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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-12-29
DAMAGE AND EXCITEMENT.
Firemen Extinguished Blaze a
Home Of Oliver E. Pagan.

Fire, supposed to have originated from
a carelessly thrown match, caused some
damage and much excitement in a usual
ly quiet neighborhood about $50 O'Clock
last evening. The blaze was in the resi-
dence Of Oliver E. Pagan, assistant at
to-ney general. 1865 Biltmore street Po-
licemah McGregor of the tenth precinct
sounded an alarm. The damage. it is
said amounts to about $500, covered by
insurance.
According to Mrs. Pagan, she had no.
ticed the odor of smoke in the house
for nearly an hour. Policeman Nc
Gregor was walking through an alley
in the rear when he observed flames
through a window of third-1oor room
occupied by Mr.. Pasan's son, Albert.
The flames were confined to that room,
but water percolating through the floors
and the ceiling caused damage to the
other floors.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-12-29
W11srAcH ART COLLECTION.
Attorney johnson Has Been Using
His Own Cash for Pictures.

PHILADELPHIA, Pa, December 2s.-
When the committee on memorial hall OF
the Paramount Park commission met to-
day and received the report Of John G..
Johnson. the well-known lawyer and art
critic, who has been acting as a. COM
missioner in the purchase OF paintings
to be added to the Anna A. Wilstach COL
lection. presented to the city, it became
known that Mr.. johnson has been delv-
ing into his own pocket to add to the
municipal art collection in Memorial Hall.
Mr.. Johnson's report showed that dur
ing the last two years he has purchased
about 200 paintings costing $4,000. for
the Wilstach collection. The money for
this purpose is derived from the income
from the estate. AS the interest fund
was low, Mr.. Johnson has paid this money
out of his own pocket. and expressed
his willingness to await reimbursement
until the fund accumulates a sufficient
amount to pay him.
Within recent years Mr.. Johnson has
also contributed from his own collection
paintings valued at 100000.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-12-29
NEW YORK DRY GOODS.

NEW YORK, December 2s.-The under
tone of the dry goods market is de-
cidedly better, owing in part to the re-
sumption of buying by some large west
ern houses and the resumption of bill dis
counting by other factors. Trade for
the day was quiet.
Imports of merchandise and dry goods at
the port of New York for the week ending
December 81 were valued at $13.011 ,945.
Imports of specie for the port of New
York for the week ending today were
s3i,9 silver and ST. l03,531 gold. Exports
the week ending today were 1856, 100 sill.
yer and no gold.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-12-29
ALL CLAIMS PAID IN FULL.
Affairs Of the Fabian Companies
Closed Up at Cincinnati.

CINCINNATI, Ohio. December :S.-By
a cash payment of $4,000 and assump-
ton of $25O,OOO of liabilities the re-
ownership of the Fabian Manufac-
turing Companies, which failed last
August following Attorney Seward Hell
delbach's disappearance in New York
was today terminated all claims being
paid in full Julian S. Rauh and Stanley
F. .Rauh, who had been associated with
Heidelbach in the business. take over the
whole concern and Heidelbach retires.
Nominal assets of the concern were
$500, 900, and these were handed over to
the purchasers by Receiver Moch on Or
der of the court The failure has been
due to the uncertainties following the
disappearance of Heidelbach.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-12-29
LINERS ROUGH VOYAGE.
Russian Steamer Reaches Port Bat
tered and Scared by Waves.

NEW YORK. December 2s.-With one
of her passengers dead and another Sc
riously injured. and with her decks bat
tered and SCARED by tremendous waves.
the Russian steamer Saratov arrived here
TODAY from Libau and Rotterdam. The
voyage was continuous struggle against
wind and wave. Heavy weather was en-
countered from the start and the II cabin
and SGT steerage passengers were kept
closely confined to their quarters.
December 21ea huge wave broke over
the bows and sweeping down caught two
women steerage passengers. So great
was the force with which the wall of wa
ter struck the women that one of them
was instantly killed. The other sustained
serious injuries. Everything movable on
that portion Of the deck was caught up
and carried along until 1t crashed against
some solid portion of the ship. The dam
age to the steamer was confined to the
breakage Of deck fittings.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-12-29
BOTH COLLAPSED IN COURT.
Bail for Boy Who Killed Father
Fixed at $4,000.

BUFFALO, NY, December 2S.-Charles
Schroff. the seventeen-year-old boy who
shot and killed his father Thursday last,
pleaded not guilty today to a charge of
manslaughter. Bail was fixed at $4,000
and was furnished.
Young Schroff was accompanied by his
mother. in defense of whom he fired the
fatal shot. Soon after entering the court
Mrs. Schroff gave way under the strain
and fell fainting from her chair. Her
son, thinking she was dying. cried. Moth
err! Mother!'' and fell senseless beside her
Restoratives were administered and soon
after they left the court.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-12-29
Condition of the Treasury.

The condition of the Treasury. at the
beginning of business yesterday was as
follows: Reserve fund-Gold coin and bull
lion. $15O.000,OOO. Trust funds, to redeem
outstanding certificates-Gold coin, 1884,
S2l 1863; silver dollars. SAT- 400, 600; silver
dollars of, 1890, $5,4s6OOO; total, S1241.-
7O9. $50; general fund. SILT. 431 .OS9: deposits
in national banks, $3.50 562 go: i'm Philip
pine treasury. $4,379,O32; awaiting reim-
bursement, S1O9,O17; current liabilities,
STA, 552, 800.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-12-29
Metal Markets Quiet.

NEW YORK. December 2s.-The metal
markets were quiet and more or less NOM
inal in the absence of cables, Tin was
quoted at 26.371aa26S7h. Copper was
quiet with lake quoted at 13.371sa13 80;
electrolytic at 25a13.371a, and casting
at 13.OOa1312&; lead was steady at 3.50a
$50. and spelter firm at 4.2Oa4.25. Iron
was quiet and unchanged.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-12-29
Chinese Will Sue for False Arrest.

SYDNEY, N. s., December 2S.-Furthei
developments are expected as the out
come of the recent arrests here Of eigh.
teen Chinese who were charged will
evading the immigration laws by entering
Canada from Newfoundland withou,
paying headtax The Chinese were fined
but appeals were taken and the matter
was finally settled in the supreme court
at Halifax, where the Chinese were dis
charged and their fines. aggregatine
81 500. remitted. New counsel for the Chi
nese have notified the customs department
here that proceedings will be brought by
the Chinese, each of eighteen arrested
claiming $500 damages for false arrest
and Imprisonment.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-12-29
Want New Election, District.
special Correspondence of The Star.
UPPER MARLBORO. Md
December %,

December %, 1907.
A petition is being circulated in the
vicinity of Capitol Heights, Kent dis
trict. asking for the creation of a new
election district. A mass meeting has
been called for Thursday evening next
in the hall at Capitol Heights to ad-
dress a formal petition to the general
assembly from Prince George county
asking that the new district be created
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-12-29
FINANCE AND TRADE IN
- MARKETS OF THE WORLD
NEW YORK BANK STATEMENT.

NEW YORK, December 9S-The state
ment Of clearing house banks for the five
days this week shows that the banks hold
$50, 1TO. $50 less than the requirements of
the % per cent reserve rule. This is an
increase of 11,5SO.6JO in the proportion
ate cash reserve as compared with last
week. The statement follows:
Loans. $1,147, 694, 400; decrease, S17, 752,
400.
Deposits, 81 ,0Jo. 925, 400; decrease, $685.
600.
Circulation. s71. 1876, 600: increase. s1.077,-
CO.,
Legal tenders. s54.6s6. 700; increase. 49,
O67, 800.
Specie. $1S7 ,S7430O; increase, $6,371, 200.
Reserve, S242, J61 600; increase. So. 43S 800.
Reserve required. s262, 731 $50; decrease,
81. 142,1J0
Deficit. $2O.17O.3J0; decrease, 11.5s0 $50.
EX-United States deposits, $44S,O75; de-
crease, s11. 653.s75.
Money on call nominal. Time loans dull
and firm; TO days. II per cent; 30 days.
| Close: Prime mercantile paper. per
cent. Sterling exchange, strong. with
actual business in bankers bills at 4.S4.65a
4.S475 for demand, and at 4.S0 for sixty
day bills. Commercial bills, 4.IS1s. Bar
silver. 5212. Mexican dollars 40la Gov
eminent bonds steady. Railroad bonds
| firm.
The Financier will say:
THE showing ofvthe associated banks of
New York city in their statement of Sat-
urday, December %, was by. far the best
made since the subsistence Of the late
financial furry. The gain in cash,
amounting to 50, 43s,5 500, was larger than
had been estimated and represents prob
corded in the reported ordinary transac-
tons. The heavy liquidation in-loans con-
tinues, the decrease for the past week
having been 1872. 400, making total of
nearly forty-four and one.half mil
ber Deposits fell off sS.5GS6OO. owing
to loan liquidation., and the decrease
In this item, coupled with the cash in
crease already noted, brought the banks
$l1,5SO6JO nearer the elimination of the
reserve deficiency, the latter now standing
at $50. 1I0,35O. as against $54, 100000 re-
ported six weeks ago.
IF the % per cent reserve carried by
the banks against the SIS, $780, 100 Of gov
of such deposits being secured by pledges
of bond security, it is found that the re-
serve deficiency and commercial deposits
have been made up, the percentage on this
class on bond business amounting prac-
tically to % per cent.
THE disappearance Of premium on cur
rency at the end of the week and the re-
sale In London of gold engaged for Ameri-
can import go to show that normal con-
ditiors In banking are again at hand. 1t
Is true that the New York bank state
ment during the next week or two will be
affected temporarily by the disbursement
of January interest and dividend funds
but in this connection 1t is also true that
large amounts will be sent to New York
to meet these requirements. At the pres
ent rate of progress the middle of Janu-
airy should mark the extinguishment of
the present reserve deficiency
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-12-29
SOME RULES
NOT FOR FOOLS

SPECULATION AS A FINE ART"
An instructive pamphlet showing why you have
few rules that If intelligently followed preclude
disaster and render success more than possible.
AGED AND DIRECTED ACCORDING TO
RULES"
w. r.. PADDOCK, stock Specialist,
Suite O, 203 Broadway New York.
de22&29-2t-l5
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-12-29

Henry Lancaster one of the best-known
democrattic politicians in western and
northwest sections of Baltimore. droppe
dead Friday in that city while on
his way to take up his first days duties
as weighmaster. He was born in Balti-
more and was seventy-one years of age.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-12-29
MANCHESTER CLOTH MARKET

MANCHESTER, England, December %
Business was practically at standstill
In the cloth market this week owing to
the holidays, and there was no alteration
in the quoted prices of cloths and yarns.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-12-29

GREENHOUSE, Mimi, December 2S.-
Fire today started In the large store of
A. P. Kukowsky and destroyed block
Of the business quarter. Damage, $4,000.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-12-29

The trial of John r. Walsh at Chicago
was continued until next Thursday be-
cause Of the Illness Of q juror. -
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-12-29
New York Mining Stocks.
Washington Stock Exchange.

Sales.-Regular call IL O'Clock noon-Washng-
ton Gas As. 500 at 100.
Capital Traction IS. $500 at 110h
washington Rwy. and Elec. As, $1,000 at "A,
81 900 at ~.
Firemen's Fire Insurance % at 1914.
After call-Potomsc Electric Light IS, 81 zoo
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-12-29

A negro who some time ago killed
Marshal Brinson at Midwife. Ga, was
surrounded In Q cabin and shot to DEATH
Friday.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-12-29

PARIS, December 2S-Trading on the
bourse today was quiet and prices were
firm. y
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-12-29

ing OF the coming struggle for traffic.
Tens of thousands of men are being laid
Off and the outlook for the first quarter
Of the coming year Is about as bad as
can be. There are some who claim that
the situation is being made purposely bad
for political effect upon Congress and
legislatures. This theory Is on a par
with visions of conspiracies to destroy
thousands of millions of dollars for OBJ
5ect lessns. In real life people are not in
the habit of running themselves to educate
politicians and magazine writer's.
Wall street is quick to hear of develop
mentS in the current financing of rail-
roads. 1t is hearing a good deal these
days of delays in the payment of contract
work and materials used in the carrying
out of plans for improvements and ter
lninal plans. Gossip on this line is re-
sponsible to a considerable extent for
weakness in New York Central, New
Haven and Atchison.
Yhe steel Corporation win show about
$32, 100000 earned net for the quarter end
ing December 81. The last quarter
showed S43, 100000 net. Contrary to gen
eral opinion the iron market is beginning
to show considerable underlying vitality.
A fairly large business is reported in pig
iron, which would indicate that buyers
are ready to begin making purchases at
current quotations. very considerable
business has been done recently on basis
of about $13 for southern No. at Bir-
mingham and $3.50 for northern at Val
ley Furnace. The price appears to be get
ting satisfactory for the buyers and at
any recession from current quotations
there would be heavy absorption. This
latest phase of the iron market is re-
garded by the big people of the industrial
world as being distinctly favorable.
One of the deep down encouraging feat
ures of the situation Is the steady demand
from the well-to-do investing class In
bonds. Mr.. w. j. Wolman of J. 8. Bache
& Co., who is representative of the better
order of banking houses specializing IN
bonds, reports a steady growth of strictly
investment buying and expresses the opin-
ion that a generous share of the money
distributed in January dividends and in
terest will be reinvested in good bonds.
Interest In the Harrima n Fish contest
for the control Of the Illinois Central in
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-12-29
Boston Stocks and Bonds.

BOSTON. December Is.
The Corvallis times. (Corvallis, Or.) 1888-1909, 1907-03-01
DEPUTIES FOR THEM.
Benton County 0fficials-Recorder's
Salary Raised to $1,000
Year.

After the present term, the record
er of Benton county will receive a
salary of $1,000 per year. TIE
advance of salary was made by the
late session, a bill having been in
troduced by Senator Johnson. The
same bill provides for a deputy
each for the sheriff and clerk, both
to receive a salary of 5000 per year.
Provision is also made for the coun-
ty superintendent to have an allow
ance for actual travelling expenses
while visiting the county of not to
exceed 81 50 per year, to be allowed
by the county court on properly
presented. claims. The salary of
the assessor and county Judge are
left at their former figures of $500
and $72o per year respectively. The
salary of the county treasurer is
also unchanged at $500 per year.
The salaries were reduced by the
last legislature as follows: Sheriff
from 81, 900 to ST 600; clerk, $500
to 81 ,44o; recorder, ST, 900 to $500;
superintendent, 81 900 to $500;
county judge, 5000 to $7es; assess
or, 81. 900 to $500.
The Corvallis times. (Corvallis, Or.) 1888-1909, 1907-03-01
What's the Use.

The vials of wrath that are being
poured out on the late legislature
eclipse all past records. The pro-
test is not wholly on the ground
that the appropriations are nearly
million more than at any former
session, but because there was igno-
minious slaughter of measures that
proposed to bring under taxation
property that has long been escap-
ing.
A tax commission bill proposed
to raise the assessable valuation of
railroads in the state from about
$40, 1000, 900 to $40, 900, 900, but
after passing the house it was
scuttled in the senate. Another
bill that offered new means of rev.
enue was tax on the timber lands
of which vast tracts are owned by
syndicates, but this too, after rum
ming the gauntlet of the house, was
Ostlerized in the senate. Through
the initiative, both will be sure to
be enacted into law by the elector-
ate at the first state election, and
that will suggest the query, what
is the use of legislature, anyway?
The Corvallis times. (Corvallis, Or.) 1888-1909, 1907-03-01
TOOK HIS OWN LIFE.
Neighbors Found bis Body in the Barn
Illness the Cause-Alfred Denny.

Alfred Denny, residing five or
six miles north Of Corvallis on the
Mountain View road, committed
suicide yesterday morning, by
hanging himself in the barn at his
home. Denny was 4e years Of age,
and came to Benton county from
Iowa year ago last September,
settling on farm purchased of Al
fred Bicknell. He has family
consisting of wife and three boys,
the latter of whom are aged res.
pectively II, 8 and 6 years. The
funeral took place this morning at
II o'clock, and the interment was
in Locke cemetery.
The deed of self f-destruction was
consummated about FIVE o'clock
in the morning. AT that hour
Denny arose and left the house.
Mrs. Denny arose shortly after
ward, and as her husband did not
appear, she became uneasy and
search began. It was not yet half
past five O clock, and the darkness
made a search difficult. As her
alarm increased, she telephoned
the neighbors, and A. R. Locke
and Spencer Bicknell were soon on
the ground. After a short search,
the limp body of the missing farm
er was found swinging by a. rope
from a hay track in the upper story
of the barn. Conditions showed
exactly how he had consummated
his plans. The little rope used to
trip off the bunch of hay on the
carrier, was the means used for
making the work sure. He had
climbed On pile of hay, adjusted
the rope and swung off over the
floor where there was no hay with
in reach. The fall was not violent
enough to break the neck, and the
unfortunate man died by choking.
The general supposition is that
mental troubles figured in the act.
Denny had been unwell for a month
or two, and it Is the statement of
neighbors that he acted strangely
at times. This fact is what caused
alarm to be felt by his faulty so
soon after his disappearance. 1t is
also said that he brooded more or
less over his financial affairs. When,
he purchased the Bicknell place, he.
put IS, 900 mortgage on it, the
sum being half the purchase price.
He was also indebted similar
amount on a farm that he still owns
in Iowa. The value of the two
farms largely exceeded the aggre-
gate of the debt, but it is claimed
that this with his sickness upset
him more or less mentally and that
his act of self destruction was the
consequence. He left no note OF
other explana ti-osn Of b is
reason, or to indicate that he had
entertained any purpose beforehand
of taking his own life.
He was accounted a good citizen
and an excellent neighbor.
The Corvallis times. (Corvallis, Or.) 1888-1909, 1907-03-01
Corvallis Times
CORVALLIS, OREGON,
FRIDAY EVENING, MAR. 1907
IF Over-SpecuLatjve.

Pred lotions by railroad magnates
of hard times ahead are familiar
topics in the dispatches Of late.
Whether or not they are false
prophets, time alone can tell. Hard
er times for railroads according to
the Wall street test of business is a
condition likely to come about. The
frenzied method of imitation and
stock watering is undoubtedly to
be arrested. Cases like that in
which an Eastern railroad rebated
to the amount of three millions and
then prepared to issue bonds on
the sum, will not occur in the flu
ture. The country is getting an
insight into high finance as pract-
iced by Wall street, and it IS un-
questionably fact that measures
for prevention will become more
and more stringent.
As the railroad magnates prophe-
sy, there is real danger in that the
proletariat may become too ag-
gressive and real harm come to the
railroad business. but it will be be-
cause of past wrongs practiced blythe
barons themselves. 1t may happen
too, that the over-speculative tend
ency of the present time, may be
checked as result of agitation.
but that would the better prepare
all for the financial reaction that,
by the history OF the past will hap
pen along, by and by.
The Corvallis times. (Corvallis, Or.) 1888-1909, 1907-03-01
MAKES WEAK WOMEN STRONG
AND SICK WOMEN WELL. "a. :.

Forty years ago, DR.. Pierce searched
Natures laboratory for g. remedy with
which to supplant the ignorant and vi
clous methods OF treatment, with alco-
holic stmulants, then in vogue, and still
too commonly prescribed and advised for
woman's peculiar ailments.
Nature abounds with most efficient rem
edies, and in Lady's Slipper root, Black
Cohosh root, Unicorn root, Blue Cohosh
root and Golden Seal root, DR.. Pierce
extracted and preserved by the use Of
chemically pure glycerine, have proven
most potent in making weak women
strong and sick women well. It contains
no alcohol; is not a apatent medicine, .
nor secret one either. -
II was suffering with nervous headache
pains n the back and dizziness, SO that at
f4sa 81 ssrss Ms hos 4sy AaEy
ec I'VE aasi %as RDss 80 81 pleased ss
Yith the results that kept on taking It until
was restoSed to health and strength. 1
nd s 1eRs aes ss nSsn do 1e
feel strong.n Il
One OF tie principal uses of DR.. Pierse's
favor1te Prescription is the preparation
Of prospective mothers for the time of
Trial and danger that comes when a child
Is born. The Prescription is strength
CiilIiS dtu 4tflBUTb6llS bllU l0SSeLS pain
and danger. It insures the perfect we'll
being and the perfect health of both
mother and child. Every woman should
know these things before she really needs
to know them. There are many things in
Or. Pierce's Common Sense Medical Ad-
wiser, that every woman ought to. know.
This celebrated work reached sale of
G,3,03o copies at 81. so each. The expense
CT production having thus been covered,
: ]; IS now being given away. A CODY will
/ sent to any address on receipt of 2i
oeA-cent stamps to cover cost of mailing
G'i.u. or. in cloth binding for 81 stamps
address DR.. r. V. Pierce. Buffalo, NY.
Cont Be Hoodwinked, bxnsc;3ssa; bno0d0Sss;
erover-persuaded into accepting @ Substitute
err the Original Little Liver Pills, first but
up by old DR.. r. Y. Pierce, over 40 Year, ago,
and called Doctor Picrces Pleasant Peijefs,
They've been much initiated but never
saHaied. One OF two are laxative three OF
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The Corvallis times. (Corvallis, Or.) 1888-1909, 1907-03-01
Summons.

In the Circuit Court of the State of Oregon for
Benton County,
E. w. Durkee, Plaintiff,
vs.
Annie E. Durkee, Defendant
To Annie E. Durkee the above named defendant:
In the name Of the State of Oregon you are re-
quired to appear and answer the complaint fled
against you in the above entitled cause on or
before the 25th day OF March, 1897, and If you
fail so to answer, for want thereof the plaintifr
will apply to the court for the relief demanded
in his complaint, to-wit: Tor decree of the
court dissolving the contract Of mstrimony now
existing between the plaintiff and defendant and
for the care and custody Of Frank b. Durkee, W.
2. Dmkee, and F. l. Durkee. children Of
plaintiff and defendant and for such other and
able. = =
This summons is served on you by publication
pursuant to an order of the Hon. E. Woodward
county judge for Benton county, Oregon made
on the 5thsdsy Of February, 1907.
The date OF the first publication hereof is Feb
ruary 8, 1907 and the last publication thereof
will be on March %, 1907.
Dated February s, 1907.
MeFADDEN BRYSON.
Attorneys for Plaintiff.