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Newspaper Page TextIf m 4 - "''(" Issinsu cmiWnecIvly A Issued ScniA7 Tucsda'y and Fr y f . ' ! I Tuesday and Friday 1 i . . : ; I : ; ) - . i iXiTV -SIXTH YEAR NO. 12 SAIIM. OREGON, rETDATiIOENIKO, DECEMBER i3, 1905. . second section eight r.. MM MM! r .v MA ; M" M M M THE ISTHMIAN COMMISSION MEN CHARGED WITH WORK OF - PANAMA CANAL COMMISSION. MAKE THEIR ANNUAL REPORT. Detail Worn: of Sanitation Which Has v Changed Health Conditions and . ;MJade Life There Possible. - Number of Men Employed, Arrange ments Made For Quarters and Pood Supply. General Work of Engineer? Enormous Quantities of Supplies. WASHINGTON Dee. 28. The an nual report of the leahmian canal eom iriinfrion has been made -public today. If us a lengthy dwainent of .123 print id pages, anil gives in full detail the work- accomplished during , the past year, and what is proposed as nearly as the commission t prepared to judicata what it will . do. v --''The members of the commission de cided, during their first trip to the Isthmus, . that "lwoNtM be useless, to 'hop far large andsatisfartory re sults in canal work, eitUos, '.quantity of excavation or fin coat, until thorough preparation had boon accomplished in several ,iireetions. '1 ho Isthmus must lc made healthy by', thorough sanata tion, proper quarters and food must be provided for employes, and ado .quate terminal facilities miis beeon st meted for the prompt an.l economic handling ot supplies and material. It was decide,' therefore, Jo stop at once excavation' on a large scale until the preparatory work was dote. The com mission realized that this was a rad ical change of policy, but believed that it would be approved when a full wtatemcnt should be made of existing conditions and of the difficulties to be overcome before canal construction could be undertaken in accordance with .. . ; -,1 1 i : l .1 l unijii i' lie ii si v o aim tMriiiaiic piau. I eHealth and Sanatatlon. In order to make the Isthmus a. pliaco fni to. live iu and to work in the first essential was its .thorough- sanitation. Four thousand one hundred men' are now ern4oyed in the sanitary 'un ler taking, and so effective lias been thw work thut yellow fever has been virtu ally extirpated from the Isthmus, as the statistics given in the following table will tdiow: ;(1905.) Month. Cases. Deaths. , A pril . ilav .. . . . ' .. 9 . .33 ...62" ,'..42 ...27 . . . i .4 2 8 1Q 13 9 4 Jane . ... July . . . . August .. . . September October .. . The constant "ineffectiveness from-all iiseasi's ainorig the laborers scattered along th-e canal has at no time been aa high 'as 30 per looo. The lesth rate on the Isthmus for the year has. been about per UK)0. but among the employes of the-commission-the rate of morality lias been only 21.30 per lOOO, which is probably as low as might be reasonably expected among an eo.ua! number of men engaged in similar work in any clunate. ' , Comparisons with the records of the f'rt nch are the best indication nf what has been acorn (dished. In 'October, 1HSI. when the French company bad-on the Isthmus n force of 111.231. it lost .161 men. In :jOetober, 100.1, the Jst'amas canal eoiuniission and the Panama Ii;iiilroa.l Comprtny employing 1!,CXj men. losn efmy .... , . . The largest niimler of deaths dul ,irifT anv one venr attributed to any one disease w;is hie to malarial fever, which 1 141 I .JIT I 'f I I III.' M " - from May 1 to August 31, 100.1. Dur ing the same period there were JS4 ilea t lis from consumption, 49 from pneamonia, 47 from yellow, fever, 46 from dysen tery, and 37 from diarrhea and enteritis. Deaths from aijy one other cause were not numerous. ' 1 , In- view of the gratifying conditions shown by theses statistics and the com plete wneeess attending the efforts of the health,. lepnrtment to check the yellow 'fever cnidemicof MY and June and to arrest in it early stages the-outbrcak ,.e ni'ami. n l.i Tines, it mar ! sa fely said that the problem of san itation need no longer ; be considered formidable obstacle to the construction of the canal. : ' " ' l 7" : I , - ' Care of Employes. Other essentials of scarcely less im portance than the thorough sanitation f the Isthmus were the providing of suitable habitations for all classes of employes and the" establishing of a sys tem, of food supply which iwoald afforJ all employes opportunity of obtaining wholeome food at reasonable cost. The commission inherited from the French company 2175 buildings, all in bad condition. Of these, 22 yrero des troyed. During the rail '549 others have been repaired, 53 new; buildings have l . . . t 1 T .Wiav-a srA in the rnnr. nf onnetriiptionj TWO D6W hotels three stories high andj containing Irom rCt to 60 rooms each, hflve been cniplet cd, and aathority has been granted for eight others a portion tof which are nn tlcr construction at the present time. Work is in progress also on cottage for married employes, on bachelor quar ters, and for shops nj storehouses. In this work of construction 2400 men are enmloved. and additional earpenters and other building trade workers are being t . . ws r ,sent ont with every steamer, .iws - - is being pressed forward 1 with the ut most Vigor. ' i .-'.-'; : i'-j The total amount expened has been J ,039,451.88, of which $2S6,4S7,3S wajr for the period prior to April 3, 1905, and $752,964.50 for the penioJ snbse-. qaent to April 3,!1905. . J Tho qnestiou of food supplies was tbaj .most serious qestion that confronted too eommission. If the men could not be fed, the jcanal eould not be boilt; ' The eommission ras thus brought face to face with the problem of feeil ing 17,000 men with a base of supplies 2000 miles away. :. ; It was immeliately arranged to open local commissary stores at every impor tant labor camp, to provide mess houses and to f nrnish food, both cooked an I uncooked, to all employes at cost. Or ders -were sent by cable to have the eommission 's steamers equipped with refrigerating plants, arrangements were made for the erection of a temporary eold storage plant at Colon, and refrig erator ears were purchased for ImmeJ iate shipment to , the Isthmus, thus est tablishing a line of refrigeration fionj the markets of the TTnite i Stites to the commissary stations of the Ist'umus. The equipment in existing hotels was also purchased from individual lessee and their management assumed by' th eommission. The net result ( he'a,'. ef forts is that today all emplyes are given opportunity to obtain an abund ant supply of wholcM.n fun't, rookei and uncooked, at reasoa xna prices. The silver mea that is., the romnion lab;r ers are being fed for 31 cents per day and the gohl employes th;it is., ih.vjfi of the higher ' class at 90 cents per day, and they get good food in plae c bad. - r , '. : , The force employe 1 on tl.c !sthmns 'en November 15,; 19tji, was as follows, r ; In November, 190 1J ihlo commission's employes on the Isthmus numbered 500. In November, J 05, th-y numlkcr ed, approximately, 17,000. Of these 11, 300 were nnder the department of com strnction a a I enyinring, '2'00 v.p-lr Ui bureau of mn-irril and sur vh-Ni. and 3050 r.ndr the leparteient of f7 ernment and sanitation. There were :n the local auditor 's ollice 46 men a: in the office of the disbursing officer 21. Of the ;17,mV employes ibout 270j5 were on the gold rolls and 14,250 rn li e silver rolK The namber of white Americtrs en the Isthmus i estimate 1 at I'fO'). ll.e Panauia ' Railway Company ' employs about 2500 men, who are ont incbi it I !u Hie total of 17,000. j Unskilled La'bor. - . The question of Inbr n a srrave and perplexng one. A snDleins supply cf labor ran be secure! from ihe lehrby tropical Islands nn.l countries so f&r- al numbers are concerned.' The uebt!on of quality is a very Mfferent matter. Unless a much geater efficiency can be developel than is secured at present ii will, be necessary to look elsewhere for a better class. t .: ! The. present wage varies from 80 cents to 1.01 per .f i( gol I. As ec-m-pare-l J with the best -common labor in the United States its efficiency is rated from 5 to 33 per cent. Over 80 per cent of . the employes of the canal are now. and wdl continue-to be alien laT borers. A majority of vthe other 20 per cent employed will be in a clerical, a superydsory, or some other capacity to which the vari5us labor laws of the United Statfs are not appbcahle. It is to this kind of labor that we are compelled to apply the eight-hour law that is, to aliens who know nothing of .the law's existence Until they arrive oq the IsthmnS. J-'ucb application will in eraso the labor cost of canal constrcc? tioa at least 25 per cent and will add many millions unnecessary to the to tal expenditure. On ; November 15, 1904,. by exeeutive order of the president, all employes on the Tst'omua of Panama, except person's employed merely as laborers, were made subject to civil service Haws and regu lations. '. Appointments to the indoor positions, such jas clerk, aceonntant, and stenog rapher, and to the positions in the hos pital service -such as interne, physician, and nnrse, are made after competitive examination and certification by the civil service commission. Difficulty was experienced, however,' after the present eomnwssion assumed office in securing through this means a fuflklent number of properly qualified ;men for the out door j te"hnical, mechanical, building trades and railroad positions. But with the hearty co-operation of the civil service eommission a pLm has been adopted for securing the large nub ber of persons desired. From January 1 to December 1, 1905, 2725 ! perns were appointed in the United States for service, on the Itsn mus bf Panama in 153 different grales of positions, and of the above number appointed 2043 persons have been transported to their places of duty the remainder having failed to sail after selection and appointment. , Ditring the past summer complete da ta relative to all officers and employes has been secured, and a complete ser vice record card system has been estab lished, givring the official history of all officers and employes, with the excep tion of laborers. 1 " With this information tts a basis and with a monthly report of changes in the service, an accountability is now Ten dered to the cfvil service commissioil relative to the employes of the canal commission as required by the rules and regulations. ' ! .: ' ! ' While this preparatory work has been in progress very litUe has been done in the way of actual excavation, Klevca steam shovels have been at different times in operatiou, however, n the Cul ebra cut, which is the largest single factor in the construction of the canal, and approximately 1,000,000 cubic yards at material have - been remove! By this; work two things are geing accom plished. Ihrst, the levels or me cu. are being put in propor conjition for tho installation of the largest number o machines which ean effectively; op erated, and second, data U being gath ered which will be useful i, future es Mmt of the cost of canal construc tion. t ' 'r - - ''V ' .'". '"."'- " I ' In the -Culebra work 2600 men r? now employed. . Eadroad tracks ana yards have been built, and Jretlging has been Uone at both ends of the canal s (Continued en Page Eight.) STRIKERS ARE " LOSING HEART MOSCOW REBELLION IS ENTERING UPON PINAL STAGE. HORRIBLE MASSACRE IS FEARED. i Authorities May be Usable to Restrain the Fury of the Lower Classes ' ; of People. . ' Revolutionaries" Tear Up the Railroad Track to Block Troop Trains Between . Moscow and St.' Petersburg and Sol diers Are Compelled to Walk. ST. PETERS-BUBO, Dee.23. AeeorJ ing to adviees received by the govern ment tonight the ' rebellion"' at Mos cow is entering on its final stage. The guerrilla warfare was continued today, on a smaller scale. Governor General Dpubassaff is acting with great ener gy and hundreds of the members of the -drujina" are already behind the bars. The strikers have lost heart and the workmen 's council is considering the question of ealling off the strike. The principal -danger now seems to be that the 'black hundreds' will complete U 1 I iu. 1. .1 1 the revolt ;with a horrible massacre.) The lower glasses are represented asj being enraged at the ,attempt. of the. revolutionaries . to overthrow the em peror and even with the best of inten tions, it may be impossible for the au thorities to restrain the fury of these classes when once the opportunity is offered them. , The attacks made upon the striking railroad men at the way si le stations sufficiently shows the tern per of the peasant class. Four thousand strikers marched out of Moscow, completely destroyed sev eral miles of railroad track between St. Petersburg and Moscow, thirty miles outside of Moscow, to prevent the ar rival of troop trains. The trains were backed twenty miles to Cline, it is un derstood, and the troops will procee.l on foot for their destination tianl : Konevo Under Martian Law. Koveno, brthuania, Dec. 2i The city is under martial law. The field guns in the squares an the machine) guns post ed at strategic points have over-awed the revolutionaries. Members of the Jewish Bund fired on a passing patrol today. The patrol fired a volley, killing two nersons. , Goaa Would -Insure Success. London, Dec 29. The jTimea this morndng prints a dispatch!, from Moscow dated December 27, which says: 'If the revolutionaries should receive guns they would be nAsured of victory and the troops would fbe ofTltged to take ref uge in Kremlin, wliere the governor and other authorities have alrealy sought safety." MM x ' Captured By Insurgents. Paris, Dec. 29. The Journars St. Petersburg correspondent telegraphing on Deeernler 2S.' says that Jeneral Hu ron 8takrlberg left Bt. Pcersbnrg for ftaucaftus with secret orders and a dis patch received at St. Petersburg reports that he has been capture! by the insur gents. M - . Germany May Take Hand. London, Dee. 29. The St. Petersburg correspondent to the Times reports that th relations lietween Russia and Ger many are distinctly strained and that there is a possibility of international eomplicaUions arising from the relellion in the Baltic provinces. 5" s- - Officers Make Arrests. ; Moscow, Dee. 2S All members of the Social revolutionary committee have been arrested ami a; quantity of bombs infernal machines and correspondence seized. Three hun.tVed revolutionaries today invaded the residence' of chief of secret police and killed him. At the me licat bureau 650; wounded and- 105 killed have been registerel, but it i known that there are fully 1000 uni dentified dead in the Loutehow quar ter alone. ( . : H r,' ; . ' Gapon at Bocdighera. Rome, Dec. 28. According to fiiorn ale Di Italia, Father Gapon is residin? in his country bouse at BordigherA near Genoa, and several , Russians of note meet at his house every night. 1 REPORT IS DENTED. ' -' - . "'' t Treaty Negotiations Between Germany and United States Are Not Halt- i lag,' Bays Correspondent. e COLOGNE, , Dee. 2S. The Cologne Gazette prints an inspired dispatch from Berlin calling attention to the re port cabled from Berlin to New York representing that the German govern ment, circles are seriously eoncerned and even in a nervous condition be- .. a ft. a nerntiatinna lot a" COmmer- 'cial treaty with the United States have icome to a standstill. The Berlin eor Ucnnnont Af the Tarer savs: The -I- .11.. here Wltll wnoie bibucj - ttrreat calmness and without nervous- ness. it js wnoiy uu u uj . gotiations are halting. On the contrary, they are proceeding at a normal pace., I EXPRESS APPBECIATION. i Emperor of Japan Addresses "Diet From Throne on the Loyalty r ? . of Nation. ' TOKIO, Dee. 23. The emperor, n opening the diet today mad a speech from the throne expressing his appre ciation of the loyalty of the nation al of tho devotion of all public services, which, he said, ' had , enabled the'" war with Russia to be brought to a glorious conclusion. Ilia majesty ' announced that friendly relations with. Bnssia had leen restored an.l that the- attitude of the treaty powers toward Japan are be coming more amiable. He'aliuded with satisfaction to the Anglo-Japanese al-' 1 lance and to the necessity which com pelled Japan to give "her guidance to Korea. The honse of representatives after adopting a loyal address to the emperor, adjourned to January 20." 1 WERE AFRAID TO INTERFERE. I Lewis County Officials Watch Drunken Man Toy With Gun all Night. CTTEHALIS, Wash Dee. US. Sher iff Urquhart and Deputy Sehlittler spent a cheerless Christmas night,- because Harvey Cook, a rancher on . Lincoln creek, five miles west oJE Jentralia, cel ebrated a little too freely Christmas day and was threatening his wife with a gun. The .officer feared a sudden interruption might result in Mrs. Cook being killed. v. , 3 t Christmas "day "Alvia Cook, a son, filed a complaint here that the. father had threatened to shoot Mrs. Cook and himself. Urquhart and Sehlittler went at once to the scene, and through the windows of the Cook house they saw the old man sitting inside with a gun in his hands commanding Mrs. Cook to do his bidding. The officers decided to wait outside unobserved, until a favor able opportunity was presented to ar rest the man. ' Through the ' long, cold night "the officers waited, and not once did Cook dispense with his gun. Just as the dawn was breaking Wednesday morning Cook laid aside his weapon and went into an adjoining room, i In an instant the officers had nim. . :i V Justice Westover at Chehalis, put him undr $800 . bonds to keen the i peace. . lie is now sobering up in the county jail. V . ; Abou t a year a go Cook A terrorized his family in a similar way, and, his wife applied for a divoree. On his promrse to be good the suit was drop ped. ' . .'. . ' . r t : . i COMMANDER HOSLEY STARTS. Leaves. Annapolis With Dry dock Dewey i on Trip to Fcillppine '.- 1 Islands. --'-.. . " r ' ; ANNAP0LI3, Dee. 28. The gigantic dry dock Dewey made an ' auspicious start this afternoon on its 14,000-mile trip to the Philippine islands, under direction of Commander II. II. Ilosley of the United States navy. There was no mishap of any kind. Three vessels in tandem are' towing Che Dewey. Next to the dock is the collier Brutus, then the collier Caesar and in front is the tug Potomac. Commahder Ilosley will have his quarters on the Glacier, the supply boat which will accompany the dock and us attendants. : .1 WILL ENTER' CHU IN ROME. ROME, Dec. 28. The Italia says that Princess .Una of Battenberg. who will soon be marriAl to King Alfonso of Spain, will come to Rome in January to be accepted into the Catholic church at St. Peters. She will be baptized by Archbishop Stoncr, the highest English prelate in Rome. . i TUBERCULOSIS EXHIBITION. BOHTON, Dee, 2f. A free tubercu losis exhibition on lines similar to tho recent exhibition in. New York opened today in Horticultural hall and will re main open for ten ayB. The purpose of the exhibition is to furnish the peo ple with an opportunity to learn about the means and methods of treating and preventing tuberculosis. .Alt that sci ence knows about the dreaded disease is shown by charts, pictures and mod els. The exhibition includes not only the greater art of the exhibit display-!95 ed in New lork, but also a complete demonstration of what has been dons for the care of consumptives in Massa chusetts, by public and private enter; prise. , s -i HIGH SCHOOL DISCUSSED. jsell Sage, through his representative, SPRINGFIELD, Jll., Dec. 28-The was-rporte d to have loaned $6 000,000 present and fnture status of the high :at. 9rt 100 ..P" More than the school forraed .he general topic of dis- f diMrimiBation was shown by the cussion this mSrning at the state teach- Jnk8 the collateral accepted by them ers' convention. The speakers at this I- L.ian8M nn j the concluding general 'session of the , Tho "te for 60 and 90-day loan, to jonvention, included Superintendent A. flaJ .waf C per. cent a ml a eninji.'on F. Nightingale of Chicago, J. E. Arm- t asking, such loans "lly qaiv alen t to 1 i , r.i' it a irt. 9 per cent. Toward 1 o'clock the de- ister of Urbana. MEETING OF ECIENTIFIO MEN. NEW YORK, Dee. 28Tbe Astro nomical and " Astrophysical Society ; of America began its annual, meeting to iLiy at Cplnmbii university with an at tendance of members from the leading institutions of learning and, scientific bodies of the United States; and Can ada. The sessions will continue through the remainder of the week and will be devoted to narters and disenssbms deal- ,:ng witrf the special branches of sci - -nee in which the society is interested. r -;- - - - ' t ' -' , IN TTOOSTER POET'S HONOR. INDIANAPOLIS, Dec. 28, The mem-' .ers. or ine xnaiana uiie . leacners-j "Tae -enormors vciaine or tmsmcss Association in annual session here this which obtains throcghout the country afternoon laid aside business and de-vis making a .strong t demand - upon the voted, themselves to, a special program banking power, and naturally has ma n honor of James Whitcomb Riley, terjally advanced the rates of interest ihe "IIosier Poet." The meeting was The foreign exchange credit, wlreh the ield in Tomlinson hall, which waa country wotld normally' make, is much Ml., to overflowing with the teachers curtailed by the shortage of '' 'cars, ind their friends. Mr. Riley himself which : prevents the ;-.pitl marketing au .ur.r "-. ,-r. vas present ana ms appearance on tae olatformf was the signal for an enthn- atstic demonstration.-Senator Bever-on for ti?her Ptees, Norma.ly , we ad tion ftf n n4 the. enforcement dge presided and the "peakers iocl4 would artic.pate such exchange ty ef th . ,h tre material 4 IlenrV Watterson, Meredith Nichl- our credit abroad, bnt -Enrjp. . kas , wea h; ths payers, to on andTother rraons of note,- M trouble, of its on. The Russian coud with fonnati nmn3 to . j hang, over the markets. Iosbl-. de-. Wl.a officials for intercol- . BUCSEYE HOTEL CLERKS. fault in the interest upon the enormous iute Contests. The conference ef- DAYTON, O., Dec. 28. The Ohio "Y1." f m,Tr . I" ll permanent organization, and an nate Hotel Clerks' Association began oisturled Eerlm, holds Pans inanaiety , nln eommittee of. BeT( ts first annual meeting in this city to- c mnyf-ff"'5 a which will communicate with the rep- ;tk twkM Km. r.mm.t- C.nn. large cities. The hctelries united for the entertainment f Dayton ef the Tia - itors. The report of the flicers show I hat the association has had gratify- - ng increase in memitersitip since, its rgr:nizaticn.a year ago. LIONEYLIARKET HOLDS STRONG RATE ADVANCES TO 125 PER CENT M IN NEW. YORK CITY. G0E3 UP BY LEAPS AND EOUNDS. Call Money Reaches Highest Price in . Years, but Causes Little Ex- ! ,. citement. ' f Russell Sage Takes Advantage of Good - Figures and Faees Loan of $0,000,000 Banker Hepburn Explains Cause of High Rate of Interest. NEW YORK, Dee. 23. The call money market opened strong again to day. The first loan reported was $2, 800,000, at the rate of 30 per cent per annum, and this was followed almoat immediately by another loan of $200,000 at 60 per cent. . ; The advance, in the interest rate was sensationally rapid. From 60 there was a quick advance to 75, 90 anI then 100. When 100 per eent was touched, all reev ords since. December, 1899, were broken. That year, 106 per cent was paid for call loans. M M : . After lending at 100 today there were loans at90 per cent. The 90 per cent quotation did not last long, aud at 11 o'clock 110 per cent was paid - for funds, and shortly afterwards a loan of S40y,000 at jer cent was reporteu After having reached 110 per eent on the stock exchange and 125 per cent on privately arranged loans, the rate for call money late this afternoon fell to 6 per cent. Just before the close, it advanced again and closed with a 15 lid. . ' ; . ' -Although brokers were compelled to pay the highest "price in years for cash with which to carry their stock, there was little excitement over the situation. Many stock exchange houses provided themselves several months ago with time loans to carry them over January 1, which is a time when money is al ways in .great demand for dividends, interest and other year-end settlements. These time loans are not affected by the rail money market. Some stocks were sold out during the morning hours, principally industrials, but in the main stocks held well in the early trading, considering the market usual sensitiveness to the situation. On the stock! market the excitement is not great. , i ' .- ' Demand Starts Early. The demand for money started within fifteen minutes after the opening of business. As a rule nothing is done in money until after 11 o'clock. Today a loan Wai made early at 30 per cent. This was regarded as an effort to keep the rate; down. Immediately after wards bids were raised rapidly at 10 pier cent between quotations. A re quest for accommodation at 40 brought no offer Then the bid was raised to 50, -with no better results." The' next was 60, at which figure- second Ion n was made, one of $200,000. No more money was Offered at that rate. The third loan was made at 70. Then the demand for money from brokers, as a result of heavy calling of loans by the banks in order to make arrange ments for the January 1 disbursements, became lurgent, and most of them were apprehensive as to whether they could renew their loans at all. The call rate then climbed rapidly to 80, 90 and 125 per eent. The top rate yesterday was Mnt- Russell Sage Makes Loan. The greater part of today's offerings came from out of town banks through . maftv industrial and commercial bonses a lo loaned through their banks. Rus- pretty well satisfied, and money, was lent at J 60 per cent. i Jest as soon as the money tension seemed 'to have been relieved the stock market - etartd to advance, led ty a ensationl vmvemerl in Anacoads, This stock rese rapiiUy to 275 agsinrt 239 esrlier in the Uav. There was no definite , news to exidsin this . advance except .the report of a rich strike in the coaipany s mines. , Amalgamated was carriel up2V points in synlpathy, irrm tiai tinK f Am eonia, and other copixr and smelting stocks were al?3 strong. .1,7 , j Explains High Rate. ' t I Pmn'.Unt ItonKnrn nt the Chase tional Bank said today: ; :. j " wn.ca Z' ' i aoroai or conon Kr ., anu -n",ixtyight ' institntians f learning' by the concerted withholding of cot- liPX ICii vUi C -B MJVUHvU. .-1UUIT UU " ..iV.. M'kM ' ,unnsuany strong in Mhtr centers. . -wmoii-ui h uajuiauiB. , "IIene.we are called upon to tlaanee -r or great volume or l;siness prsctic,; ly with our Own rescurees. ' It 1 un- fortunate that at such a time and nnder such circumstances prices of listed se curities should be persistently advanced day by day.. It has a.Med to the money strain and is primarily responsible for the high rates of . interest. Stock (if worthy) would have found a higher level in a normal manner .without caus ing conditions fraught ; wth possible danger." - . At 2:15 the. call money -market be came -much easier and dropped to 6 per cent and at 2:45 the quoted rate was ,6 and 10 per cent. Secretary Shaw Undecided. Chicago, Dee. 2S. According to the Evening Journal, Secretary of the Treasury Shaw was asked if he had any intention of taking steps to relieve the money situation in New York, and replied: I "When I decide toltake any steps to relieve the situation there I will make a public announcement of my intention. I have not made up my mind one way or the other." Call Money 15 Per Cent at Boston. Boston, Dee.' 28. A bid of 15 per eent for money on call was made here todav, leing an unusually high rate for the Boston market. WELL FIGHT MACHINE. So-Called Lincoln Party Holds an Anti Machine Seance in Pbila 3 delphia. PHILADELPHIA, Pec. 23 Members of the executive committee and lead ers of the Lincoln party gathered to day at the Hotel Steuton in this city to perfect the details of organization, adopt rules covering the new situation and map out plans for a continuation of the fusion fight against the Repub lican ? machine" in Pennsj-lvania. With a leader and an organization in each of the fifty senatorial districts , of the state, the Lincoln party will ask the electors of Pennsylvania to sup port a complete state ticket in Novem ber next. As a step in this compre hensive effort, every effort will be ex erted to! capturing control of the elec tion boards, to be voted for in Feb ruary, which boards will conduct the general election in November next and sit in February;, 1907, when the suc cessor of Mayor Weaver will be elected. The Lincoln party has failed to se cure the united support of the reform element. It is opposed Jby the City party which brought about the "re form" victory at the Philadelphia elec tion last month. The leaders of the City party assert that the broader scope of the Lincoln party will have the effect of weakening the fight against the Republican organization in Phila delphia. It is hinted that the real pur pose of the Lincoln party and the. true intent tof its promoters is to control the hold-over senators, all of whom will vote tor the successor of Boies Penrose in the United States senate. The City party resents what it terms an attempt to use it' to further a plan to capture control of the high state offices and ulti mately a seat in the United States sen ate, i 1 ' ' ' ' ROYAL ARCANUM TRIAL. SYRACUSE, N. Y, Dee. 2S. The trial ot F. C. Wilcox of this city, who is charged with "pernicious activity" in opposing the enforcement of the. in creased insurance rates of the Royal Arcanus, was begun today before the special committee appointed by Su preme Regent Howard C. Wiggins. Mr. Wilcox is a member of the national ex; ecutive committee of Royal Arcanum councils and also of the law committee of five which has charge of the litiga tion against the supreme council to prevent the enforcement of the new rates of assessment. His case is re garded as a. tcsi case and the result is awaited with, keen interest by the mem bership of the order throughout this country and Canada. BURIAL OF OIL LAMPS. BERLIN, Doe. 28. At Unruhstadt, a little market town in eastern Irussia, a curious ceremony was enacted this week" to celebrate the opening of the new gasworks. ; A procession was orga nized symbolizing the "death of tne oil lamp." It was headed by the staff of the gasworks, followed by bearers of banners with inscriptions and wound with crepe. Then came a band playing a dead march, and finally a bier, car ried by old lamplighters. The proces sion made n round through the town, and on its way collected all the oil fed street lamps, which were adorned with crepe bows, and reverently placed on the bier "for borial." NORTH AND SOUTH UNITED. WASHINGTON COURT HOUSE. O., Dec. 23. A large and brilliant wedding here tolay was that of Miss Ruth Mil liken, daughter of Col. B. II. Millikcu of this city, and Hon. W. W. Wester field, assistant United States district attorney at New Orleans. The cere mony' was prrformcd in Grace M. E. church, which was - magnificently . dec orated with flowers. , CONCERTED MOVEMENT BEGINS. Representatives of Sixty-Eight Institu tions of Learning haeet to Modify . , : ' Football Roles. NEW YORK, Dec." 23. the concert ed movement toward reforming the game of football by the colleges and universities jot America 'was bezon i here today when the representatives f asrT, ta ,.t tkr I. ...r'in. T.: ,1 ' V3rt. Pennsylvania, -Cornell, Annapolislpa 1,1 Chicago university, constitntingthe th. 1 . T w- j .---- -js, . i existing committee on rules, by asking fer amalgamation with that boly. None, of the aiMve .mentioned universities were represented at today's conference, PAYED ENIE: i BRIBE STORY DID NOT SELL OUT WHILE U , PERINTENDENT INSURANCE. HE SAYS ACCUSATION IS FALrC Declares Mutual Reserve Did Not Write Own Report of His Invcs- t - .': tlgation. Judge Cady Is Also Brought Before Armstrong Committee Through His Connection With Prussian, Life In surance Companies. NEW YORK, Dec. 2S Louis F. Payn and J. Ryder Cah-, who was emj-loyed at times as counsel by Payn. while tho latter was state superintendent of in surance, were the principal witnenw.-s today before the insurance investiga ting 'committee. Payn in reply to ine of the first questions asked him, cm- phaticaly denied the report that he had received $10,000 from the Mutual Reserve Life Insurance Company aiid had allowed that company to write its own report of the investigation which Payn caused to be made in 1S9. Judge Cady was brought into the in vestigation by reason of his having ap peared before Payn in the interest of Prussian insurance companies seeking admission into tbei United States. This application was denied by Payn, but two years later was granted. President McCurdy-of the Mutual Life Insurance Company r"d asked , that this permis sion ue L-'i up until he could see Payn. The request was refused, but Payn had Cady call, upon McCurdy. Hughes asked if McCurdy said the Mutual Life would-pay any money for a contrary decision. Judge Cady said he did not know but that McCurdy of fered him a retainer on behalf of the. Mutual Life, which he refused. McCurdy Quits Trust Company. New York, Dee. 28. It was learned today that Richard A. McCurdy, former president of the Mutual Ufa Inatiranco Company, ' and his son-in-law, L. A. Thebaud, who also was connected with the Mutual, had resigned 'some weeks ago from the directorate of the United States Mortgage & Trust Company. The-, resignations were accepted. I OFFICERS ARREST ITALIAN. Prisoner Is Believed to Be Man Who Shot At Southern Pacific M ' i. - . - Train, :- MEDFORD, Or., Dec. 28.-4 man named Gorobetui was arrested, ehnrged with firing a gun through the rear t ar of the first section of the north bound passenger train Christmas day. A wit ness saw a man wtanling with a small rifle on the track in the rear of the Irain just after the report of the gun rang. out. As (Jombetti was the owner of tho only rifle, a 22-caliTer, found in the camp, -he may' be asked to prove that t was someone else,' He asserts that he saw a man fehoot such a wenpon at the train, but the offices believe that they have the right mnn. It appear that the shot came from the rear nn I went through the ear, from end to end. The ball, after piercing.tbe glass in the rear, struck the casing in frort and fell to the floor of the car. While badly flattened" it is said to iiave been fired from a 22-caliber rifle..' i; - WILL STRIKE ON TUESDAY. . House smiths and BridgemCn of New York WXU Demand Increase' In Pay. . NEW YORK, Dec. 28.The an nouncement ' was made to.lay by 'the leaders of the honsesntiths an.l bridge men's unin, that on Tuesday nejtt, Jai uani. 2, the 4,000 members would strike for an increase in pay from S4.50 to 1f" a day. This, the leaders Jeclare, me.ms that everybig building in toe can rue of construction in this city and within n ra .iiii. of fifty miles on. Long Island and in New Jersey in which. triiettral iron work 'is being lone, will be tied up indirectly and will throw out of employ ment about 75,0O0 men. MISS0UEI FRUIT GROWERS. KANSAS CITY, Dec. 23 With an attendance representing, every iortion of the state, the Missouri Horticultural Society assembled at the Coatcs Houso today and began it. forty-eightn annual session. An executive session this af ternoon preceded the formal opening of the gathering this evening when wel comes and responses will be delivered ftnd a.ddresses oi horticultural topics made W Dr. J. M. Stedman of Colum- ,,bia, R. G. Ran of St. Joseph, MisaA(le laiiiQ Liter of Kansas City, and others. Will sweep continent. CHICAGO, Dec. 2S Plans for an oldXaahioncd religious revival to sweep the continent of America were mado today by the religious workers from all over the country at the evangelistic conference conducted by R. A. Torrey and Rev. Charles M. AlexauIer at tho Moodv church. WESTXRN SURGEONS MEET. . KANSAS CITY, Mo., Dee. 2S. The annual meeting of the Western Surgical and Gvnecologiaal'Ansociation began in mis city today, witn beadfjuarters at the Midland hotel. One hundred a?id fifty eminenj "surgeons, representing nil ---- . - - ,..., ... , he tratbermg President H. D. Niles of Salt Ijpke City. The sessions continue to days and are to be devoted entirely to papers and discussions on scientific topics.