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P R O S E C U T E S ALL T R U S T S .
Bonaparte
Tolls About W ork o f His
Dsoartmont.
Washington, Oet. 8,— Attorney-Qen-
«ral Bonaparte has made public his re­
p ly to a letter he had received from
Josephus Daniels, chairman o f the
Democratic press committee at Chicago,
asking for facts connected with the
trust prosecutions by the department o f
justice, including the present standing
o f litigation against the trusts.
The reply gives a summary o f the
cases prosecuted substantially as fur­
nished in a recent report made publie,
a copy o f which the attorney-general
forwards to Mr. Daniels. The attor­
ney-general says that his department
has prosecuted all eases under the
Sherman anti trust or interstate com­
merce laws that have been brought to
its attention from responsible sources,
where the facts disclosed warrant such
action. He continues:
*4 It is, o f course, needless fo r me to
•ay that the mere faet that a corpora­
tion or association is railed. a ‘ trust'
by Mr. John M oody in his manual, does
not prove or even tend to prove that
it s organization or its members have
been guilty o f violation o f federal
laws. Neither is such guilt suggested
b y the faet that such organization may
d o a large and apparently profitable
business."
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R O A D SIB R O K E PROM ISE.
C om m ission Surprised !by Injunction
Suit at 8 t. Paul.
Washington, Oct. 8. — Considerable
surprise was expressed at the interstate
commerce commission today when news
was received that the Hill and Harri-
man railroads had gone into the circuit
court at 8t. Paul and asked that the
commission be enjoined from enforcing
its new rates on lumber shipped from
Oregon and Washington to territory east
o f the Roeky mountains. The rates
fixed -by the commission were to have
gon e into effect in August, but late in
J u ly the railroads asked for an exten­
sion o f time, declaring it to be impos­
sible to prepare and publish new sched­
ules by the time stipulated.
* They promised, if the extension was
granted, to accept the commission's
rates and put them into effect on Octo­
ber 15; and, furthermore, promised that
I f this extension' was granted they
would not go into eourt and undertake
t o have rates enjoined.
It is reported unofficially, however,
that these roads, contrary to their prom­
ise, have appealed to the circuit eourt
f o r the eighth circuit at St. Paul for
an injunction against the commission,
and there is no possibility o f a decision
before the date when the compromise
rates were to have gone into effect.
Will Return February 2 8 .
Washington, Oet. 8.— The itinerary
o f the return home from Manila o f the
battleship fleet has been announced at
the navy department. The fleet will
leave Manila December 1, arrive at Co­
lom bo December 14, stay there six days,
and then depart for Suez, which it is
-scheduled to reach on January 5. The
ahipa will pass through the canal and
«oa l at Port Said as expeditiously^ as
possible. They are to spend the month
o f January and a few days early in
.February
. the. Mediterranean, two or
, three vessels going each to Ville-
franehe, Marseilles, Genoa, Leghorn,
Malta, Algiers, Negro Bay, Moroeeo,
the whole fleet leaving the latter place
February 0, being ecbednled to arrive
In the United 8tates on February 22.
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New Quarterm aster at Portland.
Washington, Oet. 1.— Captain Ira L.
Frcdenhall, quartermaster, will proceed
t o Portland, Or., and assume charge o f
the office o f disbursing quartermaster
at that plate, and will also report to
th e commanding general, department o f
the Colombia, fo r duty as assistant to
the ehief quartermaster o f that depart­
ment, relieving Captain Henry Clark.
-Captain Clark upon being relieved will
proceed to Fort Ward, Washington, and
assume charge o f construction work at
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that post.
Legislation Against Opium.
Washington, Oct. 7.— Benewed efforts
are to be made at the eoming session
« f congress, whieh will receive the
bearty indorsement o f the administra­
tion, to secure legislation to restrict
the importation o f opium into the
United States. Dr. Hamilton Wright,
one o f the American commissioners to
the Internstionsl Opium convention at
Shanghai next January, left Washing­
ton yesterday for the West, prepara­
tory to sailing to China, October 20.
R ejects Changed Term s.
Washington, Oct. 10.— The contract
o f the Pacific Coast Construction com­
pany, o f Portland, for construction rot
a dam on the Lower Yellowstone irri­
gation project in Montana, has been
suspended end the reclamation service
has been authorized to complete * the
work by force acocunt. This action
was taken as a result o f the refusal o f
the contractors to complete the work
in accordance with the terms o f the
contract, largely in the matter o f time.
S ock sys Pack 3 3 8 ,0 0 0 C ases.
Washington, Oet. 7. — Consul-General
West, o f Vancouver, has reported that
the total eatch for the season o f the
sockeye salmon was 338,000 eases and
the excess o f the pack for the year
was largely confined to the canneries
on the Fraser and 8keena rivers, there
being a noticeable falling off in the
paek on Bivers inlet.
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Q ovsm m sn t Buys Silver.
Washington, Oet. 0.— The treasury de­
partment today
purchased
120,000
ounces o f fine silver at 51.772 cents.
Seventy-live thousand ounees o f silver
are for delivery at Philadephia, and the
rest nt New Orleans.
8TA N D IN O TIM BER S U P P L Y .
Census Being Taken— Amount fo r 2 3
Y ears C om puted.
Washington, Oet. 10.— The National
conservation commission has caused
the first comprehensive attempt at ths
census o f the standing timber in the
United States ever undertaken. The
commission needs the information to
help complete its inventory o f the coun­
tr y ’s natural resources which it will
include in its report to the president,
and since that report is to be sub­
mitted on the first o f next year, it
needs the information at onee. In con­
sequence the work on the eensns has
been started with a rush and is now
well under way. Estimates as to the
amount o f standing timber in the Uni­
ted States range all the way from 822,-
862.000. 000 to 2,000,000,000,000 board
feet, a difference o f more than a trillion
feet in the views o f the best qualified
authorities in the country.
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In the opinion o f the forest service,
the most carefully prepared estimates
yet mads are those o f Henry Gannett,
published by the 12th census o f 1900,
which placed the total stumpage at 1,-
390.000. 000.000 board feet. Mr. Gan­
nett was recently chosen by the presi­
dent to compile all the information
gathered for the commission. The cen­
sus is expected to give nn accurate
basis for computing how long our tim­
ber supplies will last.
The consensus o f opinion is that the
present annual consumption o f wood is
about 100,000,000,000 board feet, or
something more than that. - A leading
authority has placed it as high as 150,-
000,000,000 board feet. Assuming that
stumpage o f 1,400,000,000,000 board
feet, an annual use o f 100,000,000,000
board feet and neglecting growth in the
calculation, the exhaustion o f onr tim­
ber supply is indicated in 14 years,
and assuming the same use and stand
with an annual growth o f 40,000,000,000
feet, a supply fo r 23 years is indicated.
J o b s G o Bagging.
Washington, Oct. 9.— Civil service
examinations are to be held today and
tomorrow to secure eiigibles from which
to make appointments as examiner in
the interstate commerce commission.
Contrary to expectations, there have
been few applicants for these positions,
whieh are to pay from $1800 to $3000
a year. This is due to the fact that
the requirements .outlined by the com­
mission are difficu lt to meet, and the
examinations are vhry exhaustive, in­
volving expert knowledge o f general
auditing, disbursements, freight, pas­
senger and claims accounts in connec­
tion with steam roads sad accounting
in connection with electrie railway, ex­
press service, steamship service .and
other common earner serviee.
Willing to Yield to C on ioron co, but
Wants Bulgarin Disciplined.
Constantinople, O c t 7.— Ths council
o f ministers held n long session yester­
day morning to eonsider the allion o f
Bulgaria in declaring hsr independence
o f Turkey nt Tlrnovo. It was decided
that it was impossible to accept any
proceedings
that violated
existing
treaties and that Turkey should ad­
dress n circular note to ths powers
pointing out the neceseity o f taking
ensures to enforee respect fo r the
treaty o f Berlin.
Replying to the terms sent to the
Turkish government by Prinee Ferdi­
nand, in whieh he said in declaring ths
independence of Bulgaria he bad been
compelled to respect the voles o f the
nation and expressed the hope that ths
friendly relations between the two
countries would continue, Turkey says
she has invited the powers to confer on
the situation and as her rights are
guaranteed by the powers she will look
to them for their defense. The Yenai
Gazette, the organ o f the grand vizier,
said yesterday:
" W e are ready to defend onr rights
with all onr strength. As the action
o f Bulgarin is not only directed against
us, but against all the powers we
should ask the powers to defend their
interests and protset the provisions of
the treaty o f Berlin.'*
According
lint to this same journal, Aus-
tria Hungary has informed the p<
powers
o f her intention ■ o f withdrawin; g her
troops from ths Sanjak o f Novil bazar.
DR. KING’S
NEW DISCOVERY
FO R
C ontroller R oasts Examiners.
Washington, Oct. 7 .— Lawrence O.
Murray, comptroller o f the currency,
has declared that the common fault of
national bank examiners is that they
delay too long in dosin g the banks
intrusted to their care. He addressed
sixteen examiners yesterday at a
meeting to whieh they had been sum­
moned.
The conference will last a
week. Murray warned the examiners
BLAME ON C A PTA IN S.
against
extravagances, carelessness
and lack of judgment.
The receiver
ship o f national banks should be T ugboats Found R esponsible fo r Loss
placed on n square business basis, he
o f Star o f Bengal.
declared.
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San Francisco, Oet. 7.— Federal in­
vestigation into, the lose o f the bark
N ot-M u ck H o p * fo r Stew art.
Washington, Oet. 8.— The medical Star o f Bengal with 111 livee on Cor­
members o f the special retiring, board onation island, September 20, has re­
o f the army have decided against Col­ sulted. in the filing o f direct charges
onel William F. Stewart, the famous
responsibility fo r the tragedy
Fort Grant exile, and sustained the s f
report o f the surgeon at Fort Huaehuca, against Captain Patrick Hamilton, of
Ariz., who held that Colonel Stewart the tug Kayak, and Captain Farrar, of
had been afflicted with serious ail­ the Hattie Gage.
ments sinee 1875, when it was neces­
Supervising Inspector Bermingham
sary for him to refrain from active has not yet decided whether these
service for a time. This indicates that charges will be tried here, at Seattle
Colonel Stewart will be found by the or Juneau, Alaska. In the event that
board to be incapable o f serviee and the accused skippers are found guilty
probably will result in his being re­ aa charged. Information will be filed
with the United States attorney in
tired on that ground. -
Alaska, and they will be brought be
fore a grand jury on a felony charge.
W om en Join M ovement
Captain Nicholas Wagner, master of
Washington, Oet. 8__ Great impetus the Star o f Bengal; Yietor Johanson,
was gives to the anti-tuberculosis his first mate, and two o f the seamen
movement in this country when the who testified at the investigation, made
American Federation o f Women’s Clubs to ascertain Captain W agner’s respon
enlisted in the cause. With a member­ sibility for the loss o f the bark, made
ship o f 800,000 women, this organize a statement under oath yesterday to
tion ’s active support in the campaign the United States officials in whieh
o f education was pledged by Mrs. they ehargs Captains Hamilton and
Phillip N. Moore, o f 8 t Louis, the Farrar with cowardice and neglect in
president, at a public meeting o f worn deserting the bark when she was in a
en ’s clubs at the new National Mt* critical position.
scum, where the Tuberculosis Expos’,
tion is being held.
Rsvsnus is Greater.
New York, O et f .— The report of
Fish Resigns fo r Politics.
the Northern Paeific for the year end
Washington, Oct. 7 .— The resignation ing June 30 shows an inerease in rev
o f Hamilton Fish, assistant treasurer enue over the yeSr before, but a de
o f the United States at New York, was crease in net income. In 1907 the road
accepted
yesterday
by
President earned in the passenger department
Roosevelt.
It was announced that $16,329,861, while in 1908 it increased
Fish had resigned because he had been to $18,133,238. In the freight depart
nominated for congress.
This is in ment the earnings were $47,650,369 in
accordance with the recent order given 1907, while in 1908 they totalled only
out by President Roosevelt that no $46,423,836. The decrease in net in
employes o f the government ean par­ eome was due to increase in operating
ticipate in polities.
expenses and an increase o f over $2.
000.000 in interest, and commissions
No U rouble O ver M o r o cc o .
paid on new'stock subscriptions.
Washington, Oct.
7__ Ambassador
Jusserand, who has returned from his
Typhoon in Philippines.
vacation in Franee, declared yeater
Manila, Oet. 7 .— W ord received ye*
day that there wae not ■ the slighteet
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terday from the artillery post camp at
trouble between Franee and Germany Stetnenburg, 60 miles from here, »ay*
over the M iroccoan question. "J u s t the whole post was destroyed by the
prior to my leaving h o m e ," he said, typhoon o f Sunday night. Nothing is
" a most conciliatory note was re­ left but the foundations o f the build
ceived at the French foreign office ings. No reports o f casualties have
from Germany. I see no good reason been received. Other posts through
why good feeling should not continue." out the islands are believed to have
been badly damaged also and it is
feared some o f them havs been wiped
W heat C ro p Again 8 h ort.
Washington, Oet. 9.— With a world's out. Damage to wires has made com­
wheat crop for the second year in sac munication practically impossible.
eession materially below the average,
C astro R eported III.
says a erop report o f the department o f
agriculture, the extent o f the proba^ld
Willemstad, Oet. 7 .— 1» is reported
European demand for foreign wheat is hers from Venezuela that President
a subject of. special importance. The Castro Is seriously ill and that the gov­
latest estimate o f ths Hungarian min­ ernment o f Venezuela probably soon
istry o f agricnltnre indicates n shorings will have to be turned over to ths
for Europe o f 18,000,000 baskets.
vlee-prosldsnt o f Ike republic.
COLDS
AND ALL THROAT *»° LUNG
D IS E Á S E 8
P R EV EN T 8
PNEUMONIA
AND
CONSUMPTION
"T w o years «go « severe cold settled oo my longs and ee
tumble to work and scarcely able to stand. 1 t o « was advised te try
after veiag one bottle I want back to work, as well as I ever was.*'
a Mew Discovery,
PRICK OOo
AND SI.OO
•OLD AND GUARANTEED BY
W O R K FOR W E S T .
Nineteenth 8 ession o f Trans-M issis­
sippi C on gress O pens.
San Francisco, Oet. 7 .— Assembled to
promote the common interests o f near­
ly n score o f states comprising the west,
several hundred delegates in attend­
ance upon the opening session o f ths
Nineteenth Trans-Mississippi Commer­
cial Congress yesterday listened to
gratifying assurances o f co-operation
and support from the national admin­
istration, from the representative o f 20
republies o f the western continent^ who
are interested in the pending delibera­
tions, from the tw<r leading candidates
for the presidency o f the United States
and from the leading eitizens o f the
states and territories comprising their
own organizations.
Reserving for the succeeding days o f
the congress the spirited debates
promised on the conservation o f nat­
ural resources and kindred topies, the
visitors yesterday basked
in
ths
warmth o f a welcome extended by
practically every official représenta:
tive o f the state and city honored by
their coming, and in the afternoon re­
ceived with enthusiastic delight the o f­
ficial assurances o f two speakers who
promised a splendid fulfillment o f west­
ern hopes and western ideals.
Not ths least striking feature o f the
ission eras the astonishment ex­
pressed by delegates who witnessed for
the first time the rapid rebuilding o f
San Francisco. A dozen speakers de­
clared that the marvelous restoration
o f the city destroyed lees than three
years ago would prove the inspiration
o f the congress.
COUGHS
C. F. MOORE
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