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East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1908-09-05
Finally Confesses.

But Adams bluff did him no good
with Price, and soon afterward he
confessed and declared he is willing
to begin sentence as soon as possible
According to his check book he has
cashed total of s217 worth of bad
checks here.
Adams young sweetheart, a pretty
young girl in a big sailor hat, visited
him in the detention cell of the mu-
nicipal court this morning, and after
a private conversation there sat with
him in the courtroom while he was
undergoing the formality of waving
examination and being held to ap-
pear before the grand jury under ST.
bonds. They were to have gone to
San Francisco tomorrow, and there
they were to be married Both the
girl and Adams declare marriage was
their intention.
With tears streaming from her eyes
the girl who lost her fiance at the
last moment left the court. She was
still crying when she turned into the
crowd on Third street.
Adams, otherwise known as Ferree
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1908-09-05
CHECK ARTIST
IS CAPTURED
EDWARD j. ADAMS Is
ARRESTED IN PORTLAND
Operated All Over the Pacific North
west and F1eoced Many People
Was About to Get Married and Set
tie Down.

Portland, Sept. 5.-Two days before
he had planned to quit his criminal
career in Portland, so to San Fran
cisco and marry the young girl with
whom he fell in love almost as soon
as he reached this city. Edward G..
Adams. man OF many aliases, was
arrested last night and is now in the
county Jail awaiting the ac tion of the
grand jury.
Adams mode of obtaining living
was simple-bluff, with a capital B.
When Detective John Price accosted
him at Fourth and Alder late yester-
day afternoon he pretended deep in
dlgnation. 81 am real estate brok-
er as you will see by this card. My
office is in the Concord building,
room %. Here are my bank refer
ences. think 1t is a wonder II 1
can't go about my business in this
city without being molested by an Of
ficer."
The Washington herald., 1908-05-24
CEMENT FROM VOLCANOES.
Japanese Organize Company TO Util-
iEe Ashes Thrown Up from Crater.

Japanese Organize Company to Util-
iEe Ashes Thrown Up from Crater.
The saving japanese who are forced
to play close game with life because Of
the narrowness Of their islands and the
tremendous yearly increase in the popu-
lstion, have learned 10 take cunning ad-
vantage OF every by-product OF nature.
They rake the sea beaches for seaweed
10 use askfertilizer and grub the noun
tains for twigs 10 burn into charcoal
Now they are turning the many and
troublesome volcanoes 10 good purpose by
manufacturing the volcanic ash into ce-
ment To them belongs the credit Of
discovering that the scOria that sweeps
down from volcanic vents and sears the
neighboring countryside may at least be
tolerated, II Il has 70 come, as an eco
nomic asset.
A japanese company organized 70 work
volcanic ash into cement has already paid
dividend Of 9 per cent for the first
half year on capital Of 10000 yen. and
II has more orders In sight than II can
Ill. The Mitsu Bishi and Kawasaki
dockyards. the two great privately
owned doclSyards Of the empire; the gov
eminent naval yards at Sasebo. and the
Wakamatsu Iron Foundry Company are
all being supplied with the rev ash ce-
ment
The government recently granted con-
tract for $1,000 bags OF the stuff, 10 be
used in the new harbor works at Kee-
lung. Quantities have already been ex-
ported TO North China, Formosa. and
Korea
The Washington herald., 1908-05-24
BUILDING HAS NO WINDOWS.
Structure I'm st. Louis Constructed
with Absolutely Solid Walls.

Prom the Engineering Record.
A building without windows has been
erected at st. Louis for publishing com
pany. 1t is built with solid walls, there
being only two openings. one for a door
in the front and one for another IN the
rear Of the building.
The structure, which Is known as the
National Daily Building. measures IS by
10 feet In plan. is IS feet high. and is
entirely lighted from a skylight in the
roof. the main part OF the building form
ing one large room. The building Is Of
REINFORCED concrete. finished exteriorly
with a two inch marble facing A cop
per cornice. 6 feet high. backed with n
parapet wall Of concrete, foot thick.
runs around the top Of the building and
forms striking contrast 10 the white
marble surface.
The roof is carried upon steel trusses.
Of 65-foot span, which rest on concrete
piers built into the walls. Curtain walls
are built between the piers, being single
and u inches thick in the lower part
and double, with an air space between
two 6-inch walls in the upper portion.
The air space is divided at horizontal
intervals OF feet by solid vertical cross
partitions Of concrete. A re-enforced
concrete Intel. s feet above the level of
the first floor. carries the double wall
between the piers and allows OF a re-
cess due to the greater thickness OF the
upper wall.
The basement Is lighted partly by area
windows. The contractors who erected
the structure anticipate a demand for
similar work.
The Washington herald., 1908-05-24
STANDARD CHANGES POLICY.
Report Confirmed that Octopus VIII
Part with Some of Its stock.


Part with Some of Its stock.
The rumor recently circulated that the
Standard on Company was about 20 in
crease its capitalization from 500 900
to $500 10000 giving each holder Of stock
five shares for one. is confirmed by people
In close touch with that corporation. says
the Economist. This action will naturally
call forth much talk about imitation. -
watering stock" &C
1t would seem proper. however. for a
corporation which has created al least
! $5O0.O0O.OO0 Of property. tangible and in
tangible. to express that value by these
high figures II is only regrettable that
| legitimate effort has been attended all
the way along. 10 all appearance by GER
tain policies which are In violation OF
good business morals and involve unjust
and cruel treatment Of others.
The fact that the company is earning
SsO,0OO.oO0 or more per year net would
seem in itself 10 Justify a capitalization
Of at least 1900. but there is a basis
for big capitalization in the immense
quantity Of property owned by the COM
pany. In addition 10 its refineries in
various parts Of the country. Il owns S.. 900
miles Of pipe lines. and has something IKE
100 vessels. not TO mention such small
craft as barges. while it has 1900 or
1900 cars.
But its great asset is its organization
and a control of the petroleum business
which amounts 70 a monopoly in This
country and is important elsewhere in the
world.
1t is not surprising that the price Of
this stock has advanced from the panic
figure Of 800 above 500. passing even the
large capitalization which is now pro-
posed. Seven years ago this stock reached
S42 Largely the motive for this Increase
In the capital stock is In the fact that
the shares are at so high price as to be
beyond the reach Of the ordinary trader.
At rs to l50 no doubt. the trading
in this stock viii be larger. In former
years 1t appears not to have been the
policy Of the company 10 encourage deal
ings in the stock. but latterly the Rookie
fellers have shown a disposition 10 align
| themselves more nearly with custom IN
the handling Of their business. There is
possibility, too. that this step may he
preliminary to sharing ownership with a
large number of people, or perhaps even
selling out altogether.
The Washington herald., 1908-05-24
BUYS TWO RAILROADS.
Virginia and Southwestern Acquires
Short Feeders I'm the Mountains.

According 10 a dispatch from Bristol,
Tenn. stockholders OF the Virginia and
Southwestern Railway Company have ap-
proved the issue Of 100000 of bonds and
the purchase OF the HolstOn River Rail
road and the Black Mountain Railway.
The Holston River line which is under
construction. will be forty miles long
from Moccasin Gap, Va. TO Persia. Tenn
This road is nearly graded. but consider
able trestling and bridging remains 10 be
done TO complete IT,
The Black Mountain line. a coal road
runs from Appalachia. Va. through Lee
County. about twenty-eight miles. Il
was recently completed Both these roads
have been recognized as affiliated with
the Virginia and Southwestern. but their
purchase will make them actually part Of
that property.
The Washington herald., 1908-05-24

Is TO finish line from africa to La Paz. a
distance Of 300 miles. Argentina is con-
structing a line, which Bolivia will finish
from the south, and. together with Brazil.
plans are under way 20 complete the rail-
way around the falls Of the Madeira
River.
These are not dreams; they are facts
The readers Of The Washington Herald
will soon see the day when comfortable
travel will be possible over the old Inca
trail. and a great gap Will then be filed
In the Pan-American railroad project
The Washington herald., 1908-05-24

While you think OF it. telephone your
Want Ad. to The Washington Herald, and
bin will be sent you at cent a word.
The Washington herald., 1908-05-24
CARRY HEAVY INSURANCE.
Residents OF state of Washington
Guard Life and Property.

Guard Life and Property.
Spokane. Wash. May Announcement
is made by Samuel H. Nichols. State
Insurance Commissioner. that the resi-
dents OF Washington have a money value
Of S225,543,944. from the standpoint Of the
legal reserve. mutual and fraternal in
surance organizations doing business in
this State.
Premiums paid during the year amount
ed to S4,SsS617. as against losses Of 81. .6Os.-
S57. The life insurance written during
the year aggre gated $SS. .s96, ,Ol5 the legal
reserve and assessment companies divid-
ing $ss. 100000. and the mutuals carrying
the balance.
The assessment companies carry risks
amounting to Sl24,S73,1S3. as against SS9.-
256,7Sl in reserve life concerns. The pro-
lection against fire aggregated S3Os. 1893. OBS.
which cost $6626,9s9. The losses for the
year were S1.4S9.075.
The Washington herald., 1908-05-24
standard OIL Let. I'm OutsIders.

While large increases have been re-
ported recently in the number OF per-
sons owning low-priced stocks, It has
been noted that companies whose stocks
are termed as 'high-priced'' have failed
to report increases in their shareholders.
II remained for the Standard Oil Com
pany 10 take the initiative and announce
that its stockholders have increased 369
from September A. 1907. to May lS. 1908.
The Washington herald., 1908-05-24
BUYS TIMBER TRACT.

Clarksburg, Concern Pays 100000
for 5000 Acres in West Virginia.
Clarksburg, w. Va, May 23.-The Hol-
lywood Lumber and Coal Company. Of
this city, with capital stock Of 500, ,OOO,
has purchased 5000 acres Of coal and tim
Der land on the Holly River in Webster
County. West Virginia The property is
said TO be one of the most valuable tracts
OF hardwood timber in Central West Vir-
ginia, and TO contain a seam OF coal
which is especially well adapted for
steam and coking purposes.
Among the incorporators OF the Holly
wood Lumber and Coal Company are
Messrs. c. 3. Outright. Of Clarksburg:
]. w. Nehiser. Hagerstown. Md; c. r.
Glenn, Belington, w Va, and associates.
The Washington herald., 1908-05-24
Stockholders Number 5a,415.

The Pennsylvania dividend to be paid
on May % will amount to Ss4S7. $50, and
will be paid to 59.4l5 stockholders. This
Is the largest dividend ever paid by the
Pennsylvania. and Il is made 10 the larg-
est number OF shareholders.
The Washington herald., 1908-05-24
MAKE MANY SALES
Moore & Hill Report Large
Business for the Week.
sum OF VALUES IS $2s2,5

Residences, Building Sites, and I'm.
improved Ground Included In the
List OF TranHactiOns-Park Road
Houses Go to Prominent Men In
the Government Service.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1908-12-09
Harvesting the Wheat.
BY AGNES c. LAUT.

But the wheat field is ripe and
harvest has come. 1t is the apoth-
costs of the year. Insects pests and
fungous pests, hail and frost, the yell
low field has escaped them all, and
billows sea of gold from skyline to
skyline beneath a midsummer sky
purpling to the haze of coming au-
tumn. A multitude of little voices
fife and trill from the wayside
grasses. The drowsy hum of the
reaper fills the air with a singing.
Out on the Pacific Coast wheat farms
they are cutting the wheat with huge
harvesters driven by engines drawn
by twenty or forty horses, machines
that cut a swath from sixteen to
forty feet wide, carry the wheat to a
moving thresher and throw 1t aside
on the field sacked and ready for
market where it lies in rainless
season till it can be drawn to the
train. A hundred acres day, these
huge machines will harvest and
thresh. Up in the Northwest on the
fields of No. 1 Hard, two and three
and four teams draw the self binders
that cut and bind the wheat to steam
threshers at work on the same field.
Down in Egypt they harvest by hand
sickle, five men to the acre, at cost
of a dollar; while in Russia and the
Argentina they are just beginning to
learn the use Of the American self
binders.
If you listen to the hum and the
click of the reaper, it grows on you
like magic. 1t is no longer mere
song OF the reaper. 1t is a chorus,
the full-throated chorus of the 1ar-
vest, the anthem of Joy from the
foodfelds of the world.-The Outing
Magazine.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1908-12-09
Getting Into Monte Carlo
BY ARTHUR HEWITT.

I came to Monte Carlo at night; 1t
was as though some palace of fairer
land had greeted me. Monacos giant
rocks rose heavenward, their lighted
headlands blending with a starry, yet
ink-black, sky. You leave the train
behind-there is an ascent of many
steps, marble steps, stairway of
splendor adorned with bronzes. At
the top, through garden of great
palms, you get the first glimpse of
the Casino, building of gaudy splen-
dor, somewhat subdued at night; and
your thoughts are of satisfaction and
pleasure. But musings like these
came to an abrupt end; the crowd
swept on the Casino, and the reality
was before me.
Now came the formality of obtain
ing from the authorities the admis-
sion card. experienced difficulty,
and it was only after proving my
identity and professional standing
that the green card was handed to
me.
No one is wanted in the Casino
who is a local resident; you have to
live far away and be an employer
rather than an employee; this rule
is made to lessen the chance of the
scandal often coincident with loss.
After taversing the splendid hall
ways the card was scrutinized. and
at last the doorkeepers. with pro-
found obeisance, ushered me into the
gambling salon.
You ask me for impressions-first
impressions. Well, Will tell you
the neurotic perfumes of this south
ern land, the noise as of raining gold,
the atmosphere or aura of the place,
unseen yet none the less forceful,
these impelled me to dive into my
pocket and test the goddess Fortune.
The Bohemian Magazine.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1908-12-09
A TEACHER BY ACCIDENT.

Stephen A. Douglas, who is now
chiefly remembered as the rival of
Abraham Lincoln, was, when the
rivals met in joint debate fifty years
ago, the centre of national interest
He was born in Vermont, but after
removing to New York, and before
finishing his academic course, he
started for the West, His money was
not sufficient for the needs of his
journey, and he reached Jacksonville,
ILL.,, with only fifty cents. At Win
chester, ten miles away, writes Prof.
Allen johnson IL his biography of
Douglas, school-teacher was need
ed, and hearing of this, the youth set
forth on foot for Winchester.
Accident, happily turned to his
profit, served to introduce him to the
townspeople of Winchester. The
morning after his arrival he found a
crowd in the public square, and
learned that an auction sale of per-
sonal effects was about to take place.
Every one was eager fer the sale to
begin. But clerk to keep record
of the sales and to draw the notes
was wanting.
The eye of the administrator fell
upon Douglass. "He then spelled his
name with the double s." Something
in the. youths appearance gave as
surance that he could cipher" The
impatient bystanders lowed that he
might do" so he was given a trial.
Douglas provel equal to the task,
and in two days was in possession of
five dollars for his work.
Through the goodwill of the viii
lage storekeeper, who alsc hailed
from Vermont, Douglas was present.
ed to several citizens who wished to
see a school opened in town, and he
soon had subscription list of forty
scholars, each of whom paid three
dollars for three months tuition. He
found lodgings under the roof of this
same friendly compatriot, the village
storekeeper, who gave him the use
of small room adjoining the store
room. Here Douglas spent his even-
ings, devoting some hours to his law
books and perhaps more to comfort
able chats with his host and talkative
neighbors round the stove.
For diversion he had the weekly
meetings of the Lyceum, which had
just been formed. He owed much to
this institution, for the debates and
discussions gave him chance to con-
vert the traditional leadership, which
fell to him as village schoolmaster,
into real leadership Of talent and
ready wit.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1908-12-09
ELEPHANT SAVES A BOY.

Clarence Macomber, of Worcester,
Mass, with 1000 other spectators,
watched the swimming antics of ele-
plants of w. w. Powers, of New
York, in Lake Quinsigamond. The
Macomber lad was standing on the
taffrail when he lost his balance and
tumbled into ninety feet of water.
Jennie, the largest of the ele-
plants, seemed to divine his danger
and as he was sinking for the third
time caught him by the arm with her
trunk and thrashed toward shore.
holding him up in the air, until a
policeman lifted him safely to the
float.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1908-12-09
Beech Lumber.

Beech lumber has the lowest mar
ket value of any American wood.
Lumbermen pay 81 thousand feet
as against s95 for oak. 1t is used
in the mines for ties, posts, stringers
and rails in buildings for studding,
rafters and joists, and should be used
at home, reserving more valuable
trees for important use and for sale.
--Arboriculture.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1908-12-09
Worlds Enormous Steam Power.

A German statistician mas calcu-
lated that the steam power in present
use on this globe Is equal to 120,-
000,000 horsepower. The coal need
ed to supply this steam for year
would make freight train extend
ing ten times around the earth.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1908-12-09
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NEW EXPERIENCE FOR A LION

NEW EAPERlENCE FOR A LION.
Capt Hennebert, of the Belgian
army, who has long been in the Afri-
can service, amused lecture audi
ence few weeks ago with a story
about young black woman he saw
last year on the shore of Lake Tan
ganyika, at one Of the missions of
the White Fathers.
Il must tell you first" said the
Captain to his audience. that at
those Catholic mission stations the
black women are invariably clad in
a cotton gown extending from their
shoulders to their feet. This young
woman went out into the forest to
pick up dead limbs for r1rewood.
"She tied up her bundle of fag-
gots, balanced it on her head and
was trudging home along the mar
row path when just as she turned a
sharp corner around an enormous
rock she saw large lion in the
path, and they were instantly face
to face in uncomfortably close quar-
ters.
"The girl stopped so short that her
bundle of wood fell to the ground
behind her. The sudden apparition
caused the lion to settle back almost
on his hind quarters. He was get
ting into the attitude for a spring,
but his surprise was so great that
very likely he did not know exactly
what he was going to do.
"Quick asa flash it occurred to the
woman that if she turned to flee she
would probably be killed at once;
and simultaneously she did the thing
that saved her life.
She gave one pull at cord and
her gown was loose and open from
top to bottom. She whipped it off
her shoulders, swung it through the
air, and the cloth came down like
mop over the face of the lion.
"This was an entirely new expert
ence for the animal. He was blind
ed, bafl1ed, dumbfounded. He
sprang out of the path, and fed like
rabbit.
4No Ohc hnONo JuoI hOW " nap
pened, but he carried the gown with
him. A bit of it may have twisted
around his neck or perhaps some of
it got into his mouth; at any rate,
the lion and the gown disappeared
together into the bush, and the young
woman was not anxious to hunt for
her garment.
Some astonishment was created
by the temperance of the girl in
the village with her bundle of wood
on her head, but in the attire of the
mothers of the previous generation,
which was nothing at all. Bits of
the gown were later picked off the
bushes for some distance from the
place of this curious meeting, and
the larger part of it was finally found
in one piece, but so full of holes that
1t was beyond patching.
"The girl was the village heroine,
very proud of her sudden fame and
quite certain also that she had no
desire whatever to meet another
lion. New York Sun.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1908-12-09
BOYS BATTLE WITH SNAKE.

Dan Russell, of Brownsville. and
Wren Tyus, residing west of town,
went fishing Thursday in Big Hatchie
River near Van Buren, nine miles
from here. AS they stepped into the
boat they noticed big moccasin
snake crossing the stream. They
agreed to follow and kill it.
They had hardly left the side Of
the river when the moccasin discov-
cred their design and came back,
meeting them in midstream, show
ing fight by his upright position.
Russell struck the snake with an oar
and sent him under the water. He
came up more vicious than ever. He
struck savagely at the boat and its
occupants and made dash for the
inside of the boat.
In their efforts to keep the snake
out the boys overturned the boat and
both were in the water with the
mad snake. They dived and came
up directly opposite the reptile. A
second dive was made and the snake
followed Tyus and bit him in the
thigh. He came up calling for help.
Russell managed to get him to the
bank and examined his wound,
which was fast swelling. He car
ried him to his home near by and
there medical assistance was rem
dered. He is very sick, but the at
tending physician thinks he will
recover. - Brownsville Correspond
ence Nashville American.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1908-12-09

The most active years of railway
construction in the United States
were in 1882, when .1,569 miles
were added to the operated railroads.
and in 1887. when the increase was
12,S67.