Railway Bridge Across Crooked River
Central Oregon
Science Battling Against Science
“T he science of m urder”—rather
an ominous title. Yet its true sig
nificance is just now bursting upon
the scientific and crim inal world. It
is the new menace that m ust be met
by the most astute minds of our
era; it has even now attained an ex
tent of activity that is appalling, and
has caused police officials in the
large cities to call into conference
the best scientific talent they can
find. The chemical laboratory has
heretofore been the agent of peace
officers in detecting the m anner of
a m an’s death. But here comes a
death that leaves no trace whatever.
Men pass away in m ortal agony, and
the explanation of the cause is in no
way determ inable. Men die in the
family home surrounded by the house
hold. and the word goes out that
death resulted from natural causes.
The patient had contracted typhoid
from drinking impure water, and the
order of the health departm ent goes
out that the wells of the city must
be cleaned and the city w ater be
subjected to a scientific test to deter
mine the origin of the trouble. But
the other m em bers of the family be
gin to drop off from the same dis
ease. and at last it becomes apparent
that the estate is to be settled upon
the only surviving heir. Typhoid
fever was the cause of death.
Men are stealing the typhoid germ ;
men are buying the typhoid germ ;
men are using the typhoid germ to
accomplish their ends. W hy? Be
cause it leaves no trace behind it.
This bridge is one of the high bridges of the world, being 320 feet
above the river—100 feet higher than the dome of the M innesota State
Capitol. The Crooked River is a small stream draining a large area of
the great Central O regon plateau. This point is about fifteen miles from
its confluence with the wonderful Deschutes River. The illustration is
an exceptionally good one as depicting the difficulties encountered by
the great railroads in opening up new territory in the N orthw est, and
stands as a m onum ent to m odern engineering.
The Panama Canal Dispute
Q uestion of E xem ption of C oastw ise V essels From Tolls A rouses C onsiderable
Interest on Both Sides the W ater
As the time approaches for the
opening up of the Panam a Canal the
question of exem ption of coastwise
vessels from canal tolls is becoming
m ore and m ore a m atter of agita
tion. T he British governm ent, rely
ing upon what it considers its treaty
rights, is m aking a strong protest
against such exem ption, and there
are statesm en in this country who
recognize and support her claim to
a hearing in this particular.
in an official letter to this govern
m ent by Sir Edward Grey, British
m inister of foreign affairs, the posi
tion of the English governm ent is
clearly and courteously set forth. The
docum ent is w ritten m anifestly in a
friendly spirit, yet contains the en
tire spirit of E ngland’s objections to
the Panam a Act. Mr. Grey claims
that the Clayton-Buhver treaty of
1850 was an agreem ent between Great
Britain and the U nited States that
neither of them would independently
build or operate the Panam a Canal;
that Great Britain agreed to the sub
stitution of the H ay-Pauncefote treaty
for the Clayton-Bulwer treaty on the
distinct understanding that the ships
of all nations, including the United
States, should be treated on equal
term s; that the exemption of A m eri
can coastwise vessels from tolls is
not treating all nations on equal
term s, because it m akes other na
tions pay m ore than their share of
the expense of operating the canal,
and because he fears that under the
guise of coastwise* traffic the United
States ship owners will endeavor to
carry on foreign com m erce. If the
Congress of the U nited States d e
cides not to repeal the section ad
m itting Am erican coastwuse vessels
tf the canal free, he urgently ex
presses the hope that the question
may be subm itted to arbitration.
The exem ption of legitim ate coast
wise trade from canal tolls is no
discrim ination against foreign com
merce. If there is the slightest dan
ger of American foreign com m erce
m asquerading under the guise of
coastwise com m erce our own Con
gress should look to the m atter at
once. And if the m atter m ust be
subm itted to arbitration the United
States must keep a w'eather eye out
to see that she gets an im partial
arbitration board. Mr. Grey does not
suggest the personnel of that board,
and it is difficult to see just how a
board could be assembled. N ot a
civilized country on the globe but
has a vital interest in this canal. It
is a safe proposition that if the
British governm ent finds discrim ina
tion against it in the exemption of
American coastwise com m erce, so
does every m aritim e nation on the
globe Then whence will come our
arbitration board? T he inland coun
tries are few, and some of them we
would be reluctant to accept as arbi
ters.
President T aft has declared him
self in favor of arbitration. “I am
willing, and indeed I would be
asham ed not to be willing,” he said,
“to arbitrate any question with Great
Britain in the construction of a treaty
when we reach the exact issue which
there is between the two nations.
T here need not be any public doubt
on that subject so far as this adm in
istration is concerned. W hen there
is a difference that cannot be recon
ciled by international negotiation and
adjustm ent then we are entirely w ill
ing to submit it to an im partial tri
bunal.”
Congress is divided oji the ques
tion. Senator Bacon in a statem ent
based on President T aft’s announce
m ent suggested that the United
States, if it subm itted to arbitration,
could properly ask for a special tri
bunal so constituted as to insure us
im partial judgm ent. Senator Burton
said he did not see how' w’e could
honorably refuse arbitration, such a
course being the supreme test of our
faith in arbitration. Senator T ow ns
end. m em ber of the canal com m it
tee, said: “W e m ight as well aban
don the M onroe doctrine as to sub
m it this question to arbitration. I
am inclined to prefer the reconsidera
tion of the canal legislation ” O thers
are found equally positive on one
side or the other.
Casting Out Devils.
A 200-pound football player was
earning a part of his college ex
penses by preaching every Sunday
in a small village not far away. At
a certain evening service three bois
terous youths in a rear pew were
seriously disturbing the religious a t
m osphere The young pastor paused
abruptly and rem arked:
“T he day of m iracles is said to be
past. I do not pretend to he able to
work m iracles, but I can cast out
devils.”
And he proceeded to do so, to the
great satisfaction of the congregation.
—C ountry Gentleman.
N ot Needed.
W hile a traveling man was wait
ing for an opportunity to show his
samples to a m erchant in a little
backwoods town in Missouri, a cus
tom er came in and bought a couple
of nightshirts. A fterw ard a long,
lank lum berm an, with his trousers
stuffed into his boots, said to the
m erchant:
“W hat was them 'ere that feller
got?”
“N ightshirts. Can I sell you one or
tw o ? ”
“Naup. I reckon not,” said the
M issourian. “ I don’t set round much
o’ nights.”—Country Gentleman
In a recent conference in the cor
oner's office in Chicago m urder as
a science which has leaped in great
bounds ahead of organized efforts
tow ard detection of such crim e was
pictured to county officials by crim
inologists arguing need of a “science
bureau.”
Scientific killing of human beings
in m anners alm ost im possible of de
tection were described to the amazed
officials by Professor W alter S.
Haines, whose chem istry has for
years com batted the poison murderer.
He told of the modern m urderer's
having found in the scientist’s ba
cillus a weapon equally deadly with
the knife, the gun and the ordinary
poison w ithout the telltale traces of
the deed. His hearers shuddered at
his vivid portrayal of present day
m urders under cover of science. He
was backed up by Dr. Ludwig Hek-
toen, another authority.
Dr. H ektoen and Professor Haines,
with others, com prise an advisory
board that the coroner has taken
unto himself, and each of the ex
perts has volunteered his services.
T hey propose to act as a consulting
staff for the new' science bureau,
which will fight m urder along the
same expert lines followed by m ur
derers.
H arry Olson, chief justice of the
Municipal Court, who is also a m em
ber of the coroner's advisory board,
offered a little sensation of his own
in the inform ation that crim inals are
actually in the m arket today for these
deadly bacilli produced by scientists.
“Of late I have heard of different
instances where suspicious characters
have attem pted the purchase of ty
phoid germ s,” the judge told the
county com m issioners. “W hat did
they w ant with them, and if those
germ s were used with m urderous in
tent w hat means have we of detect
ing the guilty ones? I adm it that it
offers a difficult problem in any
event, but we m ust equip ourselves
in so far as possible to fight such
crim es.”
It was just along that line that
Professor Haines painted his w onder
ful word picture of the modern m ur
der with its “sure death” and “im
possible of detection” features. He
took for example the typhoid germ.
T he m urderous dagger and death
dealing arsenic were shown as w eap
ons abandoned in favor of the safer
capsule loaded writh the life destroyer
that w'orks slowly but surely. Steal
thy “doctoring” of foodstuffs was
pictured as the m ethod supplanting
the old-tim e w aylaying of victims.
Then the already shivering county
com m issioners were introduced to
the secrets of the horrible “cobra
death.” of which science yet know's
but little They learned how man
m ight die in a few m inutes of ex
cruciating agony and leave not a
single explanation of his death.
“It is just such deaths that science
today m ust com bat if the rapidly
progressing scientific m urderer is to
m eet with any opposition from law,”
said Professor H aines, in the course
of his trip through wonderland for
the county executives.
“The cobra death, as it has been
called, can be inflicted upon a per
son w ithout his know ing it. The
cobra dipped pin can convey sure
death, and a horrible one at that,
with the slightest scratch—a scratch
alm ost so slight one w'otild not no
tice it.
“Post m ortem s as they are con
ducted today will show absolutely
nothing as to the cause of the death.
Science is just entering upon that
field which will bring about possi
bility of detection of the cobra death.”
H alf of the deaths that come to
the attention of the coroner’s office
require scientific explanation, accord
ing to the statem ent of Coroner
Hoffm an, who summed up the argu
m ents before Mr. M cCormick and
his colleagues.
“In the absence of chem ists and
the necessary apparatus for the sci
entific investigation those unsolved
deaths go down on records as un
known cause’ cases, and the crim inals
today are m aking capital of our in
ability to ferret out guilt,” said the
coroner.
“It does not seem possible, but
nevertheless it has been figured that
crime is operated on a higher per
cent success basis than is the legiti
m ate business of the nation. T hey
actually figure that a larger per
centage are successful in crime than
in commercial ventures.”
Investigating the M oney Trust
Congressional Committee Brings Out Facts Regarding Control Over Money by Small Coterie of Men
D espite the assertions of Mr. J. institutions of the country, thus giv
Pierpont M organ to the contrary, ing the pow er of control to the small
of men. Yet Mr. M organ de
the Am erican people will be slow to coterie
clared em phatically that a money
believe that there does not now ex- trust does not exist and is a m atter
isf som ething in this country which, impossible of realization. Yet the
if it is not in reality a money trust, man who, w ith his associates, can
25 times as much m oney as
is at least an alarm ingly strong or control
national debt comes about as
ganization that has within its power the
near being at the head of a great
the control of the m oney of the en money trust as one cares to see.
tire country. The recent investiga A few of the papers of the coun
tions into the so-called money trust try have taken Mr. M organ’s word
have revealed several potent facts, for it and agree that there is not a
and in addition have been rem ark money trust. But here comes a man
ably free from sensationalism . It is who has been crushed by it and states
a significant condition of affairs that that there is; here comes another
m akes possible the control by a group who says he can prove that the panic
of 25 or 30 men a sum of money ( of 1007 was caused by it, being noth
equal to 25 times the national debt. ing else than a m anufactured panic
Yet such a condition exists, and to further the interests of the
Mr. M organ and his coterie of finan moneyed men. The New York Globe
ciers actually have at their command ! says: “O nly in a restricted and
$25,000,000,000 through a system o f 1 qualified sense can there be such a
banks established upon their own thing as a m oney trust. A group at
personal reputations for honesty and a particular time may gain control
of the m achinery of credit and ap
fair dealing.
It is safe to say that the peer of pear to be able to dictate in an arbi
all financiers of today is Mr. Morgan trary way who may borrow'. But
In his testim ony before the congres the process cannot go far without
sional com m ittee Mr. M organ very inviting self destruction. In the first
frankly adm itted his power to make place, speaking generally, the control
or break men by granting or refus over funds of particular institutions
ing loans at critical times. He also is revocable at the will of millions
adm itted the system of interlocking of depositors.” This seem s to be
of directorships in the large financial the only thing that can really and
effectively prevent a perfect control lead to reform s that will m aterially
rem edy the conditions that are caus
of the nation’s money.
A smile of cynicism has come from ing increasingly greater unrest each
England over the statem ent of Mr. year. There is undoubtedly a money
Morgan. One broker high in the trust, an,d W all Street is its instru
financial affairs of London states ment. N aturally the stock exchange
that he likes to see a man show that comes in here for its share of de
he has the means and the ability to nunciation. For this instrum ent of
carry out his schemes before he loans high financiering is responsible for
him money. He voices the sentim ent an inflation in the price of com m odi
am ong bankers on the other side of, ties that am ounts to several hundred
the w ater to the effect that a m an’s per cent. It is no m ore nor less
personal character will not go far than a gam bling institution compared
toward the securing of money unless with which the Louisiana lottery was
he can show som ething else besides. clean and white. The New York
This statem ent was evinced by the W orld concisely states the truth
testim ony of Mr. M organ that he about the Stock Exchange when it
had once loaned a penniless man says: “T here are three m onum ental
$1,000,000 because he believed in his facts relating to the Stock Exchange-
personal integrity. W hile it is un that ought not to be fact sixty days
doubtedly true that the moral risk from now. These are, first, it is not
is taken into consideration in the incorporated; second, it is perm itted
m aking of loans, the public in gen by law to practice usury; third, it is
eral well knows that m any an honest the only place in New' York where
man ha^ gone to the wall because he gambling contracts are enforcible by
did’ not have the good fortune to law.”
possess real estate, goods or chattels If the investigations will so rouse
to put up as security for the money the people that they will dem and a
he needed to tide him over a period closing of the Stock Exchange ex
cept for legitim ate purposes and un-
of depression.
Tint the investigations into the sys dei governm ent control it will be a
tern of financial control practiced by m atter of less im portance whether
these high financiers will have one or not there exists a money trust.
effect above all others. It, along with It is within the power of Congress
other m ethods of publicity, is open to abolish the Stock Exchange just
ing the eyes of the people and will as it did the Louisiana lottery.
Part of Boom Containing 2 0 ,0 0 0 ,0 0 0 Feet of Logs at North Yakima, Washington
The plant of the Cascade Lum
ber Company at N orth Yakima,
with a capacity of 200,000 feet of
lum ber a day, gives an idea of the
extent of the tim ber resources in
the Yakima country. Here logs
of m ighty proportions lie huddled
together in the pond aw aiting the
)uzz of the saw that will turn them
into building m aterial that will
find its way to all parts of the
United States. The scene is typi
cal of the great industry that is
as yet in its infancy throughout
the great states of the Pacific
N orthw est The conservation pol
icy of the governm ent has not
halted the rapid inroads into the
virgin forests of the W est, and
yet the am ount that has been cut
is as nothing to that which still
rem ains to claim the axe of the
woodsman. W ith the building up
of the agricultural industries and
the rapid growth of cities in the
Rocky Mountain section, the d e
mands upon the forests are yearly
increasing—dem ands that are aug
m ented by the rapidly disappear
ing of the forests in other parts
of the country. T he Middle W est
is now alm ost w ithout a forest,
while the South and East have
taxed their sawmills to the limit
to keep up with the rapid develop
m ent in building. Yet the forests
of the W est are scarcely touched