The Corvallis times. (Corvallis, Or.) 1888-1909, 1906-02-20

tective tariff, which compel the
pay ment for structural steel and ship
plates of a NJ uch higher price than
is demanded by these same produ.
GERS of foreign shipbuilders when
they purchase similar commodities
Haven't we trusts enough? Hasn't
the steel trust, with which the cub.
ship trust will ally itself,
money enough, or making profits
enough, but little while ago it
published it's report, showing that
the earnings for the past year were,
approximately, $4,000, 900; yet it
had untitled orders to the amount
Clover 7 7,ooo, 1000 tons. It's high.
handed looting is now to be increas-
ed by a new demand forced by sub
sidy for ships, at the expense Of the
general business and labor of the
country. That is, if the bill should
Become law. But it may not. II
has yet to get the approval of the
House and the president.
Ship freights are now very low;
soe1ow that foreign shipowners are
getting only tneager returns. The
bin will not lower the rates, but will
increase them; for the intention of
tits to get higher rates for Ameri.
can ships, through bounties paid
from the treasury, than now are
paid to foreign ships, which carry
the greater part of onr ocean com.
merce. fit iis true that foreigners
can do this work at rates ruinously
cheap, why not allow them?
The senate is theintrenched camp
of such schemes as this. It is not
possible that this measure Of colos-
sa1sgraft can or will obtain the ap-
proval of the people of the United
States. Let it become an issue in
a general election and we shall see.
Helena, Feb. 17.-Upon a con-
tract calling for the payment Of
$1,000 a day from the time be left
Chicago until his return. DR.. Seppy,
professor Of the practice of medi-
cine at Rush College, has come to
Helena to make a diagnosis of the
illness Of Peter Larson of this city,
reputed to be the wealthiest man
in the northwest with the exception
perhaps. of United States Senator
w. A. Clark = = - '.'.s
Thirty.five years ago Larson
landed in New York penniless. He
is largely interested In mines,
banke, railros de, lumbsring mills,
fiourmills, and other western indus.
tries. Recently he and hispartner
sold two mines to the Federal COM
pany for $3,ooo,ooo. He is suffer-
ing from cirrhosis of the liver and
recently went east for an operation
but it was not performed. DR.. Sap
py's diagnosis is understood to have
been the same as that of the hospit-
al doctors in Rochester, Minnesota,
that the case was hopeless, but not
necessarily Immediately fatal.
Albany, Or, Feb. IA large
piece of silver bullion washed up
on the coast at Newport, Or, has
set agog the ina gination ofthe den.
izens of that storm swept neighbor.
hood, and the days Of Spanish gal.
Icons laden with wealth and the
ocean piracies of primitive America
are recalled. J. G. Crawford, the
Albany photographer and scientist
is the discoverer of the wealth dis
gorged by the ocean.
While searching for rare speci'
mems of animal and mineral life
that are to be found on the Oregon
Coast during the Winter months
Mr.. Crawford ran across large
piece of mixed silver and gold
symmetrically shaped as if the two
metals had been mettled and rur
| together Of some kind. Spec
ulation as to the source of the rar
find was Immediately rife, but tha
il anne from the depth of the ocear
Is the only certain information OBJ
tainable. -i'''i'
The fact that the two metals ar
melted together as if they had beer
thrown into brass kettle, or SOM
: such receptacle, would indicat
that it is not from some of tn
wrecks of wealth-laden ships OF re
cent days. Few miners of toda,
, would run their gold and silver TO
gether in single vessel. An oil
, miner estimated that the find i
! worth several hundred dollars. Th