1EBATE KILLS OIL RIVALS.
Rockefeller Cheerfully Tells How
Competitor Were Driven Out.
John D. Rockefeller's own story of
Jls fortunes and the history of tho
Mrtli of the great Standard Oil Com
pany, was listened
to with breathless
Interest by a lnrgn
Crowd that Jammed
Ihe courtroom at
the hearing before
Referee Franklin
Ferris in New
fork Thursday.
With seeming can
flor he told how
nnd why the combi
nation was created,
and cheerfully ad
mitted that it so
cured rebates from
the railroads which
enabled It to drive
comjetltors out of
business.
It was the final re
ply of the oil com
J. D. RCK'KF.H I.I.KK.
pany to the attacks that have been
Hade for years, the revelations of Mis
' tdu Tarbell, the fulmlnatlona of cam
paign orators, the charges In newspa
pers, and the remarkable letters of
lohn D. Archbold that Injured Senator
Foraker and smirched half a dozen
Hntesmcn.
In answer to questions by John O.
Mllbnrn, his counsel, Mr. Rockefeller
told how his combination reached out
Its tentacles for more ond more re
Bnerles of rivals, and fattened on them
for ten years or more, till It became
Itrong enough to change Into what be
tanie the Standard Oil Company of
Ohio. Between 1872 and 1882 the
Rockefeller combine bought and
bought rivals. When It was strong
enough It organized them all Into one
concern. The oil king said that the
company was constantly reaching out
for more refineries and more markets.
It bought refineries to get them out
of competition and to get their busi
ness. Thut Is the way II. II. Rogers
aiid John D. Archbold went Into the
company. They were bought up. Both
were strong, brilliant and bold. The
Rockefeller combine had to get them
out of the way ; It absorbed their rival
concerns and them at tho same time.
Mr. Rockefeller snapped up the Amcrl
rnn Lubricating Company, ond once In
that field he looked around for more
lubricating companies. Before his ri
vals appreciated what had been done,
his combine controlled most of theso
concerns that hud done business be
tween 1870 and 18S0.
When the Pennsylvania railroad,
through Its Empire I'lpo Line, began
gathering oil and shipping It to fh
seaboard at reduced rates, the Stand
ard stepped In. A bitter war followed,
the end of which came only when the
Empire concern was turned over to
Rockefeller and the dangerous compe
tition wiped out. Tho railroad for its
surrender was permitted to form n car
combination, the certificates of which
were bought by Rockefeller and his as
sociates. "Whatever they hod wo
took," Mr. Rockefeller said, In ex
plaining the absorption of the Empire
concern,
The moot conservative reports from
Great Britain tell of an unprecedented
condition of unemployment In that coun
try, a situation so desperate that the
government can no longer Ignore It. Al
ready great numbers of the Idlo work
men have shown signs of extreme dis
content. Some groups were reported to
be on tbe march toward London and at
Glasgow bloodshed was prevented only
by the prompt action of the city authori
ties in appropriating $500,XX) for public
works, 10 give relief. Dublin also is
spending $.10,000 for the relief of her
poor. Liverpool, Sheffield, Birmingham
apd other industrial centers are likewise
confronted with an acute situation. In
the faee of these facts Premier Asqtilth
has announced his intention of formulat
ing a general plan for giving relief.
Tbe highest court of Australia has ren
dered a decision invalidating one of the
important laws passed In the interest of
organized labor, the party which holds the
balance of power in that country. The
unions bad forced the passage of a law
Imposing an internal tax upon the output
f the manufacturer of agricultural in
struments. This was designed to about
counterbalance the effect of the protec
tive tariff, but gave to all concerns which
paid tbe union scale of wages an entire
remission of Ihe tax. As the labor un
ions controlled the Parliament, they could
remit or Impose the tax upon whatever
business they saw fit, so that no business
which suits the unions could be put out
Of the running. The court decided, bv
a Tote of 3 to 2, that tbe new law was
Unconstitutional on the theory that the
purpose of tbe law Is to regulate wages
instead of to levy a tax or to raise reve
nue.
By a vole of 4.fW to 47, the French
Chamber of Deputies has condemned the
campaign which the aotl-Dre) fusards are
conducting against the decision in the
case of Major Dreyfus, handed down by
the court of cassation in 1UO0.
The venerable Russian patriot and rev
olutionist, Nicholas Tschaikovsky, who
Las been in prison at St. Petersburg for
many months, and who has many friends
in England and America, was released the
other day on $23,000 cash bail demanded
by the Uuisiun government, the money
being contributed by wealthy friends in
this country and in England.
The Japanese government has estab
lished a strict censorship over all com
munications between Koreans in this
country and friends or relatives In theii
native land, according to Rev. R. S.
Byang, a Korean minister o( the Meth
odist faith, who has just arrived in San
Francisco.
Victor Grayson, the Sociulist member
f tbe British Parliament from Coins
Valley, created a scene in the Commons
by loudly denouncing the members for
their failure to come to the rescue of the
thousands of unemployed and starving
ntea la England. Tbe speaker ordered
Ua to leave the house, which he did.
AUTOMOBILE IKDTJSTBY ACTIVE.
Now Is the Support for Nearly Half
a Million People.
Interesting statistics have -boon col
lected to show tho surrprlsin
growth nnd magnitude of the atitoux
bile Industry In this country. The
present capital In this business Is $94,
000.000, with 130,000.000 Invested in
kindred trsdes nnd $17,000,000 in gar
ages and retail salesrooms, making a
total of $187,000,000 In a business un
known ten years ago. More than 08,000
persons are employed In automobile
factories throughout tho country, 29,-
000 others are employed Indirectly In
making parts nnd another 21,500 in
garages nnd salesrooms, making a to
tal of more than 108,000 employes.
This Industry, therefore, is the support
of nearly half a million persons.
There nro 2.13 builders of automo
biles in the United States. The output
last year was nliout 52,000 cars, the
largest in the history of the Industry,
which to date has turned out nearly
200,000 machines. Careful estimates
for the coming year place the output
at 7.1,000 cars, of which four factories
will produce about half and one alone
12.000 cars.
In the history of this trade $28,
000,000 worth of foreign cars have
been Imported, but America Is export
ing far more than she Imports. Eight
years ago sales of American cars
reached less than $8,000,000; last year
they were more than $100,000,000.
Teamsters at Emporia, Kan., have
formed a union.
Dye workers at Minneapolis, Minn., re
cently organized.
Operative riasterers' International
Union has joined the A. F. of L.
Retail clerks at McAlnstcr, Okla., havt
obtained a reduction in working hours.
Albany (N. Y.) labor unions have erect,
ed and opened a tuberculosis pavilion.
Tbe various central bodies of Orange
county, Now York, have joined a county
labor union.
A reorganization of the building trades
onions has been brought about in Buffalo,
N. Y., after many years of warfare.
The labor unions of Sacramento, Cal.,
are working energetically for the erection
of a building trades temple in that city.
It has been decided by the leather work
ers to mnke a universal demand for the
eight-hour day within the next two years.
United Brewery Workmen of America
have a cash surplus on hand of $97,022.41
and an Investment in municipal bonds ol
$300,000.
A new labor law passed by the State
of Oklahoma orders that all school books
Issued to tho children of that State must
bear the union label.
Additional death benefits of $250 for a
membership of seven or more years and
$300 for one of ten or more years have
been established by the Brotherhood of
Painters, Decorators and Paperhangers.
Tbe Appellate division of the Now
York Supreme Court, second department,
Das decided that a contract made by a
corporation with a labor union, whereby
only union men shall be employed should
be upheld as valid and binding.
Bakers and Confectioners' International
Union has adopted a plan to fully organ
ize all the large cities of the United
States, with the Idea of having a mem
bership of 100,000 within a stated time.
The present membership is 14,582.
Paper mills, of which there are eight
in India, employ 4,700 persons, but this
Is not at present a progressive Industry,
aa European wood pulp paper la largely
Imported. There is a prospect of the es
tablishment of wood pulp manufacture In
India
The Women's Club of Magnolia, Mass.,
Is said to be the only one of its kind in
existence. It has a membership of some
thing more than 300, all women employed
as workers in the hotels, boarding houses
and residences of the summer population
of that resort.
In Russia, where over fifty men are
employed in one mine, It is provided that
"every colliery must have a rescue corps
trained to work in Irresplrable gases";
that "the number of men in each corps
must be equivalent to 4 per cent of those
engaged In tbe .argent pit or shaft work,"
and "that the number of completely
equipped sets of breathing apparatus at
each colliery must not be less than three."
Tbe Australian Parliament appropri
ated $300,000 for the Increase of the
teachers' salaries, snd the men teachers
attempted to get the whole amount ap
plied to themselves. The members of tbe
Woman's Progressive Association, all of
them voters, did not see the logic of such
a division of the appropriation, and ob
jected to It so strongly that the men were
forced to share the money with them.
There is a movement In the East on
the part of a number of labor unions to
eliminate from their respective constitu
tions the clause which bars the discussion
of politics at meetings of the organiza
tions. The leaders In this direction assert
that they are moved to this action by tbe
cnanged conditions In tbe country, end
demand that such a step must be taken
for the better protection of organised la
bor. The Clgarmakers' International Union
of America will not hold a convention
this yesr. An amendment to the consti
tution designed to make a convention pos
sible has been defeated in the referen
dum by the narrow majority of 300.
The validity of that section of the labor
law providing that no workmen upon pub-
lie work snail be permitted or required
to work more than eight hours in one
calendar day Is upheld by the New York
Court of Appeals. The court In substance
holds that a violation of this law is just!
fication for the withholding of payments
for such work from contractors.
A school for wives Is the latest under
taking of Chicago club women. Courses
will be given in the making of clothes,
cooking, household economies and general
housekeeping. The idea is to make good
housewives and to inuke them through
organised and unified effort.
What promises to be the largest and In
many respects the most important annual
convention of the American Federation of
Labor Is scheduled to open In Denver oa
Monday, Nov. 0. A novel feature of the
program will be an excursion to Colorado
Springs, embracing a visit to the Union
Printers' Home as the guests of the In
ternational Typographical Union.
Coincident with the publication of the
Newjiort conference on naval instruc
tion. It has leaked out that Secretary
of the Navy Mcteulf several months
ego sent to Admiral Sperry of tho bat
tleship fleet a copy of the letter writ
ten by Commander Key criticising the
design of the North Dakota nnd nsk
Ing for the opinions of all the officers
of the fleet. Sperry has now sent a re
port showing that 00 per cent of the
officers supiorted Key. Sperry bad each
battleship carefully measured and sev
eral showed an overdraft of nbout two
feet. This tends to sustain the criti
cisms of lteuterdah! and others. The
report of the Ncwtmrt conference,
which was given out seiiil-ofllclally, says
that the consensus of expert opinion
was that the plates bad been rightly
placed and that the design of the North
Dakota was excellent The conference
did, however, discover some minor de
fects In the location and protection of
magazines and expressed the view tlint
the 12-Ineli guns are Inferior to those
now being used on British ships of the
same class.
In n letter to Prof. L. II. Bailey of
Ithaca, chairman of the Country Life
Commission, recently nppolnted, Presl
lent Roosevelt suggests that the com
mission ask the farmers nnd all those
whose life work Is In the open country
:o come together In the different school
llstrlcts, using the schoolhouscs for
Meeting places, nnd discuss such mat
ters as the efficiency of the rural
chools, farmers' organizations, farm
inbor, need of gixM.1 roads, better postal
facilities and sanitary conditions on
:he farm. He tells the commission that
its work Is to ascertain what are the
general economic, social, educational
ind sanitary conditions of the oen
wintry, nnd what, If anything, the
farmers can do to help themselves, nnd
ivhot tho government can best do to
help them. The president announced
that he would add two extra members
to the commission, making seven in all.
An estimate that the losses during
the mouths when forest fires have been
prevailing In various parts of the Unit
ed States buve aggregated $1,000,000
per day, was made by W. J. McOee, the
erosion expert of the Department of
Agriculture. The forest service In a
statement says', that probably in every
lustance the devastating forest fires
mght have been prevented If the sev
eral States had provided an adequate
number of men o patrol the woods
and nrrest the fires In their lnclplency,
and If lumbermen and other users of
the forests had been careful to dispose
of brush after logging so us to pre
vent tho spread of fires.
Bids have, been opened at the Navy
Department for the construction of
eight submarine torpedo boats, for
which Congress lias npproprlnted $3,-
500,000. The Electric Boat Company
of Quliicy, Mass., bid for boats of 43,1
tons displacement from $414,000 to
$144,000, according to the class and
number of boats built on the Atlantic
coast. For a boat of 375 tons displace
ment the prices range from $300,000 to
$300,000. The Lake Torpedo Boat Com
pany, Bath, Me., bid on boats of 018
tons displacement from $435,000 to
$4(i0,(j0, and on boats of 410 tons dis
placement from $382,000 to $410,000.
For boots built on the Pacific coast the
prices quoted are much higher.
Under the direction of Prof. I. II.
Bailey, the Country Life Commission
recently nppolnted by President Roose
velt Is sending out a letter of Inquiry
to 300,000 persons, the replies to be
tabulated by the Census Bureau. The
questions: relate to tho conditions of
farm homes, conditions of rural
schools, whether the farmers get rea
sonable returns for their labor, rea
sonable service from highways of
transportation, If their postal service
is adequate, about organization, rent
ing, help blanks, Insurance, etc. Any
one mny receive a copy of this circu
lar for the asking.
Postmaster General Sydney Buxton,
of the British postofllce department.
nnd J. Hennelker Ileatoh, known
abroad as the father of penny postage,
exchanged congratulatory telegrams
with Postmaster General Meyer over
the Inauguration of a 2-eent postage
rate between this country and Great
Britain.
In order to keep the organization
free from even the suspicion of evasion
of legal requirements, George Otis
Smith, director of the geological sur
vey, has Issued an order prohibiting
members of the survey from ownlni:
stock In any mining company, the prop
erly or which Is in the United States
or Alaska.
Recommendation Is made by Brig
adier General James Allen, chief signal
officer of the United States army, to
Secretary of War Wright that a certifi
cate of honor be awarded to Corporal
Roy F. ('ox of the signal corps for
heroic net Ion In saving the life of a
woodchoppcr whose feet had been
frozen in Alaska. Cox carried the man
sixty-live miles through a raging bliz
zard, with the thermometer .'10 degrees
below aero.
Some details of recent corespond
ence bctweeu the governments of the
United States and Japan have liecn
given out by the State Department. Of
flcals of Isith countries now assert that
the long-standing friendship between
theui has never leen strained, but thut
In view of various matters discussed In
the papers It will be desirable to re-
stute their resxctlve positions on all
questions of common Interest, includ
ing the Japanese school question In
California and the limitation of Jua
uese immigration.
PRISON DOOR CLOSES
ON A $750,000 FORGER
Prominent Chlcego Real Estate
Dealer dives Up and Confesses
to Huge Swindles.
SENTENCE IS 1 TO 14 YEARS.
8klllful Juggling of Bogus Notes and
Deeds Dupes 25 Persons and Ex
tends Over 18-Year Period.
Confessing his authorship of an end
less chain of forgeries involving more
than $(50,000, Peter Van Vlisslngen,
for many years a prominent Chicago
real estate man and once reputed
wealthy, was Indicted, tried nnd sen
tenced to the penitentiary Monday af
ternoon for a term of from one to four
teen years. The amazing revelations of
how a man who ranked high among his
associates could carry out a gigantic
swindle In which he victimized more
than a score of persons nunitxr of
them close friends out of $700,000
came like a thunderbolt He first con
fessed to his crime Saturday to two
friends. At noon Monday the case was
presented to the State's Attorney, and
thereafter steps toward sending Van
Vllfislngen to a felon's cell were takeu
with remarkable rapidity.
The confession of the real estate man
revealed a scheme of systematic and
cunning forgery of notes and real estate
trust deeds and mortgages extending
over a period of eighteen years. For
years Van Vlisslngen practiced a system
of forgery that did not arouse suspi
cion. Even his own nephew, John A.
vanderpoel, his chief clerk, was wholly
Ignorant of the swindles being perpe
trated almost under his eyes.
Van Vllsslngen's scheme was to loan
money n twl tnka a mnpt-jn cm tt-uaf
v - - - - n " r - ' - - - i - .- l
deed as security. The notes nnd securi
ties would be made out In due form.
signed, approved by Vanderpoel. and re-
corded with the county recorder. Van
Vlisslngen would then lock himself In
his private office, where he had a desk
specially designed to nld him In for
gery. In the top of this desk was a
small hole covered with a piece of
glass, beneath which was an incandes
cent light. Placing the genuine mort
gage on the glass ho would cover it
with a similar blank form and turn
on the light below the desk. The sig
natures and notations on the genuine
Instrument were outlined on the blank
by the light. The signatures were then
traced by the real-estate man, and for
geries were turned out which were
practically as good as the original.
Sometimes the forger made one, and
In severul Instances two, copies of the
original mortgage and sold them. The
genuine he sold in Chicago, tbe spuri
ous ones in New England, In Western
and Southern States, and in Germany
and Holland, his native country. To
mnke the forgeries perfect, Van Vlissln
gen counterfeited the signature of the
county recorder. For nearly two de
cades he managed to liquidate the
fraudulent paper when It fell due and
In that way avoided exposure, but re
cently he became umible to meet the de
mands of this endless chain, and, de
spairing of further Immunity, confessed
his guilt
BRIEF NEWS ITEMS.
Exploitation of the railroads by tbe
State In Belgium has resulted this year
m a $2,000,000 loss to the State.
Lord Northcliffe, the British newspaper
owner, has given the Plymouth church
of Brooklyn a stained glass memorial
window.
Tbe Minnesota State twine plant prom
ises to pay $1,000,000 into the State
treasury during November, and as a re
sult It Is expected that the State will
get along with borrowing $500,000 instead
of twice that amount usually borrowed at
this time of the year.
The St. Paul road reports that during
the 1008 season 4,425 cars of wheat have
been shipped from the 43 towns on the
lames River division, and It la estimated
that 6,403 will be shipped before tbe close
of the season. Tbe estimate for the 20
towns on the Hastings and Dakota di
vision Is 7,400 cars.
Ed Corrigan has donated his famous old
race horse and sire, Riley, now 21 years
eld, by Longfellow, dam Geneva, to the
Kentucky breeding bureau, and be will
be sent to London, Laurel county, far
back in the mountains.
Coach Warner of the Carlisle Indians
las gone to work on the development of
I new kicking staff, 'as Thorpe, who failed
omewhat at Philadelphia, cannot be de
pended on as long as his leg is out of
tape.
Records tell that seventeen deaths were
lue directly to professional baseball in
the season recently closed and twenty-els
seriously hurt
DIAGRAM INDICATING HOW FORGERIES WEUE MADE.
Pm
FETEB VAN VUSS12fUK!V.
GOOD TIME TO BUILD.
Prices of Material Are Low and Con
tractors Are Anxious for Work.
Country Life in America has been
looking up the built-in situation and
as a result declares that there has not
been such another chance In years for
people to build cheaply and well. The
prices of material have fallen so, con
tractors are anxious to obtain work,
and labor Is so ready to jump at the
chance of assured wages, that a sav
ing of from 10 to 20 per cent In cost,
depending on the section of the coun
try, can be ninde In all domestic archi
tecture. Lumber is lower now than it
will probably ever be ngaln. Brick is
almost a drug on the market Good
workmen are not yet busy and are not
hard to find. In some localities, accord
ing to the magazine, the conditions are
so improved for the person nbout to
erect a home that he can do 30 to
40 per cent better than In 1907. How
ever, these extremes are unusual and
occur In only a few sections.
The Americon Lumberman declares
that prices ore from 20 to 25 per cent
lower on lumber In the west and south
than thev will be in a few months.
Brick is 25 per cent under last year's
schedules. Grades which brought $7
and $8 In New York in October, 1007,
are selling at $4.50 and $5 a thousand
now. Common brick was quoted in
Chicago for $5.10 to $5.25 in 1007. The
prices run $3.50 to $3.75 there to-day.
Tho saving on domestic cement In Chi
cago Is 34.0 per cent, and In Now York
about 30jer cent Plumbing rates are
down nbout 25 per cent from the fig
ures of the first of the year. Hard
ware for domestic purposes Is about
20 per cent cheaper. So It goes
throughout the list of materials.
To Hake the Negro Work.
Charlotte Perkins Oilman, in the Amet
ican Journal of Sociology, offers as a so
lution of the negro problem that tht
whole body of our negro population that
is iu a degenerate condition from what
ever causes be organized into a great In
dustrial army, controlled by tine State and
under strict military discipline. This army
should have uniforms, decorations, tltlua,
ceremonies and a careful system of grad
ing, membership to be a sign of honor
and advancement Enough should be
placed upon farms to provide for the en
tire body, and the fnrms should be In
themselves schools of efficiency. Other
should be placed in shops and mills to
clothe the' rest and provide other articles
of necessity. But the main occupation of
tbe great organization would be in the
construction of better roods. Mrs. Oil
man argues tiliat with kind, but firm,
treatment, good living, reasonable hours
and the absence of the strain of personal
initiative which tells upon tbe negro in
ordinary life comjH-tition, a great amount
of useful work and betteruient could be
thus performed. But as fast as the indi
viduals proved their capacity to work un
der their own initiative, they should be
graduated with honor, thus tflie institu
tion being compulsory at the bottom and
free at the top.
A road made from sand and sawdust it
the latest style of roadmaking designed
by George W. Cooney, Minnesota State
highway engineer. I.ast spring be made a
section of road with clover and rye on
a sand foundation. This has been very
successful. The load made from sand and
sawdust is at Cambridge, In Isanti coun
ty. Four inches of sawdust were raked
on the sand road after being graded. This
was worked into the sand by passing
teams, and as fast aa ruts are formed
the sawdust was raked into the ruts, to
be further mixed with sand.
In the Ozark mountain region, where
bitter rot and other disease had become
so bad that farmers were becoming fear
ful lest they lose their orchard, the gov
ernment showed them how to apply meth
ods which have resulted in the saving of
about 08 per cent of the crop wherever
intelligently applied.
Hundreds of pounds of dynamite have
been eiplodnd in the North river at New
York to learn whether Mrs. Julius
Fleischmann committed suicide by drown
ing. She disappeared from borne ana
was last seen near tbe banks of the river.
FIFTY MAY BE DEAD
Two Tornadoes Sweep Large Sec
tion ol State, Causing Death
and Injury.
HAVOC WHERE THEY MEET.
Region Swept Bare, Trees and Houses
Being Leveled Town of Plney
Wiped Out.
Two tornadoes, one from the north
nnd the other from the south, swept
over western Arkansas late Monday
afternoon, killing many persons and
destroying much property. From re
ports received It is estimated that
thirty to fifty lives were lost The
property damage will reach hundreds
of thousands of dollars.
One tornado started In the extreme
southwestern part of the State and
went north, touching the second tier of
counties from the western boundary
line. The other started in the north
western corner of the State and went
south, devastating the second nnd third
tier of counties. The counties through
which the storms passed are Lafayette,
Columbia, -Miller, Pike, Howard, Hemp
stead, Montgomery, Yell, Pope, John
son, Franklin nnd Carroll.
Many Killed at riney.
Plney, n German settlement on tln
Iron Mountain railroad, between Knox
Vllle and London, suffered most severe
ly, and was practically wiped out. The
number of dead Is estimated from nine
to twenty. Five business houses and a
number of dwellings were destroyed.
From the towns of Berryvllle and
Cravens the most definite reports are
received. At the former three persons
were injured, nnd the property loss Is
estimated between $25,000 nnd $10,000.
At Cravens four persons are known to
be dead. They are members of the
family of John Rosin, a fanner, who
were caught tinder the falling timbers
IMPERIAL
The Kaiser And you mean to say that you are permitted to give
out an expression of opinion whenever the spirit moves youf
Haltlmore Sun.
of their home. L. G. Holt nnd wife, nn
aged couple, were Injured.
A dispatch from Knoxrllle partly
confirms the report that the Village of
Barr, four miles from that place, was
wrecked. In the vicinity of Mulberry
five persons are reported to have been
killed. At Lot! I the Methodist church
and several other buildings were de
stroyed. The President has removed from office
Georce M. Stewart, postmaster at Seat
tle, Wash., because he solicited campaign
contributions.
The election of Secretary of State
Elihu Root as United States Senator to
succeed Senator Piatt was advocated in
resolutions adopted by the Union Lcngue
Club in New York.
That the Republicans will continue In
control of both branches of Congress at
least for another two years wns known
the morning after election, although tbe
majority iu the House had beea reduced
apparently to forty-five, as compared
with fifty-seven in the present House.
Cannon was again elected by a comfort
able plurality, in spite of the national
fight made against him, both by organized
labor and by various progressive influ
ences. Most of the Republican Congress
men in Nebraska nnd elsewhere who were
pledged not to support Cannon for the
Speakership were themselves beaten nt
the polls. In Iowa one of the Republi
can veterans xfho went down to defeat
was Hepburn. His Ihnnocratic successor
is a young editor, I. Jamison. Other
Republicans retired are Overstrect of In
diana, McCrenry of Pennsylvania, Charles
B. Ijtntlis and others.
County division was beaten at every
point in weijU'rn North Hakotu, and the
counties will ,dt business in the'wime old
way. But the fight will be continued nnd
no new court houses will be built-tor two
years.
I'li-Hiilellt (lompers of the Federation
of Labor said that the moral inlluence of
the campaign is with tbe cause of the
workon- and that the part labor took com
pelled the discussion to be devoted almost
exclusively to the labor question. Though
temporarily defeated, he insisted that bi
ixir v.-as not conquered by intrenched
wealth.
OpiHinents of Gov. ChanilM-rlain, who
was chosen United States Senator by pop
ular vote of the Oregon electors, who
pledged Legislature candidates to vote
for him, are trying to nullify the election
by securing signatures to petitions re
leasing legislators from their pledge.
"President Roosevelt, six month ago,
came to the conclusion that no combina
tion of circumstance would induce him
to become a candidate for election to the
United States Senate from New York
State to succeed Thomas C. Piatt," said
National Committeeman William L.
Ward of New York, aa be was leaving
tbe White House.
POLITICIAN
TOOLED UNCLE SAM.
How the Creek Indians Eucherei
Him Out of 7,0O0,000.
The Creek Indians have euchered
Congress to the tune of $7,000,000 in
their treaty agreements, and the flrsi
knowledge Congress will have of It wjll
be this winter, when the Indians bdA
the representatives of the Department
of the Interior will demand that Con
gress settle up. And the Creeks ar
laughing up their sleeves at the clever
trap Into which Congress walked. '
The first Creek agreement provided
that each Creek should receive 160
acres of land, the maximum appraised
value of which should le $1,040. Those
who got land nppralsed for less than
the maximum were to have the differ-
ence In land or In money. Then the
Creeks slijiped through Congress an In-tioceut-looklng
measure that provided
that new-born children should be ad
mitted to the rolls.
Congress had not figured, but the
Creeks bad. The result was that the
rew-born children took up all the sur
plus land for allotments. The allot
ting Is completed nnd the Indians now
are ready for a final settlement, nnd It
will be recommended to Congress this
winter by the commissioners of the five
trlbes nnd the Secretary of the Inte
rior. The Creeks linve onlv S3.000.000 as-
srts. as a tr!lc. This leaves them a net
$7,000,000, which Congress will have to
pay. It is just $7,000,000 additional
wealth the Creeks have procured by
outwitting Congress.
There are nearly 20,000 Creeks. This
$7,000,000 will mean $350 to every man.
whim-mi mill ilitlil. (mil ulicn II Is pa hi
will be the greatest amount of money 0
the Creeks ever had nt one time. Ev
ery Creek allottee will share In it. un
less he got land that was appraised at
the full $1,040. It makes no difference
If on Indian has gotten his allotment
and sold every acre of It, If It was ap
praised for $700 by the government he
will be entitled to $340 In money.
GATUN DAM AT PANAMA SINKING
Heavy Rainfalls Undermine Struc
ture, Causing- Earth to Settle.
Because of the exceptionally heavy
rainfalls of the last three weeks the
earth on the crest of the Gntun dnni, li
ENVY.
Panama, has settled In certain places.
The dam, which Is designed to hold In
check the waters of the Cliagres river,
was In the beginning fifty feet wide;
it has now been extended to a length
of 300 feet.
In -Iew of the existing conditions) the
settlement of the dam was expected.
The reason Is the heavy weight of the
embankment. There Is nothing to pre
vent this falling In, and It will have
to continue.
There have been other settlements In
the vicinity of the dam nt Gatun, and
the rains have resulted, furthermore, in
several landslides In the Culchrn cut
The railroad track Is Inundated on
both sides for a distance of several
miles.
Automatic Train Protection.
A device invented by P, J. Simmen ol
Los Angeles to prevent collisions of rail
road trains, and which is iu successful i
operation on a trial section of the Santa
Fe railroad in Southern California, is
now being investigated by the Interstate
Commerce Commission. Under this sys
tem each train records on a sheet in the
dispatcher's office the exact time it euters
nnd leaves a block and tho dispatcher
can signal to any engineer either to stop
or to proceed. The dispatcher is protect
ed frotn human error by the automatic
interlk-king of the switches by which he
signals the trains. That is, a signal for
a train to go ahead can not be given un
less the block Is clear. A danger signal
is given automatically by the presence of
a train, broken rail or open switch in
the block ahead, or by the dispatcher, nnd
if it be not obeyed by nn engineer in the
next 1,000 feet, his train is automatically
stopped. The engineer can prevent the
stop only by reducing the speed to the re
quired limit. The time nnd place where
a danger signal is given is recorded au
tomatically on the engine. An official
test is to be mnde.
Comla Supplement Psln,
The decision of the Boston Herald to,
abandon the comic supplement hirhi-rto
published with its Sunday issue has re
newed the discussion of this journalistic
policy. That paper explained editorially
that "a great iiewsMiier no longer needs
a clown" and asserts beside that comic
supplements have ceased to be comic. It
adds: "They have become as vulgar in
design as they are tawdry in color. There
is no longer any semblance of art in them,
a'.d if there are any ideus they are
low and descending lower."
Sea-Horn Moanlnln Submersed,
A barren, volcanic peak which rose out
of the sea near 4'nalaska nlwut a year
ago and which was named Mount Me
Cullough, its height being estimated to
be 3,0(10 feet, has sunk again into the sea.
The captain of a whaler first reported the
disapitearance, nnd now the government
revenue cutter McCtillough has returned
to San Francisco with confirmation and
details. In place of cite lofty mountain
now there I an almost completely laud
locked bay, into which the cutter sailed
and made sounding. The depth waa
from eight fathom at the ahore to twenty-fire
fathom at ibe center.