THE M01LVI2CG ASTOlllAN, ASTOltlA. OREGON.
SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 1, 1908,
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METHODS OF KM
UE AIRED
PRSEIDENT OF INSURANCE
COMPANY STILL IS ON
THE STAND.
BIG SUMS WERE DEPENDED
In One Year Sum of $870,000 Was
Paid Out in "Expenses" Out of
Total of $1,370,000 Collected
Premiums. ... : .' ,:
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CHICAGO, Oct. 31.-In a hearing
yesterday before Master in Chancery
eihler on the company's application
for an injunction to restain Gustave
Meyer from ' circulating; literature at
tacking the financial soundness of the
National Life Insurance Co. of the
United States of America, Albert M.
Johnson, president of the- company
admitted of the premiums amounting
to $1,370,000 collected in 1906, $S?0,-
vaw was, paid out as,, expenses and
that the holders of matured policies
received only $500,00.
D. K. Tone, attorney for Myers,
asked Mr. Johnson on the witness
stand:
Ms it not a fact that in the year
ending December 31, 1905, the com
pany spent $600,000 in getting S394.-
000 in premiums on new business
new policies?" ' ; : j
"That may be, but it always in-
i . a
voivea large expense to get new
business.
'Is it not a fact that you collec
tea in premiums for the year 1906
about $1,370,000; that of this sum
$870,000 was paid out as expenses
and that all the holders of matured
policies got was $500,000 T
"Yes, I believe that'a correct"
"In your reports issued between
January 1, 1903 and December 31,
1905, the valuation of the National
Life Building (a skyscraper in Chi
cago) was marked up about $600.-
$200,000 a year. Why was that done?"
"Because the property appreciated
just that much."
"Did the company improve the
building?" asked Mr. Zeisler.
"No," said Johnson. '
"Is it not a fact," said Mr, Tone,
"that an impending deficit of $496,
000 in the company's business in 1905
was converted into an apparent sur
plus of $104,103 by tagging on the
$600,000 to the value of the building?"
"Well, if that building had not ap
preciated we might have cut down
the operating expenses."
On the topic of the alleged disap
pearance of funds Mt. Tone put the
question to the witness: ,
"In your 1906 report the receipts
from all sources are given as $3,000,-
000 and the expenses as $2,700,000.
Yet the surplus was only $50,000,
Now, what became of , the $250,000
here unaccounted for?"
After some hesitation, during
which Mr. Tone accused him of be
ing an unwilling witness and striving
to evade giving an answer, Mr. John
son said he could not explain except
on the theory that there were adcli
tional expenses, of agents in getting
new business and that those items
had to be "ritten off."
If you would let me explain, he
dded, I should say that it is inevi
table that large expenses be incurred
a growing, new company, our
company being practically new after
the reorganization of 1903-04 in a
campaign for new business."
After listening to arguments Mr,
Zeisler ruled that all books showing
receipts and disbursements must be
produced, "To explain apparent los
ses, if they are explicable."
ASTORIA III GO
IE ELATED
TEAM WAS TRIED OUT FINE
LY AND THE BOYS MADE A
GREAT SHOWING. .
COURT VS. COUNTRY.
WASHINGTON, Oct 31.-Hon-
duras has been allowed an extension
of 25 days by the Cartago, Costa
Rica Court of justice, in which to
prepare her case in substatiation of
the charges that she made last Sum
mer that Salvador and Guatemala
were promoting the revolution - in
Honduras. Honduras wanted three
months extension, but Guatemala ob
jected and the court compromised on
25 days. Within thirty days after this
limit a decision will be made.
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The Astoria High School football
team returned home last night bv
train, and the boys were met at the
station by many friends. ' In more
than one way the trip has been a re
markably fine one and it has demon
strated that the High School has the
material for .a rattling good eleven.
The'three games of the week have
put them on their mettle and it
should .prove a safe forecast to say
that in the rest of the games sched
uled for this season the Astoria Hiuh
can be depended unon to show tin
in surprisingly fine shape. It looks
as if the school really has the mak
ing of an eleven that the town can
well be proud of.
Despite the three gruellinir names
of the one week the eleven arrived
home last night in reasonably eood
shape. There were no bad accidents
and Lawrence Rogers, the .manager,
was the only player to come home
limping. He had the knee cap of
his right leg thrown out of place dur
ing the last half of the Eutrene
game, but he stayed in the game to
the end.- Had it not been for ttii
dislocated knee cap Astoria might
have won the game, too, for Law
rence .had the ball and had won a
clear field before him. He was
shooting along clear of everybody
hen the knee cap "went to the bad"
again and he went down like a shot.
the Astoria boys say the Salem
game was simply a case of 'robbery.'
Everything was. taken from them
This game should have been theirs,
they are willing to aver.
Captain Abercrombie apparently is
to be congratulated for the way he
took the raw eleven and . put them
into shape.
At Eugene the Astoria boys were
treated in the nicest manner imag'
inable, they say. The Astoria boys
at the University practically ) took
charge of them and made them very
welcome. Much of the "rooting" at
the game was for them, too.
A -.-! t t ' - ,
nsioria wm nave a cnance to see
what the eleven"? can do for there
are several games scheduled to be
played here this fall and winter.
Astoria will play Portland Academy
here on November 14. On Novem
ber 21 a game is scheduled with the
second Multnomah team at Port
land, as a preliminary to the ., big
game of the season between Oregon
and O. A. C. Salem is expected to
play here on Thanksgiving. On De
cember 5th the second Multnomah
eleven will play a return game in
Astoria. There has been some cor
respondence with Aberdeen and Ho
quiam, but nothing definite has been
reached yet with them. ' '
Financially the week's, trip in the
valley came out all right "I think
we can defeat any High School elev
en in Western Oregon," said the
manager last night.
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Zublin Never Advocated Inter-Mar
riage Of Blacks And Whites'.
KANSAS CITY, Mo., Oct 31.-
Professor Charles Zublin, of Chica
go, who was quoted by two Kansas
City papers last week as having ad
vocated in a university extension lec
ture here the inter-marriage of the
whites and black races, denies hot
ly that he ever said anything of the
kind.
"It was a plain lie," he said last
night, "manufactured to injure one
whose views on many social and
economic questions do not suit the
conventions of men who are getting
an undue advantage of society.
"Right in this connection the atten
tion of the thoughtful men and wo
men of this counry should be aroused
to the great menace to free speech
and square dealing In this country.
It is those that have special interests
or graft to protect who conspire, to
ruin any man whose ideas are not
conventional or safe to those inter
ests." .
The fine O. R. & N. steamer Pot
ter is doing a good business daily on
the Hassalo run.
The Lurlinc made it down in fair
time last evening, and went up with
the following named people: Mrs. T
MJ, A. Lauc, A. Von Jessen,
Walter and Thomas Galvin.
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NURSE IS FINED.
WASHINGTON, Oct. 31.-Miss
Claire Sillman, the Connecticut nurse
who was arrested on a charge of lar
ceny several days ago was yesterday
sentenced in the criminal court to
pay a fine of $50 or serve thirty days
! in jail for the theft of a 25 cent sou
venir spoon. She was unable to pay
the fine and was sent to jail. Miss
Sillman first appeared in Washing
ton October 20.
Three little boys from Uppcrtown
were before Judge Goodman in the
justice court yesterday on a charge
of having stolen a $10 gold piece
from James Eleas, a fisherman, and
before the boys got through with
the proceedings they must have
thought that "honesty is the best
policy." They were John Flink.
John Stanovitch and Johan Avanie.
The boys were found guiltyv but
sentence was suspended against
them during good behavior, though
their parents had to make good the
stolen money, ,
Eleas has a houseboat, it seems,
and the boys have been in the habit
of visiting him there, according to
their stories. One day recently they
went to the boat and found no one
at home, and it was an easy matter
to gain ingress to the floating resi
dence. In a pair of trousers hang
ing on the wall Stanovitch found the
gold piece, and with it a plug of to
bacco. He took both. He thought
the money was a two-bit piece, he
says. .Later tncy discovered it to De
gold, and soon they 'changed it and
each took a share, though it seems
that Stanovitch kept a few cents the
most. One of the boys bought ducks
wih his share. Other boys of the
neighborhood soon heard of the fa-
bulus sums that the three lads had
and soon the police . heard of the
money in the hands of the miscreants.
In court the' lads admitted the
crime, . or aomittea snaring in ine
proceeds. Each is about a dozen
years old.
The testimony tended to show
that Eleas the fisherman had per-
,haps taught the lads to smoke tobac
co. He denied vehemently that he
had given them strong drink. At the
conclusion of the matter Justice the fisherman, also came
Goodman severely lectured the boys j part of the lecture, for hi
for their misdeeds, and Mr. Eleas,
The French bark Vincennes, laden
with wheat for the United Kingdom,
is due to arrive down this morning
on the lines of the Ocklahama, and
the Harvest Queen should also be
down with the Germany ship Dah
gill, bound, and loaded likewise.
The Elmore motor schooners Evie
and Gerald C, were among the get
aways from there yesterday, both
going to Tillamook Bay points, load
ed to the scuppers. ,
The State of California, with fine
business of all kinds, left out yester
day morning early, for California.
action in initiating the boys in the
doubtful joys of the pipe and plug.
The tug Geo. R. Vosburg arrived
in from the Nehalcm, and is loading
supplies and stores of all kinds for
railway use, at the A. & C docks,
and will sail tomorrow.
' The schooners Sausaleto and Ore
gon are both loading at Tillamook
for the Bay City.
The steamer Homer arrived down
and left out yesterday morning for
San Francisco.
The steamer Alliance it due to sail
this morning for the Coos country.
as usual.
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The steamer, Hercules arrived
down from the quarries yesterday
morning with a couple of rock barg
es. She looks none the worse for
her recent clash with the Hassalo,
Th American barkentine J. M.
Griffith cleared and sailed yesterday
for Guaymas, Mexico, with her big
cargo of lumber,
ine steamer soutn cay was
among the departing craft from this
port yesterday evening. - .
The motor sloop Condor came in
from Waldport yesterday and kept
on her way to Portland.
The motor craft Hoo-Hoo, Cap
tain Kile, is in port, from Portland,
and wlli sail for Tillamook this
morning.
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