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0. 217. VOLUME LXIII. ASTORIA, ' OREGON, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 18. 1907 PRIQE FIVE CENTS STANDARD OIL RECEIVES JOLT Must Put up Six Million.Bond or Pay Big Fine Imposed by Landls. OIL TRUST TRIAL IN NEW YORK Investigation Dlscloaet Tbit Standard Oil Pioflti Amounted to Half a Billion ' In Sewn Years Trmtfr Method Ex posed at Trial. . CIIICAOO, Sopt. 17,-Tbe Standard OH CVmipany. of Indiana, in order to obtain ty of execution against Ha property to talUfy the Hue of $29,40, 00 recently luipo'M by Judgs Landla, mint furaith bond for $0,000,000. Tblt wat the determination of Judge Gross cup today In tli United State Circuit Court, miiih to the chagrin of th at torney for boh lde. Attorney for the company had conteridrd strenuously for bond of not mora than f 1 ,004.000, while th government attorney demand ed that the bond I a high th Lan dla line. NEW YORK, Kept, 17.-Vhrn t xlay'i hi' t ring of the Stamford (Ml iuve..iga tiou wa called liefure Judge Ferris. E. 0. Benedict, one of the former owner of the Manhattan Oil Company, teitlfled to the ale of than coneern to the (Standard. Charts M. Pratt, director and teeretary of Standard Oil, testified . )il knowledge of the holding of the company and other companlet waa only general. tfo wa aked to present tatement honing the officers and (II rector end th eapltalltatlnn of all compwnlct In which the Standard hold ttoek interest Pratt wa questioned regarding the C. M.. Pratt Investment Compauy, atoek of which wat shown to be held by the Htandanl Oil Company, lie said the Pratt Company came Into existence at tho tint the UTater-Plnree Oil Coirpany stock, which the Pratt Company held nr tho Standard Company. wo having difficulty with tlie State of Texas. Pratt wa questioned to the method ofi liquidating by trustee of the Standfrd Oil trust, ne enld the book were kept during liquidation period between 1802 and 1S02. but It li not known where they am. lie sail hf did not know anything aliont the trga nteatlon of the Standard Oil Company Ho acknowledged that 070,700 out standing trustees' certtllcntes were le aned for itoeke of subsidiary companies, when the Standard Oil trust was din aolved, wero exchanged for stock In the Standard Oil, of New Jersey, ehar for ahare. Kellogg asked John O. Mili um, chief counsel for the Standard, to pro- duce all liquidating certificate UsucJ ly trustee, also for all assignment of legal title given by those who receiv ed Standard of New Jersey stock. Profit aggregating $400,315,034' were made by the Standard Oil Company in the seven year from 181)9 to 1000. Tes timony to this effect wa given by As sistant Comptroller Fay, of the com pany, In the Federal hearing here today. In the aame period the company' gros cts increased from $200,000,(12:1 o $371,004,331. Thi i 'the first time the company' earning have been made public. MORGAN PAYS FOR PAVING. . "NEW YORK, Sept. 17. Having failed to induce the oity official to repave the treet in front of hi home in atyle to accord with lie ideas, J. Fierpont Mor gan hat determined to pay for the work himself. Mr, Morgan' check for $1200, the coat to repave the block, ha been sent to the city authorities, and It ia probable hi request will be granted. APPEAL FOR STRIKERS. Gomperi and Small Ask Help For Teleg rapher Strike. WASHINGTON, Sept. 17, The prom ised apieal of President Small, of flie Commercial Telegrapher, and President oniper of the American Federation of Labor, for financial assistance fort the striking telegrapher, wa issued today from the Federation . headquarters. A direct appeal i signed by'Snrnll, and fGomperg give general endorsement, - FI0US WORKERS. They Work Aberdeen and Belllnjham People Ploualy. ABERDEEN, Wash., Sept. 17 It will lie remembered, by the newspaper offices, at least, that a Mr. Johntou and hi good talking wife gave a Meivhanta' (wrnlvul In thi clt yome time tine and played to a very email Lou. They worked la connection with (and aUo worked) the Ladle' Aid Society of the M'thodit Church. . The newpsper of flue all helped him out at It wat put on a bai of charity, inasmuch a the Aid Society wa to get part of the proceed. The merchant epend tome money with him, but very few people went to set the ahow. When be left, there were several unpaid bill which the ladle of the church had to L'qut date, Well, thl aame couple baa been heard from again. It It reported that they were la Ddllngham recently, and after being honored guests at the lead lug hotel for something more than three week, they made their get-away with out paying tbeir bill. The landlord In- lt that Uiey must have thrown their "Kg!? out of the window, at bad they brought it down through the office some- one would certainly have teen them. At it I he doe not know when they took their baggagt out, nor where they went, Johnson 1 a brown-haired, flue-look ing fellow, who work the church Into helping him to work the merchant into giving merchant' carnival to work tht people. Hi wife 1 a real pretty brown hatred htdy, who helped him to Jo the working. They pose a being very plou. Thl information i given with a view to putting tome of the newtpaper men wine to the outfit. PLAY DRIVES MAN CRAZY. NEWCASTLE. Ind., Sept. 17.-Not entirely right mentally since, in child hood, arcing a production of the play, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, I responsible for Albert Heaver, 21 year old, arn of Reuben Heaver of thl city, becoming maniac. He will be taken to Eat' Haven Aaylum at Richmond. ESTATE LEFT 1 J MASONS. PHILADELPHIA. Sept. 17. Under I ho will of the late Thoma It. Potter, hi entire estate, between $2,000,000 and $3,000,000, i devlned to the Grand loJge of Mnwm of Pennsylvania for the education and the support of male or phan of matter Ma ion. Drags Self and Child Into Lake While Insane. INSANE OVER HER LONELINESS Mr. Anna Barker Drownt With Her Little Girl While Husband ia in Eaat Sister May go Insane Over Awful Deed. IX)S ANGELES, Sept 17.-Drivcn in sane' brooding over the protracted ab sence of her husband In loww and Illi noia, and injured iu health, Mix Anna linker, 31 years old, left, the homo of her brother-in-law last night, taking her seven-year-old daughter, and proceeding U the shore of Johneon Lake, threw herself and child into the miters of the lake and both were drowned. After searching all night, a rescue party, head ed by the brother-in-law, found the bodiea thi morning The woman left a note telling what the had done. j The note which wn left under . t tone on the front porch of her brother-i-law' home and specifies in detail how the news shall be broken to her husband, Fred Baker, his wife and daughter, came here two year ago on account of his wife' health.. Business compelled Ba ker's return to the .East about a year ago, and the wife grieved herself over tho eeparation, together with the fact that her health wa not Improving. Mrs, Baker's sister, when notified of the decdj collapsed and fear are left for her mind. Mrs. Baker's fnther is Rev. William Schuster, pastor of the Evangelical Church of Streator, III. It I evident from the manner In which the gras aand weed were trodden down on the ahore of the lake, near where the bodies were found, that the little girl resisted with all her power the insane efforts of her mother. Says All Opposed to Federalist Idea, Should Strive to Keep I Intact. DISCUSSES PRESIDENT'S VIEW Fail to TJnderatand How Roosevelt Seek to Protect the People by Secur ing Power for Federal Government Not Grant by Citizen, XORFOLK, Sept. 17.-Judge Alton B. Parker, th former democratic nominee for prenident, and Samuel W. McCall, member of cougre from MuuacUiuett. were the principal peaker here today at ConitituUonal day at the Jamestown Fair. Judge Parker, alluding to the president' view that the Federal gov ernment need an increase of power, which Judge Parker declared ha een deliberately withheld from it by the tat and the people when the govern ment wa created, declared there i a way to trannfer power to the federal government, but he iwij no amount of labor would persuade tlie ttaten to sur render their home rule power in uf flilent measure to meet the president' view a to national necessity. The judge said he had not known by what proees of reasoning the president arrived at his conclusion that for the government to le elwd with a power granted it by the constitution is to protect the people and defend the con stitution. Tlie speaker said the presi dent it not attempting to acquire thi powf by deceiving" the people; on "the contrary, he state with perfect frank ness what he thinks and how he pro pose it shall be done, mere are oilier m us, aiu ;JUage - Parker, who believed the powers were wUely distributed by the constitution, and Much men should speak. Many peo ple have not had time to study the constitution ami these are naturally' in clined to lie imprceed with a sugges tion that while the constitution did very well when it was made, that we, have lutgrown it, and hence representatives of tlie government, and not the people, may change it at their pleasure. Judge Pinker advocated that before it is too late, those opposed to the fed eralist idea should enter the lists and champion our constitutional system in its integrity. AN OREGON ROUND-UP. Annual Gathering of Cattle to Last Six Weeks. EUGENE, Ore. Sept. 17. The. jtaxly round-up of cattle has been started in Crook count v and the annual rido has been organized. The round-up will Iat a month or possible six weeks and will cover a territory almost one-third as Digger Sam A little treasury dynamite will soon get that obstacle out of my way. I am progressing too rapidly large Crook county. During the per iod the round-up cover these men will gather several thousand head of cattle of all kind. The beef will be disposed of a soon as possible and the remainder of the herd will be kept In pasture for winter feeditig. Quite a number of cattle have been sold for early fall delivery in Shanlco. These were lieeve and were in very good condition for thi time of the year. The flrt delivery 'of thi kind wili be made in a few day by Grant May of The Dullet who hat ranches in tie Crooked River country. Thi delivery will conit of 135 head of prime beef and will go to a Portland buyer. The price are con sldered very good for the season. They are 2 1-2 cent on foot for cow and three cent for teer. ' The prospect for feeder for the coming winter are bright, hay being obtainable for $6 and $8 per ton, with feeding and pasture privilege. GREAT BATTLE OF PITCHERS. . Rube Waddell and Cy Young Play a Thirteen-Inning Game Without a. Score Darkneaa Stopa Game. NEW YORK, September 17.-LV-tail have been receive! of a base ball git me which was played a few day ago in the American league between Boston and Philadelphia. The game was the greatest exhibition of baseball wit nessed during the present season, and rank among the greatest game ever played. It wa a pitcher' duel through out between two men who are known the work! over for their ability on the diamond. - Vetemn Cy Young pitched fur Bos ton, lie played almost faultless ball, and although be is 40 year old he played game which is almost unpar alleled in the annals of the great Amer ican national game. Rube Waddell. the freak pitt-her, towed for the Phillieis. As is well known, Waddell at his best is as great a pitcher a the world ever "saw, and hk-rerUliiey- was at hi bet two days ago. While Waddell has pitched more sensational ball than , he did against 1 tost on, he never pitched) a ateadicrf frame. He ha been known to ftrike out 18 m(, jn - (.lam,1inn9i,in m..nt. nnJ when ln form he rare, fa;,s t0 strike out less than ten, but the other day he only struck out eight. Ths game went thirteen inning with out a run on either side. The contest was called on account of darkness a nd might have been going yet without a run if it had not been for this fact, so kteadily - were the men playing. There were no errors on. either side, and every man on both teams made nt least one Sensational play. Young pitched as he had new pitched before. The Athletics did not get & man to third base in the 13 innings. Cy fanned eight men and gave but five hits, an average of about ne-third of a hit an inning. Waddell allowed but four hits and fan ned eight men. Xcither man gave a base on balls or hit a batter in the entire 13 inning. Kach team had six men on base. It was a wonderful game. And in the meantime the Chicago Sox were defeating Detroit, thus giving Phil ndelphia a firmer hold on the first olace. 4 with this ditch to be delayed nowl FILES ON BANK The Defunct.Portlartd Institution Makes Accounting Through Thos. Devlin. ASSETS ARE TWO MILLION No Value Placed on Securities and Caaii on Hand la Over Seventy Thousand Report ia Barren and Liabilities Are nknowa Quantity. PORTLAND, Sept. 17. Receiver Thos. A. Devlin today filed a report of the financial condition of the defunct Ore gon Trust & Saving! Banks of thi 'city, The report shows that the bank'a assets amount to a grand total of $2,205,530. Uf the asset there ia cash on hand amounting to $73,5M, of which $24,323 has been collected ay the receiver since August 21, the day on which the bank closed its doors. ; -. . The balance is shown to be Home Telephone bonds and other securities, some real estate and lea&ea on stock in other bank and amounts due ;rom other bank. The report contains noth ing but a bare schedule of assets and no reference is made to the face value of securities or any property held by the bank, nor is any estimate made as to what per cent of the bank's paper can be realized upon. The report is most exhaustive, Devlin working four whole weeks in preparing it. It comprises 59 page of legal cap, ii ml every scrap of paper and scratch of pen upon which the value of the bank's asset, may be determined is embraced therein. , It does not touch upon' the liabilities of the institution, the court's order being that the receiver should only attempt to list available assets in his prelimi nary statement f Mr. Devlin's report is barren of any suggestion as to the real cause, of the failure. It has no comment to offer upon the good or bad handling of the depositors' money. It does not inuicate whether the bank was overloaded with indigestible securities, nor does it offer any recommendations or suggestion? for the future or for the course of proced ure in the matter of liquidation. The total assets as given in the sum mary included in tlie inventory are $2,209,530.11. This does not include any valuation or the bank's, furniture and fixtures, which cost amount to $7o,000. and could no doubt find ready market at $50,000. The 14-year lease of the )ank property is also worth about $50, 000, but this is not mentioned in the enumeration of asset. Tlie next step in the legal proceedings will be an order from the court-to au thorize the receiver to realize upon the available assets, and to notify creditors kto present their accounts for adjust ment.! The following is the summary of the detailed report: With a view of expediting settlement of the affairs of the Oregon Trust 4 Savings Bank, and of returning to de positors their money or1 its equivalent, the depositors' committee is today fend ing out acircular letter to, the 16,000 creditors of the insolvent institution requesting them to accept telephone bonds at par value for their deposits, with which will go a 50 per cent stock bonus. ' j. Should the $300,000 worth of tele phone) securities be "digested" in this manner, it is stated by the committee that the bank will be able to resume operations within a short time and the inevitable loss consequent upon a long- drawn-out receivership would be eliminated. JEWESSES ARE SOLD AT SLAVES. Sales Taking Place in View of Consul ates alnd City Authorities at Pabat. PARIS, Sept 17. The Tangier cor respondent of the Matin telegraphs that Jews and Jewesses captured at the time of the sacking of Casa Blanca are being openly sold In the market place at Ra bat, in full view of the consulates and the city authorities, who are not tuking the slightest notice of the traffic. BASEBALL 'PORTLAND. Sept. 17.-HLos Angelet 0, Portland 0. Came called; darkness. PRETTY CO-EDS WORK. Stat College Girls Labor ia the Har. , ' vest Fielou EUGEXEt Or, Sept. 17. The saying that the modern college girl is capable of accomplishing whatever the under take was, in several instances, demon strated in the harvest fields of Eastern Oregon this summer. Throughout tb entire season, nearly all the harvesting outfit were shortbanded on account of the scarcity of labor, notwithstanding that wage were from $2.50 to $4.00 per day. It was here that the pretty oo-ed, fresh from the halls of their respective institutions, stepped in, donned working dresses, buckskin gloves, and broad brimmed hats, grasped the pitchfork or "ribbons and performed the work of her brothers. :;" -!- ? :-: ; - The first case that come under the no- (tice of the writer was that of Miss Vel- m Edwards, of Mayville, a pretty, win. some, young co-ed; a member of the junior class of the O. A. a In the early part of the season the outfit owned and operated by hex brother become abort handed, and the "Roustabout'' was put to feeding the machine ndaunted by tht prospective heavy work. Miss Veima, without a moment's hesitation, stepped in to fill the vacancy. Long used to hand ling horses, the driving of four snorting bunchgrass bronchos hitched to a jolt ing water tan, wa but a picnic fop the gritty, little co-ed, who is one of the quickest, headiest, iasket-ball players in the O. A. C. Then there was the mov ing at the cook house, getting wood and water for the same; operating a heavy force pump; and doben other little duties whic kept the "roustabout" busy from 4 a. m. until 9 p. m. Miss Edwards continued to perform this work for several days, or until sad accident in her brother's family com- pelted her to assume household duties. Miss Roper, a young lady attending Pullman College; performed a feat far more strenuous than that of Miss Ed wards. She was assisting in the cook house of a heading outfit, when the loader fell sick. No man could be secured to taka his place, so, against the earnest pro test of her parents. Miss Roper volun teered to perfonn hi work, and ahe did it too, for six long days, until a man could be secured to take her place. EXPLORER IS LOST Search Steamer Sent td Arctic Regions for Wm. Bruce. REMNANT OF CAMP IS FOUND Feared That Explorer Has Perithed, But More Steamers Are Being Rushed North to Rescue Him and His Com panions, EDINBURGH, Scotland, Sept. 17. A telegram from Aagaard, Norway, states that the steamer sent in search of Wil liam Bruce, the Arctic explorer, failed to find him. Bruce started on a trip along the north coast of Prince Charles Foreland and has not been heard of ince. The steamer Express, which was recently at Spitsbergen with the Well- man expedition, found, traces of Brace's camps at the end of August, but no sign of Bruce or his companions. An other steamer sent search of the party has just returned and reports that the conditions are critical Preparations be- ng made to send another steamer. JOHNSON DROWNED. Falls from Dock at Hoquiam While Try. Ing to Reach Tug. ABERDEEN, Sept, ' 17. Chris John son, while trying to get ; to tho tug Printer last night fell from the dock and was drowned. He was a brother to Captain Johnson of the tuu Cudahv. ' and was a deck hand on the Printer. His body was found vesterdav morn ing by one of the mill men at the North western mill, from which 'dock he fell into the water. It is reported that nine bodies have been taken from the rive at that particular place in the last year. .-. . ,-. Johnson was' about 36 vears old. Tha funeral will be held tomorrow.