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4f . lt VOL. XL.VI.-XO. 14,319. PORTLAND, OREGON, TUESDAY, OCTOBER SO, 1906. PRICE FIVE CENTS. HENEY IS SAID TO IEC0KF Supervisor Calls at Prosecutor's Office. LONG CONFERENCE IS HELD Rumor That Board's Wrong doings Are Laid Bare. LANGDON WINS FROM RUEF .Judge Graham Very Promptly De cides That the Boss Is Not the Prosecuting Attorney-of San Francisco. EVENTS OF THE DAY. RUEF IS DEFEATED In tne Su perior Court. Judge T. F. Graham decided that W. H. Langdon. de poted by Acting Mayor Gallagher, la the de faoto District Attorney of Can Francisco. The decision meane that F. J. Heney. as assistant Dis trict Attorney, will proceed with the prosecution of the grafters. CONFESSION One of the mem bers of the Board of Supervisors vis its Heney's office and. It Is rumored, lias made a full confession of the Il legal acts of the board. Supervisor Coleman enters an emphatic denial to the rumor. GRAND JURY Assistant Prose cutor Heney proceeds with the lmr paneling of the grand Jury. Two Jurors not classed as Ruef men are excused. Heney will press right to dismiss Ruef men from the body. PLANS OF RUEF The San Fran cisco boss Is said to have begun an organization similar to that of Tam many. Labor bodies are to be asked to uphold the organization. s. SAN FRANCISCO. Cel.. Oct. 29. (Spe cial.) The rumor that Francis J Heney had secured a confession from one of the members of the Board of Supervisors of wrongdoing was given added confirmation- today when one of the members was seen to enter Heney's office. He re mained there for the greater part of an hour and then left and went to his home. Neither Heney nor the Supervisor con cerned would discuss the matter. The city official declares his business had to do with matters other than the present Investigation into graft. Supervisor Coleman dented with em phasis that any member of the Board of Supervisors had supplied Heney with in formation. Coleman added: "I will stake my life on this" Langdon Is District Attorney. Judge Graham today within five minu tes after court opened recognized W. H. Langdon and F. J Heney as the defacto representatives of the District Attorney's 1 rfloe, to which Abraham Ruef was last week appointed. On behalf of the Ruef fiction an effort was made to obtain a postponement of further proceedings In volving the examination of the grand jury until after next Friday, when Ruef. Acting Mayor Gallagher and the members of the Board, of Supervisors are ordered to show cause why they should not be permanently enjoined from asserting any claim to the office of District Attorney. Judge Graham, however, decided that there was no. adequate reason for delay and ordered the examination of the jury to proceed. In examination of the jurors, which was at once begun. Assistant District At torney Heney confined himself to inter rogations rivaling with constitutional qualifications only, making no effort to establish whether or not any of the mem bers were possessed of bias or prejudice, euch as he intimated existed. No Disorder in Court. Although fhe courtroom was crowded to its capacity at both sessions of the hearing today, there was no manifesta tion of disorder or excitement. A large detail of police patrolled tha building and adjacent streets. Jurors Rock and Towr.e, two of the men not classed as Ruef men were ex cused, as lnvestig i.tion prove! that their namesdid not appear on the assessment roll, this leaves the Jury very much of a Ruef organization. Heney. however, will press his right to dismiss from the body who are known to be so closely affiliated with Ruef that they might reasonably be suspected of bias. Be the outcome what it may. Heney will press the charges If he finds the grand Jury unwilling to indict on what ha considers sufficient evidence he will wait until January 1, when a new venire wll! be called Ruef Plans Tammany Organization Ruef has launched s three-fold move ment to secure active support. He has be gun the organization of a Sao Francleco Tammany. It was given out today in ad ministration circles that the Tammany system will be followed in even" detail. Eacli of the 5000 municipal office-holders will bring in five friends to the society and thus at the outset a membership of 15.000 will be attained. Ruef said today that he expected to raise tha membership o 30,000 inside of a year. Ruef has also called a meeting of the steering committee of his wing of the Re publican party. Resolutions will be passed expressing sympathy with Ruef and rtledglng support. Then the labor bodiesj nil ESSIOFJ are to he asked to uphold the accused ad ministration as it was elected on the union labor ticket. Ruef desires to use all these forces o allay the wrath of the public which is now so bitter against him. The Examiner, Hearst's paper, generally considered to be very friendly to organized labor, warns the labor unions against giving Ruef an indorsement. CAR COMPANIES AT WAR Old Chicago Lines Ask Court to Dis- cijVline Chicago Traction. CHICAGO. Ocf 29. M. H- McCormick and a number of other holders of stock in the North Chicago City Railway Company and the Chicago West Divi sion Railway Company have filed mo tions for permission to file petitions in the United States Circuit Court allow ing them to intervene in the proposed settlement of the traction problems in this city. The two streetcar companies J r John E. Redmond, Leader of Irish Nationalists. Who Extorted Prom ise That British Government Would Force Irish Landlords to Sell. mentioned form the basis of the Chi cago Union Traction Company, which operates the streetcars on the North and West Sides of the city. The bulk of the stock of this company is owned in New York, and it is claimed by the Chicago holders that the nonowners are trying to "freeze out"' all of the local interests. The petitions state that ever since the leases came into the hands of the Union Traction Company, that com pany has neglected its duty as lessee, allowed the lines of railway to deter iorate, given the public bad service, and "ir-jstead of entering into operating agreements with the city on fair terms to the city, they cthe lessees) have en deavored to coerce the city into grant ing terms which would yield a return not only on the money actually in vested, but also upon the fictitious cap italization of the Union Traction Com pany." New Oregon Postmaster. WASHINGTON. D. C Oct. 29 Annie B. 9mith has been appointed postmaster at Niagara. Or. CONTENTS TODAY'S PAPER The Weather. YESTERDAY' s Maximum temperature, 58 de grees: minimum. 40. TODAY'S Bain, southerly winds. Foreign. Revolutionary meetings cause closing of Russian universities. Page 6. British government may force Irish land lords to sell. Page 3. Professor Burgess' startling speech inter preted by Germans as Roosevelt's opin ions. Page 5. Xational. . Lawyers for wrecked Mexican bank call for action against Thompson. Page 4. Politic. Hearst accuses New York Election Board of corruption. Page 1( Hughes describes Hearst's campaign as one of vilification. Page 4. President keeps silence on. all campaigns except in New York. Page S. Bailey calls Hearst political Ishmaallte. Page 1. Labor Federation begins campaign against Cannon. Page I. Domestic. Great rush to Walker Lake reservation. Page 4. Judge Banker fines Standard Oil $6000. when law provides millions. Page I. Dead by Atlantic City wreck are 63. Page 4. Wilson S. Fairbank. Massachusetts Commis sioner to Portland Fair, accused of graft ing. Page 3. Negro lynched In Tennessee. Page 2. Crow Indians on peace mission to TJtes. Page 2 Pacific Coast. W. H. Langdon is declared by the Superior Court to be District Attorney of San Francisco. Page 2. Sod Is broken for the first railroad In Tilla mook tounty. Page 8. Spokane office-seeker supported by club of young married men. Page 2. Langdon's war on grafters will win him many votes for Governor of California. Page 6. Culdesac t!daho editor is In iall on charge ot criminal libel. . Page 6. Ballots for election in King County have glaring error. Page 6. Commercial and Marine. Exporters again In wheat market. Page 15. Eastern wheat markets strong on foreign news. Page 15. Small Interest in stock market. Page L5. Union graJnhandlers return to work on the various docks. 'Page 14. Captain Roberts plans to float Peter Ire dale. Page 14- Steamer F. A. Kilbnrn arTlves after being barbound at Coos Bay. Page 14. rortland and Vicinity. Southern Pacific plans embargo on all freight consigned to San Francisco ex cept provisions and perishable goods. Page 10. Youthful forger passes two bogus checks and is then trapped by intended victim. Page 10. Methodist ministers fail to prove existence of wood trust. Page 11. Masked burglars hold up woman in her own home. Page 11. Corporation formed to build electric road - to Mount Hood. Page 10. Mrs. Sarah Piatt Decker central figure In annual convention of Women's Clubs, which opens today. Page 11. Police Chief Grltzmacher asks Mayor Lane for more men; few arrests In October. Page 7. Chinese gamblers organize society to raise money for police protection. Page 10. ; v - l Tt 1 LETS OCTOPUS GO . WITH PIN PRICK Banker Merely Fines Standard $5000. LAW PROVIDES FOR MILLIONS Merciful Ohio Judge Says Fines Not Cumulative. ROCKEFELLER GIVEN TIME Will Not Be Tried for Maintaining Trust Till Standard's Appeal Is Decided David Will Fight Case to Finish. FINDLAY, O.. Oct. 29. (Special.) A peculiar construction placed on the Valen tine anti-trust law has enabled "the Standard Oil Company, recently convicted here of conspiracy in restraint of trade, to escape with a fine of $5000 and costs, which the court holds is the maximum fine that can be Imposed. The section of the law under which the fine is liispoeed is perfectly clear and provides a separate fine for each day the law is violated. The Standard is charged with, having violated the law since July 6. 1903, which it was generally supposed, would make it liable to a fine aggregating $6,000,000. Judge Banker holds that each allegation must be the basis of a separate suit and that suits cannot be eDtered collectively. New Fine for Each Day. The decision has aroused lawyers all over the state. It has been the opinion that suits under the Valentine anti-trust law could , be begun and then. If the offending corporation did not at once cease business, it could, if found guilty, be fined for each day's violation of" the law after the suit was "begun. Had the court in the present case inter preted the law In this way, the Standard Oil Company would have had to pay a large sum in fines. Each of the con stituent companies connected with the present suit was notified in July to cease business. None did. Therefore, if the common construction had been put on the law. the fines would have totaled several million dollars. Judge Banker, however, holds that a separate convic tion must be obtained for every separate offense. Standard Takes Appeal. The judge holds that the Valentine law was planned so that the fines are not cumulative. In other cases which have been tried in Ohio under the law. It has "been held that separate convictions are not necessary and that a corporation found guilty of being a trust must pay a fine for each day on which the law was violated. James O. Troup of Bowling Green and S. H. Tolles of Cleveland, who represen NOW WE I I 1,1 1 I 1.- - I .1.- M 1.1 1 t T , t ted the Standard in the trial here, ap peared before the Probate Court this morning and argued a motion for a new trial. Judge Banker, overruled the motion and imposed the fine of $5000 on the; Stan dard Oil Company of Ohio. The Standard must also pay the costs of the case. Rockefeller Gets Respite. The ease against John D. Rockefeller was suspended until the next term of the Probate Court. This case is similar to that of the Standard Oil Company and involves practically the same- questions. Prosecutor David said tonight he would not push the case against Mr. Rocke feller until the case of the state . against the Standard OH Company was finally determined in the Supreme Court. The case will be carried immediately to the Circuit Court. The question that will be fought is whether or not the . Probate Court has jurisdiction to hear cases in volving the violation of the anti-trust law of Ohio. The cases yet pending are: The state against John D. Rockefeller, the Man hattan Oil Company, the Buckeye Pipe Line. Company, E. R. Curtain and John O'Brien. These will be taken up by Mr. David and pushed to a finish provided the Supreme Court decides that the Pro bate Court has jurisdiction to try case. the HQ ON K LEOPOLD BELGIAN LOTHARIO TO BLAME FOR CONGO HORRORS. National W. C. T. V. Passes Resolu tions Denouncing Smoot, Canteens and Double Moral Code. HARTFORD. Conn.. Oct. 29 Resolu tions denouncing King Leopold II of Bel gium as the author of conditions in the Congo Free State which are characterized as "atrocities.'' calling for the exclusion of Reed Smoot from the United States Senate because of his relations with the Mormon church: opposing the sale of beer or other intoxicants at Army posts; advo cating the making permanent of the tem porary prohibition of the sale of beer at National soldiers" homes; protesting against the issuing of liquor tax receipts in prohibition territory; declaring for the highest standards of purity for men and women alike, and declaring in favor of the right of suffrage for women, were adopted this afternoon by the National Women's Christian Temperance Union. When the resolution dealing with the Congo Free State was first introduced the Belgian government was the object of de nunciation, hut after some discussion the name of Leopold was substituted. A resolution was also adopted urging that state Legislatures demand an "anti polygamy" amendment to the Constitu tion of the United States. WHEAT RATE COMPLAINT Discrimination Is Alleged by the Attorney-General of Oklahoma. GUTHRIE, Okla.. Oct. 29' (Special.) Attorney-General Cromwell, of Oklahoma, today filed with the Interstate Commerce Commission complaints alleging discrim ination in freight rates on wheat from Oklahoma to Gulf points, also alleging higher rates charged for the same dis tance In Oklahoma than other states The roads involved are the Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific. Atchison. Topeka & i Santa Fe. Missouri. Kansas & Texas. In ternational & Great Northern. Houston & Texas Central. Texas & Pacific. Gulf, Colorado & Santa Fe, St. Louis & San Francisco, Kansas, St. Louis & Colorado, Cnicago. Rock Island &. Texas. Chicago, Rock Island & Gulf. Southern Pacific, Texas Midland & Houston and Henderson, Galveston. Harrtsburg & San Antonio. HAVE ANOTHER CHAMPION GO GUHHIHG AFTER SPEAKER GANNON Labor Leaders Will In vade His District. BRASS BANDS AND RED FIRE Great Cohort of Orators to Work for Walker. MITCHELL STIRS UP MINERS Gompers' Aide de Camp aijd Chicago Union Officials Will Conduct i Campaign Walker Claims All Miners' Votes. CHICAGO, Oct. 29. (Special.) Or ders have been issued from the head quarters of the American Federation of Labor, In Washington, to begin at once an active campaign against Speaker Joseph G. Cannon in the Eighteenth Illinois District. E. N. Nickels, secre tary of the Chicago Federation of La bor, will leave tomorrow for Kankakee, Sheldon and other towns In the district, to arrange for a series of meetings. J. D. Pierce, general organizer of the American Federation of Labor, and per sonal representative of Samuel Gom pers, received orders to "cut loose" In the. interest of John H. Walker, who has the indorsement of practically all the labor unions in the district. P. H. Strawbun. organizer for Cen tral Illinois, and E. R. Wright, of Typ ographical Union No. 16, already have been ordered into the Eighteenth Dis trict. Daniel P. Kelly, of New York, organizer for the United Hatters of America; P. H. Flannery, president of the Freighthandlers' International Union; E. E. Bessette, of the Printers' Union; O. E. Woodbury, of the Carpen ters' Union, and several others volun teered their services as speakers. They propose to invade the district with brass bands and red fire. 'John Mitchell, president of the United Mineworkers, offered to go into the dis trict in the Interest of Walker, but the latter advised against it, for reasons inside the miners' organization. Mitch ell, however, has written a letter to his friends in the district urging them to vote and work for Walker. In Vermilion County, Cannon's home, there are 4500 union miners. Walker says they are practically unanimous jor H1IJ1, &UU uiaL jjo to b vi. . . rying that county. DEMOCRATS CHANGE TACTICS Bonaparte Tears Off Disguise of Friendship to Roosevelt. ELK TON, Mi)., Oct. 29. Secretary of ON HAND the Navy Bonaparte was the chief speaker at a largely attended and en thusiastic Republican meeting tonight. He said, in part: Whey they got ready for this campaign, the Democratic managers and their mouth pieces expected to conduct It on the same lines as that of two years ago. Their text book was filled up with abuse and ridicule of the President, misrepresentation of his acts and willful misconstruction of ois lan guage, purposes and motives, such as formed the stock In trade " of their speakers and papers in 1904; the Democratic plan of cam paign, foreshadowed in interviews scattered broadcast through Sympathetic newspapers, announced the President's past Iniquities and sinister schemes for the future and the need of a Democratic House to check his prospective usurpations and expose the enor mities of his administration as the timely topics, the vital Issues of the contest. More recently, however, word has been passed along the line that tne part of wis dom Is not to repeat what Is seen to have been a blunder by Judge Parker and his advisers, but to gain power by posing as the President's true friends, ready to back him up against his own party and accusing the latter of real, although disguised, hos tility to his purposes, his wishes and him self. To this end we hear the same men who but yesterday told you he plotted to i Speaker Joseph G. Cannon, on Whom Labor Federation Centers It crush self-government In Cuba, deliberately lied when he disclaimed another candidacy, was bribed by the "trusts" with campaign subscriptions and longred to Involve the country in needless wars and disastrous conquests, now say they deem him brilliant and honest and well-meaning, though mis led by his friends and in real sympathy with themselves. There is some room for bonest, but ill informed, people to believe when well-informed, but dishonest, people tell them that the President owed the successes of his policy In the lat session to help from the Democrats and any apparent limitations on those successes to the hostility of his own party. But the President has already told us, and in the plain words be always uses, what he would think of a change In the control of the next Hours of Representa tives. He cannot take the stump himself aid it falls therefore to others to declare, ap I declare, the claim of Democratic poli ticians that their victory at this election would help him In his work, a shameless pretense and an Insult to the people's In telligence and memory. BAILEY SCORES HEARST CALLS HIM POLITIOAIi ISH MAELITE AND PERVERT. Texas Senator Denies Yellow Edi tor's Claim to Democracy, Be cause He Fights Democrats. DALLAS. Texas. Oct 29. In his speech at Brownwood today, Senator Bailey excoriated Mr. Hearst. He quoted the Democratic nominee for Governor of California as having de nounced Hearst because the New York er "buys men and, when, his money bags will not answer, resorts to the sandbag, and that he has done more to corrupt Democratic politicians than any man who ever took part in public life. Continuing, he said: "They say I ought not to talk about him because he is tne Democratic nom inee. If he had lived up to that doc trine, he would have the right to in voke it. He is opposing the Democratic candidate for Governor in California, and has put up independent candidates in New York, where he happened to dislike the Democratic nominees. He is a political Ishmaelite, with his hand raised against every man, and every man's hand raised against him. He is so bad that his candidacy would dis ease any electorate, his election would disgrace any office, and his leadership would destroy any party. "He is a moral pervert and a political degenerate." RIDICULES BR Y AX'S BR Y AX'S PA- Taft Wants Republican Congress. Talks on Philippines and Canal. COLUMBUS, O.. Oct. 28. Secretary of "War Taft spoke this afternoon and tonight at Logan and Lancaster. Mr. Taft con fined himself almost exclusively to Na tional questions and emphasized the ne cessity for the election of a Republican Congress to uphold President Roosevelt. In this connection he ridiculed statements made last week by W. J. Bryan in his tour of Ohio to the effect that a Demo cratic Congress should be chosen to sup port the President. Mr. Taft expressed the hope that the Philippine tariff bill would be passed- He said he had no criticism to make of those who had opposed it He did not think it would injure American industries to the extent charged. Regarding the Panama Canal, he said that soon he thought excavation would be proceeding at the rate of 1,000.000 cubic yards a month. He defended the employ ment of foreign laborers and the restric tion of the eight-hour law to Americans for the reason that if it was extended to the foreigners, out of whom it is prac tically Impossible to get more than four days' work a week, the big undertaking would be seriously delayed. The employ ment , of Chinese, he said, should not be considered from a sentimental standpoint. Mr. Taft came to olumbus tonight and left at 2 A. M. for Danville, 111. Cuba Has Tranquil Day. HAVANA. Oct. 29. Reports received by telegraph this morning from the com manders of the garrisons in all parts of Cuba show that complete tranquillity prevail. CORRUPTION CRY RAISED BY HEARST Turns His Mud -Guns on Election Board. SAYS IT STOLE MAYORALTY Now Deprives People of Right to Nominate. THROWING OUT PETITIONS Yellow Candidate Talks of Criminal Election Methods and Starts Movement to Indict Board. Hughes Scores His Opponent. AUBURN. N. T.. Oct. . "W. R. Hearst. In his speeches both at Syracuse and Au burn, devoted much of his attention to an attack upon the New York Election Board and a discussion of his views of the ef fects of the decision of the appellate di vision on the Independence League nomi nating petitions, if that decision should be sustained by the Court of Appeals. He eaid in part: "As election day approaches it becomes evident that we w44J have to meet this year all over the State of New York the same corrupt opposition and the same criminal election methods that we had to meet last year in New York City. Certain great and powerful trus'ts and corpora tions which secured their great wealth through governmental favoritism and po litical protection axe determined to pre serve their special privileges and to main tain their political pull. We must realize what , happened and what will happen, and we should prepare to meet it. Against bribery and corruption we must oppose honesty and public and patriotic duty. Says Ballots Were Stolen. "I have Just come from Greater New York, and there the fight against us has already begun. The same old election board that last year helped McClellan to steal the Mayor's office is still In power. The same old election board which heiped McClellan to fight an honest count of the ballots actually In the boxes, which within the last two months has gone into court and asked to have the ballots destroyed in order that there may not he an honest count of the people's votes, is now, at this moment, prosecuting an appeal in the hope of somehow being able to de stroy the ballots wherein lies the proof of their own guilt and the guilt of their ap pointees, the election officials. "This corrupt board has begun to ex ercise its power still further in favor of corrupt Interests that control and hope to continue to control our government. When the petitions of the people were filed with this board they were allowed to be marked and mutilated and in some cases destroyed. Scores of them were thrown out altogether, and the action of this corrupt board was sustained, I regret to say, by the appellate division of the Supreme Court. Election Board Corrupt. "Z assert publicly that this board 1 corrupt I assert publicly that one mem ber of this board has been under indict ment 17 times. I have moved today to Indict this election board, and I have re tained Governor H1U and others of the ablest lawyers throughout this state to appear before the Court of Appeala and reverse, if possible, the action of this corrupt election board. "I assure you that in this matter I am not fighting merely for myself: I am not fighting merely for the candidates that have been thrown off the ticket, but I am fighting for the fundamental right of American citizens to nominate candidates by petition. I am fighting to preserve for you an avenue of relief. If hereafter both your parties shall be controlled by the corporations, no hope shall remain to the people themselves except through an inde pendent movement. "In conclusion, let me say that, if an honest election can be had, I am sure that we will carry the State of New York by from 200,000 to 250,000 plurality." Scheme to Use Anarchists. Clarence J. Shearn, Hearst's attorney, who followed, declared that he had learned of one dastardly scheme that had come to light through a man high in po litical circles. "It is planned." he said, "to employ a half dozen well-known anarchists to hold a series of meetings in as many sections of the state, late In the week, at which inflammatory speeches will be made de nouncing President Roosevelt and calling upon anarchists to rally to the support of Mr. Hearst. These speeches and reso lutions are to be played up In a series of sensational articles all over the state and offered to voters as proof of the charge made by the Republican candidate for Governor that Mr. Hearst represents in this campaign the fanatics of the United States and the fores of indecency and mob rule. "Just remember," he continued, "that the halls and the speakers for these an archist meetings will all be paid for by Tim "Woodruff with money given by Ship building Trust Sheldon, with the active co-operation of Cornelius Vanderbilt. whose railroad has just been fined JU4.O0O for rebating as a result of the pernicious activity of W. R. Hearst." Reds Make Another Rich Haul. ST. PETERSBURG. Oct. 29 CSpeclal.) A party of revolutionists numbering 20 held up a convoy of three vehicles on the way to Kazan and secured 26,000 roubles. The robbers escaped.