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Polk County observer. (Monmouth, Polk County, Or.) 1888-1927, 1907-08-09

pouJs
Obi my stomach's a very uncertain
thing.
1 suffered the tormentthat costiveness
brings,
But now am happy, normal and free,
A miracle wrought by HOLSTERS
Rocky Mountain Tea. Belt& Cher
rington.
A fresh line Of Gunther's fine
candies. stafrin Drug Company.
Sheriff J. II. Grant, accompanied by
party Of cruisers and eastern cap
ltalists, is In the Cascades looking
after timber land interests.
Polk County observer. (Monmouth, Polk County, Or.) 1888-1927, 1907-08-09
Teachers Examinations.

Notice is hereby given that the
County Superintendent Of Polk County
will hold the regular examination Of
applicants for state and county papers
at Dallas, Oregon, as follows:
FOR STATE PAPERS
Commencing Wednesday, August
IA at 9 O'Clock a. M, and continuing
until Saturday, August II. at 4 p. m.
Wednesday -Penmanship, history,
spelling, physical geography, reading,
psychology.
Thursday-Written arithmetic, the
ory Of teaching, grammar, bookkeep
ing, physics, civil government.
Friday-Physiology, geography,
composition, algebra.
Saturday Botany, plane geometry,
general history, English literature,
school law.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-08-17
HARVESTER TRUST NOW.
Papers Are Being Prepared Under the
Sherman Law.

washington, Aug. 17-Suit is to be
instituted by the government against
the International Harvester company
for alleged violation of the Sherman
antitrust act. The papers in the pro-
posed action are being drawn at the
department of justice. 1t is likely the
proceedings will be begun in Chicago.
A year or more ago, complaints of
the operation of the International Har-
vester company reached the department
of justice and agents of that depart
ment and the bureau of corporations
have accumulated a mass of Informal
ton on the subject. The evidence that
the company has violated the anti
trust law is asserted to be conclusive.
The investigation disclosed the fact
that the parent company controls prac-
tically all of the big reaper and mower
and thresher plants in the country and
that an apportionment of the country
is made among the various subsidiary
concerns in such a way that no one of
them will come into business, conflict
with any other. ~ /.
1t further is alleged that prices of the
farm machinery manufactured by the
International Harvester company are
fixed by the concern and from those
prices dealers are not permitted to
vary. In this way and through its con-
troll of the many plants the company
is able to dictate the output of such
machinery, the localities into which it
shall go and the prices, operations
which the department regards as in
restraint of trade.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-08-17
IN FRISCO CORN STILL SHORT
urge Has Broken Mr.. Coburn Places Its Condi-
n the Coast. ton at IA Per Cent.
Death Has Re- Four Big Maize Producing
,m the Disease. Counties Bring Down Average.
Asses KNOWN. WHEAT, 20 MILLIONS.
thin Two Blocks of At That Worth as Much as
Chinatown. Last Years Crop.
gainst Rats to Be Considered Remarkable Show
ted at Once. ing Despite FOrebOdings.
Already One Death Has Re-
suited From the Disease.
THREE CASES KNOWN.
All We're Within Two Blocks of
Old Chinatown.
Campaign Against Rats to Be
Instituted at Once.

Washington, Aug. 17.Bubonic pla que
has broken out in San Francisco and
already death has resulted from it. The
first intimation of the plague was re-
ceived Thursday from San Francisco by
the marine hospital service. The tele-
gram read:
Three cases and one death from
plague in San Francisco. Diagnosis
made clinically and by stained smears
from spleen and glands. No reasonab BILE
doubt as to the certainty of the
diagnosis of cases seen and verified by
Long in conjunction with the health Of
ficers. Cases found within two blocks
of old Chinatown
On receipt of this information, instruc-
lions were sent to Surgeon Austin to
confer with the state and local authori-
ties and make full report on the mea-
sures adopted for eradication.
Surgeon Austin telegraphed that two
foci had been discovered; that the To-
cal board had disinfected known in
fected buildings and proposed to in
stitute a campaign against rats. He
said deaths in the city had been verf-
fed and a general disinfection of sus-
pected districts would begin. He ask
ed for the assistance of two officers as
medical inspectors and one as bac-
teriologist in the state laboratory.
1t is stated here that Passed Assist
ant Surgeon Long is a trained bacter-
iologist and thoroughly competent to
handle the situation.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-08-17
SHE TURNED HIM DOWN.
John E. Owens Commits Suicide on
Account of a Woman.

Cincinnati. Aug. 17-John E.
Owens, newspaper man and traveller,
whose infatuation for Mrs. Bonnie
Tucker. the former wife of politi-
clan of this city, led him to desert his
wife and home and travel- around tn g
country with her, committed suicide at
rooming house in this city late yes
terday. Owens ended his life by swal-
lowing laudanum after he had a brief
interview with Mrs. Tucker in which
he pleaded for a reconciliation and
was refused.
Owens death was the climax of his
in Mexico City months ago. After the
two had reached the Mexican capital
Owens caused a sensation by appeal
ing to the police to locate his wife -
who had left him. supposedly, on ac-
count of his insane jealousy. A few
days later she went to Oklahoma City,
and on the same train was Frank Bal
lard. an American hotelkeeper of Mex
leo City, at whose hotel the couple had
stopped. Owens started in pursuit
claiming that Ballard had induced
Mrs. Tucker to leave him. He wired
the police authorities of Oklahoma
City to arrest the couple on a charge
of smuggling. Owens was himself ar
rested for threatening the woman. Mrs.
Tucker and Ballard were released.
Owens finally got out of Jail and fol-
lowed the object of his infatuation.
He effected a reconciliation but they
again separated.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-08-17
HIGHEST RENT PAID.
Steel Trust Pays $4,000 a Year for
Floors.

New York, Aug. 1.-THE largest
rental paid anywhere in the world for
business quarters will be that con-
tracted for by several companies af-
hliated with the steel corporation.
Nine of the leading concerns in the
steel trade have leased four floors in
the building which the Hudson Tun-
mel company is erecting as a terminal
for it's tunnel under the Hudson. The
companies will pay $4,000. This
vast outlay will be paid for ten years,
for which period the leases have been
made.
The concerns which have contract
ed this rent are the American Steel
Hoop company, American Steel and
Wire company, National Tube COM
pany, American Steel and Tin Plate
company, National Steel company
American Bridge company, Shelby
Steel Tube company, United States
Steel Products and Exports company,
and the Lorain Steel company
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-08-17
WHO OWNS THE LAND?
Union Pacific Claims Farm Under Old
Grant.

The Union Pacific Railway company
has secured writ of error from the
Kansas supreme court in the Saline
county case of the Union Pacific against
Morris Harris, Ralph Harris, Anna A.
Arnett and Nellie M. Daniels, and will
appeal that case to. the supreme court
of the United States.
The question involved in the case is
one of great Importance to the Union
Pacific, which has thousands of acres
of land which 1t claims as right OF
way at stake. in the decision. The Sa-
line county case is being used as test
of the whole proceeding.
The facts in the Saline county cases
are as follows: On April e. 1861, Bern
hard Blou settled upon a quarter Sec
ton of land known as "unoffered' gov
eminent land. On May ID, he filed q
declaratory statement claiming right.
to the land under the presumption law
He remained continuously in possession
of the land until September 5, 1865, when
he entered the land as a homestead
He proved up on the land in December
1870, and received patent in 1872. This
land has now passed into the possession
of the four defendants in the action.
On July l. 1862, a year after Blou
settled on his land near Salina, con-
gress passed an act Incorporating the
Union Pacific, and giving to it the 400
foot right of way through all pubic
lands The railroad was built through
Blou's land in 1867, and the company
recognized his right to the tract by Sc
right of way through the tract. In
1902 the Union Pacific proceeded to
fence in a 400 foot right of way, and
build sidetracks on the zoo foot strip 70
the south of the track. Then Harris
and his associates brought ejectment
proceedings. The lower court decided
in favor of Harris at every point ana
the supreme court sustained the deciS-
ion.
The opinion was written by Justice
H. F. Mason, and the syllabus says:
"a tract of land owned by the United
States but lawfully occupied by set
tier who had filed a declaratory state
ment claiming a right to it under the
preemption law, was not pubic land
within the meaning of section of the
act of congress of July 1, 1852 giving
to certain railroad companies the right
of way through public lands, and no
right with respect to such tract was
thereby granted"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-08-17
UNCLE SAM SECOND.
In Some Respects His Navy Leads the
World.

New York, Aug. 1.-THE tenth an
nua1 issue of F. T. James fighting
ships in 1907 which is one of the rec
ognized authorities on the navies of
the world, and which has just been
published III London, puts the United
States second among the naval pow
ers of the world, with England first.
Speaking of the United States navy
Mr.. James, in his preface, says: 1.-THE
extraordinary high figures for United
States ships afford food for consid-
Grafton, for both in ships with high
powered guns, or impervious to vital
injury at long range, the United States
fleet is superior to any other navy in
the world. Even by the inclusion of
forty caliber twelve inch types extinct
so far as new ships are concerned, the
United States is an extremely good
second and the corresponding lead in
invulnerability outside 1000 yards is
considerably increased
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-08-17
Drives in the River With Chill
dren and Grandmother.
EXPECT TO HANGTHEM
Water Suddenly Deepens and
Wagon Sinks Beneath.
Mother Uses Desperate Efforts
to End Life Of All.
Are Finally Rescued by the
Sheriff and Deputy.

Erie, Kan, Aug. 17.-One of the
most appalling attempts at suicide
and child-murder ever known in this
county occurred here late Friday,
when Mrs. John huffman attempted
to drown herself, her two children,
aged six and eight, and her grand
mother. Mrs. Carrie Chambers.
Mrs. Huffman, who lives seven
miles southwest of this place, drove to
town in company with her two chill
dren and her grandmother, Mrs.
Chambers, with apparently no other
purpose in view than to do some
shopping and assist the elder woman
in drawing some pension money
which was deposited in one of the
banks. Late in the afternoon the two
women and the children left town
supposedly for home. Before leaving,
however, Mrs. Huffman purchased,
among other articles a quantity OF
small rope. On crossing the river
bridge about a mile south of town,
instead of proceeding homeward on
the main travelled road, she turned the
team of mules she was driving into
lane that leads to the left down
through the woods to the river bank.
Arriving there she tied the rope to
her waist and to each of the children,
a boy OF eight ana d girl OF SIX, ana
drove up the river through the shall
low water until almost beneath the
bridge. Here the water suddenly
deepens, this being the site of the old
mill dam, attaining a depth of almost
ten feet. AS the buggy and the mules
sank out of sight, the woman threw
the two children into still deeper wa
ter and leaped after them. The
grandmother, who is almost blind.
chung desperately to the vehicle which
the struggling mules were towing to-
ward the shore. AS the children rose
to the surface their. mother relent-
lessly, plunged them under the water
in spite of their cries of terror. At
this point Sheriff Marion Ogg and his
deputy, = Wild Reynolds, who were
shooting frogs down the river a short
distance, heard the cries and appeared
upon the scene. They succeeded in
saving both the woman and her chill
dren, not however. until the little girl
was half-strangled. Sheriff Ogg
brought his charges here this evening
and placed them under the care of a
local physician.
Just what will be done with Mrs.
Huffman is not yet determined. Those
who know her say she is mentally I'M
balanced
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-08-17
SANTA FE EXP ANDING.
Thirty-five Million of improvements
New Contracts Awarded.

The Santa Fe is planning extern
sive improvements at Syracuse, Kan
sas, which is their most important
station in western Kansas. A new
station and eating house is to be con-
, structed there which will cost $751;
900. The contract for this work has
been let to C. A. Fellows of Topeka.
work will be commenced as on the
structure ,ras soon as possible. The
plumbing and heating of the building
WIN cost several thousand dollars
more55 which will bring th& total up
to $4,000. Mr. Fellows was also
awarded the contract for completing
the heating plant at Albuquerque.
Another contract has been let to Con-
tractor. Carter of Lawrence for the
erection of freight building at Syra-
cuse, which will cost $4,000.
New York, Aug. 1.-THE question
has already been raised in some quar-
tiers whether the Santa Fe may not
be persuaded to increase the dividend
at the October meeting. The best
information on this subject, however,
discourages any such idea.
1t is pointed out that the manage
ment is ambitious to carry the i'm
provement of the system a great deal
further than it has gone, the execu-
ton of which program will necessar-
lily call for the expenditure of a very
large amount of money during the
next few years.
The Santa Fe management has for
years made it a practice to return
considerable proportion of the surplus
earnings into the property, and it is
pointed out that this policy will here
after be favored more than ever, in
view of the disposition of most western
states to set limits upon the earning
power of railroad corporations.
The advantages of carrying on i'm
provement work with appropriations
from income, which involve no bur-
den of interest upon the capital in any
form. at a time when the arbitrary
regulation of rates SO much in vogue,
are obvious.
The Santa Fe has recently raised
$25, 100000 of new capital through the
sale of bonds. and has added to that
sum another $1O.000,0O0 in the form
of surplus earnings over all charges.
Every dollar of this $35;000,0 900 is in
tended for investment in the system
itself; that is. the extension of its lines
within the roads own natural terri
tory or in the Improvement of the ex-
listing mileage.
None of it is issued for investment
in stock of other railroads contracted
for at the top prices of a tremendous
bull campaign.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-08-17
NO MORE RELATING.
Railroad Official Declares 1t Is a Thing
of the Past.

New York, Aug. 1.-THE giving of
rebates by railroads is a thing of the
past, according to Francis LaBau,
freight manager of the New York Cen
trail He made this statement when
asked in regard to prevalent impress
sion that. certain roads were still in
the habit of favoring big shippers Sc
cretly in defiance of law
of course, can speak authoritively
only for the New York Central" said
Mr.. LaBau. In behalf of that line
can state positively that rebate giving,
either directly or indirectly is not only
thing of the past but has been so for
three or four years. 1t is my personal
belief, moreover that this same state
ment applies practically to all the big
roads. To give rebates in the face Of
the Hepburn amendment to the inter-
state commerce law would be suicidal.
The amendment has revolutionized the
conditions In the commercial world of
this country. 1t is now impossible for
any large shipper. corporation or other
wise, to obtain lower rates than those
accorded to the smallest customer of
any road. The law is plain and it must
be and is being obeyed'
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-08-17

that the policy is not for the payment
OF money, but provides for the delivery
OF IOO bonds of $1,000 each to the exc
cutors or assigns of Mr.. Perkins. the
insured; that from the fact thai Per
klns made a will which was Drobated
a practical assignment of the right of
the bonds of the widow and children
was maze; tnat the bonds are negoti-
able In form and that innocent D1r-
chasers may become the owners giving
rise to a multitude of suits
In answer to this Judge Smith Nc
Emerson says: BuI regardless of to
whom the money or property belongs.
the executors must collect the money,
and If legal action is necessary. the
suit must be by and in the name of the
executors. So that whether to recover
there can be but one action, and wheth3
er the action be at law to recover the
money, or in equity to recover the
bonds, such just be one declaring for
of the executors. And in whatever
court a recovery be had, the recovery
must be RENTED to the probate court
for distribution and disposal under the
law, or under the will, as that court
may be required to decree. So that
there is no multiplicity of suits to
avoid"
On the question of recovering on the
policy Judge Mcpherson gives out the
following opinion: Therefore the con-
clusion is that the company taking no
action in the matter until after the
death of Perkins, and then said that
1t would not recognize the validity of
the policy, that the only claim the ex-
ecutors have had or now have, is a
claim for money demand, and under
the authority of the Riggs and Gable
cases, the company has a plain, ade-
quate and complete remedy by way OF
defense in an action at law on the poll
cy, unless it is by reason of other re-
lief prayed in the bill
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-08-17
TWO CARS UPSET.
Wreck on the wabash Causes Injury
of Five Persons.

Kansas City, Aug. 17.-Wabash
passenger train No. 9, that left ST.
Louis yesterday afternoon, was wreck
ed at Randolph, Mo-. ten miles from
Kansas City, last night. The two rear
cars, a chair car and a buffet and OBJ
servation car were overturned. Five
persons were injured. The injured in
cluded the following:
Francis G. Lane. Los Angeles, rib
broken.
Fred Asht Tarkio. Mo-, leg broken
The accident was due to the rear
wheels of the tender leaving the track
when the train was running fast to
make up time.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-08-17
CHINA IN A BAD WAY.
No Ruling Mind Powerful Enough to
Cope With the Situation.

Kansas City, Aug. 17.-Prtvate dis
patches from Pekin predict gloomy
future owing to the unsettled state of
politics there, caused by the absence
of a ruling mind powerful enough to
cope with the situation. The empress
dowager, who heretofore has been sole
mistress of affairs. is now in a critical
state of health Her policy so far has
been to play one minister against an
other In order to prevent the concen-
tration. of power in any single hand.
lnasmuch as the empress is incapaci-
tated by an incurabIe disease and as
the historical animosity of Manchus
ana Mandarins is inceasipg. the pre-
vaf,ing state of affairs in the Pekin
government constitutes battling
problem.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-08-17
COOL WEATHER FOLLOWS RAIN
Topeka Gets Another Duclxing-Re-
freshine Wind Blows.

j. Pluvius has made Kansas his
headquarters for the last day or two
although he has not been doing
heavy business in most parts Wich-
tia received the most of his wares YES
terday,- getting precipitation of LA
inches. The rainfall in Topeka this
morning amounted to 20 of an inch.
most of which fell from 9:55 to 1915.
The wind is blowing Is miles per hour
and careful man has his coat on when
he isn't working. The hottest weather
reported yesterday was at Enid. Okla.
where the emperature was log. The
lowest temperature in Topeka last
night was u. which was higher than
at onetime this forenoon. The high
est thus far today is 81. 1t is cooler
all over Kansas and western Missouri
today. AT Z o'clock it was clear in
the western and cloudy in the eastern
portion of the state.
The hourly temperatures TODAY
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-08-17

with 1SS,444 acres and an average con-
dition of so; the average for Phillips is
40, Smith 20 and Norton 10, the low
est Doniphan reports the highest con-
Aition, 1O7, Jefferson next with 101, fol-
lowed by, Kearny with 80, Nemaha SO
and Shawnee, Geary, Washington and
Barber with &c. Forty-two counties,
whose combined corn acreage consti-
tutes about third of the states corn
field. have conditions of 90 or above, and
a general average of 1913 per cent.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-08-17
GRAIN RATE CUT.
The Nebraska Railroad Commits
sion Orders a Reduction.
Ten Cents a Hundred on Corn
and Is Cents on Wheat.

Lincoln, Neb., Aug. 1.-THE Nebraska
railway commission this morning is
sued an order reducing the freight rate
ten cents hundred on corn and thirteen
cents on wheat. The railroads of the
state will have a hearing September g.
II. Unless it is shown that the new
rates are non-compensatory this
schedule will become effective
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-08-17
HER SCALP TORN OFF.
1t Is Saved Intact and Surgeons Sew
1t On.

St. Louis. Aug. 17.-Miss Elizabeth
Gallighan, aged %, this afternoon lean
ed too near a fast revolving fly wheel
in the shoe factory in which she is
employed and her entire scalp was torn
from her head. The scalp was remov-
ed from the fly wheel intact and sur
geons performed rare operation by
sewing it back in place. Indications are
that the operation was successful.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-08-17
The Normal to Open September

Emporia, Kan. Aug. 1.-THE fall
term of the Normal will open Tues
day, September 8, which is two weeks
from the coming Tuesday. Applica-
tions from prospective students are
coming in daily. and it is principally
from this correspondence that the
probable attendance is estimated.
President J. H. Hill said this morning
that from all indications the enroll
ment for the coming year will equal
that of the past year.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-08-17
PINKERTON IS DEAD.
Head of the Detective Agency Passes
Away mt Sea.

New York, Aug. 17.-Robert Pink
erton, head of the detective agency.
died on board the steamship Bremen
on August 2 at sea. He was en- route
to Germany for his health.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-08-17
Wcatiler IndicarIona,

Chicago, Aug. 17.-Forecast for Kan
sas: Fair tonight and Sunday.
Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1907-05-02

In an article on the resources Of
Nevada and the Death Valley region.
a western paper says that Mount
Blanc, approximately 1900 feet high
and two miles in diameter. il a mas
Of bora1. It is the property Of one
man. Frank NJ. Smith, Of OAKLAND.
owns this mountain absolutely, and
thereby controls the visible supply o.
boraI in the world. The market val.
ne Of this borax where it lies is come
thing more than 800 ton. Experts
estimate that the mountain has ct
least 5000, 100000 tons Of borax in
it.
This mountain, standing 1t the
north end Of the Funeral range. with
in a stones throw Of Death Valley,
says the writer, makes Smith easily
the richest man in the world, from
point OF resources. But this borsx
deposit is msrelys lining for the pot
OF gold that rests in the Funeral
range.