Condon globe., January 07, 1910, Image 4

;THE CONDON GLOBE
GHIIAM COUNTY BOOSTER"
USlst K. HAW. AN. letter.
CONDON ..OREGON
EVENTS JFTI1E DAY
Ksrcy Items Gated trcm ill
Parte! the World.
lass Important but Not Ls lnt
ting Happening from Points
Outside tho Stat.
Banker Moras begins a penitentiary
aentenc aa coovict No. 2814.
Archbishop Ireland defends King
lUtM.
Zalav man ha tiaa ahnnriant nraof
that American marina aided the revo
lutionist against him.
3. P. Morgan, T. F. Ryan and Levi
, P. Morton form $150,000,000 bank
trait In Near York eitv.
It U claimed that th recent aero
plane carnival in Franc frightened all
th bird from the vicinity.
United State government officials
bave planned a raid against nightrider
of Kentucky and Tennesae.
A millionaire cattleman of Texas
gav hi three children $2,000,000
worth of property each for a Christmas
present.
The barkeeper of an American hotel
in Havana refused to serv two negro
congressmen and a riot followed. Fur
ther trouble is expected.
President Taft listened patiently to
. the committee of railroad presidents
but will not change th ton of his
forthcoming mesaag to congress.
Postal deficit for 1909 is $17,441,-
719.
I Over 60,00 people attended Presi
dent T ait's New Year's reception.
Senator Cummins of lows, opens
campaign tor further triff revision.
If mediation in switchmen's strike
. fails, 20,000 mors men wil stop work.
Daughtes of the American Revolu
tion have taken up conservation work.
' Postmaster-General Hitchcock urges
postal reforms to avoid a deficit in
190.
Rattinv ia wan in Tvtdan that the
Liberals will win in th coming lec
tion. Indian commissioner reports that tu
berculosis is on th increase among In
dians. ' "Twelve men were lost by the sinking
; of s sugar-laden schooner in an At
lantic gale. ;;'
Colonist travel to the Pacific ' North
west for 90 broke all record a, and is ex
pected ti still greater for 1910.
A WVUHHi SUUKU W iau JB " g Mai
. stopped the laying of an oil pip line
on her ranch gin California.
Trains collided in a snowstorm near
Billings, Mont., killing two. A miss
ing baggageman is thought to have
burned in th wreckage.
Zelaya asserts that he is still presi
dent of Nicaragua.
,. Taft 'a special message on - trust law
changes will go to congress next week.
A southern ehemiat expert asserts
that the aurora borealis is caused by
. The New York supreme eourt says
patriotism has given way to an age of
. graft.
Army engineers have recommended
extensive improvements for the Colum-
bia river.
The Turkish eabinet has been driven
, out of office and a military premier
may be appointed.
It is considered that the reclamation
service is safe from abolishment,
though many ehanges may be made.
A Nebraska man got an appointment
' as a deputy sheriff and then proceeded
to bring home his erring son from Los
Angeles.
A draftsman on a British schoolship
is under arrest for stealing complete
plans of the British navy's wireless
system and codes.
James Gordon, once acensed of con
spiring with Booth to kill Lincoln, has
been named United States senator from
Tennessee by Governor Noel.
Heney has filed a libel suit against
W. 8. Crocker for $250,000.
Fifty out of 88 American colleges
. will continue to approve of football.
Physicians say there is no hope for
' Cardinal Satolu, though be may linger
Several days.
Loss by the tidal wave and blizzard
, on the New England coast will reach
5,000,000, besides many lives.
When Zelaya arrives in Mexico, Pres-
dent Uiaz will attend a resepuon in nis
honor, which is taken as a direct insult
- to the United States.
Six women are en route on foot from
Seattle to join the I. W. W. of Spokane
and fight for the right of free speech
on the public streets.
Zelaya boards Mexican gunboat under
. eyes OI American marines.
, J. D. Warren, who pursued and helped
' to capture Jesse James, is dead. .
Strike leaders for the switchmen
nave called on negotiations wttn tm
railroads, and will appeal to Washing
ton for advice and aid.
in., t frB, .I... '
dent, will be married to G. H. Snowdea,
of Seattle. After a trip to Europe they
will reside in Seattle.
" JU1SB UUUim uo lhodi-
COMET W1IX BEUSH SABTH.
PaclSo Coast Will Have Best View
About May 18,
Oakland, Cat, Jan. 5. Halley "s
comet will give the Psciflo Coast a
eloee brush this year ea May 18, be
tvreta the hoars of 4 and 10 e'elock
a. and th "brush" will be aoate
thiag petaelar, say Professor
Charles Bnrkhalter, of the Chabot ob
servatory. The earth will then pass through th
last of the 20,000.000-mil tail of th
celestial visitor, and th result ought
to be a dassling a piece ef fireworks
a this generatio has jver witnessed.
The astroaoaier insists that he has
"nothing to say" about so dramatic
situation, fraught not only with aw
iaspiring possibilities to the dwellers
oa the globe, but fraught, aa well, with
possibilities of trsgio moment. Whether
or not the earth's dive through the
comet's tail will mean anything mere.
than a daitlmg starry spectacle, rro
feasor Burkhalier will aot predict, lie
only says:
"Wait and soe.'
The news that Halley 's comet will
be seen only oa the Pacific Coast has
not hitherto beea published, although
the fact has beea known for some tim
to the astronomers of the world, man
of whom will journey to California to
be oa the scene waea the great phe
aomenoa takes place.
In discussing the comot, the astrono
mer says:
"Astronomers Cromelin and Cowell,
of the Koyal observatory at Greenwich,
have probably made the most exhaust
ive researches into the history of th
comet,
"According to the computations Hal
ley's comet will reach the descending
node on May 18, 1910, when it will b
in a direct line between the orbits of
the earth and the sun, and it so hap
pens that the earth will reach that par
tieular point of its orbit about th
same time. Should the calculations of
the astronomers prove to be rigidly ex
set, the comet will pass directly be
tween the earth and the sun between
the hours of 4 and 10 o'clock stand
rd Pacific time.
"Assuming that it will happea dnr
ing the middle of this time, or 7 p. m-
it will be visible ever the Pseific Ocean,
Eastern Asia and Western North Amer
ica. -
BANK MEBQEB GROWS.
Big Money Tract Adds $61,000,000 In
On Day.
New York, Jsn. 5. J. Pierpont Mor
gan and associates may eontrel, through
further trust company mergers in New
York, the enormous sum of $210,000,000
ill deposits alone.
This is approximately $25,000,000
more than tbe deposits of the National
City bank of this city, the largest finan
cial institution in the United States.
Reports of additional trust company
consolidation are given credence in
view of yesterday's announcement of
the merger by J. P. Morgan 4 Co., of
the uuaranty Trust, Morton Trust and
Fifth-Avenne Trust companies, with
combined deposits of about $150,000,000.
This brought a revival in the finan
cial distriet of rumors embracing the
Bankers Trust and the Manhattan
Trust companies in tbe same combina
tion. There were definite reports that
the Mercantile Trust company and the
Equitable Trust company eventually
would be taken into some sort of a
powerful alliance.
In point of faet, the Bankers Trust
company is closely affiliated with the
so-called Morgan interests in that two
partners in the Morgan banking house
George W. Perkins and Henry P.
Davison sit in the directorate of the
former.
Other directors of the Bankors Trust
company, including A. B. Hepburn and
A. H. Wiggin, president and vice-president
respectively of the Chase National
bank, and William H. Porter, president
of the Chemical National bank, are
active in affairs of the Guaranty Trust
company, which is , to be made the
titular head of the Guaranty-Morton-Fifth-Avenue
consolidation.
Relations between the Morgan inter
ests and the Manhattan Trust company
always have been intimate, though the
latter is not regarded as a Morgan ap
pendage. It is perhaps significant that
the building ones occupied by the Man
hattan Trust eompany is to bs razed
soon to make way for a 30-story build
ing to be erected by the Bankers Trust
company.
Deposits of the Bankers Trust aggre
gate $46,500,000 and those of the Man
hattan Trust company $13,400,000, so
that the two companies, if combined
with those now in process of absorp
tion by "J. P. Morgan A Associates,"
would total in deposits more than $200,
000,000. Train Is Lost In Desert.
Salt Lake, Utah, Jan. 5. Train No.
4, carrying 100 to 150 passengers from
Los Angeles to Salt Lake, is marooned
on the desert, 34 miles from Calinete,
Nev., the track before and behind it
having been torn out by the flood of
last week. The train is well stocked
with provisions and there is no suf
fering. As soon as wagons ean reach
tbe stalled train, a matter of three or
four days, the passengers will be
brought to Barclay, six miles west of
Acoma, where a train will be waiting
to bring them into Salt Lake.
Town Nearly Wiped Out
Watertown, 8. D., Jan. 5. The town
of Castlewood, 18 miles south of here,
narrowly missed being wiped out by
fire of unknown origin tonight. The
entire south side of Main street is in
ashes, entailing a loss estimated at
$180,000, when 12 buildings were de
stroyed. The fire did not stop until
the last building on the south side of
the street was destroyed. Late tonight
the fire had burned itsolf out on the
extreme edge of Main street.
Paper Trust Probe Near. .
New York, Jan. 5. The federal
grand jury here is expected to take
up shortly tbe investigation of the al
leged paper combination which the fed
eral authorities have been looking into,
following the action which led to the
dissolution of the manila fiber paper
pool.
HAPPENINGS FROM
MANY NSW PHONE LINE.
Independent Company Connects Bets
With Central Oregon. ,
, Ontario Ontario 's Independent tele
phone system "Is nearly completed. The
telephones hav beea received sad th
switchboards will sooa be installed. It
is expected that all will be in working
order by the middle of January.
Rural lines will be installed from
here to Nysse, and from here to Vale,
including ranches all along both Uses.
K ntodera metallic circuit will be put In
from here to Yale for long distance
use, to connect at Vale with th line
already practically complete from Vale
to Burns in Harney county. . The Vale
Burns line is being installed by a Drew
sey corporation, of which W. D. Baker
is one of the principal stockholders and
the nisnager.
Exchange with this line has been ar
ranged by the Outario lines, which w,ill
tlso have exchange with tbe Payette,
Fruitlsnd and Idaho towns as far east
ts Boise, This will give in effect a
through service, from Boise to Burns,
which will be the largest territory that
has ever been served by telephone in
this locality.
" The Drewsey line reaches Westfall,
Beulah, Harney and Burns, will soon
be in at Juntura, and will have con
nection with all the ranch homes in
Otis, Malheur and Harney valleys.
NOT BUILDING LOGGING ROAD
President of Pacific Railway Declares
Grade Is First Class.
Portlsnd " Who ever heard of a log
ging road constructed at a cost of $40,
000 per mile?"
This tbe question E. E. Lytic, presi
dent of the Pacific Railway & Naviga
tion company, propounded when asked
in regard to a report emanating from
Astoria to the effct that th line being
built from Hillsboro to Tillamook will
be nothing more nor lee than a log
ging road ; that it ia not intended for
passenger and freight business.
"Why, it is absurd," Mr. Lytic con
tinued, and laughed heartily. "Of
course tbe report cam from Astoria;
Astoria does not want th road built at
all. It never did.
" W are pushing th work as rapid
y as possible, and expect to hav
trains in operation by August 1. At
present 1,500 men are engsged on the
work, and they ar certainly doing
tomething." "Th report ha it that
th road contains too many sharp
curves, and too steep a grade to make
it practical forjtessenger traffic," Mr.
Lytic was told.
"Curves and grades? We bsvs no
steeper grade than tbe maximum of
tbe Southern Pacific to California,
which is 8 per cent, and a for curve,
there is not on exceeding IS degrees.
You must not lore sight of the fact
that we bave 18 tfnnels on that stretch
of road from Hillsboro to Tillamook.
These tunnels sboudld do away with
some of the gad that seems to fright
en those who might hav started th
rumor.
"Tbe road will cost in the neighbor
hood of $4,000,000, including the cost of
equipment, and passenger and freight
trains will be operated to supply every
demand.
"As far as logging goes, we do not
own a tract of timber in that district
Of course, it taps s rich timber coun
try, and logs will, of course, be haul
ed if they are offered, but it will only
bs part of tbe business."
Big Hospital for Medford.
Medford The mother provincial of
Oregon, who is in charge of all hos
pitals in the northwest undor ths man
agement of the Sisters of the Holy
Names, is in Medford forthe purpose
of meoting local business men and dis
cussing with them plans for the erec
tion of a $125,000 hospital in this city.
For some time the Sisters of the Holy
names have been considering the mat
ter of erecting a hospital in this city,
but this is the first definite step.
Thirty Potatoes Weigh 80 Pounds.
Junction City Floyd Howerd hs on
display bere six potatoes which weigh
16 pounds. One potato weighs five
pounds. F. W. Thorn raised about
4,000 bushels on bis Kiverview farm.
Thirty potatoes' filled a sack, which
weighed 89 pounds. A dealer pur
chased three sacks of potatoes from
Wm. Michaels and found on that
measured 4 inches in length.
Wild Cats In Linn County.
Albany Tbe foothills of Linn coun
ty are abounding in wild animals,
Wayne Menear brought the skins of
three wildcats and two cougars to tbe
county clerk's office, tor which he was
given the state bounty amounting to
$26. He will be given nearly as much
county bounty at the next term of tbe
county court.
Orchards in Linn.
Albany The planting of tbouesnds
of acres of orchards in Linn county,
through the organization of orchard
companies, is the real awakening spir
it created during the year, and wbicb
will mean the dividing up of tbe pres
ent Urge tracts of land.
Profit In Wallowa Land.
Joseph Augustus White has sold
bis 800-acre stock ranch in Imnahon
park to Joe Rhlnn cf Jsssph for $3,000.
Mr. White bought this place four years
ago for $4,600.
Electric Lights for Fen.
Salem A complete eleetrie lighting
system, including one bulb in each .cell,
has been installed at the penitentiary, j
AROUND OREGON
CANAL FROM LAM TO IA.
Pacific Canal Co. Incorporates for
1,000,000 to Build fthipway.
Portland Money makes th sea
port, then th people com. Upon this
policy, it is announced, th PadA
Caual company ha incorporated with
a capitalisation of $1,000,000 to con
struct a shlpwsy between Flore lak
and th ocean. Pacific City is to b s
new town maintained largely by tim
ber Interacts, -, ,
"But the belldlng of the city Is In
entirely different bands than the canal
project," said L. Recder, attorney for
the promoters of ths canal.
"Th men who ar backing th ntr
prtse, I might say. went down to
Flore lake and looked ovsr the situa
tion. They saw a natural wooded har
bor, needing but a short connection
to open it to th ships ot th sea.
They measured and found 10,000,000
feet of virgin timber, and th cleared
land valuable for dairying and near
ly all of it arable. It was practically
an unopened country. They decided
that it would be a sure Investment to
build a city ; the canal cume a a mat
ter of course.
"In 1912 w will hsv there a city
of 10,000 people, possibly. Th land
is capable of supporting fully thai
many. Railroads ar coming and th
largest ship will b given a fresh wa
ter harbor two mils long, three quar
tan of a mil wide and svsrywhsr 40
feet deep. Located about 40 mile
south of Coo bay, we are at a conven
ient hipping point for all coast cities
and for th trad of th Orient."
Wallowa's Lumbar Industry.
Wallowa In 1909 the chief advance
ment in the county was the lumber In
dustry, at th beginning of the sea
son there war only three small mill
in the immediate vicinity of Wallowa;
at the close of 1909 there wer ten
mills, many of wbicb hav a capacity
of 20,000 feet per day. The largest
of these mills is the Nibley-Mimnaugb
Lumber company's mill, located in this
city. It ia a modern band mill, with
a cspscity of 60,000 feet per day.
These mills wilt market more than
80.000,000 feet of lumber annually, all
of which will be sent from Wallowa.
As the lumber Industry Increased
rapidly in the past year tbe population
of the county increased. Wallowa ad
vanced from a little hamlet to a mod
ern town with many magnificent resi
dences. Wallowa county built t modern court
bouse within the past year, which Is
located at Enterprise.
Land-Hungry Men Busy in Lake.
Silver Lake During November 12,
800 acres of land were filed upoa before
Commissioner West St this place. Thore
were 15 homestead filings of 100 acres
each, 28 additional homesteads, three
desert filings of 160 acres each,
and one of 320 acres. These fig
ures show how eagerly land In this por
tion of Lake county is being sought
after. From the way December filings
have continued, the number will be far
in excess ot those for November.
PORTLAND MARKETS.
Wheat Track prices: Bluestera,
$1.20; club, $1.10; red Russian, $1.09;
Valley, $1.10.
Barley Feed and brewing, $306$
30.60 per ton.
Corn Whole, $35; cracked, $36 ton.
Osts No. 1 white, $32.60(fi33 ton.
Hay Timothy: Wlllsmette Vslley,
$186(20 per ton; Eastern Oregon, $18
(ii21.60; alfalfa, $1616.50; clover,
$16(916; cheat, $16016; grain hay,
$15(u)16.
Butter City creamery extras, 89c;
fancy outside creamery, 84((f39c per
ponud; store, 22,V424c. Batter fat
prices average 1 He per pound under
regular butter prices.
Poultry Hens, 16K(Tt.l6; 8prlngs,
15Ji16; ducks, 20c; geese, 12c; tur
keys, live, 22c; dressed 26c.
Eggs Fresh Oregon extras, 41(i!
42Kc per dozen; Eastern, 28(Vii30c per
dozen.
Pork Fancy, lOfii lOc per pound.
Veal Extras, llfwllkc per pound,
Fresh Fruits Apples, $1(H3 box;
pears, $1 (a 1.60 per box; cranberries,
$9 per barrel.
Potatoes Carload buying prices :
Oregon, 656i86c per sack; sweet po
tatoes, 2c per pound.
Vegetables Artichokes, $!(? 1.75
per dozen; cabbage, $1.60(1.60 per
hundred; cauliflower, $1.76 per dozen;
celery, $3.60 per crate; garlic, 10s
pound; ' borsetadish, 12tC per pound;
pumpkins, lfrilc; sprouts, 6f7c
per pound; squash, lftulc; turnips,
$1 per sack; carrots, $1; beets, $1.60;
parsnips $1.60.
Onions -Oregon, $1.60 per sack.
Hops 1909 crop, 2021c; olds,
nominal.
Wool Eastern Oregon, 1623c
pound ; mohair, choice, 26e pound.
Cascara bark 4Xc pound.
Hides Dry hides, 18019c pr pound;
dry kip, 1718c pound; dry calfskin,
19021c pound; salted hides, 10kllc;
salted calfskin, 1516e pound; green
lc less.
Cattle Best steers, . $4.604.76;
fair to good, $44.26; medium and
feeders, $3.25(6.60; cows, top, $3.60
4; fair to good, $303.25: common to
medium, $2.603.76; bulls, $3,260
6.60; heavy, $44.75.
Hogs Best, $8.6008.66; medium)
$7.5008.25; stackers, $6.6006.75;
Sheep Best wethers, $5.6005.76;
fair to good, $4.6006; ewes, t less,
yearlings, best, $505.25; fair to good,
$4.6004.76; lambs, $606.26.
COLONIST TRAVEL HEAVT.
Teat of 1009 Was Eecord Breaker.
Mors Expected In 1910.
Chicago, Jaa. J Tbe colonising
work done by the railroad la th
weet and Pacific aorthwett during the
spring and fall of 1909 broke all rec
ords la railway history. Figure pre
pared by the Management ef the Uar-
riwsa lines show that ths number ol
colonists who were taka Into th Pa
cific coast territory far exceeded the
number in any other year.
Th increase over th colonist move
went of 11H was fully 70 per cent,
and way have beea U excess of this.
Figure for th movement over th
Ulll lines are ao( available, the was
sgement refusing to give any detailed
Information regarding the number of
new home makers they transported
Into th northwest during th last year,
II Is understood, however, that tits
Ulll linos did aot wake as determlsed
an effort to secure soloalsts as tkvy
have made ia former years. This fast
is said to be due to trouble la tbe
colonist dppsrtment of the Northern
Pacific which led 1st la the year to
the resignation of (J, W. Mott, general
Immigration sgeut. Oa the Ureal
Northers road, the illuee of Mas lias,
general iuimlgretiua agent, which re
sulted in hi death, somewhat retarded
the work of taking bouioaeekers to th
northwest.
It Is understood that la 1910 the
management of both the (Ireat North
em and the Northern Pacific, aided by
the management of the Burlington, are
to make a special effort toward pops
luting th vacant lands along their
lines ia tbe tortus states ot tbe aorta
west.
In each year the "railroads have two
short periods which they rail colonist
?erlod. The spring colunist period I
row March 1 to April 3D, while the
fall period Is from reptmber 18 to
Uotolwr in. in tbe fall period or itftw,
the llarrinisn lino sold a total of 11,'
341 tickets to California, Oregon,
Washington, Idaho, Montana, Nevada,
t'tah, Colorado and Wyoming points
In the corresponding period of 190
the same line sold a total of" 6,227,
The Increase for 1900 was 5,314 tickets
This Is sn increase for the fall period
or 83 per cent, In tbe fall or liKiS col
onist tickets were sold between Sep
tember 1 and October 81, during which
time th Harrlman line sold a total of
1S,K16 tickets. Accordingly, In Just
half the time la the fall of 1809 th
Harrlman lines sold within 4,273 tick
et of the number sold during the 60
day period or lu.
DYNAMITERS IN TOILS.
Striking Railroad Machinists Attempt
Violence, Is Belief.
Baltimore, Jan. 3. Following an at
tempt last evening to blow up the Gsv
street bridge of the llaltlmore A Ohio
railroad, three men were arrested on s
charge of conspiracy with Intent to dy
namile the bridge and also the Mount
( lair machine shops of the eompany
The bridge was not enrloinlv damaged,
William R. Bhinlov. Hamilton W
Lighter and William It. Z immermaa, all
machinists, were later taken into cus
tody. Detective Captain Humphrey
Claims to nave evidence directly lmpli
eating the men.
liotn Zimmerman and Shipley, who
went out with the striking macbluists
of the Dsltiuioro k Ohio here last May
in formal statements today confessed
they had engsged in a plot to blow up
the Mount Clair shops last night.
In the shops st the time the bomb
was to be exploded were more than
l.iiou workmen, and the alleged plot
ters admitted that they did not know
how many persons might bave boon
killed by the explosion. Detectives are
looking for throe other men, whom they
say tncy can connect witb tbe plot.
Prison Cruelty Alleged.
Atlanta, Oa., Jan, 3. General Dodil
formerly overseer of the city prison
testifying before ths investigating
committee, in addition to corroborat
ing the stories of cruolly to prisoners,
and of filthy and unsanitary conditions,
declared that the rood sorved the pris
oners was unfit even for the lowest
kind of animals. Prisoners frequent!,
showed broad containing flies, he salt
and one man brought him a piece of
bread containing a spider. He declared
tbe place was overrun with vermin.
Pearl Bryan, one of three white women
who was hung up by rings while at
the stockade, said she was strung up
neany so minutes and was only taken
down when they saw blood running
down nor arms.
Mount Fclse Is-Active.
St. Thomas, D. W. I., Jan. 8. Cable
advices received hero report a violent
earthquake In the French island of
Martinique and the British island of
St. Vincont early today. Mount Pelee,
a volcano on the island of Martinique,
and La SourTriere, in St. Vincent, are
reported active. A niossttge from Fort
do Franco, Martinique, says an earth
quake shock was felt, but no damnge
was done. JNothing has boon heard
from St. Vincent since early today.
Considerable anxiety is felt here about
Kingston, Jamaica,
Paroled Convict Is Shot
Chicaffo. Jan. 3. Harrv Feather-
stone, a paroled convict, who has a long
police record, was shot and seriously
injured here today in a chasd which
followed a robbery of a South Si.le sa
loon. Foatherstone and two compan
ions were pursued aftor they had rifled
the till and a policeman who Jo'ned in
the chase sent a bullet into Feather
itono's back. Search was begun for
his companions. According to ths pq
I! TI 11. . . . t. il.l , I I
uue, xeumurBione nns parcicipaiea in
many during robberios.
Labor Fight Big Trest.
Washington, Jan. 8. Officers of the
Americas Federation of Labor tonight
Issued a call on its 1,510,000 members
to subscribe to a fund with which to
wage a fight on the steel trust. The
call arraigns the corporation as inimi
cal both to labor and to the country
and as a violator of the laws. The
sum of $134,000 is to be raised at once.
150,000000 TRUST
J. P. SIsrp, T.F.Ryan and Levi
P. Monoa form Combine.
BIGGEST MERGES IN AMERICA
Represents Three Banking and Trust
Companies, With Dsposita of
Over I33,000.000.
New York, Jaa. 4.J. Plorpoct Mor
gaa, Thomas V. Kyaa and Levi P, Mor
ton linked hands ia New York todsy
n a trust company Merger which
unites reaourees of $130,000,000.
It ia a triple combination, bringing
th Guaranty Trust company, th Mor
ton Trust company and th Fifth Ave
nue Trust company, all of this city,
under one hesd with th title of th
Uuarauty Trust company,
The merger is perhaps th largest of
Us kind in Hi United State, Directors
of all three companies met todsy and
Informally prupoeed the terms of
merger whlrh will be put In nor
diifiuit form Wednesday, when another
directors' meeting will lie held anj th
plaa ratified by dock holders. Th for
mal vote will aot be tahea snlil later.
Levi I'. Morton, president of th
Morton Trust company and of th Fifth
Avenue Trust companyboth known
iu Morton-Kyan coueern ha eon
wnted to act as chairman of ths board
of th merged romps it U. No presi
dent has been selected. Alexsuder J.
Hemphill, vlec president and aotltiif
president of th Uuaranty Trust Com
pany, has been meutloued for the posi
tion.
The new move In finance follows the
receut absorption of the (luarantv
Trust eumpany by the eocalled Mor
gan interests, but upoa Just what terms
the merger was made is not disclosed.
The Uuaranty Trust eompany was or
gsulsed In ldl'l and ha total deposits
of more thnn SSM.otMlioo.
The Morton Trust eompany, formerly
ths banking house of liiiw, Morton ft
l'o., was organised in lam). Thomas V.
Ryan is viee president. Its deposits
sggrrgnts morn than $43,000,000, Like
the Uuaranty Trust eumpany, Its capi
tal and surplus arc $3,000,000 esh.
The Fifth Avenuo Trust company,
founded ten years ago, la one of the
Iwtter known up town financial Insti
tutions. With a capital and surplus
of SI, 000,000 each it has paid large
dividend. The rapitsl stock of tbs
new eonipstiy probably will be fixed at
A,00O,OiMi, with perhaps a like amount
for surplus. It Is believed that tbs
merger will involve the large stock
and cash dividends to the shareholders
of the throe companies, ,
The present premises' of the Fifth
Avenue Trust company will be retained
as a branch of the combined companies
while the main otHces will b ih ths
finsnclnl distriet.
It is rumored that the Morgan in
terests hsd acquired the holdings of
Thomas K. Ryan in the Morton Trust
company, but no statemout oa this
poiut was obtainable.
CALIFORNIA HAS NEW PEST.
Insect Like Ladybug Lays Wsst Many
Oraia Fields.
Jackson, Pal., Jan. 4. A bug, some
what like the common ladybug, hss
made its apposranes near 'here. Ia
sowing a plot- of land to grain, a num
ber of sacks wero loft over night in
th field. , An examination tbe next
day led to the dim-overy that each sack
was swarming with small bugs witb a
dnrk yellowish linek.
Other parts of this county wore af
fected by the sumo kind of inseets, it
is believed, Inst venr. The lands so
visited were denuded of nil vegetation,
nnd the soil produced nothing for that
season. It was as if a fire had swept
over the surface. One large rneh hsd
fully 100 acres so affected last year.
While thore is no general appearance
of tbs bug in the county, it has ap
peared in localities wide spart.
Message in flections.
Washington, Jnn. 4. Following a
forenoon conference with prcsidonts of
six of the grout railroad systoms,
President Taft lute this afternoon an
nounced a chnngo of program in the
sending of his message dealing with
interstate commerce and anti-trust law
umendnionts to congress.
The message will bo split Into two
psrts. The section dealing with trusts
will bo sent to congress Thursdny noon.
The section dealing with the interstate
commorco Inw, in which railroad are
directly interested, will bo dforrod un
til Friday. The president's spools)
mcsHnge on conservation of natural re
sources is expectod to be rondy for con
gress Monday,
Negro Refused Entrance.
London, Jan. 4. A negro who claims
American citizenship is an unwelcome
guest of the Union Castle Steamship
line at Southampton pending the out
come of diplomatic negotiations to do
tepin tl,-miin' ; nationality. The
negro was depot ted from South Africa
afteriio had been convicted of a crime
and. Served a suntonae in a British
rtion. He was returned to New York,
was retimed permission to land
tJhro ns he wna tumble to satisfy the
itiioriiios or nis American eitixensbip.
March Cause of Mutiny. '
Fisltors Island, N. Y., Jan. 4. Many
of tho non-commissioned officers and
won of the One Hundred ni Thirty
fr'irst company, U. S. Coast Artillery,
arc confined in the guardhouso, at Fort
H. O. Wright, as a result of a mutiny
Saturday.. The company was ordered
out for a march of 15 mllos and all
but nine men declined to do the duty.
It was declared authoritatively today
. that a majority of the men in the com
pany had boen ordered before a court-martial,