WEDNESDAY,' FEBRUARY if, 1904,
THE MORNING ASTOMAN. ASTORIA. OREGON.
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SPEAKS j)N CANAL
Secretary Taft Says Isthmian Canal
ii Necessary.
PANAMA RAILROAD DISCUSSED
Railroad Lint Crowing the Iithmui
Needs Thorough Re-equipment
Another Track I Will Have
To Bt Built 6000. ,
1KTU01T, Feb. 20.7 ISwifUry of
War Tuft last night t In annual din
ner of llio Detroit Url of Commerce
'( building" of the Tahania
riinel, uylnui
"To hw jut at prent, end under
tli eirctimtaritf the 'wntrti.-tlcm of
wetnwy b4wn tbo AtKintfo tl
Taoifle oceans Wmi to be more the
siathm's task then any oiVr I em
glad fo ay with repeot t' Chief Kn
glnrer John K. fcltrv-n, that damea J.
Hill told m that to. Steven hd U-e'n
dii' f engineer under him 'for seventeen
yeaia end that it any man could build
the Uthrfilan frarial 8teen wa' the
man." , "-
Secretary Taft told of the Improvtd
Military condition. II thru dleused
the l'anama railroad and aaldi
"That railroad tiwda thorough re
equipment. Wa ahall have to build a
MMH.nd twk wd many mlbe of Mlng.
J'.r bear In wind that the problem of
eon.lructlng the canal not digging
but dlpolng of what we ha excavat
ed. I think I have ald enough to In
dira t that there la a gTeat deal to do
before the dltt begin to fly; The
trotibln with the American people l
tlmt they want everything to be done
the next morning: The danger la not
that we begin too late to dig, but that
we begin too early.
'Sow, a word aa to lnvetgtlon.
W' bate had ft good many recently in
Washington. 1 Tbt President tod tTJ la
authority are gWd that the Senate
committee la now making full and
r
m m
D
complete Investigation Into evrry taie
ment of Improper condition of any
ort on the Whmnr regardlens by
whom iiiHli'. Hut after one thorough
luvotigiilion hita'betoi completed and
ewiy truthful limn and every llnr hn
liccii ln'iird, then hi, I lie work go on
Vnii fiui't be anxHerlng (juration and
building a Cflim) nt the 111110 time. You
citn't lmv the chief engineer and the
olhcr coiinlr tiding olDr-eni enguged in
that work both 'in Washington and on
the Intimitis. Therefore, I any, that all
thone who wUh to be heard ought to
be heard now or ever after hold their
pence,
C'ougrciimn J, Adam Itedo followed
Secretary Taft, ' '
VALUE DECREASED
I Tt-J .j
Estate of Yerkes Not Worth Fif-
teen Million.
HOSPITM HAY NOT, BE BUILT
t!
Investigation Showi That Suppjeed
Value of Traction Stock Hae
, Dwindled to lew this Half
of tho Former Value,"
CHICAGO, Fib. 20 -The Chronicle to
days Startling report have reached the
i-.-ic of Chicftgo financier that the re
puted 113,000,000 e.tete of the late
Charles T. Ycrkce it fldiliou. That it
will not aggregate more than $0,000,000
in a report rreiNted by Chicago banker
who have hail ocean Ion to make an in
stigation of the former traction pro
moter holding.
Since the death of Mr. Yerkci, much
of the tuppoacd vatuci of traction
stork in Chicago and London are de
clared to have dwindled to an enor
niou degree. Tbla altuatlon ha plac
ed lit Jeopardy the gigantic New York
ITofpHei profet, hleh tha lata trae
tion king had provided for In lie will
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