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Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1909-02-17
DIRTY OLD MUDERER
DIED OF OLD AGE

Denver. Colo, Feb. IA dis
patch from Iawton. Oklahoma. today
says that Geronimo, the famous ana
infamous Apache IndiaR chief, died
at Fort san this morning, Geronimo
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1909-02-17
Asylum Out of Quarantine

The state insane asylum, which
has been mnaer quarantine for some
time, on account of a case of diphtn-
eria developing. is again open TO Wis
itors, the quarantine being lifted to-
day.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1909-02-17
Nobcsiy Was to Blame.
CONTINUED from page -

Chicago, H., Feb. lT,--A eoro-
p,r's Jury today returned verdict
relieving frOm an blame an ofhcials
connected with the crib which burned
60 men TO death ON January go. last
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1909-02-17

Washington, Feb. IA favorable
report on the Canadian fisheries
treaty was ordered today by the SEN
ate committee.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1909-02-17

De Wits Little Early Risers, gen
tie. easy, pleasant. little liver pills
Sold by all druggists.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1909-02-17

In point OF geographical elevation
Madrid is the highest city in Europe.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1909-02-17

had been prisoner OF war for %
years.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1909-02-17
SENATE KILLS
COURT STREET
PAVING ITEM
SUMS SECURED FOR THE STATE FAIR
$4,000 SHORT OF THE ESTIMATES
MADE BY THt STATE BOARD OF
AGRICUL TURE

Tho senate is said TO have struck
cut the item for the paving OF Court
street along the state propery. This
Is another blow To prevent the prop
eT development OF the Capital City.
In the house proposition was
made to increase the state fair APP
preparation. n the Marion county del
egation would stand in for the build
irg of n branch asylum In Eastern
oregon. SO far the delegation has
not acted on The matter. The East
ern oregon asylum bill was defeated
but Speaker Macarthur changed his
vote. and gave notice OF reconsldera-
tlon. and late Tuesday night II was
called up and put through. carrying
100000. The Seattle fair bill for
$4,000 additional was also put
through the house. A bill 10 exempt
wealthy taxpayers was killed In the
honse II came recommended by
Assessor slgler. providing that all
property be listed az 100 cents on
tho dollar. and then assessed at so
per cent. Jerry Rusk showed II up
a. scheme 10 favor the man owns
lots OF lntagible property that he
could hide. while the farmer and lit
tie home owner would be caught for
full value,
State Fair Items.
The amounts secured for the fair
are as follows
Sewers aud toilets ....... $4,000
Live stock barns .,..,,.,, 5000
Extended water system ..., $500
bleachers. fire protection $500
Main entrance g., .,...., 5000
Total allowed ...,,..,. &25, 600
No grant was made for once build
ings. for railroad switch or addition
nj lands.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1909-02-17

The total guaranteed by the legis-
lature is $4,000 less than asked for.
In the allowance for sewer and
toilets the original estimate was re-
duced $4,000 by the ways and means
committee, leaving the sum of s1O,-
COO available for sewer purposes.
~ shown by the civil engineers re-
port to the city of Salem, $4,000 will
be required TO construct the main
sewer into the premises, not taking
Lito consideration the laying OF $500
feet OF six-lnch connecting sewer
age, together with two toilet build
lngs that will cost S250O each to
erect. Therefore, the other allow
aroes will have to- be used 10 COM
picte the sewer plan. and set aside
other needed improvements, as noted
In the list for betterments.
The water system being inadequate
To supply the present demands is
not included In the contemplated
sewer system, and will require an
abundance o; water.
The fair grounds are without fire
protection OF any kind.
The State Board OF Agriculture
has asked for an additional hppro-
priation OF $4,000 for premium pur-
poses by amending the present law
appropriating $4,000 annually. The
following shows the increased growth
annually for three years OF the de-
mands from exhibitors. as follows;
The appropriation was exceeded
during the fair ag follows.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1909-02-17

Total allowed .,.,,..... S25 600
No grant was made for once build
ings, for railroad switch or addition
nj lands.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1909-02-17
The Path to Kitchen
Comfort

Mr. HuSband-
If this was an appliance for your office you would
snap it up in two minutes, So would any other man,
Most men are conSderae also of their wives but few
of them ever figured out the mileage of a woman'S
Kitchen journey,
Suppose her kitchen is average size, She makes
20 trips to her pantry
trips 10 her cellar
80 trips to her table ~
-. 20 trips to her sink s.~sse
40 trips to her stove
In preparing meal an cleaning up after it. That
figures up to over mile Of steps each meal, Think
Of that half hour or more wasted in actual walk
ing at each meal,
A toosier Cabinet grouping every kitchen conyen-
enCe in the space Of the atbe actually saves almost
two hours Of walking time every day. That is why
most men will buy their wives HooSier Cabinet
Has your wife one2
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1909-03-25
TWenty=one
Yearly
Subscriptions

Secured by any contestant in any of
the districts will entitle her to a free
und-trip ticket to the Exposition in
Seattle, TO a free admission card for one
week to the grounds and to all other
such courtesies among the concessions
as it will be possible to obtain and for
which the management of these papers
nows has the assurance of the EXPOSE
ton officials, every endeavor will be
made to secure. No board or rooms
will be provided by the Contest
Management but help to get the success
full ones located for the time they desire
to remain, will be extended to all sue
cessful contestants. The contestant
receiving the highest number of votes
in each district will be given round
trip tour of Alaska on regular line boats
leaving Seattle during the summer
this in addition to the Exposition trip,
but both to be made at the same time.)
The Alaska trip from Seattle will be of
about two weeks duration, hundreds Of
points of interest will be viewed and
meals and berths will be furnished each
contestant. In each district the second
highest will be allowed $500 expense
money and the third highest $500.
Special Endeavor awards will be made
uring the contest.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-08-05
TELEGRAPH NEWS IN BRIEF

nation, is said by physicians to nave
had much to do with the death of the
wife.
Dangerous Fire Checked-A
fire started by the dropping of a match
into a can of coal oil by N. Fl. Baugh-
man in his paint store on Stuart street
yesterday threatened for a short time
the destruction of numerous buildings
on the water front in San Francisco,
but the flames were eXtinguished be-
fore much damage was done Baugh-
man was badly burned by the eXplo-
sion of the oil, as also was r. j. Scully,
a clerk, who went to his aid.
Assumes Duties at Capital
First Lieutenant Ulysses S. Grant III,
corps of engineers, grandson of Presl-
dent Grant, has reported at the war
department, Washington, and formally
assumed his new duties as superintend-
ent of the state, war and navy build
ing. The detail as superintendent of
the largest building in the world Is
made by the joint action of the secre-
taries of state, war and navy, and was
given to Lieutenant Grant on the rec
ommendation of General Marshall,
chief of engineers. Lieutenant Grant
formerly served as an aide to President
Roosevelt, and he may be assigned to
similar duty with President Taft this
winter in connection with his other
duties. Lieutenant Grants wife is the
daughter of Senator Root.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-08-05
FORMOSA TO LEAD AS A
SUGAR-PR0DUCING LAND
Five New Mills Erected Last Year on
Island Owned by Japan and
Five More Going UP

VICTORIA, B. c., Aug. 4.-Paul Bell
an engineer of the Honolulu iron
works, who returned on the Tango
Maru today from Formosa, where he
has been engaged in establishing sugar
mills for the Japanese sugar campany
states that Formosa will, by next year
be the greatest sugar producing coun-
try in the world. Five new mills We're
erected this year and five more are to
be built next summer, all equipped
with the latest machinery. The out
put this year was 10000 tons, all of
which went to Japan.
Millions of dollars are being eXpend-
ed on Formosan harbor works and
Notifications in pursuance of a plan
to establish. Japanese naval bases at
Keelung to the north and Takao to
the south.
The Japanese are adopting a cruel
method of dealing with the head-hun-
ter rebels of Formora. They have
stretched trochas of barbed wire, heavi-
ly charged with electricity through the
districts where the rebels are. The
rebels make occasional raids and, short
ly before Mr.. Bell left, they rushed a
Japanese settlement and killed thirteen
of the japanese. decapitating the bodies
and carrying off the heads.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-08-05
DOCKED LIGHTER
PREVENTS DEATH
W0MAN'S DESIRE TO DIE is
BALKED
LEAP IN DARK sTUNs GIRL BUT
SAVES HER LIFE
Unfortunate Tells Story of Being
Robbed of Heritage by Sisters
to Account for Desperate
Attempt at Suicide
tBy Associated Press. ]

SAN DIEGO, Aug. 4-After attempt
ing suicide, and lying unconscious all
night on a lighter of lumber anchored
in the bay, Miss Wee Reidmaster, aged
80, was discovered, still insensible, this
morning.
The young woman had attempted to
leap into the bay but in the darkness
struck the lighter instead of the water.
Miss Reidmaster, after having been
revived in the hospital, stated that she
had been driven to seek death because
of being virtually robbed of a fortune
of 100000 by her two sisters, Mrs.
Mary Records of Oakland and Mrs.
Il. d. Pothullo of 800 Third street, Van
couVer, B. c.
About two years before the San
Francisco earthquake, Miss Reidmas-
ter claims she was induced by her sis
ters to sign a document which trans
ferred her fortune to them. Efforts
later to recover possession of her
money led to- her being cast off by her
sisters she claims.
Before attempting suicide, Miss Reid
master wrote out a carefully worded
will, leaving her possessions to local
people who had befriended her. She
will recover from the injuries sus-
tanned in striking the lumber lighter.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-08-05
REBELS ATTACK
WALLED CITIES
DISORDER FOLLOWS FAMINE
IN KANSU, CHINA
HINpoo ToPoGRAPHER WITH AN
AMERICAN PARTY KILLED
Four Walled Cities Reported to Be
Besieged-Pirates Roast Seven
Persons to Death in
the South
[By Associated Press.l

VICTORIA, B. c., Aug. 4.-The
steamer Tango Maru, from the Orient,
today brought news of a rebellion in
the great Mohammedan province of
Kansu, China, following a famine.
A Hindoo topographer who was a
member of an American exploring par
ty sent out by r. S. Clark of New
York of the American Geographical
society has been killed. Several walled
cities, including Yulingu, Yenanyu,
Sitechou and Misuchisien, were be-
sleged by the rebels. against whom
imperial troops, foreign drilled and
capable, has been sent.
The Tango Maru brought news that
there has been a recrudescence of pi-
racy in south China and some tragic
affairs are reported, seven persons
being roasted to death by pirates near
Shuntak after the capture of castle
like house owned by one of the local
gentry. Although the Chinese garri-
son was but 300 yards away, no troops
came to assist the besieged household
or succor them when the pirates
burned them alive.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-08-05
RUSSIAN MEN-OF-WAR
BUSY IN SEALERIES
Three Japanese Arrested on Copper
Island for Trespassing on the
Cars Domain Taken
to Siberia

VICTORIA, B. c., Aug. 4.-News was
brought by the steamer Tango Maru
that in consequence of renewed raid
ing at the Copper island seal rookeries
in the North Pacific the Russian gov
ernment has ordered that two trans-
ports lying at Vladivostok be fitted up
as auxiliary cruisers and used to assist
the Russian cruisers Shilka and Anus
and the gunboats already engaged in
the Russian sealing patrol in the North
Pacific
The missing boat of the seized Jap
anese sealing schooner Tokiwa Maru,
which was captured while her boats
were on the beach and her hunters en-
gagged in clubbing seals on the Russian
hauling grounds, was located on Cop
per island, where the three Japanese on
board had taken to- the hills. They
gave themselves up to the guard when
in need of food and were made prison
ers and sent to Vladivostok to join the
sealers previously captured While raid
ing the Russian seal rookery.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-08-05
SIX SOLDIERS DIE
ON FORCED MARCH
DRILL FOR "FORTITUDE" HAS
FATAL ENDING
Japanese Newspapers Aroused Over
Alleged Brutal Treatment of
Enlisted Men by Their
Officers

VICTORIA, B. c., Aug. 4.-Japanese
Vernacular newspapers received by the
steamer Tango Maru contain bitter at
tacks on the military authorities OF
Japan in consequence of the recent
fatalities of sunstroke, while the South
Osaka division was making a forced
march of twenty-nine miles in a burn
ing sun and the thermometer at l20 de-
grees.
The soldiers before starting were in
formed that the march was to cultl-
Vate fortitude, and the commanders
vate fortitu6e, and the commanders
stated that the men should try to with
stand the march, as the honor of We
tory would fall to the regiment without
stragglers or sick at the destination.
This aroused a strong feeling of COM
petition and many soldiers became de-
lirious but still struggled along undo.
heavy marching orders, each man
carrying eighty pounds. Six men died,
and scores tainted and fell by the road
side, to be picked up and carried TO sur
geons by rickshas.
Forty prostrated men were carried
by train to the garrison hospital at
Takshaka, where several, becoming in
sane, attacked the officers wardroom
and wrecked the furniture. The march
occupied fourteen and one-half hours
The war department, following the
newspaper complaints of brutality,
stated that at was the duty of the reg
mental commanders to inculcate in the
men the spirit of fortitude availing
selves of the climatic distractions ="
themselves of the climatic obstruc-
tions." The incidents, it was stated,
were nothing but those in which weak
men succumbed and strong survived,
and while the military authorities fully
sympathized with the unfortunate sol
diers such incidents must be regarded
as merely ordinary ones.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-08-05

Army Change Noted-CaPt. ].
f. Bloom has relieved Major Ruthers
as chief commissary of the department
of Colorado.
San lose Shaken-A slight
earthquake was felt in San Jose about
10: 80 o'clock this morning. Many peo-
pie did not feel it, and it caused little
comment.
Soda Fountain Explodes -
Gustavus Callas, proprietor of a candy
store in Chicago, was thrown against
a counter and suffered fractures of
both legs Tuesday night when soda
water fountain exploded in his store.
Prelates Come West-Cardinal
Gibbons, with Bishop Foley of Detroit
and Bishop O'Connell of San Francis
co. arrived in omaha yesterday, en-
route to Salt Lake City where Cardinal
Gibbons will consecrate a new cathe-
dral next Sunday.
New Office Filled-The presi-
dent yesterday nominated Ellis dc
Bruler commissioner of immigration at
Seattle Wash. The position, new
one pays $4,000 a year salary 1t was
formerly filled by an immigration in
spector.
Fifteenth Victim Dies - The
fifteenth death resulting from Satur-
days collision of electric trains at
Gibbs, Idaho took place yesterday
morning when Herman Gilbert of
Coeu' d'Alene passed away. Gilbert $
leg was broken, one hip was crushed
and he suffered internal injuries.
Heat Causes Crime-The in
crease in murders and suicides in Chi
cago during the summer months is due
in measure to the heat, Coroner HoH-
man declares. His report for July
showed thirty-seven suicides and
twelve murders, three of the latter be-
ing murder and suicide. Twenty-tour
murders and forty-fve suicides were
reported in June.
Harvest Hands Needed-Ur-
gent appeals have been received in
New York from Minnesota and North
Dakota for 10000 men, who are needed
to help harvest the enormous crops
The Great Northern Railway company
and other interests have informed all
employment agencies that harvesting
has lust begun and that men would be
paid from 50 to $3.50 a day.
Wife Dies of Grief-A sad
SEQUEL to the mysterious disappearance
from Chicago of Benjamin w. Porter,
the insurance agent who has been miss
ing for three months, was presented
Yesterday in the death of Mrs. Porter,
the wife. The husbands disappear
ance. which Mrs Porter strove vainly
to solve by offering rewards for infor-
Los Angeles herald., 1909-08-05
GUNS ARE SMUGGLED TO
lNSURGENT FILIPlN0S
Returned Army Officer Describes
Methods-Many Important Arrivals
on Steamship Tango Maru

VICTORIA, B. c., Aug. 4-Surgeon
Major Snyder of the United States
army medical corps, who has been sta
toned in the southern Philippines fos'
two years, arrived on the Tango Mart.
He says there is much gun smuggling
from Borneo and Singapore by flii-
busters who keep the Filipino natives
in the south supplied with arms.
The greatest number of contraband
weapons are handled by Chinese who
conceal a few in the bottom OF their
boats when running between the ISL
ands.
D. C. Peckham, a United States civil
engineer from New York. returned
from New Chwang after establishing
a modern waterworks plant.
Mr. Hendron of the United States
secret service came from Manila.
K. Kubet. an artist from Toxic.
came to study foreign methods, and
there were several Japanese students
and merchants and eighty-four sreeg
age passengers, including tifty-siX
Japanese and two Hindus, for United
States points.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-08-05
BODY OF MURDERED MAN
FOUND NEAR LIVERM Q RE
Wealthy Rancher Evidently Beaten
and Shot to Death and Then
Robbed by the Assassin

OAKLAND, Aug. 4.-Thc BODY of
Manuel Garcia was found Monday af-
ternoon under his house at his ranch,
nine miles north of Livermore, in the
Black Hill district. He had been mur-
dered. His head was badly crushed.
and a rifle bullet hole was found in his
left lung. An ak was found near the
body.
The sheriff's Office was not informed
of the crime until this morning
Garcia was a wealthy man. Robbery
evidently was the motive for the crime,
as Che pockets of the dead man wero
turned inside out. He is known TO
have received $50 for cattle sold on
Saturday. lie made his viii IN the
early part of last week. He was a
bachelor, and it is not known whether
he has relatives.
The authorities of Alameda and Con-
ira Costa counties are investigating.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-08-05
UNCLE SAM NO DOG IN
MANGER, SAYS BALLINGER
Secretary of Interior Declares That
Irrigation by Private Capital
Will Be Encouraged

SEATTLE, Aug. 4-Secretary of the
Interior r. A. Ballinger, who has just
returned from a conference in Portland
with officials of the federal reclama-
tion service, said today:
THE reclamation service will not
play the dog in the manger toward the
private irrigation corporations that are
watering the arid and semi-arid plains
and valleys of this and other western
states.
Instead, the government will give all
possible encourag cement to private en-
terprises where they do not conflict
with established or projected federal
reclamation projects. There should be
no issue between private capital and
the government and land should NOT
be withheld from entry beyond a rea-
sonable period of time, where its de-
velopment is within the range of pri-
vate capital"
Los Angeles herald., 1909-08-05
ALASKAN RAILROAD
EMPLOYS 1000 MEN
BRIDGE CONSTRUCTION is THE
BIGGEST TASK
Day and Night Shifts Rush Work
on 16o-MiIe Road from
Ocean at CordoVa
Inland

CORDOVA, Alaska, Aug. 4.-With
1000 men working night and day, rapid
progress is being made in the construc-
tion of the Copper River & Northwest
ern railway, of which ninety-tive miles
are already in operation.
This portion extends from the ocean
dock at Cordova to the Copper river at
Miles glacier. At this point ferry
is maintained by which trains are fer
ried across the Copper rives and again
placed on rails leading through Aber-
crombie canyon and on into the interior
to the end of construction, which, at
present, extends almost to the mouth
of the Tasnuna river. Beyond this for
distance of over 100 miles the con-
tractor has nearly 5000 men working or
the grading of the roadbed.
The work on the road from the oceaT
dock to Miles glacier thus far this sum
mer has consisted principally in the
erection of steel bridges replacing tenn
porary pile structures.
CantiIever Bridge Necessitated
The first of the bridges was COM
pleted a few weeks ago across Round
island channel, connecting Round island
with Long Island and consists of 56O-
foot steel span.
The second bridge work on which
is now IN progress, Is span COIlIeClllS
Long Island with the main land.
The greatest work to be accomplished,
however, before the ferry at Miles
glacier can be abandoned and all-rail
connection made with the interior is
the construction of the S1,000,000 canti-
lever bridge across the main channel of
the Copper river between Miles and
Childs glaciers. AS both these glaciers
are active and discharge huge foes of
ice which drift down the river 1t was
found necessary to construct a bridge
of the cantileyer type. This bridge will
be more than 1900 feet long.
The railroad, when completed, will be
100 miles long and will have cost
500 900 000
Los Angeles herald., 1909-08-05
STORY OF UNFORTUNATE GIRL
FOUND TO BE PARTLY UNTRUE

VANCOUVER, B. c., Aug. 4.-The
statement of Miss Reidmaster, who
last night attempted suicide by jump
ing from a wharf at San Diego, that
she had been defrauded out of a for
tune by a sister, Mrs. Pothullo, $50
Third street, Vancouver, failed to stand
even preliminary investigation, for the
reason that there is no such street in
Vancouver No such name as that of
the alleged sister is given in the di-
rectory of this city.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-08-05
GREECE REFERS TURKEY
TO FOUR POWERS AT CRETE
SuItan's Demand That Greek Officers
Be Recalled Sent 5ack-Turks
Make Threats

CONSTANTINOPLE, Aug. A.
Greece today replied to the Turkish
note virtually demanding the recall of
the Greek officers serving in Crete,
that the question is in the hands of
the four protecting powers of Crete,
with whose knowledge and consent the
officers in question were sent to the
islands.
Turkey intimates that her friendly
request to Greece will be followed, un-
less satisfaction is obtained, by a more
energetic demand.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-08-05
UNCLE SAM SLATED AS
BEST FRIEND OF JAPAN
Importance Attached to Power Named
as That to Be Consulted
First on Treaty
Revision

VICTORIA, B. c., Aug. A Japanese
newspaper received today says that in
discussing the early revision of the
treaties with Japan Importance at
taches to the question which power
shall be approached first and the choice
probably will fall upon the United
States as Jalan's best customer.
Japan will issue notes in July next to
the powers regarding treaty revision.