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VOLUME LXI NO. 330
Bishop Charles S. Mc
Cabc Dies of Apoplexy.
GREAT MORAL FORCE
Wife and Nclce Hasten from Phil
vdelpfaia to His Bed Side,
Remaning Till the End.
THREE SCORE YEARS & TEN
Wat Notablt Flgur During War of
Rblllon--DItlnoulhd Alwayt
and Dltd Pull of Honor Fin
Executive.
NEW YORK, Dee, 19. RIhop Chaa.
C McCabe, Bishop of the Methodist
Episcopal Church, died In th New
Tork Hoepltal at :I0 today. Death
waa due to apoplexy, with which the
tilahop waa alrkken teveral day ago
while paaatng through thla city on hi
way to hi home In Philadelphia. Mr.
MoCabe and the Bishop' nlce, who
have been with him almost constantly
Ince he wae stricken, were at the
bedside when the 'noted clergyman,
passed away.
Blahop McCaba wa atrlcken when
about to leave thl city on December
11. The night brfore he had delivered
hi famous lecture on "The Sunny Side
of Life In Llbby Prison," at Torrlng
ton, Conn., and war palg through
thl city, on hi return to hi home In
Philadelphia. Accompanied by Dr.
George P. Main, publishing agent of
the Methodist church, the bishop had
reached the Went I3rd Hlree termin
al of the Pennsylvania Railroad and
waa about to step upon a ferry boat,
when ho sttiggerod and fell uncon
scious. He wn carried Into th Fer
ry house and a loon aa au ambulance
could be ummoned. wae removed to
th New York Hoepltal, where he re
ceived treatment. Meantime the bluhop
had regained consciousness and the In
dication of the 94 hour following
were that the hock had been a alight
on. At that time hi condition gave
promise of pedy recovory and the
, former health of the patient encour
aged thl hope. Just before the at
tack he had walked briskly and carried
la grip weighted with book and pa
' per without apparent fatigue.
' Bishop McCabe, however, curly real
ized the seriousness of hie Illness and
Mi first word upon returning to con-
sclousnpss wore:
."Plenae notify my wife that I am
very 111 and ask her to come at once
That night Mr. McCnbeand hie
Mlace, who waa also hi secretary, ar
rived from 'Philadelphia, and have
alnce remained at the hoepltal.
The condition of the patient did not
clmnge materially until early Saturday
last, when he lapeed Into unconscious
ness. From then on tho bluhop failed
gradually and on Monday the physl
clan. In attendance aald that the out
come wn no longer In doubt.
BUhop McCabe was born at Athena,
, O., October 11, 1936. He entered the
Ohio conference of tho Methodist
church In 1860 and two year later be
came chaplain of the 122nd Ohio In
fantry, He wn enptured In the battle
of Winchester and spent four months
, In.Ltbby prison. His experiences as
a prisoner of war were later recount
ed on the lecture platform. For more
than thirty year he was popularly
known a "Chaplain McCabe," and the
title clung to htm even after the gen
oral conference of the Methodist
Church In 1899 mada him a bishop.
Following the war he became pastor
of a church at Portsmouth, Ohio, and
later wa associated as assistant sec
retary with the board of church ex
tension. i .
, While engaged In church work, he
originated the rally cry, .
"We're building a church every day."
His auccest as a money-raiser wa
remarkable and later as secretary of
METHODIST
PRELATE DIES
th Methodist Missionary Society, to
which port h mi eUuted In 11,14, h
added hair ft million dollar to th
annual Income of th society. It w
a ingr and hit tone wer a fea
ture of hi pita for fundi, Ha wai
chosen chancellor of th American
University at Washington, December
10, 1909,
LAKE RATE PROFITS.
TraniDortatlon Companlat en Oraat
Laktt Reaping Harvest,
CHICAGO. Dec. 19.-Nver before
waa ao much money pll for carry
In freight In lake Venecia aa during
the eeaaon Just closed. A rough et
ttmata placet It at 1,000,000 for coal,
Iron ore, grain and lumber. The pro
fit to the vetaeta were perhapa the
largest In the hlslory of tha Lake.
Careful computation! baaed on the
earnlnaa of typical ateamera ahow a
net profit on aleel ahlpa of about II
per cent. On wooden ahlpa of between
1,000 and 1.500 trnit capacity, the pro
(It a have ranged aa high aa 10 par
cant with an. average of mora than 28
per cent on their Insurance valuation.
Tha cauee of thta great prosperity waa
th demand of the country for Iron
and steel The total movement of Iron
ore waa 97.S19.t79 ton, an Increase of
4.0S9.9H8 tone over 1101.
drain from Dulutb moved In a larg
er voluma than aver before. There
waa ahlpped from the head of Lake
Superior 91,908.000 buehelt aa com
pard with 9.9,979,000 buthela In 1909.
ANOTHER EXPERIMENT. ,
CHICAGO. Dec. 19.-A dispatch to
tha Record-Horald from Winnipeg.
Man., eaya:
' Py an overwhelming majority Mani
toba yesterday voted In favor of gov
ernment ownership of long distance
telephone line and municipal owner-
ahlp of local exchange. Hon. D. P.
Roblln, premier of Manitoba, tates
he ha already instructed the public
work department to order supplies for
the construction of on thousand miles
of telephone line, which will b com
menced a toon a possible.
JAPANESE LINER FINED.
SAN F1UNCISCO, Dec. 19.-Col!ee
tor of the Port Frederick Btratton yes
terday Imposed a fine of 11,000 on
the Nippon Maru, which brought Ave
paengcr from Honolulu, n oeiiig
contrary to the law for a boat of for
eign register to carry passenger be
tween American ports. A I usual In
such case the agent had to pay the
fine. Among the passenger brought
on the Nltmon Maru wa Frank P.
Sargent, commissioner of Immigration
It I aald, however, that hi payment
will be remitted when he reaehe
Washington.
RAILROADER EXPLAINS.
ST. LOUIS, Doc. 19. During the In
vostlgutlon of the car shortage by the
Interstate Commerce Commission to
day, A. D. Starr, general superintend
ent of the freight traffic of the Penn
synvanla lines, west of Pittsburg, ald
he favored a law compelling the rail
roads to supply equipment ufflelent
to meet Us traffic needs. Car factories,
he said, are producing nearly 100,000
car less per year than the traffic do
mands. ,
STARVATION NEXTI
MINNEAPOLIS, Deo. 19, Coupled
with reports of fuel famine , in the
Northwest, comes still another report
of suffering, the shortage of food sup
piles. Inadequate servlca ha been In
torruptod by tho coal hortage and
bllasards. and now there are towns
which are not only suffering from want
of fuel, but even from the very nco
essltles of life. A telegram today from
Ambrose, N. D., states that the town
la without coal and food, and suffer'
tng 1 Imminent.
GLORY BEI
ST. PETERSBURG, Dec. , 19. An
Imperial ukase will be Issued this week
fixing the date for the meeting of the
provincial electoral oollegea through
out the empire. Elections to parlla
ment will take place on February 19.
The convening of parliament March
and the preliminary election of mem
bers to the electoral colleges will be
gin February 5. -
BAD NEWS FROM MUKDEN.
MUKDEN, Dec. 19. American Con
sul-General Nelson Falrchlld shot and
killed himself today. It Is believed the
shooting wa acoldontal..
ASTORIA, OREGON. THURh PAY DttUtMi"''
DOLLARS
Governmental Salaries
to
Be Advanced. -
GETTING INTO THE SWIM
Cabinet Officers, Senators Repre
sentatives All Subject to
-Lightning".
GOOD TIMES RESPONSIBLE
It la In tha Congreetional Air and
Quit Likely to be Put In Prao
tioal Bhape During the Pret
nt 8Ion, If Possible.
WASHINGTON. Dec, 19. It would
seem that Congress has at lust gotten
It courage up to the point of Increa
Ing the salaries of senator and rep
resentatives. It I erlously proposed
that their compensation shall be
raised from 95,000 to 97.500 a year, and
that Instead of 91.200. their clerk
shall receive 91.500.
It ha long been the aJnroat unanl
mou belief at th capital that mem
bors of Congress hould ftiave larger
alarles; but Congrea has' feared that
such unanimity of opinion did not ex
lit among .the voters; hence Congre
has hesitated to act. Now that the
Increased cost of living ha become
o manifest, and compensation for pri
vate activities having been enhanced.
conviction Is growing that the public
would look leniently upon an Increase
of congressional salaries.
The movement to Increase the sal
aries of all government employes
likely to have a generous reception
also In Congress. The lawmaker
could not well Increase their own al
arte and refuse Increases to those In
the executive department.
The queatlon of a larger salary for
the President, members of the Cabl
net and of the diplomatic corps haa
lonff been agitated. Numerous bills
have been Introduced to give the Pres
Ident 9100.000 a year, with correspond
lng Increase to other high officials.
The necessity Is regarded a especial
ly urgent In the case of ambassadors
and ministers at the foreign capitals.
An American ambassador receives
917,500 a year, which looks to the un
Informed like a pretty good salary, but
when consideration Is given to the
enormous amount of entertaining a
diplomat is called upon to do, espe
cially at the principal European cap
itals, It 1 very easy to understand
that an ambassadorship Is not a Job
at which a man could well accumulate
wealth. It has come to such a pass
that there are mighty few, places In
the diplomatic service a man could af
ford to take, unless possessed of an
Independent fortune.
To hold a Cabinet portfolio Is al
most as baa. A few men come to
Washington as Cabinet ministers and
save money, but most of them spend
several times the governmental salary.
Of the members of the present cabinet,
Secretary of Agriculture Wilson prob
ably la the most thrlftf, Mr. Wilson
has broken all records for, length of
service In the Cabinet, and It is said
that each year he has put aside a
tidy sum out of his $8,000 a year sti
pend. John D. Long, while Secretary
of the Navy, also lived very modest'
ly In Washington, and It Is estimated
that at least half of his salory was
put aside for a rainy day.
Postmaster General Cortelyou has
no Independent fortune and undoubt
edly lives within his salary, but It ts
not likely he I able to put much aside.
Most, If not all, the other members
of Mr. Roosevelt' Cabinet are men
who can afford to pay something for
the sake of serving their country In
places of honor and distinction.
80ME FISTIC FACTS
TONOPAH, Deo. 19. Manager Riley
AND
DIGNITY
of the Casino Athletic Club today de
cided that Jeffrie shall refer th
Gan-Herman fight.
LOS ANGELES, Dec, 19 -Jame 3.
Jeffrie today declared he wa willing
to meet Tommy Burns, if a 9so.09
pure I hung up. He ald he would
not mako a match with Jack Johnson,
colored, for any um.
STEAMER BLOWN UP.
Rr Accident en Milippl Kvr
That Dy.
NEW ORLEANS, Dec 19.-Tbe
learner Bcovll Is Jut reported blown
up on the Mississippi river with the
toe of a! Ion board.
VICK8BURO, Dec. 1.-The steamer
W. T. Scovll. plying In the Vlcksburg
and Davl Bend trade, wa destroyed
tonlaht by an explosion and between
ten and sixteen person lost their
live, and like number were injured.
Four of the dead ar white, and five
white are Injured. Tho number of
dead and Injured negroes cannot be
stated at this time, but of the crew
and a passenger list of fifty, about one
half are missing.
The accident occurred at Gold Dust
Landing, seventeen mile south of here.
The steamer was at the landing when
suddenly the explosion occurred.
many timber of the boat being thrown
hundred of yard. The boat wa o
badly damaged that she began to sink
Immediately. Pilot Daugherty Had
miraculous escape. He wa down
several hundred feet out Into the wa
ter, but despite a dislocated shoulder.
managed to wlm back to wo bank.
ALL ACCOUNTED FOR.
TACOMA. Dec. 19. The special in
vestigation committee, appointed by
Governor Mead to look into the coal
shortage, met here today and listened
to a number of dealer and shipping
men. t B. Wlnsor, of the Carbon Hltl
Company, th only wltnea represent
Ing an Independent coal mine, saldithat
owing to a scarcity of car, the Car
bon Hilt output In the last 19 4ays
had been curtailed 9.100 tons., The
manager of the Evans Creek Coal Co.,
on the other hand, stated that the
Northern Pacific had supplied all the
car needed. Operation of the Ro
lyn, Cleelum, Mllmont and Ravensdale
mines are not being Interfered with,
but 500 additional miners are needed,
The substance of the testimony of oth
er witnesses wa that the -unprecedented
coal scarcity wa due, princi
pally. tptthe withdrawal of Northern
Pacific coal from thl market, and
the failure of the railroad to furnish
cars to tha Independent companies.
Suggeatlon of combination were in'
dlgnantly denied. The shortage of wood
was caused by the scarcity of labor.
GOING FOR METCALF.
SAN FRANCISCO. Dec. 19. Ac
cording to an Interview given to the
press by Secretary Lefflngwell of the
board of education, today, Secretary
Metcalf haa made some erroneous
statements In his report on the Jap
anese question. Lefflngwell says that
many of Metcalfs assertions are sur
prising, to say the least. He says
that when the secretary asserts that
the Japanese and Korean Exclusion
League directed the oard of education
to enter a ruling concerning the Jap
anese, he utters, "what we say is er
ror; members of the board of educa
tlon were especially careful to explain
the origin of the matter to Metoalf.
The board acted upon tfi own Initiative
and merely proceeded to enforce the
state law."
HILL BEARS WITNESS.
MINNEAPOLIS, Deo. 19. The
terstate Commerce Commission
In
ad
journed Its hearing on the car shortage
in the west, tonight, io reconveuu to
morrow in Chicago. The feature
todav was' brought forward in the
testimony of President Elliott of the
Northern Pacific, during which Com
mlssloner Lane and Elliott had a live
ly tilt on reciprocal demurrage. El
liott remained immovable from his po
sltlon as opposing' reciprocal demur
rage, on the ground that it did not
move freight faster. He said the rail
roads collected demurrage for the pur
pose of facilitating ; the moving of
freight. President Hill, who took the
stand this afternoon, was a'dlsap
polntment aa a witness. He came to
the hearlnsr fortlflod with a mass of
figures, to prove hi statement, that
conditions outside the control of the
railroads, were, alone, responsible for
J the shortage,
YESTERDAY
IN CONGRESS
nsignlflcant Resolution
Gets in the Way.
HOLDS UP BIG BUSINESS
Champ Clark Sneers At Christmas
HoIidays-rHondellnasa .
Back-Set.
HANSBROUGH ON SHORTAGE
Present Bill Providing Agalnrt Con
gestion of Freight Traffio That Ha
th President' Unqualified En
dctement. WASHINGTON, Dec 19. The House
unexpectedly ran up against a snag
today, in an effort to increase the cler
ical force Id the office of the enrolling
clerk.' h Democrat, lead by Clark
of Mlsaoufi Opposing the passage of
the resolution. The resolution report
ed from the committee on account
was adopted, giving the committee on
enrolled bills an additional clerk. There
wa little or no debate on thl reso
lution, but when it wa followed by
another still further Increasing me
force in the enrolling clerk' office, a
very determined discussion arose. The
absence of a quorum was disclosed
when the House divided on the passage
of the resolution. Representative
Clark, who had inveighed against the
"senseless Christmas, holidays," Insist
ing that a quorum should be present If
the resolution was to be acted upon.
Speaker Cannon saw how useless It
would be to direct a call of the House,
and adjournment, at 1 o'clock, fol-'
lowed.
Previously to the taking up of the
resolution, Littlefleld endeavored to
secure consideration of a bill requiring
all corporations engaged In interstate
commerce to make returns to the in
terstate commerce commission, but
Clark objected, and It went over. Mon-
dell had the same experience with his
bill to extend the time In which home
steadera on the Shoshone reservation
may make final residence.
At a meeting presided over by Sec
retary Root, at the state department,
today, the executive committee of the
Bureau of American Republics elected
John Barrett, of Oregon, at present
American Minister to Colombia to be
a director of the Bureau, to succeed
William C. Fox, of New Jersey, wno
was today nominated to be American
Minister to Ecuador. v
Senator Hansbrough who has tak
en a very active interest in me car
shortage problem, particularly in the
Northwest, has prepared the outlines
for legislation which he believes, if en
acted into law, will tend to prevent a
recurrence of the present congestion.
These have been shown to the Presi
dent, at whose suggestion the senator's
ideas were put tnto shape, and to
Chairman Knapp of the Interstate
Commerce Commission.
They contemplate legislation along
the following liiieB". Giving the Inter
state Commerce Commission the pow
er to Inquire Into the equipment ca
pacity, under stress of extraordinary
requirements, of all Interstate rail
ways, so as to Judge of their ability
to move traffic under extraordinary
conditions; giving the commission au
thority to require shippers, holding
cars in demurrage, to unload and toad
such car within twenty-four hours af
ter the cars had beenE8C$N..N..N..
ter the cars have been placed In a po
sition to be unloaded; making it a mis
demeanor for a common carrier to
compel trainmen to attempt to move
trains containing tonnage in excess of
the registered tonnage capacity of the
engines hauling such trains; authorl
tng the commission to inquire Into the
temporary use of the Idle equipment of
equipment of another road.
Senator Klttredge expressed the
opinion, today, that the coat famine 1
due to the amended law requiring
railroad to give thirty days' notice of
a change In rate. The senator said:
; "About the first of October the rail
roads gave notice of a twenty per cent
reduction in the rate on coal. The ra
tal! dealer, In order to take advan
tage of thl rate, allowed the entire
month of October to pass before or
dering their coat The result wa th
railroads were not able to ahlp It fast
enough."
President Roosevelt' message, deal
ing with hi action in dismissing from
the army of the negro troops of three
companies of the Twenty-fifth Infan
try furnished the one topic of Inter
est In the Senate today. A lively de
bate followed tha reading of the mes
sage a to what should be done with
It. Foraker wanted It cent to the
Military committee, with instruction
to make further investigations should
the committee deem It necessary. He
said that in reality much that ap
peared to be testimony waa not real
ly testimony, a much of it wa not
under oath. Under objection from
Clay the Senate postponed action un
til tomorrow.
The pension calendar waa cleared by
the passage of more than 200 bin.' At
the suggestion of Senator Lodge, Pres
ident Roosvelf message will be re
printed for the Senate In "normal"
spelling.
Tha Interstate Commerce Commis
sion haa. postponed its Investigation
into the Harrlman system of railroad
until January 4.
HAS CLOSE SHAVE,
Prominent St. Loula Phyiein, Badly
Involved, Escape.
ST. LOUIS, Dec. 19. Warren F.
McChesney, contractor and politician.
aged 09. dropped dead today of heart
disease, in a tailoring shop in thl
city.
In his pockets were document pur
porting to be receipt dated in No
vember, 1905, acknowledging the re
ceipt from McChesney, of amount to
talling 91.600, for preliminary expense
In connection with a bill authorizing
the construction of the St. Louis Elec
tric Railway, to be introduced In the
municipal assembly at tha earliest pos
sible moment Theyere signed by
Dr. A. H. Ohmann DumeaniL a well
known physician. Dr. Dumesnil was
summoned before the grand Jury with
in the houn ,
After being closeted with District
Attorney Sager for more than an hour,
the doctor left the Four Courts. Sager
said he had no evidence to present to
the grand Jury, as he believed the re
ceipts grew out of the visionary
scheme of the promoters of the bllL
Dr. Dumesnil stated later he had neT
er received any money from McChes
ney; tkat he wrote out the receipts at
the request of McChesney, on his let
terheads, but they represented no mon
etary transaction. McChesney told
Dumesnil he wanted the receipts to
show to others that he had expended
money In railroad schemes. Dr. Du
mesnil said he had known McChesney
for fifteen years, and he had the "ele
vated railroad bee" buzzing In his bon
net all that time. '
PLUCKY SPOKANE KID.
SPOKANE. Dec. 19. Pressing a re
volver close to the sldo of ' Wesley
Eichelberger, an express driver un
loading a wngon of the Great North
ern Express Company in an alley at ,
the rear of the company's office In thla
city, an unknown highwayman told the
boy to be quiet. Eichelberger pulled
his revolver and fired three shots, none
of which took effect. One shot, fired
by the robber close to the bo8 ab
domen, made a slight wound. The
highwayman escaped without being
seen, although It happened about six
o'clock, when the streets were thronged.
MADE GOOD HAUL.
SPOKANE, Dec. 19. A Tekoa,
Washington, special to the,Spokesman
Revlew, says the safe in the Jewelry
store of Toyer & Engle, was dynamited
by burglars last night and trays hold
ing 92,500 worth of Jewelry and
watches were carried away.
QUINTETTE CAUGHT.
BUFFALO, Dec. 19. Four person
were killed, and one fatally injured in
a small fire In the Zenobta apartment
house on Prospect Avenue tonight The
other occupants had narrow escapes.
The building Is fiatiron shaped and had
narrow, winding hallwaya. In which the
victims, confused by flame and smoke,
lost their way and wera overcome.