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About Lake County examiner. (Lakeview, Lake County, Or.) 1880-1915 | View Entire Issue (March 8, 1906)
fit viy-v- y 4 I 1 MAC5A7.IXK SKCTIOX. LAKEVIEW. OREGON, TlIUIiSDAX' MAUCll . TAGES 1 TO 4. THE PRIVATE DETECTIVES. imtf NAME IS LEGION, AND TUB Y WATCH ALL CLASSES OF UUSINESS EMPLOYEES Some Clever Schemes for Swlncllng firm and Corporation Sharps W h i Make a Mvgular ISuelneee of Celling Damagcr. In no other country In tho world, are so many prlvalo detectives employed U In tlio United HlHl.-H. Kvery great corponulon hns ltd xtaft of "secret service" liicn. many of Ihom recruited from the detective forces of Uuropcan countries. Tbe chief oi'ciiiHtlon of these com mercial detectives Is to protect the various InMtltutloni they represent from the dcpredntlons of profuHHlonal swindlers of all kinds. These "crooks." are a forrnldahlo army. Group of them travel from city to city, concocting and carrying out fraud of all kimis, aided In their ne farious luns by "shady" lawyers, jli y -git-utim, and oven, ul tunes, liy tno em ploye of the corporations which they seek to victimize. Inauranco companies are tho favorite prey of thin rolilr bunds. Of one audacious swindler, who wu rccoutly hrouKht to Justice, It Ih stated that, assisted by IiIh coufuderatoK, he defrauded seven different accldout In mi ranee compnnlc of sums uggrcgab lug Homo $ 1 3.o(). Had he varied hi method. It Is quite Jllicly this particular 'crook" would ttill reaping a golden hut-vent. Dul he repeated his device loo often. Ills trick cotitdHicd In Flipping on a piece of Honp while taking a hath, and sustaining "severe Internnl In Juries." lie alwnvH hud n doctor (of course, a confederate) to leHiIfy to the serious nature of his accident; hut tlthnugh the trick In Itself was dim rulf of ('et-tloti. a conttnnt repetition of It iiftural'v awakened HtiHplclon, and led to th downfall of tho swindler Home of the shnrps pose as median Irs, and prey upon employers of lahor, their method heln-? to pretend to sus tain some Injury In the course of their work. .M ted hv shjt.tcr dor. tors and lawyers llscy bring nctlons for dam ages. Kometlmes hy taking out acci dent Insurance policies, they contrive to gain a doul la share of plunder. Hallway companies are victimized In much the snme fashion that Is to my. Iv bogus claims for Injuries and accidents. In these cshcs the fraudf are genernily more elaborate, involving not lily hn s' rvices f : ishonest doctors and lawyers, but tho testimony of witnesses paid to perjuro them selves. Of one rroup of rnllwny sharpers the ringleaders of which were brought to JiiKtlce. It came out In the evidence that they made more than $5,000 a yrsr by their practices. A reil r iilw nvn?ci lent, especially one of nny magnitude, Is a ierfect wind fall to some of these rogues. If they are anvwhere In the vicinity. TalilnR advantnpo of the confusion MOTHER OF SENATOR DICK OF OHIO. JTrs. I,:agdaleue Dick Is ono of the few mothers In Washington who can visit tho United States Senate cham ber and look down upon a son who Is a member of the most powerful iulnlative body on onrth. That son ti the Hon. Charles William Frederick Dick, senator from Ohio, wno Bucceeu ait Ilia Inmunfnil Mark IinnnO. There is especial swelling of pride In the breast of M ru. Dick as she looks down from tho Senate Callory upon her boy, for the reason mar, una snows H?tter than any one else how many wore the struggles and how rough the paths that led to his present honor. Both parents of Senator Dick were born In Germany but they met and married here, settling In Akron Ohio, where the father was an humble arti san. He was careful and frugal after the German fashion but was not veTy successful In buslnopi. The little fam ily knew what it w to work bard for the necessities of llfo. Tha future senator knew what It was too, to be born of the traditional poor but honest parents. His schooling was limited, for he had to bepln work when able to earn even a little bit. First he was a messenger boy in a bank, then clerk in a bat store and and excitement, they make their at pes ranee among the Injured. Th:ii "Injuries" are generally, of course, of an Internal nature, and, uttering heartrending groans, they are carried off to he attended, If possible, by some medical accomplice. Now and again the conductors of trains are In Iciikuo with tho sharpers, which,, of course, greatly facilitates the frauds. Indcod, It Is said that railway accidents s ich as small collisions, have been deliberately brought about hy conspiracies of this kind. Ono particular "crook" made large sums by conspiring with conductor! to push him off tbe train when It was In motion! In this way be sign I red a protliahle crop of "permanent Injuries to the spine," for which the railway companies bad to pay smartly. Ho numerous and so astute have the American detectives become of late years, however, that such frauds havs become Increasingly difficult. Tho suppression of malpractices of this kind Is, as stated, the principal work of tho great army of commercial detectives, many of whom are appar ently ordinary citizens, or even work ers known as "plain clothes men." Among their minor functions Is tbe wntchlng of suspected employes especially thoso of banks and great financial houses. Any tendency to extravagant hh'U or Irregular living on the part of tm ploytw 3 rmtc-d and retorted upi I y these unsuspected watchers. Others there aro Who, In the gulBe of clerks and laborers, secretly note nny ten dencies to disloyalty or discontent. In this way approaching strikes are de tectod, and, oftentimes, nipped In tbe bud. Studied by the Artist. "Ono of tho greatest difficulties In nr , ' ietntTked a ciiuc, " Li tj get one's facts right, and for this you have to go not to art, but to the people who understand tho things represented. "I received my first lesson In this direction when, as a youth, I painted a coast scene with a ship In the fore ground. It was highly rralsed by all who saw It, with tho exception of an old seaman, who, when ho examined tho rigging, politely turned aside to conceal his amusement. No ship, he explained, could ioHslbly have gone to sea with tho ropes and tackle arranged as in my picture. So I had to humble myself to learn to draw reeving- Mocks, shrouds, yards, and other por tions of a ship s rigging as they realty are. "Hut It Is not always possible to be true to fact. "Take, for Instance, a typical picture which reprcHpnts a herd of self-denying cattlo grazing in a meadow where the herbage Is of the scantiest, while near at bund are unprotected fields of grain Into which they could walk at will. Why did not the painter Include In his picture the fences which ac tually surrounded the corn fields? Simply because they would have spout the composition, jind consequently reality had to be sacrificed to the de- mnnds of art." ho was very proud when he acquired a half interest in a feed and machinery establishment. All this time however, he kent studying at night to gain an education, and to achieve something better than an anxious Interest in the market price of oats. The good mother who looks down upon him In the Sen ate can recall with much pride the struggles of the son to better his place in tbe world and she did her part to helo him. He went Into politics and was elected county auditor before he was 30. This is always the best orace In any courthouse and gave the young man a start not only in pontics dui In business. His activity and shrewd ness In local elections led to his se lection In 1S92 as chairman of the state executive committee. He .won the election by such a small majority that there was no glory in It, but the following year he managed the second election of McKlnloy as Governor with sniendtd results. Iter he went to Congress from the old Garfield dis trict and when Hanna died, came to the senate by unanimous vote. Mrs. Pick Is of fine appearance, not vet 70 and remains calmly complacent over the romantic career of her son who may yet achieve still higher honors. HIE AMATEUR SMUGGLERS. MOST TItAVELLUS FEEL JUST I. FJED IN OUT WITT ISO AND bEAILSG GOVERNMENT, Foreign Dealers Know the American Mania lor Private bmt.ggl.ng uul btll Accordingly Many Uisappolnt mcni in Kveuna. If the arrivals oa one of the big liners ware drawn up In rows on the pier and searched. It Is doubtful If live per cent of them would escape the charge of smuggling. The women are said to break the law In greater num bers than the men, although the latter cheat tbe Government of larger .mounts. The majority of women don't understand the customs laws. Bald a nervous little lady on the promenade of the Deutschland as the tugs were pushing tbe big steamer Into tbe dock: "I've got two china salt cel lars under my hat. Do you suppose they'll hear them click together? They cost 6 ct-nts apiece at tne ratals ItoyaJe, but they're so cute. ' "Why you dear old goose," said a business-like person near her, 'I guess you'd Jump over lioard If you had my trunks to wriggle through the examination. Just listen. Vou Know you're allowed to replenish your wardrobe If you're gone a year. When 1 decided to go over twelve months ago, I just took all tbe old trunks In the house, I had eleven In all, and I filled most of them up with the stuff you usually send to the Salvation Army. Thought some of them would go to pieces on the trip. I got rid of mors than half in London, and bought beautiful English leather trunks to take their places. And the things I ve brought hack in my replenished ward robe!" "But the foreign names on so many dresses?" gasped the nervous one. "I've ripped them out and sewed In the names that were in my 01 a dresses." She was even cl:rercr than the white haired gentleman who confided to his neighbor at table that be had brought back some lace gowns worth at leaat 30,000 francs ($C000) a piece that were entered In a sworn invoice at C.000 francs each. "But," said the little maid at his elbow, "won't the ap praisers know the real value?" The ven erable Blnner strol.ed his white beard complacently: "Why should they sus pect the invoices approved by the Am erican Consul at ? Ah, they are my very good friends at the con sulate," he purred. Real Syrian Hues. Even the steerage has Its smugglers. There was a commotion on the immi grant deck of a French liner one morn Ing. Several hundred Syrians were westward bound. One of them had stolen a roll of bedding from another. The officer to whom complaint was made was not deeply Interested. Hadn't the immigrant a good berth in tho Bteerage? Why so much fracas for a bundle of dirty rags that should have been stowed In the hold? The com plainant waxed desperate: "Mother of the Prophet, his bed of dirty rags! It was of Syrian rugs, the best, a dozen sent by a merchant of Damascus to his brother merchant In New York." The duty on Syrian rugs is heavy but who would think to find them in the dirty bedding of an immigrant! A glove buyer for one of the big Am erican houses used to bring back on each semi-annual trip, for his own pur poses, twelve dozen pairs of gloves care fully hidden in many pockets of his coat and overcoat. Almost every tourist who can afford it buys a diamond ring while abroad. A feather boa is al most the first purchase of the American woman arriving in London, and what customs official can prove that she did not carry it out or her own country With her. How seldom do those first purchases In London and Paris outlast the evan escent charm of novelty. Flimsily built or fragile material, they drop to pieces before the owner has had time to weary of them. If they do last for any length of time, It is only to become a source ot anger and disgust The silk petti coat bought at the Bon Marche, Paris, for which you paid $S what a bargain it was until one day you felt myster ious prickings at your ankles and stooped to find that the half Inch wide steel ribbon which gave such a chic set to the bottom, had broken loose from the dust ruffle and slashed the silk to bits, and your stockings to tat tera To comfort you, every depart ment store in New York and Chicago is showing you identically the same skirt, without the steel stiffening, for 15. Sometimes, remembering these things, the high prices that assailed you in London and Paris, you may won der how the Frencn women ot moderate means manage to dress so well. Americans Charored Double. The answer Is that Americans an abominably over-charged. A raw clerk in the Louvre once told an American customer that the house would make her up a pongee suit for 150 francs. He was sharply contradicted by an older employe who explained that the suit would cost 300 francs. As the lady moved awav without ordering the gown, she heard the novice -remonstrate. "Yn told ne 150 ftancs." "For Frenchwomen, yes," growled the old hand, "but that was an American." The biggest lace house in Vienna (and Vienna is the cheapest place In the world to buy lace) purposely puts up the prices to allow a good margin for bargaining. Experienced Amer ican buyers for fashionable New York tailors who go yearly to Paris for models, take with them on their shop ping excursions, a French friend with whose assistance they secure materials and models for about half the quoted price. French workmanship la inferior. T mc '! brought homo by a tailor who a suop junl o( l-ln.i vem.e were sent into the workroom to bo resewn before they could be placed In the show coses. Stylo Is what the French tailor aims at. Chic, beautiful, a gown must be. If it falls to pieces the first time It is worn so much the better for the business madame needs another gown. A woman who had ordred a single dress from one of tbe big French hoiiHos compleincd of the workman ship. The manager shrugged his shoul ders: "One dress, why should we bother at all for that!" Mont expensive French lingerie Is frequently finished with rough seams, laee Is srwed to unhemmed edges;, threads In hand embroidery are left ooso tho garment simply falls to pieces even In the most careful laundry. No words can express me norror ot English tailoring. In London they have made an attempt to meet American tastes, but the English tailor's con ception of the short skirt is a tweed monstrosity escaping the shoe tops in front and tickling the pavement be- i 7v If IN THE NEW YORK hind, while a straight row of stitch ing Is beyond the modest capability of the English workshop. Many a woman who In her first month abroad materially diminished her letter of credit, has come home to wish for the trim smartness of Broad way. The frills beloved of the1 English woman, and the skin tight little jackets of the Frenchwoman quickly lose their fascination for tho American woman whose aim In dress is unusually a seem ing simplicity that has cost her tailor hours of nice calculation and herself a great deal of trouble and not a little money. After all. the exp rienced American traveller ru--s few things outside of his own country. Considering quality and manufacture, nearly all articles of ordinary wear are cheaper In the Uni ted States thnn elsewhere. The law allows only $100 worth of foreign ap narel to be brought In duty free, and If this is conscientiously lived up to, the saving is small on imported goods A few cloves, ostrich plumes or small pieces of Jewell y, are atout the only things the sensible tourist will bother with on Jus return. Dolazs la New York. The wife of a Wall street millionaire, whose n-me in New York is almost a household word, as the police declare, unwittingly furnished the password to a magnificently furnished poolroom for fashionable women at an uptown ad dress the other day and the place was raided by the police. In it were twenty women, whose finely appointed equip ages awaited them in the street. The appeals of the women, members of some of New York's wealthiest fami lies, when the detectives and officers gained entrance to the drawing room nd revealed themselves, formed a thrilling tableau. Several women went on their knees to the detectives. They offered their rings, watches anything they possessed rather than face the ex posure of arrest or even the chance of their identities becoming known. One woman clasped the detective sergeant hy the knees as she knelt, pleading for her liberty. Another tore her rings from her fingers, and offered them all to him, saying: "If my name is known there will be murder or sui cide in my home, for my husband will either kill me or I shall kill myself." Tolstoi Uard oa Ibaea. Count Tolstoi was one day discussing Ibsen with a friend. Said the latter: "I have seen a great many of Ibsen's plays, but I cannot say that I under stand them. Do you?" Tolstoi smiled, and replied: "Ibsen doesn't understand them himself. He just writes them, t .id sits down and waits. Atter awhile his expounders and explainer come and tell hint pre-''-ly wh4: he meant" SAYE MILLIONS OF DOLLARS. PLAN FRESESTElt TO CONGRESS nr which many deficits COULD HE A VOIDED. During the Fat Five Years the Government Ha Lost Over a Hun Ortd Million Worth of 1 Imbcr-Thc Kcmedy. Kvery now and then there is a sharp passage at arms in Congress between the East and the West. In fact some of the rather prominent men of Con gress still seem to think that the West Is a separate country, and not in reality a part of the United States and entitled to the same consideration that it shown the Mississippi Valley, The Atlantic Coast or tbe New England States. An instance of this kind oc cur ed the other day when Senator Tel ler, of Colorado, was addressing the Senate. He resented the Intimations that the funds used in connection with CUSTOMS HOUSE. the Irrigation reclamation service had been given as a bounty to the West. In the first place, since .the money is ail paid back to the government, he stated that it was simply in the nature of a :r.:Jli ' "-.,--. -7,r-;X,"'f- " -.ji-i wm& yuv- a "Lucky" Baldwin's Irrigated Ranch Twenty Years Ago a Desert. loan, and further he contended that the irrigation law was of as much Import ance to the east as to the west, that It was national in character, and that it wouU benefit, not only tbe section where It was applied, but reflexly every other section. In fact the west was somewhat tired of this Idea which seemed to obtain among some eastern statesmen, of being considered as an1 WWe7lllIMfB-.liRgiflmjH n. is the title of Our New Catalogue for 1 906 the most beauti ful and instructive horticultural publication of the day 186 pages 700 engravings 7 superb colored plates 7 duotone plates of vegetables and flowers. p T git thlt catalogue lb latfaat poMlbl almfbutkm, mak Ih fclloviaf Ubafal Utmt Every Empty Envelope Counts as Cash ' To avtry en who will Mat whr thU advrtlMmnt mi ama and h kctoaaa 1 Cent (In damp), a will nail tha caialoua, ana alaa aaua f raw I charge, our tamoua 504nt ' Henderson " Collection of aaada, contaia ing oua packet each of Otmm$ Alla-aa fwf fraj triaal fsmtf reaJMJ, miMtdf mm 4,lNt r f,ri ifrif mimtmi m4 unuii x iff iari,i jtaanay and leiufnea, will he accepted amounting to ii.ooaaa upward. outside dependency of the nation. That the commercial Interests of the east, if not Its statesmen, are alive to the desirability of promoting the settle ment and internal improvement of the west, is shown by tlie very comprehen sive action taken recently by the Na tional Board of Trade in Washington, a powerful association, composed of representatives from most of the great commercial bodies of the United States. The organization represents a combined capital of billions of dollars employing several hundred thousand workers; It has been a strong factor In urging legislation on various Important In ternal works; it was the first of the great commercial bodies of the East to advocate tbe passage of tbe national Irrigation law and it has a regular standing committee on forestry and Irrigation. The report of the organization this year is most Interesting and reads as follows fr it Is gratifying to note that much of the legislation on Forestry and Ir rigation matters which has been con sistently urged by the Rational lio&ta of Trade has been enacted Into law. The National Board was the first or ganization representing the commer cial Interest of tbe whole country to re commend a national irrigation policy and June 17, 1902 a National Irri gation law was enacted. There Is In the Irrigation Fund at the present time about $30,000,000 which Is in creasing from the sale of public lands at the rate of at least, $3,000,000 a year. In the matter of "oratry legislation the National Board of Trade recom mended the passage of the bill pro viding for the consolidation of the various forestry branches of the Government into the Bureau of Fores try of the Department of Agriculture. This bill was enacted Into law at the last session of Congress. The National Board of Trade lias stood against the practice of exchang ing worthless "scrip" land in the national forest reserves lor Tamable public lands outside of the reserves and has repeatedly recommended the repeal of the law permitting this prac tice. This law was repealed at the last session of Congress. At the last meetirg of the National Board, opposition was expressed to what was known as the 640 Acre Home stead bills increasing the homestead entry in parts of South Dakota, Colo rado and in Montana from 160 acres to 640 acres; these bills were all defeated at the last session of Congress. Much, however, remains to be done. The National Board of Trade has con sistently advocated the saving of the great public domain for the use of the real homemaker as against the land and timber grabber and the speculator. Trade and commerce will increase as population increases, and our National land policy should be administered to preserve our remaining half billion acres of public lands for those who will build homes upon them. As laws which tend to overcome this policy the Na tional Board has continuously, since Its meeting in January, 1902, urged the repeal of the Timber and Stone Act. the commutation clause of the Home stead Act and the Desert Land Act, in accordance with the recommendations of the President in his annual Mes sages to Congress. A Public Lands Commission appoint ed by the President, consisting of W. A. Richards, Commissioner of the General (Continued on next page.) im u trndtritm $ ffna,rt i.,M Arf Jtuaf 2 ! la coupon envelop, a lim, wttea em plica aa 25-centcaaa payneeat oa aajr wear a)