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Newspaper Page Text.1 GOOD EVENING Journal Circulation ; - v THE WEATHER. Occasional rain and cooler tonight" Tuesday occasional rain; southerly winds. '..' . . Svnday VOL. IV. NO. 246. PORTLAND, OREGON,-! MONDAY' EVENING. DECEMBER ,18, 1905. FOURTEEN PAGES. PRICE TWO CENTS. JZa,rltr aftattle Between Millionaires Ends in Collapse of Money King Other Banks Guaran ' ' tee All Accounts. USED FUNDS TO FLOAT , . OUTSIDE ENTERPRISES Bank Inspector Bosworth Plays the Nemesis and Gets Revenge on' Old Associate Construction of Rail- road Brought on Financial War Deposits Exceed Twenty Millions. (Journal Special Service.) '- i Chicago, Deo. II. John B, Walsh's I banks, the Chicago National bank, the & Horn Savings bank and the' Equitable J Trust company, all of Chicago, whoa Insolvency wu announced thla mnrnlnv by the Chicago Associated banks,-were besieged by an army or depositors at V an early hour, all of whom were In an K ansTy mood. The Home Savings bank I waa especially' the object of the de- 1 manda made by the small depositors. V Th hankers of Chicago have guaran- teed to make good every liability and to pay -every claim against- tha Walsh banks. The failures are alleged to be due to private speculation and opera- tlnns in .railroads, coal .lands and other side lines. . . . ' - ' " . Te Chicago National had 116,000.000 deposits, the Home ' Savings had ' $4,00,000 belonging to 1,000 depositors. The (total labthttes of the three Institu tion la $18,000,000. .The directors. President Walah and the bankers of this city save turned over securities valued at . 3.s)0,000 to the banks and guaran teed xhe remainder, of the liabilities. ' Walsh Beslg-ua presidency. The banks opened for business at the usual hour thla morning and began, pay Ing off depositors; They received no - money. Officers from the clearing house were In charre. Walsh arrived at "thaTjank'St1 about o'clock, but refused - to talk. He Is 4ooklng poorly, snd has been- 111 for sev eral, weeks. Colonel J. C. Cooper, WsJsh'S brother-in-law. and president of the National Horse Exchange, said that the depositor! would be paid In fullbut ha did not know how the atockhoidera I would' fare. At the meeting of direo . tors held this morning, Walsh resigned . " the presidency of the Chicago- National. Much excitement prevailed among de ' poil tore. Chief Collins hss personally ' taken sharge of the situation with a large detail of police, who are directing the excited crowd. Long" lines of de positor stretching for blocks have been formed from the two Institutions, most s of them from the ssvlngs bank, r , Bosworth a Bemeela. The explanation of Walsh's failure ' sdvsnced by those In closest touch with , the Indisposed financier Is a story of I warfare, between rival millionaires and . former associates. Three of Wslsh's diversified Interests ; are responsible for his heaviest, losses, . : the Akron Gas company, a big coal mining venture and the Southern Indl , ana railroad. It Is about the letter that . the story centers. National Bank Examiner Bosworth. who brought to a climax the operations charged sgalnst Wslsh's trio of flnan clal Institutions, wss formerly president of the bsnker's railroad. He knew what was going on within the banks, where the fortunes belonging to others were used to serve Walsh's interests.- One dsy there csme a' bresk In these social snd business relations. Bosworth fell out of the railroad presidency. It Is ssld, because Walsh pushed him out. Bosworth dropped out of sight tempo rarily, but hla disappearance waa only ' for a moment. He was csst In the . drama to bob up serenely st the psy- etiological " moment and atriks a blow that would bring Walsh's meteoric career as a financier to a tragic close. . Battle ef Millionaires. ' ' Meanwhile Walah's railroad, purely a freight knd oal hauling enterprise, waa .... brewing trouble for Its owner. - It pene : trsted the great Indiana eoal - fields, tapping the rich district contiguous to 'he Big Four, .Pennsylvania and Chicago and Eastern Illinois, ltnes. After It hsd gathered cosl shipments from the mines. It wss necessary to turn over the' tonnage to one of the three a-reat connecting llnea to get it to mar ket Walah became Involved In a dls-1 puts with all three as to his share of freight tsmrs. Walsh began the construction of a railroad from Terrs Haute, Indiana, to Chicago. In open competition and war fare with the three great aystems he ' had antagonised. Bond Issues were. floated to make the costly enterprise possible. When the other; banks and the public ceased to subscribe, they . were turned into cssh In his own bank ing Institutions. anemias Are Active. PowerfuT enemies were sroused snd were not Idle while these conditions ' wers shaping. Moore Brothers . with 1 their millions, snd their tremendous f holdings In Chicago- and Eaatern 1111 , t.ols realised what It would mean to ' permit Walah unopposed to open a rail road from the heart of Indiana's most productive con I fields Into ths mighty market of Chicago. Thu Chicago millionaire then dlscov- f red that the Moorei had purchased alt the developed and productive mines ' along ths routs of hla road. ,- One element In the growing storm waa overlooked Boaworth, Walsh's I former railroad president and close 1 buslnesa associate. Boaworth knew of Ithe great bales of , Walah's securities "piled Uplrt the Chicago National, against which funds hsd been ;wlU J drswn. "' nosworm nrougnt bdoui ma nnian (Continued on Page Two.) , . PLOT TQ CITY damblers Cabal Which Formerly Dominated Multnomah Coun ' ty Politics Lays Plans to-Re-Establish Itself.' The -cabal of gamblers whloh former ly dominated the politics of Multnomah county has laid plans to re-establish It self In power. The., program Js quite well deilned. The political' elements that 'can be utilised In favor of Its desires have been aligned satisfactorily; those which are- hopelessly antagonistic have been marked for slaughter. . The legal struggle over the Milwau kle club and the partial victory, through tha decision of ths circuit court tnai Portland municipal authorities have no Jurisdiction, .has Inspired hope in the aamblera' fraternity, and thoae who are at ths head of the -cabal are- now brlnaina- Into play some of the agencies that have been Induced to espouse their cause. The formation or -mess pians has been kept secret; but. In view of the necessity of bringing so many dif ferent peraona and inatltutlons into the combination. 1 waa Impossible to pre vent the facts from Becoming Known. Essential te aucceaa for the gamblers was sxtenslve publicity, and, according to the statements of persons who are In a .position to know, a satlsfsctory ar rangement haa been made with a news paper company. It Is asserted that this concern has contracted to attend' to the publicity, end k of the game and that tne execution or me coniraoi' nu w k.Min In' fh. tnmn nf a 1 1 . r ir upon the administration of Mayor Lane and attempts to discredit his police force. To Hope Prom Mayor. - - The- other; essential from "tnVgam biers viewpoint Is the sympathy of the officials, It has been proved that there Is no hope-of help from Msyor Lane or Sheriff word, as both have demon strated that they are making good their It la ssserted, however, that District Attorney Manning will not permit the use of his office to prevent the gam blers regaining-their-lost -powers In Multnomah county. In fact, the claim Is made persistently that ths district attorney is hand and glove 'With th politicians who plan the overthrow of those officials who hsve msds warfare on the gamblers, and that " he may Ij counted on to continue this policy. ' , The first official marked for politi cal battle by the gamblers is $herlff Tom Word. The sheriff has been found unresponsive to the blandishments of those who went to reinvest the gam blers with political power, and It Is understood that all hope hss been aban doned of ever weakening him In his de termination to fight the old Republican machine, for It Is nothing less than the machine somewhat altered In Its constit uency Ahat haa undertaken to resusci tate Itself and regain Us former dom inating poaltion in the polltlca of the city and atate , ' ' Want word Out of Way. The gamblers reason that, with Sher iff Word out of the way after the county election next June, and the 'de feat of Msyor Lane In thre city election a year later, and with the assistance of the district attorney throughout the entire struggle, every obstacle to the complete rehabilltattonof ths machine will have been removed. r Working with the gamblers la tM Wholeaale - Liquor Dealera' and - Brew ers' association, which, In the hope of securing a modification of the local option law, has promulgated Initiative amendments to the Isw whloh, accord Ing to expert Judges of the propoaals. come near to completely nullifying the meaaure. - ' Tha plans are comprehensive and in volve the control of the city council, already aecured, by the wajb and the members of . the leglalature from this' county, with the liquor dealera' organi sation aitenoing -to-matters-Tir other; counties. The city council Is ready to lend com fort to the plane. There has been no dlsnoaltlon to give Mayor Lane an op portunity to prove the efficacy of bit poiiiicai oui, wnn aiuoiea error, every obstacle haa been thrown In his way In the desire to make It difficult for him to utilise the resources provided by the charter. Circuit court declalona in two Instances hsve proven the utterly uh. tenable poaltion assumed by the coun- cllmen on msny advsrse measures, snd the Initiation of theae measures has been In a large meaaure traced te City Auditor Devlin, as was stated in The Journal Friday. Devlin Za Ambitions. Back of Auditor Devlin's movements Is said to be. the ambition to auceeed Mayor Lane In HOT. Belief was com mon smnnsv politicians last spring that Mr. Devlin aaplred to be come a candi date In opposition to - former Mayor Williams, and at that time nominating petitions were circulated by the audi tor's" friends and representstlona were made by some of them that the Munici pal association had Indoraed htm for the mayoralty. Signatures were solic ited on thet representation. ' Ths first clauae In the contract lo cirry out which the newspaper, official and political combination has been msde is ths nomination of s candidate for sheriff agalnat.Tom Word.-. Counael has been given the cabal tat e candidate must bs selected who will disarm sus picion, whose previous af (Illations, so far ss ths public knowledge goes, would not openly stsmp him ss the fsvorlte of the sntl-law enforcement people. As , (Continued on Page -Two.). AGA MILITARY Two Hundred Cossacks on Way to Reinforce Garrison at Orel Are l!M J " ' J Iff . i i ' -r r ' o rtrr i rniiea ana many injured t roops at ruga oeize umcers ana , Join Rebels-r-Town Bombarded and Many Flee to Germany (Journal Special Sorrtee.) ' St Petersburg, Deo. It. It Is- re ported that a military train carrying troops to Orel to reinforce the garrison was dynamited ' this morning and 200 Cossacks killed and many- Injured. Troops at Riga have refused to Are upon the revolutionists, but' have' seised their officers and joined the rebels. .Ths town is , being bombarded and Is afire in many places. Hundreds of residents are fleeing to Germany. ' An awful reign of bloodshed prevails in . ths Saratoft district. , where Max! movltch is trying to ruthlessly suppress the revolt among the peasantry follow ing ths assasslnstlon of Sakharoft. Moat stern measures are being followed to stamp out the revolt. Peasants are summoned to publlo meetings, sur rounded by Cossacks and shot down.' A train bearing r 120,000,000 rubles, TWO MEN WAIT- EIGHT DAYS TO WED YOUNG MEN Sixteen-Year-Old Girl, Compelled by Parents to Marry Man She Does Not Want. ' (Josrnal BpeeUI Rerrlee.) Minium, u T Deo. 18. After re maining firm eight days in her decision to marry Owen R. Bills against ths wishes of her parents. Miss Llllle M. Campbell, aged 10, yesterday acceded to their desire and married George W, Mo Cracken, a Wealthy young farmer. Eight days ' ago both McCrackan and Bills obtained a license to wed MJas Campbell and both produced orders from tha girl's parents waiving all- objections to the marriage. .. Afterward Bills was srrested on com plaint ef Mlas Campbell's parents that the order of concent he preaented was a forgery, but he waa eubeequently re leased. Since thst time both young men hsve been In the;; neighborhood with preacher awaiting an opportunity to marry ths girl. FOREIGNERS KILLED h IN CHINESE RIOTS fjoarnal Special Berrlaa.) " Washington, D. C. Deo. 11. The state department - was Informed . this morning by cable from the American consul at Shanghai that riots have re sulted In the death of several foreign ers. Two Chinese were- killed and a number of buildings burned. .No Ameri cans are reported, killed. U11 Trying- for Jury. Chicago, Dec. II. Tha attempt to se cure a Jury in the sef packers' case was continued today, , t r. r r? A QUIET SUNDAY AT TSARSKOE-SELO r TRAIN IS due here at 11 o'clock Saturday night, has not arrived today. -It was strongly guarded by soldiers, but it is feared the train hss been . wrecked and the treaaure seised by the revolutionists. Reports from .Riga show that : 700 have been killed and 1,600 wounded in the recent fighting. . At Mltau 100 were killed snd 00 wounded. At Dorpat 160 were killed and 400 wounded.' At Wol mar 200 were killed and 100 wounded. Other placea to were killed and several hundred wounded. Revoit in 1 the Baltlo region has be come universal and the entire strength of the government le being exerted to suppress it before It spresds to' Po land. Mutinies among ths troops con tinue snd the situation is most critical st Moscow. -'? - An imperial ukaae was Issued yester day' empowering governors-general and municipal authorities In the event, of railway, postal or telegraph communica FRANCE PREPARES TO ELECT - LOUBET'S SITCCESSOR M. Doumer, President of Lower Chamber, Said to Have Best "Chance-for-Office. - " "' rJonroil' SpecUl Servlee.) Paris, Dec. 18. In a little more than a month the ' national aaaembly will meet at Versailles to elect a successor to Loubet ss president of France, and for the first time In the history of the republic the spectacle will be 'offered of two living presidents, one still In power snd ths othr duly sleeted to suooeed him snd surrounded by all the pres tige to which the election entitles him. v. " Of the candldstes Tor the prominent Office, ther three who are foremost In public opinion, srs Fallleres, president of the senate; Doumer, president of the lower chamber, and Leon Bourgeois, at one time prime minister. . . Notwithstanding a rumor started in the foreign preas in fsvor of Fallleres. ths general opinion Is that Doumer hss ths boat chsnce. lie Is compared to Roosevelt ss.a'Statesmsn, and Ilka the American president haa written a book on his experlencea while governor-general of Indo-Cblna, and enjoys above all diversions a ride on horseback. , WOMEN OF PITTSBURG TO HONOR MRS. COREY Los Angeles, Cel., Dec. 18. Mrs.' W. R. Corey, wife of the president of 4h steel trust, left laat night for the east on the Santa Fe limited, presumably for Pittsburg, where it is understood that social honors have been arranged for her by the women of that city as a pro test sgalnst the action or her husband. DYNAMITED tion being Interfered with, to proclaim a modified martial law. - - The police are ruthlessly hunting down not only leaders of the "Red" revolutionists, but Liberal leadere well. Wholesale arrests continue The workmen's council and League of Leagues Saturday night declared a general strike to begin this morning, which was fol lowed by the imperial ukase clothing all governors and prefects with dicta torial powers and establishing martial at. . i -. - Only one paper was printed In 8t Petersburg , today on account or tha strike and government censorship. Many of the papers have bean eus pended by the government for printing the proletariat organisation's manifes to. ' . - The terrorists are expected to resort again to the bomb, and it le currently stated that Witts has been marked for assassination. - THE MALHEUR PROJECT Influenced in Decision to With- draw Funds by Legal Ob r stacles - Interposed.t (Wsshlnrtea Bursas ef The Journal.! - Washington, . D. C, Deo. 18. Secre tary Hitchcock has come to -the con clusion, that the allotment of funds for the Malheur Irrigation project should be withdrawn, and the enterprise abandoned, lie waa influenced In reach ing thie conclusion by the nature of the legal obstacles in the way of going .on with the enterprise. - One of these is the apparent Impos sibility of making amicable and satis factory arrangements with ths owners of the wagon road grants, who refuse to conform to the rertulremstit of the Ir rigation law, providing that 180 acres shall bs ths limit of acreage In single ownership to - receive the benefits of the act, Another is the demand of the Cor- valils Eastern railroad for compensa tion for damago to Its right of way through Malheur canyon, which would follow the construction of Irrigation works as planned by the reclamation eervlce. J In addition, rt Is estlmsted that it would coat 41 an acre ta irrigate the lande under the project, and the price Is deemed by the secretary practically prohibitive. , j The director of the geological aur- vey, who haa been called on to etate the reaaone why the project should not be abandoned, In a letter to the sec retary today advises that -the definite act of abandoning the project be de ferred in expectation that the legal ob stacles may.be removed by further ne- g-otiatlon HITCHCOCK WOULD DROP ULOBETROTTER ENDS CAREER INSANE rihiiiriirniii rnnl Says Faster . Service Between Portland and San Fran- ' Cisco Is '.' His - ...... 0e8re; Terminal facilities st Portland are receiving the attention of R. P. Schwerin, vice-president and general manager Of the Harrlraan steamship lines,' who ar rived -thla morning from San Francisco. He Is strongly in favor of making aub stantlal improvements for ths rapid handling of freight st this port, a short coming whloh every local shipper has noted during the paat season. As a re sult of his visit It Is probable that con tracts will be let for the building of ad ditional docks and a decision will be reached to make vast improvement In those which ere in use. A line made np of modern dispatch boats may also be placed In eervlce be tween Portland and San Francisco st no distant date. Mr. Schwerin aays h Is In favor of steamers being placed on the route that are capable of making It knots or more an hour and fitted up In the best style. If this plan should be carried out, the Columbia, the crack steamer of - the coast, will be held as simply a reserve boat, Mr. Schwerin Is conferring with J. P. O'Brien, super intendent of the Oregon lines for the Oregon Railroad & Navigation company, concerning the proposal of making Im mediate Improvements to tne terminal facillUa,nHe . expects to remsln until JYednenday. Relative to themaaters the general manager said: - -T want to rehabilitate the line with modern steam era . I , think that Port land is a progressive and growing city. I have every reason te believe that in the near future its trade will tat the rail and "water- transportation facllltles-f to ths utmost and necessitate; Increased facilities. i , . ' t As far as in my power I propose to meet the situation by putting on the route a line of -modern steamers adapted te the bar and Columbia river condl iloner-" : " TT Mr. Schwerin explained that be is not an owner In these properties, but that his endeavors would be to interest capital in providing meane for what he considered necessary Improvements. Hs said: - ' , "If the wster transportation business between Portland and San Francisco can show fair returns on the invested capi tal tha more readily ie capital available for auch improvement. But if the line pannot show any reasonable returns capital is coy and much more difficult to interest. Transportation companies .are bound to respond to support and ths greater the support the better their showing. With a good 'Showing ths greater will be the facility to obtain im provements from those who nave .the capital awaiting investment, "I believe it would be or great vajue to Portland to have a dispatch Una to San Francisco, but a line running 18 knots an hour is expensive to operate. Therefore, to bring this condition about will require the cooperation of Port land and San Francisco merchants." Mr. Schwerin concluded by saying that he would nse his beet efforts -to bring about this condition and expressed the belief that he would be successful. He then explained that ' the' principal purpose of his present visit is to con fer with the railroad' officials -about the need of making extensive Improvements to the docks. WOMAN DIES UPON DATE SHE PREDICTED DEATH Jsamal Special g lee.) ' St Louis, i Dec. 18. Mrs. Augusta Troll, widow of the late Henry Troll, former sheriff, died yesterday. ' t Mrs. Troll predicted her own death and' made arangemente for the funeral even so far e selecting a monument. . Two weeks sgo she was asked what she wanted. lor a Christmas present and piled: ( You need not get anything for me. I wlllybe dead 10 daye before Christ mas." . .... Deceased wss born January 18., 1830. In Welsbaden, Germany. At the are of 18 she came to thie country and lived in this city since If 68. Six chll dren survive her. , Her husband died two years sgo.. BRICK TRUST AND ITS -AGENT HEAVILY FINED (Journal Special Service. Chicago, -Dec IS. Brick trust cases were -called today In Judge Smith's court. The defendants were accused of violation of the state antitrust law a They did not-deny their guilt and were fined $1,000 each, as follows: The Illinois Brick company, the American Brick company, the 'Chicago Brick company, George C. Prusalng, lVeeldent Mines, aXiwin J. fTomllna and John Oray, sales agent of the com panies; Patrick McMann snd Charles Msnk, agents of .the ,. Brlckworkers' union. The defendants entered Into a contract with the union to ehut out competition and new yarda. DEEP WATERWAY FROM 1. .CHICAGO T0;ST. LOUIS y Washington. Deo. 18. A bill snnronrl- stlng 881.000,000 for a deep water way rrom Chicago to SI Louis was Intro duced In the house todajr.. . MILLIONAIRE Lazarus K. Goldsmith, Known In Portland as Lawrence K. C It; Smith, Kept Small Cigar .-' Store on Front Street. - LEFT HOME SAYING HEvr WAS GOING TO BUY BOOK Instead He Went to War, Afterward to Australia, Then to Africa, and Thence to Portland, . When - Ha Became Member - of Roaenfeld '"Smith Company. ;.'.;. ' Lasams K. Goldsmith, for many years) In business In Portland undsr the name ef Lawrence K. O. Smith, a member of the Roeenfeld-Smlth company, tobacco nists, who has accumulated $1,000,000 . and is now in Mew Tork City, haa been adjudged insane there and the court ' has appointed Morris Sempter and Isaac Goldberg to take charge of hie) affairs. -.. ' . . The life story of Mr. Goldsmith reads like a romance from the pen of a Dumas. Many times he circled the globe. He was In buslnesa on several continents, ' finally amassing a fortune and becom ing one of the heavy owners of the American tobacco trust and the United, , States steel trust. .' " - Thirty-five years sgo Goldsmith cams to Portland. He gathered funds enough -to begin business in a small cigar and candy atore at Front and Stark streets, and his . place was resorted to by the men of ths street of those days. - All of the older residents remember him. He was known ss Lawrence K. Q. Smith, having changed his name when he left hie home in New Tork City 40 years ago. -Off for AastraUa. ' The Incident of his leaving New Tork is one, of the most remarkable In hie -career. ' He went from hie home One' day, tefliog- (1 friends, that A .was go-. Ins to buy-a .book. . Instead he enlisted"" and fought tn 'the Civil war. afterward going te Australia,' where be accumu lated several thousand dollars. - Later he went to Africa, engaging In ' gold mining. Then he returned -to America, coming to Portland to make a j new start, for he had not prosperednn-BIS African ventures. - The .name he took resembled that which he bore by right. fixed to the inquired surname Smith, be ing the same as those of his correct name. Saving money from hla little tobacco and candy buslnesa, he bought en inter est in - the firm now known as the ' Rosenfeld-Smlth company, which was in corporated. Goldsmith s Interest In the Roeenfeld- Bmlth company was sold for $100,000 . some yeare ago, and he returned to the east, falling to make known hie identity ' to hla relative, who had spent a fortune ' In a search whloh had been prosecuted for decades. - - - - ' ' . Becoming a buyer for the American Tobaooo company, he visited every coun try of the world that grows tobaceo. and when the trust was formed was one of tha owners of the Industrial stocks Issued by the combination. - Becomes a Olobe-Tiullei. Partly for business snd party for. pleasure he became a globe-trotter, and. there were few Interesting spots on -the globe to which he did not go. In 1801 L. J. Goldsmith of Portland, not related to him although bearing the same name, -saw him In Paris and heard from hla Hps the story of his wanderings. - - - Comes Book to Bew Tork. ' Lazarus K. Goldsmith's reappearance -In New Tork about a month ago waa as sudden snd unannounced es wag hla strange departure 40 years before. Dis tant relatives first discovered his pres ence in a hotel and went to his brother, Lewis K. Goldsmith, with the news. The brother was incredulous, but went to the piece and to his amsxement found the long-absent man living there,.' It developed that he had been in the . city six months without having made ' any effort te find hie relatives. No less remarkable was the story Lazarus Goldsmith told his brother. He said -that when he-left-the bouse that dsy so long ago to buy a book he was seised with a sudden resolution to go to war, and although the conflict was then nearly at an end, he enlisted and served to the finish, sdoptlng ths nam . of Smith lest- his family shoul-Hs- , cover what be had done and seek to prevent him. - The experience gained In the war gave him a taate for adventure and he went to Australia. ' Comes - to Portland. ' There. 'ao ha told his brother, he en gaged In business, prospered, and ac cumulating eeveral thousand dollars, -wsnt to Africa. Eventually he returned to America and came to Portland. Goldsmith's estate Includes a num ber of pieces of Oregon property, but so far as learned none of great value. One of hM" closest, friends was Theodore Becker of Astoria, who holds his power of attorney, with Instructions to handle -bis property lntereata Matt Foeller. In the cigar bualneaa In the Chamber of Commerce building, was one ef his close , friends.' He said that Goldsmith, or Smith, disposed of his property inter-' ests here before leaving foitland. Frank A. Knapp of Knapp Hai ku v. Chamber of Commerce building. hod a commission to eell two pieces of tim ber Isnd for L. K. O. Smith. One pleca (s 180 acres near Cottage Grove and the other- Is a few. hundred acres on the Sandy river. Lime Left U Oregeau "The test time I saw Smith wss In' Europe In 18(1." said Ms. napp. - met htm there on his second trip around the world. I thin he has but Iim property Intereat left In Oregon. n sold -nearly, everyihlnt when be Uii .JContlnttea oa Page Tw. :-"