Corvallis gazette., May 26, 1905, Image 3

ALL JO BE
BOWEN-LOOMIS CASE IS UP.
CASH FOR
SECRETS LAID BARE.
MAKING THE WORLD'S HIGHEST BRIDGE.
Congressional Irrigation Commit
tee to Make Toot.
WILL VISIT PORTLAND FAIR, TOO
Cabinet "'Discusses 1f arid"" President
f -Receives Statements.
- Washington, May 19. The principal
subject considered today at the cabinet
meeting was the Loomis-Bowen case.
No definite action was takefi pending
an additional statement from Mr. Bow
en. Just prior to the cabinet meeting,
Jose Paul, a representative of Venezu
ela in this country, called at the White
bouse and had a talk with the presi
dent regarding the case. It is said that
Mr. Paul is familiar with the transac
tioDB involving the exchange of a check
by Mr. Loom is with the Asphalt com
pany at the time the fOrmerwas United
States minister at Caracas.
During the cabinet meeting Mr. Bow-
en called at the White house, and,
ai v. a 1. t - . .. A
wasnington, may vm uuuc . rar , , , ,
party ot au, composea 01 me eeuate uu cated the presence at the executive
-house comittees on irrigation, with offices of Senor Pastro y Mora, a friend
their wives, will leave Kansas City on of Mr. Bowen, who the minister desired
tour of the West, which will include should talk with the president and Mr
'visits to most of the irrigation projects
Distinguished Party Starts June
See Government Irrigation
Work in West. .
I to I
where government work is now under
-way, as well as the principal cities of
the West. Not all members of these
committees, but a majority of each,
-will make the trip.
As heretofore stated the trip ia made
for the purpose of giving senators and
ier esenta'.ives an opportunity to see
what progress the government is mak
ing under the National irrigation law,
passed only three years ago. It is con
ceded that the law will eventually need
some revision, but until it has been
tried and its weak points have been
iound, congress has been loth to make
amendments. The trip this summer
will be an object lesson to the senators
and representatives of the party, and
will enable them to discuss more intel
ligently than before all questions affect
ing national irrigation. .
' Aside from visiting the various irri
gation projects now under construction,
the congressional party will spend two
-days, June 23 and 24, at the Lewis and
Clark exposition and in Portland; will
"Spend June 25, Sunday, in Tacoma and
Seattle ; will put in half a day at Boise,
day in San Francisco, another at Salt
.Lake City, and wind up at Denver on
"the Fourth of July.
On June 17, the third anniversary of
the signing of the National reclamation
.act, the party will be at Hazen, Nev
at which time the water will be turned
upon 50,000 acres of land under the
Truckee-Carson project, the first large
irrigation project to be put into opera
tion by the government. Leaving Ne
"vada, short stopB will be made at
'Ogden, Salt Laxe and numerous points
in Oregon, Washington, Idaho, 'Mon
tana, Wyoming and Colorado.
51,000,000 m Aside lor! Gov
ernment Irrigation Canal.
NO DFLAY IN ITS CONSTRUCTION
Last Obstacle to Project Removed by
Purchase of-Private Works
Will Cost $4,400,000.
Taft. Soon after Senor Mora had a
conference with the president and Mr.
Taft, lasting some time. Senor Mora
did not disclose the details of the inter
view, but it is known that, having at
one time been connected with the as
phalt company in Caracas, he was en
abled to throw some light on the pres
ent.situation. When Mr. Taft left the
White house he said that no determ
ination of the case had been reached,
and none would be until all the facts
from both sides had been developed.
He indicated this might take several
days. .
Mr. Bowen today filed with Mr. Taft
his statement in reply to Assistant Sec
retary Loomis' charges and also bearing
on the charges against Mr. Loomis
which he transmitted to the officials
here.
SHOULD OBEY ALL LAWS.
NO MORE LIEU SELECTIONS.
Hitchcock Holds Law Means What It
- Says May Be Amended
Washington, May 20. Secretary
Hitchcock, in a circular issued today to
registers and receivers of local land
offices, holds that congress meant what
it said when, by the act of March 3,
1905, it absolutely repealed the lieu
land law. With the exception of own
ers of certain lands in the San Francis
o and Grand Canyon reserves in Ari
zona and the Santa Barbara reserve,
California, who are specifically provid-
& for by a special act, the secretary
holds that all right to make lieu selec
tions expired March 3 last and local
iand oihcers are advised that they are
without authority to accept relinquish'
stents of lands within forest
after that date and allow the selection
of other lands in exchange therefor
The secretary says, however, thatj all
lieu selections made prior to ar-d pend
ing for adjudication on March 3, ' 1905,
may be perfected and patented and, if
in the adjudication of any selection
then pending, the same should be held
invalid for any reason not the ' fault of
the party making the same, another se
lection for a like quantity of land may
be made in lieu thereof.
Governor - Folk Says Law-Breaking
Leads to Anarchy.
St. Louis, May 19. Governor Folk
of Missouri, addressing the General
Baptist convention tonight, said:
' Missouri has an idea that means
the enforcement of law. Laws that are
not enforced add just as much to the
support of good government as sores do
to the strength of the human body
Law breaking has become alarmingly
common. It is one of the greatest
dangers that confront free government.
Many men obey the laws they like, but
think they have a political liberty to
disobey the laws that are obnoxious to
them:
The trust magnate looks with "ab-
horence on the pickpocket who violates
the larceny statute, but considers it
entirely right to break the laws against
combinations and monopolies. The
boodler detests the law breaking of the
trusts but considers the law against
bribery as an infringement on his per
sonal liberty. The dramshop keeper
regards the law against murder as good,
but the law against operating his dram
shop on Sunday, is, in his opinion,
Puritanical and typrannical.
If each citizen were allowed to de
termine for himself which lawsare
good and which laws are bad, to ignore
the laws he considered bad, the result
would be anarchy we would have no
laws at all. The only safe rule is that,
if the law is on the statute books, it
must be observed.
"There has been too much of making
laws to please the moral element and
then not enforcing them to please the
immoral element."
Washington, May 18. The govern
ment is going to build the Klamath ir
rigation project, which will ultimate
ly reclaim 236,400 acres of land in
Klamath basin, in Oregon and Cali
fornia. The project will cost $4,400,
000. Secretary Hitchcock today form
ally approved the project drawn up by
the reclamation engineers, who have
been at work for the past year. He
also set apart from ' the reclamation
fund $1,000,000 to be used in com
mencing construction. There is . not
enough money in the reclamation fund
at this time to pay for the entire Kla
math project, but the money today
made available will defray all expendi
tures that need be made immediately.
There is no question that there will be
ample funds as they are needed.
The adoption of the Klamath project
was assured when Secretary Hitchcock
accepted the offer of the Klamath 6anal
company to sell its canals and works to
the government for $150,000, in ac
cordance with its recent offer. There'
had been considerable doubt whether
the secretary would - pay this price,
since it is known that these canals can
not be utilized by the government, but
the secretary concluded it would be
heaper to buy out this company at its
lastest figure than to enter upon a long
suit in the courts, which would con
sume much time as well as money.
Chief Engineer Newell, of the Recla
mation service, has been instructed to
take steps looking to early construction
of this project. But before construc
tion work is begun, he will complete
all purchases that have been authoriz
ed, so there will be no further question
as to the absolute right of the govern
ment to go ahead with its work. It is
the expectation of the reclamation offi-
GOVERNMENV CHIMES HERE
Reconnoiter by Photograph.
St. Petersburg, May 20. A recently
invented apparatus for telegraphing
panoramas of wide stretches of country
by means of a camera suspended from a
Bells Will Furnish Quaint Music from
High Exposition Tower. -
Portland, May 19. Chimes for the
government tower at the Lewis and
Clark exposition arrived in the city
reaeryeB ygterday from Cincinnati. They occu-
pied two cars which were at once
switched to the peninsula spur for un
loading. Today they will be raised in
to place in the east dome, 260 feet
above the earth.
These chimes will furnish quaint
music during the exposition. When
President Roosevelt turns an electric
key at Washington on the first of the
month the effect will be to set these
chimes to tolling out the inspiring
notes of ' America. As it is neces
sary to have the chimes in place for
this important ceremony they will be
adjusted immediately. -
Federal Grand Jury Knows All About
' Beef Trust Methods.
Chicago, May 17. Members of the
federal grand jury investigating the
business affairs of the beef packing in
dustries today learned all the details of
the manner in which officials of the
Aetna Trading company kept their
books. This company, it is said, was
the means by which the packers form
ing the beef trust transacted their sec
ret business.
National Bank Examiner Starteck,
who for nearly two months has been
studying the books found in the six
trunks taken from the First National
bank building safety vaults, has com
pleted his task, and was before the in
quisitors today. He will continue his
testimony tomorrow.
Through these books found in trunks
it is asserted that the secret system of
the Aetna Trading company has been
revealed, and all persons, connected
with the operation of the company are
known.
Mrs. Richard Howes, wife of the
manager of the casing department of
Swift & Co., and Mrs. Irving A. Vant,
wife of the assistant treasurer for the
same Concern, were today placed under
$10,000 bonds each to insure their pres
ence in Chicago as witnesses in the
event that indictments are returned by
the Federal grand jury. - ,
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LARGE FORTUNE FOR CITY.
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New York $27,000,000 Richer
Franchise lax Law. Stands.
New York, May ,17. Twenty-six
million dollars will be contributed to
the tax fund of Greater New York if
the decision from the United States
Supreme court of the franchise tax law
should be favorable to the city.
In the hope of a victory for the city,
Controller Grout has for the last three
days had his office buBy preparing a
complete tabulation of all the taxes due
the city under the franchise law, to
gether with interest since the law went
into effect in 1900. This is the first
tabulation made for three years, and
the totals staggered the city officials,
far surpassing the expectations even of
Controller Grout.
For Manhattan alone the amount due
AN ENGINEERING FEAT AT THE VICTORIA FALLS.
The bridge which Is being constructed across the Zambesi to carrr
the Cape to Cairo Railway northwards, will cross the gorge Immediately be
low the famous falls at a height of 400 feet above the water level. The clear
span of the arch will be 500 feet In length, the bridge being built out from
each end of the ravine on the cantilever principle to meet in the mirMlo
For the transportation of material a cable wav abont (too ff in
been provided. It is capable of carrying ten tons, and Is worked by electric
ity. The Illustration shows the construction of the piers on one of the
banks of the river, with the aerial car at work.
ub nx uu. - ifl fl7 904,700, which includes $2,880
several units, that is to say, one storage nn . . . . . ' .
system will be completed and water
turned onto land lying under its canals
before work is begun on the next stor
age reservoir. The lay of the land and
the source of water is such that this
plan can be followed. After making
the preliminary purchases, there will
be $500,000 left for actual construction,
probably enough to finish one unit.
Approximately 45 per cent of the
land to be reclaimed is still vacant.
The owners of the remaining 55 per
cent have already signed agreements
and agreed to pay for their water right
at - the price fixed by the government
which will be $18.60 per acre.
200 interest on the unpaid taxes.
From all the boroughs the total amount
due from taxes alone, without any cal
culation tor interest or penalties, is
$22,141,763. To this sum there is to
be added about $3,500,000 interest,
and at least another million for penal
ties which'will drive the total to $27,-
000,000. These figures bring the
amounts due to June 1 next.
As soon as the decision is rendered
the controller will take steps to collect
the money, if it be favorable to the
city. The money will then be devoted
to redemption of revenue bonds.
DEFENDS ARMOUR CARS.
HE ATTACKS CANAL BOARD.
Railroads Accused of Breaking Law
Topeka, Kan., May 19. Upon re
kite has been acquired by the war office quest of the Interstate Commerce com
end experiments and trials have been ission, United States District Attorney
conducted in St. Petersburg for several Dean has filed suits in the Federal
weeks with such success that the gen
eral staff expects important results
irom its new panoramagraph squad in
discovering positions and movements.
The apparatus is said to be capable of
photographing an area ot 3U square
miles.
No Russian Ships Intrude.
Tokio, May 20. In reply to the rep
Tesentations of the Japanese govern
ment, the French government has noti
fied the authorities here that Admiral
de Jonquieres reported that he had
cruised along the coast of' Annam, May
court here charging railroads with vio
lation of Federal statutes. , The Mis
souri Pacific is charged in three in
stances with' not complying with the
law requiring safety appliances.- A
similar suit is brought againstthe Iron
Mountain lailroad. The St. Louis &
San Francisco railroad is charged with
keeping cattle on the road for more than
24 hours-without food or water.
Grosvenor Says Policy is Contrary to
- Protective Theory.
Washington, May 18. The high pro
tective tariff Republicans in the city
are denouncing the action of the- Isth
mian Canal commission in adopting a
policy of buying supplies for the canal
in the markets of .the world. All but
Representative Grosvenor, of Ohio, de
cline to be quoted. The Ohian, a
member of the house ways and means
committee at the time of the framing of
the- McKinley and Dingley tariff laws,
today, in discussing the new policy,
said:
"We have built up the policy of pro
tective tariff in this country on the
basis of higher prices. These prices
were higher, because we paid our labor
better wages. People have been more
cognizant every year of the benefits of
that policy, and understand the reason
for higher prices. The country would
rather pay a little more for 'something
that was made at home, furnished work
for home folk, and gave them better
pay than their more unfortunate neigh
bors abroad enjoyed."
Canadian Builds New Branch.
Vancouver, B. C, May 18. It was
announced today that the Canadian
Pacific Railway company has let a con
tract tor the construction of a line of
railway from Nicola to Spence's Bridge,
distance of 40 miles. While the
present contract calls for only 40 miles
of railway, it is stated that the inten
tion is that this line will ultimately
run through the Similkameen and on
to the boundary country. In the mean
time the new branch will give the peo
ple of Nicola;an outlet, with direct
connection with the coast.
Oscar Will Resume Reins.
Christiana, Norway, May 19. The
Dagblatt expresses the belief that King
Oscar will resume the reins of govern'
13 and 14, for the purpose of ordering ment on June 1. This is regarded as a
the Russian ships to leave the coast semi-official intimation, and, if it turns
should he find any in French waters.
The admiral, it is added, did not find
any Russian vessels between Cape St.
James and Turan.
Military Attaches Going to War.
Washington, May 20. Brigadier
General Thomas H. Garry,' Colonel
John R. Vanoff, of the Medical depart
ment, and Captain Sidney A. Cloman,
of-the general staff, in this city, will
out to be correct, it . means probably
that King Oscar intends to sanction the
Norwegian consular bill, thus assuming
direct responsibility for an act calculat
ed to irritate his Swedish subjects rath
er than leave the responsibility .on the
shoulders of the crown prince regent.
Japan May Buy Argentine Ships.
St. Petersburg, May 19. The Rusky
Slovo declares that Russia having fail
proceed to St. Petersburg and report to ed to complete the negotiations for the
the United States ambassador prelim- purchase of the Argentine warships, an
inary to their joining the Russian army intermediary has now arrived in Paris
in Manchuria as military attaches. iand is negotiating their sale to Japan.
Robbins Denies They Deal in Produce
or Get Rebates.
' Washington, May 17. William E.
Ripley, professor of economics in Harv
ard university, was before the senate
committee on interstate commerce to
day. He said that under existing laws
there was nothing to prevent discrim
ination between localities and commo
dities. He favored giving the Inter
state commerce Commission power to
fix rates.
George B. Robbins, of Chicago, pres
ident of the Armour Line company,
and a director of the Armour company,
explained in detail the business of re
frigerator cars. He asserted that these
car lines were not engaged in interstate
commerce. The agitation tending to
ward the confiscation of private cars
had deterred his company from in
creasing its facilities.
The Armour car lines did not now
deal in produce, he suggested, having
discontinued that phase of trade m
May, 1904, save to a limited extent in
butter, eggs and poultry. He denied
any "community of interests" between
the railroads and the Armour car lines.
The witness denied that the cars were
used to secure rebates.
Testimony Against Paper Trust.
Milwaukee, May 18. Special Exam
iner Taylor, appointed by the united
States Circuit court of Minnesota, be
gan the taking of testimony today in
the case instituted by the government
in behalf of petitioners against the
Quartermaster's Safe Robbed.
Miasotila, Mont., May 17. Klide
Adams, a colored private soldier, is a
fugetive from justice and accused of
robbing the quartermaster's safe at
Fort Missoula of $1,300. The "soldier
had been on guard all day and asked
for the key from the quartermaster,
saying he wanted to clean up the room.
The man cleaned up the room and re
turned the key. He did not answer to
roll call this morning and an investiga
tion- showed that the combination on
the safe had been worked and $500 in
cash and $800 in checks stolen.
Leper Worked in Gardens
New Westminster, B. C, May 17.
There is considerable talk in this city
of having a restriction put on the sale
General Paper c impany on the ground of strawberriearaised in : the district
that, it ia a trnnt. Th r 25 rmr between Port Hammond and New West-
paper
companies involved m the suit with
the General Paper company; The ex
amination of witnesses is expected to
continue for a week. - ,
Land Selections Approved. '
Butte, May 18. A Miner special
from Washington says that Secretary
Hitchcock today approved the Northern
Pacific railway land selections, as fol
lows: 125,19 acres in Bozeman, Helena
districts, Montana, and 30,833 acres in
North. .Yakima, Spokane, Waterville
arid Walla Wftlla districts. -
minster Junction, owing to the death
of a Chinaman a week ago from leprosy
in that district.. The Chinaman with
the dread disease worked all last year
and the previous year in various straw
berry gardens along the Canadian Pa
cific railway
General Davis Home from Panama.
New York, May 17. -Major General
W. Davis, the retiring governor of the
canal zone, accompanied by his two
daughters, arrived tonight on the
steamer Alliance f roirr Panama.--
Do you know
what you will do,
or should do, one
of these days 7
Away over yon
der, where the
hills meet the sky
in a purple haze,
the trees are
greening and do
ing their best to
burst every bud;
the pussy willows
are preparing for
the coming of the
catbird, and' the
;roaking of the frogs and the smell of
new earth is a call of "the wild as loud
as trumpet blast Follow the scent
like a hound and at the end you will
find a creek that has Its source In a
swamp and trickles Its merry and tor
tuous way to the river.
Don't you wish you could turn time
back for thirty or more years; back to
the days of patches and bare legs,
laughter, freckles and atone bruises;
back where there was only one care in
the world, and that was to be on hand
at meals?
Ton cannot You didn't appreciate
your own boyhood. You are a slave to
business, You are chained to a desk.
You have to make profits. You eat
and talk and sleep business. You -talk
it at home until the folks are annoyed.
The other day one of your children
asked: "Was papa ever a little boy?".
Let's steal a day. Even a slave
should be allowed to drop his chains
once in a while. Certainly an over
worked business man, carrying a load
that rounds his shoulders and grays bis
hair, can flee from trouble for a little
while and try to think that -he is 12,
and that there is only sunshine in the
world.
To-morrow morning, early, come
over and throw a stone up against the
window. We will pack
up some lunch and steal
away for One whole,
golden day.. Never mind
the family breakfast
Come at 4 a, mM and
we'll leave a note saying
that we have been sud
denly called away and
that the folks are "not
to worry.
Get the spade. There is a bully cor
ner for bait in the bacx yard. We will
dig a canful of the wriggling worms,
hide the spade and the evidence of our
crime, and then away Into the country
We'll cut alder poles and, with trem
bling fingers that have all but lost
their skill in the lapse of years, ar
range our tackle, find a deep, dark pool,
burn tobacco In our corncob pipes, and
fish. - '. .-'
You'll wonder what they are doing
at the office and what there was In the
morning paper. Cut that out There
isn't any office. " We are boys to-day,
You have a catfish and I'm trembling
because my bobber has gone under
water and something is pulling like
whale. It's a bullhead. We will dress
It and aom'e-more like It rub them with
salt,- cook them on a stick and eat
them, bones and all. Yes. sir, bones
and all. You don't mean to say that
you never did? Well, you have missed
a lot We will fish a bit, and after that
you may shout if you like.
A country boy yells Just for pure
joy of living. It will do us good. How
good the sun feels! There Is a squir
rel on the fence, and a boy is driving:
cows down the road, whistling as mer
rily as a bobolink. Poor devil! He
doesn't know that Steel common is
paying no dividend and that cotton is a
loss. He doesn't care, but he can spell
h-a-p-p-l-n-e-s-s, God bless him!
The smoke from our fire smells good.
If we had a spade we would dig out
a woodchuck. There is sassafras 1b
the woods and the young wintergreena
are ready for eating.
Over at the farmhouse we will get
rich milk, doughnuts, saltrlsing bread
and russet apples.
And then the sun will go down over
the hills, while the
shadows will pur
ple and then grow
black, and the
country will grow
still and the alienee
will seem almost
s a c r e d, as we
trudge down, the
road back to the
other life, the trou
ble, the hurry and
the cares' of a great
city.
Never mind. It Is a part of the great
plan, and the man who has kept his
heart so free that he can still love the
soli, the trees, the sunshine and the
Joys that nature has bestowed, la
worth while.
So. don't forget 4 a. m. Throw a
stone against the window, and. we'll
steal a day. Cincinnati Post
DISCOURAGING A HEN.
The propensity of some hens to sit,
m season or out, on eggs, stones, door
knobs or anything; that comes handy,
is one of the most grievous afflictions .
of the poultry i keeper. In his interest
Is reprinted the description of a "sun
cure" discovered by a correspondent
of the Chicago Chronicle in Lesueur.
Minn.
The cure consists of a cheap watch
that ticks loudly and cleanly, ; and Is
enclosed In a white, egg-shaped case.
When a hen manifests a desire to sit
at the wrong time, the poultryman
gently places under her this bogus egg.
and the egg does the rest
Cheerfully it ticks away., The hen
soon begins to show signs of uneasi
ness. She stirs fhe noisy egg with her
bill, thinking perhaps that it is already
time for it to hatch, and the chicken
in it wants to get out She grows more
and more nervous as the noise keeps
on, and finally she jumps off the nest
and runs round a while, to get cool.
Generally she returns to her self-
imposed duty; but things get worse and
worse with her. She wriggles about
and cackles, ruffles her feathers and
looks wild, until at last, with a fren
zied squawk, she abandons the nest
for good and alL The fever of Incu
bation Is broken up completely.
The Lesueur poultryman declares
that he has never found a hen that
could stand the strain of the conversa
tional egg for more than three hours.
In much less time than that as a rule,
the hen Is ready to return to her legltfc
mate business.