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About The morning Astorian. (Astoria, Or.) 1899-1930 | View Entire Issue (Aug. 4, 1907)
SUNDAY, AUGUST 4, 1907. a THE MORNING ASTOMAN. ASTORIA. OREGON. THE MORNING AST0R1AN PnbUthM Dally Ixcep Monfltr by Tlk, J. S. DSLUN6ES COMPAMY. SUBSCRIPTION RATI1. By mftiL, P 7" ..,.17.00 By carrier, per monti .N WXKUT f?omi,?i - ' rnti u MWnd-tUt matter 10.101. l UM posloffle M Astoria. Ore- Ism , irOran tor the deBwnne of TTw Mom iobm av be Bad by pafUl ear or oaoooCpDbihaaaa. TSLIPROHX MAD! eeX 1 WEATHER. Western Oregon Fair in the nnth. nrnWdr nhoWVTS in nOlth ' ' " r- portion. Western Washington Show ers; cooler except near cost. Eastern Oregon, Washington and Idaho Showers and thun fder atoms'; : cooler. JAPAN AND KOREAN FORESTS. The United States ambassador to Japan, has forwarded to the state de partment details of the co-operative agreement between the Japanese ami Korean governments, outlining a plan for the u of the forests in the Yalu and Yumen valleys. The plan is similar in many ways to the methods of the United States in developing the Na tional Forests of this country, under the administration of the Foresf Service. The decision of the Japanese government to apply methods of forestry to the ue of the iorests of Korea is given especial attention, because it is said that the matter 0 fa large timber concession by Bussia to a corporation was one of the ulterior causes of the declaration of war between the two countries. Before Korea came under the rule of Japan, its timber resources were being rapidly depleted by wasteful lumbering, and the country bade fair to become as badly deforested in the course of time as China and Turkey. japan's plan for the management of the timber lands of Korea is to estab lish in the next five or six years nine model forests in the neighborhood of the cities of Seoul, Pingyang and Taiku. The capital for this enterprise is about $600,000, one-half of which is to be fur nished by the Korean government Private enterprise cor the development of forest areas will be encouraged, and a Korean school of agriculture and forestry, to furnish the necessary train ed experts for the management of these national (forests, has already been estab lished. The practice of forestry is a new thing in Korea and it is said that its introduction will bring many benefits to its people. The country has excellent forests, but the excessive lumbering operations of the last few years, if car ried on, would soon lay bare vast areas of land. The (forests of Japan have been man aged by the imperial government for many years. The national forests of that country covers an area of about 30,000,000 acres, or slightly more than one-half of the total forested area. The management of the forest by the Jap anese government has proved very suc cessful. . In 1801 the total receipts were $1,085,000, and the net income $570,000. In the decade ending 1901, Japan's ex ports amounted to $25000,000. The first school of forestry in Japan tu eotab lished In 1885, 15 years previous to the time ft school of forestry mi estab lished in this country. . The Wand na tion now has 62 institutions in which the science and practice of forestry are taught. The government .forests are under the supervision of a bureau of forestry, which is a part of the depart ment of agriculture the plan of organi zation being similar to that in this country. , TAFT AND THE LABOR UNIONS. One phase of Mr. : Taift's' ' career Is likely to become of considerable interest in tlie near future if he becomes the Republican candidate foi' president. When he was a judge of the Superior Court of Cincinnati, before he went to the Philippines, . he had a number of cases to decide that pertained to labor unions and their contests with employ' ers. In one case Moores & Co. versus the Bricklayers' Union he sustained the lower court in fining the union for conspiracy to injure the plaintiffs. He enforced an injunction compelling Chief Arthur, 01 the Brotherhood of Locomo tive , Engineers, to abandon a sympa thetic strike against the Toledo, Ann Arbor & North Michigan Railway, and in the great Pullman strike of 1894 he caused the arret for contempt of court, of Jt W. Fhelan, one of the lieutenants of Kiiiivne V. Deb. IMiolau haj orva- niHl a Mrik euainst the Cincinnati Southern Railway, ami counseled vlo lewe. Taft sontenvtl him to six months imprison incut hhiI Mid: . "The iticsntw character of the eon spiracy of the American Railway Union stasver the imagination. The railroad hnve become as necessary to the life ana health and comfort of the people of thi country as ore the arteries of the hu man body, and yet 11 an.i rncian ami their associates proposed, by iiK-iting the. employee of U the railway in the country to suddenly quit their service, without any dissat'ia action with the term of their own employment, to par tliite utterly all the traffic by which the people live," and in this way to compel Pullman, for whose acta neither . the public nor the railway euwipenle . aw in the slightest degree responsible, and over whose act they can lawfully ex pertise no eontrol, to pay more wage to hia employees. . . . The purpose, shortly etated. Was to, starve the rail- ,toi aompanies and : the public. into Loiupelling fullman to do aomething hicn tMy had no lawful right to com pel him to do. Certainly, the atanra tion of a nation cannot be a lawful pur pose of-combination, and it is utterly immaterial whether the purpose is eu feed by means usually lawful or ptber .wriee." ' ' ' -".,.. 3 EDITORIAL SALAD. , .. It la an Interesting fact that the building of t-anaU and inferurban line teems to increase the business of the team railroads. There are three billion-dollar export countries, and France is near the line. fl'ncle Sam is now at the head, followed by O.ivat Britain and Germany. Secretary Root will be entertained by President Dias in Chapultepec Castle, whera General Winfield Scott was a visitor September 13, 1S47. But how both Mexico and the United States have grown as flourishing republics since that occasion! It is said that a shortage of coal would embarrass our navy on the Pacific. This problem must be still more serious for Japan. Tho-e who fear a speedy bom bardment of our western coast may rest easy. . Xow that J. J. Hill has appeared in clothes that rival Mark Twain's ice cream colors wear, it will be interesting to see if the humorist will be incited to furthur activity in copyright direc tions. ICE MEN ARE GENEROUS. Hot Days in Washington Made Cooler by Ice in Full weight Apparent in Small Lots. Have the ice magnates repented of their sins of omission and commission la summer and decided to make all efforts to win back the confidence and respect of the sweltering populace! Washingtonians have begun to think so, and with reason. Last summer Wash ington, like many other cities, suffered from an alleged ice famine, and in ad dition to several suits against the ice combine, there were numberless prose cutions for "short weight" retail deliv eries. This year the sealer of weights and measures of the District ban been especially active in his endeavors to round up those icemen who persist in giving itheir customers short weight. In stead of having a rich harvest of offen ders as he did last year, Mr. Haskell re ports that after a, close observation ex tending over month or more, he has discovered that the ice men of Washing ton have been giving from fifty to one hundred percent more Ice than they got pay for. This generosity has been es pecially apparent in the small purchases, and when the attention of the local of ficials Oi the American Ice Company was called to it, they expressed considerable surprise and protested that they have not been responsible for this" wholesale philanthropy. ." Now that the people of Washington have had' time to think it over, they, too, believe it was unlnten tional, and fear a return to the old welghtl MILLERS FINED. MINNEAPOLIS, August 3. Fines of $100 each have been imposed on three big milling concerns indicted by the fed eral grand jury for soliciting and ac centing rebates from the Great Northern Railroad. They are the Duluth-Superior Milling Company, the Ames-Brooks Company, and the McOall-Dinsmore Company. The defendants pleaded guilty, For The Little People. Every parent in this eity should la vestigate, at once, the new and ap preciable hoe for the youngster, a Charles V. Brown's Commercial street house. They are called the C Scuffer" and are the very epitome of good wear and real comfort They are going; like wild-Era and the kid themselves are after them beoaus they look so "comfy." M IN NEW YORK Clever Arrangement for Playing Chess and Checkers. LETTER FROM METROPOLIS Outburst Of Crime Which Staggers Au thorities Murder Every Day Occur rence "Automatic" Checker Player Recall Historical Fake. NEW-, YORK, Attttu 2.-rChntn mail rromisee to beoome the popular summer attire hew, and armored automobiles the only safe nmm of conveyance. If sudden,; end W not put to the. city reign of terror. Three -ooW-blooded and dramatic murdw , before, the. eye of thou-nd in the, center of the t city in three ; mveiv days, have served to accentuate grimly the.fact that so tar a the safety of , !' ed. New York I abeut on ft yf with the wiMM 'minjng camp of fiction, and a resnrd orspnjA wurdei; and, ter rorism ty bbwlviuaiHng societies .closely akin to conditions prevaiuag In toe mid dle ages. The astonishing pais to which thing have come is instanced by tlie lack ,of notice accorded to any but the'mo't dramatic crimes, Four days after a doctor1 was strangled tu death or. populous street the matter had Wen forgotten and the depredations of the Black Hand ociety, to whose Joor at least one murder week has been laid for months .only became worthy o notice when culminating in the blow ing up of a tenement house containing 200 persons. Battle, murder ana sua den death seem to be sweeping through the city like, a pestilence. Man hunts for as-aulters of children are of daily occurrence in the surburbs, no less tlrun our occurring in one day on Staten Waml. The past week shows 22 mur ders and murderous assaults, and deaths labeled as violent exclusive of accident approach close to the hundred mark. On top of all this comes the startling rev elations of the working of tlie Hun- chokist, the Armenian Secret Society, which brought about the murder of a prominent Armenian millionaire be cause he refused to be blackmailed and since hi death Wis in letters to others u: the ame race in this city openly ac- kiiowledged causing his murder and pro mised the ame fate to others unless thev gave large sums of money. Loot ing banks has become a joke. Only this week robbers held up the teller of a Brotdway lwink during the noon hour with ma-ks and guns in true desperado style for the sum of $1.H). Respectable citizens are planning to take matters nto their own hands a 11. 1 to defend themselves by meeting violence with violence. Altogether it makes a very pretty picture of hot weather conditions prevailing in the first city of the land, ,ind lends weight to the charges that something in rotten somewhere, une thing seems certain, however, and that is that the limit has been reached. New York is ripe for a crusade against crime nd criminals which should be long re numbered. Chess players and the public in gen eral who remember Europe's famous "au tomatic chess player," around which scientific controversy raged so fiercely and which many experts dubbed fake or- genuine before it was finally proven that the automaton was no automaton at all, but a clever piece of deception. will find an interesting paralell in the automatic checker player which came in to notice here this week. As in the case of its European prototype, much discussion has arisen from it. The au tomaton was invented by- a contractor named Mansfield who Ifound money mak is in his line of business too slow. So he constructed the checker player which much resembled an automatic weighing machine with a checker board in front of it and a rubber band projecting from a copper sleeve over the board. Accord ing to the inventor it was operated by electricity, and all that anyone wishing to play against it had to do was to drop a dime in the slot when, accompanicJ by' a great whirring of wheels within, the hand would move the pieces against those of its human opponent, and, as it happened, invariably win. Mansfield fig ured that at least one person out cJf ten played checkers and that of these half fimired that they were masters and could beat anyone or anything. The re suits justified his conclusions for once the machine was set up at a pleasure resort people fell over each other in their anxiety to contribute a dime for the privilege of being leatcn by it. A siWer flood poured in until a sceptic no ticed that the rubber hand had a euf ious way of twitching even when the machine was not in operation. With Maichiavelian cunning this rude person dropped in his dime, sat down before , the automaton an in the middle of the game suddenly exclaimed "Take back ,our man and we will begin over." Tlie automaton obliging took Imck it men (lid skeptical of the ability of Any ma chine, even If it could play checkers, to act m verbal ordeivt, the Investigator smashed it open ami drugged from ll iiisjiles a human operator. Now the peo ple who id their dimes to 1 beaten by an autumn ton n suing to get their money back. New York with its hiiuuhI budget of more than .VH).iHHMHK or rather more than half the approprlatlon'made every year by the federal government for wll its branches would seem to Ik on Its financial upper. The city ha liter ally been spending it money Intfore jit got K and consequently In plt of the half million which it disburse annually find itself in the humiliating position ef being unable to settle a few mull account amounting to the mere trifle erf. 1300,000 or thereabout. To make the situation all the more paluful Jliere more than $7,000,000 In the city treasury- which money wllowiiyM Father Knickerbocker cannot eppyj to .these mi. Tlie eity indeed stand'; today ;M I -startling.. municipal.:,ejuittipWvOf th axicsi Umt It I, well to get ott' money before spending It.'1' The nwirccount which cannot be met r due to rout rec tor' for work don on dock and water main construction. Tof meet these ex ueuse an Ju of corporate took wa nuthoriied, the attitude of tlx city be ing that, there would 1 plenty of time to rui-e money in thU manner Uer the work bed btun. Perhaps there would ( it .there had been any , purchaser for ; Udt iue of the city's securities. Uo- 'fortunately, there were none. The ' money in the city treasury cannot be used for expenditure specially provided for bv conumtte stock Issue and con sequently father Knickerbocker is rath- j er ruefully aware of the fact that- he cannot pay hi. small bill and that he : has been UHlishly indulging In the per-; niciou pastime of spending money he didn't have. The stork this week brought to New York the tiniest baby iu the world, at least so f ir M any record "how. Medi cal men have heretofore believed that if pound and a half was about the mini mum limit at which' a battle for the ' labv's li'e might be nnde, but Ihi , minute record breaker "tips the wales at exactly 10 ounces and 15 grammes. hat is a trifle more than one pound, or about the weight of ft good sued potato. .it tic Miss Brown, for that is her mime, Measured eleven inches in height some ime after her birth, while from one temple to another the distance was Just two inches. Some idea of her size, or ather lack of may be gained when It is Stated that ft ten cent piece will rover her hands, both or which will go, through her mother's wedding ring. A , fifty cent piece covers her entire face, i while her arms are just three inches 1 long, that is alwmt eijual in length to the little linger of an niluU, although their circumference is only that of a; lead pencil. Miss Brown is spending j the ;lrst week of her lie in an inculii- ! tor, nnd as she is perfectly formed and : apparently healthy the doctors believe that she will grow into a woman of j normal cue. .While such a microscopic- baby would seem to be enough for one , city, New York to firmly eswiuisii ii record also boasts the smallest dog in the world. The canine weoighs less than a pound and a half although if nil grown, and is 'aid by its owner to be an excellent wutch dog except for the fact that it must almost be held to one's ear to make its barking audible. (iun.la, the famous elephant at Cen tral l'ufc who drops the pennies given him by admiring throngs into a box or bank in his cage, ringing a bell after each deposit, enjoyed a 400 luncheon this week and almost broke up s honey moon. UunuU uoes noi urown uo iimi- rimony, for being an elephant he is nec essarily a good Republic,, but having be-, come famous through his bank, of which be is president, board of directors and receiving teller, he is naturally inter ested in money since the proceed of the contributions which go Into hi bank ere aplied to the purchase of sweets for hi consumption. When a newly married couple arrived from Pawling, a little town in this state, they naturally while visiting the. Zoo contributed a penny in the fulness of their joy to Gun da' bank. But after seeing the easy way in which the elephant grabbed the preferred coin, the bride remembering all she had heard of pickpockets advised her lord and master to transfer his roll of bills to his inside pocket. This he started to do. He never finished, how ever, for Gunda who was right on to his job, catching sight of the $400 roll dur ing tho process anil doubtless realizing its value put iforth his trunk snatched the bills and in spite of the shrieks of pro test proceeded to devour them. Enough was rescued according to the keepers to take the downcast couple back to Pawl ing, but their honeymoon wbb over and their money gone. Sadly they left the animal house unable to enthuse even over the monkey which had just trlctl to commit suicide or the python which having swallowed a lot of dye tuff was rapidly turning blue. Your Livet It out of ordsr. You go to bed in bad humor mid get up wltv bad tat In your mouth. You want something I stimulate your liver. Just try llerbln the liver regulator, A potltlv our fo Constipation, Pytpepula and all live complaint. Mr. F Ft. Worth, Tex write 1 "Have used Uerblne In my -family fo year. Word can't express what I think about It Evtrybody In my house hold I happy tnd well, and w owe I to Herbln." Sold by llart'i Drug Store, la Might LEE WILLARD In the great Comedy-Drama -auccens "A Western Gentleman,, Starting Monday night the great double bill liiiiiiiiiiii 1 Prices,:!......,....... 15c, 25c, 85c, 50c filay We Have YourOrder? Allen Wall Paper & Paint Co. Cor. 11th and Bond Sts. THE G E M C. F. WISE, Prop. Choice Wises, Liquor tod Cigar . Hot Lunch at all Bonn Corner Klfvsnt iSTOKIA Write for BANKING :' JLM Ttf INTEREST ON" . SAVINGS' ACCOUNTS SAVINGS ! BANK OF THE Title Guarantee Trust Co. Piys 4 j?er cent on Savings Accounts Pays 4 per cent on Certificates of Deposit. Pays 3 per cent on Accounts' Subject to Check T. Thorburn Ross, . President George H. Hill, T. T. BURKHART, John E. Aitchison, Chas. H. Kopf, 240-244 Washington St., Cor. Second Portland Ore Opened Sundays AS A RKQUBST HILL'S RUSSIAN AND TURKISH BATHS will be open Sundays. Cure guaranteed iu tuiy case of rheumatism, skin discases,ctc 217 Attor St., Astoria, Ore. We have everything in paper hangings, wall dec orations and materials for house painting. : : : Our Endeavor. To do only first class work. Msrchant Lunch From 11:30 a. m. to 1:30 p jo. 1 Cents b and Commercial 1 ORG0R Our , Booklet on MalL? o Vice President Treasurer, Secretary Asst.Treasurer 1 fil' .111. ' (Kli swr, fl)i., rAa,if Ml