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The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1905-06-21

PORTLAND, Ore, June 21.-The
national Good Roads association
opened its fifth annual convention
at the auditorium of the Lewis and
Clark exposition today. Governors
of all states, mayors of cities and
presidents of commercial bodies from
all parts of the United States reoeiv-
ed invitations to be present, many Of
which have been accepted.
The opening days exercises will In
clude addresses of welcome by At
torney General A. M. Crawford, rep
resenting Governor Chamberlain, for
the state of Oregon; Mayor George
II. williams for the city of Portland,
President r. ]. Holmes of the Manu-
facturers' association, President g.
w. Allen of the Portland board of
trade, W. d. Wheelwright, president
of the Portland chamber of COM
merce, and ]. II. Thatcher, vice presi-
dent Portland Commercial club, and
responses by President w. II. Moore
and Vice President A. S. MANN OF
the association. Secretary K. w.
Richardson will deliver his annual
report and committees for the con-
yention will be appointed.
Second Days Meeting.
Features of the second days meet
ing will be speeches by Martin Dodge
director public road inquiries, United
States department of agriculture, on
what the Government Is Doing for
Roads; ]. H. Scott, president Oregon
Good Roads association, on Public
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1905-06-21
fScripps News Association.)

MISSOULA, Mont, June 21.-Pres-
ident Howard Elliot of the Northern
Pacific and a party of high officials
of the road are completing brief So
journ In the park and will arrive in
Missoula tomorrow or the day after,
stopping for a brief period while en-
route to the Pacific coast, where
some time will be spent on matters
of Importance. There are all kinds
Of rumors afloat as to the purpose Of
Mr.. Elliotts visit west at this time,
but the opinion in some circles is
that it is in connection with the long
contemplated Encouragement of the
traffic methods on the western portion
of the line. Rumor has 1t that there
are a number Of new executive Of
fees to be created within the near
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1905-06-21

finance
Long before the Luxembourg was
opened, before the shades of night
had rolled away. people who were
supposed to have little or nothing
assembled to register their subscrip-
lions.
1t was marvellous scene.
Women brought their workbas-
kets with them. Families arrived
with provisions of food necessary
for the day. One might have thought
it national holiday.
The world considered 1t a national
calamity for France. These French
waited to invest. Why" one OBJ
server has remarked, You might
have thought it a picnic"
When the subscriptions had closed
amidst a bedlam clamoring for fur
ther chances to subscribe, the enor-
nous demand for the loan had reach
ed the figure of five milliards!
That is one billion dollars.
And this was entirely irrespective
of foreign bankers demands, and OF
provincial departments which had not
yet forwarded their subscriptions.
The whole transaction--as Wash
burne states, "displayed the mar
velous confidence the French people
had in their own securities"
In three years the entire tremen-
dous indemnity demanded by Ger
many, with also the acquisition of
the former French colonies of AL
SAGE and Lorraine, had been fully
paid.
The popular saying is that the hid
den stockings of France released the
nation from the clutches of the Ger
mans.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1905-06-21

How can Russia pay? How meet
this enormous and growing noun
tain of obligation?
The answer is one continuous story
of tax. First there is the indirect
tax of the tariff system, similar to
that of the United States; then there
is the tax on all spirits, accom-
plished by national monopoly of
this entire business. The car is the
one great saloonkeeper. Not a gill
of spirits Is sold in the empire ex
cept by the government, and then it
is dispensed at a good profit. The
car makes about 100000, 900 a year
on his saloon business.
The are are also several other in
dustrial monopolies of lesser i'm
portance, and it is contemplated next
to take over the tea business as a
government monopoly. Other articles
taxed are tobacco, sugar, mineral
oils, matches and about all the Incl
dental necessities of daily life; Their
there are special customs duties,
stamp duties, transfer duties, pass
port and railway taxes. etc; in addi-
ton to which there are taxes on lands
and forests, on all redemption pay
ments, on liberated serfs (head taxi
and on Grown peasants"
The liberated serfs and crown
peasants are squeezed for about s45,-
000, 900 year.
Where will Russia get the money
to pay a war indemnity of $260,000,-
! 600 and upward? The poor are
ground to the limit now. 1t is small
wonder the nations financiers are
Wnrriel
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1905-06-21
president ELLIOTT TO
name new OFFICERS

future, one of which will be that of
assistant general manager, with head
quarters either at Seattle or Tacoma.
The business of the company has
assumed such large proportions dur
ing the last few years that 1t has
become necessary to handle large
portion of the business from the west
in order to facilitate matters with
dispatch A separate set Of officers
may therefore in the future have
charge of the business west of the
Rocky mountains, If reports, which
come from an apparently authentic
source, are true.
The appointment of the new execu-
tive officers will mean the creation
of a large number of sub-departments
and a probable Encouragement of the
business systems west.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1905-06-21

bert, commissioner Lewis and Clark
exposition; Wellington T.. Loucks,
organizer National Good Roads asso-
citation; r. ID. Chaplin, Michigan;
Judge J. E. Mayors, Oregon Com
mittees on resolutions and nomina-
tions will report Friday and election
of officers will be held
On Saturday there will be more
speeches, the object-lesson road will
be shown in front Of the Transporta-
ton and Machinery building, and the
automobiles that have competed In
the transcontinental race will be ex-
hibited. Brief addresses will be
heard from Governor Pardee of Cali
fornia, Jefferson Myers of the Oregon
state commission, Senator Reed
Smoot of Utah, Tom Richardson and
H. W. Goode.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1905-06-21
SPOKANE FALLS q NORTHHRN
RAILWAY COMPANY LOON
LAKE EXCURSIONS.

Effective June 2 and until further
will be in effect from Spokane to
Loon Lake:
On sale Sundays, limit following
Monday, 81.
On sale daily, limit 80 days, $3.50
On sale REORGANIZATION 20
rides, limit September Is, $40.
II. A. JACKSON,
General Passenger Agent,
Spokane, Wash.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1905-06-21
(Scripps News Association.)

STOCKHOLM, June 21.-When the
riksdag assembled today in extraor-
binary session to consider the disso-
luton of the union by the Norwegian
government there was Immediately
introduced bill asking authorization
to enter into negotiations with the
Norwegian storthing for a conditional
settlement of the questions involved
in the separation of the dual king
dom Premier Ramstadt recommend.
ed pacific measures.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1905-06-21
GOOD ROADS ASSOCIATION
WELCOMED by PORTLAND

Roads of Oregon; J. B. Meikle, sec
rotary Seattle chamber of commerce
and Washington Good Roads associ-
alton; N. Ellery, commissioner public
highways of California; William Jas
per Kerr, president Utah Agricultural
college; James Withycombe, Oregon
Agricultural college; James W. Alb
bolt, Rocky mountain coast division
United States good roads department.
Committees on resolutions and nomi-
nations will be appointed.
On Thursday there will be ad-
dresses by Dewitt w. Smith, presi-
dent Illinois highway commission;
Judge Lionel r. Webster. Multnomah
county; j. d. Lee, secretary Portland
board of trade; George w. Cooley.
president Minnesota Good Roads as
socistion; F. c. Young, University Of
Roads Magazine, New York; Charles
c. Garfield. Cleveland, O.; II. B..
Thielson, secretary Oregon Good
Roads association.
Program for Friday.
Fridays program will include
speeches by Colonel r. p. Rixey, lee
turer National Good Roads associa-
ton; j. w, Bailey, president National
Dairymen's association; Theodore A.
Randall, secretary National Brick
Manufacturers association; judge
Thomas II. Ryan, Clackamas county
William Bradburn, engineer National
Good Roads association; Mrs. Caro-
line r. Olney, California; ]. ii. AL
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1905-06-21
MAY |NDICT
ONE HUNDRED
OFFICIALS
(Scripps News Association

MILWAUKEE, Wis, June 21.-The
district attorney today began pro-
ceedings against the graft inuuisi-
tors. He requested the county board
to have them declared in contempt
for interfering with the work of the
grand jury. The alleged board is
seeking to whitewash members and
keep the graft investigation out of
the hands of the grand jury. The
district attorney said today he was
convinced from the form Of evidence
presented that nearly hundred Of
ficials would be indicted for graft
ing.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1905-06-21
QUICK RESULTS

1t is seldom necessary to take &
second dose of DR.. Miles Anti-Pair
Pills. One pill will, in most cases
relieve all distress caused by head
ache, backache, neuralgia, nervous
ness, car-sickness, stomach ache. etc
When not entirely relieved. take an
other in 80 minutes. That's about the
limit to which you endure pain. 2t
doses, Csc. Never sold in bulk.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1905-06-21
FIFTY THOUSAND
ATTEND FUNERAL
(Scripps News Association.)

LODI, June 21.-Fffty thosuand
people marched to the cemetery to
the funeral Of the five victims of
Sundays riot when the Cossacks
charged a procession of socialists.
Many red flags were carried. The
police did not interfere with the pro-
cession.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1905-06-21
SWEDISH RIKSDAG SEEKS
APEACEFUL SETTLEMENT

The premier declared negotiations
are necessary to definitely clear up
the situation. Several members con-
Cured in the premier's views. The
king then addressed the assembly.
He said ne had acted according to
his conscience always and with a
full desire for the welfare Of the
two peoples.
The king expressed the hope that
Sweden would regain within its own
borders what it had lost by the disso-
luton.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1905-06-21
BY Gibson Gardner.

Stan Correspondence to The Press.
WASHINGTON, June 81. - The
amount of the war indemnity which
Japan will demand of Russia. as one
of the conditions OF peace, it Is re-
liably stated, will be not less than
the sum total of the money borrowed
by Japan from foreign countries.
This sum total is $3.50, 100000.
The indemnity may be larger than
the above sum, but it will not be
less. In addition to the foreign loan,
Japan raised for the late war with
out going outside of the island king
dom. sS60,000,000. So the extra
money raised by Japan to prosecute
the war amounts to 100000, 900.
Back of this was an invested accumu-
lation represented by ships, arms and
munitions of war, amounting to as
much again.
The actual cost of the war to ia
pan can not be estimated with &C
curacy, even by the japanese govern
ment Her navy is practically intact,
but millions of ammunition have beer
expended. The army in Manchuria
Is also a continuing asset, but the
cost of its maintenance and trans
portation has been enormous.
Disregarding indirect injury
wrought by the war to commerce and
to the domestic industry of Japan
the main items Of monetary eXpendi-
ture may be summed up as coming
within the figures of the foreign and
domestic loans; and, measuring the
maximum demand to be made on
Russia by these, it is safe to say that
the Japanese indemnity demand will
not be more than s620,000,Ooo.
1t is generally believed by well
posted diplomats, and financiers who
are interested in the Russian and
Japanese loans, that the peace nego-
tiations would begin with n demand
by Japan of about f500000,0 900
which might later be scaled down
TO the amount of the foreign loan
namely, SEQ, 100000.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1905-06-21
SETTLEMENT
Of STRIKE
(scripps News Association.)

(Scripps News AsSOclatIUH-J
CHICAGO, June 21.-Peace negoti-
atoms which promise an end of the
teamsters' strike were begun today
at a meeting between John V. Far
well, Jr., representing the employers,
and the strikers new peace commit
tee. The meeting was evidently sat-
isfactory, as at the close the labor
leaders began asking for meeting
of the striking teamsters for the pur-
pose of voting on a proposition OF
settlement.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1905-06-21

The history in brief of Russia's
war borrowings is as follows:
Almost Immediately after the war
commenced loan was negotiated in
Paris of 100000, 900 francs or $780,
100000. These were per cent short
term bonds, and were practically all
subscribed. At the same time the
Russian government issued at home
4 per cent treasury notes TO the
amount of s75.000,000. These treas
ury notes are similar to our interest
bearing bonds.
After the fall of Port Arthur Rus.
STA sought a loan in the German
market An issue of $50, 100000 rubles
was authorized; and, as stated above,
only part of the loan was sub
scribed
But simultaneously with the Ger
man loan the Russians issued at
home another batch OF treasury Sc
curities, bearing interest at per
cent, to the sum Of $4,000, 600.
Meantime the credit currency of
the nation has been further expand
ed by the Bank of Russia, which has,
during the year subsequent to March
1904, swelled its issue of circulating
notes from $4,000, coo to $4S5, oo0,-
600, an increase in ~ months of
eI75,000, 900. Before and since then
the bank has issued other notes.
bringing the total additional war is
sue up to s250,000,o0o.
1t will be thus seen that this brings
the total of Russia's war borrowing
up to the enormous figure Of $780,
100000.
AS against this debt the Russian
minister of finance claims there is
In reserve, and offers to exhibit, the
official hoard of the Russian govern
ment. namely, the reserve gold sup
ply, made up of bullion and coinage,
and amounting, as he claims, to
ss55, 100000. This offer to show so
much gold is characterized by bank
ers In Londono, Berlin and Paris as
"opera bouffe." They look to the
reserves Of the nation, and decline to
lend more.
And now comes the startling but
natural sequel-that Russia 10 al
ready planning to abandon the gold
standard! Such Is the report In the
most conservative financial circles.
1t 10 the natural resort of an un-
scrupulous bankrupt. Being a credi-
tor, TO all the world, the nation pro-
poses to go 20 a cheaper monetary
basis.
The total public debt of Russia on
January. 1905 tthis does not in
elude the late war borrowings. was
3s.6ss.atb.ooo.
For previous years the debt was:
1so4. s3.si2.o5b. $40; 1908, s3.3l4.673.-
cas-: 1909. ss.sas.s77.o7b.
hut this S4,0oo,0o0, 900 indebted
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1905-06-21
CAPTAIN SMITH
IN CHARGE OF
JONES FUNERAL
IScr,pps News Association.)

PARIS, June 21.-The American
embassy has delegated Captain
Smith, naval attache, to have charge
of details in connection with the re-
moval of the body of Paul Jones and
to plan the ceremonies.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1905-06-21
INSPECTING
IDAHO PLANTS

BOISE, Idaho, June 21.-The con-
gressional party inspecting govern
ment irrigation projects arrived at
Boise this morning. Monday and
Tuesday will be spent in inspecting
work at Minnedoka and Twin Falls.
Today they are inspecting a portion
Of the New York and Ridenbaugh
canals
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1905-06-21
STANFORD TEACHER
HAS GONE INSANE
(scripps News Association.)

LINCOLN. Neb.. June 21.-The
parents of DIR. C. c. Rice, professor
of modern languages in Leland STAN
ford university, received word today
that the professor was violently in
sane in n hospital in Pittsburg. He
recently came east to recuperate.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1905-06-21

When you hear n man roasting
this paper ana It's editor. 1t Is safe
for you to put It down that the
rooster is a delinquent subscriber
who has had his paper stopped for
non-payment of OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
cello (Fla.) News
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1905-06-21
BATES LEWIS AND CLARK PAIR

The Northern Pacific announces
rate of $14.95. Spokane to Portland
and return. On sale May 20 to Octo-
Der Is daily; return limit, 80 days
Party rate, 10 or more. $1L2O: limit
10 days. Also low rates .or large
parties. Call at city Office, Ziegler
block, for full particulars
]. w. HILL, G. A.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1905-06-21
AUTOMObIlIST
REACHES PORTLAND
FROM new YORK
(Scripps News AssociatioS }

PORTLAND, Ore, June al
Messrs Huss and Weigel will arrive
in Portland at l o'clock in the auto
mobile "Old Scout" from New York,
completing the trip in Al days, 8
hours and % minutes. The second
automobile is three days behind.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1905-06-21

The ability of Russia TO pay a
huge indemnity is seriously ques-
toned That nation is now fairly
staggering under the recent additions
TO Its load of debt. The cars credit
is seriously impaired.
II is today almost Impossible for
Russia to raise any considerable sum
of ready money in the markets of the
world Since the war began the do
mestic and foreign commerce of the
nation has fallen off more than s25,-
600, 900 each, and the rates of dis
count have gone up so that little
more than half the sum authorized in
the latest loans were realized. After
the fall of Port Arthur the minister
of finance authorized an issue in
Germany of 250,000,000 rubles, or
s125,0O0,000, of which only sS0,000,-
600 was subscribed.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1905-06-21
lOBB WORKED
IN SAN DIEGO
(Scripps News Association.)

SAN DIEGO, Cal, June Ell
Thomas Lobb, the Frisco maniac,
worked in San Diego for a time as a
carpenter at Fort Rosecrans and on
the Granger block. Later the men
had fight and Lobb quit the job and
left the next day, April 8, for the
north. He has no family so far as
known Lobb probably 35 years old
and English.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1905-06-21

IF you've got little spare money
let me put you onto a good way to
invest it,"
I'm always looking for something
good. What Is it?'
why don't you open a cigar stand
and restaurant in the Ohio peniten-
tiary for the bankers locked up
there?
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1905-06-21
RUSSIA MUST SCRATCH
GRAVEL TO PAY FINE

by the Crimean war, the assumption
of the Polish national debt, the Rus
so-Turkish war, the liberation of the
serfs and the era of railway building.
The average rate of interest is close
to s per cent.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1905-06-21
IMPERIAL SHRINE
AT NIAGARA FALLS
(Scripps News Association.)

LOS ANGELES, Cal, June 21.-A
telegram received at Niagara Falls
announces that next year the I'm
perial Shrine will meet here in May.
The fiesta de tos flores will be re-
Vived for the Shriners.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1905-06-21
BREVITIES

Carriage Co. Tel. 4S7. Fares, 25c.
Ladies' play billiards and pool
every day and evenings at Phster
billiard parlor.
Your stocking with your hard
earned money may not be safe,
though hidden. Besides, your savings
deposited there earn nothing. Try
our savings department.
Deposits made now draw interest
from July l.
Spokane & Eastern Trust Co.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1905-06-21

Never mind about the heat in
Washington when the peace commits
sioners meet. Vice President Fair
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1905-06-21

Your majesty" said the cars
lookout, there's fellow at the back
door who says he's got just the thing
the Russian navy needs and he's will
ing to sell 1t cheap"
Show him in cried the car
"Ah," exclaimed his imperial ma
jesty, when the stranger entered, I'm
glad to see you. What have you got
TO SELF"
'Dredges-"
There is q new lookout at the
palare
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1905-06-21

Poor Old Russia is Billions and Billions of Dollars the
Hole With Her People Ground Down Under the
Debt But They Will Be Squeezed Some More to Pay
Japans nity-Figures Show the Wretched FL
nancal Condition of the Great Empire Which Has
H. Just Been So Badly Licked
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1905-06-21

hut this s4,ooo.o 100000 Indebted
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-10-15
JOHN bull; WEARS
AMERICAN SHOES
Britons Forced to Look 7 to the
United States FOR Footwear
+ or Leather. -#
journal Special Service.

= -
London, Oct. IA. The British public
intent on buying boots and shoes is
confronted with two alternatives. Pnr-
chasers must either pay bigger price
for their boots and. shoes or they must
be content with 4 inferior articles in
which glucose and other materials pre-
dominate over the real leather. This
is said to be due to the fact that for
many years past the Americans have
been buying up English hides, adulter-
ating them and dumping" them back
into this country, artifcially tanned
and weighted. .,z%ss rs 49,: =
The 7dumping" went so far as to
reduce the EnglishFtahners to the ranks
of mere importers, and Bermondsey; in
stead Of being thesc center Of the English
tanning industry, is now a "districts of
importers. ~ # 3 q h=5-:se<:.s5.:. 49, l,&
: Interviewed upon the subject Alfred
Randall, the editor 6of the Boot and
Shoe journal, said: asss1@@ : i5&5,::za r.>zt4
(, "The English tanning industry has
been 80 reduced by foreign competition
that we are largely dependent upon
America for leather. $50 egreat is this
dependence that our nlarketsis always
Influenced ins by the operations of,sAm nlr
~ Boots and Shit are costing from i
to ~ per ;teen n.tFe TO produce thar
they did two ysarssago. The demand il
for material 4n at price, =, and even to
really learned that in boots and Shoes
the best is the cheapest. Many tan
yards have been closed in England dur
ing the past twenty years, for capital
lists find that they can make more money
and make it more easily by buying ant
selling than by manufacturing. !" =. 9.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-10-15
JEW HEROES OF
WAR PROSECUTED
Returning Soldiers, Driven from
/ =. Place to Place by Russians,
(. :: : x, = Are in Want. Gu. .,"1 a:S.

! Berlin, Oct. 14.-Prominent Jews
here have received details in relation
to the persecution Of Jewish soldiers
who have returned from Manchuria.
These former soldiers have been hound
ed by the Russian authorities, and
driven from place to place, it is assert
ed, until they are destitute and helpless.
: One instance which is cited, which is
pretty glaring, is. that Of Victor
Schwartz. Schwartz was thrice decor
ated for bravery and took part in
twenty engagements. One of the deco
rations conferred upon him was the
Golden. Cross Of st. George, which is
the highest mark Of distinction for per
sonal bravery. He ~ also received. "a
golden medal for saving the life of an
officer who was drowning. y .es
&. Schwartz returned from Manchuria
to Moscow and secured employ
ment at a S salary Of $40 a month
While occupying even this hum
BILE position he was marked Out
for persecution by the police, whe
bounded him out of the city, claiming
that no Jews were allowed to live there
Schwartz is now destitute. Similar in
stances to the number Of 165 are cited