are being made for re
when Dewey was a Junior officer. TMg ., the furnUure from headquar
It is believed will recall pleasant mem
ories to the admiral and will make a Un "nd ,ooroy nPre ln
display that is good form for military
purposes.
The choral union, of which Frank
Damrosch Is director. Intends to go
down tht bay at 7 o'clock on Thursday '
evening on the steamer Warwick and
welcome the admiral with song.
HEAVY RAINS IN INDIA.
Earthquakes and Landslides Do
mense Damage in the Lower
Himalayas.
CALCUTTA. Sept. JG.-No rain has court at Trenton. N. J., and show
fallen sin;e last reports In the vicinity cause why the offer of the reorganlxa
of Daretllng. In the lower Himalayas, ' tlon of the company to purchase the
where on Sunday nlKht rrat damajre property of the company and the petl-
was wrought and many prs.n killed
by earthquakes and landslides. (uth0ri2ed should not be severally ac-
Durlng the night however, several ctpted and granted,
landslides occurred. The PhvA bazaar It Is well known that some of the
was completely overwhelmed and 2-.0 larger stockholders in the West, nota
iwrsnnn lnt their lives. At Tamsong-. bly those of Cincinnati, favor a dlvls-
bustee, 21 bodies have ben recovered
and It Is believed that 20 others pr- sale in parts. The offer of tne reor
i.hi i riurwiitiir 106 faiAllt! or. ranliatlon of the company does not
curred.
Landslides
have also
occurred at
several were
Aturmeh, and there, too,
killed.
ML'STER OCT PROGRESSING.
Minnesota. Dakota and lhaho Troops
Will Soon be Private Citlx-ns
Again.
SAN FRANCISCO, Sept 2. The
muBter-rolls of the Thirteenth Minneso
ta regiment have all been turned in.
Routine work will be entirely com
pleted In two or three days and the
volunteers will have nothing to do but ,
await their 'llscharge a week from to
day. mustered out a week from Thursday.
The company clerks have their paper.
almost finished.
The North Dakota, will leave for
home thli Afternoon at 1 o clock on a
special train provided by the stat.
The Idaho volunteent are already
speeding homeward, having left last
night on a special train provided by the
.tat. ;
MEXICO AFTER POHMBRCB.
Reaching Out for Central and South
American Trade Against tht
Briton and Yankee.
crrr of mkxico, sept n The
English line of teamen to ply between
Chilean ports touching at Callao and
Guayaquil and Centra) American and
Mexican west coast ports will begin
voyages January 1. and It Is believed
her that Mexico will greatly Increase
Ills trade to the 8ou:h American Pacific,
porta.
Before the determination was enter
ed upon to put "n these steamers, the
merchants and manufacturers her
wars consulted and It la believed that
as soon as Mexico produce cotton In
sufficient quantities she will be able to
sell cotton to South America In compe
tition with the United States, England
and other countries on a gold basis.
American capitalists are going Into
th development of lands appropriate
ito cotton culture alon? th Ralaa
rivr neU. tnv rcWe coast, and New
supply.
Every year the amount used her
Is more na'.lv product Mexico's policy
is to remain on the silver basis and
after supplying th home markets with
manufacture, to Invade South Amer-
(0JU
STREET RAILWAYS MERGING.
Manhattan and Metropolitan Will
Future Be Controlled Under
One Management. ,
In
NEW YORK, Sept. M. The Tribune
notmng can yet oe an-
"" authoritatively about the mat-
position for leasing the Manhattan to
the Metropolitan with a minimum
(guarantee of S per cent by the latter, j
has been drafted and will speedily be
j acted on. now that President Gould
hs returned from Europe.
i PREPARATIONS FOR
WAR ARE MADE
GLOOMY IMPRESSION FELT
. . , mm i .
f TrMSrill NOW
Looks Upon a Cflnflk'4 as
Inevitable.
; LONDON, Sept IS. -A telegram from
i Pietermaritxburg, . Natal, say.:
, The Indications at the agency of the
outcome of the crisis seems
prevail.
'
MAY BE REORGANIZED,
to
Herring - Hall - Marvln Safe
Company
Looking to Resumption of
Business.
' CINCINNATI. Sept J. Th Enquir
ing. ' er says: Stockholders and creditors of
th Herring-Hall-Marvin Safe Co.
have Jnst received copies of an order
; to appear before the United States
tloa of the receivers to have the sale
kn tf the property and its offering for
I provide for a sale of the property in
' prce'.s. but offers, after all debts, not
to exceed tlMM are paid out of the
assets of the company, to pay 1325.-
for the remaining property.
Th Cincinnati contingent has a plan
to buy the western plant at Hamilton
0.. and operat it and for this reason
desire to have the property divided
F.F.DCCINO COMMISSION.
COLORADO SPRINGS, Col., Sept
2(t.The government body of the Colo
rado MlninK Stock Association has
I
voted to reduce the rates of commls-
slon charged practically 50 per cent
STOCK BROKER DEAD.
NEW TORK, Sept 2.-Sylvester
' Johnson Curtis, a well-known broker,
j 1. dead at his home In this city, aged
'n year
PRISONERS WILL
BE RELEASED
Aguinaldo Orders the Release of
Fourteen Americans.
GILMORE PARTY IS HELD
Reported to be Badly Treated by the
Insurgent--Japanese Aid
ing the Rebels.
NEW YORK. Sept. Sl-A dispatch to
th Herald from Manila says:
Th two Englishmen who assert that
they were shipwrecked in a small open
boat near Bigan, at th northern end
of Luion, bring a message from th
insurgent gvoeral, Pamela, that four
teen American prisoner who are now
held at Tar lac will b released on
Tuesday or 'Wednesday.
' The delay In releasing th prisoners
as promised several days ago Is due
to th fact that the Filipino wish to
furnish the men with new clothing
when they set them free.
The Englishmen state further that
Lieutenant J. 0. Ollmore and th cap
tured b"t's crew from the Yorktown
are stilt at Bigan. but will be released
later In accordance wlUt the decision
of the Filipino congress and the subse
quent decree of Aguinaldo providing
for the surrender of all American
prisoners.
The admitted purpose of the Flllpl
three Americans who were taken prls-
oners have accepted commissions In the
iMUlgen, ftrmy. 0ne of the three is
said to have been a sergeant, but his
regiment is unknown; another Is said
to have been a corporal in the Califor
nia regiment while the third Is a
negro.
Five officers of the Japanese army
are assisting the insurgents In their
war preparations.
Th Filipino authorities sent word
that no trace can be found of Captain
Rockefeller of the Nineteenth Infantry,
who disappeared In April and was sup
posed to have been captured.
Th railroad bridges In Insurgent ter
ritory have been washed out and par
tically the one at Bandan above Tar
lac, and the Insurgent, are having
difficulty In supplying th troops In the'
Immediate front of the American line. J
The Insurgent army has a heterogen
eous supply of arms. Sometimes there
are four type of rifles to a regiment'
The main resistance to the American'
advance Is to be made at Tarlac. j
On the way to the American lines
the Englishmen were taken on a wide'
detour away from the Insurgent front
and were thus unable to see the rebel,
forces, which are reputed to be strong. !
WOKE THE WATCHMEN.
Fire In New York Building Reported'
by Police In Time to Save !
Its Guardians.
NEW YORK, Sept. 26.-Flre did $3,000
damage ln the nine-story Robinson
building, bounded by East Broadway,'
Division and Qouvernour streets, early 1
this morning. Although there were 18
watchmen in the building, the flames
were discovered first by a policeman.
- When the watchmen found that It
was their building that was on Are,
they came tumbling out of doors In a
mad rush for safety.
Frederick Stell said there were still
two men In the building. He could not
give their names.
GALE IN MICHIGAN.
ST. JOSEPH, Mich., Sept. 26. Re
ports received here from various parts
throUgnoui me Biifiv umuiti air
the effect that the terrible northwest'
gale which visited this vicinity early
this morning has stripped of fruit nun
dreds of apple and peach tres.
THE LARGEST VESSEL
IN MARATIME HISTORY.
She Could Not Get up the Oregonlan's
Channel a She Is Seventy Feet
"Deep." j
The Oceanio Is the largest vessel
ever built She was launched at Belfast
on January 14th last from the ship-
" ' ...,..., . TO
building yards of Haiiand & Wolff. Her
dimensions are 704 feet long, 72 feet
beam, and 68 feet depth, with light
draught of 22 feet, and loaded 32H feet
tne re.. V " , ' .
picity " lv
taKe her around the world at a 1 -knot
Irate. Her passenger accomodation 1.
for 6JJ cabin and l.fltH) steerage, and
she carries a crew of 4W men. The
(trennlc la built with gun platforms, so
cording to admiralty requirements, so
thst she may he used as a cruiser in
ens h Is needed, Th vessel's hull
la made up of 17.000 steel plate, fast
ened by l.TRW rivets to frames of
channel steel I Inches deep, with
troh flange. These frame are placed
only 31 liH-hea apart, so that th
Rieatest possible rigidity Is given to the
whole struoture.
The vessel's plates are most of them
JS fret long, 4 feet I Inches Wide, and
fiom 1 Inch to Inches thick. They
welch from two to three and a half
ton each. Iter sternpost and Us amis
for currying the tubes weigh N tons.
She has five steel decks and IS water
tight compartments about SO feet apart.
The Interior of th Oceanic is magnifi
cent. It Is all a glitter of whit and
gold. Th saloons, with their high cell
ngs and vast proportions, are mor like
saloons In the Waldorf-Astoria or the
Hotel Cecil than they ar apartments
aboard ship. Luxury In the way of
upholstery, draper cutlery, silver
ware, chlnaware and crockery la ap
parent everywhere. Everything that
human Ingenuity can devise for th
comfort for passengers finds expression
in the staterooms and saloons of th
mammoth craft..
Tltl'ST PROBLEM A Ql'ESTION OF
REGULATION.
Above the haiy and (ranky notions
that have found their way Into th
trust conference the well-considered
and well-digested observations of Pro
fessor John Graham Brooks of Har
vard University loom up like clock
tower In a fog.
Mr. Brooks was asked to answer the
juestlon. "Are the new combinations
socially dangerous?" Instead of swing
ing red lanterns In th air and shriek
ing for legislation to suspend th laws
of nature. Mr.Brooks accepted the now
commonly asknowlcdgcd fact that th
tendency toward compact and vast or.
ganltatlon Is an Industral evolution
which. If properly regulated and safe
guarded, "r-nders a social service as
tssentlal as the college." The supreme
question that confronts us Is therefore
that of putlble rcKiilallon.
Instead of assailing industrial organ.
lr.at!ons for the combining Mr. Brooks
pointed out their clumsy and Inade
quate character ln production and dis
tribution. Great primary Industries,
like coal and clothing, "are In a state
so chaotic as to affront our lntellll
Kence.' The speaker illustrated the
clumsiness of organisation by calling
attention to the fact that one often
sees at a single hotel In a small city
Ave drummers competing agnnlst each
other In selling the sam product. In
stances of equally grotesque crudities
In many Industries were noted by th
speaker. Reckless and Improvident
handling of great Industrial plants Is
depriving the public of a good share
of the ben 'fits that should acrru from
these combinations of productive ener
gy and resources.
This new force railed th "trust"
stsnds for the latest stage of Industrial
growth. We cannot approach this sub
ject rationally until w understand
that th new combinations can In no
sense be permanently smashed. Th
trusts cannot be stopped. The real
problem Is how to guide and regulatt
the new force for the public good. If
the combinations are to work for the
public good Mr. Brooks believes that
three things must be brought about:
Absolute publicity of methods and ac
counts; every artificial advantage giv
en by the tariff must be removed, and
railroad discriminations shall not be al
lowed to these combinations. 1
As an Illustration of th practical
working of these three conditions whi'n
applied to a trust th speaker cited
tl-e furnltur trust In England. With
these three conditions fulfilled "the
f'irnltiire trust Is not In politics, ask
no favors from railroads or tariffs, has
checked a mere reckless and ruinous
competition and is sharing Its profits
with the warklngmen."
The publicity of methods and ac
counts Is advocated for the purpose
of preventing overcapitalisation, which
Is the on dominant peril of th trusts.
The removal of all artificial advantage
given by the tariff on commodities
that are in the control of monopolies.
Railway discrimination In favor of
trusts Is one of the gravest perils, be
cause it aggravates and increases the
economic inequalities from which we
are already suffering.
These are rational suggestions for the
abatement of the evils of trusts and
for the regulation of legitimate com
binations that merit the thoughtful
consideration of fair-minded men. '
BBVEN" fiOVKUN'OHS AND A FIZ
ZI.B. 8t. Louis Jlob-;-DomK.Tat
The conference of gcvernor. on trusts
In this city proves tu tie a complete
failure. It was gnsily partisan from
the start and plainly contrived as a
democratic trap. In the first place on
ly sevn governors were present. The
thirty-eight governors who were ab
sent have reason to congratulate them
selves. This meeting Heems to have been
originally planned to mnke democratic
capital, but the scheme mlnrarrled and
dwindled into Insignificance. What the
conference snld or did is of little con
sequence. It was deceptive as fur as
It pretended to be an Impartial con-
slderatlon of anything. On taking the,
chair fiovernor Bayres, of Texas, de
clared that the present tariff and cur-
reney systems are the underlying ,
causes of trusts. Ills cure for them
is free trade and free sliver. How he'
reconciled his fulth In his previous state
ment that "trusts are not a party'
question" Is a mystery too deep for,
Foard
Ship Chandlers
Special Departments
Largest Store of the Kind
any one who heard blm. If he had add
d that the only ivmedy for trusts Is
to elect Bryan no one would have bea
surprHd.
Gov. Stephens distinguished him
self by reading an address thai was
equally astonishing for Its arguments
and Its rhetoric. "Snplent sons of
sainted sires." h excUlme.1. "the eye
of your country are upon you today.
PcIIdw. countrymen, within U short
oons ths pmlanses lll I drawn up
In battle array. Choose tolay th ban
ner under which you will fight." Ths
governor's Idea of a pr analysing
trusts Is a sloppy democratic stump
speech, lie gloried In the fine Inflict
ed on Insurince companies "who plead
ed cn bended knee to be allowed to
pay and remain In the state." But h
failed to touch on the St. I.ouU street
railway consolidation, which could not
have come Into consolidation hut for
his signature. That this meeting was
an exhibition of a plentiful lack of
knowledge Is had enough. But ths
worst feature Is the duplU lty In calling
a conference of governors snd then
preparing to deluge them with demo,
cratlc sluvh. But th governor didn't
com. The proceedings yesterday,
with the exception of Governor Shaw's
admirable address, do not deserve any
serious notl.-e.
SEEING WITH OCR FEELINGS.
A physician make the statement that
w m with . our feelings. Ther I
mar truth In this than th thought
les will perceive. For Instance, take
a man or woman with a weak stomach
which ha not th power of giving the
blood ths nourishment It require. Th
system Is filled with poisonous blls.
Poor blool coursing through th brain
poison and weaken It and th suf
ferer I. utterly Incapable of enjoying
beauty of any sort, or even a hearty
mal. Th reason th bilious and th
dyspeptic who take Hoststttr. Stom
ach UltUrs finds Uf brighter and
pleasant ir. Is because It cleanses th
system and strengthen, th tmach.
S that a private rsvsnue stamp
covers th top of th bottle.
OREGON
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October 28, 1899.
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tT, PAULi MINN., JAN. list, iSygL ",,
Capital- . ' . . . $ 600,000.00
HcsiTVO for Unearned Tri-mium 1,016,407.87
Koserye for all Other Liabilities 222,69,1.07
Net Surplus over all Liabilities 784,888.78
Total Aiwets
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p. OOODWIX JUiisKnt Managsr. .
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