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The Montana plaindealer. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1906-1911, 1907-02-15

The Elks club which gave prom
Use of being such a success in en-
bero, is at a standstill until the
temporary offcerc are satisfied it
is safe to go farther.
Anb they all say that Capt. An
tonia York with his 18TH. infantry
at the fairies court was alright,
A, Walton is contemplating a
trip to Goldfield New.
The Montana plaindealer. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1906-1911, 1907-02-15

LUORLO
Trade with the Helena Packing
and Provision company.
Mrs. c, A Johnson has returned
from a visit to, Pony Mont.
Some Of the elite gave a card
party in the south end last week
The ~PLA1NDEALER was in
great demand last week.
Mrs. A. ]. Walton was a pleasant
caller at this sanctum last week.
We have many queries as to the
IDENTIFY of the east side widower.
More than eight persons have
accosted our local editor and asked
if mi recent article regarding a
certain gossip, referred to them.
Miss M, Walton has deferred
returning home for a while as she
has a large class in music at Ana
conda.
q. P. Groves made a trip to CT
Falls last week in the interest of
his mining enterprise.
Be sure and attend the great
breach of promise suit ar the liter
airy Wednesday evening.
Don't sponge but pay for and
read this paper.
Albert Marshall carried off the
honors at the FAIRIES court.
J. f. Hayes came to the city
this wee's from the coast,
The new age. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1896-1905, 1907-01-26
PROBE HARTMAN SYSTEM.
interstate Commerce Commission
Meets in Portland

Portland, Jan. 25.-Traffic conditions
IN this state were investigated yester-
day before franklin X. Lane, member
OF the Interstate Commerce commits
sion, the object being to determine the
legality of the Hartman merger of
railroads. The questions of Attorney
Severance for the commission were in
tended to draw out shippers and rail-
road men as to neither competition
has been stifed by the merger and al
ternate routes for traffic closed. The
testimony of shippers was that there
has been no competition between the
Union Pacific and Southern Pacific
worthy of the name since the cOnsoli-
datlon under one management in 1901.
1t was further brought out by the
testimony of Thomas McCusker, a fol-
mer employee of the Hartman system,
that Ogden gateway via the Sacramento
route was closed upon the accomplish
ment of the merger, and shipment
from this territory via Sacramento to
the East was stopped, Orders were,
he said, to send traffic over the .. r. &
N. and Union Pacific to the East. This
change gave more direct route and re-
lieved the Hartman lines of hauling
freight over the Siskiyous
1t is the of the railroad interests that
many routes are open to the shipper;
that none have been closed and that
the sole instances where shipmens have
been advised by way of the Union Pa
cifc to the exclusion of other routes
have been because of the lack of cars
on other lines.
The new age. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1896-1905, 1907-01-26
Monday, January Fl,

Salem, Jan. 21.- Standing commit
tees of the Oregon legislature were an
nounced this afternoon by President
Haines of the senate and Speaker
! Davey of the house. In each case the
best places were secured by the support
ers of Haines and Davey for leadership.
The hunters license law, it is safe
to say, Will be changed this session.
Two bills relating to the subject have
already appeared in the house.
The normal school question is already
live one in this session. Last week a
bill to cut off Drain and Ashland was
introduced. Today bill was intro
duced to close the Drain and Monmouth
schools.
The house unanimously passed over
, the veto OF the governor the bill to
| regulate the manufacture and sale Of
commercial fertilizers. This was one
of the seven house bills of the 1905
session vetoed by the governor.
Altogether II bills were read for the
first time in the house today. In the
senate Is new measures appeared.
Reorganization of the judicial system
of Oregon is proposed in senate bill.
Among the house bills were: To col
lect inheritance tax on estates of S., 900
and up, instead of $40, 900 as at pres
emit; bounties ranging from IS to $40
for scalps of wild animals, two-thirds
to be paid by the county and one-third
by the state; creating the office of in
spector of mines, and several covering
the several sections of the report of the
state tax commission, in each ease adj
vocating the adoption of the report.
In the senate the new measures in
cluded: For reciprocal demurrage and
prohibiting rebates and discrimination
for transportation of convicts by prison
employees; to purchase land adjoining
the capitol grounds on the east side,
and to provide for working county pris-
oners on public highways.
The new age. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1896-1905, 1907-01-26
Wednesday, JanC airy %

Salem, Or, Jan. 20. - There are
pending in both houses an unusually
large number of lien bills and in ma
jority of cases the advantages that will
follow their enactment are conferred
upon the labOring man who performs
work and who, under the present stat
ute, in many instances experiences no
end of trouble in getting what is his
due, when he does not lose out alto
gether.
1t has been discovered that all line
officers of the o. N. G. have been
chosen in violation to the state con-
stitution. Representative Jackson has
prepared bill to remedy the defect.
The bill providing that jurors may
be kept together in civil actions has
the honor of being the first to pass the
house.
The senate passed the bill agreed
upon by Lane and Linn fixing the
boundary between those counties.
Governor Chamberlain sent a mes
sage to both houses today asking more
money for the Jamestown exposition
A total Of 10 bills have been intro
duced relating to roads and highways.
Johnson's measure providing for joint
Improvement by county and state is the
most important.
Twenty-four new measures were read
for the first time in the house today.
This makes total of 237.
Among the 19 bills in the senate
were two by Pailey amending the di-
rect primary law. One provides for
party conventions before the primary
election and the other makes statement
No. l pledge apply to party candidates
only.
The election of Mulkey and Bourne as
United States senators was confirmed
today in joint session of the two houses
as the law requires. The journal of
election in the two houses
was read and President Haines there
upon declared them elected. Mulkey |
serves until March 4, 1907, and Bourne |
six years from that date.
The new age. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1896-1905, 1907-01-26
STILL ENCASED IN ICE,
Europe Hung With IcicIes and Clicked
With Snow.

London, Jan. 25.-Arctic weather
conditions continue to prevail in the
whole of Europe, while, curiously
enough, the actual Arctic regions,
Northern Norway and Iceland, report
the prevalence of mild and rainy
weather. All the vessels reaching
British ports are covered with long
lcicles and have snow on their decks.
kilograms received from all parts of
the continent give almost incredible re-
ports of the extreme rigor of the
weather and consequent suffering.
Many deaths are reported. In Aus
trla two sentinels were found dead at
their posts as a result OF the cold. The
heavy snow continues in Russia and
Turkey, and the Danube is frozen over
IN several places in Roumania.
Slight earthquakes are reported from
Batoum. The blizzard continues at
Constantinople, where the snow is said
to be several feet deep. Navigation on
the BOsphorus and the Black sea has
been practically suspended
The new age. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1896-1905, 1907-01-26
Thursday. January %

Salem, Jan. "a. - Both houses this
afternoon adjourned until Monday
This is largely due to the state printer
being unable to secure enough compost
tors to turn out the work on time and
will allow him time to catch up.
The two houses this morning met in
joint assembly and listened to an adj
dress by Mr. Bryan.
A bill was introduced in the senate
permitting capital punishment for rob-
bers who are captured armed with dan
gerous weapons.
Bills were also introduced in the
senate creating the county of North
Grant and create a railroad commission
to be appointed by the governor.
In the house new measures included
the appointment of a commission to in
vestigate the fire insurance business
and one providing that each county
shall be judicial district and provid-
ing for a prosecuting attorney for each
county.
The bill providing for publication of
notice of all estrays was passed by the
house. The senate bill fixing the Linn
Lane boundary was also passed by the
house
Four bills were passed by the senate.
They provide: For holding meetings
of state textbook commission in May
instead of July; raising fees of jurors
from 81 to So per day; fixing salaries
in Douglas county; to turn unexpended
school funds back into the county
school fund instead Of the general fund.
The new age. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1896-1905, 1907-01-26
Tuesday, January 22,

Salem, Jan. 22.-Both houses of the
Legislature in separate session today
elected Jonathan Bourne, Jr., United
States senator for the long term and
Fred W. Mulkey for the short term.
The vote on Mulkey was unanimous
in the house and all members of the
senate present voted for him. Three
representatives, Reynolds, Rodgers and
Settlemier, Of Marion, refused to sup
port Bourne. These men explained
that they did not pledge themselves
and also that their constituents gave a
plurality against him. Four senators,
Booth of Lane, Laycock of Grant, Mil
Ter Of Linn-Marion and Whealdon of
Wasco, voted against Bourne. The
senators gave much the same reason as
the representatives for not favoring
Bourne.
The vote stood: Mulkey - House,
so; senate, 81. Bourne-House, 81;
senate, %.
No progress has SO far been made in
either house on the railroads bills that
provide for a commission, reciprocal
demurrage, maximum rates, taxation
OF gross receipts, etc. These subjects
have hardly been heard of yet in the
senate, and only one bill has appeared
there relating to them. This is the
bill of Senator johnson, of Benton,
providing for reciprocal dcmurrage and
prohibiting rebates and discrimination,
but emitting the commission. In the
house, however, number of bills have
been introduced.
A joint memorial was introduced in
the senate this morning by Senator
Multi asking congress to compel the
owners of the Oregon & California
Railroad company to sell its grant lands
at the price stipulated in the grant.
The resolution was referred to the COM
mittee on resolutions.
The new age. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1896-1905, 1907-01-26
PROCEEDINGS OF OREGON LEGISLATURE

By unanimous vote the senate adopt
ed a memorial asking congress to re-
move all tariffs on raw jute or jute
bags. This move will quite likely tend
to defeat any effort to establish lutte
mill at the state penitentiary.
BY combining two resolutions the
senate sought to eliminate one junket-
ing trip. Resolutions had been intro
duced for the appointment of com
mittee to confer with committee from
Washington on the subject of fisheries
and another committee to confer on
pilotage. The senate committee on
resolutions provided that one commit
tee should be provided for the two pun
poses.
The new age. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1896-1905, 1907-01-26
No Exception to the Rules.

Washington, Jan. Designating o.
a dispatch from Kansas City concern.
ing the new order for recruiting negro
soldiers, Major Ainsworth, the
military secretary, today said that nc
significance should attach to the orders
given for the enlistment of negroes fol-
service in the Philippines. The orders
Were not confined to Kansas City alone,
but were sent TO other recruiting
points. 1t is said to be the invariabIe
custom of the department so far as pos
sible to recruit up to their full strength
all regiments.
The new age. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1896-1905, 1907-01-26
PORTLAND MARKETS,

Fruits-Apples, common to choice,
50@75c per box; choice to fancy, $l@
2.5O; pears, $1@1.50.
Vegetables - Turnips, 90c@$1 per
sack; carrots, 90cC9$1 per sack; beets,
$1.25@1 so per sack; horseradish, GA
lOc per pound; sweet potatoes, SC per
pound; cabbage, PIC per pound; cauli-
flower, $3.50 per dozen; celery, $3.50
per crate; pumpkins, &c per pound:
squash, &c per pound; sprouts, SC D r
pound.
onions-oregon, $1@1.15 per hun
dred.
Potatoes-Oregon Burbanks, fancy,
$1@1. 80; common, 75@95c.
Wheat-Club, &c; bluestem, 69c;
valley, &c; red, Soc.
Oats-No. l white, $27; gray. $26.
Barley-Feed, $21 .5O@22 per ton;
brewing, $3.50; rolled, $23 .50@24 80.
Rye-$1. 40@1 AS per cwt.
Corn-Whole, $26; cracked, $27 DER
ton.
Hay-Vall"y timothy, No. /, $14@
Is per ton; Eastern Oregon timothy,
$17@1S; clover, SO; cheat, SO; grain
hay, 5000; alfalfa, $14.
Butter-Fancy creamery, 3O@35c per
pound.
Butter Fat-First grade cream, 33Tc
per pound second grade cream, &c less
per pound.
Eggs-Oregon ranch, 928@33c per
dozen
Poultry-Average old hens, 13@14c
per pound; mixed chickens, 12@13c;
spring, 14@141a; old rootsers, IO@11c;
dressed chickens, 16@17c; turkeys,
live, IL q 171ac; turkeys, dressed,
choice, 20@22c; geese, live, 1O@12c;
ducks, 17Cc41Sc.
V.al-Dressed, 5H@91&" per pound.
Beef-Dressed bulls, 2S3c per pound;
cows, 4@5c; country steers, 5951Sc.
Mutton-Dressed, fancy, 8k@9c per
pound; ordinary, 697c.
Pork-Dressed, 6@9c per pound.
The new age. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1896-1905, 1907-01-26
SENATOR ALGER DEAD,
Was Attending to Business as Usual
Almost to the End


Washington, Jan. "a. - United
States Senator Russell A. Alger, OF
Michigan, died suddenly at his resi-
dence in this city at S:45 O'Clock this
morning, following an acute attack of
oedema of the lungs, with which he
was stricken shortly after 8 O'Clock.
Although Mr.. Alger had not been in
good health for some time, his death
was most unexpected. The senator
last night was apparently in his usual
health. During the day he transacted
considerable business, and was at the
War department up to late hour yes
terday afternoon. At the bedside when
he passed away We're Mrs. Alger, and
their son, Captain F. NJ. Alger, and
his wife.
On Tuesday night Mr.. Alger, when
about to leave the house to attend a
dinner given in honor OF Senator elect
William Alden Smith by the Michigan
delegation, suffered an attack of heart
failure, but it was only with difficulty
that he was persuaded to reman at
home. He attended the session of the
senate Tuesday afternoon and appeared
as we'll as usual.
Vice President Fairbanks was the
first to call at the Alger residence to-
day to express sympathy.
The funeral services will be held at 2
p. m. Saturday at the family residence
In this city. The body will be taken
to Detroit for burial.
The new age. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1896-1905, 1907-01-26
MAY Refund Money.

Shareholders of fraudulently pro-
cured state school land certificates are
to receive their money back, if the re-
commentator of Governor Chamber
lain shall be carried out. At the re-
quest of the governor, Attorney General
Crawford has prepared bill, authoriz-
ing the state land board, in its discre-
ton, to refund to a holder of such a
certificate whatever money had been
paid to the state thereon.
The new age. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1896-1905, 1907-01-26
Relieve Idaho Settlers

Minneapolis, Jan. %. - The North
Dakota fuel shortage again is becoming
serious, according to reports received
mere. Inability of the railroads to keep
freight trains moving is responsible, in
large degree, for this condition.
The new age. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1896-1905, 1907-01-26
Logging Company Buys Timber.

AstOria-The Bremner Logging COM
pany has purchased from Birch & Nc
Clure 800 acres of timber land near
YOung's River falls. This is said to
be one of the finest bodies of timber in
this section -
The new age. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1896-1905, 1907-01-26
ST NATIONAL BANK or KALESPELL
LADD g. TILTON, Bankers
Portland, Oregon


ISOLDE
ChiSt
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1907-12-19
THE JEFFERs ONIAN.

The treasury notes thus issued never for
one moment sank below par. Why should they,
when a paper dollar would do for it's owner
every blessed thing that coin dollar would
do?
The full legal tender notes of the first issue,
$5o,oooooo, remained the full equal of gold and
silver dollars until the bankers went to Wash
ington and got Congress to say that the notes
should not be legal tender for Custom house
duties and for interest on the bonds.
Then indeed, the paper notes sank under this
foul blow, until it took three of the Govern
ment's notes to equal silver or gold dollar.
How much did that conduct of the bankers
cost the Government and the people?
It cost them the full extent of the deprecia-
ton of the paper money.
Who reaped the 'net profits? The bankers,
who gathered in the deprecated currency,
snapped it, dollar for dollar, for 1ongterm
bonds, and then got Congress to declare that
their bonds must be paid in coin.
In other words, the Government was Unfit
enced to sell bonds for one kind of money and
to redeem them in another.
Paper was good enough when the bankers
were buying the bonds, but not good enough
when payday came.
Who scooped the "net profits" on that grand
series of deals in bonds?
The banker did it.
people lose?
The full amount of the difference between
the deprecated currency in which the bonds
were bought and the coin in which they were
paid.
And the sum total of that colossal loot is
so enormous that the mere tables of figures
make no adequate impression on the average
mind
But when the poor human underdogs look
up at the swollen fortunes of some of our
Northern and Eastern money-kings, wondering
how on earth some men accumulated such
incredible wealth, let them be told Of the
awful crimes that were committed in the name
of Finance during and after the Civil War.
There's where this vast inequality Of riches
began.
Who was it that compelled Hugh McCulloch
and other Secretaries of the Treasury to "burn
to ashes" eighteen hundrd million dollars of
the paper currency of the Country?
The national bankers did it.
Why?
To drive out of circulation the notes of the
Government, to put their own paper into cir
culation, to lessen the volume of real money
in order that they might control it, and have
the business world at their mercy.
Who made the "net profit" in these raids
against the paper money of the Government?
The national bankers and other money-kings
did it. And the amount of the loss to the Gov
eminent and people, during all those years of
falling prices, when the money was being call
ed in and burnt, God only knows
It was prodgious.
So frightful was the decline in values,
brought about by the destruction of the cur
paid on the public debt three and half billions
Of dollars in DrnciDa1 and interest If would
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1907-12-19

brought on the panic of 1907? Who forced
bonds from the Roosevelt administration?
Who is scooping the met profits" on 3 per
cent treasury notes which they buy without
further cost than an entry on their books7
from ten to thirty dollars more money than
is invested in their business? Who is it that
gets the use of $25oooo,ooo of the Govern
ment's funds without cent of interest? Who is
it that collects interest on his bonds in advance,
and thus has both principal and interest loaned
out at interest AT THE SAME TIME?
Who is it that pays no tax and thus con-
tributes nothing to the Government whose
favors enrich him? Who is it that not only has
the use of the Governments credit in his bust
ness, but has the Governments cash also?
POOR, DOWN-TRODDENN NATIONAL
BANKER!!!
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1907-12-19
The Clearing House Certificate.


The Clearing House Certificate.
Certain eminent fnanciers of New York
engaged in the pleasant pastime of using the
credit of the Government for their own profit
will wake up one fine morning and find them
selves unable to pay their debts.
Instead Of going out of business, as bank
rupts usually do, these eminent hnanclers
agreed among themselves that they would
put forth a written statement of their inability
to pay their debts and would compel $1,000
900 people to use these badges of dishonor AS
MONEY!.
And they have done it!
A Clearing House Certificate lis nothing
more than confession that the bankers issu-
ing them are unwilling, or unable, to pay their
debts.
On these statements that they are bank"
rurt, they collect interest, just as though these
badges of dshonor were good money.
This being so, consider for a moment what
these national bankers are doing.
First, they draw interest on the money in
vested in the bonds-paylng no tax.
Second, they draw interest On the same mon
ey, represented in the notes issued to them by
the COMMUNICATING practically, no tax.
Third, they initiate their loans, checks, and
drafts until they draw interest on from ten to
thirty times as much money as they have tn
vested.
Fourth, when payday comes, and they find
it an impossibility to meet their honest obliga-
tons, they issue statement to that effect call
it Clearing House Certificate, and force it in
to circulation as money.
Thus they turn bankruptcy into huge prof
it, and get interest upon confession of fail
ure.
Yet these are the gentlemen who wanted
Honest Dollars!
These are the gentlemen who rallied against
silver dollars because the metal in the coin was
only worth fifty cents.
These are the fellows who jeered at Green
backs, and said that these treasury notes con-
stituted the dangerous feature of our financial
system
These are the fellows who could lay their
tongues to no words too bitter and abusive
for the Farmers Alliance and the Labor I'm
ions, when those wealth-producers implored'
the Government to supply the country with
larger volume of real money.
And now look at the situation which they
have made!
Business demoralized loans stopped, collecJ
tons at a standstill, confidence gone, the coun{
try merchant and the farmer in distress ang
fearful of next spring, depositors clamoring q
what is theirs and being told they can't h.
it, nasty little clearing house certificates
bauching the currency, and tempting the co..
terfeiter, Six thousand national bankers he
ing UP the entire nation and shearlng 1T as 4
shepherd would his sheep. ~
These are the men whose internal greed & 1,
sslfshness could not be content with the I'M [
eial system fixed by our forefathers. To