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PUIUSHEfl FULL ASSOCIATED PRESS REPORT
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COVCRSTHC MORNING fllLD ONTHE LOWER COLUMBIA
VOLUME LXIII. NO, 299
ASTORIA, OREGON. SUNDAY, JANUARY 26, 1908.
PRICE FIVE CENTS
VIOLATION OF
SHERMAN ACT
Decision of Interstate Com
merce Commission.
WBREAK UP MONOPOLY
Transportation Between Missouri
River and the Pacific Coast
South of Portland.
NO INTENTION TO PROSECUTE
There Art Alto Two Individual Do
fendsnts Wbo Art Alleged to Have
Conceived and Carried Out the
Conspiracy Complained Of.
WASHINGTON, Jan, Jan. 25.-An
official statement after referring to
the investigations by the interstate
commerce commision says: "From
evidence 10 adduced and independent
investigation the department hai ar
rived at the conclusion that the itock
holding of the Union Pacific and its
subsidiary companies in the corpora
tion mentioned in in direct violation
of the Sherman act.
" The department regards the suit
at of first importance at it is sought
by means thereof to break up the sub
sianiiul monopoly of the transporta
tion business of the country between
the Missouri river on the east and the
entire Pacific Const south of Portland
on the west ,Aide from ihc .railway
companies above named the other de
fendants in the suit are the Farmc'rs
Loan and Trust Company, of New
York, which is the depository of all
the stock of the San Pedro road under
a contract by which it is required to
give proxies to such persons named
by Mr. Harrimannnd Mr. Clark for
a period of years. There are also other
individual defendants who are alleged
to have conceived and carried out the
conspiracy complained of, to wit: K.
If. Harriman, Jacob H. Schiff, Otto
II. Kahn, James Stillman, Henry C
Frick, Henry S. Frick, Henry II
Rogers and William A. Clark."
While naming the individual dc
fendants the statement makes no
mention of any intention to prosecute
any of these oflicials personally in any
criminal proceedings.
DIGGING THE DITCH.
Sanitation and Paving Street Not Flg-
, ured In First Estimate of Cost.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 25. Like
thunderbolt from a clear sky, the open
letter issued by Congrcssman-at-large
George Washington Cook, of Colo
rado, denouncing the administration's
policy of land fraud cases in Colorado
as "high handed pernicious politi
cut persecution has caused quite a
jar in official circles here. The Pres
ident, Vice President, Speaker Can
non, members of the cabinet and all
the members of congress, together
with a number of the heads of bur
eaus, received copies of this letter in
the same mail, and for a time inter
est in things political has waned and
public attention has been riveted to
the contemplation of what' may re
sult from this appeal for a "square
deal.' Everybody ., is wondering
whether the administration will
see fit so reply to the charges that
it is attempting to brand as crim
inals many of Colorado's most hon
orable,' upright, and law-abiding cit
izens. Will the Big Stick , for some
time past laid away and gathering dust
in a remote corner of the President's
private office, again be brought forth?
Will Congress, undertake an offic
ial investigation? These are quest
ions which are being asked on- all
sides, and for the time being even the
rumpus which the Hale resolution pro
mines to stir up in the naval etub
Iftiliment is being overlooked while
offical and cival circles discuss the
various phases of this momentous
matter.
, Little surprise was manifested when
the announcement was made that the
original estimates for the construct
ion of the Panama Canal will fall far
abort of meeting the actual cost of
the monster ditch. Instead there was
a chorus of "I told you so's," for,
while there were many in congress who
regarded the original appropriations
at merely preliminary to the big un
dertaking, the several junkets which
have been made since the work was
under way have demonstrated Uncle
Sam would be poorer by several mil
lion additional dollart. Therefore it
was that, with the Senate Canal Com
mittee's inauguration of series of
hearings to determine the progress of
the construction work, little surprise
greeted the declaration of the mem
bers of the Canal Commission that
approximately $150,000,000 additional
would be required to finish the great
waterway and link the two oceans,
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IGNORED.
ouiwUi iivLU, jan. 25. It is not
believed that the operators will pay
any particular attention to the de
mand that the card system be abol
ished.
SCHOOLS OF TRADES
Industrial Education Society Ad
dressed by Dr. HIrsch.
SOME PERTINENT POINTS
Predicted That the Installation of
Such a System Nationally Will
Mean the Moral Salvation of the
American People.
CHICAGO, Jan. 25. Reasoning
that the public trade school will at
tract and hold the child; that it will
keep him from the successive stages
of reluctance, truancy and dclinquen
cy, and that its final product will be
a working class contented, self-confident
and honestly ambitious, Dr. Einil
G. Hirsch, addressing the convention
of the National Society for the Pro
motion of Industrial Education, pre
dicted that the installation of such a
system nationally will mean the moral
salvation of the American people.
The speaker bewailed the fact that
in the present school system the idea
of imparting and acquiring informa
tion is always in the foreground that
the appeal is to the head, and only
incidentally to the heart.
Mrs. Anna Carlin Spencer, of the
New York City Society for Ethical
Culture, attacked what she called "fal
lacies" relative to the industrial edu
cation of girls. ' She asserted that
while the number of girls at any one
time employed in industrial pursuits
is comparatively small, the actual
number entering such occupation in a
given number of years is large, the ap
parent discrepancy lying in the fact
that few continue in their vocation
more thn four years. -
The speaker argued that the fact
that -their work is lemporary isthe
strongest reason for seeing that they
were placed in the best situations pos
sible for their development. She in
sisted that the first aim of the trade
school should be the giving of "cul
tural education," with boys a knowl
edge of agriculture and for girls the
knowledge of household arts.
In speaking of the industrial school
as part of the public school system,
Charles F. Perry, director of the
public schools of trades of Milwaukee,
suggested that the use of tobacco)
should be forbidden absolutely to the
students of such an institution. -The
general criticism of trade
schools offered by Milton Higgins,
president, of the Norton Companies,
Worcester, Mass., was that they are
"schools with a shop attachment when
they should be shops with a school
attachment."
DBIOCRATIC
SUBSTITUTE
Minority Bill is Being
Prepared.
ALDRICH'S TEXT READY
The Most Important Change is
the One Accepting Bailey's
"Proposition.
DEPARTMENT ASKED FOR DATA
An All Day Conference of the Demo
cratic Senators Retulted in Direc
tions to Prepare a Minority Bill
Aldrich to Exhibit His Bill
WASHINGTON, Jan. 25.-When
the Senate committee on finance
meets next Monday, Chairman Aid
rich will be prepared to exhibit the
perfected text of hit currency bill
Among the more important changes
is the one accepting Bailey's proposi
tion for a distribution of the proposed
surplus of bank issue among the var
ious states in proportion to their
banking capital and surplus. Bailey
has been engaged Jn preparing a sub
stitute till in which this feature was
given a prominent place and it is not
yet determined whether he will resist
when the action of the majority mem
bership becomes known. There are
a number of other important changes
embodied in the Aldrich' bill.
An all day conference of., Dem
ocratic senators resulted in directions
to minority of the committee on
finance to prepare a bill which could
be urged as a substitute for the Aid
rich bill and possibly be given sup
port by all the Democrats in the
Senate., No action along these lines
will be taken however, until the data
requested of the treasury department
by a resolution and promised for early
next week is received and gone over
by the committee. Judging from the
view expressed by the Democrats
the bill is somewhat on the lines of
the measure recently suggested by
Bailey. ..
WALKING TO TEXAS.
CHICAGO, Jan. 25,-Spurred on
by the belief that he will see his eld
est son for the last time on Feb. 28,
Oluf Olson Bertwent, a tailor 61 years
old, will start today on a long walk to
Fort Sam Jouston, Texas , where his
son, Martin, a b'urgler in the first U. S.
Cavalry, is stationed, and who leaves
with his troop" on that date for the
Philippines. i ' -"X: . I v?V -i? ;
The aged man has been out of work
for nearly a1 year, and is without
money with which to pay his rail
road fare to Fort Houston. : He
claims- to have numerous presenti
ments that he will never tec his son
again if he docs not see'hha now,
and so has made all arrangements to
walk to Texas. He believes his son
will be killed in the Philipines. To
provide against being picked up as a
vagrant in any of the towns through
which heNvill pass Mr. Bertwent yes
terday obtained a letter of credentials
front Acting Mayor Mullaney.
DYING IN HOSPITAL.
BELLINGHAM, Wash., Jan. 25.-
Charles Eastman, who has just been
released from jail became drunk and
quarrelsome this afternoon, Police
man Dunham attempted to arrest him
and Eastman pulled his revolver and
fired. The officer returned the fire
empitng his revolver. Eastman was
shot through the lung and is dying at
the hosptal, : ; :
SABINE CANAL OPEN.
HOUSTON, Texas, Jan. 25,-The
first shipment through the Sabine
Lake Canal, the last cut in which was
made by the government yesterday
was of export lumber for England by
a lumber company of Orange, Texas
The shipment consitter of 300,000
feet of lumber which was sent out of
Orange Thursday night and laid
alongside the dredge until the canal
was opened.
Congress has expended $536,300 on
this canal. It is 15 miles long, con
nccting the Sabine and Neches rivers.
Dredging began January 11, 19X16.
HOTEL HELD UP.
SAN RAFAEL, Cl, Jan. 25.-T1je
National Hotel was held up last night
by an armed man and Constable Ed
wards was shot in the neck and ser
iously wounded. The man entered
the bar room, his face masked with a
towel and coveringthe four men pres
ent, ordered them to throw up their
hands. Edwards giving evidence of
drawing .his gun, the bandit, saying,
"I will fix you," fired at him with the
shotgun he carried and wounded him
in the neck. From the other men
present he took $200 and three or
four watches and escaped. Edwards,
it is thought, may die.
GOVERNOR DENEEN
Issued a Requisition on Governor
of Florida.
FOR TURIE NORDSTROM
Under Arrest at Jacksonville, Flsu,
, Charged With Obtaining $15,000 on
a Forged Draft Purporting to be
Drawn by First National Bank of
Astoria. ..,,r-. J.-
SPRINGFIELD, 111., Jan. 25.-
Gpvernor Deneen issued a requisition
today on the Governor of Florida for
the return to Chicago of Turie Nord
strom, of Astoria, Or. He is under
acrest at Jacksonville, Fla., and is
wanted on a charge of obtaining $15,-
000 from the First National Bank by
means of a forged check, purporting
to be drawn by the First National
Bank of Astoria.
VICTOR IS A WONDER.
NEW YORK, Jan. 25.-Victor Von
Salcmann, of Moscow, Russia, is in
New York for the purpose of study.
ing skyscrapers. He seeks to learn
all there is to know about them in
four days and return to Moscow and
straightway construct one. Mr. Von
Salemann owns several buildings in
Moscow and a short time ago deter
mined to erect one of the sky-scraping
variety, for there are no taws in
Moscow limiting the height of build
ings as there are in St Petersburg.
After he got aboard the steamer to
come to Mew York Mr. Von Sale
mann remembered that he did not
know a word of the English language,
so he began to study it. All his time
during the seven days he was at sea
he put in on study, with the result
that he arrived in New York with a
working knowledge' of the language
which enables him to converse freely
on any subject.
GOLD LOST IN 1862.
SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 25.-More
disaster has attended the efforts of
C. R. Johnson of Boston to recover
the gold lost on the beach at Manza
nillo, Mexico, in 1862, by the burning
of the old Pacific Mail side wheel
steamer Golden Gate. A letter receiv
ed here yesterday states that two men
were drowned and one killed by a
blow from a large timber during a
storm at Manzanillo. some days ago.
In the same storm a gasoline launch
that had been sent down from this
city by Johnson to assist in the
operations was sunk. ,.
KASli
LEGISLATION
Ambassador Bryce's Ad
dress on Subject.
VOLUME IS ENORMOUS
Detailed Rules of Legal Pro
cedure Ought to be Leftto
Judicial Department
LEGISLATION IS INEVITABLE
British Ambassador James Bryce Ad
dresses the State Bar Association at
New York and Points Out Reme
dial Measure.
NEW YORK, Jan.2S.-British Am
bassador James Bryce addressed the
State Bar Association at a meeting in
Carnegie HaU last night The ambas
sador dwelt upon the form and sub
stance of the ever-increasing volume
of legislation.
"Irf no country," said Mr. Bryce,
"is the volume of legislation so large
as in the United States, where, be
sides Congress, 46 state legislatures
are "busily at work turning out laws
on all imaginable service, with a
faith in the powers of law to bless
mankind which few historians or phil
osophers and few experienced lawyers
will be found to share. The demand
for a profusion of legislation is in
evitable."
Mr. Bryce said that in order to se
cure the pushing forward of measures
needed in the public mterest there
should be in every legislature ar
rangements by which some definite
persons or body of persons become
responsible for the conduct of legisla.
tion. To secure sufficient time for the
consideration of measures of general
and permanent- applicability, such
matters as those relating to the de
tails of administration, or in the na
ture of executive orders, should be
left to be dealt with by the admini
strative department of government
under delegated power, possibly with
a right to disapprove reserves to the
legislature. Similarly, the more de
tailed rules of legal procedure ought
to be left to the judicial department
or some body commissioned by it, in
stead of being regulated by statute.
Bills of a local or personal nature
ought to be separated from bHls of
general applicability and dealt with
in a different and quasi-judicial way.
In order to enable both the legis
lature and the people to learn what
the statute "law in force actually is,
and thereby to facilitate good legisla
tion, the statute law ought to be peri
odically revised and, so far as pos.
sible, -consolidated as to be brought
into compact, consistent and intelli
gible shape.
POWDER HOUSE BLOWS UP.
CHICAGO, Jan. 25.-Word was
received here today to the effect that
the, small mining town of Hocking,
Iowa, was threatened with destruc
tion by fire resulting from the explo
sion of a powder house. No details
could be obtained, owing to the loss
of telephonic and telegraphic com
munication. The town is near Albia,
Iowa. A despatch from Ottumwa
said that no fatalities had been reported.
FORGER ARRESTED.
BILLINGS, Mont, Jan. 25.-H. S.
Massingham, of Mandan, N. D., has
been arrested here on a charge of
forgery, it being alleged that Mass
ingham cashed checks " in Billings,
drawn on Mandan bank in which he
had no account :
ELECT OFFICERS.
SEATTLE, Jan. 2S.-At the annual
meeting of the Pacific Coast Lumber
Manufacturing Association the fol
lowing officers were re-elected: Ev
erett G. Griggs, Tacoma, president
(sixth term); C. P. White, Seattle,
first vice-president; W. B. Mack,
Aberdeen, second vice-president; E
G. Ames, Port Camble, third vice
president; C. E. Patten, Seattle, fourth
vice-president; C, C. Bronson, Seat
tle, treasurer. The board of trustees
consists of R. L. McCormick, Taco
ma; Fred K. Baker, Everett; G. H.
Emerson, Hoquiam; R. II. Alexander,
Vancouver, B. G; Charles E. Hill,
Tacoma; John W. Eddy, Port Blake
ly; J. H. Bloedel, Bellingham; F. H.
Jackson, Clear Lake; George R. Car
tier, South Bend; A. G. Hanson,
Enumclaw, and G.'A. Cooper
RUSSIAN GRAB GAME.
STOCKHOLM, Jan. 25.-A mining
engineer has just returned from an
exploring expedition into northern
Norway, where the Russian frontier
approaches within fifteen miles of the
North Atlantic at Lyngenfiorm, says
he saw large bodies of Russian sol
diers installed in log houses who were
engaged in constructing a railway in
Norwegian territory, in a wilderness
of many days' journey from the high
way. '.
THE GRIDIRON CLUB
Gives its Twenty Third Annual
Dinner.
MANY DISTINGUISHED GUESTS
President Roosevelt Has an Oppor
tunity to See His Possible Sac
cessor Amongst the Notable Men
Around the Festive Board William
J; Bryan Present ' '
WASHINGTON, Jan. 25.-The
twenty-third annual winter dinner of '
the Gridiron Club was held at , the
New Willard Hotel tonight, and was
characterized as a "grand political
rally," for in the limelight were
brought William Jennings Bryan, Vice
President Charles W. Fairbanks, Jus
tice George Gray, Speaker Cannon, -former
, Attorney General Harmon .
and Senator Knox, all of whom figure
as factors in the presidential equation. .
President Roosevelt, who, it was al
leged at the dinner, had a long string
attached to his declination of another
term as President, was afforded an
opportunity to look over at close
range some of those who are among
the best of his possible successors.
Among the speakers were Presi- j
dent Roosevelt, Vice-President Fair
banks, William J. Bryan, Justice Gray.
George Ade, Speaker Cannon, Rep-,
resentative John Sharp Williams, Sen
ator Knox, Secretary Root, Ambas- . ,
sador Hengelmueller and the Right
Rc. Mr. Satterlee, Bishop of Wash
ington. It was a jolly affair, with a
large, attendance ' of distinguished
guests. , ,
EXPENSIVE " SNOW STORM."
NEW YORK, Jan. 25.-That it will
cost $150,000 to clean the streets, of
New York of the snow which fell
in the stprm of Thursday night and
yesterday, is the estimate of the snow
removal bureau. In additional , to
this direct outlay by the municipality,
it is figured that injuries to horses
and vehicals, delays in transportat
ion of goods and the increased cost
of coal, which jumped 50 cents a ton
yesterday on account of the increased
cost of handling, the loss to citizens
through the storm will be at least as
much more.
Throughout yesterday five hundred
teams and 3,500 men were kept busy
cleaning the streets of snow, while
all night in the lower part of the city
1,100 men and fifty teams were oc
cupied with the work. To-day the
snow removal bureau hopes to have
at least f've thousand shovelers and
drivers employed. . ;
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