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FRIDAY, JUNE 25, 1909 THE ECHO REGISTER. ECHO. OREGON PAGE F:V CORPORATION TAX Mil PAY III T.irrs PLAN" win, yii:li ?KO,. OOO.WIO A YEAlt. ALL MUST REPORT EARNINGS I'uy Two Pit CViit oa Xet Pi-ollu )vt .MI0 Year Tax Kx. ci-sslvo Bonds. Washington Pws'dent Taft's plan for taxing the earnings of cor porations is broader than generally unikrstood In congressional circles, and It will, if enacted Into a law, yield a revenue far in excess of the 125,000.000 estimate given by the president in tils special message. Details of the proposed measure for the taxation of net earnings of corporations were arranged Tuesday night at the most Important confer ence that has been held since Mr, Taft assumed the Presidency. The terms of the measure provide that all corporations having a capital stock and organized for profit shall pay a tax of 2 per cent on their net earnings. Corporations coming within that designation will be com pelled to make returns to specially named agents of the bureau of In ternal revenue of the treasury de partment, the amount of their gross receipts, capital stock, bonded debt and all other visible debtu. The amendment will delne In the broadest possible manner the char acter of loBsea that may be deducted from the net earnings. The 2 per cent tax will apply to all corpora tions organized for profit, but each corporation will be allowed a $5000 exemption. The tax will be collected upon the entire amount of preferred and com mon stock of every corporation and upon the bonds of a corporation where they exceed the total capital. .:- corporation making a false report will be subject to a penalty, the amount of which has not been decided. It Is Intended that the bill ball become effective immediately on Its passage. The present year's tax will be collectible July 1, 1910. PLANTERS MAY OUST JAPS rropose DraNtlc Measures to Prevent Further Striken. Honolulu, June 23. The work of getting a Jury to try five of the Japanese strike leaders charged with conspiracy in connection with the strike of laborers oa the sugar plan tations began yesterday. Several of the leaders stated that the strike would be resumed on the Ewa and Walalua plantations July 1, when they would again call out 3000 Japanese who have returned to work. They declare that all the Japanese In the islands are affiliated in one large organization. Representatives of the planters declare that, if the threatened plan of intermittent strikes on alternate plantations, enabling those working to support the large number on strike, is carried out, the strikers will be ordered off the plantation. This would mean that the Japanese would have to vacate the homes fur nished by the planters and would be homeless. tiirl Slnln by Chinese. New York, June 20. Elizabeth Blgel, granddaughter of the Illus trious Franx Slgel, the German war rior, who served with the Union army during the Civil war, is the victim of one of the most sordid murders In the history of New York. Taken from a trunk In the room of a Chinese above a chop suey restau rant in the restricted district, her body in a state of decomposition Is tn the morgue, while detectives are Investigating a tangled story Involv ing the girl and her association with Chinese. She was 20 years old and greatly interested in Chinese mission work. Mm. flooeve!t on Trip. New York. June 23. Mrs. Theo dore Roosevelt and three children. Miss Ethel, Archie and Quentin. will leave New York on June 26 on board the White Star liner Cretic for Gibraltar and Naples, to pass the summer on the continent. The party will sail for America about Novem ber 1. having abandoned the plan of Journeying up the Nile In tb spring to meet Colonel Roosevelt. Play Rendered Under Marry Sky. Cambridge, Mass.. June 23. The spertment of producing Schiller's t "Maid of Orleans" beneath starry j skies with close approach to the bis-1 toric details surrounding the bright , tiura of the 15th century was car- . ried out with considerable success last night la the Harvard stadium by Miss Maude Adams and a eom paay numbering about 2000 per WASHINGTON SOLONS MEET Called to Receive the Report of In vest lilting Committee. Olympiii, June 23. The legisla ture assembled In extraordinary ses sion today, called by Gov. Hay to re ceive the report of the Investigating committee appointed at the last reg ular session. A wltlo variety of opin ion prevails as to the duration of the session. While the chief pur pose in calling the special session Is presumed to be the removal of Insurance Commls&loner Schively, all sorts of proposals are in the air, and the session may become involved in general legislation not connected with the investigation. The gen eral expression of opinion among members is against taking up mat ters of general legislation, but this disposition may vanish when the members find themselves divided upon questions relating to the inves tigation and lacking In opportunity to trade votes on the main Issue for votes on other measures of gcneial or special importance. Two plans have been suggested for ousting Schively In case the re port of the Investigating committee seems to Justify his removal. First, by impeachment, which would neces sitate the presentation of charges by the bouse and a formal trial by the senate. Second, by enacting a law abolishing the office. In case the latter plan Is followed it is likely the office of Insurance commissioner would, be recreated by another law, either aa an office to be filled by ex ecutive appointment or a branch of some other office. REYES ABANDONS OFFICE Practically Driven Out for Making Treaty With I'nitrd States. Colon, June 22 Advices from Cartagena, Colombia, confirm pre vious reports that General Rafael Reyes, President of Colombia, has abandoned office and sailed for Eu rope. The recent trend of affairs in Co lombia makes the departure of the President a matter of no surprise, for it has been openly asserted that either his voluntary resignation PRESIDENT REYES. from office or a revolutionary coup appeared to be the only solution for Columbia's political trouble. The. support given by President Reyes to the United States-Panama-Colombia treaty has been partly re sponsible for the prevailing dissatis faction. The treaty is objectionable to the general public and In the congressional election held the lat ter part of May the government party was signally defeated. LUMBER LOSE PROTECTION? Best They Con Hop For Now Is $1 Duty Necured by House Vote. Washington Senators and Con gressmen, who, at the opening of the special session talked of retaining the Olngley duty of $2 per 1000 on rough lumber, are now deeply concerned for fear they may not be able to get as much as $1.50 when the bill finally comes out of the conference committee. Long ago they abandoned hope of retaining the Dinxley rate; now they realize that there Is danger of being forced to accept the duty of $1 per 1000 voted by the house. Hankers Meet In Seattle. Seattle, June 21. The annual convention of the American Institute of Banking, to be held In this city during the three days beginning to day, will be attended by 250 dele gates, representing every portion of the Unltad States. A feature of the convention will be a debate between the Chicago and Tacoma chapters of the Institute on the desirability of branch banking. Mny Killed and Injured In Mine. Wehrum. Pa.. June 21. As a re sult of an explosion 1b mine No. 4. in the Lackawanna Coal and Coke Company here today, thr miners are known to be dead, six fatally In jured. 25 seriously, while it is feared that (5 men, believed to be still in the mine, may be burned to datta. Tb mine Is burning fiercely la several places. 1 IS HOH TO AGREE POLL SHOWS TEN' Jl'llOKS ARE FOR ACgi lTTAL. ONLY FIVE BALLOTS TAKEN Will Rank With Historic Truils for Tluio Ocriiphnl Ktltmtted to Have Cost $30,000. San Francisco, June 21. Termi nating In a disagreement of the Jury, with ten men determined on acquit tal and two steadfastly resolved upon conviction, the trial of Patrick Calhoun, president or the United Railroads, came to an end at 12 o'clock Sunday. Five months and a week bad elapsed since the weal thy streetcar magnate made his first appearance in court to answer to the charge of offering a bribe of $4000 to a supervisor to obtain a privilege for his corporation, and a period of 24 hours had been consumed In fruitless deliberation. Not until each Juror had pro nounced as hopeless the prospect of a verdict was the order for their liberation made by Judge Wm. P. Lfiwlor. Prosecution and defense gave assent to the discharge and the P Ton',' ? -jt- r . -fU-V-.V-s:-- '-. PATRICK CALHOUN. proceeding ended within 15 minutes. But five ballots were taken, as It developed, and three of these were within the first few hours after de liberation had commenced. Upon the first vote the Jury stood eight for acquittal and four for conviction. Two of the four Joined the majority upon the second balllot. The trial of Patrick Calhoun has been one of the longest and most sensational in Western history, be ing only surpassed by the Beecher Tilton trial In New York. It re quired ISO days of actual court ses sions to secure a Jury, and In that time 2310 talesmen were summoned and 1423 Interrogated. Empaneling cf Jurors began on January 12 and was completed on April 14. The trial Is estimated to have cose $50, 000. At the request of attorneys for Calhoun, one of the remaining In dictments against him was set for trial next Monday, June 28. Place Duty on lliilin. Washington, June 23. Late yes terday the senate reached a vote on the bide schedule and after several amendments had been defeated the amendment of the finance committee fixing a duty of 15 per cent on hides was agreed to by a vote of 46 to 30. This Is the rate of the present law, but under the ruling of the treasury department Is applicable only to hides weighing more than 25 pounds. NEWS BUREAU FOR NEGROES Headquarters of System for North' went Opened In SKikane. Spokane, June 21. The Negro Associated Press of the United States his established headquarters of the Pacific Northwest Negro News Bureau In this city, with Rev. J. Gordon McPherson, pastor of Cal vary Baptist church. In charge. The Negro Associated Press has completed a system of news gather ing covering the country at large. Each bureau Is to send out weekly news letters and keep the country posted on race progress In the com mercial and industrial world. Moncow (Jets Big Factory, Moscow, Idaho, June 21. At a meeting of directors of the Idaho National Combine Harvester Com pany Sc'urday, it was announced that factories would be built at Mos cow, to cost approximately $50,000 Seattle Handles Mncb Gold. Raitl June 24. Since the es tablishment of the Seattle assay of fice in July. 189$, it has received 314 tons of gold bullion, valued at $171,000,000, practically all of which eame from the Yukon cosa try and Alaska. CALHOUN i SHORT NEWS NOTES. J A Th.- attendance at the Alaska-Yu-kor.-l'aeific C-j-usition to June 20 is 470,210. .cvretary of Si ale Vclcz, of Cuba, lias declined to consiiUx Spain's pro posal that Cuba assume a portion cf the Spanish national debt. The Hat or injured In the Bunker Hill celebration, mar Ito.iton last week, rivalt d that of the p.cuk.I l.at tle 134 years ago. Sixty-live persons were treated at the hospitals or Bos ton and vkiuity far injuries. Charging that he abandoned hir two years ago in BuiTnlo. Mrs. Min nie A. Ueckc-r lias brought suit at I.os Angeles against Tracy C. Beck er, ex-special assistant to the United States attorney-general under Bona parte. To reduce the postal rates, im prove the postal service and increase postal revenues, Representative Ben net, or New York, has Introduced a bill providing ror a parcels post within the various rural rree deliv ery routes. Datus E. Myres, or Jefferson, Or., has been awarded the American traveling scholarship prize, worth $125, In the annual commencement awards at the Chicago Art Institute. The murder last Friday night at Reveistoke. B. C, of an Italian by Black Hand desperaodes, is believed to show the existence of an organ ized gang of Black Hands in British Columbia. The sections of the revised stat utes providing penalties for false voting, ballot-box stuffing and brib ing at the polls, which were repealed in 1S94. will be re-enacted If the bill Introduced by Representative Cowles, or North Carolina, is passed. Two Japanese, claiming to be agents or the Japanese government, are trying to obtain an option upon a section or land from the Mount Diablo Oil Company In California. The largest convention hall In the country, three times larger than Madison-Square Garden In New York, and four times the size of the Chicago Colllscum, has been planned for Chicago. Including the arena space thore will be room for seating more than 45,000 persons. Fifteen are dead and 25 injured as a result of a wreck on the South Shore electric railway, two miles west of Chesterton, Ind., Saturday night. Most ol the passengers were returning from the Crown Point au tomobile races. A severe storm passed over the Mississippi coast Sunday. The wat ers or the gulf reached a height of 5 feet above the normal tide Inflow. A number of steamers at New Or leans were beached and property along the shore was damaged. As a result or a feud between cer tain young men or Fairfield, III., and members t a band In a theatrical company showing there. Dr. Charles I. Lelnger Is dead, Frank McCulloch Is dying and Richard Sloan is suf fering from a severe wound. The trouble arose over attentions paid to young women or Fairfield by members or the theatrical company. Employer Kills Employe. Portland, Or., June 21. Richard Dlckerso.t, aged 32, a contractor, took the law Into his own hands this morning and shot down Harry Gar rett, one or his teamsters. Mrs. Dickerton, wire or the murderer, is the woman in the case. She has been twice married to him, has been di vorced from him once, left him three weeks ago and Is asking ror a second decree. Dlckerson declares Garrett broke up bis home the last time. THE MARKETS Portland. rheat Track prices: Club, $1.18; rel Russian, $1.15; bluestem, $1.27 1.30; Valley, $1.17. Barley Feed, $34; rolled $38 37. Oats No. 1 white, $40; gray. 139. Hay Timothy. Willamette Valley, fancy. $20; do. ordinary. $15; East ern Oregon, mixed. $1617; do. fancy. $18; alfalfa. $14; clover, $12. Butter Extra. 2Cc; fancy, 23 23 25c; store, 18 20c. Eggs Choice, 23 24c. Hops 1909, contract, 9c per lb.; 1908 crop, 6 4i 7c; 1907 crop. 3 4c. Wool Eastern Oregon, ltyj2o per pound; Valley, medium, 22 25c. Mohair 24 f 25e !b. Seattle. Wheat Bluestem, $1.30 1.3$. Oats $41. Barley $34. Hay Eastern Washington timo thy. $21ft 23 per ton; Puget Sound hay. $15 per ton; wheat hay, $16 ft it per ton; alfiUa, $1819 per tea. Butter Washington creamery, 0e lb.; tanch. le Is. Eggs Selected local, 25c. Potatoes White River, $2S4t oer tea; Yakima. $403 42 per ton. S Ladies High-Class Spring Suits! S all Reduced. g The Best Tailor 17.r0 Tailonil Suits mliicttl to $1 1.."0. S t uf the vrry best !?17.."0 in ltaiiaum. Senivs ami Faiu-y Suiting :'() and 112 in. coats finished plain or with braid, p on salt' at this phenomenal low price. Alterations Free. S.-.O.OO Tailored Suits Keduced to 2M). 7(J of our very best $:io.O0 suits stritkly all wool men Tailored o-ai iin-nts of the highest class, pi on sale at the extreme low price 2 1. ."(). All Suits up $!.".()() reduced to 27.50. There are 70 of these elegant Suits in most popular spring styles and all go on sale at the reduced price of 27.."0. Mens new spring Suits at half-Price . O O 0 o 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 I tuc Drnoico 0 I III. I LUI LLU IfttllLIIUUUL 0 Where It Piyi To Tride. 0000000000000000000000000000000 WONG LUNG LAUNDRY I have purchased the Sam Woe Lung and refitted it up and now ready for business. I solicit your family washings no difference how small or how big. I guar antee all my work. Leave your order and I will come and get it and return it. Give me a Trial THE IDLE HOUR f Mell Norman, Prop. Cigars, Tobaccos, Nuts, Candies, Soft Drinks, Etc. Tool and Billiards Lunch Counter In The Rear Gilbert's Barber Shop SHAVING, HAIRCUTTING, SHAMPOOING Everything First Class Lmt. ordcrt bcr. for th. Pmdtaon Doomtic Slewn Laundry. Kukri lam nary Wad ncwity and raturtx Saturuajr Shop Located Opposite Bank of Echo Shaving. Haircutting, Shampooing K very! hi n if First C'Iums Bath Room In Connection. (iive us a Trial Hotel Echo Tonsorial Parlors MULLIN & STEWART, Prop. There are two kinds of whiskey. One is the other isn't The kind that IS contains all the constituents that come from proper distillation and ageing That's what makes it REAL whiskey. The kind that ISN'T is made of alcohol, prune juice and bead oil or is simply alcohol put in charred barrels, and branded whiskey. The Pure Food Law aims at having the consumer get exactly what he calls for. When you call for whiskey ask your, dealer if it will respond to a government laboratory test. Ask him if he guarantees it. Then you will know what you are paying your money for. Buy the brand you know, the standard for 70 vcars.a Cyrus Noble pure whiskey all whiskey old whiskey. 4 quart Lottie of GENUINE CYRUS NOBLE dirsct to you, all charge paid to ths Bsarwt railroad express office W. I. VAN SCHUYVER & CO. ErfaUUhed 1864 I OS-1 07 Sd Street. PortUsd. 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