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ALMOST BANKRUPT Philippine Goverrment Only]Kept Up by Sale of Bonds. FILIPINOS REFUSE TO PAY TAXES Purpose o f Taft’ s Visit to Islands is to Place Government on Safe Financial Basis. Washington, July 8.— Secretary Taft is hastening to Manila to prevent an utter collapse of the civil government there as administered by Governor W right. The mystery of his mission and the urgency with which it its un dertaken are gradually being revealed. Early action of a remedial character is necessary to prevent the government from becoming bankrupt through short age of revenue receipts. Governor Wright has not made pro gress in dealing with the Filipinos. He has asked them to obey the laws and let it go at that. He has not sought to harmonize differences and se cure their co-operation. As a result, the Filipinos are now refusing to pay taxes They knew nothing about land and revenue taxes until American rule was made effective. Taft succeeded in inducing the natives to pay these taxes. Under Wright they reiused payment. It is impossible to sell the land for de linquent taxes. The decrease in Philippine revenue has t>een so great that nothing but bond sales has prevented a collapse of the government. The money derived from selling bonds and certificates of indebt edness has furnished sufficient funds to maintain affairs up to this time, but the sums borrowed must eventually be repaid, and the situation has grown serious. Mr. Taft has gone to determine what can be done to develop revenues and to place the government on a safe financial basis. Mr. Taft also desires to confer with Governor Wright on the friar land •question. The entire matter was ad justed after tedious deliberations, and an arrangement reached satisfactory to the president and Mr. Taft. The titles were defective, and it was agreed to have new transfers made. Governor Wright was asked for his approval and refused to give it. It is considered imperative that this troublesome question should be settled. T O M AKE IS T H M U S H E A LTH Y Shon's Tells How Commission Will Care fo r Employes. W ITN E S S E S FORGET. tell him to hold It, head up, between his eye and the hole in the card. This is what he will see. The pin that he Is holding will seem to vaulsh, and iustead of It there will he au imuge of a pin upside down in the air be hind the little hole in the card. No matter who tries it, the result will be the same. Important Testimony in Land Fraud Cases Hard T o Get. Portland, July 9.— Three witnesses now hare been heard in the trial of Representative Williamson, Dr. Van Gesner and Marion R. Biggs, whoee cases are being heard before Judge De Haven. They have given damaging testimony, but it lias been literally dragged from them, and yesterday morning when Usury Beard was testi fying, Judge De Haven turned to Dis trict Attorney Heney and said: “ Mr. Heney, you may lead the witness, for it seems as if this is the only way you can get anything out of him .” This statement came from the court after his honor had listened to the ex amination of Campbell Duncan, Green Beard and his son Henry. Hardly had the direct examination of Duncan got ten under way than inferences that witness fo. the government had been tampered with were being brought out. Duncan had a splendid ability to forget. His memory in connection with the talks and deals that be had with the defendants was conveniently a blank. So was that of Green Beard, who was another of the men who had taken up a timber claim, which, it ia alleged, was taken for Dr. Gesenr and Repre sentative Williamson. His son Henry was also suffering from a bad memory, but after a severe shaking np both by Mr. Heney and Judge Bennett, he blandly admitted, when he was closely pressed by Judge Bennett, that he had committed perjury in swearing to his timber entry affidavit. Shortly after the morning session convened, ex-Senator Thurston rose to make inquiry concerning the motion for a new trial for Senator Mitchell. Coun sel explained that he was a long way from home and that nothing save the pending motion was keeping him in Portland. Judge De Haven then an nounced that he would take up the Mitchell case at 10 o’ lcock Monday. A lw a y s In a H u r r y . A T h i r t y M i n u t e Su it B o u t . The boat that Is here shown was designed especially for a boy who had neither patience, tools, nor skill. He wanted a boat, and one that would go fast. A hoard with a sail stuck upon it was not to his liking, and so this entirely original affair was pro duced. Nothing In the l«>at was of value, except as kindling wood, but the making and sailing of similar boats afforded many an hour's enter tainment. Each day when the wind was blowing off shore one or more o f these lioats were set adrift In I>ong Island sound. Off they would go like catamarans, sometimes at an angle with the wind, but always out of sight, never to return. Once In a while one would be adjusted just right, and then It was hard to keep up with It by rowing. It would go so fast. The seas would go over them, but as they had no deck on they would go. It was found after a while that too short a boat would not steer very well. A long boat, on the other hand, would keep pointing about right, so that they were made from T A F T ’ S A C T IO N C R ITIC IS E D . President and Cabinet Say He Was Harsh With Wallace. Chicago, July 10. — A special tele gram to the Evening Post from its Washignton correspondent says: “ It is learned on high authority that President Roosevelt is not entirely pleased with the way in which Secre tary Taft treated Engineer John F. Wallace, and this is one of the reasons why the construction of the isthmian canal is to be entrusted to Secretary Root. “ In plain language, several members of the cabinet have expressed to Presi dent Rooeevelt their disapproval of the treatment accorded to Wallace by Taft. They say Taft did wrong in flying into a rage and telling Wallace he did not wish to receive any report from the latter on the canal problem. The view of these cabinet members is that, if Mr. Walalce, whose reputation as an engineer is beyond question, found natural obstacles to the construction of the canal that bafHe engineering gener ally, Mr. Taft might have found it out, and that he should have accorded W al lace the private audience that he sought and not have required the presence of M r. Cromwell, nn outsider.” CRAFT Itt COURTSHIP. TLAN s n o w I n o CONSTRUCTION* two to eight feet long. The best way to build the boat was to find a bonrd about four feet long and six or eight Inches wide. This was sawed diago nally across the center, and the angle mnde on each piece was made the bow. These two pieces were held side by side eight inches apart, and two narrow strips were nailed across bow and stern, an extra piece having a hole In It was nulled on the bow strip, and a stick about a foot long was stuck In It for a mast The best kinds of masts were made of dowels —sticks one-qunrter Inch thick to he found at lumber yards and hardware stores. On the mast was fastened a cross- arm Just as wide as the boat A piece o f sheeting made an excellent sail, and after It was fastened on the arm with a thread and needle the two lower corners were fastened securely to the sides o f the boat. The sail was put as far forward as possible In the bow o f the boat, for It helped steer, and no rudder became necessary. Without any doubt the boy who lives near the water and finds some odd pieces o f lumber, some nails, and a piece of cloth w ill find In this boat- making enough to amuse him off and on half the summer. I know a little maiden who is always in u hurry; She races through her breakfast to be in time for school, | She scribbles at her desk in a hasty sort of flurry. And comes home in a breathless whirl that fills the vestibule. ! She hurries through her studying, she hurries through her sewing. Like an engine at high pressure, as If leisure were a crime; She’s always in a scramble, no matter where she's going, And yet— would you believe it ?-—she never is in time. “ Ah, darling,” breathed the impaasloued wooer, "why do you not say It seems a contradiction, until you know ‘Yes?’ Can you not say It?” the reason, "D ear me, I could say It,” responded the honest damsel, “ but If I do, But I'm sure you'll think It simple, as then you will immediately stop making all these pretty speeches.” — Omaha I do, when I state Bee. That she never has been known to begin a thing In season. as has been spent upon similar build And she's always in a hurry, because PRIDE OF M IN N ESO TA. she starts too late. ings elsewhere; but. In Mr. Brown’s M a g n ific e n t N e w C a p it o l— O n e o f th e — Los Angeles Times. opinion, the artistic effect o f the struc W o r ld * « F in e s t B u ild in g s . ture Is unsurpassed. A Big Kish Story. F ifty years ago "T h e Great North The predominating feature of the When the last foot o f the cable to west" was a howling wilderness, peo building Is the massive marble dome, Alaska was laid many months ago pled only by a few Indians and a the largest In the United States. Un there was much satisfaction expressed handful of trappers and Freneh-Cana- til Its completion the dome o f the over the fact that communication with dlnn traders; fifty years ago this vast Alaska was up-to-date. But last fall region had not been surveyed, aud cer Rhode Island State House at Provi dence held the distluctlon of being the that same precious cable stopped work tain sections of It had not eveu been greatest. The dome o f the Capitol at ing entirely between Valdez and Se explored, but to-day behold how differ Washington Is very much larger, but attle. Nobody could account for the ent Is Its aspect! that la made of cast Iron, painted stoppage, and a crew lmd to be sent There la not a corner o f It that has out to fish up the cable aud gee whnt not been penetrated by civilized be- white. The domes of St. Peter’s of Rome and St. Paul's o f London, like was the matter. It was a whale; a wise. are larger, but neither o f them dead one, enught by the Jaws In the Is constructed of marble. * cable and held down until he drowned. The Interior finishings of the build That Is probably the very biggest fish ing ere magnificent. Marbles from al story of the century, but It huppens most every well known quarry In the to he absolutely true. world were Imported for use In the grand halls and legislative rooms, and MODERN BUCKBOARDS. beautifully carved woods for the ex ecutive offices. R u b b e r T ir e s N o w on th e W h e e ls o f To see such evidences o f art and cul T h le O r ig in a 'ly P r i m i t i v e V e h ic le . ture In a country that, but a short while “ I f the man that made the original ago, was considered a barbarous fron buckboard could see one of the sorts tier, is the most satisfying thing that we turu out nowadays,” said a car can happen to a man who has faith In riage manufacturer, "he would certain the great destiny of the United State* ly turu around In the road to I o o k at it. a* the leader o f nation*.— C. T. Green«* “ The first buckboard, consisting of a In Four-Track News. seat placed on an elastic board whose two ends rested on a pair of axles, was a very simple and a very rough aud ready vehicle, designed for use on rough and rocky country and mountain roads, and there are parts of the coun try In which such buckboards are still used, turned out by local makers; hut the modern buckboard, while It still preserves In a general way the buck- board simplicity of appearance, Is a very different proposition from that. “ W e put now between the axles un der the bucklward longitudinal steel springs, which prevent the boards sag ging unduly, and give It greater strength nnd power of resistance nnd elasticity. W e make such buckboards with one,-with two, or with three seats, seating two, four, or six persons; and we make them either without tops or with them. With a buggy top on a single seated buckboard, nnd with suit able tops on larger buckboards If they are desired. “ And one some buckboards, to he used In districts where the character of the roads Is such as to make their use advantageous, we put rubber tired wheels. No owner would want a rub ber tired buckboard to be used In re gions where the roads were sandy or rocky; In such steel tired wheels would he best, but rubber tires are very good for a buckboard to he used In the city, where a few buckboards are used, or on buckboards to be used In parts where the ronds are macndamlzed. "The seats of those modern buck- hoards are mnde wide and with high hacks, for comfort, and they nre uphol stered with the best o f mnterlnls; which nre, for that matter, used In these vehicles throughout, for they nre mnde for service as well ns comfort, and they are In fact most serviceable as well ns most eomfortnble. But the man driving one o f the old orlglnnl buckboards, nnd who had never seen one of these, would certainly turn to look nt It If lie should chance to meet one of these modern buckboard} on the road."— Washington I’ ost. N O N-BREAKABLE BAT. W ou n d CA1UTOJ. o r M IN N U IO T A . lugs; there Is not an acre o f It that has not been charted. A dozen States have been carved out of It, and the borders Washington, July 8. — Life on the o f the brush and timber lands nre Isthmus of Panama is to be made rapidly receding before the woodman healthful, comfortable and enjoyable with his ax and the farmer with his before 'h e real work of digging the plow. In the near future there will canal is begun, according to an an not be left a single acre o f unproduct nouncement of policy made today by ive land, for the glgnntlc projects of Chairman Shonts, of the Panama Canal irrigation that the Federal Govern commission. Mr. Shonts said: ment Is undertaking will, within the “ Our first duty is to create sound next decade, transform every arid area underlying conditions. This is now JAPAN E SE LAN D O N S A K H A L E N . Into a flourishing gnrden. vastly more important than the moving This great Northwest territory com o f dirt. The men must have suitable Important Card is Played to Influence prises fully one-sixth of the entire area houses in healthy surroundings; they Term s o f Peace. o f the United States and Is now peo must have wholseome and nourishing food at reasonable cost; they must have pled with 0,000,000 Amerlcars who are St. Petersburg, July 10.— A landing suitable transportation facilities to get of Japanese troops on the island of Sak engaged In various Industries, the an to and from their work, and they must halin was officially reported tonight, nual output from which aggregates, have opportunity for recreation. in value, millions o f dollars. and startles m ilitary circles in St. Pet “ It w ill be the policy of the commis ersburg, though it has been realized I f there is one thing more than an sion to provdie these essential» as since the defeat of Admiral Rojestven- other that has fostered this marvelous quickly as possible, and to only in sky that the Japanese were able to take development It Is the modern roll- crease the working force, aside from possession of the island as soon as they road. In the great Northwest th»re the mechanics necessary to provide thought fit. The strength of the land are over 00,000 miles of railway tiaek these necessities as fast as the facilties ing force cannot be ascertained, but the and the capital that la represented by indicated can be furnished. garrison of the island is too weak to the operating plants o f all o f the rail “ So much has been said by the press offer an effective resistance. T w o L i t t l e T a lk e r s , way companies serving the people of Johnny was a little hoy, nnd they of an exaggerated character about Though the Japanese seem unwilling this territory amounts. In round num health conditions there that it may be to risk a grand battle with General were trying to teach lilm to talk. bers, to over $2,500,000,000. wise to recapitulate the facts regarding Linievitch, pending the peace meeting I’olly was a little isxrrot, and they It Is marvelous that such a transfor yellow fever. There have been be at Washington, the landing of troops were trying to teach him to talk, mation o f a wlldemesa Into a flourish tween 9,000 and 10.000 employes on the on Sshkalin is considered to express Polly belonged to Uncle Tom, nnd ing home o f civilized beings could l>e isthmus since the disease first appeared Japan’s decision regarding the formal Uncle Tom was proud o f him. effected within the short span of one in May. During that month there were conclusion of a general armistue, Rut Johnny belonged to mamma human life; yet the progress made 20 canal employes stricken ami two namely, that in the interim before the and papa, and you may he sure they during the last decade Is still more re- deaths. In June 30 canal employes meeting it is necessary to occnpv the were very, very, very proud of him. markable nnd the most reliable Indica were strietken and there were four island whose possession is an important “ Oh,” Uncle Tom used to say, “ you tion of the Increasing wealth o f this deaths, two of those dying being Amer caid in Japan’ s diplomatic contest at wait and see. My parrot will talk Ire- section of the United States Is the icans appointed in the United States Washington. fore your baby will.” erection of some o f the finest public and two persons appointed locally on But “ Oh,” mamma and papa would buildings to be seen anywhere on the the isthmus.” Missouri River Rises. then say, “ you wait and see. Johnny American continent. Omaha, Neb., July 10. — The rapid will talk before your parrot will.” The expenditure Involved In the F is h e r m e n W h o C a n 't K w lm . Russia Will Make Protest. rise of the Missouri river at this point And they waited. Few fishermen can swim, says a erection o f State capltola alone counta St. Petersburg, July 8— General Lin- has caused the breaking of dikes into But all Polly said was "Craw, craw, writer In Leslie’s Monthly on Labra upward of $25,000.1)00. The State of ievitch’s telegraphic report to the em two lakes north of the city, with the craw!” And all Johnny said was dor. "You see, we lias enough o' the Montana, with a population o f but peror charging the Japanese with using result that the river may cut a new “ Agoo, agoo, ngoo!” water without gnln’ to bother w l' It 243.400, ha* Just completed a commo dumdum bullets w ill probably be made channel, endangering the utility of the One day Uncle Tom went to Pol when we are ashore,” a man said to dious, new State House that cost In the subject of a communication to the double-span drawbridge of the Illinois ly’s cage. me only the other day. Yet tills very the neighborhood of a quarter o f a Many residents along the powers protesting against the violation Central. "P o lly,” he said, "say ‘Pretty man had fallen overboard In the open million; South Dakota Is contemplat o f the Geneva convention. Among the Nebraska side of tl e river have been Poll.' ” sen no less than four times nnd had ing the expenditure o f several thou Liberals a story is t>eing industriously compelled to fjfte from their homes. And what do you think? only been saved on one occasion by sand dollars In enlarging and embel- circulated and believed that Japan will South of the city, on the Iowa side, the Polly did! He said "Pretty Poll!” catching the line thrown him In Ills ! Hailing Its present legislative hall, nnd demand that the treaty of peace, if con bottoms are flooded for miles, doing Uncle Tom ran to mamma and told teeth nnd holding on till he was hauled Its twin State to the north has nlready cluded, shall be submitted for the rati thousands of dollars worth of damage her what Polly said. aboard. His hands were too numbed appropriated a million dollars for the fication of the Russian people, in order to crops and other property. “ Oh, ho!” said mamma, “ Johnny has to be of any use. 81111, this fact does erection of a beautiful new cnpltol to to insure its observance in case of a been talking all the morning.” not deter them from facing the water. replace the rnmshnrkle frame struc Russia Consults Powers. change of government. But Johnny did not say "Pretty In an op»n hay in Labrador lives one ture that la now used as a State Berlin, July 10.— A report is in cir Johnny said "Mam-ma” over solitary settler. In the spring o f the House; Wisconsin has recently ap Root Has Accepted. culation here that the Roumanian gov Poll!” and over. year, when the lee was Just breaking proved designs for a new cnpltol that New York, July 8. It can be defi ernment has asked the powers to ad Now Johnny has grown to he a big np, the man's two lads were out on calls for the expenditure o f $10,000,- nitely stated that President Roosevelt vise what treatment shall be accorded IDS); Iowa has spent a vnat sum to re has offerer! the position of secretary of the crew of the Russian battleship boy; he ran say a great many things. the bay lee nfter seals, when all o f a build her present structure that was state to Elihu Root, and that Mr Root Kniaz Potemkin, which mutinied and But Polly can say only “ Pretty Poll!” sudden It gave way and the lads fell partially destroyed tiy fire; nnd Min through. The father, seeing It from has accepted. President Roosevelt ar who surrendered to the Roumanian au- —8t. Nicholas. the shore, did not hesitate, but, seizing nesota has Just dedicated a $5,000,000 rived at Jersey City at 9 a. m. lie lie>rities onlay. Russia demanded that Y o u r K y e W ill F o o l You, a fishing line, hnstlly fastened one end marble palnce to the use of the people. boarded a Pennsylvania Railroad tug the crew he surrendered to her; Austria In many respects this latter stmc- The next time your "crowd” Is round his hotly and, giving the other and was taken to Long Island City. and Germany advised Roumania to around yon Just say: None o f you I end to his daughter to hold, he ran onl tore Is the most remarkable In the He left there for Ovster bay at 9:47. give them to Russia, while England, have an eye that Is any good. I guar to the hole through which they had United States, ami to the tourist trav Paul Morton and Elihu Root, who ac France and Italy advised their release. antee that not a single eye In the crowd fallen. He Jumped Into the water, ac eler. who come* to St. Paul In the companied the president from Cleve can see straight.” O f course the chal tually went down and fetched up the future. It will he a source o f pleasure May Break Out When Lid is O ff. land, left the train at Jersey City. lenge will be taken up. tsidles, too late, alas, to restore life to •nd Inspiration. Odessa, July 10.— It is officially an When Glenn Brown, the aecretary Then you need take only a sheet of them after that cold water. nounced that quiet prevails in Odessa, Refunding Hawaiian Debt. of the American Institute o f Archi thin pasteboard—a visiting card Is the Washington, July 8. — President but it is feared in many quarters that | jest— and punch a tiny hole In It with tects, of Washington, I). C., visited the W o r k A m o n g C o n v ic t « . Roosevelt has approved the issue of an outbreak w ill follow the lifting of a pin. G ive It fo any one In the gather Mrs. Halllngton Booth la asking new cnpltol o f Minnesota, he declared the state of siege. The governor gen- , $600,000 of bonds by the Territory of ing and tell him to hold the card np 2.0(g) men to pledge themselves for f l It to be the finest structure In Amer H aw aii to refund the gold bonds of the eral today issued a proclamation threat toward s strong light so that the little a month each for one year to be de ica to-day with the exception of the Republic of Hiawaii, issned under act ening those circulating false reports bole will be about eight Inches from voted to the forwarding o f her rescue national cnpltol at Washington. Not with punishment under military law o l the legislature of June 13, 1898. the eye. Then give him the pin and work among convicts and ex convicts. ■o much money ba« been «pent on It w it h W ir e o r B o m « S t r e n g th e n in g M a te r ia l. O th ev The baeeball fan, or, more correct ly speaking, the baseball player, will hall the advent of the non-brenkabl* bat that has made Its appearance. Thla most desirable and hitherto unknown attribute o f a baseball bat Is attained by cutting a spiral groove In the wood and Inserting therein, flush with the surface o f the bat, some strengthen ing material, such as steel wire of steel tape or sinew. The spiral Is mad* continuous from a point Just above the handle, so as not to Interfere with u good, comfortable grip, to a point Just below where the ball ordinarily S T E E L W l HH ON T H E B A T . strikes. Care has to be exercised, of course, In fastening the ends o f the strengthening material wound In the groove to prevent the development of weak spots, particularly at the handle extremity. The groove, o f course, I* not large enough to detract apprecia bly from the normal strength o f the wood o f the particular section used. T h e y D id N o t H a v e T o. A family who had struggled the best part of a lifetime In n poverty-stricken portion o f the city suddenly came Into the possession o f n small Income, with the prospect In a few years o f some thing more. Their long crushed nspl- rntlons revived, and the women o f the family especially began to assume va rious airs and artificialities. They moved to a little place In the country, and tried mightily to Impress tlielr nelghltora with their Importance. They talked constantly o f what “ peo ple In our position" should nnd should not do. Some of their town acquaintance* came out to visit them during the sum mer, and one of the younger member* o f the family, a little girl o f 7 or 8, was showing them about the place. "W hat nice chickens!" exclaimed one o f the guests when they reached the poultry yard. "They lay steadily, too, I suppose?” "Yes,” returned the youthful hos tess, who really knew nothing nt all about It, “ that la, they could, o f course, hut In our position they—they don't have to.” lie mark a b le O e n 'T o » lt - f. “ You aay O’ Hannngan leaves the Orphans' Horn« a large legacy?” " Be ds d, It's purty large.” "H ow much?” “T w elve children an' a goat, begorraP