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About Beaver State herald. (Gresham and Montavilla, Multnomah Co., Or.) 190?-1914 | View Entire Issue (Sept. 15, 1911)
TO ORGANIZE LUMBER TRUST Eastern Interests Would Con trol Western Output. Plan Includes Investment of Nearly •60.000,000 Would Secure Timber to Last 20 Years. Aberdeen, Wash. Over NO [>er eent of the lumber interests of (»rays Har- Imr and Willupu Harbor was repre sented here at a meeting eulbti to consider the proposition submitted by Henry J, Fierce, of Spokane, repre senting heavy Eastern tinancial inter ests, with a view of forming a com pany which would take over the mills, limiter ami logging interests belong ing to the lumber men of the two dis tricts. W. ii. Mack, manager of the S. E. Slade I.urn her company, pre sided at the meeting. Mr. Pierce outlined his plan of con solidation, which met with a hearty reception by those in attendance. Ex-Unied Stales Senator Sam II. Piles and James 11. Howe, of the law firm of Piles & Howe, of Seattle, pre sented the legal features of the pro- |H>sed comiMiny U> the lumltermen. In brief, the plun contemplates an investment of between $30,000,000 and $50,000,000 of Eastern capital with a view of securing sufficient tim ber to ensure the operations of the tidewater mills of Washington and Oregon which become members of the organisation, for a |>erio<i of not leas than 20 years. It la the expreased belief of Mr. Pierce, who organised and was for 20 years preaident of the Wood Products company, with headquarters at Buffa lo, and which practically controls the output of by-products manufactured from beech, birch and maple, that a large auving could be effected in the coat of marketing the lumber product The saving of by-products from lumber waste will engage the atten tion of the contemplated company, such as the manufacture of pulp, pa per, etc. WOMAN MAYOR PLUCKY. Mrs. Wilson, Kansas Town's Exe cutive. Won't Resign, Kansas City. Mo.- Mrs. Ella Wil son. mayor of Hunnewell, Kan., came to thia city and immediately held a meeting with C. W. Trickett, special investigator appointed by Governor Stubbs, to untangle the involved mu nicipal alfairs of Hunnewell, Mrs. Wilson has been having ’a great deal of trouble with her council since she took office and she is determined to bring (he city fathers to time. ‘‘I'in going to run that little town of Hunnewell," she said, "even if I have to call on Governor Stubbs for the militia to carry out my orders. "My councilmen huven’t treated me fairly. They have refused to meet with me, and ns an added affront they have refused to make a tax levy for next year’s municipal expenses. I could reach no agreement with them, so 1 decide»! to come to Kansas City •nd talk the situation over with Mr. Trickett. He assures me that the state officials will co-operate with me to restore peaceful conditions in Hun newell. "Resign? Well, I should say not. I am going to fight this whole thing out and I’m going to win." Swims English Channel, Deal, England After a lapse of 86 years Captain Matthew Webb's feat of swimming the English chnnnel was duplicated by Willinm T. Burgess, a native of Yorkshire, but now a nat uralized Frenchman. It was Burgess' 16th attempt, he having first essayed the task in 1904. Burgess started from South Fore land, Dover, at 11:16 o’clock Thurs day morning. He landed at Lecate- let, a little village two miles east of Cape Cris Nez, at 9:50 o’clock next morning, accomplishing the passage in 22 hours and 35 minutes. A motor boat accompanied the swimmer. New York Keeps Growing New York The publishers of the 125th New York City director/, just issued, estimate the population of Manhattan and The Bronx at 2,830,- 000, an increase of nearly 95,000 over the Federal census of 1910. A simi lar increase in all the boroughs of the city would give New York a total pop ulation of 4,900,000. It is figured, however, that the rate of increase in some of the suburban districts has been much larger. FREE LOCKS APPROVED. Oregon City Property Owners Unani mous for Improvement. Oregon City, Or.—Ono of the most important mass meetings ever held in Oregon City took place Naturday in the Commercial club rouma, when the property-owners and business men went on record by a unanimous vote in favor of the construction of free locks on the East side of the Willlametle river at Oregon City. Colonel Charles IL Dye obtained an amendment to the original resolution, which is designed to protect the mill ing interests of Oregon City from nec essary molestation. Many of those present, fenring that the amendment would tend to retard construction of the locks, voted against it, but it was finally carried by a vote of 24 to 25, and then the resolution, as amended, went through without a dissenting voice. W. F. Hawley, who has been quoted as saying the construction of the locks along the route suggested would put him out of business, made a brief speech and went over the ground from his point of view. He is in favor of the free locks, he said MERGER SUIT IS APPEALED. Government Alleges 02 Errors Decision Favoring Harriman. In Salt Lake City Appeal papers have just been filed in the United States Circuit court in thia city by the Fed eral government in the suit against the Union I’acific Railroad company and others, known as the Harriman merger suit, which was decided last June by the United States Circuit court for the Eighth district in favor of the railway defendants. In the opinion handed down by the majority of the court, it was held that the railroad companies were not corn lie ting lines and that the Sherman anti-trust Isw was not being volated. The government's appeal from this decision tiled here contains 62 alleged errors of the Circuit court judges, many of which are concerned with what are competing lines and others concerned with stock deals among the railroads themselves. The effect of the appeal, if the United States Supreme court chooses to consider it on all the grounds sub mitted, will bring virtually every find ing of fact by the Circuit court into question again. TRAIN HELD; CREW RESTS. Disobeyanca of Railroad Law Is Dodged by Great Northern’s Men. Spokane The law which compels train and engine crews to tie up for eight hours' rest after they have been on the road for 16 hours, Sunday caught a train where there was no place to eat or sleep, but within five miles of the terminal. To prevent employes from violating thia law. lay ing the company liable to a heavy tine, the Great Northern exacts a heavy penalty from the employe who disobeys. An castbound freight got as far as Vista siding when the 16 hours al lowed were up, and the crew had to tie up for eight hours' rest. Vista is on the shore of Whitefish lake, within sight of the town, and the crew hiked to town, dined and rested for a few hours ami then took a launch to Vista and brought the train into Spokane. Swindler Gets Long Term. Seattle—Frank H. Kimball, who is alleged by the police to have a long criminal record, was sentenced to hard labor from 3 to 20 years in prison for swindling Clarence Dayton Hillman, the multi-millionaire real estate dealer and three banks out of $16,000. The money was found in Kimball's posses sion and returned to his victims. Kimball confessed that he read of the conviction and sentence of Hillman Tor using the mails to defraud, and that he came to Seattle for the express purjxise of robbing Hillman. "Coffin Nails” Burned Up. Asheville, N. C. — With students, faculty and citizens praying and sing ing, the last stock of tobacco and cigarettes in Marshill, N. C., was burned on the campus of Marshill col lege, as the climax of an anti-cigar ette crusade. The college students had aopted resolutions calling on mer chants of the town to give up the sale of tobacco and cigarettes, and raised money to reimburse them for their sacrificed stocks. John D. Supports Plan, Cleveland, 0.—A special service in stitution backed by John D. Rockefel ler will be built by the Euclid-Avenue Baptist church soon. Plans for such a structure were submitted to the board of trustees a few months ago but were not acted upon, because Mr. Brooks' Comet Is Visible Rockefeller, to whom they were Cambridge, Mass. — Brooks’ comet, shown, objected to some of the feat The plans have been redrawn on which the astronomers of the world ures. and now have his approval. are focusing their telescopes, is now visible to the unaided eye, and is in Etna Acting Ominously. creasing in brightness. A bulletin Catania Mount Etna is showing a just issued by the Harvard observa revival of activity. Two new craters tory states that the comet may he have opened about 8,000 feet above easily followed, notwithstanding its the sea level. A cloud of smoke is rapid motion, due to its proximity. visible and ashes are erupted contin The comet will be nt its least distance uously. Earthquake shocks at inter from the earth on September* I7?at vals of from five to 10 minutes are which time it will be only 45,00(1,000 felt in all the surrounding villages, where the inhabitants are greatly miles away. alarmed. Gas Flows 28 000,000 Feet a Day Coffee Plant Dynamited. Calgary. Alberta While drilling in Toledo, O.—An attempt to wreck what is known as No. 4 well at Bow island a few days ago, drillers em the building of th»> J—M- Bour com ployed by the company, which re pany, coffee and tea importers, was cently obtained a charter to supply made when three dynamite bombs gas to thin city, struck a flow which, were exploded in an alley in the rear Considerable damage according to experts, will reach 28,- of the plant. was done. * 000,000 feet each 24 hours. NATIONAL GOVERNMENT NEWS NOTES OF GENERAL INTEREST TRIP MAPPED OUT, CHINESE CRISIS NEAR. President Tsft Will Visit 24 States; People Refuse to Pay Taxes snd Out break is Imminent. Speak in IOO Cities. Washington, D. C.—A crisis has Reverly. Maes.—The route along which President Taft will thread his arisen in the turbulent Province of way for 1,000 miles in a tour of the Szechuan, in China, and the foreign West is mapiMsl out definitely. Th»- offices of the United States and other line runs through 24 stalos, while countries have taken precautionary more than 100 cities are red-dotted, steps for the safety of their citizens showing pauses for speeches on tariff, in that section. American gunboats will be brought reciprocity, arbitration, conservation into play to guard American citizens, and Alaska. Th»- president will start from Bos and a formidable international naval ton September 15, and finish his trip array is at hand in Chinese waters. American Charge d'Affaires Wil at Washington November 1, in time to hear the verdict from some of the liams, at Pekin, cabled the State de partment that the situation had be states in the election six days late. The president heads straight for come critical in Szechuan, where pub Michigan, pausing only a day or two lic meetings in various cities, accom in New York and Pennsylvania. From panied by the closing of shops and Michigan the route leads into Illinois schools and refusal to pay taxes, have and then through Missouri, Kansas, culminated in serious disorders. Iowa, Nebraska, Colorado, Wyoming, American Methodist missionaries at Utah, Idaho, Washington, Oregon, Chung Kiang and Chengtu have in California, Montana, South Dakota. formed Mr. Williams that none of Minnesota, and finally to Chicago, them has left his post, except that Pittsburg and '.Washington. In five American and British women have for Chung Kiang. states he makes no stops. The long left Chengtu est jump on the trip is 862 miles, Twenty-one districts are said to be from Ixis Angeles to Salt Lake City, affected by the present agitation. Tax much of this distance being desert. offices have been destroyed and several The president will seldom go more officials have resigned, but resistance than 20 or 30 miles without stopping to the government has been passive to say a word either at some hall or rather than active. The Chinese foreign office has as from the rear platform of his car. Following are the dates for Idaho, sured the legation that protection will be given al) foreigners and their prop Washington and Oregon: Pocatello, Boise, Idaho, October 6; erty, and has offered escort to all who Walla Walla, Wash.; Lewiston, Mos desire to leave the disturbed area. A cow, Idaho; Spokane, Wash., October British gunboat is now proceeding to 7; Lind, Ellensburg, Tacoma, Wash., Chiating, while three other gunboats, October 8; Bellingham. Mount Ver one British, one French and one Ger non, Everett, Seattle, Wash., October man, are at Chung Kiang. On receipt of the disquieting re 9; Seattle, Tacoma, October 10; Ta coma, Olympia, Centralia, Chehalis ports the department of state tele Castle Rock. Kelso, Kalama, Vancou graphed the legation at Pekin to re ver Wash., Portland, Or., October 11; quest Admiral Murdock to dispose the American gunboats in the manner best Portland, Salem, Or., October, 12. calculated to forestall any danger to American citizens. 16 INCH CANNON NEXT. CENSUS FRAUDS GO HIGH. United Slates Planning Heaviest Gun tor Bigger Dreadnaughts. Special Agents After Men Who Gave Washington, D. C.—As soon as some Orders for Padding. other nation begins to arm its war Tacoma Wash.—That the "higher- ships with 14-inch guns—the calibre ups" in the census frauds in Tacoma. of the rifles which compose the main Seattle, Portland and Spokane are batteries of the latest designed dread sought is indicated by the work of two naughts of the American navy—the special agents of the census bureau. United States, it is believed by naval Leroy Thomas and Hart Monson, who ordnance experts, will seriously con have been very quietly investigating aider the 16-inch guns for battleships. in Tacoma for the last month. The largest gun on foreign vessels to When the Federal court convenes day is 13.5-inch, adopted by Great Monday 30 cases involving census Britain and Russia. The problem of a 16-inch gun is al enumerators are to be called. All the arrested enumerators have enterod ready being worked out in theory in connection with imaginary 35,000 and pleas of not guilty, and in public statements have asserted that they 40,000-ton battleships, in order to merely obeyed orders of the "higher- prepare to take an advance step when ups" in placing fictitious names on ever foreign competition warrants it. For rifles of that calibre a warship their lists. That the government is seeking de must necessarily have a displacement tailed information along the line of of at least 31,606 tons to resist the these pleas is indicated by the pres terrific recoil. These plans demon ence of special agents, whose presence strate, it is declared, how materially is the evolution in naval construction has just become known. and ordnance in one country controlled • WOOL.RATE INQUIRED INTO. by the progress of others. With the size and strength of war ships growing from year to year in this world-wide endeavor to excel, naval experts are beginning to wonder when and where the climax will be reached. The rapid development in size is demonstrated by the dread naughts built, or building, for the United States navy. The Utah, which has just been placed in commission, has a displacement of 21,825 tons; th»* Arkansas and Wyoming, which will be completed in less than a year, will be 26,000 tons, while the Texas ami New York, the construction of which was begun only a few months ago, will be 27,000 tons. With ’the 26,000 and 27.000-ton ships building, the Navy department is planning to make the displacement of the two battleships authorize»! by the last naval act 28,500 tons. That is certainly not the end, "for it is be lieve»! that the next dreadnaughts will be at least 30,000 tons. Last Nogi Indian is Taken. Oroville, Cal.—The United States government will have to make a treaty with a Nogi Indian captured here a few days ago, according to Professor Waterman, of the State university. Before this Indian can legally be taken in charge and disposed of by the government. President Taft and his cabinet will have to agree with him upon the terms under which his future life will be governed, and the United States senate will have to rati fy the treaty. The Unite»! States had no treaty with the warlike Nogis before their supposed extermination. With all other tribes th»> government has treat ies. This lone survivor of the famous Nogis will have to be dealt with legal ly, as there is no intention to allow him to run wild among the rocks and brush of the foothills and mountains. Rutherford Loses Rank. Washington, D. C.-—President Taft commuted th«* court martial sentence of dismissal in the case of Lieutenant Robert G. Rutherford, of the Twenty fourth infantry, to a loss of 50 num bers in rank. Lieutenant Rutherford . was tried on charges of financial ir regularities at Madison Barracks. N. Y. The disposition of the case by the president will permit the War department to promote a large number of officers. Gunboat Ordered South. Washington, D. C.—The gunboat Yorktown has been ordere,! from Mare Island to Corinto, on th»* west coast of Nicaragua. It was said that this was merely a routine movement. Western Shippers to Have Hearing Before Prouty in Chicago. Chicago—An investigation into al leged unreasonable rates on shipments of wools and hides from Western points to Eastern markets was begun here by United States Interestate Commerce Commissioner Prouty. A score or more of witnesses have been summoned to testify here, after which Commissioner Prouty will hold similar sessions at Denver, Albuquer que, N. M.; Salt Lake City, Phoenix, Aris., and Portland, Or. It is the contention of the wool shippers that the freight rates have been advanced 33J per cent since the passage of the Hepburn rate law four years ago, and that the present tariff is exhorbitant in comparison with rates charg«M for other commodities. Two Attack Taft Plan. San Francisco—Senator Moses E. Clapp, of Minnesota, and Governor Johnson of California, attacked the attitude of President Taft in regard to the recall of the judiciary in speeches before the Direct Legislation league of California. The league is leading the campaign for the state constitutional amendment for the re call of judges to be voted on October 10. "The president says he fears judges would waver in their decisions if the recall were hanging over them,” said Senator Clapp. "In all my experi ence I have never known a judge who was influenced in his decisions oy the presence of an impending election. There isn't a corrupt boss or lobbyist or corrupter of public morals in the country who is not now fighting the proposed recall of judges.” Sugar Duty Inquiry On. Philadelphia— The United States grand jury, which a few months ago conducted an investigation into al- leged irregularities in the matter of customs' duties on sugar at this jort. has resumed its inquiry. The jury, it is said, has found gross irregularities, anil it is understood it recommended a civil action be instituted to recover from those who are said to have ben- efitted through the alleged laxity of customs-house employes. Taft to Attend Rices. Beverly, Mass President Taft will visit Hartford, Conn., to meet Gover nor Baldwin, see some harness races anil deliver a speech on peace at the fair grounds. So much interested is President Taft in his speeches for the Western trip that he rises at sunrise daily to whip them into shape. BRIBE-TAKING IS CHARGED. Mayor and Councilman of Gary, Ind., Under Arrest. Gary Ind.—Charge»! with accepting a bribe of $5,000 in connection with the granting of a heating franchise Thom as E. Knotts, mayor of Gary, a spec tacular figure in a district of fast and furious politics, was arrested with five of bis councilmen and C. 'A. Wil liston, city engineer, by deputy sher iffs from Crown Point. The arrest of Gary's municipal offi cials threw the Steel City into the wildest excitement, and added fuel to the flames of factional strife which characterized Knott’s political career. Those arrested are Thomas E. Knotts, mayor of Gary; C. A. Willis ton, city engineer, and Walter Gibson, Anthony Baukus, Dominick Szyman ski, Emerson Bowser and John Simia- skia, aidermen. Bolaf Simiaskia eon of the aiderman was also arrested as a go-between. HEALTH IS BEST IN WEST, COST TROUBLED WOMAN MOST Washington Leads With Low Death Country Woman Prefer« Paraffin to 'Rate, With Montana Second. Gas In Having Tooth Pulled on Account of Price. Washington D. C. — Washington state leads the commonwealths of the She did not tremble on the dentist's nation in healthfulness according to a Instead, this big boned special statement issued by the census threshold. countrywoman gave the bell a heavy bureau. The Northwestern states' death list wrench, as though it were a tooth it- per thousand population in 1916 was self, and waited passively tor the only 10. That of the United States door to open. She had never been Inside a den or those states included in the "regis tration area," the only ones covered in tist's before. The dentist bummed and hawed and statistics, was 15. The census bureau’s figures are based on a group tapped her molar with his little in of states whose population comprises struments. “Tes, yes!" he said at last I'm 59 per cent of the total, of ail the states, and gives a fairly accurate afraid we shall save to have It out" She opened her mouth obediently, idea of the health of the nation. According to the figures, the North but the kindly tooth-lugger demurred. “I think it's going to be painful," he west is the healthiest part of the country, Montana was second in the suggested. "Wouldn't you like to list of the least number of deaths, the take gas?" “How much more will It cost?" she returns showing 10.6 deaths per thous asked. and in 1910. The dentist named his figure. “Dear me. but that's a lot!" ex FLOODS RAVAGE GRAVES. claimed the woman. “Would it be cheaper if I took paraffin?" Floating Coffins Show Extant of Damags Done in China. Not That Kind. Pekin—Only meager reports have "The airship seemed to have some reached the capital from the walled thing wrong about It, when all at once towns about the Yangtse valley, It rushed into a thick clump and stuck where the floods have hemmed in the so fast they bad to pry it out." missionaries and other foreigners. “Was the aviator also a football The report received by the American player?" mission at Wuhu, estimating that "What makes you ask that?" 100,000 persons had been drowned, has “It sounded like be was making a not yet been verified, but every ac flying wedge." count confirms the great extent of the disaster. Travelers arriving by steam Mcral Sense. boat at Hankow from the upper "DM you smuggle In anything this reaches of the river report that many time from Paris Y' coffins of a huge Chinese type were “No, indeed, my dear; you know It Is encountered floating in the Yangtse, very wrong to defraud the government which indicates that the waters are that way. And then, my busband's robbing the graves of former years. 1 buslnees has not been so good this From Chang Teh, in the Province of year, and we couidn* afford to risk Hunan, comes word that the receding the heavy fines.” waters are being followed by pesti lence. The International Relief so Tough. ciety which will convene at Shanghai “It's hard," said the sentimental September 15, will consider the ques- landlady at the dinner table, “to tioii of extending its relief measures think that this poor little lamb should beyond the provinces of Ngan-Hwei be destroyed in its youth just to cater and Kiang Su. to our appetites." "Yes,” replied the smart boarder, GERMAN PUBLIC UNQUIET. struggling with his portion, “It Is tough."—Catholic Standard and Bank Run Starts While French Cabi Times. net Digests Proposals. UGLY. Berlin—Developments in the Mor occan negotiations are expected while the French cabinet is digesting Ger many's counter proposals. The situa tion is quiet enough, but uneasiness persists among the uninformed public. The run on the savings banks at Stettin has ceased, but a similar run has been started on banks at Koenigs- berg. ________________ Chinese Hair for Americans. San Francisco—In the extensive and valuable cargo on the Pacific Mail liner Corea, which arrived in port Sat urday, were ten bales of human hair —Chinese hair—shorn from the heads of men and women, later to be combed, dyed, and made into switches for American women. The large con signment of human hair which will later adorn the heads of American so The Leading Man—I've got to kiss ciety belles was accompanied by H. L. your wife in the second act You Ehrenfels, general agent at Hongkong won't mind, will you? for a concern of haircombers and im The Manager—I can stand It if you porters. can. Perjury is Admitted. Los Angeles—Hiram W. Blaisdell, a wealthy retired engineer pleaded guilty to a charge of perjury in the Federal court here. The case against Blaisdell resulted from the alleged land frauds in the Imperial valley by Frank N. and David Chaplin. Blais dell testified first in January 1908. A year later he gave testimony which differed from that he had previously given. This caused the perjury charge to be filed against him. Wasted Tim«. Hercule« had been driven In a taxi cab to th« Augean stables and told to get busy. "What's th« use?" he bitterly mub tered. "Just as s«x>n as I get ’em cleaned up they'll be turned into a garage." Nevertheless, he fell to work. An Eye to the Future. Wtfe—Why did you refuse to give that man the rooms? Husband—He looked so ill tem French Minister Reticent. pered I was afraid I should never sum Paris—The French minister, M. mon up courage to rals« his rent later Deselves, declines to give any indica on.—Fliegend« Blatter. tion as to the nature of Germany's counter proposals, which were haniied The Modern Muse. by the German foreign minister, Herr “Th« poet sang very sweetly about Von Kidderlein-Waechter, to Ambas Peggy in the low-backed car." sador Cambon in Berlin. La Liberte “So he did, but the modern bard affirms that, notwithstanding denials warbles of his lady In a low-backed and explanations, Germany is gradual gown." ly concentrating her troops close to the French frontier. A Query. "Why do lovers plac« such faith In oeculatlon?" World's Champion is Hero. "It is a sign of thefr affection." Pendleton, Or.—Bearing down upon “BahI It is nothing but lip serv* a crowded comer of Main street a Ice." team of runaway horses was halted when Buffalo Vernon, world’s cham Immediate Requirements pion steer bulldogger and cowboy of "We need more public spirit In this renown, leaped to his saddle and threw the noose of his lariat around their town.” “Yes. but If we had a first-class seo necks. In the general panic three ond baseman I think th« attendance other teams ran away on the main would be better." street. No serious damage was done.