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Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1908-07-25
Lofty African Mountain.

The most wonderful vision that
meets the eye on the journey along
the west African coast Is Mount
CAMERON. Reclus has called the
mountain one of the most imposing
SUBMITS of the earth. It is not as
high as Kilimanjaro or Kenia, but
II is the loftiest mountain on the
west coast and It has the advantage
of all great mountains that stand on
the edge of the sea. Its western
base Is washed by the Atlantic and
the characteristic aspect OF all eli
mantes, 10 the SHOWS OF the Artie'
are plainly revealed on the slope OF
the tremendous monument which
from base TO summit Is fully In view
from the setamer deck.
An important question relating "a
the mountain has just been settled.
Every one knew that 1t was once
an active volcano and that 1t reached
It prodigious stature through the
piling up OF lava and volcanic debris
but the general opinion OF geologists
has been that It's fires centuries agc
were extinct and that there Is no ev
idence that for many generations u
has shown even the embers OF life
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1908-07-25
Mad Dog or Mad Man.

The other day went exploring In
the outskirts OF East New York.
Threading my way along the child
Uttered sidewalk my eye caught the
always interesting antics OF a small
pup-perhaps three or four months
old-frisking among the youngsters.
On a, sudden a falnt-hearted child
the puppy had approached drew back
aud set up a cry. Abashed by his
unexpected and unusual reception
the wagging tail was drawn between
/ his legs as the pup sidled against
another kiddy looking no doubt for
fuller understanding. But the
fright OF the falnt-hearted child was
! contaglous-the alarm spread In
simultaneously, and at once there was
shrIeking and scrambling Of terri
| fed youngsters. Down the stree.
came a Mortified mother TO raise the
cry of mad dog" and In less time
than II takes you TO read this that
erstwhlle playful pup was tearing
down the street. in fright, chased by
men and boys hurllng stones and
clubs past at It's poor wondering lit
tie head The pup | rescued trem'
bling like a leaf and scared nearly
into a fit-but the men and boys
were appeased only after long and
patient argument.
This was an actual experience and
Is by no means an unusual illustra'
ton OF what constantly happens. H.
the way that 10 per cent of the mad
ldog-scares start. Scarcely a day
passes without some newspaper ac
count of a mad dog" that has beer
chased to it's death. Most of the
mad dogs are merely thirsty or have
been chased until they are crazeC
with fright and exhaustion. We neet
little common sense in these ap
preaching dog days, and we need
/. perhaps more-a little kind!
thought. If the hot days are tryini
to we humans who can make know
our wants and assuage our thirs
when we will, what must they be q
dumb beast-the horses that toi
all day in the blazing sun-the dog
that go unwatered for the most part
Have mercy. Exert your inhuenc
to secure drinking troughs for horse
and basins for dogs in your city.
At the same time, the dog-whe'
he is mad-is a dreadful seourse
He is the most common distribute
of hydrophobia, and hydrophobia
the most horrible disease In the ION
list of diseases 10 which the hesh
heir. That is why the cry OF ma
dog" is such a terror-breeder an
why there should be every preeau
tion for the prevention of dogs go
ing mad. and intelligent action !
case of attaek.-From Caspar Whi'
news "View-Point," in The ou'in
Magazine for July.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1908-07-25
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willamette river points and San
Francisco and bay points. The at
torneys for the Hartman road today
express the opinion that the case will
bs successful for the railroad AMI
predict that the supreme court OF
the United States will kpock out the
Hepburn act as unconstitutional.
The suit, which is an equity suit,
was hled yesterday afternoon and al
sges that all the laws under which
| the Interstate commerce commission
operates are unconstitutional be-
cause they confer on the interstate
commerce commission legislative, ju-
leial and executive authority. This,
ays the complaint, Is In violation of
section one OF article one OF the con-
altutlon which provides that call
legislative powers herein granted
shall be vested in the congress OF the
pulted States" and section one OF
article Q providing that "all judicial
powers shall be vested In one SUI
reme court and such inferior courts
As congress shall from time to time
establish"
The complaint goes into the his
'oFy Of the case from the beginning
The rate Of $3.4O a ton to apply
70 the transportation of rough green
t' timber and lath from points on
NE east bank Of the Willamette river
and points on the west bank of the
willamette south of Corvallis to Sar
francisco and bay points and tho
as OF 1896 ton from points on
ne east bank of the Willamette Il
0V points are both declared too Low
" Ne railroad in It's complaint.
ias complaint explains that rail
''e once established rate OF $3.1C
% Aese commodities from thes'
'nls to California In order to foster
l' lumber business in the north
aug That $50 sawmills sprung up al
as result OF the low rate. Now tha
-s business has been established
-n the complaint, the road Is oil
's neld to make money.
The complaint asks that the eour
-ARe 'helnjunetlon permanent, an,
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1908-07-25
Dynamite In the Making.

So thoroughly deceptive is dyna-
mite in the making that you are apt
to be disappointed on viewing the
surface of things. You could more
readily fancy thunderbolts leaping
and crashing from tender blue skies
than that the most fearful forces In
creation are hidden under such a
peaceful exterior. Nitro-glycerin, a
cupful OF which would distribute you
over square miles of landscape, Is
diligently mixing around you in hun
dreds and thousands of gallons. 1t
Is making itself in big iron retorts
cascadlng down leaden cutters, and
merrily tumbling in minute Niagaras
into immense watts, where the de-
liquescent yellow peril pursues Its
journey powerward. Out OF one re-
ceptacle 1t fares furlously through
special lead coils. driven only by
cooling blasts OF air, and Is drawn
off like draught al and piped on TO
the next perfecting stage, Gaze with
the nitro-glycerin expert into one OF
those big cauldrons. The interior Is
brilliantly Illuminated by electricity,
the only Illuminating agency permit
ted in or about the danger houses,
At the bottom Is a molten sullen
fluid. Glancing cautiously at the
thermometer, the guide tells you
that the writhen mass is nitro-gly-
, cerin. II is being fused with nitric
, and sulphurlc acids, and you are
casually Informed, as the expert
sends a cooling stream through tho
plpes. that II Is very necessary TO
keen the temperature below so de-
grees. Once above the sO-degrees
dead-line. so to say, the treacherous
LIQUID might instantly voice itself
in such deafenlng explosion as those
In close proximity may never hear
but once. Let the composition be
oulescent for but few seconds ana
its stiffness suddenly becomes that
OF death, In consequence of which
extreme vigilance is practieed In
keeping Il constantly agitated, as
we'll as properly temperatured'
Around you are other houses at
uniform distances apart, and con-
nected by a series of narrow-gauge
tracks. wherein workmen are rail-
roading nitro-glycerin from here and
pulp cotton from there. to be COM
pounded into dynamite and blasting
gelatin. Greatest care Is taken IN
rolling the product from house 10
house. AS soon as a loaded cart Is
ready TO pas sotu OF the nitro-gly-
cerin house. for instance a sema'
phore signals from an adjoining
station. TO which the consignment Is
carefully hurried. Around you are
long storehouses packed with pulp
in tons of innocent whiteness. Pres
emily this pulp will assume a Tan
color under the nitrating process
and then, suddenly becoming car
bonite. red cross. hercules Judson
and Giant powder. foreite or wha'
you order. It develops the quasi VII
tuse of dynamite-dynamhe OF
blasting gelatin, inwhich more natu'
raj forces are condensed TO the cubi'
inch than exist anywhere else IN
creation. Death, curbed and sleep
ing encircles you in gallosn and 10
tons. Annihilation threatens a.
every turn, in the form OF potentia
pulverizing forces. But the man ahe
the mercury are there also alert
responsive. reliable.-William Grii
fith In Leslies' Weekly.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1908-07-25

suggests that II shippers in the low
er Willamette do not like the rail.
road rate they can resort TO water
transportation.
Judge Morrow issued an order d.
recting the interstate commerce com
mission to appear before him Aug. 5
to show cause why the restraining
order should not be granted.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1908-07-25
The following Portland women

The following Portland women
were hurt when a bus dropped on
a 2O-foot embankment at Carson
washington: Mrs. W. F. Slaughter
Holt Slaughter. Mrs. Della Groves
Amanda Doty and Ruth Potter.
explanation has been demanded Of
Heney by San Francisco newspape'
for what he received $4,000 IRON
the spring Valley Water company
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1908-07-25

Misses Hattie and Flossie Day
have returned home after visitirs
friends In Portland the last two
weeks.
Look out. boys. Use your bump
OF caution when swimming. Some
one drowned every day.
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The Tupelo journal., 1908-10-02
DUPONT OUT OF CAMPAIGN
His Connection With Powder Trust
the Cause.

New lork.-Surrendering to pressure
from the White House, Gen. T. Cole
man Dupont retired as a member of the
executive committee of the Republican
national committee and as a director of
the speakers bureau late this afternoon.
Gen. Dupont is an officer and large
stakeholder in the Dupont-De Nemours
Powder Company, commonly known as
the Powder Trust, and the department
of justice has begun an action in the
Federal court in Delaware before Judge
Gray to dissolve the trust.
When w. r. Hearst made public the
first of the letters between John ID.
Archbold of the Standard Oil Company
and Senator Foraker in his speech last
week in Columbus, Ohio, the president
became determined that Gen. Dupont
should be retired at once before attention
should be brought to the fact that an
officer in a trust which was being at
tackled in the Federal court was active
in the Taft campaign.
The Tupelo journal., 1908-10-02
HISGEN KISSED BY TEXANS
Rough House in Fort Worth When
Bailey's Name Is Mentioned.

Fort Worth, Tex.-Thomas l.. Hisgen,
candidate for President on the indie
pendence ticket, arrived here tonight
from Houston, where he spoke last
night.
Mr.. Hisgen had not proceeded far in
his speech, when he referred to the dis,
closures connecting Senator Foraker, of
Ohio, with the Standard Oil Company.
and he coupled Senator Bailey, of Texas,
with the Senator from Ohio, declaring
that the people of Texas knew some
thing of the Standard Oil, which concern
had been ousted from the State, only to
be brought back by Senator Bailey.
Mr.. Bailey's friends Immediately as
sailed the speaker with a roar of Kisses
and jeers. Former State Representative
Lane, taking advantage of a lull in the
uproar, shouted to Hisgen: Bailey has
got more sense in a minute than you
would have in a lifetime!"
This caught the crowd, which renewed
it's Kisses. Congressman Howard here
appealed to the audience to near re-
specially a stranger, whereupon he was
admonished not to Islander the Texas
Senator.
The Tupelo journal., 1908-10-02
ROCK ISLAND GETS FUNDS
Hartman and Morgan Are Working
Together.

New York.-Following a rumor that
Speyer & Company had arranged to
provide $4,000 0 for the Rock Island
Railroad Company to meet obligations
that were embarrassing, the preferred
stock of Rock Island shot up more than
4 points in the last hour today, while
the common stock and all its bonds
moved higher. Frisco securities were
especially affected, and it is now evident
that there will be no receivership. 1t
is possible that a deal is on that may
separate the control of the Frisco from
the Rock Island. In that event E. II.
Hartman will be a dominant factor in
Frisco, and the property will ultimately
60 to the Southern Pacific, although the
law prevents ownership by the Southern
Pacific at present. Hartman is just now
being used as the solution of every Wall
street problem, but in the Frisco cases
there is more than idle rumor to Justify
the use of his name.
The Tupelo journal., 1908-10-02
y KILLED IN WRECK
TERRIBLE SCENES WITNESSED
IN SMASHUP.
Eleven Are So Seriously Hurt That
It Is Believed Many of
Them Will Die.

Livingston, Mont.-Burlington passen-
ger train No. 16, running on the North
ern Pacific tracks, met a w~estbound
freight train in a head-on collision about
SIS miles east of here, during Il binding
snow storm. Fireman Babcock, of the
passenger train, and Fireman Tom Phil
lips, of the freight, and Head Brakeman
Milo Holloway and nineteen passengers
were killed outright and eleven other
passengers and two engineers and the
mail clerk and b~aggageman OF the pas
senger train are seriously injured. Most
of the eleven are seriously injured and
will probably die. About thirty others
were more or less injured.
The scene ensuing was terrible. Cries
of the injured and dying met the res
cuers at every turn, and although heroic
efforts were made by the survivors to
rescue those caught in the wreckage,
several of the victims are supposed to
be buried beneath the debris.
A heavy wet nov which was falling
at the time prevented the wreck from
catching fire, and undoubtedly held the
death list down to the figures given.
Every effort is being made by the divi-
sion forces, aided by volunteers from
Livingston and Billings, to clear the
wreck, and so far as they are able to
prevent further loss of life.
The Tupelo journal., 1908-10-02
BROWN FIRED FROM CHANGE
Failed Stock Brokers Fell Into Trap
Laid for Lawson.

New lork.-The eXpelling of A. o.
Brown and Lewis G. Young, leading fac
tors III the dcfumet firm of A. O. Brown
q Co., from the New York Stock EX-
change, created a mild sensation today.
Their expulsion was anticipated by
those who are in touch with the plung-
ing operations of the defunct firm. This
is the first time in years that any mem
Der of the exchange has been expelled.
Many have been dropped from the list
and their seats ordered sold, but few in
the history of the exchange have been
asked to step down and out without
being permitted to establish some sort
of an excuse
According to an amazing story re-
counted this afternoon by Il member of
the exchange, f. H. Hartman and Will
liam G. Rockefeller set IA trap fer a big
bear trader. alleged to be Thomas w.
Lawson of Boston. But when the bic
interests behind the guns discovered tllat
they had made a mistake il identity.
they just allowed the Brown firm to 90
to the wall in the natural course of
events.
The Tupelo journal., 1908-10-02
HASKELL HAS RESIGNED.
Three-Hours' Conference at Demo
cratic Headquarters Decides.

Chicago.-Gov. Chas. n. Haskell at
midnight tonight resigned as treasurer
of the Democratic National Committee.
His resignation was announced by HIM
self three hours after his arrival in Chi
cago from Guthrie, Okla, and after he
had conferred with officials of the Demo
cratic national headquarters. In Civ
ing out his decision MIR. Haskell, in re-
Spouse to a question, declared he did not
desire to be responsible for any embar-
rassment which might result to the Dem
ocratic party by his retaining the office
of treasurer.
That his resignation is the result of
the charges made against him by VIM.
r. Hearst and President Roosevelt, Mr.
Haskell admitted. At the same time
he did not by his resignation intend to
admit that any of the charges were in
even the slightest Measure true.
The Tupelo journal., 1908-10-02
LAKE STEAMERS IN SOUTH
Profitable Employment for Them
When North Is Ice-Bound.

New Orleans, La.-Speaking On the in.
dustrial expansion of the South at the
New Orleans Home Manufacturers Ex.
position today, Gov. i. +. Noel, of Mis-.
sissippi, predicted that with the compile.
ton of the lakes-to-the-gulf deep water,
way, lake freighters which now lie ice.
bound during the winter will, to a large
extent, find profitable trade in the south.
ern portion of the big waterway.
Gov. Noel noted the fact that the man.
ufacturers' exposition is the first of its
kind ever held in New Orleans, as indi
eating that manufacturing is increasing
in the South. He said that Southern
States would find it to their interest tC
cooperate in developing industrial cen,
tiers.
Gov. Noel said that the danger of vel.
low fever, one of the great set-backs tc
this section of the South in the past, is
now over.
The Tupelo journal., 1908-10-02
NIGHT RIDERS IN ARKANSAS
Cotton Gins Close Down and Pick
ing Stopped.

Paragould. Ark.-There is no buying
or selling of cotton in this county, as
the result of recent agitation due to
the alleged appearance of night riders in
the cotton-raising communities of Mis-
sissippi.
Cotton gins have closed down and
picking has stopped. Local merchants
are transacting business on a cash basis
as the result.
A band of men appeared at Bethel,
four miles south of Paragould, last
night. They stopped Rev. Ovid Will
coxson and demanded his occupation and
residence. The appearance of the band
created considerable excitement in the
community and the situation is consid-
cred Il serious one.
The agitation locally was started re-
Gently when a local Farmers Union
adopted resolutions requesting cotton
dealers to suspend business for a while
at least, as Il precautionary measure
against the probability of night riders in
this section of the country.
The Tupelo journal., 1908-10-02
NEGRO PUPILS CAUSE STRIKE
White Children Object to Negro As
sociates in Topeka Schools.

Topeka, Kans.-Because they had to
go to school with negro children, siXety
white pupils of the seventh and eighth
grades of the Lincoln school here walked
out on strike this afternoon. Under
the board Of education's rules negroes
and whites are segregated in the first
Sin grades of the common schools, but
from the seventh grade upward in all
public schools here negro and white pu-
pills are together.
Some negroes had been transferred to
the eighth grade, where there had never
been any negroes, The white pupils de-
manded the removal of the negroes to
another room, and at noon, their de
mand being ignored, marched out in a
body. Throughout the remaining school
hours the sixty strikers paraded in front
of the school, shouting, Down with the
niggers," NO niger school for u.s."
The Tupelo journal., 1908-10-02
RAILROADS BEGIN DEFENSE
Tables Showing Justification for In
crease in Rates.

Atlanta, Ga.-Decreased volume OF
business without commensurate decrease
in operating expenses is the basis of the
defense which the railroads of the
Southeast are making for the recent
advance in freight rates now being in
vestigatcd by the Interstate Commerce
Commission. in session here.
f. H. Smith, vice-president and traffic
manager of the Nashville, Chattanooga
4 st. Louis Railway, was on the stand
during the greater part of the day. as
the the first witness for the roads. He
presented statistics, which he explained
at length, to bear out his contention.
He claimed that while business depres,
sion had seriously affected the revenues
of the railroads, they had been unable
to reduce expenses to any great extent.
The Tupelo journal., 1908-10-02
union To HOLD COTTON
NATIONAL COTTON COMMITTEE
ASKS COOPERATION.
Suggests That Investors Buy Now
at Low Prices and Withhold
From the Market.

Memphis, Tenn.-Comes the Farmers
Union and officially states that not a
bale of cotton should be sold below 12h
cents. In a recent congress in Fort
Worth a secret minimum price was fixed,
and no hint of this price has been given
out, but a communication issued today
from the union office in this city by G.
r.. Hightower, secretary of the national
cotton committee, indicates that q price
of 1919 cents will be satisfactory.
In order to secure this price, the union,
through this call, asks every Southern
business interest to cooperate with the
established agencies of the union in with
holding cotton from the market. Two
suggestions are m&de-one for a general
conference of all interests hat desire
higher raw cotton prices. while the other
is that individuals and business corpo-
~rations invest in a few bales at present
low prices and put this aside as a dead
account, taking the cotton off the mar,
ket indefinitely and selling only after
sufficient advance has come to assure a
profit IN the investment.
The proclamation in part reads:
rs there any good reason why the
cotton producer should sell his product
today for 3 cents per pound less than
he did three months ago? We do not
think there is. We are further removed
from the pam" low than we were then.
Business como ious have improved in all
lines. The on.. for cotton goods has
increased wonderfully during that pc.
riod. While cotton is cheap to sell, the
unusual has happened in the price Of
grain and meat. Corn has maintained
its high level up to harvest time and is
now selling for 81 per bushel. Wheat
is worth 81, and -four has advanced Is
cents per barrel this week. Meat is sell.
ing at midsummer prices. So it is with
almost everything except cotton. There
Is no legitimate cause for this lethargy
and consequent loss of many millions
to the South.
South Carolina and Georgia will pro.
duce much less cotton than last year.
Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana and Ar,
kansas are short, and Oklahoma crops
are late and very much less than one
year ago. Texas alone shows a small
increase, but her gains cannot make uE
the loss in other States.
In our opinion, this is the opportunity
of the South to assert herself and bring
general prosperity to her citizens. This
is a time when concert of action will
count for much. Cotton today should
be selling for 121a cents, if natural con.
ditions had anything to do with its
price. 1t is now selling for less because
growers are pessimistic about the price
and sell too freely. The slow market
ing of the crop will certainly advance
the price"