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BIASED AND PREJUDICED
AFTKR WHAT mutt have been a straining scrutiny
of the situation, the Salem Journal has dis
covered precisely the cause of the present and
prospective proceedings by the government against cer
tain prominent citizens of Oregon, perhaps including one
ur mere members of congress. Not only hat the Salem
paper ascertained that all these proceedings are purely
spitework, but that they were undertaken at the prompt
ing and instigation of a single Oregon man, now a pri
vate' citizen, to wit. Malcolm A. Moody. That paper
rin Hints the history of the business rivalry between
the Moody and the Mays families at The Dalles which
developed into a political feud, one consequence of which
was the indictment last year of Mr. Moody, who, accord
ing to this theory, is the principal if not the sole person
age behind the indictment of Mr. F. P. Mays, and the at
tacks npon Hermann and others. To give some show of
p'autibiltty to this explanation the capital paper says
that Moody has had a good deal of influence at Wash
ington since his retirement from congress, and intimates
that his word there "goes" at against that of all the Ore
gon delegation.
This is surely claiming more for Mr. Moody, or laying
more upon hit thouldert, than the circumstances war
rant. It may very likely be true that Mr. Moody's
counsel is favorably considered in Washington, and it
ii. ay be that he is not extremely grieved at the discomfit
tire of his enemies; but that the government should un
dertake this extensive, notable and costly crusade merely
to gratify the spite of Mr. Moody it too absurd to be
more than momentarily considered.
But that is not the main point, nor a point at all: the
only question is: Are the government's accusations and
suspicions true? This is something to be determined,
and if that should be proven true it it not the tlightett
defente or excute, as the Salem Journal seems to think
it would be, if Mr. 'Moody had a hand in bringing about
the exposures though the assumption that he had it to
far entirely gratuitous.
The Roseburg Plaindealer, not having yet thought of
Moody, continues to tay the whole blame of the persecu
tion of some of Oregon's most eminent citixent upon
Secretary Hitchcock, who it claims hat a bitter grudge
againtt them, and upon Mr. Heney, who it argues holdt
a malevolent tpite againtt Senator Mitchell for criticis
ing hit appointment as tpecial attittant attorney-general.
The Plaindealer laments these groundlest spite
work attacks upon distinguished and honored cititent
widrlrif office-holders,-all crf ivlrom tt'tyi ire persons
of the most unblemithed reputation, and of whote of
ficial record there hat never been any complaint or crit
icism. At to one of the persons alluded to and fre
quently mentioned, the Roseburg paper of course knowt
and to mutt its readers, that it is not telling the truth,
but farther than this The Journal at this, time will not
go, because it is due to both sides to await' the processes
and conclusions of the federal court. While the papers
named and tome others are aeeking to intimidate the
prosecution, The Journal would not if it could tay any
thing either to embarrass the government or to pre
judice the defendant!.
But the tame remark applies in this at in the other
instance, that whether the government is mistaken or
not, whether it is using good judgment and building on a
sufficient basis of facts or not, it it not only improbable
but incredible that with President Roosevelt behind
these movements, it it acting on the prompting of a petty
personal tpite againtt the pertons rumored to b im
plicated. The government mutt have had far other and
entirely different reasons, whether well founded or not,
. for its actions, paat or prospective!
The papers mentioned and a few othert exhibit to
strong a bias that they o'erleap themselves They have
already tried certain partiea and acquitted them before
they have heard a word of evidence. But while with
holding judgment, the people want to know the truth,
and the whole truth. If it leavet these men unscathed,
The Journal will rejoice aa sincerely at anybody.
CHRISTMAS AND THE CHILDREN.
CHRISTMAS is especially the children'! day. The
smaller ones yet believe in Santa Claus, or if
they have their doubts, they are not worried by
them. A large part of the pleature Chrittmaa confen
upon adultt springs from teeing the happinett of the
children. They are little men and women, much like
grown-up folk after all. They expect presents on Chritt
maa, and within reasonable bounds their childith detiret
thould be gratified. All of them cannot have all they
would like, which might not be, good for them, but to
make them happy on this occasion is not only the priv
ilege of parents but almost a duty.
Christmas also furnishes an opportunity for teaching
the little onet an important lesson that of unselfish-
hit TlaBl Biroimoi.
Prom the Boston Transcript, Decem
ber 14, 104.
The United States seems to be a
country of almost continuous national
or International expositions, so, now that
the St Louis fair is a thing of the past.
Interest develops In Its Immediate suc
cessor, which, aa the world knows. Is
to be beld at Portland, Or., from the
first of next June to the middle of the
following October; and Is to commemo
rate the explolte and services to this
country f those now familiar pioneers
and heroes. Lewis and Clark. A corre
spondent of the Brooklyn Eagle gives
some particulars of the attractive pros
pects that await the patrons of this
enterprise. The people of the eaat have
become somewhat weary of expositions,
hut the one Immediately In view la un
der different conditions than those that
have appealed to them In the past. They
do not oare particularly what it Is or
what It commemorates, but the place
in which It la located will doubtless
prove a magnet of drawing power.
" Everybody this side the Mississippi
would Ilka to visit the Pacific slope,-and
many will be grateful for a reasonable
excuse for making tbe trip. Then Port
land has developed a new and wonderful
reputation aa a health resort for over
wrought and nervous people and some
wonderful recoveries are recorded. Many
were afraid of the St. Louis climate but
thai of Portland Is one of the strong
inducements to pay It a visit. It Is
soothing and soporific, practically free
from rata In the summer time and
neither too hot nor too cold. Thus the
conditions are right for the maintenance
of a tranquil mind and an equable tem
per. Portland sent Henry Doech. one of
the shrewdest and most prominent of
bar retired business men, to Japan last
year to show the people nfthat country
how to run the fair that' they were
holding at Osaka. So pleaded were they
with ia set vires and the benefit de
rived from hie counsel that the mikado
eonf erred ut on him the decoration of
the third order of the sacred treasure,
and Portland baa saade him director of
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OFFICIAL PAPER OF THE CITY OF PORTLAND
STATEMENTS.
VERY two
robberies
by "Bob"
council must have
ptession, if not to
vicious wretches
properly belong.
CURIOUS
HE Brooklyn
Democratic
mont stripe,
the New York
porters of Senator
New York state is
exhibits. Hla draft upon Japan will bs
cheerfully honored to the extant of a
$2,000,000 exhibit which will be twice
as great as that at St. Louis. In fact,
the Japanese will occupy one third of
the foreign exhibit building. Mr. Dosch
Is also making an effort to secure an
ethnological exhibit that will take In
all the tribes and races from Kamchatka
and the Aleutian lalands, to Borneo,
Samoa, the FIJI Islands and ths Bush
men of Australia. In Tact, the exposi
tion will be quite as much oriental as
occidental In character, and thoas who
would like to visit Asia but cannot, will
find Asia meeting them more than half
way at this city on the Columhls.
Chicago had the "Midway" and St.
Louis the "Pike," but Portland will have
the "Trait." a very happy differentiation
and very appropriate to the particular
service that -da to be commemorated. It
will be built on plies along a bridge,
nearly a quarter of a mile long across
the lake, to the Island on which the
government buildings are located. More
over, tb lake will be a real one, not
made to order by the contractor, but
prepared by nature, which In auch mat
ters Is much the more satisfactory
workman. So we may expect the com
ing year to be one of Immense trans
continental travel and Europe to see
fewer Americans than usual.
From the Woodburn Independent.
Puter and his gsng are guilty of fraud
There era others, but that alt will he
caught Is doubled. It Is a pretty bad
mess and It does not look well In any
paper endeavoring to excuae the actions
of these conspirators. Tie true that
they ere small Ash. but the government,
with Roosevelt at the helm, may auc
eaed In landing bigger specimens. There
are certain southern Oregon newspapers,
who have been hand In hand with Her
mann. Including big lumber companlee,
who do not Ilka the way things are go
ing, hut they accomplish nothing, and
merely attract attention and further sus
picion, by being loud mouthed about it.
JNO. f. CARROLL
The Journal Building, Fifth and Yamhill
nets. There are 'little girls and boys, even in this city
where very poor people are scarce, who will receive no
Christmas gifts, who will not hang up their stockings
tonight, or if they do will find them empty in the morn
ing. Older people are too prone to forget two things:
how they felt when they were children, and that the
children of the poor long for Christmas giftt aa much as
those of parents who are able to make their little ones
happy. It is a beautiful thing for children who get all
their hearts' desire on Christmas to divide with those
whose little hearts are poignantly grieved because they
have no gifts at all. There are but very few such in
Portland, we hope; if there are any, they thould be
hunted out and made happy.
Rut most of the little ones will have a happy, merry
Christmat, we -drnrbt not,- wnr there-it ivo more? ynHaerme
tight or sound on earth than their innocent joy makes.
SUPPRESS THE CRIMINAL DIVES.
or three days or so, reports are made of
and vicious assaults in the dive kept
Patterson and J. B. Moore and by
"Jed" Hart, and yet they are allowed to keep their dis
orderly and criminal dens open, and to pursue their trade
of thuggery and thievery with but occasional and com
paratively slight molestation.
It is long past the proper time when these vile resorts
and their proprietors should have been suppressed.
There may be others equally bad, but none seem to be
quite to openly lawless and detestably wicked in their
nefarious occupation.
If only a tmall proportion of frequent reports are
true, these men are far more deserving of penal servitude
than -many who are suffering this penalty. That they
are vicious thugs is not be doubted, and that they harbor
people whose main business is robbery is equally cer
tain; and yet they are authorized to continue in the pur
suit of their "business," to the disgust of all decent peo
ple and the injury and shame of the city.
There ought to be a weeding out of such vile creatures
from the saloon business, which under the law is a le
gitimate occupation. There ought to be closer scrutiny
of applicants for license, and discrimination in granting
them. The men mentioned and the resorts they conduct,
and all like them, ought to be put under, the ban. Such
men and places have no right to a business existence
here. The law does not contemplate their existence.
Vices will be practiced, and all taloont cannot be made
equally obedient to law and conformable to decency;
but tuch hotbeds of the grossest iniquities and audacious
crimes as these, and their known proprietors, can and
must be suppressed. The police department and the
evidence enough to justify their sup
send these and other such vile and
into penal retirement, where they
ADVICE TO DEMOCRATS.
Eagle and the New York Times,
newspapers of the Cleveland-Bel
advise the Democratic members of
legislature to join forces with the sup
Depew and help elect him, if such a
result be possible, and so beat Governor Odell and his
machine, who it is supposed will dictate the election of
ex-Governor Black, unless Odell concludes to take the
office himself
Thit is bad advice," from a Democratic point of view.
so gerrymandered in the interest of
the Republican party that a Democratic legislature can
not be elected again until there is a great popular up
heaval in -protest against Republican rule, and that is
likelyto happen before many years, when the Democrats
should be able to present a clean, united front, without
being the victims of such disorganization and suspicion
as alwayt follows moves of this kind.
If Depew were an exceptionally able, broad, fit man, if
he were in a large degree an independent man, if he
were greatly the superior as a public servant in the sen
ate to Udell's candidate, there might be some excuse for
the advised action; but he is none of these. Depew is
an urbane, polished, ready-tongued, high-salaried em
ploye of the Vanderbilts, who desires to be tenator
chiefly for the tocial dittinction which the potition con
fers, and to protect the interettt of the people he serves;
and there is nothing in his career, attitude or attainments
that invites the votes of true Democrats.
But he might suit the recent reorganizers, who if in
power in New York would be likely to send Belmont,
Sheehan, McCarren or Hill to the senate. The advice to
Democrats to vote for Depew is evidently based on the
theory that there is no difference between the two par
ties, and that the only thing for the Democratic patty
to do is to out-Herod the Republican Herod.
DBV OOU
8 LOKfO) x.m
From the New Tork World.
The snow was blowing In great wet
drifts, melting on the sidewalks and
soaking through overcoats snd rubbers
when a representative of the Sunday
World called on the Rev. Itobert Coll
yar, pastor emeritus of the Church of
the Messiah, who celebrated his list
birthday a few days ago. Dr. Collyer
was out, his son said, but was expected
home to lunch In about 10 minutes, so
the World man waited in the library,
with Its big cases full of morocco-bound
books, and watched ths driving snow
that obscured the other side of Fifty
fifth streak
Soon Dr. Collyer arrived, stamped the
snow from his overshoes, brushed It
from his overcoat, and entered the room.
"How is It that a man of your age
daree to face suoh a storm aa this?"
axked the World man.
Dr. Collyer laughed a merry, whole
some laugh that shook his long white
haar and wrinkled his rosk cheeks and
bright eyes Into a mask that a Greek
sculptor might have oopled as a symbol
of Comedy.
"There Is no secret about It. I llvs
rightly and never worry," he replied.
"Did you never worryt"
"Only once. When we were burned
out along with the whole city of Chi
cago I began to worry. Then my wife
said, 'Don t worry, and I stopped.
What la your receipt for attaining
old age with perfect health T"
"Take eight hours' sleep and do the
work that comes your way as wsll as
you can. Men should not overtax their
own powers; they should live simply and
sanely and not let tomorrow's possible
troubles worry them today. By sleep
ing regularly eight hours out of the 14,
by putting all my efforts Into the Im
mediate work of the day and by liv
ing tightly 1 have managed never to
have a day's sickness la my life. I
have never even had to have my break
fast in bed that I can remember.
"My father was never 111, either, and
ha died suddenly at a great age while
at work at hla force. And my mother
never worried either."
Small Change
Last eall for Christmas bargains.
'Here's hoping no stockings will be
found empty.
The Sevastopol hasn't been destroyed
for over 14 hours.
The Sunday .Christinas Journal will
repay examination.
When fleet meets fleet, there will be
another tug; of war.
Now la the time when the little ones
have dreams o' nights.
The fowls on show are rejoicing that
they are not fat turkeys.
The merchants and their clerks will
be glad to rest tomorrow.
The Russian squadron Is not making
anything like record speed. ' '
The Republican machine Is being sub
Jetted to a vary severe strain.
Whenever she Isn't In a faint, Mrs.
Chadwiok is very lively and busy.
, What is needed Is somebody to lw
son the beef trust and the steel trust.
With cackle, cackle and crow, crow.
The hens and cocks say, "We' re on show.'
Smoot is occasionally and Incidentally
alluded to in the Investigation, after all.
Lovers of mualo oan be pleased aa well
aa instructed by going to church tomor
row. If anybody waa missed a gift next
week will not be amiss. Better lata than
never.
"Will votrTnu an officer- asked the
mayor. "I don't care If I take Wan is r."
he replied.
The thick hide of the Standard Oil oc
topus appears to have been punctured at
last. It squirms.
The
east beats us on snow, but It can't
out-of-door Christmaa roses In
by thousands.
show
bloom
We are worried about Mr. Qrover
Cleveland haven't heard of his going
duck snooting once this winter.
Considerable Interest will center in the
arrival tomorrow of two distinguished
Oregon statesmen from Washington.
Only a week more of '04; then begins
the fair year during which Portland
will loom up largely in the American
public eye.
The trade af the Philippine Islands
with this country has fallen off $5,000.
000 during the paat year. Shouldn't the
tariff be raised?
The proper committee of the council
will perform a plain duty by refusing a
number of dive keepers, or their part
ners or associates, saloon licensee.
Another high achool building is a man
ifest necessity, and the eaat side Is tbe
piece for It. Half Portland's population
will live on the eaat aide in tbe near fu
ture. This is the time of year whan a great
many people agree with some of our
statesmen that an elastic currency is
needed so that a IS bill will buy 20
worth of stuff.
Oregon Sidelights
Weston haa
a good- prospect of
flourishing mill.
Most Oregon oountles, perhaps all
wUl show up at the fair.
Shale, good for making bricks, 1
been found on Traak river.
Many visitors are showing up
Irrlgon, looking over the prospects.
at
Tramps having been driven out of
Albany now Infest Corvallls and vicinity.
A new telephone line la bln mm.
tabltshed between Halsey and Browns-
vine.
La Grande la growing perhaps more
rapidly than any Oregon city except
Portland. ,
A male realdent of Sand Lake. Tilla
mook county, la a professions! button
hole maker.
Turkey raisers of Lane county formed
a poo and secured a larger pries than
they otherwiae could.
Ashland elected a dry mayor and two
wet to one dry councilman, and so is
still on the ragged edge.
rfiardiner. Douglss county, la a very
prosperous town of 400. which haa a
weekly paper published by the only wo
men newspaper proprietor, publisher and
editor In the state, Miss Dolly Hefty.
Three MedTord men have received a
shipment of S.500 pear trees from Salt
Lake. So much pear planting haa been
going on that the varieties shipped
Beurre Boec and Howell have been ex
hausted in the local nurseries, hence
must be brought In from outside.
Mayor Taylor has notified the olty
msrshal of Athena to arrest and proae
cute all business houses which sell cig
arettes or tobacco to boys under II
years of ags. Likewise ha has stopped
gambling, selling liquor to minora and
prohibited shaking dice In drug stores
snd saloons
Lincoln county clttsens agreed to raise
1100 If tho county court would appropri
ate 1400 more for an exhibit , at the
Lewis and Clark fair, bat the court made
no appropriation, and It looka now as If
Lincoln county would be unrepresented,
which will make Its good people sshamed
when they visit ths fair.
Medford Southern Orsgonlan: A print
ing office la regarded aa a bureau of In
formation, but the climax waa reached
si mis omce one nay last week by a
woman calling us up and asking to know
wnen the sign would he right to wean
her baby. An almanac was at once con
salted and the desired Information
'phoned back.
pringfiald News: Springfield will bo
a second Zlon City. After January 1
sll smoking, chewing, drinking, gambling
snd dancing will be nut out. Some of
the hoys have pledged themeelvse to quit
making "goo-goo" eyea at the fslrer sax
and have even circulated a pledge that
prohibits the signers the right to epedk
to a lady that haa paaaed the ags of
14. This is signed by nearly all the
boys
CoL Vjrccne Wall
Street Angel
(From the New Tork World.
William Cornell Greene, who saade a
flying leap to fame by spending 142.000
on newspaper advertisements last Tues
day, simply to publlaly dsnounoe .Thomas
W. Laweon aa a liar, faker' and' charla
tan, la a curious jumble of Bat Master
son and J. Plerpont Morgan.
He cam to New York four years ago,
the sole owner of a property which In
liol had an actual market value of III,
011,000. Today hla real frlenda hats to
.think of how much he baa got left.
Wall street haa been a terribly costly
venture with him. His money has been
taken away from him In wada that
would stagger half a doaen national
hanks. He boaated on Tuesday that he
had 111,000.000 left to tight Laweon. On
Thursday he admitted that the two
days of ths Laweon alump In Greene
Consolidated Copper had coat him ex
actly 14.141,321.17. At that time ha de
clared he had 11,000,000 left to fight
Laweon.
Where all his millions have gone la no
secret to the man who have followed
hla Walt street career olosely Many of
them regard htm aa the most colossal
"angel" that ever got south of Pine
street. Tbe estimates that theao men
place upon the remnant of hla wealth
do not tally with the most recent of his
own figures. They are lower toy a wide
margin.
Hla title of colonel Is purely a cour
tesy. It wss given him when with his
sudden and atupendous bound to enor
mous riches he abandoned the leas con
ventional sobriquet of "Bronco Bill,"
by which he waa known in Southern Ari
sona for over a quarter of a century.
Colonel Greene is 41 years old. He
waa born in Weatcheater county, a few
mtlee above the present New Tork City
Una, his family being very nice people,
but not distinguished In any .way. He
got the western fever before he reached
the age of manhood and finally drifted
to Southern Arizona, not far from the
Mexican line Blsbea. a little town 40
miles from ths line, was the metropolis
which knew him best until ho became
a 10-tlme millionaire.
People who thought ths colonel Buf
fered with "cold feet" when he failed
to go to Lawson'a Boston offlos on
schedule time, and characterised him
a a "four-flushing bad man," mad a
mistake.
Ha haa a number of absurd hangers-
on and they tell absurd stories about
hi ability aa a gun-fighter; his courage,
nerve, eta Conservative men who knew
him In the Old days In Arizona declare
that while thee stories are ridiculous
ths colonel wsa aa good an all around
man aa the average expert plainsman.
He could shoot with the best of them,
ride with the nerviest of them, and never
showed ths white feather In times of
stress He herded cattle In a dangerous
Indian country, and 10 years ago shot at
Indiana, and waa ahot at by Indiana
tlmoa Innumerable.
Unlike Mr. Lawaon. his friends, do not
undertake to say how many. If any,
notchea he la entitled to wear on his
gun. Lawaon says of four man that
he killed two were ahot In the back. If
he shot anybody In the back, and his
friends don't admit that he did, they amy
the colonel waa justified, that he was
up against men who would have shot
him in ths back if they could have got
him first.
One of the absurd stories told about
the colonel Is this. Ths end of the sec
ond finger of his left hand Is missing
A bullet took It off. In one of hla In
dian fight 20 odd years ago he waa
surrounded by a small band. The firing
brought his cowboy friends up on ths
gallop. They found htm lying dssed In
the grass behind hla dead horse. He waa
wounded In two or three places, one of
the wounds being on the finger. A count
of dead Indiana was mads on the line
of the circle which the attacking party
made. Thirteen oorpses was the total.
Colonel Greene la anything but the
plainsman In appearance today High
living, rich food and tbe luxurious life
of a multt-mllllonalr in thia city during
the paat four year haa piled mountains
of fat on him. He Is about 5 feet 10
Inches tall and wslghs 110 pounds or
more. He la not only fat, he la flabby.
Any exertion makea him puff. Rheuma
tism assails him at times He haa a
rich, florid color, not ths kind du to
outdoor life, but to a liberal patronage
of a generously equipped table
Ths colonel Is good-natured but ex
plosive. In the company of millionaires
he affects the manners of the plains
man. In the company of ordinary mor
tals hs affects the manner of the mil
lionaire; the solid, substantial men of
weighty business affairs; the financier
whose utterances are of deep Import to
the Wall strset world.
Here is the way the colonel eame to
be the owner of property that had a
value of 111,000,000 and more: Just
serosa tbe Mexican line from Southern
Arizona waa a great tract of pasture
land which waa purchased In lit! by a
syndicate of Callfornlans headed by
United States Senator George C. Par
kins. There were a number of rsnches on
the property. One oi them waa called
the Cananaa. Ths land was In the
state of So nor. Tear after year the
land afforded fair grating for the cattle
kept upon it.
In the latter part of the 90s "Broncho
Bill" Greene had amassed enough
money to give up cattle herding and to
purchase a small ranch of his own In
Southern Arisona cloae to the Mexican
line. His ranch prospered and he began
to pile up money. In his vsrlegated life
he had picked up a practical knowledge
of mining and the value of ore.
Tbere la a peculiar law In Mexico.
Grants to pasture is mis. such aa the
Perkins syndicate had obtained, do not
carry with them title to certain mln
erals which may be found on the land.
such as copper, gold or silver. Any.
person oan go oft to private landa and
locate for gold, stiver and copper. If
he finds It he csn put In a claim for ths
land. All that he has to do la to pay
a fair price based upon Its value ae a
pasture. Should the owner refuse to
sell he can get possession by condemns
tlon proceedings after paying a nominal
price.
Greene's little ranch waa on the Arl
zona aids of the line, the pasture lend
of the Perkins syndicate was on ths
Mexlcsn stds. Greens frequently rode
over the property of his neighbors In
till he get an Idea from his mining
knowledge that tbere might bs copper
deposits oa the Cananea ranch. Ha
prospected quietly and ' in the end lo
nated eight mlnee. He put In his claims
fr the property snd the Perkins syn
dicate, n it knowing anything, about the
extent of the mineral deposits, sold out
rather than fight condemnation pro
ceedings and be beaten In the end.
Boon after Colonel Greene got the
property by paying a nominal sum Sen
ator Parkins, who had caused an Inveati-
gstlog of the mineral deposits to be
msde, said:
"I believe that ths greatest copper
mines In the world have been located
there, and that there is enough copper
now in sight to reduce price the world
ever."
Colonel Greene haa a rough kind of
business astuteness. He eame seat la
1100 and met various men akUlad In the
promotion of ooaopanlss, Hs made a
stock company of hat tame and then
extern the task of getting the oaau to
build smelters, pure base machinery and
the equipment neeaaary to get their
rlehea Into marketable shape.
He waa the owner of every one of
the 114,000 share of the company ex
cept the fsw that ha gave away to qual
ify other men to act a directors. Hs
was prodigal la hla efforts to ralae ths
necessary cash. This prodigality later
on caused htm a vast amount of troubls
and Innumerable lawsuits which, took
away hundreds of thousands. One Of
the men hs approached waa Thomas W
Lawaon The man who introduced him
to Lawson subsequently aued him for
11.000.000. and effected a compromise. It
was said, based on ths payment of I 111,
000.
That waa a mere bagatelle to the
colonel. A young woman who did his
typewriting when he first came hare, and
proved to he of valuable service to nim
he rewarded, according to common re
port, with 10.001 shares of stock. Had
the young woman held on to uiem she
could have sold them for 1410,000, the
stock going to 41 In 102. but she sold
"when It reached 28, realising 1110,000.
When tho colonel got the company
under way Anally he settled in thli
city, making his home In ths Waldorf
Astoria where he hired a 111.000 suite.
He became the chum of John W. Gates.
James A. Drake and other plungers who
frequent the Wsldorf. and aome of the
poker games that followed 'all but
lifted the roof from that hostelry.
In hla youger days the oolonel had
married and had one daughter. Hla
wife died long before he ever dreamed of
being a millionaire When his riches
first cams to him he went to Blsbee,
Aria., and married Mies Mary Proctor,
who la related to the Proctor family of
Vermont.
Ha brought bis bride to the Astoria.
There a baby was born, the first to
come into the world in the hotel. Then
tbe colonel moved hla family to the
Ansonla, where th colonel leased the
finest suite In that hotel. Hs still
makes his home there.
When ths fain of th Green Con
aolldatad spread and the prloe of Ita
shares made the former cowboy a verlt
able Mont . Crlsto. lawsuits were
brought against th colonel with a free
hand. They were the price of his for
mer prodigality. Most of them were
based upon alleged promises of enor
mous rewards he had made whea he
needed cash to start up hla mines.
Oeorg A. Treadwell sued for 2.ooo.
000. James Shirley sued for 11,000,000
George Mitchell sued for 11,000.000 and
a number of suits for lesser amounts
were brought. Several of these were
settled. Some are stlU pending.
Th former cowboy, by hi great
wealth, got on terms of Intimacy with
the real financial kings of th city. H.
H. Rogers sees htm whenever h calls
at II Broadway. E. H. Harrltnan la ths
second largest Individual stockholder In
his company. John w. Gates waa a di
rector of th company for a time Then
they had a disagreement and Gatee got
out.
In the first flush of his great wealth
tha oolonel spent fabulous sum. On
Of hla closest associates said:
"He bought hundreds of thousands of
sores of timber land with no timber on
it. He bought hundreds of thousands of
acres of graaing land with no grass on
it. He bought little railroads which
began nowhere and ended nowhere,
touching nothing on the rout."
In 1102 he headed a syndicate of four
men, which purchssed a T.IOO.OOO-acre
ranch In Sonora. Mexico, th greatest
cattle ranch In th world. Th tract la
111 miles long and 100 miles wide and Is
surrounded with a four-strand barb-wirs
fence. He planned to put 10,000 head
of cattle on th ranch.
Hla stock market operations have
been the most costly of ail his ventures,
particularly hla speculations In his own
stock, tha Green Consolidated. Several
times he has bought Immsase blocks on
margin, borrowing huge sums from
bank and trust companies.
With a peculiar fatality every time
he has loaded up with ths stock on
borrowed money something has hap
pened, the lending Institutions demanded
heavy additional collateral and bundle
of the stock are thrown on the curb.
In January last he waa caught in thla
way. and It was reported that he
would lose th presidency of the com
pany. The stock he had to part with,
41,000 shsres, was taken by Standard Oil
men at 10. On Monday 'last tha stock
aold at 14. Ths colonel had loaded up
with 110,000 shares of It on margin. He
had to part with a big chunk of thla In
the perpendicular drop to II.
The. colonel appears to be the only
man In Wall street who doesn't know
that the Standard Oil group la after his
company, or that there may be under
lying reasons for th radical actions of
the big lending Institutions every time
he loads up with the stock on bor
rowed money.
d Clark
ewis an
In winter quarter In what is now
North Dakota. -
December 24. Ths day continued warm
and pleasant and the number of visitors
became troublesome. As a present to
thro of the chiefs, we divided a fillet of
Sheepskin which we, brought for spong
ing, Into three pieces, each of two Inches
In width: they were delighted at th gift,
which they deemed of equal value with
a fine horse. We this day completed our
fort, and ths next morning being Christ
mas. Tcanr CrOzxf' i
From the Baltimore American.
"Whatehy goln' t' gimme, " says the
youngest boy lo pa;
"Whatehy going t' g.mmef" ssvs the
youngest girl to ma;
"Whatehy goln' f gimme?" says ths
nin i ilen to her beau;
Everywhere the answer Is, "O, sumpln. I
dunno.''
"Whatehy goln' r gimme saka ths
little boy at school
His Just fore-Christmas goodness makes
him mindful of each rule;
"Whatehy goln' t gimme?" sings the
gamin in ths street;
"Whatehy goin' t gimme? on our every
hand we meet.
"Whatehy goln' f gimme?" asks our
town of Uncle Sam;
"Bigger, batter waterways, or leave me
aa I in?
Whatehy goln' V gimme?" asks ths
World of Baltimore;
"Greater town, or Just the kind you
used to be before?"
"Whatehy goln' V simmer' asks ths
yawning money box.
Meant to catch the coin to feed the hun
gry folks In flock;
"Whatehy goln' t' gtmm?" asks the
wretched and ths poor.
Living In their penury a stone's throw
from your uoor.
"Whatehy goln' t gimme"'
ssk sthe
great big world of you;
'Lifetime full of usefulness, heart sin
cere and true?"
'Whatehy goln' t' gimme?" Hsar It
everywhere you go
Always comes the snswer, "O, Just
sumpln. I dunno."
Have You Reached
Middle Age
"It's only during the last yea or ao
that I've been finding out what alia me;
I'm hiking along toward middle age."
remarked the rotund man of 41, who
accompllahed a deal of roaming before
he dropped anchor, and berthed In this
port. "I hats to believe It. but it's a
fact
'Th othsr afternoon I want Into a
store to buy a hat
" 'Show me tha derbys.' I said to the
salesman.
"Ha brought ut a lot of old-oodger
shape, what th hat people call mature
pattern.
'"Not that kind.' I said rather im
patiently. I didn't relish being shown
mature pattern. 'Let me a the new
blocks ths up-to-the-minute blocks.'
"The salesman looked at me rather
doubtfully.
'"Vary well, air,' ha replied otvlUy
enough, tout tha kind I've shown you are
the kind that are mostly worn by settled
man.'
"Settled men! Me a settled man I That
cam as a sort of shock to me I am
bound to admit.
" 'Ssy, how old d'ye think I am a
hundred and fourteen?' I asked th sales-
Oh. no,' he replied smiling, tout,
you know, these daahy, ultra, blocks are
generally worn by they're more suit
able for the young fallowa, y'know.'
"I hadn't entirely got into the habit
of classing myself a anything else but
one of tha young fellows, but of course,
I had to accept, the polite salesman's
verdict that I waa in tha fogy class. I
csn't sax that I enjoyed it
"But that hat salesman's opinion
wasn't tha first to nudge me along to
the unpleasant realisation that I'm really
not on of th young fellows any more.
"Last winter I went into a shoe store
and said, sort of offhand, to tha sales
man, "Show me aome shoes, sis ft." and
blamed If 0a didn't look me over and
then fetch out four or five pain of
square-toed, very soft leather congress
gaiters those ahoea with th elsatto
taaa) at tha sides, you know, that old
codgers wear so that thsy oan slip 'em
on and off easily.
"I was foolish enough to depart from
that shoe store In a sort of huff, but
when I thought It over and cooled out
I perceived that tha shoe salesman
wsan't really to blame. It waa myself
that waa to blame for getting into th
middle-aged class and taking on tha eon-gress-galtery
look.
"So I went back to that shoe store
and bought my ahoaa there. Congress
gaiters? Not much I I bought pair
of buttoned patent leathers! D'ye think
I'm going to permit them to Just
naturally force ma to be middle-aged
by their Implications that I have reached
that stags?
"I began to notice, too, a while back
that a great many of tha young fellows
with whom I came Into business or
social contact chape of from 10 to 10
were falling Into th habit of calling
'sir.' I hat to own up how much
that distress sd me when I noticed It
knew that I held no exalted station
that would entitle me to ths toll address
from anybody, and than I waa reluc
tantly great Scott! how reluctantly
forced to th conclusion, beyond doubt
th correct conclusion, that ths only
reason why these young fellows were
addressing me aa 'sir' waa that . they
wanted to evince proper respect toward
ms aa a middle aged man.
'After 'sirring me the same fel
lows, right la my presence, would
rolllckingly address fellow of their
own age by their first names. It made
me feel sort of out of tha picture. I
had passed that queerly indefinable line
of demarcation between th 'young fel
lows' and ths 'settled man. without
knowing It or appreciating th algnlfl-
canoe of the unfelt change, and then
when I was forced to think It over the
knowledge of It came awooptng upon
like an avalanche.
I had reached middle age and joined
the 'settled' crowd all unawares! I'll get
used to it In time, no doubt TH have
to. But It's an uncanny, measly sort
Of feeling at first.
. "I fell to wondering whether in my
utter lack of appreciation of th fact
that I had attained or waa verging upon
middle age i had gone on acting too
much ths part of the young fallow, thus
giving people the chance to criticise me
for trying to keep up the bluff that I
atlll possessed th youth, that hsd
slipped away from me without my know
ing It. The thought of that chagrined
ms. I hate to see middle-aged man
msking ths foolish effort to trot along
in the young fallow class. There's some
thing humiliating In auch a speotaola
"This forced realisation of th fact
that your youth haa gone and that you've
been thrust Into the middle-aged class
willy nUly takes a good many wistful
little ambitions out of a fellow's life.
I waa a great wanderer over tha face
of the earth In my young manhood
did a lot Of sailing before th mast
to out of th way corners of tha world
when there was no necessity for it ex
cept that I longed to have a good square
look at the globe and all parts of it.
"Well, since I've settled down here
in New Tork the thing that the 2r
mans call wanderlust has often seised
me, and I have often hankered to be
on- th move up and down the world
again. The fact that I have a wife and
a family of children of course rendered
any such thing aa yielding to these Im
pulses out of the question. But I al
ways had a sort of hold-out In thla
"When I'd take my clothes off I'd
fall to looking at th tattooed figures
on my arms, and get to dreaming of
th Strang little corner of th far seat
that I wss running Into when I had
those tattooed mark made with the
boy's pride in auch foolish things. And
then th old longing to up-anchor and
away again would seize ma right by
the throat. Whereupon, of course. I'd
be brought up with a round turn with
the thought of my settled down condi
tion and my wife and children.
"But, even then, I'd ssy to myself:
'Oh, well. I'll see all of those old places
again one of these day. I'll have one
more good old rattling cruise in ths
south seas, anyway, before I'm piped
out; plenty of time, I'm young yet.
"And I was still giving entertainment
to these vague dreams when the realisa
tion was forced upon me that I waa s
middle-aged man; that middle-aged men
are not for the wandering game; that
the old reckless years had long fled and
were worae than hull down upon tha
hortson and then It waa borne in upon
me that that little wistful hold-out of
mlns wss the merest fantasy that as s
matter of fact, there Just wasn't plenty,
of time,' as I had been so fondly
Imagining; no ttms for anything ex
cept to make up my mind that? waa
a fogy and aa a fogy, shelved and settled
down for good aad alL
'Middle age haa lta compensations,
you say? I'h-huh. So I've, heard. But
give me just six months out of one
of those old, wild, untrammelled years,
and I'd give you five years of the
middle age that's upon me In exchange
Congress Is to be congratulated, it haa
done nothing yet