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VOL,. XXV-XO. 48.
PORTLAND, OREGON, SUNDAY - MORNING, DECEMBER 2, 1906.
PRICE FIVE CENTS.
ACUTE DANGER OF
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President Thinks She
Has No Grievance,
MAKING READY FOR CONFLICT
War-Cloud Much Bigger Than
Diplomats Admit.
PERIL TO THE PHILIPPINES
Islands First Prize for Which Na
tions Would Contend Wood's
Army to Be Strengthened and
Pacific Fleet Enlarged.
WASHINGTON. Dec. 1. (Special.)
The relations between the United States
and Japan as a result of the attitude of
the Japanese Government toward the
California authorities in school matters
have become acute. An erroneous im
pression as to the President's position
has been widely circulated.
The President absolutely concurs with
the opinion of Secretary Metcalf that
the Japanese have no cause for griev
ance and that no treaty right has been
infringed. At the outset the President
took the stand that treaties superseded
all state and other laws. Now he is
convinced that, in giving the Japanese
students equal educational rights
while separating them from other
school, all has been done that Is
necessary.
Japan Asks Too Much.
Outside of racial differences, there Is
another reason for segregation, and
that Is that many of the Japanese stu
dents are adults. The President will
stand strictly upon treaty agreements,
but he thinks too much is being asked
by the Japanese Government. It is
known that the President feels that
the Japanese, with an enormous per
sonal conceit and tremendous personal
egotism, are trying to Impose upon the
people of San Francisco and the Pacific
Coast.
Senator Flint called upon the Presi
dent yesterday. Benjamin Ide Wheeler,
president of the University of Califor
nia, was another caller. Mr. Roosevelt
al o was In consultation with Mr. Met
calf and Ij seeking all the light he can
get on the subject. In the meantime
every step is being taken to safeguard
American interests and make every
thing ready for the remote contingency
of a clash of arms with Japan.
Philippines Prize or War.
It is well understood here that Japan Is
In the background as the power with
which the United States has to reckon
for the possession of the Philippine Isl
ands. Diplomats and officials here can
scarcely conceal that the situation may
become Intensely interesting at any time,
possibly In the near future.
Intimately associated with possibilities
of a clash with Japanese diplomacy must,
of course, be taken into consideration the
Important fact that Great Britain is the
offensive and defensive ally of the recent
conquerors of Russia.
The United States-Japanese war cloud
Is generally estimated here to be bigger
than diplomacy is willing to admit. In
fact, official reports of this Government
indicate preparations against some enemy,
and the indications all point to Japan.
Wood's Advice to Be Ready.
Rut recently the country was stirred by
the annual report of Major-General Leon
ard Wood, in command of the Philippines.
He is close to the President, and it is not
likely that his report would have gone out
without being vised by the President him
self. The general tenor of the Wood re
port was the Insufficiency of the protec
tion of the Philippines. General Wood
urged the general strengthening of the
artillery arm, and suggested that a part
of the cavalry of each regiment in the
service be sent to the Philippines. One of
his statements was that the whole of the
enormous command of the Philippines,
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about 15,000, would be unable to hold Ma
nila against a first-class power. The sug
gestions of General Wood are certain to
Be heeded by the coming Congress.
Strengthen Pacific Fleet.
On the heels of the startling demands of
General Wood comes the report of the
Bureau of Navigation, of which Rear-Admiral
Converse Is the head. He, in gen
eral terms, advises that the Navy be di
vided giving the battleship squadrons to
the Atlantic coast, and that the cruiser
squadron, reinforced largely, be assigned
to the Asiatic side of the fleet. The
strong inference from the report of the
Navy Department is that the squadrons
on or near the Pacific Coast should al
ways be formidable, and that the whole
United States naval force should be ready
at any time to be combined for action on
either side of the continent.
The President saw the possibilities of
the San Francisco matter at once and
dispatched Mr. Metcalf, a Callfornian, to
the coast to Investigate. Mr. Metcalf has
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Seth low. Huflpected of ambition to
be United States Senator.
reported and the tenor of his report Is
that the people of San Francisco are not
willing to recede from their position. This
will be the subject of course of a re
port to Japan, and Japan will not be able
to understand why the United States can
not coerce a state or invade its state and
municipal functions.
Acute Question Raised.
The outcome of all causes combined has
been ths precipitation, although much
veiled, of the acute question of Japan
against the United States with the Philip
pines as the prize.
The United States 'Government will see
that the , recommendations of General
Wood are carried out and there will be
no objection to the disposition of the fleet
by the Bureau of Navigation. It is in
teresting to recall that some time ago
the United States sent four of its first
class cruisers to the Asiatic fleet. These
are each the equivalent of a battleship.
One of the most Important suggestions of
the Bureau of Navigation is that ships
on the Pacific Coast, now there and to be
assigned .there, may be merged on due
notice with the Asiatic squadron.
FULTON PROPOSES NEW IiAW
Would Settle Problem by Restricting
Stimulated Immigration.
OREGONIAN NEWS BUREAU,
Washington, Dec. 1. Senator Fulton
does not share the opinion popular in
this section of the country that there
is likelihood of war with Japan as a
result of the San Francisco school In
cident. He believes the present flurry
will soon die out! While he has as yet
had no opportunity to discuss the Japa
nese question with the President, he
has been requested to do so at an early
day. He has, however, discussed the
problem with State Department offi
cials. While Mr. Fulton anticipates no seri
ous termination of the pending trouble,
he is in sympathy with the people of
the Pacific Coast to the extent that he
believes that the immigration should
be restricted. He has in mind and will
probably introduce a bill which will, in
his opinion, meet the emergency and
yet not give offense to the Japanese
government.
It Is a well-established fact that
fully 90 per cent of the Japanese who
nime to the United States do so
through the influence of emigration so
cieties, which are in league with steam
ship companies. The Japanese govern
ment, on the other hand, encourages
Its people to stay at home. It is also
true that a large percentage of the im
migrants from Southern Europe and
Germany are influenced to come to the
United States by immigration compa
nies, and in this way thousands leave
their foreign homes who would never
come to America of their own free will.
Mr. Fulton believes that it -mould be
expedient for Congress to pass a law
prohibiting the admission to the Unit
ed States of immigrants who were in
duced to come to the United States by
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Peary Discovers the Pole.
COAL
MONOPOLY
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Whole West Suffers
Through Frauds.
RAILROADS CANNOT SUPPLY IT
Business Paralyzed and Hu
man Life in Danger.
REMEDY COMES TOO LATE
Coal Production and Car Supply
Checked ' by Twin Monopolies
Bnilt Up by Robbery of
Public Domain.
SALT LAKE. Utah, Dec. 1. (Spe
cial.) Owing largely to the monopoly
which has been built up by fraud, per
jury and wholesale stealings in the
vast coal fields of the West, the entire
country this side of the Missouri River
is in the grip of the greatest fuel
famine ever experienced.
So extensive and general has become
the shortage in the coal supply that
industries are being crippled, manufac
turing paralyzed, mines and smelters
closed, the business of the farms and
of the cities seriously retarded, and
even life in the homes of the people is
being threatened.. The coal producer
and the transportation companies are
totally unable to cope with the situa
tion, although they are bending every
energy to relieve the urgent necessity
of the people.
Famine Product of Greed. ,
.The shortage in coal partially the
fruits of gred and monopoly grows
daily and has become alarming.
So inadequate is the present supply of
coal to meet teh demand that in this
city there is not a single coal firm
which will guarantee the delivery ol
a single ton of coal to the home of a
consumer under 14 days.
' The business of this city and of
every large , center, almost from the
Canadian border to the Rio Grande,
and from the Missouri River to the
Pacific Coast, is running on one or
two days' coal supply. Should there
come a bad storm in the mountains
sufficient to,hinder further transporta
tion of coal, the situation in almost the
entire West would become dangerous.
Both the transportation and the coal
companies are bending every effort to
relieve the situation. Their managers'
insist that it is the wonderful and un
precedented growth of the country
which is causing the shortage.
People Blame Monopoly.
The people who are suffering and
who are clamoring for coal insist that
their sufferings are due -to the monopo
listic grip which the Gould and the
Harrlman systems have succeded in
placing on the coal industry of Wyom
ing, Utah, Colorado and other Western
states. In proof of this contention,
they point to the disclosures recently
made at the investigation by the Inter
state Commerce Commission.
That body produced evidence to show
that by a system of fraud the railroad
companies have succeeded in seizing
all of the valuable coal land along
their rights of way and have prevented
development in other fields by ex
orbitant freight rates and by prevent
ing independent capital from investing
in coal ventures.
The railroad companies insist that
they are giving preference to coal ship
ments and are sidetracking all traffic
in favor of coal. The people who need
coal Insist that the railroad companies
are using their coal cars to transport
ores and other products.
Not Enough Cars to Haul Coal.
Whatever the truth may be, there
Is no denying the fact that the rail
roads do not begin to have sufficient
power and equipment to transport the
coal that is mined. There is no doubt
that they are doing all they can to re
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lieve the shortage, but there is also no
doubt that the shortage is largely due
to the methods -of monopoly. It is
pointed out that, had there been fre
and unrestricted development of coa
properties, the coal production would
have more nearly kept pace with the
demand, and the transportation facili
ties would have Increased more nearly
in proportion to the increased coal de
mand. Companies Which Have Monopoly.
Under present conditions the Col
orado Fuel & Iron Company practically
has a monopoly, assisted in this con
nection by secret freight rates of the
coal carriers In Colorado and the states
east to the Missouri River. '
In Wyoming the coal consumers are
practically, at the mercy of the Union
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CONTENTS TODAY'S PAPER
. The Weather.
YESTERDAY'S Maximum temperature, 40
degrees; minimum, 33.
TODAY'S Fair, easterly winds.
National.
Danger of war with Japan greater than ad
mitted. Page 1.
Senator Fulton proposes remedy for Japanese
problem. Page 1.
Fulton will Introduce Oregon bills on Mon
day. Page 4.
United State leads all countries In produc
tion of precious meatls. Page 3.
Politics.
Old-line Democrats will boom Wood row
Wilson for President. Page 1.
Thirty states will declare for direct elec
tion of Senators. Page 1.
Beth Low- suspected ot ambition for Eena
torshlp. Page 1.
Domestic.
Mob of masked men plunder anfi burr to
bacco trust's plant In Kentucky. Page J..
Guggenhelms pocket big loss In abandoning
mining deal. Page 18. - - .
Young testifies against Shea in teamsters'
conspiracy trial and is guarded against
assassins. Page 1.
Coal famine- due to monopoly of supply by
railroads and allies. Page 1.
Texas bandits hurl express messenger from
train and loot car at their leisure.
Page 8.
St. Paul Railroad Increases capital for Pa
cific extension. Page 2.
Drug combine declared illegal trust by court.
Page 5.
Alleged revolutionists continue reign of
bloodshed across Mexican border. Page 3.
l'orelg-n.
King Menelik of Abyssinia near death and
war for succession will follow. Page 3.
Universal suffrage bill passed in Austria.
Page 2.
Revolutionary agitation In Turkey. Page 8.
Count Boni beats servant who refuses ad
mission to former wife's house, Page 8.
Russian famine grafter defiant; Gurko is
removed. Page 6.
Divorce suit among Scotch aristocracy.
Page 4.
Sports. .
Pullman's claim to football championship
not sound, says Referee in weekly re
view. Page 39- ; -
Burns should bsve been given decision over
O'Brien at Los Angeles, says Will O.
Mac Rae. Page 36.
Portland Association Club defeeta team from
vessels lr. port in game of "soeker" foot
ball. Page 9. t
Naval cadets win a decisive victory Vr
West Koint warriors by score ot 10 to O.
Page Si'.
Cans ready to Sght Nelson again. Page 10.
Pacific Coast.
Billy Finnigan, a Ruef henchman, thorough
ly cowed after examination before the
grand Jury. Page 14.
J. A. Falconer, of Snohomish, will probably
be Speaker of the next Washington house.
Page 15.
Washington shingle mills will shut down
from December 13 to February 18. Page
15.
Aged woman makes scene at trial of Sid
ney Sloane at Spokane. Page 15.
Commercial and Marine
Cars available for moving potato crop.
Page S8.
Heavy deliveries of December wheat at Chi
cago. Page 33.
Stocks dull, but resist depression. Page 38.
New York banks still hold surplus reserve.
Page 33.
Merchants desire steamer for Honolulu be
fore the holidays. Page 11.
Steamship Yale Is launched. Page 11.
Portland and Vicinity.
Two masked highx.-aymen hold up Sunny
side grocery store. Page 10.
Orlando 8. Murray pleads not guilty to mur
dering Lincoln C. Whitney, and trial Is
set for December 10. Page 24.
Frances Slosson, former ingenue of Baker
Theater Ompany, was secretly married
to Frankiyn Underwood In California
last August, the day before she started
for Portland. Page 10.
Imposing gathering promised of representa
tives of Oregon's commercial and indus
trial interests at Eugene to protest
against car shortage. Page 8.
W. D. Fenton is elected president Pacific
Coast branch of American Historical So
ciety. Page 30.
Mayor vetoes ' Portland General Electric
Company's heating franchise ordinance.
Page 33.
Real estate dealers report many small sales.
Page 16.
Special Agent Myendorff returns from Salt
Lake; picks flaws in Senator Warren's
denial of coal land frauds. Page 10.
Alaska Steamship Line assured is announce
ment of Joint committee from commercial
bodies. . J"age 8.
Features and Department.
Editorial. Page 6.
Church announcements. Page 30.
Classified advertisements. Pages 17-23.
Peary's own story of his dash to "Farthest
North." Page 43.
Scenes in Portland harbor. Pages 41-42.
Colossal blunders of some big men. Page 44.
Hospital exclusively for animals. Page 49.
Maud Muller, retold by George Ade. Page 46.
Letters from the people. Page 48.
Book reviews. Page 49.
The John Dough mystery. Page 50.
Ham Burr's grandma's play. Page 52.
Social. Pages 26-27-29.
Dramatic. Pages 34-35.
Musical. Page 28.
Household and Fasalona. Page 4T.
Youth's department. Page 51.
A SUNDAY MORNING DREAM
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to the People.
The
GUARD
INFORMER
FROM SLUGGERS
Police Fear Attempt to
Kill Young.
FOR EXPOSING LABOR GRAFTERS
Shea, Despot of- Teamsters,
Glowers in Rage.
STATE HAS FULL EVIDENCE
Leaders of Chicago Unions Paid to
- Order Great Teamsters' Strike.
Proof . That Pickets Were
Sluggers Hired by Shea.
CHICAGO, Dee. 1. (Special.)-3uarded
by detectives from assault by bands of
union sluggers iwho have threatened his
life, Albert Young, who turned state's
evidence against Cornelius P. Shea, went
to Judge Ball's court today to relate the
Inner - workings of the great teamsters'
strike of 1905.
A plot to kill Young and the three com
panions who confessed guilt with him had
been reported to detectives of the State's
Attorney's office and extraordinary pre
cautions to guard the men were taken.
Union leaders and "sluggers" who were
hit in the confession made by Young to
Assistant State's Attorney Holt are said
to have made threats that Young would
never tell his entire story on the witness
stand:
Consternation in Labor Ranks.
Feeling against Young is Intensified be
cause he had turned against some of the
men whom he led In revolt against Shea.
To guard against violence during the
trial. Assistant State'.-Attorney Holt and
George W. Miller have left their homes
and taken quarters si a down-town hotel,
where they will live under adequate pro
tection during the trial.
The discovery that the "time book,"
supposed to contain the names of pickets
and the amounts paid to them, was In
the state's possession, caused consterna
tion in the ranks of the strikers. Knowing
that the state would attempt to show
that the ' pickets were in reality aired
sluggers, the men concerned were fear
ful of the result. A scurry to get under
the protection of the law by turning
state's evidence Is expected from some of
the lesser lights of the big labor war.
Shea Glowers With Rage.
Bribery and graft were cited as the
compelling cause of the great teamsters'
strike by Young from the witness stand,
tracing the comrades whom he deserted
Friday by pleading guilty to the indict
ments in which they are his co-defendants,
he told in detail the story of events
preceding the strike as It never had been
told before, and as one who had been of
the inner circle. Ae he progressed, Cor
nelius P. Sffei glowered on him in help
less rage, his face florid and his hands
clenched- The other defendants, one of
whom had summoned Shea from the cor
ridor when Young began, listened with
mingled interest and anxiety.
Young's appeparance as the first wit
ness for the prosecution was unexpected
to all the accused, save those who pleaded
guilty with him. The immediate plunge
taken by Assistant State's Attorney
Miller into the charges of bribery was a
shock. The story long had been locked
away. It "was believed securely. Young
rehearsed it in response to questions from
the state's representative without lapses
of memory and with little hesitation. As
audience he had, besides the other de
fendants, the attorneys and officers of
the court, a gathering representative ot
various labor unions, which filled the
courtroom.
Broke Contract by Striking.
Young detailed how the teamster offi
cials had accepted bribes from the Gar
mentworkers' Union to declare the strike
against Montgomery Ward St Co., who
with other firms had defeated the gar
ment workers six months before. In or
der to call the strike, the teamsters vio
lated their own contracts. The rank and
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file did not want to strike, and the whole
matter was engineered by the officers at
secret meeetlngs.
YOUNG DESCRIBES THE PLOT
Garment-workers Paid Labor Leaders
$1500 to Declare Strike.
CHICAGO, Dec. 1. Sensational evi
dence was given today In the trial of
Cornelius P. Shea, president of the In
ternational Brotherhood of Teamsters,
for alleged conspiracy in the teamsters'
strike of 1965.
The first witness called by the state
was Albert Young, the president of the
United Teamsters of America, who yes
terday entered a plea of guilty to the
charge of conspiracy made against him
in connection with the- strike of 1905,
and offered to turn state's evidence.
According to the statements of
Young on the stand, Robert Noren,
business agent of the Garmentworkers'
Union, provided a fund of $1530, which
was divided between Shea and other
labor leaders to induce them to call a
Professor Wood row Wilson, President
of Princeton University, Choice of -anti-Bryan
Democrats for President
of United State.
strike of the teamsters for the purpose
of aiding the garmentworkers of Mont
gomery Ward & Co., who had been on
strike for several months.
Sleeting to Consider Strike.
At the time of the payment of the
money to Shea and others, Noren was,
uncording to Young, treasurer of the
Chicago Federation of Labor. Young
testilled that he was residing in Joliet,
earl;- in 105. but in the latter part of
March of th.s year ae was- summoned
to Chicago to confer with a number
of labor leaders, -whom he met in the
bricklayers' hall.
"Who were present at that meet
ing?" asked Assistant State's Attorney
Miller.
"Cornelius P. Shea; William Kelley.
business agent of the Coal Teamsters'
Union; Hugh McGee, president of the
TruckJrivers' Union, and James Barry,
business agent of the Express Wagon
Drivers' Union, and Jeremiah McCar
thy, business agent of the Truckdriv
ers' Union."
When asked If any others were pres
ent. Young said:
"Yes, Stephen Sumner, business agent
of the Milkdrlvers' Union; Charles
Dold, president of the Chicago Federa
tion of Labor; Edward Nockles, a mem
ber of the Chandelier Workers' Union,
and a man named Hoppe, of the Cigar
maKers' Union."
The witness declared that Shea ad
dressed the gathering, saying that if
the Chicago Federation of Labor would
raise the coin, be would furnish the
men to aid the strike of the garment
workers. He also declared that Noren
addressed the meeting, saying that if
the teamsters would engage in a sym
pathetic strike the garmentworkers
would win their fight.
Paid to Order Strike. .
Young declared that in the following
month he attended a meeting in the
Stock Exchange building, at which
were present Barry, Shea, McGee, Mc
Carthy, Noren and himself.
"What took place at this meeting?"
asked Mr. Miller. '-
"Noren had $1500, which was accept
ed by us. Shea said we should each
give Noren 2) for his trouble. I un
derstood that the money had been sup
plied by the garmentworkers to call a
strike of the teamsters."
"Did you ' see the money paid by
Noren?"
"Yes."
"What did you do with the money?"
"I kept $300 for my personal use, ex
cept $20, which I gave to Noren."
"Did you see the others each hand
Noren $20?"
"Yes."
"Was there any discussion while
Noren was there as to what the money
was to be used for?"
The witness did not answer this
question directly, but said:
Ordered Strike to Make Good.
"After Noren left, we went to Shea's
hotel and to bis room. There I heard
Shea say to Jeremiah McCarthy: 'We
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RADICAL LEADERS
Old-Line Democrats
Have New Candidate.
CENTER ON W000R0W WILSON
Secret Conference Plans to
Launch Boom.
DEFEAT BRYAN AND HEARST
Thirty States Will Join In Confer
ence on Direct Election of Sen
ators and Are Sure of Win
ning Two-Thirds.
NEW HAVEN, Conn., Dec. 1. (Spe
cial.) The New Haven Union, of which!
Alexander Troup is editor and proprietor,
tonight publishes an article purporting to
give the details of a secret meeting re
cently held in New York City by a num
ber of leading Democrats of the country,
called together for the purpose of side
tracking any plans Bryan or Hearst may
have for gaining the Presidency in 19ng
and putting in nomination for President
Woodrow Wilson, president of Princeton
University.
Troup has Just returned from a West
ern trip, during which he spent a week
at the home of Bryan in Lincoln. He)
declares in his paper that among those
who have been secretly planning Wood
row Wilson's boom are:
John P. Hopkins, ex-Mayor of Chicago;
Roger C. Sullivan, Democratic National
committeeman from Illinois; J. H. Eckr
els, the Chicago banker and ex-Comptroller
of the Currency; Charles S. Hamlin,
Assistant Secretary of the Treasury under
Carlisle; ex-Senator James Smith, of New
Jersey; H. C. Frlck, of Pittsburg, and
ex-Congressman Joseph J. Wlllett. of Ala-i
bama. They have been conferring with
the Parker-Belmont-Sheehan people in
New York at the Metropolitan Club, bet
ter known as the "Millionaires' Club."
THIRTY STATES ARE IX LINE
Conference at Dea Moines for Direct
Senatorial Elections.
DES MOINES, Dec. 1. (Special.) .
The Governors of more than 30 states
have accepted the invitation of Iowa
to appoint delegates to attend a con
ference in Des Moines next Wednesday
to discuss ways and means to secure
an amendment to the Federal consti
tution giving the people the right to
elect United States Senators by direct
vote. New York and the New England
states are not among those whose Gov
ernors have said that they would ap
point delegates. Governor Hlggins
said that he had no statutory authority
so to do. Governor Guild, of Massa
chusetts pleaded a like disability.
Other Governors interviewed advanced
substantially the same reason.
Governor Cummins and the Iowa
Commissioners expect that more than
100 delegates will gather for the con
ference. Each state was invited to
appoint five delegates. Their expenses
will be borne by themselves, as ths
Iowa Legislature made no provision
for paying the expenses for the con
vention. It will be held in one of th
assembly chambers at the capitoi,
however, and either the Bar Assocla-
tion or the Grant Club, of Des Moines,
will entertain the visitors at a ban
quet.
Presumably all the delegates will be
of a single mind in favor of the pop
ular election of United States Sena
tors. The discussion in the conference
will be then as to the best method tfl(
be pursued to achieve the desired con
stitutional amendment- It has been)
suggested that to call a constitutional
convention might be dangerous. One
called, its powers would not be lim
ited. It might assail the constitution
in many points relative to divorce,
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And Then He Woke up!
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