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Evening star., 1909-02-14
BELIEF OF RAILWAY MEN.
Declared That They Favor Govern
mental Control.

NEW YORK, February 13.-Nice Presi
dent C. S. Sims of the Delaware and Hud-
son railroad. speaking at the annual din
ner of the Rensselaer, County Society
held here tonight at the Waldorf Astoria
declared that 1t Was now the general
opinion among railway managers that
government control OF steam railroads
WAS an absolute necessity. This con-
troll. however. Mr.. Sims explained was
not 20 apply to the minor details of rail-
loading. The charge that the railroads
Of the country were heavily overcapital-
lied was no longer founded on fact. Mr..
Sims declared. Whereas the railroads OF
The world. he said. We're capitalized at
SS1.O 900 a mile. those of the United States
were capitalized at only $4,000 d mile.
Evening star., 1909-02-14
PLAN OVATION FOR DIAZ.
Proposed Demonstration Favoring g
His Realization TO the Presidency.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
MEXICO CITY, February 13.-The pop
ular demonstration that is to be given
in this city April In favor OF the re-
election of President Diaz promises to bs
the greatest and most spectacular affair
OF its kind ever held In Mexico. The COM
mittee in charge of the arrangement 3
will send an invitation to every ranch
owner in the country to send ten picked
men fully mounted and arrayed in charro
costume. Each mine. manufacturing es-
tablishment, plantation and all other lines
of industry will contribute delegations OF
marching clubs
1t Is expected that at least 5000 men
will be in the parade that will march
over the principal streets of this city and
to the national palace, where President
Diaz will be rendered rousing ovation.
Evening star., 1909-02-14
STILL OPPOSES LOCK CANAL.
Noted French Engineer Foresees Dis.
aster in the Gatun Dam.

NEW YORK, February 13.-"The con-
str1Iction of the Gatun dam. now being
built by the United States government
on the Panama canal, will result in the
greatest disaster of any public work,
probably, that has ever been built"
This was the statement made today by
p. Bunau-Earilla, the French engineer,
who arrived here on the French line
steamer La Provence from Havre. Mr..
Bmau-Varilla has frequently asserted
that the construction of a lock canal
was entirely inpracticable. He said to-
day that he had not changed his views
in this respect. He said he had accepted
the invitation of the Boston Commercial
Club TO address that body on the advan-
tageS of a Sea-leVel canal.
Evening star., 1909-02-14
FUGITIVE DEsERTER CAUGHT.
Theft Charge Will Extradite Pris.
oner From Minnesota.

WINNEPIG. Man, February 13.-Act.
ing upon information received from Fort
Smelling, Mimi, Detective Greene of the
city police department. today arrested
Fred Adams charged with desertion He
was arranged in police court and remand
ed to Jail. Adams was last quartered at
Fort Monroe. Va. and escaped from
there in his uniform. getting as far as
Minneap polls, before he was recognized
He was confined In the prison at Fort
Spelling TO await court-martial and again
escaped.
According to law prisoner cannot be
extradited on a. charge of desertion, but
he can be sent back on a charge of steal
ing equipment from the United States
army
Evening star., 1909-02-14
PRosPEcToRs SHOT TO DEATH.
Tragic End Of Go1d-Seekers in Brit
ish Columbia,

EDMONTON. Alberta. February 13.-
Charles Mcleod. the northern prospector,
has arrived here with a tragic story of
how his brothers. Frank and Will, were
shot to death after finding q valuable
gold mine near Nahanni river, B. C.
Robert Weer. the mining engineer who
accompanied them to Edmonton. has dis
appeared The brothers left records of
the find OF the mine on trees, but the
words were obliterated by the murderer.
who felled the trees. The bodies were
terribly hacked. The mounted police
are investigating the crime. The father
Of the dead men holds prominent posi-
ton in the Hudson Bay Company staff
of officials
Evening star., 1909-02-14
Proposed Protection for Elk.

CHEYENNE. Wyo.. February 13.-Pro-
lection for elk in the shape OF
a winter refuge Is the proposal contained
in a memorial to Congress asking that
a tract of, land south Of Yellowstone Park
be set aside. The suggestion comes from
the Wyoming legislature and is the out
come of reports that 10000 elk are starv-
ing in the mountains OF western Wyoming
Communications have been received from
lodges of the Benevolent and Protective
Order of Elks all over the country ask
ing that the government take steps to
protect the great elk herd.
Evening star., 1909-02-14
seismographs to Prevent Disasters.

Seismographs to Prevent Disasters.
ST PETERSBURG. January so (Satur-
day,.-A report has been presented to the
Russian meteorological congress in ses-
sion here on the use OF seismographs to
prevent mine disasters. These are usu-
ally preceded for several days by slight
movement of the strata by which explo-
sive gases are released or which Indie tie
coming earth Slides The installation of
seismographs would give ample warning
OF disasters arising from these two
causes
Evening star., 1909-02-14
GOES TO GLASGOW FOR TRIAL.
Prisoner Arrested Here for Woman's
Murder in Scotland.

NEW YORK. February 13.-In the Gus
tody Of detectives from Scotland. Otto
Sands, alias Slater. sailed today for
Europe on the steamship Columbia. He
will be taken to Glasgow to stand trial,
charged with the murder OF Miss Marion
Gilchrist in that city December q last.
Sands or Slater was arrested on his ar
rival here on January at the request OF
the British authorities. Slater was given
hearing, toward the close of which he
waived further examination and said he
would go back to Glasgow and stand trial.
Evening star., 1909-02-14
JOHN T. MORGAN SENTENCED.
Forger and Embezzler Gets Sixteen
Years in Pen and $40. 900 Fine.

PITTSBURG, Pa, February 13-John
T. Morgan, former tax collector Of Nc
Kees Rocks. a suburb of this city, who
last week pleaded guilty to charges OF
forgery and sixteen different indictments
of embezzlement. was sentenced today to
serve sixteen years in the Western peni-
tentiary and pay fine Of $4,000 by
Judge John D. Shafer.
Before Morgan was sentenced he told
the court that he had been robbed of
1000 on a street in New York city near
the Haymarket but that he had never
reported the robbery to the police
Evening star., 1909-02-14
RUSS CENSORSHIP EXTENDED.
Phonograph Records to Be Examined
in Future Before Sale.

ST. PETERSBURG. Saturday, January
30-The censorship in Russia has been
extended to phonograph records. which
hereafter must be submitted for examina-
tion before being placed on sale.
The step was caused by the Importation
of large number of records bearing the
prohibited Russian revolutionary funeral
hymn and other seditious songs and
speeches, many being prepared In Amer
Evening star., 1909-02-14
DAKOTA PEN CHARGES.
Bismarck Legislative Committee to
Push Rigid Examination.

BISMARk. N. D.. February 13.-The
legislative committee appointed to in
vestigate the penitentiary has already
learned enough to Justify a rigid examina-
ton
Some OF the prisoners stated that much
cruelty was practiced during the term Of
Warden Bouches. Prisoners have told the
committee OF being subjected to stretch
ing" and suspension by the wrists One
said he had been left this way for an
hour and half. Developments of a sem
sational nature are promised
Evening star., 1909-02-14

lea. These. the police discovered, were
being played generally in the lower-class
beer and tea halls. most of which haNs
instruments for the entert ainment OF their
patrons.
Evening star., 1909-02-14
Must Show Good Faith.

The Waters Pierce Company must make
showing of its attempts to comply with
the Missouri custer decree Monday. Orig
inally the decree gave the company until
January Is in which to comply with the
court order. On the assertion of the
company at that time that 1t had been
unable to secure the release Of its stock
from the Standard Oil Company, the
time was extended one month.
1t is now said that the same plea will
be brought forward in asking for a
further extension, and the fact that the
annual meeting of the stockholders OF
the company is to be held Tuesday prob
ably will be made ground for additional
argument in this regard.
Evening star., 1909-02-14
|Waters-Pierce Oil Company
Seeks More Time.
MUST SHOW GOOD FAITH
Not Party to Recent Proposition to
Supreme Court.
FORECAST MADE UN0FFICIALLY
Court May Be Asked to Declare
Holding Of Company's Stock by
Standard Illegal.

ST. LOUIS. Mo-. February 13.-That the
Waters Pierce Oil Compan OF Missouri
will ask the supreme court OF this state
Monday for further stay Of execution
on that portion of the recent decree
against It requiring 1t to loose itself from
the domination of the Standard Oil Com
pany OF New jersey, was the intimation
emanating from the offices of the local
concern today. The fine Of $4,000, which
was assessed against the Waters-Pierce
Company, probably will not be contested
the attorneys for the corporation saying
ton of the penalty.
Not Party to Recent Offer.
The Waters-Pierce Company did not
join with the Standard Oil Company OF
Indiana and the Republic Oil Company Of
Ohio in the proposition which was made
to the supreme court recently by which
the state would gain a direct voice in the
management of these corpor ations inter
ests in Missouri. Part OF that was thai
90 per cent OF the Waters Pierce stock
held by the Standard company should be
placed in the hands Of trustees to be ap-
pointed by the state and companies Joint
ly. The Waters Pierce management as
sert, this would result In preventing the
Missouri corporation from severfng 1tsell
from the foreign companies control, and
they say, would only strengthen the po'
sition of the Standard in the state.
1t is predicted, unofficially. that tht
Waters-Pierce Company will ask the
court to declare the holding OF Its stoci
by the Standard interests illegal on the
ground that such holding contravenes the
principle laid down by the Supreme Cour1
of the United States in the Northern
Securities case.
Pierce Company in the Missouri case
was intimated after conferences toda,
beween II. Clay Pierce, head Of the com
pany, and its attorneys. Mr.. Pierce ar
rived here this morning and spent tht
day with the lawyers. He denied him
self to interviewers
The morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1899-1930, 1909-03-19
WHO'S SAFE IN NEW YORK;

NEW YORK. March 1S-Miss
Nellie wilkins. 81 years old lies in a
critical condition at Bellevue Hospi-
tai today after having been stabbed
seven times last night BY a man sup
posed to be an Italian, who escaped.
Miss Wilkins was returning home
rather late after visiting friend who
is i'll, when she was accosted BY the
man in Second Avenue near 10th.
Street. She repulsed his advances
and the man whipped out knife and
made several plunges at her. In the
struggle which followed she was
stabbed on the head, riht cheek, on
the side of her neck, under her chin.
in the left arm and on the left hand.
At the hospital she was too week to
give good description Of her assail-
ant. Her recovery is doubtful.
The morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1899-1930, 1909-03-19
A SUBWAY CASE
Brooklyn Child Injured On The
Great Transit System.

NEW YORK, March is.-On the
strength Of an affidavit presented by
0 physician the Supreme Court In
Brooklyn has advanced tho trial
the case Of Mary Begley, IS years old
against the marlborough Rapid
Transit Company. II will be held on
the first Monday In April and will
not have 10 wait two years as would
have been the case had the calender
been followed The child was In
Iured In the subway on April 4 last
and Il Is alleged that with the exeep-
tion Of II days she was unconscious
until February IS Of this year.
DR.. W. D. Moseiey presented the
affidavit saying that the child might
at any time relapse into another pro-
traeted stupor or become insane and
for this reason the court agreed to
advance the case. The girl 10 a
daughter Of Mrs. Catherine ]. Bagley
Of Brooklyn. The injuries she sus-
tanned were considered trivial at FIRST.
and were caused by guard hurried
ly closing door OF a subway car.
The morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1899-1930, 1909-03-19
Portland and Puget Sound Capt.
ialists Acquire Controlling IN
terest ie Companies
NO MERGER CONTEMPLATED
Market Value Of Stock Secured is
Stated to be Over Half a Million
Dollars--Los Angeles Capitalists
Heretofore Held Largest Interest.

PORTLAND, March l8-A syn
dicate composed Of prominent Port
land and Seattle bankers and capital
lists have purchased between 40 and
so per cent OF the stock Of the Home
Telephone Company Of Portland,
Home Telephone Company Of Puget
Sound and the Northwestern Long
Distance Telephone & Telegraph
Company. The stock secured is that
which has hitherto been held by the
National Securities Company Of Los
Angeles and in effect is controil-
ing interest Of these companies. The
members of the syndicate declare
that the stock is not being purchased
in the interest of any other company
nor that there is any intention to
merge companies in which the syn
dicate has secured stock The Home
Company Of Portland operates the
automatic telephone system in oppo-
sition to the Pacific Telephone &
Telegraph Company in Portland and
as the Home Company Of Puget
Sound does in Tacoma and Belling-
ham. The Northwestern Long Dist
ance Telephone & Telegraph Com
pany operates long distance system
and has system in opposition to the
Pacific Telephone & Telegraph Com
pany, and close afiliation and work
ing arrangements with practically all
the independent long distance and To-
cal companies west Of the Cascade
Mountains. The market value Of the
stock secured is stated to be about
$s500O0.
The morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1899-1930, 1909-03-19
IDAHO SMELLING PLANT
N BAD SHAPE
FORMER MANAGER WRECKS
FINE PROPERTY AND IN
HANDS OF RECEIVER.

SPOKANE, March Is. = Startling
facts as to remarkable financial me-
thods are being brought out follow
ing the appointment Of receiver for
the Panhandle Smelling Company,
owning an independent plant at Sand
point, Idaho. When J. Herbert An
derson Of Chicago and Winnipeg, Sc
cured control of the company, two
years ago, according to the Evening
Chronicle, the corporation owned a
smelling plant with a capacity of l25
tons day, line of small steamers,
1000 acres Of land, a townsite, water
power now worth $2s0000, mining
interests of unknown value and 2,-
100000 shares Of stock in the treas
ury. Its assets could be estimated at
$l,500000; its debts were only $780,
coo. OF the 100000 shares of stock
then outstanding, hundreds of thou
sands had been sold to farmers and
capitalists in Minnesota, Iowa, Ohio,
Wisconsin and the Dakotas at prices
ranging up to 40c to 45c share.
Today the plant is in a receivers
hands, The debts total nearly $780,
OOO The treasury stock has van
ished. The total visible assets are
estimated in the creditors suit as
worth $2s0,000,
Anderson, who is being sued by 7,
L. Greenough, the millionaire mine
owner, for alleged fraudulent over
issue of $4,000 shares Of stock, is
to be in New York. His
family, with two automobiles, is said
to be in California.
The morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1899-1930, 1909-03-19
MoDJEsKA rs ILL

LOS ANGELES, March lSe-Ma-
dame Helena Modjeska, the famous
Polish American actress is seriously
i'll at her home on Bay Island near
Newport, Orange County. Madame
Modjeska's husband, Count Bozenta,
is in constant attendance at his wifes
bedside.
The veteran actress has been suf-
fering for long time from chronic
kidney trouble but her ailment has
been newly complicated by an effec-
ton Of the heart and lungs.
Madame Modjeska was born near
icracow, Poland in 1874 and was
married to the Count Charles Bon
zenta chlapowski in 1868. She made
her first public appearance in Poland
in 1861.
The morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1899-1930, 1909-03-19

PORTLAND, March IS-"The re-
duction Of tariff on lumber, as pro-
posed BY the Payne bill, viii only
hasten. the destruction Of our Ameri-
can forests, will only intensity the
competitive struggle, for the sole
reason that you can't have cheap
lumber and save the trees" This is
the terse statement Of the effect Of
the reduction from s. to 81 on lumber
as George NJ. Cornwall. editor Of the
Timberman, Of this city, sees il.
Another far-reaching effect directly
touching the purses Of the consumer
was the advance Of S cents pound
on tea, in Portland, this morning.
This action was taken by the jobbers
as the rersult Of the probable imposi-
ton Of the Scent tariff on this com
modify The so per cent ad valorem
tax on the spices, it is definitely
stated by the trade. will fall upon the
consumer, and viii not be absorbed
BY either the producing countries or
by the jobbers and retailers.
The morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1899-1930, 1909-03-19
TAFT SPEAKS At. CLEVE-
LAND anniversary
PAYS A GLOWING TRIBUTE TO
HIS DEMOCRATIC PREDE-
cEssoR IN OFFICE.

NEW YORK, March ls.-"The
Payne tariff bill Is unQuestionable
revision downward" said President
Taft to some Of his callers today on
the train during his trip from Wash
ington to New York The President
came 10 New York 10 eulogize in his
first public address as President a
democratic predecessor in Office which
he now glls, the late Grover Cleveland
President Taft praised Cleveland as
man who was as completely American
in all his character as Lincoln. The
President spoke at the Cleveland an
niversary exercises in Carnegie Hall
and was an interested listener to the
tributes to Cleveland tonight when the
ceremonies we're continued in the
auditorium Of the college Of the City
OF New York, Taft travelled in the
Constitution Car" in which he did
10000 miles Of campaigning last fall
and from which he made made than
400 speeches. The trip from the capi-
tai was without incident, except the
visit Of Judge Gray Of Delaware who
boarded the train at Wilmington and
came to New York to speak at the
Cleveland meeting tonight. Judge
Gray spent most of the trip in the
Presidents car.
Arriving at Jersey City the Presi'
dental party was greeted by great
thrOng. Heads were barred as the
President passed along the station
platform. He did not follow Roose-
vclts precedent of shaking hands
with the grimy engineer. II would
have been practically impossible for
him to do so even II he had desired
for a swarm Of policemen had been
thrown around him as soon as he
alighted. The President goes to New
Haven tomorrow to attend a meet
ing Of the Yale corporation. Return
ING to New York Taft viii be the
guest Of honor at the Yale alumni
dinner attended by 1900 graduates.
The morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1899-1930, 1909-03-19
MULTNOMAH WINS N
WRESTLING MATCH
TAKE FIVE OUT OF THE SIX
MATCHES FROM WASHING
TON STATE COLLEGE.

PORTLAND, March 18-Wrest-
lers Of the Multnomah Amateur
Athletic Club tonight won FIVE out Of
six matches with wrestlers Of the
Washington State College Of Pull
man, Wash. In l2s-pound class Buz
Hughes, M. A. A. c. won two out Of
three falls from c. NJ. Kruchek, w.
S, c.; 13S-pound class: Nelson Nose,
NJ. "A. A. c. defeated w. Ferguson
in two straight falls; in l4s-pound
class H. Tuttle, NJ. A. A. c. defeated
F. H. Jenne in two straight falls; in
1s8-pound class Edgar Frank, NJ. A.
A. c., weighing l2s pounds, defeated
Ned Cheeley two out of three, the
first bout being a draw; in l7s-pound
class F. P. Calkins, w. S. C.. obtain
ed the decision over William King,
the first two bouts resulted in a draw
and Calkins won the third match; in
the 2O0-pound class Ed Johnson, M.
"A. A. c., won two out Of three falls
from F. H. Hunter,
This is the first year that colleges
in the northwest have taken up
wrestling. The w. S. c. wrestlers
will meet the wrestlers of the Oregon
Agricultural College at Corvallis Sat
urday night.
The morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1899-1930, 1909-03-19
TIP FOR ASTORIA COPS

SAN FRANCISCO, March 49,
While he swung at the end Of rope
by which he had let himself through
skylight, Policeman Martin Fogarty
OF this city succeeded in arresting a
men who we're violating the gambling
ordinance. With a number of fell
low patrolmen Fogarty had gone to
a house on Geary Street, where
number of Greeks were reported to
be engaged in a poker game. While
his companions guarded the door he
let himself through the skylight and
arrested the men without any trouble,
The morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1899-1930, 1909-03-19
Want Entire Duty Taken OFT Of
Lumber and Put on The
Free List
HEAVY BLOW TO PACIFICCOAsT
A Number Of Democrats VIII Join
With Some Of the Republicans IN
an Effort to Keep the Duty on
Lumber Where It IS Now.

WASHINGTON. D. c, March is.
There is a strong demand from
Congressmen from the Middle West
for the removal Of all duty on lum-
Der and the indications now are that
the Republicans before they vote on
the tariff bill VIII caucus to determine
upon course Of action. Advocates
of free lumber have already confer
red with Speaker Cannon and the
House leaders, and are encouraged
to believe they may force lumber on
free list. Caucuses are urged as a
means Of averting further insurging
in the Republican ranks. Pacific Coast
members are far from pleased with
the prospect, and begin to believe
they will be lucky to hold the duty
at 81.
The morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1899-1930, 1909-03-19
Each Member Of Congress VIII
EndeaVOr 10 Protect His
Own Locality
OFFER MANY AMENDMENTS
Price Of Tea Takes a Jump Of Five
Cents Per Pound in Portland ow-
ing to the New Tariff Schedule
Which Raises Duty on that Product

WASHINGTON, d. C., March 10,
The FIRST piece Of legislation to be
enacted BY the house was the bill
providing for the taking Of the 18th
census which was passed. The meas
ure gives to the civil service commits
sion jurisdiction over the appoint
ments and provides for the printing
OF the reports by the government
printing Office. As enacted at the
last session, the bill stripped the civil
service commission OF such authority
and there was a provision allowing
some Of the printing TO be done by
private firms, President Roosevelt
vetoed the bill. The tariff bill was
officially referred to the house from
the committee on ways and means
and Is now ready for consideration.
That party lines viii be eliminated
during the consideration in the house
Of the Payne tariff bill was Indicated
by the action Of Representative
Broussard Of Louisiana in withdraw
ing today from meeting Of the
committee members, because he diff
fered from their views on the tariff.
With few exceptions each mem
Der will fight for the in
terests Of his home district. There
is little prospect Of lengthy general
debate and consideration OF the bill
under the FIVE minute rule for amend
ment will be proceeded with as soon
as possible, probably by the end of
this week. Unless the gag rule for
the prevention of an unlimited amend
ment under the five-minute rule is
brought in the minority members of
the ways and means committee will
not report separate bill. Their re-
port will be brought in by Minority
Leader Clark and viii severely criti-
cize the wool schedule. Probably
numerous amendments will be Offer
ed and a heated discussion is an
ticipated.
A number Of Democrats will join
with some Of the Republicans in an
effort to keep the duty assessed in
the Dingley law upon lumber The
fight for free lumber will be headed
by Champ Clark He has frequently
expressed himself in bitter language
regarding the lumber situation in this
country.
The Payne tariff bill continues, the
present duty of one and half cents
per pound on lead, lead dross, lead
bullion, base bullion, pig lead, bar
lead, refuse lead, run into blocks and
bars, old scrap lead lead ore and all
lead producing ores, 1t had been
reduced by the committee to one
cent a pound but at the last minute
the old rate was restored,