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THE OREGON DAILY JOURNAL, PORTLAND, MONDAY . EVENING,; MAY. 24, 1909. ' SILK CULTURE the kind barbers use to protect the clothing of customers in cutting the hair was placed around Schultz's neck and Dorsev thrust a knife into Schultz's throat. The victim groaned and Dorsey gain plunged the knife into the neck. The victim's pockets 'were searched and it was thought best not to take all the money Smith said, so that It would appear that the man was not killed for purposes of robberv. Dorsev. who did ter who lived in Stoux City. Iowa, was touring the years before her father' death she was bis constant companion. 8 he inherited from him - considerate property. ,. t . , -.." .. found in his pocket and led to the Idezi-J iiiication or the body. TALENTED BLIND WOMAN TO WED FACIFIC & EASTEKN GOES AFTER TIMBER IS NOT FOR (Cnlted Prcu Leased Wire.) 8an Francisco. May 24. Miss Hazel Corbett,- the talented blind niece of James J. Corbett and Pitcher Joe Cor bett of the San Francisco team of the coast league, and daughter of the late Harry Corbett, Is to wed Alfred Dewit, wire chief of the Kearney office or the Pacific States Telephone & Tele graph company. While the engagement has not been announced, it is acknowl edged by Miss Corbett. Miss 'Corbett has been blind since birth, but despite this great handicap is a talented pianlste. Is well read and well posted on the affairs of the world. I, the killing, according to Smith, direct (Special Dispatch to The Joanal.l ; Medford. Or.. . May ,14. -Local repre sentatives of J. R. Allen., who recently purchased the Pacific & Eastern rail road, were instructed by wire Stur day afternoon .to. commence the work ot extending the line to the timber belt, a distance of 17 miles, next Monday. The orders were to employ men and at once begin construction work along the line surveyed three years ago. Two miles of rails have been on the ground for many months and gangs of men will begin laying them within the week. ed mat ocnuiu i waicn ds ten in nis pocket, saying: "Damn the watch. I have been pulled twice for a watch." The men separated. Smith said, he go ing to the home of a negress, where he pent the night. Smith's confession of the cold blood ed manner lm which Schults was killed aroused Intense feeling In Alexandria when the negroes were arrested and for a time there were threats of lynching them. Schultz's parents reside in Chicago. He was an artist and had traveled ex tensively. A letter from a married sls- l- . , ft i 'A II Tea Also About ta Be Given Up as Hopeless Tender i i Words of Praise Grace of a Day That Is Dead Lingers Oyer Many an Extinct Industry From Traimedl Norse ELKS' BAND AT ASHLAND, OREGON iERICA America Is taking by storm the world of music. American sing ers are coolly selling ' laurels heretofore considered appurte nant solely to the foreign vocal-. 1st. At the same time, the grand opera market in America la such that there Is & scramble for first rate talent, which can name Its price. It never fails to name It. The growth ot singing so- cletles In the United States and Canada is one of the blessed wonders of today. Much Infor mation regarding all thesw and other tendencies and movements in the muslo world will be dis cussed by Mr. Haskln tomorrow. By FREDERIC i. HASKIN. (Copyright 1909 bv Frederic J. Haskln.) Washington, May 24. The depart ment of agriculture has recently decided to abandon the experiments it has been conducting In Bilk culture and make no further efforts to establish it as an American Industry. It cannot be made a paying industry, it is stated, even if it be put Into the hands of school children and no pay be given for their services. The federal government has spent several hundred thousand dollars experimenting- It not only raised the worms and distributed eggs and litera ls, lure free, but Imported European ex r' perts. established a mill, bought the coooons and, without charge, taught peo ple to reel the silk. It having become evident that Americans could not com pete with Italians working for 10 to 30 cents a day and with Chinese re ceiving four to eight cents a day, con gress stopped appropriations for silk culture a year ago and the agricultural department's plant has been shipped to the Philippines, in the hope of estab lishing an industry there. Few Industries have such a romantic hlHlory as silk culture. Spasmodic at tempts have been made to grow the . silk worm and produce raw si 14c- In the United States ever since the early days of the Jamestown colony, and the num erous revivals of Interest have been in different parts of the country. Benjamin Franklin early became interested In the subject. Ho Mors Vegetable Dyes. This Is not the only industry tried In the United States, only to be aban doned later. One of the most extensive of these" is the vegetable dye indus try. Formerly thousands of Americans were engaged In the Cultivation of var ious plunts, which were used by thou sands of other Americans throughout the land in making dyes. Now there Is practically none or this work being car ried on. Thanks to the discoveries of German chemists, almost any dye can be made artificially from coal tar pro ducts. In early times dyes and Inks were made in every household through out the land, but now their than u fact u re Is confined to a few largo factories, where the synthetic chemist performs wonders which It was once thought na ture alone could perform. A striking illustration of an aban doned American industry Is the cultiva tion of Indigo. The people of South Caro lina entered upon this Industry in 1743. For more than a century It flourished and the Indigo plantations of the south furnished a large proportion of the world's supply of this useful dye. Dur ing the civil war the Carolina indigo Industry was the source of much reve nue to the beleagured Confederate states. The Industry was carried on In a somewhat primitive manner. The Indigo filant is not Dlue in color, as is popu arly supposed, but green, like most other plants. The plants wero cut and put into large vats, to ne covered with water, where they were permitted to ferment. The whole mass was then violently stirred and beaten. This bruised the leaves of the plant, pro motine oxidization, which latter process produced the blue color. The blue pre cipitate was then gathered, the water drained nir and the. Indigo refined and cured ror the market. Indigo Growing X Doomed. How much more up to date seems the process of the synthetic chemist, who can convert unlimited quantities of naphthalene, a coal tar derivative. Into artificial Indigo at less cost than It takes to produce the natural indigo. No wonder that the synthetic process, discovered In 1880. has practlcajly re sulted In transferring the world's indigo market from England to Germany, put ting the American Indigo industry out of business, and threatening the destruc tion of the indigo industry of India, Java and the Philippine islands In the past the greatest sources of supply. Tn 1906 it Is estimated that 80 per cent of the world's supply was artificial indigo, and it makes s good "navy blue" as the natural product. Extra ordinary efforts are being made to save the natural lndtgo Industry. Though the British military authorities have decreed that only the natural product shall be used In dyeing the cloth for their army and navy uniforms, and though the Indian government is sub sidising its Indigo growers, their ef forts appear to be doomed to failure. Madder and Logwood. A generation or two ago the cultiva tion of the madder plant arid the prepa ration from its root of the celebrated red dve was an important Industry In the United States. This dye has been replaced by an artificial substance, called alizarin, which was the first artificial color or aniline dye produced from coal tar. In 1868. Now the culti vation of the madder Is confined to a few Isolated localities. The old purple dye and household Ink supply, extract ed from logwood . and other veget able substances, have been entirely re- Ashland, Or., May 22. The Elks' band of Ashland lodge No. 944 is prominent throughout the state. It Is one of the strongest . musical organization's In the northwest. Leading citizens of the thriving Jack son county town are enrolled upon Its roster. A HAPPY FATHER is soon turned to a fad one If he has to walk the floor every night with a crying baby. McGee's 3aby Elixir will make the child well soothe Its nerves, lrcuce healthy, normal slumber. Best for dis ordered bowels and sour stomach all teething babies need It. Pleasant to take, sure, and safe, contains no harmful drugs. Price, 2Sc end BOe per bottle. Bold bv fiktdmore Drag Co. placed by "factory" colors and writing fluids. At one time millions of dollars were made in California by gathering certain lichens and extracting dyes from them. Now that Industry Is dead. One of the new vegetable coloring substances leit on the market is anato, which la used in tinting butter. Sorghum Wo Good Tor Suffer. Fifty years ago If was believed that the cultivation of sorghum iwould open up an unlimited supply of sugar. Mil lions of dollars were spent In America In experimenting with this native plant of Africa and China. Millions of acres were planted, principally in the west Expensive factories were built to con vert its juice into sugar. The United States government fell a victim to the craze. It took the country 30 years to recover its equilibrium, after it was discovered that sorghum could not be depended upon to make sugar. The sor- ?hum crop has been dwindling steadily or a number of years and nearly all that is raised Is used for cattle feed. riax and Kemp Are Belles. The rise of Klnar Cotton and tha evr present labor problem are chiefly re sponsible for the decline and almost total disappearance of the flax and hemp Industries in this country. In the days of our grandfathers, and even of our fathers, nearly every family raised Its own supply of flax and hemp, which was converted Into clothing, cordage, etc., on the place. Many thousand acres of flax and hemp were cultivated be tween the Atlantic ocean and the Mis sissippi river. Years ago it became apparent that it would be cheaper to Import flax from abroad than to pav high wages to American worklngmen in those indus tries while their foreign competitors were received a few cents a day in Russia, Ireland and other countries. Jute, produced for a few cents a pound In India, Is being widely substituted for hemp. Cotton Is nroduced much cheaper than linen 'and hemp and Is better adapted to modern machine methods of manufacture. At present the cultivation of hemp has practically ceased everywhere except In Kentucky, while only a comparatively few acres of flax are cultivated In Michigan, the Dakotas and one or two other states for seed production. Indian Industries That Failed. Two Important Indian industries have been tried by the white men but not found commercially practicable. The wild rice of Minnesota and Wisconsin feeds 20,000 Indians, but the white man knows it not. In Oregon there are thousands of acres of water lilies cov ering stretches of shallow water and marsh land, from which the Indians ob tain a delectable seed for food. This has been put on the market, hut It has failed to sell. Many native wild berries and fruits, long familiar to the In dians, formerly constituted the bases of more or less extensive industries among the whites, but have long since been abandoned. Such was the fate of the bayberry wax Industry of New England. , lr Tea Industry In Danger. The tea industry In the United States Is said by the, agricultural department to be hanging on by his eyelids, figura tively speakinsr. The romnetftinn nf cheap foreign labor Is endangering Its me, aiinougn tne superior quality of the South Carolina product has so fur saved It. The average wholesale price of tea is 12 cents a pound and the Amer ican producer will have to meet that price in the end unless he gets a pro tective tariir. During the sixties there was an ex tensive peat industry along the Atlantic coast, which has practically been aban doned. At the time It flourished coal mining was at a standstill on account of the war. Now peat is only used lo cally for fuel end fertilizer. There is nn mexnaustlDle supply of this product In bogs and swamps covering many millions of acres. Perhaps the peat industry will bo revived when coal-has become scarce. nothing In Oamsl Raising. In the animal kingdom one of the most Interesting of abandoned American industries is the breeding of camels. Two shiploads of these animals "were im ported by the government under Sec retary of AVar Jefferson Davis in 18BS and 1857 for military uses on the western plains and deserts. The ani mals wero placed In Texas and Cali fornia, but proved of little use. Tha last of them was sold at auction in 1868, though some are said to have run wild. Draft Horses that Have Passed. The breeding of the famous Conestoga draft horse, uned In Pennsvlvania ta naul heavy loads across the mountains before the days of the railroad, was utterly abandoned manv vears ago. To prevent the Morgan horse, the Ideal American carriage strain, from becom ing extinct, the government has re cently begun breeding them In Vermont. Malta milk goats were formerly raised here, but the enterprise has been given up on account of a peculiar disease con tracted by the animals. The breeding of the ermont merino sheep, which had a very wrinkled skin, bearing as much as 61 pounds of wool, has almost ceased. A decade or more ago tha Bel gian hare was extenslvelv bred and millions were Invested in the Industrv. But it Is of no commercial Importance whatever. Beaver Hats and Horse Beef. In the nature of sldo lines In aban doned animal Industries are benver hat making and the horse meat business When the animals became scarce "bea ver" hats were made of silk, and now that material Is preferred. Ten years ago Samuel Kinsman of I.innton," Or., did a thriving trade In horse meat. His product was shipped to Norway and Denmark. He bought animals from the Indians at $2.60 a head, slaughtered I tnem In government-Inspected abattoirs and packed the meat like South Ameri can jOTked betf. In 1900 he slaughtered nnuu norses, nut ror some reason the industry was abandoned in 1903, when 344 hoi sea wore killed. T MEASURES TO BE VOTED ON AT THE COMING CITY ELECTION COMMISSION PIAN OF GOVERNMENT Ponta 'Delgada. with a population of 23.000, Is the largest city In the Azores islands. The climate is verv even, and Kuropean and tropical nlants thrlv' tn perfection. The nroductlveness of the soil Is remarkable. Oranges, lemons, pineapples, figs and numerous other fruits are cultivated with great suc cess. 0 rcgon XES FOUCYHOLDZSS' OOMPAilT Home Office: coxbett BtrxxDnro, Oor. Fifth and Morrison gts. FOBTXAJTD, OBBCrOH A I MILLS. President L. SAMUEL... General Mnnns-or CLARENCE a SAMUEL. Asst. Mgr. life. Is Best for Oreg'onmns Of transcendent Importance among the measures to be voted on at the coming election is the new charter plan. Prop'erly speaking it is not a new charter, because the committee of 16, which prepared the amendments, deemed it best to amend the old charter, but these amendments will be voted on as a whole, and If adopted the effect will be to give Portland practically a new plan of government. The commission Idea Is carried out In Jhe new plan, so named because author ty Is concentrated in the mayor and six councllmen, each councilman being the responsible head of a bureau or de partment of the city government. This system is popularly called the Des Molues plan, because the Iowa city took the lead with It, but several other large cities have lusted the idea, with amendments suiJ to local conditions. Revision of the Des Moines plan was carefully worked out and now comes before the people In the amendments proposed by the committee of 16, which was appointed by authority of the coun cil and consisted of FYe(U'rlck V. Hol- man. John F. Logan, J. P. Kavanaugh, R. W. Montague. O. A. Rltan. T. L. El lot, S. Grutze, Theodore Wilcox, John M. Gearin, Henry R. McGinn, Hen Sell ing, C. II. Chapman, C. M. Ryneison, F. E. Beach and H. II. Newhall. Abolish Ward Councilman. Abolition of tho - election of council men by wards and of .all party names on the ballot Is one of the cardinal features of the plan proposed. Six coun cilmen to be elected from the city at large, after nominations have been made under the primary law, are substituted for the present system of electing councllmen by wards. This Is expected to bring about non-partisan government and obliterate the ward politician, giv ing the councllmen breadth of view, by making them responsible to the whole city Instead of one ward or district. The six bureaus proposed to handle all of the administrative busrhess of the city are designated as the bureaus of public affairs, accounts and finances, public safety, streets and public im provements, parks and public property and water supply. The council Is author ized to apportion the work of the city among these bureaus as It may deem to be best. The mayor is given the power to appoint one councilman to neaa eacn department, and may shift them about according to his best judgment. In this respect the mayor Is the directing head nnd the members of the council are not unlike the members of the president's cabinet, except that thev are elected by the people and removable only by the recall. Means End of Executive Board. This arrangement does away with the executive board, all sections establish ing that hoard and defining its author ity being repealed. The term of the mayor Is left at four years, as at pres ent, and the terms nf the councllmen fixed at four years, three members of the council' going out every second year. At the first election under the new charter the three receiving the highest number of votes will serve four years, the other three serving two years. If adopted at the June election the new charter will go Into effect In July. 1910, and the officers elected next month will hold for only one year, their successors, under the commission plan being elected In June, 110. In the first printed copies of the charter amendments an error was made In sec tion 4o, covering this point, making It necessary to Issue an errata for Inser tion In tho later copies. Thlse having the earlier copies should note this change. The rule that should he applied In the nomination and election of officers un der the new charter Is clearly set forth In section 19. where It Is provided: Abolishes Political Parties. "It Is expressly declared, however, that the object and one of the main ob jects of the provisions herein made for municipal elections is to abolish the choice of municipal officers by political parties, it heljig the Intention to secure the best citizens for the city's service without regard to political partv or sf flliation. and this principle is to b borne constantly in mimi In all proceed ings in city elections. Wherever In the primary or other laws herebv made ap plicable to elections under this charter, there Is any reference to political iarty or parties, the same shall have no appli cation to acts or proceedings hereun der." To carry out this object It Is provided mat candidates snail appear on the bal lot In alphabetical order, petitions shall contain no reference to political par ties, nn candidate need be registered as a member of a political party, no elec tor offering to vote shall be required or permitted to announce his political raitn, and tnere snail do Tin elecwon of party committeemen at city elections. Two Save Chance in Final. As to the primarlf-. any person de siring to become a candidate for city office must file a petition signed bv loo qualified voters. The two candi dates receiving the highest number of votes In the primaries' go on the ballot for the election, except that douhle tho number of councllmen to be elected shall be placed on the ballot, such candidates "being those receiving the highest num ber of votes In the primaries. The elec tive oirtcers are tne same as under the present charter, with the exception of the change In tho number of council men. Running concurrently with the con centration of power in the hands of tho mavor id six councllmen Is the recall, providing the people with a means for removing an unfaithful officer. To In itiate the recall a petition is required signed by voters equalling 25 per cent of the total vote cast for mayor at the preceding election, and setting forth the general grounds upon which the recall Is demanded. Within 10 days after the petition is filed It must he certified to the council as either sufficient or in sufficient, and when found sufficient the council must call a special election in not less than 80 nor more than 40 days. In such an election the incumbent of the office whom it is sought to .recall will be considered a candidate to suc ceed himself without nomination unless he requests otherwise In writing. If he receives the highst vote he remains in office. It not, he la deemed removed from the time the successful candidate qualifies. Salary for Oonncllmen. Salaries of olty officials would be In creased $34,300 in the aggregate by the adoption of the new charter. The In creases give the mayor 6000 Instead of $4800, the mayor's secretary $1800 In stead of $900, the auditor $3600 Instead of $3000, the treasurer $3000 Instead of $2400, the municipal judge $2000 instead of $1800, the clerk of the municipal court $1200 Instead of $900, the city at torney $4800 Instead of $2400, the city engineer $4800 instead of $2400, -and members of the eouneil $6000 Instead of $300. In this connection- two salary lifting amendments submitted by the city coun cil to be voted on Independently, should be noted. One of these authorizes the city council to fix the salary of the city engineer upon recommendation of the executive board, requiring that It shall not be less than $2400, the pres ent figure. It would thus be possible to fix the salary higher than proposed by the new charter, there being no Imitation in the upward direction. The number and salaries of the engineer's deputies Is left to the council under the amendment proposed by the council and the same provision appears In the new charter. Under the present charter the salary of any deputy la Unjlted to $1800. The other salary, amendment sub mitted by the council authorizes the council to fix the salary of the city attorney in any sum from $2400 upward. The present charter fixes the compen sation of -this official at $2400, while the new charter would double his pay. The above outline presents the general features of the plan of government pro posed by the new charter and the sal aries affected, as well as salary amend ments proposed by the council.- In fu ture Issues other features of the com mission plan will be presented, compar ing It with the present charter and with the 19 amendments proposed by the com mittee of Beven appointed by the coun cil. Committee of Beven Conflicts. No comparison with the 19 amend ments proposed by the committee of seven is Involved In a study of the ad ministrative plan herewith presented, as tne committee or seven amendments do not affect the present form of the city government. The commission plan would revolutionise the executive machinery In the direction of nonpartisan govern ment, while the others, If all were adopt ed, would bring about only administra tive or business changes. The commis sion plan must be accepted or rejected as a whole, while the amendments pro posed by the committee of seven are to be voted on separately. It should be remembered that those voting for the commission plan should vote against the amendments submit ted by the committee of seven, which are In the nature of an alternative prop osition. Likewise, those favoring com mittee of seven amendments or a por tion of them cannot consistently vote for the commission plan. 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It is recognized as a family medicine everywhere. i CAUTION When you ask your druggist, grocer or dealer for Duffy's Pure Malt Whiskey, be sure you get the genuine. It's the only absolutely pure medicinal malt whiskey and is sold in sealed bottle-, only; never in bulk. Price $1.00. Look for the trademark, the "Old Chemist," on the label, and make sure the seal over th cork is unbroken. Write Medical Department, Duffy Malt Whiskey Co., Rochester, N. Y, for a free illustrated1 medical booklet and free advice. MURDER CHARGE AGAINST NEGROES Four to I?e Tried at Alexan dria, Va., for Killing Artist Seluiltz. Alexandria, Va.. May 24. -Dick Pines, Jsmcs Dorsey and Calvin Johnson, all colored, will be placed on trial In the corporation court tomorrow on tha charge of having murdered Walter F. Bchult, a Chicago artist. Henry Smith, also colored, and also charged with the murder, will bo given a sep arate trial. The body of Schulti was found near I here on March 8 last. A few days later 1 the police arrested Smith, Pines, Dor- ! soy and Johnson. Smith Is alleged to have made a full i confession of the crime. According to his story SchultB. who was an inau guration visitor to Washington, came to Alexandria while slightly intoxicated and attracted tho attention of three of the negros. who determined to kill and rob him. Smith Foroea to Join th Gang-. Smith said that about 7 o'clock on the evening of March 6 he saw Schultr un a street corner surrounded by Pines, ! Dorsey and o.lhnson and heard Schulti ' say: "My God. don't do me that way." Smith said he approsched the group, and when he inquired what the men ! were doing a platol was poked in his face with a demand by Pines that he Join them. Then one of the negroes threw Schultz's overcoat over the ar tist's head and he was picked up by all four negroes, who started for a lonely field some distance out of the city, where It was the Intention to stab the artist to death and rob him. When they reached! a railroad track Johnson wanted Schults. who had been beaten and cuffed on the way. placed on the track, but objection was raised. Smith said, and the artist was carried to a field olose by. Here Sohultt's coat was taken off, his collar unfastened and his clothing loosened down to his waist Smith said that a cloth similar to In a Pinch, use Allen's Foot-Ease. Ladlns etn war sbos om lis smaller after niing Allen's Foot-Ease. It makes tight or new hot' tr tuny; girea Inatant relief to eorna and bontona. It's tha greatest comfort discov ery of tha age. Coras awollcn feet, bllatera, ealkma and aorw aots. It ta a certain relief for sweating, tired, aoMnf fact. At all drug gtata and aboe atnrea, 26e. Don't accept any aubatttttt. for FRKB trial package, also frea tampl of the rOOT-EASB Sanitary CORN-PAD, a new In Tuition, address Allan S. Olmsted. Ls Bo. . Xf Tr5 TZT If the 'Box Isn't Green It Isn't a PUCK i Did you ever see a 5c cigar ad that talked? They don't. 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