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The San Francisco call., 1906-11-14
Mr. BRYAN's PROCESS OF INVERSION.

R. BRYANS comments on the recent elections
MI entertaining and instructive although impossible
lVl that he intended be neither Running through peer
less leaders, discourse there is of subdued
satisfaction the elimination of Hearst
petitor. Concerning Hearst he says:
His nmies contributed defeat the triumph
his ideas still him position the fight the
If the strong
Democratic 1908 Mr.
valiant work national triumph
1t slender consolation for Mr. Hearst know that ideas
elected while he himself darkness But Mr.
Byan of the situation decidedly original us had
supposed that Mr.. Heasts ideas
Mr. Bryan therefore persuaded that President
have sowiul Thanksgiving It Patrick McCarren Theo
iore Roosevelt that accomplished the defeat Of Hearst
Then threatened with trend toward
Democracy 1t is Still endng somewhere, seems to
arrive anywhere Hope springs eternal in Mr. Byans He
still visions and dreams dreams.
In the meantime the Democratic of New having
OF its oldfashoned hair puings Murphy Hearst car
whom Hearst has called scoundre It IS
very entertaining free fight for the spectators
be why should reconced on the same
that OF the and alliance Hearst made with Murnx
We offer the suggestion free of charge BRYAN the good
shepherd OF the Democracy the persuasion that the M,nt
alliance of the Hearst were elected m Mr.
Bfyans astonishing process OF inversion.
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The Smart Set :. :.

!" DWARD NJ. GREENWAY has an
~ nounces that his dance, which
was to have taken place on Fri
day evening, has been postponed
until Tuesday evening next, owing to
the fact that. the new Palace Hotel will
not be completed in time.
This evening the wedding of Miss
Mary Page and William B. B. ingalls,
will take place at $50 o'clock. at the
home of the brides mother, on Buchan-
an street. 1t will be a very quiet affair,
only relatives and close friends having
been invited to be present The bride
Will have no attendants, but the groom
will have as his best man William
Fisher. Mr.. ingalls, and his bride will
leave for a brief wedding journey and
on their return will make their home
with Mrs. Page, the brides mother.
pleasant affair of last week in
Santa Barbara was the tea given by
Miss Stow In honor of her niece, Miss
Margaret Stow, who has but lately re-
turned from Europe. Assisting the
hostess in receiving were Mrs. Charles
Ealand (formerly Miss Kate Stow Miss
Wason and Miss Josephine Brown of
San Mateo. Mrs. s. P. Stow and Mrs.
The San Francisco call., 1906-11-14
Germans Are. Making Steel by the
New French Electric Process.

IN URING the entertainment given
to the visiting Society of Amer
lean Engineers by their German
colleagues at Dusseldorf on the Rhine
in August a visit was made to the
electric-steel works OF Richard Lin
denberg at Remscheid Haston. Rhenish
Prussia, to witness the production of
steel after the new patent electric pro-
cess, the invention Of DR.. Engineer
Paul Heroult, France. During the past
several years technical literature of
many countries has teemed with ex-
tensive reports regarding smelling pro-
cesses by electricity. but few, If any,
of these have been put into successful
operation. The Iron Age recently con-
tanned an article on electric smelling
for pig iSon. but said nothing of the
feasibility or economy Of producing
steel by this process
On arrival at the Lindenberg works
surprise was expressed by the visitors
to find that under this new process the
production of the highest grade steel
had been in successful operation con-
tinuously night and day since Febru-
airy. 1906. and that after a sufficient
trial of the new process the old cruel
BILE methods formerly employed had
been entirely disc ontinued.
This plant produces almost eXclu-
sively high grade and alloy steel, for
which there is a great demand by the
immense skate, cutlery and tool manu-
factories in this district, of which in
dustries those at Remscheid and Solin-
gen are the most important in Ger
many, and the demand for the new
steel has been so great that an en-
largement of the plant is being made
to increase the output. Up to the pres
ent time high quality steel has been
produced by a smelling process in
graphite crucibles with a capacity of
only 65 to 110 pounds, and as the neces-
sary raw material had to be imported
from Sweden or Steiermark the ex-
pense was very great. costing from 80
marks (S19.04) to $50 marks (sS3.30)
per ton. with an additional smelling
expense of from $3.50 marks (s9) to 100
marks (s24) a ton.
At the Lindenberg electric works
high grade steel is produced from the
the cheapest kind and quality. and it's
condition is quite immaterial, as by the
process all damaging substances, such
as sulphur and phospor. ere practi-
cally eliminated, being reduced. to one
one-hundredth of L per cent. The cost
of this scrap iron varies from As marks
(s1o.71) TO so marks (s142S) for 1000
kilos (2200 pounds). and the loss of
material in Stag and refuse varies be-
tween and per cent.
This rubbish is first melted in a
The San Francisco call., 1906-11-14
Russia Fosters Its
Shipping Industry

TT is perhaps generally known that
all the so-called coasting trade OF
the Russian Empire is by law re-
served for Russian shipping But
it is not so well known that such is
not only the case for vessels going
from one Baltic port to another, or
from one Black Sea port to another,
but is the case for those navigating
between the Black Sea, the Baltic and
the White Sea. Russian shipping, how
ever, not being as efficient as foreign
shipping is often unable to cope with
the cargoes to be carried, and then
foreign shipping Is, by special license,
allowed no take part in the Tong dis
tance coasting trade" This shows how
great are the endeavors of the Russian
Government to develop it's shipping An
effort is about to be made to set a
small fleet of shallow-draft craft to
work on the river Pruth. This river
is an affiuent of the Danube, and sepa-
rates the Russian province Bessarabin
from Roumania. During the spring
and autumn it is navigable for several
hundred miles. All the shipping. up
to the present time, has been in Rou-
manian hands, with the result that
grain grown in the Russian province
of Bessarabia went to Roumania for
shipment, thence in ocean going ves-
sells.
The efforts to gain a firm footing for
Russian shipping and commerce in the
Persian Gulf are maintained with Wig
or. The Russian Steam Navigation and
Trading Company, whose steamers run
on the gulf line, realize a clear profit
of 10000 on each trip besides a Gov
ernment subsidy of s25.5o0, or total
of s36,050.
The San Francisco call., 1906-11-14
WEDNESDAY EDITORIAL PAGE NOVEMBER =
Sues City for Twenty Millions on
Amazing Story of Stolen Gold

less. il less be possible. of the thirteen
chests filled with treasure. The public
archives are blank as to the case
which dates back to the conflict which
ended In the separation OF the urban
from the rural part of the Canton
For Herr Weber il was cOmplainad
that he had not been allowed TO cite
a witness who would have testified to
the somewhat nebulOus fact that he
had once met an American who was
familiar with the particulars of the
Thoman bequest Brushing these and
similar pleas aside. the court, taking
note of the damaging circumstance that
Herr Weber had two years ago been
declared irresponsible for his actions
found that there was no case to give
Judgment upon. and awarded costs to
the municipality.
But this by no means puts an end 20
the story or to it's complications, which
promise yet to afford much entertain
ment Though declared a lunatic BY
one court, Herr Weber appears to be-
under no disability for appealing 70
another Indeed, counsel for the city
seemed to point out the way to further
litigation by suggesting that the
ground of action. if any exists, is
against the rural Canton.
Anyway. Herr Weber has ALREADY
taken steps for keeping the ball rolling
in the higher courts. even TO the
federal tribunal If necessary. He an
nounces his intention OF producing
among other witnesses. the grandson
of a man who was coachman to one OF
the CantonaI councillors OF 1882. This
witness will swear that his grand
father, on his death bed, revealed to
him, as deep secret. that he had once
seen some employees Of the Cantonial
Council OF State deposit In his masters
granary a large chest. which was later
found to be full Of South American
gold, and that for a sum OF money he
was sworn TO secrecy which. until at
the point of death, he had never vio-
lated.
But perhaps the strangest part OF
this extraordinary history. and one
which proves. at least. that a legal
fable can die as hard deaths IN the
Alps as elsewhere, is that it has al
ready been made the subject Of three
actions at law. The first OF these was as
long since as 1S41, when a certain Herr
Kolnen, claiming to be a collateral"
sued the municipality for his share OF
the fortune" He was nonsufted, and
thereupon began such a campaign OF
defamation against the authorities.
whom he denounced as brigands and
assassins. that a criminal prosecution
resulted in his being sentenced to a
term of Imprisonment. Another claim
ant appeared in 1850 and a third in,
1869.
To Judge by present indications. thers2
is considerable life in the story yet.
The San Francisco call., 1906-11-14

YER since the star Of Madame
Humbert rose and set. an unde-
niable glamor has attached TO
- the fabulous Heritage" and to
its mythical hundred millions. The
notorious TheEese has found numerous
imitators, and now there has arisen IN
Switzerland case which, IN some ol
its features, is scarcely less puzzllns
than that of the once irresistible
"Coffre fort"
In one respect the Swiss inventor.
either by dint of finer quality or better
luck, has altogether outclassed
Madame, seeing that his fable-if fable
IL be-has by long persistence come 10
acquire some of the status of romance
founded on fact" and has become al
most venerable by a tradition OF sixty
six years of litigation. Viewed with
the cold eye of suspicion, one may al
most wonder whether this amazing
story from Switzerland does not really
throw some light upon the Humbert
fraud. reducing it to the grade or
merely clever adaptation.
The case has just been heard before
the civil tribunal of first instance OF
the City of Basle. of which the munich
pality was sued by a certain Herr
Weber of Munchestein for the sum OF
twenty million dollars.
His case Is that IN 1882. one JOnann
Peter Thoman, painter in Lujan,
South America. died. leaving a fortune
Of the immense sum named. BY will
properly drawn and executed. he left
the whole amount, in the absence of
direct descendants, to collateral rela-
tives in the two half cantons of Basle-
This will. 1t is alleged, was duly for
warded by the South American au-
thorities to Basle, as also was the
money-all in gold and packed in
thirteen huge chests. which are stated
to have been stored in the cellars of
the municipal buildings. Herr Weber
claims that his wife is the direct de-
scendant of one of the original col
laterals."
1t is at this point that the marvel
Gus begins to appear. Without mine
ing matters the astounding charge is
made, not only that the councillors of
the 1882 period suppressed the will and
divided among themselves the whole
of the treasure, which became the
bases upon which were built some of
the largest fortunes in the canton. but
that poison and other forms of mur-
der were used for getting rid of per-
sons capable of throwing light upon
the facts.
AS might be expected. the defense of
the municipal council is that the story
is a fable from beginning to end: that
after painstaking inquiry nothing can
be found TO show that Herr Thoman
ever existed; that there is absolutely
no trace or record OF his will. and still
The San Francisco call., 1906-11-14

a matter of a brief time until he is
quite himself again
Mrs James Ellis Tucker and Miss
Ida Bourn are in town for few days
from the Bourn country place in sono-
ma County.
The many friends of Sherril Schell
will be pleasantly surprised at the news
that he has decided to cut short his
stay abroad and is even now in New
York, en- route to San Francisco He
and Edward Montgomery. who went
across early in the summer. have spent
several months travelling through
France. part OF the time on walking
tour.
Mrs. Henry Payot left early in the
week for Santa Barbara. where she
will remain for some time as the guest
OF friends.
Miss Ardella Mills and Miss Eliza
beth Mills, who will go East on Satur-
day morning. will be absent during the
winter and viii not return here until
March or April.
Major Parker West. u. & A.. who has
been stationed at Fort Walla Walla.
has been ordered to Washington, d. C..
Tor duty, so his friends on this coast
VIII not see him for some time.
The San Francisco call., 1906-11-14

SAY, pa?"
We'll. what?'
How much does it cost to get a CO.
education? ?'-Judge.
"He is man who is plainly cut out
for sunny lot in life"
That so? Whew! wonder If /
could stick him for that lot of mine in
the suburbs baltimore American.
Not more than half THE people wear
boards these days"
why do you suppose that is?
Probably because not more than
half the people are men. n."-Houston
Post.
Going up. cried Coal.
Going down. cried Ice.
The cars suddenly stopped, and a
tween them. He was a consumer.-St.
Louis Post-Dispatch.
You admire that singer very much?'
Il should say | do, answered Mr..
Cumrox. Il understand she gets a
thousand dollars every performance.
That's what l call a business woman .
Warrington Star.
Scribletts, asked his friend, has
any of your poetry come to light
latelygr
Il regret to say" answered the gifted
bard, that one or two samples OF it
have come--back-t0 light the kitchen
fire. They were hot stun. too he
added. loomily.-chicago Tribune.
My dear" remarked Mr.. Crouch,
this turkey Is unusually tough. May
ask where you got it,"
Certainly" returned Mrs. Crouch.
sweetiy Il purchas ed 1t at station
cry store Do YOU suppose l got III
from the butcher shop
No, indeed, replied Mr.. Crouch,
The San Francisco call., 1906-11-14
SOME FABLED MONSTERS.

TN its ingenuity the Seattle Times and at
San Francisco in the hope of damaging crippled city struggling
her feet but best the Seattle paper succeeds only being
unconsciously funny Thus find the Times of October
this from the of Charles Alfred Williams:
Choking gasping
coing
graft and greed
laughter
dodge of foopads
Six months stuff like that might have made San francisco
angry got Now afford tolaugh the
curded air the twin 1t is days past
San Francisco indifferent
continents the stngs of
But Charles Alfred Williams
has license to make monkey of the American language
The San Francisco call., 1906-11-14
Official Estimates on the
Wine Crop of France.

"HE French Department of Agri-
culture has just published official
estimates on the coming vintage.
The following numbers betoken
the prospective features of the crop,
viz 100. very good; so. good; go, fairly
good; So passable; 80. middling; 20,
bad. In this way the following esti-
mates have been formed. viz:
department comprising 81 .065 acres. 100
80 departments, comprising 1.7l4.53S acres $3.50
81 departments, comprising 2.061 ,92S 80
3 departments, comprising 47.320 aeres.... 59-5O
2 departments, comprising 4s5,611 acres... 1890
The total crop will yield 1920, $50, 600
gallons of wine, not including the Al
gerian crop, depending on the condi-
tions that prevail during the period in
tervening between the date of the
above estimates and the time of gath
ering.
The French Department of Agricul-
ture has also published estimates on
the next crop of cider. which. 1t is cal
culated, will yield from 96,255,00O To
52S,340,000 gallons.
Townsend's Cal. glace fruits and can
dies at Emporium. Post and Van Ness.
and 1908 and 1920 Valencia street.
The San Francisco call., 1906-11-14
NOTE AND COMMENT.

Salem, O.,
the flank of sleeping mule last week Salemtes enjoying
the comforts of modern conveyance.
The sxteenye year-od boy who wreck
day Ithaca N " should placed tutelage
The San Francisco call., 1906-11-14
In the Joke World

jabbing the carving knife into the hard
flesh of the bird. a have been under
the impression for the past ten minutes
that you procured 1t from a hardware
store.'-Woman's Home Companion.
The San Francisco call., 1906-11-14
THE RETURN OF THE pRoD1cAL.

4 EA4OR SCHMlTZ IS coming back dear old San Fran
III CISCO The luxurious fiddler will the music b,t will
lVl longer lead the orchestra His he sears
cheerful and his body rested up Heeven Jokes as in
his letter to Dear Jim" like this:
Well viii close bestr al am in good
The San Francisco call., 1906-11-14

Townsend's Cal. glace fruits and can
dies at Emporium, Post and Van Ness.
and 1908 and 1920 Valencia street.
The San Francisco call., 1906-11-14

YER since the star of Madame
Humbert rose and set. an unde-
niable gIamor has attached TO
IL the fabulous heritage" and to
The morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1899-1930, 1906-01-13

NEW YORK, Jan. l2.-Through an
anonymous letter signed "A Wall
Street Clerk.r Attorney General Hadley
Of Missouri discovered yesterday wit
ness whose testimony, it is declared,
win probably do more to disclose the
secret workings of the Standard Oil
Company than that of all the witnesses
Who have hitherto been examined in the
inquiry before Commissioner Sanborn.
This witness. John Corkhill, began
his business career as John d. Rocke-
feller's Office boy and worked his way
up until he was confidential man to
W. E Bemis, manager Of the Standards
clearing house, where the relations BE-
tween the subsidiary companies and the
Standard corporation are laid bare. Mr.
Corkhill continued with the Standard
until John d. Rockefeller's retirement
from active management. Then follow
cd q period of retrenchment and he re-
signed.
The writer Of the letter to the At
The morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1899-1930, 1906-01-13

NEW YORK, Jan, le,-foothall viii,
in all probability, reach crisis tonight.
when the old aud new national com.
mittos meet the one at the New
Netherlands Hotel. the other at the
Murray lIill Hotel of the seven insti.
tutions Yale Princeton. Harvard, Chi.
cago, Pennsylvania, Cornell. and An
napolis represented on the committee
which Tor years has regulated the rules
throughout the country. Yale and Har'
ward have proclaimed their attitudes
toward the recently organized national
committee. Yale has instructed Walter
Camp. her representative, to vote In
favor OF amalgama,ion with tho re.
Gently formed body known as the Ma
tional. Harvard has taken a more ad.
vanced step and announced that she
washes her hands Of the old committee
and will send ", T, Reid. Jr. ~ her
emissary to the McCracken body,
Pennsylvania Yesterday dccidcd not 10
hamper John c, Bell, her representa-
tive, with instructions, although Il was
"Thc sense Of the committee that i,s
representative shall fayor the reorga'
nization OF the ,o.callel National In
,ercollegiate Football Conference
Cornell and Princeton have given
their representatives sealed orders. OF
Chicago aud Annapolis intentions moth.
ing is known,
The fact that Yale and Harvard have
out the olive branch might he taken as
an indication that at least majority
Of the representatives OF the otaer five
institutions composing the old rules
committee have similar Instructions.
There has never been any question Of
the eonciliatory attitude OF the Ma
tionals.
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At FOard q Stokes Co.
The morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1899-1930, 1906-01-13

William Rockefeller and Others who
have been subpoenaed and not yet
placed on the stand viii escape eSami'
nation.
4 am anxious TO get home but | viii
permit NO personal conscientious to
interfere with the inquiry, MIR. RccSe'
feller, Mr., Archibald. and all the other
Standard oil men can catch with the
witnesses outside Of the Standard
forces win BE- examined before leave
New York"
Mr. Hagerman, who has been the
head Of the Standard attorneys since
the hearing before Special Commission.
er Sanborn began had no hcsitancy yes
terlay in admitting tina, in the event
of an adverse ruling by Justice Glider
steve. Mr., Rogers ease would be taken
at once TO the appellate division OF the
supreme court.
Anything for delay" said MIR, Had
ley, when he was first told Of this.
NO matter how long Il takes though,
we'll get at the facts"
Attorney.General Hadley and Attor'
ney-G General Mayer Of this state had a
talk at the Waldorf last night. Mr.
Mayer said that the meeting had been
purely social. lie was desirous Of
knowing Mr., Hsdley. The Stanard Oil
case had been talked over as matter
Of course. but there was no possible
part for his ofice to play in Il.
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BEECHAM'S
PILLS

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Beecham's Pills mingle with the
contents OF the stomach and make
easy work OF digestion The nour-
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then readily assimilated and the
residue carried off without irrita-
ting the intestines or clogging the
bowels.
Beecham's Pills should be taken
whenever there is sick headache,
furred tongue, constipation, sallow
skin or any symptoms that indi-
cate an inactive liver.
Sold Everywhere. In boxes ioc, and 2Sc.
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town yesterday.
George Clayton arrived here yester'
day from Portland.
George Hill has returned from Port
land after short trip.
c. W. Sygert OF Stevenson was visi:
tor in Astoria yesterday.
$. NJ. Gallager and Mrs. Gallager were
Portland visitors yesterday.
y. p. Sorenson OF Portland is in the
city for a shor, time this week.
Charles +. Goddard il in san Fran.
cisco on a brief business trip.
A. A. Cook. a well known travelling
man was in Astoria yesterday.
+. ]. Carney is returned from Port.
land where he went ON business.
Earl Nudge left yesterday for San
Francisco on the Columbia TO remain q
short time.
o. r. Burrows of Hoquiam spent yes.
terday in the city transaeting bust
ness matters.
Charles McChesney Of South Bend
is in the city this week attending to
business interests.
II. II. Davidson Of Portland arrived
in the city yesterday noon on a busi.
ness engagement
Mr.. and Mrs. W. 4. Tallant leave
today for New York for q business
and pleasure trip.
Henry Froshenhoefer resident Of
Prinville is in the city this week for a
brief time.
A. H. Hoefer Of Aberdeen arrived in
the city this week to transact impor.
tant business.
w. +. McGregon left Thursday even
ing for Portland to transact some bust.
ness matters.
S. A. Leonard of Kirby, Oregon, is
visiting a short time with friends in
the city.
Mr.. and Mrs. w. T.. Schimpr Of this
city have returned from short trip
TO the metropolis
Mr.. and Mrs. W T. Clutter Of Sc.
attic arrived in the city yesterday noon
to remain few days on visit with
friends
J. l.. lIobble, q resident Of SkamOka.
wa spent yesterday in the city on busi'
ness.
T. G. IIutchings prominent resi-
dent Of Knappton. was in tha city yes.
terday on a short business and pleasure
trip.
Miss Grace Stokes leaves today for
Washington, ID. G., for a short visit
with her aunt, after which she will
90 10 New York and Boston to remain
a few weeks.
Miss Frances Estes returned yester-
day TO Mills College in Oakland, Cali
fornia 10 resume her studies, after
spending the holidays in this city visit.
ing her parents.
Mr.. and Mrs. J. r. n. Galloway left
yesterday for San Francisco where they
will reside, Mr.. Galloway engaging in
the brokerage business.
Miss Elsie Malar Of Firewood, Oregon
Is visiting in Astoria for a short time
with Mrs. Fred Kruse Miss Malar
has just returned from a trip to Cali.
fornia.
Mr.. and Mrs. w. T. schoeAeld have
gone to California TO remain a few
months.